Chapter Summaries

Sato followed Acting President Matt Castro as he fled Washington, planning to use him to gain access to a Hydrogen Bomb against Bai Xing. Castro reached the hidden Cheyenne Mountain Military Base, where Sato intended to find him when it was time to launch the weapon.

• Sato left Nagai to rampage at the Pentagon while Castro watched the destruction and feared Nagai would reach the White House.
• Castro escaped Washington with his wife and children aboard a transport aircraft, unaware that Sato had secretly boarded it.
• Sato planned to weaken Bai Xing with a Hydrogen Bomb, whose power he believed could greatly deplete Bai Xing's Magnetic Force.
• Sato explained that Magnetic Assimilation weakened with distance and made its targets seem like puppets, so he planned to wait before controlling Castro.
• Castro's aircraft flew to Colorado, where he headed for the heavily defended Cheyenne Mountain Military Base, a temporary presidential shelter.

After surviving a twenty-megaton nuclear strike, Bai Xing faced Sato and Nagai in Yokohama, where the two launched a coordinated attack. The battle began with Nagai’s Life-Sacrificing Killing Fist and Sato’s Wind-Fire Meteor closing in on Bai Xing.

• After America launched nuclear bombs at Washington, Bai Xing watched the news and noted that the Void Ancient Tree’s Second Branch was nearly restored.
• Sato returned to Nagai after the nuclear blast and told him Bai Xing might know where Eriko was; Nagai agreed to help defeat him.
• Three days later, Sato and Nagai flew toward Yokohama and launched two ten-megaton nuclear bombs at Bai Xing.
• Bai Xing absorbed the nuclear explosion’s energy and emerged unharmed, then sent Nagai flying with a slap.
• Nagai charged back with his 60,000 Horsepower Life-Sacrificing Killing Fist as Sato attacked with Heaven-Earth Force: Wind-Fire Meteor.

Bai Xing fought Sato and Nagai in Yokohama after absorbing the power of two nuclear bombs, overpowering both before they regenerated and attacked again. As the battle resumed, news of the bombing spread worldwide, and Bai Xing became humanity’s chief hope against the two rogue Ajin.

• Bai Xing unleashed the absorbed nuclear power, killed Nagai temporarily, and forced Sato to retreat from the blast.
• Nagai regenerated and attacked Bai Xing, who broke his bones in a rapid exchange of punches.
• Sato used Hell Tornado while Nagai attacked with Hell Burial Blade, but Bai Xing evaded their techniques and struck Nagai in the chest.
• Bai Xing launched Sato into a cargo ship with Rocket Missile Leg, then sent Nagai crashing into the Cherry Blossom Grove near Nishitani Station.
• Sato and Nagai regenerated and charged Bai Xing again as another round of their battle began.
• News of Yokohama’s two nuclear explosions spread worldwide, and people increasingly regarded Bai Xing as their only hope against Sato and Nagai.

Bai Xing fought Nagai and Sato in Futtsu City, repeatedly unleashing nuclear-powered attacks that devastated the city. After Bai Xing revealed that Eriko had died and blamed Nagai’s weakness, Nagai accepted his own failures, and his aura began to stir in a strange state.

• Nagai crashed into Futtsu City, where his battle with Bai Xing and Sato sent residents fleeing and caused widespread destruction.
• Bai Xing struck Sato with repeated fifty-kiloton Nuclear Explosion Fists, melting Sato’s metal defenses and blasting him more than ten kilometers away.
• Nagai blamed Bai Xing for Eriko’s death, but Bai Xing insisted that Eriko had died because Nagai had failed to protect her and had submitted to the US military.
• Bai Xing battered Nagai with punches and one-hundred-kiloton Nuclear Explosion Fists while taunting him about his weakness and Eriko’s fate.
• Nagai survived the attacks with his body grievously injured, and his aura began to stir as he called himself a coward and said his mother would have been better off giving birth to char siu.

Nagai’s grief over his loved ones’ deaths drove him into a rampage, and Bai Xing redirected his attacks toward Sato before turning the fight into a free-for-all. After three days of destruction across cities near Tokyo Bay, Bai Xing and Nagai faced off again above the ruins of Mikazuki Hotel as Nagai unleashed his strongest blade attack and Bai Xing answered with a five-megaton Nuclear Explosion Fist.

• Nagai unleashed a forty-meter Hell Burial Blade at Bai Xing, but Bai Xing revealed that Sato had launched the nuclear bomb at Tokyo and made Nagai redirect his attack toward Sato.
• Bai Xing rejected Sato’s offer to team up against Nagai and attacked both men, declaring that they should fight in a free-for-all.
• The three battled across Kisarazu City and other cities near Tokyo Bay for three days and three nights, causing catastrophic destruction and triggering worldwide panic.
• At the ruins of Mikazuki Hotel, Nagai revealed that his arms had been replaced by giant blades and challenged Bai Xing with Hell Burial Blade: Destroyer of All Living Things.
• Bai Xing answered Nagai’s attack with a 100,000-horsepower, five-megaton Nuclear Explosion Fist.

