Chapter Summaries

Lin Li used Haki to overpower the Dominators’ psychic attacks and slaughter every alien aboard the spaceship while Shanshan 2.0 took control of the ship. After completing the invasion, she told Lin Li that she had discovered why the aliens came to Earth.

• Lin Li evaded the Dominators’ vaporizing weapons after their linked minds briefly restricted his movements.
• The alien captain directed the soldiers to attack Lin Li with coordinated beams and a psychic assault.
• Lin Li unleashed Haki, crushing the aliens’ mental attack and killing the soldiers who had linked their minds.
• Lin Li used Haki to kill the remaining aliens aboard the spaceship while Shanshan 2.0 continued her invasion.
• Shanshan 2.0 gained control of the spaceship in less than fifteen minutes and told Lin Li she knew why the aliens had come to Earth.

Lin Li learned that the Dominators wanted Barry’s Speed Force and planned to pressure Earth into surrendering him, while their mind-controlled allies ran amok in Central City. As Lin Li prepared to stop them, a Dominator seized control of the alien ship and confronted him.

• Lin Li questioned Shanshan 2.0 and learned that the Dominators had discovered Barry’s altered timeline and wanted to study his Speed Force.
• Shanshan 2.0 revealed that Kara, the Legends team, Thea, and Diggle had been mind-controlled and were causing trouble at STAR Labs in Central City.
• Lin Li ordered Shanshan 2.0 to disable the control terminal and learned that destroying it would not immediately end the implanted mind-control programs.
• Lin Li received Shanshan 2.0’s mind-control data and prepared to stop the controlled heroes, but a Dominator psychically seized the ship’s controls.
• A Dominator appeared from the control sphere and accused Lin Li of slaughtering every Dominator aboard the ship.

Lin Li rejected the Dominators’ demand to place metahumans under their supervision, and they attacked him with a space weapon. He survived by escaping into the Speed Force, but the strike destroyed the Salt Mine, and he revealed to Lyla that he had been the target.

• Lin Li argued with the Dominator, rejecting its claim that humanity threatened the universe and refusing to submit metahumans to its supervision.
• The Dominator ended their exchange by threatening Earth and ordering a High-Energy Particle Beam strike against Lin Li.
• Shanshan 2.0 warned Lin Li of the attack, and Lin Li escaped with her into the Speed Force space inside the Book of Magic.
• The High-Energy Particle Beam vaporized the Dominator ship and struck the Salt Mine, leaving a vast, heat-crystallized pit.
• Lin Li appeared before Lyla and her soldiers, identified the weapon, and said it had been meant to eliminate him.

Barry struggled with guilt over the changes he caused by altering the timeline, while Oliver comforted him with stories of his own losses. When the Dominators mind-controlled their allies and turned Central City into a battlefield, Lin Li arrived just as Oliver was overwhelmed and stopped the attacks, but his Haki blast sent Oliver flying into a tree.

• Barry studied the changed future newspaper and blamed himself for the losses and altered lives caused by his choice to change the timeline.
• Oliver shared how his father and mother had died and reminded Barry that he could not control every tragedy or choice.
• Cisco alerted STAR Labs that their allies had gone berserk under Dominator mind control, and Barry, Oliver, Cisco, and Wally went to confront them.
• Thea, Sara, Diggle, Heat Wave, Supergirl, Atom, and Firestorm attacked; Firestorm knocked Wally unconscious, and Cisco rescued him through breaches.
• Oliver was overwhelmed by the attackers, took an arrow to the knee, and was nearly struck by their combined attacks.
• Lin Li arrived and deflected the incoming attacks with Demon Claw and Haki, but his shockwave also sent Oliver flying into a tree.

Lin Li fought the controlled heroes around STAR Labs while discussing the limits of his Haki with Shanshan 2.0. He incapacitated several attackers, and the chapter ended with Sara kicking at his head.

• Oliver asked Lin Li whether he had been controlled, and Lin Li assured him he was still himself.
• Lin Li and Shanshan 2.0 discussed why Haki had failed to knock out the controlled heroes, while Oliver rested against a tree.
• Diggle attacked Lin Li, who shot him in the knees and struck his helmet with a Speed Force-wrapped bullet, knocking him unconscious.
• Lin Li canceled Atom's energy beam and hurled him into the wall of STAR Labs with a spinning lightning sphere.
• Lin Li split Heat Wave's flames, damaged his flamethrower, and knocked him unconscious after it exploded; he also wounded Thea's knee and knocked her out.
• Sara rushed Lin Li and swept a whip kick toward his head.

