"Is this Time Variance Authority... serious?" Ling Yi asked suddenly after a long silence.
The Ancient One glanced at Ling Yi and smiled, "Are you asking about the existence of the Time Variance Authority, or whether there's some kind of conspiracy?"
"Yes!"
The Ancient One shook his head. "I don't know either. Although I possess the Time Stone, I cannot truly control time."
"Our understanding of time is merely a narrow one; moving forward, backward, pausing, accelerating, or decelerating are all just superficial manifestations of time."
"In reality, we are deeply immersed in the River of Time and can never truly control it. We can only see the external appearances brought about by time, but we cannot see time itself."
Only by stepping outside of time can one truly see and control it.
"Perhaps the Creator of the Time Variance Authority are capable of doing this."
"Whether it's proper or not, you'll have to find out for yourself," The Ancient One said with a smile.
Ling Yi wasn't particularly interested in the Time Variance Authority at first. He had read the Loki spin-off and always felt that the people in the Time Variance Authority were too crippled.
Ling Yi has now developed a slight interest in the Time Variance Authority.
However, to find the Time Variance Authority, you need to go to the main timeline, which means you have to travel through parallel dimensions.
To be honest, Ling Yi hesitated.
"You're going to go sooner or later, there's no need to overthink it," The Ancient One said, seemingly sensing Ling Yi's thoughts.
"Besides, you can come back anytime."
Ling Yi gave the Ancient One a strange look and asked, "You really want me to leave this dimension?"
"It's not that I want you to leave, but that you are destined to leave."
Besides, even if he didn't say anything, Ling Yi was too lazy to take it seriously.
The Ancient One is right. Given his personality, he'll wear it sooner or later; it doesn't matter if it's sooner or later.
Just then, the Space Portal in the sky began to slowly close.
Loki has clearly been captured, Mindy and her team have found a way to close the Space Portal.
"Strange, why didn't it appear?"
What didn't appear?
"According to the original storyline, the future Avengers should have appeared around this time."
The Ancient One didn't ask Ling Yi how he knew, but after a moment's thought, she said, "The plot? If what you say is true, the future you know is very likely the future of the main timeline."
Don't forget, this dimension is just a parallel dimension.
"That's true!"
In Avengers: Endgame, Tony and his team traveled to a parallel dimension, but there are so many parallel dimensions, and it's not necessarily the same one Ling Yi is in.
"Alright, I'm off!" Ling Yi waved to the Ancient One and disappeared.
Not long after Ling Yi returned home, Mindy, Damon, Banner also returned one after another.
" The Mind Scepter and that Tesseract should belong to us," Mindy said, displeased.
"Those things never belonged to us, and besides, those two items were just trouble," Damon said, shaking his head.
"Yes, something that even Thanos the Mad Titan, the cosmic emperor, covets is indeed a problem," Banner nodded in agreement.
"It would be best if they were all taken away by Thor, otherwise Earth will eventually attract Thanos because of these two treasures."
"What are you afraid of? Just cut them down."
Damon and Banner both shrugged. "Cosmic Emperor, huh? A lunatic who destroys planets at the drop of a hat. They're not afraid of him. At worst, they'll just have Ling Yi take care of it."
But if an alien army invades, ordinary people will be the first to suffer.
Besides, they have Space Battleship. If they fire a few shots at Blue Star from outer space, who could withstand that?
Four years have passed, Mindy is now nineteen years old, but she hasn't grown much taller, barely reaching 1.6 meters.
His facial features have matured, and he looks much more mature now.
However, her personality hasn't Changes at all; she's very outgoing and tomboyish, completely lacking any ladylike qualities.
According to the original storyline, the Mind Scepter should have been taken by Hydra.
Then, back in the Hydra Base at the Aosta Town, Wanda and Pietro used the Mind Scepter to unleash their powers.
However, the Hydra Base in Aosta Town was destroyed by Ling Yi four years ago, so the Mind Scepter is now in Tony's hands.
Given Tony's personality, it would be absolutely impossible for him not to study the Mind Scepter.
Perhaps the plot of Avengers: Age of Ultron will start earlier?
I wonder what kind of Ultron or Vision the enhanced Tony will create now.
"I need to leave for a while," Ling Yi suddenly said.
"Going to the magical dimension to find ingredients again?" Mindy asked.
"Not entirely, this time the departure might be longer."
Since Ling Yi had decided to go to the main timeline, he didn't delay any longer and left immediately.
"How long will it take?" Damon asked.
"Maybe one or two years!" Ling Yi Ling Yi wasn't sure either, because he could only determine the coordinates of the main timeline dimension, but not the specific time.
Therefore, it's really impossible to determine the exact time.
"I'll go too." Upon hearing that it would take so long, Mindy immediately objected and said without hesitation.
Ling Yi shook his head. "I can't bring anyone with me."
That was obviously a lie; he just didn't want Mindy to come along.
Ling Yi isn't stupid; he could naturally sense Mindy's attitude towards him over the past two years.
But Ling Yi truly had no feelings for Mindy.
