"If you can revive my wife, then you will be the new leader of the Ten Rings Gang, and I will be loyal to you forever!"
Upon hearing this, Xu Wenwu knelt on both knees, bowed his head, and performed a grand ancient general's salute of loyalty to a monarch before Li Chuan.
Back then, he could abandon the power of the Ten Rings, abandon immortality, abandon a thousand years of accumulated achievements for his wife, transforming from an ambitious conqueror into an ordinary person living in seclusion in the mountains.
Now, he could naturally do the same for his wife's revival and his children's safety.
"Then let's begin. However, my method isn't so pleasant, so it's best not to let your wife know the truth of the matter after she's revived."
Yingli was not like Wen Wu, that thousand-year-old schemer who would stop at nothing; she was a kind and pure-hearted person. If she knew that her revival came at the cost of sacrificing another's life, she would certainly not be willing.
It would be troublesome if more issues arose then.
"I understand!"
Xu Wenwu had lived for a thousand years, so he naturally knew that anything involving the resurrection of the dead was never a good thing.
But he didn't care about that much; as long as he could revive his wife, he would not hesitate to even slaughter this World.
Half an hour later, in a room within the Base, Xu Wenwu brought his wife Yingli's urn and a woman to be used as a sacrifice, as requested by Li Chuan.
The woman was one of the Ten Rings Gang's assassins, and clearly one of those loyal members brainwashed by Xu Wenwu.
Because she was well aware of the sacrifice she was making to revive Xu Wenwu's wife, and she appeared very willing.
She even showed some anticipation, feeling just like those under Orochimaru who willingly offered their bodies to Orochimaru.
Therefore, aside from the power of the Ten Rings, Xu Wenwu's personal charisma and organizational skills were also quite good.
"Just stand there and don't move."
Li Chuan instructed the sacrificial woman to stand in the center of the room, then took out a pre-prepared scroll covered in Ninjutsu formulas, spread it on the ground, grabbed a handful of ashes from Yingli's urn, placed them within the formulas on the scroll, and began to form hand seals:
"Tiger – Snake – Dog – Dragon, Edo Tensei!"
With hands clasped together, as the Ninjutsu was activated, the ashes on the scroll instantly vanished, and a massive Ninjutsu formula spread from the scroll's center towards the sacrificial woman, completely enveloping her.
"Ah!!!"
The sacrificial woman immediately let out a pained scream, as White dust enveloped her from bottom to top, little by little, until she was completely covered. Then, a classical beauty in a green silk dress replaced the sacrificial woman.
However, unlike a normal person, this woman's eyes, from her pupils to her Whites, had turned black.
"Yingli!"
Seeing his wife reappear, Xu Wenwu, who had been standing by the door, not daring to move for fear of disturbing Li Chuan's resurrection ritual, could no longer hold back and rushed forward to embrace Yingli excitedly.
Yingli, on the other hand, looked utterly bewildered:
"Wen Wu, didn't I already die?"
In her last memory, she was in the courtyard, her abdomen pierced by a knife, slowly bleeding to death.
Xu Wenwu remembered Li Chuan's words, temporarily suppressed his excitement, and lied:
"I found a master of sorcery. He used amazing magic to bring you back. This is the Mr. Li."
As he spoke, he pointed to Li Chuan, who, collecting the Edo Tensei scroll, smiled cooperatively.
"Xu Wenwu, you only need to understand one thing: if I wish, I can revoke the resurrection at any time, and then your wife's soul will return to hell."
On the platform of the Base's top floor, Li Chuan reminded Xu Wenwu below after boarding the helicopter.
Xu Wenwu looked at his son and daughter circling his wife, then turned his head, his tone very firm:
"Leader, rest assured, as long as you don't harm them, I will do anything you ask!"
"Very good. The Ten Rings Gang will remain as it is, and you will still be the apparent leader. When there's something I need you to do, I will naturally contact you."
Li Chuan nodded in satisfaction, then took the helicopter back to New York.
For the next period, he did nothing else but settle down at home to accompany Wanda, and in the wardrobe space, he used the Shadow Clone cultivation method to diligently practice various Ninjutsu and forbidden Ninjutsu.
During this time, if there were any side quests with a high cost-performance ratio, such as those that could yield one or two days of Small World time by spending about ten minutes going out, he would occasionally do them.
It wasn't until ten days before the main quest was scheduled to begin that he suddenly received a call from Nick Fury.
"Mr. Li, I have something I'd like your help with. Do you have time?"
"Sorry, I'm busy recently, no time. Hanging up."
When Li Chuan heard Nick Fury asking for his help, he hung up the phone without thinking.
Because he knew what the other party wanted his help with; it was either dealing with HYDRA or dealing with Gamora and Nebula, treating him as a free thug. There was no such good thing.
He wouldn't deal with HYDRA anyway; it was good to let them and S.H.I.E.L.D. wear each other down like this, and they wouldn't come looking for trouble with him.
As for Gamora and Nebula, he was trying his best not to interfere now, as it involved his main quest and a recent verification he was doing regarding a quest.
In fact, Li Chuan had always had a doubt: would the quests that appeared on the panel definitely happen?
Just like this main quest, where the Chitauri army would attack Earth a month later, and he was to use his abilities to eliminate the Chitauri Soldiers.
But if he acquired the Mind Stone and the Tesseract in advance, preventing Gamora and Nebula from opening the spatial portal to let the Chitauri army attack Earth, would the main quest change?
Would the quest simply disappear, or would the quest time extend, or would the Chitauri army still attack Earth on time in various ways, no matter how things changed, as if everything he did was already calculated within various variables, and the outcome would not change?
He also conducted relevant verifications for this, not through the main quest, of course, or if it really disappeared, losing an Immortal Cultivation World would be heartbreaking.
He verified it through side quests.
For example, a few days ago, he received a side quest to put out a Fire, telling him to go to a certain location to put out a Fire three hours later, and then rewarding him with a few hours of Small World time.
At that time, he didn't wait until the last minute as usual; instead, he went as soon as he saw the quest and stayed there for three hours, preventing any potential Fire hazard as soon as it appeared.
The result was that no Fire occurred three hours later, and that side quest also disappeared.
So he guessed that whether it was a main quest or a side quest, they would only happen if he didn't actively interfere. Once he interfered, it was very likely that the quest would disappear.
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