In front of Superman, you have no choice but to give yourself to a little girl.

Wayne put down his half-finished tea. "Even the Sorcerer Supreme can't solve this problem?"

The Ancient One gave a wry smile, "The Time Stone has its limits."

The Time Stone's main ability lies in manipulating the flow of time rather than rewriting established reality. It's like a player that can pause, fast forward, rewind, and loop in certain parts, but it cannot directly edit the already recorded master tape.

You can use it to see fourteen million possible futures, but you can't use it to change the major facts that have already happened. More likely, you'll create another timeline, and messing around with it could even create a worse situation.

To put it simply, the Time Stone cannot "overwrite" or extend into another timeline to completely modify the timeline, and the Ancient One also cannot use it to change the timeline back.

"Mr. Scott, the ripples of cause and effect caused by the modifications of the past will eventually have an impact on the present."

Gu Yi frowned slightly as he explained the impact of this event to Wayne, "Everything on Earth, including your family, and even the entire universe, will be affected."

Upon hearing this, Wayne nodded thoughtfully.

Seeing this, Gu Yi's face lit up with joy. "You agree?"

No, I refuse.

Why?

"Because I like to say no to people."

It's just a matter of reversing cause and effect; Wayne could do it. So now he'd rather see the usually composed Ancient One show an expression of incomprehension.

After a brief moment of losing control of her expression, Gu Yi quickly regained her composure and began to patiently persuade the other party.

"Mr. Scott, to be honest, I can't solve this problem. In fact, you're the only person I can think of and find in this universe... If you agree to help, not only me, but Kamar-Taj will also do everything in its power to repay your favor."

So here's the question: if the Ancient One couldn't do it, does that mean Eternity can't?

That is definitely achievable. Even if it's not the eternal essence, but the eternal branch of a single universe, it is indeed possible to reconstruct the time structure of the entire universe if a sufficient price is paid.

So… “What about eternity?”

Wayne rested his chin on his left hand, toyed with the empty teacup in his right, and looked up to meet Gu Yi's gaze.

Gu Yi was not surprised that Wayne knew about the existence of Eternity, but she still didn't know how to say it for the time being.

As soon as she noticed the timeline had been altered, she immediately found the branch of this universe called Eternity.

And if even she could notice something, then Eternal could certainly not miss it.

But what the Ancient One found hard to believe was that Eternity sensed the timeline being altered because of a very special energy from outside the multiverse.

He couldn't see who was using that energy; the other party was hiding themselves. But if it really was them, then not only would his branch be eternal, but even his main body would have a headache forever.

The problem is that the entity only modified the timeline of this universe and did not affect other universes. The entity itself does not care about the existence or demise of a universe and will not interfere at all.

Fortunately, Branch Eternity wasn't entirely helpless—it could still discern something about that energy, but it truly couldn't see through the presence of that capital M on its chest.

Therefore, the branch Eternal had the Ancient One trick Wayne into helping them.

Although He couldn't see through this guy with the big M on his chest, He had a feeling that going all in was definitely the right move! He was betting that Wayne was as complicated as He thought, and betting that the user of that energy wasn't them!

If you win the bet, you'll draw the legendary gold! If you lose, the universe will be gone, and Eternity, which is like the physical embodiment of the universe, will also perish!

(Eternity: My life is probably worth a universe! I'm all in! I'm betting my entire fortune on you!)

With a flash of recollection in her eyes, the Ancient One slowly shook her head. "He will help us."

When she said this, the Ancient One seemed a little unsure of herself, because it was as if she was saying that eternity couldn't solve the problem either. Would Wayne then be even more reluctant to help because of that?

However, to her surprise, Wayne didn't panic when he heard this. Instead, he got excited, and his expression changed from "What a trivial matter" to "This is interesting."

"Alright, since you've put it that way, if I don't help you, you'll probably have to hide away and waste your precious pearls."

"What did you say?"

"I said, I'll help you with this. Superman loves helping others, understand?"

"But you weren't like that in the first place..."

"If you say another word, I'm leaving."

"Superman really loves helping others!"

Without further ado, Gu Yi snapped her fingers, and the surrounding scenery rapidly changed—they seemed to appear in an academy.

Wayne realized that these were all illusions, probably some kind of illusory projection magic, but the projected academy and the students here were all lifelike.

"Welcome to Xavier Academy for Gifted Youngsters."

"X-Men?"

"You've heard of it? That makes things much simpler."

With a wave of her right hand, the scene shifted back to an indoor setting, where several figures in battle suits appeared: Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, Beast... "But they were all destroyed."

With a snap of his fingers, all the other figures vanished, leaving only one person standing in place—with flowing red hair, beautiful blue-green eyes, delicate features, and an elegant demeanor. Her tall and well-proportioned figure was outlined in perfect curves by her battle suit.

"The power of the Phoenix?"

Wayne recognized who this person was and guessed why the Ancient One had shown him this.

"Her name is Jean Grey, a member of the X-Men, and the host of the Phoenix Force shard."

The Ancient One gently exhaled a breath, which was like blowing up a flame that burned everything around it—accompanied by a phoenix cry, her wings, which blotted out the sky, flapped and stirred up flames that burned the universe, and her two phoenix eyes, like the sun, looked down at Wayne.

Wayne glanced at it casually, not paying much attention.

Even if it really came, your Uncle Aimu could just step on it with his left foot and use a superhuman belief boosted to treat it like a Fiji Cup. With both sides showing their genitals, who knows who will scare whom? Besides, this is just a fake one.

"The Phoenix Force is the most fearsome existence in the multiverse."

"It was born at the beginning of all things, a chaotic yet immortal, eternal yet impermanent existence, the embodiment of the primordial life and spiritual power of the universe."

"But for various reasons, the Phoenix Force is no longer complete and has been scattered into fragments throughout the multiverse."

The Ancient One projected Jean's phantom again, but this time Jean seemed to be in a berserk state, "and the fragments of the Phoenix Force in this universe are on her."