Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye promoted Everyone Can Practice as a way for ordinary people to earn money and extend their lives, then learned that his Chat Group mute restriction had been lifted. After he confronted All-Knowing and All-Powerful Immortal in the group and was muted again, other members began to suspect the administrator had silenced him.

• Bai Ye praised inner force as a source of income, health, and longevity, and urged everyone to buy Everyone Can Practice.
• Kingpin announced the book signing, and celebrities bought copies before heading to a cocktail party.
• Bai Ye received an apology from All-Knowing and All-Powerful Immortal, then mocked him and thanked Gentleman Sword in the Chat Group.
• All-Knowing and All-Powerful Immortal muted Bai Ye again, but group members had already seen the messages and began questioning the administrator.
• Yue Buqun wondered whether Deep Blue's earlier silence had been caused by a mute restriction, while Hawking approached Bai Ye at the cocktail party to offer thanks.

At a banquet celebrating Bai Ye’s internal energy, he reflected on his ambitions to rule a new era as people sought to buy access to the power. Meanwhile, overwhelming demand for Everyone Can Practice caused chaos in bookstores, where one customer used a gun to seize a copy.

• Hawking thanked Bai Ye for restoring his ability to stand, and Bai Ye toasted him with cola before speaking with Ross and Professor X.
• Siof asked Bai Ye for some of the remaining internal energy, and Bai Ye directed him and the other interested guests to Kingpin.
• Bai Ye decided that he wanted more than wealth and historical fame: he intended to become the god of the new world.
• Crowds mobbed bookstores to buy Everyone Can Practice, convinced that internal energy could quickly bring them money.
• A Black man fired a handgun into the ceiling and threatened the bookstore owner until he handed over a copy.

After pirated copies of Everyone Can Practice spread worldwide, Bai Ye announced a much stronger sequel and pressed Vice president Rodriguez to pursue a global tax on the book. Rodriguez agreed to discuss the proposal with Congress, leaving Bai Ye expecting every person born on Earth to owe him fifteen dollars.

• Pirated electronic copies of Everyone Can Practice spread rapidly, undermining sales of Bai Ye's legitimate books.
• Bai Ye announced Everyone Can Practice 2.0, promising it would be more than 200% stronger and could help extend human lifespan to three hundred years.
• Bai Ye told Vice president Rodriguez that version 2.0 could be published in half a month to a month, then proposed charging everyone a fifteen-dollar book fee to combat piracy.
• Rodriguez objected that he lacked authority over other countries, but Bai Ye urged him to have each country collect the fee from its citizens and refund legitimate buyers.
• Rodriguez agreed to discuss the proposal with Congress, and Bai Ye anticipated that every person born on Earth would owe him the fee.

Stryker recognized Professor X during Bai Ye’s livestream and advanced his plan to capture him and use a mutant to attack the president. Meanwhile, Bai Ye went outside to meet the crowd that had gathered to celebrate him, leaving the fans overwhelmed by his display of internal energy.

• Stryker spotted Professor X on the livestream and ordered his officers to find and capture him discreetly.
• Stryker learned that the blue mutant had been hypnotized and ordered his release after Professor X’s capture so it could attack the president.
• Bai Ye accepted George’s suggestion to greet the crowd, then praised the New York police commissioner before the assembled celebrities and officials.
• Bai Ye jumped from the third-floor window and used true energy to float safely down to the crowd.
• The fans surged toward Bai Ye but were stopped by his internal energy, and some knelt to worship him.

Bai Ye used a livestream to demonstrate his self-created martial arts while sweeping crime from New York, then disappeared after two hours. Meanwhile, Stryker captured Jean Grey and Professor X and revealed his plan to make mutants appear to assassinate the president.

• Bai Ye quieted the crowd and told them to obey the law before asking a female reporter to film his two-hour crime crackdown.
• Bai Ye flew with the reporter and used his heightened hearing to locate crimes across several kilometers.
• Bai Ye introduced his self-created move, Eighteen Subduing Dragons, and used eighteen purple blasts to stop crimes throughout New York.
• Bai Ye expanded his crackdown to Brooklyn, eliminating more than three hundred serious crimes in half an hour and striking some of Kingpin's men.
• Bai Ye said goodbye to the reporter and vanished from the livestream after two hours.
• Stryker captured Jean Grey and Professor X, restrained Charles with a helmet, and told him mutants would be made to appear to assassinate the president.

