Chapter Summaries

Bai Jing temporarily removed the Hulk’s energy from Banner but learned that it was replenished through a portal to a pocket universe. As they waited for a boat, Bai Jing asked Banner to mentor him, and Banner began recommending physics books.

• Bai Jing told Banner that the Hulk’s energy would return because more was seeping through a hole connected to another universe.
• Banner theorized that the gamma-ray beam had opened a pocket dimension and said he wanted to study the energy inside it.
• Bai Jing called Ryan to send a boat and told Banner that his own powers came from spacetime compression.
• Bai Jing asked Banner to mentor him after he began preparing to study at Columbia University.
• Banner explained quantum field theory, learned that Bai Jing had studied Electrical Engineering and Automation, and admitted he had never mentored an undergraduate.
• When the boat arrived, Banner offered to recommend books for Bai Jing to study.

Bai Jing discussed building a research institution with Banner and learned that Roxxon Biotechnology could be acquired, then prepared to pursue it after strengthening his finances. When military personnel approached the yacht looking for Banner, Bai Jing transformed Banner’s appearance and urged him to adopt the confident persona of Keanu Reeves.

• Ryan Daling reported that the Viper Gang had $76 million in assets, most of which had been earmarked for Kingpin.
• Banner recommended acquiring Roxxon Biotechnology for its laboratories, land, permits, and research staff, and Ryan estimated its value at $5 billion.
• Bai Jing decided the acquisition could wait and considered using Banner and a future smartphone to challenge Apple’s upcoming Fruit 3 release.
• A frigate approached the yacht, and Bai Jing realized the military personnel were looking for Banner.
• Bai Jing used Gravitational Devouring to give Banner a buzz cut, remove his beard, and alter his facial features until he looked like a different person.
• Bai Jing renamed Banner Keanu Reeves and encouraged him to act confidently by imagining the military personnel were junior students.

Bai Jing brought Bruce Banner to Order Society after evading a U.S. Navy inspection and recruited him as the group’s scientific adviser under the name Keanu Reeves. The chapter ended with Matt telling Bai Jing that Frank, the Punisher, would arrive the next day.

• A U.S. Navy officer inspected Bai Jing’s yacht while searching for Bruce Banner, but Bai Jing, Ryan Daling, Denny Roberts, and Banner denied recognizing the man in the photograph.
• After the soldiers left, Bai Jing secretly removed steel from the USS Gary before leading the yacht into New York Bay.
• Bai Jing brought Banner to Order Society and described its effort to establish order in Hell’s Kitchen, persuading Banner that joining the group was acceptable.
• Bai Jing introduced Banner to Matt Murdock as the physicist Keanu Reeves and said Banner might be able to help treat Matt’s radiation-damaged eyes.
• Bai Jing asked Denny to arrange Banner’s lodging, and Matt told him that Frank would come to Order Society the next day.

Bai Jing explained his goal of building a better world to Frank Castle and argued that crime reflected systemic failures, not only individual evil. Frank remained skeptical but shook Bai Jing’s hand and agreed to watch Order Society.

• Frank Castle researched Order Society and accepted Matt Murdock’s invitation to meet Bai Jing.
• Frank questioned Bai Jing’s motives after learning he was from China, and Bai Jing said he wanted to build a better world starting in America.
• Bai Jing claimed Order Society had ended robbery, rape, and drug trafficking across its six blocks and hoped to expand its influence.
• Bai Jing argued that widespread crime revealed systemic failures and challenged Frank to consider why authorities had failed to punish evil.
• Frank hesitated, then shook Bai Jing’s hand and said he would be watching him.

Bai Jing recruited Frank as a military advisor and instructor, then visited Bruce Banner and approved building him a costly laboratory. Banner gave Bai Jing a long reading list and explained how scientific knowledge could improve the use of superpowers.

• Frank told Bai Jing he was a fifty-five-year-old Vietnam War veteran who had enlisted at seventeen, and Bai Jing assigned him as a military advisor and instructor.
• Bai Jing followed Denny to Bruce Banner’s quarters in the Viper Gang base and learned that Banner had the room renovated to suit his minimalist preferences.
• Banner gave Bai Jing a notebook listing books across multiple disciplines and explained that studying science could enhance his control of energy and superpowers.
• Banner asked Bai Jing for laboratory equipment and a dedicated lab, and Bai Jing approved the plan despite its cost of tens of millions of dollars.

