Hongjun is not the Heavenly Dao.
The Heavenly Dao is Hongjun!
The Hawk of the Multiverse is not Hawk.
But are these Hawks the Hawk?
Hawk watched as the spectacle of being absorbed unfolded, thereby strengthening his Time Galaxy, his gaze and thoughts constantly flickering.
And just at the moment when the time of Hawk from this Cosmos converged with his own time stream, a resonant sound from deep within his soul echoed through his entire mind with a Duang.
The next second.
His Little Cosmos, which had already expanded to the brink of expansion, once again began to expand at this moment.
But this time it was not expanding towards the void.
Instead—
It was expanding parallelly.
It seemed at this moment, a universe parallel to Hawk's Phoenix Golden Little Cosmos began to take shape, and the pinnacle strength that Hawk originally estimated would take about a month and a half to recover after landing was rapidly shortened.
One month!
In just one month, the Power of the Golden Wutong Tree Phoenix Little Cosmos at his full peak would completely arrive in this universe.
The most crucial point.
At this moment, Hawk felt a relaxation from deep within his soul.
Put simply.
Previously, he had to close his eyes and spend some time to reappear before the portal of the Eighth Sense of Life.
But now, he felt he only needed to close his eyes, and he could appear before the portal of the Eighth Sense of Life without needing to do anything.
Simply put—
His life's foundation has been strengthened!
"So..."
"Is this the reason why the Conqueror Kang wants to eliminate other Kangs in the Multiverse?"
"No, that's not right."
"Other Kangs and the Conqueror Kang are fundamentally different."
"But Hawk..."
"Their essence ultimately comes back to himself."
Hawk's thoughts spun rapidly.
How to say it.
To put it pictorially, Hawk has always been just one person.
That is, him.
The transmigrator Hawk who awakened memories of his past life.
But during the traversal process, his soul was torn apart, which is why he didn't awaken the memories of his past life from birth, but only did so when he was sent to the church and felt a life-threatening crisis for the first time, crying out loud, which caused the church to open its doors.
After all, it was snowing heavily that day.
If he hadn't awakened his past life memories in time and cried out loud to get the church to open its doors, he probably would have frozen to death on the spot.
Perhaps his mother, secretly watching, would have taken them back if the church hadn't opened its doors.
But...
Back then, Hawk didn't know that he had awakened his past life memories in a life-and-death crisis.
But his soul was injured and torn apart during the traversal process. Although more Hawk in the Multiverse were merely Hawk and fundamentally different from him, there were still some Hawks whose essence was indeed him.
The way to distinguish is simple.
It's well known.
The Marvel Cosmos is not unfamiliar to Hawk, and those Hawks whose essence is part of his soul also have some memories of the Marvel Cosmos more or less in their minds.
Just like the Hawk in this universe.
He is just a 'part of Hawk's soul', knowing some things about the Marvel Cosmos, but not much.
And after Hawk descended this day, with the manifestation of the 'Golden Wutong Tree Phoenix Little Cosmos,' this part of the soul naturally returned to Hawk himself.
You could say!
This universe's Hawk is not him, but he is this universe's Hawk.
A clone?
Hawk wondered, feeling his life's foundation strengthened after reclaiming this part of the soul, and then opened his eyes in reality again.
Once more.
Although in the Time Galaxy, it seemed he had stayed for a long time, but in reality, it was only a blink of an eye.
Only...
When Hawk opened his eyes again, looking at his sister Anya, who was watching him with vigilance and anger, his eyes were complex but his expression calm as he once again said,
"Long time no see, Anya!"
"..."
Quickly turning her thoughts, wondering which bastard dared to impersonate her brother, Anya froze upon hearing Hawk's words, her eyes widening as she looked at the Hawk in front of her.
Anya's gaze and expression constantly shifted.
The next second.
Her expression turned incredulous.
"Wait, you are not..."
"When we were at Saint Paul's Cathedral..."
"When we were at 'Sweet Home'..."
"When you were ten and hospitalized, the doctor said..."
"..."
Hawk, who fully absorbed the partial soul memories of this universe, looked at Anya intently, recounting incident after incident that only the siblings knew.
As Hawk recounted, Anya's expression gradually changed.
When Hawk finished speaking.
"Brother!"
Anya no longer doubted, exclaiming, then with a thud, like a rocket headbutt, she rushed into Hawk's embrace.
This time, Hawk didn't hesitate and tightly held Anya, who had plunged into his embrace.
After all...
The Anya in front of him is indeed his sister.
Genuine, without a doubt.
Hawk lowered his gaze, gently stroking Anya's hair, and said softly, "I'm back."
