Ancient One’s Explanation (Extra Chapter for Ye Shang Kong Ming, 12/12)

Ancient One’s reasoning was very sound and perfectly reasonable, but Zhan Liu’s instincts told him that she was talking nonsense. The problem was, he couldn’t find any evidence.

He stared at Ancient One for a while, but she ignored him and leisurely drank her tea.

He had no choice but to take her words seriously and ask another question:

"What about the Celestials’ baby? The Earth was shattered, but I didn’t see it!"

"Oh, the Celestials’ baby normally lives in another dimension, growing by absorbing the life energy of intelligent life-forms from the outside world. It only breaks out of its shell when it’s close to being born." Ancient One answered without hesitation.

It did seem to make sense.

Who knew whether she was telling the truth, or had simply chosen the explanation from the River of Time that was best at fooling him?

Zhan Liu was half-convinced and half-doubtful, but he knew nothing about this sort of thing and had no way to verify whether it was true. He could only change the subject again.

"And what’s with the Earth now? Why do I feel like it has gotten heavier? Is that just my imagination?"

"No, that’s not your imagination. It really has gotten heavier. Not only that, it has also become sturdier and more difficult to destroy."

"You tampered with it?" Zhan Liu raised an eyebrow. This didn’t seem like something Ancient One would do.

"Don’t put it that way. I’m not that capable." Ancient One shook her head with a smile and teased, "It’s the planet’s own evolution. It’s already been shattered twice. Can’t it be allowed to level up a little?"

I don’t believe a word you say!

The Earth wasn’t intelligent, so how could it level up by itself? It wasn’t like Ego, who belonged to the Celestial Race!

"Once the eggshell gets thicker, it’ll be harder for the chick to hatch." Ancient One glanced at Zhan Liu and spoke with hidden meaning.

Huh?

Was she referring to that Celestials’ baby?

Damn it!

Did Ancient One drag me onto a pirate ship again?

Zhan Liu suddenly came to his senses, and his gaze at Ancient One changed.

A smile appeared in Ancient One’s eyes as she said, "Once this baby is born, it will definitely be a Magnetic Lunatic! The kind with Ninety-Nine Heavens!"

Damn it!

Zhan Liu’s face turned green. He was already unable to defeat a Magneto with Ninety-Seven Heavens. If another Celestials lunatic with Ninety-Nine Heavens appeared, what the hell was he supposed to do?

But the problem was, he had already made an enemy of this unborn lunatic—and he’d done it twice!

He had smashed the poor thing’s eggshell twice. That was a life-and-death grudge!

If Ancient One hadn’t intervened each time and put the eggshell back together, that "chick" would have died in the womb… Wait!

From this perspective, Ancient One was the "chick’s" lifesaver!

Damn it!

Ancient One had clearly wanted to perform an abortion, but he had ended up doing all the work that made her enemies. She, on the other hand, had become the good person and gained a huge favor for nothing!

Looking only at her actions, the Celestials couldn’t find any fault with her!

They might even have to thank her!

That was because the Celestials were incarnations of the rules. They only looked at actions, not motives.

I shouldn’t have come here!

Zhan Liu stood up in a fury and left. He would never come to this wretched place again!

From now on, he couldn’t deal with an old schemer like Ancient One anymore. Who knew when she might sell him out?

He angrily returned to the Martial Arts School and thought it over carefully for a long time before realizing that Ancient One’s plan was an open conspiracy!

What had already happened couldn’t be changed. He had made an enemy of that unborn Celestials lunatic, and it was the kind of grudge that could never be repaired. That left only one option: kill him!

Once the baby lunatic was born, he definitely wouldn’t be able to defeat it.

The baby lunatic was different from Magneto.

Magneto’s Complete State was very weak, and his Power Flow wasn’t high either. Thus, Zhan Liu could rely on those two advantages to fight him.

But the baby lunatic was a Celestial, a natural incarnation of the rules. Its understanding of magnetic-field abilities, the universe and stars, and the world’s laws would definitely surpass Zhan Liu’s.

That determined that its Complete State would be extremely high.

And with its enormous body, its identity as a Celestial, and its limitless energy, its Power Flow absolutely wouldn’t be weak either.

Combined with its innate Ninety-Nine Heavens realm, it would have no weaknesses at all. It would basically be at the pinnacle of single-universe combat power the moment it was born.

It would be countless times more powerful than the baby in the original movie!

It was simply impossible to defeat!

Even Skyfather Level fighters like Ancient One and Odin would probably find it troublesome!

Therefore, his only chance of victory lay in making it mutate as soon as possible, causing it to deviate from its mission and prompting the Celestials to abort the fetus themselves!

That required a large number of Magnetic Field Rotation Adepts to appear. Thus, Ancient One wouldn’t let Magneto, a radiation source with Ninety-Seven Heavens, die so quickly. She needed him to accelerate the fetus’s magnetization!

Zhan Liu also truly needed a large number of magnetic-field experts to appear and help him break through the limits of Ultimate Limit Qigong.

Their goals were aligned, so they could cooperate!

That was also why Ancient One wasn’t worried in the slightest that he would ruin her plans. Of course, she had definitely looked through the River of Time before daring to do this.

The Time Stone was just too unfair!

After figuring this out, Zhan Liu gave up thinking about it and pushed Magneto’s matter to the back of his mind.

It’s over. From now on, I just need to keep running my Martial Arts School!

The Martial Arts School was being repaired, and the reconstruction couldn’t be completed in ten days to half a month. Fortunately, he was now a "superhero who had saved the world," so S.H.I.E.L.D. had taken care of everything.

The United States government was extremely friendly toward him now, treating him more respectfully than they would their own father. At least for a short time, they wouldn’t play any more tricks.

When they need you, they flatter you; when they don’t, they kick you aside. All governments were like this!

Natasha was handling these matters, so he didn’t need to worry about them.

All he needed to do was cultivate in peace, fully digest and absorb the experience from this battle, and transform it into his own Complete State.

Moreover, he had already reached the limit of Ultimate Limit Qigong. He needed to think carefully about how to break through that limit.

He wasn’t a native of the Martial God World and didn’t possess an innate ability to control magnetic fields. This innate disadvantage would be difficult to make up for through acquired means.

At present, the most likely plan was to have Tony create Strong Magnetic Armor at the Ninetieth Heaven level, then use it to modify his own DNA and gain the ability to control magnetic fields.

The second option was to wait for the Aether to appear, obtain it, and see whether he could use the Reality Stone to modify himself and give himself the ability to control magnetic fields.

The final option was to use the six Mu Jins to snap his fingers. Having him perform the snap would certainly be much better than Thanos doing it. As long as he could gain the ability to control magnetic fields, no matter how severe the backlash was, it would still be worth it.

He would go in order. First, he had to find a way to "motivate" Tony. Otherwise, Tony was being far too lazy.