Chapter Summaries

Yinsen secured the evil god’s core and salvaged its valuable remains before sending Curt, Dana, and the others back to town. He and his companions began storing the corpse, while Logan remained curious about Ada’s mysterious power.

• Yinsen dug into the evil god’s body, removed its sealed core, and stored it along with the flesh and blood he had excavated.
• Yinsen opened a portal for Logan, Ada, Curt, Dana, and the others to see the dead evil god, then explained the treasures and Titan Bloodline he had found.
• Yinsen decided that random trips to other worlds could reveal benefits triggered by forgotten memories, and he sent Curt and the others back to town.
• Yinsen, Logan, and Ada began dismembering the corpse and placing its parts in containers, while Logan asked Ada what power she cultivated.
• Ada smiled and told Logan to guess.

After destroying the evil god, Yinsen sealed the Sub-dimension, cleared the remaining monsters, and returned to Prinz Eugen with Ada and Logan. He then learned that Laura, Mordred, Sherry, and Galahad had returned from the Path to Survival World in a sorry state, and Galahad’s objective account exposed how badly the group had handled their journey.

• Yinsen, Ada, and Logan spent several days clearing monsters from the area, then Yinsen sealed the Sub-dimension beneath the abyss.
• Yinsen decided the evil god’s threat was ended, and the group returned to Prinz Eugen by Teleportation Magic.
• Yinsen met Laura, Mordred, Sherry, and Galahad as they returned from the Path to Survival World, all disheveled after their journey.
• Yinsen sent the young people to clean up and ordered them to report their experiences in an hour.
• Laura, Sherry, and the others blamed one another, while Mordred showed embarrassment; Galahad then gave Yinsen an objective account that left the crew speechless.

Laura, Mordred, Sherry, and Galahad treated their mission in a virus-ravaged city as a game, but Mordred’s reckless plan to lure every infected person into one place nearly overwhelmed them. After they escaped, Yinsen confronted their lack of teamwork and considered how little their parents had prepared them, then turned to research and training.

• Laura set a rule that the group could use only equipment they found in the world, and she later proposed fighting the infected with locally acquired weapons.
• Laura and the others learned that the city was overrun by fast, aggressive infected and dangerous Mutated Organisms, then teamed up with a survivor to try to escape.
• Mordred proposed drawing all the monsters to a fortress with noise and light, but the plan overwhelmed the group and forced them to flee through the sewers.
• Galahad used his magic and Yinsen’s shield to protect the group, and the young people escaped battered, with Sherry’s hair singed by an Incendiary Bomb.
• Yinsen questioned Annette and Logan about their daughters’ training, then concluded that Mordred’s behavior would take time to address.
• Yinsen gave Annette monster samples to study and kept the evil god’s flesh and core for his own potion research.

Yinsen finished developing a potion that could raise several attributes close to godlike levels, then left the laboratory to catch up on life aboard the Prinz Eugen. He learned the ship’s voyage remained uneventful, while the crew trained and Logan’s improved Force of Nature helped the island’s trees grow.

• Yinsen decided he did not care whether he became a True God and focused instead on improving his attributes and lifespan.
• Yinsen completed the Enhancement Potion, judged its effects promising but below expectations, and stored it safely without using it yet.
• Yinsen left the laboratory and asked Commander Maria Hill for a report on events aboard the Prinz Eugen.
• Hill reported that the ship had avoided detection and that Sherry wanted to receive her first Enhancement Potion early, while Hill planned to keep training without one.
• Yinsen learned that Laura, Mordred, and Sherry were training harder, Selene was getting along with Betty, and Ada continued her usual routine.
• Hill said Logan had been building a house because his Force of Nature had improved and the island’s trees had grown enough to use as lumber.

Hill reflected on how Yinsen’s team balanced work with spontaneous adventures, then Yinsen visited the island world and found Logan settled into a quiet life in a wooden cabin. He reassured Logan that the island could be transferred intact to their new ship, so Logan would not have to abandon it.

• Hill realized she needed to adapt to Yinsen’s loose, spontaneous approach if she wanted to fit into the team.
• Yinsen left the bridge and entered the island world through a plain wooden cabin built as its passageway.
• Yinsen found Logan tending a Vegetable Garden beside his cabin and heard that Logan had once hoped to live a quiet life there.
• Logan worried that he would soon have to leave the cabin, but Yinsen explained that he had designed the Small World to be transferable to the new ship.

