Chapter 91: The Conversation Between the King of Gods and the Mage
Odin stood up, leaning on the Gungnir.
The massive pressure of the King of Gods poured down like a breached flood, and the air in the entire grand hall instantly became as heavy as lead.
This was a test for the strong. Under this pressure, even a mortal's bones would emit a cracking, mournful sound.
Lin Yi raised an eyebrow.
He didn't even actively circulate the energy within his body.
The defensive network formed by the 500,000 points of mental power and the Demigod Body couldn't even be bothered to react.
The pressure blew the hem of Lin Yi's short-sleeved shirt, and that was all.
A flash of extremely bright appreciation crossed Odin's single eye.
"The mage of Midgard. The Ancient One has taught a terrifying apprentice."
"Don't try to cozy up to me by bringing up that bald old mage."
Lin Yi spat out the toothpick in his mouth.
"I'm in a hurry. I heard you have a mess here that no one dares to touch."
Thor hurriedly stepped forward.
"Father, Jane is at her limit."
Odin ignored Thor and tapped the butt of the Gungniragainst the ground.
Boom.
The stone slabs in the center of the grand hall cracked open, and a holographic projection rose up.
In the image, the mortal girl was lying on a stone platform, and the dark red fluid had completely occupied her torso, spreading toward her brain.
The high-dimensional energy, which was violent, disordered, and capable of instantly distorting physical matter, exuded a sense of despairing destruction even through the projection.
"That is the Reality Stone."
Odin's voice echoed within the grand hall.
"It is assimilating the host. Only by guiding it into a vessel whose rule-carrying capacity is sufficient to suppress it will it voluntarily leave the girl's body."
Odin looked down condescendingly at Lin Yi.
"I heard from Thor that you can bear the cost of the Infinity Stones."
"The Nine Realms are in imminent danger. If you can do this, Asgard will regard you as an eternal ally."
"The treasury of the Divine Realm is open to you."
This was an extremely generous promise, and also an impeccable moral kidnapping.
Saving the girl, saving the Nine Realms, becoming the guest of honor of the King of Gods.
Replaced by any Earth hero, they would have already rushed up with boiling blood at this moment.
Yet Lin Yi laughed.
He took a step forward.
"Your Majesty, the King of Gods."
Lin Yi's voice was not loud, yet it easily tore apart Odin's pressure field.
"Do you know that we on Earth have an old saying called 'all magic comes with a price'?"
Lin Yi pointed at the red light in the holographic projection.
"You expect me to stuff a nuclear reactor capable of modifying the physical bedrock into my own stomach and use my flesh as a buffer pad."
"If I can't hold on, I won't even have ashes left when I die."
Lin Yi raised his head, his gaze as cold as polar ice.
"With a few fluttering words of 'ally' and two divine artifacts left gathering dust in the Underground Room, you want to buy my life."
"Is Asgard always this shameless when doing business?"
Thor was stunned.
The temple guards drew a sharp breath.
No one had ever dared to contradict Odin face-to-face like this in the Golden Palace.
Odin did not get angry.
Instead, the light in his eyes became even brighter.
This young man was not frightened by the halo of the King of Gods; his arrogance was built upon an extremely sober awareness.
"This is indeed a gambling game with a possibility of death."
Odin lowered his voice, no longer using those hypocritical diplomatic clichés.
"Midgardian. If the price I offer is not enough, then, what do you want?"
This was precisely what he was waiting for.
Lin Yi put away the casual look on his face.
"I want to study it."
Lin Yi spat out five words.
"As long as it is stripped out."
"Before it finds the next long-term sealing location, no matter how fierce its backlash is or how violent the resulting reality distortion is."
"The final disposal rights and contact rights of this thing will all belong to me."
"The God Clan is not allowed to interfere."
Odin's single eye suddenly constricted.
He had originally thought Lin Yi would demand the Gungnir, or some kind of ancient magic of Asgard.
As a result, this lunatic actually wanted to treat an Infinity Stone that could explode at any time as a private toy?
"The Infinity Stones devour the user's sanity!" Odin sternly warned.
"That is for the weak."
Lin Yi opened his right hand.
A cluster of pitch-black, profound dimensional energy rose in his palm, and the terrifying origin of darkness dimmed the light within the grand hall by thirty percent.
"I even ate the origin of darkness as a snack. A broken stone without a Master cannot turn the tables."
Arrogant.
Utterly arrogant.
Odin looked at that cluster of dark energy that even he felt wary of, and took a deep breath.
"Deal." The King of Gods heavily struck the ground with the Gungnir.
"Thor, take him to the soul forge room."
"Refreshing." Lin Yi curved the corners of his mouth, "Hand the person over to me, and I guarantee not even a single hair will be missing."
"It's best not to rush to a conclusion, mage of Midgard." Odin leaned on the Gungnir and walked down two steps.
The single eye of the King of Gods stared at the faint layer of energy fluctuation on Lin Yi's body surface, his gaze revealing undisguised scrutiny.
"The power of the Infinity Stones can even erode the roots of the world Tree."
"You being able to endure the mental scouring of the Mind Stone does not mean you can withstand the physical rewriting of the laws of reality."
Odin stopped his footsteps.
"If you can completely extract the Aether from Jane's body and ensure she remains safe and sound, I will allow you to study it for three days."
Lin Yi raised one eyebrow.
Three days again.
The safety bottom lines of this bunch of people in power were always surprisingly consistent.
"But there is one condition." Odin pointed the tip of the Gungnir toward the side door on the side of the grand hall.
"The research process must be conducted within the scope of Asgard."
"Furthermore, Asgard's high-ranking priests will supervise the whole process."
"Once signs of you losing control are discovered, or the Aether shows tendencies of going berserk..."
"You will use that broken spear in your hand to nail me directly to the wall?"
Odin did not deny it, only looking at him quietly.
"No problem, very reasonable." Lin Yi nodded.
He had never planned to bring this ticking time bomb back to Earth.
Although Kamar-Taj's current defensive barrier had been optimized by Tony, it still couldn't stop a runaway Reality Stone.
Asgard had a natural energy pool. Farming experience here for free while making the God Clan shoulder the venue losses was a hundredfold profit.
"Lead the way." Lin Yi tilted his head to look at Thor beside him.
Thor forcefully exhaled a rough breath.
"Follow me."
Thor turned around and strode toward the side door.
Lin Yi followed behind, passing through the deep and long corridor of the Golden Palace.
On both sides of the corridor stood huge statues of Asgard's past kings.
The starlight spilling from the dome intertwined with the torches on the walls, drawing the shadows of the two men very long.
Along the way, patrolling Heavenly Palace guards saw Thor, successively making way and pounding their fists against their breastplates to salute.
When their gazes swept over the black-haired youth following behind, their steps would briefly pause.
The aura on Lin Yi's body was too strange.
There was no fluctuation of magic elements, no pressure of divine power, only a heavy sense as if even light could be swallowed.
"Thank you, friend."
Thor walked in front, his voice appearing somewhat hoarse in the empty corridor.
Chapter 92 Jane's Condition
Lin Yi watched the red cape swaying as Thor walked, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.
"Forget it. We are just taking what we each need."
"You are here to save your little girlfriend, and I am here for that mass of energy."
"This is a fair trade. Isn't it!"
Thor stopped in his tracks and turned around.
The blond giant's eye sockets were bloodshot.
From bringing Jane back from Earth to witnessing the Aether devour Jane's vitality, Thor's nerves had been stretched to the verge of snapping.
He raised his thick arm and heavily patted Lin Yi's shoulder.
The rebound force caused a dull pain in Thor's metacarpal bones.
A flash of surprise crossed the depths of Thor's eyes, which then transformed into deep relief.
"If it weren't for you, I truly wouldn't know what to do."
