The Beasts Within and the Unyielding Soul!

You should know this.

When you stare at your opponent, your opponent is staring at you too.

If you want to be as unpredictable and elusive as clouds and mist, you must break out of your old framework...

And do the opposite.

Standing beside the utterly despairing Reverse-Flash, Chen Tao gazed at the darkness taking shape in the distance. He knew that the World Forger must be in its deepest corner, staring back at him across the vast night sky.

Only he. It could only be him. With the Monitor having lost most of his power and the Anti-Monitor reduced to little more than a brain on the current timeline, who else besides the World Forger could toy with the divine power of the Sixth Dimension?

The night had deepened.

Although time was not something meaningful in Reverse-Flash's universe, the night had deepened all the same.

And darkness was Batman's home turf.

Chen Tao fell into thought.

In that profound darkness, countless Black Lantern Corps members were roaring and rampaging, spreading the authority of the Black Death Emperor across the entire world. Blackest Night blotted out the heavens... This made no sense. The birth of Blackest Night was bound by the establishment of the Seven Lantern Corps. If the War of Light had never begun, Blackest Night should not have been able to arrive. That was why it had not been easy for the Black Death Emperor to invade Chen Tao's universe.

But now, that principle had been broken.

Although Chen Tao had summoned the Yellow, Green, Red, Indigo, Violet, and Blue Lanterns from his own universe, Larfleeze of the Orange Lantern Corps was still absent. By all logic, the prerequisites for Blackest Night had not yet been fulfilled.

But in the Dark Multiverse, there had never been any guarantees