Recaps

After Chu Men left Bruce and Alfred amid the ruins, Victor seized control of the global communications and military networks through the Divine Temple. The old governments fell, and Luthor announced the start of the Divine Temple era as the president was dragged from his bunker.

• Alfred arrived and protected Bruce, but Chu Men dismissed them and left after telling Bruce to recover and find new supernatural means to challenge him.
• Bruce and Alfred escaped in their battered vehicle, and Bruce ordered Alfred to open File Seven.
• Beneath the Divine Temple, Victor completed the Skynet takeover and shut down global communications.
• Victor disabled nuclear weapons, locked down military systems, and erased the financial reserves of all 193 countries.
• Victor rearranged military satellites into a six-pointed star around Earth while Luthor announced that former governments would serve the Divine Temple.
• Enhanced guards dragged the president out of the opened bunker into the gray-black sky.

Chu Men ruled Earth from the Divine Temple but found his effortless victory dull and wanted someone to challenge him. Luthor warned that demons and other beings were trying to enter the Mortal World, and Chu Men wondered whether they could withstand a fight like Darkseid.

• Luthor reported that the world’s administrative nodes had been transferred and humanity had mounted no significant resistance.
• Chu Men dismissed Luthor’s warning about restless figures in shadow dimensions and continued to rule with Clark, Diana, and Selina enslaved at his side.
• Selina told Chu Men that Barry was delivering labor reassignment orders across Eurasia, while Luthor reported that Bruce had fled to a safe house in New Jersey.
• Chu Men ordered Luthor to let Bruce investigate freely, hoping the resistance would keep the world from becoming boring.
• Luthor explained that demons and other beings were exploiting the damaged barrier to infiltrate the Mortal World, and Chu Men asked whether they could take a beating like Darkseid.

John Constantine arrived at Chu Men’s Divine Temple claiming he could locate dimensional rifts in exchange for Mother Box residue. After recognizing the demon blood and infernal contracts bound to Constantine’s soul, Chu Men stopped Luthor from having him killed and confronted him.

• Lark reported that guards had captured a vagrant outside the eastern barrier, and Chu Men ordered them to bring him in.
• John Constantine introduced himself as a fortune-teller and offered to find dimensional rifts in return for a fragment of Mother Box residue.
• Luthor called Constantine a beggar and ordered him taken away, but Chu Men commanded the hall to stop.
• Chu Men saw the demon blood and infernal contracts within Constantine’s soul and crushed the cigarette concealing a demonic teleportation rune.
• Chu Men identified Constantine, mocked the devils attached to him, and asked whether hell could take a beating.

Chu Men exposed Constantine’s attempt to escape and forcibly removed the demon blood and Hell contracts binding his soul. Constantine survived the ordeal, awed by Chu Men, while the demon kings retreated after Chu Men shattered their chains.

• Constantine tried to use a hidden escape scroll and lighter, but Chu Men burned the scroll with Solar True Fire.
• Chu Men lifted Constantine by the head and reached into his soul to extract the demon blood Nergal had placed in him.
• Three demon kings confronted Chu Men through the contracts binding Constantine, but Chu Men snapped the chains with his fingers.
• Constantine collapsed, freed from the contracts and demonic curse, and realized Chu Men had rescued him from the demons' claims.

Chu Men opened a portal to Hell’s Desire Rift, where Clark and Chu Men defeated the gatekeeper and the Scorched Earth Devourer. As a hundred thousand succubi appeared with Asmodena, Chu Men and his companions faced the ruler of the Rift.

• Constantine offered Chu Men the Shadow Key to the Desire Rift and warned him about Asmodena’s forces and Lucifer’s alarm.
• Chu Men broke the ring and opened a portal, where a horned she-demon attacked him with an Abyssal Execution Warrant.
• Clark shattered the warrant, kicked the gatekeeper through the portal, and expanded the opening as Chu Men and Diana entered the Desire Rift with Constantine.
• Chu Men forced the lava hellhound’s attack back down its throats, and Clark punched through the beast’s chest, killing it.
• Asmodena gathered a hundred thousand succubi above the lake of fire and descended in a bone-and-velvet sedan chair.

Chu Men defeated Asmodena in the Desire Rift and crushed the Lucifer-marked heart she used as a causal locator bomb. He left Asmodena and her Lord's Heart compressed by his gravitational power.

