Chapter Summaries

Raven urged Charles to stop relying on the CIA to find the abducted children, while Moira discovered that Director McEwan had ordered Mike to obstruct the investigation. Charles decided to use Cerebro to search for the children himself, and Moira offered to help him finish the machine.

• Raven persuaded Charles to look into the CIA's thoughts and help find the abducted children using their own strength.
• Moira waited for Mike to verify leads, then discovered him having an affair instead of investigating the Bamboo Green Gang.
• Charles read Mike's mind and learned that Director McEwan had ordered him not to seriously pursue the case because he wanted to keep Mutant power under control.
• Charles told Moira that he planned to use Hank's unfinished Cerebro to locate the children himself.
• Moira encouraged Charles and offered to help him complete Cerebro.

Charles used Cerebro to search for the Mutants taken from X-Mansion, but his telepathic sweep uncovered a dangerous Mutant force beneath Egypt that latched onto him. As Charles struggled to withdraw, he began suffering severe physical backlash, leaving Moira and Raven unable to stop the machine safely.

• Professor X completed Cerebro with Moira's help, and Moira activated it while Charles wore its wired helmet.
• Charles used Cerebro to search for the abducted Mutants and briefly contacted Gu Qing, who rejected his request for help and blocked him out.
• Charles expanded his search across the Americas and toward Europe and Africa, but could not find Hank or the other missing Mutants.
• When Charles reached Egypt, he sensed a powerful Mutant force beneath the land and discovered it was boiling within some kind of confinement.
• The force latched onto Charles when he investigated it, and he suffered a nosebleed and severe strain while trying to withdraw his telepathic power.
• Moira warned that Cerebro could not be stopped abruptly, while Raven urged Charles to stop as his body trembled and the machine sparked.

Charles recovered from using Cerebro but failed to locate the abducted children, while learning that a powerful evil presence beneath Egypt would soon awaken. The investigation identified the mercenary team behind the abductions and pointed to Gu Qing, a director of the Martial God Group, as their boss.

• Cerebro overloaded as Charles broke free from a psychic force, and he collapsed from mental exhaustion; Red Devil said he needed a few days to recover.
• At a Trask Industries facility, Trask reviewed experiments on Mutant test subject Aman and ordered Blaze to send the experimental data and blood samples to Daisy Aisha.
• After waking, Charles told Moira and Raven that an evil power beneath Egypt was nearing awakening, but he had not found the abducted children and suspected they were beyond his reach or shielded from telepathy.
• Angry parents confronted Charles at X-Mansion over their missing children, and he patiently accepted their anger rather than using his powers to quiet them.
• Moira returned with evidence that the mercenary team called the Hand of God had abducted the children, and she revealed that its boss was Gu Qing, a director of the Martial God Group.

Charles, Raven, and Moira confronted Gu Qing over the abduction of the Mutant children, but he refused to help and revealed his hostility toward Mutants. Red Devil escaped with Charles and Moira, while Gu Qing enslaved Raven and planned to use the same method on the other captured Mutants.

• Charles used his psychic power to make a receptionist lead him, Raven, and Moira to Gu Qing.
• Gu Qing learned from Randall that the Hand of God mercenaries had abducted the Mutants, but refused to reveal the employer or help rescue them.
• Charles pleaded for the children, but Gu Qing considered killing him, prompting Red Devil to teleport Charles and Moira away while Raven remained trapped.
• Gu Qing used Magnetic Field Sky Lock to enslave Raven, then ordered her to demonstrate her transformations.
• Randall returned and announced himself at the door.

Gu Qing learned that Bolivar Trask was behind the Mutant kidnappings and ordered Randall to bring the captured Mutants back to Martial God Group, where Gu Qing planned to enslave them. At X-Mansion, Charles accepted that he could not rescue Raven by force and decided to repair Cerebro and form a team called the X-Men.

• Randall told Gu Qing that Bolivar Trask had secretly hired the attackers and was conducting experiments on captured Mutants.
• Gu Qing ordered Randall to bring the captured Mutants back and said he intended to turn them into slaves and puppets.
• At X-Mansion, Moira proposed using the CIA against Martial God Group, but Red Devil warned her that provoking Gu Qing would make matters worse.
• Charles agreed with Red Devil and sent Moira to search for the missing children through the CIA while he planned to repair Cerebro.
• Charles admitted to Red Devil that Raven might not survive and resolved to form the X-Men to protect Mutants.
• Red Devil offered to become the X-Men's first member.

At a secret Miami base, the Hand of God mercenaries rescued the imprisoned Mutants while Trask escaped, and Moira was assigned to investigate strange events in Egypt. Gu Qing took the rescued Mutants under his control and formed the Brotherhood of Mutants, just as the system offered him a journey to Wonder Woman 1984.

