Chapter Summaries

Li Wei discovered that he had become Arkham Asylum’s puppet director and gained a system that could grant League of Heroes powers. He decided to seize control of the asylum, starting with Dr. Hugo, and transformed into Khada Jhin as he descended into Indian Hill Hospital.

• Li Wei learned that the system offered a Khada Jhin trial card and a mission to stage a grand performance in Gotham.
• Li Wei resolved to build his own League of Heroes and take control of Arkham Asylum from Dr. Hugo.
• Li Wei entered the hidden elevator beneath the asylum, prompting a security guard to alert Dr. Hugo.
• Li Wei activated Khada Jhin’s trial card and transformed into the masked performer as the elevator descended.

Li Wei used his mysterious power to kill the brutes at Indian Hill Hospital and spared Dr. Hugo so he could be useful later. After locking Dr. Hugo in a ward, Li Wei surveyed Arkham Asylum and discovered its finances and assets were in dire shape.

• Dr. Hugo threatened to replace Li Wei as director and ordered the brutes to seize him for experiments.
• Li Wei unleashed Mass Infatuation, killing most of the brutes with purple lotus explosions and gunfire while leaving Dr. Hugo unharmed.
• Li Wei asserted his authority, rejected Dr. Hugo’s promise of loyalty, and confined him to a ward.
• Li Wei inspected Arkham Asylum and found that its wards, facilities, and two underground floors housed the remnants of Dr. Hugo’s research.
• Li Wei reviewed the asylum’s accounts and found failed experimental corpses, records of short-lived human-animal hybrids, and a giant bomb Dr. Hugo had prepared to destroy the evidence.

Li Wei planned to revive Arkham Asylum as Gotham’s criminal psychiatric institution, but the mayor’s secretary dismissed his request because the Maroni Family controlled the business. Li Wei decided to make the Maroni Family the stage for a grand performance and headed for their Scott Asylum.

• Li Wei assessed Arkham Asylum’s empty coffers and planned to turn Dr. Hugo into Alchemist Singed once he gathered enough Soul Essence.
• Li Wei decided to restart Arkham’s services to secure City Hall subsidies and obtain future vessels for Hero Templates.
• Li Wei went to City Hall to meet the mayor, but the mayor’s secretary demanded a bribe and then refused to arrange an appointment.
• Li Wei learned that the Maroni Family controlled Gotham’s criminal psychiatric services and decided to announce Arkham’s return through a performance against them.
• Li Wei took a taxi to Scott Asylum, a medical institution run by the Maroni Family.

Li Wei arrived at Scott Asylum, transformed into Khada Jhin, and slaughtered the Maroni Family gang members who confronted him. After entering the asylum, he found it completely empty, with no patients or doctors.

• The taxi driver dropped Li Wei off at Scott Asylum and fled without charging him.
• A Maroni Family thug threatened Li Wei and demanded a filming fine, so Li Wei used the Khada Jhin Experience Card.
• Li Wei shot the thug and evaded the gang members’ gunfire while killing them with his pistol and grenades.
• Li Wei killed the last four fleeing gang members with precisely aimed shots, then entered Scott Asylum.
• Li Wei searched the asylum but found no living people, patients, doctors, or signs of recent occupancy.

Li Wei left a bloody message and riddle at the mental hospital, drawing Gordon and Harvey into the investigation and turning the killings into a public spectacle. After watching the news with Dr. Hugo, Li Wei kept his plans for Gotham’s asylum business secret and sent him back to his room, leaving the riddle unanswered.

• Li Wei wrote Khada Jhin’s name and a riddle on the hospital wall before escaping as police sirens approached.
• Gordon and Harvey investigated the scene, and Gordon insisted on pursuing the case despite Harvey’s warning about the Maroni Family.
• Li Wei watched the police response through his rifle scope, then returned to the asylum and paused his Khada Jhin Experience Card with 22 hours remaining.
• Li Wei showed Dr. Hugo the news report and surveillance footage, prompting Dr. Hugo to recognize Li Wei as the killer behind the massacre.
• Li Wei told Dr. Hugo he planned to expand the hospital and acknowledged the Court of Owls, then pushed him back to his room without answering the riddle.

As Khada Jhin’s threat against the Maroni Family spread through Gotham, Gordon and Harvey investigated the slaughter at Scott Asylum and confronted Sal Marroni. Gordon decided to seek reinforcements and protect the gangsters from Khada Jhin’s promised attack, insisting that the law—not a vigilante—had to punish criminals.

