Chapter 100 Ancient One's Condition
"But how am I supposed to get there?"
Lin Yi closed his eyes and activated his perception.
"No good. I can only jump within the Solar System."
"I've never been to that planet either, so I can't draw a portal over there."
Lin Yi opened his eyes, his brows furrowing slightly.
What about crossing the Universe with his physical body?
It was just too easy to lose direction in the vast Universeand drift for hundreds of years without necessarily finding the destination.
What about technology?
Tony Stark was currently holed up in his laboratory, stubbornly grinding away at the magic energy reactor and Uru metal.
Expecting him to build an intergalactic spaceship with a warp engine would take at least five to ten years.
Reality warping?
Lin Yi looked down at his own hands.
He didn't have the dynamics blueprint of a spaceship or the structural principles of a warp engine in his mind; conjuring a flying ship out of thin air exceeded his current rewriting limit.
"Damn it, I'm so strong, yet I don't even have a vehicle."
Lin Yi pressed the cigarette butt against the guardrail and crushed it out.
He turned around, casting his gaze toward the main hall of Kamar-Taj below.
It was brightly lit there.
"If I can't walk there myself, I'll just catch a free ride."
"The old man should have been there, right?"
Lin Yi came directly to the door of Ancient One's quiet room.
He pushed the door open and walked right in.
Ancient One was wearing a plain Zen robe, sitting cross-legged in front of a low table.
She held a zisha teapot in her left hand and steadily poured Water into two teacups with her right hand.
The Water flowed like a torrent.
"It's so late, and you're still not resting?"
Lin Yi strode over, pulled apart a futon, and sat down.
He picked up the teacup in front of him and drained it in one gulp.
"Not bad tea."
Lin Yi put down the cup and got straight to the point.
"I want to go to Morag or Xandar. Open a door for me."
Ancient One's hand pouring the tea paused slightly.
She raised her head and stared at Lin Yi.
"You just came back from Asgard. The energy fluctuations of the Reality Stone on you haven't completely subsided yet."
"So soon you've set your sights on the next one?"
"Strike while the iron is hot."
Lin Yi leaned against the edge of the low table.
"Instead of leaving it to gather dust in the Universe, might as well let me play with it first."
"Morag, the Power Stone, huh." Ancient One softly uttered the name.
"If you take it directly, the original destiny trajectory of the Milky Way Galaxy will be completely disrupted."
"Certain people who are supposed to meet won't meet, and certain creatures might live longer."
"That's their business, none of my concern."
Lin Yi tapped his fingers on the tabletop.
"The Universe will keep spinning no matter who's gone. Give me a straight answer, are you opening this door or not?"
The room fell into a long silence.
Ancient One closed her eyes.
A few minutes later, she opened her eyes again.
"I can open an intergalactic space portal for you. But you have to promise me one thing."
"Easy to talk about."
"Protect the Infinity Stones in your hands well."
"That goes without saying. Whatever enters my stomach, no one can dig it out."
Ancient One ignored his arrogance.
"Also. If you truly gather all the stones. No matter when that day arrives, I hope you can bring back the secret of the Time Stone, along with the other stones."
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes.
"Throughout the ages, no life form has ever been able to control six Infinity Stones simultaneously with a physical body."
Ancient One stood up with her hands tucked into her sleeves.
"I want to know what will happen if six stones are controlled by one person at the same time."
"This might be our only hope to fight against those multidimensional terrifying entities."
"The old man has good vision. Investing in me in advance is not a loss."
Ancient One didn't respond further.
She raised both hands and quickly formed hand seals in front of her chest.
Following Ancient One's movement, the ley lines of the entire Kamar-Taj emitted a low roar.
The energy of the two Sanctum Sanctorums in New Yorkand London crossed the Earth through the air and gathered at her fingertips.
Space was forcefully torn apart.
A deep blue space portal two meters in diameter slowly formed in the center of the quiet room.
Silver stardust-like light dust danced at the edges of the door frame.
Through this door, one could directly see the dim planet on the opposite side, covered in ruins and violent seawater.
That was Morag.
"Go."
Lin Yi walked to the door and looked back at Ancient One.
"Rest assured, old man."
Lin Yi grinned.
