Atlantis. "That aura feels so familiar." Zhu Bajie was teaching a group of trench people on the seabed when he suddenly sensed a familiar presence. "Could it be—has he returned?"
"Who's returned?" Marcus asked curiously, wiping the spit off his face.
"Your dad," Zhu Bajie said.
"Huh?" Marcus looked at his master and realized he wasn't insulting him. "The Great Sage Equal to Heaven? The Handsome Monkey King? Bimawen? Sun Wukong?"
"There's one title in there I suggest you don't say aloud, unless you want to find out how fatherly love can slap like a fan," Zhu Bajie advised. "But it's time—we should get going."
The Somersault Cloud circled around them several times, seemingly excited.
"Let's go, then." Zhu Bajie and Marcus shrank down and slipped out through a crack in the rocks.
The trench people left behind all reverted to their true forms and collapsed on the ground, satisfying their desires within an illusion.
Gotham City.
"What? Marcus is going to fight the Great Sage's Remnant?" After receiving the news, Roland immediately rushed toward Metropolis.
"That's more or less the situation," Zhu Bajie said.
"Even if it's only the Great Sage's Remnant, can Marcus really take him on?" Roland considered Marcus's fighting ability. He really wasn't all that dependable.
"This is just a trial. Whether he succeeds is up to him." Zhu Bajie sighed a little. "In any case, I've done everything he entrusted me with."
"Oh, I'm already here." Roland opened a portal straight to the LexCorp tower and happened to run into Lex Luthor.
"What? That Ultra-Humanite fellow really teamed up with you?" Lex Luthor was stunned.
"What are you talking about? What Ultra-Humanite?" Roland asked, puzzled.
"He didn't?" Lex Luthor paused. "Then what are you here for?"
"To watch the show." Roland shrugged. "Want to come