Lin Li freed the six controlled heroes and then fought Kara after she attacked Barry. He shattered the control pattern on Kara’s forehead and carried her unconscious back to the others.

• Lin Li defeated Sara and freed her from psychic control, then broke Firestorm’s control without knocking him unconscious.
• Firestorm recovered, and Lin Li told him to look after the injured heroes as the battle’s destruction around STAR Labs came to light.
• Supergirl blasted Barry from the rooftop and attacked him with Heat Vision, but Lin Li rescued him and sent him to help the injured.
• Kara attacked Lin Li with Heat Vision and freezing breath, but he dodged her attacks and broke the control pattern on her forehead.
• Lin Li caught the unconscious Kara and descended toward Barry and the others.

After the battle at STAR Labs, Lin Li paid for the damage and healed the injured heroes with his Resurrection Coffin. He organized a mission for the Legends team to scan the aliens in 1951 while he stayed in Central City to meet the interim president and arrange an evacuation.

• Lin Li covered the seven hundred million dollars in damage around STAR Labs using his Mercury Labs shares as collateral.
• Oliver, Thea, Sara, Heat Wave, Atom, Wally, and Diggle woke up with their injuries healed, and Oliver explained that Lin Li's Resurrection Coffin had repaired them.
• Caitlin summoned everyone to the aircraft hangar, where Lin Li and Cisco presented a body-scanning device they had built to gather data on the aliens.
• Lin Li ordered the Legends team to travel to Redmond, Oregon, in 1951 and scan the aliens so STAR Labs could develop a weapon against them.
• Cisco and Felicity joined the mission to provide technical support, and Lin Li insisted the entire Legends team go to avoid mistakes.
• Lin Li told Heat Wave he would handle the military and The Eye, meet the interim president, and plan the safe evacuation of Central City's residents.

Lin Li exposed Agent Smith’s plan to trade Barry to the aliens and knocked out both Barry and Smith. He told Oliver and Kara that he would disguise himself as Barry and board the alien mothership when Barry was due to surrender in two days.

• Lin Li recognized the white-haired man as Agent Smith, then used Haki to incapacitate the soldiers and agents surrounding them and caught and returned a sniper’s bullet.
• Smith revealed that he had made a deal with the aliens: if Barry turned himself in, they would spare Earth, and he blamed Barry’s Flashpoint for breaking their ceasefire.
• Barry began to feel guilty and consider surrendering, so Lin Li knocked him unconscious and told Smith that Barry would turn himself in in two days.
• Lin Li knocked Smith out, then told Oliver and Kara that he would disguise himself as Barry and board the aliens’ mothership.

Lin Li planned to impersonate Barry and infiltrate the Dominators' mothership, but the aliens gave Earth only twenty-four hours before threatening Central City with a super-powered bomb. The heroes began preparing defenses and countermeasures, and Cisco told Lin Li that he had seen Reverse-Flash.

• Lin Li refused to let Kara accompany him and explained to Oliver that he planned to board the mothership disguised as Barry.
• Lin Li told the assembled heroes he would target the Dominators' commander while they defended Earth from attacks launched by the ship.
• Felicity reported that the mothership would reach Central City in half an hour and that the Dominators threatened to destroy the city and eliminate metahumans within twenty-four hours.
• Lin Li assigned the Legends to prepare the Waverider to intercept the bomb, asked Cisco to help disable the Dominators' small craft, and ordered Oliver to requisition Central City's signal towers and military satellite signals.
• Lin Li obtained the aliens' body scan data from Cisco and sent it to Caitlin and Martin, then Cisco quietly told him he had seen Reverse-Flash.

Lin Li infiltrated the Dominators’ mothership disguised as Barry, intending to make them leave Earth. The Dominator King rejected his demand and declared that Earth would be destroyed, leaving Lin Li trapped aboard as the invasion reached its decisive stage.

• Lin Li explained that Reverse-Flash was a time remnant and reassured Cisco that he could not harm them.
• Cisco and Caitlin worked with Martin on a way to fight the Dominators, while Oliver and Diggle negotiated with the government and Lin Li helped the Legends modify the Waverider’s tractor beam.
• After the Dominators’ mothership loomed over Central City and the government handed over the signal tower, Lin Li let the ship’s retrieval beam take him aboard as part of the heroes’ plan.
• The Dominator King released Lin Li from a glass cylinder and tried to read his mind, but Lin Li and Shanshan 2.0 used a simulated mental cage and Speed Force fluctuations to block him.
• The Dominator King said Earth would be destroyed because it had produced someone with the Speed Force, and claimed Lin Li would be unable to travel through time to change the outcome.