"When I get the full set of six divine equipment, I'll come back first to do a magic trick for you."
With that, Lin Yi stepped into the deep blue stargate.
The light flickered, the space portal closed with a bang, and only the lingering warmth of the tea remained in the quiet room.
The stargate closed.
Lin Yi's feet stepped on the rock layer.
The howling wind carrying a pungent acid rain rushed toward his face.
This planet named Morag had its skyline shrouded in dim yellow poisonous clouds all year round.
The mage robe on his body was corroded with large patches of charred holes within a few breaths of contacting the acid rain.
Lin Yi tore off the rotten cloth strips and casually threw them into the wind.
His bare upper body was exposed to the rainstorm.
The highly corrosive rainwater hit his skin, making a fine sizzling sound.
[Enduring high-concentration strong acid corrosion... Acid resistance + 50]
[Enduring high-frequency heavy metal toxin penetration... Toxin resistance + 80]
His muscle texture didn't even leave a single red mark.
This level of environmental damage couldn't even count as a warm-up for him now.
Lin Yi walked to the edge of the cliff.
Below was a churning black ocean.
Morag was in the intersecting gravitational field of three stars, with three huge fireballs hanging in the sky.
The intricate gravity pulled the Water body of the entire planet, whipping up dozens of meters high towering waves.
The waves crashed and shattered against the cliff, large splashes of Water splashing up and hitting Lin Yi's face with a bone-chilling coldness.
According to the plot timeline of the Marvel World, he needed to stand here and wait for the alignment of the three stars to trigger the once-in-three-hundred-years tide recession.
After the seawater completely receded, the temple at the bottom of the sea would be exposed.
Lin Yi touched his chin.
How about waiting for the tide to recede?
But that word wasn't in his dictionary.
His mental power, like an invisible giant net, spread downwards along the cliff.
His divine sense swept across the sea surface and plunged headfirst into the black seawater.
There was no life underwater, only frantic undercurrents and countless crushed stones.
His divine sense penetrated layers of obstacles and finally touched a hemispherical energy force field in a seabed fault deep under the sea.
The force field emitted a faint blue halo, with early defense inscriptions of the Kree Empire crawling across it.
The temple was inside.
Lin Yi retracted his divine sense and opened his eyes.
He certainly wouldn't wait for natural laws to make way for him.
Invisible ripples took him as the center and covered the ten-kilometer sea area below.
Lin Yi spread his hands flat, pressing his palms downward.
The originally frantically churning black seawater rapidly underwent mutations from the surface downwards.
The color of the Water body faded, transforming into crystal-clear crystalline particles.
Tens of thousands of tons of seawater solidified.
Along with the waves that had just been whipped up in mid-air, they condensed into large patches of white sugar particles before crashing down.
It only took a few breaths of time for the ten-kilometer radius of the sea area to turn into a huge wasteland of white sugar.
The shape of the waves was frozen, and even the undercurrents at the bottom of the sea were all solidified inside the sugar piles.
Chapter 101: Obtaining the Orb
Lin Yi bent his knees and squatted down.
He straightened his legs, his body tearing through the air and producing a sharp sonic boom as he plummeted straight down toward the crystalline white sugar sea below.
The moment the soles of his feet touched the sugar granules, nearly a million units of force poured out.
The sugar granules were instantly crushed into powder invisible to the naked eye.
A huge crater spread toward the seabed along the trajectory of his descent.
The white sugar on both sides was squeezed by the immense Impact force into hard sugar walls, firmly blocking the distant liquid seawater outside.
Falling all the way down.
The distance of one thousand two hundred meters arrived in the blink of an eye.
His feet heavily stepped onto the bluestone slabs in front of the undersea temple.
The wave of air stirred up a loud explosion, and the thunderous sound shot straight into the clouds along the passage.
Lin Yi straightened his body and patted the powdered sugar on his trouser legs.
Ahead, the deep blue energy formation on the outer periphery of the temple sensed the intrusion of a living creature.
The defense mechanism was instantly activated, and a dazzling red light locked onto this uninvited guest.
Thousands of high-energy lethal rays shot out from the tops of the stone pillars, interweaving into an airtight light network, all of which blasted onto Lin Yi's body.
