Nine Realms, I’ve Got Your Back. Got It?

"Good! Good! Good!"

Thanos, laughing in his fury, said "good" three times in succession, but even the Chitauri commander could tell that things were unlikely to end well today.

A war of annihilation was absolutely unavoidable today.

"I never expected anyone in Nidavellir to be capable of killing Ebony Maw—and to declare war on me in such an arrogant manner. Now I want to see exactly who gave them the courage!" As he spoke, Thanos rose to his feet. "All troops, charge! Attack Nidavellir!"

"Today, I’ll make this dwarven race, renowned throughout the universe, become nothing but history!"

Wherever Thanos pointed his blade, Sanctum Sanctorum III immediately sprang into action. It crossed the spatial wormhole and appeared in the void not far from Nidavellir!

Nidavellir, Thanos had arrived!

After passing through the spatial wormhole, Nidavellir, resembling a celestial armillary sphere, appeared before Thanos. With another order from him, countless spaceships of various sizes, mechanical constructs, and Chitauri motherships poured out of Sanctum Sanctorum III, charging straight toward Nidavellir!

Judging from their momentum, they clearly intended to fight to the death. Even Odin himself would have been unable to stop them.

However, in the face of Thanos’s overwhelming offensive, only one person flew out from Nidavellir’s direction. In the vast universe, a single person was simply too tiny. Besides, he was nothing like Captain Marvel, whose entire body radiated light and naturally drew attention. Even Thanos, stationed inside Sanctum Sanctorum III, failed to notice his presence.

That was, until he attacked.

Suddenly, a familiar purple energy erupted within the ranks of Thanos’s vanguard. Without a sound, it instantly swept through the entire vanguard force of the Dark Cult. Under the impact of that energy, the leading troops were defeated in a single blow and completely reduced to cosmic dust. Not one survived!

That energy was… the Power Stone!

No. Judging from the intensity and range of the energy, it was actually ten times more powerful than the energy of the Power Stone!

Could it be him!?

Before the bewildered Thanos could react, a familiar figure appeared before his flagship by teleportation after wiping out his vanguard. It was none other than the Asgardian Prince, Li Congxin—the man Thanos hated so much that he wished he could recite his name several times before going to sleep every night!

Li Congxin appeared directly in front of Sanctum Sanctorum III and silently pressed his right palm against the center of the ship’s prow.

The next moment, energy filled with purple destructive power burst from his palm. Then, at a frequency resembling a massage, it was driven into the ship’s interior, permeating every part of the vessel in an instant.

Silent and invisible, yet penetrating everywhere!

Not good!

Seeing this, Thanos hurriedly grabbed the newly reforged Precious Saber and rose abruptly, trying to stop him. But it was already too late.

"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!"

Amid a series of ear-piercing sounds, the destructive energy that had seeped into every corner of Sanctum Sanctorum III transformed into sharp arrows. As if possessing minds of their own, they began harvesting the lives of the Dark Cult’s soldiers. Whether Chitauri, countless Outriders, or gorilla-like war beasts, every one of them became a target.

Likewise, as the energy arrows—containing purple destructive energy, blue spatial energy, and part of Li Congxin’s consciousness—reaped their victims, no one could offer any effective resistance.

Of course, Thanos was the exception.

Although Li Congxin knew this, he did not let the scattered energy provoke Thanos. All it needed to do was mow down the grass.

As for Thanos himself, Li Congxin’s true body had already teleported once more, appearing directly inside Sanctum Sanctorum III and standing before him!

"You again?"

The moment Thanos saw Li Congxin, he felt as if his head had become two heads.

From that fellow’s performance in their previous clash, his strength had not been particularly great at the time, but he had seized the initiative at every turn. Thanos, who clearly possessed greater power, had been beaten black and blue and ultimately forced to leave in silence with Cull Obsidian.

But now, this man’s strength had already far surpassed his own.

Could this battle even continue?

With his purple face darkened, Thanos asked viciously, "Do you really have to oppose me every single time?"

Li Congxin merely gave him a disdainful smile. Instead of answering, he asked, "This Nine Realms is under my protection. Got it?"

Seeing that Li Congxin was even more overbearing than himself, Thanos said no more. He took one step forward, crossing the dozens of yards between them, while sweeping his Precious Saber horizontally toward Li Congxin’s waist.

Thanos’s strength was actually only about equal to Hela’s when she had stood outside the Golden Palace in Asgard. Back then, Li Congxin had been able to crush Hela with only one Power Stone refined. Now that he had ignited two membership stones, he naturally did not take Thanos seriously.

As Thanos’s blade came slashing toward his waist, Li Congxin merely extended his right hand. With a light pinch of his index and middle fingers, he firmly trapped Thanos’s Precious Saber between them, leaving it unable to advance or retreat.

With peak Singular Universe strength, Li Congxin possessed an overwhelming advantage against Thanos now!

