Chapter 155: Some People... Stand on the Shore

Chapter 155: Chapter 155: Some People... Stand on the Shore

"Su Yi? Su Yi, are you here?

I just experienced something really bizarre..."

Pushing open Su Yi’s door, he immediately saw her sitting at the table, dressed all in black. In her hand... was a piece of jujube-and-cucumber jade pastry.

Seeing Su Han burst in, she subconsciously hid her hand behind her back.

"Oh... you’re hungry."

Su Han gave her a strange look, feeling a little baffled.

’She... gets hungry?’

"Mhm."

Su Yi glanced at him and nodded.

"Oh... In that case, I’ll have Nine Destructions bring some food over in a bit."

After saying that, Su Han turned his attention back to the matter of his dream journey to ten thousand years in the past.

"Su Yi, I just went through something incredibly strange. You probably won’t believe me when I tell you..."

Before Su Han could finish, a soft sound of surprise cut him off.

"Hm?"

Su Yi nonchalantly placed the pastry on the table. She turned to look at Su Han, her brow furrowing slightly.

"Dream Return Immortal Technique!"

Su Han froze, subconsciously starting to count on his fingers.

"One, two, three... four words?"

Su Yi nodded, then looked at him and spoke again. "A dream journey to the past?"

Su Han’s heart skipped a beat. ’You even know that? I haven’t even said anything yet!’

Seeing Su Yi’s completely calm demeanor, Su Han suppressed his astonishment and proceeded to recount his experience.

After he finished, Su Yi’s placid expression remained unchanged as she nodded at him.

After a moment of thought, she rose, walked over to Su Han, and patted him lightly three times.

With that done, she retracted her hand and stood before Su Han, looking up at him.

"There."

"There?"

Su Han stared blankly at Su Yi. "What’s ’there’?"

"It’s fixed."

"Fixed?"

"The side effect."

"Side effect?"

Su Han froze. "It has a side effect? What is it?"

"Space-Time turbulence."

After a moment’s thought, Su Yi added, "Getting lost."

He had already grown accustomed to Su Yi’s concise speech. She could hold a conversation with just two words at a time, and a nod or a shake of her head could pass for a long discussion. Speaking four whole words at once was a veritable speech for her.

With a little thought, Su Han understood what she meant.

"Are you saying this kind of dream journey to the past can cause Space-Time turbulence, and could even cause me to become lost in the chaotic currents of time?"

Su Yi looked at him and nodded.

"Then..."

"It’s fixed."

Su Han was speechless. "...You fixed it just by patting me three times?"

’Why do I feel like you’re even more incredible than the Monkey King’s master? Patting him three times just gave him a chance to learn in secret. You patted me three times and solved such a massive problem?’

A confident smile played on Su Yi’s lips. She raised her left hand and opened it in front of Su Han. In her palm, intricate Laws seemed to manifest.

"Time."

Then, she opened her right hand in front of him. "Time."

She gently brought her hands together. The powers of the two Laws collided silently, merging and intertwining.

"Space-Time."

As her voice faded, a ripple spread through the void, and a faint, shimmering portal manifested from nothingness.

Through the shimmering portal, Su Han could vaguely make out the scene on the other side.

In the image, a young girl wearing a white Celestial Fox Mink Coat was sitting on a low stool. At her feet was a pile of blooming flowers, which she was counting while muttering something to herself.

"That’s her, isn’t it?"

Su Yi asked, pointing at the small figure on the other side of the glowing portal.

Su Han looked at the young girl on the other side, then back at Su Yi beside him, feeling utterly at a loss for words.

’I knew she was incredible, but I never imagined she was *this* incredible.’

’Based on just a few vague words from me, she could find her across a gap of more than ten thousand years?’

’This seems even more bizarre than my own dream journey into the past!’

’But I didn’t come here just to watch Su Yi show off, though this move was a definite flex.’

’I came because I couldn’t figure out why this kind of space-time paradox existed, and I wanted her to explain it to me!’

"Ahem..."

Clearing his throat, Su Han nodded. "That’s her. So... can you explain to me why a situation like this can even exist?"

