Chapter Summaries

Thor and several pantheon gods gathered in the Myriad-Heaven Instrument to recruit a newborn Only God, but Thor’s challenge nearly sparked a fight among them. Sun Wukong arrived from God's Domain, eager to fight everyone at once.

• Thor confronted Hercules Rak, and Athena mocked Thor’s arrogance.
• Morrigan warned Thor against starting a war, while Horus and Izanagi and Izanami urged the gods to let the Only God choose a pantheon.
• Thor proposed a contest to decide who could remain and recruit the newborn Only God, and the assembled gods readied their weapons.
• Sun Wukong strode into the Myriad-Heaven Instrument wielding the Golden Cudgel and challenged everyone to fight him together.

The gods gathered in God's Domain awaited an arrival when Sun Wukong's presence kept them from fighting among themselves, but Steppenwolf appeared with an army of Parademons and challenged them. Sun Wukong prepared to face Steppenwolf as a Monitor Warship burst through a fissure, pursued by a giant hand.

• Thor and the other gods concealed their fighting spirit when Sun Wukong arrived, while Izanagi and Izanami avoided his gaze.
• A Boom Tube opened, bringing Steppenwolf and a vast Parademon army into God's Domain.
• Steppenwolf insulted the gods and threatened to crush their divine systems, prompting Sun Wukong to challenge him.
• The gods gathered behind Sun Wukong as he prepared to fight Steppenwolf, an Only God serving Darkseid.
• A Monitor Warship shot through a fissure beside the Speed Force Wall while a giant hand reached after it.

Ba Di captured the Monitor Race warship and killed Mandrakk after learning he had treated Raven as a bargaining chip. Ba Di found Raven sealed in a crystal and finally brought her back.

• Sun Wukong, Thor, and Athena tried to stop the fleeing Monitor Race warship and were thrown into the void.
• Ba Di caught the warship in his giant hand, and Mandrakk cried that he had kept Raven safe and wanted to trade her for God Superman.
• Ba Di named Sun Wukong, Thor, and Athena his friends for helping delay the warship.
• Ba Di pierced the warship and killed Mandrakk, furious that he had used Raven as a bargaining chip.
• Ba Di found Raven asleep inside a blood-red crystal and took it in his hand.

Ba Di confronted Steppenwolf, who accused him of violating Darkseid’s Ω Symbol taboo. After Ba Di demonstrated that his Dark Rays could turn Steppenwolf’s weapon and Parademons into chocolate, Steppenwolf fled through a Boom Tube, leaving Ba Di poised to enter God’s Domain and challenge Darkseid.

• Ba Di recognized Steppenwolf and the Parademon army from Apokolips, then told Steppenwolf to carry his challenge to Darkseid: he would storm Apokolips and take the Ω.
• Steppenwolf attacked Ba Di with the Earth Shattering Axe, but Ba Di’s Dark Rays transformed the weapon into chocolate.
• Ba Di took the transformed axe and realized his Dark Rays were far more powerful than he had expected.
• Steppenwolf abandoned the axe and escaped through a Boom Tube as Ba Di’s Dark Rays turned part of the portal and a large number of Parademons into chocolate.

Ba Di entered God's Domain, where divine waves evolved him into a new Only God and compressed the Ba Miu Luo Di Universe into a planet. He recognized that planets in God's Domain could contain entire universes as he prepared to face the powerful beings who had sensed his arrival.

• Ba Di revealed his immense Evolution Body and stepped from the Speed Force passage into God's Domain with the Ba Miu Luo Di Universe behind him.
• Divine waves baptized Ba Di, evolving his cells and making him a true God of Evolution as the Only Gods sensed his arrival.
• Ba Di's body shrank to roughly ten million light-years within God's Domain, and he concluded that he was stronger than the Spectre.
• Ba Di clenched his fist, testing the stability of God's Domain, then dragged the Ba Miu Luo Di Universe into the realm.
• Divine waves threatened to destroy the Ba Miu Luo Di Universe, but Ba Di supported it and helped Hera endure the invasion.
• The Ba Miu Luo Di Universe fused with divine waves and compressed into a planet, and Ba Di understood that a planet in God's Domain could be a universe.

