Chapter Summaries

Eddie tried to escape Xu Yue by climbing down his apartment building with toilet brushes, but Venom saved him and took control of his body. Xu Yue met Eddie outside and began a conversation, while Venom complained about the stench.

• Eddie found his apartment ransacked and remembered that he had kept evidence against the Life Foundation.
• When Xu Yue knocked at his door, Eddie assumed he had been exposed and tried to escape through a window using toilet brushes.
• Eddie fell from the building, but Venom emerged from his arm and caught him against the wall.
• Venom introduced himself, warned Eddie that he controlled his body, and climbed down the building with him.
• Xu Yue spoke to Eddie from a car and suggested that he step back because he smelled bad.
• Venom told Eddie to remove the foul-smelling toilet brush.

Xu Yue warned Eddie and Venom about symbiote compatibility and soundwave weaknesses before leaving them unsettled. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor and Drake learned Eddie was Venom’s highly compatible host and moved to capture him as Venom panicked over Earth’s powerful heroes; FBI agents then burst into Eddie’s home.

• Xu Yue told Eddie that he had deliberately left the access card, explained that Eddie and Venom were unusually compatible, and warned them that 4,000-to-6,000-hertz soundwaves harmed symbiotes.
• Lex Luthor negotiated with the symbiote occupying a homeless Black man, which identified Riot as its escaped leader and described Venom as a coward with a more compatible host.
• Drake asked about Venom, and Lex restored deleted surveillance footage that showed Eddie; Drake decided to capture him for study.
• Venom read online reports about Earth’s heroes, panicked, and begged Eddie to find it a rocket home.
• FBI agents broke into Eddie’s home and ordered him to put his hands on his head and get down.

Venom escaped through Metropolis while Li Da spotted the creature and tried to sell the unexpected intelligence. Liu Laoshi, whom Li Da had killed, confronted him and revealed he had been following him under his master's orders, leaving Li Da and his confidants facing an uncertain threat.

• Eddie, controlled by Venom, smashed through a wall and fled across rooftops as Li Da noticed the monster and considered selling the information.
• Li Da burned a message and ordered his two Veteran Reincarnator confidants to sell the intelligence to several employers.
• Li Da's confidants found Liu Laoshi standing behind them and mocked him for emerging from hiding.
• Li Da recognized Liu Laoshi as the laborer he had killed and dissolved, while his confidants suspected the steward had murdered him.
• Li Da tried to deny the accusation and assess Liu Laoshi's strength, but Liu Laoshi said he had been following Li Da under his master's orders and now had a reason to appear.

Liu Laoshi killed Li Da and two others after they tried to take the Dark Power inheritance, then told them his lord had entrusted him with it. Li Da sent a final message and Death Contract to the surviving Reincarnators, who agreed to pursue the inheritance and consider resurrecting him if they succeeded.

• Li Da tried to persuade Liu Laoshi to hand over his inheritance, claiming it had changed his personality and would drain his funds.
• Liu Laoshi revealed that his lord had chosen them to use their goodness to restrain their desires and keep the inheritance sealed for gradual payment.
• Liu Laoshi pierced Li Da and two others with shadow tentacles, then devoured them with a dark curtain as Li Da sent an invisible transmission.
• The surviving Reincarnators received Li Da's final footage and learned that a worker had obtained an inheritance of Dark Power.
• Little John Pierpont Morgan agreed to share Li Da's intelligence and fulfill his Death Contract if the group obtained the inheritance.

Eddie tried to convince Anne that the Life Foundation was conducting human experiments and that an alien symbiote had possessed him, then faced several other symbiotes sent to retrieve Venom. Venom, revealed as a timid but surprisingly dangerous fighter, attacked one of them before it could threaten him.

• Eddie showed Anne and her blind date evidence of the Life Foundation’s experiments and pointed out news footage of himself possessed by Venom.
• When Life Foundation pursuers arrived, Eddie gave Anne his phone and asked her to deliver the evidence to her newspaper’s editor-in-chief or reporter Louis, then tried to draw the pursuers away.
• Eddie discovered that several pursuers were also possessed by symbiotes, while Venom admitted he was timid and ranked near the bottom in fighting ability.
• The other symbiotes told Venom their leader had been found and wanted to study Earth, dashing Venom’s hope that they could soon go home.
• Venom suddenly attacked the symbiote possessing the security chief, striking it with a transformed toilet-brush hand until it was knocked out of its host.

