The Birth of a New World

"Dr. Zhang?" Barry spotted Zhang Tianran, and a flicker of joy immediately appeared on his face.

But before he could ask anything, the figure who appeared next left Barry unable to believe his eyes.

Oliver Queen had now merged with Spectre. It could be said that he was both Oliver Queen and Spectre.

"Oliver?" Sara looked at Oliver Queen in delighted surprise. As someone who had once come back from the dead, she did not seem overly shocked to see Oliver Queen again.

"Yes, but also no. It's complicated... I am Oliver Queen, but at the same time, I am also another kind of existence—a Spectre in harmony with the entire Multiverse," Oliver Queen said calmly.

At this moment, he should be considered Spectre with Oliver Queen's memories and emotions.

"What's happened to the Multiverse?" Kara asked the most crucial question.

"It has already disappeared, replaced by the universe opposed to it. The Anti-Monitor is now at the Beginning of Time, attempting to destroy all Multiverses permanently."

"If we want to stop him, we'll need a backup plan and go back to the past to change all this..." Oliver Queen explained.

"The Speed Force. The Speed Force is the key to ending all of this." Barry suddenly realized something, but it was immediately followed by a sense of loss.

Yet soon, Barry turned his gaze toward Zhang Tianran, a trace of hope appearing in his eyes.

Noticing Barry's gaze, Zhang Tianran gave a bitter smile. "As for the Speed Force, it doesn't seem to welcome me very much. I haven't been able to enter it from the very beginning..."

Barry was somewhat surprised to hear that. But with that hope shattered, he could only turn to Oliver Queen for help.

"The Speed Force truly is the key to ending everything."

Hearing this, Barry immediately asked, "You said just now that you're connected to the Multiverse. Does that include the Speed Force?"

"Barry, the questions you're asking are quite dangerous..." Oliver Queen hurriedly warned him.

"But... if possible, you can give me the energy I need. That way, we can appear in two places at once." Having seen hope, Barry did not care at all about the danger Oliver Queen mentioned.

"Barry, do you trust me?" Oliver Queen asked solemnly.

"Are you Oliver Queen?" Barry countered.

"I am!"

"Then I trust you."

Next, Oliver Queen reached out and tapped Barry on the forehead. Seemingly, nothing happened.

"I've awakened all your potential. You should be able to do it now."

With Oliver Queen's words, Barry Allen transformed into a bolt of lightning that directly enveloped everyone present.

Zhang Tianran frowned, allowing the lightning Barry had become to carry him away. At this moment, Barry Allen seemed to have lost his physical body entirely, moving too fast for Zhang Tianran to observe.

The reason he had remained silent until now was for this very moment.

Just as Zhang Tianran thought Barry would carry him into the Speed Force as well.

So I'm finally going inside the Speed Force? I'm actually looking forward to this...

Abruptly, Zhang Tianran appeared out of thin air at the Beginning of Time. Before him was the melee between Barry's group and the creatures from the Antimatter Universe.

"Why is it this point in time again? Did the Speed Force kick me out again, or did I lose part of my memories? Something isn't right..."

Clearly, compared to Barry and the others, Zhang Tianran had lost some time. Events that should have happened had been skipped entirely.

The sight made Zhang Tianran suspicious. It seemed as though some force had always been preventing him from approaching the Speed Force.

"This is... really irritating!" Agitated, Zhang Tianran's body began radiating vast amounts of White Speed Force, and in an instant, he split into hundreds of figures.

In the blink of an eye, white lightning blanketed the entire battlefield. Shrill rushing sounds filled the air, along with an ever-growing number of Antimatter Universe creatures reduced to fragments.

Because he was in a bad mood, Zhang Tianran's methods were somewhat rougher than usual, and he did not restrain the destruction he caused to the surroundings.

Very quickly, Barry and the others stopped fighting and began protecting the physically weaker members of their group.

Not because of the enemy, but because Zhang Tianran was moving too fast. Not only did he destroy vast swathes of land, but he also generated chaotic, irregular gusts throughout the area.

Several dozen seconds later, the white lightning vanished completely. The densely packed enemies had all disappeared without a trace.

Zhang Tianran revealed himself once more, not a speck of dust on his clothes, as though nothing had happened just now.

"The minions have all been dealt with. Next, you chosen few should help Oliver Queen defeat the Anti-Monitor!" Walking to one side, Zhang Tianran ignored their reactions and began carefully examining his own condition.

There was nothing wrong with his memories, nor were there any signs of temporal travel within his body. Zero's records were entirely normal, aside from Zhang Tianran appearing out of thin air at the Beginning of Time.

What exactly was going on? Had a higher-dimensional lifeform intervened?

Unable to find the fourth clue, Zhang Tianran could only stand to the side and watch the battle between Spectre and the Anti-Monitor.

There was not much to watch in the battle between those two. It was merely a contest of raw energy. Perhaps at that level, technique no longer mattered?

Of course, it was also possible that Zhang Tianran simply could not see much of what was happening.

However, when Barry and the other seven chosen individuals used the pages from the Book of Destiny, Zhang Tianran did sense something.

Though he could not describe it, Zhang Tianran instinctively knew what it was.

With the seven people's boost, Spectre finally defeated the Anti-Monitor. After completing his task, Spectre left Oliver Queen's body.

But unfortunately, Green Arrow still failed to survive in the end.

After Oliver Queen finished saying his goodbyes to everyone, time began flowing once more.

This time, Zhang Tianran was not passively swept along by time. Instead, like an observer, he quietly watched it flow.

From this moment onward, fifty-two branches converged into a single timeline. The same people from different worlds gradually became one person.

As for the original fifty-two, they were completely erased by time.

At that moment, Zhang Tianran saw humans being freely pieced together, altered, and then recreated like dolls.

Of everything that had been altered, only a handful still remembered. Yet even they could not sense that the entire world was all that different from before.

Humanity, it seemed, simply lived on in constant busyness, utterly unaware that everything around them had long since changed.

"The birth of a world is beautiful, isn't it?" Standing within time, Zhang Tianran suddenly heard a voice sigh in admiration.

"You are... the Speed Force!"