• Li Wei counted his 998 Soul Essence and planned to target the Maroni Family so he could soon buy Alchemist Singed’s Hero Template.
• Gotham Daily and Gotham TV sensationalized the Scott Asylum massacre and announced a joint live broadcast at the Maroni Family’s bar, while Tommy hoped the assignment would help him get promoted.
• Gordon learned from the coroner’s report that the bullets had disappeared from the remains, then told Harvey that Edward would help solve Khada Jhin’s riddle.
• Gordon and Harvey visited Sal Marroni at the Maroni Family’s closed bar, but Sal refused to cooperate with the police and vowed that his family would restore its honor themselves.
• Gordon told Harvey they would request reinforcements to protect the bar the next day, arguing that the law had to punish criminals rather than Khada Jhin.

Li Wei prepared Maroney Bar for Khada Jhin’s promised appearance while Gotham gathered for a confrontation involving the Maroni Family, the police, and the Falcone Family. As the death notice’s appointed time passed without incident, a purple shot killed the Maroni Family’s second-in-command, and the plaza erupted.

• Carmine Falcone sent people to find Khada Jhin so he could recruit him, while Gotham police and the Maroni Family also mobilized against him.
• Li Wei traveled to Maroney Bar, learned that the police and crowds were waiting for Khada Jhin, and planted Mass Infatuation’s Invisible Flowers throughout the bar.
• Gordon and Harvey inspected a Wayne Enterprises weapons stall, where Edward Nygma watched thoughtfully, before returning to the police position near the bar.
• As the appointed time approached, Khada Jhin’s costumed fans gathered in the plaza, while the armed Maroni Family gang members and Gordon’s officers waited for him.
• After the death notice’s time passed, the Maroni Family’s second-in-command taunted the crowd, and a purple shot struck him in the chest and killed him.
• Khada Jhin’s fans cheered as Gordon ordered the police to locate the sniper.

Li Wei, posing as Khada Jhin, turned the attack on Maroney Bar into a televised spectacle of explosions and precise sniping. As the gang members charged toward him and Gordon’s officers followed, Li Wei kept performing for Gotham, while the police deliberately stayed behind the gangsters.

• Jerome watched the aftermath outside the bar and felt madness take root as Li Wei began his performance from a rooftop.
• Li Wei’s Invisible Lotuses exploded beneath the bar’s windows, killing or maiming many gang members and driving the survivors outside.
• The gang members charged across the plaza, and Li Wei revealed himself to the crowd and live cameras before picking them off with Whisper.
• When gang members used hostages as human shields, Li Wei killed their captors without harming the hostages, and he shot the minor boss as he rallied a final charge.
• Gordon led the police after the gangsters, but the officers deliberately remained behind them and fired into the air while Li Wei continued his televised performance.

Li Wei completed Khada Jhin’s performance in Gotham, earning the permanent hero template and drawing the attention of Gordon, Edward Nygma, and Bruce Wayne. After escaping, he planned to spend his gathered Soul Essence on Alchemist Singed’s template.

• Li Wei used a purple grenade that repeatedly exploded to kill the four gang members who had reached his building.
• After completing Khada Jhin’s mission, Li Wei confronted Gordon and told him the victims’ deaths gave their lives meaning.
• Edward Nygma asked Li Wei to solve his riddle, and Li Wei answered that it was Bruce Wayne and his parents, provoking laughter and anger.
• Li Wei escaped down a prepared zipline, changed back into his original appearance, and disappeared into the crowd while Gordon searched for him.
• Gotham’s citizens, Gordon’s officers, and Bruce Wayne reacted to the bloody broadcast and Li Wei’s dark joke.
• Li Wei prepared to use his gathered Soul Essence to purchase Alchemist Singed’s Hero Template.

Bruce Wayne grieved his parents and vowed to remember Khada Jhin, while Li Wei returned to Arkham Asylum and used his Soul Essence to acquire Singed’s Hero Template. After testing its abilities, Li Wei brought Dr. Hugo to his office and prepared to grant him the template.

• Alfred promised Bruce Wayne he would pressure the police and contact the underworld to find his parents’ killer and Khada Jhin.
• Li Wei returned to Arkham Asylum and discovered he had permanently obtained Khada Jhin’s Hero Template and gained 1535 Soul Essence.
• Li Wei spent 1350 Soul Essence to buy Singed’s Hero Template and found that it granted him scientific knowledge and chemical combat abilities.
• Li Wei considered combining Singed’s poison abilities with Khada Jhin’s ranged attacks, then returned to his normal appearance.
• Li Wei brought Dr. Hugo to his office and revealed the ominous green orb he intended to use to grant him Singed’s Hero Template.

