American comics: Praising the sun, starting from Gotham!

When Hugh's figure appeared over the Arctic Circle, the first thing he saw was a grand but inefficient hunt.

Dozens of menacing heavy robots are surrounding a man dressed in a blue-black battle suit.

The sky was filled with green kryptonite beams, like a chaotic spider web, cutting the airspace into pieces.

The besieged man.

This was the last destination of his trip.

This world is a fallen god among men, an unjust superman.

"Get out of here! You flies!"

Injustice Superman's eyes burned with crimson fury, and his heat gaze swept out, easily melting a robot that couldn't dodge in time into molten iron.

But more robots immediately filled the gap, their firepower never ceasing. The dense Kryptonite rays continuously weakened his strength, making his body, which was capable of overturning continents, feel waves of powerlessness and stinging pain.

"What's going on? Why such a big fuss?"

Xiu En hovered in the distance, a hint of curiosity on his face.

"Hmm, Bruce, you guys started work ahead of schedule?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a holographic projection unfolded in front of him.

Bruce's tired face appeared on the screen.

Behind him was the massive central computer in the Batcave, its screen displaying a real-time aerial view of the battlefield.

Good morning, Xiu En.

Bruce rubbed his temples, seemingly already used to Shuen's elusive nature.

"As you can see, the project has encountered a small setback. I'll hand over control first and then we can talk."

As he spoke, he turned to the side, revealing another person standing next to him.

Adrian Witt, the newly appointed Chief Operating Officer.

He was calmly watching the data stream on the main screen, a knowing smile on his face.

"Mr. Adrian."

Bruce handed him a controller with complex light trails flashing on it.

"I admit, you're more experienced than I am in how to effectively inflict pain on a Kryptonian. Command of this legion is now in your hands."

"With pleasure, Mr. Wayne."

Adrian took the controller and lightly slid his fingertips across the touchpad a few times.

"By the way."

He looked up, his intelligent eyes meeting Xiu En's gaze through the screen.

"I also prefer complete spoils. Captured alive, is that right?"

"That suits me perfectly."

Bruce was concise and to the point.

The moment Adrian took command, the atmosphere on the entire battlefield changed abruptly.

The robot army, which originally relied solely on its numerical superiority to indiscriminately suppress enemy fire, has now developed a deadly beauty in its actions.

"All units, switch to grid formation, using Kaiyang as the node to construct a 32-sided kryptonite radiation field."

The moment the command was given, the robot army swiftly changed formation. The chaotic green beams disappeared, replaced by a shrinking green energy cage composed of countless thin rays of light.

Injustice Superman roared and tried to break free of the cage, but no matter which direction he charged, he would be met with three or more high-concentration kryptonite rays that crisscrossed and locked onto him in a horn-like formation, suppressing his power in place.

"He's much weaker than our Clark."

Shuen looked at the trapped Injustice Superman, pursed his lips in disappointment, and said to Bruce's projection.

"The energy is impure and full of impurities, brimming with the taste of anger and sorrow, like a moldy steak."

"Clark in our world."

Bruce's voice was filled with pride.

"There is a better environment for growth."

Xiu En nodded, agreeing with this statement.

The Superman in the main universe, after undergoing continuous recharging during the Double Sun Flight and with the assistance of various enhancement equipment provided by Wayne Enterprises and Luthor Technologies, has already surpassed the strength of any ordinary Superman in any parallel universe.

"The thermal imaging output power dropped by 40 percent, his heart rate increased, and he experienced an adrenaline overload. He was terrified."

Adrian's voice rang out again.

"The primal reaction of a typical power-type athlete when faced with incomprehensible difficulties."

"Units 5, 9, and 14, release fire suppression, switch to sonic resonance mode, frequency lock, target: inner ear vestibule. Make him lose his balance."

Three sound waves struck Injustice Superman's temple.

His body swayed, and the world spun before his eyes, giving him a dizzying, mundane experience.

"asshole!"

He roared angrily, trying to pinpoint the source of the attack by instinct, but what awaited him was a net coming from all directions at the same time.

"His fighting style is full of flaws."

Adrian chuckled softly.

"It relies too much on brute force and lacks skill; all its actions are predictable. It's like an exam where you know all the answers in advance—completely unchallenging."