Logan and Yinsen discussed Logan’s rapid growth in Nature magic and the island’s development, while Sherry began her formal magical training after using an Enhancement Potion. The chapter ended with Sherry rejecting the lightning Short Staff Yinsen made for her because she thought it was not cool.

• Yinsen toured Logan’s cabin and learned that Logan’s Nature magic had improved through his time on the island and his balanced state of mind.
• Yinsen explained why he would rather build a castle than a Mage Tower on the island, then returned to his room while Logan worked in his Vegetable Garden.
• Sherry used a Standard Enhancement Potion, and Yinsen examined her improved Mental Power to judge her readiness for magic.
• Yinsen chose supportive and disruptive spells for Sherry and made her an extendable lightning-attribute Short Staff.
• Sherry found the Short Staff natural to wield and impressive when it crackled with electricity, but still demanded a replacement because she thought it was not cool.

Sherry learned to craft magic items and made herself a purple lightsaber as the Prinz Eugen neared the dreaded Lost Sea Area. Yinsen prepared the crew for a confrontation with the guild, but the ship’s appearance alone sent two local warships fleeing.

• Sherry asked Yinsen for a lightsaber, then learned magic-item crafting and made ice-powered gloves and a purple lightsaber.
• The Prinz Eugen reached the outskirts of the Lost Sea Area, where adventurers were said never to return.
• Hill reported that two local adventurer ships were approaching, but Yinsen refused to change course because the guild would notice them anyway.
• Yinsen warned the crew to stay sharp as the Prinz Eugen headed into the Lost Sea Area, hoping to find the Ocean World’s control room and its Black Box.
• Two warships spotted the Prinz Eugen, turned around, and fled at full speed.

Yinsen and the Prinz Eugen entered the Lost Sea Area and discovered the guild’s hidden underwater facility. When ten submarines moved to surround them, Yinsen ordered the Prinz Eugen to attack.

• Two Ironclad Ships fled from the Prinz Eugen, then lingered near the Lost Sea Area to watch for it and consider entering.
• Yinsen had the Prinz Eugen enter the Lost Sea Area while Logan and Laura scouted ahead in a Quinjet.
• Yinsen ordered the Prinz Eugen’s detection systems to maximum power, and Eugen located a gigantic facility hidden beneath the sea.
• The facility surfaced as ten submarines approached the Prinz Eugen from several directions, while warships appeared inside its unfolding dock.
• Yinsen ordered the Prinz Eugen to sink the submarines, and its Underwater Bombs destroyed them.

Yinsen used Prinz Eugen’s advanced weapons to destroy the guild fleet and learned that the island’s circular structure was built by the guild, not part of the Training Ground. He ordered Prinz Eugen to finish off the remaining ships, leaving it as the only warship still afloat and moving.

• Prinz Eugen’s underwater weapons destroyed ten enemy submarines, and the guild fleet sent more than twenty warships to the surface.
• Yinsen ordered Prinz Eugen to launch its Anti-Ship Missiles, destroying more than ten warships and breaking the Protective Shields of the rest.
• Prinz Eugen kept its distance and used its Main Gun to pick off the slower guild ships as they struggled to hit it.
• Prinz Eugen’s Intelligent System determined that the circular structure’s technology resembled the guild warships’ more than Betty’s Hibernation Pod.
• Yinsen ordered Prinz Eugen to fire at full power and launch its remaining missiles, destroying the last warships still able to move.

Yinsen’s Prinz Eugen defeated the guild fleet and disabled the circular structure’s main power, then battered its defenses. He prepared to lead a group through a portal into the structure to investigate its secrets.

• Prinz Eugen sank the hostile warships until the remaining rescue ships fled and the circular structure closed its docks.
• Ada revealed that she had infiltrated the structure and destroyed its main power facilities, preventing it from diving underwater.
• The structure’s turrets opened fire as Prinz Eugen approached, but Yinsen used Armor-Piercing Shells to destroy its defenses.
• Yinsen decided to board the structure, and Logan, O’Connell, Sherry, Mordred, Jonathan, and others volunteered to accompany him.
• Yinsen prepared to open a portal into the enemy’s core area and asked Ada to pinpoint their destination.

