Chapter Summaries

Kikyo summoned Takamagahara’s gods to witness her plea for Yongye to stop Doomsday in Fusang, rather than investigate Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s death. Her request enraged the gods and left Himiko accusing her of betrayal.

• Yongye urged Diana to leave, and Himiko’s threatening aura made Wonder Woman head for the exit.
• Himiko used the Divine Hearing Technique to summon the gods of Takamagahara and direct their attention to the apartment.
• Kikyo bowed to Yongye and asked him to eliminate Doomsday, describing the devastation and suffering across Fusang.
• The gods realized Kikyo had ignored their instructions to learn how Susanoo-no-Mikoto died, and they reacted with shock and anger.
• Himiko sprang to her feet and furiously demanded to know why Kikyo had made that choice.

Kikyo rejected Takamagahara’s plan to investigate Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s death, insisting that helping Fusang’s suffering people mattered more. Yongye accepted her choice and vowed to deal with Doomsday and protect her, leaving Amaterasu to issue an oracle.

• Kikyo told Himiko that Susanoo-no-Mikoto was already dead and that the people of Fusang needed help more urgently, then declared she had not chosen wrong.
• Himiko argued that the gods and Takamagahara’s survival mattered more than mortal lives, but Yongye asked Kikyo whether her decision was final.
• Kikyo knelt before Yongye and confirmed that helping Fusang was her final choice, while Himiko and Tamamo-no-Mae reacted with fury and shock.
• Yongye promised to deal with Doomsday and warned that anyone who opposed Kikyo or harmed her would become his enemy.
• Amaterasu and the other chief gods heard Yongye’s declaration in the Divine Council Hall, and Amaterasu ordered her oracle relayed.

Yongye gained the Immortal-Slaying Flying Blade after Kikyo’s plea angered the Gods of Takamagahara, and he planned to cut off their supply of faith. The Daily Planet broadcast Kikyo’s request and Himiko’s furious reaction worldwide, sparking a massive online backlash against Takamagahara and Fusang.

• The Gods of Takamagahara forbade their own from acting against Kikyo, and Yongye received the Immortal-Slaying Flying Blade from his system.
• Yongye said he would make the gods offer proof of their sincerity and planned to sever their roots by sterilizing their supply of faith.
• Lois Lane introduced the Daily Planet’s exclusive footage of Kikyo asking Yongye to save Fusang from Doomsday and Himiko angrily confronting her.
• The footage showed Yongye agreeing to deal with Doomsday, and the Daily Planet said he had authorized its worldwide release.
• The livestream triggered a prolonged Twitter outage, after which trending topics condemned the Takamagahara gods and drew attention to Kikyo, Himiko, and Fusang.

After Kikyo defended Fusang’s people before the Gods of Takamagahara, the public praised her and begged Yongye to deal with Doomsday. Seeing the honey trap might work, Laxington ordered his staff to double down on funding it.

• Fusangese online commenters condemned Himiko and the Gods of Takamagahara, praised Kikyo, and pleaded with Yongye to help them.
• The Daily Planet’s video sparked worldwide praise for Kikyo and increased public worship of Yongye after he promised to deal with Doomsday.
• Laxington heard his Chief of Staff report the shift in public opinion and cursed in exhaustion.
• Laxington ordered the government to keep funding the honey trap and double down.

After Kikyo’s betrayal of Takamagahara brought Yongye a Supreme Blind Box, he obtained a core that anchored him to Dormammu’s Dark Dimension and turned his attention toward Fusang. As Doomsday continued devastating Honshu, Yongye arrived alone in his Golden Cloth to face him.

• Yongye celebrated the worldwide backlash against Takamagahara as Kikyo and Tamamo-no-Mae traded barbs over their rivalry.
• A system reward gave Yongye a Supreme Blind Box, which contained the Dimension Anchoring Core for Dormammu’s Dark Dimension.
• Yongye vowed to deal with Fusang and then Dormammu before setting out to confront Doomsday.
• Doomsday surveyed the ruins of Nagano as Fusang’s forces hid and global viewers debated whether Yongye could defeat him.
• Yongye descended from the sky and emerged from the impact crater in his Golden Cloth, alone.
• Doomsday turned toward Yongye, and the dark golden light in his eyes brightened as he assessed him.

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.