Recaps

Yongye gathered energy from people around the world to form a Spirit Bomb and struck Doomsday from below. The attack halted Doomsday’s regeneration, leaving him collapsed in the ruins and unable to rise.

• Doomsday ignored Yongye and continued searching for a place to destroy because the anti-life equation’s commands remained in effect.
• Yongye formed a Spirit Bomb and called on the people of Fusang and the rest of the world to raise their hands and contribute energy.
• People across Fusang and around the world raised their hands, sending blue motes of energy into the Spirit Bomb.
• Yongye used an Alternate-Dimension Portal to appear beneath Doomsday and blasted him in the chest and abdomen with the Spirit Bomb.
• The Spirit Bomb stripped away Doomsday’s armor and flesh and stopped his regeneration.
• Doomsday fell into the ruins, tried to get up, and collapsed, unable to rise again.

Yongye defeated Doomsday, refined its infinite evolution factor, and absorbed it to advance his body into an intermediate chaos divine body. Three days later, he faced the Justice League in a public challenge outside the Eye Society headquarters, where Wonder Woman and her allies prepared to fight him.

• Yongye sent Doomsday into his Alternate-Dimension Portal and used the Myriad Dao Furnace to refine its powers into the infinite evolution factor.
• Yongye absorbed the crystal, gaining limitless regeneration, evolution, and energy absorption as his body advanced to an intermediate chaos divine body.
• Three days later, Yongye met the Justice League at a Manhattan plaza for their widely publicized challenge.
• Wonder Woman stood with Superman and the Justice League, empowered by a fivefold increase in divine power from the Olympus Divine Power Pool.
• Batman prepared his Super Anti-Yongye Armor, which could suppress energy absorption and disrupt Yongye's portals, but hoped to save its countermeasures for a real battle.

Diana and the Justice League prepared to fight Yongye, with Diana revealing she had wagered herself on the outcome. When Yongye arrived in armor that Batman recognized as resembling his own designs, Batman warned the team, but Diana launched an exceptionally fast attack before they could learn more.

• Diana told Superman and the Justice League that she had wagered herself on the fight and urged them to win by any means necessary.
• Batman noticed that Yongye's black armor closely resembled his own design style and warned the others that something was wrong.
• Yongye challenged the Justice League to attack together and teased Diana about collecting his winnings.
• Diana charged at Yongye with the Lasso of Truth and struck at his face with a fist wrapped in divine power.

Yongye used Greek artifacts and anti-Kryptonian technology to defeat Diana and weaken Superman. He shot Superman with a Kryptonite bullet as Batman recognized the weapon as his own design.

• Yongye caught Diana's attacks and used the Lasso of Deception to trap her in an illusion, leaving her unconscious on the plaza floor.
• Superman charged Yongye with Heat Vision, but Yongye's red sun force field weakened the attack and drained Superman's strength.
• Yongye fired a Kryptonite bullet at Superman, and Batman recognized it as a weapon built from his own plans.
• The Kryptonite bullet struck Superman in the thigh.

With Superman weakened by the red sun, Yongye wounded him with a kryptonite bullet and defeated the Flash using predictive gunfire and a slickened floor. The chapter left Batman carried off by Cyborg, whose actions Yongye had secretly controlled.

• Yongye shot Superman in the thigh with a kryptonite bullet, and Superman collapsed in pain.
• Yongye’s shoulder turret anticipated Barry Allen’s movements and trapped him in a web of fire.
• Barry slipped on friction-eliminating fluid that Yongye had sprayed across the floor, and Yongye knocked him unconscious with a kick.
• Cyborg changed course, seized Batman, and carried him toward the ruins.
• A dark gold glimmer flashed in Cyborg’s eye as Mother Box protocols imposed Yongye’s commands, and Yongye declared that this was total domination.

Cyborg, controlled by the Mother Box, brutally attacked Batman until Batman used a spatial disruption emitter to stop him. Yongye then broke Batman’s knee and confronted Wonder Woman, telling her she had lost.

• Cyborg pinned Batman down and shattered his mask with a series of punches while the livestream viewers speculated that the Mother Box was controlling him.
• Batman called out to Cyborg, but Cyborg’s consciousness flickered and the Mother Box’s control returned.
• Batman activated the spatial disruption emitter on his belt, disrupting Cyborg’s body long enough to kick him away.
• Yongye snapped Batman’s right knee as Batman tried to get up, sending him crashing face-first onto the marble floor.
• Yongye appeared before Wonder Woman and told her she had lost, making her shudder.

Yongye defeated the Justice League and pressured Diana into surrendering by threatening to reveal her weakness. After she admitted defeat, he kissed her, and Diana realized what his warmth was doing to her.

