Chapter Summaries

Yhwach and Ichibē Hyōsube used the darkness of He-El’s Minor World to channel the Soul King’s power into his dark spheres, tearing his body apart. As Aizen, Kisuke Urahara, Ichibē, and Ichigo Kurosaki attacked the ruined He-El, Yhwach shot Uryu Ishida, only for Uryu to invoke Complete Reversal.

• Yhwach unleashed undigested Soul King power inside the Minor World, but He-El calculated that it was not enough to destroy it.
• Ichibē Hyōsube tore apart the Minor World’s darkness, allowing Yhwach’s power to enter He-El’s Senkai and detonate the dark spheres within him.
• The explosions reduced He-El to a battered skeleton and destroyed the Minor World, exposing the Soul King’s Palace to sunlight.
• Aizen, Kisuke Urahara, Ichibē Hyōsube, and Ichigo Kurosaki rushed to attack He-El while Yoruichi Shihōin, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, and Uryu Ishida remained incapacitated.
• Yhwach saw a future that horrified him, then fired a Heilig Pfeil through Uryu Ishida, who responded with Complete Reversal.

Uryu Ishida used Complete Reversal to take He-El’s injuries onto himself, but He-El learned the ability and restored Uryu while continuing to fight. As He-El began rebuilding his body, he revealed that Yhwach’s visions could not reach as far as his own.

• Yhwach fired a Heilig Pfeil at Uryu Ishida, who used Complete Reversal to exchange his injuries with He-El’s.
• Uryu Ishida collapsed after Yhwach’s arrow worsened his injuries, but He-El used Complete Reversal to return Uryu to normal and repel Aizen’s and Ichibē Hyōsube’s attacks.
• He-El cut through Ichigo Kurosaki’s Getsuga Tenshō and sent Kisuke Urahara flying, while Urahara realized his Bankai could not alter He-El’s body.
• He-El began rebuilding his body as Yhwach recoiled in horror at an outcome absent from his visions.
• He-El told Yhwach that he had affected the future within the Minor World and that Yhwach’s vision did not reach as far as his own.

He-El gained The Almighty, leaving Yhwach and the others convinced they could no longer defeat him. After Aizen’s strongest attack failed to harm He-El, Aizen knelt and greeted him as his king.

• He-El revealed that he had acquired The Almighty, and Urahara explained that it let him see and alter the future.
• He-El said The Almighty had finished calculating and that the others could no longer harm him.
• Aizen unleashed an evolved Ultimate Hollow King Flash at He-El, but He-El emerged completely unharmed.
• Aizen’s strength gave out, and he knelt before He-El and said, “Hello, My King!”

Aizen revealed that he had gathered the others to test himself against He-El, then submitted to him as the king he would follow. He-El confronted Yhwach and killed him without resistance, leaving the battle at the Soul King's Palace decided.

• Ichigo Kurosaki, Kisuke Urahara, and Yhwach reacted with shock as Aizen knelt before He-El.
• After He-El nodded, Aizen explained that he had used the others to test his strength against He-El and declared that He-El was the king he would follow.
• He-El ordered Aizen to stand down, and Aizen withdrew to the wall of the Soul King's Palace.
• He-El asked Yhwach whether he had seen a hopeful future, then slowly pierced him with his Zanpakuto.
• Yhwach withdrew from The Almighty, showed despair, and died.

After He-El killed Yhwach, Aizen explained that Yhwach had resisted by trying to alter the future, but He-El had sealed every possible escape. Ichigo Kurosaki, Ichibe Hyosube, and Kisuke Urahara refrained from challenging He-El, until Mayuri Kurotsuchi's voice called Urahara a coward from outside the Soul King's Palace.

• Uryu Ishida stopped Ichigo Kurosaki from confronting He-El and explained that He-El would rule rather than destroy the Three Realms.
• Aizen told Ichigo Kurosaki that Yhwach had tried to change the future but He-El had made his death inevitable.
• He-El threw Yhwach's corpse down and asked who else wanted to resist.
• Ichigo Kurosaki stayed still, and Ichibe Hyosube indicated that he would not fight.
• Kisuke Urahara hesitated over using his final measure, but Mayuri Kurotsuchi called him a coward from outside the Soul King's Palace.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi activated his century-old attack, destroying the Seireitei to strike He-El with its gathered Reishi and the chaotic thoughts of its people. He-El emerged from the fading pillar unharmed and declared that he stood above the world.