• Asmodena enveloped Chu Men and the surrounding area in her Elysian Veil, but his psychic barrier shattered the poison.
• At Chu Men's command, Diana swept the sky with the Bracelets of Submission and killed the hundred thousand succubi.
• Asmodena tried to flee, but Chu Men seized her horns, slammed her into the bedrock, and demanded her map.
• Asmodena revealed a heart bearing Lucifer's mark and warned that Lucifer was watching through it.
• Chu Men crushed the mark despite its Fallen Morningstar Fire, then used gravity to compress the heart and Asmodena's Abyssal Demon Body.

Chu Men enslaved Asmodena, learned about Hell’s nine layers, and began stripping the Desire Rift’s resources while Lucifer prepared a bounty against him. As Chu Men approached the River Styx, he contacted Victor to ask whether the Apokolips communicator still had a signal.

• Chu Men turned Asmodena into a crystal core and enslaved her with an Absolute Spiritual Imprint.
• Asmodena told Chu Men that Hell had nine layers, with Lucifer ruling the upper three and Beelzebub and the First of the Fallen battling over the Abyssal Source Crown.
• Chu Men ordered Clark and Diana to mine the Desire Rift and send its surviving demons to work for Luthor.
• Lucifer learned that Chu Men had erased his Morningstar mark and offered the Abyssal Crown to whoever killed him.
• Chu Men reached the River Styx, dismissed Constantine’s warning about its deadly death dirge, and asked Victor whether the communicator had a signal.

Chu Men froze the River Styx and its guardian dragon with a breath of absolute zero, then faced Beelzebub, who attacked him with a deadly curse. The chapter ended with Constantine fearing that Beelzebub’s poison had doomed them.

• Chu Men ordered Steel Bone Victor to deploy sonic arrays and blast heavy metal music at the River Styx, drawing out its guardian dragon.
• Chu Men absorbed the dragon’s death breath and froze the dragon, the river, and its wraiths in thick mystic ice.
• Chu Men tore off the frozen dragon’s wings and gave them to Diana to use as flooring at the Divine Temple.
• Beelzebub appeared beneath the ice and demanded that Chu Men surrender, threatening him with the Myriad Demons God-Slaying Decree.
• Beelzebub sprayed Chu Men with his God-Corrupting Curse, while Constantine panicked and tried to protect himself.

Chu Men destroyed Beelzebub’s law projection and ordered Clark to smash through Hell’s layers to reach the Palace of Ten Thousand Demons. Chu Men, Diana, and Constantine arrived in the fourth layer, where Beelzebub confronted them alongside the First of the Fallen.

• Chu Men shrugged off Beelzebub’s poison mist and shattered the Sulfur Demon Mirror with a punch, injuring Beelzebub’s projection.
• Chu Men traced the projection’s spatial trail and ordered Clark to break through Hell’s layers instead of taking the route through Crying Canyon.
• Clark punched through the dimensional walls and smashed into the Palace of Ten Thousand Demons, scattering its demon dukes.
• Chu Men arrived with Diana and Constantine, taunted Beelzebub and the First of the Fallen, and Beelzebub vowed to swallow him alive.

Chu Men crushed Beelzebub’s Gluttony Black Hole into a lead ball, killed him, and defeated the First of the Fallen by destroying the Multiversal Contract Codex. Lucifer descended into the Palace of Ten Thousand Demons to face Chu Men.

• Beelzebub transformed into a conceptual black hole and tried to devour Chu Men, but Chu Men compressed it into a lead ball weighing ten billion tons.
• Chu Men forced the lead ball down Beelzebub’s throat and detonated it with a punch, destroying Beelzebub’s upper body.
• The First of the Fallen invoked the Multiversal Contract Codex to bind and condemn Chu Men, but Chu Men shattered the chains and tore the codex in half.
• Chu Men forced the crumpled codex down the First of the Fallen’s throat, dragged him down the throne steps, and left him beside Beelzebub.
• Chu Men challenged Lucifer, who descended through the blood rain and confronted him with an ancient sword.

Lucifer welcomed Chu Men after kicking the First of the Fallen into a chasm, and the two bonded over their contempt for incompetent rulers. Lucifer offered Chu Men anything in Hell, including the Silver City, while Constantine suspected a hidden motive.

