"Thor, calm down! You can't beat him!" Tony Stark warned urgently. "And if you ask him directly, you might die!"
Everyone knew not to reveal the diary's existence to Lin Feng, lest they perish.
Even without the Diary System's constraints, Thor's current strength lagged at least one level behind Lin Feng's. A real fight would be utterly futile and potentially fatal.
"Of course I'm not going to fight him!" Thor replied with a wry smile.
He was acutely aware of his inferiority to Lin Feng. The latter's power was growing daily, a fact he could sense himself, no need for others to tell him.
Since fusing with the War Godhood, Lin Feng's strength had truly been increasing by the day.
"Remember how you said we could try to get him to reveal it through indirect methods? That's what I'm planning! I'll have my father help me forge Stormbreaker when I get back. I refuse to believe there isn't another way!" Thor declared.
Only then did the others understand Thor's strategy, which seemed like a remarkably good plan.
Thor didn't delay, immediately summoning the Bifrost to return to Asgard.
"No matter how many times I see it, I still think it's incredibly convenient!" Tony Stark exclaimed.
If they were to normally travel to Asgard, Earth's current capabilities would make it nearly impossible. Yet Thor could come and go as he pleased.
When he thought about how the mages could draw a circle and instantly appear or disappear, his envy intensified.
*What kind of divine transportation is this?*
After recording his daily log, Lin Feng solemnly washed his hands.
Time was running out; he had to get something good from the draw.
Though the War Godhood had been steadily increasing his power, he still felt his strength was far from sufficient. He couldn't guarantee he'd reach the Celestial Father-level before Thanos's invasion.
*What if Thanos snaps and wipes us all out? What if Tony and the others can't defeat him in a few years? What would I do then?*
After all, Doctor Strange had said that out of 14,000,000 futures, only one ended in success. It was clear that without him, Tony and the others stood little chance.
With the timeline now in such a chaotic state, how could he possibly relax?
"Lottery draw," Lin Feng commanded. The lottery wheel spun, finally coming to a stop after a moment.
When the pointer settled, it pointed to a single result.
Congratulations, Host, on obtaining the Homelander Advanced Template.
As the system's voice echoed, Lin Feng's eyes lit up.
He had finally drawn the Homelander template again.
And this time, it was the advanced version.
He had broken through to the intermediate template through his own efforts, but now the system was providing a crucial assist at the critical moment.
"Host, would you like to integrate the template?" the system asked.
"Integrate!"
Lin Feng replied swiftly. Moments later, he watched a ball of light merge into his body.
Immediately, he felt every cell in his body swell and boil, a surge of power remaking his very essence.
After an indeterminate period, the transformation finally ceased.
Now, he felt his strength had taken a massive leap forward.
A monumental leap!
He could now faintly sense a boundary, a ceiling, blocking further progress.
Yes, he could clearly feel a ceiling blocking him from breaking through to the next level.
Lin Feng immediately summoned his resident scientific team to conduct a comprehensive examination.
Homelander's enhancements were primarily physical.
Lin Feng's scientific team was stunned, their eyes wide as they stared at the data he had collected.
Ivan Vanko, in particular, had already considered Lin Feng's strength comparable to Superman's.
But now, he realized he had underestimated him.
In just a short time, his power had surged dramatically.
Ivan Vanko scanned the data, nearly having a heart attack. For instance, Lin Feng's speed had improved. Previously, running a hundred meters in under a second had been absurdly fast, but now he could exceed Mach 2.
His flight speed, heat vision temperature, physical durability—everything had undergone a revolutionary transformation.
"God among men!" was the only thought that remained in Ivan Vanko's mind after reviewing the data.
He didn't dare to act rashly. Ever since Lin Feng had taken him on as a researcher, he had abandoned all his schemes.
He was certain that even with control of his entire army of combat robots, he couldn't defeat Lin Feng.
Now, it was even more impossible.
A combat robot worth millions or tens of millions of dollars would instantly explode under Lin Feng's heat vision, lasting less than a second.
Lin Feng could even smash them to pieces with sheer speed.
Such power could only be described as godlike.
In fact, their team had been collecting data on other superheroes and supervillains. Even Thor, who was clearly established as a god, didn't come close to the levels Lin Feng was currently displaying, based on the available data.
