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His massive brain core, starting from the point of penetration, was covered with spiderweb-like cracks, and then shattered with a crash.
The entire planet began to fall apart.
Chu Hang hovered in the collapsed Earth's core, looking at the shattered core fragments.
He felt a powerful attraction. His newly formed divine body yearned for these shared energies. It was a hunger from the very source of life.
He opened his arms, and all the core fragments transformed into golden specks of light, flowing into his body like weary birds returning to their nests.
[Absorbing the core fragments of the Celestial Group...]
[Life forms are undergoing a leap...]
[Celestial Father Level Transformation Progress: +33%]
Chu Hang closed his eyes, feeling the earth-shattering changes within his body. He felt he had taken a giant step closer to Odin's level. If before he had only touched the threshold, now he had already stepped into it a third of the way.
With this ability, plus the star path provided by Xandar, I can now pinpoint Earth's location!
When he opened his eyes again, Igor's planet had completely turned into cosmic dust.
The Milan quietly stopped not far away.
He stepped out and appeared inside the spaceship.
Everyone looked at him with awe. Quill's expression was the most complex. He had lost his father, whom he had just found, and he had also lost his so-called divine power, but he seemed much more relaxed.
"Thank you," Quill said softly.
"No need." Chu Hang waved his hand. "Without that kind of power, you'll live longer."
He glanced at the group of crew members with their diverse personalities and smiled.
"Alright, I've finished my business. It's time to go home. Star-Lord, come with me!"
Chapter 119 Odin's Deal
On the Milan, Quill was playing music. It was 1970s rock and roll, and the volume was very high.
He had just lost his father, a god-like father who wanted to use him as a battery. But he didn't seem sad at all; instead, he seemed to have unloaded some burden and felt completely relaxed.
Chu Hang ignored him.
He sat cross-legged in the cargo hold, his eyes closed, his consciousness sinking into his body.
The core fragment of Ego was a valuable item, elevating the energy within him to a new level. The Celestial life form made him feel as if he could manipulate matter as easily as breathing.
But he was not satisfied.
He wanted to try something deeper.
The Law of Power, with its rampaging purple aura, carries the majestic might of Heaven, domineering, direct, and capable of destroying everything.
The laws of space, a deep blue like ice, are calm, complex, and construct everything.
He wanted to twist them together.
The idea itself seemed insane to him. Even Odin had never done it. But fortune favors the bold; how would he know it wouldn't work if he didn't try?
He mobilized a wisp of crimson power law and drew in a wisp of dark blue spatial law.
Two threads of law, thinner than a hair, slowly approached under his control.
Then, I touched it lightly.
It's not the sound, it's the collapse of the rules themselves.
Inside the cargo hold of the Milan, the space suddenly seemed to tear open out of thin air, like a crumpled piece of paper.
It was black, non-reflective, like the deepest nothingness of the universe.
A tremendous suction force came, and the spare parts and energy tanks piled up in the cargo hold were instantly pulled in, turning into elementary particles without making a sound.
"Hey! What the hell are you doing?!"
Quill jumped in the cockpit, startled by the alarm and violent tremors. He looked back and saw the black hole and Chu Hang being sucked in and thrown about.
"A minor accident."
Chu Hang frowned, his face pale. He tried to use the laws of space to seal the opening, but the conflict between the two laws inside was like a meat grinder, pulverizing his own power as well.
This opening was the gate to hell that he himself had opened.
Quill's scream was cut short halfway through. He was sucked into the black hole, along with the driver's seat.
Immediately afterwards, Chu Hang also lost control.
It felt like being thrown into a washing machine, at faster-than-light speed. My body was repeatedly pulled, torn, and reformed by different forces.
If it weren't for his self-healing factor and divine physique, he would already be a cloud of molecules.
After an unknown amount of time, the tearing force finally disappeared.
Chu Hang felt himself fall heavily onto a hard, smooth surface.
He shook his head, got up, and found himself lying on a long bridge made of colorful glazed tiles. Below the bridge flowed a river of stars, and in the distance stood a magnificent, golden palace complex, unbelievably grand.
An ancient and pure energy permeated the air.
This is Asgard.
He dusted himself off, and Quill lay beside him, foaming at the mouth, already unconscious.
Chu Hang looked towards the end of the bridge, where Heimdall stood silently like a statue, holding a greatsword. His gaze, piercing through the vast distance, landed on Chu Hang, filled with scrutiny and wariness.
On the other side of the bridge, an old man was walking towards him.
He is one-eyed, dressed in a golden royal robe, and wields a long spear called "Gungnir".
Odin, the father of the gods.
His steps were slow, each one carrying the weariness of someone nearing the end of their life. But his single eye shone brighter than the starry sky, as if it could pierce the mists of time and discern the essence of all things.
“We have finally met, travelers from Midgard.” Odin’s voice was old, but steady.
"You knew I would come?" Chu Hang was a little surprised.
