Chapter Summaries

Miao Mu and Jason defeated the Electrocutioner by soaking him with a fire hydrant, but the resulting explosion knocked Miao Mu unconscious and badly injured him. Oswald took him to Leslie Thompkins for treatment, while police arrived to contain the wider gang violence.

• Miao Mu smashed the Electrocutioner's cracked helmet with his shotgun, but the Electrocutioner struck him down.
• Miao Mu called for Jason to open a fire hydrant, and the water caused the Electrocutioner to short-circuit and explode.
• Jason found Miao Mu unconscious, and Oswald arrived and carried him away for medical treatment.
• Gordon and his officers secured the area after police defeated Maroni's forces in the warehouse district and other parts of Gotham.
• Miao Mu woke at Leslie Thompkins's clinic while she treated his wounds.

Miao Mu received stitches from Mrs. Thompkins while Jason waited outside, where he overheard a struggling man named Jack lamenting his failures to his pregnant wife, Jenny. After following a crowd of cats, Jason found Holly, who directed him back toward the hospital.

• Mrs. Thompkins stitched Miao Mu’s back wound without anesthetic and told him Oswald had brought him to the hospital.
• Miao Mu said Jason was his adopted godson and promised to take responsibility for him.
• Mrs. Thompkins gave Jason money to get food, and Jason wandered into a dark neighborhood after losing his way.
• Jason overheard Jack tell Jenny that he had lost his theater job and could not support their family.
• Jason followed several cats to Holly, who pointed him toward Mrs. Thompkins’s hospital.

After Gotham Police Commissioner Loeb reprimanded Gordon for targeting Falcone, Gordon and Bullock focused on building a case against Maroni. Meanwhile, Jack agreed to help two robbers break into ACE Chemicals after learning that his wife Jenny had died, leaving him numb as the robbery approached.

• Loeb ordered Gordon to arrest Batman and scolded him for investigating Falcone, while Gordon and Bullock discussed the obstacles to prosecuting Maroni.
• Two men recruited Jack, a former ACE Chemicals lab assistant, to guide them through the plant for a bank robbery and gave him a Red Hood mask.
• Police officers told Jack that his wife, Jenny, had died.
• Jack's partners pressured him to go through with the robbery so he could pay for Jenny's burial, and he agreed.

After Jenny’s death, Jack was betrayed during a robbery at ACE Chemicals and fell into a pool of corrosive chemicals, emerging transformed and laughing. The next day, Gordon reopened the Red Hood case and assigned Jerry to help investigate.

• Jack mourned Jenny outside her home, then joined two robbers planning to rob ACE Chemicals while wearing a Red Hood mask.
• Police raided the chemical plant, and the robbers abandoned Jack as officers and Batman pursued him.
• Jack fell into a hazardous wastewater pool, escaped through a drainage valve, and emerged with corroded skin, laughing and calling out to Jenny.
• Gordon visited Jerry at the Arkham Police Department to ask about Miao Mu, who had gone to Star City, then assigned Jerry to the Major Crimes Unit to investigate the Red Hood case.

Miao Mu left Gotham with Jason to travel to Star City by way of Metropolis, while Maroni returned to the police station seeking protection from Batman. The story left Miao Mu and Jason driving away as Gordon held Maroni in custody and dismissed his lawyer’s demands.

• Miao Mu watched Jason practice Iron Monkey Fist and considered his talent as they prepared to leave Gotham.
• Miao Mu showed off his upgraded firearms and told Jason to pack their camping gear and the Iron Fist Stone Monkey.
• Miao Mu and Jason drove away from Gotham in a rose-red Beetle, heading toward Star City by way of Metropolis.
• Batman broke Maroni’s right leg shortly after Maroni left the police station, forcing him to return in a wheelchair.
• Gordon brushed off Maroni’s lawyer’s demands and mocked Maroni for needing police protection.

Miao Mu arrived in Metropolis to buy LexCorp stock while Luthor was imprisoned, then went to the Daily Planet with Jason to seek Superman’s autograph. After meeting Jimmy Olsen, Miao Mu learned that Lois and Clark were investigating missing children and that their friend Kate had encountered trouble.

