Chapter Summaries

Shishigami and Watanabe Shion observed Brandon’s increasingly disturbing behavior, from frightening Catherine at night to crushing her hand at school. Tori revealed Brandon had been drawn to the hidden spaceship, and its red glow stirred him to murmur, “Conquer. Destroy.”

• Shishigami and Watanabe Shion watched Brandon sneak into Catherine’s room and scare her, then Shishigami concluded Brandon had superhuman strength, speed, and some control over magnetic fields.
• Watanabe Shion joined Smallville School as a teaching assistant, where Brandon noticed her but showed no unusual behavior for two days.
• During a gym game, Catherine failed to catch Brandon, and he crushed the bones in her hand when she tried to help him up.
• Brandon’s gaze caused Shishigami’s image to flicker, so Shishigami withdrew his power into the core before Tori arrived.
• Tori told Kyle that Brandon had been pulling at the barn’s trapdoor, where they had hidden the spaceship he arrived in as a baby.
• A red glow and strange magnetic field spread from beneath the barn as Brandon slept and murmured, “Conquer. Destroy.”

Brandon’s awakening revealed that he had arrived on Earth in the spaceship, and Tori’s confession drove him away from his family and toward Catherine. After Brandon attacked Erica, he sensed Shishigami probing the spaceship and returned to the farm, where Watanabe Shion fought him to keep him away.

• Shishigami concluded that Brandon was an alien whose powers were awakening, and planned to investigate the barn.
• Brandon opened the spaceship’s trapdoor, awakened as its red light flooded him, and learned from Tori that he had arrived as a baby in the craft.
• Brandon accused Tori of lying and fled, then sought comfort from Catherine but left when she begged him to go.
• Brandon attacked Erica at Dabo Restaurant, leaving her badly injured, then sensed Shishigami’s attempt to seize the spaceship and flew back to the farm.
• Shishigami used his core to erode the spaceship while Watanabe Shion guarded the barn, and Brandon arrived to stop them.
• Watanabe Shion ambushed Brandon and struck him into a crater, but Brandon recovered and gained the upper hand in their fight.

Shishigami fused with Brandon’s spaceship and gained control of Krypton’s Life Codex, while Watanabe Shion struggled to keep Brandon away from him. After Shishigami rescued her and confronted Brandon, he began pursuing him through town with the goal of devouring his powerful genes.

• Watanabe Shion used the power Shishigami shared with her to block Brandon’s lasers and fight back, but Brandon’s attack accidentally killed Kyle, Tori, and other townspeople.
• Brandon’s grief and rage awakened more of his strength, and he severely injured Watanabe Shion, eventually severing her left arm.
• Shishigami’s core connected with the spaceship, assimilated it, and gave him access to its Life Codex.
• Shishigami emerged in a humanoid liquid-metal form, healed Watanabe Shion, and struck Brandon before he could kill her.
• Shishigami chased Brandon through town, wounding him and damaging buildings as he prepared to use Magnetic Field Devouring to claim Brandon’s genes.

Shishigami defeated and absorbed Brandon, gaining a powerful hybrid body and deciding to seize control of America before taking revenge on Inuyashiki and Shin Seok-heon. As Shishigami and Watanabe Shion reached Washington, a global blood-red sky appeared, and Inuyashiki and Shin Seok-heon prepared to investigate it themselves.

• Shishigami used Krypton metal and his Magnetic Energy Beam Cannon to defeat Brandon, then absorbed him and gained numerous genetic abilities.
• Shishigami stored the Krypton metal in his core, reassured Watanabe Shion, and flew with her toward Washington to begin his plan to control America.
• The sky turned blood-red across the globe, triggering widespread panic and unrest, especially in American cities.
• Inuyashiki and Shin Seok-heon discussed the strange sky and discovered that satellites had lost control.
• Inuyashiki invited Shin Seok-heon to investigate the sky directly, and Shin Seok-heon agreed.

The Four-Eyed Star People invaded Earth with war robots and giant soldiers, but Inuyashiki and Shin Seok-heon destroyed the forces in Tokyo while Shishigami hunted the invaders for their genes. As Inuyashiki repaired Tokyo and Bai Xing considered how to exploit the aliens’ technology, Bai Xing sensed a powerful magnetic field rising toward outer space.

