Chapter Summaries

Logan fought Viper and Magneto while Colossus was captured, forcing Professor X to send Ororo and Bobby to investigate and rescue him. Bai Xing then offered Professor X a Magnetic Field Seed, leaving him to decide whether to accept it.

• Logan battled Viper while Magneto restrained him, and Sabretooth and Juggernaut overwhelmed Colossus.
• Professor X intervened telepathically, freeing Logan to escape, but Colossus was knocked unconscious and captured by Magneto’s group.
• Professor X sent Ororo and Bobby to investigate the island nation and rescue Peter.
• Bai Xing discussed qi and martial arts with Professor X, then demonstrated his magnetic-field control by reshaping a metal tray.
• Bai Xing offered Professor X a Magnetic Field Seed and said he wanted to see what kind of power it would bring out in him.

Bai Xing forcibly planted a Magnetic Field Seed in Professor X, then copied his psychic ability and entered seclusion. Magneto learned about the Life Seed and wanted to obtain Bai Xing, while Professor X’s newly revealed magnetic powers left Logan questioning Bai Xing’s motives.

• Bai Xing planted a Magnetic Field Seed in Professor X and entered the Training Room to cultivate.
• White Queen helped Viper reveal the Life Seed’s abilities to Magneto and his allies, prompting Magneto to decide they must obtain Bai Xing.
• Logan, Ororo, and their companion returned to Xavier’s School without rescuing Colossus, and they found Professor X standing in the garden.
• Logan confronted Professor X about accepting a Life Seed, but Professor X explained that Bai Xing had given him a Magnetic Field Seed instead.
• Professor X demonstrated his new power to control magnetic fields and told Logan that Bai Xing had said he did it simply for fun.

Listening told the students that Teacher Bai had given Logan a Life Seed and Professor X a Magnetic Field Seed. Professor X led a team to California to rescue Colossus, but discovered they had been lured away while Magneto arrived at Xavier's School seeking Mr. Bai.

• Listening told the students that Logan's increased strength came from a Life Seed given by Teacher Bai, and that Professor X had received a Magnetic Field Seed.
• Professor X revealed that Cerebro had briefly located Magneto and his allies, then decided to join the rescue team because his new powers made him their strongest fighter.
• Professor X, Ororo, Logan, and the others flew to California, where they found Multiple Man duplicates and learned that the psychic Flad had used them to deceive Cerebro.
• Multiple Man and Flad surrendered the unconscious Colossus, and Professor X ordered the team to take him back to school, realizing Magneto had used the trap to draw them away from Bai Xing.
• Magneto arrived at Xavier's School, argued with Iceman Bobby and Beast Hank about his beliefs, and demanded to know where Mr. Bai was.

Bai Xing demonstrated Magneto's limits with electromagnetic force and promised him another path to power, then prevented Logan and Professor X from stopping Magneto from leaving. Professor X returned to the academy and tried to confront Bai Xing, but Bai Xing refused to meet him.

• Hank tried to defend the academy from Magneto's group, but Viper quickly defeated him, and Bai Xing invited Magneto into the Training Room alone.
• Bai Xing showed Magneto advanced uses of electromagnetic force, learned that Magneto felt his ability was constrained, and promised to reveal another path when the time was right.
• Magneto left the Training Room without discussing the Life Seed, then encountered the returning Professor X and Logan, who had teleported back with Nightcrawler.
• Logan attacked Magneto while Magneto's allies fought Professor X, but Professor X overwhelmed Sabretooth, Juggernaut, and White Queen as Viper escaped.
• Bai Xing used Magnetic Field Heavenly Locks to immobilize Logan and Professor X, allowing Magneto and his group to leave.
• Professor X confirmed the academy's students were safe and went to speak with Bai Xing, but Bai Xing turned him away so he could continue secluded cultivation.

