Days as a Spiritual Mentor in American Comics-Chapter 5556 - 4582: Day of Absolute White (Part 2)

How does the Justice League push the Earth? Actually, it’s similar to what Shiller guessed, but not quite the same. The parts guessed correctly are mainly about deception. Whether extinguished by the Black Death Emperor or the consciousness covered by the Old Day Dominator, the fact is: if Earth falls into eternal night, most people would have no way to determine its position in the universe.

If humans can’t determine it, deceiving Brainiac is actually simpler. Because Brainiac is a piece of software, it means that with some small modifications, his perception can be disrupted. As long as appropriate pressure is applied during the process, he might ignore some program anomalies. That’s why Hai’er approached Brainiac.

Beings like Hai’er always get what they want without needing to urge electronic life forms. It’s just using their power to pressure Brainiac to achieve the purpose of confusion.

However, this part of the plan was not without surprises. Brainiac bringing in a Super Body wasn’t very surprising; the only problem was that the Super Body caused a program disorder, giving Lex quite a scare. Almost couldn’t hold down that electronic life.

Fortunately, Lex Luther is also technically skilled. Even if Brainiac might be evolving toward a new lifeform, he still used his advanced programming skills to deceive Brainiac’s eyes.

And the second surprise naturally appeared with the Grey Ring. No one expected Shiller, who was usually so lazy and inactive, to take the initiative this time and even bring out the long unseen Grey Lamp, rewriting the history of the sun’s extinction.

Hai’er crossed through time and space several times to figure out what they were doing. After confirming that the changes brought by the Grey Ring were only advantageous and had no drawbacks, the plan was able to proceed smoothly.

In fact, Jenna also brought some trouble. Initially, Barry didn’t need to risk contacting the Power of Death. But because Jenna is an empathic ability user, if the act wasn’t performed genuinely, Barry could not quickly exit to handle personal matters. Luckily, the Divine Speed is Barry’s personal domain, others couldn’t understand it, so they were fooled by him.

The dismantling of the planetary propulsion device went smoothly, and there were no issues during transport. However, during the activation phase, another section that didn’t align with the plan unfolded: Shiller directly awakened the Spirit of Existence.

This step was also not anticipated by the Justice League. They weren’t intentionally aiming to move that thing to the Earth’s core and then wait for Shiller to exert power, or rather, they never relied on Shiller at all. The power they prepared was the Dark Power.

They put it in the Earth’s core because they intended to use the Dark Power for propulsion, distancing it from the crowds to ensure no additional contamination occurred. Yet unexpectedly, Shiller performed exceptionally, directly awakening the Spirit of Existence. The Life Force that erupted in a short time immediately activated the engine, and Earth just zoomed out.

The Justice League, who were underground at the time, were quite shocked. If they had smoothly added the Dark Power, there wouldn’t have been any sensations. But now, the car supposed to be fueled with gasoline got diesel instead, and they accelerated like a tractor rushing off.

Because of the excess power, their original attack plan against the Apocalypse Domain wasn’t needed; the Earth directly crashed in. How powerful was this impact? Let’s just say that if Bruce weren’t technically astute, the Earth could have directly crossed over from one end to the other, piercing through the Apocalypse Domain. Fortunately, they managed to brake and stably stopped within the Apocalypse Domain.

Actually, the hardest part of the entire plan was the final step: how to open a passage to the Lifeless Realm. This segment would have been simple if it were easy; the Black Death Emperor would have succeeded long ago. It’s precisely because it’s realistically difficult that the Black Death Emperor has not truly descended.

But who is Bruce? Having experienced so much, Bruce lived to become the ideal image of Mad Laugh. Not necessarily great at handling serious matters, but uniquely talented as a villain. His scientific research style is unconventional, and his cosmic destruction approaches are quite bold, showcasing the concept of daring to think and daring to do.

Opening a direct path from the Lifeless Realm to the Real Universe is rather challenging. Besides the thick barrier of the Real Universe, there’s also a group of Batmen watching closely. If a problem arises with the Multiverse’s barrier, they will certainly notice.

However, the domains aren’t entirely disconnected. Some realms with shared rules can sense each other’s existence in a mysterious way. For example, realms governed by "death and darkness" rules have similarities, and their barriers are relatively weaker, making it the best choice to navigate through.

The reason the Black Death Emperor didn’t do this but rather clashed with the Real Barrier is that entities within these domains are not easy to provoke. If you punch a hole over their heads, they might fight you to the death.

Coincidentally, among the beings governing death and darkness domains in the Multiverse, there is indeed someone easy to provoke — we still don’t know the name of the pathway Barbados saw piercing over his head that day, only knowing the Dark Dragon has a pretty foul mouth when it curses.