"Do we really have to go?" Mindy asked, feeling frustrated.
"Yes, there are some things that need to be verified."
For dinner, Ling Yi didn't make any culinary disasters, but instead cooked a regular home-style meal.
Although the food tasted good, the group wasn't very enthusiastic.
In the dead of night, Ling Yi, who was using the Darkhold to capture the coordinates of the main timeline dimension, suddenly opened his eyes.
Seeing Mindy walk in, Ling Yi asked helplessly, "What's up?"
"Are you leaving this time and not coming back?" Mindy asked, staring at Ling Yi.
"Why would you say that? This is my home, of course I want to come back."
Mindy didn't speak. For some reason, she had a feeling that Ling Yi would never come back after leaving this time.
"Get some rest, don't overthink things," Ling Yi said with a smile.
When are you leaving?
"After midnight!"
Mindy wanted to say something, but despite her usually carefree nature, she suddenly became anxious and insecure.
In the end, she said nothing and left Ling Yi's room looking dejected.
Ling Yi let out a long breath, checked the time, and realized it was almost midnight. Ling Yi decided to wait for the system to refresh before leaving.
As the countdown to midnight ended, Ling Yi opened the system interface.
[System: Equipment Enhancement System ]
[Host: Ling Yi ]
[Constitution: 85131 (Normal value for an average person is 5)]
[Today's Status Skill: Touch of Replication, 10% chance to Copy the target's skill, 1% chance the Copy skill will mutate.]
[Other details omitted...]
Seeing the newly refreshed entries, Ling Yi couldn't help but laugh.
This is actually a good omen.
Keep in mind that Ling Yi only created three new entries in four years, and even including this one, that's only four.
This shows just how low the chances of a new term appearing are.
Touch of Greed also has a chance to Plunder the target's skills.
However, the Touch of Greed is a non-stackable affix, and it can only be triggered with a probability after an attack.
But the Touch of Replication is different; it can be stacked and doesn't require an attack—it can be triggered simply by locking onto a target.
In other words, with this Touch of Replication, once it's fully stacked, you Copy Copy skills of whomever you want, and it guarantees a 100% mutation.
Ling Yi was filled with anticipation for the upcoming journey through the main timeline.
With a flick of his wrist, Ling Yi forcefully Cutting a purple Rift in the air.
Taking a deep breath, Ling Yi stepped inside.
However, as Ling Yi entered the Spatial Rift, the Darkhold was ejected and fell to the ground with a thud...
This was Ling Yi's first time traversing a parallel dimension.
Unlike traversing magical dimensions, where you arrive at your destination in a single step.
But now, Ling Yi is Rapid Speed traversing through a colorful passageway.
As Ling Yi travels through time, his body is undergoing some very interesting Changes.
Sometimes he appears as a two-dimensional image in black and white, and sometimes as a low-resolution three-dimensional stick figure.
Immediately afterwards, it transformed into a humanoid cloud of smoke, and the next moment, it transformed from the humanoid cloud of smoke into a grid-like green cesium electronic human.
Ling Yi's body constantly shifts randomly between two-dimensional, three-dimensional, four-dimensional, and even higher dimensions.
However, Ling Yi himself did not feel any discomfort.
After a long time, Ling Yi finally saw a glimmer of light.
As the body entered that Guangzhi, the surrounding environment finally returned to normal.
Ling Yi shook his head, and only after the discomfort caused by the spatial shift subsided did he have time to take in his surroundings.
The surrounding noise gradually entered his ears.
This was a plaza, and people around were curiously observing Ling Yi.
Ling Yi frowned. It seemed that this landing site was not very friendly. Ying Yi, and the next moment, Ling Yi appeared on the roof of a building.
Ling Yi closed his eyes and began to fully absorb the information around him.
All sounds, all electromagnetic signals—a moment later, Ling Yi opened his eyes.
"Is this the main Marvel timeline?" Ling Yi was a little confused.
What the hell is this?!
First, the time in this world is 2012.
But the Iron Man of this world died three months ago, and it was Natasha who killed Iron Man.
Thor died a year ago, and the one who killed Thor was Hawkeye.
Hawkeye, on the other hand, died without warning in the prison where he was held.
Hulk died too, six months ago, from a bullet, can you believe it?
It's practically unbelievable how it's far removed from the Da Pu.
In other words, all the members of the Avengers, except for Captain is still frozen in ice and Natasha who is a wanted criminal on the run, are dead?
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
Ling Yi couldn't believe this was the main timeline; all the Protagonist were dead. Was this still Marvel?
Just then, Ling Yi Perception a familiar Aura.
It was Black Widow, wearing a hooded cape, Haste through the alley.
Ling Yi's Ying Yi, and he appeared in front of Black Widow.
Upon seeing the strange man suddenly appear in front of her, Natasha quickly assumed a Combat stance.
"How did Natasha, Tony, Barton, Hulk all die?" Ling Yi asked, frowning.
"Who are you!"
Who I am doesn't matter, I want to know the truth.
"Hey, you shouldn't ask me, because I want to know the truth too."