Chapter Summaries

Ba Di and Raven failed to seriously injure Trigon, so Raven gave Ba Di Yagalas’s Lost Armor, which could grant him one minute of power at the cost of his remaining life. Trigon offered to spare Ba Di, Raven, and Earth if Ba Di followed him, but Ba Di chose to fight him.

• Ba Di and Raven struck Trigon, but he recovered from his wounds almost instantly.
• Ba Di ordered Raven to take out Yagalas’s Lost Armor, and she warned him that using it would leave him about one minute to live.
• Trigon offered to spare Earth and Raven and repair Ba Di’s body if Ba Di followed him.
• Raven left the decision to Ba Di, who sensed Trigon had a sinister design for him.
• Ba Di took the Lost Armor from Raven and pressed it into his body, declaring that he chose to kill Trigon.

Ba Di merged with the Armor of the Forsaken World, which stabilized his collapsing body and let him grow to a hundred meters tall with immense power. With only one minute left to live, he protected Raven by sending her away from the divine mountain.

• Ba Di took the Armor of the Forsaken World from Raven despite her pleas and pressed it into his chest.
• Trigon threatened to destroy Earth if Ba Di did not stop, but Ba Di refused to become his captive or food.
• The armor linked with Ba Di's Mental Strength and genes, stabilizing his body and accelerating the absorption of all three hundred and eighty Sun Energy Capsules.
• Ba Di shed his bone spurs and layers of skin as his body grew to a hundred meters tall and reached its strongest state, though he had only one minute to live.
• Ba Di enclosed Raven in a golden energy barrier, threw her toward the distant horizon, and told her, "The wind is strong here. Leave first."

Ba Di and Trigon fought a planet-destroying battle across Divine Peak, where Trigon blasted Ba Di into Yagalas's moon and knocked it out of orbit. After rebuilding his body, Ba Di launched himself back toward Trigon and fired Heat Vision across the starry sky.

• Ba Di battered Trigon through Divine Peak and into its depths, causing the mountain to erupt with lava.
• Trigon struck back with Hellfire beams, blasting Ba Di through the atmosphere and into Yagalas's moon, which was knocked out of orbit.
• Ba Di regenerated his destroyed body on the moon while Yagalas faced catastrophic changes from losing its satellite.
• Ba Di and Trigon faced each other across space, and Ba Di kicked the moon farther into deep space before charging back toward Trigon.
• Ba Di fired Heat Vision from deep space toward Trigon as he crawled out of Divine Peak.

Zatara witnessed Ba Di and Trigon’s battle devastate Yagalas, while Ba Di’s final transformation failed to defeat the demon. As Trigon swallowed Ba Di, Ba Di’s long-laid plan began to unfold.

• Zatara saw Ba Di blast Trigon through Yagalas’s divine mountain and drive him across the planet, shattering its continents and destroying its ecosystem.
• Ba Di and Trigon continued fighting near Yagalas’s core as the planet broke apart around them.
• Ba Di’s one-minute transformation expired, and his body began shrinking as his genes collapsed.
• Trigon remained unharmed and demanded Ba Di’s soul, declaring that he would become the next Eternal.
• Ba Di realized his plan could still unfold, then Trigon swallowed him.

Ba Di defeated Trigon’s projection inside his Mind World, leaving Trigon’s body dead on Yagalas while Raven and Zatara tried to save Ba Di. Before Trigon’s will was annihilated, Ba Di turned him into a dog and began questioning him about the world and the Only One.

• Raven and Zatara found Trigon’s body lifeless after his mental outburst revealed that Ba Di had defeated him in the Mind World, and Raven began cutting into the corpse to rescue Ba Di.
• In Ba Di’s Mind World, Trigon realized he could neither consume Ba Di nor overcome his will and raged about the powerful being Ba Di could have become.
• Ba Di appeared before Trigon and used his control of the Mind World to turn him into a Chinese Rural Dog and remove four of his eyes.
• Ba Di put Trigon in a pot of boiling water and asked him to explain the world and the Only One.
• Trigon mocked Ba Di as Ba Di added herbs and spices to the pot.

