Chapter Summaries

Ba Di resumed his ordinary routine after Flash vanished, interviewed with Little Louis, advanced Doomsday Cell research, and spent time with Raven, Pamela, and Jenny. At the end of August, Flash reappeared briefly on Highway 6 before vanishing again, and Ba Di woke to August 1 at midnight.

• On August 2, Little Hera brought Ba Di to Little Louis for an interview about his daily routine and plans for an underwater tourist city and space travel.
• On August 13, Jenny reported that the Doomsday Serum had been perfected, and Ba Di injected it to strengthen himself against the strain of bearing Earth.
• On August 15, Ba Di celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival in the East with Raven, Pamela, and Jenny.
• On August 30, Ba Di and the women discussed inviting Faora to dinner, but she declined Raven's invitation.
• On August 31, Flash tore through space on Highway 6 and disappeared again before Ba Di could learn what he was doing.
• At 23:59 on August 31, Ba Di went to sleep and awoke at 00:00 on August 1.

Ba Di spent August developing the Doomsday Cell and evolving Hera while enjoying time with his family, but Flash’s sudden appearance through a rift in Star City left him confused and on guard. As August ended, Ba Di went to sleep and the clock began ticking through August 1 again.

• Little Hera dragged Ba Di to Louis’s interview, where Louis asked him blunt questions about his private life.
• Ba Di, Jenny, and Hera perfected the Doomsday Cell, and Ba Di injected the serum after Luther died during testing.
• Ba Di ordered Hera to evolve into a living being with emotions.
• Ba Di celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival with Raven, Pamela, and Jenny, then hosted Diana for dinner; the women were too sore to work the next day.
• Flash burst from a crack in Star City and vanished through another rift, leaving Ba Di unable to determine what he was doing.
• Ba Di went to sleep at midnight on August 31, and time began ticking through August 1 again.

On August 2, Ba Di sensed that Flash had tampered with time and ordered all available resources redirected to investigating the Speed Force. As the month passed, his déjà vu intensified until he spotted Flash fleeing through a rift on August 31, just before time reset to August 1.

• Ba Di woke beside Faora, then experienced déjà vu after striking her and suspected Flash had caused it.
• Ba Di ordered Little Hera to cancel schedules and devote all computing power to finding Flash and studying the Speed Force.
• Ba Di repeatedly sensed that he should have followed events he did not actually experience, including injecting the Doomsday Serum and attending the Mid-Autumn Festival.
• On August 31, Hera told Ba Di that the information terminal organism was complete and would monitor irregularities.
• Ba Di sensed déjà vu, flew above Metropolis, and saw Flash burst from a rift on Highway 6 before fleeing back through it.
• At midnight, time shifted from August 31 back to August 1.

Ba Di learned that Flash had trapped the world in more than 1.72 million loops, spanning about 143,651 years, while Hera secretly recorded every cycle. Hera revealed Flash’s repeated resets and Ba Di’s failed attempts to stop him, leaving Ba Di aware that Flash had gone insane within the loops.

• Little Hera canceled Louis’s interview and directed Ba Di to the Central Host in Deep Bottom while asking him to comfort her.
• Ba Di embraced Little Hera and reassured her that she still had him, then went to meet Hera at the Central Host.
• Hera told Ba Di that 1,723,821 loops had passed since Flash began resetting the world from August 31 to August 2.
• Hera explained that Flash was using the Speed Force to overwrite the world and wear Ba Di down with more than 140,000 years of memories.
• Hera listed Ba Di’s repeated actions, including more than 1.2 million failed ambushes of Flash and over 1.5 million restarts, and said Flash had gone insane.

Ba Di learned that Flash had overwritten the world for millions of cycles and ordered Hera to inject him with the perfected Doomsday Serum so he could stop him. As the serum began changing his body, Hera detected Flash, and the Earth’s white lights gathered toward Emperor Tower.

• Ba Di learned from Hera’s records that Flash had repeated the August loop for more than ten million cycles and was losing his sanity.
• Hera said Flash’s location could not be predicted, though he had appeared most often on Highway 6 outside Metropolis.
• Ba Di decided to inject himself with the Perfect Doomsday Serum, and Hera brought him the syringe.
• Ba Di opened his chest and injected the serum into his heart, beginning a twenty-six-day transformation into a Doomsday.
• Hera detected Flash, and white lights emerged across the Earth and surged toward Emperor Tower.

