"Peter, are you planning to become a monk? Just sit here and meditate all day."
Zhan Liu played with the power gem in his hand and looked at his beloved disciple with squinting eyes.
"I'm reflecting on myself." Peter sat cross-legged in the courtyard, looking up at the sky, his eyes empty and his voice low.
"who I am?"
"What exactly do I want?"
"Is what I did right or wrong?"
"Why are things like this?"
"Why does everything I do end up leading to the wrong results?"
"I thought I had awakened, but after the incident I discovered that my awakening was just a momentary impulse."
"I thought I had thought through the consequences of what I did, but reality always tells me that I haven't thought it through yet."
"I thought I could bear all of this, all the sins and evils, but when I carried them, I realized that I could bear the world, but I couldn't bear Gwen alone."
Seeing Peter's distracted and muttered look, Zhan Liu sighed, "Oh, you stubborn boy!"
Because of Gwen's incident, Peter became discouraged and no longer cared about the empire. He fell into this confused state, talking all day long and questioning his own heart every day.
Understanding one's own heart is something that outsiders cannot help. You can only figure it out on your own.
Maybe it only takes a day, maybe it takes a few years, no one knows.
The human heart itself is a complex thing.
What you think is important may not actually be the most important treasure deep in your heart.
The treasures you care about may be trash in the eyes of others.
The tangled thoughts you have are just pretentious in the eyes of others.
Understanding one's original mind is not something that can be achieved overnight. If you realize this truth today, you will realize that truth tomorrow. Maybe even what you understand today will be overturned by yourself in a few days.
But the progress of a warrior does not depend on what he understands, but on his understanding of thoughts. As long as the mind is clear, even if it is figured out that people should walk on two legs!
From Zhan Liu's point of view, what Peter was hesitating about was actually something very obvious, which was the question of which was more important, country or beauty.
Choose the country? Or a beauty pageant?
By choosing a country, he embarked on a path of serving the public good. From now on, nothing like the personal relationship between his children can affect him.
He will deal with every subject fairly, treating all things as stupid dogs and showing no partiality.
He will become a true human god, the incarnation of Christ.
He has no weaknesses!
No more feelings!
By choosing a beauty, he will regain his humanity and create a huge artificial weakness for himself. All enemies will attack his weak spots and exploit his weaknesses. He can only be careful and vigilant at all times, working hard and exhausted to protect his weaknesses.
However, his life will become more interesting because of it.
His life would not be so miserable and hopeless.
As far as showing six people, he would rather Peter choose a beauty. He didn't want his proud disciple to turn into a cold, impersonal and fair referee.
Therefore, Zhan Liu couldn't help but intervene and persuaded:
"Peter, actually you don't have to push yourself so hard."
"You just have to think about your earliest intentions."
"You are just an ordinary person. You are not a superhero, let alone a moral saint. The things you did from the beginning were not for the public, but just for your own selfishness."
"Your original intention was just to build a beautiful world for Gwen and Aunt May where there is no deception and everyone treats each other sincerely."
"That's all!"
"The reason why you find it difficult to make a choice now is because you have invested too much effort in the New World Empire, and this empire has already taken the form of the Garden of Eden. If it continues to develop in this way for a long time, there is already hope of success."
"The sense of mission you have now only came later. It was fed back to you by the successful establishment and smooth development of the empire. It is the illusion that the sense of accomplishment of making achievements gave you."
"People will always look for a noble reason for their actions, and even the despicable behavior will be given a noble-sounding clothes. But many times, when a lie is repeated a thousand times, it will become the truth. Many despicable things If you do it for a long time, people will mistakenly think that their actions are really noble.”
"wake up!"
"You built the empire purely for your own selfishness and it has nothing to do with nobility."
"You are not the kind of moral model who selflessly dedicates yourself to others!"
You know, a country is easy to change but its nature is hard to change. Even after becoming the emperor, Peter was still the soft-hearted and indecisive person, and he did not change as he became stronger.
