"Alright, tell me your method."
Tony nodded, accepting the fact that Mandarin 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."
Mandarin informed everyone of everything he knew and his method.
And as Mandarin 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, Rhodey 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 Mandarin 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 Mandarin nor the Eternal, nor the Avengers, knew all of this. So naturally, they wouldn't think as much as Rhodey.
With Mandarin'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," Rhodey asked after Mandarin finished his introduction.
"Ask away," Mandarin nodded. He dared not neglect Rhodey 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 Rhodey 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?" Rhodey 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 Mandarin say that he could extract the Celestial's life energy to revive the dead, Rhodey immediately wondered if this life energy could also be used on living people?
Why did lifespan become humanity's greatest constraint?
Because every day a person lives, their cells consume energy and gradually lose vitality.
Every time a cell divides, it takes another step towards death!
But what if they could slow down the cells' energy consumption?
Or rather;
What if they could double the number of times cells can divide?
Assuming the cells in the human body could be Eternal, wouldn't that mean humans could also be Eternal and immortal?
As for the soul?
That's hard to say.
Humans in the Marvel Universe definitely have souls.
If you don't believe it, you can go to Kamar-Taj and find those sorcerers.
Although not everyone can be like Ancient One, who can slap a person's soul out of their body with one strike, it's believed that Doctor Strange will also be able to do this in the future.
So the existence of the soul has been proven.
Then;
Does the existence of the soul consume energy?
And what kind of energy does it consume?
If the soul also consumes life energy, wouldn't that mean life energy is omnipotent?
Can it truly ensure a person's immortality?
Actually, you can refer to the Eternal for this point.
Because the reason the Eternal possess such longevity is that the Celestials are constantly infusing them with vast amounts of life energy.
Each infusion is enough for them to survive for tens of thousands of years without dying!
Enough for them to complete one mission.
And once the mission is completed, they will be infused with tens of thousands of years' worth of life energy again.
This cycle continues.
The Celestials have gained a group of immortal laborers!
It's enough to make even capitalists kneel and beg for instruction.
What's working for a few decades?
They want you to work for all Eternity, and they don't even pay!
Even satan would have to call them experts.
...
Facing the idea proposed by Rhodey, Mandarin pondered for a moment, then spoke under the expectant gazes of everyone.
"We can try it, but I'm not sure if it will work."
So that means there's a good chance it really will work?
Tony and the others' eyes instantly lit up.
Just now, they were still worried about what to do after they grew old and died.
What if their descendants were not up to par?
Now it's good.
It seems they can also achieve immortality!
Moreover;
Maintaining their immortality would obviously require consuming a large amount of life energy.
This life energy might not be much for beings like the Celestials, as they are constantly absorbing incredibly vast amounts of life energy every moment.