Venom defeated the Life Foundation’s symbiotes and decided to stop Riot’s plan to bring more of them to Earth. Meanwhile, Dr. Drake asked Lex Luthor for help, and Anne gave Louis evidence of the Life Foundation’s experiments as concern grew over attacks on Superman.

• Venom and Eddie captured three symbiotes after defeating them, and agreed to defeat Riot and destroy the rocket rather than leave Earth.
• Dr. Drake learned that his security team and the three symbiotes had failed, then reluctantly asked Lex Luthor to help.
• Anne gave Louis evidence from Eddie’s phone, and Louis vowed to expose the Life Foundation’s human experimentation.
• Anne told Louis that the symbiotes were alien lifeforms connected to the Life Foundation’s spacecraft and recent attacks.
• Louis considered asking Clark for help but hesitated because negative media coverage and public hostility toward Superman were growing.

Clark overcame his doubts about helping people and flew to assist Eddie and Venom. He arrived just as Lex Luthor’s flesh creature attacked them, and Superman sent the creature flying.

• Clark reflected on his recent doubts, then thanked Louis after her call helped him remember why he chose to save people.
• Clark deduced that Eddie was fighting the aliens outside the restaurant and flew to help him.
• Lex Luthor confronted Eddie and Venom with a flesh creature, demanding Venom and his three symbiote companions.
• Venom attacked the creature, but its tentacles subdued him and dragged him toward its mouth.
• Superman arrived, snapped the tentacles binding Venom, and sent the flesh creature flying.

Superman confronted Lex Luthor after stopping a symbiote attack, but Lex threatened the kidnapped Kents and Superman’s girlfriend to force him to attend a hearing. Superman flew away after Lex escaped, while Eddie and Venom worried about the rocket carrying Riot and discussed helping him.

• Superman knocked away Lex Luthor’s flesh monster, and Venom surrendered while explaining that he had saved people.
• Lex revealed that Riot had likely launched into space to bring tens of thousands of symbiotes to Earth.
• Superman seized Lex and demanded the rocket’s flight path, but Lex showed him a photograph of the kidnapped Kents and threatened them and Superman’s girlfriend.
• Lex escaped through an Anywhere Door with the flesh monster, leaving Superman shaken and warning that he must cooperate at the hearing to get a hostage back.
• Superman flew away, and Eddie and Venom decided they needed to find a way to help him stop the approaching symbiotes.

Superman attended a public hearing where people accused him of crimes, while the Reincarnators’ plan to prevent a bombing left them seeming even more suspicious to him. After the hearing damaged Superman’s reputation, Albert proposed that the Reincarnators win his trust by helping him fight Doomsday.

• Superman descended before the hearing and entered despite the crowd’s accusations, then allowed guards to handcuff him.
• The Reincarnators had arranged for Kariel to preside over the hearing and prepared to stop Lex Luthor’s expected bombing, but no explosion occurred.
• Superman admitted to the accusations, and his reputation fell further as Kariel realized he regarded her and the Reincarnators as enemies.
• Lex Luthor watched the broadcast and decided to reveal Superman’s evil side by having him kill another superhero.
• Albert reminded the Reincarnators that Doomsday would kill Superman once, then suggested they help Superman fight the monster.

After Lex Luthor used the Kents to coerce Clark, Clark discovered that his next task was to kill Batman, his younger brother Bruce. He told Bruce and their allies what had happened, and Bruce proposed using the demanded fight to find a chance to locate Martha.

• After the hearing, Louis comforted Clark, who decided to ask his friends and family for help.
• Lex Luthor sent Clark Jonathan Kent’s location, and Clark found Jonathan beside a dumpster, where Jonathan warned him not to compromise with darkness.
• Lex Luthor ordered Clark to kill Batman and bring his head in exchange for Martha, and Clark realized Batman was Bruce.
• Clark went to Bruce and General Zod, revealed that Martha had been kidnapped, and explained Lex Luthor’s demands.
• Bruce recognized Lex Luthor’s plan and offered to let Clark accept the challenge while Bruce searched for Martha and looked for an opening.

Bruce tried to find Martha and encountered Caesar and the Supreme Divine Court Reincarnators, who attacked him and planned to kill him during a future fight with Superman. After Bruce escaped, he and Clark agreed to stage a fake fight to draw out their enemies while the Kryptonians searched for the hostages.

