Thor, the Great Hero Who Saved the Nine Realms

As the Dark Elf king faced his failure head-on, Xiang Qian was under immense pressure.

The moment the Reality Stone slipped free of Malekith's control, the blood-red clouds filling the sky instantly contracted into a small mass of crimson liquid, then plunged headlong into Xiang Qian's body without a care. The instant it lost its controller, it found itself a new host and immediately began greedily sucking up the energy leaking from Xiang Qian's soul.

The Stone's "greed" far exceeded Xiang Qian's expectations. His endlessly replenishing energy chain, backed by an entire universe, was nearly drained to the point of "running dry" by the Reality Stone.

The chaos within his body further affected his supply of magic, and the "magical spiderweb" used to block the spatial passageways between the Nine Realms nearly collapsed.

At the same time, with neither the Reality Stone nor Malekith controlling it, the accumulated storm of dark energy instantly erupted into turmoil, teetering on the brink of explosion.

If the dark storm intended to invade the Nine Realms erupted, London would not be its only victim. Half of Western Europe would be turned into dark matter.

Xiang Qian had no choice but to confront two rampaging forces at once. On one hand, he had to suppress the Reality Stone's "greed" and calm it down as much as possible. On the other, he had to maintain the Stone's control over the dark energy, using both the Stone and his magical incarnation to gradually dissolve the dark storm.

Just as Malekith's process of creating the dark storm had been slow and difficult, dissolving it was equally slow. Maintaining a balance between the two forces was no easy task.

Fortunately, Xiang Qian was luckier than Malekith in one respect: he did not have to fend off a powerful enemy