Chapter Summaries

Neji Hyuga argued that his plan to unify the Shinobi World could end the cycle of war and extend the age when children were sent to battle, while Jiraiya feared it would bring greater conflict. Neji ordered Jiraiya to recruit Orochimaru and make the Sand Village surrender or be destroyed.

• Neji Hyuga challenged Jiraiya’s claim that Hashirama Senju had brought peace, arguing that Konoha’s system had only raised the age at which children went to war.
• Neji Hyuga said he would unify the Shinobi World before the Fourth Shinobi World War and keep children from fighting until adulthood, but Jiraiya accused him of seeking conquest.
• Jiraiya warned that Neji Hyuga’s order for Danzo Shimura to kill the Land of Wind’s Daimyo and nobles would trigger a wider war.
• Neji Hyuga argued that a country’s foundation was its people rather than its Daimyo and nobles, and told Jiraiya his heart was too narrow.
• Neji Hyuga ordered Jiraiya to find Orochimaru, offer him immortality, and persuade the Sand Village ninjas to surrender to Konoha or kill those who refused.

Neji Hyuga established a temporary Hokage office in the Hyuga compound and began reorganizing Konoha while assigning Tsunade responsibility for medical planning across a future unified Shinobi World. The chapter ended as Shikaku Nara reported a protest from Sand Village’s acting Kazekage.

• Jiraiya left Konoha without accepting or defying Neji Hyuga’s order, intending to reflect while searching for Orochimaru.
• Neji Hyuga took office as Fifth Hokage, moved the administration into the Hyuga compound, and ordered sweeping changes across Konoha.
• Shikaku Nara led the Jonin Squad and Sealing Squad to capture fleeing Sand Village ninja, and Neji Hyuga suppressed Sand Village’s request to ransom them, including Gaara.
• Neji Hyuga punished the Utatane, Mitokado, and Sarutobi clans for corruption and staffing abuses, while appointing Hiashi Hyuga to investigate and record clan populations.
• Tsunade complained about her extensive medical planning workload, but Neji Hyuga insisted she was suited to the role and could leave if she wished.
• Shikaku Nara informed Neji Hyuga that Sand Village’s acting Kazekage had sent a letter of protest.

Neji Hyuga ordered the conquest of the Land of Wind and the execution of the Daimyo and nobles of the Land of Fire, while Amegakure and Akatsuki destroyed Iwagakure. The chapter ended with Konoha's forces invading Sand Village and capturing its resistance leaders.

• Neji Hyuga dismissed Shikaku Nara's warning about provoking other nations and revealed that his forces had already taken control of the Land of Fire and were moving against the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth.
• Neji Hyuga ordered the Daimyo and nobles of the Land of Fire killed, and Takashi Hyuga left to carry out the order.
• Amegakure and Akatsuki purged the Land of Earth's Daimyo and nobles, then used the Steel Colossus to defeat Iwagakure, kill Ōnoki and its Jinchuriki, and occupy the Land of Earth.
• Danzo Shimura dealt with the Daimyo and nobles of the Land of Wind, while Neji Hyuga ordered Sand Village's participating ninjas executed.
• Jiraiya and Orochimaru summoned Konoha's Steel Colossus into Sand Village, where Chiyo, Ebizo, and other resistance members were captured.

Neji Hyuga conquered the shinobi world and founded Sky Country, ruling through brutal centralization while Tenten won the people's support. The chapter ended with Tenten assassinating Neji, becoming Heavenly Emperor, and guiding the country toward peace and prosperity.

• Neji Hyuga conquered the remaining nations, including the Land of Water and the Land of Lightning, and unified the shinobi world as Sky Country.
• Neji Hyuga became emperor, made Konoha the Imperial City, and centralized the government while abolishing the shinobi system.
• Neji Hyuga's oppressive rule made the people resent him and favor Empress Tenten, while repeated assassination attempts failed.
• Tenten assassinated Neji Hyuga, became Heavenly Emperor, and preserved the stability of Sky Country.
• The Heavenly Emperor soothed the people, developed education and livelihoods, and helped Sky Country prosper.

Neji Hyuga brought Otsutsuki Kaguya from the Naruto world to He-El's universe, where He-El welcomed her to New Krypton. Kaguya learned she was far from the Otsutsuki Clan but remained uneasy about its power as He-El reassured her.

