Chapter Summaries

After Project Insight and the nuclear blast plunged America into chaos, Tony struggled with guilt and tried to help, but became disillusioned by the country’s collapse. Two days later, Chen Mu found Tony lying defeated by the beach.

• Tony collapsed after Bucky carried Captain America away, and Black Widow learned that Tony had lost too much blood.
• Tony asked Black Widow to keep his injury from Little Pepper and bring him a hamburger, then worried about Steve Rogers and America’s crisis.
• America’s political collapse led to state conflicts, violence, devastation in New Jersey, and hostility toward American overseas bases, while China stayed out of the turmoil.
• Tony tried to help victims in New Jersey but grew disappointed and gave up hope of stabilizing America.
• Chen Mu found Tony lying weakly by the beach and asked how he had become so pathetic in only two days.

Chen Mu visited a dispirited Tony Stark and urged him to leave America and join China, arguing that the collapsing country was not worth his sacrifice. Tony listened as Chen Mu described the violence and destruction overwhelming America, but the chapter ended before Tony answered.

• Chen Mu gave Tony a razor, and Tony shaved before asking why Chen Mu had come.
• Tony accused China of allowing America to suffer, but Chen Mu said China had stopped Pierce and destroyed the Helicarriers to limit the damage.
• Chen Mu solemnly invited Tony to join China, surprising Tony, who doubted China needed him.
• Chen Mu pointed to mass shootings and the destruction of Tony's robot army as reasons America was not worth protecting.
• Chen Mu told Tony that one person's strength was limited and said he had never thought much of so-called Super Heroes.

Chen Mu tried to persuade Tony Stark to abandon collapsing America and join China, arguing that individual power could not restore a nation and that Hydra was poised to take control. Tony remained silent and despairing as America descended into lawlessness, while Justin Hammer profited from the demand for weapons.

• Chen Mu argued that individual strength could not repair America and that only a strong nation could address its crisis.
• Tony Stark gave up trying to restore order and returned to his villa, exhausted by the collapse around him.
• Chen Mu urged Tony to join China and pointed to Bruce Banner’s happiness there as an example.
• Chen Mu explained that Hydra agents had taken over America after Project Insight and warned that Hydra would soon control the country.
• Justin Hammer seized the opportunity to sell vast quantities of firearms amid the chaos and planned to avoid his compensation payments.

Chen Mu persuaded Tony to join China by emphasizing its safety, advanced technology, and opportunities to study magic. Tony agreed, asked to bring his family, and learned he would need to exchange his money for resources before moving.

• Chen Mu contrasted America's widespread gun ownership and violence with China's stronger law enforcement and safer society.
• Tony considered Little Pepper and Happy's safety and was drawn to Chen Mu's offer of access to China's scientific and magical research.
• Tony agreed to join China and asked whether he could bring his family, which Chen Mu accepted.
• Tony asked whether China would welcome him as a capitalist, and Chen Mu explained that China opposed exploitation rather than capital itself.
• Chen Mu told Tony to exchange his money for resources, then opened a portal to China and left.
• Tony reflected that dollars were worthless in China and began considering how to obtain resources.

Chen Mu returned to China after America collapsed into warlordism, while Tony prepared to leave the country and join China. The God Spear Bureau informed Chen Mu that people from Wakanda had arrived.

• Tony lost faith in America and began converting his money into hard currency as he prepared to leave.
• Captain America traveled between states with the Winter Soldier to reorganize America's armed forces, but his efforts failed.
• Chen Mu returned to China and informed the God Spear Bureau that America had collapsed after two nuclear explosions.
• Chinese citizens stranded abroad returned home, where they faced observation and qualification requirements before they could undergo evolution.
• The God Spear Bureau told Chen Mu that people from Wakanda had arrived.

Chen Mu and Zheng Xian met with T'Challa's Wakandan delegation to discuss infrastructure cooperation, but negotiations stalled when T'Challa demanded an interest-free loan and refused to trade vibranium. Chen Mu entered the conference room carrying a vibranium Thor's Spear, leaving T'Challa staring at it in shock.

