Hawk stood only ten steps away from the Eighth Sense.
Transcendence was imminent!
Once he defined his own life as 'unique', his life would fundamentally transform, completely transcending the Main Multiverse.
This was something the Cosmos itself could not accept.
Similarly.
This was also what the Celestial God Team, responsible for maintaining the time order of the Main Multiverse, did not wish to see.
If the Cosmos were likened to a prison, then Hawk would be the prisoner preparing to escape.
The Cosmos itself is the warden.
The Celestial God Team are the guards.
As everyone knows.
The warden doesn't want to see prisoners escape, but the guards are even more unwilling to see a prisoner break out.
This is the relationship between the Cosmos itself and the Celestial God Team.
This is why Hawk focused his attention on Gwen with the Celestial God Team.
However...
As Hawk listened to the explanation from the six-barrel Celestial God Calculator Erebus before him, a trace of confusion flickered in his double pupils.
"You cannot stop my transcendence."
"Nor can you kill me."
"So... you choose to slow me down?"
Hawk spoke in an inexplicable tone, then looked at Calculator Erebus with an equally inexplicable gaze: "Using the lives of your entire race as the cost, merely to slow me down?"
What is this?
Choosing early death and transcendence over surrendering halfway or fleeing far away?
In such a hurry to die?
Thoughts turned in Hawk's mind as he shook his head and glanced at his daughter Jean, then at Calculator Erebus: "Since you know I won't compromise, why did you bring my daughter here? You might as well exile her to some Multiverse I can't reach for now."
Beside him, Wanda listened to Hawk's words and instinctively looked at him.
Hawk's face was expressionless.
He never yielded to threats.
Mephisto tried to threaten him with his sister; he did not comply.
Celestial God Griss tried to threaten him with his wife; he did not comply either.
And now?
He still wouldn't compromise.
Clang!
A Phoenix projection appeared behind Hawk, perched atop a sycamore tree, with energy released from the explosion of the Phoenix Cosmos continuously enhancing Hawk's power that was being oppressed by this Cosmos.
Feeling Hawk's resistance and thinking Hawk was once again seeking transcendence, the Cosmos instinctively let out another roar.
Great sound has no voice.
"Roar!"
"Get lost!"
Hawk's voice was thunderous, clashing with the instinctive roar of this Cosmos: "I swear by the name of Phoenix, I will not transcend here, but if you dare to suppress me again, when I transcend, that will be the moment of your Cosmos's obliteration!"
In an instant.
The roar of the Cosmos instinct vanished.
Similarly.
The limitless suppression on Hawk from all directions disappeared without a trace.
After all, the words spoken by gods are not mere words, but divine decrees.
The warden and guards may seem to be on the same side, but their demands are different.
In a word.
The warden seeks stability, as long as his prison does not experience an escape incident.
So when assured Hawk will not transcend in his Cosmos, naturally, the Cosmos instinct ceased to suppress Hawk.
But the demands of the guards, also known as the Celestial God Team, differ.
They have only one demand.
No transcendence is allowed, because every transcendence is, from a certain perspective, chipping away at the foundation of the Main Multiverse.
More precisely, it's undermining the foundation of Eternal.
This is something the Celestial God Team, created to guard, absolutely cannot allow, as their duty is to oversee prisoners across all Cosmos.
Thus...
As long as Hawk doesn't transcend here or plunder its origin, the Cosmos remains indifferent, but the Celestial God Team does not.
They will fight to the bitter end.
However, after Hawk made his vow, the Cosmos withdrew its suppression but still conveyed a message to Hawk.
He must leave this Cosmos soon, or else the comprehensive suppression will return.
Hawk chose to ignore it.
Boom!
With Fire Phoenix spreading its wings behind Hawk, the scene of Little Cosmos exploding unfolded, Hawk's aura instantly surged through the portal of life, that is the Eighth Sense, supported briefly by the Holy Armor and the explosion of Little Cosmos.
In the next second.
Hawk's figure vanished on the spot, his cold voice echoed through the Cosmos.
"Die!"
Bang!
Like a cosmic giant, the Celestial God Team member Calculator Erebus loomed in the starry sky, suddenly feeling his massive head burst open from front to back. Then he saw a golden light and heard the cold voice resonating in his ears.
He instinctively raised his enormous right hand, seemingly capable of gripping the Moon, felt the large crater on his forehead, as if left by a comet colliding with Earth. The six-barrel light on his head flickered, gradually dimmed until it extinguished completely, and then just like Celestial God Griss, his massive head drooped down like a machine on low power.
Simultaneously.
