American comics: You're asked to fish, but you catch a Superman template?

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“Don’t say that, I will help, but…” Mo sighed, “there’s nothing I can do to help you.”

Linda retorted sharply, "What do you mean? You can't open the gates of the underworld?"

Shazam shook his head.

"To open the gates of the underworld, three conditions must be met: the first is a spell; the second is a sacrifice; and the third is the approval of Anubis, the god of death. I can meet the first two conditions, but not the third."

Linda was furious: "Tess-Adam can do it, why can't you? You're his teacher."

"The power of the six gods within Black Adam comes from Egypt and possesses the power of the supreme god Ra. Anubis obeys Ra's commands, so he can summon the gates of the underworld. But I am different. The power of the six gods within me comes from different pantheons, and I cannot impose any restrictions on Anubis."

Shazam coughed for a while, clutching his chest, before continuing.

"The only way now is to connect the spacetime node between the underworld and Earth. It was once the source of the war of the gods, but it was later sealed. I can open the seal and find a small gap."

"and then?"

Linda pressed on, "And then?"

"There is no 'then,' only waiting."

"wait?"

Linda was completely baffled, and Barry Allen was equally perplexed about how to wait.

Shazam sighed: "In order to prevent the underworld from invading Earth, the gods used their supreme power to forcibly change the route of the node, turning the road to the underworld into a dark space. Once you enter there, you will be lost in the dark space and never be able to get out."

"You mean Xu Fu and others...?"

"If they return to Earth through the Valley of No Return, and are lucky, they might see the magic lamp and find their way home." He paused, shook his head, and then said...

"Perhaps we will never see it."

The air froze instantly, becoming as quiet as a graveyard.

The expressions on the faces of the group were filled with disgust. Linda even clenched her fists, her eyes blazing with blood-red fury.

Billy sensed something was wrong and asked in a low voice.

"Is there no other way?"

"No, there is only this one."

Billy gestured with his fingers: "What's the probability? Fifty percent?"

"A grain of sand in the ocean."

Billy was immediately at a loss, standing awkwardly in place, looking at Linda with slight worry: if they didn't come back, it would mean the Justice League was disbanded.

Xiao Laoda may very well become the shortest-lived billionaire in history.

Barry Allen stepped forward and spoke in a hoarse voice.

"No matter what, you have to try, even if the chance is only one in a thousand, you can't just give up like that."

"...Linda, you are...."

"I am fine."

Linda loosened her fist, gritted her teeth, and muttered to herself, "Begin, unblock."

The wizard said nothing more and, with Billy's help, left the room and walked along the tower to the entrance to the fourth level of the void.

"In essence, the Stone of Eternity is a seal itself. The entrances to Heaven, Hell, the Underworld, and other realms are sealed within it. To become the master of the Stone of Eternity means to be responsible for invasions from different realms and to respond at any time and in any place."

Do you have this awareness?

Diana and Barry were momentarily stunned; Billy was too young to understand what was being said.

The wizard continued, "My time is running out. Whether these four people come back or not, I hope you can share this responsibility with Billy."

He silently cast a spell, and with a flick of his finger, drew a perfect star pattern in the air.

As time passed, a wooden door came into view, with quicksand symbolizing time and whirlwinds symbolizing emptiness carved on it.

The wizard pushed the door desperately, but the wooden door remained unmoved. He smiled helplessly: Time waits for no man, and now he didn't even have the strength to open the door.

"I come!"

Billy stepped forward, grabbed the doorknob with both hands, and pulled hard outwards.

click

A sinister and terrifying sound came from ahead, as if space was being torn apart and darkness was creeping in from the cracks, as if it were about to devour everything around it.

Several people felt a chill creep up from the depths of their souls and involuntarily retreated.

The wizard said in a low voice, "That's enough. The seal has been broken. All that's left is to pray to the God of Wealth and the Goddess of Wealth, hoping they can find their way home."

Linda's face showed displeasure.

"Can I go in and see them?"

"Going there means destruction, and there will be no coming back."

The wizard coughed and went out the door to the lungs.

Linda and Barry stood guard at the door, like lighthouse keepers, waiting for a glimmer of light.

