Chapter Summaries

Bai Jing organized the thoughts in his mind into the Thirty-Three Heavens Great Universe, then prepared to face a visitor demanding that he release his younger brother.

• Bai Jing reconsidered how to rank strength, distinguishing breadth of power from depth of control over matter.
• Bai Jing empowered fifty million sophons with Space and Mind abilities and brought them into his mind lake.
• Bai Jing transformed the Thirty-Three Heavens into countless worlds, which the sophons sorted into eleven great world clusters.
• Bai Jing noted that the Infinity Stones released energy slowly, though he expected his black hole might eventually grow strong enough to consume them.
• Bai Jing hung the stones around his neck and became a Peerless Chess Master before a visitor asked him to release his younger brother.

Thor demanded that Loki be tried on Earth, and Bai Jing set a public trial for one month later. After Lumira brought him a Uru Metal token, Diana used it to appear before Bai Jing and said the three-year deadline had arrived.

• Thor argued that Loki should be tried in Asgard, but Bai Jing insisted that the victims deserved a say and declared that most had refused to forgive him.
• Bai Jing told Thor the public trial would take place in one month and warned him against attempting a prison break.
• Bai Jing noticed Carol Danvers among the crowd but chose not to confront her.
• Lumira asked Bai Jing to have Diana remove her virgin goddess power, and Bai Jing teased her about dating while telling her guardians to protect her.
• Lumira left behind a token engraved with a tree and a woman, and Bai Jing identified it as an Asgardian Uru Metal artifact.
• Diana used the token to transport herself to Bai Jing and told him that the three-year deadline had arrived.

Bai Jing learned that Diana had risen to godhood by acquiring others’ divine authorities, then discovered he could read her thoughts through the Mind Ocean. He uncovered her plan to use him to seize Uranus’s power and pursue the divine powers of other Father Gods.

• Bai Jing reviewed Diana’s past and saw how she fled an arranged marriage, became the Goddess of Virgins, and rose through Jupiter’s pantheon.
• Bai Jing questioned Diana about how she had taken divine authority, but she claimed that killing a god naturally granted its essence.
• Diana tried to persuade Bai Jing to help kill Uranus by offering to share his divine power and suggesting they marry.
• Bai Jing realized that his Mind Ocean let him read the thoughts of lifeforms on Earth and secretly inspected Diana’s thoughts.
• Diana admitted in her thoughts that she intended to use Bai Jing to obtain Uranus’s power, then pursue Tira’s and Zeus’s divine powers.

Bai Jing questioned Diana about the Twelve Heavenly Father Powers and learned why Earth’s gods vanished from public view. Diana revealed that two Father God Powers had once fused into a divine bird that destroyed the gods around them, leaving the surviving Heavenly Fathers afraid to gather or form alliances.

• Bai Jing noticed that the gods’ powers differed from straightforward authorities and asked Diana what the Twelve Heavenly Father Powers could achieve.
• Diana accused Bai Jing of reading her mind, and they argued until she calmed her thoughts and explained that the Twelve Heavenly Fathers were holders of Father God’s Power across history.
• Diana said Father God’s Power strengthened its holder, granted authorities to descendants, and passed to the next generation after death, but she did not know what gathering all twelve would accomplish.
• Diana revealed that her father’s divine power fused with Osiris’s in 2800 BC after they perished together, forming a divine bird that destroyed the gods present.
• Diana explained that the surviving Heavenly Fathers concealed the event and withdrew into the deep cosmos because they feared the fused power and could not trust one another.

Bai Jing followed Diana to a hidden world, where Uranus and his followers believed he might possess Zhuanxu's power and could help them create a new universe. After Uranus stabbed Diana and revealed his distrust of her, he turned on Bai Jing and raised a formation.

• Bai Jing rejected Diana's offer, followed her through a spatial mark, and concealed himself in her world.
• Bai Jing discovered the world held only a small population and learned that its inhabitants believed he was Zhuanxu's heir.
• Bai Jing revealed himself and explained that the group planned to kill him and combine two kinds of Father God's Power.
• Uranus stabbed Diana with a black spear, accusing her of betrayal and declaring he had never trusted her.
• Uranus confronted Bai Jing and activated a formation to prevent him from leaving.

Uranus and the other gods questioned Bai Jing about Zhuanxu’s power, but Bai Jing mocked them and refused to cooperate. When Okeanos raised the Whip of the Sea against him, Bai Jing made Okeanos vanish, leaving the gods facing his power.