“Heimdall can see everything in the Nine Realms. But you are an exception.” Odin walked up to him, a hint of admiration flashing in his single eye. “I could only see the space around you collapsing, but I couldn’t see your existence. It wasn’t until you set foot on the land of Asgard that I truly saw you.”
Odin's gaze swept over Chu Hang's body, as if he were reading a very thick book.
"The life forms of the Celestials, the laws of space and power... You have embarked on a very difficult, but also very promising path."
Chu Hang's heart skipped a beat; this old god-king had seen through his true nature at a glance.
“I imagine you must be very confused right now.” Odin turned around and stood beside him, gazing at the distant starry sky. “About what to do next.”
"I'd like to hear the details," Chu Hang said readily.
This is a private tutoring session with a top-tier expert in the universe; you might as well listen in.
“The Celestial level is a leap in life form and a mastery of the laws,” Odin said slowly, like a patient teacher. “As far as I know, there are several ways to reach this level.”
"The first and weakest method is borrowing. Like the Sorcerers Supreme of Midgard, they borrow power from the dimensional lords to protect their own dimensions. They are very powerful, but the power is ultimately not their own. Once they lose the trust of the lords, they will be reduced to their original form."
Chu Hang nodded; this refers to Gu Yi.
"The second type is to endure. Relying on one's own powerful bloodline, one accumulates strength over a long period of time. For example, ordinary Celestials are born powerful and can naturally grow to the Celestial Father level simply by eating and sleeping. But this path has a limited ceiling. Like the Ego you killed, he could have become a Celestial Father, but he was too focused on pursuing power."
"The third type is to specialize in one path. To comprehend a certain law to its extreme, and use that law to reshape one's divine body, making oneself the embodiment of the law. I follow the law of lightning, while Thanos, the Titan you may have heard of, was born with a divine body and followed the pure law of body. This path is very powerful, but also very obsessive, and it is easy to reach the end."
Odin paused for a moment, then turned his one eye toward Chu Hang, his gaze becoming exceptionally serious.
"And you, you are walking the fourth, and also the most difficult, path of multiple laws."
“Just now, you were trying to fuse the power of multiple laws,” Odin said, seeing right through you. “That’s a good idea. If you succeed, your strength will far surpass any other Celestial of the same level. However, the difficulty will also increase exponentially.”
"Why?" Chu Hang asked the crucial question.
“Because of repulsion,” Odin answered more bluntly. “Laws are mutually exclusive. Once you ascend to the position of the Father through a certain law, your body and soul will be completely assimilated by that law, making it difficult to accommodate other laws. This is why Thanos could only rely on external objects like the Infinity Stones to quickly become stronger.”
Odin stretched out his hand, and in the void before him appeared countless boundless oceans shimmering with different lights.
"To advance, your spirit and will must cross this sea of laws. Each law you comprehend requires you to cross another sea. And each sea requires a sufficiently profound understanding of that law. Otherwise, your will will be assimilated by the law, forever lost within it, becoming a part of the rules."
Looking at the illusory ocean, Chu Hang felt a sudden sense of clarity.
Odin's words were like a key, unlocking a completely new door before him. Behind the door lay a path to heaven, but also a bottomless abyss.
"Thank you for your guidance." Chu Hang bowed sincerely.
“My days are numbered, and Asgard needs a guarantee.” Odin looked at him, his eyes open and honest. “These words are not empty promises. I need your commitment.”
"After I die, when my two good-for-nothing sons are unable to resolve the crisis, I will need you to intervene for Asgard three times."
"Sure," Chu Hang agreed without hesitation.
Three moves in exchange for a Heavenly Father-level cultivation guide – this deal was incredibly profitable.
Odin nodded in satisfaction.
He raised his finger and touched Chu Hang's forehead.
"You absorbed the energy of the Celestials, but you don't know how to use it. Asgard's millennia-old magical knowledge and understanding of the Nine Realms might help you stabilize it."
There was no torrent, no excruciating pain.
It was like a seed that fell into Chu Hang's mind.
The structural diagram of the World Tree, the spatial connections between the nine kingdoms, the energy veins of ancient runes... countless profound knowledge took root and sprouted in his mind, instantly constructing a complete framework.
Under the guidance of this knowledge, the divine energy within him was no longer a wild horse, but a tamed warhorse, beginning to operate in an orderly manner along a specific trajectory.
He could feel that a core part of his body had completed half of its reconstruction.
He's only halfway to Odin's level.
Chu Hang opened his eyes and felt stronger and clearer than ever before.
“Beware of Hela.” Odin withdrew his finger, his voice even more weary. “My first child, the goddess of death. She is more powerful than my two sons combined, and more… ambitious. My old life can no longer restrain her.”
Chu Hang nodded, indicating that he understood.
"Alright, you can leave now." Odin waved his hand, as if shooing away a passerby who had just asked for directions. "Heimdall, open the door and see him out."
Heimdall, standing at the end of the Rainbow Bridge, plunged his greatsword into the control panel.