Bruce stared silently at the screen.

On the level of tactical maneuvering, the man before him was the most terrifying being he had ever seen.

"This job is so boring."

Xiu En yawned, feeling a little sleepy.

He had expected a massive, earth-shattering battle, but it turned out to be a clever man unilaterally toying with a fool.

"This blondie's brain is actually a bit more useful than his muscles."

Sunflower commented.

"I was crying like a little kid before, but it actually worked."

Injustice Superman was thoroughly enraged.

The humiliation of being mocked far outweighed the physical pain.

He roared to the sky.

"Enough! Just die, all of you!"

A destructive energy erupted from his body.

He abandoned all defenses, condensing all the stellar energy within his body into a devastating heat-seeing shockwave, aimed at the massive, snow-covered fortress not far away.

Bruce's pupils contracted.

"He's going to destroy Lonely Fortress! Adrian! Stop him!"

"It's too late, Mr. Wayne."

Adrian gave a knowing smile.

"When a bull realizes it can't beat the matador, its last resort is often to ram the red cloth. It's not trying to destroy the fortress; it's trying to activate something inside, something that interests me greatly."

Under the desperate attack of Injustice Superman, the ancient, lonely fortress, the last monument of Kryptonian civilization, began to emit an ominous rumble from within.

The ice sheet throughout the Arctic Circle was trembling.

A device shaped like an antique clock, but with a surface radiating a scarlet glow, slowly rose from the ruins of the fortress.

That is the Doomsday Bell.

As Xiu En looked at the enormous device, he sensed a life force, enough to sacrifice an entire planet, being forcibly injected into it.

And that smell of energy...

It made him squint.

Superman from the main universe arrived at that moment.

Clark was suspended in the cold wind.

Behind him was a cloudless, azure sky, and on his handsome and upright face was a sorrow powerful enough to melt glaciers.

He watched as another version of himself, trapped in an energy cage, slowly rose from the ruins.

"Why? Clark, why did it turn out like this?"

Injustice Superman's crimson eyes were fixed on Clark.

His nostrils flared, and a hateful, neurotic smile spread across his face, which was contorted with anger.

He smelled it.

Even across the vast distance, he could still smell the scent on Clark that haunted his dreams.

That's the scent of Louise's perfume.

The one Louise in his world liked to use the most.

He hadn't smelled this scent in five years.

"Louise..."

Injustice Superman muttered to himself, while the main universe Superman kept saying something, but unfortunately he didn't hear a word he said.

Then, the whimper turned into a deafening roar!

"You bastard!!"

He struggled, and the violent force caused the kryptonite cage that Adrian had carefully constructed to groan under its strain.

"What right do you have?! What right do you have that your Louise is still alive?!"

"You're such a happy idiot! You don't understand anything! You've never lost her! You didn't watch her and your unborn child turn into a handful of cold ashes in your arms!"

"How dare you! How dare you show up in front of me, smelling like her, and lecture me?!"

Pain and jealousy transformed into boundless power.

At this moment, the energy within him resonated with the slowly rising Doomsday Bell.

As if sensing its master's rage, the giant bell began to continuously inject the life force it had forcibly drawn from all parts of the earth into Injustice Superman's body!

"Clark, stop! You'll destroy this planet!"

Clark tried to persuade him, but he was met with an even more ferocious roar.

"Shut up, Karl! Let it be destroyed then! What's the point of a world without Louise?!"

boom--!!!

The kryptonite cage was completely burst at this moment.

All the robots were instantly torn to pieces by the terrifying energy shockwave.

Injustice Superman's body was bathed in the ominous red light of the Doomsday Bell, his muscles swelled again, and his body was wrapped in terrifying energy mixed with red lightning and green life light.

His reason was completely burned away at that moment.

This is the final offering required for the Green Emperor's Sacrifice.

The brute strength and beastly spirit of the ox were fully formed at this moment.

Xiu En is in the far sky.

"Oh wow, this steak looks well-done."

Ivy commented with schadenfreude.

"It's still seasoned with anger, and it's full of chewiness."

"Um."

Xiu En nodded.

"The heat is just right."

He saw the two S signs below collide in the sky above the Arctic Circle.