• The Four-Eyed Star People launched a global assault, and Inuyashiki and Shin Seok-heon crushed the invading forces in Tokyo.
• The US Military was overwhelmed, and Shishigami refused to help while hoping to take over America after its defeat.
• Shishigami protected Watanabe Shion, captured two Four-Eyed Star People soldiers, and devoured them, but found their genes unimpressive.
• Inuyashiki repaired Tokyo’s ruined buildings and streets while Shin Seok-heon returned to Korea to fight aliens in Seoul.
• Bai Xing killed a Four-Eyed Star Person and considered feeding its technology into the Techno-Martial Furnace.
• Bai Xing sensed a magnetic field fluctuation of at least 300,000 Horsepower surging toward outer space.

After receiving a system that let him travel between parallel worlds and kill his counterparts, Kaze Daizaemon spent years growing stronger and perfecting his martial arts. He returned to his search with a method that could teach Magnetic Force to Takeshi, but the method he obtained was limited to 500,000 horsepower.

• Kaze Daizaemon learned that the system had transferred to him after he killed a counterpart who had been assassinating versions of himself across parallel worlds.
• Kaze Daizaemon traveled between worlds and killed more than a hundred counterparts, growing stronger while protecting Kenji from danger.
• Kaze Daizaemon returned to his original world, left Kenji there, and witnessed Inuyashiki defeat Shishigami and capture Izumi Shion.
• Kaze Daizaemon spent seven years visiting more than 3,500 parallel worlds and eventually met Feng Wuxiang, a powerful martial arts prodigy.
• Kaze Daizaemon created the Demonic Fiend Heavenly Art and defeated Feng Wuxiang, obtaining the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Manual, which allowed people to cultivate Magnetic Force up to 500,000 horsepower.

After returning from seven years in parallel worlds, Kaze Daizaemon found that only half a month had passed at home and began training Kenji in the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Manual. When the Four-Eyed Star People invaded Earth, Kaze Daizaemon flew to destroy their mothership, while Bai Xing followed and watched as the aliens fired their Source-Energy Particle Cannon at him.

• Kaze Daizaemon returned to his world, found Kenji, and helped him produce inner qi after a night of instruction.
• Kaze Daizaemon prepared to leave with Kenji, but the Four-Eyed Star People invaded under a blood-red sky, so he told Kenji to wait and flew toward the fleet.
• Bai Xing sensed Kaze Daizaemon's immense magnetic-field power, detected the alien invasion with his mark, and pursued him into space.
• The Four-Eyed Star People's War God, Ivan Gudao, ordered the mothership to fire its Source-Energy Particle Cannon at Kaze Daizaemon.
• Bai Xing watched from nearby as the cannon fired, intending to gauge how powerful Kaze Daizaemon had become.

Kaze Daizaemon blocked the Four-Eyed Star People’s attack on Earth, destroyed their mothership, and then clashed with Bai Xing in space. Bai Xing revealed his 500,000 Horsepower and sent Kaze crashing into the Moon, where Kaze recovered and finally committed to fighting him seriously.

• Kaze Daizaemon transformed and used the Eight Trigrams Thunder Vortex to block the Source-Energy Particle Cannon before destroying more than a thousand attacking spacecraft with lightning.
• Kaze Daizaemon used the Yin-Yang Five Thunder Slash to break the mothership’s shield and destroy the Four-Eyed Star People’s fortress.
• Bai Xing confronted Kaze Daizaemon, learned about his system and parallel-world travels, and attacked him with Hell’s Blade.
• Kaze Daizaemon and Bai Xing began fighting, while Earth’s powerhouses sensed their battle and Inuyashiki, Shin Seok-heon, and Shishigami headed into space to watch.
• Bai Xing revealed his 500,000 Horsepower with Nuclear Explosion Fist and blasted Kaze Daizaemon into a crater on the Moon.
• Kaze Daizaemon healed his injuries and attacked Bai Xing again, while the arriving Inuyashiki, Shin Seok-heon, and Shishigami watched the battle.

Shishigami encountered Inuyashiki and Shin Seok-heon in space, where the three fought as Inuyashiki and Shin teamed up against him. On the Moon, Kaze Daizaemon unleashed his second-stage Fiendish Demon True Form and counterattacked Bai Xing, leaving Earth and the other fighters watching the battle’s spectacular lightning.