• Uranus activated a formation that suppressed divine power and questioned Bai Jing about Earth becoming accessible again and Zhuanxu’s protection.
• Bai Jing teased Uranus about his age and family, then refused to answer his questions.
• Tethys introduced herself as the former Sea God and spoke with Bai Jing about the Sea of Worlds.
• Okeanos demanded to know whether Bai Jing had inherited Zhuanxu’s power and threatened him with the Whip of the Sea.
• Bai Jing declared that Okeanos was gone, and Okeanos vanished instantly.

Bai Jing defeated Uranus and the gods of the Uranus Pantheon, took the King of Heaven's Sword and the Cup of Life, and obtained Zeus's coordinates after swearing to spare them. He exploited the oath's wording to devour all thirteen gods, then abruptly began meditating after something affected him.

• Uranus ordered Cronus to attack Bai Jing, but Bai Jing killed Cronus with a strand of hair, prompting Uranus to offer him the King of Heaven's Sword.
• Bai Jing accepted the sword but refused to forgive Uranus, then seized the Cup of Life after Uranus revealed it as the pantheon's trump card.
• Bai Jing demanded coordinates to other gods' worlds, and Uranus gave him Zeus's coordinates after Bai Jing swore to spare the Uranus Pantheon.
• Bai Jing invoked his role as adjudicator of the Order Society to justify breaking his oath, then devoured Uranus and the other twelve gods.
• Bai Jing's expression changed, and he sat down to meditate.

Bai Jing absorbed Uranus's Father God's Power, defeated Diana's schemes, and learned she had sought to revive Zhuanxu so they could be together. He summoned Zhuanxu, who rejected Diana's hopes after learning his family had already been revived and reunited.

• Bai Jing's body evolved after Uranus's Father God's Power entered him, so he sealed the power inside that body and questioned Diana.
• Diana admitted she had allied with Uranus to revive Zhuanxu, believing the Twelve Heavenly Father Powers could bring him back.
• Bai Jing summoned Zhuanxu with Impure World Reincarnation, and Diana dropped her pretense of being wounded to greet him.
• Zhuanxu recognized Diana as Little Luo and explained that he was a surviving fragment of his mind, not fully revived.
• Diana asked Zhuanxu to fulfill his promise to marry her, but he refused, and Bai Jing revealed Zhuanxu's family had already been revived and reunited.

Zhuanxu rejected Diana’s love and explained how his efforts had helped humanity stand apart from the gods. When he saw that Diana had become a threat to Bai Jing, he killed her and offered to teach Bai Jing to be less gentle as they headed for the Zeus Pantheon.

• Zhuanxu urged Diana to move on rather than pursue him, and she realized that accepting her would betray the responsible man she loved.
• Bai Jing told Zhuanxu that the gods had regained influence after his death, but modern humanity had become independent of them.
• Zhuanxu explained that his eyes could perceive information, then used a spear to kill Diana after seeing that her love had turned to hatred and revenge.
• Zhuanxu told Bai Jing that gods fed on humanity and that their nature made peaceful coexistence impossible.
• Zhuanxu called Bai Jing too gentle and offered to teach him before they went to the Zeus Pantheon.

Bai Jing and Zhuanxu arrived at Mount Olympus to kill Zeus and seize Father God's Power, but Zhuanxu warned Bai Jing that sparing enemies could endanger humanity. After Aphrodite revealed herself, Bai Jing killed her despite an unknown god's attempt to intervene.

• Bai Jing collected Diana's divine essence and traveled with Zhuanxu to Mount Olympus as Uranus's fallen sky island and its microcosm crumbled.
• Bai Jing met Aphrodite bathing beneath a waterfall, and Zhuanxu challenged him for wasting time on an enemy instead of pursuing Zeus.
• Zhuanxu explained that mercy toward hostile gods could expose humanity to danger, and Bai Jing reflected on his earlier decisions to spare enemies.
• Zhuanxu returned to his universe, leaving Bai Jing to recognize the risks of sparing Aphrodite and the people he was responsible for protecting.
• Bai Jing used Universal Pull to seize Aphrodite by the throat and kill her, then a divine spear struck his temple as its wielder shouted at him.

Bai Jing killed Ares and Aphrodite, recreated them as servants, and used their warning to gather the gods of Mount Olympus. After discovering Zeus’s vast abuse of power and family, Bai Jing confronted him and decapitated him with a spatial edge disguised as a wind blade.