High temperature and energy cutting erupted simultaneously.
Lin Yi stood in place without moving, letting the rays bathe him.
[ Enduring focused fire from the ancient energy formation... Energy Resistance +8000 ]
[ Enduring high-energy ray cutting... Constitution +3000 ]
The blinding light dissipated.
Lin Yi twisted his neck.
"Is that all the ability you have?"
He strode toward the temple gate.
On both sides of the gate, two Kree stone guard statues standing ten meters tall came to life.
Red light lit up in their eyes, and they raised the dozens of tons of giant metal swords in their hands, hacking straight down at Lin Yi.
Instead of retreating, Lin Yi advanced, raising his right hand with his fingers spread out to meet the giant sword.
The giant metal sword was grabbed in his hand, and his five fingers exerted force.
The hard Kree alloy directly shattered into iron slag all over the ground.
Lin Yi's left fist punched out smoothly, smashing through the chest of the left stone statue.
The huge stones cracked and collapsed, shattering all over the ground.
His right leg was raised high, and a whip kick lashed out at the waist of the right stone statue, snapping the stone statue in half and turning its upper body into powder.
After clearing out the trash at the entrance, Lin Yi came before the giant gate.
The gate was hung with a complex mechanical lock core, and an energy closed-loop system was embedded inside.
Lin Yi directly inserted both hands into the gap in the middle of the two gates.
The muscles of his arms tightened, and his strength stacked layer upon layer.
The bronze gate let out an unbearable moan.
Lin Yi let out a loud shout, forcibly tearing the two gate panels weighing ten thousand tons out of the wall, and casually throwing them into the pile of white sugar behind him.
The interior of the main hall was spacious and empty, without any decoration.
There was a stone platform in the central position.
On the stone platform, a silver metal sphere wrapped by a high-frequency energy force field net floated quietly.
The Orb, inside of which was stored the Power Stone.
The force field net crackled and buzzed, cutting the surrounding air.
Lin Yi directly reached his right hand in.
The high-frequency energy of the force field net crazily cut his palm, attempting to shred the intruder's flesh and blood.
[ Enduring high-frequency energy cutting... Constitution +5000 ]
[ Enduring higher-dimensional energy blocking... Energy Resistance +6000 ]
Lin Yi grabbed the Orb, and his arm pulled outward fiercely.
The energy threads of the force field net were forcibly snapped by him, bursting out a large cluster of dazzling sparks.
The silver Orb steadily landed in his hand.
Done.
He glanced at the passage he came from.
The four walls of the passage were all solidified white sugar, which was a bit unsightly.
With a thought, the reality rewrite was canceled.
The white sugar within a radius of ten kilometers returned to liquid seawater within half a breath.
The twelve-hundred-meter deep pit lost its support, and hundreds of millions of tons of seawater frantically poured back in to refill it.
The water pressure collided, triggering a massive undersea earthquake.
Lin Yi exerted force with his legs, breaking through the water surface like a reverse-shooting meteor and rushing into high altitude.
The back-flowing seawater squeezed outward, stirring up a super tsunami as high as one thousand meters, sweeping away in all directions.
At the same time, the Morag spaceport.
A gaudily painted spaceship.
The Milano passed through the atmosphere and steadily landed in a puddle.
The hatch opened, and Peter Quill wore a reddish-brown leather jacket, hanging a Walkman on his waist, and stepped down the gangway with brisk dance steps.
He held a detector in his hand, preparing to go to the temple ruins to make a fortune.
The red light on the detector suddenly flashed rapidly, making a harsh beeping sound.
Quill stopped his dance steps, tore off the earphone on his left ear, and raised his hand to pat the screen of the detector.
Continuous rumbling sounds came from afar.
He raised his head.
What met his eyes was a black wall of water connecting the sky and the earth.
The violent seawater flattened the hills along the way, carrying boulders weighing thousands of tons and pressing over this way.
Quill opened his mouth wide, and the detector in his hand dropped directly into the muddy water.
He scrambled to run toward the spaceship, and just as he climbed onto the gangway, the tsunami had already slammed down.
The Milano, like a leaf, was swept into the turbulent current, rolling and rushing toward the other end of the planet.