Bai Ye ended his date with Rogue after her absorption ability drained his lifespan and strength, then returned home and discussed his relationships with Camilla. Meanwhile, soldiers attacked Mutant Academy while Professor X and Jean were missing, and Cyclops and Storm fought back.

• Rogue kissed Bai Ye and absorbed 200,000 years of his lifespan and one-tenth of his physical strength before he stopped her.
• Bai Ye refused to stay with Rogue, warning that she could not yet control her ability, and sent Nick Fury away when he tried to approach.
• Bai Ye told Camilla he intended to pursue both Rogue and Gwen, and Camilla attacked him after he called her his pet.
• Cyclops and Storm discovered that Professor X and Jean were missing and that soldiers had launched a night attack on Mutant Academy.
• Cyclops and Storm fought their way through attacking squads until a metallic, humanoid figure blocked Cyclops's path.

A Sentinel Robot overwhelmed the X-Men at the academy, while Bai Ye continued training and Kingpin reported huge profits from internal energy trading. At the White House, Ellis agreed to an internal energy deal with Equatorial Guinea before a blue-skinned attacker tried to assassinate him, giving Ellis a chance to use his new internal energy.

• The Sentinel Robot resisted Cyclops's lasers and Storm's lightning, seized them, then shut down; soldiers tranquilized and captured them along with the other academy targets, though one mutant escaped.
• Bai Ye trained at the factory and estimated his strength would soon exceed the five-thousand-ton machine's limit, while Kingpin reported billions in earnings and said stronger training equipment would take a month to build.
• Ellis agreed to give Equatorial Guinea thirty percent of the internal energy it collected from its citizens in exchange for American approval.
• Gunfire and blue smoke interrupted the meeting, and a blue-skinned attacker struck at Ellis with a dagger before purple light deflected the blow.
• Ellis revealed that he had gained internal energy and welcomed the chance to face the assassin.

President Ellis used internal energy to defeat Nightcrawler and publicized the fight, but the resulting coverage focused on internal energy rather than Stryker’s anti-mutant agenda. Suspecting that Stryker had captured Professor X and attacked Mutant Academy, Bai Ye asked Mystique to contact Charles.

• Ellis defeated the hypnotized Nightcrawler with a powerful palm strike and ordered the White House to release security footage.
• The video drew worldwide attention to internal energy, while Stryker discovered that the public had largely ignored the mutant assassination attempt.
• Stryker told the captive Professor X that the students of Mutant Academy had been captured and that Cerebro would be ready in a few days.
• Bai Ye saw the assassination report and suspected his livestream had revealed Professor X’s whereabouts to Stryker.
• Bai Ye called Mystique, explained that Nightcrawler was her son, and asked her to contact Professor X; Mystique agreed to reach Charles.

After Stryker used Professor X to try to control Bai Ye and discovered he was a mutant, Bai Ye decided to strike first. He moved his friends to Utopia and flew toward Stryker’s base at Alkali Lake.

• Magneto and Mystique learned that Stryker had attacked Mutant Academy and planned to use Cerebro to locate and kill every mutant.
• Professor X failed to control Bai Ye, who escaped the psychic attack by entering Intangibility Space; Stryker realized Bai Ye was a mutant and decided to wait until Cerebro was ready.
• Bai Ye concluded that Stryker knew his identity and resolved to act before Stryker could target him.
• Bai Ye hid Rogue and Smith at the factory, moved Camilla from her villa, and brought them and Gwen’s family to Utopia.
• Bai Ye asked Magneto to protect his friends, then flew toward Alkali Lake to confront Stryker.

Bai Ye raced to Stryker’s Canadian base to kill him before he could continue producing weapons against mutants. After smashing through the fortress wall, Bai Ye began slaughtering the soldiers inside as Stryker ordered the Sentinel Robots activated and the research data destroyed.

• Bai Ye crossed thousands of kilometers to reach Stryker’s base near Alkali Lake, intending to kill Stryker and then attack America.
• Stryker ordered his staff to accelerate Sentinel Robot production despite shortages of Adamantium, Pym Particles, and other components.
• The base’s Sentinel Robots detected Bai Ye approaching at roughly Mach 3, while its surveillance feeds went dark.
• Bai Ye reached the base, destroyed its outer wall with a punch, and entered.
• Stryker sounded the alarm, ordered the Sentinel Robots activated, and told his staff to upload and delete the research data.
• Bai Ye swiftly killed the soldiers who confronted him and advanced through the base, beginning his massacre.

