Recaps

Wonder Woman and Thor held off Ultron for more than an hour before he finally defeated them and prepared to kill Wonder Woman. Yongye arrived through a portal, and the battered heroes confronted him over his absence, but he laughed and claimed he was not an idiot like them.

• Wonder Woman repeatedly diverted Ultron’s Vibranium fists while Thor endured two full-force blows and kept fighting beside her.
• After Wonder Woman’s leg gave out, Ultron blasted her into a pillar and hurled Thor into the rubble, leaving both incapacitated.
• Ultron prepared to strike Wonder Woman when a portal opened behind him and Yongye stepped through in his Gemini Gold Cloth.
• Tony, Steve, and Wonder Woman demanded to know why Yongye had been absent while Wakanda was attacked and Superman disappeared.
• Yongye laughed at the accusations and said he was not an idiot like them because they charged into fights without thinking.

Yongye defeated Ultron by using the Mother Box to extract and seal its main consciousness, then explained that the others’ attempts to destroy its Vibranium body could never end it. The Superheroes watched in stunned silence as he stood over Ultron’s inert body.

• Yongye mocked Tony and the other Superheroes for failing to defeat Ultron and claimed he could end the fight.
• Yongye unleashed Hundred Dragons' Rise of Mount Lu, driving Ultron backward with a flood of azure dragons.
• Yongye opened a portal behind Ultron and used the attack’s remaining force to send it through, bringing it back beside him.
• Yongye pinned Ultron’s neck armor and pressed the Mother Box to its energy conduit, sealing Ultron’s main consciousness inside.
• The Superheroes stared in shock as Yongye displayed the Mother Box and explained that extracting Ultron’s consciousness was the only way to defeat it permanently.

Yongye revealed that his apparent distractions had concealed his plan to defeat Ultron, then gained an advanced Law of Destiny reward and left Wakanda carrying Ultron’s body. News broadcasts celebrated his victory, while the other heroes were left to handle the cleanup.

• Tony realized Yongye had been secretly preparing his decisive move against Ultron, and the revelation broke his spirit, earning Yongye an Ultimate Blind Box.
• Yongye opened the box and received the advanced Law of Destiny, strengthening his awareness of cause and effect.
• Yongye warned T'Chaka that he could destroy Wakanda without a nuclear bomb, then ignored him and lifted Ultron’s Vibranium body.
• Yongye left the Ruins with Ultron’s body and told the Avengers Alliance and Justice League to handle the cleanup.
• Tony, Steve, Wonder Woman, and Hawkeye watched Yongye depart and acknowledged how completely he had outmatched them.
• Live footage of the victory spread worldwide, and news commentators and viewers praised Yongye as Earth’s strongest hero.

After Yongye defeated Vibranium Ultron, United States officials tried to conceal their nuclear strike on Wakanda and turn the world against him. T'Chaka protected Wakanda by publicly blaming senior United States officials, leaving Grand Commander Aoniu furious.

• Grand Commander Aoniu and General Lane discussed Ultron's defeat, Wakanda's refusal of aid, and their plan to blame Yongye for the nuclear strike.
• Grand Commander Aoniu ordered the media to accuse Yongye of authorizing the strike and to portray him as a threat to Earth.
• Shuri questioned T'Chaka about whether Wakanda should blame Yongye, but T'Chaka said his power made that too dangerous.
• T'Chaka sent instructions for Wakanda to blame senior United States officials and clear Yongye of involvement.
• Wakanda released its statement, which spread across major media outlets, and Grand Commander Aoniu reacted with fury.

After Wakanda’s statement weakened the accusation against Yongye, the United States intensified its media campaign to blame him for the nuclear attack. Yongye let the public debate continue while preparing recordings that exposed Grand Commander Aoniu’s orders and framing plot.