Lin Li revealed the Psionic Destruction Wave Ball and used it to kill more than a hundred thousand Dominators aboard their mothership. The Dominator King recognized him as Lightning Rider and, empowered by the psychic energy of the dead, began attacking him as the Dominators prepared to invade Earth.

• Lin Li tossed the Psionic Destruction Wave Ball into the air, where its pulse killed more than a hundred thousand Dominators across the mothership.
• The Dominator King survived the wave and absorbed the psychic energy released by the dead, then demanded to know Lin Li's identity.
• Lin Li dropped his disguise as Barry, donned Dark Armor, and attacked the Dominator King with his Demon Claw.
• The Dominator King recognized Lin Li as Lightning Rider, ordered the Dominators to attack Earth, and confronted Lin Li with a psychic force field.
• Lin Li blocked the Dominator King's shockwave with Haki, while the enraged king gathered psychic power and made lasers appear around him.

Lin Li fought the Dominator King aboard the mothership while Earth’s forces struggled against the invasion. After the Dominator King ordered a retreat, the chapter left the battle still raging across the skies.

• The Dominators launched their invasion and fired giant psionic bombs at Earth.
• The Waverider seized a psionic bomb and dragged it toward space as Dominator craft pursued it.
• Cisco adjusted Central City’s signal towers, allowing Felicity to broadcast a signal that disabled many unmanned Dominator craft.
• Human fighter jets attacked the remaining Dominator ships, suffering heavy losses without bringing any down.
• Lin Li overwhelmed the Dominator King’s lasers and split him in half with a sword tip.
• The dying Dominator King sent a final psychic command ordering the Dominators to retreat.

After the heroes received public recognition for stopping the Dominators, Lin Li quietly negotiated with government officials and celebrated with his allies. At the party, Cisco admitted that he and the Legends had caused the Dominators’ invasion during a trip to the past, and that he had given up trying to bring Dante back.

• The Vice President praised the heroes, while Lin Li stayed in the audience and told Cisco he intended to work with Wade Eiling to protect their activities in Central City.
• Lin Li and government officials tentatively agreed not to target Oliver, Barry, and the others, while Lin Li would help them handle technology recovered from the alien ships.
• Felicity opened champagne, and Oliver led the heroes in a toast to Lin Li before everyone celebrated together.
• Cisco told Lin Li that he and the Legends had changed the Dominators in the past and inspired their invasion of Earth, and that Dante no longer needed to travel through time.
• Lin Li comforted Cisco as he grieved over giving up his wish to bring Dante back.

Lin Li investigated the changes Flashpoint had made to history and realized Savitar might be connected to its metahumans. He began monitoring Julian, suspecting him of being Alchemy, while Savitar remained an unexplained threat.

• Lin Li warned the Legends about Reverse-Flash and told them to seek his help if they ran into trouble, then watched them depart on the Waverider.
• Lin Li spent two days with Kara before she returned to her world with an interdimensional phone he and Cisco had made for her.
• Cisco told Lin Li that Flashpoint had changed their memories and given Lin Li the notorious nickname Leg-Breaking Maniac, leaving Lin Li furious and unable to explain the false history.
• Lin Li learned that, in Cisco's altered memories, Barry had left Flashpoint after ZOOM killed Barry's Father and Lin Li urged Barry to save him.
• Lin Li noticed Savitar had appeared only after Barry returned from Flashpoint and worried that Savitar might control the metahumans whose powers had been awakened by the Philosopher's Stone.
• Lin Li began monitoring Julian, whom he suspected was Alchemy, after Barry resigned from the police department's lab to protect Caitlin from being reported.

Lin Li trained Barry, Wally, and Cisco, then monitored Julian while supporting HR’s plan to turn STAR Labs into a museum. He ended the chapter by going to the medical room to help Caitlin treat her superpowers.

• Lin Li defeated Wally, Barry, and Cisco in training and offered them advice on improving their skills.
• Lin Li checked Shanshan 2.0’s surveillance of Julian and continued searching for the Philosopher’s Stone.
• HR told Lin Li about his idea for a STAR Labs museum, and Lin Li supported him and helped plan its displays.
• Lin Li went to the medical room to work with Caitlin on treating her superpowers.

