Underneath the horizon where auroras seem to flow.
After arguing with Star-Lord, Gamora ran out of the room and came here, glimpsing at two dandelion-like plants snuggling together, seemingly emitting a romantic air, finally couldn't hold back and swung her blade.
Crack!
The two dandelion-like plants were instantly cut in half.
If they could speak, they would certainly angrily accuse Gamora.
You argued with your man, why kill us?
Unfortunately...
They cannot speak.
But the sky can speak.
Feeling the buzzing sound seemingly coming from the sky, Gamora quickly got up from the ground and looked towards the horizon from where the sound originated.
In her vision.
A warship was swiftly approaching like a streamer of light.
Inside it, Nebula, piloting the ship, glared at Gamora on the ground, shouted angrily while pulling the trigger of the ship.
In an instant.
Bullets poured densely like a barrage, swiftly covering Gamora.
Gamora's face changed, quickly turning around and sprinting into the distance.
She ran.
Nebula chased.
Hawk watched hidden nearby.
He observed that though he had changed the plot, the sequence was still playing out as originally scripted, making him curious about Nebula's pursuit to kill Gamora on Ego Planet.
Everyone knows.
In the original plot, Star-Lord and others crash-landed on an alien planet after crossing the Quantum Planet Belt and the ship malfunctioned, later followed Ego with Yondu finding them thereafter.
But here.
Star-Lord's Milan, though it lost power, had been repaired by Enterprise.
Logically speaking, even if Rocket and the others left Enterprise last night, there's no reason to revert to the original storyline.
Unless...
Yondu was also searching for Star-Lord?
Thinking of this, Hawk furrowed his brow and listened to the distant playful rumblings of the sisters turning the spaceship into a drill as they chased Gamora, shrugged.
Who cares.
Business is urgent.
Hawk shook his head, abandoning the investigation of why the altered plot reverted to its original, stepped forward, and followed the playful sisters, entering a cave.
The next moment.
As he reappeared, he stood before a hill entirely formed of scattered bones.
In his sight.
The bones were densely packed.
Countless numbers.
But skulls numbered, at least a few million.
All these belonged to Ego's children who, failing to inherit Ego's power, were killed and discarded here.
Everyone knows.
Yondu accepted Ego's commission to retrieve the offspring Ego had spread across the cosmos.
But it wasn't said that Ego only enlisted Yondu for help.
In the cosmos, of all things lacking, there's no shortage of mercenaries driven by money.
And Celestial God, what he doesn't lack is money.
On Sandaar's interstellar black market, a vial of Celestial God's Blood, is worth the value of a spaceship.
Were it not for Hawk possessing the Reality Gemstone, allowing access to any currency needed.
Let's put it this way.
He was nearly tempted.
In short—
Ego is very cruel.
The scene before him was visual impact, even Hawk felt overwhelmed.
After all, Hawk favored gray and left only white, so compared to the sensory impact of this scene, it paled in comparison.
After a glance, Hawk withdrew his gaze.
The next moment.
He vanished again.
When Hawk reappeared, he had arrived inside Ego's Planet, directly before Ego's body.
This was a rusted iron sphere, bound and shackled upon appearance.
From a medical viewpoint, Ego's body resembled a cancer cell.
At this moment, Ego, while leading Star-Lord, was reveling in thoughts of father-son bonding, dominating the cosmos, hence unnoticed himself.
Or perhaps, Ego had become a Celestial God for so long, feeling invincible and lost a warrior's vigilance.
No.
Ego was never a warrior.
Forget it, these no longer matter.
Floating before Ego's body, Hawk, facing Ego's body, released his Seventh Sense, slowly closed his eyes, attempting to comprehend his own Eighth Sense through observing Ego's body!
The essence of the Eighth Sense is the Sense of Life.
Saint Warriors who master the Eighth Sense, control their own life, so their existence doesn't belong to any other entity but only to themselves.
Beyond the Three Realms, not confined to the Five Elements.
Though Hawk's current life, even if dead, belongs to his own Netherworld.
It's because he cheated.
After all, other Golden Saint Warriors, even if they awaken their Seventh Sense, don't have their own Netherworld; their souls still belong to others upon death.
So...
The essence of life in the Eighth Sense is an ultimate form of life governed independently by one's soul, transcending the life and death rules defined by Divine Spirits.
