Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye’s enthronement ceremony drew regional leaders and worldwide attention as he was crowned the ruler of the world. After declaring himself King of the World, he left Marvel’s history in a new era.

• New York prepared for Bai Ye’s enthronement, with regional leaders arriving and broadcasters covering the ceremony worldwide.
• Bai Ye left Rogue and Mary, flew toward the ceremony, and killed a man who was threatening a woman in an alley.
• Bai Ye met the Chat Group members, heard Sasuke confirm his resolve to kill Uchiha Itachi, and discussed the spreading Book of Prophecy.
• When an attendant accidentally dropped a tray, Bai Ye reassured him and ordered that he be helped rather than punished.
• Representatives from the regions presented gifts, and Bai Ye climbed the 999 steps to the Ascension Platform.
• Bai Ye declared, “I am the King of the World!”

After the Book of Prophecy confirmed Yakushi Kabuto’s role in Orochimaru’s plans, Sarutobi Hiruzen convened Konoha’s leaders to discuss how to prevent the disasters it revealed. Bai Ye then returned to the village and told Uchiha Sasuke that his book’s plot had already changed, leaving Konoha’s leaders bracing for Bai Ye’s arrival.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen had Yakushi Kabuto’s memories examined, confirmed the Book of Prophecy’s warning, and ordered Kabuto imprisoned.
• Nara Shikaku proposed capturing Orochimaru and using a weakened Impure World Reincarnation to summon and seal Uchiha Madara before anyone else could revive him.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered protection for Naruto Uzumaki and Uchiha Sasuke, while the leaders agreed not to provoke Bai Ye.
• An Anbu reported that Bai Ye had arrived in Konoha and was with Uchiha Sasuke, prompting Sarutobi Hiruzen to go meet him.
• Bai Ye told Uchiha Sasuke that the Fourth Kazekage had disappeared and that Orochimaru’s impersonation was known, while Sasuke pointed out that Bai Ye’s book had made the plot even wilder.

Sarutobi Hiruzen welcomed Bai Ye to Konoha and provided him with Chakra cultivation instructions, which Bai Ye used to rapidly produce an enormous amount of Chakra. Naruto Uzumaki confronted Bai Ye over the book’s claims about his future relationships, but Sasuke dragged Naruto away.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen apologized for Konoha’s actions described in the Book of Prophecy and offered Bai Ye a teacher, but Bai Ye asked for cultivation books instead.
• Bai Ye read the Chakra refinement method and sensed new Meridians and Chakra acupoints forming in his body.
• Bai Ye refined Chakra at an extraordinary rate, prompting a Hyuga Clan ninja to report his progress to Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• After fifteen minutes, Bai Ye stopped refining Chakra and considered making a Tailed Beast Ball, but decided against trying it in Konoha.
• Naruto Uzumaki accused Bai Ye of getting Sakura, Ino, Hinata, and Tsunade pregnant in the future, and Sasuke covered Naruto’s mouth and dragged him away.

Bai Ye watched Konoha villagers protest against him, then met Orochimaru, who proposed an alliance in exchange for immortality. After demonstrating his overwhelming strength, Bai Ye agreed to help Orochimaru continue the Konoha Crush Plan and revealed his intention to kill Uchiha Itachi and destroy Konoha before leaving the world.

• Konoha villagers gathered in a large protest, chanting that Bai Ye must die.
• Orochimaru told Bai Ye that he had abandoned his exposed plans and proposed an alliance in exchange for immortality.
• Bai Ye said his lifespan was no concern and demonstrated that Orochimaru could not match his speed or strength.
• Bai Ye told Orochimaru to continue the Konoha Crush Plan because he wanted to fulfill Uchiha Sasuke's wish.
• Bai Ye declared that he would first kill Uchiha Itachi, then destroy Konoha.

Bai Ye agreed to let Orochimaru care for Sasuke and proposed destroying Konoha, while Orochimaru agreed to revise his Konoha Crush Plan. As Konoha’s villagers demanded Bai Ye’s death and the Reincarnators worried about their disrupted mission, Bai Ye followed an Anbu into an ambush and killed him, concluding that Konoha had struck first.

• Bai Ye asked Orochimaru to look after Sasuke and offered him immortality or absolute power in exchange for managing Konoha after its destruction; Orochimaru agreed to revise his plan.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen learned that the resurrected shinobi had been sealed, then faced a crowd demanding that Bai Ye be driven out or killed.
• Naruto Uzumaki sympathized with Bai Ye as he watched the villagers turn against him.
• A group of Reincarnators worried that the Book of Prophecy had derailed their mission and that the Main God would punish them for a low score.
• An Anbu shinobi led Bai Ye away from the inn on a secluded route, and Bai Ye killed him when he attacked.

