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Despite having traversed an unknown distance, Gungnir still possessed terrifying power. Thanos clenched his fist, turned around, and aimed directly at the falling Gungnir, slamming his fist into it.

Intense energy fluctuations swept across the entire planet, as well as Nasus and C'Thun. The mixture of various energies shattered the continents beneath them, leaving them as crumbly as fallen cookies.

With a crack, a fissure appeared on Gungnir. Thanos continued to exert force with his fist, and Gungnir gradually began to bend.

With a deafening boom, Gungnir shattered into starlight, reforming itself towards Asgard. Thanos's fist, which had pierced through space, was left with a deep, gaping wound. The charred flesh proved that Odin's attack was equally formidable, leaving a deep mark on Thanos even from such a distance.

Odin slightly raised his hand, and the starlight reassembled into Gungnir in his palm. He took two steps back to cushion the residual force on Gungnir.

Thanos is stronger than before. Over two thousand years ago, when Thanos first began to show his ambition, Odin could easily defeat him. But over time, with the balance of power shifting, Odin is no longer Thanos's match. (This is a secondary power level setting; for related comparisons and logic, please refer to previous chapters or the author's comments.)

After driving Odin away, Thanos continued his attack on C'Thun with renewed vigor. His enormous fist blotted out the sky, and the scattered and condensed phantoms of energy caused this attack to cover C'Thun's entire body.

Boom! Mountains collapsed, and the sea overturned!

C'Thun sank towards the seabed after being struck, his resurrection process was completely interrupted, and he returned to the state he was in before Ebony Maw's sacrifice.

Thanos's attack came at a great cost; his entire right hand was covered in blood, with the bone visible deep inside.

Even more seriously, C'Thun left a mark on his arm, a mark that could not be removed except by killing C'Thun!

After knocking down C'Thun, Thanos dared not stop, for if he did, his power would dissipate.

He opened his right hand and reached directly for Nasus, or rather, for the Mind Stone embedded in the sun disc behind Nasus.

Thanos is indeed showing signs of exhaustion now, but he is still not someone Nasus can challenge at present.

The scepter blocking the giant hand snapped in two, and the Death Domain merely scraped a layer of flesh from Thanos's palm. The flames of the Sun Disc only caused Thanos's already gruesome arm to grow further into cooked flesh.

Just as Thanos was about to succeed, the cabin in the woods shook, and the seal from the Heavenly Emperor emitted an unusually bright light.

Since Thanos insisted on showing off and forcibly taking on three opponents across countless light-years, Yang Qiu couldn't let him leave so easily; he had to leave something behind!

Chapter 199 The Heavenly Emperor Battles Thanos

Clang!

A golden chain ripped through space, emitting a sharp, piercing sound, and struck Thanos's hand directly. After a dazzling burst of light, Thanos's hand was deflected.

Nasus slightly opened his eyes, and the scepter he held in his hands began to return to its original state. Standing in front of him was the indistinct silhouette of a man, with mysterious runes fluttering around him like lively little sprites.

The world began to be repaired. The sunken land rose from the seabed, and the dead were reborn in the light. The entire planet Chitauri seemed to enter a period of rapid restoration, and everything that was destroyed and annihilated began to be reborn.

Within seconds, the mountains reappeared, the city was restored, the trees faced the sun, and flowers bloomed all over the earth, creating a scene resembling a fairyland.

"The Heavenly Emperor?!" Nasus murmured softly, with a hint of doubt but also a strong sense of certainty.

He felt this warm and powerful force during the time he was a containment object.

The Celestial Emperor nodded slightly to Nasus, and the falling runes, acting as chains, plunged deep into the seabed, uprooting C'Thun, who was already embedded there. The shimmering runes swirled around C'Thun.

The chaotic and disordered power was stripped from C'Thun's body, the cabin in the woods reactivated, and the clock representing the Zilean mage began to tick. With the two combined, C'Thun, who once occupied an entire continent, became a tiny black dot and was then directly sucked into the cabin in the woods.

Like C'Thun, other containment objects scattered across the planet shared the same fate. Beams of light rose from all over the world, then converged into a torrent that flowed into the cabin in the woods.

Nasus hesitated for a second, watching as Rhaast's scythe was resealed, without saying anything. He decided to discuss his own affairs later when he returned; the current situation was not suitable.

Just as he was thinking this, Nasus felt his vision begin to narrow. The next second, he found himself in the cabin in the woods. The true form of Death had been touched at some point, and the Sun Disc floated quietly on the scepter, behaving as docilely as the volatile treasure he was known for.