• He-El considered how the World Tree could help reveal the operating logic of different universes.
• Neji Hyuga brought Otsutsuki Kaguya and the Great Slug Sage through a Traversal Vortex into He-El's universe.
• He-El introduced himself and told Kaguya she was now Otsutsuki Kaguya of New Krypton.
• Kaguya recalled how she betrayed Isshiki Otsutsuki, ate the Chakra Fruit, and was later sealed by her sons, Hagoromo and Hamura.
• He-El reassured Kaguya that the Otsutsuki Clan was no match for New Krypton, while the Great Slug Sage happily climbed onto his hand.

He-El brought the Great Slug Sage back from the Naruto universe and explained how her Nature Energy system differed from the Otsutsuki Clan’s Chakra. He decided to test planting a World Tree in the Naruto universe and suggested that Otsutsuki Kaguya could later use one to destroy her clan, leaving her alarmed and distrustful.

• He-El recalled that Neji Hyuga had brought the willing Great Slug Sage from the Naruto universe to the He-El Universe.
• He-El compared the Otsutsuki Clan’s Chakra system with the Great Slug Sage’s Nature Energy and predicted that Nature Energy could lead to a new Otsutsuki supreme god.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya asked He-El what he wanted her to do, and he told her to study New Krypton’s history and future.
• He-El decided to begin testing World Tree planting in the Naruto universe because he had gained inspiration there.
• He-El explained that World Trees would help universes grow instead of consuming their life, then suggested Otsutsuki Kaguya could plant one in her universe and destroy her clan.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya doubted she could defeat the Otsutsuki Clan and grew more uneasy about He-El’s plan.

He-El received reports on Zero’s and Ciri’s campaigns in the Transformers and Pacific Rim universes, then learned that the Transformers universe was drawing the attention of other multiverses. He ordered Zero to retreat if necessary and brought Kaguya and the Great Slug Sage to the Pacific Rim universe.

• Lucy reported that Zero had occupied the Transformers universe’s Solar System and begun building armories, researching its underlying logic, and exploring beyond the system.
• Lucy reported that Ciri had turned the Pacific Rim universe’s Solar System into a Life Creation Chamber, while Doctor Manhattan helped her create a logic-detecting organism and rescue Dawn.
• The Great Slug Sage urged Kaguya to overcome her fear of the Otsutsuki Clan and recognize that He-El’s power and plans offered her a chance to break free of her past.
• He-El learned that Zero had dismantled Unicron, built armories, and discovered that the Transformers universe was a multiverse attracting the attention of others.
• He-El told Zero to act according to the situation and retreat if necessary, then took Kaguya and the Great Slug Sage to the Pacific Rim universe.

He-El brought Ōtsutsuki Kaguya and the Great Slug Sage to Pacific Rim, where he assigned Ciri to study and train them. After deciding that a World Tree could help universes reveal their underlying operational logic without provoking resistance, He-El ordered Doctor Manhattan and Dawn to research its creation, then departed for the DC Universe as its third Parallel Universe fusion began.

• He-El warned Zero to return rather than force a fight if trouble arose in the Transformers multiverse.
• He-El brought Ōtsutsuki Kaguya and the Great Slug Sage to Pacific Rim and asked Ciri to study their genes, teach them New Krypton's rules, and train them for future missions.
• He-El asked Doctor Manhattan and Dawn to help research a universal instrument for detecting the underlying operational logic of universes.
• He-El proposed creating a World Tree that would support each universe's growth and gather its underlying operational logic without directly inspecting it.
• He-El ordered Doctor Manhattan and Dawn to focus on physical and spiritual energy, using Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's constitution as a reference, then went to the DC Universe as its third Parallel Universe fusion began.

He-El learned that more than eighteen parallel universes were merging into the New Krypton Universe and ordered New Krypton to prepare its defenses. He dismissed the commanders and turned to Clark Kent.

• Athena, Kal-El, Zero's avatar, and Clark Kent arrived to pay their respects to He-El.
• Kal-El reported that the Moon Base had detected more than twelve Cosmic Base String vibrations, and Athena revealed that the Main God's Light Orb had detected conflicts among more than eighteen universal pantheons.
• He-El ordered Zero's avatar to connect Proton ID Cards and prioritize communications and computing power by combat level.
• Athena, Kal-El, and Zero's avatar accepted He-El's orders and departed.
• He-El waved them away and turned to look at Clark Kent.

Clark Kent worried that the Parallel Universe merger threatened New Krypton and Earth, then prepared to defend the planet as He-El went to inspect the damaged Miracle Wish Machine. Scarface told He-El that the machine still worked, but every wish now came at an unknown price.

