Chapter 322 Soul Stone

   "Teaching Logan?"

   Gamora looked at James's hand on his heart and suddenly lost his mind, and asked with a strange expression.

  After getting along for a long time, she and Xingyun also more or less understood that the physical condition of this mysterious teacher was not normal, and they wondered whether James was not feeling well.

   "It's okay, Gamora, I just have a hunch that I will definitely get that stone this time."

  Boom.

  A Chitauri giant whale warship swooped down from the clouds, swaying its metal armor-covered long tail and short narrow fins, soaring and landing rapidly in the sky as if swimming in water.

  Then the belly of the whaleship floated close to the ground, its head more than ten meters high hung down, and it rushed straight to the three of James. After approaching, it slowly slowed down, allowing them to jump up and stand on top.

The Chitauri's technological civilization adopts a method of mass transformation and combination of the body and machinery. From small Chitauri warriors to large armored chariots and floating giant ships, they are all formed by the fusion of various creatures and machines. become.

   This is fundamentally related to the unique population of life on Chitarising.

"If it's what you said, in a few years it will be the time when the tide on Planet Morag recedes, and then we can get another rough stone. Huh, if it wasn't for the news that Gamora didn't find the 'soul gem', Father's plan is half successful!"

Nebula glanced at Gamora unconcealed, like a younger sister who always wanted to outdo her older sister in front of her parents. Gamora didn't make a sound, but just looked forward indifferently, letting Moulton's vision fly by on both sides. The mountains and woodlands of the planet.

"Um?"

   James felt a sudden movement in his heart, his ears trembled slightly, and then he turned around and glanced at Gamora.

  She looked quite at ease, but in James' perception, the heartbeat and breathing rhythm suddenly accelerated, and even the qi and blood that surged up and then quickly sank in an instant

   Gamora lied about the soul gem.

  The dark sect found the location of the "Legendary Speaker" with little effort.

   This is very different from the situation in which this mysterious figure escaped like a prophet when he was hunted down by the Thanos army more than a dozen times before.

  In the brown wilderness of Morton Star, there is a natural stone cave on a low peak. The mountains on all sides and the sky above are surrounded by the black army of Chitauri and the army of the dark order.

  A thin figure in a gray hooded robe sat quietly in front of the cave, fiddling with a plump pine jerboa, not paying attention to his situation at all.

  General Deathblade and his partner Proxima Dark Night walked out of the army formation in an airship. He glanced at the Ebony Maw floating on the other side, and suddenly raised the war blade in his hand, pointing at the figure squatting beside the cave.

   "Master Thanos is waiting on the throne for us to offer him the rough stone, Death Blade, you'd better not miss it."

  Ebony Throat whispered softly, as if he didn't intend to compete with General Deathblade for this credit.

   Hum!

  The hooked sickle warblade flew out and shot in front of the fire on the peak. At the same time, the figure of General Deathblade disappeared in a blur, and then appeared in front of the "Legend Speaker" with a gun in his hand.

   "Well, no, it's not you."

Ding.

  The hooded figure was holding the wooden stick with jerboa meat in one hand. As soon as he finished speaking, he flicked his fingertips on the yellow gem pendant hanging from his neck, and there was a clear and sharp sound radiating to the surrounding world.

Ebony Maw stretched his arms in front of him as expected, and an invisible shield wall suddenly rose up in front of him, blocking out the thin yellow light mist, and was not suddenly caught by Deathblade General and other members of the Dark Legion. fixed in place.

  The "Legend Speaker" raised his hand and took off his hood. His face was gray, and his chin had dense branch-like tentacles. It was unknown which planet he belonged to.

   Didn't pay much attention to the dead blade who had a dull face and was still in the spirit, and continued to focus on the meat that was about to be roasted.

In the distance, the soaring Chitauri whaleship is also approaching the mountain. James glanced strangely at the statue-like army on the ground, as well as thousands of floating ships. The scenes are like something Professor Charles likes to do.

   "What's the matter, father didn't order—"

  Boom!

   Before Gamora could finish speaking, Whale suddenly fell with his head on the ground, his two eyes as big as copper basins turned up, and the double-layered eyelids were tightly closed, as if he was asleep.

