Thanos sat in the spectator stands, his massive frame bound by a restraining force. Feeling the loss of his own strength and the restraints upon him, he remained expressionless, but inwardly, he was utterly shaken.
The power to forcibly drag them all into this small world with tremendous spatial force and suppress their strength filled him with fear.
"Master..." Ebony Maw, beside him, was about to say something, but Thanos interrupted him.
"Say nothing. Just watch."
Not far from them, Thor was cursing furiously. "Mortals, you dare disrespect the God-King of Asgard? This is provocation! You will face blood-"
"Shut up!" Odin looked at Thor with icy eyes. For the first time, he felt an urge to kill Thor. He had known Thor was stupid, but had never imagined he could be this stupid.
Could he not see how terrifying a being had to be to gather so many of the universe's powerhouses with a wave of a hand and suppress their strength? If Thor's idiotic provocation angered such a powerhouse, would Asgard not be wiped out with a wave?
It was also the first time Thor had seen such a terrifying look in his father's eyes. Feeling Odin's icy killing intent, Thor instantly shut his mouth.
"A powerhouse is not to be provoked. Before Asgard is destroyed, I will kill you with my own hands."
Hearing Odin's icy voice, Thor finally realized how serious the problem was.
"Once we return, Thor will be stripped of his status as prince and reduced to a commoner. Loki will be the next heir to the throne."
Odin was genuinely afraid. With Asgard entrusted to an idiot like Thor, there was simply no future in sight. Even without Ragnarok, Asgard would sooner or later be destroyed in this idiot's hands.
At least Loki could read the situation. At least she was far more rational than Thor.
"Father..." Thor was dumbfounded. In that instant, he also understood his earlier stupidity.
"Do not call me Father. I cannot bear it, and neither can Asgard." With that, Odin turned away and stopped looking at Thor.
Loki had not expected Odin to be so decisive either. She knew the person in the arena had frightened Odin, and she also knew Thor's arrogance really could spell Asgard's immediate doom.
"Heh, so these are my younger siblings? How weak." Hela laughed mockingly.
Odin ignored Hela and had no desire to discuss her further. He knew that here, Hela posed no threat to him.
Nick Fury's black braised egg of a head stood out conspicuously among the spectators. At that moment, a shrewd light flickered in his single eye.
As the head of an organization dedicated to maintaining world peace, what he hated most were people who possessed tremendous strength and acted without restraint.
Of those in the arena, he recognized only Tony Stark. After Ling Yi and the others' last battle in the desert, Nick had specifically sought Tony out. After all, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s database contained no records whatsoever of the people around Tony.
Unfortunately, Tony had said nothing and had even given him a thorough dressing-down.
As for the powerful and mysterious Ling Yi, his origins were even more of a mystery. Yet Ling Yi's tremendous strength had indeed frightened him. That terrifying power, capable of giving Earth a facelift with a wave of a hand, remained fresh in his memory.
Looking around, he immediately spotted the burly, composed Thanos, whose imposing presence spilled out unchecked, and the subordinates beside him.
For some reason, the sight of Thanos instinctively sent a chill down Nick's back.
Were those Kree not far from Thanos? In that case, were some of these spectators powerhouses from across the universe?
Not far from the Kree was the renowned Auntie Marvel, Carol. At that moment, she was looking around blankly, looking rather dazed.
Then he looked toward the Asgardians. He recognized Thor, God of Thunder, so the old man clad in golden armor should be the legendary God-King Odin.
"Observe carefully and record everyone's distinguishing features," Nick said gravely to Hill and Coulson beside him.
"None of the electronic devices work," Hill said helplessly. With over ten thousand spectators, how many could they remember using their brains alone?
Coulson chuckled and pulled out a journal, telling them, "We can't record video, but nobody said I couldn't draw them."
Nick's eye lit up. "Very good! You're getting a bonus when we get back."
Coulson was quite good at simple sketches. With just a few strokes, Thanos's likeness sprang to life on the page, followed by the subordinates beside him.
Unexpectedly, Thanos was also the first person Coulson drew.
In the referee's chair at the edge of the arena, Ancient One was also surveying her surroundings. She knew almost everyone among the spectators. With the Time Stone and time magic, although she would not change the past or future, she could see countless pasts and futures.
These people had all appeared in different timelines, and she even knew clearly what most of them had done.
The first to enter was Cao Mengde. With a power level of 1.5 million, he was the weakest of the group members.