Ba Di merged with the Spirit of Existence and gained a direct connection to Earth, allowing him to sense where Flash would emerge. He prepared an ambush on Highway 6 and faced Flash as the speedster burst through space.

• White motes merged into Ba Di, and Hera explained that the Spirit of Existence was Earth trying to save itself.
• Ba Di felt Earth become his body and realized the Spirit of Existence had strengthened his perception rather than directly increasing his combat power.
• Ba Di used Earth's magnetic field and past encounters to determine that Flash would emerge on Highway 6.
• Ba Di ordered Hera to prepare multiple fields on Highway 6, but Flash had previously escaped similar traps by tearing through space.
• On August 31, Ba Di took his position in the middle of Highway 6, and Flash burst from a multicolored rift and charged at him.

Ba Di fought Flash on Highway 6 and endured the speedster’s million-year kinetic-energy charge before breaking Flash’s spine and tearing him apart inside the Speed Force. As Flash died, countless versions of Ba Di created across time converged on him, leaving him suspended in agony.

• Flash burst free of Ba Di’s gravity field and charged him with more than a million years of kinetic energy.
• Ba Di transformed into a giant and resisted Flash’s charge, evolving as his body absorbed the impact.
• Ba Di grabbed Flash and snapped his spine while Hera warned him that Flash was driving them toward a rift into the Speed Force.
• Ba Di held on and entered the rift with Flash, then tore him apart and crushed his head.
• Countless versions of Ba Di formed from time and surged into him, leaving him writhing in pain within the Speed Force.

Ba Di survived the Speed Force’s attempt to overwhelm him with countless past selves by merging his soul with his cells and evolving a unique body. His emergence as the God of Evolution alerted powerful beings across the multiverse, while Superman-Prime confronted the DC Editorial Department in alarm.

• Ba Di’s body and soul began to break apart as more than a hundred million past versions of himself merged into him inside the Speed Force.
• Ba Di shattered his soul into countless pieces and fused it with his Doomsday Cells, evolving a unique body built on his Magic True Body.
• Ba Di absorbed his remaining past selves and realized he had become the God of Evolution, an Only God.
• Clark, Trigon, the New Gods, Darkseid, and the pantheons of God’s Domain sensed the new deity and considered recruiting or commanding him.
• Superman-Prime burst into the DC Editorial Department and demanded to know why a unique being had appeared, while Siegel insisted they had designed no such character.

Ba Di discovered that the Speed Force was an endless prison and used his flesh and the nearly destroyed Spirit of Existence to create a girl. He named her Kang Na, and the chapter ended with her accepting the name after he punished her for calling herself Bai Ling.

• Ba Di landed on a desolate continent in the Speed Force and found that its space and time looped, trapping him inside an eternal prison.
• Ba Di tore off his right hand and combined it with the Spirit of Existence to create a little girl.
• Ba Di named the girl Kang Na, but she insisted that she was Earth's Spirit of Existence and called herself Bai Ling.
• Ba Di grabbed Kang Na by the tail and repeatedly smashed her into the ground until she said her name was Kang Na.

Ba Di and Kang Na discovered that the Speed Force Prison kept looping them across an endless continent, making escape impossible. Ba Di realized he could transform the prison into chocolate and eat it, leaving them determined to consume the Speed Force and grow stronger.

• Ba Di questioned whether Kang Na could still sense Earth after they traveled for days without leaving the expanding continent, and she confirmed that Earth was behind them.
• Kang Na explained that the Speed Force Prison displaced space and time to trap Ba Di, whom it perceived as a threat to the Multiverse.
• Ba Di wondered what would happen if they remained trapped, then used his Chocolate Ray to turn the land into chocolate and ate it.
• Ba Di found that eating chocolate made him slightly stronger, transformed a vast area into chocolate, and made Kang Na eat some too.
• Kang Na enjoyed the chocolate and joined Ba Di's plan to eat the Speed Force until it was destroyed.