Thor lowered his voice.
"Asgard's medical methods are completely helpless against the Aether. The priestesses can only watch her wait for death."
"Don't thank me too early."
Lin Yi twisted his shoulder and shook Thor's hand off.
"It won't be too late for you to kowtow after I successfully drag that thing out."
Thor didn't mind Lin Yi's mercenary and rude attitude.
He turned around and quickened his pace.
At the end of the corridor was an archway constructed of pure white light energy.
Outside the door stood two rows of heavily armored guards holding spears.
Seeing Thor, the guards retracted their crossed spears to the sides.
"The Soul Forge," Thor pointed at the archway, "Asgard's highest-level healing center. Jane is inside."
Lin Yi stepped across the light-energy archway.
The space before his eyes suddenly opened up.
There were no stone pillars and no walls; the surroundings were entirely an energy field composed of flowing golden runes.
On the high platform in the center, Jane Foster lay flat on her back.
Her skin was transparently white, and the blood vessels beneath her skin presented a shocking dark red.
Those dark red lines slithered through her limbs and bones like living creatures, continuously converging toward her heart.
Three high-ranking priestesses wearing white robes stood around the high platform.
Their hands formed complex spell seals, guiding the golden pillar of light from the top to wash over Jane's body.
But the moment that pillar of light touched Jane's skin, like a droplet of water falling into boiling oil, it was instantly evaporated by the dark red energy.
"Your Highness." The leading priestess turned her head, her face pale.
There was still wet blood at the corner of her mouth.
"The rate of vitality loss has accelerated. We can only use divine power to forcibly sustain her heartbeat, and we can hold on for at most another half-hour."
Thor gritted his teeth, stepped aside, and revealed Lin Yibehind him.
"Stop your spells. Leave it to him now."
The priestess was stunned for a moment.
Her gaze fell on Lin Yi.
"Your Highness, are you joking?"
The priestess frowned tightly and blocked in front of Lin Yi.
"The Aether is the embodiment of high-dimensional laws."
"This Earthling would be torn to shreds by the aftermath even just approaching the stone platform! You are accelerating Jane's death!"
Lin Yi stopped walking.
He didn't look at the priestess blocking the front, his gaze directly passing over her shoulders and locking onto Jane's chest.
"Step aside."
"This is Asgard's Soul Forge! I am the highest-ranking life priestess!"
The priestess raised her volume, and her hands lit up with golden magical radiance once again.
Lin Yi sighed.
Boom!
The invisible mental impact was like a heavy hammer, directly smashing into the priestess's sea of consciousness.
The golden magical radiance instantly collapsed and scattered.
The priestess's legs went soft, and she uncontrollably collapsed to her knees, supporting the ground with both hands and gasping heavily.
Her eyes looking at Lin Yi were filled with fear.
The other two priestesses immediately retreated, leaning against the light-energy wall and not daring to make a sound.
"I said."
Lin Yi stepped over the kneeling priestess and walked step by step toward the high platform.
"Step aside."
Lin Yi walked to the edge of the high platform.
Thor closely followed behind.
Jane on the high platform had her eyes tightly closed.
As Lin Yi approached, the dark red patterns on her body surface seemed to sense a threat, and the speed of their slithering abruptly increased.
A visible red wave of air overflowed from her body, attempting to push Lin Yi away.
Lin Yi stood in place without moving.
The red wave of air crashed against Lin Yi's chest, not even lifting the corner of his clothes.
The defense of the Demigod Body directly absorbed this degree of origin overflow.
The ten-kilometer range of divine sense instantly contracted, focusing on the fragile mortal body before him.
Spatial folding perception activated simultaneously.
In Lin Yi's vision, Jane's body disappeared.
Replaced it was a three-dimensional energy architecture diagram composed of countless microscopic particles.
This was the true face of the Aether.
It was neither a stone nor a wave of energy, but a living, malicious piece of underlying code.
Lin Yi saw it clear as day.
That mass of dark red fluid entrenched itself deep within Jane's heart.
It extended tens of millions of tentacles, following Jane's blood vessels, nerves, and even cell walls.
Forcibly rewriting the material structure of carbon-based life forms into Dark Dimension matter suitable for its parasitism.
Jane's vitality was the battery for it to run the rewriting program.
"This is a bit troublesome," Lin Yi spat out two words from his mouth.
"Can you do it?"
Thor abruptly leaned forward, his voice trembling.
Lin Yi withdrew his perception and rubbed the space between his eyebrows.
"You saw me handle the Mind Stone back in New York, right?"
Lin Yi turned his head to look at Thor.
Thor nodded repeatedly.
"The Mind Stone's invasion is on a mental level."
Lin Yi pointed at his own head.
"It's like a tsunami, trying to destroy your consciousness and assimilate your brain domain into its shape."
"As long as my brain is harder than it, I can endure it."
Lin Yi's finger moved down, pointing at Jane's chest.
"But the Reality Stone is a bit different."
"It is an absolute dictator on the material and energy level."
"It can directly modify the physical rules within your body."
Lin Yi watched the red light slithering under the skin.
"The priestesses' spells don't work because they are using conventional healing energy to repair the wounds."
"And what the Aether does is directly define the 'wound' as Jane's normal state."
"The divine power you input has all been converted by it into nourishment for rewriting the rules."
The priestess slumped on the ground raised her head, her face covered in shock.
She hadn't figured out for so long why the healing spells failed, yet this Earthling had seen through it so thoroughly with just a single glance.
"Then... pull it out?"
Thor's Adam's apple rolled.
"Pull it out?" Lin Yi sneered.
"It is now bound tightly together with this woman's cell membranes, bone marrow, and even DNA."
"Forcibly pulling it out is equivalent to pulling out all the load-bearing walls of a building."
"She would turn into a shapeless pool of bloody water on the spot."
Thor was as if poured with a basin of cold water over his head.
Jane on the high platform let out a faint groan at this moment.
Her eyelids trembled a few times and slowly opened.
The depths of her pupils had been occupied at the edges by dark red, but a shred of human reason remained.
"Lin... Lin Yi?"
Chapter 93: Forcefully Extracting the Aether
Jane's gaze focused on Lin Yi's face.
She recognized the person who had made such a sensation in New York.
"Enough. Stop talking and save your strength."
Lin Yi looked down at her.
Jane turned her head with difficulty and looked at Thorbeside her.
"Thor... Leave me alone."
"I can feel it... getting stronger using my life. Kill me... don't let it out."
A tear slid down the corner of Jane's eye.
Thor's eyes were bloodshot as he knelt on one knee at the edge of the high platform, trying to hold Jane's hand with both hands, only to be blocked by a layer of red energy membrane.
"Shut up! Asgard will not let this happen!"
Thor was like an enraged lion.
"Alright, stop staging a tearful parting here."
Lin Yi impatiently interrupted this melodrama.
He rolled up the cuffs of his black short-sleeved shirt.
On his wrist, the bracer form of the dark red chain of despair emitted a subtle hum.
"This thing is ten times more violent than the Mind Stone, but also ten times stupider."
Lin Yi stared at the red light on Jane's chest.
Jane looked at him weakly.
"I do have a way." Lin Yi looked into Jane's eyes, his tone devoid of any comfort.
"But I won't lie to you either. During the extraction process, it is equivalent to crushing your bones inch by inch, and then sewing your nerves back together with needle and thread."
Lin Yi paused for a moment.
"The pain will exceed the limit of human nerves. If you can't endure it, you will still die."
Hearing these brutally direct words, Jane actually managed to pull an ugly smile on her pale face.
"I even survived... an alien invasion. Come on."
Jane closed her eyes and bit her lower lip.
Lin Yi nodded.
He turned his head and looked towards the direction of the light energy arch.
