Chapter Summaries

After resolving the crisis on Earth, Chen Mu left Luo Tianyi and the Transformers to join China and take missions across the multiverse. Luo Tianyi led the Autobots and Decepticons toward the moon to recruit its forces, while Chen Mu returned to the Heavenly Court.

• Chen Mu explained Reincarnation Space to Luo Tianyi and the others, assigning Luo Tianyi the task of bringing Cybertrons from other universes under China's command.
• Luo Tianyi, Starscream, and Optimus Prime agreed to report to China, and Luo Tianyi declared that the Autobots and Decepticons would answer to her.
• Starscream proposed wiping out America, but Optimus Prime suggested undermining its government and public support instead.
• Starscream proposed recruiting the Decepticon army on the moon and revealed that Sentinel Prime was there, having secretly joined the Decepticons.
• Luo Tianyi led the group toward the moon, and Chen Mu returned to the Heavenly Court.

Chen Mu repaired Unicron’s core and brought it to Wandering Earth to serve as its Heart of Earth, hoping to awaken the planet’s Gaia Consciousness. He found Tony Stark enjoying the restored surface as humanity rebuilt Earth, and prepared to help the bond between humanity and the planet deepen.

• Chen Mu repaired Unicron’s core in his private laboratory at Tushita Palace, making it ready to power a suitable vessel.
• Chen Mu learned that Wandering Earth’s reconstruction was nearly complete, with nanobots restoring its surface environment and its Planetary Engines converted into weapons and Bifrost devices.
• Chen Mu decided to let Wandering Earth’s faint Gaia Consciousness occupy the core and awaken as the Heart of Earth.
• Chen Mu returned to Wandering Earth, which had escaped the Jupiter Crisis and arrived near Neptune’s orbit with his help.
• Chen Mu met Tony Stark on the restored surface, where humanity had returned from the Underground City and begun rebuilding in harmony with Earth.

Tony reflected on what made a true hero while describing how he and Li Yiyi had transformed the Wandering Earth into a habitable world. Chen Mu showed Tony the Heart of Earth in space, leaving him stunned by its planet-sized scale.

• Tony told Chen Mu that the ordinary people who risked their lives during the Jupiter Crisis made him question whether he deserved to call himself a hero.
• Tony explained that nanobots had shielded Earth, restored its seasons and environment, and allowed humanity to leave the Underground Cities and live on the surface.
• Chen Mu visited to check on the transformation and said he had found something that might help the Wandering Earth.
• Chen Mu opened a portal to space, where Tony followed in his Nano Armor.
• Chen Mu revealed the Heart of Earth, and Tony was shocked to see that it was as large as Earth.

Chen Mu fused the Heart of Earth with the Wandering Earth to awaken the planet’s consciousness, and the fusion succeeded. Earth’s will appeared as the goddess Nüwa, greeting Chen Mu and Tony Stark as Multiverse China’s first true god.

• Chen Mu explained the Heart of Earth to Tony and began connecting it to the Wandering Earth.
• Tony asked about the Heart of Earth’s original purpose, and Chen Mu said it had belonged to Unicron, a robot roughly eight hundred times Earth’s size.
• Chen Mu completed the fusion, and the Wandering Earth shook without affecting its inhabitants.
• Nüwa appeared before Chen Mu and Tony, identified herself as Earth’s will, and thanked Chen Mu for saving and helping her.

Goddess Nüwa joined China after being born as the will of Earth, and Chen Mu and Tony left Wandering Earth to return to their own world. Nüwa remained to restore Earth, whose supernatural powers let her protect and reshape the planet while growing stronger alongside China.

• Nüwa thanked Chen Mu for his help and promised to aid China, then left to restore Earth and prepare it for a possible move to another world.
• Tony questioned whether China could still be considered unrevived, and Chen Mu insisted it had not yet reached the summit.
• Chen Mu told Tony they could leave, warning him that Nüwa watched everything on Earth; Tony quickly decided to return home to Cooper.
• Chen Mu opened a portal, and he and Tony left Wandering Earth.
• Nüwa’s powers encompassed Earth, allowing her to eliminate wrongdoing, improve humanity, and potentially transform the planet using Unicron’s core.
• Nüwa chose to grow stronger by supporting China, while China would benefit from her powers and the genius of future Chinese people.

