Time, for Li Ge now, has become something that can be controlled.
But even so, most of the time, he would still treat anything related to the timeline with caution.
After all, in this multiverse where any change can split unpredictable timelines, no one knows whether their actions will turn into an unstoppable disaster.
Several years have passed since the last time Carol Danvers came to cause trouble. I don't know how Natasha and the others persuaded her. Anyway, she has already acquiesced to Li Ge's actions and no longer wants to ask Li Ge to give up assimilating to Solar System. She even stayed directly and actively asked Li Ge to assimilate her.
Of course Li Ge will not refuse. After assimilating her, he will no longer care about her and let her wander around in Solar System.
Li Ge had never forgotten the idea of dragging the dead Soul Stone from the timeline to the current point in time to accelerate the assimilation of the earth.
But Li Ge is a little worried about whether his big move on the timeline will cause catastrophic consequences that even he can't control.
The illusory world in the Samsara Realm gave him a way to fulfill his promise of giving new life to the dead in Zombie World without being violently backlashed by the timeline of the real world.
In the past few years, Li Ge split off its own Animal Path Cloning based on the rules of Mind Stone, and turned into an illusory ghost wandering on the Zombie World timeline.
Animal Path Cloning has not strayed too far from the current timeline. During the period from the zombie virus outbreak to the present, it has been going back and forth for almost ten years.
He did not take the initiative to contact the cause and effect on the longer timeline that had nothing to do with him.
Animal Path has never even really appeared on the timeline, but has been hiding in the cracks of time and space, specializing in collecting Soul Stone and consciousness from people at the moment of their death.
Like the most conscientious seducer.
This is the way Li Ge came up with the least impact on the timeline.
In the original timeline, those people had died, and then were Soul Stone and consciousness silently taken away by Animal Path.
Li Ge no longer cares much about where these Soul Stone and consciousness will go and what kind of assets they will become to gods and demons.
Anyway, in this universe, there are no gods or demons that can cause trouble for him.
Even if someone really comes to trouble him, Li Ge can still be polite first and then attack.
If he is easy to talk, he will compensate with food, such as the Spirit Fruit he eats which is at the Divine Power level of 100 million people.
Being arrogant, he didn't mind showing off his fists to let the gods and demons know that he was not to be trifled with.
If he is really unlucky and encounters a powerful enemy that even he cannot defeat, the worst option is to combine reasoning, compensation, threats, and running away.
Anyway, since we have clearly promised the people of Zombie World to give life to the dead, Li Ge will definitely do it. This is not only a matter of face, but also a silent declaration of control over Zombie World.
Tell those gods and demons who have ideas about Zombie World, whether it is matter, energy, or Soul Stone information and time and space, everything here now belongs to Li Ge, and they cannot interfere!
Just as Li Ge expected, Animal Path actually encountered some obstacles from gods and demons in the process of collecting Soul Stone's consciousness.
Such as the demon lords in Hell, the demon gods of certain dimensions, the masters of alien planes, and the sources of belief in myths and legends that have been spread on the earth for thousands of years...
Some powerful gods and demons even directly targeted Li Ge in the real world, wanting to teach him a lesson, and greedily asked him to hand over the method of assimilating the earth and Solar System, and then get out of this universe.
Faced with these guys who don't understand the situation, Li Ge is not ambiguous either.
Those who could be found and could be taught a lesson were given a lesson, and those who could not be found were beaten harshly across time and space. Those who were weak and greedy were simply responsible for adding some figures to Li Ge's collection shelf.
However, only three or two were found on Li Ge's head. After realizing the true power of Li Ge, when Li Ge mentioned compensation, they all agreed to give up everything in Zombie World.
In fact, most gods and demons do not have the power to control time and space. They can only be vaguely aware of his existence when Animal Path collects Soul Stone, and they do not even have the ability to lock him.
And those gods and demons who have locked Animal Path are basically no match for Animal Path. Without Li Ge taking action, there will be more figures.
The confrontation, communication and compensation with these gods and demons basically took place in the cracks of time and space, or in other dimensions. Therefore, even Wanda who stayed in the Asgard hall with Li Ge did not notice anything.
In the real world, these collected Soul Stone and consciousness have never been revealed. Instead, they were directly absorbed into the Samsara Realm by Animal Path, and then were specially arranged by Li Ge to fall into a deep sleep.
Ghost Way, which takes the Soul Stone rules as its core, is still busy opening up a game world in the Samsara Realm that is strong enough and suitable for deducing magical powers and realms. For the time being, there is no extra energy to arrange a place for these Soul Stone consciousnesses.
Li Ge himself doesn't want to be too busy. He mainly focuses on running Assimilation Array, compressing the time and space of Solar System, and perfecting the nine Elemental Stars artifacts.
We can only store these Soul Stone consciousnesses in the Samsara Realm first, warm them with some energy, and let them sleep.
However, Li Ge still found something that made him happy. Animal Path collected Soul Stone's consciousness on the timeline. Although it did not directly affect the timeline, it actually deepened the causal connection between the people in Li Ge and Zombie World.
The more Soul Stone consciousness is absorbed by Animal Path, and the closer to the real time point, the smoother the operation of Assimilation Array becomes, and the hazy consciousness of the earth even begins to cooperate with Li Ge's assimilation of it.
"Sure enough, the consciousness of the planet is the collective consciousness of all sentient beings."
"At this point in time, all sentient beings have completely recognized me, and the consciousnesses of Soul Stone collected by Animal Path have also passively recognized me. Isn't the consciousness of the earth being manipulated?"
In a good mood, Li Ge did not let down his guard or pop the champagne at halftime, but continued to silently let Animal Path speed up the collection of Soul Stone consciousness, striving to invest all the Soul Stone consciousness that had died in the past ten years into the Samsara Realm as soon as possible.
People on Earth, since they were assimilated by Li Ge, have basically never experienced unnatural death. They only die of old age, and most often go back and forth between death and resurrection.
Therefore, the time period during which Animal Path really needs to collect Soul Stone's consciousness is actually only a few years at most.
And just like what Li Ge has been complaining about, the timeline is too fragile. Even though he has protected the timeline of this world so carefully, the timeline has still undergone a change that he had not expected before.
Li Ge discovered that as his assimilation to Solar System became deeper and deeper, Animal Path received more and more consciousness of Soul Stone, getting closer and closer to the present time point. The past timeline of this world was already showing signs of collapsing and curling towards the present time point.
Note that it collapses and curls, not breaks!
The rupture means that there is no source. The collapse and curling are more like replacing the source of the original timeline with the current point in time, thereby becoming a new universe.