• The White House decided to keep blaming Yongye, and United States media and online bots pushed that narrative despite Wakanda’s statement.
• Yongye told Sharon to let the controversy settle as global opinion split over whether he was innocent or should answer for his actions.
• Superman woke in Yongye’s office, learned that Ultron and his captor were gone, thanked Yongye, and flew back toward Metropolis after warning him that Lois was a good woman.
• Yongye reviewed footage showing a military officer ordering a soldier to launch three missiles toward the Atlantic Ocean.
• Yongye watched further recordings of Grand Commander Aoniu ordering action against Wakanda and discussing how to frame Yongye for the nuclear attack.

Yongye released recordings exposing Grand Commander Aoniu’s role in the nuclear strike and the cover-up, prompting Aoniu’s impeachment and Laxington’s rise to interim Supreme Leader. As debate grew over Yongye’s surveillance powers, he decided to recruit subordinates and agreed to meet Daisy Johnson about her origins.

• Yongye uploaded recordings of secret government discussions and CIA information warfare, and the footage triggered worldwide outrage and protests.
• The Senate impeached Grand Commander Aoniu by a vote of ninety-three to seven, and Laxington was sworn in as interim Supreme Leader.
• Public attention shifted from the nuclear strike to whether Yongye’s ability to monitor the White House threatened humanity.
• Yongye watched the changing media assessments of him and decided to form The Boys to serve him across the vast world.
• Sharon told Yongye that S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Daisy Johnson wanted his help investigating her origins, and Yongye invited her to his apartment that night.

Yongye agreed to help Daisy Johnson investigate her parents in exchange for her paying any price, and she visited his apartment that evening. He began using his technique to relax her, leaving Daisy wondering what he had done.

• Lois warned Yongye that Daisy Johnson was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and Inhuman who might be in trouble, but he decided to recruit her as a candidate for The Boys.
• Daisy arrived at Yongye’s apartment at seven thirty and asked him to gather information about her parents.
• Yongye told Daisy she would have to pay before he started working, and she agreed to give everything she had.
• Yongye placed his hand on Daisy’s Jianjing Point and sent warmth through her meridians, easing her tension.
• Daisy sighed and asked Yongye what he had done.

Yongye used his chakra to relieve Daisy's blocked meridians, then fulfilled her request by showing her her parents' lives through the River of Time. Daisy thanked him after gaining clarity from the memories.

• Yongye teased Daisy while channeling warmth through her meridians to relieve the damage caused by her powers.
• Daisy endured the treatment and admitted that she could no longer resist Yongye.
• Daisy asked Yongye to keep his promise and help her.
• Yongye donned the Gemini Gold Cloth and used Genjutsu and memories from the River of Time to show Daisy her parents' lives.
• Daisy cried after seeing the memories, then thanked Yongye for his information-gathering ability.

Yongye recruited Daisy into The Boys, his secret team meant to rein in dangerous superheroes and serve as a last line of defense. After Daisy left, he used the Mother Box to locate an abandoned Sokovia military research station and opened a portal there.

• Daisy prepared to leave, and Yongye teased her about working together again.
• Yongye pitched The Boys as a team that would hold superheroes accountable and protect Earth during major crises.
• Daisy accepted his offer to join The Boys and promised to help whenever he needed her.
• After Daisy left, Yongye celebrated recruiting her and used the Mother Box to scan for a location.
• The Mother Box pinpointed an abandoned Sokovia Military Research Station, and Yongye stepped through the portal he opened to it.

Yongye found Wanda Maximoff and Pietro Maximoff imprisoned in Hydra’s Sokovia laboratory and offered them a place in The Boys. The chapter ended with Wanda proposing a bargain: Yongye would give her the power to fight, and she would grant him whatever sexual favors he wanted.

