The energy in her hands manipulated the surrounding matter. This time, she directly transformed the wooden staircase into streams of icy water that surged toward Qin Xiao's pillar of fire.
Water and fire were natural opposites. The streams collided with the flames midair, canceling each other out as thick clouds of steam spread between them.
The moment she neutralized Qin Xiao's fire attack, before the woman could react through the dense steam, a sharp burst of wind suddenly rang out.
Qin Xiao's fist tore through the vapor like a cannonball, punching straight toward the woman's head.
He had only used about fifty to sixty percent of his strength in this strike. He was worried that if he hit too hard, he might accidentally kill her before getting any answers.
Unfortunately, when Qin Xiao transmigrated into this world, the Eternals movie hadn't been released yet.
Otherwise, he would never have been this careless.
The punch, which Qin Xiao believed could stop a speeding truck dead in its tracks, was casually caught in the woman's palm with one hand.
Aside from a sharp bang, the attack achieved absolutely nothing.
Her arm remained perfectly straight without even showing signs of strain, as though the punch was completely insignificant to her.
"How is this possible…"
Ever since arriving in the Marvel universe, Qin Xiao had always dominated his enemies through sheer combat power.
This was the first time he had encountered someone who surpassed him in raw strength.
Unwilling to accept it, Qin Xiao roared angrily and pulled back his fist.
This time, he gathered all of his strength and threw a full-power punch directly at the woman.
She still made no attempt to dodge. Instead, she tilted her head slightly as though pondering something.
Just before Qin Xiao's fist landed, she casually punched back.
The instant their fists collided, Qin Xiao felt as though he had been struck head-on by a locomotive.
His entire arm went numb and weak. In terms of strength, he had been utterly overwhelmed.
Yet the woman's smaller fist didn't stop there. It forced Qin Xiao's entire arm backward with overwhelming power.
Then her fist opened into a palm and slammed directly into Qin Xiao's chest.
Qin Xiao was launched into the air and sent flying toward the doorway.
But before he could even crash out of the house, the door and nearby furniture suddenly transformed into a thick metal wall.
The massive impact smashed Qin Xiao's back deep into the metal surface, leaving a huge dent behind him.
His internal organs trembled violently.
He had clearly suffered internal injuries.
Although the damage itself wasn't serious to Qin Xiao, the power of this Eternal was simply terrifying.
As Qin Xiao collapsed onto the floor, the woman's energy spread like creeping vines, extending toward him.
It wrapped tightly around his body, binding him layer after layer at least seven or eight times.
The energy was unbelievably tough. Qin Xiao tried to struggle free, but with his current strength, he couldn't break it at all.
Just as the woman slowly walked toward him—
The system's voice suddenly exploded inside his mind.
Why "exploded"?
Because it sounded like this:
"Warning! Warning! The Eternal before you possesses Heavenly Father–level power. Recommend immediate retreat! Return only after becoming stronger!"
"You son of a— couldn't you have warned me before I got beaten half to death?!"
Qin Xiao roared furiously in his mind.
He had assumed this world didn't contain any top-tier powerhouses.
Instead, he had accidentally stepped into a high-level endgame dungeon.
At that moment, Qin Xiao remembered the theories many fans had discussed before he transmigrated.
Some people claimed Thanos himself was also an Eternal.
Qin Xiao still didn't know whether that was true, but judging purely by strength, the woman before him absolutely possessed power on the level of Thanos.
His anger didn't affect the system at all.
"Please remain calm. I am merely a system, not a Dragon Ball power scanner or a game wallhack. I do not possess the ability to instantly determine an opponent's strength."
Qin Xiao was so angry he wanted to curse.
But now wasn't the time to argue with the system.
He immediately shouted in his mind:
"Can't you see I'm tied up?! I can't escape! Stop talking nonsense and tell me something useful!"
The system replied calmly:
"Please mind your language. The moment this system detected the opponent's combat power, it immediately began warning the host. It was the host who kept talking, otherwise this system would have already provided a solution."
"Emergency response plan as follows: Because the host has not remained in this world for the required fifteen days, the system will deduct 200 points to perform an emergency dimensional transfer.Agree: say '1.'Disagree: terminate this conversation."
"I'll f—! 1! 1! 1!"
Qin Xiao genuinely wanted to curse the system out, but the woman had already reached him.
He could only frantically shout "1" in his mind.
"Emergency plan activated. Congratulations, host. This is a wise choice.As the saying goes, a gentleman can wait ten years for revenge. Your inability to defeat her is only temporary. With this system's assistance, you will soon return stronger and claim your revenge."
The system rambled on for a while longer, but just before the woman could crouch down and reach toward Qin Xiao—
His body suddenly dissolved into countless particles of light and vanished from sight.
Returning from Hong Kong to New York looked like crossing half the globe.
In reality, Qin Xiao had crossed an entirely different world.
Taking a deep breath, he began recalling everything he knew about the Eternals from his previous life.
Unlike the comic version, the movie-universe Eternals were not humans genetically modified by the Celestials.
Instead, they were a group of advanced beings who arrived on ancient Earth from another planet.
They taught humanity writing, agriculture, and countless other skills.
To ancient humans, they appeared as prophets, guides, and even gods.
Possessing eternal life, they had hidden among human society for thousands of years, rarely interfering with mankind's development.
There was also another theory:
The Eternals themselves had enemies.
The Celestials had supposedly created two races, and the Eternals who came to Earth may simply have been fleeing from their foes.
Helping humanity was merely incidental.
Their refusal to interfere with human affairs might have stemmed from fear that their enemies had also arrived on Earth and that revealing themselves would expose their location.
But regardless of their true motives, hidden agendas, or whatever agreements they might have made with the TVA across different timelines—
None of that mattered to Qin Xiao right now.
What mattered was becoming stronger.
Only by continuing through the storylines, earning points, and increasing his power would he have a chance to avenge today's humiliation.
And only then could he gradually uncover the true secrets hidden between the timelines.
After being taught a harsh lesson in ruthlessness by Dreykov before—
Qin Xiao had now learned another brutal lesson from the Eternals: the difference in power.
Just because he was a transmigrator with a system didn't mean he was invincible.
Whether in mindset or strength, growth had to happen step by step.
Only then could he someday stand proudly above the countless mysterious powers scattered throughout the Marvel universe.
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