Viper fled to Atlantic City and devised a plan to poison marine life to gain Life Energy, while Bai Xing perfected his Alloy Battle Body and used Cerebro to broadcast an offer of Evolution to Mutants worldwide. The message stirred the students at Xavier's School, and Ororo hurried to warn Professor X as the consequences began to unfold.

• Viper hid in Atlantic City, realized she could poison ocean life without attracting psychic attention, and planned to gather Life Energy from it.
• Bai Xing completed his Alloy Battle Body after a month of training and found that the Life Branch of the Ancient Tree had produced thirteen fruits.
• Bai Xing used Hank to reach Cerebro, searched for Apocalypse, and found that Cerebro could not detect him.
• Bai Xing amplified his psychic power through Cerebro and invited Mutants worldwide to find him in New York in exchange for Evolution.
• Ororo heard Bai Xing's broadcast, forbade her students from seeking him, and rushed to find Professor X.

Magneto endorsed Bai Xing’s promise that Life Seeds were real, prompting persecuted Mutants to head toward New York. After clashing with Professor X and the X-Men, Bai Xing transformed the Empire State Building into the Life Temple, where Mutants could seek greater strength.

• Magneto let his followers go to New York and publicly confirmed that Bai Xing’s claims about the Life Seed were true, energizing Mutants gathered in an underground bar.
• Professor X freed Hank from Bai Xing’s control in Cerebro, while Bai Xing explained that he was leaving the school and invited Mutants to seek him out.
• Logan attacked Bai Xing, who froze him and blasted him out of the school; Professor X stopped the other X-Men from continuing the fight.
• Professor X examined the students’ thoughts and warned them not to approach Bai Xing, while Bai Xing left for New York.
• Bai Xing used Molecular Particle Manipulation to dismantle the Empire State Building and nearby surroundings, then reshaped the material into an indestructible temple.
• Bai Xing named the new structure the Life Temple and left the words above its entrance.

Bai Xing’s Life Temple drew New York Mutants through a deadly blockade, and he granted the first nine visitors Life Seeds that greatly strengthened them while consuming their lifespan. He let them leave, asking only that they help those who came after them, while President Howard Ackerman ordered military containment and accelerated a secret plan.

• Police surrounded the transformed Empire State Building, and a reconnaissance team that entered the temple vanished; Howard Ackerman later ordered troops to block access and arrest or kill Mutants who approached.
• New York Mutants fought through the military and police blockade, and only nine reached the Life Temple, where they found officers immobilized by Bai Xing’s psychic power.
• The nine introduced themselves and their abilities to Bai Xing, who chose Hunter to receive the first Life Seed.
• Bai Xing planted a Life Seed in Hunter, greatly increasing his strength while leaving him with a little over a year to live unless he absorbed Life Energy from living beings.
• Bai Xing granted Life Seeds to the other eight Mutants and allowed all nine to leave, asking them to help later visitors if they wished.

Bai Xing’s empowered Mutants fought the army around the Life Temple, escalating the conflict as more Mutants arrived in New York. Professor X brought the X-Men to the battlefield, resolved to prevent the fighting from destroying the possibility of human-Mutant coexistence, and jumped from the Blackbird.

• Bai Xing’s temple survived artillery fire, and his psychic power forced the army’s artillerymen to kill themselves as a warning.
• Hunter, John, and Noemi attacked the troops with help from Rebecca and Lias, while Pyro and other Mutants joined the assault.
• As the battle intensified, Logan and the X-Men discussed intervening, and Professor X said Bai Xing had blocked his psychic attempts to stop the fighting.
• Professor X received Military authorization and led the X-Men to the battlefield near the Life Temple.
• Seeing the devastation and casualties, Professor X reaffirmed his belief that humans and Mutants could coexist, then leaped from the Blackbird.

Professor X and the X-Men blocked Mutants from entering the temple to obtain Life Seeds, while the White Queen and Sabretooth rallied the crowd against them. After two days of fighting and a tense stalemate, Smiling Armor suits arrived and opened fire on the Mutants.