Oh right, I'm also a containment object, number four.

As Nasus thought, the entire cabin in the woods returned to its original state, with each containment object obediently staying in place and accepting the control of the cabin in the woods system.

Even C'Thun, who loved causing trouble the most, stopped moving and fell into a deep sleep. The energy with powerful corrosive properties was tightly packed inside his body and no longer leaked out from the seal point.

In an instant, the world fell silent. Yellow light, representing positive energy such as hope, light, and striving, gradually gathered and fell into the hands of the Heavenly Emperor, forming a runic longsword.

With a tearing sound, Thanos expanded the spatial portal, appearing directly in front of the Heavenly Emperor as a projection.

A perfectly integrated and flawless body was displayed before the world. The power of the Eternal Titan directly invaded the rules of the surrounding space. Even the original owner of this planet, the planetary consciousness, was unable to wrest these rules back from Thanos.

Thanos looked at the Emperor, who should be one of the warriors who replaced the Ancient One to protect Earth. He had to admit that the Emperor was indeed a troublesome character.

The two stood facing each other without saying a word, yet it was as if they had already said everything.

In short, it boils down to this: those who walk different paths cannot make plans together!

The Heavenly Emperor raised his long sword, its blade aimed at the enemy!

With a whoosh, a beam of light, present since the birth of the universe, burst forth from the runic sword. Under the cover of this light, Thanos could see nothing else.

Thanos's purple skin appeared somewhat pale under the light of the sword blade as he clenched his left fist and unleashed a powerful punch.

With each centimeter the fist is thrown, the eternal power doubles the force it carries, until space shatters, time warps, and dimensions begin to fluctuate.

The two attacks were both slow and fast. After an immeasurable amount of time, the light dissipated, and a huge wound appeared on Thanos's left arm. His muscles throbbed as he tried to fill the wound, but the sword energy left by the sword light continued to tear apart the regenerating flesh, causing his arm to bleed profusely.

The runic longsword shattered completely, but under the Heavenly Emperor's control, it reformed and fell into his hand. The light around the Heavenly Emperor dimmed slightly, and the playful and lively runic spirits now quieted down and coiled around the sword light.

Thanos understood. It seemed that the Mind Stone was gone and could not be retrieved unless he descended in his true form. But the price of that would be the destruction of the supergiant that served as the link, and the territories he had just conquered would be immediately taken back by other civilizations eyeing him covetously.

Even if he can't get it back, leaving like this isn't Thanos's style.

Titan's Fist!

Thanos threw an uppercut at the Heavenly Emperor's energy form. The lines of rules danced at the tip of his fist, and a scene like the Big Bang appeared before the Heavenly Emperor the moment he threw the punch, as if this punch was not thrown by Thanos, but by the entire universe.

The Emperor frowned. Thanos's attack was unavoidable, so he decided to fight fire with fire.

Time flows like a book, a single sword strike annihilates the enemy!

The energy body collapsed directly, and all the energy flowed into the runic longsword. The omnipresent divine power took effect, and this sword not only slashed the projection, but also the original body!

As the sword and fist collided, the world seemed to experience another Big Bang, silent yet magnificent.

After destroying the runic sword and the energy body, Thanos withdrew his fist. At this moment, a sword light followed his movement in the Sea of ​​Time, traversing the endless starry sea with the projection, and appeared in front of Thanos's physical form.

The sword fell again, its main body slashing accurately at Thanos, while the remaining fragments multiplied into countless pieces, landing on the heads of Thanos's army, which spanned several light-years around them.

Thanos snorted coldly, and Titan's true form appeared. His enormous body was like a black hole, deflecting all the sword light.

The Heavenly Emperor is trying to clip his wings. It's one thing for the true body to fight the true body, but isn't the Heavenly Emperor's energy body being too arrogant and looking down on his Titan true body?

As the sword light dissipated, the remaining four generals or other soldiers seemed to have a dream. In the dream, there was a lightsaber that they could not avoid no matter how they tried to dodge it. Its sharpness seemed to be able to cut them in two. Fortunately, the lightsaber suddenly disappeared at the end.

Even so, this attack still left a significant psychological scar on everyone.

Thanos returned to his flagship with a grim face. There was still a long wound between the knuckles of his right fist. The black mark was small and inconspicuous but it was there. There was a horizontal cut on his left fist. The sword light on it had dissipated, but the wound had not yet healed.

