Superman from the comics: Starting with the Black Robe

Chapter 496 The Spirit of Existence Manifests

"The threat to the spirit of existence must be eliminated."

There is no doubt that Starfire wants to remove the destructive device from this universe in order to eliminate any concerns about the Flashpoint universe.

"How could you do this—"

After stopping Xinghuo's rash move, Joey opened her mouth to say something, but seeing the other's somewhat blurry and confused eyes, she immediately noticed something was wrong: "Is this what you think, or what the Spirit of Existence thinks?"

At this moment, the lamp ring in Xinghuo's hand was still green, but it was no longer the pure jade-green light; instead, it was mixed with a pale white.

In Tony's Marvel Universe, there is no such thing as "everyone being of one mind," but it's a different story in the Flashpoint Universe.

Here, the consciousness of all life in the universe is indeed gathered at a single point, that beam of white light, the spirit of existence.

Joey remembered that Starfire had told him once before that after the initial encounter with Barbatos, Starfire, who was punched through the chest by another Superman, had actually already died once.

The old bat's unlicensed medical skills were so limited that they couldn't possibly be effective against Starfire, an alien whose physiological functions were vastly different from those of Earthlings. She was still able to stand in front of Joey, simply because she was chosen by the spirit of existence hidden on Earth and pulled out of the realm of the dead.

Unlike green light, a gentle and stable color that falls in the middle of the emotional spectrum, people who are associated with white light are not simply connected through a ring and a battery.

Under the white light, as a spark that has established a connection with the spirit of existence, sometimes she really can't do whatever she wants.

The collision of the two universes made the Spirit of Existence feel the crisis, and what it wants to do now is simply to ensure its own existence.

Spark, whose eyes had been blocked by Joey, blinked, and his somewhat unfocused gaze regained its light: "I'm sorry."

This is the price for being given life a second time by the Spirit of Existence: when necessary, Spark must become the agent who can help the Spirit of Existence intervene in the material world.

"—Let's not talk about you yet."

Joey, who had silently made a mental note of it, could neither care about nor criticize the Spirit of Existence's self-preservation behavior.

Survival is the primary instinct of living beings, let alone the spirit, which is the origin of life in the entire universe.

He nervously looked around, even activating all his senses, including hearing and smell, but couldn't find the figure he was supposed to be there: "Where is Batman?!"

Previously, Joey asked Tony to stabilize the situation here. Hundreds of Green Lanterns and Batman were with him. Now Tony is caught in the middle and is in a terrible predicament. But where is Batman, who was supposed to play a role?

To be honest, Joey is genuinely afraid that Batman will act recklessly and cause him some kind of big trouble again.

"He's not here; he went to the other side to retrieve the lamp stove."

At this moment, the starlight connected to the Spirit of Existence relayed the warning from the white light: "Joey, that thing is coming soon, that black adversary that none of us can stop."

The Spirit of Existence is naturally more accurate than anyone else in predicting survival crises, and it sensed that the white light was being rapidly eroded by the black light, with the black side drawing ever closer.

The "Darkest Night of Doom," once written in the Book of Oa and reflected in the Green Lantern Corps' oath, is about to begin.

In such a crisis, Superman was the only one with the power and the possibility to stop the other side.

But now a striking fact has emerged that has forced the Spirit of Existence to accept another fact—Superman may never be able to defeat his opponent.

"Do these beings never listen to humans?" Joey picked up Starfire and carried it outside the facility. "Tell the spirit of existence to stay here and not move forward!"

If the entities behind these emotions and the spectrum of life continue to mess things up, we won't even have to wait for the darkest night; the two universes will already be on the verge of collapse!

As for now, Joey thinks he still needs to keep an eye on "Batman." When that bat is doing something serious, he's absolutely reliable.

But if he were to suddenly fall seriously ill and pull some crazy stunts, it would be absolutely outrageous, and Joey dared not let him cause any such mishap.

Meanwhile, Batman was in the Manhattan underground, in the secret base that Joey had previously dug out, using the Green Lantern Ring to laboriously move a Green Lantern furnace that was only two or three people tall.

The guardians of Oa can generously use the central energy battery, a super-powered system distributed throughout the entire planet Oa, as a source of green light, while Joey's approach has always been to prioritize just enough.

They did indeed find something much larger than a portable lamp burner in the Justice League's Watchtower warehouse to serve as the Spider-Green Lantern Corps' energy core, but it certainly wouldn't reach the absurd scale of the Oa Green Lantern Corps.

But even this small lamplighter left Batman, who was using the Green Lantern Ring, exhausted and grimacing.

He gritted his teeth, sweat beading on his forehead, but he only moved the lamp a tiny distance; it was practically immovable.

Based on the situation when we first moved it, it wasn't this difficult to move it back then!

If a guardian like Ganther were here, perhaps he could tell the real reason: when the Green Lamp Furnace was isolated from the outside world, it was naturally easy to move it.

Once the furnace is lit, the will and emotions of so many Lamp Knights are connected around it. When they try to lift the furnace with a lamp ring powered by the furnace, the weight they bear will no longer be the weight in the ordinary sense.

With a loud thud, Joey landed, watching Batman projecting green light projections, even using levers and pulleys to struggle against the lamplighter. He initially thought Batman was doing some kind of performance art: "Why not just project a big net to catch it and take it away?"

This lamp furnace, which is neither too big nor too small, only weighs a dozen tons. Batman is holding the Green Lantern Ring, AKA the most powerful weapon in the universe. Is it really necessary to go through all that trouble?

Seeing Batman's forehead veins bulging, yet still unable to budge the furnace burning brightly with a faint green light, Joey knew something must have gone wrong.

He had no choice but to step forward and try it himself. To his surprise, his first attempt was so forceful that he easily pulled the stove from the ground, nearly lifting the two- or three-person-tall lamp burner onto his back: "Is it a little bigger than before?"

For Joey, who relied solely on his physical strength, the lampstand remained the same weight. He lifted it up and asked Batman, "Where are we moving this thing?"

In the metropolis on the other side.

As the spirit of existence hidden within the earth and the sparks were connected by a secret link, Jor-El, who was about to decide the fate of these two guardians, seemed to sense something and looked up in an unknown direction.

In time and space, there is an invisible thread connecting one universe to another.

With a wave of his hand, he prepared to unleash the Kryptonian army's final assault, to eliminate the two guardians and their mindless minions once and for all.

Martian Manhunter, now back in his normal form, rushed back from outer space and blocked Jor-El's path: "Wait!"

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