• Shishigami recognized Inuyashiki and Shin Seok-heon and charged at them, abandoning his plan to seek revenge.
• Shishigami’s 80,000-Horsepower attacks fought against Inuyashiki’s 90,000-Horsepower strength and Shin Seok-heon’s 60,000-Horsepower telekinesis as the pair initially suppressed him.
• Shishigami pierced Shin Seok-heon’s telekinetic barrier with laser beams, but Inuyashiki answered with a 100,000-Horsepower Sovereign Heaven-Shaking Fist and Shin returned to attack the injured Shishigami.
• Bai Xing praised Kaze Daizaemon’s growth and challenged him to fight without holding back, provoking Kaze to activate his 460,000-Horsepower Fiendish Demon True Form.
• Kaze Daizaemon used Heaven-Burning Fire Fiend and Heaven-and-Earth Thunder Movement to strike Bai Xing, then unleashed Heavenheart Thunderstorm across the Moon.
• The lightning storm drew the attention of Shishigami’s space battle and people on Earth.

Inuyashiki and Shin Seok-heon escaped Shishigami in space, but Shishigami caught up as they entered Earth’s atmosphere and forced them to fight again. On the moon, Kaze Daizaemon found a way to track Bai Xing and resolved to fight him with everything he had.

• Kaze Daizaemon’s attacks left Bai Xing unharmed, while Bai Xing urged him to draw out more strength.
• Shishigami grew stronger as Inuyashiki and Shin Seok-heon fought him, but Shin Seok-heon weakened from spending too long in space.
• Inuyashiki deceived Shishigami with a showy, weak palm strike and fled with Shin Seok-heon toward Earth.
• Shishigami chased them and fired repeated Magnetic Energy Beam Cannons, but Shin Seok-heon helped block the attacks and recovered enough to fight alongside Inuyashiki.
• Kaze Daizaemon used Magnetic Force Lines to locate Bai Xing and landed a 460,000 horsepower Five Thunders Heaven-Shattering Fist.
• Kaze Daizaemon rose from the crater and vowed to fight Bai Xing with every means at his disposal.

Shin Seok-heon and Inuyashiki drove the wounded Shishigami away, then worried that the battle between Kaze Daizaemon and Bai Xing could devastate Earth. On the moon, Kaze Daizaemon reached 480,000 Horsepower and used a calculated combination of techniques to get close to Bai Xing.

• Inuyashiki used Imperial Infinite Escape to evade Shishigami's punch, then struck him from behind with a 100,000-horsepower Sovereign Heaven-Shaking Fist.
• Shishigami fled despite his threats, and Inuyashiki stopped Shin Seok-heon from pursuing him, warning that Shishigami might soon reach 100,000 Horsepower.
• Inuyashiki explained that damage to the moon could trigger catastrophic changes to Earth's tides, climate, and geology, leaving Shin Seok-heon alarmed for Korea.
• Kaze Daizaemon's strength rose to 480,000 Horsepower, and Bai Xing pressed him to keep advancing while drawing insight from his martial arts and experiences.
• Kaze Daizaemon used Five Elements Lightning Escape and several lightning attacks, but Bai Xing countered with Hell's Blade · Myriad-Blade Thorns and shattered his thunderstorm.
• Kaze Daizaemon revealed that his attacks had been a feint, used Thunderous Sound Shakes Evil to shatter the blades, and positioned himself close to Bai Xing.

Bai Xing defeated Kaze Daizaemon’s Yin-Yang Five Thunder Slash with his newly developed Solar Wind, but Kaze Daizaemon transformed and broke through to 500,000 Horsepower. Meanwhile, Shishigami seized America and established the True God Church, while damage to the Moon triggered devastating disasters across Earth.

• Kaze Daizaemon trapped Bai Xing in his Yin-Yang Five Thunder Slash, but Bai Xing resisted it with the Divine Demon Indestructible Body and destroyed it with Solar Wind.
• Bai Xing’s Solar Wind heavily injured Kaze Daizaemon and devastated part of the Moon, and Kaze Daizaemon transformed and rose to 500,000 Horsepower.
• Shishigami occupied America, founded the True God Church, and slaughtered those who opposed his rule.
• A week after the Moon battle, altered tides brought tsunamis, typhoons, and earthquakes that devastated Earth and killed countless people.

