Chapter Summaries

Old Wood and Jian Xiong accepted a well-paid intelligence mission from Master Li, while Little John Bigler saw his accidental death as a chance to draw closer to the Supreme Divine Court. The chapter left Little John ready to use his remaining time as governor to assist the newly arrived Guardian Knight.

• Master Li's aide recruited Old Wood for a lucrative mission and told him to bring Jian Xiong along.
• Old Wood persuaded Jian Xiong to accept the job, which would help him afford information about his missing father.
• Master Li offered the laborers a contract that limited their risks but took a sixty-percent cut, and they signed it.
• Little John Bigler learned that he was unlikely to win another term as governor after being killed and losing support.
• Old Bigler advised Little John to turn the incident into an opportunity to build ties with the Supreme Divine Court, and Little John agreed to help its new Guardian Knight.

The Morgan Conglomerate faced a damaging leak after the Supreme Divine Court publicized intelligence about surpassing the limits of elite intrusions, prompting Little John Pierpont Morgan to build alliances and prepare to lead the next mission himself. As tensions spread through the Federation, legions rushed to hire reliable Reincarnators and prices for top-tier items surged.

• The Supreme Divine Court leaked and began selling the Morgan Conglomerate’s intelligence, drawing attention from legions across the Federation.
• Albert reassured Little John Pierpont Morgan that the leak might help them form alliances, while warning that the Supreme Divine Court had been courting new supporters.
• Little John Pierpont Morgan decided to lead the next mission and target one of the Supreme Divine Court’s wings.
• Legions sought employment contracts from the Laborer Team and other groups, but the supply of suitable Reincarnators fell short.
• Top-tier single-use item prices doubled, and the Japanese Merchant Consortium sold combat items in exchange for portable items that could bring World of the Living weights into play.

Xu Yue entered the DC Movie Universe with Minamoto no Yorisetsu, Nakayama Shion, and the Fujiwara Family Head, using his new authorities to seize the universe and several smaller worlds. After escaping a higher power’s grasp, he arrived safely but realized the source’s growing pull could become dangerous as his strength increased.

• Xu Yue told Minamoto no Yorisetsu, Nakayama Shion, and the Fujiwara Family Head to make their own plans after entering the mission world.
• Xu Yue used the Infinity Stones to break the DC Movie Universe free from its origin’s restraints, provoking a powerful presence that reached for him.
• Xu Yue’s authorities of World Alteration and Multiversal Characteristics let him turn himself and the universe into golden data and escape the giant hand.
• Xu Yue scooped up several small worlds and entered the DC Movie Universe, where the source’s pulling force vanished.
• Xu Yue concluded that the pull would grow more dangerous if he became an Elite Intruder.

Xu Yue entered the DC Movie Universe during World War I to recover and investigate the origins of its gods. He established three magical sanctums and planned to study Ares, while considering investments in the Wayne and Luthor families.

• Xu Yue entered the timeline in World War I-era Metropolis, despite the strain the River of Time placed on him.
• Xu Yue planted three magical sanctums in Metropolis, Port City, and London to rebuild the Net of Magic.
• Xu Yue bought a newspaper and learned how the war had developed and why the United States remained removed from the fighting.
• Xu Yue sensed Ares drawing strength from the war and decided to study him for traces of the old gods.
• Xu Yue planned to leave investments and influence behind, considering people named Wayne and Luthor.

Xu Yue entered Themyscira through a gap in its barrier and met Diana, then told Hippolyta he was the Supreme Mage. When Steve Trevor's plane crashed on the island, the arrival of another outsider confirmed that the barrier was failing.

• Diana spotted Xu Yue arriving on a raft and brought him to meet Hippolyta.
• Xu Yue explained that he had entered through an opening in the barrier and called himself the Supreme Mage, while Antiope challenged him and Hippolyta asked him to leave.
• A plane broke through the barrier and crashed in the forest, revealing that outsiders could reach Themyscira.
• Amazon warriors captured Steve Trevor and brought him to the council hall, where he introduced himself to Xu Yue and the Amazons.