A deadly battle between superheroes has begun.

Every time their fists clashed, a blizzard swept across the entire Arctic.

Sonic boom clouds continued to form around them, emitting a roar that mortals could not bear.

Their heat visions collided in mid-air, scorching two seemingly unhealable scars into the sky, even causing space itself to distort slightly.

Their heat visions collided in mid-air, scorching two seemingly unhealable scars into the sky, even causing space itself to distort slightly.

Clark was holding back. Yes, even though Injustice Superman had the life force of an entire planet enhanced, he was still holding back.

With each attack, he tried his best to avoid causing secondary damage to this already fragile planet.

His fist missed Injustice Superman's vitals, and his heat gaze shot towards the deserted glacier.

But the Unrighteous Superman has no scruples.

Every punch he threw was aimed at destruction, and every glare he cast was aimed at Clark's eyes and heart.

"Resurrect her! I want to resurrect her! Don't stand in my way!!"

He roared like a bull, charging at everything in his path with his hardest horns.

Glaciers were collapsing, the earth was groaning, and even in the Batcave on the other side, Bruce and Adrian could feel the terrifying power capable of destroying civilization through the surveillance footage.

"If they keep fighting like this, the Earth's ecosystem will completely collapse!"

"Adrian! Are there any more robots?"

"Mr. Wayne."

"In the arena of the gods, the creations of mortals are not even qualified to be spectators."

Adrian believed that their power had exceeded the scope of what technology could interfere with.

Bruce was clearly disappointed with Adrian's performance and sighed.

Clark began to lose ground.

It wasn't because he was weaker than the other person, but because he had too many things to protect.

As he was distracted to stop a massive iceberg that was about to crash into the Bering Strait and could trigger a global tsunami, Injustice Superman's fist, imbued with the destructive energy of the Doomsday Clock, slammed into his chest.

Even Superman's steel body could not fully withstand this blow, which was filled with the despair of an entire world.

Clark spat out a mouthful of golden blood, his body flying backward, crashing through several icebergs before finally coming to a stop.

"It's over, you happy bastard."

Injustice Superman hovered in mid-air, looking down at the disheveled Clark, his eyes filled with nothing but emptiness and exhaustion.

He gathered his last strength, preparing to deliver the final blow to his other self, and then embrace the Doomsday Clock to complete the deal with the devil.

However, just as he was about to take action...

Just as Batman was about to unleash his counterattack, Superman decided to stop holding back.

A voice resounded throughout the entire battlefield.

"Hey, you two, are you done fighting?"

The Unjust Superman turned around, his pupils contracting.

The man in black who had been watching the show from the beginning had somehow appeared on the Doomsday Bell.

"This clock is disturbing my sleep."

Xiu En opened his mouth as he spoke.

At this moment, his body seemed to have become a bottomless black hole, an incredibly efficient and massive energy converter.

The Doomsday Clock absorbed all the life force of Earth, the immense energy that was preparing to open the interdimensional portal, and the destructive power that was wrapped around Injustice Superman.

Everything was forcibly sucked in at this moment!

The frigid winds of the Arctic Circle came to a complete halt at that moment.

All the raging energy, all the desperate roars, came to an abrupt halt before him.

"That's not enough..."

Xiu En's projection shook its head in some distress.

He felt like he was trying to drain the entire Pacific Ocean with a straw. The energy gathered in the Doomsday Clock was too vast and complex, and it would be too inefficient for him to process it with just a single projection.

It's like cleaning a kitchen that's been piled with garbage for tens of thousands of years—it's enough to make your scalp tingle.

Then, to the astonishment of both Injustice Superman and Clark, he reached out and made a light swirl in the air.

A fissure opened.

Immediately afterwards, another Shuen strolled leisurely out of the rift.

The same black clothes and black hair, the same golden eyes, but this Xiu En's presence was a thousand times more solid than the projection.

With each step he took, the air beneath his feet would display golden patterns resembling shattered glass.

Xiu En's true form has descended.

The real Xiu En glanced at the projection, then at the enormous Doomsday Clock, his face showing the same disdain as the projection.

The projection Xiu En shrugged, then smiled at the real body, and its figure slowly faded and merged into the real body.

