"The Void Realm is neither particularly large nor particularly small. Where should we look?" Yuan Jiang asked me.
I looked ahead. I had no idea where to begin searching either.
The doctor's people had likewise failed to find out where Xu Qiuyan had been taken. According to him, Xu Qiuyan had suddenly vanished from the Adventurers' base, as though she had evaporated.
I had also considered whether she might have touched some kind of Spatial Node.
But the doctor said that aside from several special Spatial Nodes, there could be no other nodes in the Void Realm. Even the outside world could not possibly open a passage leading into the Void Realm.
He was that confident.
So he firmly believed that Xu Qiuyan was still somewhere within the Void Realm.
As for those few Spatial Nodes, he had long since stationed people there. The moment there was any trace of Xu Qiuyan and the others, someone would report it to him immediately.
In other words, without permission, no one could leave the Void Realm on their own.
The people who had previously managed to leave the Void Realm had all been deliberately released by them.
The doctor said releasing those people was also part of an experiment. But even after letting them out, he had not allowed them to truly reintegrate into that world, because the delayed force of the Void Realm still remained within them. That force could slow the passage of their lives, but only within a specific space. Once they left that space, the time that had been slowed for them would return to its normal flow, directly accelerating their aging.
I finally understood why Mo Wang and the others could not leave Half-Step Zen Temple. It was for the same reason.
I had also asked the