Steve’s arrival led the Amazons to battle German soldiers who had pursued him to Themyscira. Xu Yue stopped the fighting with magic and healed many wounded Amazons, but the warriors killed the unconscious Germans, leaving no prisoners.

• Steve explained that the approaching soldiers were enemies who pursued him and helped create war, and Hippolyta ordered him confined and the Amazons to prepare for battle.
• Diana and the Amazons met the German force at the shore and attacked with arrows, but rifle fire caused heavy casualties.
• Diana joined the fight, while Xu Yue used a cone of rainbow magic to knock out the German soldiers across the beach and nearby waters.
• Xu Yue healed many wounded Amazons with Cure Light Wounds spells, and Diana thanked him with a kiss.
• After Xu Yue finished treating the wounded, the enraged Amazons killed the unconscious German soldiers, leaving no prisoners.

Xu Yue accepted Hippolyta’s friendship and offered to teach the Amazons magic, then agreed to accompany Diana as she left the island to confront Ares. The trio set sail with Steve, while Xu Yue warned that defeating Ares would not necessarily end the war.

• Hippolyta thanked Xu Yue for saving the Amazons, and he offered to teach them magic while explaining that Ares had fueled the war and gained power from its casualties.
• Diana urged Hippolyta to send warriors against Ares, but Hippolyta refused and ordered her to remain on the island.
• Diana asked Xu Yue to secretly help her find Ares, and he agreed while warning that killing Ares and ending the war were different things.
• Diana gathered her divine artifacts, including the God-Killer Sword, and Xu Yue brought Steve to the dock to join their journey.
• Xu Yue and Diana boarded the sailboat with the confused Steve and set out for the battlefield.

Xu Yue, Diana, and Steve arrived in London, where agents cornered them over Steve’s notebook. Xu Yue froze the agents with magic, and Steve learned that Xu Yue really was a mage.

• Steve welcomed Xu Yue and Diana to London and planned to have them treated before taking them to the battlefield.
• Xu Yue persuaded Diana to wear a trench coat and keep her distance from civilians so she would not cause panic that could empower Ares.
• Diana noticed they were being followed, and Steve led the group through the crowd as agents closed in around them.
• Agents cornered Steve in an alley and demanded the notebook General Ludendorff wanted.
• Xu Yue struck the agents with Frost Ray, freezing them into ice sculptures before they could react.
• Diana recognized the spell as a cantrip Xu Yue had taught her, and Xu Yue told Steve he could call him the Supreme Mage.

Steve, Xu Yue, and Diana set out to destroy a factory producing poison gas after officials rejected Steve’s warning and refused to act. Sir Patrick secretly funded their mission, while Xu Yue recognized him as Ares and considered how to awaken Diana’s divine power.

• Steve tried to warn the colonel that a new poison gas could defeat existing gas masks, but the peace negotiators refused to attack the factory in Belgium.
• Xu Yue suggested destroying the factory themselves, and Steve eagerly asked whether a spell could summon a meteorite.
• Steve recruited a Native American guide called Chief to lead the group to the battlefield.
• Sir Patrick joined them at a bar, denied that he had come to arrest them, and gave them money to support their mission.
• Xu Yue recognized Sir Patrick as Ares and decided he would need to help Diana awaken her divine power.

Xu Yue told Diana that she possessed divinity, and she decided to stop Ares after witnessing the suffering caused by war. Diana single-handedly recaptured a German-occupied town, and the group posed for a photograph as its heroes.

• Xu Yue told Diana that he sensed divinity within her, while Steve explained to Chief that he had begun learning magic and believed gods might exist.
• After arriving at the frontline and seeing wounded soldiers and refugees, Diana asked Xu Yue how to awaken her divinity so she could stop Ares.
• Xu Yue proposed holding a consecration ceremony in a nearby German-occupied town, and Diana charged across the battlefield despite Steve's warning.
• Diana endured rifle fire, machine guns, and artillery as she smashed through German defenses and recaptured the town.
• Xu Yue, Diana, Steve, and Chief posed for a war correspondent's photograph as the heroes who saved the town.

After Diana awakened her divine power, she flew to confront General Ludendorff, whom she believed was Ares, and killed him. The real Ares revealed himself and attacked Diana, while Xu Yue hurried toward their fight.

