Chapter Summaries

A mysterious youth revealed his ability to fly and endured a barrage of rockets without injury, then sent flames back at Colonel Cage’s soldiers. Henrik also survived the attack by turning transparent, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• The youth rose into the air as his presence overwhelmed the soldiers, Henrik, Colonel Cage, and the watching residents.
• Henrik challenged the youth, and Colonel Cage ordered soldiers to fire anti-tank rockets at him.
• The rockets exploded around the youth, but he emerged unharmed, even with his clothes intact.
• The youth sent flames across the battlefield, engulfing several soldiers and Henrik.
• Henrik appeared unharmed and transparent, prompting his mutants to praise his ability.

Su Yao used Sunshine Pervades to dispel Henrik's Power of Emptiness, shocking the Mutant Underground Organization and Colonel Cage. As a massive barrage of rockets and bullets closed in, Su Yao's light suddenly filled the area around him.

• Henrik advanced on Su Yao, confident that his Power of Emptiness would make him invulnerable.
• Su Yao instinctively activated Sunshine Pervades, and its light forced the intangibility affecting him and Venom to recede.
• Henrik was stunned that his ability had failed, while the Mutant Underground Organization and Colonel Cage watched in disbelief.
• Colonel Cage recognized Su Yao's light but assumed its effects could not reach him from more than sixty meters away.
• The commander ordered the troops and helicopter to fire a dense barrage at Su Yao, and Henrik joined in, confident the attacks could not hurt him.
• As bullets and rockets flew toward him, Su Yao's light blazed across the dark sky and illuminated the area around him.

Su Yao’s Level 3 Sunshine Pervades destroyed the soldiers, Colonel Cage, and Henrik, but drained nearly all his Light Energy. After blocking a shot and killing one soldier with Black Particle, he flew away, leaving the survivors to withdraw and the battle’s impact to spread.

• Su Yao’s Sunshine Pervades disintegrated incoming rockets and bullets, then turned Colonel Cage, Henrik, and the soldiers within its range to ash.
• The residents and members of the Mutant Underground Organization stared in terror as they realized their enemies had been killed.
• Su Yao noticed his Light Energy was nearly depleted and saw that some soldiers and mutants remained outside the light’s range.
• When a soldier fired at Su Yao, Venom blocked the bullet, and Su Yao killed the soldier with a weakened Black Particle.
• Su Yao flew away without being challenged, and the red-clothed woman led the remaining Mutant Underground Organization members away to discuss countermeasures.
• The remaining soldiers and residents also left as news of the battle began to spread.

Magneto Erik and the X-Men learned that Su Yao had killed nearly all the soldiers and Henrik with his light. At Number Twenty-Three Base, Alessandro watched a video of Su Yao using that power.

• Mystique Raven told Magneto Erik that Su Yao had killed almost everyone, including Henrik.
• Mystique Raven described how Su Yao flew and used light to kill the soldiers and Henrik, shocking Magneto Erik and his subordinates.
• Magneto Erik wondered whether Su Yao was the Omega Mutant Charles had discovered, then ordered Mystique Raven to intensify the search for him.
• Scott, Jean, and Ao Luo Luo learned that the soldiers and Henrik had died and were shocked by Su Yao's power.
• Prison guard Marco showed Base Chief Alessandro a video of Su Yao releasing light.

Alessandro concluded that Kevin had limits and planned to use his cells for experiments while pushing the government to resume the pursuit. Yi Li Na announced that the operation had only been postponed, prompting Wolverine Luo Gen and his companions to investigate, while Su Yao wondered how the rain would affect his Energy Point collection.

• Alessandro watched footage of Kevin's battle and decided that the teenager could be harmed, then asked Marco whether they had obtained any of Kevin's body tissue for experiments.
• Yi Li Na's boss ordered her to cover up the failed operation, and she later told viewers that the capture mission had been postponed until more troops and weapons were ready.
• Wolverine Luo Gen and his companions watched Yi Li Na's announcement, grew worried and suspicious, and agreed with Otto to investigate.
• Government departments began erasing traces and stopping information from leaking as Su Yao considered how the torrential rain would hinder his Energy Point collection.

Su Yao continued collecting Energy Points and avoiding trackers until a massive red energy force from space descended on America and struck Jean. The force was absorbed into Jean, who woke unharmed, while Su Yao watched from nearby.

