Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye let Ben keep his astronaut slot after Johnny defended him, then faced a hostile crowd protesting outside Doom Group over his mutant tax policy. He ordered Kingpin to send men to break the protesters’ legs, leaving Kingpin to arrange the attack.

• Johnny challenged Bai Ye’s decision to remove Ben from the astronaut program, but Bai Ye revealed Johnny’s history of reckless conduct in the flight simulator.
• Ben decided to leave, prompting Bai Ye to reverse his decision and let Ben, Susan, and Johnny join him on the trip to the space station.
• A crowd of around two hundred anti-mutant protesters surrounded Doom Group and hurled insults at Bai Ye over his planned tax policy.
• Bai Ye photographed the protesters and ordered Kingpin to send men to break their legs, warning him to choose the attackers carefully.

Bai Ye and Kingpin planned to have the marchers outside Doom Group beaten, while Bai Ye decided to provoke them so they would stay until Kingpin’s men arrived. His speech stirred the crowd into renewed anger, leaving them gathered below and shouting insults.

• Kingpin ordered his subordinates to send thugs to break the legs of the marchers and arrange for the attackers’ assets to be seized before they went to prison.
• Bai Ye said he wanted to keep the marchers in place by provoking them, and Victor fetched him a microphone connected to the company broadcast system.
• News of the march reached mutants in Utopia, Gwen at school, and Rogue and Smith at the factory, who watched the coverage and reacted to the condemnation of Bai Ye.
• Bai Ye addressed the marchers over the broadcast and mocked people of several races, including any mutants among them.
• The marchers erupted into insults and stayed gathered below after Bai Ye provoked them.

Bai Ye taunted the protesters opposing his Book Tax and threatened to increase the cost of his next book based on their behavior. After giving the crowd a minute to leave, he watched as Kingpin’s men arrived and brutally beat the remaining marchers.

• Bai Ye mocked the protesters and announced that his next book would carry higher taxes for people who insulted or opposed him.
• Bai Ye set the starting tax for the second book at one hundred dollars and warned that opponents would pay more.
• Kingpin told Bai Ye that his people were nearly there, and Bai Ye gave the protesters one minute to leave.
• Few protesters left, and more than three hundred remained as Bai Ye played music and counted down.
• Ten men arrived in a van and broke the protesters’ bones while the livestream audience watched.
• Bai Ye told Johnny that he had warned the crowd to leave, and Johnny trembled and admitted Bai Ye had been right.

Bai Ye arranged for his enforcers to break the legs of more than three hundred protesters, then used their claim that they were his fans to deny responsibility. When a police captain insulted him and tried to detain him, an enforcer beat the captain unconscious, while the other officers chose not to challenge Bai Ye.

• Bai Ye ordered Kingpin to have lawyers sue the protesters for defamation and emotional distress.
• Ten enforcers broke the legs of more than three hundred protesters, then claimed they were Bai Ye’s die-hard fans and allowed the police to arrest them.
• Bai Ye denied involvement to the police, while Victor testified that he had nothing to do with the assault.
• After the captain insulted Bai Ye and demanded that he come to the station, Bai Ye crouched and signaled that he did not want to see him.
• An enforcer attacked the captain and beat him unconscious, then surrendered to the police.
• Bai Ye offered to be arrested, but the other officers backed away and left him alone.

Bai Ye left the space-station scene after telling Victor to coordinate with Kingpin, who arranged for Susan to teach Bai Ye aerospace knowledge in exchange for another billion. Meanwhile, injured marcher Bate learned his injuries might not heal and discovered that Bai Ye’s lawyers were demanding compensation from him.

• Bai Ye told Victor to notify him before the space station launched and to send aerospace materials through Wilson, then left the scene.
• Kingpin persuaded Victor to send Susan to teach Bai Ye, offering an additional one billion for the arrangement.
• Bate learned that his legs might recover through internal force, but his severed organ could not regrow unless Everyone Can Practice 2.0 made it possible.
• The doctor told Bate that his attackers could not pay compensation and that police had found no evidence Bai Ye incited them.
• A lawyer from Value Line Company served Bate with a letter demanding compensation for damaging Bai Ye’s reputation.

