Red Skull gripped his staff tightly, veins bulging on his forehead.

In all my years as a guardian of the Soul Gem, I have never seen such a shameless person!

This guy not only doesn't take the Soul Gem, but he's also been coming to steal the gem every single day for three years!

What's worse, there's nothing he can do about it. Being a guardian is really tough!

Someone, hurry up and offer a sacrifice to take the Soul Gem! I can't wait any longer!

Red Skull roared inwardly.

Chapter 318, The Expedition to Apokolips, Filial Piety Between Father and Son

Inside a two-story wooden house surrounded by wheat fields on the outskirts of a metropolis.

“Louise, Martha, I’ll be back soon.”

Superman Clark, dressed in the diplomatic uniform of the Kryptonians—a blue suit with a red cape—looks at his wife and adoptive mother.

"If the baby is born, let's name him Jonathan," Superman said gently, his gaze falling on Lois's slightly protruding belly. He placed his large, warm hand on it and stroked it lightly.

Louise looked at him resolutely and said, "We'll name it when you come back!"

"Be careful." Martha patted him on the shoulder.

“Okay.” Superman nodded solemnly.

……

Gotham City, Batcave.

“Young Master.” The white-haired old butler’s gaze was deep.

Bruce Wayne, dressed in a full black bat suit, holds a glass jar containing starfish in his right hand.

Batman didn't say much, only nodded to the old butler, his exposed chin showing a resolute and strong look.

"Afu, we will succeed, we definitely will!"

……

Washington, D.C., local prison.

"I'm just going on a business trip out of town. I'll probably be back in a month or two, so don't worry."

The Flash, Barry Allen, is on the phone, speaking through a glass partition to his father, who is handcuffed and imprisoned.

……

Gotham City, a magic show venue.

The gate was closed, and a sign that read "Temporarily Closed" was hanging above it.

Zatanna covered her black hair with a baseball cap and dragged her suitcase away alone.

……

Justice League headquarters.

An alien spaceship, resembling a steel behemoth, was perched on the open ground outside.

It was a cloudy day; there was no sunshine.

The open space in front of the Kryptonian spaceship.

A highly mechanized Black man and a burly man carrying a bottle of liquor were already standing there waiting.

"Aren't you going to talk to your family?" Aquaman asked.

“I have no family left,” Cyborg replied.

Aquaman: "Sorry..."

Cyborg shook his head nonchalantly and looked at Aquaman: "And you?"

Neptune shrugged and said, "I told my mother."

*Thud!*

A blue cloak fluttered as a tall, green-skinned man landed in front of Aquaman and Cyborg from the air.

Martian Manhunter, one of the Justice League's top fighters!

……

A farmhouse cabin on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., that resembles the house of Superman.

Wearing the same blue and red cape, Kara, dressed in Kryptonian diplomatic attire, bid farewell to her adoptive parents at the door of the cabin, the sunlight shining brightly on her.

Supergirl Kara looked back and saw a girl in a black and white Spider-Man suit coming outside the cabin.

"I'll see you off," Gwen said softly.

"Okay!" Kara smiled brightly.

……

noon.

Diana stood atop a commercial building, covering her white hair as she looked up, where she could vaguely see the silhouette of a spaceship flashing across the distant sky.

The spaceship vanished in the blink of an eye, leaving no trace, and soared into the vast universe beyond the sky!

At a time when the current agreement is sparking heated discussions around the world, and the Avengers are engaged in a civil war.

The current members of the Justice League quietly donned full gear and embarked on a month-long interstellar journey to confront one of the most powerful beings in the universe!

……

Beyond the universe.

Xinian's soul awoke once again at the altar at the bottom of the snow valley.

Watching the free Soul Gem disappear into the hot spring once again, and seeing the black mist swirling around him like chains.

Xinian's soul sighed helplessly.

Three years, more than a thousand times.

Each time he cleanses and nourishes his soul with the Soul Gem, Xinian is trying to break free from the shackles of death.

But they all failed.

hope Nian only felt that over the past three years, about a quarter of the death rules on his body had dissipated, and it was becoming increasingly difficult to break free from or eliminate them!

It will take at least ten years before there is any possibility of breaking free...

This is even with the requirement to use the Soul Gem every day; otherwise, his soul would have been gone long ago.

"No matter what, I must go back!"

Xinian's soul, with resolute eyes, rose above the altar hot spring.

Beside the hot spring, a familiar black figure stood there waiting for him, just like always.

hope Nian's soul was momentarily distracted.

three years ago.

After Xinian's soul was inexplicably transported to this place, no one except the gothic woman in front of him knew he was here, not even Death, who had branded him with the mark of death.

This was the second time I saw the Gothic woman here.

The other person said to him, "Little brother, would you like to be my intern assistant?"

Xinian's soul agreed.

then.

For the past three years, the Gothic woman has come to pick him up every day and brought him back every night.

Three years have passed.

Xinian's soul followed the Gothic woman to thousands of different civilizations in the universe, where he encountered all sorts of alien races, far more complex and numerous than Guan Luo had initially described to him.

then.

Today is no exception.

Xinian's soul was about to resign itself to flying into the teddy bear doll, but this time, he was stunned because the gothic woman wasn't holding the doll.

"Today, just follow me like this."

The gothic woman spoke softly, blinked, and then she and Xinian's soul, carrying a black parasol, vanished from their spot.

……

Xinian's soul felt a blur before his eyes, and the scene he was in transformed into the interior of an unknown palace.

A gothic woman stood beside him, holding an umbrella.

"here it is……"

Just as Xinian's soul was about to speak, it heard a fanatical middle-aged man's voice coming from the front of the hall:

"Star-Lord, the woman who walks with you, all living beings, are fleeting, only we are eternal!"

"Because you and I are both gods, the only remaining race of gods in the world!"

"..."

Xinian's soul saw deep within the hall where he was, a middle-aged man with graying temples speaking to a young man dressed as a space pirate named Star-Lord:

"I tried to realize the ultimate meaning of life: reproduction and survival. But then I understood!"

"Only you are unique; everything else is merely nourishment for your growth."

"For example, I once saw your mother and felt that humans were too fragile, so I implanted a tumor in her brain."

Upon hearing this...

hope Nian's soul felt that this guy was disgusting, yet somewhat familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere before.

Star-Lord was visibly shaken upon hearing this, staring at the middle-aged man in disbelief: "You...killed my mother?"

"After all, she is human, unlike you and me..."

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