Chapter Summaries

After Red Tank’s death, Cable shot Russell while Chen Mu refused to kill the boy himself. Cable’s rag doll still carried his daughter’s blood, leaving the group to conclude that Russell’s death had not changed the future.

• Russell begged Chen Mu and Deadpool to save him, but Deadpool’s newly regenerating limbs were too weak to help.
• Chen Mu said Russell was not worth killing himself, and Deadpool joked that someone else could still do it.
• Cable shot Russell as soon as Red Tank was gone, and Russell died.
• Cable said he was a soldier and examined the rag doll marked with his daughter’s blood.
• Deadpool pointed out that the blood had not disappeared, suggesting Russell’s death had not saved Cable’s daughter.

Cable asked Chen Mu to save his wife and daughter after learning that killing Russell had not changed their fate. Chen Mu agreed to take a Chinese squad into Cable’s future, where they would try to revive his family and gather intelligence, while Deadpool tried to find a way to join China.

• Cable said the bloodstains on his device had faded slightly after Russell’s death, but Chen Mu explained that time travel created a separate branch and would not alter Cable’s original future.
• Cable argued that any attempt to save loved ones was worth making, prompting Deadpool to admit he would travel back to save Vanessa if he could.
• Cable begged Chen Mu to save his family, and Chen Mu agreed to travel to Cable’s world and revive them there.
• Chen Mu opened a portal and brought forward ten evolved Chinese soldiers, who would travel to the future to assist Cable and gather intelligence for China.
• Deadpool praised China’s strength and asked how he could join, and Chen Mu told him he would need to make a contribution.

Chen Mu agreed to take Deadpool with him to Cable’s future after using the Time Stone to restore Deadpool’s body. After Cable opened a portal to his future world, Chen Mu prepared to follow and told Domino that China would contact her about joining.

• Deadpool asked Chen Mu to take him to the future so he could see whether Chen Mu could save Vanessa, and promised to work for China if he was paid.
• Chen Mu accelerated time around Deadpool with the Time Stone, restoring his body, and agreed to bring him along.
• Deadpool and Cable argued before Cable used his time-travel watch to open a passage to the future and disappear.
• Chen Mu told Domino that he had passed along her request to join China and warned that acceptance was not guaranteed.
• Chen Mu said he had located Cable’s future time node and prepared to set off with the group.

Chen Mu explained why Cable’s trip to the past had not saved his family, then used the Time Stone to travel back and change the events that led to their deaths. The room was restored and the bodies disappeared, leaving the outcome of the altered past unresolved.

• Chen Mu opened a portal to Cable’s world, where Cable sat beside the charred bodies of his wife and daughter.
• Chen Mu explained that Cable’s physical trip to the past had created a separate timeline, so killing Russell had not changed his family’s fate.
• Cable asked how he could save his family, and Deadpool mocked him for targeting Russell as a child because he could not defeat him as an adult.
• Chen Mu offered to travel to the past and stop Russell, partly to test whether changing events would create a new timeline.
• Chen Mu used the Time Stone to travel back two days, restoring the room and making the bodies disappear.

Cable reunited with his resurrected wife and daughter, then told Chen Mu how humans and mutants had fought a devastating global war. Chen Mu sent information to a soldier so Multivariate China could prepare for America’s coming war, while Deadpool volunteered to fight for China.

• Cable reunited with Alia and Hope, and shot Deadpool after he threatened Hope, but Deadpool survived and got back up.
• Cable thanked Chen Mu for resurrecting his family, then explained how humans used Sentinel Robots and power-suppressing food to nearly wipe out mutants.
• Cable told Chen Mu that the conflict had spread worldwide and that China and America had been at war for years.
• Chen Mu gave a soldier a storage card of information and said Multivariate China could help prepare for the future war.
• Deadpool volunteered to lead the charge, hoping military achievements would help him join China.

Chen Mu used the Crimson Gem’s magic circle to give Deadpool Red Tank’s power, then considered teaching the magic to create powerful workers and fighters. Deadpool, newly confident, prepared to confront Russell when he emerged from the Mirror Dimension.

