One Backup Plan After Another

The seed simply vanished completely.

Completely unable to sense anything, Ego initially thought that Star-Lord's rebellion had caused a problem with his control.

They increased their efforts again.

However, Star-Lord's love and obsession with his mother gradually freed him from Ego's control.

"You! Killed! My! Mother!"

Star-Lord spat out those words through gritted teeth.

With difficulty but without hesitation, he drew his sidearm and pointed it at the man who claimed to be Celestial.

His own biological father aimed the gun at his head and pulled the trigger hard.

"Bang!"

Ego's head exploded.

Ego possesses powerful spiritual energy; although his clones can utilize the energy of his main body, their physical bodies are relatively weak.

They are not much different from ordinary humans.

One of his clones was killed, and a tentacle controlled by Ego's main body quickly emerged from the Earth’s Core.

Giant tentacles, tens of meters high, rose from the ground.

The matter above twisted and gradually transformed into the image of the earliest human.

"You are far too presumptuous, my child. I originally bestowed upon you great glory, intending for you to become my true form and enjoy the right to rule the universe together, father and son."

"But for now, you'd better obediently serve as a backup battery for my divine power."

As a voice rang out, a tentacle composed purely of spiritual power extended from the Earth’s Core onto the surface.

This was a very sharp tentacle, which, as soon as it burst out of the ground, stabbed fiercely into Star-Lord's body.

"Whoosh!"

A dark red energy shot out from a corner of the hall and struck the tentacle directly.

The tentacles, formed from pure energy, vanished instantly.

Star-Lord and Ego both looked toward the corner.

There turned out to be a miniature blue portal there.

The area was slowly expanding, and finally Xia Yu led Natasha and Ayesha, whose hands were chained, out.

"Hypnosis, a decent ability, but unfortunately it doesn't work very well on me. You know, we have a partner on Earth who's really good at this."

Xia Yu spoke calmly to Ego on the tentacles.

"You're wary of me; do you know my plans?"

Xia Yu clearly seemed to have been prepared, which surprised Ego.

Xia Yu pointed to Ayesha, whose hands were locked.

"You know, some ancient empires in the universe always have legends passed down, like one about a disgusting brain that disguises itself as a planet to devour other planets."

"So that's how it is, Sovereign race. I should have devoured your disgusting planet, connected to a satellite, millions of years ago."

Ego conjured a hand and pointed it at Ayesha.

"So, that seed on Earth is also your problem."

Ego wasn't stupid; he figured out the problem.

"Um... I also know a mage who's good at throwing things to monsters from other dimensions as food. They should really like your seed."

Before leaving, Xia Yu had told Ancient One to be careful of that place.

"Damn it, I should have..."

"Wait, Xia, you knew all along about this, about my damned father, but you didn't tell me? He killed my mother."

Star-Lord interrupted Ego and questioned Xia Yu.

"Quill, that's just a legend, there's no factual basis for it. I can't tell you on the very first day you reunited with your father that he was a disgusting psychopath who killed your mother. I have no proof, buddy!"

Xia Yu spread his hands and said helplessly.

Ego, standing to the side, allowed the two of them to chat as if no one else was around.

Tentacles made of energy shot into the sky, causing a large portion of the palace to collapse.

"Since that's the case, then leave them all here, Xia Yu, especially you. If I were to devour you, I wouldn't hesitate to lose countless descendants. The power within you, your scent, fascinates me deeply."

"Damn it, you're disgusting, Natasha. Take her with you, and once you get a chance, fly out of the atmosphere and wait for me."

Xia Yu shoved Natasha aside and drew Ego's fire himself.

"Let's go outside first."

Ego's tentacles launched an attack, and Xia Yu first covered the others as they ran outside.

Only then did they realize that the outside was covered with tentacles formed from Ego's power.

Without wasting words, Xia Yu launched an attack directly at each of the tentacles.

Natasha led Ayesha far away; she needed to find Gamora and Drax first and get them away.

Ego's attention is now entirely focused on Xia Yu.

Those tentacles stretched out one after another from the Earth’s Core.

He raised it high and slapped it down at Xia Yu.

These tentacles aren't particularly powerful individually; Xia Yu could easily annihilate one with a casual burst of energy.

However, there were simply too many of them; almost simultaneously, two more would sprout up after one was struck.

The ground was covered with large holes that reached all the way to the Earth’s Core, left behind by Xia Yu after he destroyed the tentacles.

"Quill, go find Natasha. You two leave first; I'll stay here and deal with him."

Xia Yu shouted at Star-Lord, who was still firing his gun, while waving his tentacles.

"No, I want to kill this guy with my own hands. He killed my mother."

Star-Lord continued fighting relentlessly.

Xia Yu didn't say anything more, but continued fighting as he moved, spreading the battlefield further away.

As Xia Yu pulled the battlefield further and further away from the original palace.

At the very beginning, a tiny escape spaceship slowly descended from the sky outside the palace.

Yondu, Rocket, and Baby Groot. came down from up there.

Rocket was still holding the vial of sleeping pills that Xia Yu had obtained from the Collector.

This was exactly what Xia Yu delivered directly to the Rocket that had been waiting outside the atmosphere for a long time using a teleportation portal.

"Did you notice it when we came down? There's a giant human face on this planet! It's disgusting. I mean, this planet is Star-Lord's dad."

As Rocket talked to Yondu, he peered out and looked at the several tunnels on the ground that led directly to the Earth’s Core.

"Take Groot and leave. I'm going to find Peter."

Yondu watched the battle from afar and said...

There were countless enormous tentacles over there, and he was very worried about Star-Lord's safety.

"Looks like Quill hasn't lost his father after all."

The Rockets suddenly made a completely unrelated statement.

He grabbed Groot and jumped into the underground tunnel.