On the Antarctic ice sheet, as the Death Goddess departed.
The frigid winds resumed their rampage.
The Cosmic Demon, left disheveled by being "ignored," stood beneath Su Ming's increasingly icy gaze.
At last, he recovered from the immense psychological blow.
Humiliation!
Utter humiliation!
The demon roared inwardly. The Death Goddess looked down on me,
and that brat Su Ming dared to belittle me too!
But he knew a direct confrontation was not the answer.
A ghostly light flashed in his eyes as he made a decision.
He forcibly drew upon the power of the Starcore Fragment within him, briefly resisting the constraints of the Time Law,
and returned to his colossal demon form, capable of devouring stars—
the form of Galactus!
For a time, demonic energy surged into the heavens above the Antarctic ice sheet!
He struck a pose as though he intended to fight Su Ming to the death and let out an earth-shaking roar,
sending a terrifying torrent of dark energy hurtling toward Su Ming.
Yet this seemingly all-out attack actually contained a hidden trick.
Su Ming decisively met it head-on, channeling the divine power of his Nascent Soul.
Under the cover of the immense flash and shockwave created by the collision of energies,
the demon's true body used the recoil as though it had been launched from a cannon,
tearing through space and instantly fleeing tens of millions of miles away, hiding once more.
I have to get the Infinity Stones first!
In the third dimension of near-Earth orbit, the demon lay low again.
While nursing the humiliation in his heart, he began using the Starcore Fragment's power
to send secret ripples into the depths of the cosmos—
"invitations" containing Earth's coordinates and the message, "There are five ownerless Starcore Fragments here."
He knew perfectly well that