Johnny Quick stole Pandora's Box from an Earth artifact facility and opened a gateway on Highway 6 to bring the Syndicate into this world. Ba Miu Luo Di and a horned white-haired girl emerged from the fissure, leaving Johnny Quick stunned.

• A speedster infiltrated the Artifact Building, evaded its defenses, and stole Pandora's Box from the B-class storage room.
• Johnny Quick arrived at the camp on Highway 6 and planned to use Pandora's Box to bring his companions into the unified world.
• Johnny Quick opened Pandora's Box at the place where Ba Di and the Flash had vanished, creating a gateway between universes.
• Ba Miu Luo Di stepped through the gateway with a horned white-haired girl on his shoulder, who warned him to contain his magnetic field.
• Johnny Quick froze in shock and demanded to know who the newcomers were.

Ba Di and Kang Na escaped the Speed Force and returned to Earth, where Johnny Quick claimed the planet and provoked them. Ba Di killed Johnny Quick with a casual swat, but the force of his strike devastated Earth, leaving Kang Na crying over the damage.

• After eating through the Speed Force's prisons, Ba Di and Kang Na emerged on Earth, where Kang Na sensed they had been gone for about two years.
• Johnny Quick claimed Earth as territory for the Syndicate, and Kang Na identified him as an outsider who had arrived through Earth's weakened space.
• Johnny Quick attacked Ba Di with his speed, while Kang Na urged Ba Di to stay calm so his power would not destroy Earth.
• Ba Di let Kang Na handle Johnny Quick, but the speedster taunted him and demanded that he kneel.
• Ba Di casually swatted Johnny Quick, destroying his body and unleashing a shockwave that split the atmosphere and carved a vast fissure across Earth.
• Kang Na burst into tears over the destruction of her Earth.

Ba Di returned to Earth with power so difficult to control that he had to keep everyone at a distance. As Little Hera explained the past two years, he learned that Earth faced several major threats, and the chapter left him back in the midst of the crisis.

• Ba Di accidentally split the Earth with a hundred-thousand-kilometer crack while attacking a speedster, then struggled to control the gravity and magnetic field surrounding him.
• Ba Di reunited with Kang Na and the women from two thousand meters away, and asked Hera and Raven to create a device that would let him safely approach them.
• Little Hera told Ba Di that Parallax had possessed Hal and corrupted Coast City, where Hera and Raven had trapped him as Jenny helped people resist his influence.
• Little Hera explained that Brainiac was transforming Mars, while General Otto and his troops were fighting Mongul's Warworld near Diamond Moon.
• Little Hera reported that the Guardians of the Universe and the Little Blue Men planned to lead the Green Lantern Corps against Earth over its current order and A Bin Su's ring.

Ba Di restrained his newly increased power, sent Kang Na and Jenny to Coast City, and then used Pandora’s Box to open a passage to another world. Superboy-Prime emerged from the rift with his allies, declaring his intent to conquer.

• Ba Di ordered Kang Na to deal with the Parallax Demon and allowed her to take one helper.
• Kang Na chose Jenny, gave her a White Lantern Ring, and flew with her toward Coast City.
• Little Hera created a throne for Ba Di, who decided to use Pandora’s Box to reach another world.
• Ba Di recalled the hundred thousand Kryptonian Warriors from Coast City and ordered them to prepare for battle.
• Ba Di had Pandora’s Box opened, and Superboy-Prime and his allies emerged from the rift.

Superboy-Prime and the surviving Crime Syndicate emerged from a rift into Ba Di’s ambush, where a hundred thousand Kryptonian Warriors surrounded them beneath the sunlight weakening Superboy-Prime. Ba Di confronted the trapped group from his Diamond Throne and asked Superboy-Prime about his boast that he had come and conquered.

• Superboy-Prime emerged into sunlight and felt it painfully weaken him as a vast force of Kryptonian Warriors surrounded the Crime Syndicate.
• Owlman saw that the rift had closed behind them and realized they had been trapped by Ba Di’s planned ambush.
• Superwoman looked at Ba Di and considered surrendering and seducing him, while Sea King and Deathstorm faced him with contempt.
• Power Ring trembled with fear and clung to Sea King, while the chapter recalled that Ba Di had already killed Johnny Quick.
• Ba Di sat on the Diamond Throne and asked Superboy-Prime, “I heard... you came, you conquered?”

