"No, you can't resign." When Pepper took Ling Xiao to the top office, and after meeting Stark, Stark gave a negative answer to Ling Xiao's resignation.

"Why, Mr. Stark, I'm useless, and here I'm just wasting my salary." Ling Xiao looked at Tony Stark with some puzzlement, his decision was really a bit unexpected.

"The shrapnel in my chest has not been removed yet, and I will need your help for future surgeries." After a slight pause, Tony continued, "In addition, the Super Soldier Serum Project needs your participation. ”

Well, Ling Xiao's brows suddenly furrowed, didn't Stark always dislike the super soldier serum plan the most, why did he suddenly change his mind.

After sorting out his thoughts a little, Ling Xiao said in a deep voice: "Mr. Stark, as long as you notify me in advance of the operation, I will definitely arrive at that time, as for the super soldier serum plan, with Professor Derek Ross here, there is no need for my participation, Mr. Stark, if you have anything to say, you might as well say it directly, if you really need me to stay, I will stay." ”

After staring at Ling Xiao for a moment, Tony said, "Ling, the specific reason is because of a certain relationship, I can't tell you in detail, but I really need you to stay." So, let's make a formal agreement that you'll be Pepper's personal physician with a fixed annual salary of one million dollars, and if there are other things that cost more, how about that? ”

Tony Stark has his own permanent personal doctor, and he can't just find a reason to fire the doctor he has always trusted and replace it with a Ling Xiao.

On the contrary, it is Pepper, although she also has her own personal doctor, but she was just Tony's assistant before, and the level of that doctor is also very limited, Tony has always wanted to help her change a personal doctor, and now this position is just given to Ling Xiao, as for Pepper himself, he will share a personal doctor with himself, and it can be regarded as turning his personal doctor into a family doctor.

Ling Xiao knew in his heart that Tony Stark did this just to make Ling Xiao more acceptable, and to give him an official name in the procedure so that he could pay his salary, although Stark Industries is a private company, but as a listed company, it still has to give some explanations to the outside world.

As for why he had to stay, it should have nothing to do with S.H.I.E.L.D., he and Nick Fury should have already met, which can be seen from the fact that Natasha is no longer Pepper's assistant, and there should have been a deep conversation between them about the Avengers.

Although I don't know what the two sides talked about, judging from Tony Stark's attitude, he still has some concerns about the Avengers.

Tony Stark has never been a simple character, ordinary people only see him as a playboy, even as Iron Man, his external performance is also very frivolous, but in fact, in front of Pepper, Tony Stark has always been very steady, if it weren't for his mind and not dealing with company affairs, there wouldn't be much to Pepper.

The fact that he was able to say this to Ling Xiao so solemnly showed that his Avengers had deep concerns, worried that these things would implicate Pepper.

"Okay." Ling Xiao pondered for a moment, but nodded in response, although I don't know how long it will be before the alien invasion, but it should not be far away, after all, the plot of Iron Man 2 has also ended, and he himself needs to be properly involved, which is why Ling Xiao revealed his true identity in front of Peter Parker.

After coming out of Stark Industries, Ling Xiao flew back to Los Angeles directly, and the matter in New York was over for the time being, and he also needed to deal with this side of the matter.

Ling Xiao's villa near Matador Beach has been renovated after a simple renovation. However, neither he nor Gan Jing usually comes here, most of the time they take the Ling's Pharmacy in Chinatown, and only go here when they are on vacation to relax.

When decorating, Ling Xiao deliberately asked the decoration company to do some inexplicable transformations in their opinion, such as digging a ditch here, building a wall there, messy, if it didn't affect the overall decoration effect, plus the money given was also rich, the decoration company would not do these things.

From the outside, these ravines and walls look a little disorganized, but in fact they are indeed disorganized, and Ling Xiao's real purpose is hidden in these chaotic lines.

The secret cave under this villa is the first base that Ling Xiao really built with his heart, and as the entire mountain on the periphery, he naturally has to arrange it well, and the only thing that can make him trust is the magic circle in his hand.

Eight gates tightly locked formation, this is the defensive formation that Ling Xiao intends to use the entire mountain as the basis for arranging, as long as it is arranged according to the formation, plus there is a god and demon list as a basis, even if it is bombarded with missiles, don't think about blowing up the defensive arrangement here.

Ling Xiao's deepest impression of the entire Marvel plot is the incident of Tony Stark being attacked by a missile in his Malibu villa.

The other party's timing was very clever, because Pepper was there, coupled with the sudden sneak attack, Stark's steel armor couldn't play much role at all, if it wasn't for his luck enough, I'm afraid he would have been blown up a long time ago.

He didn't want this to happen to him, so a certain arrangement was necessary. Putting an end to missile attacks is just the most basic role of the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array, his real role is to prevent the covert invasion of others, whether it is Hydra, or S.H.I.E.L.D., what he is best at is special work, not the violent attack of the military, in the face of these people who are unguardable, the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array can be regarded as playing a real role.

The eight gates of the golden lock array are also, and the eight gates: rest, life, injury, Du, Jing, death, shock, and open. If you enter from the birth gate, the view gate, and open the door, it is auspicious; If you enter from the injured door, the shocked door, or the closed door, you will be injured; From the door of Dumen, the door of death, and the people die.

Moreover, the position of the eight gates changes due to the change of time, if you are not a person who has a certain study of Taoist formations, you don't want to come out alive from it at all.

Ling Xiao hid the formation layout in addition to the complicated lines, and there were some key lines of the layout, Ling Xiao did not let the decoration company intervene at all, after he came back from New York, while arranging the flower garden on the top of the mountain, he carved it himself.

Placing the core of the formation of the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation in the basement, and connecting it with the gossip formation in the secret cave, Ling Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, and after being busy for half a month, he finally finished these things.

Sitting on the futon in the underground secret room, Ling Xiao looked at the bright moon above his head through the pool above the glass window, and the moonlight shining down from the pool sparkled on the floor looked particularly beautiful.

Taking a deep breath, Ling Xiao began to close his eyes and exhale, with the support of the aura below, coupled with the Tai*** Hua converted from the God and Demon List, Ling Xiao's cultivation growth rate was twice as fast as before.

Cultivation has already broken through to the ninth layer of qi refining, and what he needs to do now is to prepare for breaking through the innate realm and do accumulation.

The acquired breakthrough is not only the accumulation of sufficient true qi, but also the accumulation of qi, body, spirit, and mind, and then knead all these things together to form an innate true seed, which can be regarded as a breakthrough success.

It is not easy to knead all your own qi, body, spirit, and mind together to form an innate true seed. Although he has the guidance of Xunfeng's mental method, Ling Xiao still seems to understand, after all, over the years, he has only relied on his own Mosuo, coupled with the guidance of the gods and demons, the cultivation of the acquired realm is quite smooth, but he still needs a certain chance to break through the innate realm.