Shaking the bracelet in his hand, Su Han continued, "The bracelet is one thing. You could argue that I, during my dream journey, forged it ten thousand years ago and left it behind. Now, it’s crossed ten thousand years of time to return to my hand. That’s explainable.

But what about this Flowers Bloom in an Instant Divine Technique I taught her? I clearly received it as an inheritance she left behind, so how did it turn out that I was the one who went back ten thousand years and taught it to her?

I received her inheritance, and then I went back to the past and passed that same inheritance on to her younger self. Isn’t that a paradox?

If it’s a loop like that, then where did the Divine Technique originate? It couldn’t have just appeared out of thin air, could it?"

Su Yi glanced at the deeply confused Su Han, chuckled, and shook her head. Her hands formed two separate seals. One entered Su Han’s body, while the other vanished into the slowly closing portal.

The power of Space-Time manifested in her palm once more, but this time it didn’t form a node connecting different times and spaces.

Instead, a strange and dreamlike world appeared.

This world seemed to connect different times and spaces, allowing existences from different points in time to intersect under specific conditions.

In this world, time itself seemed to have lost its proper function.

The river of time flowed on, but it was no longer unstoppable or irreversible. Events that happened upstream in the river of time didn’t necessarily occur before those downstream.

Beings from downstream could even travel up the river of time, and some could even slightly alter events that had already occurred.

Su Han’s face was a mask of utter shock as he stared at the bizarre world in Su Yi’s palm—a world rife with space-time paradoxes, where time itself had lost its authority.

"What... what is this?"

Su Yi’s palm trembled slightly, and the world within it dissipated in an instant.

She looked up at Su Han and spoke a single word. "Boundless."

"Boundless?"

Su Yi nodded. "Space-Time. Boundless."

Su Han shook his head, admitting bluntly, "I don’t get it."

Su Yi smiled faintly, thought for a moment, and pointed to a potted plant by the window.

With a light tap of her finger, the plant seemed to transition from summer to autumn, its leaves beginning to turn yellow.

After doing this, Su Yi looked at Su Han. Seeing him lost in thought, she tapped the plant again. The withered yellow leaves grew lush and green once more, as if reversing their growth, skipping past spring and winter to go directly from autumn back into the height of summer.

’Or was it... regressing from autumn back to summer?’

At this thought, the contemplative look in Su Han’s eyes deepened.

Seeing this, Su Yi nodded in satisfaction, a flash of admiration in her eyes as she looked at him.

She parted her lips and spoke four words. "Without time, without moment."

Without time, without moment!

Those four words exploded in Su Han’s mind like the tolling of a great bell.

This was the name of the time-related ability Su Yi had previously created from a Dao Pattern and passed directly to him.

But now, Su Han suddenly realized it wasn’t just the name of an ability.

It seemed to hold a much deeper meaning.

After a moment of thought, Su Han looked at Su Yi and asked tentatively, "You mean... ’no time’?"

"Yes, and no."

As she magically drew several rocks from the courtyard and began refining them in her palm, Su Yi chuckled, shook her head, and began to explain.

"Time is a Law. The course of time is a river."

CRACK~

A sound like a shattering mirror rang out. As a crack appeared in the sky, the seven-colored liquid stone in her palm flew up on its own to mend it.

Su Yi’s voice continued without interruption.

"Mastering the Time Law is like learning how to swim. In the river of time, you are no longer forced to just drift with the current.

As your mastery of the Time Law deepens, like a swimmer’s skill becoming more refined, you naturally become more and more adept at navigating the river of time."

Hearing this, a sudden understanding dawned on Su Han.

"So, you’re saying that as long as you master the Time Law to a certain degree, you can ignore the obstructions of the river of time, break the shackles of time, and achieve a state of being truly ’without time, without moment’.

’Without time, without moment’ doesn’t mean time ceases to exist, but that time itself loses its effect on you?"

Su Yi looked at him, nodded slightly, and then shook her head.

"The last part is correct, but the premise... this isn’t something you can achieve just by mastering the Time Law to a certain degree.

No matter how expert a swimmer is, they will eventually drown if they stay in the water forever.

And some people... are standing on the shore."