   Not only the half-biological, half-mechanical giant whale battleship, James jumped off the body one by one with Gamora and Nebula, who were also unconscious and dazed, and gently put them on the ground.

  With the mountain peak as the center, a huge mind-control force field encompasses this barren land filled with dark sects.

  Boom, boom, boom

  The extra beating rhythm of James' heart became more urgent. He raised his eyes to look at the mountain peak, stepped and leaped suddenly, and disappeared in an instant.

   "Legend speaker? The gem that symbolizes spiritual power is indeed on you."

  Ebony Throat's toes lightly landed on the cliff peak in front of the cave. He stared at the yellow pendant hanging from the neck of the gray-robed figure, said elegantly and confidently, and slowly walked closer.

   "A 'Mage Reader' is not right, not right"

"you-"

Ding! Ding! Ding.

   After a few flicks in succession, the bright yellow light visible to the naked eye shot directly from the Mind Stone to the Ebony Throat. The gray-faced, noseless black-tongued counselor raised his hands flat, his mouth was wide open, and he was forced back to speak.

  The struggle in his eyes only persisted for a moment, and like other dark sects, he was fixed in place like a statue, just next to the General Deathblade standing with a gun.

   "Hoo hoo."

  The holder of the Mind Gem kept blowing on the barbecue in his hand, tore off a small piece with his fingertips and chewed it carefully, and said with a satisfied smile:

   "Yeah! It's time."

   As soon as the voice fell, a turbulent stream rushed up the mountain, James suddenly stopped, and looked at the eyes that looked over from the side.

   "The time has come, it's you, and it's not you, alas. Destiny is already in a mess." The rumored speaker shook his head frequently, and nodded again and again, his face full of distress and annoyance.

   While muttering, this white-haired and bearded man who had just rushed up the mountain sat leisurely across from the campfire, sniffing deeply with the tip of his nose, and glanced at the barbecue in his hand.

   "The meat is roasted well, you didn't leave on purpose this time, didn't you, are you waiting for me?"

   "Hmph! The nose is quite sharp. This kind of jerboa is the top delicacy on Planet Morton. It's less time to eat it!"

  The guardian of the rough stone tore off half of the barbecue and handed it to James. He took a big bite, muttered and continued:

   "What I'm waiting for is the 'Mandate of Heaven', you? It's you I've been hiding from!"

  James eyes flickered, and he also took a bite of the barbecue and chewed slowly, not in a hurry to ask.

   Sure enough, the holder of the mysterious mind stone continued to say:

".My mission should be to give it to the person whose fate has already been determined, but when I was on the planet Corbin, I found that the established trajectory had deviated. I realized that there would be a person who should not get the rough stone. , so I decided to leave there and wait and see."

   "Legend Speaker" ate the barbecue in his hand after a few mouthfuls, sucked the oil on his fingertips again and again, then took off the original soul stone pendant around his neck and held it in his hand.

   "I can guess who the person you are waiting for is. He is waiting on the Void Throne above. Do you want to call him down for you?"

  James glanced at the bright yellow soul stone, and the throbbing rhythm that was out of his control in his chest was almost connected together.

  In no hurry to get the rough stone, he asked the other party seriously.

   "I have predicted the wrong person to come again and again, and stay away again and again, but in the end I suddenly realized that maybe the deviation of the trajectory of fate is exactly what fate should have arranged?"

   It is said that the speaker dangled the pendant back and forth with his oily hands, and looked at the infinity gemstone that had been preserved for an unknown number of years with his gray eyes, and threw it into the fire in front of James with a snap, letting it roast in the blazing fire.

  “.Everything that happens is destined, whether it is you or the ‘destiny’, my responsibility as the holder of the original soul stone is over.”

   Hoo! The bonfire suddenly ignited, and without the wind, he automatically rushed towards the speaker of the legend. His body seemed to be covered with kerosene, burning all over his body in an instant.

   There is no scorching smell of burning flesh or screaming of pain, just like ripe wheat stalks in autumn, a spark can start a prairie fire, and a few breaths will turn into fine fly ash, which will disappear with a gust of mountain wind.

   Instead, the mottled heather-gray hooded robe was not ignited, but only burned the body of the rumored speaker.

