Chapter Summaries

German forces invaded Themyscira, but Gu Qing destroyed their fleet and rescued the wounded Amazonians. After restoring the injured warriors to full health, he considered them promising candidates for practicing Ultimate Immeasurable Qi Gong.

• Diana and Hippolyta discovered a German invasion fleet approaching Themyscira and led the Amazonians into battle.
• The German soldiers and warships overwhelmed the Amazonians, killing many and leaving others severely wounded.
• Gu Qing stopped the incoming shells, destroyed the German forces, and learned that the Germans had discovered Themyscira while searching for Steve.
• The surviving Amazonians carried their wounded to Gu Qing, who expelled their bullets and healed them with Magnetic Field Rotation and Cellular Recombination.

After healing the Amazons, Gu Qing warned Hippolyta that their weapons could not withstand future human invasions and encouraged Diana to develop her power and confront Ares. He refused to serve as their bodyguard but offered to teach the Amazons to master true power, and the next day they gathered for his first lesson.

• Gu Qing healed the wounded Amazons, and Hippolyta thanked him and acknowledged that the outside world had surpassed them in warfare.
• Diana urged Hippolyta to oppose Ares, while Gu Qing revealed that Diana had great potential and warned that Themyscira could face another invasion.
• Hippolyta asked Gu Qing for help protecting her people, but he declined to be their bodyguard and said he intended to meet Ares himself.
• Gu Qing offered to teach the Amazons to master true power so they could protect themselves, and Hippolyta accepted his reasoning.
• The next day, Hippolyta, Antiope, Diana, and many Amazonian warriors gathered outside Gu Qing's cabin to learn from him.

Gu Qing taught the Amazonians the Ultimate Immeasurable Qi Gong and discovered that Themyscira held a Mother Box, confirming he was in the DC Cinematic Universe. His conversation with Diana turned to love and his painful uncertainty about it, while he affirmed his determination to find his parents and return to them.

• Gu Qing taught the Amazonian warriors the basic circulation method of the Ultimate Immeasurable Qi Gong.
• Gu Qing used Magnetic Field Detection to find the Mother Box hidden in a fortress on Themyscira.
• Diana thanked Gu Qing for helping her people, and Gu Qing told her that he admired her as a woman.
• Diana asked whether Gu Qing had fallen in love with her, prompting him to reflect on his troubled understanding of love.
• Diana said she loved her people, her mother, and Zeus, while Gu Qing said he loved his parents and would not give up on finding them and returning to their side.

After helping the Amazons master Current Propulsion, Gu Qing prepared to leave Themyscira with Diana to stop Ares and end the Great War. Hippolyta revealed that Diana was the God-Slaying Weapon, while Gu Qing declared he would confront Ares himself.

• Hippolyta and Antiope fought, and Antiope defeated the Queen with her self-created Sixty Thousand Volts technique.
• Diana told Gu Qing that she could sense Magnetic Field Rotation but felt her divine power instinctively blocked her from advancing.
• Gu Qing identified Patrick Morgan as Ares and explained that Ares had used General Ludendorff and Doctor Poison to prolong the war with deadly gas.
• Diana insisted on leaving to stop Ares, and Hippolyta revealed that Diana herself was the God-Slaying Weapon before letting her go with Gu Qing.
• Antiope offered to join Diana with elite Amazonian warriors, but Gu Qing dismissed their strength and said he would destroy Ares himself.

Gu Qing and Diana traveled to London in 1918 to find Ares, where Gu Qing attacked the God of War and revealed his extraordinary strength. Ares survived being blasted into a cliff and gathered a storm around himself, preparing to retaliate.

• Hippolyta equipped Diana with divine weapons and watched as Gu Qing flew with her away from Themyscira.
• Gu Qing and Diana arrived above London, where Sir Patrick Morgan revealed himself as Ares.
• Gu Qing sent Diana down into the city and struck Ares with his Rapid Bullet Fist, driving him through a factory.
• Ares formed armor from steel and attacked with the Blade of War, but Gu Qing broke through his lightning defense with the Jade Splitting Stone Fist.
• Gu Qing hurled Ares through London and into a cliff, but Ares burst from the rubble and summoned a storm, furious at his human opponent.

Gu Qing fought Ares across vast distances as war and poison-gas attacks made Ares steadily stronger. Diana tried to warn humanity, then set out to stop General Ludendorff, while the battle reached the Atlantic and Ares prepared an attack using Zeus’s lightning.