• Kisuke Urahara decided against using his final means because it would destroy the Seireitei and everyone in it, but Mayuri Kurotsuchi crushed the remote's button and activated his attack.
• A chaotic force of gravity and time and space struck the Soul King's Palace, forcing Kisuke Urahara, Ichibe Hyosube, Ichigo Kurosaki, and Aizen to flee with the survivors they could carry.
• The attack tore apart the Seireitei, and Ichimaru Gin dragged Rangiku Matsumoto away as its people and buildings turned into Reishi.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi sent the Reishi pillar formed from the Seireitei's destruction surging into the Soul King's Palace to attack He-El.
• He-El emerged from the fading pillar and declared, "From this day forth, I stand above this world!"

After the war, Rangiku Matsumoto grieved over He-El’s impending departure and asked him to leave her with a child before he left Soul Society. He-El took control of the Soul King Palace, assigned rulers and guards to the Three Realms, and departed to conquer other worlds.

• Rangiku Matsumoto told He-El she was afraid to leave the Shinigami World and feared losing him, and he accepted her choice to stay.
• Rangiku Matsumoto cried as she embraced He-El, recalled what he had said before leaving her a hundred years earlier, and asked him to give her a child.
• He-El spent several days and nights with Rangiku Matsumoto, left her pregnant, and departed Soul Society for the Soul King Palace.
• He-El made Yhwach the Three Realms' Keystone, placed True Name Calling Monk and the other members of Zero Division as his guards, and assigned Aizen and Uryu Ishida to rule Hueco Mundo and the Quincy.
• He-El revived the Bleach who had died by his hand, prompting Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni to pledge allegiance to him.
• He-El ordered Zero Division to create a new system and Gigai for travel between worlds, urged Aizen and the others to grow stronger, and stepped into the Traversal Vortex.

He-El returned from the Shinigami World with tighter control over his power and a personal universe that could protect the people and forces he brought across worlds. He assigned Zero and Athena to study the Shinigami system and organize the Three Realms, then asked for a report on what had happened during his meditation.

• He-El returned to his body aboard the Zero aircraft carrier after the Reishi energy he had brought back collided with the particles of the DC World and dissipated.
• He-El absorbed his experiences in the Shinigami World and gained more precise control over his body and soul-based power.
• He-El realized his consciousness space had become a universe of his own that could shelter people and forces brought from other worlds.
• He-El ordered Zero to classify the Shinigami cultivation system, have Athena explore combining it with the divine system, establish a Shinigami Academy, and develop a plan to maintain order in the Three Realms.
• Zero reported that 94,708,000 seconds had passed during He-El's meditation and that Dr. Ciri had given birth to 320 babies.

After returning from three years of meditation, He-El learned about Ciri’s 320 children and the escalating war between Apokolips and Oa Star’s allied civilizations. Hades had secretly joined Darkseid’s campaign, so He-El ordered him to stop before his actions exposed their plans and triggered a wider war.

• Zero told He-El that Ciri had given birth to 320 children while he meditated and that New Krypton had rejected Apokolips’ repeated requests for troops.
• Zero reported that Apokolips had spent years attacking civilizations under Oa Star, using the conflict to demand support and drain the alliance’s strength.
• He-El learned that Hades had secretly sent death emissaries to harvest intelligent life for Apokolips, while Athena concealed his actions from the Olympian Pantheon.
• Zero reported that New Genesis was not mobilizing on a large scale and that Athena continued covering for Hades.
• He-El ordered that Hades be warned he had entered the war too early and threatened to help Zeus and the Guardians of the Universe seal him away if he was discovered.

He-El reviewed New Krypton’s military and magical progress while Zero reported that the Three-Body World’s microscopic channels had been blocked. Nearby, He-El 320 and the Unified Biological Consciousness Collective Civilization panicked at He-El’s presence, then decided to call him Dad as Ciri dragged the baby to meet him.

• Zero told He-El that Magic Academy graduates had joined New Krypton’s corps and that their cooperation was expected to boost combat power by around 40%.
• Zero reported that progress in the Three-Body World had stalled because an unknown force had blocked access to its microscopic realms.
• He-El 320 watched He-El from behind a wall, while the collective consciousness inside him feared the interuniversal overlord and argued over how to survive.
• The collective consciousness realized He-El was their biological father and resolved to call him Dad for protection.
• Ciri caught He-El 320 after he left the formation and dragged him toward the command room to meet He-El, followed by the other 319 babies.

