Chapter Summaries

Savitar overwhelmed Barry and Jay with his speed, carrying them through several cities and leaving them badly injured. Lin Li sealed the Philosopher's Stone in the Stone Box, cutting off Savitar's connection to the outside world, while Savitar declared himself the God of Speed.

• Barry challenged Savitar, and Savitar declared that he would demonstrate the might of the God of Speed.
• Barry and Jay attacked Savitar, but he seized them and vanished with them at impossible speed.
• Savitar raced Barry and Jay through several cities, repeatedly slamming them into walls before returning to Lin Li.
• Lin Li placed the Philosopher's Stone inside the Stone Box and realized Savitar could not harm him outside the Speed Force.
• Savitar taunted Lin Li and called himself the God of Speed, and Lin Li closed the Stone Box, making Savitar's laughter stop.

After Christmas, Lin Li brought Savitar out of the Stone Box so Barry could question him, but Savitar's arrogance prompted Lin Li to repeatedly send him back into the box. The chapter ended with Savitar still trapped and Caitlin asking whether Lin Li was messing with him.

• Cisco reported that none of his instruments could detect the Stone Box, and Lin Li said Savitar would not emerge again unless they opened it.
• Barry insisted on speaking with Savitar, and Lin Li agreed while assuring everyone it would be safe.
• Cisco and Lin Li used a spectral projection system to make Savitar visible to the group on the underground running track.
• Savitar emerged and demanded that everyone bow to him, so Lin Li closed the Stone Box and made him disappear before Barry could ask anything.
• Lin Li repeatedly opened and closed the Stone Box whenever Savitar began threatening or charging at him, and he said he was letting Savitar calm down.

Savitar emerged from the Stone Box, threatened Team Flash with a prophecy of betrayal, death, and Iris’s murder, and identified himself as the future Flash. After Lin Li sent him back into the box, the team debated whether his predictions could be true and how to keep the Philosopher’s Stone from him.

• Lin Li repeatedly opened and closed the Stone Box until Savitar appeared, and Barry asked what he wanted.
• Savitar claimed Team Flash had stolen everything from him and foretold that someone would betray the team, someone would die, and Iris would be executed.
• Savitar revealed that he was the future Flash and said future Lin Li and Barry had trapped him in the Speed Force.
• Lin Li closed the Stone Box and sent Savitar away, leaving the team shaken by his threats.
• Caitlin and Cisco wondered whether Savitar knew their futures, while Barry proposed making the Philosopher’s Stone take the Stone Box and disappear forever.

Lin Li warned Team Flash that throwing the Philosopher's Stone into the Speed Force might free Savitar, and proposed checking whether the future could still be changed. Barry used the Time Vault to project the 2024 newspaper, whose byline could reveal whether Iris survived.

• Barry proposed throwing the Stone Box into the Speed Force, but Lin Li suspected Savitar wanted them to do so.
• Lin Li argued that Savitar used Flashpoint's metahumans to pressure Team Flash, then suggested the Philosopher's Stone might be the key to his Speed Force prison.
• Caitlin and Wally considered the possibility that the Stone's arrival in the Speed Force could let Savitar escape, and Barry acknowledged they could not be certain.
• Lin Li led the group to the Time Vault and suggested checking whether Iris's name remained on the future newspaper.
• Barry projected the 2024 newspaper, which carried the byline “Written by Iris West-Allen.”

Lin Li kept the Philosopher's Stone sealed in the Time Vault and investigated Savitar's identity, but the Stone Box began luring Team Flash members with visions of their loved ones. On the sixth day, HR delivered Lin Li a package containing a Portable Imaging Recorder and a spearhead.

• Barry celebrated with Lin Li after learning that Iris's future article was back on track and Savitar's predicted future had changed.
• Lin Li sealed the Stone Box in the Time Vault, then asked Shanshan 2.0 to assess who might become Savitar and decided to monitor Barry and Wally.
• Cisco entered the Time Vault under the Stone Box's influence, but Lin Li recognized his vision of his brother Dante and led him out.
• Over the next several days, Lin Li stopped Joe, Wally, Caitlin, and Barry from being drawn toward the Stone Box by their illusions.
• HR gave Lin Li a package left by a man in a trench coat, and Lin Li found a Portable Imaging Recorder and a spearhead inside.

