"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 even more unable to believe his eyes.
Oliver Queen had now merged with the Spectre. It could be said that he was both Oliver Queen and the Spectre.
"Oliver?" Sara looked at Oliver Queen in delighted surprise. Having died and come back to life herself, she was not 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 another kind of existence—the Spectre, one with the entire Multiverse," Oliver Queen said calmly.
At this moment, he could be considered the Spectre with Oliver Queen's memories and emotions.
"What's happened to the Multiverse?" Kara asked the most crucial question.
"It's gone, replaced by the universe opposed to it. The Anti-Monitor is now at the Beginning of Time, attempting to permanently destroy every Multiverse."
"To stop him, we need a backup plan. We need to go back and change all of this..." Oliver Queen explained.
"The Speed Force. The Speed Force is the key to ending all this." Barry suddenly realized something, but what followed was disappointment.
However, Barry's gaze immediately shifted to Zhang Tianran, and a hint of hope appeared 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. I've never 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 just said you're connected to the Multiverse. Does that include the Speed Force?"
"Barry, the questions you're asking are quite dangerous..." Oliver Queen warned him hurriedly.
"But... if you can, you can give me the energy I need. Then we can appear in two places at once." Having seen hope, Barry did not care at all about the danger Oliver Queen had mentioned.
"Barry, do you trust me?" Oliver Queen asked solemnly.
"Are you Oliver Queen?" Barry asked in return.
"I am!"
"Then I trust you."
Oliver Queen then reached out and tapped Barry on the forehead. It seemed as though nothing had happened.
"I've awakened all your potential. Now, you should be able to do it."
With Oliver Queen's words, Barry Allen transformed into a bolt of lightning and enveloped everyone present.
Zhang Tianran frowned, allowing the lightning Barry had become to carry him away. At that moment, Barry Allen seemed to have lost his physical body, moving so fast that Zhang Tianran could barely observe him.
The reason he had remained silent just now was for this very moment.
Just as Zhang Tianran thought Barry would carry him into the Speed Force with him.
Was he finally going to enter the Speed Force? He was actually looking forward to it...
Abruptly, Zhang Tianran appeared out of thin air at the Beginning of Time. Before him was a chaotic battle between Barry's group and the creatures of 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. Things that should have happened had been skipped entirely.
The sight before him could not help but make Zhang Tianran suspicious. It seemed as though some force had always been preventing him from getting close to the Speed Force.
"This is... really pissing me off!" Agitated, Zhang Tianran's body erupted with vast amounts of White Speed Force, and in an instant, he split into hundreds of figures.
In an instant, the entire battlefield was engulfed in white lightning. Piercing sounds of rushing filled the air, along with more and more 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 damage he caused to the surroundings.
Very quickly, Barry and the others stopped fighting and began protecting the weaker members of their group.
Not because of the enemies, but because Zhang Tianran was moving too fast. He had not only destroyed vast stretches of ground, but also caused chaotic winds to arise throughout the entire area.
Dozens of seconds later, the white lightning vanished completely. The densely packed enemies had all disappeared without a trace.
Zhang Tianran revealed himself again, not a speck of dust on his clothes, as if nothing had happened just now.
"The minions have all been dealt with. Next, you chosen ones should go help Oliver Queen defeat the Anti-Monitor!" Zhang Tianran walked aside, no longer paying attention to their reactions, and began carefully examining his own condition.
There was nothing wrong with his memories, no trace of temporal travel within his body, and Zero's records were entirely normal—aside from Zhang Tianran appearing out of nowhere at the Beginning of Time.
What exactly was going on? Had a higher-dimensional life-form intervened?
Unable to find any clues, Zhang Tianran could only watch the battle between the Spectre and the Anti-Monitor from the sidelines.
There was nothing interesting about the battle between those two. It was merely a contest of 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 six chosen ones used the fragments of the Book of Destiny, Zhang Tianran truly sensed something.
Though he could not describe it, Zhang Tianran instinctively knew what it was.
With the seven of them empowering him, the Spectre finally defeated the Anti-Monitor. The Spectre, having completed his task, then left Oliver Queen's body.
But unfortunately, Green Arrow still did not survive in the end.
After Oliver Queen finished saying his goodbyes to everyone, time began to flow once more.
This time, Zhang Tianran was not passively swept along by time. Instead, he watched its flow quietly, like an observer.
From this moment onward, fifty-two branches converged into a single timeline. The same person from different worlds gradually became one person as well.
As for the original fifty-two, they were completely erased by time.
At that moment, Zhang Tianran saw humanity being freely pieced together and altered like dolls before reappearing.
Only a handful of people remembered everything after it had been altered. Yet even they could not sense any great difference between the world and what it had once been.
Humanity seemed to live like this—busy every day, completely 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!"
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