Bai Xing recovered inside Sato’s stone sphere while Sato and Nagai fought, and human leaders launched five nuclear bombs at the battle. Bai Xing broke free and absorbed the blasts’ energy, leaving him strengthened as the fight continued.

• Sato trapped Bai Xing and Nagai inside a hardened sphere, but Bai Xing stayed still to recover while Nagai drilled his way out.
• Sato froze the seawater around the sphere and attacked Nagai, who broke through the ice and resumed fighting him.
• Nagai rejected Sato’s attempt to enlist him against Bai Xing and declared that everyone deserved to die.
• Human leaders launched five 10-megaton nuclear bombs toward the battle, and the explosions engulfed Sato and Nagai.
• Bai Xing burst out of the sphere and absorbed the nuclear explosions’ energy, thanking the person who had sent the bombs.

Bai Xing defeated Nagai and Sato with a 100-million-ton Nuclear Explosion Fist, reclaimed the Ancient Tree Sub-Bodies within them, and rose to 120,000 horsepower. After activating the revitalized Second Branch, he crossed into a new world and arrived in Tokyo.

• Bai Xing struck Nagai and Sato with a 100-million-ton Nuclear Explosion Fist, destroying their bodies and leaving their heads alive.
• Bai Xing used the Ancient Tree to reclaim the seeds in Nagai and Sato, absorbed their insights, and advanced to 120,000 horsepower.
• Bai Xing shattered Sato's head, while Nagai revived and was carried away by his surviving Little Black.
• Bai Xing left the remaining seeds in Shimomura Izumi, Yajima Masao, and Takahashi Hitomi, then used the Second Branch to travel to another world.
• Bai Xing discovered he had arrived in Tokyo and exploded a driver's car with a small arc of electricity before walking away.

Bai Xing discovered that Life Fruits could increase physical attributes or lifespan, while their cores turned hosts into life-draining fighters who returned most of their gains to him. After a group of yakuza attacked him, he planted a core in Nakamura Masayuki and tested the man’s newfound strength.

• Bai Xing examined the Life Branch, learned the Life Fruit’s effects, and used the fruits to slightly enhance his attributes and Life Essence.
• Bai Xing repelled an attack by Inagawa-kai members and learned they had come to avenge their officer Akazawa, whom he had killed.
• Bai Xing chose Nakamura Masayuki as a host for a Life Fruit Core, causing him to grow stronger by overdrawing his life force.
• Bai Xing ordered four yakuza members to attack Nakamura Masayuki, who defeated them in a chaotic fight.

After discovering that he was in a live-action X-Men world nearing the Sentinel crisis, Bai Xing built up the Inagawa-kai’s Life Warriors and ordered it to focus on defeating rival gangs. When Wolverine disrupted a mission to kidnap Yashida Mariko, Bai Xing withdrew the Inagawa-kai from the affair, leaving Mori Nobuo without its support.

• Bai Xing learned from Shimazu Katsutaro’s documents that Mutants existed and that the world was approaching the Sentinel apocalypse, then decided to keep Days of Future Past from happening.
• Over the next month, Shimazu Katsutaro implanted Fruit Cores into eight elite Inagawa-kai members, and the gang escalated its clashes with the Sumiyoshi-kai.
• Shimazu Katsutaro told Bai Xing that Wolverine had killed two Life Warriors while rescuing Mariko from an Inagawa-kai kidnapping attempt arranged by Mori Nobuo.
• Bai Xing ordered Shimazu Katsutaro to stop interfering in Mori Nobuo’s plans and concentrate on defeating the Sumiyoshi-kai and then the Yamaguchi-gumi.
• Yashida Shingen ordered Mori Nobuo to bring Mariko back and eliminate Wolverine, and Mori Nobuo called Shimazu Katsutaro for help.
• Shimazu Katsutaro’s response enraged Mori Nobuo.

Yukio followed Mori Nobuo to Inagawa-kai headquarters, where Bai Xing killed him and revealed Wolverine and Mariko's location in Nagasaki. As the Inagawa-kai and Sumiyoshi-kai fought across Tokyo, Yashida Shingen agreed to let the Sumiyoshi-kai retrieve Mariko, alive or dead.

• Yukio saw Mori Nobuo's death and followed him to Inagawa-kai headquarters, where she discovered his collusion with the gang.
• Bai Xing killed Mori Nobuo with a snap of his fingers, then told Yukio that Wolverine and Mariko were in Nagasaki.
• Yukio left to search for Mariko and Wolverine while Bai Xing's order drove the Inagawa-kai into war with the Sumiyoshi-kai.
• Yashida Shingen learned that the Sumiyoshi-kai knew where Mariko was and agreed to their offer to retrieve her.
• Yashida Shingen told the police chief that Mariko could be brought back dead or alive.

