Chapter Summaries

Chu Men overwhelmed Darkseid, beating him nearly to death while the world watched, then annihilated the fleeing Apokolips Fleet. Darkseid fell helplessly toward Earth as the fleet vanished from low orbit.

• Chu Men suppressed Darkseid’s Divine Power and punched him through Earth, sending him out of the seabed in the South Pacific.
• Chu Men caught Darkseid and savagely beat him above Gotham, breaking his body and armor while holographic screens broadcast the fight worldwide.
• Governments and ordinary people watched in stunned fear as Chu Men dominated Darkseid.
• The surviving Apokolips Fleet panicked and tried to flee Earth.
• Chu Men released the nearly dead Darkseid, then swept the fleet from low Earth orbit with a platinum beam, annihilating its warships.

Bruce used the Divine Frequency Emitter to briefly free Arthur from Chu Men’s control and ordered him to kill Clark, but Chu Men overpowered Arthur’s resistance and turned him against Bruce. The Trident struck the cloaked Bat Stealth Fighter as it tried to escape.

• Bruce activated the Divine Frequency Emitter, and its power briefly restored Arthur’s clarity.
• Bruce told Arthur to pierce Clark’s enslavement mark with the Trident while Clark’s defenses were weak.
• Arthur charged at Clark, but Chu Men’s gaze stopped the Trident a millimeter from Clark’s chest.
• Chu Men’s Spiritual Imprint reclaimed Arthur, who turned the Trident away from Clark and became loyal to the Tyrant again.
• Chu Men ordered Arthur to drag Bruce out, and Arthur hurled the Trident at the escaping cloaked Bat Stealth Fighter.

Bruce crashed after his attack on Chu Men failed, while Darkseid used the Mother Boxes to trigger a catastrophe at Earth’s core. Chu Men watched as the planet began to collapse, and the Washington shelter’s scientists warned that Earth was about to explode.

• Bruce escaped his burning fighter wreckage but could not stand, and Alfred urged him to retreat.
• Darkseid, still alive in the ruins, crawled to the Mother Boxes and restored their power by touching them.
• Darkseid overloaded all three Mother Boxes and plunged toward Earth’s core to detonate it.
• Chu Men turned to face Darkseid’s attempt to destroy the planet as massive fissures spread across North America.
• At the Washington shelter, the chief scientific adviser reported that Earth’s core pressure and gravitational collapse meant the planet was going to explode.

Darkseid’s overloaded Mother Boxes tore Earth’s crust apart and threatened to collapse the planet into a singularity. As Bruce and the others faced the end, Chu Men spread platinum light across the world and halted the destruction.

• Darkseid’s attack triggered massive volcanic eruptions, shifting tectonic plates, failing infrastructure, and collapsing shelters around the world.
• Bruce lost contact with Alfred as he and the injured Clark and Arthur remained amid Gotham’s ruins.
• Bruce realized Darkseid’s Omega energy was turning Earth’s core into a collapsing mass that could destroy the Earth-Moon system.
• Chu Men endured the planet’s noise, ordered it to shut up, and released a platinum membrane from his body.
• Chu Men’s light swept across Earth, fitting North America’s splitting faults together and freezing Yellowstone’s eruption in place.

Chu Men stopped the Earth's surface from moving, then entered the core and used his power over physical laws to halt its collapse and stabilize it. He crushed Darkseid's remaining skeleton beneath his foot.

• Chu Men enveloped the Earth in a platinum field that stopped the waves and geological movement, while Darkseid warned that the core was still collapsing.
• Chu Men plunged through the crust and mantle into the Earth's core, where Darkseid's remnant body was driving a destructive fusion reaction.
• Chu Men stopped the collapsing vortex and kneaded the runaway core energy back into a stable state.
• Chu Men restored the core's convection and geomagnetic field, then stepped over to Darkseid and stamped on his spine.

Chu Men sent Darkseid blasting from Earth into deep space, then confronted him in orbit and prepared to imprint his will. The chapter ended as Chu Men invoked his Absolute Spiritual Imprint against Darkseid.

