Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye punished the Five Regions for privately resenting him, then imposed a survey that made his views into universal law before returning to the Marvel Universe. There, he discovered that the universe’s branching timelines had stopped a year earlier, at the moment he first spent an Attribute Point and truly entered the extraordinary.

• Bai Ye struck viewers across the Five Regions through their Sky Piercing Devices, beating them until their resentment subsided.
• Bai Ye presented a massive survey and made its answers enforce his values throughout the Five Regions, including for future generations.
• Bai Ye told Yang Kaitai that he was leaving the Five Regions and returned to the Marvel Universe.
• Bai Ye considered whether to impose a purge on the White Empire, then sensed an anomaly in the Marvel Universe’s Time Axis.
• Bai Ye traced the timeline change to the moment he first assigned an Attribute Point to Strength and realized that his action had set fate in motion.

Bai Ye searched the timelines for his split selves and discovered that they had gathered in a hidden White Empire to evade him. In the Three-Body Universe, Ding Yi prepared to make contact with a Trisolaran probe on behalf of humanity.

• Bai Ye recalled how his two talents had driven his growth and searched the timelines for other versions of himself.
• Bai Ye found that his past selves had disappeared, while a group of split selves in the Quantum Realm detected his investigation and fled farther away.
• The split selves revealed that they had formed the White Empire to hide from the original, and that some had grown immensely powerful through vast stretches of time and multiversal training.
• Ding Yi reflected on his new internal energy and the Chat Group members’ powers while aboard the Quantum.
• Ding Yi received approval to represent humanity in contacting the probe sent by the Trisolaran Fleet.

Ding Yi boarded the captured Droplet and revealed that he understood its strong-interaction material and could see the Three-Body Sophon observing them. He transformed from a frail old man into a massively muscular man, leaving both human and Three-Body observers stunned.

• Ding Yi watched the human fleet and concealed his confidence in his newfound power from Xi Zi.
• Ding Yi and the survey team entered the Mantis to examine the captured Droplet, while he noticed the Sophon watching them.
• The Three-Body observers mistook Ding Yi’s apparent awareness of the Sophon for coincidence and planned to destroy the human fleet and block Solar System signals.
• Ding Yi explained that the Droplet was made of strong-interaction material, stunning the lieutenant colonel and the humans watching the broadcast.
• Ding Yi refused Xi Zi’s geological hammer, tore open his space suit as his body expanded, and revealed his immense muscles.

Ding Yi used his body, strengthened through training in the Dragon Ball world, to stop the Trisolaran Droplet from destroying humanity’s fleet. He crushed the Droplet in his arms, leaving the Trisolarans stunned.

• Ding Yi revealed his immense muscles and declared that he would confront Trisolaran technology with his body.
• The Trisolaran leader ordered the Droplet to attack the fleet, and its heat melted the forward half of the Mantis.
• Ding Yi took the Droplet’s impact and held it back, protecting the rear half of the fleet and the people aboard it.
• Ding Yi reassured the lieutenant colonel and the other humans that they were safe behind him.
• The Trisolaran leader ordered the Droplet to flee, but Ding Yi caught it and crushed its strong-interaction shell until it exploded into debris.

Ding Yi stopped the Droplet with his body, then forced the Three-Body civilization to answer him through the Sophon. After they began communicating, Ding Yi said he no longer intended to destroy them, though he left the reason for his change of heart unexplained.

• The Three-Body Leader ordered the Droplet footage slowed and examined, but the images still showed Ding Yi stopping it with his flesh.
• Ding Yi stared at the Sophon and demanded that the Three-Body civilization speak to him, threatening to refuse communication until he destroyed them if they stayed silent.
• Three-Body beings sent a message calling Ding Yi unusual, marking their first response to humanity.
• Ding Yi's muscles deflated, and he sat down to rest while Xi Zi checked on him.
• Ding Yi apologized for humanity's past actions, said the Three-Body civilization deserved respect, and told them he no longer intended to destroy them.

Ding Yi offered the Trisolarans coexistence by promising to remove two stars from their system, then returned humanity’s attention to the power that had saved it. He worried that his protection would leave humanity weak, while a rapid wave of online condemnation began before he reached Earth.

