


He was taught to renounce all earthly possessions and to live a life of peace and discipline, but then one day a concubine named Jade Moon came to him in his temple, begging for help in trying to escape her bonds. When Jong Li was growing up, he was taught of the Dragon Lords, beings who ruled in the "Golden Age" of man, and that under these lords, man prospered. He is actually Earth's first Green Lantern, and was a monk raised in the Temple of the Dragon Lords in China. Jong Li is a Green Lantern introduced in Green Lantern, Dragon Lord #1 (June 2001), written by Doug Moench and drawn by Paul Gulacy. He shot beams upon Darkseid, who hastily cut his hand and killed him, but his ring flew to find a new wearer worthy of its power away, before Darkseid can get it, thanks to Zeus and his children Ares and Artemis. In Zack Snyder's Justice League, Yalan Gur appears as a "guardian from the sky" alongside the Old Gods, Atlanteans, Amazons and humans who fought against Darkseid and his army of Parademons in around 3000 BC. Meeting a more noble fate than his comic book counterpart, Yalan Gur is killed opposing Steppenwolf, with his ring fleeing to find a suitable successor its departure, whether or not it was by intention of Yalan or the Guardians, becomes a helpful distraction, drawing Steppenwolf's attention to allow a successful assault on him by the Olympian Gods. In the film, Justice League, the character is present at the battle during the 10th century, aligned with the Amazons, Humans and Atlanteans against Steppenwolf and his armies. The later retcon involving the true reason behind the yellow impurity may mean these events have been retconned out of existence. His lantern then collided with a fragment of the Starheart and was merged with its magical essence, turning into the Green Flame that becomes the source of Alan Scott's power.

The dying Yalan Gur fled into Earth's upper atmosphere, where he merged with his lantern-shaped power battery as he died. The Guardians of the Universe thwarted Yalan by adding a new weakness of wood to his ring, which allowed the club-wielding villagers to overwhelm their oppressor and mortally wound him. Without this limitation, however, he was corrupted by his power, and he came to Earth and enslaved the people of China. In the lantern's story, Yalan Gur was once one of the greatest of the Green Lantern Corps, and, in the 10th century by Earth reckoning, the Guardians of the Universe chose to remove the customary weakness to the color yellow from his power ring. After tracing the projection to Scott's home, the lantern tells the story of its origin (effectively retconning the origin of Alan Scott's power). While Alan Scott, along with the rest of the Justice Society of America, is trapped in Limbo, his mystic lantern sends a projection to Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, and John Stewart (the Green Lanterns of Earth at the time). He is a red-scaled, reptilian humanoid, assigned to sector 2814 (Earth's sector) in the 10th century. Yalan Gur is a Green Lantern introduced as part of an effort to reconcile the Golden Age Green Lantern's origin with the later introduction of the Green Lantern Corps. These seven characters are most closely associated with the name "Green Lantern" and have been the title characters of Green Lantern comics. 11 Green Lanterns by sectors of the universe.10.9.1 Frankie, Kelly, Jaclyn, and Samosa.2 Other Green Lanterns of Earth's sector.