• Su Yao sheltered from the rain with Venom, gathered Energy Points, and saved them rather than spending them.
• NASA staff detected a huge red energy mass approaching Earth and watched it rush toward America.
• Su Yao and Venom saw the red energy approach Cyclops Scott, Jean, and Ao Luo Luo.
• Jean sent Cyclops Scott and Storm away, then tried to stop the energy with telekinesis before it swallowed her.
• The red energy contracted into Jean, forming phoenix-like wings before disappearing into her body.
• Cyclops Scott and Storm reached Jean after she landed, and Jean woke and said she was fine.

Su Yao identified the arriving cosmic power as a fragment of the Phoenix Force and worried that Jean might become Black Phoenix. After Jean repelled Professor X’s examination, three alien ships reached Earth, and the Debari survivors infiltrated a party while pursuing the Phoenix Force.

• Su Yao recognized the red phoenix as the Phoenix Force and considered how its arrival might awaken Jean’s darker personality.
• Su Yao decided to grow stronger and trained his Levitation Flight while absorbing Light Energy.
• At X-Academy, Jean said she felt as if everything in her had been activated, then telekinetically hurled Professor X away when he examined her mind.
• Three alien spacecraft descended toward a river as the X-Men dealt with the disturbance at the academy.
• Margaret found gray aliens in the forest, and they killed the partygoers before disguising themselves as humans.
• The Debari survivors, whose planet the Phoenix Force had destroyed, infiltrated the gathering to pursue the Phoenix Force on Earth.

Margaret found Jean and tried to persuade her to embrace the cosmic power inside her, revealing that it had destroyed the Debari Star before choosing Jean. As news of Su’s battle spread across the world, Margaret saw a television report about him and asked who he was.

• Jean’s unstable condition worsened, and she escaped X-Academy while the X-Men searched for her.
• Margaret met with the remaining Debari Aliens, who told her that the cosmic power had entered a powerful mutant and that the mutant did not understand it.
• Margaret found Jean in a bar and urged her to stop fearing her abilities and reject the limits imposed by the X-Men.
• Margaret showed Jean a vision of the cosmic energy destroying the Debari Star and explained that it had chosen Jean; Jean concluded that people might try to destroy what they feared.
• Wolverine Luo Gen, Otto, Chris, and the others learned that Su had defeated over a hundred soldiers and a powerful mutant, and the report spread widely online and on television.
• Margaret saw a television report about Su and asked the tall black man who he was.

The Debari People watched reports claiming a government operation against a mutant child had failed, while Jean said she knew the powerful mutant the X-Men had been seeking. Wolverine Luo Gen brought Chris and the others to X-Academy for help finding Su, but learned that Jean had gone missing; meanwhile, Bolivar Doctor unveiled Sentinel Robots designed to copy mutant abilities and declared the teenage mutant their first target.

• Yi Li Na released a statement saying the government would launch another operation within a day or two after viewers challenged reports that the previous one had failed.
• Margaret and the other Debari People expressed disbelief at the reports, and Jean said she knew the mutant and that the X-Men had wanted to recruit him.
• Wolverine Luo Gen brought Chris and the others to X-Academy to ask for help finding Su, but Storm said the school had not found him and was focused on Jean, who had gone missing after developing a violent second personality.
• Luo Gen and the others decided to stay at X-Academy and see whether they could help.
• Bolivar Doctor revealed a Sentinel Robot that could transform and copy mutant abilities, explaining that its copied powers would be shared through a database.
• Bolivar Doctor said the Sentinels would eliminate the teenage mutant, and Alessandro agreed that the boy would be unable to defeat them.

Su Yao reached level 4 in Levitation Flight and raised his Unlock Progress to 99%, while the government prepared Sentinel Robots to target mutants. Jean set out to follow the force drawing her in as the X-Men and Magneto headed toward her, and Yi Li Na announced that the government operation had begun.

• Alessandro and Bolivar Doctor discussed the Sentinel Robot production lines and a small robot designed to gather mutants' genetic data.
• Su Yao reached level 4 in Levitation Flight, increasing his energy capacity and flight speed, and saw his remaining lifespan rise to 140 days.
• Su Yao spent 65,326 Energy Points to increase his Unlock Progress from 90% to 99%, but noticed no immediate change.
• Jean told Margaret and the Debari People that something was drawing her in and decided to investigate, so they prepared to accompany her.
• Professor X and Magneto Erik joined the X-Men as they headed toward Jean.
• Yi Li Na began a livestream and told viewers that government departments had started taking action against the mutant.