• Ding Yi told the Trisolarans that humanity no longer considered them a threat and proposed coexistence by throwing two stars out of the Three-Body Star System.
• The Trisolarans hesitated but agreed to trust Ding Yi and hoped he would resolve their crisis.
• Xi Zi and the lieutenant colonel praised Ding Yi and asked how he had defeated the Droplet, but he said he needed time before revealing his secret.
• On the return voyage, Ding Yi worried that his protection would turn humanity into helpless livestock, though he could not bring himself to force it to grow stronger through suffering.
• A wave of online condemnation targeting Ding Yi erupted as his ship headed back to Earth.

Online attacks blamed Ding Yi for the Great Ravine, and the Trisolarans informed him of the human backlash. Ding Yi sought advice in the Chat Group, where Bai Ye offered extreme solutions before Kingpin told Bai Ye that the Empire Christmas Department had prepared customized universes for him to visit.

• People online accused Ding Yi of causing the Great Ravine and criticized him for not sharing his power, while the Trisolaran Head of State and governors debated whether to warn him.
• Sophon showed the Federal Head of State the Trisolarans' message, and Ding Yi read it aboard the returning fleet.
• Ding Yi posted about the backlash in the Chat Group, where Bai Ye proposed wiping out people he considered unintelligent, but Ding Yi rejected the idea.
• Bai Ye reflected on his time in the Primordial World before Kingpin contacted him about the Empire Christmas Department's latest gift.
• Kingpin told Bai Ye that the department had customized countless universes for him to travel through.

Bai Ye received the Creation Jade Butterfly, a disc containing countless customizable universes, and chose to enter a horror world in search of non-human girls. He arrived at an apartment in Japan, where Ya Mei and Sophon feared a cursed videotape, and Ya Mei opened the door to welcome him.

• Kingpin presented Bai Ye with the Creation Jade Butterfly, which held countless distinct universes and could be controlled without power.
• Bai Ye dismissed Kingpin, selected the thriller and horror category, and leapt into a universe.
• In Japan, Ya Mei told Sophon a story about a cursed videotape, and Sophon admitted she had watched one nearly seven days earlier.
• A rhythmic knock frightened the girls, and Ya Mei went downstairs to check the door.
• Ya Mei saw Bai Ye through the peephole, opened the door, and stammered a welcome to the apparent god.

Bai Ye arrived at Sophon and Ya Mei’s home to confront Sadako, whose videotape curse would claim their lives after seven days. While his supernatural charm drove the two women into obsessive fantasies, Sadako began emerging from the television as Bai Ye waited to face her.

• Bai Ye told Sophon and Ya Mei that Sadako would come for them on the seventh day and that he had come to deal with her.
• Sophon clung to Bai Ye and begged him to save her, while Ya Mei apologized for their uncontrollable admiration.
• Bai Ye introduced himself and decided to wait in the living room beside the television for Sadako to appear.
• After Bai Ye sat down, Sophon and Ya Mei secretly became obsessed with keeping him and imagined killing him so he could never leave.
• When the seventh day arrived, the television flickered and showed a pale arm reaching out of a well in a desolate forest.

Bai Ye trapped Sadako halfway out of a television and calmly washed her while Ya Mei and Sophon watched. After he saved them, Ya Mei confessed that she wanted to follow him, but Bai Ye rejected her.

• Sadako emerged from the television as Ya Mei and Sophon watched in terror, while Bai Ye told them not to scare her away.
• Bai Ye crushed the television frame around Sadako's waist, trapping her halfway out of the screen.
• Bai Ye sent Ya Mei and Sophon to fetch soap and a towel, then scrubbed Sadako clean as she struggled.
• Bai Ye saw Sadako's face beneath her hair and finished washing her upper body.
• Ya Mei said she wanted to follow Bai Ye, but he rejected her.

Bai Ye dealt with Sadako and the fused Sophon and Ya Mei, then concluded that supernatural entities vanished once their obsessions were fulfilled. After restoring the house and finding Sophon safe, he headed toward the apartment linked to Kayako, where he heard a submachine gun firing.