Bai Ye attacked Konoha by ripping up Hokage Rock and hurling it at the village, claiming he intended to destroy Konoha and avenge the Uchiha. He left the village devastated and faced Kakashi’s space-time ninjutsu while remaining protected by his own intangibility.

• Bai Ye searched the corpse of Danzo’s assassin, confirmed the man had a Sealing Technique in his severed tongue, and concluded that Danzo had sent a scapegoat to kill him.
• Bai Ye tore Hokage Rock and the mountain beneath it from the ground, lifted the massive stone above his head, and hurled it toward Konoha.
• Kai opened the Eight Gates and smashed apart the falling rock, but its debris killed villagers and destroyed buildings.
• Bai Ye told the arriving ninja that Danzo’s Root had attacked him, but declared he would have destroyed Konoha regardless and said he was avenging the Uchiha.
• Kakashi used Kamui on Bai Ye, who stayed safe inside his Intangibility Space as Kakashi recognized the space-time technique.

Bai Ye destroyed nearly all of Konoha in seconds, then offered Uchiha Sasuke a choice about what to do with the surviving masterminds. Sasuke chose to punish the ringleaders, while a steel-bodied man emerged from the ruins and wondered whether the Konoha Crush Plan had succeeded.

• The Third Hokage tried to negotiate with Bai Ye, but Bai Ye said he intended to destroy Konoha, and Might Guy attacked him.
• Bai Ye effortlessly caught Might Guy’s punch, challenged him to open the Ninth Gate, then moved at supersonic speed and reduced Konoha’s main urban district to ruins in seventeen seconds.
• Bai Ye reflected on how his training had become vastly more effective and wondered how long it would take him to cross from finite strength to infinite strength.
• Orochimaru arrived with Uchiha Sasuke, and Bai Ye told Sasuke he had spared the area where Naruto Uzumaki and the others were staying.
• Bai Ye offered to kill everyone in Konoha or punish its ringleaders, and Uchiha Sasuke chose the second option and thanked him.
• A steel-bodied man climbed out of the rubble and wondered whether the Konoha Crush Plan had been completed.

Bai Ye destroyed Konoha and offered to spare the remaining ninja if they surrendered and handed over the elders behind the Uchiha Clan massacre. After killing Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo, he again demanded that the survivors surrender.

• Kakashi emerged from Konoha’s ruins and rescued the Third Hokage and other ninja from the Kamui Dimension, while Might Guy lay near death.
• Bai Ye arrived with Sasuke and Orochimaru and offered terms: surrender, make Orochimaru Hokage, and hand over Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzo, and the other massacre masterminds.
• Sasuke rejected Sarutobi Hiruzen’s appeal and said the Uchiha elders involved in the massacre must die.
• Bai Ye walked through Konoha’s attacks, neutralized Kakashi’s Lightning Blade and Kamui, and resisted Sarutobi Hiruzen’s Dead Demon Consuming Seal before killing him.
• Bai Ye killed Danzo, then asked the remaining Konoha ninja whether they would surrender.

After destroying Konoha, Bai Ye oversaw the remaining ninja’s surrender and began planning the village’s reconstruction and the conquest of the Land of Fire. Orochimaru mistook Bai Ye’s earlier threats for a desire to sleep with surviving female ninja, leaving Bai Ye to protest that he had only helped Sasuke get revenge.

• Bai Ye mocked Konoha’s leaders, then gave Sasuke half an hour to persuade the ninja to surrender.
• Bai Ye shared an aerial view of Konoha’s craters with the chat group and bragged about destroying the village.
• Sasuke persuaded the ninja to surrender by promising that their fallen comrades could be revived, and Orochimaru became Konoha’s Fifth Hokage.
• Bai Ye ordered the ninja to rebuild Konoha, demanded supplies and people from the Land of Fire, and announced plans to conquer other countries.
• Konoha’s surviving ninja collected corpses while Yamato built houses with Wood Release.
• Orochimaru gave Bai Ye a list of surviving female ninja, assuming Bai Ye had conquered Konoha for them, and Bai Ye denied it.

The Daimyo of the Land of Fire considered taking ninja as concubines after reading Bai Ye’s book, but Kakashi delivered Bai Ye’s coercive edict demanding wealth and a city’s population for Konoha. After the Daimyo’s refusal, Bai Ye planned to crush resistance and provoke the other villages into gathering against him, while giving Sasuke a potion to prepare for battle.

• The Daimyo of the Land of Fire asked whether he could take ninja as concubines during the Chunin Exams.
• Kakashi delivered Bai Ye’s edict demanding half the national treasury’s wealth and one city’s population for Hidden Leaf Village within three days.
• The Daimyo ordered his men to seize Kakashi after refusing the demand, but Kakashi escaped.
• Kakashi reported the mission’s failure to Bai Ye, who ordered a jonin to force the Daimyo into submission.
• Bai Ye gave Kakashi letters challenging the other major villages to demand his execution, then planned to gather them and wipe them out.
• Bai Ye gave Sasuke a scarlet potion called Pym Particles and warned him not to be ambushed.