The next moment, an invisible wave of spatial energy swept over them, directly teleporting Li Congxin’s true body and Thanos ten thousand meters away from the ship, into outer space.

Li Congxin suddenly released the hand holding the Precious Saber, then flicked his finger.

"Clang!" With a sharp, crisp sound, Thanos and his blade were sent flying more than a hundred meters away.

Barely stabilizing himself, Thanos held his blade horizontally and said proudly, "You don’t actually think I’m like those trash, do you? That once I fall into the vacuum of space, I’ll lose all ability to resist and can only let you slaughter me?"

"Of course not." Li Congxin smiled calmly, then said, "I brought you here only because I didn’t want our battle to damage my ship. It’s such a fine spaceship. It would be a shame to break it."

Your ship?

And it would be a shame to damage it!?

Received 66,666 Impression Points from Thanos!

That was obviously my ship!

Everyone says I, Thanos, am the greatest thief in the universe. Only today did I realize how unjustly I’ve been saddled with that title!

Compared to this sanctimonious Asgardian Prince before him, Thanos felt that he was practically a law-abiding citizen—and a model one at that!

Forcing down his anger, Thanos stared at the sanctimonious Li Congxin and sneered, "I didn’t expect you to improve so much in just two years."

Li Congxin smiled faintly and said calmly, "I was a trainee who trained hard for two and a half years. How could someone like you, who only knows how to cause trouble everywhere, understand the hardships I endured? Since you’ve already realized what’s coming, prepare to die!"

With that, Li Congxin flashed forward again, charging to Thanos’s side and throwing three consecutive punches.

The three punches appeared calm and undramatic, but they were astonishingly fast. Even more, they carried an irresistible, awe-inspiring force. Thanos wanted to dodge, but somehow could not, leaving him no choice but to grit his teeth and raise his blade to meet them!

The first punch slammed into the spine of the Precious Saber in Thanos’s hands. Before the overwhelming force, Thanos’s saber was knocked from his grasp!

The second punch struck the armor on Thanos’s body, shattering his golden armor completely!

The third punch landed between Thanos’s chest and abdomen, instantly breaking the bones and sinews of the infamous Mad Titan and sending him flying while vomiting blood.

Li Congxin shook his head lightly, yet still felt dissatisfied with his performance today.

Back then, Lu Zhishen had killed the Butcher of Zhen Guanxi with three punches. After his own three punches, Thanos was somehow still breathing.

How could the dignified God of Vengeance, Li Congxin, be inferior to an ancient man?

With a soft sigh, Li Congxin casually summoned Thanos’s Precious Saber back into his hand. He prepared to use Thanos’s own weapon to end the Mad Titan’s life.

Hmm?

Why had he said "back"?

Just as Li Congxin found that thought amusing and was about to completely eliminate this universal menace, a surge of spatial energy suddenly rippled across the sky. When he looked up, he saw that a spaceship from Titan had just completed a spatial jump and appeared above him and Thanos. Immediately afterward, a blue beam shot out from the ship, enveloped the half-dead Thanos, and sucked him inside.

Were you reinforcements Thanos had called?

Li Congxin sneered coldly. He was just about to destroy the spaceship along with the gravely wounded Thanos when a small, snail-shaped spaceship shot out from the Titan vessel and stopped in front of him. It neither opened fire nor moved aside, looking very much like a dead pig that feared no boiling water.

Faced with someone daring to show off in front of him, Li Congxin naturally… did not attack.

After glancing at Nebula, whose expression inside the ship was complicated, Li Congxin flashed into the vessel and sat in the copilot’s seat with his legs crossed. He said, "I need a reasonable explanation."

Nebula was silent for two seconds before speaking. "Do you remember the message I sent you back then? At the time, Star Fox and Champion came to me, wanting to discuss how to deal with Thanos together. Facing the three of them, I simply had no power to refuse."

Li Congxin nodded, indicating that he understood.

Nebula continued, "Besides me, Star Fox, and Champion, there was another person acting with us at the time. He was another surviving Titan who had been hunted by Thanos since childhood and hated him to the bone."

"Thanos’s son, Zayn!"

That guy?

Li Congxin clearly remembered that during the Battle of New York, he had been caught off guard and viciously ambushed by that seemingly righteous man. Although Zayn had ultimately left Hyperion behind, allowing Li Congxin to refine him and advance directly to the Sub-Celestial level, Li Congxin had never intended to let the matter go just like that.

Since his debut, Li Congxin had always been the one scheming against others. When had he ever been calculated against like that?

What was more, the person who had schemed against him was actually a fledgling youngster. That made him feel even more humiliated.

Li Congxin could not stand this grievance!

He had to get even!

With murderous intent surging through him, Li Congxin pointed at the spaceship that had taken Thanos away and asked in a deep voice, "Is Zayn on that spaceship right now?"