Jean, seemingly hovering in front of Celestial God Erebus's head, also began to blur at the instant of Celestial God Erebus's power-down, until she vanished completely.
Wanda watched this scene, her heart tightening!
"Jean!"
"Jean never even arrived in this Universe from the start."
"What?"
Wanda looked at Hawk, who had returned to her side, and urgently asked, "Where did Jean go?"
Hawk's Holy Armor dissolved and merged into the Fire Phoenix on the sycamore tree, as he looked at the second Celestial God skeleton on the Milky Way Galaxy: "Like Gwen, probably some Multiverse."
Wanda's expression showed a hint of panic upon hearing this, but she quickly calmed down.
"Wait a minute, if he knows you won't be coerced, why put on such a show?"
"Just like he said just now..."
Hawk looked at the gigantic corpse of the Celestial God Erebus nearby and chuckled: "To delay my transcendence, I suppose."
Wanda listened to this statement, feeling somewhat confused.
However, just as she was about to continue asking questions, suddenly a cold yet lazy voice emerged.
Wanda turned towards the direction of the voice.
In her view.
Death abruptly appeared atop the low-hanging head of the Celestial God Erebus, bent over, opened its right hand, and gently blew a breath.
The next moment.
The soul of the Celestial God Erebus appeared in Death's palm, originally a gigantic figure, now standing on Death's hand, looking up at Death, who seemed to overshadow the entire world, and knelt on one knee.
"Master."
"Now you belong to me."
Death closed its hand, then smiled slightly, casually throwing the newly created Death Dimension and the newly born Lord of Death Erebus into a Multiverse bubble that appeared in the blink of an eye: "Go help me maintain soul operation."
After completing all this, Death lazily looked at Hawk.
"Eternal's slaves have left here."
"From the looks of it, they're quite afraid of you."
"Ha."
Hawk coldly laughed: "If they're really afraid of me, they shouldn't keep provoking me."
Death shrugged: "Fearing you is instinct, stopping you is their job."
Hawk raised an eyebrow.
Death smiled and said: "Don't get the wrong idea, I'm not speaking for them, they're not my slaves."
Hawk smiled silently, saying nothing.
Wanda, however, looked at the suddenly appearing Death, frowning: "Do you know they sent my daughter to that Multiverse?"
Death looked at the speaking Wanda, its eyes brightened.
The next second.
Death shook its head.
"I am the abstraction of all souls. If you ask me where Pietro's soul is, I can tell you, but for Jean's soul, I don't know."
"Why?"
"Because your daughter's soul is not under my control."
Death spoke lazily, then looked at Hawk: "Or, if you transfer Jean's soul to me, I can immediately tell you, your daughter has been thrown by the Celestial God Team to that universe."
Four eyes met.
Death smiled.
Hawk also smiled.
"No, thank you."
"..."
Give Jean's soul to Death?
Ha.
Does he look that stupid?
If Jean's soul is given to Death, whether or not Death would tell him where Jean escaped to in the Multiverse, one thing is for certain: retrieving Jean's soul from Death would not be as easy as snatching his sister Anya's soul from Mephisto.
The most important thing.
Hawk calmly looked at the appearing Death: "The Celestial God Team didn't actually catch Jean, right."
Wanda standing beside him was slightly stunned upon hearing this: "What?"
Death shrugged.
"I don't know."
"Ha ha."
Hawk chuckled, then felt Wanda's piercing gaze beside him and looked at her: "The Celestial God Erebus did go to my cosmos, as well as the skies above West View Town, but he did not capture Jean, or should I say, he caught Jean, but in the process of traversing the Multiverse, she seized the opportunity to escape."
That's why, even when his daughter was still in the hands of the Celestial God Erebus, he directly intervened without hesitation.
The projection ability of the Celestial God Erebus was high enough that even Wanda couldn't spot any flaws.
But Hawk could see through it.
Because the Jean created by the Celestial God Erebus lacked life in Hawk's view.
Phoenix Fire symbolizes the Fire of Life; just like Death can instantly see whether someone has a soul, Hawk similarly can see if something possesses life.
But indeed, the Celestial God Erebus went to capture Jean.
Yet...
He succeeded and also failed; Jean likely escaped from the Celestial God Erebus's grasp during the traversal process. This also explains why the time stream suddenly resonated between the Parallel Cosmos and the Multiverse.
Death listened to Hawk's hypothesis, its hollow eyes flickering with brilliance.
"You are very clever, Phoenix."
"Thanks."
"So where is Jean now?"
Wanda only cared about one thing amidst all this.
Her daughter, where had Jean gone?
Hawk smiled.
"Probably accidentally got lost in some Multiverse."
"But don't worry."
"I will find her."
"..."