Recaps

Chu Men transformed the Genesis Primordial Codex and its holy sphere into a trash can and lamp, then imprinted both the holy sphere and Lucifer into his service. Their simultaneous submission caused a violent disturbance across the Multiverse, and Victor detected an unknown cosmic gaze turning toward Earth.

• Lucifer offered Chu Men his divine core and begged to serve him again as a dog.
• The Genesis Primordial Codex descended on Seventh Heaven, but Chu Men used the Power of Idealism to turn it into a hazardous-waste bin and trap the holy sphere inside.
• Chu Men used Absolute Spiritual Imprint on the holy sphere and Lucifer, changing the sphere into a divine temple lamp and giving Lucifer a collar and a post as Director of the Divine Temple's Hell Office.
• Lucifer and the holy spirit lamp submitted to Chu Men, triggering a violent avalanche of laws across the Multiverse.
• Victor reported that an unknown cosmic-level gaze was sweeping toward Earth.

Chu Men returned to Earth with a procession of captured gods and demons, and the broadcast shattered the remaining resistance and religious faith. Bruce Wayne abandoned his ineffective weapons, then received a message from Chu Men demanding payment for the spectacle.

• Chu Men sent the construction crew to keep remodeling the pool and took everyone else back to Earth with him.
• Clark opened a portal above Gotham, and Chu Men’s procession appeared with Diana, Michael serving as a security guard, Lucifer carrying a suitcase, and Asmodena holding an umbrella.
• Chu Men took the throne beneath the holy orb, and Victor broadcast the scene worldwide, prompting religious sites and resistance groups to surrender.
• Bruce watched the broadcast from an underground shelter and threw away his Kryptonite dagger, holy water, and demon-summoning parchment.
• Bruce’s ruined Bat communicator lit up with a message from Chu Men telling him to pay for the show.

Trigon attacked Earth after sensing that Lucifer had left Hell, but Chu Men sent Lucifer to stop him. Lucifer tore out two of Trigon’s eyes and compressed them into marbles before Trigon’s projection retreated in terror.

• Constantine’s karmic chain reacted as Trigon’s power emerged, and Lucifer identified the demon as the attacker.
• Trigon opened a rift above Earth and declared that the planet belonged to him.
• Chu Men ordered Lucifer to gouge out Trigon’s eyes and gave him dark red divine power through his collar.
• Lucifer charged Trigon, tore out two of his eyes, and compressed them into glass-sized beads.
• Trigon recognized Lucifer’s collar as a slave brand and retreated through the dimensional rift.

Chu Men tore open a path through thirty-six dimensional barriers to pursue Trigon to his lair in the Azarath Dimension. He manifested a galaxy-sized golden foot and stomped through Trigon’s defenses, shaking the entire dimension.

• Lucifer cursed Trigon as the demon’s projection retreated through the closing rift, while Chu Men criticized Lucifer for letting him escape with his taunts.
• Chu Men followed the lingering causal connection and ripped open a five-hundred-li-wide passage through thirty-six dimensional barriers.
• Chu Men, Lucifer, and Clark saw Trigon’s true body and bone-built lair in the Azarath Dimension through the passage.
• Chu Men refused Clark’s offer to attack the furnace and manifested a colossal golden foot with the Power of Idealism.
• Trigon raised the Eight Worlds White Bone Array, but Chu Men’s foot shattered its shield and stomped the furnace temple, violently shaking the Azarath Dimension.

Chu Men crushed Trigon’s temple, swallowed and returned his destructive fire, and transformed the wounded demon into a flower-covered garden. The chapter ended with Chu Men snapping off Trigon’s primordial horns to use as signposts.

• Chu Men stomped Trigon’s temple into a massive crater and found Trigon still alive beneath the ruins.
• Trigon attacked Chu Men with Azarath’s Ultimate Fire of Destruction, but Chu Men swallowed it and spat it back as four beams that severed Trigon’s arms.
• Chu Men altered Trigon’s destructive power into fertilizer, causing flowers and grass to grow across Trigon’s body.
• Constantine watched in shock as Lucifer photographed the flower-covered Trigon for Hell’s intranet.
• Chu Men grabbed Trigon’s primordial horns and snapped them off at the roots despite Trigon’s protests.

Chu Men subdued Trigon and brought his companions to the Still Dimension, where the Lords of Order and Chaos prepared to erase him. He shattered the Eternal Balance, struck God Nabu with its base, and kicked Xia Nuo into the interdimensional turbulence.

• Chu Men imprinted Trigon, shrinking him into a flower-covered red dog who submitted as the Divine Temple's third guard beast.
• God Nabu and the Lords of Chaos discussed Chu Men's destruction of Heaven and Hell and ordered the Sorcerers Supreme recalled and ancient beings awakened.
• The Eternal Balance shattered as Chu Men entered the Still Dimension with Lucifer, Clark, and Trigon, then mocked the assembled rulers.
• Chu Men seized the Eternal Balance's base and smashed God Nabu's mask, sending him crashing through three pillars.
• Xia Nuo tried to escape into a chaotic rift, but Chu Men kicked him into a compressed ball that flew into interdimensional turbulence.