He-El and Zero investigated the microscopic blockade in the Three-Body Problem world and learned that a Unified Biological Consciousness Collective had infiltrated the cosmic mothership by hiding in a soldier’s thoughts. He-El chose to watch the civilization’s next move, just as Ciri arrived with their children.

• He-El asked Zero whether research from the Bleach world could break through the microscopic blockade, and Zero said their available Divine Particles and Reishi energy were insufficient.
• He-El recognized that the Unified Biological Consciousness Collective had taken up residence in He-El 320, his son with Ciri.
• He-El showed Zero footage revealing that the collective had entered the cosmic mothership by blending into a soldier’s thoughts.
• Zero contacted her main body and apologized for failing to detect the infiltration, but He-El told her she was not to blame.
• He-El decided to observe what the invading civilization would do, and Ciri entered with their children to see him.

Ciri presented He-El with 320 naturally conceived, divinely blessed babies, each with the potential to become extraordinarily powerful. He-El appeared satisfied with them, while He-El 320 remained an unusual presence whose thoughts Zero could not read.

• The 320 babies marched into the command room, where He-El 320 panicked at seeing Zero and tried to conceal their collective consciousness.
• Zero used multiple detection methods on the babies but could not decipher He-El 320's thoughts.
• Ciri ordered the babies to greet He-El, and they introduced themselves in formation.
• He-El observed that the babies had different mixtures of Kryptonian, Transformer, and enhanced human bloodlines, while Athena's blessings gave all of them strong potential.
• Ciri explained that the children could choose or change their talents as they grew up, then asked He-El whether he was satisfied with them.
• He-El asked what Ciri would do if he were dissatisfied, and she casually replied that they would use the babies for experiments.

He-El assigned his 320 newborn children paths to serve New Krypton while reassuring them that they could choose their own futures. The children left to consider their options, while He-El asked Hae-320 to stay behind.

• The babies feared Ciri would use them as experimental subjects, but He-El told her to let them grow up normally.
• Zero volunteered to train Hae-33 through Hae-64, and He-El assigned Hae-1 through Hae-32 to Krypton Academy.
• He-El told the remaining children to apply to Zero for placements in academies or legions and promised not to force their choices.
• He-El reassured the children that Ciri was simply learning how to be a mother, though they remained wary of her.
• Ciri sent the children away to consider their futures, and He-El asked Hae-320 to stay behind.

He-El revealed that He-El 320 contained the Unified Biological Consciousness Collective Civilization from the world of The Three-Body Problem, which had been sent to infiltrate his universe. The civilization immediately decided to defect to He-El, and he asked Ciri to put the child down because he was still his son.

• The Unified Biological Consciousness Collective Civilization panicked over being discovered, then celebrated its decision to abandon Zero and treat He-El as its father.
• Ciri questioned He-El 320 after recalling his unusual potential, and He-El revealed that a universe-level civilization from The Three-Body Problem inhabited the child.
• He-El 320 lost his disguise as Ciri seized him with a tentacle and slammed him onto the command room floor.
• The civilization assessed its chances of survival and decided to tell He-El everything about Zero and help him defeat Zero.
• He-El suspected the civilization knew he could hear its flattery, then asked Ciri to put He-El 320 down because he was his son.

He-El and Ciri questioned whether the Unified Biological Consciousness Collective Civilization had erased their son He-El 320’s original consciousness, while He-El investigated the strange child. He-El offered the civilization a choice between becoming his son and helping Zero, or returning to the Three-Body Problem universe, and it began leaning toward him.

• Ciri threatened He-El 320 until He-El assured her that the civilization had not erased an existing consciousness.
• Zero reported that she could detect no abnormality in He-El 320 except unusually high psychic fluctuations.
• He-El told He-El 320 to choose between joining his family and helping Zero or returning to the Three-Body Problem universe, promising not to kill or imprison it either way.
• He-El’s psychic waves passed through He-El 320 without affecting him, leaving He-El concerned about why his psychic power did not work.
• The voices within He-El 320 debated the offer and quickly agreed that they would choose to become He-El’s sons.