• Chen Mu learned that Wakanda had sent China a basket of Heart-Shaped Herbs and went to inspect the diplomatic meeting.
• T'Challa proposed that China build infrastructure in Wakanda and asked for an interest-free loan.
• Zheng Xian refused to provide a loan and offered to accept vibranium as payment instead.
• T'Challa rejected the idea, calling vibranium Wakanda's sacred relic and refusing to let it enter the outside world.
• Chen Mu entered the room carrying a vibranium Thor's Spear, and T'Challa recognized the material.

Chen Mu confronted T'Challa and Wakanda's Royal Guard over their demand for his vibranium spear. He left the Wakandans intimidated after breaking the spear in his bare hands.

• T'Challa recognized the spear in Chen Mu's hand as vibranium and wondered how it had left Wakanda.
• Zheng Xian introduced Chen Mu to T'Challa, while the two Chinese officials treated the Wakandans with deliberate contempt.
• Okoye demanded that Chen Mu return the vibranium, and Chen Mu mocked her role as Wakanda's Royal Guard Captain.
• Chen Mu dismissed vibranium as a weak weapon material and snapped the spear in two with his bare hands.
• Chen Mu asked Okoye what she had wanted to say, leaving her frozen and unable to respond.

T'Challa demanded that China return vibranium, and Chen Mu used Wakanda's refusal to back down to provoke a declaration of war. The chapter ended with T'Challa formally declaring war on China unless it returned all the vibranium.

• T'Challa insisted that all vibranium on Earth belonged to Wakanda and demanded that Chen Mu return it.
• Chen Mu challenged T'Challa's claim and revealed that China had mined vibranium in space and made it standard military equipment.
• Chen Mu's guards displayed more vibranium Thor's Spears, prompting T'Challa and Okoye to decide Wakanda had to seize the vibranium.
• Okoye threatened Chen Mu, and Zheng Xian warned T'Challa that China stood behind its general.
• T'Challa formally declared war on China on Wakanda's behalf unless China returned all the vibranium.

T'Challa declared war on China after reporting its suspected Vibranium discovery, but Chen Mu let him and his guards return to Wakanda through Zheng Xian's portal. Chen Mu and Zheng Xian planned to use Wakanda's aggression as a pretext to seize its Vibranium and destroy its forces.

• T'Challa told Chen Mu that he had reported China's suspected Vibranium mine to Wakanda and declared war.
• Chen Mu pointed out that T'Challa was deep in China, then ordered his people to escort the Wakandans home rather than hold them hostage.
• After T'Challa threatened China and tried to leave, Chen Mu stopped him and offered an escort, which T'Challa initially refused.
• Zheng Xian opened a portal to Wakanda's royal city, and T'Challa, Okoye, and the guards went through it.
• Zheng Xian and Chen Mu agreed to let Wakanda mobilize its troops so China could defeat them all at once and take its Vibranium.

Chen Mu and Zheng Xian discussed China’s plans for Wakanda and the lessons China had drawn from World One’s global liberation. Chen Mu revealed three newly discovered modern worlds, and they agreed to number their worlds starting with their own as World Zero.

• Zheng Xian and Chen Mu agreed that Wakanda’s vibranium should be taken for China’s development and that Wakanda posed little threat.
• Chen Mu recalled how China and its allies in World One had liberated the planet and built a China-led human collective.
• Zheng Xian asked Chen Mu about the new worlds Xu Jia had reported, and Chen Mu used the Multiversal Mirror Image to show three signal sources.
• Chen Mu identified a Deadpool world, a Spider-Man world, and a Venom world, all with modern Earths.
• Chen Mu proposed calling their world World Zero and the senior comrades’ world World One, with future worlds numbered in sequence.

Chen Mu and Zheng Xian discussed how to manage travel and cooperation among the growing number of worlds, and Chen Mu proposed building a grand Multiversal Celestial Court as their shared hub. He planned to begin producing an independent fairyland in two years, where the story left the Celestial Court’s operations temporarily based on a space station.