Back in Universe Zero, Tony settled into a comfortable life in China until Chen Mu tempted him with the fortune to be made exploring a precious-metal asteroid. Chen Mu planned to take Tony into space while seeking the universe’s remaining Soul Stone, believed to be on Vormir.

• Tony told Chen Mu that he had moved his assets and Stark Industries’ production to China, where he was content to live off his wealth while Little Pepper worked.
• Chen Mu described an expedition team’s discovery of a three-kilometer precious-metal asteroid and invited Tony to join a space exploration trip.
• Tony eagerly agreed to go, returned home through a portal to tell Little Pepper, and planned to recruit teammates.
• Chen Mu explained that he already had five of Universe Zero’s six Infinity Stones and had returned to obtain the Soul Stone from Vormir.
• After hearing about the stones on Earth, Thanos sneezed and turned his attention toward Earth.

After learning that several Infinity Stones were on Earth, Thanos decided to go there and seize them despite Ebony Maw’s warnings about Earth’s strength. Thanos and Ebony Maw prepared to enter without requesting permission, leaving their plan poised to challenge Earth’s defenses.

• Thanos heard that the Time Stone, Space Stone, Power Stone, and Mind Stone were on Earth, and he grew eager to claim them.
• Ebony Maw reported that Gamora was with street punks, and Thanos decided she was probably searching for the Soul Stone.
• Ebony Maw warned Thanos that Earth had become extremely powerful and that the Dark Order’s forces were likely no match for it.
• Thanos concluded that Earth’s rise came from the Infinity Stones and insisted they had to take the Stones for themselves.
• Thanos ordered Ebony Maw to prepare for the two of them to travel to Earth secretly, refusing to submit a visitation request.

Thanos ordered Ebony Maw to use a Teleportation Bracelet to infiltrate Earth in secret. On Earth, Chen Mu met Tony Stark and Peter Parker, who joined their expedition into space and decided to call himself Spider-Man.

• Thanos ordered Ebony Maw to prepare a secret route to Earth, and Ebony Maw revealed his Teleportation Bracelet.
• Ebony Maw explained that the bracelet could open portals to Earth and planned how to escape if the mission went wrong.
• Tony Stark brought Peter Parker to join Chen Mu’s space expedition, explaining that Peter had spider abilities and talent.
• Tony warned Peter that Chen Mu was an important figure in China before bringing him over to meet.
• Peter introduced himself to Chen Mu, who greeted him as Spider-Man Peter Parker.
• Peter embraced the name Spider-Man and excitedly told Tony that he had his own title.

Long Aotian and Long Tao Bing joined Lu Renjia and his teammates to claim a mobile habitable planet, which was secretly Ego. They waited for General Chen Mu to arrive and formed the Aotian Squad with Long Aotian as captain.

• Lu Renjia told Long Aotian and Long Tao Bing that his team had found a life-filled, mobile planet with valuable materials and no known intelligent inhabitants.
• Long Tao Bing explained that he had brought Long Aotian because magic might let them take the whole planet, and the group learned that the planet was actually called Ego.
• Long Aotian told Lu Renjia and the others that General Chen Mu would join them, and they welcomed the idea.
• Long Aotian proposed becoming captain, and Lu Renjia agreed that he was the strongest candidate.
• Long Aotian named the team the Aotian Squad and said they should build ties with Chen Mu and try to join the system.

Long Aotian and his companions hoped to build ties with General Chen Mu and join the Sovereign Project, then offered to dedicate a newly discovered life planet to China. Chen Mu arrived and approved their plan, while Long Aotian mistook Tony Stark’s presence for proof that he had come to join China.

• Long Aotian told Lu Renjia and the others that befriending General Chen Mu could help them join the Sovereign Project and gain Contribution Points.
• A portal opened, and Long Aotian eagerly greeted Chen Mu when he arrived.
• Long Aotian explained that the group had found a life planet and planned to bring it to the Solar System as a gift to China; Chen Mu promised to apply for rewards.
• Long Aotian introduced Long Tao Bing, Lu Renjia, Xiao Bin Yi, and Jun Zhong Ding as the planet’s discoverers.
• Tony Stark introduced himself and Peter Parker, and Long Aotian recognized Tony as an American arms dealer before declaring that capable people had come to China.