• Bai Ye rejected Sophon and Ya Mei, examined Sadako, and caught an axe thrown at him.
• Sophon and Ya Mei fused into the two-headed Yako and begged Bai Ye to merge with them; he agreed to deal with them after finishing with Sadako.
• Bai Ye pulled Sadako from the television, shoved her halfway back in, and continued cleansing her until dawn.
• Sadako was sent back through the television after her mission was completed, while Yako fulfilled hers and turned to ash.
• Sophon woke at home and described the night as a nightmare, while her parents noticed the damaged television.
• Bai Ye went looking for the house associated with Kayako and heard submachine-gun fire as he approached.

Bai Ye met Chu Xuan and the Reincarnation Squad in a horror-movie world, revealing that he stood above its Creator God and could create or destroy the universe at will. Bored by his overwhelming power, he asked the squad what he should do, and Chu Xuan told him to do whatever he wanted.

• Bai Ye waited outside a cursed loft and met Chu Xuan, whose emotions stirred when he saw Bai Ye's face.
• Zheng Zha and the others came outside and learned from Chu Xuan that Bai Ye was the superior of their universe's Creator God.
• At a park, Bai Ye identified the Reincarnation Wristwatches and explained that he had come because he was bored.
• Bai Ye snapped his fingers and destroyed and recreated the horror universe, then told the squad that everything felt dull because he was too powerful.
• Bai Ye asked the Reincarnation Squad what he should do, and Chu Xuan advised him to do whatever he wanted.

Bai Ye took Zhao Yingkong’s advice about freedom literally, erased half a planet, and gave her the Creation Jade Butterfly. He then seized control of another world and ordered its people to serve his desires, leaving them under his openly tyrannical rule.

• Zhao Yingkong told Bai Ye that true freedom meant making the world think about pleasing him, and Bai Ye erased half the planet to demonstrate his power.
• Bai Ye asked Zhao Yingkong to explain freedom, then gave her the Creation Jade Butterfly and vanished.
• Bai Ye arrived on a modern planet ruled by an empire and replaced its leader during a speech to the world.
• Bai Ye demanded a lavish adult action film, portraits of himself everywhere, and total obedience from the people.
• Bai Ye had an official who questioned him dragged away, then ordered scientific, military, and infrastructure funds diverted to the film.

Bai Ye slowed down and spent tens of millions of years watching a civilization develop, using long, patient experiences to calm his mind. After erasing himself from the universe's history and returning to Marvel, he found the Chat Group flooded with messages from members who had lost contact with him.

• Bai Ye reshaped a world and ruled it as its civilization grew into a super-civilization spanning dozens of star systems.
• Bai Ye meditated for thirty-seven thousand years while watching a distant rock until lightning struck it, completing his experiment.
• Bai Ye reflected on other slow experiences, including polishing a sword and growing a peach tree, and found his mind had become calm.
• Bai Ye erased his existence from the universe's history and checked his attributes, which were close to reaching 100 in three dimensions.
• Bai Ye returned to Marvel and saw that the Chat Group had filled with @ messages after his disappearance.

Morty sought help from the Chat Group to reverse the Cronenberg mutations, but the arrival of Yang Kaitai drew out Jacket Rick, who killed him and revealed that he had traveled back from the future. Jacket Rick confronted Rick and Morty, boasting that he had reached the Saint realm.

• Morty rejected Rick's plan to abandon the Cronenbergized Earth and asked the Chat Group for help fixing it.
• Chat Group members offered to reverse the Timeline, and Yang Kaitai asked whether Rick needed help killing Jacket Rick.
• Rick reacted angrily when Morty mentioned Jacket Rick and asked the group to locate him, saying he would handle the revenge himself.
• Morty invited Yang Kaitai to their world, but an enormous palm crushed him as soon as he arrived.
• Jacket Rick appeared, claimed he had traveled back from the future to kill the person responsible for his coming death, and revealed that he had reached the Saint realm.

Yang Kaitai was killed after traveling to the Primordial World to help reverse time, warning the Chat Group about the dangers of visiting unknown worlds. In the Rick and Morty universe, Jacket Rick’s time alteration triggered a multiversal chain reaction, leaving Rick and Morty in a white space surrounded by people from different times.