Chapter 200 The Eight Departments of Heaven - Thunder, Fighting, Fire, Water, Wealth, Plague, Works, and Soldiers

On the planet Chitauri, after Thanos and Emperor disappeared, a chain tentatively extended from the cabin in the woods. After confirming that no one would interfere, the chain wrapped around the Mind Stone in the center of the battlefield, and then with a whoosh, it immediately retracted into the cabin.

Meanwhile, on Earth, Yang Qiu had just recovered from the shockwave. Thanos's fist was indeed hard enough. Even though he was facing an energy being, the final force still acted on him through the energy being. Fortunately, the distance was far enough, and the concept of the Heavenly Emperor was not entirely equivalent to Yang Qiu's, so he only suffered some minor impact.

This adventure yielded significant results. The most obvious change was that the arrival time of the Chitauri spaceships went from a fixed time to an uncertain one. Across multiple timelines, the timing of the Chitauri attack was uncertain, and the attacking forces varied considerably.

This is normal. After the Celestial Emperor confronted Thanos head-on, the Chitauri knew that if they came to cause trouble, there would only be one outcome: they would die without a burial place.

Amidst the intricate and magnificent timeline, Yang Qiu continued searching for information from the future. Suddenly, the entire river of time began to tremble. Under this tremor, all the important targets lost their fixed positions and became difficult to track. The energy consumed in peering into the timeline also began to rise sharply.

Yang Qiu emerged from that state and revealed a smile. Thanos was getting anxious and forcibly interfered with the timeline. This guy wasn't afraid of killing himself.

But in any case, Earth has now stepped out of the shadows and into the light. Thanos will probably be keeping a close eye on them from now on, so it's time for Earth to announce its existence to the universe.

On the Oort Cloud, the war star was still under construction in full swing. Yang Qiu did not change the previous requirements back to the previous version. It's always better to be a little stronger, because when the war really comes, the current requirements may not be enough.

"Your Majesty the Heavenly Emperor!" Zhao Li was carrying a large pile of things, preparing to transport them to the next construction site, when he suddenly saw the Heavenly Emperor floating in the air. He was startled. The Heavenly Emperor had appeared only a handful of times in the past five hundred years. He felt like he had hit the jackpot.

"You've worked hard. Take your time. There's no need to rush this time," Yang Qiu said, patting Zhao Li on the shoulder.

Zhao Li's life wasn't easy either. He was originally a ghost official in the underworld. Although he didn't have much power, he was relatively free. As a ferryman of souls, he could occasionally go to the human world without anyone saying anything to him. However, the underworld was disbanded, and all its staff joined the Heavenly Court to build blessed lands and grottoes. This joining lasted for five hundred years.

He wasn't a technical talent, nor was he among the top cultivators of ghosts or Buddhas. So for the past five hundred years, he could only do odd jobs with other similar people, which was his way of contributing.

Zhao Li blinked twice, and after Yang Qiu walked away, he suddenly became excited. His flying speed while carrying the materials increased dramatically, somewhat like when he first joined the Heavenly Court.

Yang Qiu hadn't gone far when a figure suddenly appeared beside him, accompanied by a deafening thunderclap. The lightning element in the surrounding space surged, and for a moment, it seemed to have become a lightning swamp.

"Your Majesty, are you here to revise the requirements again?" Wen Zhong frowned. As the head of the Thunder Department, he was always the one who gave him the most headaches, since they were responsible for the vast majority of the attack formations and spells on the entire War Star.

Before Yang Qiu could speak, the ambient temperature rose to a level that was unbearable for ordinary people, and the amount of fire element increased to a point where it could contend with the lightning element.

This time, it was Luo Xuan, the Fire God of the Fire Department, who bowed to Yang Qiu and then turned to Wen Zhong and slowly said, "Your Majesty, I think it is a bit inappropriate to place the heavy responsibility of fighting the enemy on Elder Wen. Our Fire Department's methods of fighting the enemy are by no means weak, and we can share more of the burden with their Thunder Department."

In the construction of the war star, the Fire Department was mainly responsible for the construction of secondary attack weapons and the main propulsion function module. Luo Xuan was always thinking about defeating Wen Zhong and taking over the main weapon module.

Yang Qiu remained silent. He had finally made an appearance, and he figured that the heads of various departments he sensed were on their way.

