The River of Destiny

"Natasha, Tony, I'm so glad you're alright."

When Xia Yu returned to the base, he immediately gave Natasha and Tony big hugs one after the other.

Although Xia Yu had basically guessed the reason.

But I didn't feel completely relieved until I saw the two of them in person.

"Xia, I'm sorry, I have a wife and children, Dr. Pym. Does the Quantum Realm have side effects like changing sexual orientation? Has Janet mentioned divorce to you?"

"Bang!"

"Boom!"

Xia Yu was the first to strike, punching Tony through the glass and sending him rolling onto the grass outside.

The second blow came from Dr. Pym, who pulled out an Energy gun that sent Tony leaping three or four meters into the air before crashing heavily onto the lawn like a wild boar.

The Nameless Space is called Nameless because it's a bar that Stan Old Master Li created out of thin air.

The place was filled with sexy bikini-clad women, and even the bartender was a voluptuous blonde bombshell dressed as a bunny maid.

On stage, several strippers are sweating profusely, displaying their beautiful figures around steel pipes.

The whole scene was lively, noisy, and sexy, with bare flesh and fiery red lips everywhere.

Fine wine and beautiful women were Stan Old Master Li.

In that very setting, Xia Yu and the old man squatted at the entrance to the bar's restroom, with the tube Xia Yu had brought back from the Time Variance Authority in front of them.

It wasn't until this thing was taken out that Xia Yu saw its terrifying nature firsthand. There were countless trillions of interconnected golden threads on it, some thick and some thin.

Generally, the thicker the line, the more thin lines it has.

Xia Yu brought this thing back but never dared to take it out, always feeling uneasy about its safety.

When the old man appeared, Xia Yu's eyes lit up, and he asked the old man to find a place.

The space created by the old man does not belong to this universe. In other words, in the Huaxia language he learned, he has transcended the Three Realms and is no longer within the Five Elements.

On either side of the countless golden threads are two pure black holes, and the ends of the golden threads disappear into these two black holes.

What do you think this thing looks like?

The old man wanted to talk to Xia Yu about the Time Variance Authority; this was information he had gathered from the Watchers.

There is an organization that has been dedicated to correcting the deviations in fate and maintaining the disordered spacetime.

Who knew that Xia Yu not only met with people from the Time Variance Authority, but also went directly to their headquarters.

However, after the incidents of silencing witnesses and self-destruction, Xia Yu had a vague feeling that the Time Variance Authority was not as simple as it seemed.

Putting everything else aside, let's look back at this pipe, which is several meters wide and twenty meters long.

Stan Lee pulled out a pair of reading glasses from somewhere and observed them intently for a long time.

"It looks like some kind of high-tech battery. The black holes on either side are used to extract energy from the universe at the positive and negative poles, and the extracted energy is in the middle. It looks very powerful."

Xia Yu ripped the cigar from the old man's mouth, threw it on the ground, and stomped on it hard.

"The information you gave me is already outdated, and you're still spouting nonsense. If this were a battery, I'd use it to make a giant blender and blend you into a Bloody Mary. Please, don't be ridiculous."

Seeing Xia Yu show weakness, the old man chuckled and said.

"I thought you knew everything. You even dared to look down on my information. This is the Pillar of Destiny, or whatever you want to call it, the River of Destiny. Each golden thread on it represents a person."

"The thicker the gold thread, the greater the person's influence on the universe."

Xia Yu took a closer look and found that it was indeed the case. The ordinary gold threads were so numerous and densely intertwined that they were impossible to see. Only some of the thicker gold threads could be identified as individual strands.

Why is there a large golden dot here?

Xia Yu pointed to a large dot in the middle and said that this large dot was much thicker than any line.

Moreover, it is intertwined with many thick gold threads.

"Could this be some major event, one that will have a profound impact on everyone's destiny?"

Xia Yu's thinking wasn't wrong. If the golden thread represents a person, then the large dot must represent some major event.

Stan Lee stared at it for a long time, then his expression suddenly changed, and he said anxiously to Xia Yu.

"Didn't you absorb a portion of the Soul Stone? Sensing it, using its power of rules, feel this point, quick!"

"Good!"

The old man's words were alarming, so Xia Yu quickly did as he was told, immersing himself in the large dot with his soul power.

A few seconds later, Xia Yu woke up with a puzzled expression.

"Is this... this big dot me?"

"Just as I thought." The old man seemed to have discovered something.

"Quickly observe the other gold lines, look for the thick ones, look at the people around you, look at their past and future, and see if there are any differences between their past and future."

The old man said anxiously again.

Xia Yu randomly picked a relatively thick-looking fate line and immersed himself in it once again.

"How so?"

Xia Yu looked up and said blankly.

Undeterred, they searched for one more stick after another.

I watched almost the entire Avengers series, including Thanos's.

"How about it?"

The old man beside him asked anxiously.

"Everything was normal two years ago and now. Two years ago, it was all scenes from the original movie. I wasn't in this world, and there was no future for any of them. Why is that?"

"Look again for the Ancient One's photos, and see if there are any differences between the earlier and later versions."

The old man seemed to be verifying something, Xia Yu quickly did as he was told.

There were just too many threads of fate. Xia Yu finally found the Ancient One's and read through them from beginning to end.

Like everyone else, the future path has been cut off.

However, looking back two years, the Ancient One's destiny was broken.

At the originally scheduled time, the Ancient One died. Xia Yu's appearance saved the Ancient One from the crisis of death, so at this stage, the Ancient One's fate line is re-extended from Xia Yu's dot.

"Grandpa, if that's the case, it means the universe is fixing its past fate, and all the changes I've made have been in vain?"

Xia Yu said, dumbfounded.

"Bullshit! If nothing works, then wouldn't the Ancient One and Yondu, who are still alive, be robots? You idiot."

Stan Lee took off his reading glasses and smashed them hard on Xia Yu's head.

"Wake up, this isn't the River of Destiny at all; it's just a projection."

The old man said quietly.