Lin Li examined Caitlin's frost power and discovered that it had stabilized at the genetic level, so removing it would risk destroying her body and mind. He told her she could learn to accept and control the power, and offered to create a device to help her practice.

• Lin Li used Shanshan 2.0 to examine Caitlin, then asked her to transform into Killer Frost.
• Caitlin removed her power-suppressing necklace, absorbed heat, and transformed into Killer Frost, whose behavior briefly became flirtatious toward Lin Li.
• Caitlin returned to her usual state, and Shanshan 2.0 reported that Caitlin had tried to flirt with Lin Li while transformed.
• Lin Li told Caitlin that removing her genetically stable frost power could make her body collapse and damage her brain.
• Lin Li explained that resisting the power could strengthen a separate frost personality and urged Caitlin to accept and control it.
• Lin Li promised to make a frost power regulation device to help Caitlin practice, and Caitlin resolved to try.

Lin Li gave Caitlin a Gene Sequence Ring that let her control her frost powers without losing herself, then revealed clues connecting Alchemy’s Philosopher’s Stone to a paper written by Julian. He asked Barry to investigate Julian and learn more about the stone.

• Lin Li gave Caitlin the Gene Sequence Ring, and she adjusted it until she could control her frost powers at ten percent.
• Caitlin froze Lin Li’s cappuccino solid, demonstrating the strength of her controlled abilities, and the team was relieved that she had not become Killer Frost.
• Lin Li showed the team a paper about a mythological artifact that could create metahumans, noting that Julian had written it.
• Lin Li asked Barry to seek information from Julian about the Philosopher’s Stone in Alchemy’s possession.

Lin Li used Barry to provoke Julian, whom he identified as the Alchemist, hoping to draw out the Philosopher's Stone and stop Savitar from creating more metahumans. Julian discovered one of Lin Li's surveillance devices and vanished, leaving Lin Li wondering how Savitar had detected it.

• Lin Li explained that he had monitored Julian and believed Savitar controlled him through the Philosopher's Stone.
• Julian told Barry about his search for the Philosopher's Stone but omitted that four scientists had died at an excavation site where he had been in charge.
• Lin Li revealed Julian's connection to the excavation and stopped Barry from arresting him, saying the Philosopher's Stone was their real target.
• Julian packed his Alchemist robe and mask, then found a tiny mosquito surveillance device on his coat and taunted Lin Li before crushing it.
• Lin Li and Barry rushed to the police lab, but Julian had disappeared, and Lin Li examined the shattered device, puzzled by how it had been discovered.

Lin Li failed to locate Julian and suspected Savitar might be monitoring STAR Labs, but found no surveillance after scanning the facility. He inferred that Savitar planned to use Central City’s energy fields to spread the Philosopher’s Stone’s power, while Julian continued toward Schultz Tower with a different purpose in mind.

• Lin Li ordered Shanshan 2.0 to search for Julian and Cisco to gather everything known about Savitar after Barry reported that Julian had vanished.
• HR suggested Savitar might be monitoring STAR Labs, so Lin Li used Speed Force vibrations to scan the facility and found no surveillance or breach.
• Cisco compiled information on Savitar, and Lin Li ordered him to monitor energy fields at Schultz Tower, the military test site, and Mercury Labs.
• Lin Li explained that Savitar might use the fields to restore Flashpoint metahumans’ powers, then sent Barry to Earth-3 to bring Jay Garrick back.
• Julian appeared in an alley near Schultz Tower and continued toward its energy field, privately revealing that restoring Flashpoint metahumans’ powers was not Savitar’s true goal.

Lin Li and the others reasoned that Savitar was targeting Barry because of his connection to the Speed Force, then rushed to stop Alchemy from using the Philosopher’s Stone. Lin Li knocked Alchemy unconscious beneath Schultz Tower, but Barry spotted Savitar as the group arrived, even though Lin Li could not see him.

• Jay explained that Savitar was the first person granted the Speed Force and had sent his past self to prepare for his arrival by confronting Barry.
• Lin Li argued that Savitar targeted Barry because Barry’s Speed Force was linked to Savitar’s, and suggested Savitar might be unable to harm people without that connection.
• Joe reported that Wally had vanished in front of him, and surveillance showed Alchemy standing over the unconscious Wally at Schultz Tower with the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Cisco detected the Stone’s energy spreading across Central City, so Lin Li, Barry, and Jay left STAR Labs to stop Alchemy.
• Lin Li knocked Alchemy unconscious and the projection sphere’s energy field dissipated, but Barry cried out that Savitar was there while Lin Li saw no one.