Bai Ye received Sasuke’s progress report and then indulged in a compromising encounter with female ninjas, while Stark established rules for a government staffed by heroes and villains. Meanwhile, Thanos sent Ebony Maw to retrieve the Space Stone from Asgard’s former territory and slaughter half the planet’s population.

• Bai Ye gave Sasuke the Pym Particles, confirmed that he was still studying under Orochimaru, and sent him away to keep working.
• Bai Ye entered a room of female ninjas, claimed he wanted to study the corrupting effects of power, and began feeling around with his senses sealed as they protested.
• Stark set rules for the Super Heroes and Super Villains serving the country, allowing limited retaliation but forbidding killing and attacks on relatives.
• Daredevil and Bullseye began fighting outside the White House, while Stark watched and remarked that their hospital stays would keep them from bothering ordinary people.
• Thanos sensed the Space Stone in Asgard’s former territory and ordered Ebony Maw to retrieve it, take the Chitauri, and kill half the population there.

Bai Ye interrogated captured Reincarnators in the shinobi world, then returned to the Marvel Universe and helped Reed with research. When the Space Stone became unstable, Bai Ye suspected the events of Avengers 1 were beginning and waited to see who would emerge from the portal.

• Bai Ye questioned Tate and the other captured Reincarnators, learning about their missions and how long they would remain in the world.
• Bai Ye told Orochimaru he was leaving, then ended his invitation and returned to the Marvel Universe.
• Bai Ye urged Reed to finish researching the Superpower Reverse-Engineering Machine and offered to help with the project.
• Seven days later, the Space Stone became unstable at a former S.H.I.E.L.D. base, and Stark reported the danger to Bai Ye.
• Bai Ye told Stark to watch for a portal and said he would deal with whoever came through, suspecting the Avengers 1 events had begun.

Ebony Maw emerged through the Cosmic Cube’s portal to claim the Space Stone, but Bai Ye ordered the Devil Team to capture him so Earth could use him to reach Thanos. The Devil Team overwhelmed Ebony Maw, leaving him unconscious and in their custody.

• The Cosmic Cube tore open a spatial barrier, and Ebony Maw emerged at Pegasus Base.
• Bai Ye told Stark to let Ebony Maw open a portal, then capture him and have Professor X control him; he returned to researching the superpower reversal machine.
• Ebony Maw controlled several researchers, who warned him about Bai Ye and Earth’s powerful forces, while the Devil Team arrived to confront him.
• The Devil Team attacked Ebony Maw with internal-energy techniques, injuring him despite his attempts to defend himself.
• Ebony Maw used Jigsaw as a hostage, but Victor pierced Jigsaw with a lightning-charged fist and knocked Ebony Maw unconscious.

Stark brainwashed Ebony Maw and ordered him to open a portal for Thanos’s invasion, while Earth’s leaders prepared for Bai Ye’s National Vote. Bai Ye announced a free superpower awakening option with a three-day voting deadline and warned that an alien war would soon reach New York.

• Stark used the Mind Stone to control Ebony Maw, then ordered him to follow Thanos’s plan and open the portal while Magneto freed him from the Vibranium cage.
• Stark left to arrange the National Vote after Kingpin and Rodriguez learned Bai Ye would give the speech and hurried to show their loyalty.
• Bai Ye told Earth’s viewers that a Superpower Awakening Machine would offer powers, but warned that 34% of users might undergo permanent physical mutations.
• Bai Ye announced that citizens had three days to vote to awaken, and that anyone who failed to vote would never be allowed to awaken later.
• Bai Ye recommended that everyone awaken, then revealed that Earth would soon fight an alien civilization and told New York residents to evacuate.

After announcing Earth’s planned conquest of an extraterrestrial civilization, Bai Ye helped spur tens of millions to register for superpower awakening, then traveled to Konoha as the Shinobi Alliance prepared to attack. He took responsibility for facing the roughly fifty thousand shinobi surrounding the Land of Fire and left Hidden Leaf Village to fight.

• Bai Ye announced that Earth would launch a campaign against an extraterrestrial civilization, and the White House described it as spreading freedom and democracy.
• Stark questioned Bai Ye about withholding information on reversed superpower mutations, while tens of millions registered to awaken within five hours.
• Bai Ye departed the completed awakening machine project and accepted Uchiha Sasuke’s cross-world request to come to Konoha.
• Uchiha Sasuke and Orochimaru told Bai Ye that the Land of Fire was under their control and that about fifty thousand Shinobi Alliance forces, including Akatsuki, had surrounded it.
• Bai Ye agreed to handle the alliance, then left Hidden Leaf Village carried away on a massive sphere of rock.