And how to transcend the rules set by Divine Spirits?
It's simple.
You just need to become a god as well.
The Seventh Sense only allowed Hawk to take a step toward becoming a god; only by awakening the Eighth Sense can Hawk truly become a god.
So—
The stone from another mountain can polish jade!
Hawk's Seventh Sense enveloped Ego's being, sitting cross-legged in the air with his eyes closed, using an indescribable feeling to comprehend his own Eighth Sense through Ego's essence.
Time ticked away.
Just as Hawk closed his eyes, sitting cross-legged before Ego's essence, beginning to comprehend the Eighth Sense, the sisters Gamora and Nebula, who had just fought and reunited, arrived at the Skeleton Hill.
Seeing the Skeleton Hill before them, Gamora's expression froze in disbelief.
Most of her body replaced with cold blue mechanical parts, only a small amount of skin left, Nebula watched the Skeleton Hill with a numb expression, seemingly talking to Gamora, but also to herself.
"We need to leave this cursed planet right away."
"Peter!"
Gamora snapped back to reality, quickly turning around and running toward the outside of the cave.
Soon.
After angrily returning, holding Mantis, Gamora finally learned the truth of the Skeleton Hill.
Those bones weren't anyone else's, but Ego's offspring.
It's just that…
None of those descendants could inherit Ego's power, so they were mercilessly killed by Ego and discarded there.
After hearing this, Gamora had only one thought.
"We must find Peter and leave this cursed planet as soon as possible!"
"Ego has probably persuaded Peter to listen to him."
"We should just leave."
Nebula was expressionless.
Gamora decisively refused: "Peter is our friend."
Nebula's expression was pained.
"You only ever scream and shout at each other, you're not friends."
"You're right."
Drax the Destroyer interjected: "We're not friends, we're family, no one can be left out."
Nebula's mechanical eye almost rolled to the sky.
But her opinion didn't matter.
So…
Gamora and the others quickly agreed to first find Peter, and if Peter didn't want to come with them, it would be out of his hands.
However!
Just as they left the room to find Peter, Gamora seemed to remember something, telling the others to go find Peter first, while she quickly ran to the room on the far left and knocked on the door of Hawk and Gwen's room.
"Knock knock knock!"
"...Gamora?"
Gwen opened the door, looking at Gamora standing there.
Gamora was anxious: "Madam Phoenix, this planet is dangerous, we must leave quickly."
Gwen was startled, then smiled and said, "You guys already found out?"
This time it was Gamora's turn to be stunned.
Gwen smiled and said, "I was wondering when you all would find out the truth."
Gamora listened to Gwen's words and reacted.
"Wait, you already knew?"
"Mhm."
Gwen nodded: "Ego's reason for bringing Star-Lord over was just wanting him to become his battery. Ego doesn't have only Star-Lord as a child, but only Star-Lord is the sole heir of his Light of Life."
Gamora opened her mouth.
"You knew it was dangerous, so why did you come?"
"My husband said Ego's essence would have some effect on him, so we came. Besides, who said I was still here?"
Gwen said while smiling.
Then…
Under Gamora's gaze, Gwen, who opened the door, began to appear blurry, and then Gwen's projection, sitting on the captain's chair on the Enterprise bridge, appeared in Gamora's vision.
But Gamora didn't just see Gwen.
She also saw…
"Rocket?"
"Hey, I always said that Ego didn't look like a good guy."
"I am Groot!"
Also appearing in the projection were Rocket Raccoon and the sapling Groot, as well as Yondu and his only surviving subordinate.
Gwen had been transported back to the Enterprise by Hawk when he went to find Ego's essence.
Once again…
Ego might be a Celestial God, but a Celestial God behind closed doors.
It was just now that Gwen saw Yondu's ship jumping from the cosmos and, fearing they would ruin Hawk's plan, had the Enterprise intercept Yondu's ship.
Rocket Raccoon and Groot had already learned the truth about Ego from Yondu.
"Where's Peter?"
"Don't know, we were just about to look."
"No need, I've already located you all."
Gwen spoke to interrupt, then called upon the Enterprise.
"Enterprise."
"Madam."
"Are they all located?"
"Ready to transmit."
"Transport them back."
"Understood!"
"..."
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