Chapter Summaries

Ye Li reached the Soul Stone on Soul Crag and made Jack and Rose face the sacrifice required to obtain it. Their refusal to choose between themselves ended when the Soul Stone dragged them beneath the cliff, leaving their fate unclear.

• Ye Li revealed that he knew Red Skull’s identity and told him he had come for the Soul Stone.
• Red Skull stepped aside as Ye Li released Jack and Rose near the cliff and ordered Jack to throw Rose down.
• Jack and Rose refused to sacrifice each other and declared that they would jump together.
• Ye Li threatened to throw both jellyfish monsters off the cliff if they would not choose one to sacrifice.
• A pillar of light seized Jack and Rose and dragged them beneath the cliff as they screamed.

After the Soul Stone vanished along with the two people Ye Li had brought to Vormir, he used his divine power to seal the planet and dragged it into his divine realm. There he trapped the fleeing Soul Stone and began refining it into a divine artifact, while Clea watched Vormir arrive and feared Ye Li had destroyed its inhabitants.

• When the Soul Stone failed to appear and the people he brought disappeared, Ye Li demanded that it show itself.
• Ye Li spread his divine power across Vormir, destabilizing space and causing the Soul Stone to flee toward outer space.
• Ye Li clenched his hand and moved Vormir from its place in space into his divine realm.
• Clea saw Vormir appear overhead and assumed Ye Li had destroyed everyone on the planet.
• Ye Li used the realm’s woven ribbons to trap the Soul Stone, then enclosed Vormir in his hands and began refining the stone into a divine artifact.

Ye Li captured and refined the Soul Stone, which revealed that it was a talkative girl who claimed to be part of Nemesis, a goddess formed from seven gems. After Clea confronted Ye Li in the Divine Kingdom over keeping her imprisoned and playing with her using starry Silk, he asked whether she wanted him to marry her.

• Ye Li ignored the Soul Stone's pleas, refined it, and caused Red Skull's body to dissipate as its power was sealed.
• The Soul Stone spoke again and told Ye Li that its mother was Nemesis, the Goddess of Vengeance.
• The Soul Stone explained that Nemesis shattered herself into seven gems, including an Ego Stone, and that gathering them could summon her.
• Ye Li put the Soul Stone away after learning it did not want Nemesis resurrected, fearing she would absorb it again.
• Clea confronted Ye Li in the Divine Kingdom, accused him of forgetting her and playing with her using starry Silk, and Ye Li asked if she wanted him to marry her.

Ye Li took Clea to barren Vormir and transformed it into a flourishing world, showing her he did not slaughter innocent planets. Clea admired the creation, but Ye Li kept her there and insisted she complete one thing before he would give her a way to leave.

• Clea demanded to know whether Ye Li had been slaughtering innocent planets, and he carried her to Vormir to show her the truth.
• Clea admitted she had misunderstood Ye Li but refused to apologize, and Ye Li kissed her.
• Ye Li transformed barren Vormir into a world of flowers, a lake, and golden fish, leaving Clea amazed.
• Clea asked whether Ye Li had created the world for her, and he said she could stay there and ask Wanda for anything she needed.
• Clea protested that Ye Li would not let her leave because her uncle was Dormammu, and Ye Li said he might give her a key if she completed one thing first.
• Ye Li tossed Clea into the flowers and pounced after her.

Ye Li and Clea grew closer as he unlocked a relationship task that would let her travel freely to and from the divine realm. Meanwhile, the Milano headed for Knowhere, where Drax and Solus confronted the Guardians; the chapter ended with Clea receiving a Silk-woven battle dress and realm key from Ye Li.

• Ye Li triggered Clea’s relationship task, which required granting her free passage to and from the divine realm and offered a physique boost as its reward.
• The Milano departed Xandar for Knowhere, and Rocket Raccoon dismantled parts of Star-Lord’s ship while assembling a bomb.
• Drax and the cloaked Solus boarded the Milano, and Drax demanded that Gamora tell him where Ronan was.
• On Vormir, Clea complained that Ye Li had ruined her rune-inscribed battle dress, and he promised to replace it with a key to the divine realm.
• Ye Li used the Web of Destiny to weave Clea a matching purple battle dress that also granted enhancements, leaving her wary of whether he could control the Silk.

