Actually, he was generally happy with this result.
This was because it meant that the panel's tasks were not absolute and could be altered by his interference; otherwise, if a task with an unfavorable predetermined outcome suddenly appeared one day, it would be very bad.
For example, if a task suddenly appeared stating that Wanda must die, and he was told to prepare for her demise.
If the tasks couldn't be changed by his interference, it would mean that no matter what he did, Wanda would die, and he could only despairingly await the outcome.
However, if they could be changed through interference, he could proactively intervene in the development of events based on the situation, preventing Wanda's death, and thus making the task disappear, which could even serve as a warning.
Of course, there were also downsides, just like now, he didn't dare to interfere with Gamora and Nebula too much.
Otherwise, with his current strength and influence, he could easily find Gamora and Nebula's whereabouts and forcefully seize the Mind Stone and the Tesseract from them.
He could also extract some intelligence about Thanos from Gamora and Nebula to prepare for the future.
With the Mind Stone and the Tesseract, he could decide when to allow the Chitauri army to invade Earth, completely eliminating any rush.
The result of him doing this now might be the main task directly disappearing, a Small World of cultivation that he had finally waited for disappearing, and he wouldn't know what kind of World the next main task would involve, nor when it would appear.
So, apart from occasionally doing some side tasks, he focused solely on cultivating Ninjutsu and magic at home.
Meanwhile, inside the S.H.I.E.L.D. temporary Base, the Helicarrier, Nick Fury couldn't help but twitch his mouth as he looked at the disconnected call.
Since becoming the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., it was the first time someone dared to hang up on him like that.
However, even so, he could only endure it. If this were in the past, he would have long since secretly controlled Li Chuan and his wife, Wanda, these two dangerous magic-users, using various methods.
But clearly, that wouldn't work now. Not only could he not do that, but he also had to find a way to bring this couple into his own camp.
Because restarting Project Pegasus to acquire the Tesseract's power to create energy weapons led to the appearance of two ill-intentioned aliens, who not only took the Tesseract but also controlled some excellent Agents and scientists, led by Hawkeye Barton.
Now, he had to contend with HYDRA on one hand, and on the other, he had to find a way to reclaim the Tesseract and thwart the two aliens' conspiracy, truly feeling overwhelmed.
For HYDRA, he sought help from his friend Maria Rambeau, whom he had met during the Kree invasion, and who was also the founder of the Sentient Weapon Observation and Response Department, or S.W.O.R.D..
He also dispatched Ava Starr, an unexpected product of the 'Goliath' project, a girl who gained the ability to alter her molecular structure due to a Quantum Realm experiment accident.
She was also an excellent Agent he secretly trained, codenamed 'Ghost'.
With the cooperation of both sides, they finally managed to temporarily suppress HYDRA's arrogance, especially the Winter Soldier who had assassinated him three times.
As for the two aliens, his original plan was to have Tony Stark, Li Chuan who seemed to know the two aliens' secrets, and Black Widow in charge.
Although Tony Stark was very wary of them, he was still willing to help in such a major matter, so he sent the good-tempered Coulson to gently persuade him.
And Black Widow was already his Agent; one order was enough.
The last one, and the one he found most troublesome, was Li Chuan, a seemingly benevolent philanthropist and entrepreneur, but actually a cunning, ruthless, and opportunistic individual.
So he personally made the call and prepared very favorable terms for the transaction, but who knew that the other party didn't even give him a chance to negotiate before hanging up.
"Natasha, your relationship with Li Chuan's wife seems good. Go and try to persuade him to help."
Nick Fury pondered for a moment, then used his communicator to summon Black Widow.
The two aliens seemed to carry machines much more advanced than Earth's, which led to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s usually infallible satellite search failing to find their trace even now.
So he was now concentrating all possible forces, because if the two aliens really brought an alien army to Earth using the Tesseract, as Li Chuan said.
Then at least they would need to have the power to fight back.
This was the worst-case scenario; the best would be to find the two aliens beforehand and prevent them from summoning an alien army.
He had a deep understanding of the aliens' power. When the Kree Empire's fleet arrived above Earth, if Captain Marvel Carol Danvers hadn't scared them away by herself, Earth would have been doomed.
Even with Earth's current technology, he didn't believe it could withstand the powerful Kree Empire's Universe fleet at that time.
This was also why he was enthusiastic about the Avengers Initiative.
Because Captain Marvel made him realize that for Earth to contend with the vast civilizations and forces in the Universe, it would be impossible without tens of thousands of years of development; only Super Heroes could bridge the huge gap in civilization levels to protect Earth.
Of course, these were Super Heroes who were obedient, orderly, and acted according to his rules; uncontrolled Super Heroes were also a threat.
The next day, in the wardrobe space.
Li Chuan fluidly carved five special jutsu with the character 'Explode' on a large square yellow paper, then formed the Explosion Fire Release hand signs and slowly pressed them into the paper.
"Boom!"
However, the Explosion Fire Release suddenly exploded halfway through, sending Li Chuan flying and tumbling several times in the air before he landed.
"This Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags Technique is indeed not easy to draw!"
Li Chuan flipped over and stood up, then took out his elder wand and cast a Healing Charm on himself, and then took out another square paper, continuing to carefully repeat the previous operation.
As expected, he was blown away again.
The Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags Technique, a super destructive Ninjutsu invented by the Second Hokage within the Sealing Jutsu scroll.
Unlike regular Exploding Tags which can only explode once when hand signs are formed, the Multiple Mutual Exploding Tags continuously summons new Exploding Tags for fixed-point explosions when hand signs are formed and released, one becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight, stacking infinitely.
The explosion range and power also increase with time, stopping only when the caster dispels the jutsu or the target of the explosion dies.
Because this explosion doesn't distinguish between friend and foe, under normal circumstances, if the caster and teammates aren't fast enough, they will be blown up along with the enemy, so it was classified as a forbidden jutsu and placed in the Sealing Jutsu scroll.
Li Chuan had been studying this powerful Ninjutsu recently, but it was clearly not as easy as he had imagined.
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