• Miao Mu bought LexCorp stock, confident that Luthor would eventually regain his fortunes, and sent Jason to the Daily Planet to get Clark Kent’s autograph.
• Jason returned with Jimmy Olsen, whom Miao Mu recognized and greeted enthusiastically before asking him to sign a Superman-themed autograph book.
• Jimmy explained that Clark and Lois were investigating a missing persons case involving children disappearing across Metropolis.
• Miao Mu offered to help investigate after Jimmy mentioned that their friend Kate had run into trouble.

Miao Mu and his companions tracked the missing children to an abandoned toy factory, where weaponized toys attacked them. Lois and Clark were trapped inside, and Miao Mu entered the workshop armed, leaving the children’s fate unresolved.

• Miao Mu, Jimmy, and Jason drove toward the toy factory after Lois and Clark stopped answering their calls.
• Miao Mu warned Jimmy to stay in the car when toy cars swarmed out of the factory, then told him to drive away while he fired on them.
• Miao Mu threw a grenade onto the factory’s plastic lawn, setting off an explosion that exposed a field of hidden nails.
• Lois and Clark struggled against adhesive holding them to the workshop floor as Lois listened to the gunfire outside and Clark detected only one person approaching.
• Miao Mu kicked open the workshop door and aimed his assault rifle at Lois and Clark, and Lois warned him not to hurt the children.

Miao Mu rescued Lois from Anthony Scott’s trap at the toy factory and helped Clark keep his Superman identity hidden while Kate remained in danger. Superman appeared after an explosion, and the chapter ended with him rescuing Jimmy and Jason’s car before flying off to save Kate.

• Miao Mu evaded the adhesive-covered children, restrained them, and freed Lois while learning that Anthony Scott was Toyman’s son and the Second-Generation Dollmaker.
• Lois remembered that Kate was in danger, and Miao Mu pulled Lois and the controlled children from the factory as he warned of explosives.
• The toy factory exploded, and Superman appeared carrying what Miao Mu recognized as a doll model rather than Clark.
• Superman lifted Jimmy and Jason’s Beetle out of a ditch, set it back on the road, and flew away to rescue Kate.

Superman swiftly captured Anthony Winston and delivered him to Metropolis Prison while Miao Mu drove Lois and Jimmy back to meet Clark. After Lois thanked Miao Mu and signed his autograph book, the group reunited and went to dinner together.

• Superman carried Anthony Winston to Metropolis Prison, put him in an empty cell, and sealed the wall with his heat vision.
• Miao Mu drove Lois and Jimmy, who praised his rescue of Lois and thanked him for helping them.
• Miao Mu asked Lois for an autograph, and she wrote that he was a good man.
• Jimmy spotted Clark waiting beneath a streetlamp, and Lois reunited with him and introduced Miao Mu.
• Miao Mu told Clark he admired his environmental writing, and Lois invited everyone to dinner.

After dinner with Lois, Clark, and Jimmy, Miao Mu and Jason drove toward Star City. A treasure alert redirected Miao Mu toward Los Angeles, where he hoped to find something connected to the retired Watchmen and the still-active Rorschach.

• Lois paid for dinner, and Miao Mu told the group he planned to drive to Star City to visit friends involved in a lawsuit.
• Jimmy gave Jason a Superman action figure before Miao Mu and Jason left, and Miao Mu told Jason that Superman was real.
• At dawn, Miao Mu received an Adventure Treasure alert pointing toward Los Angeles and stopped the Beetle at the fork in the road.
• Miao Mu recalled Los Angeles's history of masked vigilantes and Rorschach, then decided to follow the alert and look for abandoned vigilante relics.

Miao Mu took Jason to Los Angeles, found Rorschach at a protest, and lured him into an alley to fight. Rorschach gained the upper hand with his experience and improvised weapons, leaving Miao Mu reeling.