Above high altitude, Lin Yi hovered beneath the clouds.
Divine sense swept across below, capturing a gaudy spaceship spinning around in the muddy water, the people inside being bumped dizzy.
Lin Yi curled his lips, having no interest in even taking a second glance.
The trajectory of destiny had already broken from the moment he seized the Orb first.
Lin Yi scrutinized the Orb in his hand.
The silver metal shell was covered with intersecting lines and gear structures, seamless and without finding a trace of stitching.
This thing required a specific turning technique or an exclusive instrument to be opened without damage.
Looking for unlocking tools? He directly used absolute force to break all techniques.
The five fingers of his right hand closed, pinching the sphere tightly.
The muscles of his arm twisted, and his strength continuously climbed.
The surface of the alloy shell began to deform, and the perfect sphere was forcibly pinched out with a depression.
Accompanied by fine clicking sounds, a crack spread from the junction of the gears.
As soon as the crack appeared, the violent purple light couldn't wait to overflow.
This light carried the law aura of destroying everything, hitting Lin Yi's palm without any obstruction.
The smell of charred flesh permeated the air.
The system panel began to jump wildly, and white text prompts flooded the screen.
[ Enduring Power Law Origin Impact... Power Law Affinity +1000 ]
[ Enduring pure destructive energy baptism... Constitution +10000 ]
[ Enduring underlying stripping of the Infinity Stones... Strength +15000 ]
Lin Yi grinned; this level of pain and the subsequent skyrocketing attributes were far more satisfying than hard-resisting a nuclear bomb.
He let out a loud shout, the five fingers of his right hand suddenly retracting inward.
Bang!
The entire alloy shell exploded into pieces with a roar.
The fragments turned into fatal meteors shooting in all directions.
A small pebble exuding a dazzling purple light floated in his palm.
Power Stone.
Without the suppression of the container, the pure power law was completely released.
The purple light turned into a substantive Impact, centering on Lin Yi and sweeping across the entire planet.
The rolling tsunami under his feet was swept by the purple light, and the seawater didn't even have time to turn into water vapor before being directly evaporated into nothingness.
The undersea temple ruins below, the wreckage of the spaceport, and even the entire mountain range.
The surface of Morag was forcibly scraped away by a thick layer.
Lin Yi was in the very center of the purple light, and the cells in his body engaged in a crazy tug-of-war between destruction and rebirth.
The Price Core operated at high speed, greedily absorbing every wispy destruction energy.
[ Constitution +20000 ]
[ Strength +50000 ]
[ Power Law Affinity +3000 ]
Chapter 102: The Million-Point Forging Moment
Clutching the Power Stone, Lin Yi's wild laughter echoed through the ruined world.
"Haha, old man, watch closely. This is what you call protection."
The outer reaches of Morag's star system.
A Kree Empire scout ship was patrolling along a fixed orbit.
The needle of the energy detector on the console snapped instantly.
Blinding red lights flashed on the screen.
The operator stared at the fluctuations representing a Universe-class destructive power, falling out of his seat in sheer terror.
planet Xandar, the Nova Corps' Supreme Monitoring Center.
On the massive holographic star chart, a giant purple dot lit up at Morag's location.
A piercing alarm echoed through the entire command hall, and the faces of all high-ranking officers turned pale.
The Dark Sector.
Thanos sat upon his floating throne.
Proxima Midnight knelt on one knee, projecting the newly intercepted energy coordinates into the air.
...
On the ruined surface of Morag, wild winds whipped up the foul-smelling mud left behind by the receding seawater, lashing it against the barren basalt rocks.
The deep purple crystal hovered half an inch above Lin Yi's palm.
Without a metal shell to contain it, this crystal of destruction, formed during the early stages of the Big Bang, began to pour its essence into all surrounding matter.
Lin Yi closed the fingers of his right hand.
The moment flesh met the crystal, the air vibrated violently.
The gravity field of the entire planet seemed to distort within his palm; the bedrock hundreds of meters beneath his feet sank half a foot, grinding into dust.
Purple light patterns climbed along his fingerprints, brutally boring into Lin Yi's capillaries.
Under the brutal crushing force of the Law of Power, web-like cracks began to appear on Lin Yi's right arm.