Odin was already standing there at some point.
Holding the Gungnir in his hand, his single eye quietly looked at the high platform.
"Is the supervisor in place?" Lin Yi asked.
Odin did not approach, but heavily slammed the spear onto the ground.
"If you fail, or are assimilated, this room will be completely annihilated."
Odin's voice was thoroughly ruthless.
"Then you better open that single eye and look closely."
Lin Yi turned back around.
He raised both hands, palms aimed at Jane's shoulders.
"Step back ten meters."
Thor glanced at Jane and retreated, gritting his teeth.
The three priests also scrambled back to Odin's side.
Around the high platform, only Lin Yi remained.
"Then let's begin."
Silence.
Lin Yi pressed his palms against Jane's shoulders.
The moment their skin made contact, an extreme chill surged straight from Lin Yi's palms to his crown.
This was the conceptual void produced after the laws of reality were stripped away.
Lin Yi's eyes narrowed.
The Aether entrenched deep within Jane's heart sensed this overbearing external force.
Boom!
The dark red fluid churned frantically in Jane's blood vessels, and the tentacles originally scattered throughout her limbs suddenly retracted.
Jane's eyes opened instantly, her pupils completely replaced by a scarlet red.
"Ah...!"
An extremely shrill scream tore out from Jane's throat.
The dark red patterns on her body surface instantly burst with dazzling light, and those red lights materialized into substantial blades in the air, frantically cutting the space around the high platform.
Thor forcefully kicked off the ground with both feet, wanting to rush up.
A flash of golden light.
The Gungnir in Odin's hand lay horizontally across Thor's chest.
The divine power transmitted from the spear shaft forced Thor to a stop.
"Father! She..."
Thor roared.
"Stop right there!" Odin's single eye stared fixedly at Lin Yion the high platform.
"If you go up now, both of you will die."
On the high platform.
Lin Yi maintained the posture of holding down Jane's shoulders.
The Aether's counterattack had arrived.
Those dark red fluids extracted from Jane's body, like piranhas smelling blood, frantically surged into Lin Yi's body along his arms.
Snap!
The bones of Lin Yi's right arm emitted a harsh, crisp sound.
The moment the Reality Stone's energy contacted Lin Yi's flesh, it directly initiated tampering on a physical level.
Lin Yi's steel-like bones were forcibly defined as "fragile glass" in the face of this force.
The piercing pain went straight to his brain along the neurons.
Dense cold sweat instantly oozed from Lin Yi's forehead.
His muscles spasmed violently out of control, the veins on his arms bulged high, and tiny bloody cuts began to burst open on the surface of his skin.
This pain was several times more violent than forcibly enduring the backlash of the space portal in New York!
"Is that all you've got?" Lin Yi clenched his teeth, squeezing a muffled groan from between his teeth.
He did not retreat; instead, he increased the output power of origin devouring.
Mercury-like spiritual power transformed into a huge millstone, launching a strangulation at the channel where the Aether poured in along his arm.
The Reality Stone attempted to turn Lin Yi's flesh and blood into dark matter.
Lin Yi's Demigod Body was resisting frantically.
Cells were shattering and rapidly reorganizing at the same time.
Amidst this extreme distortion and pulling of physical laws, the sound Lin Yi had been waiting for finally exploded in his mind:
[Pure reality law erosion detected, physical body concept subjected to dimensionality reduction deprivation!]
[System comprehensive intervention!]
[Cost 100% reversal begins!]
Boom!
The "Cost Core" inside Lin Yi's body, which kept expanding as it absorbed, leaped violently.
The violent energy of the Aether absorbed into his body, the moment it was about to touch Lin Yi's heart, was forcibly intercepted, shattered, and transformed by an invisible force of a higher dimension!
[You have endured Universe-grade reality rule tearing...]
[Reality affinity + 1000!]
The reality affinity that originally stayed at 950 points instantly broke through the major milestone!
Lin Yi felt the severe pain on his right arm begin to recede, and those ruptured wounds healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
His bones were no longer "glass", but were tempered into a more solid substance of a higher dimension.
The Aether perceived the abnormality inside Lin Yi's body.
This newly found container not only wasn't blown apart, but instead devoured its origin like a bottomless pit!
It began to struggle, trying to sever the connection and retreat back into Jane's body.
"Want to run?"
The corners of Lin Yi's mouth curved into a ferocious smile.
His divine sense transformed into a huge cage, tightly locking Jane's body and cutting off the Aether's retreat route.
The chain of despair extended from his wrist, transforming into five dark red locks that plunged directly into the center of the red light on Jane's chest, pulling outwards with all its might.
"Come out for me!"
Lin Yi roared.
Exerting strength with both arms, a series of explosive sounds burst from his whole body's bones.
A fist-sized, blood-viscous clump of pure dark red fluid was forcibly dragged out from Jane's chest!
The moment it left the host, the Aether completely went berserk.
A red energy storm erupted in the Soul Forge.
Large areas of golden runes on the walls peeled off.
Bearing the brunt, Lin Yi directly withstood this energy impact sufficient to wipe out a galaxy.
The violent red energy storm exploded in the Soul Forge.
The five dark red locks formed by the chain of despair bit tightly onto that fist-sized Aether.
Chapter 94 Full Cost
The chain was taut and straight, emitting a harsh metallic groan.
This was the first time since its birth that it faced resistance at the level of the fundamental laws of the Universe.
Jane lay on the high platform, her body twitching violently.
Although most of that dark red fluid had been pulled out, hundreds of thousands of fine red threads were still connected to her heart valves and every nerve.
"Get out."
Lin Yi clenched his teeth, the muscles on his cheeks bulging high.
He urged the ocean-like spiritual power within his body, blasting it along his right arm toward that dark red fluid.
The spiritual power transformed into invisible bone-carving knives, precisely cutting off the red threads connected to Jane's heart.
With every cut, Jane's body jerked violently, a painful hiss escaping her throat.
Time passed in the extremely tense tug-of-war.
Five minutes.
Ten minutes.
Twenty minutes.
The heavy armored guards of Asgard outside the light energy archway heard the energy roaring coming from the Soul Forge, and their palms holding the spears were sweating all over.
The three High Priestesses who had retreated to the corner had pale, bluish lips.
They watched helplessly as the spatial laws around the high platform were crushed back and forth.
The originally flat air showed obvious faults, and those folded grids turned into distorted funhouse mirrors under the pull of the Reality Stone.
Thor clenched his fists tightly, his eyes fixed on Jane's pale face.
He did not dare to make a sound, keeping his breathing to the lightest, fearing that even the tiniest movement would break the balance on the high platform.
Odin's single eye narrowed into a slit.
The Gungnir was held in his hand, and the tip of the spear had already lit up with a golden divine radiance representing destruction.
As long as Lin Yi showed the slightest sign of assimilation losing control, this spear would pierce through without hesitation.
The twenty-ninth minute.
The bones of Lin Yi's right arm made a cracking sound.
The resistance of the Reality Stone reached its peak.
It no longer tried to retreat back into Jane's body, but instead turned around and began to frantically attack Lin Yi, the container that had forcibly intervened.
The last three thickest red threads were connected to the walls of Jane's ventricles.
"You're really asking for it."
Lin Yi's left hand thrust out suddenly, grabbing the main body of the chain of despair.
The muscles in both arms expanded instantly, and the veins wriggled under the skin like little snakes.
The Demigod Body engine was fully opened, and the power was about to break through one million at this moment.
Rip!
A crisp sound like tearing silk.
At that moment, Jane's originally straight spine lost all support.
She collapsed softly toward the edge of the high platform like a ragdoll with its cotton removed.
Thor could no longer hold back.
He exerted force with his legs, rushing onto the high platform like a cannonball, and protecting her in his arms just before Jane fell.