He-El 320 explained why the Unified Biological Consciousness Collective Civilization had chosen He-El as its father, and He-El accepted the civilization as his son. After learning that Zero could erase New Krypton and was studying the route between universes, He-El ordered Zero to gather what they needed to build an Inner Universe barrier around Earth.

• He-El discovered that He-El 320 was immune to psychic power because he consisted of the Unified Biological Consciousness Collective Civilization's information.
• He-El 320 explained that his civilization chose He-El for his broad-mindedness, New Krypton's potential, and protection from Zero's hostility.
• He-El accepted the Unified Biological Consciousness Collective Civilization as his son, and He-El 320 celebrated the civilization's new security.
• He-El 320 told He-El that Zero feared his ability to reach its universe but wanted to master the inter-universe passage.
• He-El ordered Zero to gather useful information in Earth of The Three-Body Problem so New Krypton could establish an Inner Universe barrier that Zero could not observe.

He-El weighed how to protect New Krypton’s Solar System foothold from observation by the civilizations of The Three-Body Problem universe while keeping the Traversal Vortex open. After learning they were pursuing Olympian Divine Particles, he ordered Zero to move its true body and key supplies back and planned to build a universal barrier after returning from the Flash World.

• He-El calculated that New Krypton’s current forces could not create the dimensionless, particleless ring-shaped Inner Universe He-El 320 had proposed to shield their territory.
• Zero reported that the civilizations of The Three-Body Problem universe were studying the Olympian Divine Pantheon and might develop a way to use its divine energy.
• He-El learned that the Unified Biological Consciousness Collective Civilization had defected to him and revealed that civilizations were close to creating gods through entangled Divine Infinite Particles.
• He-El concluded that those civilizations mistakenly believed Divine Particles had created the Traversal Vortex, and let them continue their research in that direction.
• He-El ordered Zero to return its true body and important legion supplies, watch Hades, and hold down the fort while he considered a replacement for Bleach’s position.
• He-El planned to establish the dimensionless, particleless universal barrier after returning from the Flash World.

He-El reviewed New Krypton’s situation and ordered the expansion of the Space Bridge transport network while preparing to guard the Traversal Vortex. He considered the growing pride and separatist thinking among Three-Body Earth’s people, then approached the vortex with five Marshal-class Battleships assigned to protect it.

• He-El left the command room and went to the hangar plaza, where personnel saluted him.
• He-El asked the lieutenant general about anomalies, and the officer reported two brief Space Bridge outages but no unusual Traversal Vortex responses.
• He-El ordered the Space Bridge gates expanded and transport channels prepared, while five Marshal-class Battleships were assigned to guard the Traversal Vortex.
• He-El reflected that Zero had led Three-Body civilization through 156 years of rapid development and that Earthlings there increasingly viewed themselves as New Krypton’s center.
• The five Marshal-class Battleships formed humanoid shapes and knelt before He-El, who issued orders and stepped toward the Traversal Vortex.

He-El returned to Three-Body Earth after a hundred and fifty years and found that its soldiers had forgotten how to properly acknowledge their sovereign. After he crushed them beneath his power, Wade tried to explain that they had never had the chance to meet him.

• He-El emerged from the Traversal Vortex at New Krypton's headquarters on Three-Body Earth, startling the soldiers stationed there.
• Wade recognized He-El, knelt to greet him, and led the nearby soldiers in a hesitant one-knee salute.
• He-El unleashed crushing pressure on the soldiers, injuring them for forgetting whom they served and failing to salute properly.
• Wade, struggling under the pressure, told He-El that the soldiers had never had the chance to meet or see him.

He-El punished Wade and the soldiers at the Traversal Vortex for failing to show him proper respect, while Wade realized that He-El’s power could overwhelm both his body and mind. As He-El departed aboard the Honor, the soldiers openly criticized their emperor, leaving Wade fearing that their world was nearing disaster.

• He-El used crushing pressure to force Wade and the soldiers to kneel, shattering one soldier’s knee and reprimanding them for showing him no respect.
• Wade apologized for the recruits’ behavior and argued that they were loyal soldiers shocked to meet He-El.
• The Honor arrived, transformed into a giant mechanical body, greeted He-El, and carried him away from the Traversal Vortex.
• Wade stood up and realized that neither his enhanced body nor the Willpower Corps ring had allowed him to resist He-El.
• The injured soldiers criticized He-El as a tyrant, and Wade feared that their world was about to end.