• Trask erased his research data and escaped with Blaze as Mair Hoskins's Hand of God mercenaries overran the base and found the imprisoned Mutants.
• Bat King located the escape passage, but Hoskins ordered the mercenaries to retrieve the Mutants and erase evidence rather than pursue Trask.
• The mercenaries freed Alex, and their leader knocked him unconscious after Alex recognized him as the man who had defeated his Plasma Concentric Circle.
• McCone reassigned Moira to investigate earthquakes and an En Sabah Nur cult in Egypt, while Moira urged him to protect the X-Mansion and cultivate Charles's trust.
• Gu Qing took the rescued Mutants, altered their minds, implanted Magnetic Field Sky Locks, and ordered Randall to establish the Brotherhood of Mutants.
• The system locked onto Wonder Woman 1984 and asked Gu Qing whether he wanted to traverse there.

Gu Qing accepted the system’s invitation to enter the Wonder Woman 1984 timeline, sixty-five years after his previous departure, hoping to test his strength against Superman. In Washington, Diana and Barbara discovered that a yellow crystal could grant wishes, while Gu Qing arrived in the seemingly unchanged world and set out to find Diana.

• Gu Qing learned that the Wonder Woman 1984 timeline had sought out the system and chose to enter it without spending Spacetime Value.
• Diana helped Barbara pick up her scattered documents at the Natural History Museum, and Barbara was assigned to identify artifacts seized by the FBI.
• Diana and Barbara examined a yellow crystal inscribed with a wish-granting message, and a researcher’s wish for coffee appeared to come true.
• Diana silently wished to see a man she had not seen in many years, then put the crystal back and invited Barbara to dinner.
• Gu Qing surveyed Washington, wondered why the world remained unchanged despite his past influence on the Amazons, and decided to locate Diana.

Diana and Barbara bonded over dinner before Diana reunited with Gu Qing, the man she had waited more than sixty years to see again. After they left together, Barbara returned to the Museum and wished that she could become more like Diana.

• Diana and Barbara shared their loneliness and romantic histories over dinner, and Diana said she had promised to wait for a man who had gone far away.
• Barbara gave leftover food to Leon, a homeless man she knew, as she and Diana walked toward the Museum.
• A drunken man harassed the women, and Diana used a self-defense technique to knock him down.
• A mysterious figure emerged from the darkness, and Diana recognized Gu Qing; she punched him before embracing and kissing him.
• Diana introduced Gu Qing to Barbara, then left with him to test her fighting skills, while Barbara continued to the Museum.
• Barbara picked up a yellow crystal and wished to become strong, sexy, cool, different, and popular like Diana.

Gu Qing learned that Diana had wished on the Wishing Crystal to see him, which explained how this world had come to his attention. He and Diana postponed their trip to Themyscira and set out to secure the crystal before Maxwell Lord could use it.

• Diana struck Gu Qing with more than sixty punches, but he remained unharmed and discussed her stalled progress with Magnetic Field Power.
• Diana told Gu Qing about her search for Ares after World War II and agreed to return with him to Themyscira.
• Gu Qing learned that Diana used monitors to locate trouble and heard the story behind Asteria's Golden Eagle Armor.
• Diana received a call about Maxwell Lord's planned investment in her Museum, and Gu Qing recognized that Lord was seeking the Wishing Crystal.
• Diana admitted she had wished on the crystal to see Gu Qing, and Gu Qing realized its power had helped bring this world to his attention.
• Gu Qing and Diana postponed their trip to Themyscira and decided to obtain the Wishing Crystal before Maxwell Lord could steal it.

Barbara enjoyed her newfound beauty and power, but her violent attack on a drunk left her shaken before she attended the Museum gala. Gu Qing took the Wishing Crystal from Maxwell Lord and left with Diana for Themyscira, urging her to realize she could fly.

• Barbara tried on a black evening gown and reveled in the attention her changed appearance brought her.
• When a drunk grabbed her on the way to the gala, Barbara sent him flying into a tree and fled without calling for help.
• At the Museum, Barbara met Maxwell Lord, who brought her to her office, where Gu Qing appeared and took the Wishing Crystal.
• Lord struck an invisible barrier and passed out, while Barbara threatened Gu Qing before his gaze left her trembling.
• Gu Qing stored the crystal and flew with Diana toward Themyscira, telling her that she could fly if she chose to.

Diana awakened her divine power and learned to fly, then raced Gu Qing back to Themyscira. There, Gu Qing assessed the Amazonian warriors’ cultivation and discovered their Atlantean-assisted Magnetic Field Shield and increasingly refined combat skills.

