Despite having his upper body pierced by the vine, Logan's expression remained unchanged, as if he had long become accustomed to this level of pain. He reluctantly extended his left hand with the steel claws and delivered a forceful blow, severing the tough vine with a single swipe.
*Pū Tong!*
Logan knelt down on both knees, retracting the other hand with the claws and forcefully pulling out the segment of vine left in his body, accompanied by a large amount of blood splattering on the ground, leaving a transparent bloody hole in his chest.
Severely malnourished, even the self-healing factor's effectiveness in healing wounds had become extremely slow.
"Logan!" Quill was about to approach and help Logan up, but as he took a step forward, Logan weakly waved his hand to stop him and hoarsely said, "Don't mind me, hurry, get out of here..."
"Darn it." Quill clenched his fists, without thinking too much, turned around, and rushed towards the side wall.
"Trying to escape?"
Ego waved his hands, and suddenly the entire cave trembled. The roots, vines, soil, and rocks in the cave all seemed to come alive, wrapping around Quill's body.
"Woooow!" Quill exclaimed as a blue energy shield appeared around him, like a protective barrier, automatically repelling everything before it could reach him.
Taking advantage of Ego's momentary distraction, Quill took one last look at Logan and then plunged into the wall, swiftly creating a path upwards and fleeing.
"I didn't expect you to somewhat grasp the power of the Celestial so quickly. You truly are my descendant. But this entire planet is my true body. Where do you think you can escape to?" Ego coldly smirked and, ignoring the severely injured Logan, followed Quill's escape route towards the surface.
In the grand hall of the garden palace on the ground floor.
Quill, who had escaped from the cave, was desperately running towards the door, intending to reach the garden outside and activate his Interstellar fighter to escape from this cursed place.
*Rumble!*
As the floor in front of him cracked and collapsed, Ego burst out from the ground, blocking Quill's path.
"Listen to me, Quill. You and I can join forces and become the true masters of this galaxy..."
Ego still wanted to try to persuade, but Quill didn't hesitate at all. He drew the laser pistols from his waist and, facing his biological father Ego, pulled the trigger, unleashing a series of intense shots.
The concentrated beams of laser hit Ego's body, causing some parts to burst and disintegrate instantly, revealing only a pure blue energy framework inside, with no actual flesh and blood.
It turned out that Ego's true body was a living planet, and humanoid forms like humans were just incarnations created through the power of the Celestial.
There were thousands of similar humanoid incarnations, used to break through the barrier of lifeform isolation and continuously mate to produce offspring with the power of the Celestial.
In other words, the damage and death of Ego's incarnations could not directly affect his planetary true body.
"You killed my mother, you damn alien!" Quill aimed the guns, staring coldly at Ego's decaying humanoid form.
"I created you!" Ego angrily shifted his appearance, and his feet transformed into energy streams resembling lightning, descending layer by layer, connecting to the central hub of his planetary true body.
The earth trembled slightly, and Quill, with some awareness, turned back, but it was ultimately too late. A massive and terrifying surge of energy formed a gigantic spike, ruthlessly piercing through Quill's body from behind, lifting him off the ground.
"Human beings are indeed lowly lifeforms. If not for you, the only one among many descendants with the inheritance of the Celestial gene, you would only be fit to become my nutrient like those lowly lifeforms!"
"And Yondu, I provided him with resources to create the Ravager fleet. He only needed to help me bring the descendants here. But unexpectedly, Yondu saved you and delayed me for more than a decade!"
Ego's voice echoed in the palace hall.
Using the power of his true body, he repaired the humanoid incarnation, manipulated the rampant energy flow in the hall, and suspended Quill in mid-air, grinning grimly, "But now, you will obediently become a power source for me to use the power of the Celestial!"
"Aaaaaahhhhhhh!" Quill let out a fierce scream as the power of the Celestial surged through him, forcibly extracted by Ego's energy spike, and assimilated as his own.
Ego's face lit up with satisfaction as he could clearly feel the continuous influx of energy, breaking through the bottleneck of his Celestial power that had been previously limited. Finally, he had enough energy to give birth to the Celestial seeds planted on thousands of life-bearing planets.
Devouring the entire universe was just a thought away!
"I am... the Celestial!" Ego's smile had not fully formed when suddenly, the top floor of the palace ruptured with a deafening roar. In his widened eyes, a small Interstellar fighter crash-landed in the palace hall, pulverizing his humanoid form into dust!
The uncontrolled energy spike dispersed, causing Quill to fall from the sky and crash onto the ground. Just as he was getting up, holding his wound, he looked up and saw the cockpit of the Spaceship opening.
A bald man with deep blue skin stepped out and snorted at Quill. "You, lad, without saying a word, just came here to die! Have you ever asked for my opinion? I'm your guardian, you know?"
"Yondu." Seeing the newcomer, Quill felt a warmth in his heart. Suddenly, he realized that he might not be without family after all.
"We need to get out of here quickly!" Yondu looked around solemnly. The palace was crumbling, the earth was shaking, and energy was rampaging everywhere. This was a sign of Ego's impending revival.
"No, we can't." Quill shook his head and said quickly, "The moment I awakened the power of the Celestial, I sensed that Ego had his brain centered in the core of the planet! We must kill him to prevent him from continuing to harm the universe!"
Yondu looked at him seriously and questioned, "With our strength, how can we kill a living planet?"
"At least let me rescue Logan from underground."
Quill struggled to activate the power of the Celestial, making contact with the surface of the hall. Just as his consciousness began to penetrate slightly downward, the chaotic energy and vibrations in the hall suddenly stopped.
"Did you do this?" Yondu asked inexplicably.
"Of course... not." Quill was equally surprised, and then the expression on his face became strange.
Continuing to probe downwards, he sensed something astonishing and exclaimed, "There's an external invasion, continuously digging and breaking through to the depths of the planet from another location. Ego is concentrating his efforts to deal with it..."
While Yondu was still puzzled, Quill excitedly exclaimed, "It's Kyle! Besides him, no one can make Ego so cautious and ignore us here!"
Just as he said, at this moment, deep beneath the surface of Ego's planet.
Kyle, glowing with colorful flames and with his fists clenched, flew at the speed of light, continuously blasting through the earth and digging deeper underground.
(End of this chapter)
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