After establishing Ba Miu Luo Di Planet, Ba Di hosted Sun Wukong, Athena, and Thor, who agreed to pursue an alliance and warned him of an unknown calamity threatening God's Domain. Their gathering was interrupted when the Skyfather of New Genesis requested an audience with Ba Di.

• Ba Di asked Hera to manage Ba Miu Luo Di Planet after the divine wave transformed it.
• Sun Wukong, Athena, and Thor visited Ba Di, who welcomed them and thanked them for their help against Mandrakk.
• Sun Wukong accepted that Ba Di would not join their factions, and Thor proposed an alliance that Ba Di agreed to explore.
• Athena and Thor explained the structure of God's Domain and its boundaries, including Limbo, the Monitor Domain, and the Source Wall.
• Sun Wukong, Athena, and Thor warned Ba Di that an unknown calamity was coming and that only Only Gods could learn what it was.
• The Skyfather of New Genesis requested an audience with Ba Di.

Skyfather arrived at Ba Miu Luo Di Planet with his sons Scott and Orion, claiming he had brought Ba Di a gift. Ba Di recognized the sealed demon inside the cube as Trigon, his old enemy.

• Skyfather's voice announced that he wanted an audience with Ba Di, prompting Sun Wukong, Athena, and Thor to leave and silently warn Ba Di to beware of every Only God.
• Ba Di cleared the banquet, put on his Emperor Armor, and received Skyfather in his divine hall.
• Skyfather arrived with Scott and Orion, and Ba Di remained wary despite Skyfather's kind manner.
• Skyfather presented Ba Di with a transparent cube containing a blood-red demon sealed by Lucifer.
• Ba Di recognized the demon inside the cube as Trigon.

Skyfather offered Ba Di an alliance against Darkseid, proposing that Ba Di replace him as the sole Ω and help maintain peace in God's Domain. Ba Di accepted in exchange for Trigon and New Genesis's Mother Box ultimate core technology, but suspected Skyfather had a deeper motive.

• Ba Di recognized that Skyfather had sealed Trigon as both a gift and a demonstration of power, then asked what Skyfather wanted.
• Skyfather proposed that Ba Di and New Genesis cooperate to eliminate Darkseid and make Ba Di the sole Ω of God's Domain.
• Ba Di agreed to cooperate but demanded New Genesis's Mother Box ultimate core technology.
• Orion and Scott protested that the technology was essential to New Genesis, but Skyfather ordered them to stop.
• Skyfather agreed to give Ba Di Trigon and New Genesis's Mother Box ultimate core technology, leaving Ba Di suspicious of his real purpose.

Ba Di mastered the Mother Box Core Ultimate Technology and used it to protect Ba Miu Luo Di Star by making Hera its living embodiment. He comforted Raven over their early arrival in God's Domain, then she went to the planet's core to visit Trigon.

• Skyfather left Ba Miu Luo Di Planet with his two sons after seeing its immense power.
• Ba Di examined Skyfather's gift, the Mother Box Core Ultimate Technology, and decided Hera would use it to conceal the planet.
• Ba Di merged the Mother Box technology with Ba Miu Luo Di Star and Hera's will, transforming Hera into the planet's living embodiment.
• Raven apologized to Ba Di for her capture causing them to enter God's Domain before their group was ready.
• Ba Di comforted Raven, and after they embraced, she went to the planet's core to meet Trigon.

Raven visited Trigon in his prison to ask him to ally with Ba Di, but Trigon refused to leave his seal and raved about an approaching war against a force of nothingness. Raven left shaken and unable to understand or help Ba Di.

• Raven entered the planet’s core and confronted Trigon, telling him she despised him for murdering her mother and mentors.
• Raven asked Trigon to become Ba Di’s ally, explaining that Ba Di had no one in God’s Domain willing to help him.
• Trigon agreed only if Raven released him, but she stayed silent because she did not trust him.
• Trigon laughed and claimed Ba Di would free him willingly, then warned that a coming conflict would engulf Ba Di and many powerful beings.
• Raven tried to calm Trigon as he raved about repeated battles against a force that devoured darkness, but he insisted he would rather remain sealed.
• Trigon withdrew into the cube, and Raven left the prison shaken by her helplessness.