• Chen Mu told Deadpool that Russell was trapped in the Mirror Dimension and would be able to leave within minutes.
• Deadpool asked to borrow the Crimson Gem, so Chen Mu instead extracted its magic circle and activated it inside Deadpool.
• Deadpool grew enormous as the evil god’s power crossed the multiverse and entered his body, while his suit was torn apart.
• Chen Mu concluded that the magic could provide another source of power and could be taught to create Red Tanks for labor or combat.
• Cable sent his wife and Hope away after Deadpool appeared naked, and Deadpool wrapped a towel around himself.
• Deadpool announced that he would personally teach Russell a lesson once Russell appeared.

Deadpool confronted Russell after Chen Mu released him from the Mirror Dimension, but Cable shot Russell before Deadpool could fight him. Cable agreed to help China obtain future technology, and Chen Mu asked him to bring over Sentinel Robots, leaving Deadpool eager to smash them.

• Deadpool asked Chen Mu to make him a stretchy suit and said he wanted to fight Russell.
• Chen Mu released Russell from the Mirror Dimension, and Russell recognized Deadpool and questioned his apparent transformation into Red Tank.
• Russell accused the group of siding with humanity, but Cable shot and killed him while he was weak from two days without food or water.
• Cable offered to obtain future technology through his access to the world's internal network and share it with China.
• Chen Mu proposed bringing Sentinel Robots through the Dimensional Gate, and Cable explained that reporting powerful mutants would draw them in.

Chen Mu’s group tested the Sentinel Robots, and Deadpool destroyed most of them while empowered by Red Tank’s magic. Chen Mu withdrew the power, captured the two survivors in the Mirror Dimension, and prepared to study them.

• Chen Mu watched the Sentinel Robots approach and considered them valuable technology for the Celestial Court’s future Heavenly Soldiers.
• Deadpool used Red Tank’s power to tear apart the Sentinel Robots’ attacks and destroy more than a dozen of them.
• Chen Mu canceled the magic, leaving Deadpool powerless as the two remaining robots sliced him in half with optic blasts.
• Chen Mu trapped the last two Sentinel Robots in the Mirror Dimension so he could study them.

Chen Mu analyzed and acquired the Sentinel Robot technology after defeating the first wave, then decided to take it to Hua Xia and help it in the war against America. He opened a portal to Hua Xia, where preparations had already been made.

• Chen Mu analyzed the captured Sentinel Robot while Deadpool regenerated and complained about being defeated.
• Chen Mu took control of the Sentinel Robots with Hongmeng, then shut them down and stored them in his bracelet.
• Cable warned Chen Mu that more Sentinels would arrive, but Chen Mu said the robots were no threat and that he had acquired their technology.
• Chen Mu decided to give the Sentinel technology to Hua Xia and help it defeat America because Hua Xia people had been killed in the war.
• Chen Mu opened a portal to Hua Xia, and the group went through after soldiers had contacted Hua Xia in advance.

China's forces pushed America back as Chen Mu developed magic-powered Heavenly Soldier Robots and Yang Jian awakened with the Mind Stone as his Heavenly Eye. With the final battle approaching, Yang Jian opened a portal for himself and Chen Mu to reach the battlefield.

• China united forces from both worlds, built Sentinel Robots with the technology Chen Mu shared, and counterattacked across the ocean.
• Chen Mu upgraded the robots with magic and named them Heavenly Soldier Robots, planning to deploy them in powerful battle formations.
• After two months, Yang Jian was born, and Chen Mu merged the Mind Stone into his forehead to complete his Heavenly Eye.
• Yang Jian awakened with control of the Mind Stone's powers and greeted Chen Mu as Mu-ge.
• As China and America assembled their forces for a final battle, Yang Jian opened a portal and took Chen Mu to the battlefield.

Deadpool and the future X-Men prepared for the final battle against America while he complained that others had obtained Chinese identity cards more easily than he had. After learning that Professor X and Magneto had sacrificed themselves and Shadowcat had fled with Wolverine, the group saw Chen Mu arrive with a powerful, unfamiliar man.