Thor's hand trembled as he reached for Jane's breath.
Her breathing was weak, but steady and long.
The shocking dark red lines on the surface of her body had faded completely.
Although her skin was pale, the undertone was regaining the vitality belonging to a human.
"It's fine... It's fine."
Thor pressed his face against Jane's forehead, his voice hoarse.
At this moment on the high platform, the real crisis had just begun.
The Aether, having lost its original host, was like an ancient beast thoroughly enraged.
That pure dark red fluid, viscous as blood, poured directly into Lin Yi's body along the clasp of the chain of despairwith the momentum of a landslide and tsunami.
Boom!
The short-sleeved shirt on Lin Yi's upper body instantly turned to flying ash.
The moment the Aether entered his body, a dazzling red light lit up on Lin Yi's chest.
This red light did not flow along the blood vessels, but directly penetrated the flesh and blood, outlining an extremely complex energy network on the surface of Lin Yi's body.
The Reality Stone's rewriting program was fully activated.
Lin Yi's muscles, bones, and internal organs were forcibly defined as "liquid", "gas", and "nothingness" within a ten-millionth of a second.
Click, click, click.
Large patches of red energy cracks spread from Lin Yi's chest.
They crawled up his neck to his cheeks, and tore apart his arms along his shoulders.
Lin Yi's whole person was like a piece of porcelain that had been hit by a hammer and was about to shatter.
Deep inside the cracks, no blood flowed out.
Because all the carbon-based matter in his body was being directly evaporated by high-dimensional energy.
"He's not going to hold on."
The High Priestess in the corner cried out involuntarily.
Odin raised the Gungnir with one hand.
The divine light on the tip of the spear condensed into substance, and the surrounding air shrieked under the oppression of divine power.
There was no pity in Odin's single eye.
The very second before Odin was about to throw the spear.
A large mouthful of blood overflowed from Lin Yi's mouth, where he was clenching his teeth tightly.
He did not look at Odin, nor did he care about the terrifying cracks on his body.
Deep within his sea of consciousness, the system's white text notification sounds connected together like a tsunami.
The red energy that was about to tear Lin Yi apart crashed head-on into this wall of absolute defense.
[Cost Reversal in progress...]
[Reality Affinity + 10,000!]
[Reality Affinity + 10,000!]
[Constitution + 20,000!]
[Cellular matter anchoring complete! Demigod Bodyadvanced reorganization!]
The datastream flooding the screen jumped frantically on the retina.
The shocking red cracks on Lin Yi's body stopped spreading the moment the system intervened.
Then, countless golden granulation buds grew on the edges of the cracks, forcibly healing at a speed that defied biological common sense.
The flesh and blood that had just evaporated grew a layer of even tougher keratin membrane, which then returned to normal skin color.
The violent Aether was unwilling to be suppressed.
It rolled frantically in Lin Yi's heart, releasing wave after wave of reality-distorting ripples.
Every ripple spread outward.
The system's numbers jumped upward once.
Lin Yi felt that he had turned into a humanoid blacksmith's anvil.
The Reality Stone was that sledgehammer, pounding his flesh and blood day and night, smashing all impurities and vulnerabilities to pieces, and then filling them with pure rule attributes by the system.
One minute passed.
The red light on Lin Yi's chest dimmed completely.
The Aether behaved itself.
It found that no matter how it modified the physical rules of this container, this fleshly body would produce an even more formidable material structure in the next second to push it back.
It was locked tightly next to the "Cost Core" inside Lin Yi's body, quiet like a real stone.
Lin Yi raised his hand and looked at his intact right arm.
He turned his head and spat out a mouthful of saliva with a burnt smell.
He took a deep breath, and the heavy residual energy around him poured into his lungs through his nasal cavity.
Lin Yi opened his eyes and looked at Odin holding the spear not far away.
"Done."
There was dead silence in the Soul Forge.
Thor held Jane, maintaining a single-knee-kneeling posture.
The proudest warrior of Asgard had a very amusing expression on his face at this moment.
He looked at Lin Yi's upper body, which didn't even leave a single scar, his eyeballs almost popping out of their sockets.
Chapter 95: An Infinity Stone Inside the Body?
In the corner, the three High Priestesses even forgot to breathe, pressing their bodies tightly against the light-energy wall, looking at Lin Yi as if gazing upon a monster cloaked in human skin.
Odin gripped the Gungnir, his fingers pressing against the shaft with a faint, dull thud.
He did not lower his spear.
The God King, having lived through countless ages, walked up the raised platform step by step.
With each step he took, the God King's pressure grew heavier, attempting to discern even the slightest trace of losing control from Lin Yi.
Odin came to a halt one meter in front of Lin Yi.
Their gazes clashed in midair.
In Lin Yi's pitch-black pupils, there was not a ripple of disturbance; over 500,000 points of mental strength transformed into a bottomless pool, absorbing Odin's scrutinizing gaze entirely.
Odin raised his free left hand.
Extending his gold-armored index finger, he stopped an inch away from Lin Yi's heart.
A wisp of pure Asgard divine power emerged from his fingertip, turning into invisible ripples that scanned Lin Yi's mortal vessel.
One second, three seconds, ten seconds.
Odin's single eye gradually widened.
In his divine perception, Lin Yi's heartbeat was steady and powerful.
Blood flow adhered to flawless physical laws.
No madness, no distortion, no shadow of dimensional assimilation.
That Aether, potent enough to destroy the Nine Realms, resided quietly in the depths of this mortal's heart.
Like a tiger stripped of its teeth and tendons, it lay obediently in its cage.
Odin withdrew his finger. At the tip of the Gungnir, the radiance completely extinguished.
"You now have an Infinity Stone inside your body?"
Odin spoke, his voice echoing in the hollow forge, tinged with a dryness he could barely conceal.
"And you can still stand here, speak to me normally, and move freely?"
Lin Yi raised his hand and patted his chest, producing a solid thud of flesh and bone.
"This thing acted up for a bit. I absorbed most of its energy, and the rest is sealed inside. Consider it a long-term meal ticket that I'll digest slowly later."
He said it nonchalantly, as if discussing the leftover half of a pizza from lunch.
Kneeling in the corner, the Chief High Priestess felt her legs give out and collapsed straight onto the floor.
The other two priestesses rolled their eyes back; the magiccognitive framework Asgard had built over millennia crumbled completely before Lin Yi's words.
The Reality Stone.
One of the six singularities left over from the Big Bang of the Universe.
Absorbed like a meal ticket by a Midgard mortal?
"Y-You..." Thor opened his mouth, only to find his throat too parched to produce a sound.
He looked at Lin Yi, the words Heimdall had spoken on the Bifrost Bridge flashing through his mind.
"Your existence is like an absolute void of a black hole on the world Tree."
Watching Odin's stiff expression, Lin Yi's lips curled into a faint smile.
He raised his right hand and snapped his fingers.
*Snap.*
Following the crisp sound,
the air above Lin Yi's fingertips suddenly warped.
A wisp of dark red fluid materialized out of thin air.
A pure manifestation of rules.
With a thought from Lin Yi,
the dark red fluid stretched in midair, turning into a vivid, lifelike red rose.
The dew on its petals was clearly visible.
A second later, the rose dissipated and turned into a miniature version of Mjolnir.
Another second passed, and the hammer transformed into a dancing flame, yet it emitted no heat whatsoever.
Lin Yi clenched his fist.
The red light vanished, and everything returned to nothingness.
"See? It's pretty handy to use."
Lin Yi lowered his hand and looked at Odin.
Odin watched as Lin Yi finished demonstrating all of this.
The God King, having weathered countless battles, closed his one eye.
He let out a long sigh.
