Chapter Summaries

Li Yu possessed the body of a dead boy in a concentration camp, strengthened it with Divine Spring Water, and copied Magneto’s ability. When Erik saw his mother being sent to the gas chamber, his powers awakened in a magnetic storm.

• Li Yu revived a nameless, frail boy and used Divine Spring Water to strengthen his new body.
• Li Yu met young Erik, comforted him, and secretly collected a strand of his hair for a genetic sample.
• Li Yu used the system to analyze and merge Magneto’s Control ability, then demonstrated his power by bending the prison bars.
• As soldiers marched the prisoners toward the gas chamber, Erik spotted his mother among them and begged Li Yu to save her.
• Li Yu urged Erik to awaken his own power, and Erik’s anguish unleashed a magnetic storm that marked Magneto’s birth.

Li Yu helped Erik escape the concentration camp with his mother after Erik awakened his magnetic powers, but Sebastian confronted them and tried to recruit him. Li Yu trapped Sebastian in a metal sphere and left with Erik and his mother.

• Li Yu urged Erik to find his mother, and Erik used his awakened magnetic powers to fly through the fleeing prisoners and escape with her.
• Sebastian approached Erik and offered him a place among mutants, but Erik rejected him and attacked with iron bars that Sebastian absorbed without harm.
• Sebastian attacked Li Yu and Erik’s mother, and Erik formed a metal shield that protected them before the impact knocked him down.
• Li Yu hurled a tank at Sebastian, then reshaped the metal around him into a sphere that trapped him with only his head exposed.
• Li Yu collected a strand of Sebastian’s hair, took Erik and his mother by the hands, and left Sebastian behind.

Li Yu escaped Europe with Erik and his mother, then integrated Sebastian’s Energy Absorption and Release ability and adjusted it so it would not interfere with ordinary sensations. He planned to study mutant genes and psychic powers, and used a marked apple to send Sebastian a message that triggered a strange song in his mind.

• Li Yu told Erik that Sebastian could not yet be killed, then fled the concentration camp with Erik and his mother.
• After flying to Britain, Li Yu gave Erik and his mother money and left them in a countryside town before heading to London to search for Charles.
• Li Yu integrated Sebastian’s Energy Absorption and Release ability, endured the painful process, and adjusted it so harmless energy would not be absorbed.
• Li Yu decided to study the X gene and psychic powers and planned to have Sebastian establish the Hellfire Club to help gather mutant samples.
• Li Yu sent a marked apple to Sebastian, and it struck Sebastian on the head as a strange song began playing in his mind.

Sebastian learned that the Garden of Eden Apple could absorb and enhance mutant genes, but Li Yu secretly intended to use him to collect genetic samples. Twenty years later, Li Yu lived at Sargeras Manor with Charles and Raven, and agreed to help Charles pursue peaceful coexistence between mutants and humans before a CIA agent arrived.

• Sebastian received the Garden of Eden Apple’s knowledge and declared that he would become the new Creator, while Li Yu revealed that the apple’s gene-absorption function was meant to help him collect samples.
• Li Yu settled into a leisurely life in suburban London and waited for Charles to grow up and gain experience.
• Twenty years later, Charles tried to discuss his paper about Homo sapiens replacing Neanderthals while Li Yu lounged by the pool and Raven swam nearby.
• Charles argued that mutants might replace ordinary humans and that he wanted to prevent war, so Li Yu agreed to help him seek a peaceful transition.
• Li Yu and Charles sensed trouble and turned toward the door, where an American CIA agent stood.

CIA agent Greet asked Charles to help investigate a woman who could turn her body into diamond. Charles agreed and brought Li Yu and Raven into the investigation, while Greet doubted their expertise.

• Greet arrived at Li Yu's villa and told Charles she needed his help with a mutant-related CIA problem.
• Li Yu warned Raven that the CIA's trouble would draw Charles in, and Raven was excited to learn that other mutants existed.
• Greet showed Charles a photograph of a woman whose body could turn into diamond and asked him to join the investigation.
• Charles eagerly agreed and said Li Yu and Raven would join him, then described their genetics expertise to Greet.
• Li Yu entered with Raven and asserted his knowledge of genetics, leaving Greet wondering whether the villa really housed a group of experts.