• Diana saw that Barry Allen was comatose, Cyborg's programming was corrupted, Superman was badly wounded, and Batman was feigning weakness despite his injuries.
• Yongye warned Diana that he had deliberately held back and threatened to cripple her teammates if she continued fighting.
• Yongye whispered that he would keep her mother's secret, and Diana dropped the Lasso of Truth and surrendered.
• Yongye reminded Diana to honor their wager, then pulled her close and kissed her.
• Diana's pain and anger faded as Yongye's warmth spread through her, and she realized what was happening.

Yongye kissed Diana during the global livestream after defeating the Justice League, while viewers and reporters argued over whether she had welcomed the kiss. He released her in the plaza, where Diana confronted him with anger and humiliation, and Yongye said he was not satisfied.

• Yongye kissed Diana in front of the Justice League and a global audience, and online viewers erupted in debate over her lack of resistance.
• A reporter celebrated the kiss as a historic headline, while Lois challenged his sudden change of opinion about Yongye.
• Paramedics carried the unconscious Flash and badly injured Cyborg, Superman, and Batman away from the plaza.
• Yongye released Diana, who asked whether he was satisfied, and he replied that he was not.

After Yongye defeated the Justice League, Diana agreed to honor her wager and went with him to his penthouse. She asked him to spare her mother, but Yongye reminded her that she had sworn a binding oath by the Origin.

• Yongye told Diana that her defeat was only the beginning, and she struggled with her attraction to him while insisting to herself that she was honoring a wager.
• Yongye announced to the livestream audience that the Justice League had been wiped out in three minutes and that Wonder Woman would honor the wager.
• Yongye took Diana through an Alternate-Dimension Portal to his penthouse, where she confirmed she would keep her promise.
• Yongye indicated that they should go to the bedroom, and Diana asked him to spare her mother.
• Yongye reminded Diana that she had sworn a binding oath by the Origin, which she knew could not be broken without dire consequences.

After Diana and Yongye fulfilled their wager, Diana pressed him to keep their secret about her mother. Yongye suggested he could distract the world by pursuing Hera and Athena, leaving Diana shocked and calling him insane.

• Diana acknowledged that the wager could not be undone and went with Yongye to the bedroom.
• Afterward, Diana asked Yongye to keep his promise concerning her mother, and he assured her he would.
• Yongye told Diana that a more explosive scandal could bury their secret.
• Yongye proposed having Hera and Athena at his sides, and Diana was stunned by his audacity.
• Diana called Yongye insane and delusional.

Diana refused to become Yongye’s pawn, while Doctor Strange warned him that parallel universes were colliding and being erased. Strange left Yongye to find a solution, and Yongye answered with a mocking question.

• Diana told Yongye she would never become his pawn and left his apartment.
• Selina told Yongye that Doctor Strange had arrived with an urgent warning about the universe’s survival.
• Strange explained that he had crossed into another universe, where the Illuminati had recorded seven deadly universe collisions.
• Strange warned that the multiverse faced an irreversible collision crisis and asked Yongye to figure out how to stop it.
• Yongye asked Strange mockingly whether he should help him consummate his marriage.

Yongye ordered Sharon Carter to convene a heroes’ conference so humanity would recognize the coming multiversal collision as a shared crisis. The conference began at Eye Society headquarters, with the Avengers Alliance and the Justice League among those gathered.

• Yongye told Sharon Carter to invite renowned superheroes, faction representatives, and Lois to a public heroes’ conference.
• Yongye explained that he wanted the heroes to argue until their incompetence became clear and they accepted his leadership.
• Strange left, telling Yongye that the crisis was up to him and that the others would be no use.
• The heroes gathered in the expanded conference hall, including injured members of the Avengers Alliance and Justice League.
• Diana sat with the Justice League, still resentful of Yongye, Tamamo-no-Mae, and Kikyo after the previous night’s encounters.

Doctor Strange gathered superheroes and faction representatives to warn that a Multiversal Incursion could destroy their universe. He revealed that another universe had recorded seven such collisions and warned that their world could be next.

• Superheroes and representatives from Earth’s factions gathered for the meeting, while Lois Lane attended as the only admitted press representative.
• Lois anticipated getting an exclusive report, and Superman overheard her private thoughts and realized she did not need rescuing from Yongye.
• Doctor Strange opened the meeting and announced that he had news concerning the survival of the universe.
• Strange explained that a Multiversal Incursion caused parallel universes to collide and annihilate each other, including their timelines.
• Strange said he had witnessed an incursion’s aftermath in another universe, where records showed that seven universes had been destroyed in three years, and warned that their universe could be next.

At a gathering of heroes, Yongye proposed destroying the Earth in a colliding universe to stop the collision and save their own universe. Strange and Diana confirmed that Earth was the multiverse’s anchor point, and the room accepted Yongye’s claim.