Not to mention, Lin Feng also possessed miraculous magical abilities. He had witnessed this firsthand multiple times, and he never hid it from the core team members.
Now that even the core team's scientists viewed Lin Feng as a god, his abilities were no different from a god descending to Earth.
Especially with Thor's existence, everyone realized that gods didn't possess the omnipotent powers described in myths and legends. By this standard, Lin Feng was indeed a god among men, far surpassing Thor.
Lin Feng soon obtained the various data. After reviewing them, he saw that after integrating the Homelander's advanced template, his physical attributes had increased severalfold compared to his original state.
Yet he still felt a ceiling.
"I wonder how I can transcend the Celestial Father-level," Lin Feng mused. Suddenly, a figure came to mind: the Ancient One.
This was truly a Celestial Father-level being.
He immediately tore open a dimensional rift and arrived at the gates of Kamar-Taj. Without entering, he waited for a moment. Soon, Baron Mordo emerged, glancing at Lin Feng with a puzzled expression.
Kamar-Taj wasn't completely isolated; it had internet and Wi-Fi. Of course, given the state of infrastructure in South Asia, one shouldn't expect too much.
Still, it was easy enough to recognize Lin Feng as the super-rich magnate.
Mordo should have known Lin Feng already, but he had been away on a mission recently. Otherwise, this wouldn't be Lin Feng's first visit.
"Mr. Lin, the Supreme Sorcerer is waiting for you. Please follow me."
Without further ado, Baron Mordo led Lin Feng inside.
"Good morning, Mr. Lin!" Gu Yi, holding a teapot, poured him a cup of tea. "Are you here to borrow more texts again?"
Lin Feng had been borrowing texts frequently lately, so she wasn't surprised.
After taking a sip, Lin Feng replied, "This is excellent tea. But I'm not here to borrow texts today. I wanted to ask the Supreme Sorcerer how to break through the Celestial Father-level ceiling."
"You've reached this point already?" Gu Yi was stunned, glancing at Lin Feng with disbelief.
She had spent decades, painstakingly exploring and breaking through barriers, to reach this point—the ceiling of the Celestial Father-level. By any measure, this was an incredibly rapid pace.
Yet Lin Feng had achieved this in just a few years.
From when he first learned magic, or rather, from when he became a superhero, only a few years had passed.
"Yes, I stumbled upon this point by accident," Lin Feng nodded. He knew that without the System, he would likely never have reached this stage so easily.
He deeply respected Ancient One for opening Kamar-Taj's resources to him.
"But couldn't the Supreme Sorcerer have seen this with the Time Stone?" Lin Feng asked.
"The Time Stone has been useless for a long time," Ancient One replied, her gaze fixed on him. "Since you became Homelander, the timeline has become completely chaotic. You weren't even in the timeline I originally saw. Do you understand? The Time Stone has lost its ability to observe the future in my hands."
"So that's how it is," Lin Feng said, a hint of wistfulness in his voice.
He had originally wanted to ask the Ancient One if she could use the Time Stone to view the future, hoping to learn from her future self's approach. With so many timelines, surely at least one of his future selves had successfully broken through to the Celestial Father-level. He wanted to borrow that future self's perspective.
Borrowing his own perspective, that shouldn't count as plagiarism, right?
But to his surprise, he was told that the future had become unobservable, once again shrouded in chaos.
*This timeline is truly special,* Lin Feng mused.
This timeline not only contained him, an outsider from another dimension, but also Spider-Woman Gwen, Wonder Woman Diana, and the God of War Ares. It was clearly no longer a normal timeline derived from the Sacred Timeline.
"Though I cannot see the future, I may still have some insights that could prove useful to you, Mr. Lin," the Ancient One continued.
"Please share your wisdom, Supreme Sorcerer," Lin Feng said quickly.
"A cultivator seeks to understand the source and refine their life essence. Reaching the Celestial Father-level is indeed a major threshold," the Ancient One explained. "The specific path varies from person to person. For instance, I ascended through the path of magic. The physical body is like a fleeting cloud to me. I reached the Celestial Father-level on a soul level, so even if my physical body were destroyed, it would merely be a change in my mode of existence."
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