Chapter 1617 Earth is Heaven

The dark world is like an endless desert.

Being in it, you will be constantly scorched by the blazing sun, your blood will evaporate, your body will not be nourished, and you will gradually turn into dry old tree bark.

Xu Fu couldn't remember how long he had been drifting here; his mind was a complete blank.

The ubiquitous spatial rifts constantly absorbed the body's life force. Even a monster that had fused with hundreds of divine bloodlines could not sustain itself. Xu Fu had to consume his soul power and inject life force to maintain the body's stable operation.

Unfortunately, time passed too slowly.

Although his soul was incredibly powerful, it could not withstand such pressure. The long journey almost exhausted all its strength, and the three Clarks inside him had to step forward and carry the unfamiliar baby through the dark and lightless world.

Despair crept in silently, and soon the three could no longer withstand it: their bodies were riddled with holes, almost torn in two by the ripped space. Xu Fu had to absorb these wounds, shrink his body, protect his senses, and minimize his energy expenditure as much as possible.

At this moment, he was like a lone boat adrift on the sea, rising and falling, drifting aimlessly.

I don't know how much time passed, five years or fifty years, but a familiar voice rang in my mind.

"Linda?"

Xu Fu opened his eyes, and a dim green light shone in his limestone pupils. His senses followed the sound as it drew closer, and his vision became clearer.

A door appeared in the void, and a girl lay at the doorway, anxiously peering inside.

"You are my lucky girl."

Xu Fu smiled weakly, changed direction and flew towards the portal. He crashed into cracks along the way, leaving behind a pair of hands, feet and half of his face, but he didn't care about those anymore. His eyes were only on the light.

The narrow portal, though seemingly close at hand, is actually tens of thousands of miles away.

This was the longest distance of his life, more painful than in the Green Underworld, where there was no hope and he didn't care, but things were different now.

Diana was inside him, and Linda was in front of him, both women waiting for him.

For the sake of a happy life in the future, Xu Fu had no choice but to seal everything off and spare no effort in consuming the soul crystals to fill this body with energy.

Gradually, the speed increased and the distance shortened.

Finally, the darkness dissipated and the light appeared.

Pong!

A spherical monster covered in wounds and with deathly gray skin burst through the portal and appeared before Barry and Linda.

The two were stunned and instinctively took protective actions. Meanwhile, the wizard Shazam, who was resting outside, suddenly opened his eyes wide, looking extremely shocked, as if he had seen something unbelievable.

"It's them!"

"I can't believe he really came back! He's from the underworld!"

The old man was muttering something, which made Billy Batson shout excitedly. He rushed into the house, and then...

"It's them, the wizard said they've returned."

"Boss Show and Superman, they're back."

Linda turned around in fright and quickly used an X-ray to see inside: the spherical monster had a big belly, inside which sat four people: Diana, Clark, Ron, and a guy who looked like a dragon.

"The stomach, they're in the stomach."

Linda was so excited that she was about to use her heat ray to pierce the monster when the magician entered and said...

“Don’t hurt him, it’s the same as hurting a soul trapped in a body. Billy, go and get Xu Fu-Xiao’s body.”

Without hesitation, the boy ran up to the third floor as fast as he could and picked up the body from the incubator. After Xu Fu's journey to the underworld, the body had been properly secured by Linda and was in good condition.

"The soul nourishes the body, and the body soothes the soul; this is all he needs now."

The wizard grabbed Xu Fu's hand and placed it on the monster. A thin green light appeared, flowing from the monster to Xu Fu. His heart began to beat, and his breathing became more and more rapid. The long-dormant "corpse" finally came to life.

Linda couldn't help but ask, "How is he now? Will he be in danger after he wakes up?"

“His life isn’t in serious danger, but if he wakes up…” He shook his head slightly, “I think it will take a long time.”

Linda and Barry breathed a sigh of relief. But once they woke up, time no longer mattered. The two of them worked together and carefully cut open the monster's body. In the past, even the sharpest knife would not have been able to harm a single hair on the monster child's head, but unfortunately, he had now become a withered tree with nothing to cling to.