Chapter 251

"Where is this...!"

Looking at the purple-gold starry sky and the star-river weaving belts traversing and shuttling through the stars.

The Red Skull's worldview, which he thought had stabilized, was refreshed once again...

"Welcome to my Divine Kingdom.

Don't worry, once I'm done with the Soul Gem, you'll be free."

Ye Li was just saying to the Red Skull—

Whoosh!!

An orange gem broke through the clouds and wanted to fly out of the atmosphere!

"In my Divine Kingdom, where do you want to run?"

Ye Li just moved his mind, and the huge traversing star-river weaving belt entangled the Soul Gem that wanted to escape.

The spider silk emitting starlight wove into a large spider web, wrapping it firmly inside.

Ye Li also floated away from the surface, his figure beginning to enlarge rapidly after absorbing the power of the Divine Kingdom—

In a blink.

The Red Skull saw a giant face reflected on the firmament, just a pair of eyes containing the purple-gold starry sky were like the sun and moon shining together!

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"You are just a turtle in a jar."

Ye Li's magnificent figure stood vast—

He brought his hands together, and his palms covered the tiny Vormir, pinching it in his hand.

Among them, naturally, included the Soul Gem.

Ye Li began to refine the Soul Gem he had caught, turning it into his divine artifact.

He didn't want to use this rough method either.

After all, using this method, the Soul Gem had the risk of being scared away.

By then, it would be hard to find its traces in the universe again...

However.

Since the Soul Gem didn't follow the rules, he could only use extraordinary means.

Fortunately, it didn't get away, but was successfully captured.

[Ah! Don't! Don't come in so roughly!]

A crisp voice suddenly rang in his heart.

Ye Li's expression was stunned... This is... the Soul Gem?

How is it still a little girl's voice!?

[I was wrong...! From now on I'll listen to you... don't do it anymore!]

The crisp voice was still ringing.

Ye Li frowned slightly, shrank his figure back to its original size, and looked at the orange gem held in his hand, feeling very strange...

I've never heard that the Soul Gem has a little girl's voice...

[Is it deliberately trying to confuse me?]

Thinking of this,

To be safe, he didn't pay attention to the begging voice and continued the refining action—

[It's over! It's over! I'm going to be enslaved! Wuwu, big bad guy!]

Ye Li's eyebrows twitched, it was clearly you who started messing around first, right...

After the crying voice lasted for a while.

He finally completely refined the Soul Gem.

On the Red Skull's side.

Also because the power of the Soul Gem was imprisoned by Ye Li, his body began to dissipate into black smoke, and a generation of big villains was liberated.

...Please give flowers...

Seeing this, Ye Li didn't send the completely dead Vormir back, but left it in the Divine Kingdom.

And the little girl's voice that rang in his heart just now also calmed down after the gem was refined.

Making him think:

[Did I refine it to death?...

That would be a sin...

The voice sounded quite cute...]

[You're the one who died!]

The crisp little girl's voice rang in his heart again: [But you praised me as cute, I like hearing that!]

This time,

Ye Li could clearly perceive that the voice came from the gem in his hand...

So the Soul Gem really has a little girl's voice?

[I tell you... from now on I'll hang out with you...]

The Soul Gem was still talking to itself: [You have to be nice to me, otherwise watch out, I'll have Mommy beat you!]

[What?]

Ye Li was even more confused: [Who is your mom??]

[Hmph hmph~]

The Soul Gem said proudly: [My mommy is the Goddess of Revenge, Nemesis! I was separated from her!]

[Nemesis? Who's that?]

Ye Li hadn't seen all Marvel-related works, so he was confused about the Goddess of Revenge mentioned by the Soul Gem.

[Hmph hmph~ ignorant, aren't you? My mommy is a god-level entity that created the universe! An ancient existence beyond the five great gods of the universe!]

The Soul Gem said proudly: [She can erase the universe in the blink of an eye, causing all reality barriers to collapse. Your power is not worth mentioning in front of her!]

[That awesome?] Ye Li was amazed.

If what the Soul Gem said was true.

Then this Goddess of Revenge was at least at the pinnacle of the multiverse, perhaps even omnipotent universe level...

.. "873"

Ye Li thought for a while and asked an important question: [Then where is your mom now?]

Perhaps because it was refined, the Soul Gem explained to him very obediently.

[When the universe first opened, the Goddess of Revenge, Nemesis, felt too powerful and lonely, so she split and shattered herself, the main body of which evolved into seven gems... and I am a part of Mommy!]

[Wait... you said seven?]

[That's right! They are the Space Gem, Time Gem, Power Gem, Reality Gem, Mind Gem, Soul Gem, and Ego Gem, a total of seven gems. Collect all seven gems, and you can summon my mommy!]

[There's also an Ego Gem...?]

Ye Li said inexplicably: [If I summon her, can she grant me wishes?]

[Still want to grant wishes?] The Soul Gem threatened in a delicate voice: [It's good enough that she doesn't slaughter you~!]

Ye Li: [Why?]

[Who told you to refine the gem randomly and stuff things into her body.]

[Is that so... eh?] After understanding, Ye Li asked again: [Why are you telling me this? Don't you want Nemesis to be resurrected?]

[Of course not~] The Soul Gem said as a matter of course: [Because once my mommy is resurrected, I will be merged by her.]

[Then just now... you said let your mom beat me...?]

[I'm afraid you'll bully me~]

Ye Li was speechless and put the Soul Gem away, lest she chatter in his mind again.

It was not yet time to touch the secrets of the Infinity Gems; it was better to explore later.

"Hey!"

Just as he was about to leave the Divine Kingdom, a white-haired figure flew toward him—

Whoosh~

A purple battle skirt fluttered, and Clea stopped in front of Ye Li, hands on her hips, saying: "How long are you going to keep me locked up here?!"

"Oh... it's... you..."

Ye Li paused and pretended to realize, "It's you."

Clea ground her white teeth, gritting them, "You really forgot about me!"

"Are you starting to swallow innocent worlds just like my uncle!"

She pointed her slender finger at the quiet Vormir, questioning with indignant eyes.

[Is this a misunderstanding?]

Ye Li quickly understood what she meant, but didn't care, admiring her beautiful face, and teased with a smile, "And what does that have to do with you?"

"What do you mean...?"

Clea's eyes even had a hint of sadness, aggrieved, "You teased me like that!... In the end, you're still putting on an act!"

"Uh..." Ye Li scratched his nose slightly awkwardly, "You mean..."

"That's right!"

Clea casually pulled a strand of star-river spider silk from the side, pulled it in front of him to show him, and said, "You used this thing to toy with me! Still want to deny it, pervert!"

Ye Li couldn't argue with this and could only secretly complain about himself... he was too playful before...

He simply put on a salted-fish expression and said to her, "Then what do you want? Do you want me to marry you as a wife?"

— Author's Notes —

PS: The setting of the Goddess of Revenge, Nemesis, comes from the parallel universe-93060 created by Marvel's acquisition of Malibu.