• Yang Kaitai was crushed by an enormous hand, and the Chat Group announced that he had gone offline.
• The Chat Group members feared traveling to unfamiliar worlds, while Bai Ye continued digging through a mountain with an Iron Pickaxe.
• Jacket Rick told Rick and Morty that he had changed the past, and Rick warned that the consequences would spiral endlessly.
• The universe and the dimensions inside the Central Finite Curve exploded as people from across time and parallel worlds fought.
• Rick and Morty arrived in a white space filled with people from different times, and Rick explained that time travel had opened an endless cycle of interference.

Rick explained how Jacket Rick’s time travel and attempt to kill Yang Kaitai created an endless war between Saints across the Timeline, leaving Morty desperate for help. Morty appealed to the Chat Group, while Stark searched Kingpin for news of Bai Ye and learned that Bai Ye was probably ignoring him.

• Rick explained that Jacket Rick’s actions had triggered an infinite conflict between Saints trying to protect or kill Morty across the Timeline.
• A Saint promised to protect Morty, but the fighters admitted the conflict had no end in sight.
• Morty asked why the fighters did not target the four-dimensional beings of the Time Variance Authority, and Rick received no answer about when the fighting would end.
• Morty asked Deep Blue in the Chat Group to help stop the infinite Level 12 Saints, prompting the group to realize how serious the crisis was.
• Stark asked Kingpin where Bai Ye had gone, and Kingpin concluded Bai Ye was simply too occupied with the Creation Jade Butterfly to reply.

Stark failed to reach Bai Ye because Kingpin refused to interfere with the emperor’s wish for privacy. Meanwhile, Bill Cipher entered the war across Rick and Morty’s world and began annihilating Saints, leaving Rick and Morty to flee through time as Bill pursued them.

• Stark demanded that Kingpin help him find Bai Ye, but Kingpin insisted he follow the official process for requesting an audience.
• Stark left without filing an application, and Kingpin decided that avoiding Bai Ye’s displeasure mattered more than helping Stark.
• In Rick and Morty’s world, Bill Cipher returned to three-dimensional existence and destroyed large groups of Saints with his infinite power.
• Saints fled across Timelines to escape Bill, but he followed them through time and continued killing them.
• Rick and Morty traveled three hundred years into the future under the Saints’ protection, where Bill was waiting and greeted Rick.

Bill Cipher destroyed the Rick and Morty multiverse after breaking free, while Bai Ye returned from ten million years of cultivation and went to investigate. He struck Bill Cipher and stepped through a golden portal, leaving the fight unfinished.

• Bill Cipher used his Saint-level body to erase Rick and Morty, then spent five days destroying the multiverse and killing or driving away its Saints.
• Bai Ye emerged from the Creation Jade Butterfly, reassured Stark, and learned that Bill Cipher had escaped his seal and attacked the multiverse.
• Bai Ye used Morty's old teleportation invitation to reach the ruined Rick and Morty Universe.
• Bill Cipher told Bai Ye that he had killed Rick and Morty about fifty thousand years earlier, but Bai Ye saw Morty's avatar was still active in the Chat Group.
• Bill Cipher lunged to stop Bai Ye from entering a golden portal, but Bai Ye punched him in the eye and stepped through.

Bai Ye arrived in the future where Bill Cipher had killed Rick and Morty, relying on the Chat Group’s timeline rules to leave open the possibility of saving them. He incapacitated the countless Bill Ciphers by manipulating the universe’s rules and trapping them in a shared illusion.

• Bai Ye understood that Rick and Morty were considered missing because their deaths lay five hundred years beyond the Chat Group’s current Timeline.
• Bai Ye passed through the golden vortex and punched Bill Cipher in the eye, while Rick and Morty recognized him as their reinforcements.
• The pain spread through time to the other Bill Ciphers, who converged on Bai Ye and unleashed an overwhelming wave of energy.
• Bai Ye declared that the world had no light, stripping the energy of its basis and plunging the multiverse into darkness.
• Bill Cipher merged with its counterparts and believed it had destroyed Bai Ye, but Bai Ye revealed that he had trapped them all in an illusion where they thought they had defeated him.