• Deadpool rallied the mutants and said he hoped to earn a Chinese identity card through military service.
• Deadpool argued with Zheng Tu and Bishop about joining China, while Blink and Cable showed him their identity cards.
• Blink explained that Professor X had tried to alter the timeline by sending Wolverine's memories into the past.
• Blink said Professor X and Magneto had sacrificed themselves, while Shadowcat escaped with Wolverine.
• A golden portal opened, and Chen Mu arrived with an imposing, unfamiliar man whom Deadpool asked to identify.

Yang Jian appeared on the battlefield and used the Mind Stone to wipe out the American forces, while Chen Mu analyzed Blink’s spatial ability. Deadpool was left lamenting that Yang Jian had stolen the kills he needed to earn merit and become Chinese.

• Deadpool questioned Yang Jian’s sudden arrival, and Chen Mu explained that Yang Jian was part of the Chinese Celestial Race.
• Deadpool pointed out the mutants to Chen Mu, who singled out Blink and analyzed her spatial ability after greeting her.
• Deadpool teased Chen Mu about being attracted to Blink, and Blink flirted back.
• Yang Jian urged the battle to end, then used the Mind Stone to judge and control the American soldiers, causing hundreds of thousands to kill themselves.
• Deadpool realized Yang Jian had eliminated the enemies he needed to defeat for merit and froze in frustration.

After Yang Jian wiped out the invading American soldiers, Chen Mu bargained with Deadpool over Chinese citizenship and Vanessa’s revival. Deadpool paid Chen Mu ten thousand yuan to revive Vanessa, and Chen Mu prepared to return to Deadpool’s world to learn about the X-Men’s fight against Thanos.

• Yang Jian killed the American soldiers, leaving Deadpool lamenting that the destruction made joining China harder.
• Chen Mu told Deadpool he could support China’s reconstruction for citizenship, then hinted that he could use his connections for a fee.
• Deadpool gave Chen Mu five thousand yuan to help him join China, but chose Vanessa’s revival when Chen Mu made him pick between the two.
• Deadpool paid Chen Mu another five thousand yuan, and Chen Mu promised to revive Vanessa after they returned.
• Chen Mu prepared to return to Deadpool’s world to investigate the X-Men’s battle against Thanos, while Blink reminded him to pay taxes.

After returning to the past, Chen Mu began constructing a vast Celestial Court and used the Time Stone to save Vanessa without changing Deadpool’s memories of the timeline. The group learned that time travel could create separate futures, while Deadpool planned to work as a multiverse mercenary and asked Chen Mu to send him home.

• Chen Mu named the mutant world Universe Two and started building a Celestial Court that would take two years to complete.
• Blink traveled with Chen Mu and the others to the past, where Chen Mu explained that ordinary time travel created new timelines.
• Chen Mu used the Time Stone to save Vanessa and gave Deadpool altered memories in which she had never been endangered.
• Blink recalled the mutants’ attempts to change their future and learned that Wolverine’s journey may have created a separate timeline.
• Deadpool decided that multiverse mercenary work could earn money for him and Vanessa, then asked Chen Mu to send him home.

After finishing his work in Universe Two, Chen Mu returned to Universe Zero and prepared to recruit the second Multiversal Guardian. Uatu showed him a Doctor Strange stranded in a destroyed universe and asked him to intervene.

• Chen Mu returned to Universe Zero after touring China in Universe Two with Xu Jia, where their efforts had helped settle affairs between its past and future timelines.
• Xu Jia declined to accompany Chen Mu to Universe Three, reminding him to focus on his mission.
• Uatu appeared to Chen Mu and asked him to gather the second Multiversal Guardian.
• Uatu explained that Doctor Strange had destroyed his universe by repeatedly using the Time Stone to travel through time.
• Uatu showed Chen Mu Doctor Strange alone in the pocket universe he had created and said Strange would not listen to a warning.

Chen Mu visited the guilt-ridden Doctor Strange in his collapsed pocket universe and invited him to help stop a future multiversal crisis. Strange accepted the weight of responsibility for destroying his world, and Chen Mu left him with a chance at redemption.