• Chen Mu proposed numbering the worlds and said he would visit the three newly accessible worlds when he was ready.
• Zheng Xian explained that the existing space station holding World One’s Dimensional Gate would be too small for future gates and proposed using the Moon as a hub.
• Chen Mu rejected a lunar base as insufficiently grand and proposed creating a Multiversal Celestial Court in a fairyland modeled on Asgard.
• Chen Mu said the system would begin manufacturing the fairyland after it finished building Erlang Shen Yang Jian’s body, with the hub expected to emerge in two years.
• Chen Mu planned for the fairyland to occupy an independent miniature universe and serve as a powerful base capable of striking across worlds.
• Chen Mu said the Celestial Court would remain at the space station until the fairyland was ready for compatriots from the new worlds to move in.

After Wakanda declared war on China, Chen Mu dismissed it as no threat and learned that many Chinese groups wanted to join the expedition. He invited Xu Jia, who was pregnant with his unusually long-gestating child, to travel with him to another world for their honeymoon.

• Chen Mu returned to his studio after meeting Zheng Xian and expected China to defeat Wakanda easily once its forces gathered.
• Xu Jia recalled that she had discovered her pregnancy after Chen Mu disappeared, and that the child had remained safe despite taking two years to develop.
• Xu Jia told Chen Mu that Wakanda's declaration of war had sparked public outrage and left China with many competing requests to join the expedition.
• Chen Mu tried to reassure Xu Jia that Wakanda posed no threat, then invited her to visit another world with him as a honeymoon.

Xu Jia and Chen Mu traveled to another world, where they encountered Deadpool amid the aftermath of a fight. Deadpool tracked down Francis and began taking revenge, while Chen Mu and Xu Jia watched.

• Xu Jia eagerly agreed to travel with Chen Mu, and he opened a portal to the other world with plans to establish a Dimensional Gate.
• Chen Mu and Xu Jia emerged onto a wrecked overpass, where Deadpool mistook them for characters from the X-Men and Avengers.
• Xu Jia questioned Deadpool as he killed a wounded henchman and explained that he was looking for Francis.
• Deadpool stopped a fleeing motorcyclist and discovered that the rider was Francis.
• Deadpool beat Francis and stabbed him through the chest, then revealed his disfigured face.
• Francis recognized Deadpool as Wade Wilson.

Deadpool kept attacking Francis while arguing that Francis had ruined his appearance, until Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead arrived. Colossus tried to stop Deadpool, but Deadpool attacked him and was easily swatted aside.

• Deadpool blamed Francis for making him hide from Vanessa and repeatedly stabbed him while singing.
• Xu Jia spotted the X-Men plane, and Colossus arrived with Negasonic Teenage Warhead.
• Deadpool reached for Colossus between the legs and then insisted that nobody had been hurt.
• Colossus refused to let Deadpool continue causing violence and threw him into a car.
• Deadpool charged Colossus with his sword, but Colossus slapped him away as Negasonic Teenage Warhead laughed.

Chen Mu used the Time Stone to reverse events after Francis escaped, bringing him back and restoring the scene to the moment before his escape. Deadpool then had another chance to confront Francis and seek a cure for his disfigured face.

• Deadpool retrieved his carbonadium sword from Chen Mu and resumed fighting Colossus while Francis escaped on a motorcycle.
• Colossus handcuffed Deadpool to himself and urged him to join the X-Men, while Deadpool mocked the idea of being a superhero.
• Deadpool asked Chen Mu to catch Francis and bring him back so Francis could restore his face.
• Chen Mu activated the Time Stone, rewinding events until Francis was back beside the guardrail with the blade in his chest.

Chen Mu demonstrated time reversal, but explained that it could not undo Deadpool’s disfigurement and offered to study his genes instead. Deadpool killed Francis, then approached Chen Mu and Xu Jia to ask for help.

