Chapter Summaries

Piotr’s rapid progress inspired the Superpowered Guard Team to train harder, while Qin Jiayin’s growing strength and secretive behavior left Dilos uncertain about their relationship. As Dilos considered what to do next, Charles contacted him to discuss something.

• Piotr’s transformation spurred the Superpowered Guard Team, along with Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow, to take an interest in Guoshu training.
• Qin Jiayin’s physical abilities rapidly improved through true essence and Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound training, though she had not reached minute perception.
• Dilos restricted Qin Jiayin’s training and life potions to reduce the risk of a parasitic consciousness.
• Qin Jiayin continued avoiding time alone with Dilos and kept the reason secret, leading him to decide to give her space.
• Charles cautiously reached out to Dilos, who connected with him and heard that Charles wanted to discuss something.

Charles explained to Dilos how consciousness could develop into a soul and taught him about astral projection, revealing the benefits and dangers of a fully formed soul. He left Dilos with the knowledge that the soul was essential to becoming a god.

• Dilos teleported to Charles, who offered to teach him astral projection and asked about the relationship between consciousness and the soul.
• Charles explained that consciousness began as an aspect of the soul, then could develop into a complete soul that resisted changes in the body.
• Charles revealed that his disability had left his soul incomplete, though its development had improved his psychic control and observation.
• Charles told Dilos that a fully formed soul could leave its body for a long time and possess another person, but that possession caused the soul and body to erode each other.
• Charles warned that a soul could possess only a body of the same species with great difficulty and said that developing consciousness into a soul was essential to becoming a god.

Dilos strengthened his consciousness with true essence and began forging it into a soul, unleashing a wave of power that affected creatures across thousands of kilometers. He floated out of his body as a bald woman in Kamar-Taj sensed the disturbance and reacted with shock.

• Dilos returned to his private room on Isla Sorna and spent seven days strengthening his consciousness with true essence until it reached its limit.
• Dilos connected his mental power to his body and energy reserves, consuming diverse biological energies to forge a golden sphere around his consciousness core.
• Dilos's golden sphere released a wave that reached thousands of kilometers, causing people, dinosaurs, and Cybertronians, including Qin Jiayin, Dr. Connors, and Thundercracker, to collapse in pain.
• Dilos withdrew the wave and then began floating out of his body, seeing his own body lying motionless below him.
• A bald woman in Kamar-Taj sensed the disturbance, shattered her teacup, and exclaimed in shock.

Dilos formed a soul but found that it took the shape of a huge golden orb, was difficult to control, and could not reenter his body. After an unknown intruder blocked his soul power, Ancient One appeared and introduced herself.

• Dilos summoned and examined his soul power, recognizing that it seemed to be the soul power Charles had described.
• Dilos discovered that his soul looked like a huge golden orb rather than his body and could remain outside his body without weakening.
• Dilos tried repeatedly to return to his body, but his soul bounced off it and knocked the body across the chamber.
• Dilos heard someone laugh and attacked the intruder with soul power, but a transparent wall blocked the attack.
• Ancient One tore open the space before Dilos, appeared in the chamber, and introduced herself as the Sorcerer Supreme of Kamar-Taj.

Dilos met the Ancient One after his soul-forming caused a disturbance across Earth, and cautiously questioned her intentions. She offered to help him control his soul power and return to his body, but Dilos asked what he could do in return.

• The Ancient One explained that she had sensed the great commotion when Dilos achieved a soul and marveled at his unusual golden soul form.
• Dilos remained wary as the Ancient One studied him and mentioned that his form resembled the Venerable One of K'un-Lun.
• The Ancient One apologized for entering Dilos's private space and offered guidance on controlling his soul power and returning to his body.
• Dilos lowered his guard, introduced himself as Dilos Sullivan, and apologized for his suspicion.
• Dilos invoked the Chinese saying about courtesy and reciprocity, then asked the Ancient One how he could repay her help.

Ancient One examined Dilos and explained that his immense soul power made it difficult to control and caused his body to reject him. She discovered that the golden vortex in his abdomen might restrain his soul, and they prepared to try using it to help him return to his body.

