Chapter Summaries

Lin Xu stripped several angels of their angelic powers and announced a strict policy against angels secretly having children with demons or humans. In 2023, Adrian woke up after a dangerous trip through the Quantum Realm and told Doom and Tony that Lin Xu was alive in the DC Universe.

• Lin Xu stripped the rebellious angels of their wings and power, then introduced himself as Vishanti, the Judicial Angel, and warned others to turn themselves in or face death.
• Lin Xu left the bar, pleased that his new disciplinary rule might help him avoid political trouble in Heaven, while Luke decided to turn himself in.
• Tony told Doom that Adrian would die if he attempted another quantum contact, and Doom asked when Adrian would wake so he could learn what happened on the other side.
• Adrian woke and told Doom that Lin Xu had said he had transmigrated to the DC Universe and was teaching young Superman alongside Tony.
• Adrian greeted Tony and said he had found his boss, prompting Doom to explain that Lin Xu was Stark Industries' second-largest shareholder and Tony to question how that had happened.

Tony learned that Lin had crossed the multiversal barrier and contacted Strange to discuss how it could have happened. In the DC Universe, Lin and Constantine processed hundreds of angels who chose mortal lives, while Gabriel began explaining Heaven’s shift in power after Lucifer fell.

• Tony connected Lin’s disappearance to the Quantum Tunnel and asked Doom who Lin had fought; Doom said it was the evil Sorcerer Supreme.
• Strange secretly took a book about an oblivion spell, then left Kamar-Taj after Tony told him Lin had crossed the multiversal barrier.
• Constantine interviewed angels seeking to leave Heaven while Lin stripped away their angelic power, and several hundred chose to become mortal.
• Lin gained thirty percent more angelic power and said he could now trade blows with Dark Strange even without the dimension-sealing array.
• Gabriel congratulated Lin and explained that Lucifer had once managed angelic discipline before Michael monopolized power after Lucifer fell.

Lin Xu learned why Michael avoided confronting angels corrupted by desire and began considering whether his new angelic power could let him reach Heaven. Meanwhile, Bruce and Tony received high-tech equipment and researchers at the Kent Farm, where Tony eagerly engaged them in scientific discussion and sent Bruce to pick up Clark.

• Gabriel warned Lin Xu that powerful angels corrupted by desire became demons, and cautioned him against investigating angels’ desires too deeply.
• Lin Xu sent Gabriel through a Mystic Portal and wondered whether his angelic power could enable him to open a Dimension Portal to Heaven.
• Wayne Enterprises trucks delivered equipment to the Kent Farm, where Bruce welcomed Lucius Fox and researcher Silas Stone.
• Tony greeted Lucius and Silas warmly, asked Silas about his family, and invited both scientists to discuss academic questions.
• Bruce asked Tony about his promised help, but Tony postponed their discussion and told Bruce to pick up Clark.

Lin Xu entered Heaven, where Michael revealed that Lin Xu was God’s newly acquired son and gave him an Ancient Angelic Body. Michael said Tony might find a way to return Lin Xu to his own universe in ten or twenty years, so Lin Xu left Heaven for the mortal world.

• Lin Xu reached Heaven’s Star Palace and tried to leave after learning it was forbidden ground, but Michael summoned him inside.
• Michael revealed that he was a multiversal being and taught Lin Xu the Ancient Angelic Body, allowing Lin Xu to grow to Michael’s height.
• Michael called Lin Xu his seventh brother and explained that God had paid a high price to bring him to Heaven.
• Michael said Tony was working on a way to send Lin Xu home, but warned that he would not risk sending Lin Xu back himself because God might beat him.
• Michael attributed Heaven’s oppressive atmosphere to Lucifer’s lingering aura, while Lin Xu suspected Michael’s explanation differed from Gabriel’s.
• Lin Xu declined Michael’s offer to build him a palace and returned to the mortal world.

Lin Xu returned to Earth convinced that God had brought him there, while Michael and Lucifer argued over their father’s plans and Lin Xu’s role in them. In Smallville, Tony advised Bruce on using WayneTech to create jobs and improve conditions in Gotham, and Bruce began to see how he could put the plan into action.

• After Lin Xu left Heaven, Michael and Lucifer discussed Lin Xu’s connection to their father’s plans and Lucifer’s regret over losing his freedom.
• Lin Xu returned to Earth, confirmed his suspicion that God had brought him there, and changed his crimson cloak into Asgardian-style armor and back into a suit.
• Constantine told Lin Xu that more angels had arrived to turn themselves in, and Lin Xu sent him away.
• In Smallville, Tony argued that people’s environments shaped them and urged Bruce to address poverty in Gotham by moving WayneTech factories there and creating stable jobs.
• Tony advised Bruce to fund worker training, nearby schools and hospitals, and a WayneTech Expo, while managing wages and school access to prevent competition from other income groups.
• Bruce understood Tony’s plan, and Tony felt smug after spending two hours explaining it.

Tony was warned by Barbatos to stay out of Gotham, then told Lin Xu about the threat. Lin Xu decided to leave his Judicial Angel duties and go sea fishing, confident Michael had heard his complaint.

• Barbatos appeared to Tony in a vision and warned him not to interfere in Gotham.
• Tony woke in a burned room after his serum turned him into lava during a nightmare, and Bruce explained that he had been on fire for hours.
• Lin Xu closed the Kamar-Taj Exorcism Agency for the day and invited Constantine to go sea fishing.
• Tony called Lin Xu and revealed that Barbatos had threatened him after he advised Bruce.
• Lin Xu implied that Michael should intervene, and Constantine's cigarette turned into a chopstick and then a dagger.
• Lin Xu hurried Constantine out to go sea fishing, declaring that no one, not even Jesus, would stop him from taking the day off.

Michael and Lucifer went after Barbatos after learning Lin Xu had been using Michael as a weapon, while Lin Xu and Constantine spent hours fishing without much success. In the Marvel Universe, Strange explained that Lin Xu’s appearances were linked to Time Convergence and proposed a way to bring him back, asking who Lin cared about.

• Michael told Lucifer that Lin Xu was using him as a weapon, and Lucifer joined Michael in confronting Barbatos in the Dark Multiverse.
• Lin Xu and Constantine rented a yacht and fished for over five hours, but Constantine was the only one to catch anything.
• Tony found no records of Lin Xu and concluded his ordinary identity was fabricated, while Strange said his forbidden spell had revealed three skipped points in Asgard’s past.
• Strange connected those gaps to Lin Xu’s appearances and called the phenomenon Time Convergence, suggesting Lin and his enemy could cross beyond the multiverse.
• Strange took out Kof-Carl's Ruins and asked whether anyone knew whom Lin cared about.