The exposed muscle tissue was torn into ashes by the violent energy storm the instant it touched the air.
"Exhilarating."
Lin Yi's lips twitched as he spat out two words carrying the scent of burning flesh.
[Sustaining decomposition from the pure Law of Power... Constitution +3,000]
[Sustaining decomposition from the pure Law of Power... Constitution +3,200]
[Sustaining extreme gravitational collapse and crushing... Strength +4,000]
[Sustaining extreme gravitational collapse and crushing... Strength +4,500]
The system panel turned into a waterfall of blurry white text.
The white bone of his right arm was exposed.
The surface of the bone, originally as translucent as jade, was etched by the purple light with deep grooves, and dense cracks spread all the way to his shoulder blade.
The dark red residual laws of the Aether and his golden telekinetic energy wove into a net, forcibly preventing the right side of his body from completely disintegrating.
Before the shattered flesh could completely scatter into the wind, the system's reversing power gushed out from the depths of his cells.
The torn muscle fibers were forcibly pulled back into place.
The newborn tissue displayed a strange gold-and-purple dual coloration, its resilience several times greater than before, overlapping and covering the charred bone.
Shattering, reconstructing.
Shattering again, reconstructing again.
This extreme tearing sensation cycled hundreds of times across his entire right arm.
The basalt beneath Lin Yi's feet completely turned into a red-hot pool of lava, bubbling with thick froth and completely submerging his calves.
The atmosphere of the entire planet Morag was stirred by this out-of-control power, forming a purple cyclone that covered half the hemisphere.
At the center of the cyclone, the gravitational constant was completely overturned.
Hundreds of tons of surrounding boulders broke free from the ground, hovering in mid-air, before being squeezed by the chaotic force field into dense, fist-sized iron spheres that crashed into the lava.
Lin Yi raised his left hand, pressing it over his right fist as well.
Double the pressure poured down.
The sleeve of his left arm turned to ash, and both arms simultaneously plunged into a violent storm of carbonization.
[Sustaining high-dimensional rule assimilation and rejection... Law of Power Affinity +500]
[Sustaining high-dimensional rule assimilation and rejection... Law of Power Affinity +800]
[Strength +6,000]
[Constitution +5,000]
Every surge in attributes was accompanied by a dull, explosive pop from deep within his bones.
That was the sound of a carbon-based lifeform's molecular structure being forcibly elevated to a higher dimension.
The charred outer skin kept peeling off, falling into the lava below and kicking up puffs of dark smoke.
The newborn muscle fibers, as thick as stranded steel cables, writhed and reorganized frantically beneath his skin, gleaming with a cold, metallic luster.
Veins bulged on Lin Yi's temples, and the joints in his neck let out a dense, firecracker-like popping sound.
Deep inside his body.
At the intersection of the dark red storm constructed by the Aether and the mental ocean left by the Mind Stone, the Cost Core vibrated violently.
A strange frequency flashed across the deepest layer of the core.
It lasted for only 0.3 seconds.
It was not a system prompt, nor was it the resistance of the stone's power, but a gaze reflecting back from a deeper dimension.
At this moment, all of Lin Yi's attention was focused on resisting the tearing of his arms, and he did not notice this extremely brief anomaly within his body at all.
He only knew that he was about to cross that threshold.
His strength stat, which had originally been just over 800,000, broke through the 900,000 mark in just two minutes of high-intensity washing.
And it was still frantically approaching seven figures at a speed of several thousand per second.
"Is that all?"
Lin Yi grinned, the muscles in his arms suddenly swelling a size larger.
He exerted force with his fingers once more.
The Power Stone in his palm let out a sharp, ear-piercing hum.
The entire stone lit up with an unprecedented glare, and a purple pillar of energy shot through the sky, blasting a hole dozens of kilometers in diameter through Morag's perennial toxic clouds.
Revealing the deep, cold starry sky outside.
The destructive backlash multiplied.
The flesh on Lin Yi's chest exploded simultaneously, exposing several ribs to the air, which then healed rapidly under the shroud of the system's golden light.
With every breath, the airflow he exhaled turned into a high-pressure storm, blowing the gravel a hundred meters away into dust.
