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Chapter 880
chapter 0364 part 1
## Chapter 360: Imprint and the Dark Lord Banner
Steppenwolf placed his palm on the Boom Tube opened by the Mother Box. The next moment, his palm felt as if it had been struck by a high-pressure electric current, and his entire body was directly flung out, crashing heavily against a wall made of Blood Jade Lotus petals.
"Roar, Darkseid!"
Steppenwolf stood up and looked at the Boom Tube. He understood that the reason the Boom Tube rejected him was because someone on the other side had revoked his clearance.
Although he had been exiled from Apokolips, as a former General of Apokolips, he naturally possessed the clearance to command the Parademon Legion and activate the Mother Box.
On Apokolips, the only one with the power and qualifications to strip him of this clearance was the King of Apokolips, his nephew, Darkseid.
Steppenwolf's eyes were filled with rage, but seeing the blood mist gradually appearing around him, he knew this was not the time for anger. He needed to leave this place as quickly as possible.
Staggering to the Mother Box, Steppenwolf placed his palm on it and chanted in the language of the New Gods.
It wasn't a spell, but a string of management code used to alter the Mother Box.
He wanted to close the Boom Tube leading to Apokolips and open a new one to leave this place.
"My King! Should I interrupt his operation!"
Desaad, observing through the Boom Tube, saw Steppenwolf attempting to close it and quickly asked Darkseid.
The Mother Box left on Earth was crafted by Desaad for Darkseid before he ascended to the throne.
Later, Darkseid suffered a crushing defeat on Earth, and the Mother Box was lost there, split into three parts. Although Desaad had left a backdoor in these Mother Boxes, it was like a disassembled mobile phone with the battery removed; remote control naturally had no effect.
Now that Steppenwolf had reassembled the disassembled phone, Desaad could naturally regain remote control over the Mother Box.
Darkseid remained expressionless, calmly watching the Mother Box without saying a word.
Desaad had followed Darkseid for thousands of years and was already familiar with the monarch he served.
Clearly, although Darkseid had refused Steppenwolf's request to return to Apokolips, he also didn't want his uncle to die before his eyes.
Desaad decisively closed his mouth and silently watched Steppenwolf's every move through the Boom Tube.
"Buzz!"
As Steppenwolf's palm gathered energy, the runes on the surface of the Mother Box began to shift.
The patterns subtly representing galaxy coordinates began to point towards a remote galaxy.
That was also Steppenwolf's Place of Exile.
...
"Can you please take your hand off my Mother Box!"
Just as Steppenwolf was about to change the teleportation coordinate of the Boom Tube, a voice suddenly sounded behind him.
Swoosh! Hearing the voice so close behind him, almost pressed against his back, Steppenwolf felt a chill run up his spine, reaching his heavenly spirit.
Steppenwolf released the palm pressing on the Mother Box at the fastest speed possible, grabbed his axe, turned, and chopped—all in one fluid motion.
The lightning energy unleashed by the Electro-Axe spread out like a fan.
The surrounding blood mist was neatly cut through. Clang! With a loud crash, the Electro-Axe's energy wave heavily struck a Blood Jade petal.
A visible shockwave swept through the strange blood mist again.
However, this blood mist did not disperse. Instead, it gathered in front of Steppenwolf, quickly coalescing into a human form.
"Hiss!"
Looking at the blood mist before him, Steppenwolf raised his Electro-Axe and brought it down on this ghostly thing.
"Clang!"
Steppenwolf's axe passed directly through the blood mist and struck the ground heavily.
Dozens of cracks spread across the reinforced concrete ground of the dam, fracturing across the entire dam. The next moment, with a rumbling sound, dust flew, sand and rocks surged, and the entire abandoned dam collapsed, revealing a blood-colored lotus platform below.
Beneath the dam, a Blood Jade Lotus Platform about thirty meters high and a hundred meters in area had appeared at some unknown time.
Steppenwolf looked around. He was standing in the center of the Blood Jade Lotus Platform, surrounded by towering, blood-colored walls that stretched endlessly, their boundaries unclear.
A sense of inexplicable insignificance welled up in his heart.
"Roar!"
Steppenwolf shook his head, casting the emotions in his heart aside.
"Get out here!"
He raised the Electro-Axe in his hand, gathering the energy around his entire body onto the axe blade, and chopped down at the Blood Jade Platform beneath his feet.