• Bruce approached the Luthor Group to find Lex Luthor but discovered Caesar and the Reincarnators following him.
• Bruce struck first with spells, killed one Reincarnator, and escaped using mirror images and invisibility.
• Caesar decided the Reincarnators would monitor Metropolis and kill Batman during his next fight with Superman.
• Bruce told Clark about the encounter, and they agreed to stage a fake fight to lure out their enemies.
• Bruce arranged for Alfred to locate Martha while Zod and Fiona prepared to help the Kryptonian Warriors rescue the hostages.

Wang Dazhuang shared a meal with Barbo, an Italian observer, while Jian Xiong and Old Wood unexpectedly encountered them. After Barbo left, Montgomery ambushed him in an alley, but Barbo immediately offered to surrender in exchange for good food and humane treatment.

• Wang Dazhuang treated Barbo to Lanzhou Lamian, and the two bonded over their shared love of food.
• Jian Xiong and Old Wood entered the noodle shop and found Wang Dazhuang dining with Barbo, whom Wang Dazhuang identified as a Western observer.
• Barbo left the shop, and Wang Dazhuang soon followed him while Jian Xiong and Old Wood stayed behind.
• Montgomery confronted Barbo in a deserted alley and revealed that he had been targeting the Italian observer.
• Barbo raised his hands and offered to surrender if Montgomery guaranteed him Italian Hollow Rice Noodles, red wine, Lanzhou Lamian, and proper treatment for prisoners of war.

Barbo tried to surrender to Montgomery, but Montgomery refused and was beaten until De Gaulle arrived. More reinforcements gathered, leaving Barbo surrounded as he worried they would misunderstand his actions.

• Montgomery refused Barbo's offer to surrender and prepared to restrain him, but Barbo overpowered him and repeatedly punched him.
• De Gaulle answered Montgomery's distress message and arrived in the sealed subspace, where he found Barbo sitting on Montgomery and beating him.
• De Gaulle sent a message canceling the other reinforcements, then prepared to confront Barbo himself.
• Little John Pierpont Morgan and the others received a later plea for help, gathered together, and traveled through a portal to the subspace.
• The group found Barbo punching both Montgomery and De Gaulle, and Barbo stopped when he saw them arrive, fearing they would misunderstand him.

Barbo fought Hoover’s group until Wang Dazhuang appeared and used the power of Gluttony to weaken the giants and free Barbo. After Wang Dazhuang refused to sell his inheritance or negotiate, Hoover and the others prepared to attack.

• Barbo attacked Hoover’s group after learning they would not accept his surrender, but the Magic-users slowed him with restraining effects.
• As Caesar and Kariel moved to finish Barbo, an overwhelming hunger weakened the giants, and Wang Dazhuang emerged to swallow the negative effects binding Barbo.
• Hoover recognized Wang Dazhuang from Li Da’s information and concluded that he had inherited Gluttony, one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
• Little John Pierpont Morgan offered to buy Wang Dazhuang’s inheritance, but Wang Dazhuang refused because his lord would not agree.
• Wang Dazhuang demanded that Hoover’s group either let them leave or fight, and they decided to attack him.

Wang Dazhuang and Barbo fought Hoover’s group until Caesar and the others turned the tide against them, but the Fujiwara Family Head and then Minamoto no Yorisetsu intervened. Albert stopped Yorisetsu’s attack long enough for the intruders to escape through a portal.

• Wang Dazhuang devoured fatigue from Barbo and drained multiple abilities from Hoover’s group, while Barbo used his speed to attack their opponents.
• Caesar blocked Wang Dazhuang’s giant strike and forced him to attack, allowing the others to wound Wang Dazhuang as Barbo struggled to help.
• The Fujiwara Family Head arrived after Jian Xiong used his token and joined the battle, but Montgomery and De Gaulle recovered and the defenders remained outnumbered.
• Minamoto no Yorisetsu descended through an Anywhere Door and attacked with the Shitishanyin Vajra Pestle, alarming Hoover and the others.
• Albert shattered a glass-marble-like crystal to halt the Vajra Pestle, and Little John Pierpont Morgan opened a portal so the intruders could retreat.

The Coalition Forces strengthened their cooperation against Minamoto no Yorisetsu while Wang Dazhuang gained power from the Seven Deadly Sins inheritance and Jian Xiong was sent to a trial with Shazam. Bruce and Clark discovered that Lex Luthor had obtained Kryptonite, and General Zod feared what else Luthor might have learned from a Kryptonian spaceship.

