The Anti-Life Equation's Coordinates

A black torrent surged toward the Green Lantern Corps.

Hal Jordan clenched his ring as the fourth energy barrier shook violently. John Stewart reinforced the structure from the other side, but its energy lattice kept splintering.

The rune barrier Kyle Rayner had just conjured was torn to pieces in an instant.

"We can't hold it!" Guy Gardner roared.

He swung a massive warhammer forged from his will into the torrent, but it vanished without raising so much as a ripple.

The rings' light dimmed visibly. The energy Chu Hang had poured into them was vast as an ocean, yet it drained away like a breached river of stars.

The Anti-Monitor's will carried the crushing terror of countless annihilated universes. Every strand of antimatter could erase a planet.

"Everyone, fall back!" Hal ordered.

He knew that if the torrent broke through, it would swallow the Watchtower within three seconds. Earth would begin to disintegrate thirty seconds later.

The fifth barrier was about to collapse.

A hand settled on Hal's shoulder.

Chu Hang passed everyone and walked toward the heart of the rift. The black torrent roared ten meters away, but his eyes remained calm.

"Move."

Every Green Lantern stepped back.

Chu Hang raised his right hand. The golden Alchemy Array in his palm blazed to life, its arcane radiance winding up his arm like a living thing. He spread his fingers toward the world-ending torrent and closed them gently.

In that instant, all sound ceased.

Time and space seemed to freeze together. The surging antimatter torrent hung motionless in midair. Its violent black energy rapidly faded, revealing a cold metallic sheen. An incomprehensible Supreme Law forcibly rewrote the nature of its fundamental particles, turning void into solid matter.

Hal's eyes widened.

The torrent compressed in Chu Hang's hand, reassembled, and finally