According to Lin Feng's estimate, Ling Yi's power level was only between thirty thousand and fifty thousand. Cao Mengde should have been able to crush Ling Yi completely, but now Lin Feng was no longer sure.
After all, Lin Feng's methods were too bizarre. The ability to instantly pull the universe's powerhouses into a small world was simply terrifying.
It was not just Lin Feng who was uncertain. The core of this system chat group, that unknown, powerful consciousness, was also feeling uncertain.
Looking at Cao Mengde before him, dressed incongruously in a space combat suit, Ling Yi could not help feeling something was off.
"Your original future should have been set: first unifying the north, then becoming overlord of the Central Plains, and finally establishing the mighty Great Wei Empire."
"But now, you have disrupted your original timeline's course and become a tool of certain evil beings without even knowing it. Your tremendous strength has already led you astray, and a wrong choice will inevitably exact a tremendous price."
"Defeat me, or die!"
As Ling Yi spoke, his presence erupted. Blue-white flames of Qi surged upward from his body, and his originally black hair turned blue-gold, swaying with the flames.
Whether Cao Mengde in the arena or the spectators, everyone felt an utterly terrifying pressure at that moment. The sensation was horrifying. Even Odin, Thanos, and the others were shaken to their cores.
Cao Mengde instinctively released his Qi, white flames of Qi likewise burning around his body as he resisted Ling Yi.
Ling Yi had already been to the Dragon Balls world. By the time he left it, his power level had exceeded ten billion. Someone of Cao Mengde's strength was nothing but trash in his eyes.
What Ling Yi was using now was also the Dragon Balls world's power system.
However, Ling Yi would not unleash his full strength. His objective had never been these group members, but his law analysis progress.
Ling Yi could clearly sense that as Cao Mengde's presence surged and he entered a combat state, the law analysis progress did indeed begin to rise slowly.
The pressure Ling Yi put on Cao Mengde was too great. Unable to withstand it any longer, Cao Mengde attacked first.
And he opened with a major move: Kamehameha.
Ling Yi easily caught the Kamehameha with one hand and walked toward Cao Mengde step by step against the powerful beam.
"How is this possible?" Cao Mengde was horrified. This was completely different from what they had imagined. Ling Yi should not have been this powerful.
"You improved your strength, and I have been improving mine as well. The Time-Space Administration Bureau oversees countless trillions of worlds. The power inheritances you consider incomparably mighty are merely the lowest-grade inheritances in the Time-Space Administration Bureau."
"I don't believe it!" Cao Mengde roared. "Twentyfold Kaio-ken!"
The flames of Qi around Cao Mengde abruptly changed from white to red, and his strength instantly increased twentyfold.
His power level also shot upward, rising from 1.1 million to over fifty million.
But clearly, such a terrifying increase in strength placed too great a strain on Cao Mengde. His body began trembling violently, seemingly on the verge of breaking down at any moment.
The Kamehameha's power instantly increased dozens of times over. Caught "off guard," Ling Yi was forcibly pushed backward, only barely stopping when he reached the edge of the arena.
"Hah!" Ling Yi roared in "anger." The flames of Qi around him abruptly rose more than ten meters high. The blue-and-white flames burned fiercely, and his hair turned red at that moment.
Below the arena, Lin Feng's expression abruptly changed. He murmured, "As expected, he's using the Dragon Balls cultivation system too. This is the Super Saiyans Blue state. Although he doesn't seem very proficient with it yet, in that case, Mengde is probably in danger."
Ling Yi's presence surged, directly scattering the Kamehameha. Next came close combat.
The Dragon Balls world's combat system was far too outrageous. Its strength and speed had already far exceeded the understanding of these native Marvel powerhouses.
Even Ancient One, Odin, and the others could barely keep up with the pace of their battle through divine sense.
To prolong the fight and increase the speed of law analysis, Ling Yi kept his power level as close to Cao Mengde's as possible.
The two fought from the ground into the sky, then from the sky back to the ground.
Occasionally, Ling Yi was knocked out of the sky, smashing enormous cracks into the arena. At other times, Ling Yi knocked Cao Mengde into the air and unleashed a combo that made Cao Mengde scream repeatedly.
The arena was destroyed again and again, yet eerily repaired itself each time. Without its automatic repair function, the arena would probably have been gone long ago.
And this was only the first battle.
The spectators were dumbfounded. Everyone stared unblinkingly at the arena, unwilling to miss a single detail. A battle like this was far beyond their level, but it was also incomparably spectacular.