Li Wei transformed Dr. Hugo with the Singed Template and learned about his ties to the Court of Owls. He planned to use Dr. Hugo to reopen Arkham Asylum and infiltrate the organization, but the Falcone Family arrived before the plan could begin.

• Li Wei fused the dark green orb into Dr. Hugo, transforming him into a powerful figure resembling Singed and making him Li Wei's ally.
• Dr. Hugo explained that the Court of Owls funded Arkham Asylum and had scheduled a meeting with him for the following day.
• Li Wei instructed Dr. Hugo to act as Arkham's true director and use the Court's funding to reopen the asylum and gather experimental materials.
• Dr. Hugo questioned why they should not simply destroy the Court of Owls and the Maroni Family, and Li Wei explained that he wanted Gotham's chaos and order to remain balanced.
• A man and a woman arrived at Arkham Asylum in a black car, and Li Wei sent Dr. Hugo to his laboratory to meet the guests.

Li Wei met with Fish Mooney and Carmine Falcone, who offered him City Hall’s criminal psychiatric treatment contract and showed him a gruesome execution. Falcone claimed the victim had obstructed Li Wei, while Li Wei remained wary of the gangster’s intentions.

• Li Wei refused Fish Mooney’s order to visit Falcone, but accepted a contract making Arkham Asylum City Hall’s exclusive provider of criminal psychiatric treatment.
• Fish and Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot drove Li Wei to a nightclub, where he met Carmine Falcone and his bodyguard Victor.
• Falcone warned Li Wei that Sal Marroni was alive and looking for him, but Fish’s reaction did not expose Li Wei’s claimed ignorance.
• Falcone arranged for Victor to reveal and kill the mayor’s secretary, whom Li Wei recognized as the man who had tried to extort him.
• Falcone called the execution a second gift to Li Wei, saying the secretary had caused trouble for him behind the scenes.

Li Wei accepted Falcone’s five-million-dollar donation and left the nightclub after Falcone publicly presented him as a friend. Back at the club, Falcone weighed the risk that Li Wei was connected to Khada Jhin, while Cobblepot privately held onto Li Wei’s encouragement.

• Falcone showed Li Wei that Gotham’s mayor worked for him and explained the Maroni Family’s role in the prison psychiatric treatment business.
• Falcone gave Li Wei five million dollars as a charitable donation, and Li Wei accepted his offer of friendship.
• As he left, Li Wei told Cobblepot he had the talent to become a boss and invited him to visit Arkham Asylum.
• Li Wei recognized Falcone’s gifts and public escort as a scheme to associate him with the Falcone Family, but decided to keep the money.
• Cobblepot told Falcone that Li Wei disliked Fish, concealing what Li Wei had said to him.
• Falcone told Victor he had paid Li Wei to buy the possibility that Li Wei might be connected to Khada Jhin and could help against the Maroni Family.

Li Wei discovered that Dr. Hugo’s attempt to reproduce Singed’s werewolf experiment had failed, leading them to suspect that alchemy required a magical ingredient. Dr. Hugo identified the Rage Potion as a possible source and began researching how to recreate it, while Li Wei left the laboratory.

• Li Wei returned to Arkham Asylum, where Dr. Hugo hurried him to the Indian Hill laboratory after an experiment went wrong.
• Dr. Hugo showed Li Wei a dead test subject and said his attempt to recreate Singed’s werewolf experiment had failed, making him fear that all of Singed’s alchemical knowledge was unusable.
• Li Wei proposed that the experiment lacked a magical component and suggested that the werewolf’s blood-draining ability involved magical power.
• Dr. Hugo recalled Singed’s Rage Potion, which granted blood-draining abilities, and decided to research the materials needed to recreate it.
• Dr. Hugo told Li Wei to go sleep while he worked, and Li Wei left the laboratory.

Li Wei convinced Gordon and Harvey that he was an eccentric asylum director rather than Khada Jhin, buying himself time as Gotham’s underworld grew more volatile. After the detectives left, he revealed that his conversation with Little Flower had been an act.

• Sal Marroni, fearing both the Falcone Family and Khada Jhin, ordered Sam to gather the Maroni Family and prepare for war with the Falcones.
• Gordon and Harvey visited Arkham Asylum and questioned Li Wei about his whereabouts during the previous night.
• Li Wei told the detectives he had spoken with Little Flower and led them upstairs to a potted plant.
• Gordon and Harvey greeted the plant, decided Li Wei was mentally unwell but unrelated to Khada Jhin, and hurried away.
• Li Wei admitted that pretending to talk with the flower had been an act that gave him time to evade suspicion.

