Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye demonstrated his overwhelming speed to the X-Men, then left with Rogue and advised her on developing her abilities. Magneto intercepted their car, and Bai Ye asked to use his machine so he could become a mutant.

• Bai Ye disarmed Cyclops twice by taking his glasses and showed the X-Men how easily he could outpace them.
• Sabretooth told Magneto that Bai Ye knew about the machine and wanted to meet, so Magneto ordered his whereabouts investigated.
• Magneto learned Bai Ye had left Mutant Academy with Rogue and flew out to find him.
• Bai Ye suggested ways Rogue could control and develop her absorption ability, including practicing on lab mice.
• Magneto lifted Bai Ye and Rogue's car into the air and confronted Bai Ye, who asked to borrow his machine to become a mutant.

Bai Ye convinced Magneto to let him undergo the machine’s mutant transformation, demonstrating that his speed had surpassed sound and promising to improve mutants’ circumstances within three years. Magneto accepted him as an ally and took him to the Brotherhood’s island base, where preparations began to test the machine on Bai Ye and the captured senator.

• Bai Ye told Magneto he wanted to become a mutant and warned that the transformation machine caused genetic collapse, though he believed his healing ability would let him survive it.
• Bai Ye moved faster than sound, reached Magneto before the resulting boom, and demonstrated his strength by twisting four iron spears together.
• Bai Ye promised to improve the circumstances of mutants within three years, and Magneto agreed to become his ally.
• Magneto flew Bai Ye and Rogue to the Brotherhood’s island base, where Mystique questioned why he had brought a human.
• Magneto told Mystique to bring the captured senator and prepare to awaken both his and Bai Ye’s abilities, while Rogue worried about the danger of the procedure.

Bai Ye underwent Magneto’s mutant transformation experiment and awakened Intangibility, but the ability immediately began rampaging and consuming part of his body. He discovered he could phase his arm through Rogue and her clothes.

• Magneto brought Bai Ye and the others to the mountain laboratory, where Mystique delivered a bound senator for the experiment.
• Magneto activated the Mutant Transformer, and its light began awakening the dormant genes in Bai Ye and the senator.
• Bai Ye checked his Stat Panel and saw his awakening would take two hours and fifteen minutes, while Rogue watched him cultivate his inner energy as they waited.
• Bai Ye’s ability awakened as Intangibility, and a rampage tore open his arm and consumed a small amount of its mass.
• Bai Ye willed his right arm intangible and passed it through Rogue and her clothes.

Bai Ye awakened Intangibility, a controllable pocket space he could enter and use to carry objects, though using the unstable ability injured him. He joined Magneto’s Brotherhood, urged Magneto to train with Kingpin, and left with Rogue to continue preparing for mutant integration into human society.

• Bai Ye tested Intangibility, discovering a roughly three-meter cube of isolated space that he could alter to let in air and light and enter at will.
• Bai Ye emerged with severe cuts, then showed Magneto and the Brotherhood that he could pass through a chair and claimed the machine’s flaw had made his new ability unstable.
• Magneto welcomed Bai Ye into the Brotherhood, and Bai Ye told him to contact Kingpin for physical training to strengthen his body.
• Bai Ye said he would return to his factory to train and asked the group to keep his mutant identity from human governments.
• Bai Ye placed Rogue in the Intangibility Space, stored his car there, and escaped by leaping through the ceiling and running across the sea.

Bai Ye raced across the sea to New York with Rogue, brought her to his factory, and resumed his extreme training. Meanwhile, Peter Parker fled across the city from the Lizard Man.

• Bai Ye ran across the sea at near the speed of sound and reached the area near his factory in New York.
• Bai Ye released Rogue from the Void Space and introduced her to Smith, telling Smith to buy white mice for her ability training.
• Bai Ye began training under crushing weights and powerful electric currents as Rogue watched and Smith recounted Bai Ye's rapid rise over the past month.
• Peter Parker swung between skyscrapers while the Lizard Man pursued him, tearing apart walls with its claws.

Peter Parker fought Doctor Connors after Connors transformed into the Lizard, then asked Bai Ye for help tracking him down. The next day, the Lizard attacked Midtown High School, and Bai Ye raced to reach Gwen and the others trapped in the library.

