Chapter Summaries

Ba Di comforted Jenny after she woke from her nightmare, and she realized he had saved her from her monstrous form. Meanwhile, Hal sensed a purple light heading toward Earth and pursued it.

• Ba Di sat beside Jenny and recalled her suffering, the moment he had killed her hopes, and how he had used tens of millions of people to force Flash to save her.
• Jenny woke in terror, warned Ba Di that General Vick wanted to hurt him, and relaxed after Ba Di told her Vick could no longer threaten them.
• Jenny saw that her body had returned to normal, confirmed Ba Di was real, and wept as she embraced him.
• On a barren white dwarf, Hal sensed a purple streak racing toward Earth and flew after it, recognizing it as Carol's.

As Krypton’s arrival drew closer, Ba Di confronted Luther about his disappointing work and gave him one month to research a Doomsday Cell. Luther’s survival depended on creating a creature powerful enough to kill Ba Di, and he accepted the impossible challenge.

• Ba Di stood atop Emperor Tower, anticipated the arrival of Zod, Faora, Haier, and the other Kryptonians in about a month and a half, and prepared to end his entanglements with Krypton.
• Ba Di reminded Luther of the ten years he had served him and told him that his cleverness and results had disappointed him.
• Under Ba Di’s crushing pressure, Luther denied having more ability to offer and struggled to endure the confrontation.
• Ba Di gave Luther one month to research the Doomsday Cell and ordered that the resulting serum gene sequence be injected into Luther.
• Ba Di told Luther that creating a Doomsday capable of killing him was Luther’s final chance to preserve his life, and Luther agreed to research it.

Ba Di inspected the Magic Technology Grand Array under construction at the Bei Jia Er Lake Surface Base and approved Atlantean help to protect the lake’s ecology. He descended toward the underground facility as work continued on the Earth Core Bearing Pillar.

• Ba Di arrived at the Bei Jia Er Lake Surface Base and told its employees to return to work.
• Yue Na · Sa Jin Te reported that workers were building a Magic Technology Grand Array in the lake’s rift valley and requested Atlantean assistance to maintain the lake’s ecological stability.
• Ba Di recalled how Krypton’s leaders had ignored warnings about its failing core and caused the planet’s destruction.
• Ba Di agreed to send Atlanteans to protect the lake’s environment and praised Yue Na · Sa Jin Te for considering its ecological impact.
• Ba Di entered a transparent glass elevator and descended into the layers beneath the surface base.

Ba Di inspected the Earth Core Bearing Pillar project beneath Bei Jia Er Lake and tested the newly delivered pillar with his Magic True Body. He then checked all seventeen continental formation sites and looked ahead to completing the project in a few months, when Earth would be under his control.

• Ba Di rode the deep-water elevator to the underground formation base, where Raven told him the Earth Core Bearing Pillar had arrived and the foundations would take several more months to finish.
• Ba Di reassured Raven, transformed into his Magic True Body, and stepped onto the vast magic-tech formation foundation.
• Ba Di activated the Earth Core Bearing Pillar briefly to verify its systems, then stopped the flow of magic and confirmed it worked properly.
• Ba Di left Raven and inspected the formation bases across all seventeen continental regions, resolving minor issues at the tenth and thirteenth sites.
• Ba Di finished his inspections and anticipated completing the project in a few months so Earth would fall into his grasp.

Zod absorbed Yellow Sunlight aboard the Kryptonian spacecraft, growing stronger while fighting the destructive urges stirred by the Destruction Factor. On Earth, people watched the ship break through the asteroid stream and panicked over the threat it posed, unsure whether Ba Di could stop it.

• Zod absorbed Yellow Sunlight, completing his first genetic evolution and gaining more strength.
• Zod's rage and urge to destroy nearly overwhelmed him, but he restrained himself because he still needed to confront Ba Miu Luo Di.
• Zod struck the spacecraft's deck, sending the ship off course toward asteroids before its shield and emergency lasers protected it.
• Ba Di's government broadcast footage of the Kryptonian spacecraft breaking through the asteroid stream near Pluto.
• People across Earth feared the ship could destroy the planet and doubted that Ba Di or his Gene Warriors could withstand its weapons.