• Professor X warned the gathered Mutants that Life Seeds consumed life force and required killing, but the White Queen and Sabretooth accused him and the X-Men of selfishness and hypocrisy.
• Bai Xing blocked Professor X from using his psychic powers as the White Queen led the Mutants toward the temple, prompting Professor X to order the X-Men to guard the Corridor Bridge.
• A Mutant attacked Logan at the bridge, igniting a battle in which Professor X, Logan, Nightcrawler, and the other X-Men held back the crowd without using lethal force.
• For two days, Professor X and the X-Men stopped the growing number of Mutants, while Professor X's physical strength, electrical power, and magnetic abilities astonished the White Queen.
• Smiling Armor suits suddenly appeared in the sky and fired on the Mutants, killing several in the first bombardment.

Magneto disabled the Justice Party’s Smiling Armor, then entered the Life Temple while Professor X led the X-Men against the Justice Party and Evolutionary Alliance. Bai Xing planted an Electromagnetic Seed in Magneto, whose power surged straight into Magnetic Field Rotation and restored his body to its prime.

• Magneto disabled hundreds of Smiling Armor units, and the trapped Mutants turned on the soldiers inside while accusing Professor X of blocking their chance to gain strength.
• The Justice Party and Evolutionary Alliance launched an assault on the gathered Mutants, and Professor X questioned his past faith in peaceful cooperation before leading the X-Men into battle.
• Magneto left the fighting to reach the Life Temple, where he challenged Professor X to choose whether to stand with humanity or the Mutants.
• Bai Xing asked Magneto what he planned to do with his power, and Magneto declared that he would unite willing Mutants and establish their own nation despite the danger of nuclear retaliation.
• Bai Xing planted an Electromagnetic Seed in Magneto, who erupted with immense magnetic power and entered Magnetic Field Rotation.
• Magneto’s wrinkles vanished and his body regained its youthful vitality as he tested his newly transformed strength.

Magneto led the Brotherhood after leaving the Life Temple, killed Leach to prevent humanity from using his power to suppress Mutants, and began preparing to found a Mutant nation. Meanwhile, Donald Trask formed the Human Council from powerful political and business figures, and Mystique approached Magneto with a request.

• Magneto thanked Bai Xing for the Magnetic Field Seed, defeated the human forces attacking the Mutants, and guarded the Life Temple as Mutants gathered to receive Life Seeds.
• After the American government declared all Mutants criminals, Professor X failed to gain political support and defended Xavier's School from repeated Smiling Armor attacks.
• Bai Xing watched battles between Mutants and human forces, while Magneto's Brotherhood grew to more than a hundred Mutants and then left the temple to pursue its plans.
• Donald Trask used a simulated massacre of Neanderthals to persuade influential figures that Mutants threatened humanity, then introduced the leaders of the Justice Party, Evolutionary Alliance, Friends of Humanity, the World Disaster Control Bureau, and the American president as the Human Council.
• Magneto led the Brotherhood in capturing a military base and killing Leach, whose power could suppress Mutant abilities, then resolved to establish a Mutant nation.
• Mystique approached Magneto and said she had come to ask him for help, not to support his cause.

Bai Xing tracked Apocalypse’s Secret Cult to its headquarters in Egypt and learned that the cult had found a promising symbol in a newly discovered pyramid. Meanwhile, Mystique asked Magneto to help rescue her daughter from Genosha, and he vowed to unleash the Mutants’ fury.

• Bai Xing used the townspeople to find five members of Apocalypse’s Secret Cult and followed their trail from an outpost to the cult’s headquarters.
• Mystique told Magneto that mutant hunters had killed her husband and taken their daughter, Nira Perez, after discovering the girl’s X-Gene.
• Mystique explained that Genosha enslaved Mutants and had taken her daughter, so Magneto comforted her and promised to act.
• Bai Xing controlled the people at the cult’s headquarters and found the High Elder, whose records revealed that a newly discovered Cairo pyramid bore a symbol resembling one in their inherited books.