Yukio and Logan tried to protect Mariko from an ambush, but the Sumiyoshi-kai captured her on Yashida Shingen’s orders. Meanwhile, Bai Xing decided to obtain the Silver Samurai Armor for his research and arrived at the Yashida Residence just as Ninja infiltrated it.

• Yukio told Logan and Mariko that Mori Nobuo had colluded with gangsters, and Logan warned that the powerful Mutant Bai Xing might still be dangerous.
• Yakuza attacked the cabin, forcing Logan, Yukio, and Mariko to flee; Logan fought to cover their escape, but Yukio was knocked unconscious and Mariko was taken.
• Logan reunited with Yukio at an underground clinic and revealed that the Sumiyoshi-kai had captured Mariko on Yashida Shingen’s orders.
• Bai Xing decided to seek Adamantium from Yashida Ichiro’s Silver Samurai Armor to advance his Armor Indestructible Body research.
• Bai Xing flew to the Yashida Residence and spotted Ninja silently taking out its armed guards as they approached Yashida Shingen’s room.

Bai Xing intervened at the Yashida estate, rescued Mariko from Shingen, and used Life Fruit Cores to transform Viper and Logan. He took Logan to Yashida Ichiro’s hidden mountain stronghold, where Logan faced the Black Clan Ninja.

• Shingen tried to drown Mariko in the pond, but Bai Xing stopped him after finding Dr. Green and the Ninja corpses in the courtyard.
• Bai Xing planted a Life Fruit Core in Viper, giving her greatly increased physical abilities while draining her life and making her dependent on absorbing others’ Life Energy.
• When Shingen attacked Bai Xing, Bai Xing severed both his hands; Mariko refused to kill her father, and Logan arrived with Yukio.
• Bai Xing removed the mechanical bug suppressing Logan’s Mutant genes, then planted a Life Fruit Core in him, causing his body to grow stronger through repeated cycles of injury and healing.
• Bai Xing told Logan he wanted Yashida Ichiro’s Silver Samurai Armor and carried him to Ichiro’s hidden mountain stronghold, where Logan charged at the approaching Black Clan Ninja.

Logan and Bai Xing stormed Yashida Ichiro’s lair, where Logan killed Ichiro and Bai Xing claimed the Silver Samurai Armor. Bai Xing flew off with the compressed Adamantium, leaving Logan behind.

• Logan slaughtered the Black Clan Ninja, while Bai Xing absorbed their Life Energy and explained that Logan’s implanted Life Seed could not be removed.
• Logan and Bai Xing fought through the Yashida lair’s security forces and reached Yashida Ichiro, who was waiting in the Silver Samurai Armor.
• Logan battled Yashida Ichiro and exposed a gap in the armor, then killed him with his Steel Claws.
• Bai Xing used his magnetic-field ability to compress the Silver Samurai Armor into a sphere and take it for himself.
• Bai Xing flew away with the Adamantium sphere, and Logan shouted after him to take him along.

Bai Xing discovered that his Ajin physique decomposed Adamantium, complicating his plan to strengthen his defense. Meanwhile, Ororo arrived to tell Logan that Professor X had returned and wanted him to help contact Bai Xing, whose origins and power alarmed the X-Men; Logan began recounting their first encounter.

• Bai Xing tested Adamantium inside his body and found that his Ajin physique decomposed it.
• Logan comforted Mariko after Shingen was left incapacitated, then prepared to leave Japan with Yukio.
• Ororo arrived at the airport in the Blackbird, and Logan stayed to hear what had happened at Xavier's School.
• Ororo explained that Professor X had survived by transferring his consciousness into his twin brother and had detected Bai Xing through Cerebro.
• Ororo said Professor X wanted to meet Bai Xing, who was not a Mutant and whose mind was protected by a power beyond Professor X's reach.
• Logan agreed to help and began telling Ororo how he had met Bai Xing, starting in 1945.

Bai Xing accepted Professor X’s invitation after learning that the Void Ancient Tree protected his mind from psychic probing, then traveled with Logan and Ororo to Xavier’s School. He met Beast and saw a troubled young mutant whose blade-summoning ability caught his interest before reaching Professor X’s office.

• Bai Xing regretted sending Viper away because he needed a scientist to help build a Training Room for developing his Alloy Battle Body.
• Ororo told Bai Xing that Professor X had discovered him with Cerebro, could not see through his mind, and wanted to meet him.
• Bai Xing agreed to visit Xavier’s School and boarded Ororo’s Blackbird with Logan and Ororo.
• At the school, Bai Xing met Beast, who explained that Blade Girl struggled to control the blades she produced from her body.
• Bai Xing remarked that Blade Girl seemed suited to practicing Hell’s Blade, then went with Beast to meet Professor X.