Lin Li examined the Spear of Destiny’s spearhead and watched a message from Rip Hunter, who warned him about an unnamed threat and urged him to take control of the spear. Lin Li decided to obtain the Spear of Destiny so he could use its power to counter the Philosopher’s Stone’s mind control.

• Lin Li examined the spearhead of the Spear of Destiny and wondered why it had been sent to him.
• Lin Li activated the Portable Imaging Recorder and watched Rip Hunter explain that he had found Lin Li by following the river of time.
• Rip Hunter warned Lin Li not to trust him in the future and said that an unnamed existence could not be discussed or investigated safely.
• Rip Hunter told Lin Li that the Spear of Destiny was safest in his hands and could block the Philosopher’s Stone’s ability to control people.
• Lin Li considered the threat the Philosopher’s Stone posed to STAR Labs and decided to obtain the Spear of Destiny.

Lin Li boarded the Waverider to claim the Spear of Destiny after Rip Hunter asked him to secure it, despite the Legends’ resentment at being passed over. Once the team located several pieces of the Spear, Lin Li joined them to search for it and Reverse-Flash.

• Martin saw Lily chatting happily with Lin Li, then set aside his jealousy when Lin Li said he needed the Spear of Destiny and had a message from Rip Hunter.
• Martin brought Lin Li and Lily aboard the Waverider, where Sara and Heat Wave objected to Rip Hunter trusting Lin Li with the Spear.
• Ray Palmer examined the spearhead Lin Li had brought and realized Lin Li had collected the second piece.
• Lin Li, Lily, and Ray used an amulet connected to the Spear of Destiny to reveal the locations of several pieces.
• The Legends argued over whether Lin Li should join the search, Martin sent Lily off the ship, and Lin Li went with the team to hunt for the Spear and Reverse-Flash.

Lin Li joined the Legends in Detroit in 3000 AD, where they discovered Reverse-Flash had taken the Spear of Destiny fragment from Doctor Midnight. After a temporal quake pointed them toward Great Britain in 507 AD, Lin Li realized Reverse-Flash was likely using the disturbance to lure them away.

• Gideon reported that the amulet could no longer detect the Spear fragment, and Lin Li said Reverse-Flash had taken the fragment in Detroit.
• Lin Li urged the Legends to travel to the moon in 1970 for the next fragment, but the team rejected his plan and insisted on doing things their way.
• The Legends found Doctor Midnight dead, with Rip Hunter’s name written in blood, and realized Rip had taken the fragment from his body.
• Amaya confronted Sara for letting Rip go, and Lin Li pointed out that Sara could have captured him instead.
• The Waverider was hit by a temporal quake, and Gideon traced its source to Great Britain in 507 AD.

Lin Li's group reached Camelot after Guinevere ambushed them in the forest and escorted them to King Arthur's palace. Nate was left outside the city walls, while the others met Arthur and faced suspicion over their intentions.

• Guinevere and her soldiers surrounded Lin Li's group, and Ray introduced himself as Raymond of the Palm while asking for safe passage to Camelot.
• Guinevere revealed her identity and escorted the group toward Camelot, but left Nate outside the walls because she feared he had leprosy.
• Lin Li promised to find a way to bring Nate inside, while Sara, Amaya, and Ray entered the palace with Guinevere.
• At the Round Table meeting, King Arthur explained that an evil army had been abducting his knights and said he would remain suspicious until the newcomers proved their innocence.
• King Arthur summoned Merlin.

At King Arthur’s banquet, Rip Hunter and Damien launched an ambush, but Lin Li stopped them before Reverse-Flash appeared. Reverse-Flash revealed that he knew Lin Li came from reality, leaving Lin Li badly shaken.

• Stargirl told Lin Li that Rip Hunter wanted him to capture an unknown enemy, while Sara dismissed Lin Li’s concerns and made a careless watch plan.
• Damien and Rip Hunter used a neural controller to make King Arthur kill a Round Table Knight, then revealed their plan to seize Camelot or the spear fragment.
• Lin Li swiftly knocked down Damien and Rip Hunter, disabled King Arthur, and asked whether Eobard had come.
• Reverse-Flash appeared and confronted Lin Li, while Sara found Heat Wave drunk, Jefferson unable to rise, and Ray grieving for Sir Galahad.
• Reverse-Flash claimed he knew Lin Li was a man from reality and asked whether Lin Li enjoyed The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow, shocking him.

Lin Li confronted Reverse-Flash, who taunted him about a mysterious figure destined to return, then pursued and captured him. Lin Li demanded the figure’s identity, but Reverse-Flash’s red lightning began gathering around them.