Yinsen and his allies captured Lost’s Control Room and learned that the guild had built the base to study the Training Ground’s Control Room and find a way through the Energy Layer. They prepared to reach the Control Console and search its Black Box for information.

• Ada guided Yinsen toward the Control Room after explaining that she had mapped Lost and gathered intelligence about the guild.
• Yinsen’s group fought through the base, and Yinsen knocked out the old man who tried to confront them in the Control Room.
• Yinsen questioned the Control Room staff and learned that the guild had found the Training Ground’s Control Room and was trying to open a passage through the Energy Layer.
• The staff revealed that Lost was an experimental spaceship intended to carry the Training Ground through space as a supply base.
• Betty explained that the Black Box should be accessible through the Control Console with special passwords, so Yinsen’s group prepared to restore power and go there.

After learning from the Black Box that the Empire had collapsed and the Training Ground had drifted into orbit around a nearby planet, Yinsen and his companions planned to investigate whether the planet could shelter its inhabitants. The chapter ended with Yinsen and Maria Hill preparing to return to their world to find a spaceship, while Betty remained confused by their plans.

• Yinsen confirmed that Betty lacked authorization for the control room and left the guild with his companions.
• Ada explained that the Empire had fallen into civil war and that the Training Ground had been lost after a devastating battle, leaving Betty officially recorded as dead.
• Yinsen proposed visiting the nearby planet and finding a way to evacuate the Training Ground's inhabitants because its aging systems might fail.
• The group agreed that they first needed a spaceship to survey the planet, and Yinsen suggested asking Star-Lord for help.
• Maria Hill chose to accompany Yinsen so she could report to Fury and teach him cultivation methods, while the others urged Yinsen to hurry back with a ship.

Yinsen returned to the Marvel Universe to find Peter Quill, hoping to recruit an experienced space adventurer because his crew did not know how to pilot a spaceship. After heading to Asgard to ask Heimdall for help locating Peter, Yinsen learned that Thor had another candidate in mind.

• Yinsen told Tony that he needed Peter Quill’s help finding his way through space, and Tony learned that Yinsen already had a spaceship waiting to be claimed.
• Maria Hill left Yinsen’s estate to meet Nick Fury, while Yinsen and Tony discussed the Prometheus and Tony’s plans to build and modify spaceships.
• Yinsen decided to leave immediately and travel to Asgard, where Heimdall could help him locate Peter Quill.
• Thor welcomed Yinsen and began arranging a banquet, but Yinsen explained that he had matters to handle first.
• Thor told Yinsen that Asgard already had someone who could pilot spaceships and go on space adventures.

Thor released Nebula from imprisonment and arranged for her to work with Yinsen, who needed an experienced pilot for planetary exploration. As Yinsen and Nebula set out to find Star-Lord, Heimdall located Peter Quill on Ego, his biological father's living planet.

• Thor explained that Nebula hated Thanos, then offered her a choice between working for Yinsen and remaining in Asgard to serve her sentence.
• Nebula accepted Yinsen's offer because she wanted to judge whether he was powerful enough to oppose Thanos.
• Yinsen told Nebula he needed her spacecraft piloting and planetary assessment skills, but said they would start after he found someone.
• Nebula joined Yinsen as they left the Great Hall and went to the Bifrost to find Heimdall.
• Heimdall located Peter Quill on Ego, the true body of Star-Lord's biological father.

Yinsen traveled with Nebula to Ego's Planet to recruit Star-Lord and stop Ego from turning planets into his avatars. After confronting Ego about his plan, Yinsen declared that he intended to eliminate him completely.

• Yinsen learned from Heimdall that Star-Lord was with a woman and went to Ego's Planet with Nebula.
• Yinsen found Star-Lord with Gamora and interrupted Nebula and Gamora as they confronted each other.
• Yinsen asked Star-Lord to help him and discussed the Power Gem, which Star-Lord said he had given to Thor.
• Gamora realized Yinsen was the person who had taken the Orb and wondered about his power and his connection to Nebula.
• Yinsen asked Ego how many planets held his avatars, and Ego dropped his friendly act and demanded to know who Yinsen was.
• Yinsen told Ego he had come to eliminate him completely.

Yinsen revealed Ego’s plan to consume inhabited planets, and Ego confessed that he had killed Star-Lord’s mother. Star-Lord turned against his father, and Yinsen prepared to fight Ego as a Colonisers fighter arrived.