Bai Xing met Professor X, agreed to teach at the academy in exchange for Hank’s help building a Training Room, and rejected Professor X’s request to stop distributing Life Seeds. In Yokohama, Viper poisoned the water supply, gained immense strength from the resulting deaths, and escaped after destroying a building and attacking police.

• Bai Xing told Professor X that he came from another world and offered to cure his wheelchair-bound body with a Life Seed.
• Bai Xing refused Professor X’s request not to share Life Seeds, then negotiated to borrow Hank to build a Training Room in exchange for teaching the academy’s students to control their abilities.
• Professor X agreed to Bai Xing’s terms after requiring that he not use coercion on students, and Bai Xing accepted the condition.
• Viper poisoned Yokohama’s water supply with her toxin, Black Mamba, and hid while the victims’ deaths sent Life Energy to her.
• Viper absorbed the Life Energy, gained overwhelming physical strength, and accidentally brought down the building where she was hiding.
• Viper smashed a police car and injured the officers, then fled by leaping into the air as more police surrounded her.

Magneto confirmed that the White Queen was imprisoned in a Japanese military laboratory, but news of Viper’s sudden destructive power forced him to investigate her before beginning the rescue. Meanwhile, Bai Xing started teaching meditation at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters and offered to teach the students martial arts.

• Enchantress lured Masaya Kotake to Magneto and Juggernaut, where Magneto interrogated him about the military laboratory.
• Masaya Kotake confirmed that the White Queen and several other Mutants were held at the laboratory, and Magneto killed him after learning the facility’s layout.
• Magneto saw news footage of Viper destroying property in Yokohama, recognized her, and decided to deal with her before rescuing the Mutants.
• Storm introduced Bai Xing as the school’s new teacher, and he explained that his meditation class could help students control their abilities.
• Bai Xing told the students that after learning the Ruyi Four-Limb Divine Art: Breathing Chapter, they could study more advanced martial arts.

Bai Xing taught Xavier’s students the Breathing Chapter and confronted Logan about the Life Seeds. In Japan, Magneto tried to recruit Viper and demanded to know how she gained her new strength, but she refused and knocked Juggernaut away with one punch.

• Bai Xing explained the Breathing Chapter to the young Mutants, while Blade Girl listened with hope of controlling her ability and escaping loneliness.
• Bai Xing felt a great surge of Life Energy and suspected Viper had caused many deaths.
• Logan warned Bai Xing not to plant Life Seeds in children, but Bai Xing dismissed his threat and walked away.
• Magneto, Juggernaut, and Enchantress confronted Viper at an abandoned factory and Magneto asked her to join the Brotherhood.
• Viper rejected Magneto’s recruitment and refused to explain her newfound power, so Magneto ordered Juggernaut to attack her.
• Viper punched Juggernaut and sent him crashing into scrap metal, surprising Magneto with her strength.

Viper fought Magneto and forced him to retreat, prompting him to plan to use the White Queen’s telepathy against her. At Xavier’s School, Ororo reported Bai Xing’s success teaching the students, and Bai Xing showed Blade Girl a blade technique suited to her powers.

• Viper broke through Magneto’s metal attacks and shield, but Magneto escaped with Juggernaut and Enchantress.
• Magneto concluded that the White Queen might use telepathy to defeat Viper and began planning to find her.
• Ororo told Professor Charles that Rogue and Blade Girl had made progress under Bai Xing’s meditation training and warned him about a deliberate poisoning in Yokohama.
• Professor Charles assigned Logan and Colossus to investigate the poisoning and suggested separating Logan from Bai Xing.
• Bai Xing caught Blade Girl after her blades cut the swing chain, encouraged her to master her ability, and demonstrated a blade technique made with blade qi.

Viper returned to a Tokyo waterworks with her improved toxin, but Magneto and his allies ambushed her to capture her. Logan and Colossus arrived during the fight, and Viper struck Logan after the White Queen broke through her mental defenses.

• Viper prepared to poison Tokyo's water supply with Black Mamba 2.0, but Magneto, the White Queen, Sabretooth, and Juggernaut confronted her at the waterworks.
• Viper resisted the White Queen's psychic attack and tried to flee, but Magneto restrained her with metal while Sabretooth and Juggernaut joined the attack.
• Yukio told Logan and Colossus that a battle was underway at a North Tokyo waterworks, and they flew there in the Blackbird.
• Magneto seized control of the Blackbird, so Colossus hurled Logan toward the White Queen and leaped after him.
• The White Queen broke through Viper's mental defenses, allowing Magneto to release her; Viper then struck Logan and sent him flying.