• Lucifer struck and kicked the First of the Fallen into a sulfur chasm, then approached Chu Men and praised him.
• Lucifer and Chu Men introduced themselves, shared cigars, and discussed Chu Men's actions on Earth and Lucifer's frustrations with Hell's demons.
• Lucifer condemned Heaven's rulers for their hypocrisy, and Chu Men described how he dealt with corrupt politicians and challenged Darkseid.
• Lucifer declared that Chu Men was his kind of guy and offered him anything in Hell, even the Silver City.
• Constantine watched from hiding and muttered that Lucifer was likely plotting something.

Lucifer warned Chu Men that Heaven would soon flood Earth and destroy Hell, then agreed to serve as Chu Men’s vanguard under his harsh terms. Their deal was interrupted when Gabriel appeared above the Palace of Ten Thousand Demons to condemn them.

• Lucifer told Chu Men that Heaven’s purification protocol would release Primordial Holy Water in three days, destroying Earth and sealing Hell into a dead star.
• Lucifer revealed that he needed Chu Men to break Heaven’s judgment barrier because the Creation Covenant weakened his power.
• Chu Men demanded ninety percent of the spoils and ordered Lucifer to lead the fighting, threatening to beat him if he resisted.
• Lucifer unleashed his Morningstar Divine Fire, but withdrew it and accepted Chu Men’s terms after seeing Chu Men’s strength.
• Gabriel appeared as a five-thousand-meter cross-dimensional projection above the Palace of Ten Thousand Demons and denounced Lucifer for conspiring with Chu Men.

Chu Men repelled Gabriel's manifestation and ordered Lucifer to muster Hell's forces for an attack on Heavenly Mountain. On Earth, Constantine tried to seal the dimensional passage to Hell, but the formation turned dark red as Chu Men looked toward him.

• Chu Men caught Gabriel's Eden Spear of Judgment, twisted it into a collar, and forced her manifestation to retreat to Heavenly Mountain.
• Chu Men gave Lucifer three hours to assemble Hell's forces and warned him he would use Silver City for target practice if he was late.
• Diana told Chu Men that a demon king had escaped using a substitute puppet, and Chu Men vowed to collect the debt.
• Constantine, Zatanna, and Madame Xanadu worked to seal Earth's dimensional passages after Constantine described Chu Men's defeat of demons and Lucifer's alliance with him.
• Madame Xanadu sensed that Chu Men was looking at Constantine, and the sealing formation turned dark red almost immediately.

Chu Men captured Constantine and bound him to the One God Temple with a magical contract, while Zatanna and Madame Xanadu lost contact with Bruce. With Earth facing Chu Men’s overwhelming power, Bruce ordered Alfred to open Lead Box Number Seven and prepared to connect his damaged nervous system to Kryptonian technology.

• Chu Men seized Constantine from the London safe house, forged a contract from Lucifer and Trigon’s soul chain, and claimed Constantine’s body and soul for the One God Temple.
• Chu Men blasted Zatanna unconscious, and Madame Xanadu’s divination ball shattered as she warned that the stars were kneeling before a tyrant.
• Zatanna told Madame Xanadu to notify Bruce and activate File Number Seven, but the safe house’s encrypted communication cut off.
• Bruce learned that Constantine had vanished from Earth’s dimension and ordered Alfred to retrieve Lead Box Number Seven.
• Alfred opened the box containing fragments of Nabu’s helmet, King Solomon’s Exorcism Scroll, and Jor-El’s backup AI core.
• Bruce prepared to connect the Kryptonian supercomputer to his injured brain, despite Alfred warning that it could burn out his brain stem.

Bruce used the Helmet of Nabu and Solomon’s scroll to simulate millions of strategies against Chu Men, but the results showed no weaknesses and no chance of victory. Chu Men then contacted him through the supposedly isolated computer as statues of Chu Men and Lucifer rose across the world and Lex Luthor announced Hell’s incorporation into the Divine Temple.

• Bruce activated Protocol Seven and ran three million hours of tactical simulations to find Chu Men’s weakness.
• The Helmet of Nabu crumbled and Solomon’s scroll burned as the computer concluded that Chu Men had no weaknesses and resistance should be abandoned.
• Bruce demanded another calculation, but the burned-out computer lit up and Chu Men sent him mocking messages from Hell.
• Bruce broke down as Chu Men’s messages appeared on the screens, and he spat blood onto the display.
• An auxiliary screen showed thirty-one corrupted Green Lanterns destroying monuments while statues of Chu Men and Lucifer rose in squares across three thousand cities.
• Lex Luthor announced that Hell had joined the Divine Temple and threatened disobedient workers with coal mining in its first layer.