• Gu Qing battered Ares through the mountains, but Ares drew strength from the renewed conflict caused by the attack on London and General Ludendorff’s poison gas.
• Ares formed Molten Armor and attacked Gu Qing, who countered with his Myriad Magnetic Martial Way and Black Sword of Death.
• Diana tried to warn humanity’s leaders about Ares and the danger of war, but they mistook her for a German spy; after learning of the poison-gas casualties, she headed to the front lines to stop Ludendorff.
• Gu Qing and Ares fought for more than six hours across the English Channel, France, and the Atlantic as Ares grew strong enough to contend with Gu Qing.
• Ares summoned lightning from Zeus’s lingering power, and Gu Qing recognized its divine source.

Gu Qing endured Ares’s Zeus lightning until it awakened a new third form of his Myriad Magnetic Martial Way, then struck Ares with the copied power. As Ares prepared to counterattack, his strength began to fade because Diana’s actions were taking effect.

• Ares used Zeus’s lightning to suppress Gu Qing, and their battle devastated Saint Lucia Island and the surrounding coast.
• Gu Qing endured repeated lightning strikes and healed with Cellular Recombination while Ares mocked him.
• Gu Qing suddenly struck Ares with lightning around his fist, blasting him through a mountain and burying him beneath its rubble.
• Ares broke free and demanded to know how Gu Qing could use Zeus’s power.
• Gu Qing revealed that enduring the lightning had helped him develop a new third form of his Myriad Magnetic Martial Way.
• Ares discovered that his strength was fading as Diana’s actions began to take effect.

Diana destroyed Ludendorff’s poison-gas factory and captured Doctor Poison, weakening Ares as he fought Gu Qing. Gu Qing completed his third martial art move and pursued the fleeing Ares into Texas, where he prepared to unleash the God-Slaying Path.

• Diana and MI6 agents attacked Ludendorff’s base; Diana killed Ludendorff, destroyed the gas factory, and captured Doctor Poison.
• Ares felt his power declining after Diana foiled his plans, then attacked Gu Qing more fiercely.
• Gu Qing completed his third move by studying the principles of Zeus’s Thunder and restored his injuries and energy with a green bean.
• Ares fled, but Gu Qing pursued him across the Caribbean and into Texas, where Ares tried to use civilians to stop him.
• Gu Qing ignored Ares’s moral blackmail and announced that he would use his newly developed God-Slaying Path.

Gu Qing killed Ares after their battle devastated a vast area, then returned with Diana to Themyscira to learn that war would eventually give rise to another God of War. He planned to refine the third form of Myriad Magnetic Martial Way and drew a prize before entering seclusion.

• Gu Qing caught the weakened Ares and killed him with a devastating punch, raising his Magnetic Field Power to 260,000 horsepower and advancing Myriad Magnetic Martial Way.
• Gu Qing found Diana in London, apologized for getting carried away in the fight, and told her that Ares had threatened to return.
• Gu Qing and Diana returned to Themyscira, where Hippolyta explained that Ares was dead but war could eventually create another God of War.
• Diana pondered Hippolyta's explanation while Gu Qing focused on perfecting the third form and studying the second form of Myriad Magnetic Martial Way.
• Gu Qing prepared to enter seclusion but decided to draw a prize first.

Gu Qing reviewed his recent draws, became eager to incorporate the Sea Tiger Blast Punch into his Myriad Magnetic Martial Way, and supported Diana’s plan to enter the human world after a year of training. He inspected the Amazonians’ progress, taught them the Ultimate Emperor Leg, and wondered why Diana was absent.

• Gu Qing used fifty draws from his Spacetime Value and kept the Minor Formless Skill, Ultimate Emperor Leg, and Bai Family’s Sea Tiger Blast Punch among his most valuable prizes.
• Diana told Gu Qing she planned to enter the human world and stop war to prevent Ares from returning, and Gu Qing supported her while urging her to strengthen herself first.
• Gu Qing set a one-year limit before Diana would leave Themyscira, adding that he would leave this world around the same time.
• After three days of secluded study, Gu Qing found that no Amazonian had reached Magnetic Field Rotation, though Antiope had raised her Current Propulsion to One Hundred Fifty Thousand Volts.
• Gu Qing taught the Amazonians the Ultimate Emperor Leg and sparred with them, recognizing the promise in their developing combat techniques.
• Gu Qing noticed that Diana was nowhere to be seen during the training and sparring.

Gu Qing and Diana began a relationship on Themyscira despite his imminent departure, and he told her he might return and take her to other worlds. After discussing freedom and the Civil War, Diana urged Gu Qing to stop running from love, and he accepted her affection.