• Bai Jing killed Ares, then formed new bodies for Ares and Aphrodite and made them his servants.
• Bai Jing surveyed Mount Olympus and found that most of its 70,000 gods were Zeus’s descendants, with many subjected to Zeus’s control and abuse.
• Ares and Aphrodite warned the gods of an enemy attack, drawing Zeus and a crowd of gods into the grand hall and plaza.
• Bai Jing confronted Zeus and declared that he had come to kill him, while Zeus dismissed the threat and offered to take the wind blade.
• Bai Jing’s wind blade cut through Zeus’s neck, and he explained that he had added Space Particles to make it a spatial edge.

Bai Jing killed Zeus and the gods gathered with him, then returned to Earth and learned that Loki had been taken. After discovering that his unclear orders had forced the Order Society to repeatedly yield to S.H.I.E.L.D., he told Song Shujun to act freely and prepared to deal with the powerful fighters himself.

• Bai Jing recognized Hera after Zeus's death, then made the gods in the mountaintop hall vanish with a snap of his fingers.
• Bai Jing found that Father God's Power was still evolving his genes, so he moved the affected body to a frozen planet and erased signs of human activity from the mountain.
• Bai Jing used spatial nodes to return to his office, where Song Shujun told him that Loki was gone.
• Bai Jing read Song Shujun's thoughts and learned that the Order Society had repeatedly held back against S.H.I.E.L.D. because Song Shujun feared Bai Jing favored Natasha.
• Bai Jing told Song Shujun that the Order Society and the Celestial Dynasty were his people and instructed him to deal with S.H.I.E.L.D. while Bai Jing handled its high-level combatants.

After sorting the spoils from the gods he had killed, Bai Jing ranked divine radiance by strength and considered how it could serve his Thirty-Three Heavens. Meanwhile, Thor and the Avengers interrogated Loki about the force behind the Battle of New York, but Loki refused to reveal Bai Kunlun’s identity.

• Bai Jing counted 84,000 strands of divine radiance and divided them into six strength levels, with Uranus’s Sky King Authority among the strongest.
• Bai Jing compared the authorities with familiar fighters and established an eight-tier scale, placing himself in his Starry Sky Giant Dragon form at Tier 8.
• Bai Jing looked over the gathered divine power and thought of populating his Thirty-Three Heavens with gods.
• Thor and the Avengers questioned Loki at an underground Arizona base about the Battle of New York and the person behind him.
• Loki defended his actions, rejected Thor’s claim that he had been treated as a true son, and privately recalled that Bai Kunlun had invited him to join his cause.

The Avengers questioned Loki and learned that Bai Kunlun was the Sun God behind the war, prompting them to plan a new confrontation. The meeting ended with Banner leaving to consult Ancient One, Shuri declining to involve Wakanda, and Reed revealing that twelve physicists had committed suicide.

• Thor provoked Loki into confirming that Bai Kunlun was the mastermind behind the war and the Sun God.
• Tony, Shuri, and the others reconsidered Bai Kunlun's abilities, learning that he wielded stellar gravity and had studied magic.
• Natasha proposed a new plan to defeat Bai Kunlun, but Banner left to ask Ancient One for advice and Shuri refused to commit Wakanda to the conflict.
• Thor, Tony, Human Torch, Captain America, and the other remaining Avengers agreed to take part in the fight against Bai Kunlun.
• Reed came out of his daze and told the group that twelve physicists had committed suicide.

Reed and Tony investigated physicists’ suicides after particle-collision experiments produced contradictory results suggesting the world beneath the atomic nucleus was chaotic. Reed could find no answer and the group returned to discussing Bai Kunlun, while Tony learned that a Water Drop had appeared in New York, killed 30,000 soldiers, and vanished.

• Reed presented the cases of physicists who had died by suicide, and Tony recognized Karl Poltz among them.
• Reed examined years of particle-collision data and found contradictory results that challenged established theories about matter.
• Reed urged physicists on a forum to keep searching for an explanation, and Tony pledged $100 million from Stark Group to support them.
• Reed summarized their next problem as Bai Kunlun, a powerful and elusive super-criminal with an official identity.
• Reed asked Tony about the Water Drop, which had appeared in New York, eliminated 30,000 soldiers, and suddenly vanished.

Tony, Reed, and the others assessed Bai Kunlun’s strength and arsenal as they planned how to fight him. Their growing list of abilities and weapons left the team questioning whether they could defeat him.

