The next day at dawn, Wenwu boarded the Great Emperor fighter jet and returned to the headquarters of the Ten Rings Empire.
Looking at the colossal X-shaped Chitauri interstellar mothership, a full kilometer long, standing quietly in the open space outside the base, a faint smile appeared on his face.
At this moment, Ivan was leading his top research team out of the mothership, and the researchers' faces were filled with shock and barely concealed excitement.
"My lord, you have arrived! The technological value of this alien mothership is simply immeasurable!"
Ivan seeing Wenwu, Ivan immediately stepped forward and began to report in an excited tone.
Wenwu smiled slightly, understanding the situation perfectly.
Although the Chitauri Mothership was the weakest interstellar race under Thanos' command in terms of overall performance, it was still an interstellar civilization, and its overall technological level far surpassed that of Earth at present.
The core power source of this mothership is a unique biofusion reactor.
It uses dense, heavy elements from the universe as fuel, embeds living biological tissue into the core structure of the reactor, and continuously outputs terrifying energy through the dual conversion of biological energy and nuclear energy.
This core energy system not only enables the mothership to complete deep space sublight speed travel, short-distance space jumps, and the continuous operation of the Hive thinking center.
All of Chitauri's hovercraft, Leviathan, and even the bio-engineered prosthetics inside their soldiers are equipped with only miniature bio-fusion reactors.
However, their biomechanically modified weapons and Leviathan are all controlled by the mothership.
Once the mothership is destroyed and signal transmission is interrupted, the entire massive alien army will instantly come to a standstill and become paralyzed, like a machine without power.
The shortcomings of this mothership are also quite obvious.
Its energy endurance is inferior to that of top interstellar civilization warships, it lacks powerful and destructive main gun weapons, its intelligent systems are rudimentary and crude, and it even lacks basic energy shields.
However, its mature sub-light speed engine, cutting-edge space jump technology, biomechanical modification system, and complete anti-gravity technology are sufficient to support the Ten Rings Empire in completing its transformation and officially entering the interstellar era.
Reverse engineering alien technology is extremely difficult, but Wenwu possesses a wealth of interstellar technology fundamentals from the Silver Surfer's memories, which can greatly shorten the analysis cycle and significantly accelerate the decryption process.
In the days that followed, Wenwu created numerous clones, working tirelessly to reverse engineer the mothership's core technology while simultaneously undertaking a comprehensive overhaul and upgrade of this giant interstellar mothership.
Meanwhile, the outside world remains deeply affected by the massive impact of the Battle of New York.
Manhattan, as a core global financial center, was completely reduced to ruins, triggering a chain reaction of disasters that affected the entire world.
Not only is the United States mired in a massive fiscal deficit crisis, but the entire world has been engulfed in an unprecedented financial storm, with economies around the world experiencing significant turmoil.
That day, Wenwu controlled a clone, shrinking its body to the size of a fly, and quietly flew into the devastated ruins of Manhattan.
At this moment, a large number of construction machines, rescue workers, and cleanup teams are working busily on the ruins, attempting to rebuild the city.
Rebuilding Manhattan? Wishful thinking.
A cold glint flashed in Wenwu's eyes, and a sneer curled at the corner of his mouth.
He swayed and flew straight towards Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan, landing on the ruins of the already completely collapsed Midland Circle Building.
To outsiders, this building used to appear to be just an ordinary financial office building. However, in reality, the entire structure was merely a deliberate facade created by the Hand to conceal a shocking secret beneath the ground.
Deep within the building's foundation lies a massive vertical shaft leading straight down into the rock strata. At the end of this shaft, the skeleton of an ancient dragon, slumbering for countless years, is sealed away.
Previously, Madame Gao of the Hand and the other four members of the Five Fingers Society had been secretly digging under the cover of the building for years, attempting to seize the Dragon Bones and refine the original liquid that could prolong life.
They had already unearthed the ancient seal left by Iron Fist, but they were still unable to break it. They had even planned to scheme against the new Iron Fist and use someone else to break the seal.
Unexpectedly, Chitauri alien invasion occurred midway through the journey, and his earth-shattering battle with Carol swept across the entire city. The violent metal powers and energy shock directly collapsed the entire building, completely burying the underground shaft passage.
The Hand now completely withdrawn, and even if they are unwilling, they dare not rashly return to this place to dig, for fear of exposing the secrets of the underground and attracting the attention of various forces.
Without hesitation, Wenwu followed the gaps in the rubble and rubble downwards, while simultaneously using his metal powers to break through the blocked rock passages.
In a short while, after descending more than 20 meters, he successfully passed through the vertical shaft blocked by rubble and entered the underground passage.
Their bodies continued to fall for about a hundred meters, eventually reaching a very open natural cavern in the rock formation.
Wenwu looked up and saw the ancient Iron Fist fist runes engraved on the stone wall in front of him, a smile appearing in his eyes.
He slipped all Ten Rings onto his right hand and instantly unleashed his full power.
A dazzling and domineering golden divine light suddenly erupted, carrying immense power, and slammed into the seal stone wall covered with runes!
Boom--!
The entire underground space trembled violently, and the countless ancient runes on the stone walls lit up with golden light one after another, attempting to solidify the seal.
However, under the terrifying energy of the Ten Rings, the rune's light quickly dimmed and faded, and a huge hole was blasted into the hard stone wall.
"This ancient seal is nothing special."
Wenwu chuckled. Although he had only brought an avatar this time, he had brought Ten Rings with him to ensure the seal could be broken safely.
He peered through the cave entrance into a much more magnificent and expansive underground space.
In the center of the entire space, a colossal dragon skeleton stood silently.
The dragon skeleton is 120 meters long, with its thick main spine running across the entire rock fissure. Each vertebra is nearly three meters in diameter, and dozens of giant ribs stretch out to the sides, like a natural giant stone arch, firmly supporting the underground strata of Hell's Kitchen.
Each bone in the skeleton shimmered with a faint, crystalline luster, emanating an ancient and profound aura of life.
"This is the ancient Dragon Bones; its size is indeed enormous."
Wenwu was secretly amazed.
The Hand's five fingers could achieve immortality and resurrection of the dead with just a small fragment of Dragon Bones; the value of this complete, giant ancient dragon Dragon Bones before them was simply immeasurable.
He came here for two purposes.
First, to completely collect the ancient Dragon Bones.
Secondly, it devoured the pure Dragon Chi left behind by the giant dragon underground, which had long since merged into the Manhattan earth veins.
With the Iron Fist seal completely broken, this vast underground space was entirely supported by the dragon's skeleton and the thick rock layers above.
Once the Dragon Bones is removed, the entire Hell's Kitchen will immediately trigger a chain reaction of geological collapses.
At the same time, he will completely extract the earth's Dragon Chi, making the entire underground geology extremely fragile, and most of Manhattan's underground structure will be severely affected.
Wenwu sat cross-legged, calmly sensing the remaining pure Dragon Chi within the skeleton, as well as the Dragon Chi dissipating in the earth's veins.
In the next instant, his body transformed into a form of Uru Divine Steel, and he fully activated his Spiritual Power.
In an instant, the remaining Dragon Chi deposited within the dragon's skeleton and the fragmented Dragon Chi hidden within the earth's veins all broke free from their restraints, surging wildly into Wenwu's body like rivers flowing into the sea.
This Dragon Chi was of extremely high quality, its purity no less than that of his own cultivated Spiritual Power, and it even possessed a trace of magical properties that distorted reality.
As he continuously refined and absorbed the energy, the Spiritual Power within Wenwu's body completely merged with the Dragon Chi, and he inherited some of the Dragon Chi's wondrous powers.