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The latter nodded, confirming Xu Wenwu's words.
"So that's why you hate each other?" Luo Di asked.
Before this, he had thought Xu Wenwu knew something he shouldn't have, which was why the Eternal were trying to silence him.
However...
If he thought about it carefully, Xu Wenwu did know things he shouldn't!
It was just that he knew a bit too much, far more than Luo Di had guessed!
Also, what exactly was this method to delay the Celestials' emergence?
Luo Di was quite curious. He had never heard of it.
"That's right, about three hundred years ago, I once tried to do that, but they stopped me," Xu Wenwu nodded and said.
But as soon as he finished speaking, the Avengers looked at him in surprise, even scanning back and forth between him and the Eternal.
"Wait! How many years did you say? Three hundred years ago?" Tony asked incredulously, "If I remember correctly, you're a pure human, right?"
Xu Wenwu nodded and said, "That's right, I am human, but I had some special encounters that granted me a nearly Eternal lifespan."
Oh my God~!
How enviable!
Many people, upon hearing this, showed expressions of extreme envy.
An Eternal lifespan!
Although what Xu Wenwu said was actually a nearly Eternal lifespan, meaning there would still be a day when he died of old age, it would just come very, very slowly!
He had already lived for several hundred years, yet he looked only about forty.
And in fact, it wouldn't be a problem for Xu Wenwu to live for several more thousands or even tens of thousands of years.
His lifespan was even longer than most Asgardian!
One must know that ordinary Asgardian only had a lifespan of about a thousand years; only the bloodline of Odin, and the descendants of certain God, could possess a much longer lifespan!
In that case, living for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years was not an issue.
But life still had an end. It was not Eternity!
However, the Eternal's lifespan had almost no end. Hundreds of thousands of years were not their limit, nor were millions of years!
But...
Every time they completed a mission, they needed to return to their birthplace, and after staying there for a period, Arishem the Judge would dispatch them to the next place.
What the Eternal did not know was that during that time, their memories would be wiped clean, making them entirely new selves!
So, did you think they lived for a few thousand years?
No! In reality, they lived far longer than a few thousand years!
They had lived for at least several million, or even tens of millions of years. It was just that they had no memory of anything before a few thousand years ago.
.....Good.
PS: First update delivered!!!
I hadn't slept well for the past few days, and today is Sunday so I don't have to go out. As a result, I slept like a log for 14 hours!
Speechless, I didn't expect so much time to pass. I originally planned to wake up around 10 o'clock, but I overslept by five hours.
Chapter 139: Extracting the Celestials' Energy! Do the Avengers Also Want Immortality? [Second Update]
"Alright, tell me your method."
Tony nodded, accepting the fact that Xu Wenwu was an old monster who had lived for several hundred years, and also understood that these Eternal, though looking young, were actually monsters who had lived for an unknown number of years, just like Thor!
Oh my God~!
Why could their human race only live for a hundred years?
Tony felt inexplicably depressed in his heart.
"My method is very simple: directly extract the core energy of the Celestial that is currently gestating. The Celestial's gestation requires an extremely vast core energy, and the Celestial inside Blue World has been gestating for an unknown number of years. The amount of energy It has absorbed over these billions of years is simply unimaginable!"
"However, even such a vast amount of energy is still not enough for It to successfully gestate and be born. According to what I know, It will need at least another three or four years to complete its gestation."
Xu Wenwu informed everyone of everything he knew and his method.
And as Xu Wenwu recounted, everyone couldn't help but feel their scalps tingle.
It could complete gestation in three or four years?
Oh my God!
If they hadn't coincidentally learned all this today, would they have remained completely in the dark until they died three or four years later?
However, Luo Di knew that for this Celestial to truly gestate and emerge, it would require far more than three or four years; it would need at least nine or even ten years!
This wasn't to say Xu Wenwu had miscalculated. Rather, he hadn't considered an additional factor: Thanos's snap two years later!
Thanos's snap reduced life in the entire Universe by half. Blue World was naturally no exception.
Therefore, this greatly delayed the Celestial's gestation.
If it weren't for the Hulk's snap in 2023, which brought all the deceased back, this Celestial's successful gestation would have taken far more than just ten years.
It would have taken at least several more decades or even a century!
To some extent, Thanos's snap did save many lives.
But... he killed even more!
However, for Blue World, Thanos's snap bought Blue World more time.
If he hadn't snapped, it's possible this Celestial would have successfully gestated and been born in 2018.
And at that time, Ajak might not have even thought things through clearly. Carelessly, she might have just let It successfully emerge!
In that case, it would definitely be a catastrophe for Blue World!
However, neither Xu Wenwu nor the Eternal, nor the Avengers, knew all of this. So naturally, they wouldn't think as much as Luo Di.
With Xu Wenwu's introduction, everyone learned that he possessed the knowledge to extract the Celestial's core energy. As long as they followed his method, they could continuously extract this Celestial's energy, repeatedly delaying Its emergence!
Even if their generation grew old and died, they could pass this knowledge down. Generation after generation, continuously repeating this process, would ensure that Blue World would never be destroyed.
Of course! This was the best and most ideal scenario.
However, the future is often unpredictable. Accidents are always more numerous than expected!
Therefore, Tony and the others could at most ensure that Blue World would not be destroyed in their generation.
But after these people grew old and died? That would truly be hard to say!
...
"I have a question," Luo Di asked after Xu Wenwu finished his introduction.
"Ask away," Xu Wenwu nodded. He dared not neglect Luo Di in the slightest.
His intuition told him that this man had the ability to kill him. If the other party disagreed with his approach, then even if everyone else agreed, it would be useless!
Therefore, the most important thing now was to get Luo Di to agree with his method. As for the thoughts of others? They weren't that important, actually!
"Since you said that the Celestial's core energy is a pure life energy, which can be used to revive the dead, then can it also extend the lives of those who are still alive?" Luo Di asked.
Lifespan was the greatest problem that plagued countless humans!
Throughout human history, there had been many geniuses, like Einstein. If he could live for several thousand years, how brilliant would human civilization become?
In this Marvel Universe, if Tony Stark could live for several thousand years, how much black technology could he invent with his super brain?
So, when he heard Xu Wenwu say that he could extract the Celestial's life energy to revive the dead, Luo Di immediately wondered if this life energy could also be used on living people?
Why did lifespan become humanity's greatest constraint?