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A green light emerged, and time seemed to flow backward.

Thor felt the chaotic divine power surging within him subside instantly. The flesh on his shoulder regenerated rapidly at a visible speed, and the charred skin peeled off like dead skin. The molten metal armor plates also seemed to be reshaped by an invisible hand, returning to their original form without even a scratch.

It only took three seconds.

Thor moved his shoulder; the pain was gone, and his strength had returned. It was as if the fierce battle he had just fought was nothing but a dream.

"What is this?" he couldn't help but ask, his voice filled with confusion. This restorative ability was faster and more thorough than the soul forge of Asgard.

"A little trick." Chu Hang withdrew his hand, not wanting to explain further. "Tell me about that ether particle. Is it still inside Jane's body?"

Thor's face darkened again at the mention of Jane.

“Yes.” He gripped the hammer handle tightly, his voice filled with self-reproach and helplessness. “It’s like a poison, eroding her life. I brought her back to Asgard, but even the best doctors couldn’t help her. They said the ether was transforming her, trying to turn her into… a new vessel.”

"A Reality Gem with self-awareness," Chu Hang thought to himself. This thing is not easy to handle.

It is not simply energy; it is a concept, a rule. It can mold reality itself like clay.

“Take me to see her,” Chu Hang said, his tone leaving no room for argument.

“This is Watt Alheim, the land of the Dark Elves, far from Asgard,” Thor explained. “The Rainbow Bridge is destroyed. We need to find a usable airship first, and then…”

Before he could finish speaking, Chu Hang had already put his hand on his shoulder.

"No need to bother."

Thor felt a blur before his eyes, and the entire world was forcibly torn apart by an irresistible force, twisting into countless chaotic rays of light.

He felt as if his body had been dismantled into its most basic particles and then roughly reassembled. This feeling was ten thousand times worse than riding the Rainbow Bridge.

When he came to his senses, the blinding golden light made him squint. He was already standing in the royal palace of Asgard.

The atmosphere inside the hall was heavy, with a sense of oppression permeating the air.

Odin sat on his throne, his face revealing undisguised exhaustion. Queen Frigg lay beside him on a bed of light, pale and breathing weakly, being carefully tended to by several goddesses.

The surrounding guards, seeing them appear out of thin air, immediately raised their spears, and golden energy gathered at the tips of the spears.

"Step back." Odin's voice was weary, but his authority remained undiminished.

The guards hesitated and retreated to the sides, but their eyes remained fixed on Chu Hang, the uninvited guest.

Odin's single eye was also fixed on Chu Hang. Just now, he felt a savage, primal spatial force tear through the spatial barrier of Asgard. He thought Malekith had used some trump card, but he never expected it to be this Earthling.

"The last time I saw you, the power within you was still very restrained." Odin's voice was low, as if he were talking to himself, or perhaps questioning him. "Now, it's about to overflow. What exactly did you do?"

"Luckily, I learned something new." Chu Hang's gaze swept over Frigga, then looked at the remaining traces of battle on the walls of the hall. "It seems you're in quite a bit of trouble."

“Father!” Thor strode to the throne and knelt on one knee. “Mother…”

"She's fine, just overexerted with divine power and needs rest." Odin finally shifted his gaze from Chu Hang back to his son. "Where's Malekith?"

“He escaped,” Thor said through gritted teeth, “but his army…” He glanced back at Chu Hang, his expression complex, “was dealt with.”

Odin instantly understood. With Chu Hangduo's power, which was almost at the level of a Godfather, dealing with the Dark Legion was naturally a piece of cake.

"I want to see Jane Foster." Chu Hang didn't want to waste time and said directly, "I'm very interested in that thing called Ether."

Odin remained silent for several seconds; the hall was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Finally, he waved to Thor.

"Take him there."

Inside the medical room, a chaotic and violent energy surged forth.

Jane Foster lay on a specially designed energy bed, her brow furrowed, her body twitching slightly from time to time. A dark red, seemingly alive liquid flowed slowly beneath her skin, like tiny snakes.

This energy is extremely unstable, and occasionally a trace will leak out of the body, instantly forming various strange red crystals in the air, and then disappearing silently in the next second.

Subtle, random changes are taking place around her in reality.

Chu Hang stepped forward, stretched out his hand, and hovered it above Jian's forehead without touching her.

He closed his eyes, his consciousness sank into his body, and mobilized all his analytical abilities to begin the analysis.

He could clearly perceive the magical rules contained within the ether particles.

The laws of space and the laws of force allowed him to understand, from a more fundamental level, how this force distorts physical constants.

Soon, he came to a conclusion.

Jane's physical structure is being fundamentally altered. A higher-dimensional energy, a manifestation of the Reality Stone, is irreversibly assimilating into her.

It is rewriting her genes, reshaping her cells, and transforming her from a carbon-based organism into a vessel more suited to the concept of reality.

He could sense that Jane's life and the ether particles were deeply intertwined. If he forcibly copied her now, his [Super Copier] would directly come into contact with "reality," the most fundamental law of the universe. This contact would instantly trigger Jane's "conceptual collapse."

This person will completely disappear from all timelines—past, present, and future.

It's as if it never existed.

Chu Hang opened his eyes and frowned. This was more troublesome than he had expected.

"How is it?" Thor's heart sank as he looked at his expression.

“It’s very tricky,” Chu Hang said frankly. “This thing has already taken her for its new body. To get it out is like taking her apart at the atomic level and then praying that it can be put back together correctly.”

"Then... there's no other way?" Thor's voice trembled.

“There is a way.” Chu Hang’s gaze passed through the window and looked towards the magnificent golden hall in the distance. “But it will take time, and it will also require your father’s cooperation.”