• Diana used her divine power and Current Propulsion to master flight, then challenged Gu Qing to a race back to Themyscira.
• Gu Qing reached Themyscira before Diana and asked Hippolyta to gather the students so he could assess their progress.
• Hippolyta reported that 283 Amazonian warriors had begun learning Ultimate Immeasurable Qi Gong, including two who had advanced beyond the Twentieth Heaven.
• Hippolyta explained that the Amazonians had learned from the Atlanteans and developed a Magnetic Field Shield to contain the damage caused by their training.
• Gu Qing watched the warriors compete and was impressed by how their refined techniques gave them an advantage over opponents with equal horsepower.

After watching Antiope defeat Hippolyta in a timed competition, Gu Qing questioned whether Themyscira’s traditions were holding its warriors back and investigated why Magnetic Field Power had barely awakened naturally there. Hippolyta identified the Wishing Crystal as the work of an ancient God of Lies, and Diana gave up her wish to see Gu Qing; he then stayed on Themyscira to study the crystal’s power.

• Antiope defeated Hippolyta on points, prompting Gu Qing to criticize the Amazonian competition rules and their effect on warrior training.
• Gu Qing asked Hippolyta about Amazonians who had awakened Magnetic Field Power naturally, and she recalled only one non-warrior who had gained Current Propulsion.
• Diana told Hippolyta about the Wishing Crystal, which Hippolyta identified as connected to the ancient God of Lies and warned would grant wishes at a terrible cost.
• Diana revealed that her divine power and Current Propulsion had been draining since she wished to see Gu Qing, and Gu Qing urged her to give up the wish.
• Diana gave up her wish, and Gu Qing briefly vanished before reappearing after spending Spacetime Value to reenter the DC World.
• Gu Qing and Diana remained on Themyscira while Gu Qing studied the Wishing Crystal and considered whether he could simulate the God of Lies’ power.

Gu Qing left Themyscira with Diana to search Kansas for Superman, whom he hoped to meet as a worthy opponent. On the highway, he encountered Clay Stanny, whose unexplained electrical power enhanced his car, and turned their confrontation into a race.

• Gu Qing used Zeus's Thunder to stir the Wishing Crystal and sensed the power within it, but set the difficult investigation aside to search for Superman.
• Gu Qing told Diana he was leaving Themyscira to find an opponent, and she chose to go with him as they flew away under Hippolyta's gaze.
• Gu Qing and Diana traveled through Kansas while he used Magnetic Field Detection to search for Clark, and he told her he was looking for a strong opponent.
• Gu Qing made a Porsche carrying drug-intoxicated young men malfunction after its occupants harassed Diana, but it stayed on the road when its driver, Clay Stanny, used an electrical power to boost it.
• Stanny tried to force Gu Qing's car off the highway, but Gu Qing welcomed the challenge, accelerated with Current Propulsion, overtook him, and taunted him.

Stanny’s rage-fueled electrical power caused him to crash and die after he overtook Gu Qing, and Gu Qing traced the power to Kryptonite. The crash destroyed much of the Kents’ wheat field, and the next day Habakuk Stanny confronted Jonathan, only for Little Clark to step in.

• Stanny accelerated to 500 kilometers per hour, overtook Gu Qing, and crashed at a bend, killing everyone in his car.
• Gu Qing told Diana that Stanny’s electrical power came from Kryptonite fused into his body, which made him suspect Superman could be found wherever Kryptonite was present.
• Jonathan Kent found the wreckage in his wheat field and tried to put out the fires, but most of the wheat burned before the fire department contained the blaze.
• Jonathan returned home and reassured Martha and Little Clark, who noticed the smell of smoke on his father.
• Habakuk Stanny confronted Jonathan, accused someone of killing his son Clay, and demanded to know whether anyone else had been at the crash site.
• Little Clark walked over and told Habakuk to let go of his dad.

Habakuk Stanny used his Kryptonite necklace to weaken Clark and abducted him after attacking the Kent family and setting their home on fire. Meanwhile, Gu Qing and Diana tracked Habakuk to his building in search of the necklace and the source of the Kryptonite.

• Clark overpowered Habakuk's bodyguards, but the green Kryptonite necklace weakened him and let Habakuk capture him.
• Habakuk knocked Jonathan unconscious, took Clark, and set the Kent home ablaze as he left with his injured subordinates.
• Habakuk revealed that radiation from his necklace had given him superpowers and impaired his judgment, and he planned to make Clark replace Clay as his son.
• Gu Qing told Diana he had found a lead on the Kryptonite and explained that he still could not bring other living beings between worlds.
• Gu Qing and Diana reached Habakuk's secluded building, where Gu Qing sent the hostile guards flying and entered past the shattered doors.