Ba Di kept Trigon’s projection trapped in the Mind World while questioning him about the multiverse and the Source. Trigon revealed the limits on unique beings and tempted Ba Di with the possibility of reaching God’s Domain, but Ba Di remained wary as his soul neared collapse.

• Ba Di stirred Trigon in a hot pot and asked what he meant by calling the multiverse a crop.
• Trigon explained that unique beings sent incarnations to gather Source because their true bodies could not safely enter the multiverse.
• Trigon described the Speed Force Wall beyond the multiverse and said it guarded the way to other universes and God’s Domain.
• Trigon told Ba Di that he had the potential to reach God’s Domain if he survived, then offered to let him live.
• Ba Di distrusted Trigon’s temptation even as he longed to see the wider world.

Ba Di rejected Trigon’s offer to use demon blood to stabilize his collapsing Kryptonian genes and instead relied on Raven’s hybrid nature as a possible solution. He cooked and swallowed Trigon’s avatar, leaving his own survival unresolved.

• Trigon explained that his blood could bind Ba Di’s collapsing Kryptonian genes but would likely let Trigon’s soul and will take over Ba Di’s body.
• Ba Di recognized the danger of accepting Trigon’s blood and resisted Trigon’s arguments that survival was worth the risk.
• Ba Di revealed that Raven’s half-human, half-demon body could be compatible with his genes because their minds had once merged.
• Ba Di boiled Trigon in a pot within the Mind World despite Trigon’s furious protests.
• Ba Di opened his mouth impossibly wide and swallowed Trigon in one bite.

As Yagalas’s catastrophic conditions worsened, Raven used Trigon’s blood to try to save Ba Di from collapsing at the genetic level. Zatara initially feared she would turn Ba Di into a demon, but accepted her explanation and shielded them as her spell began to flare.

• Raven and Zatara cut open Trigon’s corpse and blasted Ba Di free from it.
• Trigon’s blood tried to enter Ba Di, but his body continued dissolving into bloody water.
• Raven used her blood magic and Trigon’s blood to create a demonic nurturing array, explaining that it would bind Ba Di’s genes without turning him into a demon.
• Zatara raised his Divine Vine Wand, then planted it in the ground to grow a protective barrier around Raven and Ba Di.
• The magic array made from Trigon’s blood flared with intense red light.

Raven restored Ba Di’s body with her blood, but his consciousness remained trapped in an Ego Barrier. She entered his Mind World to bring him back and found herself at a church where a wedding was being prepared.

• Raven’s blood and Trigon’s blood-rune magic helped Ba Di’s genes reconstruct his body and restore its stability.
• Zatara realized Ba Di’s consciousness was trapped in a repeating cycle inside his Mind World and would fade away unless he escaped.
• Raven entered Ba Di’s body despite Zatara’s warning that she could be trapped in the Ego Barrier with him.
• Raven appeared in a church as a wedding was being prepared, and a man asked her what was wrong.

Raven witnessed Li Wei’s wedding to Ying Ying and watched him sacrifice his happiness to build a prosperous life for his wife and son. The chapter left Raven fearing that Li Wei’s devotion and growing lies would lead to devastating despair if he learned what his wife had done.

• Raven entered the wedding and learned that Ying Ying’s relatives disapproved of her marrying Li Wei.
• Raven warned Li Wei that guests were insulting him, but he smiled and said he did not live in their mouths.
• Li Wei married Ying Ying and continued to smile despite her family’s contempt and his difficult life.
• After Ying Ying became pregnant, Li Wei borrowed heavily, invested in stocks, and built a chain of fruit supermarkets to provide for his family.
• Raven watched Li Wei lose his warm smile and grow increasingly deceptive while devoting everything to his wife and son.

Raven witnessed Li Wei’s life collapse after he discovered that his infant son was not his and Ying Ying left with the child and the child’s wealthy father. After a night of despair, Ba Di recovered his wedding-day smile and went to a knife shop, asking Boss Zhang for a sharp Watermelon Knife.

