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Tomb Demon.

"Look at you all, so high and mighty, completely blind to the suffering of people around you."

A hoarse voice came from the screen.

"No wonder you never notice the tragedies that happen to us."

Everyone was startled and stood up from their seats with alarm.

"The Tomb Demon?" Batman said in a deep voice.

The Tomb Demon did not answer, but continued to say to himself, "People believe you are their gods, but I know you are not. I have seen the real gods."

People trust you, but that trust will eventually come at a price. It will start with your closest friends.

The Tomb Demon narrowed its scarlet eyes.

"It is because of your arrogance that you never look down on the common people that you have not noticed the problem until now. You have not noticed the person who is suffering misfortune because of you."

"You've taken hostages," Batman said coldly.

Everyone tensed up immediately. None of them could accept that someone would be hurt because of them, even a complete stranger. Moreover, judging from the Tomb Demon's words, the hostage seemed to be someone close to them.

"Release the hostages, Tomb Raider," Superman roared. "If you want us, then come at us."

“Not so easy,” the Tomb Demon said coldly. “Be patient, Justice League. You must first experience the pain of loss before it’s your turn. Start with the one who binds you all together.”

Mike Williams.

With that, he disappeared from the screen with a hoarse, strange laugh.

However, the atmosphere on the watchtower became somewhat subtle at this moment.

Everyone looked at each other.

"What he just said, is it true?" Hal was a little unsure.

"Uh, if it weren't for the fact that there's a second person named Mike Williams, right?" The Flash also had a strange expression. "You mean... the person Mr. Shen is using as an undercover agent within Sky Eye?"

So after all that, the tomb demon's plan was to kidnap Ultraman's disguise and take him hostage?

The Justice League members looked at each other, seemingly at a loss for words.

"So, are we still going to rescue him?" Barry asked tentatively.

"Save whom?" Hal countered, "The Tomb Demon?"

Barry nodded. "That makes sense."

The tense atmosphere vanished abruptly, and the members of the alliance calmly returned to their respective chairs.

Just go about your business; the Tomb Demon is basically a dead man anyway.

Kara muttered, "What an unlucky guy. I hope he's alright."

"Mike Williams~"

"Wake up."

The cold voice seemed to come from the other side of the darkness. Shen You, who was already awake, pretended to open his eyes, making a confused expression, but gradually became angry when he saw the horrifying face in front of him.

"who are you?"

He stared at the Tomb Demon's grim, deathly pale face, and asked the question knowing the answer already.

"Me? I am the grave of you, and the Justice League, the grave of all of you," the Grave Demon said coldly. "You can't imagine what kind of ordeals I went through to get to where I am today."

You probably think I'm like all the bad guys you've met before, with delusions of conquering the world and an inflated ego. But that's not it. All I want is the truth, and nothing more.

I want the whole world to know what the Justice League is really like—a bunch of false gods.

"Then you'll have to try even harder."

Shen You spoke calmly, while simultaneously activating his X-ray vision to look around.

This is a temple deep in the mountains, surrounded by snow-capped peaks and cliffs. It's an ancient building eroded by time, with heavy stone doors and mottled stone walls covered in snow. Outside the temple is a cemetery, with countless tombstones and ominous spirits lingering and drifting among the graves.

"Don't want to talk? That's fine. It wasn't an option from the beginning. Everyone will eventually speak up."

The Tomb Demon took two steps back and opened the door to the room.

A blinding light screen, mixed with a biting wind carrying snowflakes, rushed in, and the hungry ghosts surged out of the door in a frenzy.

"...right after you've experienced real pain!" The Tomb Demon opened his arms.

As if they had caught the scent of fresh souls, the hungry ghosts were incredibly excited, thirsting to absorb life and pain. The fastest of the hungry ghosts rushed into "Mike's" body, while a deep, eerie voice echoed in his ears.

"His loss is my loss."

"His suffering makes my heart ache."

"Mike Williams, become our meal!"

With a powerful roar, the hungry ghosts, full of anticipation, picked up their knives and forks, ready to feast, but they were instantly stunned the moment they rushed into the body.

It was completely different from what they had imagined.

Beneath those mortal bodies lay a vast, boundless starry sky, a realm so expansive its boundaries invisible. Starlight twinkled, the unknown star map like a cage, enveloping these arrogant intruders. Gradually, light emerged from the darkness, shimmering like stars, illuminating the entire universe, like an ever-expanding fireball swallowing the invaders.

"Light!"

The creatures started screaming and turned to run away.

"No, no light, no... Ahhhhhh!!!"

Those who charge the fastest die the fastest. In the blink of an eye, the hungry ghosts at the forefront were reduced to ashes, leaving not even a trace.