After a month of disasters caused by Bai Xing and Kaze Daizaemon's lunar battle, the world split into three empires as Inuyashiki, Shishigami, and Shin Seok-heon expanded their territories. Bai Xing defeated Kaze Daizaemon but spared him, taking Kenji as leverage before returning to his villa to cultivate.

• Inuyashiki and Shin Seok-heon agreed to expand their territories and relocate their people to escape the escalating natural disasters.
• Bai Xing returned to a devastated Tokyo and learned that Shishigami ruled the Americas, Inuyashiki had expanded into South Asia and Europe, and Shin Seok-heon had occupied the Bear's territory.
• Kaze Daizaemon confronted Bai Xing, who defeated him and revealed that he had taken Kenji to ensure Kaze Daizaemon would return for another battle.
• Kenji attacked Bai Xing with 100,000 Volts, and Bai Xing read his mind to learn the Five Thunders Heavenly Heart Secret Art before placing a Magnetic Field Heavenly Lock on him.
• Kaze Daizaemon entered a parallel world to grow stronger, while Bai Xing restored his ruined villa and went into seclusion to absorb the gains from their fight.

Inuyashiki and Shin Seok-heon accepted Shishigami’s challenge to fight at the Egyptian pyramids, while a team from Evolution Space secretly watched and planned to exploit the battle. Inuyashiki struck first, and Shishigami dodged as their decisive fight began.

• Inuyashiki received Shishigami’s challenge and sought out Shin Seok-heon, who agreed they should end their conflict with Shishigami.
• Shin Seok-heon defeated dozens of Mechanical Behemoths during training and discussed the challenge with Inuyashiki.
• Inuyashiki and Shin Seok-heon traveled to Egypt three days later to meet Shishigami at the pyramids.
• Salinas’s Evolution Space team hid nearby, watched the three men gather, and hoped to attack if they were badly wounded.
• Inuyashiki attacked Shishigami with a 150,000 Horsepower punch, but Shishigami dodged and the strike shattered a pyramid.

After three months of cultivation, Bai Xing sensed another outsider arriving and headed for Egypt, where Inuyashiki was ambushed by Shishigami, Izumi Shion, and Shin Seok-heon. Inuyashiki awakened two new techniques to survive their combined assault, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Bai Xing emerged from seclusion, saw Kenji still training, and headed to Egypt after sensing someone from beyond the world had arrived.
• In Egypt, Inuyashiki raised his power to 160,000 Horsepower, but Shin Seok-heon secretly attacked him and interrupted his strike against Shishigami.
• Izumi Shion revealed that he had recruited Shishigami and Shin Seok-heon by promising to restore Shin Nu-bi through Gantz and a clone, and explained their plan to ambush Inuyashiki.
• Shishigami demanded that Shin Seok-heon kill the wounded Inuyashiki as proof of loyalty, leaving Shin torn between his daughter and his duty to his country.
• Inuyashiki activated the Sovereign Undying Body, healed his severe injuries, and broke through the seal, then used the Sovereign Golden Body Art to withstand the trio's attacks.

Bai Xing intervened just as Shishigami was about to kill the exhausted Inuyashiki, then declared that he would take the trio’s power and status to build his rule over the world and gather Faith Power. Shishigami and Shin Seok-heon attacked him, but Bai Xing repelled them effortlessly, leaving the fight—and their fate—unresolved.

• Inuyashiki fought off Shishigami, Shin Seok-heon, and Izumi Shion, but Shin Seok-heon rescued Izumi Shion from Inuyashiki’s deadly punch.
• Shishigami and Shin Seok-heon wore Inuyashiki down, and Shishigami shattered his arm before striking his core with a finishing palm.
• Bai Xing blocked Shishigami’s finishing blow and told the trio he had come to take their power and status.
• Shishigami and Shin Seok-heon attacked Bai Xing, while Izumi Shion held back and considered switching sides.
• Bai Xing used a 100,000-horsepower burst of energy to repel both attackers and injure them without moving from his spot.

Bai Xing defeated Shishigami, subdued the leaders of Earth’s factions, and declared himself the Earth Emperor, then used disaster relief to begin earning public faith. Seeking to gather Faith Power faster before Kaze Daizaemon returned, he announced that he would grant a wish to one lucky and loyal believer every ten days, nearly doubling the faith he received each day.