• Miao Mu told Jason they were in Los Angeles and planned to explore while waiting until evening to dig beneath a cathedral tree.
• Miao Mu spotted Rorschach at a protest and had Jason steal his sign to draw him into an alley.
• Miao Mu confronted Rorschach with a GCPD badge and challenged him to a fight in exchange for answering how he knew him.
• Rorschach attacked Miao Mu with a broken bottle and targeted his ribs, while Miao Mu landed a powerful punch and fought back with Iron Monkey Fist.
• Rorschach used trash can lids to strike Miao Mu over the head, leaving him disoriented.

Miao Mu fought Rorschach in an alley and learned that Rorschach’s instincts and fear-inducing mask gave him the advantage. Rorschach left after agreeing to meet Miao Mu again at midnight, while Miao Mu resolved to improve and told Jason to practice.

• Miao Mu fought Rorschach, who kept him on the defensive with sharp instincts and vicious attacks.
• Rorschach used his shifting ink mask to frighten and daze Miao Mu, then escaped Miao Mu’s blade attack with a Grappling Gun.
• Jason tried to strike Rorschach with a brick, but Miao Mu stopped him.
• Miao Mu claimed he had identified Rorschach through online government records and asked him to teach him, but Rorschach refused.
• Rorschach agreed to meet Miao Mu again at midnight, then left the alley.
• Miao Mu told Jason he would beat Rorschach next time and ordered him to practice his forms before dinner.

Miao Mu met John Constantine outside a Chinese restaurant after a falling mirror smashed his Beetle, and he immediately threatened the notorious exorcist at gunpoint. He fled back inside, where he found Jason suffering a severe nosebleed after drinking the restorative soup.

• Miao Mu and Jason ate pork knuckles while the restaurant owner prepared a medicinal soup, and locals borrowed a large mirror to help investigate a supposedly possessed girl.
• A crash outside revealed that the mirror had fallen from an upper-floor window and smashed onto Miao Mu's Beetle.
• John Constantine introduced himself as a professional exorcist and fixed his attention on Miao Mu's golden hexagram bracelet.
• Miao Mu recognized Constantine as a dangerous, unlucky con artist and pressed his revolver to Constantine's forehead.
• Miao Mu returned to the restaurant and found Jason bleeding heavily from the nose after drinking the soup.

Miao Mu and Jason dug up the God Coin, but an uncanny stranger appeared and returned it to Miao Mu. Miao Mu wished to become stronger, changing the coin and receiving three Adventure Treasure alerts, then entrusted it to Jason for safekeeping.

• Miao Mu and Jason went to a churchyard at night and dug up a box containing the God Coin.
• A strange man appeared without warning, dodged Miao Mu's attacks, and returned the coin to him before Miao Mu fled with Jason.
• Miao Mu concluded that the stranger was an angel and wished on the God Coin to become stronger.
• The coin landed on heads, its guaranteed wish side changed, and three Adventure Treasure alerts sounded in Miao Mu's mind.
• Miao Mu gave the coin to Jason and warned him to save it for a crisis because its remaining wish had only a fifty-percent chance of success.

Rorschach pushed Miao Mu through a rooftop pursuit that helped him draw on his qi and agility, then led him to a human-trafficking operation. Miao Mu joined Rorschach in attacking the gang, but Rorschach finished the fight first as Miao Mu headed into the building.

• Miao Mu left Jason in the Beetle and followed Rorschach over rooftops, struggling to keep up with his movements.
• Miao Mu crossed a gap between buildings by punching through windows and hauling himself up, cutting his hands on the shattered glass.
• Miao Mu’s qi spread through his limbs during the chase, and he gained enough speed to close in behind Rorschach.
• Rorschach identified Mr. Big Man as a human trafficker and attacked the Ultimate gang members carrying people toward their vans.
• Miao Mu kicked the bald thug into a van, while Rorschach killed or incapacitated the remaining gang members and called Miao Mu too slow.
• Miao Mu drew his M500 Revolver and walked into the building.

Miao Mu uncovered a hidden coffin in a Los Angeles cemetery and found an Alchemy Codex, a Phantom Cloak, and bottles of unknown liquid. After he carried off the loot and coffin, John Constantine arrived and decided to find a way to borrow Miao Mu’s pendant.

