Chapter Summaries

Tony used Hela’s insult to provoke Yongye into confronting her, but Yongye refused to take the bait and mocked Tony instead. Tony then launched a public campaign to shame Yongye into action, and his video quickly drew over a hundred million views.

• Tony showed Steve and Thor footage of Hela insulting Yongye and admitted he planned to use the insult to provoke him.
• Yongye received Tony’s video, replayed Hela’s insult, and replied that Pepper Potts was too ugly to interest him.
• Tony became furious at Yongye’s insult to Pepper but decided not to fall for Yongye’s counter-bait.
• Tony edited a video challenging Yongye to go to Asgard and posted it on Stark Industries’ official account.
• The video surpassed ten million views in four minutes and one hundred million views ten minutes later.

After Hela publicly challenged Yongye, coordinated online attacks portrayed him as a coward, while Supreme Leader Laxington ordered the smear campaign to continue. Yongye responded by asking Tamamo-no-Mae to face Hela in Asgard, and she agreed to consider it if he promised her a chance with Wonder Woman.

• Hela's insults of Yongye and her threat to come to Earth fueled viral posts calling him a coward and useless without his armor.
• Laxington learned that the information warfare department's troll accounts had amplified the backlash and ordered his staff to keep pushing it.
• Yongye watched the trending topics with Tamamo-no-Mae and Kikyo in his penthouse.
• Yongye asked Tamamo-no-Mae to go to Asgard and fight Hela in his place.
• Tamamo-no-Mae said she would consider going if Yongye let her have a share when Wonder Woman came to him.

Yongye answered Hela and Iron Man’s public challenges by mocking them and demanding that Asgard become subordinate to the Eye Society before he would intervene. His televised counterattack shifted online opinion in his favor, while the paid trolls’ coordinated campaign began to fall apart.

• Yongye told Tony that he would not fight in Asgard for free and said he would wait until his opponents became more desperate.
• During a Daily Planet livestream with Lois Lane, Yongye called Hela ugly, mocked Iron Man, and said Asgard must follow the Eye Society’s instructions if it wanted his help.
• Yongye invoked Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s defeat and said he would teach Hela propriety if she came to Earth.
• The livestream went viral, Twitter crashed, and trending topics and public comments swung toward supporting Yongye.
• Paid troll accounts lost coordination after Yongye brought up defeating Susanoo-no-Mikoto, with some changing their claims and others disappearing.

Yongye’s supporters overwhelmed Laxington’s paid trolls online, and Yongye used the Mother Box to record and expose Tony Stark’s thirty-second bedroom encounter with Pepper Potts. The chapter ended with Tamamo-no-Mae laughing and Kikyo pitying Pepper while reconsidering her own misfortune.

• A blogger compared Iron Man’s paid trolls with Yongye’s supporters, and millions of fans drove the trolls into retreat.
• Laxington learned that his online campaign had been overwhelmed and cursed in frustration.
• Yongye asked Tamamo-no-Mae what Tony feared most, then used the Mother Box to locate and secretly record Tony and Pepper.
• Yongye projected footage showing Tony’s encounter lasted thirty seconds and Pepper looked deeply disappointed afterward.
• Tamamo-no-Mae laughed at the recording, while Kikyo pitied Pepper and decided her own situation might not be the worst.

Yongye publicly humiliated Tony by posting a video that turned his thirty-second performance into a global joke. Pepper urged Tony to stop provoking Yongye, but Tony remained determined to get revenge.

• Yongye edited the video into three clips, threatened to broadcast it unless Tony sent Pepper to him, and posted it after Tony refused.
• Twitter crashed after the video went viral, and users mocked Tony with the nickname “Thirty-Second Man.”
• The scandal spread across social media for hours, while Tony locked himself in his Stark Tower workshop.
• Pepper brought Tony cold coffee and told him she cared about her reputation and wanted him to stop provoking Yongye.
• Tony rejected Pepper’s plea and vowed to win back against Yongye.

After learning that Yongye had killed Susanoo-no-Mikoto and forced Takamagahara to seek peace, Hela reconsidered her insults and sent Skurge to Earth to investigate and explore peaceful relations. Skurge headed for Manhattan while Hela warned him not to provoke Yongye.