Ye Li and Clea grew closer on Vormir, while Drax arrived at the Milano ready to confront Gamora before Ye Li’s message stopped him. The chapter left Drax waiting with Star-Lord’s crew and Clea recovering beside Ye Li.

• Clea accepted the Silk Suit after Ye Li reassured her, and they went to bathe together in the lake on Vormir.
• Ye Li completed Clea’s Relationship Task and stacked her template.
• Drax confronted Gamora aboard the Milano, demanding to know where Ronan was, while Gamora and Star-Lord prepared to fight.
• Solus delivered Ye Li’s message telling Drax to avoid conflict and wait quietly, so Drax put away his weapons.
• Drax agreed to explain his purpose to Star-Lord and the others, while Clea flirted with Ye Li and praised him as she recovered in the lake.

Clea fell asleep peacefully beside Ye Li, while Star-Lord and his companions brought the Orb to the Collector and discovered its interior was empty. As Ronan arrived at Knowhere, Star-Lord began to suspect someone had taken the Infinity Stone after knocking him unconscious.

• Clea told Ye Li she wanted to sleep beside him, and he covered her with an enlarged petal so she could rest.
• Star-Lord and his companions arrived at Knowhere and met Taneleer Tivan, the Collector, to sell the Orb.
• The Collector explained the Infinity Stones and opened the Orb, revealing that it was empty.
• Gamora and the others questioned Star-Lord, who remembered being knocked unconscious after taking the Orb from the hall.
• Ronan's warships descended on Knowhere, and Gamora handed the empty Orb to Star-Lord as they faced his arrival.

Star-Lord and his companions tricked Ronan with an empty Orb containing a bomb, then fought his forces after the explosion failed to defeat him. Drax battled Ronan and began to lose ground, while Gamora was occupied fighting a woman with a mechanical head.

• The Collector expelled Star-Lord and his companions from his territory, and they encountered Ronan as he arrived.
• Star-Lord handed Ronan the empty Orb, then distracted him with an awkward dance while Rocket detonated the bomb hidden inside it.
• Star-Lord, Drax, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, and Gamora attacked Ronan and his forces, while Solus remained still under Ye Li's control.
• Ronan survived the blast and knocked Drax flying with his warhammer.
• Drax charged Ronan again but gradually fell behind, while Star-Lord and Rocket held off the surrounding soldiers.
• Star-Lord looked toward Gamora for help and saw her fighting a woman with a mechanical head.

Ye Li left Clea on Vormir and took control of Solus to intervene as Ronan defeated Drax and cornered the Guardians on Knowhere. Solus disarmed Ronan and fought off his attack while Star-Lord and the others covered him.

• Star-Lord pleaded with the motionless Solus to help fight Ronan on Knowhere.
• Ye Li spoke with Clea on Vormir and told her to wait while he dealt with the situation.
• Ye Li sensed through Solus that Ronan had defeated Drax and surrounded Rocket, Star-Lord, and the others.
• Ronan approached Solus, suspecting he might have an Infinity Stone, and attacked him with his warhammer.
• Solus caught Ronan's hammer, struck him with its handle, and seized the weapon.
• Ronan's troops aimed their guns at Solus, so Star-Lord and the others provided cover for him.

Ye Li defeated Ronan, erased his fleet, and recruited the Guardians to work for him. After the Collector plotted to seize the Infinity Stones, Ye Li destroyed him and his museum, while Ego dismissed the threat and planned to pursue Ye Li alone.

• Solus's War Hammer knocked Ronan down, and Ronan ordered his fleet to attack the group.
• Ye Li emerged with Clea, destroyed the fleet, and snapped Ronan into ash.
• Drax pledged himself to Ye Li, and the Guardians agreed to work for him while asking for help with their problems.
• The Collector contacted the Elders of the Universe to enlist help against Ye Li, but Ye Li noticed and crushed the Collector and his museum in a singularity.
• The Grandmaster and Ego discussed the Collector's disappearance and Ye Li's power, and Ego rejected cooperation and set out to claim the Infinity Stones for himself.