Bai Ye’s supporters attacked people who had insulted him, while Kingpin’s lawyer threatened them with further compensation. At S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Nick Fury set aside the unrest and planned an internal investigation to find infiltrated Hydra agents.

• Bate insulted Bai Ye and the lawyer, who recorded his words and reported the incident to Tombstone.
• Tombstone ordered Bate added to the list of people who had insulted Bai Ye, and a Fanatic Fan later beat Bate and other patients during violent follow-up visits.
• The attackers surrendered to the police, who suspected Bai Ye’s influence but lacked evidence to charge him.
• Coulson and Natasha objected to Bai Ye’s escalating actions, but Nick Fury told them to put the matter aside.
• Nick Fury announced an S.H.I.E.L.D. internal investigation and planned to briefly disable the headquarters’ defenses so Professor X could identify infiltrators.

Bai Ye’s training grew more effective as his strength increased, while Susan arrived at his factory expecting to teach him aerospace knowledge. After Bai Ye left with Susan, he called Kingpin and ordered him to widen the crackdown on people whose curses were flooding Bai Ye’s mind.

• Bai Ye trained under a four-thousand-ton weight and noted that his added Strength attribute had sharply increased his training capacity.
• Susan arrived at the factory to tutor Bai Ye in aerospace knowledge, and she watched him train while he remained naked.
• After training, Bai Ye dismissed Susan’s proposed lessons and told her to come with him to eat and have fun.
• Bai Ye called Kingpin, praised him for bringing Susan, and learned that Kingpin had targeted the hospitalized protesters again.
• Bai Ye told Kingpin that he could hear people cursing him and ordered him to expand the crackdown.

Bai Ye planned to silence online critics because his heightened senses kept him from sleeping, while Tony Stark trained in inner energy and prepared to travel to Afghanistan. Bai Ye recognized that Iron Man’s story was about to begin but chose not to intervene, and the night continued at his villa.

• Bai Ye told Kingpin to target important online figures and dox and visit several hundred ordinary netizens, though Bai Ye did not intend to handle the matter personally.
• Bai Ye considered training underground once his strength reached the limit of a hydraulic press and then went to a restaurant with Susan.
• Tony Stark continued practicing inner energy as Pepper reminded him that he was scheduled to demonstrate a missile at an Afghan air force base the next day.
• Bai Ye realized Stark’s trip would begin the events of Iron Man 1 but decided to stay out of them.
• Bai Ye continued making love with Camilla while Susan slept beside them.

Susan woke at Bai Ye’s villa after spending the night with him and Camilla, while online backlash against Bai Ye escalated into a series of violent attacks by apparent supporters. Watching the seemingly unstoppable “Fanatic Fans,” Nick Fury began to suspect Hydra was behind them.

• Susan remembered how Bai Ye had pressured her into going to his villa, where she and Camilla spent the night with him.
• Camilla told Susan that Bai Ye had arranged leave from her company and expected them to continue that night.
• On a television program, Ke Lang condemned Bai Ye, and an account called Bai Ye's Number One Fanatic Fan threatened him online.
• Ke Lang and other critics were attacked after the account posted their personal information and the taunt “Fascists are here.”
• Police arrested a man targeting one of the victims, but that victim was beaten shortly afterward, and Bai Ye's Number Two Fanatic Fan posted another doxxing threat.
• Nick Fury watched the attacks unfold and suspected the apparent Bai Ye supporters might be Hydra.

Nick Fury learned that cultivating internal energy caused humans to develop meridians, and he added Bai Ye to the Sentinel Program's watchlist while advancing plans to fuse mutant cells into Sentinels. At the factory, Bai Ye speculated about whether his regenerative growth could overcome death and prepared to shut down the training facility while keeping its operators contained.

• Coulson reported that people developed meridians only after cultivating the martial arts from Bai Ye's book, which might be changing humanity.
• Nick Fury ordered Bai Ye added to the Sentinel Program's watchlist and heard that Dr. Reed had helped resolve a problem with fusing mutant genes into Sentinels.
• Coulson described plans to give Sentinels energy absorption and potentially Quicksilver's abilities, while Nick Fury considered the mutant cells Stryker had collected.
• Bai Ye wondered whether death and other alterations to his body could count as attacks that his infinite-growth constitution might overcome, and reassured Rogue that he would not test the idea recklessly.
• Bai Ye said the factory machine had reached its limit, ordered the operators kept within the factory after it closed, and called Professor X.