• Skurge told Hela that Takamagahara had forbidden its gods from retaliating against Yongye and had sent Divine Envoys to seek peace.
• Hela acknowledged that she had underestimated Yongye and decided to send Skurge to clarify her remarks and learn more about his power and backing.
• Hela instructed Skurge to sound Yongye out about peaceful coexistence and possibly an alliance or marriage alliance.
• Skurge left for Earth with the Sword of Death, and Hela warned him not to throw Asgard's weight around or get himself killed.

Yongye gained Majin Buu physiology and evolved into an elementary chaos god body after Tony Stark’s humiliation earned him a Super Blind Box. He prepared to meet the Asgardian emissary Skurge and summoned Lois Lane, leaving her to wonder whether he had called her for work or to clean up after him.

• Yongye told Selina that he had his own plans for Doomsday and dismissed Batman’s concerns about Hela.
• The system rewarded Yongye with Majin Buu physiology after Tony’s public humiliation caused his Heart-Severing value to exceed its limit.
• Yongye’s Saiyan bloodline, Xingtian immortal body, and Majin Buu physiology merged, giving him an elementary chaos god body.
• Sharon told Yongye that Skurge, an Asgardian emissary, had come to see him, and Yongye made her call Lois Lane as well.
• Lois entered Yongye’s office, saw Selina asleep and her discarded uniform, and asked whether he needed her for business or cleanup.

Yongye tested his new chaos divine body with Lois while she recorded the session as a professional assessment. After more than two hours, Skurge arrived as an envoy from Asgard, and Yongye ordered him admitted.

• Yongye told Lois that the Doctor of the Unified System had given him the chaos divine body.
• Lois turned on her camera and Voice Recorder to document Yongye's physique and performance.
• Yongye and Lois spent more than two hours together while the devices recorded them.
• Yongye praised the chaos divine body's resilience, and Lois confirmed the recording had lasted more than two hours.
• Sharon Carter reported that Skurge had waited over an hour as an envoy from Asgard, and Yongye told her to let him in.
• Lois sprang up from the desk when Yongye called for Skurge to enter.

Skurge delivered Hela’s offer of peaceful coexistence and possible alliance to Yongye, who dismissed the insults but warned that he would personally visit Asgard if Hela provoked him again. Lois stopped recording, pleased that Hela’s peace overture would make the episode a ratings hit.

• Skurge entered Yongye’s office and formally introduced himself as Hela’s Executioner and envoy.
• Skurge explained that Hela regretted her remarks, blamed Tony Stark’s edited video, and proposed peaceful coexistence, diplomacy, and possibly an alliance with the Eye Society.
• Yongye mocked Hela and rejected the idea of meeting her, then told Skurge he would leave Asgard alone unless Hela provoked him again.
• Skurge promised to relay Yongye’s exact words and left the office.
• Yongye told Lois to stop recording, and Lois celebrated the expected ratings from Hela’s peace overture.

Yongye agreed not to bother Asgard unless Hela provoked him, and Hela accepted the warning and ordered Skurge to keep relations with the Eye Society peaceful. Lois Lane then aired footage of Skurge seeking peace and Yongye warning Hela, making Asgard's retreat public.

• Yongye decided to retaliate against the paid trolls who had turned public opinion against him.
• Skurge returned to Asgard and told Hela that Yongye would leave Asgard alone unless she provoked him again.
• Hela restrained her anger, cited Susanoo-no-Mikoto's fate as a warning, and assigned Skurge to handle relations with Earth and the Eye Society.
• Skurge warned Hela that Lois Lane had recorded their meeting and might broadcast it, and Hela let her do so rather than deny that she had backed down.
• Lois Lane aired the footage during the Daily Planet's evening broadcast, showing Skurge seeking peace and Yongye issuing his warning.

After Hela sued for peace, global social media celebrated Yongye’s dominance and mocked Hela, Tony, and Fusang. In the White House Situation Room, Laxington decided to recruit attractive celebrities and coordinate with allies to try to wear Yongye down.