Ba Di intimidated Superboy-Prime and his Earth 3 companions, while Owlman and others offered to join his Utopia Empire. After Sea King and Deathstorm were quickly defeated, Ba Di ordered Superboy-Prime killed, and Superboy-Prime begged to kneel.

• Ba Di's presence and the sunlight left Superboy-Prime terrified, but Superboy-Prime denied that he had come to conquer.
• Owlman knelt and offered to join Ba Di's Utopia Empire, followed by Green Lantern and Superwoman.
• Sea King challenged Ba Di, and Deathstorm refused to submit, while Superboy-Prime struggled to decide whether to kneel.
• Kryptonian Soldiers beat Sea King and tore Deathstorm apart before dragging his body into space.
• Ba Di ordered the soldiers to kill Superboy-Prime, who immediately begged to kneel and pleaded for his life.

Ba Di received the Emperor Armor and cape, while Raven planned a powerful weapon to match his imperial status. Kang Na reported that she had enslaved the Parallax Demon and transformed it into a blonde girl, whom Ba Di named Ai Li.

• Raven showed Ba Di the Emperor Armor, which contained his magnetic field, and explained how its cape would help him fly and regulate its energy.
• Raven told Ba Di she planned to forge him a planet-sized weapon from a neutron star core and his flesh and blood after his spiked club had been destroyed.
• Little Hera arrived, praised Ba Di's armor, and reported that Kang Na had captured the Parallax Demon and transformed it using Ba Di's flesh and blood.
• Kang Na showed Ba Di the struggling blonde girl and asked him to name her.
• Ba Di named the girl Ai Li.

Mongul confronted General Otto on Diamond Moon and challenged him to a gladiatorial match, wagering that he would leave Earth alone for a hundred years if Otto won. Otto accepted on behalf of the returned Ba Miu Luo Di, and ordered a soldier to preserve Mongul’s guard’s spit so he could make the guard eat it after the match.

• Mongul brought his slave warriors and a broad-faced guard to Diamond Moon, where General Otto’s legion stood ready to defend the Ba Miu Luo Di Empire.
• Mongul offered Otto a chance to become his subordinate and proposed a gladiatorial match, promising not to invade Earth for a hundred years if Otto won.
• Otto declared that Ba Miu Luo Di had returned and accepted the match, promising to present it as a welcome for His Majesty.
• Mongul’s guard spat on Diamond Moon as he left, angering Otto’s soldiers.
• Otto ordered a soldier to preserve the spit so he could make the guard eat it after the gladiatorial match.

Ba Di arrived at Warworld with his companions to watch Earth’s gladiatorial contest, while Mongul anticipated conquering him. The match began with Earth’s General Otto facing the bounty hunter Lobo.

• Mongul asked whether Earth’s emperor, Ba Miu Luo Di, had arrived and learned he was being escorted to the arena.
• Ba Di arrived with Kara, Kang Na, Ai Li, and Secretary Hera, and Kang Na and Ai Li ran off while teasing and struggling with each other.
• Ba Di told Mongul to keep an eye on Kang Na and Ai Li, then settled in to watch the matches.
• Mongul ordered the contest to begin, and the host announced Earth’s General Otto and the bounty hunter Lobo as the first gladiators.

Ba Di watched General Otto fight Bao Lang in Mongul’s arena and wagered Earth against Warworld. When Kang Na and Ai Li fled with the Cosmic Dolphin, Bao Lang abandoned the fight to chase them, leaving Mongul’s wager unresolved as Ba Di claimed victory.

• Ba Di watched Bao Lang, a Czarnian bounty hunter, fight General Otto before a roaring arena crowd.
• Mongul wagered Earth against Ba Di’s Warworld, and Ba Di accepted.
• General Otto transformed into Doomsday and renewed his attack on Bao Lang.
• Kang Na and Ai Li flew out of Warworld with the Cosmic Dolphin, and Bao Lang tore off his legs to chase them.
• Ba Di asked whether Bao Lang’s departure meant he had won, and Mongul glared at him furiously.