Bai Jing studied black holes at Columbia University and tested whether his eyes contained them, discovering that each eye had a controllable event horizon. He left with new questions about how his unusual black holes worked and how they might grow.

• Matt registered the Order Society and layered companies in a cross-shareholding structure at Bai Jing's direction.
• Frank trained the gang members, forcing them to obey through threats of lethal violence.
• Banner bought a computer and began catching up on recent scientific research.
• Bai Jing read about black holes and used gravity to examine his eyes, finding a narrow event horizon around each pupil.
• Bai Jing calculated that each eye's black hole had a mass far below Earth's and wondered whether swallowing matter could make it grow substantially.
• Bai Jing discovered he could shrink and expand his event horizons, revealing his brown-black pupils before restoring their pitch-black appearance.

Bai Jing discovered that absorbing the Hulk’s transformation energy had slightly expanded his Gravity Field, then rejected Natasha’s offer to join her organization and warned that the Order Society would keep growing. Natasha left after warning him that Kingpin had hired the Brotherhood and that several authorities might intervene.

• Bai Jing realized his Gravity Field had expanded from 0.93 meters to 0.9312 meters after absorbing energy from the Hulk.
• Natasha approached Bai Jing in disguise as Liu Na, but he recognized her and asked why she had come.
• Natasha offered to recruit Bai Jing, provide him a Green Card, and restrict the Order Society’s expansion.
• Bai Jing hummed Katyusha, reminded Natasha of their shared past, and refused to join her organization or stop expanding the Order Society.
• Natasha warned Bai Jing that Kingpin had hired the Brotherhood and that the council, Police Department, and Tax Bureau would intervene if it failed.

Bai Jing considered why Ancient One had not approached him and decided to visit the Sanctum Sanctorum, but an assassination attempt interrupted him outside Columbia University's library. He survived the attack and disarmed the gunman, though the assassins’ fate remained unclear.

• Bai Jing wondered whether his warped time made him invisible to Ancient One and decided to visit the Sanctum Sanctorum.
• Bai Jing left the library and spotted a white-suited man drawing a powerful pistol and shooting at him.
• Bai Jing dodged the bullets and used a marble column for cover as he realized the assassin had prepared special weapons.
• Bai Jing spotted a Latina sniper on a nearby building and evaded her shot before attacking with a playing card.
• Bai Jing cut both of the suited man's wrists and caught his guns, while the man’s hidden suicide device failed to reach his teeth.

Bai Jing captured and killed a white-clad assassin, using his reactions to identify the Brotherhood’s ties to New York and discovering the assassin’s weapon used Vibranium. After returning to the library, Bai Jing learned to bend light around himself and watched another suited figure claim the assassin’s body from the police.

• Bai Jing examined the assassin’s unusual guns and Vibranium-like ammunition, then shot the assassin in the knee when he tried to flee.
• Bai Jing questioned the assassin and used his brainwave reactions to infer that the Brotherhood operated in New York.
• Bai Jing killed the assassin, returned to the library, and told students a passing Kamen Rider had stopped the shooting.
• Bai Jing took a map of Brooklyn and used Gravity Shift to bend light around himself, creating optical camouflage by crouching within his limited gravity range.
• Bai Jing watched a person dressed like the assassin flash an ID to a police officer and say they would take the body.

Bai Jing followed Manager Jack to Wood Family Precision Instruments in Brooklyn and discovered that the company operated advanced CNC workshops and a large martial arts training ground. Jack reported a failed mission to the company’s leader, but the memory card he handed over vanished, leaving Jack suspicious that something was wrong.