• Twitter crashed for twenty-five minutes as viewers reacted to Hela suing for peace and praised Yongye’s power.
• Online commenters mocked Tony Stark’s thirty-second humiliation and worried about Doomsday devastating Fusang.
• The Chief of Staff told Laxington that public admiration for Yongye had reached unprecedented heights.
• Laxington approved funding for cover girls and celebrities to try to wear Yongye down, and ordered allies to join the effort.

Tony Stark designed the Anti-Yongye Armor II to counter Yongye’s gold armor, planning to drain its solar energy and weaken it. Pepper warned Tony that Yongye could target her to humiliate him further, leaving Tony frozen by the possibility.

• Tony spent three days in his laboratory designing a new suit to avenge his public humiliation by Yongye.
• Tony revealed the Anti-Yongye Armor II, which he had developed with ideas from discussions with Batman.
• Tony explained that the armor would absorb light, heat, and electromagnetic radiation within a hundred-meter radius to drain Yongye’s stored energy.
• Tony said the armor still had technical problems and would take about another week to complete.
• Pepper warned Tony that Yongye could target her, his fiancée, and broadcast an affair to humiliate him further.

Tony comforted Pepper and vowed to protect her with his new armor, while Pepper secretly felt drawn to Yongye. On Themyscira, Diana told Zeus that Yongye had demanded Queen Hippolyta become his lover as a condition of their wager.

• Tony embraced Pepper, promised to protect her, and pointed to the Anti-Yongye Armor Two as the answer to Yongye.
• Pepper hid her growing anticipation at the thought of experiencing the pleasure that had intoxicated Yongye's heroines.
• Zeus confronted Diana at the altar about her seven days without progress investigating Susanoo-no-Mikoto's death.
• Diana explained that Yongye had changed her proposed wager by demanding that Hippolyta become his lover.

Zeus ordered Diana to accept Yongye’s wager involving Hippolyta so she could uncover his means of killing gods, promising her divine power to ensure victory. Diana agreed to put her mother on the wager despite her anger and humiliation.

• Diana told Zeus that Yongye had proposed adding Hippolyta, the queen of Themyscira, to his wager.
• Zeus said Diana should accept because Yongye might possess the power to bypass immortality and erase divine cores, making him a threat to the pantheons.
• Diana protested that Zeus was asking her to trade her mother for information, but Zeus insisted Yongye was their only lead.
• Zeus promised to let Diana draw on the Divine Power Pool, tripling her strength within three days, and said the Justice League would help her defeat Yongye.
• Diana remembered Yongye’s threat that Hippolyta could be blamed if the pantheon fell, then agreed to add her mother to the wager.

Diana accepted Zeus’s demand to fight Yongye in three days, with Hippolyta urging her to win. Yongye gained basic access to Olympus’s divine kingdom, and Tamamo-no-Mae returned with an unidentified woman.

• Zeus told Diana that she would have unrestricted access to Olympus’s divine power pool in three days and warned her that anything could be sacrificed to face Ragnarok.
• Hippolyta acknowledged that Diana had agreed to Zeus’s terms and told her to prepare to represent Olympus, Themyscira, and the Amazons in a fight against Yongye.
• Yongye received an Ultimate Blind Box after Diana’s despair surpassed its limit and gained basic access to Olympus’s divine kingdom and its network of worship.
• Tamamo-no-Mae returned to Yongye’s penthouse with a woman following behind her.

Himiko arrived at Yongye’s home as Amaterasu’s envoy, offering Takamagahara’s Divine Arts Codex and herself to resolve the conflict. As Yongye accepted the gift and ordered Kikyo to help Himiko undress, Tamamo-no-Mae stirred tensions by hinting at Himiko’s value and a secret Susanoo coveted.

• Tamamo-no-Mae introduced Himiko to Yongye and explained that Kaguya-hime had refused to leave the Lunar Palace.
• Himiko conveyed Amaterasu’s apology for Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s offense and offered Yongye one hundred copies of the Divine Arts Codex and herself.
• Yongye accepted Himiko’s dark gold tomoe, compared her favorably to Nōhime, and told Kikyo to help Himiko undress.
• Himiko signaled that she would undress herself while Tamamo-no-Mae warned Yongye not to take advantage of her and abandon her as he had Nōhime.
• Tamamo-no-Mae hinted that Himiko possessed something Susanoo coveted, and Himiko silently blamed the fox for undermining her position with Yongye.