Do You Want to Slay a God?

Phoenix Force!

I spent more than a year looking for you without a trace, never expecting you to show up on Ego’s planet and get mixed up with that shameless Celestial.

I had to admit, Ego himself was an extremely selfish and destructive bastard. His nature made him a perfect match for the Phoenix Force’s own destructive urges.

Since you two had fallen into my hands today, I might as well deal with you together. Taking care of two of my biggest headaches in one go was practically a dream come true!

However, if the Phoenix Force and Ego’s power were combined, dealing with them probably wouldn’t be so simple. It looked like I would have to put in a little more effort this time!

As he thought this, surging divine power erupted around Li Congxin. The boundless energy transformed into a colossal sword and slashed straight toward the Phoenix avatar of Ego before him.

While Li Congxin and Ego battled like gods, the Guardians of the Galaxy began their rescue operation on the other side.

After clearing up their misunderstanding, Gamora and Nebula had instantly become close sisters. At Gamora’s request, Nebula carried her Sword of the Night Sky and stormed Ego’s palace alongside the Guardians of the Galaxy, officially beginning their operation to "rescue the useless teammate."

The rescue plan proceeded smoothly, mainly because Li Congxin was drawing almost all of Ego’s attention as the primary attacker.

His earlier head-on clash with Ego had sent the entire planet trembling. That punch had completely shattered the divine-power cage Ego had used to imprison Star-Lord, allowing the Guardians to rescue their useless teammate from his desperate situation without any danger.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Rocket Raccoon fired his energy gun repeatedly, blasting apart several divine-power tentacles that had closed in again. Star-Lord said furiously, "I’m going to kill that bastard myself. He killed my mother!"

"Calm down, you idiot!" Gamora shouted mercilessly at Star-Lord’s request, which took the useless-teammate trait to the extreme. "That battle isn’t something you can get involved in. Do you want to get all of us killed?"

Star-Lord still refused to back down. "You can leave first. Go now. I have to avenge my mother. No one can stop me!"

"Bang!"

With a crisp sound, Star-Lord, whose mind had been clouded by hatred, rolled his eyes back and went limp.

As Star-Lord’s tall body fell, it revealed the lovely figure of a woman behind him. Her right hand was still held in a knife-hand pose. She was the culprit who had knocked Star-Lord unconscious.

Although Star-Lord was a useless teammate, his own strength was by no means weak. He possessed strength, speed, and endurance beyond the limits of the human body. Aside from Li Congxin himself, only Daisy Johnson, the second-ranked powerhouse present, could knock out someone like him so effortlessly.

Daisy slowly withdrew her right hand and casually ordered the Guardians of the Galaxy, "Take this troublemaker and get out of here. Rocket will meet you outside. This battle isn’t something you can interfere in."

As they spoke, dozens of divine-power tentacles surged up from the ground around them, sweeping toward the group from different angles.

Ego could mobilize the divine power of an entire planet. However, precisely because his divine power was so vast and innate, he had severe shortcomings in controlling it. If he could condense that power further, even Daisy would have found it extremely difficult to deal with him.

But there were no ifs in this world. The reality was that he couldn’t condense his divine power any further, and most of his attention had to remain focused on the Phoenix avatar battling Li Congxin on the other side.

This directly left him with far too little mental power to control the divine-power tentacles, causing their might to fall far short of what one would expect from a Celestial.

More than a dozen enormous tentacles whipped up sand and dust, but in the eyes of true experts, they were far too flashy and impractical.

Facing the divine-power tentacles surging toward them from all directions, Daisy sneered. "I didn’t realize Ego was a tentacle monster. No wonder he’s been spreading his seed throughout the universe. His private life is even messier than Clark’s."

Whether she was mocking Ego or Li Congxin, Daisy’s hands never slowed. With a sudden sweep of vibrational force, she blasted apart every divine-power tentacle within sight!

Feeling the enormous divine power around them settle for a moment before becoming violent once more, Daisy’s expression turned solemn. She urged the people beside her, "I’m afraid I won’t be able to protect you in the battle ahead. Nebula, take them and leave immediately. Hurry!"

With that, vibrational force once again condensed in both her hands, and she began bombarding the divine-power tentacles closing in from all directions.

Star-Lord was the key to Ego’s plans for expansion. Of course, Ego wouldn’t stand by and watch him get rescued right under his nose. Violent energy swept in from every direction, pouring firepower onto the Guardians of the Galaxy to the greatest extent possible without affecting the Phoenix avatar’s combat strength.