• Bai Jing rode on the roof of a Cadillac as Manager Jack’s vehicles carried the assassins’ bodies toward Brooklyn.
• During the trip, Bai Jing studied gravitational waves and wondered whether mastering them could help him learn to manipulate distance.
• Bai Jing followed Jack into Wood Family Precision Instruments and saw advanced five-axis CNC machines producing a component marked for STARK.
• Bai Jing followed Jack past workshops and a training ground to an office, where Jack reported that the mission had failed and handed the old White man a memory card.
• The memory card disappeared from the desk, and Jack realized he had not suggested searching the old man’s clothes.

Bai Jing raided the office, killed the old White man and Jack, and found files on people America suspected of helping China. He then entered a training ring, where he killed a challenger with a martial technique powered by gravity, and called for the next opponent.

• Bai Jing shot Jack and the old White man, then crippled them while examining the files in the boss's office.
• Bai Jing found files on Ren Hong and other people suspected of aiding China, and the old White man admitted that America killed talents it could not use.
• Bai Jing shot the old White man dead, then killed Jack and left the office after knocking a waiting woman unconscious and silencing the clerks with a shot into the ceiling.
• Bai Jing reached a room where over a hundred armed men waited and accepted a challenge from a burly White man in the training ring.
• Bai Jing used Gravity Shift to send the first challenger stumbling off the ring, then killed him with a Baji Iron Mountain Lean and called for the next opponent.

Bai Jing fought the American trainees while disguising his gravity powers as qi, deliberately smashing every camera to erase evidence of his abilities. After the instructor ordered nearly two hundred people to shoot him, Bai Jing calmly waited for the gunfire.

• The instructor sent two burly men to attack Bai Jing, and Bai Jing launched them across the ring, smashing a camera and injuring students nearby.
• The instructor sent four more men to wear Bai Jing down, but Bai Jing used one as a human weapon to knock the others down and destroyed another camera.
• When the instructor ordered more soldiers forward, Bai Jing threw another person into the last camera and left the room without a recording of the fight.
• The instructor realized Bai Jing had come to destroy the cameras and ordered the surrounding troops to use their guns.
• Bai Jing sat on a body, pretended to check a nonexistent watch, and told the gunmen to hurry before the instructor ordered them to fire.

Bai Jing left Lin's Precision after killing the trainees and instructor, then stopped at a restaurant where he suspected the waitress was a spy. He directly asked her whether someone had sent her to get close to him.

• Bai Jing checked the fallen trainees and instructor to make sure they were dead, then took the instructor's guns and named them White Queen and Black Emperor.
• Bai Jing found a training room full of women, shut the door, and returned to the workshop without taking its equipment.
• Bai Jing left Lin's Precision as a convoy arrived and began handling the deaths with the police.
• Bai Jing entered Hujianren restaurant, met a Mandarin-speaking waitress who studied philosophy at the State University of New York, and ordered food.
• Bai Jing suspected the waitress was an undercover spy and asked her directly whether she had been sent to get close to him.

Bai Jing confronted a Chinese waitress who had joined an American organization and was holding him at gunpoint, then talked her into lowering her weapon while they waited for her backup. As he waited for his food, he began considering whether his atomic-level ability could make nutrients for him.

• Bai Jing realized the waitress had turned against her home country and asked why she had joined an American organization.
• The waitress pulled a gun on Bai Jing and defended America, while he questioned her motives and inferred that she had arranged for someone to capture him in exchange for citizenship.
• Bai Jing kept the waitress talking as they waited for her backup, and she eventually lowered the gun after he suggested he could help her career.
• Bai Jing asked the waitress to bring his overdue food, then wondered whether his ability could synthesize protein and fat from elements in the air.

Bai Jing waited for the organization behind Yun Shuang to arrive, but its agents decided to abandon the attempt to approach him. After leaving Yun Shuang behind, he absorbed water from New York Bay and discovered that adding mass to his black hole expanded its gravitational range.

• Beside Interstate 284, two agents watched a video of Bai Jing and decided not to approach him, leaving the matter to the FBI.
• Bai Jing learned that Yun Shuang's organization was not coming and, after she pleaded for help with her citizenship application, drew Black Emperor and left her behind.
• Bai Jing walked into New York Bay and began absorbing water, taking in 52 tons per second.
• After absorbing 156 tons of water in three seconds, Bai Jing noticed that his black hole's gravitational range had expanded and realized that increasing its mass could extend its reach.

