Bai Qi originally wanted to dispatch two fleets simultaneously, one to Xandar to reap benefits and the other to search for the Collector, Taneleer Tivan.
However, Bai Qi's large-scale fleet movements when absorbing the energy of two Infinity Stones had already alerted Savage.
Bai Qi's primary reason for delaying the fleet's arrival was to avoid attracting Savage's attention. After all, among the Illuminati, Bai Qi had the closest working relationship with Savage. But as mentioned before, their relationship was merely cooperative, a mutually beneficial partnership.
If Savage were to discover that he was secretly absorbing the energy of Infinity Stones, who could guarantee that this old scoundrel wouldn't cause more trouble to keep him in check?
This time, Bai Qi could only play it safe and dispatch a single fleet to Xandar to seek the Power Stone.
While Bai Qi's strength was indeed formidable now, it was unrealistic to claim he was invincible. Therefore, Bai Qi couldn't truly fall out with Savage and the Illuminati. Moreover, Bai Qi's intention wasn't to suppress or eliminate top talents like Savage and Lex Luthor, but rather to recruit them as the core force to protect the main world.
After arranging matters here, Bai Qi, seated on his throne, began to consider other methods to rapidly increase his power.
Aside from absorbing the energy of Infinity Stones, there was his previous plan to convert the power of the remaining seven demons for his own use. However, the timing was not yet ripe. With Zhou Lan still not released from hell, acting too early might alert them.
Then there were the three fools messing with the Pym Particles. Weren't they quite sharp before? Before he even gave an order, they were fumbling around, and then they presented him with a solved Pym Particles box to claim credit. What was happening now? After so long, they still hadn't managed to retrieve the key to the last Hellmouth? Even a production team's donkey wouldn't rest this much.
After ruling out other options, plundering other worlds remained the most efficient method. Moreover, it didn't hurt to destroy worlds that weren't his own. He could simply pack up and leave, no need to take responsibility.
Where else could one find such a profitable venture?
Having decided to plunder other worlds, Bai Qi began to consider selecting suitable worlds from his vast harem.
Firstly, this time Bai Qi's situation was different from previous expeditions. He couldn't stay in another world for an extended period, as he had matters to attend to here. Ideally, he should choose a world where he could achieve quick results.
Secondly, the world he invaded should not be too weak or of a low tier. Otherwise, the only method to increase his strength would be to extract the world's origin, which was an extremely time-consuming process. Bai Qi didn't have the patience for that. It would be best to choose a world that wasn't too strong but possessed powerful treasures. He could enter, achieve his objective, snatch what he wanted, and leave.
With this thought, Bai Qi opened the system.
As Bai Qi's strength continued to grow, the system's assistance became increasingly negligible. The related tasks it posted were, in Bai Qi's opinion, a complete waste of time, and there were a vast number of them. Bai Qi had long stopped bothering to look at them, preferring to follow his own methods.
Although Bai Qi no longer managed the system, it continued to operate diligently. When Bai Qi's unintentional actions completed corresponding tasks on the system, it would automatically settle the rewards. Over time, a large pile of items had accumulated in the system space.
Bai Qi had opened it once before. Good heavens, it was such a mess, it gave him a headache.
Even when Bai Qi had free time, he would open the system space to organize the clutter, but the sheer volume was too immense to sort through.
Later, the system also recognized the issue. Perhaps it felt that the items it generated weren't of much help to Bai Qi, so it canceled all rewards for completed tasks and uniformly replaced them with anchors, coordinates, and tickets to other worlds.
Bai Qi looked at the options before him, his finger gliding over them one by one, including the worlds he had visited before, such as the Super Gene world and the One Piece world, as well as worlds he hadn't visited, like Pacific Rim, Naruto, and Quan Zhi Gao Shou.
After much deliberation, Bai Qi's gaze settled on a parallel world of the main world. Finally, he found a world that was extremely suitable.
The world Bai Qi chose was a deformed Marvel world.
Why was this world deformed? Primarily because living people in this world were extremely scarce, with "less than one in ten" being a generous estimate.
What was the story of this world?
It turned out that Hank Pym, in his attempt to save his wife, successfully entered the Quantum Realm. However, his wife had already been infected by the Quantum Virus and turned into a zombie. Unbeknownst to him, Pym was the first to be infected. Upon returning to his original world, he infected everyone in the laboratory, and the zombie outbreak spread like a plague, quickly engulfing the entire city. Later, the Avengers intervened, but the situation didn't improve at all; instead, they were all infected and turned into super zombies.
These infected super zombies retained some of their previous abilities. Driven by hunger, they devoured more people, snowballing and becoming increasingly difficult to control.
Sometimes, the existence of a group of so-called superheroes with various superpowers wasn't necessarily a good thing. Once infected, these super zombies could easily defeat the armies sent by the government to clean them up.
That world was now in complete chaos.
However, this chaos was exactly what Bai Qi desired. With anarchy and a lack of living people, Bai Qi could go all out once he entered.
Given Bai Qi's physical strength and extremely high body temperature, the virus wouldn't even have a chance to infect him. The moment it entered his body, it would be incinerated by the intense heat.
As a side note, Bai Qi had actually read similar Marvel Zombies universe comics before his transmigration. However, he hadn't read them thoroughly and didn't remember them very clearly. He vaguely recalled that in the comics, Zombie Iron Man and a group of zombie scientists, after consuming everything edible in their universe, opened portals to other parallel worlds to wreak havoc.
Although Bai Qi didn't know if the zombies in the world he was about to visit would replicate the scenario in the comics, this time, if they showed any potential to become intelligent zombies, Bai Qi would crush them in the cradle.