• Lin Li challenged Reverse-Flash and accused him of being Barry’s defeated nemesis, while Reverse-Flash blamed Lin Li for ruining his plans.
• Reverse-Flash claimed someone would return to rule everything, but refused to identify them and fled the hall.
• Lin Li donned the Transcendence Armor and chased Reverse-Flash out of King Arthur’s palace.
• Lin Li caught Reverse-Flash within a second, dragged him across the road, and pinned him down with the Demon Claw.
• Lin Li demanded to know who the returning figure was as countless red electric arcs appeared around him.

Lin Li forced Reverse-Flash to reveal that an unknown being was inside the Speed Force, fighting, devouring, and becoming it. He spared Reverse-Flash, who fled into his army of time remnants and ordered them to kill Lin Li.

• Lin Li confronted an army of Reverse-Flashes and threatened to kill the one he held unless it answered his questions.
• Lin Li argued that the captive Eobard Thawne was an individual version of Reverse-Flash who could die even if other time remnants survived.
• Reverse-Flash revealed that an unknown being was within the Speed Force, fighting it, devouring it, and becoming it.
• Reverse-Flash said the being had used the Speed Force to stop Black Flash from pursuing him.
• Lin Li released Reverse-Flash, who escaped into the crowd and ordered the army to kill Lin Li.

Lin Li fought countless Reverse-Flash time remnants in his dark Transcendence Armor while Sara, Ray, and Guinevere watched from Calomite’s walls. He unleashed a rain of silver sword tips that overwhelmed the Reverse-Flashes, leaving their fate uncertain as the attack continued.

• Lin Li charged into the Reverse-Flash army and fought through the red lightning with his Guardian Speed Force spear.
• Ray wanted to join the battle, but Sara said they could not help, while Guinevere and the soldiers watched in fear.
• The Reverse-Flashes taunted Lin Li and threatened to destroy the medieval world if he fled.
• Lin Li commanded the Reverse-Flashes to be silent and filled the sky with silver sword tips.
• The sword tips pierced the Reverse-Flashes’ lightning, and one Reverse-Flash cried out before being pierced and reduced to points of light.

After destroying the Reverse-Flashes, Lin Li ordered the Legends to help him uncover the threat inside the Speed Force and took command of the Waverider. He left Camelot’s people with their memories erased and the city’s northern plain devastated, while the Legends faced his uncompromising demand for obedience.

• Lin Li annihilated the red arcs on the northern plain, then ordered Sara to summon the Waverider while he considered entering the Speed Force to confront an unknown enemy.
• The Waverider collected the Legends, and Lin Li used a burst of light to erase Camelot’s people’s memories of his appearance.
• Aboard the Waverider, Lin Li ordered Sara and Jefferson to awaken Rip Hunter, Damien to be returned to his own time, and the team to find the Spear of Destiny fragment.
• When Heat Wave challenged him, Lin Li grabbed him by the throat, threw him to the floor, and declared that he was taking command of the Waverider.
• Martin recognized Lin Li’s domineering behavior as that of the conqueror who had once destroyed Central City.

Lin Li took command of the Waverider and ordered the Legends to repair Rip Hunter’s consciousness, erase Damien’s memories, and return him to his timeline. After discovering that Reverse-Flash had already taken the fragment hidden in 1970, Lin Li sent the team to the vanishing point to find the Spear of Destiny fragments.

• Sara agreed to put Lin Li in command, and the team accepted his leadership so they could search for the Spear of Destiny.
• Lin Li ordered Martin, Jefferson, and Sara to restore Rip Hunter, and Nate and Amaya to erase Damien’s memories and send him back to his era.
• Ray questioned Lin Li about the Knight’s Code, and Lin Li explained that his code was slaughter and justice for the innocent.
• Lin Li found that Reverse-Flash had taken the fragment hidden by Commander Steel in 1970 and that Commander Steel was missing from the Apollo 13 reports.
• Nate returned with Amaya after they sent Damien away, and Lin Li told them the team needed to go to the vanishing point.

Lin Li and the Legends searched Vanishing Point for Reverse-Flash and found the Spear of Destiny fragments in his empty lair. After Lin Li reassembled the spear and resisted its temptations, Reverse-Flash’s recording demanded that he bring it to Central City and beg for The Flash’s life.