The version of himself in this world is already dead.
Cause of death...
The Mind Gemstone.
At the age of ten in this world, when Anya was gravely ill, in order to ensure she could undergo the then most advanced and expensive heart repair surgery, he went to the military base in Jersey City and found Dr. Anim Zola, who was asleep there at the time.
After a series of operations, his sister Anya received comprehensive medical assistance, but the price was that the two of them joined Hydra.
This is also why Anya here is so adept with fists, daggers, and guns.
When Hydra obtained the Mind Gemstone, they were very curious about how the information in this world's Hawk's mind came about, so Hawk went to Strucker's Hydra Base in Sokovia.
Then...
The Avengers attacked. When Strucker tried to stop the running Mind Gemstone, an accidental explosion occurred, fusing this world's Hawk with the Mind Gemstone, turning him into the so-called 'Mind Warrior'!
Hawk had already guessed the reason for the fusion.
After all, this world's Hawk was merely a part of his soul, invisible to the soul but damaged in the mind, therefore could fuse with the Mind Gemstone.
This world's version of him replaced Vision.
Then Thanos arrived, forcibly gouging the Mind Gemstone out of his forehead.
Hawk recalled the pain of Thanos extracting the Mind Gemstone from him and involuntarily touched his forehead.
After all!
It hurt.
Really hurt.
Right at this moment.
Anya, who had jumped into Hawk's arms and was hugging him tightly, looked up with tearful eyes: "Brother, you just now..."
Hawk came back to his senses, looking down, locking eyes with his sister Anya: "It's a long story."
Upon hearing this, Anya brightly smiled.
"We have a lot of time now, right?"
"...Yes, indeed."
Hawk looked at Anya's smile, pondered, and nodded: "Alright, let's go home, and I'll tell you everything."
Anya left Hawk's embrace with a radiant smile, and then the siblings, hand in hand, returned to the house at Palm Street No. 521A.
Meanwhile, as Hawk and Anya are playing out the 'siblings reunion' scene.
In front of a house in the Brooklyn District.
Ant-Man, Scott Lang, who had hustled on foot and freeloaded on a bus, finally arrived at the house of his ex-wife in Brooklyn.
Scott instinctively touched his nose, appeared at the door, then through the door, he looked inside at a figure, his spirit was jolted, and he quickly knocked on the door.
"Knock knock knock!"
"..."
Inside the house, Cassie Lang heard the knocking, instinctively looked toward the door, and then her figure froze in place. Continuing as if she saw something incredible, she took steps one by one, which gradually increased in speed toward the door.
The door opened.
Their eyes met.
Just like Anya seeing Hawk, Cassie's face was full of disbelief as she instinctively reached out to touch Scott standing in front of her. After confirming he really existed, her voice trembled.
"Daddy?"
"Cassie?"
Scott also looked at her incredulously, seeing his daughter, who was just a little girl before he entered the Quantum Realm but now has grown into a lovely young lady, his mouth opened, instinctively pulling his daughter into his arms, then as if remembering something, he forced a smile that looked worse than crying.
"You've grown so much."
"Haha!"
Cassie laughed too.
But the smile also looked worse than crying.
The next second.
The father and daughter embraced once more at the house door.
After a while.
After the reunion, Cassie Lang had a lot to say to her father, looking incredulously at Scott: "Daddy, weren't you supposed to disappear during the Blip?"
Scott sat on the sofa, looking at his daughter who handed him a glass of water: "Before the Blip, Hope, Hank, and I were conducting an experiment in the Quantum Realm. When Thanos snapped his fingers, I wasn't on Earth, I was in the Quantum Realm."
Cassie frowned.
"Daddy, you stayed in the Quantum Realm for five whole years?"
"No."
Scott shook his head, meeting his daughter Cassie's gaze: "In the Quantum Realm, the flow of time is different. In the Quantum Realm, only five hours passed."
Cassie widened her eyes.
"Five hours?"
"Yes."
"..."
Cassie sat down on the sofa silently, looking at Scott, hugging him again: "No matter what, Daddy, I'm glad you're okay. They all said you vanished during the Blip."
Scott held Cassie, then slightly stunned.
"They? Who are they?"
"Captain, Black Widow..."
"Wait."
Scott's eyes lit up, looking at Cassie: "Is the Captain still alive?"
"Yes, after the Blip, the surviving Avengers were at the Avengers Mansion... Wait, where are you going, Daddy?"
Cassie nodded; she was halfway through her speech when Scott, realizing something, ran towards the door making her call out instinctively.
Scott pushed the door open without looking back.
"I think I might know a way to bring back those who vanished. I'll go find the Captain first."
"..."