• Gu Qing learned from Hippolyta’s thoughts that Diana had fallen in love with him but hesitated because he would leave their world.
• Diana pursued Gu Qing, and the two became lovers with the Amazons’ support.
• Diana asked Gu Qing whether he would return, and he promised he might take her to visit other worlds.
• Gu Qing and Diana discussed the Superhuman Registration Act, freedom, laws, and the conflict between Captain America and Iron Man.
• Diana told Gu Qing he was running from love and urged him to accept hers, and Gu Qing did not refuse.

Nathaniel Essex captured Egyptian worshippers and used their knowledge and Seismic Wave’s abilities to locate an ancient pyramid. He uncovered En Sabah Nur, known as Apocalypse, and ordered Nullifier to suppress him as they prepared to investigate whether he was alive.

• Nathaniel Essex’s mercenaries surrounded a Nile village, captured its residents, and forced them to reveal the general area where they sought their god.
• Essex told Daisy that he believed En Sabah Nur was an ancient Mutant who had been worshipped as a god, and ordered her to bring Seismic Wave.
• Daisy, Seismic Wave, Nullifier, and Essex reached the site, where Seismic Wave sensed a buried pyramid and Essex arranged for it to be excavated.
• After about a week, Seismic Wave detected someone inside the ruins, and the team uncovered the iron-blue figure of En Sabah Nur on a stone bed.
• Essex identified the figure as Apocalypse and told Nullifier to use his power, while Nullifier questioned whether the figure could still be alive.

Essex’s attempt to study the sleeping Apocalypse ended in a catastrophic cave-in, though he escaped with a blood sample. At Xavier’s estate, Charles recruited young Mutants and decided to turn the property into a school, while worrying about Bolivar Trask’s warnings about Mutants.

• Essex drew blood from Apocalypse, but electricity crackled across his body and tremors began shaking the cavern.
• Corrado trapped Han Jeong-hoon in the collapsing cavern, leaving him and Apocalypse buried as Essex and Corrado escaped.
• Essex ordered the workers silenced and the site’s information sealed, then told Daisy to contact Bolivar Trask as a potential recruit.
• Charles read Trask’s paper and discussed with Raven how they were gathering young Mutants who needed help controlling their powers.
• Charles decided to teach the Mutants at the estate and proposed naming it Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.

Trask researched Mutants and, with Daisy Aisha’s funding, founded Trask Industries to study them. Nine months later, Essex used Apocalypse’s blood in a dangerous conversion experiment and emerged transformed, feeling more powerful than ever.

• Trask drank at a tavern and recalled the woman who had once encouraged him before discovering that Mutants’ X-Factor might awaken in anyone.
• Daisy Aisha approached Trask, praised his theories, and later funded the creation of Trask Industries so he could conduct Mutant research.
• Trask grew dissatisfied with having only two Mutant test subjects and sought more for his experiments.
• At a secret base, Essex decided to undergo a conversion using the last sample of Apocalypse’s blood despite the experiment’s low success rate.
• Essex endured the conversion and emerged taller and more muscular, with a diamond-shaped mark on his forehead, declaring that he felt better than ever.

After returning to the Smiling, Proud Wanderer World, Gu Qing learned that six years of turmoil had transformed the martial world, while the World Consciousness had suppressed Magnetic Field Pollution in the X-Men world. He read reports of the new order and Ren Woxing’s emergence as the force that ended the chaos, leaving Gu Qing ready to learn what happened next.

• Lei Bao seized control of Fuzhou Prefecture, killed the Zhou family, and attacked Gu Qing, who killed him with a flick of electricity.
• Gu Qing concluded that the X-Men world’s World Consciousness had restrained Magnetic Field Pollution by exploiting his attachment to Magda.
• Gu Qing returned to the Smiling, Proud Wanderer World and sent three thousand Ghost Shadow soldiers to gather intelligence, though fewer than three hundred returned.
• Gu Qing learned that the imperial court’s attempt to confiscate Ultimate Immeasurable Qi Gong sparked rebellions among civilians and soldiers, while the martial world filled with new gangs and fighters.
• Ren Woxing emerged from seclusion after the Battle of Hanzhong and restored order within the Sun Moon Holy Cult.

Ren Woxing rose from the chaos to become emperor, while the martial world reorganized around the Five Mountains Alliance and Martial God Palace. Gu Qing was approached by Absolute Sword Martial God and accompanied him to a destination near a formidable stone-and-steel city.