• Albert urged Montgomery, De Gaulle, and the other Coalition Forces to unite against Minamoto no Yorisetsu, and they discussed seizing Japan’s Seven Deadly Sins inheritance.
• Wang Dazhuang told Jian Xiong and Old Wood that his lord had saved him and helped him merge with part of the inheritance.
• The Fujiwara Family Head teleported Jian Xiong to Shazam, who told him to hold his staff and shout his name.
• Clark weakened when Bruce showed him Kryptonite, and Bruce suspected Lex Luthor had discovered his identity.
• General Zod explained that Luthor likely obtained the Kryptonite from a Kryptonian spaceship and worried that he might have learned forbidden knowledge.

Bruce and Clark staged a fight with Kryptonite weapons and spells to draw Lex Luthor’s attention while Zod’s people searched for Martha. Their plan was disrupted when Reincarnators appeared and exposed Bruce’s true location.

• Bruce prepared Kryptonite weapons and powder, and Clark used a video call with Martha to identify the area from distant clock bells.
• Lex Luthor ordered Martha’s guards to kill her if another rescue attempt occurred, while he watched the staged fight from afar.
• Bruce and Clark began their staged battle at an abandoned factory, where Bruce’s magical cannons and traps made Clark look battered and weakened.
• Lex Luthor believed Bruce might truly defeat Superman after Bruce fired Kryptonite powder at Clark.
• Reincarnators arrived and attacked Bruce’s magical doubles, then Albert used Revealing Dust to expose Bruce’s hidden real body.
• Several Reincarnators swarmed Bruce and tried to beat him to death.

Batman and Superman faced the Reincarnators and newly arrived Japanese fighters while Lex Luthor prepared a weapon intended to kill Superman. The Coalition Forces remained committed to protecting Superman, convinced their secret intelligence would secure victory.

• Batman warned Zod and Fiona that the Reincarnators might be hired cannon fodder, while he and Clark tested their opponents.
• Clark attacked Caesar, but Albert sacrificed a one-use item to redirect the blow and preserve Caesar’s Holy Shield Technique.
• Hoover and Little John Pierpont Morgan told Superman that the Reincarnators had come to help him, while they continued attacking Batman.
• Lex Luthor realized Batman and Superman had joined forces and prepared a weapon infused with his will and hatred of Superman.
• The Fujiwara Family Head, Minamoto no Yorisetsu, Nakayama Shion, Heinz, and Barbo launched a surprise attack that Batman and Clark repelled together.
• Kariel swept away the battlefield dust, and the Coalition Forces concluded that their intelligence gave them the advantage despite the enemy’s reinforcements.

Clark’s allies rescued Martha, then prepared to face the Japan Reincarnators as new magic-enhanced fighters joined the battle. The confrontation ended with Hoover warning General Zod that Doomsday, a nearly indestructible Kryptonian weapon, would soon appear.

• Bruce urged Clark to set aside his suspicions and deal with their enemies, while Hoover insisted that the Time-Space Interveners had chosen Clark’s side.
• Zod and Fiona revealed that Martha had been rescued, easing Clark’s worries and convincing the allies they could fight without restraint.
• Jian Xiong appeared and shattered a lightning attack with power gained from Shazam’s inheritance and the world’s Net of Magic.
• Little John Pierpont Morgan threatened Jian Xiong, who refused to back down, and Liu Laoshi and six others arrived with the Seven Deadly Sins inheritance.
• Hoover agreed with Little John Pierpont Morgan that they might deploy Doomsday, and General Zod reacted gravely when he learned the weapon would soon appear.

Metropolis was devastated as Superman and the Reincarnators fought with military formations, until Lex Luthor unleashed a vastly empowered Doomsday. The monster scattered both sides and appeared strong enough to dominate the battle.

• Superman faced the ruins of Metropolis and blamed the Time-Space Interveners for the destruction.
• Morgan, Adams, and Rockefeller’s legions deployed military formations against the two Japanese demonesses, while Barbo hid inside Heinz’s formation instead of using his own.
• Lex Luthor watched as Doomsday’s activation accelerated and an Anywhere Door opened above the battlefield.
• Doomsday emerged, roared, and blasted every combatant on both sides away from the center of the battle.
• Lex Luthor appeared on Doomsday’s shoulder and revealed that he had fused Kryptonian genes, alien parasites, and Doomsday’s flesh to create a monster with overwhelming power.