• Diana felt her divine power awaken, and Xu Yue analyzed the Old God Divinity within her.
• Steve learned that Germany planned to surrender and hold a banquet, but Diana concluded Ares was behind the war and flew toward the gathering.
• Diana interrogated an officer with the True Name Binding Rope, learned Ludendorff's location, and flew to the munitions factory.
• Diana killed Ludendorff despite his warning about the poison gas shells, then realized the factory workers continued preparing them.
• Ares appeared and revealed that Diana had killed the wrong man; he caught her sword, flung her into a cliff, and prepared to fight her.
• Xu Yue saw Diana flying backward as he approached and wondered why Ares had stopped holding back.

Ares regained control after nearly killing Diana and tried to stage his own death with the God-Killer Sword so she could finish him. Xu Yue, Steve, and Chief arrived while Ares was preparing the scene, and Xu Yue asked whether Athena had warned him about anything.

• Ares lost control and battered Diana until she could no longer fight, but regained his reason before striking her with his Battle Blade.
• Ares decided he needed to die by Diana’s hand and arranged the God-Killer Sword so she could deliver a fatal blow while incapacitated.
• Xu Yue, Steve, and Chief found Ares setting up his staged death, and Xu Yue wondered why Ares had come down on his own.
• Ares recognized Steve and his companions, then tried to scare them away by boasting that he was right and calling them ants.
• Xu Yue asked Ares whether Athena had warned him about anything.

Xu Yue defeated Ares, captured him, and separated his powers for analysis before resisting the River of Time’s scouring. He stabilized in the 1980s on Krypton as the planet approached destruction.

• Ares defeated Diana and mocked the people who had opposed him, while Steve and Chief asked Xu Yue for another way to kill a god.
• Xu Yue revealed his connection to the Olympian Pantheon and used his time-space power to frighten Ares, who realized Xu Yue was a reincarnator.
• Ares pleaded for mercy and invoked the world’s protector, but Xu Yue said he had made the world an independent universe and dragged Ares into his divine kingdom.
• Xu Yue dismembered Ares and separated his Upper Realm power, Old God Divinity, and War Divine Power for analysis.
• Xu Yue resisted the River of Time’s scouring and stabilized in the 1980s on Krypton, which was on the verge of destruction.

Xu Yue appeared in Jor-El’s laboratory as Jor-El and his wife welcomed their naturally born son, Kal-El, on a Krypton nearing destruction. After explaining his origins and journey through time, Xu Yue revealed that Krypton’s red-dwarf star, Rao, was a god connected to the planet’s collapse.

• Jor-El and his wife secretly delivered their son, Kal-El, despite Krypton’s ban on natural childbirth.
• Xu Yue appeared in the laboratory and asked to be Kal-El’s godfather, alarming Jor-El and his wife.
• Jor-El mistook Xu Yue for an agent of the Council of Elders, but Xu Yue said he came from Earth in the future and served as the Supreme Mage.
• Xu Yue explained the Speed Force and demonstrated his knowledge of the future, convincing Jor-El that his claims were credible.
• Jor-El feared Kal-El might become a threat, but Xu Yue said he had simply arrived on Krypton by mistake and wanted to look around.
• Xu Yue sensed Krypton’s god and identified Rao, the red dwarf’s Star Soul, as the chief culprit behind Krypton’s collapse.

Xu Yue told Jor-El that Krypton’s destruction was intended by its god and asked him to help prepare summoning rituals before the planet’s end. After Jor-El’s rebellion against the council failed and Zod killed him, Xu Yue revived him so he could begin arranging the ritual sites.

• Xu Yue reassured Jor-El that Carl would have a good life and explained that he hoped to persuade Krypton’s god to let him save the planet, though he could not prevent the Kryptonians’ extinction.
• Jor-El agreed to cooperate with Xu Yue in setting up summoning rituals during Krypton’s final weeks, despite learning that Zod would kill him after he sent his son away with the Codex.
• Jor-El tried and failed to persuade the council of elders to evacuate Krypton, then fought through Zod’s rebellion and stole the Codex.
• Jor-El inscribed the Codex’s information into his son’s cells before Zod ambushed and killed him.
• Xu Yue revived Jor-El in front of Mrs. El, and Jor-El agreed to use his influence and Krypton’s technology to inscribe the ritual nodes around the planet.

