Several more decades passed.
One day, in the café in Chinatown.
Bzzzt!
A Galaxy Vortex appeared, and Wu Fengji stepped out.
Lu Chen glanced at her. "Went to the Hell Dimension again?"
Wu Fengji looked a little pale. She had indeed gone to the Hell Dimension to challenge Mephisto to a duel. But the result had been the same as before: even after upgrading the Snow Mastiff Armor to the Blizzard Demon Mastiff and going all out, she still couldn't beat him.
"Hmm?"
Just then, Lu Chen frowned, sensing something wrong.
Bzzzt!
Lu Chen raised his hand and released Heavenly Dao Power, enveloping Wu Fengji.
Immediately, he saw something strange.
Inside Wu Fengji's body was a black doorway, exuding dense black mist. Beyond it seemed to lie some unknown space.
Divine light blazed in Lu Chen's eyes. Through that doorway, he sensed an aura that filled him with utter revulsion!
That aura...
Evil, savage, and bloody!
It was practically the source of everything sinister and uncanny in existence!
"The One-Below-All, OBA!"
Lu Chen's expression darkened instantly.
That monstrously evil being from the Marvel Omniverse was actually trying to enter the physical world through Wu Fengji!
OBA resided beneath the Hell Dimension. Like Chthon, he needed an immensely powerful vessel to enter the physical world in his complete form.
In the original storyline, OBA's vessel had been the Green Scar Great Emperors-Hulk.
But in the current Marvel Omniverse, Hulk had yet to appear. Instead, Wu Fengji had become OBA's vessel.
The main reason Wu Fengji had fallen prey to his scheme was that she was too weak. She was merely multiverse-level, while OBA, despite being beneath all things, still possessed hyper-omniverse-level power.
Thus, during Wu Fengji's battles against Mephisto, the lord of Hell, OBA had silently left marks on her.
Once enough marks accumulated, OBA would be able to break through the seal beneath all things, possess Wu Fengji, and enter the physical world directly in his complete form!
"Heh. All these years of comfort have dulled my vigilance this much."
Lu Chen shook his head with a rueful chuckle. This really had been his mistake. He should have noticed long ago.
Over the past thousand years, Wu Fengji had repeatedly gone to challenge the Hell Dimension. Even if she loved fighting and was a battle maniac through and through, this was far too abnormal.
"Huh?"
Wu Fengji tilted her head, not understanding what Lu Chen meant.
"But now that I've discovered you, you'd better stay put and sleep."
Lu Chen offered no explanation. He unleashed his terrifying Heavenly Dao Power, shattering the black doorway inside Wu Fengji and severing her faint connection to OBA.
Wu Fengji looked puzzled. "Lu Chen, what's wrong?"
Lu Chen replied irritably, "You nearly got sold out!"
"I got sold out? How could that happen?"
"The supremely evil being beneath all things, OBA, tried to use you as a vessel to enter the physical world. He was secretly behind your repeated challenges to Mephisto. Though, from the looks of it, Mephisto doesn't know he's just a pawn either," Lu Chen said.
Wu Fengji jumped in fright. "What about now? Am I all right?"
"You're fine. I've severed your connection to OBA."
Then Lu Chen changed tack. "But since he's already been born, his true vessel probably isn't far from being born either. If OBA can use you as a vessel, he can use someone else. That bastard is cunning!"
The Omniverse contained countless, immeasurably tangled timelines. Thus, even when the timelines of parallel universes differed, the discrepancy wouldn't be too outrageous-at most, tens or hundreds of thousands of years.
To put it plainly, in another few tens of thousands of years, OBA would possess the Green Scar Great Emperors, break through the seal beneath all things, and descend upon the Omniverse in his most terrifying, most powerful form!
Beneath the Hell Dimension.
"Interesting. How very interesting. To think that someone in the Omniverse besides that old bastard OAA could peer into my domain!"
An astonished voice rang out in the boundless darkness.
This being was the embodiment of all evil, ill omen, and corruption in existence: the One-Below-All, OBA!
Just moments earlier, an incomparably mighty power of light had crashed down beneath all things, waking him from his slumber.
"Mysterious and powerful being of light, you'd better not let me enter your world."
OBA was somewhat furious. His vessel had been discovered, his plans disrupted, and he could no longer enter the physical world on schedule.
There was nothing he could do. The seal beneath all things was simply too powerful-so powerful that even he, whose true body stood at the pinnacle of omniverse-level strength, could not break it.
Fortunately, after researching it for endless ages, he had finally managed to open a passage. But that passage was far too fragile to withstand his true body.
Elsewhere.
Lu Chen seemed to sense something, as though a mysterious, powerful being was watching him.
He immediately thought of OBA.
He had shattered the black doorway and severed the connection between OBA and Wu Fengji. OBA must have noticed.
"Heh. Have you set your sights on me? Then come. I look forward to your arrival."
A glimmer of fighting spirit appeared in Lu Chen's eyes.
Since transmigrating to the Marvel Omniverse, he had yet to encounter anyone who could force him to use his true power.
Even hyper-multiverse-level beings as powerful as Arishem the Judge and Serpent God Set had been defeated by his Xingtian Armor and Wind Eagle Armor. He hadn't even used the Emperor Armor's most basic form.
But Lu Chen's strength did not make him invincible in the Marvel Omniverse, even if he went all out.
At the very least, the Above All, OAA, and the One-Below-All, OBA, had the power to fight him to a draw.
Wait. OAA's opposite is OBA, and Eternity's opposite is the Lord of Chaos. These beings all seem to be two sides of the same whole.
Then my opposite... couldn't be the Shadow Great Emperors, could it?!
The more Lu Chen thought about it, the more likely it seemed.
In the original armor universe, light and shadow, the Ming Realm and the Shadow Realm, had both counteracted and complemented one another.
If the Marvel Omniverse could give birth to the Ming Realm, it could certainly give birth to the Shadow Realm!
The Shadow Realm's dark power and my power of light are complete opposites, and there aren't many darkness-based dimensions in the Marvel Universe.
Chthon's Netherworld, Set's Sea of Serpents, Mephisto's Hell, and...
Dormammu's Dark Dimension!
Lu Chen's pupils contracted, and his expression grew more solemn than ever. He was already preparing to visit the Dark Dimension.
If this was true, he had to snuff it out at its very source!
As the true body of the Heavenly Dao Emperor, Lu Chen knew all too well how powerful the Shadow Great Emperors were!
They were his opposite, and his sworn enemies!
Just like God and the Great Beast in the neighboring DC Omniverse.
Or OAA and OBA in the Marvel Omniverse.
Both sides possessed identical strength, making it impossible for either to kill the other completely!
Fortunately, judging by the current situation, Lu Chen had been born far earlier than the Shadow Great Emperors. He could snuff them out before they emerged.