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Chapter 5180-5183 [Lex Luthor]

In 1997, Clark Kent, Superman's adoptive father Jonathan Kent, was killed in a tornado.

At the time, Kansas was hit by a tornado, and Jonathan was driving with his wife Martha and son Clark.

Seeing the tornado raging, many people panicked, and Jonathan immediately threw himself into the rescue efforts. However, by the time he had saved everyone, the tornado had already struck.

Clark wanted to use his superpowers to rush to his rescue, but Jonathan stopped him.

He didn't want his son to expose his secret in broad daylight and in front of everyone, as that would bring him endless trouble.

Therefore, he resolutely chose to sacrifice himself, and was swept into the sky by the howling tornado.

Clark was devastated to watch his father die.

Xiang Nan could have saved Jonathan, but he ultimately chose to stand by and watch.

It was Jonathan's sacrifice that made Clark feel the immense love of a father and the greatness of humanity, which is why he chose to stand with humanity and Earth when General Zod invaded the planet.

It was precisely because of Clark's hesitation that his adoptive father died. Therefore, later when rescuing people, he always acted immediately and without hesitation, completely disregarding whether he would be exposed or whether it was a trap…

If Xiang Nan intervened, Clark wouldn't be aware of these things, and he wouldn't be able to become Superman. Therefore, Xiang Nan could only stand by and watch.

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Seven years passed quickly, and it was 2004.

That year, Barry Allen's mother was murdered. His father was imprisoned as a suspect.

Xiang Nan neither helped Barry Allen's mother nor his father.

Barry Allen was determined to become a forensic scientist to clear his father's name only after his mother's death and his father's imprisonment.

That's how he was struck by the lightning potion while conducting research in his studio, thus becoming the Flash. Otherwise, his life would have been drastically different.

That's why Xiang Nan didn't make a move.

After all, he still longs to have the same superpowers as The Flash.

……

Alexander Luther died in 2005, leaving his son with a mess.

Alexander Luther had been running Lex Industries for fifteen years, working diligently and conscientiously to develop it into a highly influential company.

However, with the hollowing out of American manufacturing, Lex Industries' main business of machine design and manufacturing gradually declined. Although it had a technological advantage, its high costs and low cost-effectiveness led to its gradual replacement by competitors.

Therefore, in the last four or five years, Lex Industries has been declining, not only accumulating a large amount of external debt, but also facing numerous internal conflicts.

This left Alexander Luther in a precarious situation, beset by internal and external troubles, which is why he died before the age of sixty.

After Alexander Luther's death, Lex Luther inherited his father's business and became the owner of Lex Industries.

Lex Luther is now 25 years old. He graduated from an Ivy League university with degrees in mathematics, chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science, psychology, biology, and many other disciplines, and earned six doctoral degrees.

He and Bruce Wayne from Gotham City were considered equals.

Under Lex Luthor's leadership, Lex Industries adopted a multi-sectoral strategy, expanding beyond mechanical manufacturing into weapons development, aerospace, biomedicine, chemical engineering, and electronics. According to DC's lore, Lex Luthor is actually comparable to Tony Stark, Iron Man, in the Marvel universe.

In the comics, he also possesses numerous suits of robotic armor and has assembled his own robotic army. Furthermore, he created a psionic shield, genetically cloned Superman, and even built a time machine…

Because of Lex Luthor's exceptional talent, under his management, Lex Industries not only quickly escaped bankruptcy but also soon turned a profit, becoming a prominent conglomerate in Metropolis.

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Just then, Xiang Nan quietly approached Lex Luthor and took away his super intelligence.

But unlike how they treated Bruce Wayne, they didn't use the inextinguishable fire to restore his wisdom.

Because Lex Luthor is a supervillain, he suffered domestic violence from his father, Alexander Luthor, from a young age, which made him psychologically twisted and irrational, and he craves wealth and power.

The reason he painstakingly designed the battle between Batman and Superman in the movie "Batman v Superman" stemmed from this twisted and distorted psychology.

In Justice League 2/3, he will also join forces with Darkseid, offering him advice and helping him to rule the entire Earth.

Therefore, if he were to regain his superhuman intelligence, he would only continue to do evil and wreak havoc on the metropolis. So Xiang Nan decisively took away his intelligence, turning him into an idiot.

After Lex Luthor became an idiot, he was quickly ousted by the board of directors, lost his position as chairman of Lexcorp, and was confined to Arkham Asylum.

Without the guidance of the genius Lex Luthor, the subsequent professional managers at Lexcorp were simply unable to manage this massive operation.

Therefore, within a few years, the once dominant Lex Group in the metropolis had disintegrated and was dismantled and swallowed up by other conglomerates.

Of course, this is a follow-up.

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After gaining access to Lex Luthor's superintelligence, Xiang Nan's progress in deciphering the Anti-Life Equation accelerated significantly.

At this moment, he finally understood why, despite his intelligence far surpassing that of humans and even after acquiring Bruce Wayne's super intelligence, he still found it difficult to crack the Anti-Life Equation.

Because the Anti-Life Equation is an extremely evil artifact; possessing it can strip all living beings in the universe of their free will, turning them into its slaves.

Therefore, to break it, one needs the evil thought of enslaving all living beings in the universe.

However, neither Xiang Nan nor Bruce Wayne had any intention of dominating the universe or enslaving other beings, so despite their great intelligence, they still found it difficult to crack the Anti-Life Equation.

Just like Harry Potter knew the three Unforgivable Curses, but because of his pure heart, he found it difficult to unleash their true power.

Lex Luthor and Darkseid, on the other hand, are both extremely evil and greedy.

Darkseid conquered 100,000 planets and wanted to enslave all living beings in the universe; Lex Luthor was also ambitious and wanted to become the god of the entire Earth and even the entire universe.

In the comics, Lex Luthor was once the holder of the Orange Lantern Ring, and orange represents greed. His greed even surpassed that of Lafferties, the leader of the Orange Lantern Corps.

Their evil and greed help them control the anti-life equation.

Like Voldemort, Barty Crouch Jr., Bellatrix Lestrange, and others, because their hearts are full of evil, they can easily learn the Unforgivable Curse and unleash its true power.

Therefore, after gaining the wisdom of Lex Luthor, Xiang Nan immediately became very adept at solving the Anti-Life Equation.