Lucifer used a Primordial Beacon to open Jacob’s Ladder, but Heaven’s defenses resisted until Chu Men tore the dimensional gate wide open. The Hell army surged into Heaven and met Uriel and his assembled forces before the Southern Heavenly Gate.

• Lucifer assembled three million demons, a hundred thousand wyverns, and eight Abyssal Lords at the Scorched Earth Great Wall.
• Lucifer tore a Primordial Beacon feather from his wing and hurled it into the dimensional barrier, opening a narrow passage to Jacob’s Ladder.
• Chu Men shoved Lucifer aside and ripped open the covenant fissure, widening the entrance to a hundred li.
• Lucifer led the Hell army charging up Jacob’s Ladder as Chu Men followed with Clark, Diana, and Constantine.
• Chu Men and his companions reached the Southern Heavenly Gate, where Uriel and a hundred thousand Dominions stood ready to stop them.

Chu Men led the demon army against Uriel’s forces in Heaven and proved immune to the Holy Purifying Fire. He left Uriel wingless and the angel army in retreat as he moved to seize another pair of wings.

• Uriel ordered one hundred thousand Dominions to unleash Purifying Fire Purgatory, which vaporized the demons at the front, but Chu Men walked through the flames unharmed.
• Chu Men stopped the angels’ judgment spears with electromagnetic and gravitational forces, crushed them into an iron ball, and smashed it through the Dominion formation, killing over ten thousand angels.
• Uriel attacked Chu Men with his Red-Gold Holy Sword, but Chu Men caught the blade and snapped it in two.
• Chu Men ripped Uriel’s central pair of wings from his back and gave them to Clark, who corrupted their holy aura and turned them into a cape.
• The surviving Dominions retreated toward the Southern Heavenly Gate while Uriel writhed in pain, and Chu Men strode toward him to seize another pair of wings.

Uriel summoned the Primordial Law Aegis to erase Chu Men as a heretic, and the shield’s absolute rules briefly stopped Chu Men’s attack. As its chains reached his wrist, the dormant Do As You Please System awakened.

• Uriel shattered his cross emblem and called on the Supreme Holy See to send down the Primordial Law.
• The Primordial Law Aegis appeared, sealing the spatial rifts and freezing the demons advancing on Jacob’s Ladder.
• Lucifer warned Chu Men that the shield embodied the multiverse’s absolute rules and would retaliate against powers within its system.
• Chu Men punched the Aegis, but its causal backlash held him in place and pushed him half a step back.
• Uriel celebrated the shield’s defense as it repaired itself and sent chains of rules toward Chu Men’s wrist.
• The Do As You Please System awakened as the chains touched Chu Men.

Chu Men unlocked the Power of Idealism and used his will to rewrite the laws that bound him and the Primordial Law Aegis. The chapter ended with the supposedly indestructible shield transformed into a giant gingerbread cookie before the watching armies.

• Chu Men unlocked the Power of Idealism as the primordial chains began to suppress his existence.
• Uriel ordered the Primordial Law to erase Chu Men while Lucifer warned him that the shield would assimilate him.
• Chu Men turned the chains of primordial law into lengths of noodles and snapped them apart.
• Lucifer realized Chu Men was overwriting the universe's truths with his thoughts.
• Chu Men declared the Primordial Law Aegis a gingerbread cookie, and the shield transformed into a giant iced cookie.

Chu Men shattered the Primordial Law Aegis by turning it into gingerbread, crippling Uriel and the Dominions. As Michael appeared and unleashed his Star-Splitting Strike, Chu Men stood his ground and challenged him.

• Chu Men flicked the ten-meter-tall Primordial Law Aegis, breaking it into gingerbread crumbs and disrupting Heaven’s faith network.
• Chu Men forced Uriel to eat a piece of the shattered Aegis, then ordered Clark to pluck Uriel’s remaining wings.
• Michael appeared above the Holy City and declared that he would erase Chu Men from the universe.
• Michael gathered Heaven’s holy light into his Sword of Creation’s Judgment and launched his Star-Splitting Strike.
• Lucifer warned Chu Men that Michael’s attack could not be dodged, but Chu Men remained in place and questioned whether Michael had permission to show off.

Chu Men caught and twisted Michael’s Sword of Creation, then humiliated him by dragging him through Heaven and kicking him down to Earth. He joined Lucifer and three million demons at the Seventh Heaven, where the Grand Elder began to sound the Doomsday Horn and threatened to unleash primordial holy water.

