Chapter Summaries

Lu Xi battled Cyttorak in the Crimson Universe, enduring his attacks while continuing to destroy the realm and taunt him. As the fight moved into a warped region scarred by an even greater battle, Lu Xi sensed that Source Lucifer had fought Cyttorak there before.

• Cyttorak unleashed a storm of attacks and Crimson Bands at Lu Xi, but Lu Xi's Devouring and Destiny Laws left him nearly unharmed.
• Lu Xi mocked Cyttorak and continued demolishing regions of the Crimson Universe while Cyttorak claimed he had sealed off the realm.
• Lu Xi moved the battle deeper into the universe and discovered an area warped by chaotic laws, shattered space, and lingering combat auras.
• Lu Xi sensed that Cyttorak had fought the other combatant in the region and recognized him as Source Lucifer.

Lu Xi realized that Source Lucifer had wounded the Crimson Universe and turned Cyttorak’s past into a disadvantage. With Wanda and Strange attacking the Universe’s barrier from outside, Cyttorak was forced to divide his attention and began plotting an escape.

• Cyttorak concluded that Lu Xi had helped Source Lucifer and furiously intensified his assault.
• Lu Xi recognized that the Crimson Universe’s origin was already wounded and estimated he could not keep dismantling it alone for long.
• Lu Xi sent Wanda and Strange outside the Crimson Universe to attack its barrier.
• Wanda and Strange shattered vast sections of the barrier, causing cosmic energy and matter to spill out.
• Cyttorak realized he could neither leave to stop them nor ignore Lu Xi, and considered luring Lu Xi away so he could flee with the Universe.

Cyttorak weighed a risky plan to lure Lucifer out, then offered Lu Xi the Mutant Universe in exchange for peace. Lu Xi refused, and Cyttorak unleashed a devastating explosion that spread across the Crimson Universe.

• Cyttorak considered using Wanda and Strange to lure Lucifer out, but feared that failure would leave him helpless against Lu Xi.
• As Wanda and Strange battered the Crimson Universe's barrier, Cyttorak offered Lu Xi the Mutant Universe and a truce.
• Lu Xi rejected the offer, saying he would take both Universes by killing Cyttorak.
• Cyttorak threatened Lu Xi, then gathered the Crimson Universe's energy for a desperate attack.
• Lu Xi retreated and formed a barrier with the laws of Destiny and Devouring as Cyttorak's explosion surged through the Crimson Universe.

After Cyttorak detonated the Crimson Universe and escaped, Lu Xi chose to suppress the unstable Universe Origin rather than pursue him. Lu Xi protected Wanda, Strange, and the Mutant Universe, claimed the chance to take half the Crimson Universe's origin, and hinted that he had another way to track Cyttorak.

• Cyttorak used the Crimson Universe's destruction to teleport away, leaving its remaining Universe Origin on the verge of a chain reaction.
• Lu Xi weighed pursuing Cyttorak against protecting Wanda, Strange, and the nearby Mutant Universe from the coming explosion.
• Lu Xi rushed to the Crimson Universe's origin and suppressed the chain reaction, deciding to take the origin rather than pursue Cyttorak.
• Lu Xi found Wanda and Strange unconscious with minor injuries outside the universe and traced Cyttorak's many teleportations before the marks faded.
• Lu Xi remained unconcerned about losing Cyttorak's teleportation trail, believing he could track him by another method.

Lu Xi used Destiny Law to locate the fleeing Cyttorak and explained that he would deal with him after claiming the remaining Crimson Universe Origin. After Wanda and Strange returned to the Morningstar Universe, Lu Xi began harvesting the immense power left in the shattered universe.

• Lu Xi used Destiny Law—Causal Positioning to trace Cyttorak and considered how their growing connection might let him curse Cyttorak from afar.
• Wanda and Strange woke outside the Universe, and Lu Xi told them Cyttorak had escaped and the Mutant Universe and half of the Crimson Universe were his.
• Wanda asked whether the plan had succeeded, and Lu Xi explained it was incomplete until Cyttorak had been dealt with.
• Lu Xi sent Wanda and Strange back to the Morningstar Universe and turned to the remaining Crimson Universe Origin.
• Lu Xi began preparing to absorb the Crimson Universe's remaining Origin Power.

Lu Xi devoured the remaining Crimson Universe, raising his own strength and expanding the Morningstar Universe until it could no longer fit inside his body. He returned to the Morningstar Universe to examine the changes, while postponing his plans to absorb the nearby Mutant Universe.

• Lu Xi used the Devouring Law to absorb the Crimson Universe and send its origin power into the Morningstar Universe.
• The Morningstar Universe burst out of Lu Xi's body because he had absorbed more power than he could control, and Lu Xi reached Multiversal-level Ninth Order.
• Lu Xi realized the Morningstar Universe had grown to about one-third the Crimson Universe's former size and greatly increased the boost it gave him near its boundaries.
• Lu Xi decided not to risk confronting [Death] or the other Five Gods yet, and returned to the Morningstar Universe to digest his gains before absorbing the Mutant Universe.
• Lu Xi visited Kamar-Taj, left Natasha to settle the newly arrived Mutants, and sensed the Morningstar Universe's changes as a sorcerer's Bolts of Balthakk displayed increased power.