"Your Majesty! I have a problem with this. We're all fighting for humanity. Isn't the interest rate offered by the Clock Tower a bit too high? There should be special laws during wartime preparations. Even if it's not interest-free, it should at least be low-interest! You need to talk to Archmage Kieran over there. This can't be allowed!"

Zhao Gongming said with a sullen face, as the head of the Heavenly Court's Ministry of Finance, these five hundred years have been the most frustrating time for him. They are poor, and various departments are asking them for money and resources, and they can't refuse. Their income is not much, and even if they cut every penny in half, it's not enough.

They finally got some external support, but upon closer inspection, the interest rate was about the same as usual. This wouldn't do! Even without interest, the Heavenly Court didn't know how long it would take to repay the debt. With interest, how could they possibly repay it?! They should really change the name of their Ministry of Finance. What kind of Ministry of Finance is this? Call it the Ministry of Poverty!

"Alright, everyone stop shouting. Let's have a short meeting once everyone's here," Yang Qiu said, waving his hand.

Soon, the main officials of the eight departments of Heaven were basically all present. The chief official of the Thunder Department was Wen Zhong, the Heavenly Venerable of Universal Transformation of Thunder and Lightning of the Nine Heavens; the chief official of the Dipper Department was Doumu Yuanjun; the chief official of the Fire Department was Luo Xuan, the Southern Three Qi Fire Virtue Star Lord; the chief official of the Water Department was Lu Xiong, the Northern Dipper Five Qi Water Virtue Star Lord; the chief official of the Finance Department was Zhao Gongming, the True Lord of the Dragon and Tiger Mysterious Altar; the chief official of the Plague and Smallpox Department was Lü Yue, the Great Emperor of Plague and Smallpox; the chief official of the Works Department was Lu Ban, the Ancestor of Craftsmen; and the chief official of the War Department was Yang Jian, the True Lord of Manifestation of the Divine Manifestation of the Second Prince of Zhaohui.

When the officials arrived, Zhao Gongming was still dressed in his tattered, dusty clothes, looking pitiful, as if he were saying to everyone, "Don't come looking for me, I'm so poor that I can't even afford decent clothes."

Yang Jian felt a headache coming on as he looked at Zhao Gongming. All he wanted was to change the entire army's equipment, was it really necessary to go to such lengths? And even if he was faking it, he should at least do it properly. With his simplistic illusions, did anyone here not see through them?

Lu Ban was too lazy to bother with Zhao Gongming. The two of them almost got into a fight a while ago. Zhao Gongming, in order to save money, insisted that the Ministry of Works do some kind of waste recycling. But is waste recycling even possible in some places? Isn't this just messing around?

Lu Yue and Lu Xiong sat together. Lu Yue was mainly in charge of biotechnology, including targeted gene viruses and virus defense, while Lu Xiong was in charge of the entire war star's defense network construction. There was some overlap between the two.

Luo Xuan continued to keep an eye on Wen Zhong, trying to snatch the main attack qualification, while Doumu Yuanjun counted on her fingers, constantly calculating the trajectories of asteroids and other objects around the Oort cloud, and also checking whether there were any problems with the fast route currently constructed based on the gravity of the stars in the sky.

Chapter 201 Don't Say You Weren't Warning

"Quiet down for a moment. I've called this meeting to announce a few things."

After Yang Qiu spoke, the scene fell silent. Zhao Gongming also canceled the illusion that no one could fool and returned to his normal appearance. He was no longer dressed in gold and silver like in the portrait, but he was no longer as tattered as before.

"The first thing, based on our joint discussion, is to postpone the expected time of engagement with the enemy. The postponement is currently one year. The postponement is definitely a good thing for the current construction. However, remember, we must ensure quality and quantity and avoid any major mistakes. At the same time, we must strengthen the inspection of the already constructed parts to prevent outdated or unsafe buildings from appearing."

"Yes, Heavenly Emperor." Lu Ban stood up and bowed. He breathed a sigh of relief. He had an extra year. Although the time was still not enough, he no longer had to work around the clock like he did now.

"Secondly, regarding the issue of education, I have seen Li Xiaoyao's application. He applied forty-three times but no one accepted it. Of course, I know this is because of a shortage of manpower and the rush to complete the task. However, education is also very important. Now that we have more time, you can discuss and arrange a shift so that a few people can go over every now and then. Consider it a way to relax. You, Doumu Yuanjun, will be in charge of the specific details."

"Yes, Heavenly Emperor." Doumu Yuanjun nodded to indicate that she understood.