• Chu Men caught the Sword of Creation and twisted it into a pink plastic bow, then shattered Michael’s armor and tied him to a hellhound cart with Diana’s Lasso of Truth.
• Chu Men dragged Michael around the First Heaven while the angels lost heart and Lucifer laughed at the spectacle.
• Chu Men kicked Michael through a dimensional breach, sending him crashing into Big Ben Square, where Constantine witnessed his fall.
• Chu Men and Lucifer led three million demons through a breach into the Seventh Heaven and confronted the twenty-four Heavenly Elders.
• The Grand Elder prepared to sound the Doomsday Horn and release primordial holy water, while Lucifer and Beelzebub warned Chu Men of its danger.

Chu Men disabled Heaven’s flight and sound, turned the Sea of Light into a planned swimming pool, and ordered angels into lifeguard and mining work. The Supreme God then manifested and destroyed Victor’s construction machinery with a burst of primordial light, burning Lucifer as Seventh Heaven turned white.

• Chu Men forbade flight and loud noises throughout Heaven, silencing the elders and sending millions of angels crashing into the Sea of Light and onto the plaza.
• Chu Men seized and snapped the Doomsday Horn, then summoned Victor and his Bio-Tyrants to survey the Sea of Light for conversion into a swimming pool.
• Chu Men ordered Victor to prepare the pool and chill beer in the Primordial Holy Water, then directed Diana to recruit female angels as lifeguards and send male angels to mine coal.
• The Holy of Holies opened, and the Supreme God’s Primordial Holy Spirit appeared as time froze across Seventh Heaven.
• The Supreme God said, “Let there be light,” reducing Victor’s construction machinery to atoms and burning Lucifer with the radiance.

Chu Men extinguished the Holy Spirit’s creation light and trapped it inside a glass bulb, leaving Heaven in darkness. When the twenty-four elders attacked to rescue their Creator, Chu Men faced their incoming curse.

• Lucifer warned Chu Men that the Holy Spirit was trying to reset all matter, but Chu Men dismissed the threat and blew out its light with a supernatural gale.
• Chu Men stripped the Holy Spirit of its radiance, reduced it to a light bulb, and rolled it alongside the Purple Crystal Core in his palm.
• The twenty-four elders saw their Creator trapped in the bulb, declared Chu Men a heretic, and ignited their divine bodies to cast the Absolute Truth Incantation at him.
• Chu Men watched the elders’ golden scriptures approach and complained that they only knew how to chant and make empty promises.

Chu Men turned the Heavenly Elders’ commandments into dismissal notices and destroyed their souls, then kicked the God’s Holy Spirit core through three thousand Heavenly Realm dimensions. The battered orb stopped at the edge of chaos while Lucifer celebrated the shot.

• Chu Men used an enormous Unpaid Labor Contract Termination Notice to rewrite the elders’ incantations as exploitative employment terms, then forced the twenty-four elders’ souls to explode.
• Lucifer watched the elders die and compared Earth’s bosses unfavorably to devils, while Clark explained how ruthless Earth’s employers were.
• Chu Men retrieved the enlarged God’s Holy Spirit core, which absorbed the elders’ divine power and threatened to erase him.
• Chu Men volleyed the orb with his right foot, sending it crashing through three thousand Heavenly Realm dimensions to the edge of chaos.
• Lucifer cheered Chu Men’s kick, and Chu Men wiped golden divine radiance from his shoe and complained that the orb had been overinflated.

After the Creator unleashed the Genesis Primordial Codex, Lucifer tried to use the chaos-poisoned Godslayer Blade to kill Chu Men, but the blade broke against Chu Men’s back. Chu Men struck Lucifer down, and Lucifer surrendered his Fallen Morningstar Origin Divine Core to beg for another chance.

• The Creator opened the Genesis Primordial Codex, sending blood-gold flames through the shattered dimensions toward Seventh Heaven.
• Lucifer secretly drew his poisoned Godslayer Blade and approached Chu Men, planning to attack while the Creator and Chu Men fought.
• Lucifer stabbed Chu Men in the back, but the blade shattered and its poison evaporated harmlessly.
• Chu Men slapped Lucifer through pillars and into a spiral pit, then pinned his jaw beneath his shoe.
• Lucifer pleaded for mercy, offered his Fallen Morningstar Origin Divine Core, and asked Chu Men to let him serve again.