When he opened his eye again, his gaze toward Lin Yi held an unprecedented gravity and awe.
"Thousands of years ago, my father Bor defeated the Dark Elves and obtained the Aether."
"He dared not touch it, nor could I."
Odin turned around, looking at Jane on the platform as color returned to her face.
"We could only seal it in an unknown fissure, praying it would never see the light of day again."
Leaning on his spear, Odin turned back, fixing his gaze on Lin Yi.
"You are the second living being I have ever seen capable of containing an Infinity Stone within your physical body without being destroyed by it."
As soon as those words were spoken,
the atmosphere in the entire forge instantly dropped to freezing point.
Thor snapped his head up, staring at his father in disbelief.
He had thought Lin Yi was the first, but Odin's words concealed an ancient secret.
"The second?" Lin Yi raised an eyebrow.
His intuition caught the weight of information behind those words.
In the lore of the Marvel Universe, beings capable of bearing an Infinity Stone directly with their physical bodies were few and far between.
Aside from planet-sized monsters like the Celestials, only a minute fraction of individual lifeforms could achieve such a feat.
"Who was the first?" Thor could not help but ask aloud.
Odin did not answer Thor's question.
The God King's gaze bypassed Lin Yi and looked into the unknown depths of space, seemingly sinking into some ancient memory.
That memory was clearly not pleasant, as veins bulged once more on the back of Odin's spear-gripping hand.
"That is not important," Odin withdrew his gaze and cut the topic short.
"What matters is that you upheld your promise."
Odin brought the Gungnir down heavily onto the floor.
"Asgard honors its word."
Odin looked at Lin Yi.
"You need three days to study the Reality Stone. Asgard's top magic laboratory will be open to you."
"I will even send the realm's strongest Archmage to assist you."
Odin paused for a moment.
"However, I hope that after three days, you will leave Asgard with this stone."
Lin Yi grinned.
"Deal." Lin Yi casually grabbed a piece of linen from the platform and draped it over his bare upper torso.
"Then let's not waste any time. Take me to the laboratory."
...
Asgard, Royal Rune Laboratory.
This area was located in the deepest part of the Golden Palace, supported by three hundred and twenty-eight Urumetal pillars inscribed with high-tier defensive arrays.
Overhead was a magic dome that directly drew energy from a white dwarf star as its light source.
Stored here was all the magic knowledge accumulated by the realm over tens of thousands of years.
Lin Yi pushed open the two heavy bronze doors and strode inside.
Behind the long table in the center of the laboratory stood an old man with graying hair, dressed in deep blue starry robes.
This was Vidar, Asgard's Chief Rune Mage, the 'overseer' assigned by Odin.
Piled beside Vidar's feet were waist-high magic tomes, and the long table held dozens of bizarrely shaped energy detectors, rune carving knives, and stabilization boundary disks.
Looking at Lin Yi as he entered, the old mage noticed the lack of any magic fluctuations from Lin Yi's body, his brows furrowing into a tight knot.
"Midgard mage," Vidar gripped a staff radiating blue light.
"I have heard of your feat. But magic is a rigorous discipline; it cannot be unraveled by brute force alone."
Chapter 96: The Mystery of the Reality Stone
Vidar pointed to the instruments on the table.
"I have prepared the 'Alpha Suppression Array' and the 'High-Order Matter Anchoring Barrier'."
"If you are ready to spit out that stone for observation, I suggest you stand on the suppression position over there first."
Lin Yi walked up to the long table and glanced at the precision instruments.
He yawned.
Casually pulling over a high-backed, gold-lacquered wooden chair carved with intricate patterns, he sat down swaggeringly.
"Actually, it doesn't need to be that troublesome."
Lin Yi crossed his legs and leaned against the back of the chair.
"What do you mean?" Vidar was stunned.
"Without setting up a defensive array, the overflowing energy of the Reality Stone will turn everything here into dark matter."
"You can't study it through your belly."
"Why not?"
Lin Yi looked at the old mage.
"My body is the best laboratory."
Vidar wanted to say something else, but Lin Yi had already closed his eyes.
The moment he closed his eyes, a dark red halo lit up once again at Lin Yi's chest.
Vidar immediately gripped his staff and stared intently at the energy detector on the table.
The pointer didn't move at all.
The instrument was as quiet as a piece of scrap iron.
But Vidar's naked eyes saw a scene that made his hair stand on end.
Centered on the chair Lin Yi was sitting on, the air within a three-meter radius began to undergo substantial morphological changes.
The originally transparent gas first turned into viscous water droplets, then condensed into tiny ice crystals, and finally turned into wisps of black smoke.
The basic state of matter was switched back and forth dozens of times in just a few seconds.
"This... This is impossible." Vidar's hand holding the staff began to tremble.
He picked up a thick tome, opened it, and compared it with the theories inside.
The theories didn't match at all.
Lin Yi did not borrow any runes or construct any mana channels.
He was just sitting there.
In Lin Yi's sea of consciousness, an ocean-like mercury spiritual power tightly wrapped the dark red fluid in the Cost Core.
Lin Yi was trying to actively strip away a trace of the Reality Stone's energy, making it roam along his neurons.
This behavior was no different from flowing magma in the blood vessels.
Every energy movement would trigger the rewriting of laws in local parts of the body.
Bones softened, muscles vaporized, and blood coagulated.
[Detected local tearing of reality laws...]
[Cost Reversal in progress...]
[Reality Affinity + 500]
[Reality Affinity + 800]
The system accurately provided a safety net in the background.
The destruction brought by each rewriting was transformed into Lin Yi's affinity for the laws of reality.
Lin Yi was "taming" this power.
Through hundreds and thousands of collapses and reorganizations of his physical body, he made his cells remember this frequency of distorting reality.
The first day.
Vidar held a quill and recorded on the parchment.
But he found that as soon as the words he wrote took shape, the parchment turned into a piece of sheet iron, and the ink turned into sand.
The second day.
The red light on Lin Yi's body surface began to spread outward.
A corner of the long table was swept by the red light.
The hard Uru metal tabletop did not melt, but directly turned into a pile of soil exuding floral fragrance.
Vidar stopped recording.
The old mage's eyes were bloodshot, slumped in the chair, and his eyes looking at Lin Yi were filled with a sense of powerlessness.
Asgard's tens of thousands of years of magic system became a joke in front of the barbarian act of this young man grinding against the laws with his physical body.
The third day.
With the last beat of the system prompt tone, Lin Yi's reality affinity broke through the 30,000 mark.
The cells in his body had completely adapted to the frequency of the Reality Stone.
Even without using the chain of despair and mercury spiritual power to suppress it, the Aether could no longer cause any harm to him.
Lin Yi opened his eyes.
The red light on his chest completely converged, as if it had never appeared.
Vidar stood straight up from behind the table and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
"You... finished?"
Lin Yi did not answer.
His gaze fell on the center of the long table, where a pure gold goblet used to hold carving knives was placed.
Lin Yi did not raise his hand or use any magic.
He just glanced at the cup.
Outlined the desired picture in his mind.
"Reality rewrite."
Lin Yi chanted silently in his heart.
On the long table.
The metallic luster of that pure gold goblet instantly faded.
Delicate wood grain grew on the golden surface, the weight of the cup reduced, and it turned into a quaint wooden cup.
The next second.
The wood grain disappeared, the cup wall became transparent, and it refracted dazzling light under the light.
It turned into a crystal cup.
The last second.
The shape of the crystal cup completely collapsed, turning into a puddle of clear water, dripping onto the floor tiles along the edge of the long table.
The staff in Vidar's hand dropped to the ground with a crisp "snap".
The old mage looked at that puddle of water, his lips trembled for a long time, unable to spit out a complete sentence.
This directly modified the essence of the object from the conceptual bottom layer.