• Chen Mu confirmed with Uatu that he should recruit Doctor Strange and recommended Deadpool as another potential Guardian.
• Chen Mu entered Doctor Strange’s pocket universe, where Strange had survived after his attempt to save Christine caused his world to collapse.
• Doctor Strange asked whether Christine was alive in other universes, and Chen Mu said she was while condemning Strange for destroying his world.
• Doctor Strange admitted that his attempt to save Christine had caused the collapse and lamented that she had been forced to die.
• Chen Mu told Doctor Strange that the multiverse would face a future crisis and that helping stop it could serve as his redemption.

Chen Mu persuaded Doctor Strange to join the effort to address a multiversal crisis by appealing to his love for Christine. After explaining the dark magic behind his pocket universe, Doctor Strange agreed to help when summoned, while Chen Mu finished analyzing the spell for his future plans for the Heavenly Court.

• Chen Mu convinced Doctor Strange to help protect other universes by reminding him that each one had a Christine he could save.
• Doctor Strange agreed to join the effort whenever Chen Mu needed him.
• Chen Mu asked about Doctor Strange's pocket universe magic, and Doctor Strange explained that he gained immense power by absorbing an Eye Tyrant tentacle, which also transformed his body.
• Doctor Strange explained that he had modified Kamar-Taj's pocket universe spell and used his power to sustain the miniature universe.
• Chen Mu's system completed its analysis of the pocket universe magic, and Chen Mu said he planned to use it to create an independent space for the Heavenly Court.
• Chen Mu told Doctor Strange that someone would guide him when his help was needed and ended his task.

Doctor Strange asked Chen Mu to take him to see Christine in another world, but Chen Mu refused at first, warning that Strange could not be trusted and might create a dangerous paradox. After telling him Christine had married someone else, Chen Mu reconsidered and decided to take him to Universe Three, where another Doctor Strange existed.

• Doctor Strange asked Chen Mu to take him to another world so he could observe Christine, but Chen Mu questioned his credibility and warned that meeting another version of himself could destroy a world.
• Chen Mu told Doctor Strange that Christine had married someone else, and Doctor Strange became despondent at the news.
• Chen Mu considered taking Doctor Strange elsewhere, confident he could keep him under control and avoid bringing him to an already-developed universe.
• Chen Mu decided to take Doctor Strange to Universe Three, where Professor X had gone to assist and Thanos threatened the world, to see what would happen when he encountered its Doctor Strange.

Chen Mu traveled to Universe Two to find a route to Universe Three, where he planned to face Thanos and obtain the remaining Infinity Stones. At X-Academy, he found Deadpool coaching Blink, whose real name was Liu Pingguo, and learned that Deadpool wanted to join him to earn money for a home with Vanessa.

• Chen Mu decided to travel alone to Universe Three and used the Multiversal Mirror Image to reach X-Academy in Universe Two.
• Deadpool urged Blink to use her charm to win Chen Mu over, unaware that Chen Mu had arrived behind him.
• Chen Mu threatened to prevent Deadpool from getting a Chinese ID card, and Deadpool begged him not to interfere with his plans to move Vanessa to China.
• Chen Mu asked where Colossus was and explained that he wanted to reach the world Professor X and the others had visited.
• Deadpool eagerly asked Chen Mu to take him along, hoping to earn money for a marital home for Vanessa.

Chen Mu recruited Deadpool and Liu Pingguo to accompany him to a new world, then learned from Colossus about Professor X’s team and their mission to stop Thanos. Using the Space Stone, Chen Mu traced the cross-dimensional pager’s destination and secured the coordinates for a portal.

• Deadpool agreed to join Chen Mu’s mission for ten thousand yuan, and Liu Pingguo asked to come along as well.
• Chen Mu asked Deadpool to take him to Colossus, who described how Professor X’s team had crossed into another world to help its heroes fight Thanos.
• Colossus showed Chen Mu a magical pager that sent messages across dimensions but could not receive replies.
• Chen Mu examined the pager with the Space Stone and traced the coordinates of the world on the other side.