Bai Xing visited the buried pyramid in Cairo and implanted a Magnetic Field Seed in the sleeping Apocalypse, then copied his many abilities. Meanwhile, Magneto declared war on Genosha and led the Brotherhood in a devastating assault, freeing Mutants imprisoned as living batteries.

• Bai Xing learned that Egypt had halted excavation of a pyramid in Cairo, entered the ruins, and found Apocalypse asleep beneath the earth.
• Bai Xing implanted a Magnetic Field Seed in Apocalypse, whose body began producing increasing voltage, but the unfinished Reincarnation Ritual kept him asleep.
• Bai Xing examined the abilities copied from Apocalypse and judged Spatial Teleportation the most useful, while setting aside abilities with little use to him.
• Bai Xing saw news that Magneto had declared war on Genosha and was leading the Brotherhood's Mutants against the country.
• Magneto stormed a facility, killed the people he found there, destroyed the machines holding Mutants as batteries, and promised the freed captives a life with dignity.

Magneto destroyed Genosha and claimed it as a homeland for Mutants, while human authorities used the massacre to inflame anti-Mutant sentiment. He visited Xavier’s School to show Professor X the truth and ask him to help the rescued Mutants, but still urged Charles to join his cause through strength.

• Magneto and his Mutant forces slaughtered Genosha’s population and rescued more than one hundred thousand exploited Mutants as the three-day war drew the world’s attention.
• The Human Council shaped public opinion to portray Genosha as innocent and Magneto as a tyrant, intensifying anti-Mutant hatred.
• Magneto claimed Genosha as the future Mutant nation and broadcast a call for Mutants around the world to join him.
• Magneto went to Xavier’s School, where the X-Men blocked his entrance and condemned him for the massacre.
• Magneto sent images of Genosha’s crimes into Professor X and the X-Men’s minds, easing some of their hostility without changing their opposition to his methods.
• Magneto asked Professor X to guide the rescued Mutants and urged Charles to join him, arguing that Mutants needed overwhelming strength to secure peaceful coexistence.

Magneto persuaded Professor X to help rebuild Genosha, while Professor X sent a small group of X-Men and kept the school separate. Viper’s ocean poisoning drew the attention of Namor and Atlantis, and she attacked him after his soldiers exposed her.

• Professor X agreed to help Magneto rebuild Genosha but refused to move the X-Men school there.
• Professor X chose Nightcrawler, Colossus, Shadowcat, and Beast Hank to assist in Genosha while Logan stayed behind to lead the others.
• Viper continued poisoning the ocean to harvest Life Energy and worried that Life Seed users might eventually turn on one another as ordinary creatures stopped increasing their strength.
• Namor and Atlantis soldiers surrounded Viper’s island, and Namor confronted her over the ocean pollution.
• An Atlantis soldier presented Viper’s toxin notes as evidence, so Viper lunged at Namor before he could attack.

Viper escaped Namor’s capture only to return to Atlantis and be imprisoned, while Magneto and Professor X organized Genosha’s reconstruction and the rescue of Mutants. A month later, Sentinels attacked Xavier’s School, Leta died protecting Akali, and Ororo arrived as Akali awakened a new power.

• Viper fought Namor, poisoned him with her venom, and fled while memorizing his identity as King of Atlantis.
• Magneto and Professor X divided responsibilities for rebuilding Genosha, caring for more than a hundred thousand Mutants, and bringing endangered Mutants there.
• Bai Xing traced the Mechanical Ladybugs to a secret Military Factory beneath Washington, then built a Training Room at the Life Temple.
• Viper let Namor’s forces capture her and was taken to Atlantis, where Namor sentenced her to punishment and she was locked in the Water Prison.
• At Xavier’s School, Logan, Akali, and Leta faced Sixth-Generation Sentinels; Leta died saving Akali, who unleashed a flaming blade wave before Ororo and the others arrived.