Ba Di traveled through God's Domain for centuries, openly displaying his Ω while gathering forces and building a fearsome reputation. After his brutal victories in Hell made him famous as a new tyrant, Darkseid could no longer tolerate the divided Ω.

• Ba Di secured Ba Miu Luo Di Star with the Mother Box and set out to spread his Ω and claim Darkseid's Ω.
• Morpheus warned Ba Di that God's Domain knew his plan with Skyfather, but allowed him to travel through the Dreaming.
• Ba Di explored the Dreaming and visited New Genesis, where he stored its gods and forces in Skyfather's Infinite Crystal Universe before New Genesis vanished.
• Ba Di traveled through the Heavenly Realm, visiting pantheons and meeting gods including Thor, Odin, Zeus, and Hera.
• Ba Di fought monsters and wizards in the Nightmare and Hell, killed and devoured demons, and became known as a new tyrant.
• Darkseid could no longer endure Ω being divided.

Darkseid confronted Steppenwolf over his refusal to attack Ba Miu Luo Di, whose actions threatened Darkseid’s prestige. Darkseid ordered preparations for war against Skyfather, and Steppenwolf left believing the conflict might decide the fate of Apokolips and New Genesis.

• Darkseid questioned Steppenwolf, who knelt before him, about wanting to stop his intervention against Ba Miu Luo Di.
• Steppenwolf warned Darkseid that Ba Miu Luo Di was bait in Skyfather’s scheme and urged him to preserve his strength amid an approaching change in God's Domain.
• Darkseid grew furious, crushed the throne’s armrest, and ordered Steppenwolf to prepare for war so he could turn Ba Miu Luo Di into a Parademon.
• Steppenwolf obeyed and left the hall, silently wondering whether Skyfather and Darkseid were heading toward a final war over New Genesis and Apokolips.

Ba Di and Skyfather waited for Darkseid to respond to Ba Di’s claim to the Ω symbol, then entered Apokolips through a Boom Tube. The chapter ended with Darkseid appearing above Ba Di as the Parademon army watched.

• Ba Di reflected on the divine waves of God's Domain and recalled ancient Only Gods warning him that relying on them could bring real death.
• Skyfather assured Ba Di that Darkseid would not tolerate another Only God claiming his title and symbol, while Ba Di focused on establishing himself in God's Domain.
• After decades of traveling through God's Domain, Ba Di saw Apokolips's Boom Tube open before him, and Steppenwolf invited him in with a threat.
• Skyfather urged Ba Di to enter Apokolips, while Ba Di sensed Skyfather's deep hatred for Steppenwolf, who had helped kill Skyfather's wife.
• Ba Di stepped onto Apokolips and faced its endless Parademons as Darkseid appeared above him, staring down with his crimson Omega eyes.

Ba Di halted New Genesis’s attack on Apokolips to ask Darkseid what had happened to God's Domain. Darkseid revealed that God's Domain would be destroyed, and when Ba Di thought of the Great Evil Beast, a powerful voice answered from within his soul.

• Skyfather arrived with New Genesis’s army and declared that Darkseid’s final hour had come.
• Ba Di stopped Skyfather from ordering an attack and asked Darkseid what had happened to God's Domain.
• Darkseid said God's Domain would be destroyed, while Skyfather and the Only Gods fell silent.
• Ba Di wondered whether the Great Evil Beast could be responsible, and a mighty voice asked who was speaking its name.

Ba Di accidentally summoned the Great Evil Beast by thinking of its name, and it invaded his mind, read his memories, and left an unknown power inside his body. As Ba Di grasped the hierarchy of the Only Gods, Darkseid attacked him for daring to imagine a forbidden being, bringing them to the brink of war.

• The Great Evil Beast invaded Ba Di’s mind, read his memories, and recognized that he had crossed over from another world.
• Ba Di tried to purge the Great Evil Beast’s voice, but it vanished into his body after promising him a gift, leaving him with an unknown new ability.
• Ba Di reflected on the Only Gods’ power hierarchy, placing himself and Skyfather at the third level, below the Great Evil Beast and God.
• Darkseid sensed that Ba Di had imagined the forbidden being, erupted from his throne, and fired Omega Beams at him as war threatened to break out.