• Chu Men crushed Darkseid beneath his foot in Earth’s molten core and kicked his remains up through the planet’s crust.
• Bruce, the Washington shelter, and the International Space Station witnessed Darkseid’s body shoot from Earth and out into deep space.
• Chu Men appeared in low Earth orbit and stopped Darkseid’s tumbling body by planting his foot on Darkseid’s forehead.
• Chu Men revealed dark-red patterns in his eyes and explained that he would give Darkseid overtime pay by branding him with his rule.
• Darkseid tried to attack Chu Men, but Chu Men bent his arm aside and invoked his Absolute Spiritual Imprint.

Chu Men nearly enslaved Darkseid’s battered avatar before the true Darkseid appeared from the fourth dimension and demanded its release. He offered Chu Men control of the universe and the local Anti-Life Equation in exchange, leaving Chu Men to answer the bargain.

• Chu Men restrained Darkseid’s self-destruction and drove psychic chains into him, forcing the dark lord toward absolute enslavement.
• A fourth-dimensional will interrupted the binding, and Darkseid’s avatar regained a trace of awareness as space folded around them.
• The true Darkseid revealed that the body under Chu Men’s foot was only an avatar projected into this universe, while Bruce felt the pressure of his arrival on Earth.
• Darkseid demanded that Chu Men release his beacon and offered him the universe, an Apokolips withdrawal, and local dominion over the Anti-Life Equation.

Chu Men defied the Fourth Dimension’s shadow and destroyed Darkseid’s avatar, severing its connection to the higher dimension. The furious shadow retreated, warning Chu Men that it would return to destroy him.

• The Fourth Dimension’s shadow offered Chu Men control of the universe in exchange for the beacon and demanded that he accept its boundaries.
• Chu Men mocked the shadow’s domineering attitude, compared it to his former workplace bosses, and refused to surrender what he considered his own.
• Chu Men crushed Darkseid’s avatar beneath his foot and then destroyed its body and omega source with a platinum-powered punch.
• The omega beacon went out, the tesseract network collapsed, and dimensional backlash damaged the Fourth Dimension’s throne.
• The shadow threatened to remember Chu Men and return when the dimensional barriers fell, while Chu Men watched the rift recede and asked if it was leaving.

Chu Men restored Gotham Peninsula to the North American continental shelf after defeating the outer god’s phantom. Luthor and the One God Temple’s forces began clearing the ruined land, and Luthor reported that the shelf was stable.

• Chu Men mocked the departing outer god, then descended to inspect the submerged remains of Gotham Peninsula.
• Luthor told Chu Men that the temple and industrial base had sunk and asked whether to salvage them or relocate.
• Chu Men used gravitational forces to lift Gotham Peninsula from the ocean and join it back to the continental shelf.
• Chu Men fused the fractured land with Heat Vision, stabilizing the crust and stopping the seawater from boiling.
• Luthor ordered Bio-Tyrant troops and cleanup squads to clear the wreckage and secure the island.
• Luthor knelt before Chu Men and reported that the continental shelf was fully stable and the shock waves had subsided.

Chu Men learned that Bruce Wayne had survived the battle and confronted him at the Old Harbor. He told Bruce that he had deliberately let the catastrophe unfold as a performance, leaving Bruce to face Chu Men’s claim that the lives of billions depended on his will.

• Luthor reported that Clark and Diana had stabilized, Victor was trying to seize control of surviving Apokolips warships, and Bruce was trapped in a crashed stealth aircraft.
• Chu Men refused the Pentagon and United Nations Defense Committee’s offer to send engineering corps, then went to the Old Harbor rather than let his Tyrants kill Bruce.
• Bruce crawled from the wreckage of the Batwing with a broken leg and challenged Chu Men for letting Darkseid threaten the planet.
• Chu Men explained that Bruce’s use of the Mother Box and the Trident had disrupted his control over Arthur and improved the spectacle.
• Chu Men dismissed Bruce’s concern for humanity and declared that whoever he wanted to live or die would do so.

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.