This approach has a great advantage; Barbados’ Dark Domain has a ready-made pathway to the Real Universe, the metal pathway Barbados has been preparing for many years. As long as several types of metal are gathered, the portal to the Real World will open. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

The universe Shiller resides in, of course, hasn’t experienced the Great Metal Event. But the fundamental settings of the universe still exist, so as long as the process is followed, a hole can definitely be made.

Then Bruce quickly went to find Deathstroke, swiftly visited the Fire God, then hurried to see Ra’s al Ghul, made a rapid trip to Egypt, and finally found Lucifer, asking him to cough up the Amber Gold that the Court of Owls should have.

While Shiller and the others were playing their campaign, Bruce wasn’t idle either, utilizing two weeks to speedrun the Metal Event. Everything was going smoothly until the last step.

According to the Metal Event’s procedure, merely assembling these metals is not enough; ultimately, Bat Gold must be poured over Batman to transform him into a gateway.

Bruce was no longer Batman, so whether pouring it would work was doubtful. Even if it did, he wouldn’t do it. So his original plan was to bring in one of the Mad Laugh duo for some waste utilization.

But soon, Bruce found a simpler method—the monster in the lake actually had acquired Batman’s attributes. Pouring Bat Gold over it would suffice.

The situation is as follows: To revive the living corpses at the bottom of the cliff, Shiller obtained Joker Virus solution from Jonathan and injected it into those corpses, infecting them with the Joker Virus. It indeed saved them but also gave them some Joker-like attributes.

At this moment, the lake monster emerged spectacularly. Like other lunatics admiring this work, the living corpse-Jokers appreciated it for a while, casting enough gazes upon it. This led that monster to truly gain attributes of Batman.

So Bruce paused his journey to the Dark Multiverse and directly brought that monster into the Apocalypse Domain, then poured the prepared Bat Gold over it.

The Lifeless Realm’s passage, already opened to Barbados’s Dark Domain, simply followed the hole punched out by the Dark Domain and came over. As for why Barbados hasn’t come, it can be said Constantine’s globally explosive new book wasn’t written for nothing. Nya benefited and naturally needed to help out.

It is apparent that every step of the Justice League’s plans encountered issues. Equally apparent, every step of Shiller’s plans also faced problems. Yet, coincidentally, the problems between the two plans counterbalanced each other. As they say, a bug is a bug, but a cluster of bugs can work. No matter how chaotic the process was, the result ended in celebration.

Of course, this applies only to Earth. For the remaining three sides, it wasn’t as wonderful. However, unbeknownst to them, due to the two plans’ bug collision, everything progressed surprisingly smoothly, while allowing Bruce to keep his extra strength. Human madness knows no bounds.

Because of the Spirit of Existence’s awakening, Bruce didn’t need to use the power of darkness he prepared. But as the saying goes, since you’re here and things have progressed to this point, with everything on the table, it would be too perfunctory to end it just like that. The saying "a single punch to avoid hundreds" holds; if there’s still strength, why not throw another punch?

"I have a bold idea," Bruce said to the Justice League members, "To make them unable to bother us in the short term—or possibly forever."

Everyone became excited; though this was overtime, when doing bad deeds, one never feels tired. After hearing Bruce’s plan, nobody objected. Thus, a more insane and bizarre adventure was indeed destined to commence.

While the three sides eyed each other, probing but not daring to advance rashly, considering how to escape this awkward situation, changes were silently occurring within Barbados’s Dark Domain.

With Barbados busy running to the Naiya Group and currently having no time to manage, the entire domain was left to Bruce’s whims. Given his authority over the power of darkness, and with the Lifeless Realm passage connected to the real world piercing through the Dark Domain, he directly punched a hole in this passage and controlled the power of darkness to infiltrate.

At this time, the Black Death Emperor hadn’t utilized the passage because he knew the opposite was Darkseid’s Apocalypse Domain, and he dared not leave the Lifeless Realm casually. Should he pop out and get controlled, it would be trouble. Darkseid also dared not easily venture into the Lifeless Realm. Neither side was willing to engage outside their home turf. And due to the emptiness of the passage, neither detected Bruce had already entered.

Once inside, Bruce began to continuously infuse dark power into it, then allowed one end to extend forward, until it spilled out from the gateway within the Apocalypse Domain. Invading the Apocalypse Domain isn’t easy, but given direct linkage to the Dark Domain, the dark force output was abundant, rapidly occupying a large section of the domain.

Before Darkseid could react, the dark force stuck to the Apocalypse Domain like stubborn glue. Then the dark force surged fiercely within the passage, violently dragging the Apocalypse Domain into the passage. It was pulled in like a jelly, directly dragged through the passage and into the Lifeless Realm on the other end.

More accurately, it was a 360-degree full circle, crashing directly onto the Black Death Emperor’s skull with a "bang." The Black Death Emperor was dazed, Darkseid was stunned, and the Batmen collectively boiled over.