Li Wei used Dr. Hugo to plant an Invisible Lotus inside the Court of Owls’ headquarters, giving him a way to monitor its members as they debated Khada Jhin. Meanwhile, Gordon and Harvey were ordered to prioritize the Waynes’ murder case and met Bruce Wayne and Alfred at the police station.

• Li Wei refused to kill Gordon and Harvey, saying he needed them alive to preserve order in Gotham.
• Dr. Hugo planted Li Wei’s Invisible Lotus beneath the Court of Owls’ table while its members argued over whether to recruit or eliminate Khada Jhin.
• The Court of Owls agreed to delay its decision until Khada Jhin was captured, continued funding Dr. Hugo’s research, and warned him that it was watching him.
• The Court’s leader gave Dr. Hugo Gotham Police Department’s suspect profile of Khada Jhin to review.
• The Police Commissioner ordered Gordon and Harvey to solve the Waynes’ murder within forty-eight hours, and Gordon and Harvey met Bruce Wayne and Alfred in the reception room.

Gordon and Harvey investigated the Waynes' murder while Li Wei furnished Arkham Asylum and wondered why the detectives had stopped questioning him. The chapter ended with Gotham TV reporting that Mario Pepper had been identified as the Waynes' killer and shot dead.

• Gordon apologized to Bruce Wayne for failing to find his parents' killer, and Bruce said he still believed in him.
• Edward Nygma showed Gordon and Harvey a bullet from Thomas Wayne's chest, but the evidence yielded no useful leads.
• Gordon suspected the killer had been a professional hitman or an enemy of the Waynes, while Harvey urged him to visit Fish Mooney's territory.
• Li Wei bought a custom bed and renovation supplies, then spent two days arranging deliveries to Arkham Asylum.
• Li Wei reviewed Edward Nygma's suspect reports and noticed that Gordon and Harvey had stopped investigating him.
• Gotham TV reported that the Waynes' murder case had been closed and that Mario Pepper had been killed during a pursuit.

Li Wei watched Gordon spare Cobblepot at the docks, then followed Cobblepot to shore as the future Penguin began his rise through violence. Li Wei approached him, intending to give him a push toward becoming Gotham’s underworld power.

• Li Wei watched Harvey pressure Gordon to dispose of Cobblepot, but Gordon fired beside Cobblepot and kicked him into the sea instead of killing him.
• Harvey dismissed Gordon’s suspicions about Li Wei while describing the surge of crime overwhelming Gotham’s police.
• Gordon persuaded Harvey to take him to Wayne Manor so he could tell Bruce Wayne the truth about Mario Pepper and the Waynes’ deaths.
• Li Wei waited near Westwood Bridge as Cobblepot emerged from the water and killed an old fisherman for his knife and food.
• Li Wei approached the battered Cobblepot, who recognized him and demanded to know why he was there.

Li Wei encouraged Cobblepot to pursue power in Gotham while keeping their encounter secret, then watched the city’s crime and police influence grow. Dr. Hugo later revealed that Viper Potion could help create a Rage Potion, but he needed more of it to continue his werewolf experiment.

• Li Wei reassured Cobblepot that he would keep their meeting secret and urged him to become Gotham’s underground kingpin.
• Li Wei observed that Gotham’s crime wave and Gordon and Harvey’s growing reputation threatened the balance he wanted to preserve, and he considered creating a new villain.
• Dr. Hugo told Li Wei that his experiments with a green liquid from Singed’s tank still failed, while he had discovered Viper Potion on Gotham’s black market.
• Dr. Hugo explained that Viper Potion made users powerful and violent but left them with an insatiable hunger that could kill them.
• Li Wei learned that concentrated Viper Potion could synthesize a Rage Potion, and Dr. Hugo asked him to help obtain more.

Li Wei tracked down Stan Pototsky, the distributor of Viper Potion, and gained access to the potion’s formula after revealing himself as Khada Jhin. Stan began explaining how his work at Weizhan Pharmaceuticals and Bruce Wayne had led to his plan.

• Dr. Hugo told Li Wei that no one knew the identity or location of the Viper Potion distributor, so Li Wei decided to search Gotham using Khada Jhin’s abilities.
• Li Wei spent two days scattering Invisible Flowers around Gotham and used them to spot Stan Pototsky secretly distributing Viper Potion.
• Li Wei confronted Stan in an alley and asked to buy more Viper Potion, but Stan grew hostile and prepared to take a potion himself.
• Li Wei transformed into Khada Jhin, prompting Stan to recognize him as an idol and invite him to a secluded office at Gotham University.
• Stan offered Li Wei the remaining Viper Potion and its formula for free, then began recounting his past as a biochemist at Wayne Enterprises’ Weizhan Pharmaceuticals.