Charles, Li Yu, and Raven joined a CIA mission to stop mutants from triggering nuclear war, and Charles revealed that they were mutants themselves. When the team confronted Sebastian’s group aboard a cruise ship, Li Yu arrived and crushed the ship with his magnetic powers.

• Gret brought Charles, Li Yu, and Raven to the CIA, where Director Demonster assigned them to investigate mutants threatening nuclear war.
• Charles revealed his psychic powers and proposed using mutants to fight mutants, while Raven showed her blue-skinned form and Li Yu levitated a metal statue.
• Gret briefed the team that Colonel Hankley planned to meet mutants, and Charles later sensed the targets aboard a cruise ship near New York Harbor.
• Charles discovered that the enemy had a psychic and warned the team they had been exposed, so Gret ordered an attack.
• Erik confronted Sebastian aboard the cruise ship, but Sebastian blasted him away and defended his cause.
• Li Yu arrived and used a magnetic storm to crush the cruise ship, prompting Erik and Sebastian to recognize him as Sargeras.

Li Yu and Erik joined Charles and Gret in confronting Sebastian’s Hellfire Club, but Sebastian escaped after White Queen was overwhelmed by their combined psychic attack. Erik remained determined to pursue Sebastian, while Gret decided they needed to recruit more mutants to prevent nuclear war.

• Li Yu arrived beside Erik and helped him fight Sebastian, but Sebastian absorbed Erik’s attacks and Red Devil’s ambush failed against Li Yu.
• Soldiers opened fire on the cruise ship, but Tornado overturned their boats, and Li Yu blocked White Queen’s psychic attack and defeated Red Devil and Tornado’s assaults.
• Li Yu and Charles combined their psychic powers to overpower White Queen, prompting Sebastian to grab her and Red Devil and teleport the group away.
• Erik vowed to keep pursuing Sebastian, and Gret told Charles to find more mutants so they could prevent the danger of nuclear war.
• Li Yu questioned Erik’s vendetta, and Erik explained that he wanted revenge on Sebastian for killing Jewish people.

Li Yu and the others welcomed Erik into their group, learned more about Sebastian Shaw and the Hellfire Club, and were assigned a new underground base. The chapter ended with Raven discovering that CIA assistant Hank was also a mutant.

• Li Yu introduced Erik to Charles, Raven, and the others, and Erik described Sebastian Shaw, Emma, Red Devil, and Whirlwind.
• Li Yu explained that Sebastian could be restrained and defeated, while Gret proposed assembling a powerful mutant team.
• Raven, Erik, and Li Yu objected to the CIA treating them like monsters, but Charles urged them to be patient.
• Supervisor Demonster led the group to an underground research facility and introduced his assistant Hank.
• Raven revealed her blue form, and Hank showed the group his unusual hand-shaped feet and ability to climb the wall.

Charles used Hank’s brainwave amplifier to search for mutant companions, while Li Yu joined his telepathy and discovered a path toward advancing his cultivation through empathy. Li Yu sent billions of split spirits into worlds he had visited to experience the thoughts and desires of their inhabitants.

• Hank showed Charles and the others his brainwave-controlled sphere, which he had built to amplify brainwaves.
• Charles wore the helmet, and Li Yu joined his telepathic power as Hank activated the device.
• Charles sensed mutants’ pain and loneliness across the world, while Li Yu experienced their emotions and understood Charles’s empathy.
• Li Yu realized that experiencing countless lives could help him enter the Third Step of Chaos without losing his true heart.
• Li Yu released billions of split spirits into the Myriad Realms, where they entered the hearts of all beings through empathy.

Charles located many mutants, and he and Li Yu recruited new companions for the X-Men. After the group welcomed them at a party, Charles asked Li Yu to persuade Logan to join them.

• Li Yu nearly lost himself after absorbing the memories and desires of billions of people, but he recovered and agreed to help bring back the mutants Charles had found.
• Charles and Erik recruited Dragonfly at a Las Vegas nightclub, where she was delighted to learn she was not alone.
• Li Yu and Raven recruited Soundwave, whose uncontrolled sonic blast Li Yu absorbed before introducing him to the group.
• Charles introduced the new mutants at a party and told Li Yu about the dangerous Logan, who had refused to join them.
• Li Yu agreed to meet Logan and persuade him, intrigued by his extraordinary healing ability.