Zhan Liu's words made Peter's heart waver slightly for a moment, but they did not make Peter really make a choice.
Peter closed his eyes, carefully recalled what he thought when he made the decision, and murmured to himself:
"No, when I made the decision, it was not just for Gwen. I really wanted to stop more people from being deceived and used..."
"That's your illusion! It's the excuse your moral sense makes for you! It's the disguise made by your surface consciousness! Your deep consciousness is your true thoughts!"
Zhan Liu favored himself and others, and did not think that Peter would make sacrifices for others.
"No, that's not the case..." Peter shook his head slowly, not agreeing with Zhan Liu's statement.
Zhan Liu planned to continue persuading, but suddenly there was an inexplicable vibration in the distance. Through the magnetic field, he could clearly feel that the earth was wailing.
Peter glanced at it and ignored it.
Before he figured it out, he had no interest in anything.
Zhan Liu jumped up into the sky, glanced down, and took in everything.
The tremor came from where Missouri used to be, which had long since been broken into an archipelago. But now, a huge change suddenly occurred on an island over there, and the swelling earth began to swallow up the nearby land.
Through the gap that was shining with blue light, Zhan Liu could clearly see that something like a huge tree root was growing rapidly under the earth. On the ground, the blooming buds were like devils from the abyss, spitting out the land absorbed from the ground, forming a debris flow dozens of meters high and sweeping away in all directions.
"Is this the flower planted by the god Yi Ge?" Zhan Liu recognized it at a glance. "Has Yi Ge already controlled Quill?"
He has no control over other planets, but the earth cannot be swallowed by Ego.
The Guardians of the Galaxy have all been wiped out. This time, Quill has no help from the Guardians of the Galaxy. It is impossible to wait for Ego to be killed by the plot. Zhan Liu looked back at Peter who was still sitting still, sighed, and had no choice but to do it himself.
Zhan Liuyi took one step and arrived at the core of the Flower of God, and punched it down.
The Flower of the Gods is used by Ego to devour the planet. It is a condensation of divine power and is extremely strong. Even missiles or nuclear bombs may not be able to damage it at all. But in the face of Zhan Liu's casual blow, the flower of the Flower of God exploded with a bang, powder and gravel soil scattered, and a beautiful spectacle appeared in the air.
However, although the flower of the gods was broken, the roots of the flower that penetrated deep into the earth were still alive, and under the urging of divine power, they continued to drill downwards. Some roots even trembled and passed through the space. , piercing the void and inserting into another dimension that is invisible to the naked eye.
In this boundless and huge dimension, a huge and naked baby is hugging his knees with his hands, curled up into a ball, sleeping with his eyes closed as if in the mother's womb.
The roots of the flower of the gods pierced the dimensional space and penetrated directly into the baby's body like the mouthparts of a mosquito. They quickly extracted the baby's life essence outwards and disappeared into the void through some kind of connection.
Zhan Liu was cleaning up the remaining roots when he suddenly saw a golden liquid flowing out from the roots. His heart moved and he subconsciously reached out and grabbed the end of the roots. Then the golden liquid It flowed into his palm along the roots and penetrated into his body.
In an instant, Zhan Liu felt a huge energy pouring out of the liquid, integrating into every cell of his body, and then naturally settling down, slowly nourishing his body.
All the cells in Zhan Liu's body were cheering, jumping for joy, and craving for something. He could feel that his genes were constantly urging him to absorb more. Somehow, he understood that this golden liquid could allow his body to evolve, break through the limits of human beings, and become another immortal creature.
Although Zhan Liu didn't know what this thing was, it was obvious that it was a safe, side-effect-free, and super powerful life evolution fluid that could be effective on all life forms. He hurriedly unfolded his body, and in an instant he caught all the roots exposed on the ground in his hands, so that his body could absorb more evolutionary fluid.
As for those that have penetrated below the surface, he has no intention of letting them go.
