Thor stepped forward at this moment, speaking in an almost smug tone.
Even if Thor didn’t intend it, in Star-Lord’s eyes, there was an air of condescension in his words.
Yet, he had no way of determining whether Thor’s words were true or false.
After all, the news about his unseen father had come from these people, and now he couldn’t refute anything.
"Maybe you can ask him directly later; I don’t think he’d bother to lie to you..."
Tao Yu chuckled, while Thanos’s ship was already heading toward Ego’s planet.
It was a rather obscure location, where few people ventured. But since Yongdu had been trading with Ego for such a long time, he knew the place well...
Inside a golden, egg-shaped spacecraft, Ego’s avatar slowly opened his eyes.
At the same time, a beautiful woman with two antennae on her head withdrew her hand from his temples.
"Oh, I have a feeling, something good seems about to happen."
Waking up, Ego gazed at the starry sky outside the spacecraft, his eyes profound.
Lady Mantis, who assisted Ego with his sleep, gave a small bow, handed him his robe, and spoke.
"You slept for a day and a night last time."
Lady Mantis’s tone was rather calm, as her job involved using her hypnotism ability to aid Ego’s sleep.
Constantly using her talents on a Divine Spirit like Ego had sharpened Lady Mantis’s racial talent to an extremely high level.
Even beings like Ego and Thanos could potentially be controlled temporarily by her.
"I have a premonition; the child I’ve been searching for will soon arrive. Now, we return..."
There was a hint of happiness in Ego’s voice.
Ego was not the same as the Celestial Gods of the Celestial Group. He was merely a starry sky brain that unexpectedly gained self-will upon birth.
Over time, he accumulated and condensed until he became planet-sized, endowed with unparalleled divine power and sheer mass.
However, Ego’s will was relatively weak, unable to fully harness this immense power. As a result, he couldn’t control his main body for rapid movement.
Thus, he had to create this avatar to venture out and accomplish his plans and arrangements.
If this avatar traveled too far from the main body or stayed away for too long, it would cause him headaches, necessitating Lady Mantis’s racial talents for support.
"To evoke such a feeling in me, this must not be an ordinary offspring. Could it be you, Peter..."
Ego’s gaze deepened. He held true feelings for Star-Lord’s mother, but for that very reason, he had returned to Earth and personally killed her!
Even someone as strong as Odin needed to enter Odin’s Sleep periodically to regulate the divine power within himself due to his unwilling will.
Ego’s will was far inferior to Odin’s, yet he possessed an immense mass. He was determined to continuously sow seeds across the universe, searching for a suitable descendant to serve as a vessel for his divided power.
A living battery, so he could escape his current limitations.
Beneath his true form, the remains of numerous offspring lay scattered, all of whom had failed.
But he had a premonition that this child, Peter, would undoubtedly succeed...
A magnificent planet appeared on the screens of ’Sanctuary II,’ Thanos’s flagship.
The planet’s description of "magnificent" was no exaggeration, as seen from space, it was dazzlingly colorful.
Each region was meticulously planned, and the sight from afar carried an atmosphere of tranquility, as if it were an idyllic paradise.
"Is this his planet?"
Star-Lord stared at the screen, momentarily lost.
From the look of his residence, there seemed to be no trace of the terrible villain described in everyone’s words!
Yet his mother was a matter touching upon Star-Lord’s inverse scale, so until things were certain, he wouldn’t voice any protests.
Right now, he was impatient to meet Ego face-to-face and ask everything clearly!
Tao Yu raised an eyebrow as he looked at the picturesque planet ahead.
"Indeed, purely in terms of mass, it’s overwhelmingly mighty—a planetary scale that I can’t compare to."
At the same time, he could sense the relatively scattered will emanating from that planet, struggling just to maintain cohesion, with even moving through the starry expanse being a strenuous endeavor.
Power without mastery—no matter how great the strength...
"Well, being excessively strong can still be useful, in its own way."
Tao Yu recalled his battle with Dormammu, where sheer strength at an extreme level could indeed "prove the way through force."
Breaking the universe’s limits, transcending restrictions, even the strongest rule-based abilities would crumble before such power.
"But alas, Ego hasn’t reached that level yet. Though I cannot fully utilize rules-based powers outside, in this world, I can disregard his altogether..."
Tao Yu turned the Infinity Gauntlet on his hand.
Just like certain Saintly Positions or Catastrophe Level entities limited to specific locales, Tao Yu believed that relying on the Infinite Gems, he had tremendous home-field advantage in the Marvel World.
The pity was, worlds like these were hard to lure people into under normal circumstances.
"But I must remain cautious. As my visible strength and status grow, any schemer might use similar means to lure me into another’s home-field..."
Tao Yu had divination but knew it wasn’t omnipotent.
As he pondered this, a golden, egg-shaped spacecraft emerged from the planet below, ascending to space orbit and stopping before ’Sanctuary II.’