Xiu En took a deep breath, and a serious light flashed in his golden eyes.

"What a hassle."

Sunflower leaped onto its host's shoulder and complained.

"If I had known it was this dirty, I wouldn't have come along."

At this moment, the main universe's Superman Clark accelerates and reappears in front of Injustice Superman, who was briefly distracted by Shum's appearance.

This time, he showed no mercy and unleashed his power without reservation.

Lock the Injustice Superman in your arms, making him unable to move.

"Let me go! You bastard! She's my hope! My Louise!"

Injustice Superman struggles, but the Doomsday Clock's energy has been cut off by Shuon, and his power is rapidly draining away.

Looking at Xiu En, he placed his hands on the body of the Doomsday Clock.

The wails of the entire planet, all the life force forcibly extracted, the desperate resentment of billions of dying beings, mixed with Kryptonian technology and the devil's pact leading to hell, transformed into a blood-red torrent wider than the ocean, which was swallowed up by Xiu En!

His body was like an insatiable furnace, swallowing up the enormous energy containing the death of a world without hesitation!

The process of being devoured lasted less than ten seconds.

As the last ray of red light was drawn into Xiu En's mouth.

The Doomsday Clock went out, and the violent energy in Injustice Superman also disappeared. He slumped limply in Clark's arms, making meaningless hoarse noises.

"It's so dirty..."

Xiu En frowned.

"It felt like swallowing an entire recycling center of medical waste in one go."

Within his body, the Golden Crow Divine Fire burned fiercely, scorching and purifying all the filthy energy that was enough to drive any god mad and corrupt.

Anger, sadness, resentment, despair... all negative emotions and energies were purified into nothingness by the divine fire.

Only the purest life essence belonging to this planet itself remains.

Xiu En let out a satisfied sigh.

It was a golden rain that swept the globe.

Countless pure, warm, divine golden raindrops burst forth from his mouth, quickly covering the entire atmosphere before falling gently down.

The parched land, nourished by the sunshine and rain, has become vibrant again. The withered plants sprouted new shoots at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The polluted river became crystal clear under the caress of the sunlight and rain, and the fish that had been on the verge of death due to lack of oxygen regained their vitality.

In the city, people whose faces were filled with worry due to the regime's oppressive power came out of their rooms to bask in the sudden golden rain.

They felt that the despair and pain that had been weighing on their hearts were being slowly soothed by a warm force.

In an orphanage that had been shut down for many years by an unjust regime, a little girl with congenital heart disease had a healthy blush appear on her pale face after being drenched by sunlight and rain.

In a certain corner, even Louise's figure appeared. Unexpectedly, this demon god was quite trustworthy, and actually placed Louise's soul in the Doomsday Clock. At this moment, Louise's soul and the child in her womb were being resurrected along with life energy.

This world, on the verge of death and dragged into despair by a tyrant, was forcibly restarted at this moment.

Amid the clamor of a world reborn, the instinctive bull spirit of Injustice Superman slowly emerges from his weakened body.

It was a dark red ball of light, resembling a burning bull's skull.

It has lost all its ferocity, leaving only a final, stubborn, and resentful cry.

It floated up to Xiu En and, without even thinking of running away, willingly merged into his chest.

On the Azure Emperor's sacrificial array diagram, the last ox rune is lit up!

The cattle, pigs, and sheep needed for the Green Emperor Sacrifice have now all been collected.

"My everything..."

Injustice Superman watched this miraculous scene unfold, looking at the man who had manipulated an entire world at his fingertips.

He gave up struggling, tears mixed with nosebleeds streaming down his face.

His current power clearly prevents him from sensing Louise's resurrection.

He felt he had lost everything.

His lover, his children, his ideals, his strength, even...

He gambled the whole world for this...

That vague and elusive hope of resurrection.

Everything vanished like a bubble.

Clark looked at his own distraught self in his arms, his feelings incredibly complex.

He loosened his grip, for a person who has lost all power and hope no longer needs any restraint.

Xiu En landed and walked up to Injustice Superman.

He looked down at this pathetic tyrant.

"alright."

Xiu En clapped his hands and turned to the Superman from the main world, who was still standing there in a daze.

"That's a wrap. Time to go home and have dinner."