Three Golden Faces

still.

Absolute stillness.

The Solar System. The Milky Way. Even the entire Marvel Main Universe.

Time has been stripped of its flowing concept. Space has been frozen in its expansive properties.

In space.

The golden rain of divine blood that filled the sky was frozen in the vacuum. The light reflected from every drop of blood was solidified.

The fifty kneeling Celestials stood motionless, like rusty lumps of iron.

On Earth, the surging waves hung suspended in mid-air. Tony Stark's mouth, agape in utter shock, could no longer be closed.

This is not time-stopping magic.

This is the physical plug of the Multiverse, which was directly pulled out by some indescribable giant hand.

Jiang Li was suspended in space.

He maintained the posture of holding the million-meter-long holy sword with one hand.

He wasn't completely frozen. As a code entity that had taken over the Root of the universe, the dark gold starry sky code of [Ultimate Alien X] was operating wildly within him, desperately resisting the overwhelming force that was crushing dimensions.

But he couldn't move.

Moving a single finger requires enough computing power to reset an entire galaxy.

Click... Click...

Before Jiang Li's eyes.

That absolutely still vacuum of space suddenly peeled away like a piece of charred paper.

Behind the peeling cracks, there is not a black hole. Not another dimension.

Instead, it was pure, unadulterated... golden light.

Boom--!!!

A silent roar exploded deep within Jiang Li's Soul Stone.

The deepest reaches of nothingness.

Three enormous golden faces slowly emerged.

It's too big. So big that it's lost the concept of "volume".

They weren't standing in the Solar System. Rather, the entire Solar System, and even the entire Milky Way, were merely a speck of dust in the corner of their eyes.

Three faces, joined together, occupy the entire dome of the Multiverse.

The face in the very center, all features fully revealed. Cold. Majestic. It was a face that represented absolute fairness.

The right side of his face was completely covered by a piece of golden cloth. It was the face that represented absolute [need].

The left side of his face was half-covered. It was the face that represented absolute [revenge].

The supreme arbiter of the Marvel Multiverse. The sole representative of the One-Above-All (OAA).

The Living Tribunal!

The guardian of all dimensions. The maintainer of all reality.

Before Him, the Council of Kangs is nothing but dust. Galactus is merely a pet. Even Arishem, the arrogant Celestials Judge from just moments ago, is nothing more than a low-ranking employee under His command.

This is the true pinnacle of Marvel.

"Variable. Jiang Li."

The golden face in the middle, representing fairness, remained silent.

But the massive, terrifying sound waves, seemingly composed of a trillion universes superimposed, directly pierced through Jiang Li's system defense wall.

[WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!]

[A logic entity surpassing the Omniverse level has been detected!]

[System firewall has encountered irreversible overload! Currently running at full capacity!]

For the first time ever, a deep red alert, signifying extreme danger, appeared on Jiang Li's retina.

Under the vibration of this sound, the dark golden starry sky body of Ultimate Alien X actually began to show subtle garbled characters and snowflakes!

"You severed the Sacred Timeline, unleashing chaos in the Multiverse."

The voice of the Living Tribunal is neither sad nor happy.

He's like a relentless program reading out system error logs.

"You have shattered the universe's hunger balance."

"You stole the genes of the Creator God. You tampered with the root's underlying permissions."

"You even wiped out half of the Cosmic Peacekeepers (the Celestials)."

Buzz--

Around the three golden faces, an enormous phantom of a scale slowly emerged.

That is the scale that measures cause and effect and reality throughout the entire Marvel Multiverse.

now.

On one side of the scale lies the endless universe and galaxies.

On the other side of the scale, only Jiang Li stood alone.

But the scales tilted wildly and plummeted in Jiang Li's direction!

"Your mass exceeds the universe's carrying capacity."

"The balance has been completely broken."

The gaze of the Living Tribunal was fixed intently on Jiang Li.

Under this gaze, Jiang Li's right hand, gripping the sword, even began to emit a mournful cry as if the bones were about to shatter.

That's a conceptual crushing defeat. It's the absolute negation of creation by the Creator.

"You are not a product of this Omniverse. Your existence is an unacceptable error code."

The Living Tribunal delivered its final verdict.

This is no longer the kind of physical destruction seen in Arishem.

This is an absolute judgment from the supreme god of Marvel.

"Judgment result: Absolute erasure."

"Erasing scope: Your body, your Soul Stone, your cheat logic, everything you leave behind in all timelines and all dimensions."

"Implement."

Boom--!!!!!

There were no earth-shattering rays.

There wasn't even any sign of energy converging.

But the moment the Living Tribunal uttered the word "execution".

The frozen starry sky surrounding Jiang Li... simply vanished.

The erased light was neither white nor black, but rather a "nothingness" that the human retina simply could not decipher.

This ethereal force of obliteration instantly enveloped Jiang Li's million-meter-tall star-studded body!

[WARNING! The underlying code is being forcibly erased!]

[Body integrity: 90%...70%...50%!]

Sizzle!

Jiang Li's dark golden left arm, along with half of the starry sky armor on his chest, instantly turned into transparent pixels and were completely erased from this universe.

Pain!

A conceptual tearing pain that transcends physical tearing and reaches the very depths of the Soul Stone!

It's like being put into a giant meat grinder and then being doused with strong acid!

If the Living Tribunal decrees his death, no one in the Multiverse can survive.

"Heh... hehe..."

In this absolute Extremis where even the Soul Stone is about to be completely erased.

A low, gradually growing maniacal laugh echoed in space.

Jiang Li did not scream.

His single eye, now only half of his dark gold face, stared intently at the three enormous, boundless golden faces above him.

He wasn't afraid at all.

The fanaticism and violence in his eyes had burned to an unprecedented extreme.

"Erase me?"

"System."

In his mind, Jiang Li let out a mad roar that seemed capable of shattering the entire Omniverse.

"I'll use all the billions of Emotion Points I accumulated from wiping out the Council of Kangs and killing the Celestials..."

Not a single drop left!

"Smash it all into this sword!!!"