The constitution stat on the panel was leaping rapidly.
950,000.
970,000.
990,000.
The barrier of the critical point was right before his eyes, and the cells of his entire body were howling with desire, like a parched wasteland waiting for the final thunderstorm.
The purple light had completely swallowed Lin Yi, forming a massive cocoon of light hovering over the lava lake.
The surface of the cocoon was covered with lightning formed by the Law of Power, and every arc striking the air tore open a rift of absolute vacuum.
Inside the rifts, there was no wind, no sound, and even light passing through was forcibly snapped.
Inside the cocoon.
Hot steam spewed from every pore of Lin Yi's body.
Deep in his bone marrow, the color of his blood was fading from its original dark red, replaced by a thick, heavy fluid mixed with a faint gold and purple shimmer.
Every pulse beat like a siege battering ram deep within a great hall slamming against a stone wall.
Thump!
Thump!
The dull vibrations were transmitted through his feet into the mantle, causing Morag's crust to groan under the rhythm, and the distant extinct volcanoes collapsed one after another.
The numbers on the system panel finally jumped to the last step.
999,999.
It lagged for half a second.
Chapter 103: Stats Exceed One Million! Divine Body
The Power Stone in his palm seemed to sense that its host was about to break free from its control.
Risking everything on a single throw, all the destructive energy transformed into an invisible hammer of law, smashing down directly upon Lin Yi's consciousness and physical body.
This single strike was enough to completely erase an asteroid from the physical plane.
Meeting the impact head-on, Lin Yi did not back down at all. Instead, he spread his arms, braced his chest, and took the hammer blow head-on.
Boom—!
The entire planet's atmosphere bulged outward into a massive hemispherical bubble.
[Undergoing the baptism of the Universe's ultimate law of destruction... Constitution +10,000]
[Undergoing the baptism of the Universe's ultimate law of destruction... Strength +10,000]
[Congratulations Host, Constitution has broken through the 1,000,000 mark!]
[Congratulations Host, Strength has broken through the 1,000,000 mark!]
White text notifications exploded in his mind, carrying waves of invisible sound.
At this moment, some invisible chain belonging to the realm of mortals, bound deep within his physical body, crumbled into countless fragments.
Lin Yi threw his head back and let out an uninhibited roar.
Soundwaves surged from his throat, instantly tearing the purple light cocoon that had enveloped him for several minutes into shreds.
The violent airwaves, like a circular tsunami, swept the lava lake for dozens of kilometers around completely dry, leaving behind a hollow depression with its bottom rocks compressed as smooth as a mirror.
The chaotic force field that originally surrounded him disappeared.
In its place was an absolute silence.
Within a ten-meter radius, Morag's gravity, atmospheric pressure, temperature, and even the gravitational pull exerted by the three stars were all forcibly shut out.
This ten-meter zone became an absolute domain of its own, unbound by any single universal constant.
The Demigod Body officially evolved into the [Divine Body].
Lin Yi lowered his head to examine his hands.
The torn flesh had long since fully regenerated, and his new skin possessed an almost warm, jade-like texture.
But with just a slight thought, the muscle groups beneath his skin would act like a dam compressing billions of tons of water pressure, emitting a heavy sensation that slightly warped the surrounding space.
There was no need to exert force intentionally.
Just by standing there, the spatial membrane beneath his feet was bearing an immense weight load.
And in his right palm...
The Power Stone, which had been wild and untamed, threatening to disintegrate any living thing at any moment, now had its light completely restrained.
The purple flames on its surface had become extremely docile, resting quietly in Lin Yi's broad palm and emitting a soft, rhythmic hum.
Inside Lin Yi's body...
The dark red fluid that originally belonged to the Reality Stone, which was entrenched around the periphery of the Cost Core, now stepped back slightly by half a position.
The Power Stone turned into a deep purple stream of light, traveling all the way down the meridians of Lin Yi's arm and entering deep into his torso.
It settled on the other side of the Cost Core.
One red, one purple.
The two Infinity Stones formed a perfect binary orbit inside Lin Yi's body, slowly revolving around the Cost Core.
With each rotation, both stones would overflow with a portion of the most primordial cosmic energy, which was directly converted by the Cost Core into Lin Yi's own attribute reserves.