• Tony and Steve questioned Strange about his account of witnessing a universe collision, and Strange said Yongye believed him.
• Thor asked what the heroes should do, prompting Strange to admit he did not know and had called the gathering for that reason.
• Yongye proposed destroying the other universe’s Earth, and Tony mocked his claim that Earth was the center of the multiverse.
• Strange explained that Earth was the convergence point of energy, causality, and spacetime, and that destroying an Earth halted a collision.
• Diana testified that Olympus had observed Earth become the center of the universe and confirmed Yongye was right, ending the room’s doubts.

At the Heroes' Conference, Yongye defended his proposal to destroy the other Earth by warning that the multiverse followed the Dark Forest Theory, while Superman and others rejected the plan. Amanda Waller called for a global vote, and Superman's plea to keep the meeting secret failed to sway Lois Lane, who looked to Yongye for the final say.

• Superman, Steve, and Thor condemned destroying the other Earth, while Tony mocked Yongye's proposal.
• Yongye argued that a Multiversal Incursion made the Dark Forest Theory inevitable and that hesitation could let the other universe attack first.
• T'Chaka said Yongye's proposal was rational but wrong, and Yongye replied that the Eye Society would only oversee events while others chose what to do.
• Amanda Waller proposed an open global vote and predicted that most people would support striking first.
• Superman opposed a public vote and asked Lois Lane not to publish the meeting, but Lois looked to Yongye instead, leaving Superman hurt.

At the Heroes' Conference, the superheroes argued over whether to destroy another Earth but failed to reach a consensus. Afterward, Yongye stopped General Lane from discussing the issue and took Lois away, claiming they had something urgent to handle.

• Yongye told the heroes that the Eye Society would only supervise and left them to decide among themselves.
• Amanda challenged Superman and Thor over their objections to voting, while T'Chaka and Arthur said Wakanda and Atlantis would not join an operation to destroy the other Earth.
• Diana warned that the other universe might already have chosen to destroy their Earth, silencing the conference.
• The conference ended after three hours without even a provisional agreement, and the superheroes left angry and divided.
• Yongye met General Lane outside the President's office, cut off his warning, and drew Lois to his side.
• Yongye told General Lane to wait while he and Lois handled something urgent.

General Lane waited outside the President’s office while Yongye was with Lois, growing increasingly furious as he overheard them. He left without discussing the Multiversal Incursion crisis, defeated by the knowledge that he could do nothing to stop them.

• Yongye took Lois into the office and shut the door in General Lane’s face.
• General Lane waited in the corridor, reminding himself that he needed to reach an agreement with Yongye about the Multiversal Incursion crisis.
• General Lane heard repeated smacking sounds from inside and realized what Yongye’s urgent business was.
• General Lane raised a fist toward the office door but stopped, knowing he could not break through it.
• General Lane walked to the elevator, glanced back at the office, and cursed.

Yongye gained multiversal access to the Illuminati after General Lane left in frustration, and he considered traveling to a universe facing a Multiversal Incursion. Later, Himiko returned to his apartment with another divine envoy, whom Yongye sensed through the door.

• General Lane left the office after being refused entry while Yongye and Lois continued their private business inside.
• Yongye received an Advanced Blind Box and obtained the Illuminati key with multiversal access privileges.
• Yongye considered visiting a universe threatened by a Multiversal Incursion to find Captain Carter and Sharon Carter, while Lois asked about the multiverse situation.
• Yongye and Lois traveled through an Alternate-Dimension Portal to his penthouse, where Lois left after asking whether he would address the multiverse situation.
• Himiko rang Yongye's doorbell alongside a shorter, black-haired woman whose spiritual energy was purer and denser than hers.
• Yongye opened the door slightly and saw Himiko waiting outside in a dark silver robe.

Himiko brought Asano Nene to Yongye and offered Kaguya-hime as a further sign of Takamagahara’s sincerity, inviting him to the Divine Kingdom. Yongye recognized the invitation as a trap and decided to postpone dealing with Takamagahara until after the multiversal crisis.

• Himiko apologized for her behavior seven days earlier and gave Yongye a dark gold Tomoe, saying Amaterasu was grateful for Kikyo’s choice.
• Himiko introduced Asano Nene as Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s principal wife and a respected Heroic Spirit of Takamagahara.
• Himiko said Takamagahara had seriously considered Yongye’s proposal and offered Kaguya-hime’s reception as an even greater token of sincerity.
• Himiko invited Yongye to visit Takamagahara, explaining that Kaguya-hime could not leave the Lunar Palace and would welcome him there.
• Yongye suspected Takamagahara intended to lure him into its Divine Kingdom, so he resolved to wait until he had dealt with the multiversal crisis and other threats.