He turned around and strode back to the main hall.

Odin was still waiting for him on his throne, as if he had never moved.

“You have seen it,” Odin said, in a declarative sentence.

"I've seen it." Chu Hang nodded. "It's a hot potato. The risk of safely removing it from that woman's body is too great; you can't do it."

“But you want it,” Odin said, getting straight to the point.

“That’s right.” Chu Hang didn’t hide his purpose. “I like collecting stones.”

“Asgard cannot hold two Infinity Stones at the same time,” Odin immediately refused. The Tesseract (Space Stone) was already there; adding a Reality Stone would be like putting two nuclear bombs in the same powder keg.

“I didn’t say I wanted you to keep it.” Chu Hang smiled, revealing a set of white teeth. “Let’s make a deal. I’ll help you deal with Malekith and his gang of dark elves, once and for all. In return, after we safely extract the Aether from Jane Foster’s body, I can borrow it for a month to study it.”

He held out a finger.

"Just one month. After that, I will return it to you personally. You can hide it wherever you want in the Nine Realms, or give it to whichever collector with a big head you want."

Odin's single eye stared intently at Chu Hang, as if trying to see through his soul.

To send a powerful individual of unknown strength and origin to research one of the most dangerous weapons in the universe is a huge gamble. This person's growth rate is terrifying; no one knows what he will become after obtaining the Reality Stone.

But right now, Asgard is in a terrible state. The Bifrost is gone, Frigga is seriously injured, and Asgard itself is old and its divine power is not what it used to be. Facing Malekith, who is driven by revenge and wields the Aether, they have no absolute certainty of victory.

The power that Chu Hang just displayed is exactly the weapon that Asgard needs most right now.

"What makes you so sure you can take down Malekith?" Odin asked finally, his voice carrying a barely perceptible probing tone.

"Just because I defeated Dormammu's dimensional avatar." Chu Hang's tone was very calm, as if he were talking about a trivial matter.

Odin's single eye narrowed sharply. "It seems he has already reached the level of a Celestial." He naturally knew Dormammu; his dimensional avatar was at least a Celestial-level being. Chu Hang's ability to defeat him already demonstrated his strength.

Thor stood aside, completely bewildered.

"Who is Dormammu? Is he a close relative of slimes?"

Chapter 127 Malekith

Thor didn't understand what Dormammu was, so Odin had to explain it to him:

"The monarch of the Dark Dimension, a pure magical being, lives in the oldest legends."

Being able to defeat even a single clone of that thing means your friend has already stepped into the threshold of the Heavenly Father level.

Heavenly Father level? ??

Thor was completely dumbfounded, looking utterly incredulous.

Odin's gaze lingered on Chu Hang for a long time before he finally nodded slowly.

One word signified that the King of Asgard had agreed to this high-stakes gamble.

“The plan is simple.” Chu Hang held up two fingers. “First, lure Malekith out. Second, make him do it himself and pull the Ether out of Jane’s body.”

"What?!" Thor was the first to jump up. "That's like handing him the weapon! And if we forcibly remove it, Jane will die!"

“Calm down, Your Highness.” Chu Hang glanced at him as if he were a fool. “Who said we should forcibly separate them? I said, let’s go with the flow. Think of Ether as a tenant and Jane as the house. If we try to kick out the tenant, the tenant will tear down the house along with it. But if its old friend, Malekith, calls it home from the outside, it will want to leave on its own.”

He turned to Odin and continued, “When Malekith begins to draw out the aether, the connection between the aether and Jane will temporarily weaken, changing from fusion to transmission. That will be my moment to act. I will act like a knife, slicing between them completely. At the same time, I will lock Jane’s vital signs to prevent her from collapsing. Then, before the aether fully enters Malekith’s body, I will intercept it.”

“The risk is huge,” Odin said. “How can you guarantee you can control the fully formed Aether particles?”

“I can’t control it.” Chu Hang shrugged. “No one can control it. But we can lock it up temporarily.”

He opened his hand, and a semi-transparent spatial cube rotated in his palm.

“A pocket dimension, plus adjustments to the flow of time,” Chu Hang explained, “is enough to keep it locked up for hundreds of years.”

Odin stared at the cube, his expression grave. This was an extremely profound application of the laws of space and time.

"How sure are you?"

“Fifty percent.” Chu Hang put away the cube. “But this is your only choice. Otherwise, you can only watch that Earth woman be devoured and then become a new Malekith.”

Odin remained silent. Fifty percent was an outrageously high figure for a gamble involving the Infinity Stones.

He has no choice.

"Wat Alheim," Chu Hang said. "The Nine Realms are about to merge, and the spatial structure there is the most unstable, which will make it easier for me to take action. Besides, fighting on someone else's turf means I don't have to worry about damaging your plants."

The plan is set.

Thor was extremely unwilling, but he had no choice but to accept it. He went to the dungeon himself and dragged Loki out.

"Where are you taking me, brother?" Loki, in his shackles, wore a fake smile. "To see how your beloved mortal woman dies?"

“Shut up, Loki. Take us to Watt Alheim. You know the secret passage.” Thor’s voice was icy.

"Oh? A plan that even your father doesn't trust, yet you expect me to trust an outsider?" Loki's gaze passed over Thor, looking at Chu Hang not far away. "He seems much more interesting than you. He'll steal your hammer, take your girl, and in the end, you'll be the one clapping for him willingly."

"I said, shut up!" Thor grabbed Loki by the collar, his eyes practically spitting fire.

Chu Hang arrived at Watt Alheim ahead of everyone else through a secret passage.