Ba Di learned that Faora's Kryptonian spacecraft had entered the Solar System and reflected on their tangled past while choosing not to contact her directly. Hera connected with Faora instead, but Faora rejected her pleas and declared that she and Ba Di would inevitably fight.

• Hera told Ba Di that the Kryptonian spacecraft had entered the Solar System and reported on the humans receiving superhuman genes through the game.
• Ba Di recalled how Faora had trained him, become his lover, and later become entangled with him in a conflict of love, hatred, and ideals.
• Hera offered to connect Ba Di with Faora, but Ba Di declined and said he looked forward to seeing her face.
• Faora ordered her crew to connect an incoming communication from Hera, who urged her to support Ba Di and abandon her ideals.
• Faora rejected Hera's appeal, said she and Ba Di had to fight, and declared how she wanted her body treated if either of them died before cutting off the call.

Zod’s Kryptonian spaceship reached Earth and aimed a massive Planet Destroyer Cannon at the planet. Ba Di’s Space Base appeared to defend Earth, and Zod broadcast a demand for Ba Miu Luo Di to come out.

• The Kryptonian spaceship crossed the Asteroid Belt and arrived at Earth with Zod, Faora, Haier, and the imprisoned Kara Zor-El aboard.
• People around the world panicked as the spaceship loomed over Earth and opened its front to reveal a gigantic cannon.
• Ba Di’s seven-kilometer Space Base appeared and assembled into a Mechanical Jellyfish that formed a Particle Annihilation Cannon to face the Kryptonian weapon.
• Zod disrupted Earth’s communications, appeared on screens, and demanded that Ba Miu Luo Di come out.

Ba Di prepared Earth’s forces for Zod’s invasion while Zod and Ba Di’s ships faced off in space. Zod sent Faora toward Earth and entrusted Haier with the Kryptonian ship, ordering him to fire its cannon at Zod if he lost control after fighting Ba Di on the Moon.

• Hera reported that a Phantom Zone prisoner had briefly seized Earth’s communications before being forced out of the Space Base system.
• Ba Di deployed the Kryptonian Legion, Gene Warriors, and anti-air weapons across Earth, while Diana and Raven prepared ground defenses and stabilized the planet.
• The Kryptonian ship and Ba Di’s Space Base faced each other in space as Faora left the formation alone for Earth.
• Zod told Haier that he had permitted Faora to depart and explained that Haier needed greater resolve to fulfill his potential.
• Zod chose the Moon as his battlefield with Ba Di and told Haier to control the ship and fire its Super Light Speed Particle Stream Cannon at him if he defeated Ba Di but lost his reason.

Haier accepted Zod’s order to carry on the mission of restoring Krypton’s glory, then freed Kara and offered to send her to Ba Di with a bargain. He left the condition he wanted Ba Di to accept unstated.

• Zod ordered Haier to take responsibility for Krypton’s future and told him he could oppose or cooperate with Ba Di.
• Haier accepted the mission, and Zod handed him the ship’s controls, its systems, and the information Jor-El had left behind.
• Zod left the ship and flew toward the moon, while Haier watched him disappear into the distance.
• Haier approached Kara’s cell, where she blamed him for her family’s deaths and Ba Di’s failed revolution.
• Haier lowered Kara’s energy barrier and offered her a ship to reach Ba Di, promising to submit if Ba Di killed Zod in exchange for one condition.

Faora destroyed her spaceship and plunged into Metropolis, where she attacked Ba Di with Heat Vision, Freezing Breath, and her fists. Ba Di struck her down, leaving her unconscious in the crater.

• Captain La Jin ordered a saturation barrage that destroyed Faora's Attacker Single-Soldier Spaceship, and Hera commanded the formation to let Faora pass.
• Faora tore through the atmosphere and crashed into Ninth Street in Metropolis, creating a vast crater and scattering nearby buildings and cars.
• Ba Di descended from Emperor Tower to confront Faora as she charged him and blasted his chest with Heat Vision.
• Faora followed with Freezing Breath and a relentless barrage of punches, but her attacks failed to injure Ba Di.
• Ba Di paused at the memory of their past, then struck Faora's forehead with his hand blade and drove her into the ground unconscious.

