Marvel Infinite Power Chapter 159

“No, I was meditating!”

Opening his eyes, Lu Yi spoke indifferently.

“Is there a difference?”

“Yes, the difference is that meditation and healing are completely different, and there’s nothing that could hurt my body so much that I can’t recover now!”

Strictly speaking, Lu Yi’s body had actually recovered long ago. With his recovery ability, ordinary injuries simply couldn’t linger on his body for long.

The inability to use magic now was partly because the previous backlash sealed his magic power, and partly because Lu Yi had no way to restore his magic power, or the things that blocked it.

This wasn’t an injury, but more like a curse or an inevitable consequence. What was on Ancient One’s body wasn’t strictly an injury either; Ancient One had probably anticipated this herself.

“An hour has passed, it’s time for me to leave!”

Lu Yi said, then prepared to open a spatial gate and return to his residence.

“Wait a moment!” Before Lu Yi could open the spatial gate, Ancient One spoke.

“What is it?”

“Before you go, I have a question I want to ask you!”

“What question?” Lu Yi wasn’t in a hurry to leave. He stopped the process of opening the spatial gate and asked Ancient One.

“What’s wrong with my body? Why is it so weak?”

During the past hour, Ancient One had tried to recover her body, but the results were not perfect.

She tried for an hour, attempting to restore her body, but each time it was useless. Her body remained weak, with no signs of recovery, which made an ominous premonition rise in her heart.

Therefore, after an hour, she asked Lu Yi for the reason.

“It seems you’ve discovered it!”

Although Lu Yi didn’t say anything constructive, he indirectly confirmed her guess, which made a chill rise from the depths of her heart.

“That terrifying existence absorbed my time, didn’t it?” Ancient One recalled the previous light and shadow, remained silent for a long time, then spoke.

“That’s right! Those who toy with time will surely be toyed with by time. Your current situation perfectly illustrates this point!”

The cloaked figure was the embodiment of time. Ancient One had toyed with time, so as punishment, she naturally needed a time-related penalty.

In the end, what the cloaked figure absorbed from Ancient One was nothing else but time, Ancient One’s time.

The existence of time was very mysterious. With Ancient One’s time absorbed, how could she possibly recover?

“Is there any way to resolve this situation?”

“Time is not so easily dealt with, and the damage caused by time even more so!”

“Can life span offset this damage?” Ancient One thought for a moment and asked.

“Life span is life span, and time is time. Life span cannot be used as time, and time cannot be used as life span. A person only has so much time! Life span can be replenished with life force, but how can time be?”

Don’t be fooled by how long Ancient One has lived; that was all sustained by Dormammu’s power. This wasn’t her own time; her actual time was only a mere hundred years or so.

The cloaked existence absorbed the latter half of Ancient One’s time. Although she still maintained vitality and was alive, in reality, she now had no time left; she should already be a dead person.

It was precisely for this reason that she felt weak.

“Am I a living dead now? Is that right?”

“Yes, you are indeed a living dead now!”

“Is that really how it is?” Ancient One fell silent.

Being a living dead was not easy, especially one rejected by time.

After a long silence, Ancient One asked again, “Is there any way to reverse this situation?”

“There is a way, and that is to reclaim your time from that existence, but this is basically impossible, because there is almost nothing that can bind it or even harm it, let alone reclaim your time from it!”

“So, I can only continue to be this weak?”

“Hmm, and as time passes, your feeling of weakness will continuously increase. The solution is practically nonexistent. Perhaps I can give you a method of drinking poison to quench thirst.”

“What method?” Ancient One asked impatiently.

“Plunder others’ time!” Lu Yi said coldly.

“Plunder others’ time?”

Ancient One immediately understood what this meant upon hearing it. Her expression, which hadn’t changed even when she knew she would remain weak, now shifted.

Ancient One was not a person who adhered strictly to rules, which could be seen from her theft of Dormammu’s power.

However, when she heard about stealing others’ time, she couldn’t help but change her expression. It wasn’t because she thought it wasn’t a good thing, but because she was afraid she wouldn’t be able to resist the temptation and act, ultimately not knowing what she would become.

Some things were addictive. The more a method was like drinking poison to quench thirst, the more it often brought about huge side effects, even addiction. She could see this from many such methods.

“This method of drinking poison to quench thirst is not a good method, but it is currently the only way to relieve your weakness. Whether you can do it, whether you are willing to do it, is entirely up to you!”

“I understand!”

She said so, but no one knew what Ancient One was thinking in her heart.

Lu Yi didn’t know either, but he didn’t care at all. Whether Ancient One was willing to do it or not, it meant nothing to Lu Yi; he didn’t care.

He merely provided a possibility, just to test if Ancient One would become corrupted.

Whatever happened, it didn’t matter to Lu Yi.

Having done all this, Lu Yi didn’t continue. He rotated his arm, opened a spatial gate in front of him, and stepped inside.

All of this was commonplace in Lu Yi’s eyes, but in Ancient One’s eyes, it was nothing short of a huge shock.

“Just an hour, and he actually learned to teleport, without even using an auxiliary ring!” Ancient One said worriedly.