System's Final Settlement! An Explosive Windfall!

Three hundred and fifty million.

Jiang Li stared at the long string of dark gold numbers on his retina, his breathing becoming slightly rapid.

This enormous sum was obtained by swallowing Six Infinity Stones and forcibly stitching the Multiverse together. In the entire Marvel Universe, no one but him could pull off such a deal.

High risk brings unexpectedly high returns.

"System, open the Supergod Evolution Prize Pool." Jiang Li without hesitation.

Money can't be used to generate more wealth; it must be converted into absolute combat power to survive the upcoming collisions of the Multiverse.

[Ding! The Super God Prize Pool is now open.]

[Single draw costs: 100 million Emotion Points!]

Even Jiang Li couldn't help but twitch when he saw this price.

One hundred million for one draw! This isn't a lottery, it's burning planets!

"Draw it three times in a row!"

Jiang Li gritted his teeth and went all in. Three hundred million Emotion Points were instantly wiped out, leaving only a measly fifteen million in the balance.

Boom--!!!

A burst of unprecedentedly dazzling golden light erupted from the depths of Jiang Li's mind.

The light even spilled over his body, illuminating the entire dimly lit lunar control room as if it were daytime.

[Ding! Congratulations, host! The guaranteed minimum reward mechanism has been triggered!]

Swish!

The Omnitrix watch on Jiang Li's left wrist popped up automatically.

[Ding! Congratulations, host! You have triggered a very low-probability grand prize!]

[Obtained a cosmic-level conceptual weapon: Fragment of the Ascalon Holy Sword!]

Buzz--

Jiang Li's palm suddenly felt heavy.

An indescribable chill and sharpness instantly stung his palm.

He looked down.

In his hand was a small, palm-sized piece of metal, dark silver in color, with sparkling metallic glints on its surface.

These are the fragments of Ascalon.

This sword is the greatest masterpiece created by Azmuth, the most intelligent being in the entire universe, using all his life's work.

In The Ben 10, this sword doesn't even need to be swung; the energy it releases is enough to easily destroy a planet and even alter the physical laws of the entire universe!

"Even a single fragment weighs as much as a mountain."

Jiang Li a deep breath and gently traced the edge of the fragment with his fingertips.

laugh.

Without applying any force, Jiang Li's fingertip was instantly cut, and blood gushed out.

Moreover, an extremely fine black crack appeared in the space around the edge of the fragment.

It cut through the spatial barriers of the main control room!

"Nice one."

A glint of fanaticism flashed in Jiang Li's eyes. With a thought, the fragment transformed into a beam of starlight and merged into the Omnitrix on his left wrist.

With this thing, when he encounters those so-called high-dimensional gods in the future, he won't even need to break through their defenses; he can directly cut them in half conceptually!

As for the third lottery, it only gave a few dozen coordinates of rare cosmic-level mineral veins, which was just a bonus. Jiang Li casually tossed them into his storage space.

Jiang Li stood up and stretched his neck. His joints made a crisp popping sound.

"Let's go to the training ground and see just how hard the Ultimate Humungousaur's fist is."

Jiang Li turned around, preparing to walk towards the airlock.

However.

The instant he turned around.

Buzz--

The air in the control room fell still without warning.

The second hand of the clock on the wall froze in mid-air. Outside the Moon Base, the patrolling robotic guards were instantly frozen in place.

It wasn't a physical intrusion. Plumbers's alarm system didn't react at all.

This force bypassed all the defenses of three-dimensional space and forcibly descended from the bottom of the river of time.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

A dozen or so extremely glaring orange-yellow glowing door frames appeared abruptly on all sides of the control room, as if they had been forcibly torn apart by some force.

Jiang Li completely surrounded in the center.

Immediately afterwards, the heavy sound of military boots rang out.

A group of people strode out from the orange portal of light.

They were all dressed in heavy, black riot armor, with the initials "TVA" printed in gold on their helmets.

Each person held a translucent baton with a dangerous orange glow at the tip.

Pruning Baton.

Anyone who gets poked by this stick, whether they are Avengers or Mutants, will have their entire life trajectory, timeline, and even physical existence instantly erased and thrown into the junkyard at the end of time.

Time Variance Authority (TVA).

They finally knocked on the door.

The head guard was a burly man. He stopped, raised his left wrist, and glanced at the radar-like Time Controller on it.

Then, he raised his head and, through his mask, coldly locked his gaze onto Jiang Li, who stood before the throne.

"Time Violator: Jiang Li."

The captain of the guard's voice was devoid of emotion, like a machine issuing a verdict.

"You obliterated entities that shouldn't have died, you devoured the cosmic origins that shouldn't have been devoured. You created an extremely serious branch in the Sacred Timeline."

The captain of the guard raised the Pruning Baton in his hand, orange energy sizzling at the tip of the stick.

"By order of the Time-Keepers."

"To perform a... full-dimensional reset and cropping on you."

The words had barely left his mouth.

More than a dozen TVA guards simultaneously raised their Pruning Baton and approached Jiang Li in tactical formation.

In their eyes, this was just a routine cleanup mission. No matter how powerful the target was in their universe, it would only be reduced to ashes in the face of TVA's law-based weapons.

Jiang Li stood still, without dodging.

He looked at these high and mighty "Gardener of time," and even leisurely reached out and picked his ear.

Then, he slowly raised his left wrist.

Jiang Li looked at the leading guard captain and a cold, chilling smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

"Coming to my house in the middle of the night to trim tree branches?"

"Your bureau chief didn't tell you..."

Jiang Li's right hand hovered above the watch face.

"Is what Lao Tzu likes to do most to uproot something completely?"