• When the baby began bleeding, Li Wei’s wife blamed him, and a blood test showed that the child had Type B blood despite both parents having Type A blood.
• Li Wei suspected the hospital had switched the baby, but he could not accept that the child might not be his.
• Li Wei returned home to find Ying Ying packed and waiting with the child’s real father; she admitted the child was not his and left with her son.
• Li Wei begged Ying Ying to stay and offered to build her a fortune, but the other man mocked him and revealed that Li Wei had stolen Zhou Corporation’s project proposal.
• After drinking on the rooftop through a storm, Ba Di roared that no one could take anything away from him.
• The next day, Ba Di put on his wedding suit, left with a travel bag, and asked Boss Zhang for a sharp Watermelon Knife.

Li Wei bought an Executioner's Blade, killed Zhou Shao and Ying Ying, and put Ying Ying and her baby in his travel bag. He then carried the bag into the police station.

• Li Wei bought Boss Zhang's enhanced Executioner's Blade and called Zhou Shao, offering him the project proposal in exchange for seeing Ying Ying once before leaving the city.
• Li Wei went to Zhou Corporation and killed Zhou Shao with the blade, then cleaned himself and left the office.
• Li Wei drove to Happiness Residential Area and told Ying Ying he had come to see her and give her some of his business and money.
• Li Wei showed Ying Ying Zhou Shao's head in the travel bag, then killed her and placed her head inside.
• Li Wei placed the crying baby in the travel bag, changed into a clean suit, and carried the bag into the police station.

After witnessing Li Wei’s execution and a brief glimpse of Ba Di’s reborn rage, Raven returned to the beginning of his painful cycle and replaced Ying Ying as Li Wei’s bride. She married Ba Di in the Mind World, hoping to give him enough happiness to pull him out of despair.

• Raven watched Li Wei die as Ba Di’s Mind World darkened, then sensed a reborn presence vow to reshape the world.
• The wedding cycle began again, and Raven realized Ba Di had endured millions of painful repetitions and was fading.
• Raven decided she could not kill Ying Ying or Zhou Shao without provoking the Mind World, so she sought another way to interrupt Ba Di’s pain.
• Raven replaced Ying Ying as Li Wei’s bride, and Li Wei accepted her as his wife.
• Raven and Ba Di exchanged vows and rings, and Raven faced their wedding night, hoping to sustain his happiness.

Raven struggled to raise Ba Di’s happiness, mistakenly believing he liked blood and causing a series of mishaps before discovering that playing games with him worked. She became a professional League of Legends player, and the chapter ended with her winning a trophy as Ba Di cheered and her happiness soared.

• Raven mistook Ba Di’s happiness on their wedding night as a sign that he liked blood, cut her wrist, and collapsed, leaving Ba Di worried and his happiness lower.
• Raven tried several ways to make Ba Di happy, but her clumsy efforts caused injuries and accidents until their mishaps unexpectedly raised his affection for her.
• Raven searched online for ways to make her husband happy and decided to try playing games with Ba Di.
• Raven quickly reached King rank in League of Legends, protected Ba Di while they played, and joined a professional club with his support.
• Raven led the Love Husband Team to the top of the world, won a trophy, and felt her happiness soar as Ba Di cheered for her.

Raven spent seventy years in the Mind World trying to make Ba Di happy, but failed to bring him back to reality before his death there. When Ba Di recovered and confronted her, he learned she had altered his memories and thanked her for saving him.

• Raven reflected on the life she had shared with Ba Di and feared she had failed to awaken him.
• Ba Di asked Raven if she was happy, and she heard him say he was very happy.
• The Mind World froze, and Ba Di regained his true appearance and strangled Raven after realizing she had altered his memories.
• Raven explained that she had only wanted him to be happy, and Ba Di reviewed the memories she had given him.
• Ba Di released Raven, restored her, and thanked her for saving him from remaining trapped in the Mind World.
• Raven hid beneath her cloak, embarrassed by their decades of intimate memories.

