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The figure that materialized before Peter Parker was an elderly man with white hair, draped in a green Daoist robe. His back was stooped, his face etched with the passage of time, and his frame so gaunt it seemed only skin and bones remained. He was the very image of a man on the brink of death.

Peter Parker could sense it clearly—the old man's vital energies and spirit were fading