Li Yu tracked down Wolverine and beat him and Sabretooth when the brothers ambushed him, then collected Wolverine’s blood and fused his genes. With Wolverine’s rapid recovery added to his abilities, Li Yu used shared feeling to intensify his spiritual tempering.

• Li Yu teleported to a tavern and greeted Logan, who cursed at him, so Li Yu struck him and repeatedly flicked him away with the force of Logan’s own punches.
• Logan tried to flee, but he and Sabretooth ambushed Li Yu from the front and behind; Li Yu kicked Sabretooth away and punched Logan, forcing both brothers to run.
• Li Yu paid the tavern owner and collected a drop of Wolverine’s blood before returning alone to Charles’s underground base.
• Li Yu fused Wolverine’s genes, gained Super Recovery, and began tempering his soul by taking in countless memories and stray thoughts.

Li Yu studied the young mutants’ blood samples and created tailored potions to improve their abilities and address their flaws. Raven drank hers and found that her natural blue skin and scales had disappeared, leaving the others stunned.

• Gretel told Li Yu, Charles, and Erik that Sebastian had arrived in Russia and planned to push the Bear to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba.
• Charles and Erik discovered the young mutants partying in the office, so Charles sent Li Yu to train them while he and Erik prepared to act.
• Li Yu collected blood samples from the mutants and analyzed their abilities before bringing them to the underground base.
• Li Yu gave Raven a potion, and she drank it despite its painful initial effects.
• Raven looked in a mirror and discovered her blue skin and scales were gone from her true form.

Li Yu strengthened Raven’s shapeshifting and gave the young mutants enhanced abilities, while Erik and Charles discovered Sebastian’s plan to start a nuclear war and learned he was heading for New York. Sebastian arrived at the mutants’ base, where Li Yu waited confidently for the attackers to face the newly empowered team.

• Raven transformed into Li Yu, Soundwave, and Dragonfly, gaining the abilities of each person she copied.
• Hank drank Li Yu’s potion, transformed into a golden-haired giant ape, then returned to human form and fled after realizing he was naked.
• Li Yu distributed enhancement potions to Darwin, Alex, Dragonfly, Soundwave, and the other young mutants, and warned them to practice carefully.
• Erik and Charles captured the White Queen in Russia and learned from her memories that Sebastian planned to start a nuclear war.
• Charles learned that Sebastian was in New York targeting the mutant team, and Erik reassured him that Li Yu was protecting them.
• Sebastian arrived at the building above the underground base as Li Yu waited for him, confident the empowered mutants could handle the attack.

Sebastian attacked the mutant base, but Li Yu confronted him after Sebastian’s forces subdued the young mutants. Li Yu trapped Sebastian in a stalemate and threatened to drown him in a fish tank, leaving Sebastian frightened.

• Sebastian entered the mutant base and absorbed the soldiers’ gunfire and explosives before releasing their energy to destroy the entrance building.
• Hank, Alex, and the other young mutants attacked Sebastian, but he remained unharmed while Red Devil knocked them unconscious.
• Sebastian ordered Red Devil to take the mutants back and invited Li Yu to join his cause, but Li Yu rejected his plan to start a nuclear war.
• Red Devil and Whirlwind attacked Li Yu, but Li Yu defeated both of them with their own attacks and a steel pipe.
• Sebastian fired Alex’s absorbed energy at Li Yu, who absorbed the blast and bound Sebastian with metal chairs.
• Li Yu told Sebastian that his stored energy would run out and threatened to bind him inside a fish tank, making Sebastian sweat with fear.

Li Yu defeated Sebastian but spared him, then pushed the mutants into months of intensive training at Charles's manor. When a nuclear crisis in Cuba revealed Sebastian's latest scheme, the newly trained X-Men set out for the Caribbean Sea to stop a war.

• Li Yu suffocated Sebastian with Whirlwind's copied ability, then let him escape with Whirlwind and Red Devil.
• Li Yu woke the defeated mutants and criticized their poor combat tactics, while sparing Sebastian because he valued mutants.
• After Sebastian's attack left the base in ruins, Charles invited the group to live and train at Xavier's Manor.
• Li Yu and Gret led months of intensive training that helped the mutants develop their combat skills and powers.
• The group learned that Sebastian had engineered a crisis involving nuclear missiles in Cuba and prepared to stop a war.
• Hank presented his supersonic fighter jet, and the X-Men flew toward the Caribbean Sea.