The government unveiled the Sentinel Robots in a nationwide broadcast and sent them to capture Su Yao. After the robots surrounded him and shattered his Reflection Shield with a barrage of lasers, Su Yao discovered he could release the energy they had fired.

• Yi Li Na introduced the Sentinel Robots during a live broadcast, and one robot copied Omar's rock-transformation ability before defeating and restraining him.
• Su Yao sensed danger approaching while collecting Light Energy, but told Venom they could not escape the nearly hundred Sentinel Robots closing in.
• Su Yao recognized the robots and flew toward the sky as they surrounded him and fired a barrage of Laser Beams.
• Su Yao blocked the attack with a Reflection Shield, dodged the lasers that shattered it, then gathered their energy and raised his hand to return it.

Su Yao fought off the Sentinel Robots while considering whether to use Sunshine Pervades, and the X-Men confronted Jean. Jean rejected their attempt to bring her back and revealed overwhelming power as Margaret urged her to trust herself and Magneto Erik tried to reach her.

• Su Yao destroyed two Sentinel Robots with a Black Particle but hesitated to use Sunshine Pervades against the more than ninety remaining machines.
• Professor X Charles, Magneto Erik, Wolverine Luo Gen, Storm, and the others blocked Jean and Margaret’s path and asked Jean to return with them.
• Jean said she was doing well and did not need to go back, then used telekinesis to hurl Wolverine Luo Gen away.
• Jean deflected Storm’s lightning and stopped Magneto Erik’s chain, then uprooted more than a dozen houses as Margaret encouraged her to follow her desires.
• Magneto Erik asked Jean if she remembered their first meeting and what he had seen in her.

Su Yao arrived amid the battle with Black Phoenix Jean, who effortlessly destroyed Sentinel Robots before turning her power on him. As Jean began to disintegrate him, Su Yao lost control and unleashed a massive eruption of energy.

• Magneto Erik urged Jean to embrace her power and lead mutants, while Wolverine Luo Gen and Otto doubted Su Yao could stop her.
• Su Yao flew onto the battlefield with Sentinel Robots pursuing him and warned Luo Gen and the others that the machines could copy mutant abilities.
• Jean froze and disintegrated Sentinel Robots, whose systems could neither absorb nor copy her power.
• Jean seized Su Yao with an invisible force, sealed his Space Teleportation, and began disintegrating him as the others cried out for her to stop.
• Su Yao lost control as energy surged through him, unleashing a blast that sent a hurricane through the battlefield and blew buildings away.

Su Yao's mutant ability went out of control and clashed with Black Phoenix Jean, destroying the city and leaving a vast crater. The survivors were left terrified by his power, while Magneto Erik wondered whether Su was the Omega Mutant Charles had mentioned.

• Su Yao unleashed platinum-white energy that destroyed the approaching Steel Form Sentinel Robots and began annihilating the city.
• Professor X Charles realized Su Yao's ability had gone out of control as Black Phoenix Jean struggled to restrain him.
• Jean's Phoenix Force awakened more deeply, and she and Su Yao battled through the sky, destroying everything in their path.
• Su Yao transformed, gathered sunlight into a blazing sun, and released scorching light and power of nothingness that reduced the city to dust.
• The survivors and viewers stared in horror at the crater, while Magneto Erik wondered whether Su Yao was the Omega Mutant Charles had mentioned.

After losing control and destroying much of a city, Su Yao defeated Black Phoenix Jean and teleported away as his Unlock Progress reached 100%. The X-Men and the Debari People resolved to find him, while Professor X warned that his power could become catastrophic if someone controlled him.

• Magneto Erik recognized that Su Yao's destructive power marked him as an Omega Mutant.
• Su Yao defeated Black Phoenix Jean, whose injured body vanished in flames after she apologized and looked toward Scott, Luo Gen, and the others.
• Su Yao regained consciousness, sensed that Jean was still alive, reached 100% Unlock Progress, and teleported to a Primeval Forest before collapsing beneath a tree.
• Professor X Charles said he had sensed Jean's consciousness and identified Su Yao as the Omega Mutant he had been searching for.
• Professor X Charles urged the X-Men to find Su Yao before anyone could capture or control him, while the Debari People also decided to seek him out and study his power.
• Bolivar Doctor and Base Chief Alessandro questioned the usefulness of the Sentinel Robots after they failed against Jean and Su Yao.

After losing control and erasing a city, Su Yao discovered that his Orochi abilities were locked and wondered what connection he had formed with Earth. Meanwhile, Kaecilius found forbidden knowledge about Dormammu and an unresponsive Earth-like being, leaving him poised to pursue a way to resurrect his family.