But it was useless!

Against such attacks—empty in substance—Daisy only needed to casually release a shockwave to clear large swaths of them. The seemingly endless divine-power tentacles were completely incapable of stopping the group. Moments later, a blue curtain of light projected down from Congxin One, enveloping the Guardians of the Galaxy. With a surge of energy, it sucked them all into the ship.

Only Daisy remained on the ground. Facing the overwhelming divine-power tentacles, boundless battle intent blazed in her beautiful eyes.

Aboard the ship, Gamora looked at Rocket Raccoon, who was piloting, and hurriedly said, "Rocket, get that girl named Daisy aboard too! She can’t hold off Ego’s attacks by herself."

"No!" Nebula stepped forward and pointed at the unconscious Star-Lord. She said sternly, "Clark’s order was that we leave this planet immediately after rescuing that idiot."

Rocket, who was controlling the ship, said indifferently, "Why do we have to listen to him? This battle can’t do without us!"

Drax nodded lightly. "Rocket is right. They rescued us. We absolutely can’t abandon them now!"

The moment Drax said this, everyone around him jumped.

In the Guardians of the Galaxy, Drax was basically the kind of person who was born with an invisible aura. Sometimes, Star-Lord and Gamora would flirt for half an hour before suddenly realizing that such a huge man was standing beside them!

The situation was the same this time. When he didn’t speak, everyone automatically ignored his presence. When he suddenly shouted out, the effect was genuinely unexpected.

Nebula argued forcefully, "You’re only making things worse!"

Drax said, "Shut up, you heartless and cold-blooded woman!"

It had to be said that although the Guardians of the Galaxy were a little ridiculous and somewhat prone to causing trouble, every one of them was loyal.

They might screw over their teammates through foolish actions, but they would never sell them out.

"Oh, damn it!"

With Rocket Raccoon’s curse, Congxin One powered up to its maximum. Taking advantage of the moment when Daisy blasted apart all the divine-power tentacles wrapping around her, it shot out of Ego’s atmosphere and flew into the distance without stopping.

Gamora asked, "Rocket, what are you doing?"

Rocket Raccoon replied angrily, "I’m not doing this! The ship disabled manual control. I can’t control it at all now!"

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At this moment, Nebula finally spoke. "After the ship entered autopilot, only one person had the authority to issue it direct commands: Clark himself. Before coming here, he said that this enemy would be somewhat troublesome and that he didn’t want his ship caught in the crossfire. As for him and Daisy? With their strength, they don’t need us to worry about them at all."

Everyone was speechless. Although they were unwilling to leave, there was nothing they could do now.

All they could do was stare at Ego’s planet as it grew farther away and silently wish Li Congxin and Daisy good luck.

On Ego’s planet, Li Congxin felt somewhat troubled as he faced the Phoenix avatar.

Even though he now possessed Multiversal Level strength, the quality of his own divine power still couldn’t compare with the Phoenix Force.

When facing the Phoenix Force alone, he could rely on his abundant divine power to wear it down slowly. Taking advantage of fighting on home ground, he could exhaust its limited reserves by trading eight hundred points of damage to the enemy for a thousand to himself.

But now, the Phoenix Force was under Ego’s control, and Ego’s planet was unquestionably the enemy’s home ground!

In a contest of divine-power consumption, Ego wasn’t afraid of Li Congxin in the slightest. Protected by Ego’s divine power, the Phoenix Force only needed to attack with all its strength and didn’t have to worry about Li Congxin using the trick of killing an elephant through the bites of many ants.

The only fortunate thing was that the Phoenix Force was still the Phoenix Force, not Ego’s own power. Although he could use it, he couldn’t fuse it with his own divine power. Otherwise, Li Congxin would probably have had to follow his instincts for once and make a strategic retreat.

Seeing that neither attrition tactics nor a direct assault could completely defeat the Phoenix avatar before him, Li Congxin began to secretly rejoice that he had brought Daisy along.

Now that he looked at it, that decision had been incredibly wise!

With a thought, Miraculous Hands, Spring Returns behind him transformed into a streak of sword light and flew toward Daisy. Wherever it passed, Ego’s divine-power tentacles were severed and blasted apart!

At the same time, Li Congxin’s voice suddenly rang in Daisy’s ear. "Daisy, do you want to try what it feels like to slay a god?"