• Yinsen explained to Star-Lord that Ego planned to activate his seeds across the galaxy and consume the planets and their inhabitants.
• Ego eagerly described his plan, then revealed that he had caused Star-Lord’s mother’s death by implanting a tumor in her head.
• Star-Lord fired his Element Gun at Ego, but Ego’s energy body quickly recovered.
• Ego attacked Star-Lord with an energy beam, and Yinsen deflected it with Magic Energy.
• Yinsen prepared to confront Ego, but a Colonisers fighter suddenly flew toward them.

Yondu arrived with Rocket, Groot, and Kraglin to rescue Star-Lord from Ego, but Yinsen protected the group and confronted Ego with spatial magic. As Ego launched a direct attack, Yinsen turned the fight against him and hinted that he knew where Ego’s true body was.

• Yondu’s fighter rushed toward the group, and Yinsen used a spatial ring to stop it and set it down safely.
• Yondu warned Star-Lord to stay away from Ego, then joined him and the others in aiming their weapons at Ego.
• Yinsen recognized that nearly all the Guardians were gathered, while Rocket demanded an explanation and Yondu prepared for a fight.
• Ego attacked Yinsen with an energy pillar and a punch that shattered space, but Yinsen’s spatial turbulence swallowed part of the attack.
• Yinsen surrounded Ego with flames, prompting Ego to realize that Yinsen might have discovered the location of his true body.

Yinsen trapped Ego’s Mental Core in a Spatial Maze while the Guardians of the Galaxy traveled into Ego’s planet to find and kill his true body. Yinsen planned for Peter to inherit Ego’s stored energy, but Rocket’s bomb and the meaning of that legacy remained unresolved.

• Yinsen deduced that Ego’s clone held his Mental Core and used the Space Gem to trap it in a Spatial Maze.
• Yinsen altered the flow of time inside the maze so the Guardians would have more time to reach Ego’s true body.
• Mantis agreed to guide Star-Lord and the others through Ego’s planet after learning that his plan threatened countless lives.
• The Guardians and Yinsen’s Mirror Clone boarded Yondu’s Ravager fighter and traveled toward the planet’s interior.
• Rocket Raccoon proposed planting a powerful bomb in Ego’s brain, but Yinsen said Peter could inherit Ego’s legacy instead.

Yinsen and Star-Lord confronted Ego inside his planet body after Ego escaped the Spatial Maze, and Yinsen set Star-Lord on a path to reach Ego’s core. Yinsen then prepared to detonate his remaining Arcane Springs to hold Ego back.

• Ego destroyed his Energy Clone to escape Yinsen’s Spatial Maze and return to his true body.
• Yinsen told the group to stay airborne, then took Star-Lord with him to confront Ego while Yondu and Rocket Raccoon piloted the fighter.
• Ego trapped Yinsen and Star-Lord in an Energy Cage, but Yinsen escaped through a portal and left a Magic Burst that shook the surrounding energy.
• Yinsen gave Star-Lord an amulet and sent him toward a crack in Ego’s rocky surface to search for the core and crush the amulet when he found it.
• Yinsen distracted Ego with magic and summoned more than a dozen unstable Arcane Springs, preparing to detonate them.

Yinsen battered Ego with Arcane and Spatial Energy, severely damaging his Mental Core while Star-Lord located Ego’s true body. Yinsen proposed letting Star-Lord claim Ego’s planet and accumulated energy by defeating him mentally, but when Rocket and Star-Lord objected, Yinsen agreed to destroy Ego outright.

• Yinsen bombarded Ego’s energy forms with Arcane Springs, while Rocket Raccoon added his own bombs and weakened Ego’s control over his Energy Tendrils.
• Yinsen compressed violent Spatial Energy into a sphere that engulfed and destroyed most of Ego’s re-formed body, also injuring his Mental Core.
• Star-Lord found Ego’s true body and used Yinsen’s talisman to send him a message and establish a channel for long-range spellcasting.
• Yinsen explained a plan for Star-Lord to use his authority as a key to inherit Ego’s planet and energy by defeating Ego on the Mental Plane with Yinsen’s help.
• Rocket Raccoon proposed blowing up Ego’s core, and Yinsen abandoned his inheritance plan and agreed to destroy it.