The second Permanent Energy Pump was successfully equipped.
Lin Yi exhaled a breath of turbid air. The force field vacuum within the surrounding ten meters rippled, reconnecting with the outside atmosphere.
Air rushed back into the vacuum zone, letting out a sharp whistling sound.
He clenched his right fist.
He didn't use a shred of magic, nor did he mobilize the Reality Stone's reality-warping ability.
It was merely his five fingers closing together, pulling the air with them.
Pop!
A visible ring of white air exploded in his palm, shocking the rock layer beneath his feet into splitting open a bottomless canyon.
"So this is the power of over a million?"
Lin Yi grinned.
Right now, even without relying on any skills, just casually throwing a rock with this physical body...
...its speed could easily exceed dozens of times the speed of sound, and its power would be no less than that of a space-based kinetic weapon.
Just as he was about to stretch his limbs, the sky above suddenly darkened.
From the gap in the thick, gloomy clouds came the thunderous roar of massive engines tearing through the air.
It was not the sound of natural wind.
It was the acoustic wave of a warship's thrusters.
A massive shadow cast itself onto the scorched rock layer.
Three pitch-black Kree Empire heavy cruisers, shaped like giant mountain-splitting axes...
...tore through the clouds, slowly descending to a height of a thousand meters above the ruins of Morag.
Printed clearly on both sides of the hulls was the dark red emblem of the Accuser Corps.
The heavy plasma main cannons at the bottom of the ships had completed charging, with blue-purple electric arcs crackling along the edges of the thick barrels.
They locked onto the shirtless human standing in the lava pit below from afar.
The hatch doors slid open.
Hundreds of elite Kree soldiers clad in black alloy exoskeletons marched out in formation from the gangway.
Holding High-Frequency Energy Vibration Rifles, they quickly formed a semi-circular encirclement around the cliff.
Accompanied by the jetting sound of a propulsion pack, a tall figure leaped down from the deck of the flagship.
He crashed heavily thirty meters in front of Lin Yi, kicking up a cloud of choking dust.
It was a deep-blue-skinned Kree warrior, wearing a mechanical neural interface on his head.
Two metal tracks extended from the back of his head all the way into the power armor on his back.
The most elite executioner under Ronan the Accuser—Korath the Pursuer.
Korath straightened up, stabbing the Double-Barreled Vibratory Heavy Sword in his hand into a rock crevice by his side.
His pupil-less electronic cybernetic eyes scanned Lin Yi up and down.
The target was bare-chested, and except for his slightly torn trouser legs, he didn't even have a single piece of decent armor.
There were also no traces of any spaceships taking off or landing nearby.
In Korath's database, low-civilization carbon-based organisms could absolutely not survive in Morag's high temperatures and acid rain.
Much less stand empty-handed in the center of these ruins that had been plowed by destructive power.
"Unregistered low-dimensional organism."
Korath's voice came through a mechanical vocalizer, cold and stiff with a metallic quality.
"Hand over what is in your hand."
He raised the holographic micro-terminal on his wrist, which was frantically displaying fluctuating energy residue readings.
"The Kree Empire's patrol fleet detected the energy release point of the Orb."
"Lord Ronan's will is not to be defied."
"Kneel, offer it up, and the Accuser Fleet can grant you the mercy of dying as a slave in the mines."
As Korath spoke, hundreds of Kree soldiers around them raised their guns simultaneously, the sound of chambering rounds perfectly synchronized.
The main cannon muzzles of the three heavy cruisers overhead also lowered by five degrees, a scorched smell from plasma preheating filling the air.
Standing at the bottom of the pit, Lin Yi didn't even raise an eyelid.
He lowered his head to pat the dust off his trousers, then stuck out his pinky to pick his ear.
"Ronan the Accuser?"
Lin Yi blew the earwax off his finger, his tone as casual as if he were asking for directions.
"That resentful Kree drama queen who paints his face black and struts around all day with a big hammer?"
Korath's cybernetic eyes suddenly lit up with a red glow representing anger.
"Insulting Lord Ronan is a capital offense."
"Fire! Reduce him to ash and retrieve the stone!"
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