Yongye agreed to visit Takamagahara after his busy spell, and Himiko left to prepare for his arrival. He then questioned Asano Nene about her past with Toyotomi Hideyoshi and led her toward the bedroom to break her old habits and teach her anew.

• Yongye told Himiko he would visit Takamagahara once the multiverse crisis eased, and Himiko departed to arrange his welcome.
• Himiko silently urged Asano Nene to follow their plan before leaving, and Asano Nene nodded.
• Yongye ordered Asano Nene to enter and treated her as a servant rather than a noblewoman.
• Asano Nene said Toyotomi Hideyoshi was small only by comparison, then submitted to Yongye's examination.
• Yongye identified Asano Nene's formal manners as habits learned while serving as Hideyoshi's principal wife and said he would replace them.
• Asano Nene asked Yongye to instruct her and followed him toward the bedroom.

Yongye spent the night teaching Asano Nene new rules, with Tamamo-no-Mae and Kikyo joining in. The next morning, Kikyo served an elaborate breakfast, and Asano Nene crawled beneath the dining table at Tamamo-no-Mae’s urging.

• Asano Nene invited Yongye to take her to see Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Takamagahara and show him his power.
• Yongye stayed in and taught Asano Nene new rules, while Tamamo-no-Mae joined enthusiastically and Kikyo offered suggestions that deeply unsettled her.
• After a day and a sleepless night, Kikyo prepared an elaborate breakfast and called Yongye to the table.
• Yongye praised Kikyo’s cooking and began eating as Kikyo knelt nearby, ready to attend him.
• Tamamo-no-Mae and Asano Nene emerged from the bedroom, and Tamamo-no-Mae urged Asano Nene to crawl beneath the table for Yongye.

Yongye delayed responding to the multiversal collision above Manhattan while he finished breakfast, then eventually joined The Boys as the vortex expanded. The team assembled in the sky to confront the growing threat of another Earth appearing through the rift.

• Selina Kyle told Yongye that a massive Space-Time Vortex had appeared over Manhattan and that the Avengers Alliance and Justice League were mobilizing.
• Yongye said he would wait because he was busy educating Toyotomi Hideyoshi's wife, Lady Kita no Mandokoro, Asada Nene.
• As the vortex expanded and heroes gathered, Kikyo offered to help, and Yongye agreed to join the response.
• An hour later, Yongye put on the Golden Cloth and joined The Boys above Manhattan.
• Natasha, Wanda, Daisy, Mera, Diana, and Catwoman Selina assembled with Yongye before the vortex.

Yongye recognized the people emerging through the space-time vortex as the X-Men and sensed that Charles Xavier secretly intended to destroy their Earth. Superman offered to cooperate to prevent the universes from colliding, while Charles claimed he had verified Superman was telling the truth.

• The vortex revealed Charles Xavier and the X-Men facing the heroes from a floating platform in another universe.
• Yongye recognized the X-Men and used Clear Sword Heart to sense Charles's hidden sorrow and resolve to destroy the Earth on this side.
• Superman approached the vortex and explained that the universes' collision would annihilate both, asking the X-Men to work with them.
• Charles told Superman he had examined his condition and confirmed he was sincere, while Yongye recognized the claim as a lie.

Professor X and Superman agreed to exchange delegations across the Space-Time Vortex to explore cooperation between their Earths. The chapter ended with both sides preparing to send representatives in one day, while Batman warned Superman not to reveal Yongye’s abilities.

• Professor X introduced himself to Superman and proposed that both Earths exchange delegations to build understanding and find a solution to the crisis.
• Superman introduced Tony Stark, Batman, and Yongye to Professor X, praising their intelligence and Yongye’s feats, including slaying a Chief God.
• Professor X introduced Hank McCoy as his side’s leading scientist, and Superman recognized him with respect.
• Batman subtly signaled Superman to keep Yongye’s specific abilities secret, so Superman redirected the discussion toward cooperation.
• Professor X named Hank, Cyclops, Phoenix Girl, and Wolverine as his delegation, and Superman agreed to send representatives in one day.

Yongye opened the Second Heroes' Conference and laid out plans for receiving a delegation from the other Earth and sending one in return. When he tried to leave, Batman and other heroes insisted that he stay and chair the meeting.

• Representatives from both superhero alliances and other factions gathered as the Space-Time Vortex continued to expand.
• Yongye proposed choosing a delegation to welcome the other Earth's visitors while concealing their own secrets, and another delegation to visit the other Earth and investigate it.
• Yongye turned toward Sharon Carter and prepared to leave after announcing that the attendees should decide the details themselves.
• Batman, Tony, Steve, and Thor objected and demanded that Yongye remain for the meeting.
• Diana watched Yongye with complicated feelings as the conference hall pressed him to stay.