Ba Di explained to Raven why he chose to remember his pain, then thanked her for giving him happiness before they left the Mind World. He woke surrounded by vines, weak in his physical body but sensing a second power within himself that seemed to let him transform.

• Ba Di asked Raven to relive his painful memories with him, and she questioned why he still wanted to face them when he had happiness.
• Ba Di told Raven that pain had shaped the person he wanted to be and that happiness alone could become an excuse for complacency.
• Ba Di thanked Raven for rescuing him from despair and called her his pure land of happiness before they kissed and renewed their intimacy.
• Ba Di and Raven left the Mind World, and Ba Di awoke surrounded by enormous vines.
• Ba Di sensed a second body-like power behind his genetic chain and realized he might be able to transform.

Ba Di recovered from Trigon’s defeat and discovered that his body contained a second, shadow-like genetic strand. Activating it transformed him into a towering, muscle-bound figure with a black cloak, and Zatara recognized that he had gained magic.

• Raven woke beside Ba Di and helped him sit up while Zatara watched in silence, ashamed of having considered killing them.
• Ba Di stood despite his weakness and sensed strange vitality deep within his body.
• Ba Di connected his Mental Strength to a shadow-like genetic strand, triggering a transformation into a five-meter-tall, heavily muscled figure.
• Black mist formed boxer briefs and a cloak around Ba Di, concealing most of his transformed body.
• Ba Di examined his new form and sensed that he could combine the energy in his body with his Mental Strength.
• Zatara exclaimed that Ba Di had become a magician, while Raven stared at him in shock.

Ba Di tested his new Magic True Body and discovered that he excelled at melee magic but struggled with elemental and spatial spells. He revealed his Innate Magic, Dark Rays, which transformed a rock into chocolate and left him stunned.

• Ba Di fired a Magic Ray and explored his new body’s magical strengths and limitations.
• Raven asked whether Ba Di disliked his changed appearance, and he reassured her that he liked it.
• Raven asked about Ba Di’s Innate Magic, and Ba Di confirmed that he possessed one.
• Ba Di unleashed Dark Rays from his eyes, transforming a nearby rock into chocolate.

Ba Di and Raven discovered that his Innate Magic transformed matter into real chocolate that restored Raven’s magic and brought happiness. After realizing Raven’s influence had shaped his power, Ba Di accepted the result, stored the chocolate for her, and turned his attention to Jor-El.

• Raven tasted the chocolate rock and found that it restored her magic and gave her a rush of happiness, while Zatara experienced only the happiness.
• Ba Di grew upset that his Innate Magic had become Chocolate Ray and imagined how absurd it would be to face powerful enemies with it.
• Ba Di realized Raven’s blood and her wish for him to be happy had influenced the formation of his Magic True Body and its chocolate power.
• Ba Di gently touched Raven’s hood, told her to take the chocolate rock, and let her store it away to eat later.
• Ba Di accepted the end of the Trigon Projection incident and turned his thoughts toward Jor-El.

After returning to Earth, Ba Di discovered that his Kryptonian genes were rapidly deteriorating and that sunlight now caused him pain instead of restoring his strength. He ordered Hera to focus on stabilizing those genes and resolved to obtain the Codex of Life within three days, leaving his plans against Jor-El on an accelerated schedule.

• Ba Di and Raven returned from Yagalas with Zhalas, who parted from them in Manhattan with a bitter, guilty smile.
• Ba Di underwent extensive examinations at Cosmic Biotechnology Co., Ltd. and found that sunlight caused stabbing pain throughout his weakened body.
• White Coat Hera explained that defects in Ba Di’s Kryptonian genes were worsening, solar energy could make him combust, and his body might collapse again within two to four months.
• Ba Di ordered Hera to recalculate the Kryptonian genes and said he would bring back the Codex of Life in three days.
• Ba Di prepared to accelerate his plans against Jor-El and considered using the Codex of Life to pursue a future as a powerful, evolving Doomsday.