Ye Li recruited the Guardians of the Galaxy to take over Knowhere and made them a branch of the Ghost-Spider Club. Back on the Ghost-Spider, he introduced Clea as one of his sisters, prompting Wanda to challenge him with the Tiger Talisman.

• At a restaurant on Knowhere, Clea threatened Star-Lord for flirting, and Gamora kicked him when he kept talking.
• Ye Li gave the Guardians information about the Ghost-Spider Club and assigned them to take over Knowhere, telling them that the Collector was gone.
• Ye Li named the Guardians the club’s universal investigation branch and told them to keep their familiar team name.
• Ye Li and Clea arrived aboard the Ghost-Spider near Xandar, where Wanda confronted them after sensing their arrival.
• Ye Li admitted Clea was now one of Wanda’s sisters, and Wanda threatened to teach him a lesson with the Tiger Talisman.
• Ye Li sent Clea with Veronica to find a room while he stayed behind to talk with Wanda.

Ye Li teased Wanda and used the Tiger Talisman to create two versions of her, while Black Bolt’s rampage on Earth prompted the military to consider releasing Abomination. As a new Stars and Stripes-clad figure arrived at Black Bolt’s battlefield, the chapter left his identity and the confrontation unresolved.

• Ye Li teased Wanda after Clea left and used the Tiger Talisman to bring out two Wandas.
• The military panicked after Black Bolt destroyed tanks, soldiers, and part of the ground, and Ross considered sending Abomination against him.
• A flying figure wearing a Stars and Stripes cape appeared on the military’s surveillance footage, so Ross delayed his order.
• Ye Li arrived at Ghost-Spider with two Wandas and chose to spend time with the timid Good Wanda.
• A confident, fierce-looking figure descended into the ruins where Black Bolt was fighting.

Homelander fought Black Bolt, but Doctor Doom intervened and offered Black Bolt a chance to talk. Black Bolt accepted Doom’s invitation after Homelander fled.

• Homelander challenged Black Bolt, who repelled his attack with a quasi-sonic shout.
• Homelander exchanged beams with Black Bolt, then struck him with lightning and forced him into a close-quarters fight.
• Homelander clamped Black Bolt’s mouth shut to prevent him from unleashing his voice during the fight.
• Doctor Doom arrived, blasted Homelander away, and offered to help Black Bolt and speak with him.
• Homelander fled, and Black Bolt nodded in agreement to go with Doctor Doom.

Victor von Doom recruited Black Bolt into a secret organization aimed at opposing Ye Li, then approached Reed Richards with a fabricated righteous cause to secure his help. Reed listened as Victor accused the Ghost-Spider Club of abuses and showed him information about its clone legion.

• Victor von Doom offered Black Bolt help reviving his race in exchange for joining his organization, and Black Bolt agreed after recognizing Ye Li as the man who had taken Medusa.
• Victor considered recruiting Reed Richards, believing Reed was also grieving over Sue’s departure.
• Johnny rejected Reed’s request to bring Sue for an examination, accused him of hoping to win her back, and hung up.
• Victor visited Reed and proposed that they work together against Ye Li.
• Victor showed Reed information about the Ghost-Spider Club’s alleged infiltration of the council and human experiments involving its clone legion.

Reed Richards joined Victor von Doom’s secret alliance with Magneto, Black Bolt, and Hive, which Doom named the Illuminati. Meanwhile, Ye Li reunited Wanda’s two selves with the Tiger Talisman and later left them resting as he took a walk aboard the Vibranium Mothership.

• Reed Richards agreed to provide technical support while Victor von Doom planned to target the Ghost-Spider Club and its leaders.
• Doctor Doom introduced Reed to Magneto, Black Bolt, and Hive in a hidden Latverian base, where Black Bolt injured Hive after it mocked him.
• Doctor Doom stopped the dispute and announced that the group would form the Illuminati.
• Ye Li used the Tiger Talisman to reunite the two Wandas, and she told him she liked him and wanted to repeat the experience.
• Ye Li left Wanda, Rachel, and Airedia sleeping and went for a walk through the Vibranium Mothership’s simulated ecological zone.