Just as the courage and will of the green light frighten them, the blue light of hope, and Shen You's own light, have a similar effect, provided they are used correctly.

Shen You had already thoroughly studied the nature of these evil spirits, so this was not difficult.

The hungry ghosts charging behind seemed to sense something the moment their companions were sacrificed, and immediately stopped, frozen in place.

Only the Tomb Demon reacted the slowest, still standing there with its arms outstretched: "Release your fear, your greatest pain! And I will gain power from it to liberate everyone in the world."

"Huh? What are you doing?"

The Tomb Demon finally realized something was wrong. He looked at the hungry ghosts he was riding with some confusion. The sprinting steps of the group of spirit-like monsters came to an abrupt stop in unison, as if they were pulling back from the brink of disaster. Then they suddenly began to retreat in terror, as if afraid to get even half a step closer to the "hostage" in front of them.

No, it's more accurate to say that even a single glance from that guy would send shivers down their spines, causing them to shrink back with all their might. Some of the hungry ghosts even glared angrily at the tomb demon.

The resentful look in its eyes seemed to say, "You brought back this thing, and you still want power and blessings?"

After only one brief encounter, Shen You discovered that these so-called hungry ghosts were actually weaker than he had thought. In the comics, their ability to defeat the Justice League mainly relied on surprise attacks and exploiting the greatest nightmare within each of them.

For example, Superman relives the moment his adoptive parents died, Hal relives his father's plane crash, and Batman has the classic "Pearl Necklace Alley Parents.JPG" moment. The Tomb Demon deceived them into believing that the temple was a place connecting life and death, and they thought they were seeing the spirits of their loved ones.

However, when the Alliance realized it was a hoax, and that those spirits were nothing more than hungry ghosts that devoured suffering, everyone broke free through their own will.

Having successfully infiltrated the enemy's lair, and now that his disguise had been seen through, Shen You had nothing left to pretend about.

He stopped pretending and came clean.

The high-speed afterimage clone burst into a burst of intense light, and in the incandescent radiance, the form of Ultraman materialized.

The tomb demon's pupils widened instantly.

"You, you, you are you!"

Only then did he realize what he had brought back.

Shen You slowly rose into the air, his hands clenched into fists, his arms outstretched, and golden light radiated from his body. The icy, snow-covered tomb began to gradually warm up, the air seemed to distort, and even the perennial snow seemed to begin to melt.

Energy is building, like the calm before a storm.

All the spirits began to turn and run for their lives, as if it were the instinctive reaction of living beings facing imminent danger. The Tomb Demon's heart pounded even harder, filled with an extremely ominous premonition.

This was beyond his ability to deal with, and also beyond the scope of what the spirits in the temple could handle.

Ultraman is an even more mysterious and unattainable being than the Justice League. If there is anything here that could possibly stop him, it would only be the god who had only met the Tomb Demon once.

The deity ostracized by the other gods was named Asura. The Tomb Demon found this temple on his deathbed and only saw Asura once then.

It was a colossal god, tens of meters tall, with an indestructible golden body, three heads and six arms, surrounded by an ever-burning crimson flame, making it particularly conspicuous in the icy and snowy landscape.

Asura harbors eternal rage because he is ostracized by the gods.

It was that angry god who gave him the power of redemption.

It is precisely because of this connection that he can now sense that Asura is awakening!

The ancient god seemed to open his eyes from nothingness and cast his gaze upon us.

God sensed that outsiders were invading His territory.

He was filled with eternal rage, his endless tail flames locking onto the intruder, as if about to unleash divine punishment.

Then God saw it.

The giant, bathed in intense light, emitted a golden radiance as bright as the scorching sun. With a single strike, an explosion emanating from the giant covered the entire snow-capped mountain, and some kind of energy containing peculiar properties vaporized all the souls in the temple.

One hit, and the entire screen is wiped out!

God remained silent.

In a moment, the eyes in the void closed again.

It's like saying, "I didn't see anything."

Just pretend nothing happened.

Chapter 290 Not even cats are spared?

The Tomb Demon was stunned, unable to comprehend the scene before him for a long time.

First, there was the Ultraman before him. With just one move, one action—no, he wasn't even sure if it could even be called a move. It seemed the opponent simply flashed with intense heat, like a light bulb suddenly switched on. Wherever the light went, all the souls in the entire arena evaporated.

Normally, this would have been enough to shock him. However, compared to what he sensed later, it seemed rather insignificant.

He was quite certain that, for a fleeting moment, he sensed the Asura's inextinguishable rage.

But it only lasted for a moment, in the blink of an eye, with a snap, the anger suddenly disappeared.

What does it mean?

Pretending not to see?