• Peter Parker saved a falling chunk of wall from the crowd, but the Lizard overpowered him before the serum weakened and Peter escaped.
• The Lizard found Peter's ID badge, learned his identity, and fled into the sewers before the police arrived.
• Peter called Bai Ye for help, but Bai Ye told him to find Doctor Connors first; Peter planned to search Connors's home the next day.
• After Gwen called to report a huge lizard attacking Midtown High School, Bai Ye rushed toward the school while keeping her on the phone.
• The Lizard tore through the library doors and stared at the people inside as Gwen and her classmates waited for Bai Ye.

Lizard Doctor broke into the library searching for Peter Parker, but Bai Ye arrived and confronted him. Bai Ye overwhelmed Lizard Doctor and left him unconscious outside the library.

• Lizard Doctor entered the library, injured students, and demanded to know where Peter Parker was.
• Bai Ye arrived by smashing through the library wall and told Lizard Doctor that he would go to prison.
• Lizard Doctor attacked Bai Ye, who severed his arm and struck him in the jaw.
• Lizard Doctor tried to flee, but Bai Ye blocked him and kicked him through the wall, leaving him unconscious in a crater.

Bai Ye captured Doctor Connors after the Lizard attacked Midtown High School, then called General Ross to claim the specimen for military research. When Ross and the police arrived, Agent Coulson tried to take Connors for S.H.I.E.L.D., but Ross insisted the military would take him.

• Bai Ye subdued the transformed Doctor Connors and called General Ross to collect him for experiments.
• Students crowded around Bai Ye for autographs and photos while Gwen waited nearby.
• George arrived with the police and questioned Bai Ye about the Lizard attack.
• Agent Coulson identified himself as FBI and sought to investigate the case and take Bai Ye's statement.
• Ross arrived with troops, rejected Coulson's claim to the suspect, and said the military would take Doctor Connors.

After Ross took the Lizard Man into custody, Bai Ye declined his invitation to meet William Stryker and left to see Gwen. Nick Fury reviewed footage of Bai Ye’s fight and decided to approach him personally, while Bai Ye carried Gwen off to the cinema.

• Coulson backed down as Ross claimed the Lizard Man and praised Bai Ye for providing him with an easy capture.
• Ross invited Bai Ye to dinner and mentioned William Stryker wanted him to help fight mutants, but Bai Ye refused and said he would not get along with Stryker.
• Bai Ye flew away to meet Gwen, while Coulson told Nick Fury that Ross had taken the Lizard Man and blocked S.H.I.E.L.D. from recruiting Bai Ye.
• Nick Fury watched footage of Bai Ye fighting the Lizard Man as physicists debated his strength and speed, then said he would speak with Bai Ye himself.
• Bai Ye reassured Gwen, told her he had taken in a female mutant, and carried her off to the cinema for the movie he had promised to see with her.

Rogue continued training to control her absorption ability while Bai Ye spent the day with Gwen and noticed that S.H.I.E.L.D. was watching him. Stryker prepared to capture Professor X and pursued a mass-production plan for Sentinel robots, while Bai Ye confronted Nick Fury, who had followed him.

• Rogue drained white mice to practice controlling her absorption ability and hoped to limit it to physical strength so she could train with Bai Ye.
• Bai Ye watched Inception with Gwen, sensed unusually strong heartbeats among the audience, and saw that Nick Fury chose not to approach him.
• Bai Ye spent the morning with Gwen, then took her home and left after they said goodbye.
• Stryker learned that Professor X would attend the United Nations Summit and ordered his officers to capture him before he could react.
• Stryker put away a file on a Sentinel Robot Mass Production Plan listing Bolivar Trask, Howard Stark, Alexander Pierce, Henry Jonathan Pym, and Reed Richards.
• Bai Ye confronted Nick Fury outside Gwen's home and demanded that the psychologist listening through Fury's earpiece stop talking.

Bai Ye rejected Nick Fury’s proposed Super Hero alliance and returned to the factory, where Rogue reported that draining mice seemed to strengthen her permanently. Meanwhile, Magneto visited Kingpin on Bai Ye’s behalf and demanded an item, leaving Kingpin to bring out Container No. 3.