Bai Ye asked Professor X to attack his mind to improve his mental strength, then learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. wanted Charles to investigate Hydra within its ranks. After Tony Stark joined the Chat Group, Bai Ye headed to Afghanistan to check whether the newcomer was the Tony Stark from his world.

• Bai Ye asked Professor X to repeatedly attack his consciousness, and endured the psychic assault as his mental attribute increased.
• Charles told Bai Ye that S.H.I.E.L.D. had asked him to investigate Hydra spies, and Bai Ye said he could help them.
• Tony Stark’s military convoy in Afghanistan came under attack, and he was wounded by an explosion after finding a missile bearing his company’s logo.
• All-Knowing and All-Powerful Immortal invited Tony Stark to the Chat Group, and the members welcomed the newcomer.
• Bai Ye suspected Tony Stark was in his world, broke free from his training machine, and rushed toward Afghanistan.

Bai Ye flew to Afghanistan to find Tony Stark, whom terrorists had captured, and located the cave where Yinsen was operating on him. Bai Ye massacred the armed terrorists outside the cave, leaving Stark’s rescue still in progress.

• S.H.I.E.L.D. tracked an unidentified object traveling toward Afghanistan, and Nick Fury concluded Bai Ye was likely heading to the same target as their agents.
• Kimishima Kana guessed that the new group member Tony Stark might be the Iron Man from comics, while All-Knowing and All-Powerful Immortal worried that his disguise could be exposed.
• Bai Ye searched the area around an American army air base and identified the terrorist base where Yinsen was operating on Stark.
• Bai Ye landed outside the cave, confirmed Stark was inside, and killed the terrorists who tried to fire on him.

Bai Ye rescued Tony Stark from a terrorist camp in Afghanistan, healing his injuries and bringing him and Yinsen to an American air force base. After Stark woke, Bai Ye warned him not to make any suspicious moves.

• Bai Ye destroyed the remaining terrorists and entered the cave to reach the operating area.
• Bai Ye used internal force to remove the shrapnel from Stark’s chest and heal his wounds.
• Bai Ye told Yinsen to gather Stark and travel with him to a nearby air force base.
• Bai Ye met Colonel James Rhodes at the base and waited for Stark to wake.
• After Stark awoke, Bai Ye warned him not to touch anything or make a suspicious move.

Bai Ye rescued Tony Stark from the attack in Afghanistan and explained the Chat Group, then demanded that Stark help him lure its administrator into their world so he could kill him. Stark faced a choice between helping Bai Ye and becoming his enemy, and the chapter ended with Bai Ye insisting that no one could refuse his friendship.

• Bai Ye told Stark that Obadiah had arranged the attack and that the Chat Group had selected Stark as a member.
• Bai Ye explained that the administrator had muted him and ordered Stark to gain the administrator's trust and lure him into their world to be killed.
• Stark questioned Bai Ye's motive, but Bai Ye said anyone who offended him deserved to die and threatened Stark with elaborate revenge if he refused.
• Bai Ye offered Stark protection and criminal impunity as his friend, including help from Kingpin.
• Stark argued that his own wealth could handle his problems, but Bai Ye warned that his friends could take what Stark valued and declared that no one could refuse his friendship.

Bai Ye coerced Stark into cooperating with his plan to manipulate the Chat Group administrator and explained that the administrator treated Marvel characters as stories. After setting a ten-day rendezvous, Bai Ye flew toward Kamar-Taj in Nepal and encountered Ancient One through a portal.

• Bai Ye threatened Stark until he agreed to cooperate and relay messages from the administrator while following Bai Ye's instructions.
• Bai Ye told Stark that the administrator knew Marvel stories and was using fortune-telling to learn how far people had progressed in their plotlines.
• Stark told the administrator he had been kidnapped in Afghanistan and was building an Arc Reactor, while Bai Ye advised him to keep his distance for several days.
• Bai Ye told Stark to wait at a designated location in ten days, then left to visit Kamar-Taj near the Himalayas.
• An orange, spark-filled halo appeared before Bai Ye, and Ancient One watched him from the other side.