• Ancient One told Dilos that he needed to gradually master his excessive soul power and that forcing his soul back into his body could destroy it.
• Ancient One examined the golden vortex in Dilos's abdomen and found its stable form unusual.
• Dilos suspected Ancient One wanted to master true essence and wondered whether dark energy from the Dark Dimension affected her.
• Ancient One explained that the golden vortex could compress and suppress Dilos's soul, and suggested they begin with it.
• Dilos agreed to try Ancient One's method and asked her to explain what he should do.

Dilso followed Ancient One’s instructions to take control of his body’s physical-level consciousnesses and began shrinking his soul with the help of True Essence. His soul continued to contract as his mind grew clearer, while he waited to complete the process before merging with his body.

• Ancient One explained that soul power could connect a soul to bodily tissues and energies, and that Dilso had to overcome the body’s physical-level control system to enter it.
• Dilso wrapped his body in soul-power threads, scanned it, and found the chaotic consciousnesses that had been preventing his soul from entering.
• Dilso eroded and assimilated those consciousnesses, altering their commands until they became his own bodily control system.
• Dilso refrained from entering his body because his soul was still too powerful for it, and Ancient One explained how a soul could use its connection to the body and its energies to shrink.
• Dilso drew True Essence from his body and used it to compress his soul, which gradually shrank as his mind became clearer.

Dilos formed a golden shell around his soul from soul power and bodily energies, allowing his soul to fuse safely with his body. After discovering his biofield had become stronger and more versatile, he saw Ancient One staring at him in shock and referring to the K'un-Lun Venerable.

• Dilos found that his soul could not shrink past thirty centimeters until he combined true essence with the power of qi and blood, shrinking it to three centimeters.
• Dilos entered the golden vortex in his abdomen but discovered that withdrawing the surrounding energies made his soul expand dangerously.
• Dilos wrapped his soul, the golden vortex, and bodily energies in soul power, forming a golden shell that kept his soul contained even when the energies were withdrawn.
• Dilos sent his soul and shell through his body and fused them with his physical form, then confirmed that his vital signs were normal.
• Dilos tested his biofield and found it formed faster, had greater defensive power, and could be shaped freely, though nearly all his true essence had been consumed.
• Dilos turned to thank Ancient One and found her stunned as she compared what she had seen to the K'un-Lun Venerable.

After resolving the problem with his soul, Dilos spent two weeks handling the fallout from his uncontrolled soul power and decided to take over International Genetic Technologies openly. He visited Ancient One at Kamar-Taj to fulfill his promise and ask about her reaction to his soul, leaving their conversation just beginning.

• Dilos dealt with the damage and public fallout from his soul power pressing down on living things around Jurassic Park, while disguised as Adam Jones.
• Dilos decided to wait until International Genetic Technologies was near collapse before taking control under his own identity, and then went to find Ancient One.
• Dilos located Kamar-Taj by spreading his controlled soul power across the region, and Ancient One opened a golden spatial passage to bring him inside.
• Ancient One welcomed Dilos into Kamar-Taj, where he said he had come to fulfill his promise and ask questions about her reaction to his soul.
• Ancient One agreed to begin their conversation.

Dilos learned that Ancient One’s body was slowly being destroyed by dark energy she had absorbed centuries earlier, and that she hoped his true essence energy could suppress it. After explaining his unusual, accidentally developed golden core, Dilos agreed to try treating her.

• Dilos and Ancient One discussed Kamar-Taj, the Immortals, and K'un-Lun, including their energies and histories.
• Ancient One explained that dark energy was corroding her body and would destroy it within ten years, despite her powerful soul resisting its effects.
• Ancient One said the Immortals and K'un-Lun had refused to teach her true essence energy because she was an outsider, and she had hoped Dilos's abilities could help her.
• Dilos told Ancient One that his master had taught him only to refine vital energy and that he had developed his true essence energy and false core by accident.
• Ancient One judged that Dilos's true essence energy should be enough to remove the dark energy, and Dilos offered to treat her immediately.

Dilos helped Ancient One remove the dark energy that had been eroding her for centuries, using his true essence while she activated protective magical runes. Ancient One recovered enough to thank him and accepted him as a friend, while Dilos continued to consider how he might gain the power to change the world.