• Bai Ye criticized S.H.I.E.L.D.’s precautions and dismissed Nick Fury’s proposed alliance because its current members were ordinary people.
• Bai Ye abruptly left S.H.I.E.L.D. and returned to the factory to train.
• Rogue told Bai Ye that killing the mice she drained seemed to increase her strength permanently.
• Bai Ye noticed that his growing Strength had outpaced his Mental attribute and decided he needed to invest points in Mental.
• Magneto told Kingpin that Bai Ye had sent him, and Kingpin ordered Tombstone to bring up Container No. 3.

Magneto acquired Mystique’s Purple Mist Divine Skill and used Kingpin’s Inner Force Container to transfer three hundred years of True Qi to her. Magneto left after ordering another seven hundred years for next week, while Kingpin planned to expand his Inner Force business and checked in with Bai Ye about equipment and book promotion.

• Magneto demanded the Inner Force Container’s full three hundred years of True Qi, and Kingpin agreed in exchange for thirty million US Dollars.
• Mystique mastered the Purple Mist Divine Skill, then received the Inner Force as the young man transferred it into her.
• Mystique demonstrated her enhanced strength by striking a deep palm print into a wall and a bronze statue, and explained that her body remained ordinary without True Qi.
• Magneto promised Kingpin one hundred million US Dollars and ordered seven hundred more years of Inner Force for the following week before leaving with Mystique.
• Kingpin ordered Tombstone to use the payment to buy people in Africa to cultivate the technique, then called Bai Ye about Magneto, the equipment, and promoting Bai Ye’s book.

Bai Ye spent twenty-one days training intensively while Rogue learned to control her absorption ability, and Kingpin launched a nationwide campaign for Bai Ye’s new book. As Bai Ye continued training in Kingpin’s new factory, a news report caught his attention.

• Rogue improved her control until she could make contact without absorbing anything, then learned to absorb only physical stamina and joined Bai Ye’s training.
• Peter Parker discovered that Bai Ye had already detained Doctor Connors, and police and soldiers took Peter in because Connors wanted to see him.
• Kingpin began promoting Bai Ye’s new book across New York and the United States while Bai Ye focused on training and spent time with Camilla, Rogue, and Gwen.
• After twenty-one days, Bai Ye trained inside a glass enclosure under tremendous pressure and high-voltage electricity while Smith and Rogue monitored the data.
• Bai Ye watched a news broadcast during training and noticed a newly reported story.

Bai Ye continued training as his strength grew uncontrollably, while he prepared to attend his book launch and accepted Rogue’s invitation to a movie. He left for the night using his Intangibility ability, as Stark received an invitation from Value Line Company.

• Bai Ye watched news about the approaching Cosmic Storm and restrained a several-thousand-ton steel pillar during training.
• Bai Ye saw that his strength was snowballing despite his efforts to balance his attributes by focusing on spirit training.
• Bai Ye told Smith he would attend his book launch the next day and agreed to watch Flipped with Rogue.
• Rogue accidentally absorbed Bai Ye’s life force, but he reassured her that she could absorb from him for a long time.
• Bai Ye used his Intangibility Space as a stepping stone to launch himself away at the speed of sound.
• Jarvis told Stark that Value Line Company had sent him an invitation, and Miss Potts asked whether he would attend.

Tony Stark, Professor X, and S.H.I.E.L.D. prepared to attend Value Line Company’s press conference and book launch for Bai Ye’s supposed secret to immortality. Kingpin arranged the event, including a rigged cultivation slot, as powerful guests and the public prepared to watch.

• Jarvis told Tony Stark that Wilson Grant Fisk’s Value Line Company had invited him to a press conference promising a secret to immortality, and Stark decided to attend after seeing Bai Ye’s name in the company materials.
• Professor X asked who would accompany him to the event, explained that Erik had given him the invitations, and chose Jean Grey after Cyclops objected.
• Kingpin learned that influential politicians, business leaders, and reporters would attend, and ordered his subordinate to ensure the cultivation slot went to the person he had selected in advance.
• Nick Fury told Coulson to accompany him to the event, explaining that S.H.I.E.L.D. was concerned about the safety of the important guests.
• Kingpin arranged for the signing event to be livestreamed and promoted Bai Ye’s autobiography, "Everyone Can Practice," as an epoch-making book.