Clang!
Steppenwolf's axe blade struck the Blood Jade-like Lotus Seed Ground, chipping off a piece of the axe blade forged from alien alloy.
The chipped axe blade flew past Steppenwolf's face, leaving a bloodstain. The drops of blood didn't even reach the ground.
They turned into wisps of blood mist and dissipated.
Steppenwolf held his broken Electro-Axe, watching the blood mist surge before him.
The blood mist churned, gradually contracting inwards. Soon, a figure that looked familiar to Darkseid, who was observing through the Boom Tube, appeared on the Blood Jade Lotus Platform.
"Who are you? Is this your doing!"
Steppenwolf looked at Tang Song, who was dressed in white, and pointed his broken Electro-Axe at him.
Tang Song ignored him. He extended his palm, and the next moment, a black suitcase appeared out of thin air in front of him.
Watching Tang Song calmly examine the suitcase, completely ignored, Steppenwolf could no longer suppress the rage in his heart.
He bent his knees, leaped up, and brought his Electro-Axe down fiercely on Tang Song's head again.
Tang Song reached into the suitcase and took out a translucent canister. He extended a finger, teasing the small monster that had just taken shape inside.
"Tsk tsk tsk..."
Tang Song's finger seemed like a phantom, passing directly through the experimental-grade protective canister and reaching the Doomsday Embryo.
The ugly yet cute little monster immediately hugged Tang Song's finger and opened its mouth to bite down.
Unexpectedly, when it bit down, the finger it was holding exploded into a ball of blood mist.
The Doomsday Embryo stared with its large eyes, its foolish gaze filled with confusion.
The ball of blood mist, however, seemed to condense into a thread of red light and merged into the Doomsday Embryo's brow.
"Ah woo!"
The Doomsday Embryo instantly felt sleepiness wash over it. It yawned in the green nutrient fluid, drank a few gulps of nutrient fluid, curled up its body, and fell into a slumber.
Meanwhile, above Tang Song's head, two shadows were fiercely fighting.
The aftershocks of their clash, bang bang bang, were like an eighteen-grade gale swaying everything.
If this Altar Space hadn't been abnormally sturdy, the aftershocks of their battle alone could have destroyed a city.
## Chapter 360: Imprint and the Dark Lord Banner
Steppenwolf placed his palm on the Boom Tube opened by the Mother Box. The next moment, his palm felt as if it had been struck by a high-pressure electric current, and his entire body was directly flung out, crashing heavily against a wall made of Blood Jade Lotus petals.
"Roar, Darkseid!"
Steppenwolf stood up and looked at the Boom Tube. He understood that the reason the Boom Tube rejected him was because someone on the other side had revoked his clearance.
Although he had been exiled from Apokolips, as a former General of Apokolips, he naturally possessed the clearance to command the Parademon Legion and activate the Mother Box.
On Apokolips, the only one with the power and qualifications to strip him of this clearance was the King of Apokolips, his nephew, Darkseid.
Steppenwolf's eyes were filled with rage, but seeing the blood mist gradually appearing around him, he knew this was not the time for anger. He needed to leave this place as quickly as possible.
Staggering to the Mother Box, Steppenwolf placed his palm on it and chanted in the language of the New Gods.
It wasn't a spell, but a string of management code used to alter the Mother Box.
He wanted to close the Boom Tube leading to Apokolips and open a new one to leave this place.
"My King! Should I interrupt his operation!"
Desaad, observing through the Boom Tube, saw Steppenwolf attempting to close it and quickly asked Darkseid.
The Mother Box left on Earth was crafted by Desaad for Darkseid before he ascended to the throne.
Later, Darkseid suffered a crushing defeat on Earth, and the Mother Box was lost there, split into three parts. Although Desaad had left a backdoor in these Mother Boxes, it was like a disassembled mobile phone with the battery removed; remote control naturally had no effect.
Now that Steppenwolf had reassembled the disassembled phone, Desaad could naturally regain remote control over the Mother Box.
Darkseid remained expressionless, calmly watching the Mother Box without saying a word.
Desaad had followed Darkseid for thousands of years and was already familiar with the monarch he served.
Clearly, although Darkseid had refused Steppenwolf's request to return to Apokolips, he also didn't want his uncle to die before his eyes.
Desaad decisively closed his mouth and silently watched Steppenwolf's every move through the Boom Tube.