Ye Li discovered that Galacta had brought a Flerken into the ecological zone after finding it in an asteroid belt, and stopped her from eating it when he realized it wore a collar. After the Flerken demonstrated its ability to swallow an alien monster, Ye Li decided to use its tracking tag to help its owner find it.

• Ye Li watched a Flerken swallow a pink alien animal in the ecological zone and noticed the orange cat wore a collar.
• Galacta admitted she had found the Flerken in an asteroid belt and planned to eat it because it had not gotten fat.
• Ye Li stopped Galacta and explained that the collared Flerken might be someone else's pet.
• Galacta fed the Flerken an alien monster to demonstrate its dangerous flower-shaped maw to Felicia, Dilumon, Sue, and Cindy.
• Ye Li identified a tracking device on the Flerken's tag and decided to have Veronica remove its signal block so its owner could find it.
• Ye Li made Galacta responsible for caring for the Flerken and warned her not to eat it.

Ego arrived at Xandar demanding the Infinity Stones, but Ye Li drew him into his divine kingdom and killed him. Afterward, Ye Li found Mantis alive inside a ball of light and reassured her.

• Galacta tossed the Flerken back into the ecological zone and sensed a vast amount of matter-energy approaching.
• Ego appeared above Xandar, demanded that the Ghost-Spider hand over the Infinity Stones, and alarmed the planet’s people and leaders.
• Ye Li recognized Ego, ordered Veronica to fire the mothership’s main cannon, and then sealed Ego inside his divine kingdom to protect Xandar.
• Ye Li covered the divine kingdom with the Mirror Dimension and destroyed Ego with a spear of divine power and Chaos Magic.
• Ye Li found Mantis inside a ball of light and reassured her when he saw how frightened she was.

Ye Li made Mantis his new maid after killing Ego, then tested her empathic abilities with Cindy. Meanwhile, the Nova Empire prepared to use Ronan’s defeat as leverage in negotiations with the Kree.

• Ye Li claimed Mantis as his new maid and dressed her in a revealing uniform after killing Ego.
• Ye Li declined the Nova Empire’s banquet invitation and asked them to send tangible thanks instead.
• Ye Li invited Cindy to meet Mantis, then had the two hold hands while he kissed Cindy, causing Mantis to feel Cindy’s emotions.
• The Nova Empire’s leader learned Ye Li had dealt with Ego and planned to use Ronan’s defeat to strengthen the Empire’s position against the Kree.

As Captain Marvel approached the Ghost-Spider to find her missing Flerken, Ye Li left Galacta to return it, but the two began fighting and shook the mothership. The chapter ended with Ye Li asking Veronica what had happened.

• A subordinate told the Supreme Leader that Captain Marvel was approaching Xandar aboard the delayed Kree envoy ship, and he ordered the Nova Corps to remain alert.
• Carol Danvers’s tracker reacted, so she flew away from the Kree ship toward the Ghost-Spider.
• Mantis shared Cindy’s sensations through her empathic ability and triggered a relationship task with Ye Li.
• Ye Li told Veronica to have Galacta return Carol’s Flerken and resumed working on the task with Mantis.
• The Ghost-Spider’s hull shook, and Veronica reported that Carol and Galacta had started fighting.

Ye Li stopped Galacta and Carol Danvers from fighting over Goose, then revealed that he and his crew were from Earth. Carol reconciled with Galacta and invited Ye Li to attend the Nova Empire’s banquet with her.

• Carol Danvers attacked Galacta after discovering she had tried to eat Goose, but Galacta swallowed Carol’s energy beam and caught her kick.
• Ye Li arrived, separated the two, and told Carol that Galacta was no match for her.
• Carol learned that Ye Li and most of the people aboard his mothership were from Earth, and she made peace with Galacta.
• Ye Li offered Carol a meal of Earth food, but she declined because she had to accompany the Kree delegation to a banquet.
• Carol invited Ye Li to attend the banquet with her, and he recognized her interest in him.