• Yongye entered Hydra’s research station, and the lab-coated Hydra members fled when they recognized him.
• Yongye found Pietro Maximoff and Wanda Maximoff locked in a cell, still powerless because he had taken the Mind Stone.
• Wanda challenged Yongye over Tony Stark’s lack of punishment for creating Ultron, and Yongye explained that he was recruiting a team to confront uncontrolled superheroes and problems ordinary methods could not solve.
• Yongye offered to help the siblings gain the power to qualify for The Boys, and Wanda asked him to knock Pietro unconscious so they could speak privately.
• Wanda told Yongye she knew the rumors about his sexual demands and offered sexual favors in exchange for enough power to fight.

Yongye rescued Wanda and Pietro from Hydra’s cell, gave Wanda the Mind Stone, and invited the siblings to stay in his Manhattan apartment while they trained. The next morning, General Lane visited Eye Society headquarters with Lois and privately conceded defeat after posing for a photo with Yongye.

• Yongye agreed to Wanda’s deal but refused her offer for the time being, then carried the unconscious Pietro out of the cell with her.
• Yongye took Wanda and Pietro through a portal to his Manhattan apartment, where Pietro slept in the guest room.
• Yongye gave Wanda the Mind Stone and explained that it could awaken her and Pietro’s potential, then taught her a training method.
• Yongye told Wanda to stay at his apartment until she gained her powers and said the right time would come when she became the Scarlet Witch.
• The next morning, General Lane and Lois Lane visited Yongye at Eye Society headquarters, where General Lane privately admitted defeat and asked him to treat his daughter well.

Yongye obtained Gonggong’s Water God Halberd after helping Lois repair General Lane’s image, then went to the Sandcastle Bar to confront Aquaman. Arthur recognized Yongye and led him outside, preparing to face him by the sea.

• Lois photographed General Lane and Yongye together, and General Lane left after warning Lois she was on her own.
• Yongye collected his promised payment from Lois and received Gonggong’s Water God Halberd from the Ultimate Blind Box.
• Yongye decided to visit Atlantis and target Aquaman and his queen.
• Yongye arrived at the Sandcastle Bar, where Aquaman was winning arm-wrestling contests.
• Arthur recognized Yongye as the Golden Armor God of War, feared he could not defeat him, and led him outside toward the shore.

Yongye tried to recruit Arthur into The Boys by claiming he could save Arthur’s mother, Queen Atlanna, and provoked Arthur into leaving. He then used Gonggong’s Water God Halberd to drive the sea away from Arthur, revealing power beyond his Gold Armor.

• Yongye invited Arthur to join The Boys and offered to help rescue Queen Atlanna.
• Arthur rejected Yongye’s offer, insulted him, and dove toward the sea.
• Yongye summoned Gonggong’s Water God Halberd and swept the sea away from the shore.
• Arthur crashed onto the exposed seabed and discovered that the water retreated whenever he approached it.
• Yongye hinted that the Gold Armor was not the source of his power as a force surged beneath the seabed.

Arthur apologized to Yongye after being overpowered, but Mera intervened because she wanted to stop Orm from starting a war between the underwater kingdom and the people on land. As Arthur agreed to work with her, Yongye reappeared and warned him that Mera was his brother’s fiancée.

• Yongye knocked Arthur onto the reef with a surge of water and threatened to kill him.
• Arthur pretended to accept Yongye’s proposal and tried to lure him back to the bar.
• Mera attacked Yongye with a powerful jet of water, sending him into the darkness, and introduced herself to Arthur as the princess of Xebel.
• Mera told Arthur that Orm planned to start a war and urged him to help stop it.
• Arthur said Mera had gone too far by attacking Yongye, then agreed to work with her after she explained the danger.
• Yongye emerged from the darkness and warned Arthur not to cross a line with his brother’s fiancée.

Yongye confronted Mera and Arthur after Mera’s ambush failed, then used his control over water to overpower them. He restrained Mera and began unzipping her suit as Arthur protested.