Bai Ye teased Gwen by asking her to model a revealing bodysuit he had designed to resemble her Spider-Man costume, but she refused. The next day, Bai Ye arrived at his heavily publicized book launch, where Kingpin welcomed him as world leaders and celebrities gathered.

• Gwen warned Bai Ye that her father thought he should avoid associating with Wilson, but Bai Ye joked that Wilson might need protection from his enemies.
• Bai Ye showed Gwen an art book featuring a sexy bodysuit modeled after her appearance and asked her to wear it for him, but she firmly refused.
• Bai Ye escorted Gwen home, wished her good night, and vanished, while Gwen watched him leave with mixed feelings.
• New Yorkers tuned in to the livestream of Bai Ye's book launch and saw a crowd of prominent figures, including Queen Elizabeth and President Ellis.
• Kingpin waited at the venue entrance and personally opened Bai Ye's car door when he arrived.

Bai Ye arrived at the launch event for his book, Everyone Can Practice, and publicly demonstrated Purple Mist True Qi while promising that anyone could grow stronger by studying it. He explained that wealth could dramatically shorten the training time, then the event’s attention shifted to the arrival of Tony Stark.

• Bai Ye stepped out of his supercar as Kingpin eagerly catered to him, while Professor X considered approaching him with a toast.
• Reporters surrounded Bai Ye with questions, so he formed a wall of Purple Mist True Qi and announced that his new book taught people how to grow stronger.
• Kingpin ordered his guards to keep the reporters away from Bai Ye and then followed him into the venue.
• Ross questioned whether the book truly taught people to become stronger, and Bai Ye said poor ordinary people might need seven hundred years of practice.
• Vice President Rodriguez asked how wealth affected training, and Bai Ye replied that an extraordinarily rich person might reach his displayed level in one night.
• Tony Stark arrived in a flashy supercar, drawing the reporters’ attention, while Bai Ye judged him to be no threat.

Bai Ye gathered world leaders, celebrities, and other powerful figures for the presentation of his book, which promised to teach anyone how to cultivate extraordinary power. As the guests began reading its preface, Kingpin declared that the future had arrived.

• Tony Stark arrived, tried to introduce himself to Bai Ye, and was dismissed as Bai Ye told Kingpin to begin the event.
• Bai Ye vanished toward the rooftop, but Tony watched a video of his internal-energy demonstration and decided to stay.
• Kingpin directed the guests upstairs, where Nick Fury noticed Professor X, Jean, and a mysterious bald woman among them.
• The guests found a copy of the book’s preface at every seat in the conference room.
• Kingpin urged everyone to read the preface, claiming Bai Ye’s book would reveal the extraordinary potential hidden in their bodies.

At the New Book Signing Event, Bai Ye’s cultivation manual revealed that internal energy could be transferred, prompting the crowd to imagine its far-reaching effects. Bai Ye selected Stephen William Hawking to receive a hundred years of internal energy as a live demonstration.

• Tony Stark skimmed the manual and was shocked to learn that internal energy of the same source could be transferred, with each transfer losing 20% of its quality.
• Nick Fury realized the book had already spread worldwide through the livestream and Kingpin’s online upload, and that its release could not be stopped.
• Bai Ye announced that he would randomly choose someone at the event to receive one hundred years of internal energy and prove the manual’s claims.
• Bai Ye spun a roulette wheel numbered for all 495 guests, and it stopped on seat 80.
• The selected guest was Stephen William Hawking, who agreed through his wheelchair’s text converter to cooperate with Bai Ye.

Bai Ye and Kingpin demonstrated that transferred inner power could restore Hawking’s ability to speak and walk, astonishing the press conference. Bai Ye then explained that inner power would remain scarce and become more valuable than gold.

• Kingpin introduced a Human Pillar holding five hundred years of inner power, which was transferred into Hawking.
• Hawking’s muscles regained strength, and he began moving and speaking after receiving the inner power.
• Hawking stood up without assistance, thanked Bai Ye, and walked back to his seat.
• Professor X realized that Erik had given him the tickets so he could witness the treatment’s effects.
• Bai Ye explained that limited daily production and transaction losses would keep inner power scarce and more precious than gold.