Small-scale reality rewrite, achieved.
Lin Yi stood up, stretched his waist and back, and his bones made a crisp cracking sound.
"Thanks to Asgard's laboratory." Lin Yi glanced at Vidar, "This place is not bad, just a bit too quiet."
Lin Yi put his hands into his trouser pockets and turned to walk towards the bronze door.
Leaving the old mage whose worldview was completely shattered standing in place.
...
Lin Yi pushed open the heavy door of the Royal Rune Laboratory.
The old mage Vidar slumped in the chair behind the door.
His eyes were filled with blankness.
Vidar looked at Lin Yi's back, just like looking at a monster that shattered the truth of the world.
Lin Yi crossed the threshold and walked through the long corridor.
Outside in the Golden Palace square, the sunlight was just right.
A breeze blew past Asgard's iconic golden pillars.
Thor had changed out of his heavy armor and was wearing ordinary casual clothes.
Jane Foster stood beside him.
The Earth girl's complexion was rosy, and the dark red veins that originally wandered under her skin had receded cleanly.
She looked a bit healthier than when she was in London.
Seeing Lin Yi walk out, Thor strode up to him.
"My friend, Jane is all better."
Thor reached out his palm, wanting to pat Lin Yi's shoulder, but withdrew his hand halfway.
Jane lifted her skirt, took two steps forward, and bowed deeply to Lin Yi.
"Thank you. You saved my life."
Lin Yi waved his hand without even raising his eyelids.
"Just a transaction. Goods delivered and money paid, no need to be so sentimental."
Lin Yi turned his head to look at the other end of the square.
Odin was wearing a suit of brilliantly golden battle armor, holding the Gungnir in his hand.
Two rows of fully armed golden guards followed behind him, walking in uniform steps.
"Mage of Midgard." Odin stopped five steps in front of Lin Yi.
"The three-day limit has arrived. Asgard keeps its promise."
Odin's single eye fell on Lin Yi's chest.
Lin Yi's aura was more restrained than three days ago, like a bottomless abyss.
Chapter 97 Dark Elves Raid Asgard
The Aether inside him could not stir up even a single ripple.
"Heimdall is already ready," Odin tapped the butt of the Gungnir on the ground, "and can send you back to Earth at any time."
Lin Yi touched his chin and glanced at Odin.
"Fine, there is still a bunch of messy business waiting for me on Earth."
The few of them turned around and walked towards the direction of the Bifrost Bridge hub.
Woo...!
A shrill and long horn sound rang out without warning over Asgard.
The sound originated from the end of the Bifrost Bridgehub.
Odin stopped in his tracks and looked up at the sky.
High above, the originally clear blue sky experienced large-scale air distortion.
A huge black spatial rift was violently torn open, spanning above the Golden Palace.
Several huge cross-shaped black warships deactivated their stealth camouflage.
Carrying brutal spatial turbulence, they forcibly squeezed out from the rift.
The surfaces of the warships were covered with rugged dark red patterns, and the hulls had no aesthetic appeal to speak of, only a pure aura of slaughter.
The main muzzle at the bottom of the warships had already lit up with destructive dark energy light.
"Enemy attack!"
The commander of the golden-armored guards let out a loud roar.
The guards successively drew their long swords and protected Odin in the center of the formation.
Thor made a hollow grasp with his right hand.
A loud explosion came from the top of the distant armory, and Mjolnir flew through the air, steadily landing in his palm.
Electric arcs slithered across his arm.
"Dark Elves."
Odin's single eye narrowed into a slit, and he gripped the Gungnir tightly.
"Several thousand years have passed, and yet they are still not completely extinct."
The group of cross warships ignored the continuously firing anti-aircraft turrets on the outer perimeter.
Braving the bombardment of energy beams and relying on thick dark matter armor, they slammed straight toward the main building of the Golden Palace.
On the bridge of the lead mothership.
Malekith, draped in tattered dark red robes, stood in front of the transparent observation window.
His pale face was covered in black incantations.
"Great leader. We have found it."
A Dark Elf adjutant knelt on one knee.
Malekith closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
A throbbing sensation of origin connection returned to his perception after thousands of years of slumber.
That was the call of the Reality Stone.
It was also the only hope for the Dark Elves race to reverse the laws of the Universe.
His consciousness followed this fluctuation and extended downward to the Asgard continent.
The next moment.
Malekith abruptly opened his eyes.
In his completely black eyeballs, they were filled with unbelievable shock.
"The fluctuation of the Aether... is actually inside a living organism?"
This completely violated the common sense passed down by the Dark Elves for tens of thousands of years.
No matter who it was, anyone who tried to swallow it into their body would instantly be rewritten into a puddle of mud.
Even Odin back then could only choose to seal it away, not daring to use it himself.
But now, the situation Malekith sensed was completely different.
"This is absolutely impossible!"
"Leader, the target is on the plaza in front of the grand hall," the adjutant pointed at the holographic projection below.
"Fly the ship over. Blast their defensive position to pieces!" Malekith roared.
"Whoever dares to steal the power belonging to the Dark Elves must die!"
Boom!
The main gun of the mothership emitted a deafening roar.
A thick dark red energy beam fell straight down, smashing fiercely onto the defensive barrier at the edge of the plaza.
The golden shield collapsed on a large scale like fragile glass.
The violent Impact swept up fragments of marble all over the ground, splashing in all directions.
The hatch at the bottom of the warship was wide open.
Densely packed Dark Elf soldiers wearing pale masks held anti-matter rifles.
Like a black tide, they landed on the plaza.
Thor pushed Jane away, protecting her behind several divine guards.
"Take her into the inner hall!"
Mjolnir, carrying boundless electric light, smashed into the center of the Dark Elves' formation.
More than a dozen enemy soldiers were blown away by the lightning, their severed limbs dancing wildly in mid-air.
But this could not stop more enemies from pouring out of the hatch.
The lower platform of the mothership slowly lowered.
Malekith walked at the very front.
Behind him followed several Cursed Warriors who were three meters tall and had muscles knotted like rocks.
These monsters were the Dark Elves' strongest biological weapons.
They exuded a violent aura that even Thor found palpitations-inducing.
Malekith stepped onto the plaza.
His gaze pierced through the fighting Asgard defenders, bypassed Thor, and bypassed Odin.
Finally, his gaze fell on a single person.
"It is you." Malekith raised the scepter in his hand, pointing straight at Lin Yi.
Black breath spread beneath his feet, and the surrounding marble ground began to be corroded and turned black.
"Hand over what belongs to us."
Malekith's voice carried an irresistible sense of oppression, echoing across the entire plaza.
The Asgard divine guards were on high alert.
Yet Lin Yi stood in place motionless, nonchalantly picking his ear.
"Belonging to you?"
Lin Yi grinned, revealing white teeth.
"What? Does this thing have your name written on it?"
The sound of metal clashing and fighting on the plaza felt somewhat distant at this moment.
Malekith stared at Lin Yi.
On his face, that layer of incantations twisted like a living creature.
"Ignorant lower life form."
Malekith gripped the scepter in his hand tightly.
"You do not understand at all what kind of thing is inside your body."
"That is not a divine artifact you can lay your hands on!"
Lin Yi yawned.
"Are you done talking? If you have the ability, come and get it."
Malekith's face appeared increasingly ferocious.
He had lived for so long and had never been looked down upon so much by a carbon-based life form.
"Algrim!"
A Cursed Warrior standing behind him let out a heaven-shaking roar.
This Cursed Warrior had crimson eyes, and scorching magma patterns emerged on the surface of his body.
His huge body transformed into a black meteorite, rushing straight at Lin Yi.
Seeing this, Thor swung Mjolnir, wanting to intercept.
"Get lost!"