• The Legends returned to the ruins of Vanishing Point, where Rip and Mick remembered what they had lost there.
• Jefferson found Reverse-Flash’s lair and the Spear of Destiny fragment, but Reverse-Flash was nowhere to be found.
• Ray discovered that Reverse-Flash had searched for Central City and STAR Labs four hours earlier and had left a recording for Lin Li.
• Lin Li broke open the safe, combined the fragments, and completed the Spear of Destiny.
• The spear tempted the Legends with visions of their desires and regrets, but Lin Li’s flick freed them from the visions.
• Ray played Reverse-Flash’s recording, in which he ordered Lin Li to bring the spear to Central City and beg him to spare The Flash.

Lin Li brought the Spear of Destiny to STAR Labs after leaving the Legends behind, only to learn Reverse-Flash had stolen the Stone Box. He decided to give Reverse-Flash what he wanted and use the Spear to confront him.

• Lin Li refused the Legends’ offer to help directly, gave them butterfly knives, and told them to wait for his orders.
• Sara led the Legends away after they misunderstood Lin Li’s warning and decided to act on their own.
• At STAR Labs, the Spear of Destiny tempted Cisco, Caitlin, Barry, and Joe with their deepest desires until Lin Li jolted them back to reality.
• Barry told Lin Li that Reverse-Flash had taken the Stone Box after fighting off four of his temporal remnants, before a fifth appeared.
• Lin Li learned Reverse-Flash was still at the clock tower and declared that he would give him the Spear of Destiny he wanted.

At the clock tower, Lin Li and the heroes confronted Reverse-Flash over the Stone Box while the Legends secretly tried to intervene. Lin Li reclaimed the box and helped defeat one Reverse-Flash, but another emerged from the tower.

• The Legends ignored Rip Hunter’s advice and planned to take the Stone Box, while Sara mistook Lin Li’s icy glare for approval.
• Lin Li arrived with Barry and Cisco, and Wally reported that Reverse-Flash was still inside the clock tower.
• Atom threw the Stone Box from a tower window as Reverse-Flash pursued it, prompting Lin Li, Barry, Wally, and Cisco to attack.
• Barry and Wally restrained Reverse-Flash in midair while Lin Li punched him and took the Stone Box, and Cisco struck him with a vibration blast.
• Barry and Wally beat the captured Reverse-Flash until he fell and dissolved into silver light.
• A second Reverse-Flash walked out beneath the clock tower as Lin Li landed with the Stone Box.

Lin Li traded the Spear of Destiny to Reverse-Flash while revealing that the Stone Box was fake and setting events in motion for Black Flash to appear. As the vortex formed and Reverse-Flash threw the Stone Box into it, he unleashed a horde of time remnants against the fleeing heroes.

• Lin Li discarded the Stone Box, revealed it was fake, and confronted Reverse-Flash about his rivalry with Savitar.
• Lin Li exchanged the Spear of Destiny for the real Stone Box despite Rip Hunter's protests, and Reverse-Flash fled with the spear.
• Lin Li, Barry, Wally, Cisco, Atom, and Firestorm pursued Reverse-Flash as the Stone Box was thrown from the clock tower.
• A vortex formed as Black Flash approached, and Lin Li and Reverse-Flash each realized the other had set him up.
• Reverse-Flash summoned countless time remnants to attack the heroes, while the Stone Box entered the glowing vortex.

Lin Li and the others battled the Reverse-Flashes as the Black Flash pursued Reverse-Flash and Savitar emerged from the vortex. Lin Li sealed the vortex briefly, but Savitar dragged him inside before it vanished, while Caitlin’s powers surged at STAR Labs.

• The Black Flash emerged from the vortex and chased Reverse-Flash through the battlefield as Lin Li attacked the pursuing Reverse-Flashes with sword tips.
• Savitar began crawling out of the vortex, and Lin Li told Cisco to shield the group while he charged toward the opening.
• Cisco raised a vibrational shield, and Nate threw a loudspeaker-shaped device to Ray as the Reverse-Flashes battered the shield.
• Lin Li kicked Savitar back into the vortex and filled its opening with sword tips, but Ray’s sound-wave device briefly cut off the speedsters’ connection to the Speed Force.
• Savitar used Lin Li’s momentary hesitation to grab his ankle and drag him into the vortex, which then vanished.
• At STAR Labs, Caitlin saw Lin Li disappear into the vortex, and her power marker surged from ten percent to one hundred percent as ice covered the control room.