A stream burbled through the quiet mountains. White clouds drifted overhead. When the elevator doors opened, a cool breeze wafted in, as though they had stepped into an earthly paradise.
"Would you prefer coffee or tea?"
Tony Stark walked past the Ancient One carrying a stainless-steel pot.
"Tea." After looking around at the scenery, the Ancient One said to Tony Stark, "You seem to have known about me for some time, Stark."
"You won an Academy Award. Uh, all right, I've seen a few movies." Tony took out a remote and switched off the Tom and Jerry that Stelle was watching, replacing it with the fourth Avengers film.
"I know a few things about other timelines."
The Ancient One watched for a while, then raised an eyebrow, apparently rather surprised.
It showed the very scene where she caught Hulk trying to steal the Time Stone, though the "actors" looked slightly different.
"I thought you'd come looking for us outsiders on the first day. I even prepared tea and pastries to entertain you—and bribe you."
Meng Qi chuckled. A pot of hot tea and fragrant Chinese pastries flew out of his Universe in the Sleeve. "I left the Supreme Sorcerer two gifts. You should have received them by now."
The Ancient One nodded, accepted a cup of tea, and set it on the table. "Did you leave Daluo Heaven, a separate extra dimension, to investigate this too?"
That day, Meng Qi had tried to use faith in the Three Pure Ones as an Anchor Point, conceal himself through the Cause of All Fruits, and capture Reincarnators from the other team.
He had brought back one prisoner to question. The other two had not truly been killed by Meng Qi; they had been left in a state neither alive nor dead for