The Cursed Warrior backhanded a slap.
With a muffled sound.
Thor, along with the hammer, was smashed flying more than a dozen meters away.
The Cursed Warrior's speed did not slow down at all, carrying a fishy wind as he rushed in front of Lin Yi.
His fist, wrapped in dark matter energy, slammed fiercely toward Lin Yi's face.
Odin's eyes tightened, and the Gungnir in his hand lit up with a golden glow.
Yet Lin Yi just casually raised his right hand.
His index and middle fingers pressed together, making a casual slash toward the air in front of him.
Just as the Cursed Warrior's fist was about to touch the tip of Lin Yi's nose.
The "laws of reality" in that small area were directly tampered with.
The originally indestructible dark matter energy, along with that heavy fist.
At the moment of contacting that invisible barrier, lost all "mass" and "point of force application".
The Cursed Warrior's fully-charged strike completely missed.
Because he used too much force and lost inertial support.
His huge body lost its balance and lurged forward, collapsing.
Lin Yi smoothly raised his foot and kicked at the knee joint of the Cursed Warrior.
Crack.
Chapter 98 Lin Yi's Routine Operations
The three-meter-tall Cursed Warrior let out a miserable scream.
His body smashed down beside Lin Yi's feet, denting the floor tiles into a deep crater.
Malekith's eyelids twitched violently.
He completely failed to understand what had just happened.
Algrim's attack had its very existence wiped out.
"What did you do?!"
Malekith demanded sternly, his footsteps subconsciously retreating half a step.
Lin Yi looked down at the Cursed Warrior struggling to crawl up beneath his feet.
Malekith hesitated no longer.
He reached out and pulled a fist-sized black metal sphere from his waist.
Malekith pressed the switch and forcefully threw the grenade toward Lin Yi's feet.
The black hole grenade disintegrated in mid-air, a point of ultimate darkness bursting from its center.
A violent gravitational collapse was instantly generated.
The surrounding marble fragments, corpses, and even the incoming sunlight were ruthlessly sucked in by this force.
Thor had just crawled out from the ruins, and seeing this scene, his expression changed drastically.
"Lin Yi! Get out of the way!"
Lin Yi stood in place, looking at the small black ball crazily creating a gravitational vortex.
"Interesting."
Deep within his pupils, a trace of dark red light flashed.
The laws of reality surrounding that black hole grenade were instantly and forcibly overwritten.
The gravitational collapse stopped without warning.
That point of ultimate darkness instantly scattered without a trace.
The metal shell of the black hole grenade melted and reorganized in mid-air.
In the blink of an eye.
That fatal bomb turned into a plastic bubble machine.
"Dulu-lu."
The bubble machine emitted a cheerful, cheap electronic musical tune.
The muzzle spat out a large string of crystal-clear soap bubbles.
The soap bubbles refracted colorful light in the sunlight, floating leisurely toward Malekith's face.
The whole place was dead silent.
The battling God Guards and Dark Elves stopped their actions simultaneously.
They looked blankly at the soap bubbles floating in mid-air.
This scene was absurd to the extreme.
Malekith reached out and slapped apart a soap bubble that floated before him.
A drop of soapy water splashed onto the tip of his nose, carrying a faint scent of cheap essence.
His pale face finally revealed an uncontrollable terror.
"You…" Malekith's finger pointing at Lin Yi was trembling, "You actually used the power of the Aether?"
"No, this is impossible! How could a mortal control this degree of rewriting?!"
The Reality Stone was alive.
It would backfire on any host who wanted to control it.
For thousands of years, even Malekith himself could only barely guide it, let alone completely dominate this power.
But the carbon-based lifeform before him could actually be precise enough to turn a black hole grenade into a toy!
What a terrifying amount of computing power and affinity for laws this required!
Lin Yi raised his head.
He took strides, stepped over the Cursed Warrior on the ground, and walked leisurely toward Malekith.
"Let me correct you."
"What I'm doing is not called using it."
Lin Yi opened his right hand.
A mass of dark red fluid obediently circled in his palm, like his pet.
"This is called, complete control."
"Kill him!"
An unprecedented chill rose from the bottom of Malekith's heart.
He directly issued the general attack order to the entire army.
Dense Dark Elves raised their rifles, their muzzles aimed at Lin Yi.
The dense red beams intertwined into a giant net of death, covering him overwhelmingly from above.
Lin Yi still maintained a strolling posture.
Mental power instantly enveloped the fan-shaped area ahead.
Dark red light waves diffused out from Lin Yi's body, like a silent breeze, sweeping past the incoming energy beams and the rifles in the hands of the Dark Elves.
Those antimatter beams, which were enough to pierce Asgardian golden armor, turned into colorful balloons flying all over the sky the moment they touched the red wave.
Hundreds of balloons leisurely crashed into Lin Yi's body, making crisp popping sounds.
The Dark Elf soldiers looked in panic at the weapons in their hands.
Those cold, high-tech firearms rapidly lost their metallic luster.
They all turned into soft baguette bread.
An elf soldier instinctively pulled the trigger.
A puff of white cream spewed from the front of the barrel, directly smearing his comrade's face next to him.
"No… impossible!"
The formation of the Dark Elves was completely thrown into disarray.
The other two Cursed Warriors behind Malekith let out an angry roar, flanking Lin Yi from left and right.
They pulled out the blades at their waists.
"Big guy, didn't you know playing with knives is easy to hurt yourself?"
Lin Yi snapped his fingers.
After a flash of red light, the sharp blades in the hands of the two Cursed Warriors turned into two strands of boiled, soft noodles.
The noodles whipped out a comical arc in the air, sticking limply onto their own helmets.
Taking advantage of the half-second they were stunned.
Lin Yi extended his index finger and gently pointed at the two from a distance.
The red light directly plunged into the huge bodies of the two Cursed Warriors.
The dark red crystal inside their bodies used to stimulate mutation potential was directly modified into ordinary pebbles.
The violent power receded like a tide.
The three-meter-tall huge bodies quickly shriveled up like a deflated ball.
Their muscles shrank inch by inch.
In less than two seconds.
The two monsters that could go toe-to-toe with Thordegraded into two scrawny ordinary Dark Elves who couldn't even stand steadily.
Thor seized the opportunity and leaped high.
Mjolnir, carrying violent lightning, smashed these two degraded elves into charred cinders with a single blow.
The battle situation reversed in an instant.
Malekith looked at everything collapsing before him, and his sanity finally snapped completely.
He pressed his hands together.
The remaining Dark Dimension origin within his body was fully stimulated.
Black mist condensed around him, transforming into a dark long whip tens of meters long.
The long whip, carrying a corrosive aura that devoured all life, fiercely whipped toward Lin Yi.
Lin Yi looked at the whipping black whip, a trace of a smile flashing in his eyes.
If it were before, he would directly hard-tank it and then convert it into attributes.
But now, of course, he had to play with his new toy a bit more.
Lin Yi raised his hand, his palm sweeping emptily toward the long whip.
Half a meter away from Lin Yi's forehead, the long whip suddenly rolled back at twice the speed it came.
"Slap!"
A dull explosive sound.
Malekith didn't have time to react at all before he was fiercely whipped in the chest by the dark long whip he released.
He let out a miserable scream, the ribs on his chest shattering in a large area.
Corrosive dark energy invaded his heart and lungs, and mouthfuls of black blood spewed from his mouth.
He was defeated without any ability to fight back.
Enduring the intense pain, he reached out and pressed the teleportation device on his wrist.
"Retreat! Retreat! Teleport immediately!"
The cruciform mothership overhead shot down a white tractor beam, enveloping Malekith's broken body.
"Did I say you could leave?"
Lin Yi's five fingers abruptly clenched downwards.
The physical properties of that descending tractor beam changed.