Bai Ye fought five powerful Sentinel Robots inside the base and discovered they combined Adamantium with several mutant abilities. Stryker tried to destroy the base’s files and escape, but Bai Ye appeared behind him, badly wounded and still alive.

• Bai Ye slaughtered the base’s soldiers with ease before five Sentinel Robots ambushed him.
• The Sentinels teleported into Bai Ye’s Intangibility Space, where he found they had Adamantium bodies and combined mutant abilities.
• A Sentinel severed Bai Ye’s right hand with a laser, but he quickly reattached it and prepared to take the Sentinels’ Adamantium.
• Stryker deleted the uploaded data, destroyed the paper files, and tried to flee with the person in charge.
• Bai Ye appeared behind Stryker and his companion, badly wounded but smiling.

Bai Ye overwhelmed Stryker’s military base and demanded to know how Stryker had obtained advanced Sentinel Robots. After killing Stryker and learning that a nuclear bomb was inbound, Bai Ye took the surviving person in charge into Intangibility Space, where the destroyed Sentinels revealed how he had defeated them.

• Bai Ye crushed the base’s armed forces and Sentinel Robots in minutes, then confronted Stryker and asked how he had built the machines.
• Stryker revealed that he had exposed Bai Ye’s mutant identity and claimed the outside world had tracked his arrival, but refused to explain the Sentinels.
• Bai Ye killed Stryker by crushing him into a cloud of blood mist, then tortured the person in charge until he confessed that a ten-thousand-ton nuclear bomb would hit the base in three minutes.
• Bai Ye took the injured person in charge into Intangibility Space after realizing Professor X could search his mind once he woke.
• The person in charge saw five hollowed-out Adamantium Sentinels, which Bai Ye had destroyed by using their blades to pierce their bodies.

Gwen and her family were taken to Utopia for protection as Bai Ye rescued the imprisoned mutants from a military base. He escaped with the captives and an unconscious Jean, but Professor X admitted he could no longer suppress her power.

• Mystique and Magneto told Gwen and her family that Utopia was protecting them because Bai Ye might become an enemy of the human world, and Camilla described herself as Bai Ye’s pet.
• Bai Ye entered the base prison and stored the captured mutants in his Intangibility Space after telling them he had come to save them.
• Bai Ye found Jean Grey freed from her restraints and recognized that the Black Phoenix personality had awakened.
• Bai Ye rescued the unconscious Professor X and warned Jean that a nuclear missile would destroy the base, then Jean attacked him and he knocked her unconscious.
• Bai Ye took Jean into Intangibility Space and asked Professor X to reinforce the seal in her mind, but Professor X said he could no longer suppress her power.

Bai Ye survived a nuclear missile strike on Stryker’s base and learned that the Sentinel Program had been developed with help from Howard Stark and Dr. Pym. The chapter left him stunned that the Sentinels he had fought were unfinished and that the planned versions would use Pym Particles.

• Nick Fury discovered that hackers within S.H.I.E.L.D. had authorized the nuclear launch and declared that the organization had been infiltrated.
• Bai Ye hurled a stone at the incoming nuclear warhead, detonating it above the base.
• Bai Ye stood inside the fireball and survived the nuclear blast, though the heat destroyed his clothes.
• Bai Ye looted the base, stored its remaining Adamantium, and questioned the person in charge about the Sentinel Robots.
• The person in charge explained that Bolivar Doctor had proposed the Sentinel Program, which later involved Howard Stark, Dr. Pym, Mystique’s genes, and Darwin’s gene fragment.
• The person in charge said the planned Sentinels would use multiple abilities and Pym Particles, leaving Bai Ye stunned that the models he had fought were unfinished.

Nick Fury learned from Bai Ye that Alexander Pierce and the Sentinel Program were tied to Hydra, but he agreed to restart the program while quietly planning to investigate its candidates. Bai Ye then checked on Jean Grey after she awakened, and she avoided his gaze.