• Bolivar Doctor and Alessandro feared Su Yao’s power, while the public began calling the catastrophe the Light Event and labeled him a demon or the mutant Messiah.
• Su Yao woke in a primeval forest and learned from Venom that his loss of control had injured him.
• Su Yao checked his status and found his unlock progress at zero, his abilities locked, and his energy points depleted.
• Su Yao recalled sensing a connection with Earth when Orochi’s unlock progress reached one hundred percent, but could not understand what it meant.
• Kaecilius secretly searched Kama Taj’s forbidden books and found a ritual for contacting Dormammu, who could grant power and immortality.
• Kaecilius read that a ritual had contacted another being called the Dao, Alaya, or Gaia, but it had received no response.

Kaecilius summoned Su Yao while seeking a way to resurrect his wife and child. Su Yao recognized Kaecilius and, sensing that the Cosmic Cube could restore his powers, promised to reveal resurrection methods if Kaecilius stole it from S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Kaecilius performed a ritual to contact the Demon God, but at first he received no response.
• Su Yao heard Kaecilius’s prayer in the Primeval Forest and answered him.
• Kaecilius asked Su Yao to resurrect his wife and child, and Su Yao recognized him as the future villain who would serve Dormammu.
• Su Yao sensed that the Cosmic Cube could help restore his abilities and told Kaecilius he would explain how to resurrect the dead if Kaecilius obtained it from S.H.I.E.L.D.

Su Yao discovered that he could lend Kaecilius light energy and certain abilities, then learned of a forbidden ritual that could merge their universes. He planned to obtain the Cosmic Cube and increase the Scarlet Witch’s Unlock Progress before attempting it, while Kaecilius became eager to gain Su Yao’s power.

• Kaecilius asked Su Yao to lend him power, and Su Yao’s light energy healed some of Kaecilius’s injuries without apparent negative effects.
• Su Yao discovered that he could lend certain abilities, but his locked abilities could not be shared; he also glimpsed Kaecilius’s magical memories.
• Su Yao found a forbidden ritual that could merge the two universes, though it required a massive energy source and an influential being to perform it.
• Su Yao considered using the Cosmic Cube and the Scarlet Witch’s probability-modifying ability to make the ritual possible, and decided Kaecilius’s success in obtaining the Cube was crucial.
• Su Yao promised Kaecilius methods to resurrect the dead and exclusive power if Kaecilius obtained the Cosmic Cube and used it to set up a magic ritual.

Su Yao arranged his side of the ritual while Kaecilius recruited five followers and led them to steal the Cosmic Cube from S.H.I.E.L.D. After Kaecilius used it to complete the ritual and contacted Su Yao, Su Yao considered whether his 13,106 Energy Points were enough to unlock the Scarlet Witch's panel.

• Su Yao drew the ritual and gathered Energy Points as Kaecilius prepared his own arrangements.
• Kaecilius revealed his borrowed power to five trusted mage followers and promised they could gain power by helping him.
• Kaecilius ordered the mages to find information on S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Cosmic Cube, then led them through a portal into the underground laboratory.
• Kaecilius and his followers disarmed the guards, stole the Cosmic Cube, and escaped through a portal before S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel arrived.
• Kaecilius and the mages placed the Cosmic Cube at the center of the ritual and contacted Su Yao to say it was ready.
• Su Yao saw that he had 13,106 Energy Points and focused on the Scarlet Witch's panel.

Su Yao unlocked and leveled up Wanda’s Modify Probability ability, then used it to help stabilize Kaecilius’s Cosmic Cube ritual. At the brink of collapse, a trace of red light emerged from Su Yao as he uttered “Fuse,” and powerful beings across the universe sensed a change.

• Su Yao spent his Energy Points to unlock Modify Probability and tested it by making a marked stone land on the marked side every time.
• Su Yao raised Modify Probability to Level 2, while Venom watched in astonishment.
• Kaecilius received the demon god’s command, activated the Cosmic Cube ritual, and sent a beam of blue energy into the sky.
• The beam appeared above Su Yao in the Primeval Forest, and he chanted the spell to activate his own ritual.
• As the ritual destabilized under crushing pressure, Su Yao used Modify Probability to steady it, then lost control of his ability and released red light while whispering “Fuse.”
• Ancient One, God King Odin Borson, and other powerful beings sensed Su Yao’s words and the change in the universe.