"Buzz!"
As Steppenwolf's palm gathered energy, the runes on the surface of the Mother Box began to shift.
The patterns subtly representing galaxy coordinates began to point towards a remote galaxy.
That was also Steppenwolf's Place of Exile.
...
"Can you please take your hand off my Mother Box!"
Just as Steppenwolf was about to change the teleportation coordinate of the Boom Tube, a voice suddenly sounded behind him.
Swoosh! Hearing the voice so close behind him, almost pressed against his back, Steppenwolf felt a chill run up his spine, reaching his heavenly spirit.
Steppenwolf released the palm pressing on the Mother Box at the fastest speed possible, grabbed his axe, turned, and chopped—all in one fluid motion.
The lightning energy unleashed by the Electro-Axe spread out like a fan.
The surrounding blood mist was neatly cut through. Clang! With a loud crash, the Electro-Axe's energy wave heavily struck a Blood Jade petal.
A visible shockwave swept through the strange blood mist again.
However, this blood mist did not disperse. Instead, it gathered in front of Steppenwolf, quickly coalescing into a human form.
"Hiss!"
Looking at the blood mist before him, Steppenwolf raised his Electro-Axe and brought it down on this ghostly thing.
"Clang!"
Steppenwolf's axe passed directly through the blood mist and struck the ground heavily.
Dozens of cracks spread across the reinforced concrete ground of the dam, fracturing across the entire dam. The next moment, with a rumbling sound, dust flew, sand and rocks surged, and the entire abandoned dam collapsed, revealing a blood-colored lotus platform below.
Beneath the dam, a Blood Jade Lotus Platform about thirty meters high and a hundred meters in area had appeared at some unknown time.
Steppenwolf looked around. He was standing in the center of the Blood Jade Lotus Platform, surrounded by towering, blood-colored walls that stretched endlessly, their boundaries unclear.
A sense of inexplicable insignificance welled up in his heart.
"Roar!"
Steppenwolf shook his head, casting the emotions in his heart aside.
"Get out here!"
He raised the Electro-Axe in his hand, gathering the energy around his entire body onto the axe blade, and chopped down at the Blood Jade Platform beneath his feet.
Clang!
Steppenwolf's axe blade struck the Blood Jade-like Lotus Seed Ground, chipping off a piece of the axe blade forged from alien alloy.
The chipped axe blade flew past Steppenwolf's face, leaving a bloodstain. The drops of blood didn't even reach the ground.
They turned into wisps of blood mist and dissipated.
Steppenwolf held his broken Electro-Axe, watching the blood mist surge before him.
The blood mist churned, gradually contracting inwards. Soon, a figure that looked familiar to Darkseid, who was observing through the Boom Tube, appeared on the Blood Jade Lotus Platform.
"Who are you? Is this your doing!"
Steppenwolf looked at Tang Song, who was dressed in white, and pointed his broken Electro-Axe at him.
Tang Song ignored him. He extended his palm, and the next moment, a black suitcase appeared out of thin air in front of him.
Watching Tang Song calmly examine the suitcase, completely ignored, Steppenwolf could no longer suppress the rage in his heart.
He bent his knees, leaped up, and brought his Electro-Axe down fiercely on Tang Song's head again.
Tang Song reached into the suitcase and took out a translucent canister. He extended a finger, teasing the small monster that had just taken shape inside.
"Tsk tsk tsk..."
Tang Song's finger seemed like a phantom, passing directly through the experimental-grade protective canister and reaching the Doomsday Embryo.
The ugly yet cute little monster immediately hugged Tang Song's finger and opened its mouth to bite down.
Unexpectedly, when it bit down, the finger it was holding exploded into a ball of blood mist.
The Doomsday Embryo stared with its large eyes, its foolish gaze filled with confusion.
The ball of blood mist, however, seemed to condense into a thread of red light and merged into the Doomsday Embryo's brow.
"Ah woo!"
The Doomsday Embryo instantly felt sleepiness wash over it. It yawned in the green nutrient fluid, drank a few gulps of nutrient fluid, curled up its body, and fell into a slumber.
Meanwhile, above Tang Song's head, two shadows were fiercely fighting.
The aftershocks of their clash, bang bang bang, were like an eighteen-grade gale swaying everything.
If this Altar Space hadn't been abnormally sturdy, the aftershocks of their battle alone could have destroyed a city.