However, in the dimension, the baby seemed to feel something, as if he turned over unconsciously and smashed all the roots with a wave of his hand.
When Zhan Liu dug three thousand miles into the ground to get more roots, he found nothing.
But even if he only got a part of the golden liquid, Zhan Liu's harvest was already unprecedented.
This golden liquid is the essence of life when the god baby is formed. It is the origin of life and the core energy of a planet. It is also the nutritional essence condensed by all intelligent life to support the god baby.
This life essence can be absorbed by any living thing, slowly transforming the life's constitution, allowing the life's body to gradually evolve towards the god. Living as long as the heaven and the earth is only the most basic function, and the powerful energy contained in it allows life to gain the same rule-based capabilities as the gods.
It can be said that from today on, Zhan Liu can call himself the Elder of the Universe like Gao Tianzun and Collector. Exactly what abilities he can get from this harvest will have to wait until he has absorbed the essence of life. After all, there is a huge difference in size between him and the God. The God is like being bitten by a mosquito, and the energy lost is minimal, but for Zhan Liu, it is equivalent to an amount larger than his body size.
Of course, the one who gained the most was actually not Zhan Liu, but Egg, who was far away on the other side of the universe.
Egg himself belongs to the Celestial Clan, but he is a premature baby, or a semi-loser.
When a normal Celestial Clan is born, he is a behemoth, covered in armor, and also shoulders a certain innate responsibility in the universe. For example, collectors are responsible for collecting samples and handing them over to the gods for transformation, and judges are responsible for judging the survival of the race. Everyone performs their duties to ensure that the universe operates in a normal order.
But not Egg!
When he was born, he didn't even have a body. He was just an image of a brain organ with independent consciousness, which was extremely illusory. But he still inherited the innate responsibility given to him by the universe. He is the "reshaper".
Egg once told Quill that only they can reshape the universe, only they can control the reins of the universe and guide it where it should go.
By manipulating microscopic particles to form macroscopic substances, Egg absorbs foreign substances and finally forms the shape of a planet. As for his humanoid state, it is nothing more than a humanoid carrier composed of his brain by controlling molecules and endowed with independent consciousness.
This ability is indeed consistent with his role as a "reinventor".
He can reshape the planet!
Create something from scratch!
The birth of a baby from the Celestial Group requires an intelligent planet to gestate, and it can take billions of years. So in this pregnancy process, it is completely normal for something unexpected to happen.
The life planet that gave birth to Ego was probably destroyed due to an accident just after Ego was given a brain.
After that, Egg lacked enough nutrition to help him shape his body and form armor, and only his innate responsibility accompanied him.
Perhaps because of the instinct of life, Egg used his innate ability to shape a living planet as his body, and survived by luck.
But perhaps due to congenital stunting, Egg did not fully follow his duties as a "reshaper" to shape more planets for the universe. Instead, because of his desire for vitality, he planted flowers of gods on various living planets. , destroying various living planets to make up for its own shortcomings.
Under normal circumstances, although the quantity of life force that Ego absorbed from other living planets was huge, the quality was low. The process of making up for the defects requires countless vitality, and it is unknown how many years it will last.
However, the life essence accidentally absorbed on the earth shortened this time to zero.
Although this life essence is small, it is needed for the growth of a real god baby. It is qualitatively different from the life force that Egg absorbs on other living planets.
Moreover, the Earth's God Baby is quite special. He is the "Devil God". In his life essence, there is the magnetic field energy of the ninety-nine heavens.
A drop of blood from an ordinary ninety-ninth-level warrior can create a master of the eighty-level warrior. So how much energy does a ninety-nine-level god contain in his life essence?
With this huge energy and the most essential life essence of the gods, Yi Ge finally completed the correction of his own shortcomings and successfully transformed into a true god.
As the huge armor unique to the Celestial Clan covered Yi Ge's new body, six bright eyes opened, and the Celestial "Reshaper" Yi Ge was officially born!