• Yongye appeared in his Golden Cloth, and Arthur asked him to spare Mera for trying to prevent a war.
• Mera attacked Yongye with Water Magic, but he redirected the blast into Arthur.
• Mera tried to escape into the sea, but Yongye made the water retreat and Arthur warned that he could control it with advanced technology.
• Yongye summoned a Water Dragon that carried Mera back to the reef and pinned her down.
• Yongye pulled down Mera’s combat-suit zipper, and Arthur shouted that it was no way for a hero to behave.

Yongye restrained Mera and Arthur, humiliated Mera while threatening to kill her, and forced Arthur to hear what happened. The system rewarded Yongye with two Ultimate Blind Boxes and a Supreme Blind Box after both targets suffered a mental breakdown.

• Yongye used Water Dragons to pin Mera and Arthur, then told Mera that he would kill her because she had tried to kill him.
• Yongye prevented Mera from using her Water Magic and mocked her threat that Xebel would retaliate.
• Yongye touched Mera's Meridians, leaving her unable to resist as Arthur remained trapped and heard her cries.
• Arthur recalled meeting Mera and roared helplessly as the scene shattered his hopes.
• The system awarded Yongye two Ultimate Blind Boxes and a Supreme Blind Box for breaking Mera and Arthur at the same time.

Yongye opened three blind boxes and gained new Speed Force and Emotional Spectrum powers before warning Mera to tell King Orm to keep Atlantis in line. After Yongye vanished, Arthur tried to ask Mera if she was all right, and she angrily confronted him for hearing what had happened while he lay helpless in the sand.

• Yongye opened the blind boxes and gained Speed Force and Emotional Spectrum powers.
• Yongye freed Mera and Arthur, then warned Mera to tell King Orm that Atlantis should behave.
• Yongye used the Speed Force to vanish from the reef.
• Arthur threw a stone into the sea and cursed as he watched Mera.
• Arthur asked Mera if she was okay, and Mera angrily accused him of hearing everything while he lay in the sand.

After the encounter with the powerful stranger, Mera urged Arthur to help stop the war between the people of the sea and the people on land by finding the Sacred Trident. Arthur agreed to join her, and they swam toward their destination, unaware that Yongye and Queen Atlanna awaited them.

• Arthur told Mera he wanted to leave and forget what had happened, but she insisted they had to stop the war.
• Mera warned that the stranger could destroy their people and said Arthur could challenge Orm by finding the Sacred Trident.
• Mera showed Arthur a map her father had kept hidden for thirty years.
• Arthur agreed to work with Mera, and they entered the sea and swam away from shore.
• Yongye and Queen Atlanna waited at the pair's destination.

Yongye entered the hidden underground world beneath the Mariana Trench and found Queen Atlanna, who had survived there in isolation. He offered to take her out in exchange for three years of sexual servitude, and she angrily reminded him of her former power as queen of Atlantis.

• Yongye froze the Trench creatures with the Water God Halberd and walked through the fissure into the underground world.
• Yongye found Queen Atlanna tending a vegetable patch near her stone house.
• Atlanna hurried to Yongye and asked whether he could get her out past the Trench.
• Yongye said he could take Atlanna out safely, but demanded that she come to his bed and obey him for three years.
• Atlanna flared with anger and declared that she had been the supreme ruler of Atlantis.

Yongye persuaded Atlanna to make a three-year deal in exchange for helping her escape Inner Earth, and the two became intimate. Afterward, Atlanna asked who he was, and Yongye revealed that he was the president of the Eye Society and had humiliated her elder son.

• Atlanna judged that she could not defeat Yongye and agreed to cooperate with him for three years in exchange for his help escaping and seeing her sons.
• Atlanna offered herself to Yongye, and he took her into the stone house.
• Yongye used his touch to awaken Atlanna’s long-suppressed sensations, and they spent more than an hour together.
• Atlanna asked Yongye who he was, and he identified himself as the president of the Eye Society and Earth’s strongest hero.
• Yongye said he had slept with the woman Atlanna’s elder son loved in front of him, leaving Atlanna wary about what he had done.