Bai Ye met Ancient One at Kamar-Taj to learn what she knew about his constitution, Stat Panel, and Chat Group. Ancient One warned him to balance his attributes and proposed that his healing and growth could eventually make him an enemy who became stronger whenever an attack nearly killed him.

• Ancient One told Bai Ye she had only observed a small but crucial part of his future and confirmed that his constitution could grow without limit, though unbalanced attributes could destroy his body.
• Ancient One explained that the Stat Panel and Chat Group were unique to Bai Ye across timelines and universes, making him the fastest-growing version of himself.
• Ancient One revealed that she had used the Space Stone alongside the Time Stone to communicate with her counterparts in other universes.
• Ancient One asked whether Bai Ye had ever died, then suggested that if his health eventually exceeded the experience needed to raise an attribute, devastating attacks could trigger growth and instantly restore him.
• Bai Ye considered Ancient One's example of an opponent whose attacks would repeatedly increase his health and strength, leaving the chapter with the possibility that he could become impossible to kill.

Ancient One explained that Bai Ye's growth continued through death and other forms of damage, easing his anxiety about becoming stronger. After taking a night to rest, Bai Ye began an intense training session underground ahead of his fight with the Chat Group administrator in ten days.

• Ancient One told Bai Ye that his talent remained active after death, allowing him to revive stronger once accumulated damage filled his experience bar.
• Bai Ye returned to New York, declined Ancient One's offer to teach him magic for now, and relaxed by falling into a river and sleeping on its bed.
• Susan visited Bai Ye's villa, but Camilla told her that Bai Ye had not returned.
• After waking refreshed, Bai Ye called Camilla, Kingpin, Mary, and Erik to arrange matters while he trained for ten days.
• Bai Ye became intangible and descended underground, then solidified his body under immense pressure to push his constitution toward its limits.

Bai Ye spent ten days training underground, increasing his strength, physique, and spirit before traveling rapidly to Afghanistan to meet Stark. He arrived at the military base moments after causing a violent earthquake and revealed that Stark’s training had given him a hundred years of internal energy.

• Bai Ye trained under immense underground pressure for ten days, raising his attributes while keeping their growth balanced.
• Bai Ye considered training longer to ensure he could defeat the Chat Group’s Group Owner, then decided he could rely on Ancient One or use his remaining attribute points if needed.
• Bai Ye launched himself toward the surface and traveled to Afghanistan, while Stark waited at the base after investigating Bai Ye and his online witch hunt.
• Bai Ye’s arrival shook the military base, cracking its floors and walls before the tremors stopped.
• Bai Ye appeared behind Stark, said he had arrived thirty seconds early, and explained that Stark’s hundred years of internal energy showed he had spent quite a bit of money.

Bai Ye lured Crimson into the Afghan desert by having Stark request help in the Chat Group, then attacked the administrator after he arrived. Crimson survived Bai Ye’s probing punch and threatened to kill him and Stark, prompting Bai Ye to unleash far greater power.

• Bai Ye scolded Stark for being too active in the Chat Group and told him to ask for help rescuing Yinsen.
• Bai Ye carried Stark away from the base and had him invite Crimson alone through the Chat Group.
• Crimson arrived in the desert expecting to rescue Stark and Yinsen, but found Bai Ye and Stark instead.
• Bai Ye moved Stark into Intangibility Space and struck Crimson with a supersonic punch that sent him carving a long ravine through the sand.
• Crimson threatened to kill Bai Ye and Stark, and Bai Ye released a force many times greater as the earth seemed to roar.

Bai Ye confronted the Chat Group administrator Crimson in Afghanistan and overwhelmed him, then had Professor X control Crimson into lifting his mute. With his Chat Group access restored, Bai Ye ended the retaliation he had spent ten days preparing for.

• Bai Ye studied the Chat Group’s cross-realm rules and arranged for Ancient One, Magneto, Professor X, and others to back him up if needed.
• Bai Ye unleashed a sandstorm and attacked Crimson so quickly and forcefully that Crimson was left in agony despite his self-healing.
• Bai Ye dragged the limp Crimson out of the storm after half an hour and revived him with a snap of his fingers.
• Professor X explained that Crimson’s pain had been transmitted to him through their mental connection.
• Bai Ye ordered Crimson to lift his Chat Group mute, and the group confirmed that Bai Ye had been unmuted.