Earth’s forces fought Haier’s Kryptonian criminals and alien invaders across space and the planet while Ba Di and Zod prepared for their decisive battle. Ba Di arrived on the moon and greeted Zod.

• General Otto commanded Earth’s Kryptonian Legion and enhanced human forces as they battled Kryptonian criminals in space.
• Haier allowed the invasion to continue, intending to use the war to force Ba Di into helping restore Krypton’s glory.
• Alien invaders broke through Earth’s defenses, and Diana, Atlantis, Raven, and human military forces fought them across the planet.
• Ba Di ordered Hera to remove Faora from the battle and send her back into confinement.
• Ba Di flew to the moon, landed before Zod, and greeted him.

Ba Di fought Zod on the moon and quickly overpowered him, but Zod’s regeneration made him more dangerous as the battle continued. Ba Di then overwhelmed Zod in a Heat Vision clash, pushing a river of molten lunar rock toward him.

• Ba Di and Zod released their magnetic fields on the moon, and Zod charged at Ba Di after stomping a vast crater into the surface.
• Ba Di seized Zod’s arm and repeatedly smashed him into the moon, suppressing him with superior strength and combat skill.
• Zod tore off his arm to escape Ba Di’s grip, then regenerated a stronger replacement limb.
• Ba Di unleashed his full magnetic field as Zod’s cells overwhelmed his will and drove him to attack.
• Ba Di’s concentrated Heat Vision overpowered Zod’s thicker beams and melted a lava channel that advanced toward him.

Ba Di overwhelmed Zod on the moon, driving him into a transformation that destroyed his consciousness and created Doomsday. Their escalating battle shattered the moon, and Ba Di pursued Doomsday past the stunned space battlefield.

• Ba Di split Zod's Heat Vision and stomped him deep beneath the lunar surface, brutally overpowering him.
• Zod's rage took over, his body transformed into Doomsday, and his consciousness was destroyed.
• Ba Di and Doomsday traded devastating blows, repeatedly punching through the moon and cracking its surface.
• The combatants and people on Earth watched as the fighters sent the moon spinning before it exploded in space.
• Haier watched Doomsday streak past the Kryptonian spacecraft as Ba Di chased after it.

Ba Di defeated Doomsday on Mars after adapting the battle to exhaust Doomsday's energy and prevent him from evolving. He ordered the White Martians to submit all of Mars within three days, then flew back toward Earth.

• Ba Di and Doomsday fought from Earth past Mars and into the Asteroid Belt, where Doomsday's strength and toughness grew until he nearly matched Ba Di.
• Two White Martians watched the battle and chose not to interfere, fearing the fighters could destroy Mars.
• Ba Di transformed into his Magic True Body and used Dark Rays to drain Doomsday's energy before Doomsday could evolve resistance.
• Doomsday crashed onto Mars with his limbs and torso turned to chocolate, and Ba Di crushed his remaining body and seized his head.
• Ba Di ordered the White Martians to bring all of Mars and submit to him in three days, then returned to his Kryptonian body and flew toward Earth.

Ba Di tore into the Kryptonian spacecraft’s Main Battle Control Room Cabin and confronted Haier, whom he blamed for betraying him. Haier dismissed his soldiers and tried to make peace by revealing that he had released Kara, but Ba Di did not know she was involved.

• Ba Di ripped open the spacecraft’s hull and entered the Main Battle Control Room Cabin, where Haier’s soldiers prepared to defend him.
• Ba Di threw Zod’s head at Haier’s feet and demanded to know whether Haier intended to oppose him.
• Haier ordered the Kryptonian Soldiers to leave, then admitted he did not want to oppose Ba Di.
• Haier said releasing Kara had been a gesture of goodwill, but Ba Di was surprised and asked what Kara had to do with anything.

Ba Di confronted Haier, who offered his surrender and Kryptonian resources in exchange for restoring Krypton. Ba Di killed Haier before he could state his condition, fearing he would become a threat again.

