After discussing the phone, Bai Jing looked at Banner again.
He had not forgotten what he had come here for.
He concentrated, and in an instant, his consciousness vaguely sensed a dimensional space!
There was only one dimensional space that was easy to sense. Most others required a very high level of spiritual attainment.
Some spaces opened only at specific times and places, then closed once the time passed, like the space that sealed the Aether.
Others were hidden extremely well and could not be sensed from even a slight distance away; they had to be detected at close range, like the one inside Banner.
Its connection point to Earth was inside Banner. When Banner moved, it moved too, so ordinary mages naturally could not detect it.
Perhaps Ancient One had sensed it. Otherwise, there was no reason for her to knock Banner's spirit out of his body the moment she saw him. That technique was actually a method used to initiate mages.
Afterward, Banner had smoothly gained control over the green energy within him. Ancient One might well have helped with that.
"This dimension..." Bai Jing was somewhat speechless. It seemed there was no difference between sensing it and not sensing it.
The opening was inside Banner's body and incredibly small. Unless Banner became angry, Bai Jing could not draw out much energy from it.
As for sending his consciousness inside?
The passage was too small. He could not get in!
This was not an open dimension. It seemed completely sealed, with only one tiny hole connecting it to the outside.
Bai Jing opened his eyes and looked at the utterly unaware Banner.
Carrying around a personal dimension filled with strange energy—if other mages learned of it, they would probably be green with envy!
He was so intelligent too. His memory and learning speed were no worse than mine. If he studied magic, maybe he would even have the aptitude to become Sorcerer Supreme!
After all, wasn't the Sorcerer Supreme supposed to draw energy from the Dark Dimension? Banner had a portable dimension and his own transformation energy. He did not need Dormammu at all.
He was the true chosen Sorcerer Supreme!
The key was that he possessed such an incredible advantage without even knowing it. He had been troubled by his abilities all this time, and his girlfriend's boss was even holding him back!
What was this?
This was the protagonist of a broken-engagement story!
"Professor Banner, do you want to learn magic?" Bai Jing asked.
"Huh?" Banner was bewildered. I'm a scientist. Are you here to preach to me?
"I'll take you to meet someone!" Bai Jing directly opened a portal.
Banner blankly watched Bai Jing wave his fingers, then blankly watched a circular hole get sliced open in the air. He froze. "Th-this..."
What was this?
It was one thing for his batteries to be decades ahead of their time, but he even had portal technology?
That was centuries beyond the world!
Banner felt his worldview being overturned!
"Come on, follow me!" Bai Jing grabbed Banner and entered the portal.
The bright sunshine on the other side shocked Banner. He murmured, "At this angle of the sun, it's around ten in the morning. Are we in Asia?"
"Yes, Kathmandu, Nepal!" Bai Jing said. "A group of mages lives here. I think you have the aptitude to learn magic, so I brought you to meet the teachers here!"
"Impossible. How could magic exist? This isn't scientific at all!" Banner opened his mouth, but his words lacked conviction. The monster inside him could not be explained by science either!
"I think it's very scientific. I've found that the energy used by magic also follows the law of conservation of energy. It cannot appear out of nowhere or vanish into nothing. It merely changes from one form into another!" Bai Jing said. "Perhaps this is also a kind of science—science that has not yet been discovered. The people here simply call it magic!"
Put that way, Banner found it much easier to accept.
He followed Bai Jing up the stairs and arrived at the yurt-like hall from before.
Ancient One drank tea here year-round.
"Why are you here?" Ancient One said, then looked up and saw Banner.
"What do you think of him? I think he's very suited to learning magic. He has the bearing of a Sorcerer Supreme!" Bai Jing said.
He was serious.
Ancient One nodded. "You do indeed have the potential to become Sorcerer Supreme, but not on this timeline!"
"Me, huh?" Banner turned to look at Bai Jing. He still did not know who Ancient One was, what position she held, or what the Sorcerer Supreme meant. He was utterly confused.
But his intelligence was exceptional. He knew this was not the time to speak, so he silently observed.
"Time is a river. When a person makes different choices, different branches emerge!" Ancient One said. "But the branches created by ordinary people are too weak to stir any waves, and they are swept back into the mighty current of fate!"
"But special people are different!" Ancient One looked at Banner.
His original life path should have taken him traveling everywhere: first South America, then India, and finally Nepal.
At this time, Loki had stolen the Space Stone, so Natasha would have been sent to invite Banner to help.
Banner had two choices. The first was to accept Natasha's invitation. The result of that choice would be joining the Avengers, becoming a hero, and eventually developing a time machine to save the world.
The second was to refuse Natasha. Later, during his travels, he would learn of Kamar-Taj, eventually join Kamar-Taj, and become a Sorcerer Supreme.
But neither of those things would happen on this timeline.
Because this world now had an outsider: Bai Jing, a visitor from another world with the power to distort space and time. He had easily carved out a line of his own in the river of time, without suffering any backlash from the timeline.
That line belonged to Bai Jing, so even Ancient One did not know what Bai Jing would turn this timeline into.
This feeling was quite nice!
"Do you want him to learn magic?" Ancient One looked at Bai Jing and asked.
"Yes!" Bai Jing nodded. "I'm very curious!"
Knowing the plot was truly boring. It meant life would never change, leaving nothing to look forward to.
Who would want to live a life whose future could be seen at a glance?
He had long known what the Hulk was like, but a Hulk who knew magic? He had no idea!
"What is your wish?" Ancient One looked at Banner again. Banner had the potential to become Sorcerer Supreme, so he could naturally become a force against the darkness. Of course, Ancient One was willing to teach him.
"Well..." Banner scratched his head. He was curious about portals and magic too, but he feared that magic would overturn the life and worldview he had built over decades!
"Learning magic can solve the problem inside your body!" Bai Jing added from the side.
"I'll learn!" Banner immediately nodded.
"Then stay here!" Ancient One nodded, then looked at Bai Jing again. "It is best not to use the power of magic outside. Magic was born to protect this world!"
"I understand!" It seemed Ancient One already knew Bai Jing had gone back. But since she had said this—
It meant Ancient One was not forbidding Bai Jing from leaving.
"Then I'll be going!" Bai Jing said.
When Ancient One nodded, Bai Jing immediately went out, passed through his still-open portal, returned to Banner's room, and shouted, "Someone, notify the Order Society's higher-ups. We're holding a meeting!"
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