• Ren Woxing advanced to the Ninth Heaven, seized the imperial court, and established the Sun Moon Era with the Sun Moon Holy Cult as the State Religion.
• Ren Woxing confiscated Ultimate Immeasurable Qi Gong manuals among the common folk, while those unwilling to serve him joined martial world factions.
• Yue Buqun and Zuo Lengchan formed the Five Mountains Alliance, which faced the rising Martial God Palace as the realm settled into relative stability.
• Absolute Sword Martial God visited Gu Qing and invited him to a destination, and Gu Qing agreed to go with him.
• Absolute Sword Martial God took Gu Qing by carriage toward a magnificent city built largely of stone and steel.

Gu Qing rejected the Martial God Palace’s offer of supreme authority and left Martial God City, viewing the world as too small to rule. At a Five Mountains Alliance meeting on Mount Hua, Linghu Chong announced that he would kill Gu Qing, determined to avenge Feng Qingyang and the dead.

• Absolute Sword Martial God offered Gu Qing the Martial God Token and the allegiance of the crowds, but Gu Qing turned away without accepting power.
• The Five Mountains Alliance formed under Yue Buqun and Zuo Lengchan to face Ren Woxing and other emerging threats, while its leaders remained divided by factional rivalries.
• Yue Buqun asked the alliance leaders how they should respond to Gu Qing’s reappearance, and Monk Bujie urged them to strike first.
• Zuo Lengchan suggested sending Monk Bujie to investigate, but Yue Buqun resisted the idea of risking a powerful member of his faction.
• Linghu Chong appeared at the hall and declared that he would kill Gu Qing to avenge Feng Qingyang and the people who had died.

Ren Woxing ordered Jinglong to report on his western expedition and revealed his ambition to conquer the world as the Human Emperor. In Martial God City, Gu Qing waited for Linghu Chong, while the Absolute Sword Martial God intercepted him and challenged his strength.

• Ren Woxing rebuked Jinglong for failing to find Magnetic Field Rotation power in the western empires and ordered him to submit his observations and avoid provoking Gu Qing.
• Ren Woxing resolved to seize the western lands and make all nations submit to his rule as the Human Emperor.
• Gu Qing settled in a hut in Martial God City to study the Martial Arts of the Absolute Sword Martial God, Iron Fist Martial God, and Blazing Fire Martial God.
• Gu Qing sensed Linghu Chong approaching with murderous hostility and let the Absolute Sword Martial God intercept him.
• Linghu Chong attacked the Absolute Sword Martial God with sword qi carrying one hundred thousand pings, but the Martial God blocked it with his saber.

Linghu Chong fought the Absolute Sword Martial God while trying to reach Gu Qing, but his opponent’s conviction and sudden increase in power left him badly wounded and unable to win decisively. Gu Qing recalled the Absolute Sword Martial God, leaving Linghu Chong exhausted, shaken, and still unable to reach him.

• The Absolute Sword Martial God challenged Linghu Chong, and Linghu Chong pierced his shoulder with the Boundless Solitary Sword before being struck by blood blades formed from his own blood.
• The two fighters healed with Cellular Recombination and continued trading attacks, while Linghu Chong questioned why the Absolute Sword Martial God defended Gu Qing.
• The Absolute Sword Martial God argued that Ultimate Immeasurable Qi Gong offered people at the bottom of society their only chance to rise, causing Linghu Chong to hesitate.
• The Absolute Sword Martial God used Linghu Chong’s momentary doubt to break through to the Twenty-First Heaven and slash open his abdomen.
• Linghu Chong recovered and fought back, but neither man could decide the battle after thousands of moves.
• Gu Qing ordered the Absolute Sword Martial God to return, and the warrior withdrew as Linghu Chong stayed behind, drained and unable to pursue Gu Qing.

After failing to defeat Gu Qing, Linghu Chong returned to Mount Hua and discovered that Yue Lingshan had grown close to Lin Pingzhi. He overheard Yue Lingshan say she saw him only as a brother, leaving him devastated on Cliff of Reflection.

• Linghu Chong left after his battle with the Absolute Sword Martial God, and Jinglong watched him from hiding.
• Lu Hou'er brought Linghu Chong food and revealed that Yue Lingshan had stopped visiting him, prompting Linghu Chong to read his thoughts about Lin Pingzhi.
• Linghu Chong followed Yue Lingshan to Lin Pingzhi's cave and overheard Lu Hou'er accuse Lin Pingzhi of using her before Yue Lingshan defended Lin Pingzhi.
• Yue Lingshan brought Lin Pingzhi food and told him that she regarded Linghu Chong as a brother.
• Linghu Chong returned to Cliff of Reflection and wept over Yue Lingshan's rejection.