• Hera reported that Kara Zor-El had survived and that Haier had given her to Ba Di as a gesture of goodwill.
• Haier surrendered to Ba Di and offered the Kryptonian spacecraft, legion, alien criminals, and scientific knowledge to help build an empire.
• Haier asked Ba Di to agree to one condition, intending to restore Krypton and return its people to their homeworld.
• Ba Di transformed into the Devil God and tore out Haier's heart, saying he foresaw Haier causing trouble for him again.
• Haier died on the ground while Ba Di watched his former friend without expression.

After Earth’s victory over Zod, Ba Di took control of the Kryptonian ship and expanded his forces, but the destruction of the moon began destabilizing Earth. He carved a replacement Diamond Moon and returned to install it as Earth’s day had shortened to fifteen hours.

• Ba Di captured the Kryptonian forces and ship, extracted Haier’s memories, and executed Zod’s loyalists while ordering Otto to conquer nearby planets.
• Earth celebrated Ba Di’s victory, then faced weakened tides, tsunamis, and accelerating rotation after the moon’s destruction.
• Hera’s calculations showed that Earth’s days could eventually shrink to six hours and its climate would become unstable, alarming Ba Di.
• Ba Di found a dense crystalline-carbon planet beyond the Asteroid Belt and carved it into a moon-sized Diamond Moon.
• Ba Di passed Mars, where Otto was conquering the planet, and returned to Earth after more than a month to begin setting the Diamond Moon in place.

Ba Di connected the seventeenth Earth Core Bearing Pillar to his consciousness and drove all seventeen pillars into Earth's core to take control of the planet. The process unleashed violent global disasters and threw Earth's magnetic field, weather, and ecology into chaos.

• As Earth regained the Diamond Moon and prepared for the Eastern Mid-Autumn Festival, Ba Di went to Antarctica to assume control of the planet.
• Raven warned Ba Di that bearing Earth's immense power was dangerous, but he reassured her and approached the Earth Core Bearing Pillar.
• Ba Di used his blood and will to connect the seventeenth pillar to himself, completing his control over all seventeen pillars.
• Ba Di activated the global magitech foundations and sent all seventeen pillars plunging into Earth's core.
• The pillars' impact triggered worldwide earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, magnetic disturbances, and extreme changes in seasons and weather.

Ba Di endured the Earth Core Bearing Pillars’ crushing pressure and transformed into his Magic True Body to stabilize Earth’s magnetic field and natural forces. After witnessing Earth’s formation, he swept his gaze across the planet, calming its disturbances and discovering Atlanteans who remained unconquered.

• The seventeen Earth Core Bearing Pillars connected to Earth’s core, subjecting Ba Di to immense magnetic and gravitational pressure.
• Raven urged Ba Di to focus on sorting out Earth’s magnetic field as he struggled to withstand the strain.
• Ba Di became a five-meter-tall Magic True Body and connected with the pillars, stabilizing Earth’s rotation, natural forces, and environment.
• Ba Di experienced visions of Earth’s formation and history, then recovered from his shock.
• Ba Di swept his gaze across Earth, found Atlanteans still hidden in the ocean, and calmed volcanoes, earthquakes, and other disturbances.

Batman tried to protect Flash as they attempted to use the Cosmic Treadmill to overwrite Ba Di’s influence on time. Batman died drawing the storm’s lightning away, and Flash vanished in the instant the lightning destroyed the cabin and treadmill; Ba Di then opened his eyes at South Pole Earth Core Plaza.

• Batman detected an unnatural magnetic storm over Nuo Yi Island and ordered Flash to run on the Cosmic Treadmill.
• Batman threw his Magnetic Bat Darts and other electromagnetic gear into the sky, but lightning destroyed them all.
• Batman turned himself into a lightning rod and ran away from the cabin to draw the storm away from Flash.
• Ten thousand bolts of lightning struck Batman, killing him as Flash ran and cried out inside the cabin.
• Lightning tore apart the cabin and Cosmic Treadmill, and Flash vanished as the machine exploded.
• Ba Di opened his emotionless eyes at South Pole Earth Core Plaza.