Against a Celestial, no precaution was too much, so Luo Xia immediately drew upon the power of the Infinity Stones.
The Power Stone was far too destructive. Luo Xia did not intend to kill Ego, only delay him, so the Aether was the best choice.
Ego had originally planned to rush out of the spacecraft and fly back toward his home planet. Flying through the vacuum in the flesh posed no problem for him.
Yet the moment he set off, Ego discovered prism-like layers of energy appearing around him. He crashed headfirst into one, only to emerge from another prism on the other side.
Luo Xia had used the Aether's power to directly replicate the effects of a Phase Array.
Otherwise, with Ego's speed, a real Phase Array could never have trapped him.
Even someone as powerful as Hela would have been trapped to death inside a Phase Array. No matter how great one's strength, without an understanding of spatial laws, there was nothing to be done.
But Ego was different. His lifespan, ancient enough to nearly match the universe itself, had granted him knowledge beyond that of any living being.
The obscure and complex laws of space were merely one of Ego's countless talents, and he was even somewhat more skilled than all the spatial teleportation techniques Luo Xia possessed.
The Phase Array trapped Ego for less than five minutes. He quickly found the unstable portions of space, used only a small amount of energy to destroy the array's entire structure, and broke free.
This time, his escape went smoothly. Ego did not pause for even a moment. He did not even have time to kill Luo Xia, who had ambushed him, and headed straight home. The situation on his home planet was no small matter. Ego knew full