• Chen Mu reversed time, astonishing Deadpool, Colossus, and Negasonic, but said the ability could not restore Deadpool’s face.
• Chen Mu offered to study Deadpool’s genes, giving him a new hope for fixing his disfigurement.
• Francis returned confused, then admitted he had lied about being able to restore Deadpool’s appearance.
• Deadpool cut off his cuffed hand to escape Colossus’s grip and stabbed Francis through the forehead despite Colossus urging him to become a hero.
• Deadpool approached Chen Mu and Xu Jia to ask for help, while Xu Jia lowered Thor’s Spear and followed Chen Mu’s lead.

Chen Mu finished analyzing Deadpool’s Healing Factor and discussed its potential uses before urging Deadpool to stop hiding from Vanessa because of his appearance. Deadpool decided to go find her, while he also accused Chen Mu of being a scumbag for leaving without saying goodbye.

• Chen Mu completed his analysis of Deadpool’s Healing Factor and considered how it could help soldiers and medicine across different worlds.
• Deadpool asked Chen Mu to restore his face and explained that he had stayed away from Vanessa because he feared she would be repulsed by his appearance.
• Chen Mu called Deadpool cowardly for leaving Vanessa without a word, and Deadpool countered that Chen Mu was the real scumbag for eating and running.
• Chen Mu urged Deadpool to ask Vanessa how she felt instead of assuming she cared only about his looks.
• Deadpool decided to find Vanessa and tell her the truth, and Chen Mu offered to go with him.

Chen Mu questioned Colossus and Negasonic after Deadpool left, learning that Professor X and the other X-Men had traveled to another world to help stop a threat to all life. There, multiple worlds had formed an organization called the Illuminati to discuss how to confront a madman intent on killing half of all living beings.

• Deadpool rejected Colossus’s invitation to join the X-Men, said he would never be a hero, and fell onto a bus to leave.
• Xu Jia remarked on Deadpool’s regenerative ability and asked Chen Mu where they would go next.
• Chen Mu approached Colossus and Negasonic to ask where the other X-Men were.
• Colossus told Chen Mu that Professor X had taken the other X-Men to another world after receiving a plea for help.
• Colossus explained that a madman planned to kill half of all life and that several worlds had formed the Illuminati to discuss the coming crisis.

Chen Mu learned that the X-Men had been recruited to help another universe fight Thanos, and he agreed to visit after completing his plans in this world. After Colossus and Warhead Girl left, Chen Mu analyzed their mutant abilities and found they could be granted to evolvers through the Life Equation.

• Colossus told Chen Mu that Professor X and the X-Men had gone to another world to help fight Thanos, though he did not know which world they had entered.
• Colossus named Professor X, Baron Mordo, Maria Rambeau, and Reed Richards as members of the Illuminati he knew about.
• Chen Mu said he would visit the crisis-stricken world later, while Xu Jia insisted they first contact this world's China about joining Multivariate China.
• Chen Mu shook hands with Colossus, then set out with Xu Jia to leave America and pursue their plans in China.
• Colossus and Warhead Girl returned to the X-Men's base, and Chen Mu analyzed their Man of Steel and Energy Burst abilities.
• Chen Mu discovered that the Life Equation could give evolvers the analyzed mutant powers.

Chen Mu explained how bloodlines and system-enhanced mutant powers could strengthen people, then arranged cooperation between China in Universe Two and Multivariate China. After giving the other China an Evolution Device in exchange for access to mutants, Chen Mu and Xu Jia began their honeymoon across China.

• Chen Mu considered offering system-enhanced superpowers as an additional way for his compatriots to gain abilities, since they could be trained to Omega Level and used alongside bloodlines.
• Chen Mu and Xu Jia arrived in China's capital, explained their purpose, and earned the trust of China in Universe Two after the Dimensional Gate opened.
• China in Universe Two began preparing to join Multivariate China, while Chen Mu and Xu Jia represented China from Universe Zero and proposed cooperation between the two worlds.
• Chen Mu privately gave China in Universe Two an Evolution Device and asked for opportunities to meet mutants and expand the superpower library.
• Chen Mu and Xu Jia finished their work and began their honeymoon, visiting scenic places across China.