• Miao Mu followed a feeling to a broken gravestone, checked the area with the Eye of True Sight, and dug up a chained coffin.
• Miao Mu opened the coffin and found an Alchemy Codex whose pages included a drawing of the God Coin, though he could not read the text.
• Miao Mu discovered that the Phantom Cloak was made with Nth Metal and could counter magic, negate gravity, and conjure a phantom figure.
• Miao Mu took the cloak, the codex, the bottles, and the coffin, then left the cemetery.
• John Constantine inspected the broken gravestone, found traces of concealment magic, and resolved to borrow Miao Mu’s pendant using a plan involving the Beetle.

Miao Mu explored a sealed basement, found the Holy Flame Hammer and a rune-covered rifle blueprint, then left Los Angeles with Jason to search for the final treasure. Constantine followed him into the basement, recognized the lighter as a divine artifact, and considered taking it from Miao Mu.

• Miao Mu dug into the sealed basement and found the Holy Flame Hammer, a magical lighter that produced sacred fire.
• Miao Mu found a rifle blueprint marked with runes resembling those on the lighter and his Golden Hexagram, then collected the blueprint and tools before leaving.
• Constantine entered the basement after Miao Mu and identified the traces of the Holy Flame Hammer as those of a divine artifact associated with the Church Inquisition.
• Constantine considered killing Miao Mu to take the artifact for himself.
• Miao Mu and Jason drove out of Los Angeles toward a remote mountain range to search for the final treasure.

Miao Mu found a Dionysium Gem in a dried spring and tested its healing power, then discovered Jason had been captured by an armed group led by a black-clad old man. He escaped the fissure using the Phantom Cloak as a decoy and emerged with a gun aimed at the group's leader.

• Miao Mu and Jason crossed a rubble-filled valley, where Miao Mu followed his sense of attraction to a crack in the ground.
• Miao Mu found a green Dionysium Gem beneath a dried spring, tested it on his tongue, and took it along with other stones for testing.
• Jason spotted an armed group, and Miao Mu used the Eye of True Sight to see him held at knifepoint by eleven silent men carrying rifles.
• A black-clad, cane-bearing old man arrived, and Miao Mu sent the Phantom Cloak through the fissure as a decoy.
• Miao Mu leaped from the fissure, struck one attacker, took another as a human shield, and aimed his revolver at the old man.

Miao Mu and Jason fought Ra's al Ghul's men as they tried to escape, while Ra's al Ghul watched and confirmed that the Lazarus Pit was nearby. Jason fled on Miao Mu's order, leaving Miao Mu surrounded and badly wounded but healing from the Dionysium Gem.

• Ra's al Ghul explained that he had come searching for the Lazarus Pit after tracking Miao Mu's group to the mountain.
• Miao Mu shot at Ra's al Ghul, but an Assassin League member took the bullet, and Miao Mu fought off the surrounding men.
• Jason struck the man holding him with repeated groin kicks and smashed a rock into his head before Ra's al Ghul's gaze stopped him from firing.
• Miao Mu ordered Jason to run while he continued fighting the attackers.
• Ra's al Ghul saw Miao Mu's wounds healing around the Dionysium Gem and confirmed that the Lazarus Pit was there.

Miao Mu and Jason escaped Ra's al Ghul's valley after Miao Mu buried its entrance in a rockslide, while Constantine decided to visit Gotham. Ra's al Ghul ordered Talia's plan to begin, and the story shifted to Star City, where Oliver Queen had been missing for five years.

• Miao Mu used the Holy Flame Hammer and his cloak to break through Ra's al Ghul's men, then injured his arm while rushing past Ra's al Ghul.
• Miao Mu detonated a grenade on the hillside, triggered a rockslide that sealed the valley, and escaped up the mountain with Jason.
• Miao Mu and Jason collected their gear and fled by car, while Constantine watched the buried valley and considered going to Gotham.
• Ra's al Ghul emerged from the rubble, learned the Lazarus Pit had dried up, and ordered Talia's plan to begin with Bronze Tiger accompanying her.
• The narration described Star City's crime, darkness, and Queen Consolidated, noting that Oliver Queen had been missing for five years.