Bai Ye hurled a superheated meteor toward the gathered forces of the four great ninja villages, who had allied to eliminate him. As the meteor bore down on them, Pain and Onoki rose to stop it while the Shinobi Alliance cheered them on.

• Bai Ye found the Hidden Mist and Land of Lightning forces’ camps deserted, then launched a massive rock into the sky and accelerated it into a blazing meteor.
• The four villages’ forces gathered at the border of the Land of Earth, where Pain, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Mei Terumi, and Onoki prepared to march against Bai Ye.
• The gathered shinobi spotted the meteor and realized that grouping together had made them an easy target.
• Mei Terumi and Jiraiya urged Onoki to stop the meteor, but he recognized that it was far faster and hotter than the one Uchiha Madara had summoned.
• Pain combined the power of the Six Paths while Onoki flew up to intercept the meteor, as the Shinobi Alliance cheered them on.
• Bai Ye realized the meteor might destroy Konoha, then smiled at Pain and Onoki as they moved to block his attack.

Bai Ye shattered the meteorite threatening the Shinobi Alliance, then wiped out the survivors with an enormous Tailed Beast Ball. He landed in the resulting crater and found no one to answer him.

• Pain and Ōnoki combined their powers with the Human Pillars' attacks to try to stop Bai Ye's meteorite, but could not halt it.
• Bai Ye smashed the meteorite apart with one punch, sending countless fragments crashing down on the Shinobi Alliance.
• Bai Ye formed and released a gigantic Tailed Beast Ball after the surviving ninjas begged him to stop.
• Sasuke saw the distant blast spread toward the Hidden Leaf Village and wondered what Bai Ye was doing.
• Bai Ye landed in a crater several kilometers across and called out, but found the valley silent and empty.

Bai Ye spared the surviving Kage-level fighters after defeating the Shinobi Alliance and urged the Hidden Leaf Village to unify the shinobi world. He returned to the Marvel Universe, then the chapter shifted to Luo Mang preparing to challenge Tornado after three months of training.

• Bai Ye killed the Raikage, gave the surviving Kage-level fighters a chance to surrender, and left them alive when the countdown ended.
• Bai Ye returned to the Hidden Leaf Village and told Sasuke, Kakashi, Orochimaru, and the others that he had eliminated every shinobi below Kage level and spared the surviving Kage-level fighters.
• Bai Ye urged the Hidden Leaf Village to unify the shinobi world, then said goodbye to Sasuke and returned to the Marvel Universe.
• Luo Mang confronted Tornado after she knocked down his disciples and showed off the results of his three months of training before inviting her to fight.

Master Luo defeated Tornado with a single palm strike and told the other martial arts masters that an immortal had taught him a divine skill. In the Chat Group, Bai Ye released Everyone Can Practice 4.0 Version, which promised a much higher cultivation limit through combining inner force with chakra.

• Master Luo leaped three meters into the air, then knocked Tornado out of the ring with one palm strike.
• Master Luo told reporters that his strength came from hard work and dedication, while Ip Man and Master Hong recognized his power as far beyond ordinary kung fu.
• Master Luo told visiting martial arts masters that an immortal had taught him a divine skill and promised to ask whether they could become disciples.
• Master Luo asked the Chat Group for permission to teach the original Purple Mist Divine Skill, and Yue Buqun agreed.
• Bai Ye uploaded the Chakra Cultivation Manual, Ninjutsu Cultivation Compendium, and Everyone Can Practice 4.0 Version, then explained how chakra and inner force worked together.
• Bai Ye told Uchiha Sasuke that Version 4.0 had an upper limit over 10,000 times greater than Version 3.0 and could reach around Level 7 after decades of cultivation.

Bai Ye brought Stark and the others to an evacuated New York, where they encountered the Chitauri invasion in a parallel universe and learned how different this world was from theirs. As they investigated the timeline, Bai Ye destroyed the Chitauri fleet with a single strike.

• Yue Buqun chose to abandon Version 3.0 cultivation for Version 4.0 as two billion people voted to awaken and the first candidates were selected.
• Stark, Kingpin, and others prepared to use the Awakening Machine, but Rodriguez learned that Ebony Maw had finished the Teleportation Device.
• Bai Ye arrived at the White House, then transported the group to New York and had Ebony Maw open a portal in the sky.
• Stark, Hulk, Captain America, and Ant-Man appeared in New York during the Chitauri invasion and realized they were in a parallel universe.
• Friday reported that the universe differed from theirs and that Bai Ye's appearance had changed its history; Stark was shocked to learn he had become Earth's president.
• Bai Ye destroyed the Chitauri fleet, and Friday identified him as the one responsible.