Yongye told Atlanna that Arthur and Mera had fallen into his hands, then used the Water God Halberd to control the Trench and take her exploring through the Inner Earth. Their dinosaur ride ended in an intimate encounter, while Arthur and Mera continued toward the Mariana Trench.

• Yongye told Atlanna that he had caught Arthur and Mera after Mera ambushed him and Arthur tried to intervene.
• Arthur and Mera traveled toward the Mariana Trench, and Arthur suspected Yongye was talking about them.
• Yongye controlled the Trench creatures with the Water God Halberd and showed Atlanna that they would obey him.
• Atlanna asked Yongye to show her the Inner Earth, and he led her through glowing forests and underground lakes.
• Yongye and Atlanna rode a giant Dinosaur, and the ride turned intimate.

Yongye took Atlanna to the Mariana Trench to subdue Karathen with the Water God Halberd. After Karathen attacked, Yongye immobilized it and demanded that it choose whether to become his pet or be beaten into submission.

• Yongye told Atlanna it was time to subdue Karathen, and she agreed to go with him if they retreated when things went wrong.
• Yongye used the Water God Halberd to carry himself and Atlanna down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
• Karathen emerged from an abyssal fissure and demanded to know what power the halberd held.
• Yongye ordered Karathen to beg to be his pet, prompting the monster to charge at him.
• Yongye used the Water God Halberd to bind Karathen in blue chains and demanded that it choose between submission and a beating.

Yongye subdued Karathen and took Atlanna for a ride across the sea before sensing the Golden Trident deep in the Mariana Trench. He set out to retrieve it despite Atlanna's concerns, arguing that the gods had never protected her or Atlantis.

• Karathen surrendered to Yongye, who claimed him as a pet and introduced himself as President of the Eye Society.
• Yongye invited Atlanna onto Karathen's back, and the beast carried them to the surface as Atlanna left her years of fear behind.
• Yongye and Atlanna shared an intimate moment while riding Karathen beneath the moonlight.
• Yongye sensed the Golden Trident in the Mariana Trench and ordered Karathen to take them to its location.
• Atlanna objected to disturbing the First Aquaman and taking Atlantis's weapon, but Yongye challenged her faith in Poseidon by recalling that the god had not saved her from the Trench.

Yongye and Atlanna reached the First Aquaman’s chamber, where the vengeful spirit barred Yongye from taking the Golden Trident. Yongye erased the spirit with the Wind of Nothingness and claimed Atlantis owed him gratitude, leaving Atlanna stunned and exasperated.

• Yongye sent Karathen away and descended with Atlanna into a chamber beneath the Mariana Trench, where the Golden Trident rested beside the First Aquaman’s skeleton.
• The First Aquaman’s vengeful spirit appeared and declared that Yongye and Atlanna lacked the right to take the trident, then threatened to kill them.
• Atlanna pleaded for Yongye’s safety, but the spirit rejected her and said she had also lost the Seven Seas’ recognition.
• Yongye challenged the spirit’s authority, then used the Wind of Nothingness to erase its attacks and destroy it.
• The First Aquaman’s spirit faintly thanked Yongye as it vanished, and Yongye told Atlanna that Atlantis owed him a debt of gratitude.

Yongye took the Golden Trident, erased Poseidon's will, and gave the weapon to Atlanna in exchange for three years of service from her and Arthur. In the Inner Earth, Arthur and Mera found a hut with familiar voices coming from inside.

• Yongye used the Wind of Nothingness to destroy Poseidon's will inside the Golden Trident.
• Yongye bound the trident to his will so anyone who used its power would owe him a favor, then gave it to Atlanna.
• Atlanna accepted the Golden Trident and agreed that she and Arthur would serve Yongye for three years.
• Arthur and Mera escaped the Trench horde and reached a prehistoric ecosystem in the Inner Earth.
• Arthur and Mera crept toward a stone hut after hearing intimate sounds from within, and Mera wondered whether the man's voice was familiar.
• Arthur recognized the voice inside the hut.