Gu Qing and Diana confronted the remnants of the Black Panther Party in Garden City, where Gu Qing killed Ed and the other gunmen after they attacked. Habakuk Stanny sensed Ed’s Power Seed had shattered and fled with Little Clark to a remote motel, where Clark woke and saw a chance to escape.

• Gu Qing learned from Ed that Habakuk Stanny was away, then demanded that Ed call him back.
• Ed mistook Gu Qing and Diana for FBI agents and ordered his men to tie them up, but Gu Qing killed the two who approached and stopped the gunmen’s bullets with his powers.
• Ed activated the Power Seed in his heart and charged at Gu Qing, who killed him with an electric arc.
• Habakuk sensed that Ed’s Power Seed had shattered, abandoned his return to Garden City, and took Little Clark to a remote motel near Maogaolong.
• Habakuk told Colby to investigate what had happened in Garden City, then left Clark tied up in a room with a guard.
• Clark pretended to remain unconscious until Habakuk left, then opened his eyes and prepared to seize his chance to escape.

Gu Qing found Clark Kent’s trail in Smallville Town and learned that the Kents’ house had burned down and Clark had gone missing. In the forest, Clark escaped his captors but was injured fighting Colby and his dog, while an unseen watcher observed him.

• Gu Qing and Diana went to Smallville Town after Habakuk failed to return to his hideout, but Gu Qing could not find him.
• Gu Qing overheard Police Chief Morgan discussing the Kents’ deaths and Clark’s disappearance, then detected Clark’s spaceship in a nearby warehouse.
• Gu Qing realized that Clark was the person he had come to find and told Diana that his home had burned down and his parents were dead.
• Clark escaped from captivity and ran into the forest as Habakuk and his men pursued him.
• Colby caught up with Clark, but Clark hurled him into a tree and then threw off the hunting dog after it bit his arm.
• Clark tried to flee toward home, unaware that someone in the forest had watched the fight.

Gu Qing rescued young Clark from Habakuk and forced him to confront the memory of his parents’ deaths, triggering a devastating burst of Heat Vision. A month later, Gu Qing and Diana had adopted Clark and rebuilt the Kent home, where Gu Qing encouraged him to endure the grief and grow stronger.

• Habakuk cornered Clark and tried to take him, but Gu Qing arrived and stopped him.
• Gu Qing offered Clark a choice between relying on others and facing the truth, and Clark chose to become strong.
• Gu Qing shared Habakuk’s memory of Jonathan and Martha’s deaths, causing Clark to unleash Heat Vision that killed Habakuk and the other men before Clark collapsed.
• Gu Qing told Diana that Clark was Superman, and he and Diana later adopted him and rebuilt the Kent family home.
• Clark sat on the swing grieving, and Gu Qing comforted him and told him that the heart mattered as much as power.

Gu Qing experimented with Twisted Power from the Wishing Crystal, then spent Spacetime Value on fifty-three draws and gained Spirit Summoning and Hell War God. After accepting the rewards, he found his Complete Realm was high enough to begin cultivating Hell War God, though mastering it would require much more.

• Clark prepared for his first day of third grade and asked Diana whether Gu Qing would join them for the school celebration.
• Gu Qing used Twisted Power to transform his surroundings, but its effects carried a cost and proved difficult to control.
• Gu Qing reviewed his Spacetime Value, linked its growth to Clark's changed fate, and made fifty-three draws.
• Gu Qing examined his rewards and identified Feng Tianyang's Spirit Summoning and Hell War God as his most valuable gains.
• Gu Qing accepted the rewards and discovered his Complete Realm met Hell War God's initial cultivation requirement.

Gu Qing and Diana took Clark to his first day of school, where he befriended visually impaired Alice Carilla. As Clark stayed behind at school, Kelly Parker offered Alice her beloved dog Finley as a guide dog.

• Gu Qing remembered Clark's first day of school and drove him and Diana to Smallville Elementary for its celebration.
• Gu Qing and Diana noticed a flirtatiously dressed woman watching Gu Qing, but he decided not to get involved unless she caused trouble.
• Clark helped Alice Carilla after she tripped, and Diana learned that the seven-year-old had come to school alone despite her impaired vision and her father's refusal to let her attend before.
• Clark and Alice were assigned to the same class, and he helped her find her seat while Kelly Parker watched them together.
• Kelly offered Alice her dog Finley as a guide dog, explaining that she had trained him and believed Alice needed him more.