It turned into a solid, high-strength steel column with a diameter of ten meters and weighing several thousand tons.
Not only did the mothership fail to suck Malekith up.
This giant steel column that appeared out of thin air also dragged the mothership down by a huge margin.
Malekith was pinned firmly at the bottom of the steel column.
His legs were directly smashed into meat paste.
He lay on the ground, emitting a shrill wail.
Thor charged in from the side.
The power of thunder was compressed to the extreme on the hammer.
"For Asgard!"
Chapter 99: Universal-Level Strength Initially Formed
Thor let out an angry roar, and Mjolnir crashed down fiercely.
Bang!
Malekith's head exploded like a watermelon.
Along with his sinful soul, he was completely obliterated by boundless lightning.
The out-of-control cross-shaped mothership in the sky was also split in two by Thor's subsequent thunderous storm, crashing heavily into the distant mountains.
The battlefield quieted down.
From the Dark Elves' raid to Malekith's death.
The entire process took less than ten minutes.
Those remaining Dark Elf soldiers looked at the baguettes in their hands and the shattered corpses of their comrades.
They didn't even have the courage to resist anymore, and successively threw down their bread and knelt to surrender.
Thor walked over to Lin Yi, carrying his blood-dripping hammer.
He looked at the mess all over the ground, glanced at Lin Yi again, and suddenly didn't know what to say.
Odin walked forward slowly and stopped in front of Lin Yi.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
When he opened them again.
This ruler of the Nine Realms gave a defining statement that everyone present would never forget for the rest of their lives.
"Mage, you have already surpassed the scope of gods."
Odin took a deep breath.
"The treasury of Asgard is always open to you."
"If you are willing to stay, the knowledge and resources of Asgard, and even the armies of the Nine Realms, are at your disposal at any time."
This condition was offered generously enough.
So generously that the old mage Vidar beside him widened his eyes.
Lin Yi rubbed his chin without even lifting his eyelids.
"Forget it. This place of yours is too cozy. If I stay here too long, my bones will rust. I still have a lot of things to do."
Thor walked up carrying Mjolnir, and his fan-sized palm patted Lin Yi's shoulder.
"Brother, no matter when you come, Asgard's wine cellar will have all you can drink."
"Alright, I'll come over to taste it next time."
Lin Yi turned around and walked toward the Bifrost Bridgehub.
Heimdall stood in front of the hub platform, holding the dark golden heavy sword with both hands.
Seeing Lin Yi approach, this All-Seeing God lowered his head for an unprecedented time, took the initiative to step aside by half a body length, and inserted the heavy sword into the control console.
Rumble!
A seven-colored pillar of light pierced through the Universe membrane, descending from the sky and swallowing Lin Yi whole.
Inside the spatial passage.
The violent high-dimensional friction and stellar residual radiation squeezed over from all directions.
The newly dormant cost core inside Lin Yi's body leaped slightly, and the dark red fluid and golden spiritual power network operated simultaneously.
[Enduring high-speed friction of the high-dimensional spatial passage... Cell vitality +2000]
[Enduring stellar energy residual radiation... Energy resistance +3000]
His vision blurred, and the feeling of weightlessness disappeared.
The soles of his feet stepped on bluestone slabs.
The cold wind mixed with snowflakes blew across his cheeks.
Nepal, Kamar-Taj.
The bustle of New York's time zone was left behind, and the night view of the Himalayas appeared cold and lonely.
The courtyard outside the main hall was empty.
Wong was probably eating noodles in the kitchen again, and Sophia should still be fixing the roof at the New York Sanctum.
Lin Yi walked up to the rooftop of the cultivation room alone.
He stood at the edge of the rooftop, overlooking the well-arranged ancient architectural complex below, his gaze piercing through the clouds to look at the lights on the other side of Earth.
Lin Yi closed his eyes and introspected his body.
That mass of dark red fluid symbolizing the Reality Stonewas as docile as a cub.
Any slight disturbance in the outside world turned into resolvable underlying laws in his eyes.
He extended his right hand, his fingertips catching a falling snowflake.
A thought stirred in his mind.
The crystal-clear ice crystal instantly turned into a red-gold grain of gold sand, falling on his fingertips.
Lin Yi moved his thought again.
The metallic luster of the gold sand faded, transforming into a droplet of scorching magma.
Finally, the magma collapsed and turned into a wisp of fresh breeze, slipping away between his fingers.
"It's easy to use, but the range is too small."
With his spiritual power, he could barely cover the entire globe.
He still had a long way to go.
Let's look at the basic attribute panel.
Physique broke through 800,000.
Strength was also approaching 800,000.
Spiritual power was around 750,000.
Reality affinity broke 30,000.
Lin Yi felt that when his attributes broke through one million, his Demigod Body should undergo a qualitative change.
As he was now, relying solely on his physical body, he should be able to crush the entire globe.
"Strength initially formed. Next, I should cast my gaze further."
Lin Yi leaned against the stone railing of the rooftop, outlining a puzzle of the six Infinity Stones in his mind.
There are four left.
Time Stone, hanging around the neck of that old bald head down below.
Space Stone, the Tesseract.
Currently lying in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s underground vault, that braised egg worships it like an ancestor.
This thing won't run away just sitting there; I'll borrow it to play with when the time is ripe.
The Soul Stone is on Vormir.
Thinking of this stone, Lin Yi let out a scoff.
"Sacrifice? I don't even have a true love, sacrifice my ass."
Lin Yi clenched his fists, producing a series of popping sounds.
"When the time comes, I'll descend directly upon Vormir. If that red-skinned old man dares to talk rules with me, I'll kick him like a ball."
Then, there is only one short-term goal left for the next step.
Power Stone.
Pure destructive power, ultimate physical crushing.
This stone represents the purest power law in the Universe, tailor-made as a top-tier experience pack for his extreme reckless brawler persona.
"Morag. That funny fellow Star-Lord."
Lin Yi licked his lips, a trace of light flashing in his eyes.
The wind and snow on the rooftop gradually grew heavier.
He sat cross-legged on the stone bricks.
Spiritual power churned within his sea of consciousness.
Lin Yi mobilized the Mind Stone knowledge base.
This stone records the rise and fall of all civilizations in the Universe over millions of years, the changes of star maps, and countless hidden coordinates.
"Morag. An abandoned ocean planet."
Lin Yi quickly searched through the vast Universe star map library.
A massive information stream flowed along his neurons.
[Enduring high-dimensional information overload... Spiritual power +100]
Lin Yi locked onto that remote coordinate at the edge of the star map.
The gravitational tearing of three stars causes Morag to have an ebb tide once every three hundred years.
After the tide recedes, the ancient temple sealing the Orb(Power Stone) will be exposed above the surface of the sea.
In the Marvel plot, Star-Lord will drive that broken spaceship, dancing while going to steal this orb.
Afterward, he provokes Ronan's pursuit, and ultimately this thing will flow into the hands of the Nova Corps on Xandar, precipitating the establishment of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
"Wait for Star-Lord to steal it? Too slow."
Lin Yi stood up and stretched his muscles and bones.
He didn't have the patience to wait for that funny fellow to slowly walk through the main plot.
He could completely descend directly to Morag and get it himself.
"However, if I do this, the Guardians of the Galaxy will probably be out of the picture."
Lin Yi materialized a pack of Huazi, shook out one and bit it in his mouth.
He snapped his fingers with his fingertips, and a wisp of red light ignited the cigarette butt.
The butterfly effect would fan the main storyline of the Guardians of the Galaxy into pieces.
"But it doesn't matter."
Lin Yi exhaled a smoke ring, his gaze calm.
"With my current strength, I don't need to care about the subsequent plot direction anymore. As long as I keep leveling up, whoever comes gets beaten."