Logan escaped to Genosha after Seventh-Generation Sentinels destroyed Xavier's School, and Professor X began fighting Namor when Atlantis attacked the island. Magneto prepared to defend Genosha while the conflict left the Mutants facing new enemies and uncertain losses.

• Logan and the others fought off Sixth-Generation Sentinels, but Seventh-Generation Sentinels overwhelmed Xavier's School, and Leta died in the attack.
• Logan reached Genosha with an unconscious, wounded Blade Girl and told Magneto that the school had been destroyed and many students were dead or captured.
• Professor X learned what had happened and planned with Magneto to investigate the Sentinels and find the missing children.
• Viper lured Namor and his Atlantis army to Genosha, where Namor flooded the coastal city while searching for her.
• Professor X attacked Namor underwater and fought him with enough power to suppress him, while Genosha's Mutants joined the battle.
• Magneto watched the fighting and warned Mystique to seek a Magnetic Field Seed from Bai Xing without provoking him.

Professor X and the Genoshan Mutants drove back Namor and the Atlantean army, but Namor escaped after revealing that Atlantis had attacked in retaliation for a Mutant’s crimes. Magneto planned to investigate, while Viper fled Genosha and headed into the deep sea to target the weakened Namor.

• The Life Seed-enhanced Mutants overwhelmed the Atlantean forces, while Professor X fought Namor with powerful psychic-charged punches.
• Namor summoned the Sea Monster to cover his army’s retreat, but Professor X struck him with a 500,000-volt punch before Namor escaped.
• Namor told Professor X that Atlantis had attacked because a Mutant had polluted the ocean and killed Atlanteans, and Professor X realized Namor was also a Mutant.
• Magneto arrived and told Professor X that he had been releasing his true self, then promised to investigate the conflict and speak with Atlantis.
• Viper escaped Genosha with the Signal Device, then used underwater breathing equipment to infiltrate Atlantis and pursue the wounded Namor.

Donald Trask revealed that the Sentinels’ second phase would use Cerebro and Rogue to develop Nimrod-class Sentinels, while Magneto investigated Atlantis after its attack on Genosha. Magneto found Atlantis destroyed and Namor dead, and took its technology and artifacts for Genosha.

• Donald Trask told the Human Council that the Main Modules were ready and ordered them to let the plan proceed, explaining that Cerebro could record Mutant data and coordinate the Sentinels.
• Professor X and Magneto returned to Xavier’s School and found it reduced to rubble, with the Sentinels and casualties gone; Professor X then rebuilt Cerebro in Genosha.
• Magneto and the White Queen investigated Genosha’s Life Warriors and concluded that none had caused the ocean disturbance, so the culprit was likely outside Genosha.
• Magneto used Namor’s psychic signature to find Atlantis, where he discovered the city in ruins and Namor dead on his shattered throne.
• Magneto decided Genosha needed greater power and claimed Atlantis’s technology and artifacts as resources for the Mutant nation.

Beast Hank and Forger studied Atlantis technology while Mystique and Blade Girl flew toward New York to find Bai Xing, only to be attacked by Sentinels. Professor X told Magneto that Raven’s killing of Sentinel inventor Bolivar Trask had helped lead to the robots’ creation, and Magneto resolved to form the Life Legion and fight back.

• Magneto entrusted the recovered Atlantis technology to Beast Hank and Forger for research.
• Mystique and Blade Girl flew the Blackbird toward New York, intending to find Bai Xing.
• Sentinels attacked the Blackbird, and Blade Girl destroyed one before the damaged jet crashed into a building in New York.
• Professor X told Magneto that Raven had killed Bolivar Trask, prompting governments to fund the Sentinels and use Raven’s genes to develop them.
• Magneto said he would form the Life Legion and declared that Genosha would meet humanity’s war with war.