• Ancient One completed the magical runes in her chamber, then rested while Dilos waited and reflected on humanity and his plans for the world.
• Dilos and Ancient One began using the runes to draw the dark energy in her body toward her back, where Dilos's true essence could counter it.
• Ancient One endured five hours of pain as she drove the dark energy toward Dilos's true essence, and together they eradicated it completely.
• Dilos gave Ancient One more true essence to help her recover, and she thanked him for his help.
• Dilos called Ancient One a friend, and she agreed that they were friends.

After restoring his depleted true essence, Dilos and Dr. Connors finished preparing a new serum designed to take his power further. Learning from Ancient One's notebook how vastly gods and demons outmatched him, Dilos began the enhancement knowing how far he still had to go.

• Dilos left Kamar-Taj after Ancient One gave him a notebook, then returned to Isla Sorna and replenished the true essence he had spent helping her.
• Dilos discovered that restoring crystallized true essence consumed enormous quantities of Pym Particles, and he used more than a barrel's worth to recover what he had lost.
• Two days later, Dilos and Dr. Connors began manufacturing the new serum and calibrating its data with the completed equipment.
• After seven days of preparation, Dilos lay inside the life cultivation device as Dr. Connors finalized the setup for the enhancement.
• Dilos and Dr. Connors discussed how the new serum's superpower genes could make it flawless divine power.
• Dilos recalled Ancient One's notebook, which revealed that true gods and demons could destroy planets and that god-kings such as Odin could destroy the solar system, leaving him aware of the immense gap between his strength and theirs.

Dilos underwent a complex enhancement procedure that fused thirteen foreign genes into his triple-helix DNA, then was sealed inside a black cocoon to incubate. Dr. Connors wondered whether Dilos would emerge as a god or a demon, while a brief flare of dangerous golden-red energy appeared in a woman’s eyes at the X-Mansion.

• Dilos allowed Dr. Connors to restrain him and weaken his cells so medical nanomachines could modify his DNA.
• The nanomachines fused the new serum into Dilos’s triple-helix DNA, and Dr. Connors activated the foreign genes with blue gas.
• Dr. Connors poured a pitch-black solution over Dilos, which hardened into a giant black egg that he sealed inside an expanded container.
• Dr. Connors considered how the thirteen foreign genes might give Dilos nine powerful superpowers and wondered whether he had created a god or a demon.
• At the X-Mansion, a dangerous golden-red energy briefly flared in a red-haired woman’s eyes before vanishing.

At Kent Farm, Kara and Qin Jiayin discussed Dilos’s absence and Kara’s past before Clark overheard Kara’s complaints about him. The chapter ended with Qin Jiayin leaving the cousins to face their awkward family dispute, while she reflected that Clark might eventually surpass Kara in strength.

• Qin Jiayin reassured Kara that Dilos was away handling a matter, while Kara tried to suppress her fondness for him.
• Kara recalled how Dilos had removed the artificial consciousness Zor-El implanted in her and how she had since come to live with Clark and his adoptive parents.
• Kara asked Qin Jiayin to train with her, explaining that Clark was weaker and treated her like a child.
• Clark arrived behind Kara and heard her say she looked down on him, prompting Qin Jiayin to leave them alone.
• Qin Jiayin reflected that Kara currently outmatched Clark because of her greater physical strength and experience, though Clark could surpass her after further training.

Dilos endured a major serum transformation that strengthened his body and soul and gave him new abilities, then entered the dangerous black cavern in his soul after its threat diminished. Inside, he confronted a being who looked like him and called it his newly born parasitic consciousness.

• Dilos endured several days of bodily breakdown and reconstruction inside the black cocoon as his soul adapted to the serum's genes and his crystallized true essence dwindled.
• Dilos discovered new control over radiation and internal energy, but avoided entering the black cavern after sensing danger within it.
• On the sixth day, Dilos used telekinesis to operate the energy solution and absorbed its converted light and electrical energy to strengthen his body.
• The black cavern suddenly pulled at Dilos's soul and false core, and he entered it after sensing that its danger had lessened.
• Dilos found himself in a world of clashing landscapes and faced an identical man, whom he recognized as a newly born parasitic consciousness.