Chu Men pulled Nabu’s true spirit and the Helmet of Fate out of the source of time, crushed Nabu’s consciousness, and gave the helmet to Diana. As the group returned, Bruce Wayne used Jim Corrigan’s police badge and his own blood to summon Phantom for a final attack.

• The remaining Lords of Order and Chaos fled while Lucifer warned Trigon to guard the Divine Temple more carefully.
• Nabu escaped into the River of Time, but Chu Men reached into it and uprooted Nabu’s true spirit and the Helmet of Fate from the source of time.
• Chu Men crushed Nabu’s consciousness, gave the helmet to Diana, and dismissed Nabu’s warning about the awakening Multiverse Stagnants.
• In a flooded bunker, Bruce Wayne rejected Alfred’s pleas to stop and used Jim Corrigan’s police badge in a blood offering to summon Phantom.
• The badge erupted with eerie green light as Bruce called on Phantom to judge Chu Men.

Phantom descended on the One God Temple to erase Chu Men, but discovered that the Supreme Holy Spirit served as Chu Men’s lamp and Heaven and Hell now worked for him. Unable to reconcile his directives, Phantom’s logic collapsed and he vanished, leaving Bruce to die in despair.

• Phantom appeared over the One God Temple and condemned Chu Men to complete erasure in the Supreme Creator’s name.
• Bruce saw Phantom arrive in the surveillance feed and believed the Spirit of Vengeance could defeat Chu Men.
• Chu Men showed Phantom the lamp containing the Creator Holy Spirit, who identified Chu Men as its master.
• Lucifer explained that Heaven and Hell had joined the One God Temple Group, while Michael guarded the entrance and Trigon watched the yard.
• Phantom’s conflicting directives caused his logic to fail, and Chu Men’s breath made his form crumble into smoke.
• Bruce’s police badge snapped, and he collapsed dead in the mine after seeing Phantom destroyed.

Chu Men fell asleep and Sandman Morpheus trapped his consciousness in the Dreaming, hoping to eliminate the threat he posed. Chu Men shattered the dream labyrinth and struck Morpheus through the boundary between dreams and reality, leaving Morpheus beaten and begging for mercy.

• Chu Men tossed Phantom's green godhood fragment to Constantine to use as a restroom-door handle, then fell asleep on the Divine Temple's terrace.
• Morpheus saw Chu Men as a threat to the Endless and used the Dreamstone to trap him in the Dreaming's billion-layer nightmare labyrinth.
• Chu Men grew angry when a nightmare tentacle played an alarm and declared that he was awake and would slap Morpheus.
• Chu Men shattered the labyrinth and swung a slap from his physical body through a rift into the Dreaming.
• Chu Men shattered Morpheus's bone mask and blasted him into a pool of golden dream sand, badly damaging the Dreaming.
• Morpheus emerged injured and begged Chu Men to forgive him for disturbing his nap.

Chu Men seized control of the Dreaming by branding Morpheus and made him turn it into an endless office for punishing gods and demons who opposed the One God Temple. Morpheus activated the dream system, trapping Dagon and thousands of other sleeping gods and demons in forced reporting meetings.

• Chu Men took Morpheus's Dream Sand, branded him with the Divine Temple's [Absolute Spiritual Imprint], and ordered Lucifer to add him to the Maintenance Department.
• Morpheus explained that sleeping beings across the universe, including ancient Demon Gods, connected to the Dreaming.
• Chu Men used [Power of Idealism] to order Morpheus to trap disloyal gods and demons in cubicles until they completed endless PowerPoint reports and surrendered.
• Morpheus activated [Multiverse Endless 8 A.M. Reporting Meeting], sending dream ripples across dimensions.
• Dagon was dragged from his underwater coffin dream into a cubicle and electrocuted for failing his report, while thousands of other sleeping gods and demons were trapped in the same office farm.

Chu Men learned that a sealed region beyond the Source Wall, the Sea of Nothingness, contained primordial beings capable of erasing matter, souls, and history. Despite Lucifer and Michael warning him of its danger, he decided to capture its inhabitants and bring them back as guards.

• Hundreds of hidden gods and demons surrendered to Chu Men after his Dream Indoctrination, and Lex Luthor reported that their indentures had greatly expanded the Divine Temple's resources.
• The First of the Fallen presented Chu Men with a multiverse projection sandbox, where Chu Men noticed a blank region at the edge of the Source Wall.
• Lucifer and Michael identified the blank as the Sea of Nothingness, sealed away because its primordial inhabitants could not be killed.
• Michael explained that a hundred thousand Throne Angels had vanished there, along with all memory and history of their existence.
• Chu Men dismissed the warnings, called the Sea of Nothingness an amusement park, and declared that he would capture anything with a health bar.