Xu Yue summoned Rao and demanded Krypton, while Jor-El helped him prepare the ritual and a ship. Rao yielded Krypton to Xu Yue but insisted the Kryptonians still had to be destroyed, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Xu Yue asked Jor-El to modify a Kryptonian ship and help prepare a summoning ritual.
• Jor-El and Kryptonian machines precisely built the ritual altar, and Xu Yue activated it.
• Rao appeared above Krypton and warned Xu Yue that the planet's destruction was unavoidable.
• Xu Yue demanded Krypton and warned Rao that his own existence was uncertain.
• Rao gave Xu Yue a sphere of starlight representing Krypton, but demanded that the Kryptonians be destroyed.

Xu Yue watched Krypton perish, absorbed the planet, and traveled to Earth. In Smallville, he acquired a farm and spotted the Kents carrying their infant son, Clark.

• Xu Yue accepted Rao’s authority and allowed Jor-El and his wife to spend their final weeks touring his planet.
• Krypton collapsed, killing the Els; Xu Yue absorbed the planet and departed in a modified Kryptonian spacecraft.
• The Kents found an infant in a crashed spacecraft on their farm and named him Clark Kent.
• Thomas Wayne brought Xu Yue to the farm he had bought for him in Smallville.
• Xu Yue approved of the farm and noticed the Kents driving toward town with baby Clark.

Xu Yue identified Clark Kent’s rashes as a reaction to adapting to Earth and treated them with a special ointment, earning the Kents’ trust. He told them Clark would grow stronger by absorbing sunlight and warned that his upbringing would determine whether he became humanity’s savior or a world-ending threat.

• Martha and Jonathan Kent took Clark to the town doctor, who diagnosed severe infant eczema and recommended keeping his skin clean and moisturized.
• Xu Yue introduced himself to the Kents outside the clinic and invited them to his farm, while Thomas Wayne arranged vehicles and staff for Xu Yue before departing.
• At the farmhouse, Xu Yue revealed that he knew Clark was an alien infant and explained that Earth’s environment was forcing him to adapt.
• Xu Yue mixed and applied a green ointment that quickly reduced Clark’s rashes, then gave the Kents a bottle to use daily.
• Xu Yue told the Kents that Clark could absorb solar energy and would need guidance as he adapted to his extraordinary powers.

Xu Yue took Clark to Metropolis for Thomas Wayne’s funeral, where they found Bruce grieving and the Wayne family’s future in the hands of its loyal butlers. Xu Yue reassured Jack that he trusted him to protect the Wayne Group and care for Bruce.

• Clark complained to Xu Yue that Jonathan Kent had forbidden him from using his abilities to save people, and Xu Yue explained that Jonathan feared others would treat him as a freak.
• Xu Yue told Clark they were traveling to Thomas Wayne’s funeral and recalled that Thomas had died despite repeated warnings to hire bodyguards.
• At the memorial service, Bruce cried for his parents while Jack and Alfred rebuffed people seeking influence over the Wayne Group.
• Xu Yue arrived with Clark, reassured Jack that he trusted him to manage the company, and asked him to look after Bruce.

Xu Yue attended Thomas Wayne’s memorial service, then took Clark and the grieving Bruce to an amusement park and aquarium. At the aquarium, the boys noticed a lonely young child who appeared to hear fish talking to him.

• Xu Yue arrived at Thomas Wayne’s memorial service, turned away people who had come to approach him, and helped the service proceed.
• Clark comforted Bruce and invited him to the amusement park after the memorial.
• Clark and Bruce rode a roller coaster, and Clark promised he would pull Bruce back up if he fell.
• Xu Yue gave Bruce a copy of Foundations of Magic Theory, Year One and took him and Clark to the aquarium.
• Clark and Bruce noticed a young boy talking to fish and seeming to hear their replies, while the other children avoided him.