Bai Jing discovered that absorbing water rapidly expanded his gravitational range, and after a night in the Hudson River he gained heightened senses and power. He chose to seek the Sanctum Sanctorum, then gave Banner a smartphone to study.

• Bai Jing stayed in the Hudson River and absorbed water, increasing his gravitational range to 1.94 meters overnight.
• Bai Jing used his enhanced senses to detect a robbery and severed the armed Black child’s wrist with a playing card.
• Bai Jing decided to go to the Sanctum Sanctorum to learn magic and gain access to portals to other planets.
• Bai Jing visited Banner and gave him a smartphone, telling him to study it because it would be worth a trillion-dollar market.

Bai Jing found FBI agents questioning Banner and confronted Nick Fury, accusing S.H.I.E.L.D. of letting other organizations target him. He threatened the Statue of Liberty until Nick Fury agreed to halt operations against the Order Society in Hell’s Kitchen, then Fury ordered Bai Jing kept under surveillance.

• Bai Jing heard FBI agents arrive at Banner’s building and stormed upstairs, killing the two agents when they turned around.
• Bai Jing used Banner’s phone to call Natasha and demanded to speak with Nick Fury.
• Bai Jing accused Nick Fury of secretly directing the pressure against him and threatened to make the Statue of Liberty a target unless other organizations withdrew from Hell’s Kitchen.
• Nick Fury agreed to stop operations against the Order Society, provided it did not expand beyond Hell’s Kitchen.
• After Bai Jing hung up, Nick Fury told agents to watch him with the Star Ring and waited for a chance to strike.

Bai Jing visited the New York Sanctum Sanctorum and asked to learn magic after seeing through its concealment barrier. Wang accepted his explanation and opened a portal to take him to meet the Sorcerer Supreme.

• Bai Jing reassured Banner that the Order Society was not trying to destroy the world, and Banner praised the potential of young people from the Celestial Empire.
• Bai Jing traveled through Greenwich Village to 177A Bleecker Street and found the Sanctum Sanctorum, which most passersby could not see.
• Wang opened the door and let Bai Jing inside after hearing that he had noticed the magical barrier concealing the building.
• Wang explained that people with strong minds could see the Sanctum and might qualify to study magic, though learning it required great effort and offered no easy path to power.
• Wang judged Bai Jing’s calm reaction favorably and opened a portal to bring him before the Sorcerer Supreme.

Bai Jing entered Kamar-Taj to study magic, and the Ancient One helped him perceive his spirit, revealing that his Black Hole Eye was part of his soul. After Wang gave him books and a dusty hut, Mordo questioned the danger of teaching him, but the Ancient One believed he could become a force against the Dark Dimension.

• Bai Jing met the Ancient One and asked to learn magic, and she agreed to teach him.
• The Ancient One forced Bai Jing's spirit out, and he discovered that his Black Hole Eye was in his soul.
• The Ancient One explained the risks of leaving the body and assigned Wang to teach Bai Jing the foundations of magic.
• Wang showed Bai Jing the library, gave him four books to study, and led him to a dusty hut for lodging.
• Bai Jing cleaned and repaired the hut, then abandoned the uncomfortable bed and began reading.
• Mordo warned the Ancient One that Bai Jing's power and ideas were dangerous, but she said he could help oppose the Dark Dimension.

Bai Jing learned to meditate and sensed energy from an alternate dimension, then used his Devouring Power to see that dimension directly. Wang advanced Bai Jing’s training by giving him books on basic incantations and self-defense, and Bai Jing asked about creating a spell for bows and arrows.

• Bai Jing suppressed his active nerve cells with gravity, entered meditation, and sensed a blazing red energy dimension.
• Bai Jing used his Devouring Power to absorb the energy around him and saw the orange-red dimension and the life within it.
• The next day, Bai Jing told Wang he had sensed the dimension’s energy, and Wang took him to the study for the next stage of training.
• Wang gave Bai Jing a collection of basic incantations and books on fist styles, explaining that incantations helped mages shape dimensional energy.
• Bai Jing found no bow-and-arrow spell in the collection, and Wang suggested he could create one himself.