Charles, Li Yu, and their allies stopped Sebastian from triggering a nuclear war after he tried to use a submarine’s reactor as a weapon. Erik pulled the submarine from the seabed, and the team defeated Sebastian’s allies, while Erik went to confront Sebastian.

• After Charles learned that Red Devil had killed North Star’s crew, he used telepathy to make a Russian political commissar sink the freighter and prevent the blockade from being breached.
• Sebastian entered the submarine’s reactor chamber to absorb nuclear energy, but Soundwave used echolocation to locate the submarine on the seabed.
• Li Yu urged Erik to draw on his power, and Erik used a magnetic storm to pull the submarine out of the sea.
• Whirlwind’s storm sent the plane plunging, but Li Yu caught it and landed it on a beach as the submarine crashed onto a nearby island.
• Erik tore open the submarine and charged inside, while the others knocked out Red Devil and Whirlwind.
• Gret asked where Sebastian was, and Li Yu said Erik had gone to confront him.

Erik killed Sebastian with Charles’s help, then inherited the Garden of Eden Apple and embraced the cause of mutant supremacy. He told the others that human fleets had declared war on them, just as naval guns opened fire.

• Erik found Sebastian in the submarine’s engine room, but Sebastian overwhelmed him with his absorbed nuclear energy.
• Erik revealed that Charles and the others were helping him, and Charles used psychic power to freeze Sebastian after his helmet was removed.
• Erik pierced Sebastian’s skull, killing him, while Charles suffered Sebastian’s pain through their shared connection.
• A golden sphere entered Erik’s mind and gave him the Garden of Eden Apple, whose powers included granting mutant genes to others.
• Erik urged the gathered mutants to fight for their future, claiming that human fleets were attacking them.
• Naval guns fired across the sea as Charles and Gret struggled to believe Erik’s warning.

Erik retaliated after human fleets attacked the mutants, while Charles tried to stop him and was injured by a deflected bullet. Li Yu healed Charles, and Erik prepared to leave to fight for mutant protection, asking whether anyone would join him.

• Erik stopped the fleets’ shells with a magnetic storm and sent them back toward the ships, while Charles tried to halt his retaliation.
• Gret fired at Erik, and a deflected bullet struck Charles in the spine; Erik grabbed Gret before Charles blamed Erik for the injury.
• Li Yu healed Charles’s spine with Divine Spring Water, restoring his ability to feel and move his legs.
• Erik announced he was leaving to defend mutants from future human attacks and asked who would join him.

After Erik and Charles chose separate paths, Li Yu decided to offer mutants a neutral sanctuary and returned to Sargeras Manor with Raven staying behind. He revived Sebastian as a vampire named Dracula and put him in charge of the manor while he focused on training his Soul Power.

• Erik led Red Devil, Whirlwind, Dragonfly, Darwin, and Sonic Wave away to fight for mutants, while Raven chose to stay with Li Yu at Sargeras Manor.
• Li Yu told Charles he would pursue neutrality by giving mutants a stable home, and Charles left with his group aboard a plane Li Yu lifted into the air.
• Raven transformed into Red Devil and teleported away, giving Li Yu the chance to collect Sebastian's soul and body from the submarine.
• Li Yu used the Garden of Eden Apple and an adjusted Vampire Gene to create a vampire from Sebastian, who demonstrated bat transformation, rapid healing, super speed, bloodsucking, and Blood Control.
• Li Yu named the vampire Dracula, brought him back to Sargeras Manor, and assigned him to manage the manor while he trained his Soul Power.

While Li Yu monitored Wolverine for signs of the Days of Future Past time-travel event, Erik arrived at Sargeras Manor to ask Raven to help steal intelligence about Trask’s anti-mutant weapon. The chapter ended as Erik explained his request and showed Li Yu and Raven Trask’s photograph.

• Raven burst into Li Yu’s room, questioned him about a black-haired woman, and fled in embarrassment after pinning him down.
• Li Yu asked Count Dracula about Wolverine, learned that nothing unusual had happened, and ordered him to keep watch.
• Li Yu sensed Erik approaching London and realized the Days of Future Past plot was beginning.
• Erik arrived at Sargeras Manor, greeted Li Yu and Raven, and asked Raven to help steal intelligence about Trask’s weapon against mutants.