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Chapter 180 I've been busy lately, hanging up! (Second update)

"If you can resurrect my wife, then you will be the new leader of the Ten Rings Gang, and I will be loyal to you forever!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Wenwu knelt down on both knees, bowed his head, and performed the grand salute of an ancient general pledging loyalty to his monarch to Li Chuan.

Back then, he was willing to give up the power of the ten rings, immortality, and the career he had built up over a thousand years for his wife, transforming himself from an ambitious conqueror into an ordinary person living in seclusion in the mountains.

Now, of course, one could do these things to resurrect one's wife and ensure the safety of one's children.

"Let's begin then, but my method isn't exactly ideal, so it's best if your wife doesn't know the truth after she's resurrected."

Unlike Wenwu, who is a ruthless and unscrupulous old man, Yingli is a kind and pure-hearted person. If she knew that her resurrection would come at the cost of sacrificing another person's life, she would definitely not want to.

It would be quite troublesome if something else happened then.

"I see!"

Having lived for a thousand years, Xu Wenwu naturally knew that anything involving the resurrection of the dead was definitely not a good thing.

But he didn't care about any of that. As long as he could bring his wife back to life, he would do it without hesitation, even if it meant slaughtering the entire world.

Half an hour later, in a room at the base, Xu Wenwu brought Li Chuan's wife Yingli's urn and a woman as a sacrificial offering.

The woman was one of the Ten Rings Gang's assassins, and clearly a loyal member who had been brainwashed by Xu Wenwu.

Because she was fully aware of the matter of sacrificing herself to revive Xu Wenwu's wife, and she showed great willingness to do so.

His expression even held a hint of anticipation, much like those under Orochimaru who were willing to offer their bodies to him.

Therefore, in addition to his ten-ring strength, Xu Wenwu also possesses considerable personal charisma and organizational skills.

"Just stand there and don't move."

Li Chuan instructed the sacrificial woman to stand in the center of the room, then took out a scroll filled with incantations that he had prepared beforehand and spread it on the ground. He grabbed a handful of ashes from Ying Li's urn and placed them into the incantations on the scroll, then began to form hand seals:

"Tiger-Snake-Dog-Dragon, rebirth from the filth!"

With hands clasped together, the ninjutsu was activated, and the ashes on the scroll vanished instantly. A massive jutsu pattern spread from the scroll towards the sacrificial woman, completely enveloping her.

"ah!!!"

The sacrificial woman let out a painful scream, and white dust gradually enveloped her from bottom to top until she was completely covered. Then, a classical beauty in a green silk dress replaced the sacrificial woman.

However, unlike normal people, this woman's eyes were completely black, from the pupils to the whites.

"Radiant!"

Seeing his wife reappear, Xu Wenwu, who had been standing at the door without daring to make a move for fear of disturbing Li Chuan's resurrection ceremony, could no longer hold back and excitedly stepped forward to hug Yingli.

Yingli, on the other hand, looked completely bewildered.

"Wenwu, aren't I already dead?"

The last thing she remembered was being stabbed in the abdomen with a knife in the yard and slowly bleeding to death.

Remembering Li Chuan's words, Xu Wenwu temporarily suppressed his excitement and lied:

"I found a master magician who used his magical powers to bring you back to life. This is the man."

As he spoke, he pointed at Li Chuan, who then put away the Impure World Reincarnation scroll and smiled in agreement.

"Xu Wenwu, you only need to understand one thing: if I want to, I can undo the resurrection at any time, and your wife's soul will return to hell once again."

On the platform at the top of the base, Li Chuan, after boarding the helicopter, reminded Xu Wenwu below.

Xu Wenwu looked at his son and daughter circling around his wife, then turned around and said in a very firm tone:

"Don't worry, Chief. As long as you don't harm them, I'll do anything you ask!"

"Very good. The Ten Rings Gang will remain as it is for now, and you will still be the nominal leader. I will contact you whenever I need your help."

Li Chuan nodded in satisfaction, then took a helicopter back to New York.

For the next period of time, he did nothing else but stay at home with Wanda, using the Shadow Clone Technique in the wardrobe space to practice various ninjutsu and forbidden techniques.

If there are any side quests that offer good value for money, such as those that allow you to go out for ten minutes and gain back one or two days of small world time, he will occasionally do them.

Ten days before the main mission began, he suddenly received a call from Nick Fury.

"Mr. Li, I need your help with something. Do you have some time?"

"Sorry, I've been busy lately and don't have time. I'm hanging up now."

When Li Chuan heard Nick Fury ask for his help, he hung up the phone without thinking.

Because he knew what the other party wanted his help with—either dealing with Hydra, Gamora, or Nebula. Using him as a free henchman? There was no such thing as a free lunch.

He wasn't going to deal with Hydra anyway; it was fine for them to just wait it out with S.H.I.E.L.D., and they wouldn't bother him.

As for Gamora and Nebula, he's trying his best not to interfere right now, because it involves his main quest and a recent verification of a mission.

In fact, Li Chuan had always had a question in his mind: would the tasks that appeared on the panel definitely happen?

For example, the main mission this time is that the Chitauri army will attack Earth in a month, and he is tasked with using his own abilities to kill the Chitauri soldiers.

But if he gets the Mind Scepter and the Tesseract beforehand and prevents Gamora and Nebula from opening the space portal to let the Chitauri army attack Earth, will the main quest change?

Whether the mission disappears directly, the mission time is extended, or no matter how it changes, the Chitauri army will attack Earth on time in various ways, just as everything he does is already in the calculation of various variables, and the result will not change.

He also conducted relevant verification, of course not through the main quest, otherwise if it really disappeared, losing a fantasy world would be heartbreaking.

He verified this through side quests.

For example, a few days ago I received a side quest to put out a fire, which told me to go to a certain location in three hours to save the fire, and then I would be rewarded with several hours of small world time.

Instead of going to the designated spot as usual, he went wherever he saw a task and stayed there for three hours, preventing any potential fires from breaking out.

As a result, the fire did not occur three hours later, and the side quest disappeared.

Therefore, he guessed that both the main quest and the side quest would only happen if he did not actively interfere. Once he interfered, the quest would likely disappear.

(End of this chapter)