Chen Mo did not have to wait long. One day, while he and the others were resting on an uninhabited planet, a gigantic white spaceship shaped like an egg slowly descended. An elderly man with a large white beard and a kindly face, along with a tall, big-eyed woman with two antennae on her head, stepped out of the ship.
Chen Mo smiled to himself. After waiting so long, Ego had finally come!
What followed was much the same as in the movie, only without so many twists and turns.
After Ego revealed his identity, Star-Lord struggled for a while but ultimately went to Ego's planet with the others' encouragement.
Naturally, every member of the Guardians of the Galaxy went along as well.
Although Ego's motives were far from pure, his confidence in his own strength kept him from taking Chen Mo and the others seriously. He allowed all of them to follow him.
Ego's planet was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a dream. At first, no one noticed anything amiss, and Star-Lord gradually accepted Ego's identity.
However, at Chen Mo's reminder, he did not mention that his mother was still alive.
Ego taught him how to use divine power, and Star-Lord quickly gained a preliminary grasp of it.
But Chen Mo saw the problem.
Ego had not taught Star-Lord everything. He had only shown him how to use divine power, not how to gather his own divine power.
In the movie, Star-Lord's value to Ego was that he could serve as a battery for divine power, helping him activate the avatar seeds he had planted throughout the universe over the years and assimilate the entire universe into himself.
This meant that, like Ego, Star-Lord could provide divine power—or rather, create divine power.
If both of them were using