• Shishigami secretly raised his strength to 180,000 horsepower, but Bai Xing severed his right hand with Hell's Blade.
• Shin Seok-heon detected five hidden reincarnators and killed them with his Gravity Field and Magnetic Energy Arc Slashes.
• Bai Xing accepted Inuyashiki, Shin Seok-heon, Shishigami, and Izumi Shion as subordinates, named himself the Earth Emperor, and ordered them to help rebuild the world.
• Bai Xing established a propaganda department and sent his subordinates to aid disaster victims, beginning to gather Faith Power.
• Izumi Shion advised Bai Xing to draw on cults’ methods of exploiting human desires, so Bai Xing announced a worldwide wish-granting selection every ten days.
• Bai Xing’s announcement nearly doubled the Faith Power he received each day, and he prepared to choose the first winner.

Bai Xing resurrected Vadim Bellon’s parents during Divine Grace Day, strengthening the world’s faith in him while training to face Kaze Daizaemon. After Kaze returned, he killed Izumi Shion with a single punch, and Bai Xing welcomed the prospect of fighting him.

• Vadim Bellon wished for his deceased parents to return, and Bai Xing resurrected them before a worldwide audience, causing Faith Power to surge.
• Bai Xing held Divine Grace Day every ten days, fulfilling several wishes and building up his Faith Power reserves.
• Bai Xing simulated battles against Kaze Daizaemon and learned to defeat the Moon Battle version using only 50,000 Horsepower, though he remained uncertain how strong Kaze had become.
• After the fifth Divine Grace Day, Bai Xing and the others sensed Kaze Daizaemon’s return in the East, and Izumi Shion suggested sending Shishigami and the others to test him.
• Kaze Daizaemon appeared behind Izumi Shion, criticized him, and killed him with one punch.
• Bai Xing praised Kaze Daizaemon’s increased strength and looked forward to fighting him.

Bai Xing and Kaze Daizaemon fought a day-long battle, and Kaze Daizaemon briefly gained the upper hand by feigning anger and cutting Bai Xing with his blade. The two then clashed blade against blade while Shishigami, Inuyashiki, and Shin Seok-heon watched, with the outcome still undecided.

• Bai Xing and Kaze Daizaemon exchanged attacks for a day without either finding a decisive opening.
• Kaze Daizaemon recalled dispersing and rebuilding his power in parallel worlds until he reached 600,000 Horsepower again, then returned to settle things with Bai Xing.
• Bai Xing exploited Kaze Daizaemon’s momentary distraction, but Kaze Daizaemon rallied with his Five Thunders Heaven-Shattering Fist after Bai Xing taunted him.
• Bai Xing used the Ultimate Bladder Sword to provoke Kaze Daizaemon, who pretended to lose his temper before striking Bai Xing with the Endless Wind-Thunder Blade.
• Bai Xing healed his wounds and countered with Hell’s Blade, beginning a fierce blade duel with Kaze Daizaemon as Shishigami watched in fear and Inuyashiki and Shin Seok-heon moved away from him.

Bai Xing and Kaze Daizaemon fought a full-scale battle, with Kaze Daizaemon pushing Bai Xing to use his strongest techniques. After Bai Xing won, Kaze Daizaemon asked him to spare Kenji, and Bai Xing promised to leave the world.

• Kaze Daizaemon trapped Bai Xing with the Heavenly Heart Lightning Chain and struck him with Yin-Yang Heavenheart Five Thunder Smite, but Bai Xing survived using the Divine Demon Indestructible Body.
• Kaze Daizaemon summoned the Wind-Thunder-Fire Aspect, which clashed with Bai Xing's Nuclear Explosion Fist and Solar Wind as the battle devastated the desert.
• Kaze Daizaemon bound Bai Xing again and launched three powerful attacks, but Bai Xing used Great Unity of Heaven and Earth to spread the damage and broke free.
• Kaze Daizaemon fused the Wind-Thunder-Fire Aspect into himself and faced Bai Xing's Flare Finger with Dark Fiend Annihilation: Frenzied Thunder Devours Heaven.
• Bai Xing survived the final clash while Kaze Daizaemon began to disintegrate, asked Bai Xing to spare Kenji, and entrusted him with the dream of reaching the peak of martial arts.
• Bai Xing promised to spare Kenji and leave the world, and Kaze Daizaemon vanished into fragments.