Darkseid and Ba Di exchanged devastating attacks on Apokolips, then charged into a battle that ignited a war between their armies. Darkseid feared Ba Di’s knowledge of the Great Evil Beast would bring the end closer.

• Darkseid struck Ba Di with Omega Beams, blasting a hole through his chest and hurling him across Apokolips.
• Ba Di retaliated with Dark Rays that corrupted Darkseid’s chest into chocolate and smashed him through his temple, but both gods quickly regenerated.
• Ba Di and Darkseid leaped at each other as Steppenwolf led the Parademons against Skyfather and New Genesis’s forces.
• The Apokolips and New Genesis armies collided, spreading battle and destruction across the planet.
• Darkseid struck Ba Di into a volcano and raged that Ba Di’s knowledge of the Great Evil Beast had brought the coming end closer.

Ba Di fought Darkseid for fifty years on Apokolips, holding him off until Skyfather defeated the planet’s other Only Gods. When Darkseid tried to force Ba Di into the Source Wall, Skyfather struck Ba Di instead and sent him into the gate, leaving Ba Di vowing revenge on New Genesis.

• Ba Di and Darkseid fought across Apokolips for decades, destroying cities and killing soldiers caught in their battle.
• Skyfather sealed Steppenwolf, DeSaad, Granny Goodness, Glorious Godfrey, Kalibak, and Apokolips’s other Only Gods after fifty years of fighting.
• Darkseid pulled Ba Di into Apokolips’s core lava, where they struggled before a mysterious gate leading to the Source Wall.
• Darkseid tried to shove Ba Di through the gate, but Ba Di resisted until Skyfather arrived and struck him into its pull.
• Ba Di realized Skyfather intended to eliminate both him and Darkseid, then was drawn into the Source Wall and swore revenge on New Genesis.

Ba Di was dragged onto the Source Wall, where he learned that generations of Only Gods had been trapped and drained of their power without hope of escape. As he faced the prospect of eternal imprisonment, he saw Yuga Khan climbing across the wall, a figure the captives regarded as their hope.

• The Source Wall seized Ba Di and pinned him against it, while the impact awakened the imprisoned Only Gods around him.
• Ba Di struggled to pull free, but the wall absorbed his Only God power and the captives told him escape was impossible.
• The Only Gods explained that some endured their imprisonment while others chose suicide by abandoning their uniqueness.
• Ba Di considered the horror of remaining trapped forever, then felt the wall shake from impacts in the distance.
• Ba Di saw Yuga Khan climbing across the Source Wall, and a nearby captive identified him as the hope that sustained them.

Ba Di saw Yuga Khan climbing the Source Wall with help from the Main Monitor and questioned the veteran Only Gods about it. Their noisy arguments revealed fragments of God's Domain’s history, leaving Ba Di listening as they began recounting the first God Wave.

• Ba Di watched Yuga Khan climb out of sight along the Source Wall and asked why he could move.
• A desiccated corpse told Ba Di that the Main Monitor had helped Yuga Khan, prompting Ba Di to describe his past encounters with the Monitor Race.
• The Only Gods argued over the secret covenant of the Ancient God Wave and refused to explain it to Ba Di.
• The veteran corpse identified himself as Creator God and claimed to come from the Main Monitor’s era, drawing insults from the other Only Gods.
• Creator God and the other Only Gods traded boasts and curses, and Ba Di learned pieces of God's Domain’s history as they began discussing the first God Wave.

Ba Di listened as the Creator God explained God's Domain's eras and revealed that a god had created it. Five Only Gods exploded after their thoughts brushed against the creator's power, leaving Ba Di shaken by how vulnerable he was.

• The Only Gods gathered on the Source Wall to hear the Creator God speak, while Ba Di watched the newcomers and the withered gods around him.
• The Creator God said God's Domain had reached its Third Era, distinguishing the Ancient Gods of the First Era, the Old Gods of the Second, and the New Gods of the Third.
• When an Only God asked how God's Domain had begun, the Creator God said that a god had created it.
• Ba Di restrained his thoughts about the god, but five Only Gods exploded after contemplating the creator's power and their ashes were absorbed by the Source Wall.
• Ba Di stared at the remains and realized how weak he was as the other gods cautiously resumed speaking.