• Tony reviewed the mind map and Carol said Bai Kunlun was at least as powerful as she was, while concealing much of his strength.
• Reed interpreted Carol’s time-trap experience as gravity-based time dilation, and Carol believed her faster-than-light speed could counter it.
• Reed listed Bai Kunlun’s possible gravity, solar, spatial, mental, and magical abilities, along with the Casket of Ancient Winters and Gungnir.
• Thor described the Casket’s power to freeze the Nine Realms and Gungnir’s guaranteed-hit ability, prompting Hawkeye to blame him for revealing threats now in Bai Kunlun’s hands.
• Natasha stopped Thor and Captain Marvel from fighting, while Reed considered how gravitational slingshots could make Gungnir even more dangerous.
• Reed added fifty million indestructible Water Drops and a fighter-jet-cutting thread to the list, leaving the team overwhelmed by Bai Kunlun’s apparent power.

Reed and the others planned to counter Bai Kunlun with miniature Vibranium armor and a battlefield in Muspelheim, but Thor revealed that the Bifrost had been destroyed. Reed realized the Bifrost’s world-destroying power could provide the one-hit kill they needed against Bai Kunlun.

• Reed assigned Tony to build at least 150 million miniature anti-Water Drop suits within a month, and Natasha offered to negotiate with Wakanda for Vibranium.
• Natasha said the team might have to give Wakanda Bai Kunlun’s corpse because capturing him alive was nearly impossible.
• Reed and Natasha judged that the Order Society’s Judges could wait until after the fight with Bai Kunlun, since the battle would take place away from Earth.
• Thor proposed Muspelheim as a hot battlefield that was far from the sun, but explained that the Bifrost had been destroyed and they could not reach it.
• Thor explained that the Bifrost drew on the Sea of Dark Energy and could destroy an entire world, prompting Reed to see it as the one-hit kill they needed.

Bai Jing searched for a suitable Heavenly Emperor and asked Zhuanxu to take the position, but Zhuanxu refused and urged him to decide for himself. Bai Jing chose Ying Zheng, who was proclaimed Great Celestial Venerable of the Thirty-Three Heavens and Supreme Emperor of the Azure Vault.

• Thor explained that the Bifrost was broken and that repairing it might give them a way to kill Bai Kunlun, so Reed agreed to try fixing it.
• Reed told Tony to remain on Earth and build anti-Water Drop armor while he and the others headed to Kamar-Taj.
• Bai Jing visited Zhuanxu in the Thirty-Three Heavens universe cluster and asked him to become Heavenly Emperor, but Zhuanxu declined.
• Bai Jing considered Qin Shi Huang and Zhu Yuanzhang as alternatives, then visited Ying Zheng in Xianyang Palace and saw him working through memorials.
• A heavenly proclamation named Ying Zheng Great Celestial Venerable of the Thirty-Three Heavens and Supreme Emperor of the Azure Vault.

Bai Jing brought Ying Zheng to the Thirty-Three Heavens and made him its ruler, giving him Taibai Jinxing and the Investiture of the Gods. After Ying Zheng claimed the Authorities of Lightning and Judgment, Bai Jing discovered that Authorities fused within his Mind Universe also granted him their powers.

• A colossal dragon carried Ying Zheng from Xianyang Palace beyond the planet and through the world barrier to the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Bai Jing introduced Ying Zheng to Taibai Jinxing, appointed him to manage the universe, and gave him the Investiture of the Gods with eighty-four thousand Authorities.
• After Bai Jing left, Ying Zheng chose the Authorities of Lightning and Judgment and absorbed their divine radiance.
• Ying Zheng summoned lightning across the Thirty-Three Heavens, while Bai Jing realized that Authorities in his Mind Universe could also empower him.

Bai Jing used Zeus's Judgment Authority and discovered that it judged people by whether they believed in its god, deepening his resolve against the heroes. At Kamar-Taj, Ancient One refused to help them or lend them the Eye of Agamotto, and the group left for Asgard, which Bai Jing planned to destroy.

• Bai Jing activated the Judgment Authority and found that believers appeared innocent while nonbelievers appeared guilty, regardless of their actual crimes.
• Bai Jing searched New York and Washington, D.C. for the heroes, then learned from Hetu that they were at Kamar-Taj.
• Reed and Natasha asked Ancient One to help stop Bai Kunlun, but she defended him and said he could save the world.
• Ancient One refused to lend the Eye of Agamotto, sent Thor tumbling between portals, and opened a portal to Asgard for the group.
• Bai Jing watched the heroes leave for Asgard and decided that destroying it was next.