Long Aotian’s group traveled with Tony and Spider-Man Peter Parker to the unclaimed Life Planet Ego, intending to move it to the Solar System for Reward Points. Chen Mu recognized Ego as Star-Lord Peter Quill’s father, leaving the group’s plan poised to capture a living planet.

• Tony reflected that Reward Points mattered more than money in China and that accompanying Chen Mu on missions was a way to earn them.
• Long Aotian took out Aotian, invited Chen Mu aboard, and led the group into space.
• The group reached the colorful Life Planet Ego, where Lu Renjia reported abundant life, no signs of intelligent species, and unusual conditions that let it thrive without a star.
• Long Aotian proposed confirming that Ego had no native intelligent race and then bringing it back to the Solar System, an opportunity that excited Tony and Spider-Man Peter Parker.
• Chen Mu recognized Ego as the true body of Star-Lord Peter Quill’s father.

Chen Mu explained that Ego's Planet was a living creature whose owner was away, and agreed that they could take it back to Earth. He said they had to erase Ego's consciousness first, so the group prepared to wait for him to return.

• Long Aotian noticed the planet's strong life energy, and Chen Mu explained that the planet itself was a lifeform.
• Tony asked whether Ego was like Goddess Nüwa, and Chen Mu said Ego was only a planetary lifeform, not a planetary will.
• Long Aotian and the others asked whether they could take Ego's Planet, and Chen Mu said they could bring it back to Earth.
• Chen Mu explained that Ego's consciousness was elsewhere but would need to be erased before they moved the planet.
• Chen Mu decided the group would wait for Ego to return, and Long Aotian and the others eagerly anticipated confronting him.

Ego searched for Star-Lord, hoping the Power Stone rumor would prove he was his heir, while the Guardians of the Galaxy completed a monster-hunting mission on Sovereign. After receiving Nebula as their reward, Star-Lord flirted with the High Priest until Gamora’s glare made him backtrack.

• Ego went looking for Star-Lord because he believed the Power Stone rumor might mean Star-Lord carried his genes.
• The Guardians of the Galaxy defeated a giant tentacled monster on Sovereign using their teamwork and storage bracelets.
• The Guardians went to the Sovereign High Priest to collect their reward for the mission.
• The High Priest handed Nebula over as payment for the Guardians’ work.
• Star-Lord flirted with the High Priest, then called his suggestion disgusting when he noticed Gamora watching him.

After Star-Lord and Rocket stole Sovereign energy batteries, the Sovereign fleet attacked the Guardians of the Galaxy and cornered them. Just as the High Priest ordered their destruction, Star-Lord’s father, Ego, appeared and destroyed the fleet.

• Star-Lord and Rocket admitted they had stolen Sovereign energy batteries, with Star-Lord boasting that he had taken a whole handful.
• The Sovereign fleet attacked the Milano, forcing Star-Lord and his crew to flee through a barrage of weapons.
• The Sovereign ships surrounded the Guardians, and Star-Lord tried to bargain with the High Priest, who ordered them destroyed.
• Ego arrived in an egg-shaped spacecraft and destroyed the thousands of Sovereign ships with a raised hand.

Ego found Star-Lord and claimed to be his father, offering to awaken his Celestial powers. Star-Lord agreed to visit Ego’s planet with Gamora and Drax, while Rocket stayed behind with Groot and Nebula.

• Ego destroyed the Sovereign fighters and approached the Guardians of the Galaxy, then introduced himself to Star-Lord as his father.
• Ego named Star-Lord’s mother, Meredith, and explained that he had left Earth and entrusted Yondu to bring Star-Lord to him.
• Ego recognized Star-Lord’s Celestial gene and offered to awaken his powers on his planet.
• Star-Lord agreed to go with Ego after asking him to prove their relationship, and asked to bring his friends.
• Rocket refused to go, choosing to repair the Milano and watch Nebula while Star-Lord, Gamora, and Drax left with Ego.