Dilos defeated Black Dilos and discovered that the parasitic consciousness could not access his memories after he formed his soul. He then used the special energy from the golden motes to open a black aperture and began analyzing his genes, leaving himself nearly nine minutes to modify them.

• Black Dilos attacked Dilos, but Dilos restrained him with telekinesis and found that he was far weaker than expected.
• Dilos sent a fragment of memory into Black Dilos, causing him to access true essence energy, then crushed him and absorbed the golden motes.
• Dilos concluded that memories were the key to the parasitic consciousness's combat abilities and that the motes' calm energy could unlock genetic modification.
• Dilos opened a black aperture in the space and sent his soul power through it to receive genetic information.
• Dilos analyzed the vast genetic information in just over ten minutes and determined that he had nearly nine minutes left to adjust his genes.

Dilos used his soul power and the reserve energy to overhaul his genes, strengthening his body and abilities before withdrawing from the mysterious space. After recovering enough to move, he burst out of the giant cocoon, leaving Dr. Connors to seal himself safely outside the laboratory.

• Dilos concluded that gods could manipulate their genes, then used his soul power to adjust and strengthen his own genetic data.
• Dilos spent nearly nine minutes awakening dormant genes, repairing incomplete ones, balancing his bodily functions, and improving his abilities.
• After leaving the mysterious space, Dilos absorbed energy from the reserve supply to recover, though the supply was depleted in less than six hours.
• Dilos's emerging power cracked the giant cocoon, and he warned Dr. Connors to leave and seal the laboratory.
• Dilos exploded out of the cocoon, blasting the container into fragments that wrecked and slashed the laboratory.

After the new serum transformed Dilos, he tested his abilities and discovered that absorbing Refined Gold made him vastly stronger and nearly impervious to nuclear weapons. He held back from testing his limits, anticipating that a god would soon descend on Earth.

• Dilos used his new spatial movement ability to reach orbit, absorbed solar radiation, and restored his energy.
• Dilos and Dr. Connors tested his abilities, revealing that his dragon form increased his physical attributes tenfold and his one-arm output to forty thousand tons.
• Dilos transformed his entire body into Refined Gold, boosting his physical attributes eight hundredfold and making him resistant to ordinary nuclear weapons.
• Dilos used his biological field to enhance the Refined Gold form tenfold, reaching an estimated output of three hundred and twenty million tons.
• Dilos decided to wait for a god to arrive on Earth before testing his strength in combat.

Dilos tested Qin Jiayin’s evolved stellar-energy abilities and discovered that her crystalline weapons could unleash immense kinetic force and a million-degree Flame Blade. After she showed off her power, the two reconciled affectionately, and Dilos teleported them to his private room.

• Dilos watched Qin Jiayin demonstrate how her crystallized stellar energy formed a durable horse-chopping saber with powerful energy-control properties.
• Qin Jiayin warned Dilos to metalize his entire body, then struck him with a Flame Blade that carried twenty million tons of force and reached one million degrees.
• Dilos withstood Qin Jiayin’s attack and declined to see her combine her mental power with stellar energy.
• Qin Jiayin teased Dilos about being stronger, and he admitted that she was amazing before kissing her.
• Dilos scooped up Qin Jiayin and teleported with her to his private room.

After three days together, Dilos and Qin Jiayin shared a tender morning before he revealed his enhanced appearance and prepared her a familiar breakfast. He reassured her that he could pause cultivation and began planning to teach her mental power techniques, while explaining how mental strength supported Guoshu advancement and the path to becoming an all-around combatant.

• Dilos watched Qin Jiayin sleep, then helped her get dressed after she woke and noticed the gold-and-blue patterns covering his body.
• Dilos used telekinesis to prepare a home-style Chinese breakfast, and he and Qin Jiayin shared a warm meal together.
• Qin Jiayin worried that Dilos would neglect cultivation to teach her mental power techniques, but he reassured her that he did not need to cultivate for now.
• Dilos explained that Qin Jiayin's mental strength was already substantial and that mental power helped practitioners advance through Guoshu realms without losing control of their bodies after enhancement.
• Dilos described how reaching the Subtlety Realm enabled the formation of a synthetic biofield and the attainment of a soul, allowing a fighter to become an all-around top-tier combatant.