In the dead silence, Lin Qiye slowly opened his eyes.

An unprecedented feeling of dizziness enveloped his mind. He couldn't help but bend over and retch. It felt like he had gone to an amusement park and ridden the roller coaster hundreds of times without any rest in between. His entire consciousness was in a chaos.

A hand gently patted his back, and a soft voice came from beside him:

"Brother Qiye, are you okay?"

Lin Qiye's consciousness gradually returned. He shook his dizzy head and turned around, only to see Yuuri Takishiro squatting beside him, his cross-star-like eyes full of worry.

"I'm fine..."

Lin Qiye took a deep breath and scanned his surroundings. Everywhere he looked was endless gray, like a cocoon that completely wrapped him up, or like a vast and boundless gray universe... Here, the concept of "distance" could not be distinguished by the naked eye. There was only endless deathly silence filling the surroundings.

"Where is this place?"

"I don't know either." Yuri Takishiro shook his head. "Lingbao Tianzun said that this is a gap in time and space, and also a ruin of history."

"Lingbao Tianzun..."

Lin Qiye muttered the name and regained consciousness. "Where are the others?"

"They have dispersed to find a way to leave." Yuri Takishiro said, "But you woke up late, so Tianzun asked me to stay here to keep you from running away... In this place, once you get separated, it's almost impossible to find you back."

"Since this place is so dangerous, wouldn't it be easier to get lost if we spread out?"

"That won't happen."

Yuri Takishiro pointed to a black dragon flag behind him and said, "This is a treasure left by Lingbao Tianzun. The flags are divided into mother and child flags. The one we have here is the mother flag. Everyone else has a child flag in their hands. As long as they hold the child flag, they can sense the position of the mother flag at any time."

"I see." Lin Qiye nodded.

Just as the two were talking, a figure gradually flew over from a distance.

"Master Yuding." Lin Qiye took the initiative to speak when he saw the man.

“My dear friend Qiye, are you awake?” Jade Ding Zhenren stood beside him, holding a miniature black dragon flag.

"Real man, why are we here?"

"Zeus used some means to get through time and space and exiled us all here." Jade Ding Zhenren sighed, "If we are not mistaken, he should have colluded with the gods of the Ksitigarbha system. This is a trap set specifically for us."

"Exiled? Then can we go back?"

"...I don't know. I just flew thousands of miles in one direction and found nothing. I guess only the Heavenly Master can have the answer."

With the return of Jade Ding Zhenren, other Great Xia gods and human ceilings also flew back from different directions. They talked to each other and shook their heads helplessly.

The Qi of Hunyuan cut through the space, and a figure in a Taoist robe stepped out from it with a solemn expression.

"Your Majesty." All the gods of Daxia bowed.

"Did you all gain anything?" Lingbao Tianzun glanced at everyone.

"……No."

Everyone's expression showed bitterness.

Lingbao Tianzun seemed to have anticipated this scene and nodded slightly. "This is the wasteland at the end of time and space. Apart from us, there should be no other material existence... I asked you to search around just now, but I was hoping for the best. Since there is no harvest, you don't have to worry about it."

"My Lord, if that's the case, how should we get back?" Queen Mother of the West asked solemnly.

Lingbao Tianzun pondered for a long time and slowly said:

"According to what I have seen, this place is like the end of the deep sea, where the heaven and earth have not yet taken shape, and it is very close to Daxia..."

Lingbao Tianzun was talking halfway when he saw Yuli Takibai, Lu Wuwei, Guan Zai and others looking confused. He was silent for a moment and then spoke again: "I'm speaking in vernacular Chinese. You should all understand, right?"

Guan Zai coughed twice, somewhat embarrassedly, "Okay, okay...please continue."

Lingbao Tianzun paused and continued, "If I am not mistaken, this is the chaos before the birth of heaven and earth, and it is also the end of time and space..."

Lingbao Tianzun stretched out his finger and pointed in the air. Two dots of light floated in front of everyone.

"If this dot represents us, and the other dot represents Daxia, then the distance between us is not as simple as the distance visible to the naked eye. There is also a barrier of countless years between them, like an insurmountable wall... If I want to move from one side of the wall to the other, even for me, it will take at least ten thousand years."

Hearing these words, everyone's expressions froze.

"Ten thousand years? Then when we go back, wouldn't it be..." Taiyi Zhenren said bitterly.

"Is there no other way?" Zuo Qing asked with a frown.

"...Yes." Lingbao Tianzun nodded, "It is independent and unchanging, it circulates without end... Time and space are originally one. Although the fragment of the [Key of the Gate] used by Zeus can send us outside the wall of time, the displacement of space should not be large. In other words, our current location is still on Earth countless years later.

With my power, I can temporarily shake the wall of time and space, but I can only penetrate the time on one side. If I want to leave here, unless there is a force on the other side of the wall that can penetrate the wall on the other side at the same time as me... The time and space inside and outside the wall are linked, maybe there is still a possibility of returning."

Although Lingbao Tianzun's words were as plain as possible, everyone was still somewhat puzzled. Lin Qiye thought for a moment and asked tentatively:

“Similar to quantum entanglement?”

"Quantum entanglement? What is that?" Lingbao Tianzun asked puzzledly.

Lin Qiye: ...

I almost forgot that a large part of Lingbao Tianzun's current understanding of modern times comes from Baili Pangpang, and that little fat boy doesn't understand physics at all... This leads to the fact that Lingbao Tianzun knows nothing about this physics term.

"In short, we need someone on Earth to help us open that side of the wall?" Nezha asked in confusion, "Then can't the other two Heavenly Lords do it?"

"It's not that simple." Lingbao Tianzun shook his head, "It's like if you want to drill through a wall, you have to drill at the same position on both sides of the wall, otherwise it will be a waste of effort.

But they don’t know where we are in space… Unless they search all of Daxia’s space and time, but that would take hundreds of years.”

After hearing these words, the last spark of hope in everyone's hearts also disappeared.

"That means there is basically no possibility for us to go back?" Sun Wukong said with a frown.

"It's not impossible. It just depends on whether there are any unexpected changes on their side..."