Star-Lord told Ego how Yondu and Chen Mu had mistreated him, and Ego vowed to deal with them after his current plans. When Ego sensed intruders near his planet, he transferred his consciousness there to confront them.

• Star-Lord told Ego that Yondu had threatened to eat him, and Ego vowed to settle things with Yondu after finishing his current business.
• Star-Lord said Chen Mu had tortured him for seventy-two hours, and Ego angrily demanded to know who had done it.
• Ego sensed uninvited guests near his true body and ordered Mantis to turn the ship toward his planet.
• Mantis obeyed Ego, while Gamora sensed that something was wrong with him.
• Ego transferred his consciousness to his planet, where its eyes opened.

Chen Mu and his companions arrived at Ego’s planet, and Chen Mu planned to send it to Wandering Earth as a replacement Moon for Nüwa. Star-Lord tried to enlist Ego against Chen Mu, but Chen Mu froze time and trapped Star-Lord in Tsukuyomi Space again.

• Tony, Lu Renjia, and the others mocked Star-Lord’s attraction to Gamora while Long Aotian asked whether Ego was about to return.
• Chen Mu spotted Ego’s egg-shaped spaceship emerging from a jump stargate and led the group down to the planet.
• Chen Mu explained that he intended to send Ego’s planet to another world, and Tony realized it could become a replacement Moon for Wandering Earth.
• Chen Mu and Long Aotian landed as Ego’s ship arrived, and Star-Lord recognized them and tried to complain to Ego.
• Chen Mu froze time, pulled out two Heavenly Soldier Robots with iron-spiked whips, and trapped Star-Lord in Tsukuyomi Space.

Chen Mu sent Star-Lord through three days of torture in Tsukuyomi Space, leaving him humiliated before Ego and the Guardians. At Ego’s palace, Ego began recounting his origins and revealed that he had fathered Star-Lord, while the group questioned him about his body.

• Chen Mu left Tsukuyomi Space after two Heavenly Soldier Robots tortured Star-Lord for three days and three nights inside it.
• Drax noticed Star-Lord had wet himself, and Star-Lord collapsed as he emerged from the dimension.
• Gamora recognized Chen Mu and Long Aotian, and Star-Lord nervously called them his friends.
• Ego brought the group to his palace, intending to use Star-Lord as a source of divine power rather than nurture him.
• Ego told Star-Lord that he was a Celestial who had come to Earth and fathered him.
• Drax asked whether Ego had a dick, and Ego answered that he did and was well-endowed.

Ego revealed that he had fathered many children and disposed of them, then admitted he had killed Star-Lord’s mother to protect his plans. He activated Star-Lord’s Celestial power and restrained him, leaving Star-Lord furious after learning the truth.

• Tony asked Ego whether he could have children with other species, and Ego admitted he had many nonhuman offspring.
• Star-Lord learned that Ego had sent his other children to the planet and used them as nourishment.
• Ego told the Guardians that Yondu had been supposed to deliver Star-Lord and said he would make Yondu pay.
• Ego grabbed Star-Lord and activated his Celestial power, intending to use him as a battery for his plan to influence the universe.
• Ego admitted that he had caused Star-Lord’s mother’s brain tumor and crushed Star-Lord’s Walkman, and Star-Lord recovered his emotions and confronted him in fury.

Ego revealed that he had killed Star-Lord’s mother and began draining Star-Lord’s Celestial power to fuel his plan to absorb planets across the universe. When Ego’s planted seeds began spreading on Earth, Chen Mu and the others intervened, leaving the fight against Ego underway.

• Star-Lord confronted Ego over his mother’s death and the destruction of his Walkman, but Ego restrained him and drained his awakened Celestial power.
• Ego told Star-Lord that his siblings were in underground caverns and said he would keep him there for a thousand years.
• Drax attacked Ego’s energy body with his daggers, but his physical blows could not hurt it.
• Ego activated the parts of his body planted on planets throughout the universe, causing them to spread like cancer and consume the worlds.
• Gamora asked Chen Mu and the others to save Star-Lord after Ego’s seeds began devouring cities in Michigan.
• Chen Mu, Long Aotian, and Lu Renjia’s dormitory attacked Ego’s energy tentacles and hindered his movements.