  With the disappearance of the holder of the Mind Stone, the spiritual energy surrounding the short peak suddenly dissipated, and the army of the Dark Cult and the Chitauri shook their heads in a daze, not realizing what had just happened.

  James was coiled by the bonfire, looking at the raw soul stone that was roasting in the fire but had not changed in any way, the violent trembling in his chest stopped inexplicably.

   "Logan, give it to me."

General Deathblade, who regained consciousness behind him, held a gun and said coldly, pointing the hooked sickle warblade at James' neck, and the hands behind the back of the ebony throat on the other side kept moving, and the large and small brown rocks on the mountain peak Floating up in the air, one by one rapidly rotating and being cut into the shape of cones out of thin air.

   Ignoring the threat of the two Hei Yao generals, James slowly stretched out his rough and wrinkled right hand towards the flames, and pinched the soul stone that was still cold and had not been changed by the fire.

"kill-"

  Ebony Maw suddenly roared hoarsely, and the moment his voice exploded, hundreds of spikes controlled by Deathblade and Mind Power blasted at James.

  Boom! Boom boom boom!

  The Infinity Gem on his chest and hand shone brightly at the same time, and a huge pillar of flames piercing through the sky suddenly engulfed James' body, and also blasted Ebony Maw and General Deathblade nearby, destroying their clothes.

  The invisible radiation ripples oppressed in all directions, and the dark religious order, which had just escaped from the control of the Mind Stone, was unable to lift its head due to the sudden drop in pressure.

Above the Sanctuary, Thanos, who was sitting calmly in the cosmic vacuum, also noticed this pillar of flame rising from the sky, and the black stone throne under him with dark blue energy ripples rushed towards Mo On the planet of Dunton, the speed is actually faster than that of ordinary starships.

   "Gamora, that pillar of fire is"

  Xingyun and Gamora, who were still at the bottom of the mountain, already had an answer in their hearts. The two looked at the mountain peak speechlessly, and could only wait and wait.

  A world formed purely of golden flames.

  James can't feel the existence of his own body, but he consciously wanders forward in this world, like a ghost.

  He felt a familiar aura from a distance in the corner of the golden fire field. It was an orange-yellow **** flame in the shape of a skull. He shrank in the corner and was careful not to touch the golden flame.

   It looks a little pitiful.

   "James Howlett. Answer me, what is eternity?"

  A loud roar sounded like thunder, and the fire area swelled and flowed with the rumbling voice of questioning, as if in the center of the most turbulent waves of the sea, the soul might be blown away by the waves of fire rolled up at any time.

  James suddenly understood in his heart that he finally entered the world of "Eternal Flame" by relying on the Soul Gem he got.

  "Stars will be born and die, and since the universe has a beginning, it must have an end."

   Countless tiny blood-red light spots clustered out of nowhere, condensing and converging into the appearance of James, only emitting a faint red shimmer, inconspicuous in the endless eternal fire.

  He spoke loudly, not so much as an answer to the mysterious voice, but more like asking questions in his heart.

  “.Any matter, energy, even space, and time exist because of the existence of the universe. If the universe itself has annihilation, is there really ‘eternity’?”

  Boom!

  Jin Yan suddenly put James' soul and body of will on the plate, and he once again felt the boundless pain of being burned by the eternal fire, and his already illusory body quickly faded away.

   "Answer me! What is eternity!"

The flames receded like a tide, and James's faintly fragmented mental body habitually scratched the non-existent beard on his chin, trying to breathe heavily like a real body, as if he had forgotten that there was nothing in this empty world. Awareness exists.

  He suddenly shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and looked at the surging golden sky with a relaxed expression.

  "Nothing is eternal. There is no eternity in this world, and there should not even be eternal things. Whether it is the demise of the world or the birth of the universe, the definition of all these great things exists because of life."

"Because there is life, there is spirit, consciousness, and emotion. These are the basis for all emptiness to have meaning. Without the existence of life, even the concept of 'eternity' will not appear. Only when the endless dead world Eternity only exists when you have the first life to think about what is 'eternity'!"

  The pale red figure was once again swept up by endless golden flames. At the moment when the eternal flames finally engulfed his entire spirit and will, James smiled and left the final answer in his heart

  "—Only life is eternal."

  (end of this chapter)