66: This old idiot Gu Yi!

Relax?

How can I relax?!

"You wait a moment, let me recover."

"Was I... robbed by you just now?"

Hearing that, Ancient One smiled and shook her head, denying Joa's statement.

"It's not robbing, it's borrowing. I just borrowed a little bit of your life energy."

Upon hearing this, Joa couldn't hold back.

"Isn't that still robbing?"

"When have you ever returned the energy you borrowed?"

Borrow?

It's a wonder she could even say it.

'Wait!'

'Does this situation mean... I've also become Ancient One's creditor?'

Thinking of this, Joa's heart stirred.

He wanted to try to make Ancient One's hand disappear.

If it worked, it would mean that Ancient One had also become his subordinate, which would be a huge boon.

If not...

Then she was a living ancestor!

He acted on the thought, anyway, Ancient One had fused with the Blacklight Virus, so if a hand was annihilated, she would recover in an instant.

As Joa focused a little.

Ancient One's right hand immediately began to crumble from the fingertips, turning into dust.

'Huh? It worked!'

However, the next moment.

An unknown energy blocked the annihilation process.

'.....'

'Damn it! I'm really fed up with Ancient One, this old schemer!'

'What the hell is this?!'

'She's even better at robbing than I am!'

According to Joa's guess, what blocked the annihilation process should be Ancient One's magic.

'I've become a substitute? Dormammu's substitute?'

Noticing Joa's small movements, Ancient One shook her head and chuckled.

"It seems you still don't believe me."

"I really have no ill intentions."

"If I'm not mistaken, you didn't devour the World you went to last time, did you?"

"And... according to my recent observations, you seem to enjoy life on Earth quite a lot, which is much more benevolent than Dormammu."

"So, I don't mind helping you."

"I think you might need a guide in magic."

Ancient One's words were undeniably sincere.

Joa pondered for a moment, then asked with a puzzled expression.

"What exactly are you doing this for?"

Hearing that, Ancient One smiled and said.

"Ever since you arrived on Earth, a new timeline branch has been created, a new branch centered on the events you've changed."

"The future is blurry..."

"So, I was thinking, if Earth became your private territory, would it be safer, and I could also relax a lot."

"Compared to traveling the known multiverse, a more unknown World is clearly more interesting to me, so..."

Hearing Ancient One's answer, Joa was silent for a long time.

He let out a light breath.

What else could he do?

He couldn't do anything to Ancient One now; if he wanted to get rid of her, he'd have to wait until he devoured and learned to use magic.

But once he learned magic, would he still need to get rid of her?

No longer needed...

Because by then, she wouldn't be able to betray him.

"So... you want to invest in me?"

Joa was saying it nicely; in fact, Ancient One's actions were no different from surrendering.

"Do I need to... address You as the great and supreme black light will?"

Hearing that, Joa smiled.

"Forget it, we'll talk about that title later."

Seeing Joa's attitude, Ancient One also smiled, everything was unsaid.

Now, trust had only been initially established. For Joa to completely trust Ancient One, he would have to wait until Joa learned to use magic and could completely control Ancient One's life and death.

"Can I go to that World and take a look?"

Looking at the space-time gate leading to The Boys world.

Ancient One looked at Joa and asked for his opinion.

"Please do, I still have some things to think about, so I won't accompany you."

Nodding, Ancient One said thanks, and then flew towards The Boys world.

Watching her back, Joa fell into deep thought.

Just now, when Ancient One was absorbing life energy, he felt a very clear loss of life energy from Blacklight Star.

This made him realize a problem.

Conservation of energy.

The stronger an individual's power, the more life energy they can absorb.

He secretly estimated.

'Homelander, Ancient One, and myself, our individual powers have all greatly improved.'

'If you add two hundred Blacklight Warriors, Christine, Polaris, and Jill.'

'The vast life energy of Blacklight Star... at least one-tenth will be consumed.'

'Hiss!'

Such a massive energy consumption made Joa take a sharp breath.

Before, he had wanted tens of millions of Blacklight Life to become little Supermen.

Now it seems that Blacklight Star simply cannot withstand such energy consumption.

The speed at which Blacklight Star acquires and converts life energy from the Universe is too slow, completely insufficient to support Joa's desired consumption.

'Can it only be divided by troop types?'

'Blacklight Life is the lowest-level troop type, with the smallest energy consumption.'

'Above that are Blacklight Warriors?'

'Why does it feel so much like the lord and farming novels I read before transmigration?'

With a chuckle, Joa didn't pay too much attention to this matter.

At worst, he would just devour more Worlds and absorb more life energy.

Anyway, as long as he was on Blacklight Star, he could always strengthen his subordinates.

"Joa, who is that bald person...?"

"You didn't find another woman, did you?"

His thoughts interrupted, Joa opened his eyes and looked at the returning Blacklight Warriors, as well as Christine, Polaris, and Jill.

"Don't be silly, I don't like bald nuns."

"She voluntarily came to me... a rogue bandit?"

"Hmm, that's right."

They looked at each other, Polaris and the others didn't know why Joa called that bald person a rogue bandit.

But since she wasn't Joa's new woman, they didn't want to bother with it anymore.

They skipped the topic and said.

"Why did you call us back?"

"Also, that man in the tight suit you took away earlier, did you let him go?"

Hearing that, Joa explained with a smile.

"Should the people of that Planet become mining slaves, with Blacklight Life as overseers?"

After a slight pause, Jill felt a strange sense of relief in her heart.

Perhaps it was her first time facing something like slaughtering all of humanity, and she was still somewhat unaccustomed to it.

She found it too cruel.

Although the people of that Planet were now going to become mining slaves.

But it was better than dying, wasn't it?

After explaining the situation.

Joa then manipulated Blacklight Star to begin strengthening everyone.

As he expected.

About one-tenth of Blacklight Star's vast life energy was consumed.

"Let's go, to The Boys world."

"Let's conquer it as soon as possible, so we can start mining."

"Homelander alone, no matter how fast he conquers the World, will take four or five days."

"Let's go together, try to finish in half a day, and then go home."

With more than two hundred little Supermen.

They rushed into the space-time gate.

Immediately, Joa ordered everyone to form pairs, centered on New York, and began to launch an attack on the entire World.

As for him, he took Christine, Polaris, and Jill, strolling around as if sightseeing.

Behind them, countless Blacklight Life forms of various shapes and sizes followed.