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Different from what was depicted in the original work.
Because of Fang Mo, Star-Lord had long known about Ego's purpose.
So even though Ego racked his brains to deceive him, he ultimately failed and even let Star-Lord know the truth about his mother's death.
That is, as Fang Mo said, Ego feared that he would be lost in the gentle township of love and delay his grand plan of seeding, so he cruelly created a malignant tumor in Meredith's brain, Star-Lord's mother, and then left Earth forever.
It was this brain cancer that caused Star-Lord's mother to leave the world early.
However, Meredith, even though she was seriously ill, did not blame Ego. Instead, she always told Star-Lord that his father came from the stars.
Honestly, when Peter Quill heard Ego personally admit this, his rationality was instantly consumed by rage. His mother trusted this man so much, yet he killed her with his own hands. This was absolutely intolerable for him, so he drew his weapon and attacked.
But Ego is after all a living planet.
An ancient celestial.
Quill's attacks only dispersed his human form.
But soon, the particles on this planet recondensed into Ego's form, and the ground began to shake as several light tendrils emerged from the ground, attempting to attack Quill.
Ego probably knew that he couldn't deceive Quill anymore.
So he simply dropped the pretense and stopped playing any father-son games with Star-Lord.
The tendrils quickly entwined Quill, trying to capture him and transform him into a celestial battery to provide energy for Ego's expansion.
But with Fang Mo's prior warning, Quill was prepared.
Seeing that he could not overpower his enemy, he immediately shot the temple's dome and used his star jetpack to escape, hoping to meet up with his companions.
But when he found everyone.
He discovered that everyone was actually watching Fang Mo sleep.
Yes, Mantis and Supreme Intelligence's joint effort was quite effective. Fang Mo, although still asleep, did not have a blank expression like before but instead had a peaceful smile.
But Star-Lord didn't understand any of these.
Now that the celestial Ego was preparing to make his move on everyone, he subconsciously wanted to quickly wake Fang Mo.
But he had just taken a step forward when Rocket Raccoon and Drax quickly pulled him back, and even Groot stood in front of him, putting a finger to his lips, signaling him not to wake Fang Mo.
Of course, Star-Lord didn't understand what was going on.
After all, in Avengers 3, he was the tough one who dared to wake Thanos from a hypnotic state with a punch.
So, Star-Lord immediately said to everyone: "Don't stop me, Ego is already going crazy. We are now enemies with this planet under our feet, I don't think we can be enemies with a celestial... hurry up and let me wake this demon god."
"Sorry, I don't allow you to wake the master."
Just then, the Snow Queen stood in front of Star-Lord.
With a gesture, the ice magic sword Rahab flew into her hand. With a light flick, the western sword's blade turned into a bone-chilling ice whip, instantly dropping the room's temperature by several tens of degrees, and unknowingly a thin layer of frost covered everything.
Drax, who was bare-chested, immediately shivered from the cold.
"I advise you better not go over." Seeing this, Drax quickly cautioned Star-Lord: "She doesn't look easy to provoke, my spear is frozen stiff..."
"I'm thankful my fur is thick enough."
Rocket Raccoon also whispered: "Quill, believe me, you didn't see what just happened. If you wake Fang Mo now, I guarantee you'll be crushed into an unrecognizable mess by his morning anger, then be revived by him and continue to be beaten until his anger subsides..."
"What should we do then?"
Quill was also getting anxious. Normally, he might jest when encountering a beautiful girl like the Snow Queen, but in this critical moment, he was in no mood for it: "Are we supposed to deal with an entire planet by ourselves? Are you guys crazy?"
"What else can we do?"
Rocket Raccoon shrugged, "As you've seen, Fang Mo's little maid won't let us wake him up, so we have no choice but to bite the bullet and deal with Ego... At least until he wakes up."
"No."
Drax shook his head, correcting: "Until Ego wakes him up with the noise…"
"I am Groot. (I think this planet is in big trouble.)"
Groot couldn't help but speak up.
"I am Groot. (I think this damn planet is about to be screwed!)" Groot's bristly grandson echoed, though perhaps in slightly cruder terms.
"This might be the craziest thing I've ever done..."
After hearing everyone's opinion, Star-Lord sighed helplessly: "Alright, let's get moving…"
Just then, the entire sleeping palace began to shake.
Ah Xue reacted the fastest, instantly thrusting her Rahab Sword into the ground. Extreme cold poured into the earth, freezing the floor of the entire sleeping palace into solid ice.
The next second, several dull thuds came from underground.
It was as if something was trying to burrow out but was blocked by the layer of ice.