• Clark Kent asked He-El whether New Krypton could survive the crisis, and He-El ordered him to use his authority to help defend Earth against the merged universes’ dangerous anomalies.
• Clark Kent vowed to protect Earth, then flew down to prepare for battle after telling He-El, “Don’t die!”
• He-El went to the Seven Lantern Corps’ base satellite, where Scarface greeted him and led him to the Miracle Wish Machine.
• Scarface explained that the merged machine remained usable but was incomplete, and that nobody knew what price its wishes would demand.

More than eighteen parallel universes merged into He-El’s New Krypton Universe, and the incoming He-Els learned that they would have to kill their counterpart to preserve their own identities. He-El stood before the Miracle Wish Machine as the newcomers panicked, then dismissed them as too weak.

• The New Krypton Universe won the weight contest, absorbing the operating logic and inhabitants of more than eighteen parallel universes.
• A dozen or so alternate He-Els appeared, including versions with Doomsday traits, an Obsidian Throne, and Spectre-like powers.
• The incoming He-Els realized they could remain independent only by killing their counterpart before the merger finished.
• Several alternate He-Els recognized the Miracle Wish Machine beside He-El and lost hope of resisting him.
• He-El told the newcomers they were too weak.

As more than twenty parallel universes began merging into New Krypton, masses of phantom counterparts threatened to plunge Earth into chaos. Clark Kent appealed to his Superman counterparts for help, but they divided between allies, enemies, and apparent neutrals before an enormous phantom appeared in the sky.

• New Krypton residents and the Kryptonian Army struggled to manage the sudden arrival of numerous phantom counterparts as the universe merged.
• Clark Kent urged nineteen Superman counterparts to help him preserve order and protect New Krypton.
• Several Supermen agreed to support Clark Kent, while others openly threatened to kill him and seize his place in the universe.
• Counterparts of Justice League heroes and other people crowded Earth as Zero's clone counted more than twenty-three counterparts for one Metropolis resident.
• An enormous phantom appeared in the sky, prompting people to wonder if it was a god.

The merged universes brought rival pantheons and stellar-class counterparts into the New Krypton Universe, forcing its defenders to prepare for battles across the Divine Realm and beyond the Milky Way. As eight Darkseids appeared and the defenders ran short of fighters, He-El declared that he would act.

• Thoth, Anubis, Horus, Amon, and other Egyptian gods confronted the Olympian Pantheon as rival pantheons gathered for war.
• Athena opened and sealed the Divine Realm, trapping the arriving gods inside for battle on New Krypton's prepared ground.
• Zero directed first-level stellar-class combatants through a Space Bridge to fight beyond the Milky Way, while Mongul and Brainiac reported their counterparts.
• Stellar-class powerhouses planned to stall their hostile counterparts until the Parallel Universes merged, while Guardians of the Universe debated how to protect Earth.
• A Guardian of the Universe spotted eight Darkseids, and He-El announced that he would act.

He-El annihilated the alternate He-Els who attacked him as parallel universes merged into the New Krypton Universe. The merged Darkseids discovered that Earth was the universe’s center and prepared to destroy it to reach the Antimatter Universe, but He-El appeared before them.

• Doomsday He-El and several alternate He-Els attacked He-El at the Miracle Wish Machine, but he froze time and reduced them to particles without using the machine.
• New Krypton’s stellar-level forces led many merged powerhouses away from Earth, while gods from other universes besieged the Olympian Pantheon.
• Several Darkseids gathered near Earth and realized that the local Darkseid was dead and that Earth was the universe’s center.
• The Darkseids agreed to destroy Earth and enter the Antimatter Universe to seek the Anti-Life Equation.
• He-El appeared before Earth as a Darkseid prepared to attack it.

He-El defeated and killed all eight Darkseids by turning their Omega Effect against them and absorbing its information. He then teleported through the gateway to the Divine Realm to aid the Olympian Pantheon, leaving Earth engulfed in slaughter.

• One Darkseid fired the Omega Effect at He-El, who countered with Heat Vision and absorbed its energy and information, blasting out the attacker’s eyes.
• The Darkseids attacked together with their Omega Effect Rays, but He-El’s Heat Vision absorbed their differing information and pushed their combined attack back.
• He-El split his Heat Vision into fourteen beams, pierced the seven Darkseids’ eyes, and killed them along with the wounded Darkseid farther away.
• He-El looked toward Earth, saw it overwhelmed by an immense crowd and war, then teleported to the Divine Realm to help the Olympian Pantheon.