• Alexander Pierce gave Nick Fury the secret Sentinel mass-production plan and urged him to restart the program because S.H.I.E.L.D. faced a major crisis.
• Bai Ye called Nick Fury and revealed that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and that Pierce was one of its loyal operatives.
• Bai Ye warned Nick Fury that Stryker had built a Cerebro imitation capable of killing mutants and potentially humans, then demanded political protection in return for rescuing Professor X.
• Nick Fury agreed to restart the Sentinel Program but told Pierce he would investigate the candidates and suggested a team-building event.
• Bai Ye returned to the Intangibility Space, found Jean Grey awake, and asked if she was all right while she awkwardly turned away.

Bai Ye rescued the mutants, killed Stryker, and directed Professor X to take the students to Magneto’s island after the academy was exposed. Meanwhile, internal energy trading spread across the United States, and Tony Stark began cultivating it.

• Jean avoided Cyclops and struggled to suppress her inner personality, whose Phoenix Force was drawn to Bai Ye as a potential vessel.
• Cyclops questioned Bai Ye, but Professor X stopped him and explained that Bai Ye had intervened to protect them.
• Bai Ye told Professor X to take the mutants to Magneto’s island, rejected Saint John Allerdyce’s offer to follow him, and left for New York.
• The public traded internal energy through Kingpin’s platform, and prices rose as wealthy buyers posted high bids.
• Tony Stark meditated and cultivated internal energy at Stark Industries.

Stark Industries and other companies began organizing employees to cultivate inner force for their leaders as Bai Ye returned to Utopia Island with Professor X and the others. Bai Ye told Magneto about the Sentinel Robots and his plans, then decided to send Gwen’s family back while secretly intending to control their memories.

• A Stark Industries supervisor ordered employees to cultivate inner force for company leaders and offered them triple wages for their work.
• Bai Ye arrived at Utopia Island and brought Professor X and the others out of his spatial storage.
• Bai Ye told Magneto and Mystique that S.H.I.E.L.D. had reached an agreement with him and explained the threat posed by Sentinel Robots.
• Bai Ye said he would keep the situation stable and predicted that another year would let him change the world’s balance of power.
• Bai Ye promised to send George and Gwen’s family home, while secretly planning to use Professor X to implant suggestions in them.
• Magneto objected to trusting humans, but Bai Ye insisted he had made up his mind.

Bai Ye stopped Magneto from killing George and Hela's family, then reprimanded him for acting without permission. After arranging the family's return, Bai Ye met with Kingpin to provide Adamantium and pursue a meeting with Victor von Doom about his space project.

• Magneto launched steel balls at George and Hela, but Bai Ye intercepted them and ordered everyone else to leave so they could speak privately.
• Bai Ye told Magneto that his impulsive attack had made him an enemy and warned him to consult Bai Ye before acting again.
• Bai Ye sent Gwen's family, Camilla, and Rogue back to New York with Professor X's help, then asked Professor X to handle several matters.
• Bai Ye visited Kingpin, gave him five Adamantium figures for the hydraulic press, and learned the work would take more than twenty days.
• Kingpin told Bai Ye that the United Nations Summit would discuss taxing his books in three days, and Bai Ye asked him to arrange a meeting with Victor von Doom about his space project.

Victor canceled Reed’s Cosmic Storm Project in favor of researching internal energy, and Coulson recruited Reed to return to the Sentinel Project with the promise of space research. Victor then learned Bai Ye planned to visit the abandoned project the next day and scrambled to prepare.

• Victor withdrew Doom Group’s funding for Reed’s Cosmic Storm Project and urged Reed to join his internal energy research.
• Reed left the company and was approached by Coulson, who offered him a consulting role on the Sentinel Project and a chance to study the Solar Storm in space.
• Reed accepted Coulson’s offer and left with him, agreeing to the project’s confidentiality rules.
• Victor learned that Bai Ye would visit the Cosmic Storm Project the next day and could not reach Reed by phone.
• Victor called the project’s other participants and told them they had to ensure Bai Ye was satisfied.

Bai Ye visited Doom Group to inspect the Cosmic Storm project and arranged to join its space mission, replacing Victor and Ben Grimm with himself. Victor accepted Bai Ye’s three-billion investment and agreed to the personnel change, while Reed remained missing.

• Victor welcomed Bai Ye to Doom Group and explained the Cosmic Storm project, but Bai Ye insisted on meeting the researchers.
• Victor introduced Susan Storm, Johnny, and himself, then said Reed had disappeared the day before.
• Bai Ye asked to join the space station mission and replace Victor and Ben Grimm.
• Bai Ye offered to invest three billion in the project, and Victor eagerly agreed to the arrangements.