"It's his tentacles."
Star-Lord immediately realized, but before he could draw his pistol, suddenly a slab of ice flew straight towards him, knocking him flying.
"Sorry, if you want to fight, please leave here first." The Snow Queen, with both hands on her sword's hilt, was enveloped in cold air, looking somewhat aloof: "Don't disturb the master's dreams."
"Aren't you going to help us?"
Rocket Raccoon asked while running away.
"My entire existence is to protect my master, as he trusts me so much," the Snow Queen lightly chuckled at Rocket Raccoon, "Of course, if possible, I will lend you a hand, fuzzy little one... Can I pet you afterwards?"
"You better make yourself warm then."
Rocket Raccoon shrugged at this point, "I don't want to become an ice sculpture..."
After saying that, he rushed out of the sleeping chamber with the others.
As they left, the Snow Queen exerted her power again, with Rahab Sword aiding her with her extreme cold magic. A massive ice barrier began to form, enveloping the entire sleeping palace.
Meanwhile, the Guardians of the Galaxy engaged in battle with Ego.
Rocket Raccoon, armed with two high-powered energy guns, roared and fired, his physical condition far superior to before. He deftly avoided the tentacles' attacks while precisely annihilating the light tentacles.
Groot transformed into his King Tree form, his height of tens of meters like a gray-white statue, fighting alongside his spiky-headed grandson, smashing and tearing apart tentacles.
Even Drax swung his frying pan mightily, smashing the tentacles into bits.
But still...
Ego is an ancient celestial being.
Usually, to maintain the stability of the planet's environment, most of his power is dormant, using only a few energy tentacles or controlling an avatar or something.
But now, Quill's actions have thoroughly enraged him.
The whole planet began to shake, the clear sky instantly clouded over with thunder rumbling in the clouds, the ground cracking into thousands of deep valleys, grass and trees, all disguises were torn away by him in an instant, replaced by brown-red barren rock.
A tentacle suddenly stretched out from a fissure, nearly a hundred meters thick and tens of kilometers long, looking like a continuous mountain range from afar.
Just by swinging, it could destroy countless ships and warships.
But this was just the beginning.
Following the first one, quickly a second, a third, countless light tentacles emerged from the fissures. The planet, which looked like paradise, turned into a lifeless hell in an instant.
Everywhere were ugly, rugged brown-red rocks, the sky filled with endless thunder.
The ground cracked nearly a thousand kilometers, filled with pale, reflective, eerie material, countless light tentacles stretching out from the fissures, twisting wildly on the planet's surface without any pattern.
"Are you fucking sure we can fight this thing!?" Quill, seeing this, could hardly hold it together and yelled at Rocket Raccoon: "We can't even deal with one of them!"
"Aren't you his son?" Rocket Raccoon was also a bit panicked now, knowing they would all die if any of those tentacles hit them: "Your blood also has the celestial's power, theoretically, you should be able to use the same abilities as him, right? Then hurry up and think of something with your celestial bloodline... Shit! That tentacle is coming down!!!"
"At most, I can only muster a ball!" Star-Lord dodged and shouted, "To do something like him, I'd need millions of years!"
"How the fuck did I end up with such a lousy teammate!"
Rocket Raccoon quickly pressed his jetpack, desperately trying to dodge the giant tentacle, but when it really fell, they realized it was all in vain.
The tentacle's diameter alone was over a hundred meters.
What does that mean? If a floor is about three meters high, the diameter of this tentacle would be as tall as a thirty-story building - and that's just the diameter.
As for the length of this tentacle... it was tens of kilometers.
A cheetah has to run for half an hour to get from the base to the tip of a tentacle, yet in reality, it's impossible for a cheetah to run that long.
And such sky-blocking tentacles.
There are tens of thousands of them stretching out on this planet.
This is a despairing number. At this moment, Star-Lord and others look up to see the whole world is white. A few tentacles slap down, truly blocking out the sky, and they can't even see a bit of the dome of the sky. The terrifying sense of oppression almost drives people mad.
Even Rocket Raccoon is beginning to accept reality.
It's a complete dead end, so he subconsciously closes his eyes.
However, at this moment, the whole world seems to pause for a moment, followed by a heart-throbbing breath that suddenly sweeps across the land.
That breath carries indescribable chaos, distortion, hatred, madness, and despair, like an invisible viscous slime bubbling up from the deepest abyss, carrying the most vicious and ugly negative emotions in the universe, exploding like a nuclear bomb at this moment.
The people don't even have time to feel anything before they all lose consciousness.