He-El arrived in the Divine Realm and rescued the New Krypton Olympian Pantheon by killing the attacking universes’ supreme gods and destroying the thunderstorm. New Krypton won the costly divine war as the universal fusion ended, while a Monitors exploration ship entered the universe.

• He-El entered the Divine Realm and found the Olympian gods under siege by gods from other universes.
• He-El killed the Jade Emperor and Amaterasu, struck down Shakyamuni, and killed Burning Heaven, Odin, and other mythological rulers.
• He-El destroyed the thunderstorm and the Thors sustaining it, then the attacking gods turned their attention toward him.
• The Magic Main God's Light Orb helped the Olympian gods recover, and Zeus rejoined the battle at He-El's command.
• The New Krypton Olympian Pantheon defeated the invaders at great cost as the universal fusion ended.
• A Monitors exploration ship entered the New Krypton Universe.

Koken Novo and the Monitor exploration ship Grace arrived at the boundary of the New Krypton Universe and discovered that it had absorbed thirty-two Parallel Universes without retaining any trace of them. Koken Novo suspected it might be the Monitors’ fifty-third Source Universe, and ordered Grace to scan it.

• Grace arrived at the New Krypton Universe’s boundary and reported that it had merged with thirty-two Parallel Universes without preserving any of their logic or scenery.
• Koken Novo admired the Heavenly Blood at the universe’s edge and recognized the New Krypton Universe’s extraordinary weight.
• Koken Novo believed the universe might be the fifty-third Source Universe and hoped to earn a Shapeshifting Ship by finding it.
• Grace suggested that New Gods from God’s Domain might have caused the universe’s immense weight, but Koken Novo angrily rejected the idea.
• Koken Novo ordered Grace to perform a full scan of the universe, and Grace agreed.

After the universes fused, Superman Clark Kent urged the newly returned superheroes to join New Krypton’s Peace Enforcement Department and accept wartime control. Wonder Woman Diana Prince refused, but Superman declared that every place she might flee belonged to New Krypton, leaving her with nowhere to go as He-El sensed a scanning fluctuation at the universe’s edge.

• The completed fusion reduced Earth’s population by ninety-five percent, while bringing back heroes and others who had died or never existed.
• Superman Clark Kent invited the returned superheroes to join the Peace Enforcement Department, but Wonder Woman Diana Prince rejected him because he was not the Clark she knew.
• Wonder Woman Diana Prince said she would leave Earth with the Amazon warriors rather than accept New Krypton’s rule.
• Superman Clark Kent proclaimed that the Solar System, galaxy, and entire universe belonged to New Krypton, shocking the superheroes and silencing Wonder Woman.
• Superman urged the heroes to accept wartime control and promised to apply for Proton ID Cards for them.
• He-El noticed a scanning fluctuation beginning at the edge of the universe.

After the fusion of dozens of Parallel Universes, New Krypton reasserted control, purged newcomers who refused to join, and prepared for the next fusion. The chapter leaves the New Krypton forces strengthened overall, but the Olympian Pantheon weakened by its devastating divine war.

• New Krypton restored order after the fusion and forced new arrivals to join or face purging.
• He-El inspected Kal-El's strengthened Kryptonian Army and saw General Zod join New Krypton and lead forces against dissenters.
• Scarface, thirty Guardians of the Universe, and General Zod massacred rebellious Lanterns, while the slaughter drove Hippolyta and the Amazons to join New Krypton.
• The Olympian Pantheon nearly fell to a coalition of gods until He-El helped it defeat its supreme ruler and break the other pantheons' suppression.
• The Olympian Pantheon's Divine Legion suffered the greatest losses and received no reinforcements, leaving it weaker than New Krypton's other forces.

He-El inspected the devastated Divine Realm after saving the Olympian Pantheon from gods of dozens of Parallel Universes, while investigating a mysterious scan of the New Krypton Universe. Athena broke down over the Pantheon’s inability to survive future mergers, and He-El said he had come to discuss its future with her.

• He-El surveyed the damaged Divine Realm as its legion, teachers, and students worked to rebuild it, and considered the mysterious scan reaching even that hidden realm.
• Athena approached He-El, exhausted and grieving, and worried that the Olympian Pantheon could not recover before another, even larger universe merger.
• He-El absorbed the scan into his body for analysis and learned it operated through shallow logic, though its unfamiliar method still made him wary.
• Athena apologized for failing to protect the Divine Realm, then wept as her divine tears formed rivers and lakes.
• He-El comforted Athena and praised her defense against the invading gods, but Athena said the Olympian Pantheon would fail next time.
• He-El told Athena he had come to discuss how to handle the Olympian Pantheon.