Lu Xi tested the enhanced Morningstar Universe’s ability to suppress cosmic destruction by having Wanda and Strange fight at full strength. He confirmed he could confine their attacks’ impact to a small area while preserving their power, leaving the Universe far more resilient but still vulnerable to a prolonged battle.

• A mage’s lightning struck the training ground with little damage, prompting Lu Xi to consider how much stronger the Morningstar Universe had become.
• Lu Xi summoned Wanda and Strange to the edge of the Universe and told them to fight at full strength for his experiment.
• Wanda and Strange’s battle triggered the Cosmic Will, which automatically limited their attacks’ destruction to several nearby galaxies.
• Lu Xi actively strengthened the cosmic suppression, shrinking the battle’s impact to within one light-year while keeping the attacks’ power unchanged.
• Lu Xi ended the test and concluded that the Morningstar Universe could endure a fight between him and an enemy for a limited time.
• Wanda and Strange thanked Lu Xi for the opportunity to become Multiversal-level powerhouses and said they were glad to serve him.

Lu Xi embedded the Reality Stone in Wanda’s forehead, combining its power with her Chaos Magic and greatly increasing her strength. Wanda demonstrated her ability to reshape reality and create a Solar System, then learned she could theoretically make a universe, though it would lack origin power.

• Lu Xi sent Strange back to Earth and asked Wanda to stay behind.
• Lu Xi explained that the Reality Stone matched Wanda’s reality-altering Chaos Magic and embedded the reduced gem in her forehead.
• Wanda experienced the reality network and discovered she could shift among possibilities and turn imagined scenes into reality.
• The Reality Stone’s power raised Wanda from the first tier to the third tier.
• Wanda created a detailed Solar System in the void, and Lu Xi told her that creating a universe was possible, though it would begin as an empty shell without origin power.

Lu Xi finished absorbing most of the Crimson Universe’s power and began fusing the Mutant Universe, using Juggernaut’s connection to Cyttorak to locate him. Cyttorak, weakened and fleeing across the multiverse, decided he had to escape beyond its boundaries, unaware that Lu Xi was already tracking him.

• Wanda vowed to work hard toward becoming powerful enough to create worlds after Lu Xi encouraged her.
• After two days of absorbing the Crimson Universe’s power, Lu Xi went to the Mutant Universe to begin fusing it.
• Lu Xi pulled Juggernaut from the Mariana Trench, imprisoned him, and used his aura to help trace Cyttorak through the Power of Destiny.
• Cyttorak fled through the multiverse, weakened by losing the Crimson Universe and suffering injuries from its destruction.
• Cyttorak concluded that he had to flee beyond the multiverse to avoid Lu Xi, who was already closing in.

Cyttorak fled to the Multiversal boundary and prepared to risk entering the Chaos Mist rather than face Lucifer. As Lu Xi pursued him, he sensed Cyttorak’s destined death changing, and the chapter ended with his fate growing solid again.

• Cyttorak recalled how the Chaos Mist had drained and nearly assimilated him when he previously ventured beyond the Multiversal boundary.
• Fearing Lucifer would kill him if he stayed, Cyttorak decided to gamble on crossing the mist into another world.
• A massive black vortex opened in the void near Cyttorak just as he was about to enter the mist.
• Lu Xi tracked Cyttorak through repeated teleports and used the Destiny Law to inspect his fate.
• Lu Xi saw Cyttorak’s collapsing Destiny of death stop collapsing and begin to grow solid, prompting him to realize it had been rewritten.

Lu Xi pursued Cyttorak, but an unknown force repeatedly obscured the trail and altered his fate. He confronted the force in the Destiny Dimension and discovered it was Loki, the God of Stories.

• Lu Xi reasoned that Cyttorak’s survival meant either Cyttorak had surpassed the Ninth Order or another powerful being had rewritten his fate.
• Lu Xi used Destiny Law to trace Cyttorak, but the trail split into thousands of branches after an obscure Law fluctuation intervened.
• Lu Xi abandoned the search for Cyttorak and focused on identifying the hidden being, suspecting it could rival him.
• Lu Xi clashed with the fluctuation in the Destiny Dimension, where he saw Loki, the God of Stories, seated at the Heart of the Time Tree.

Lu Xi confronted Loki, who admitted to disrupting Lu Xi’s plans because he wanted to seize Lu Xi’s Destiny Law. After Loki’s phantom withdrew, Lu Xi resumed pursuing Cyttorak.

• Lu Xi challenged Loki’s phantom and accused him of deliberately opposing him.
• Loki claimed Lu Xi had disrupted the Universe’s fateful paths, but Lu Xi recognized that Loki wanted his Destiny Law.
• Lu Xi mocked Loki as “Toilet Loki” and deduced that Loki’s throne-bound role and limited ability to leave his post kept him from confronting Lu Xi directly.
• Loki warned that he would keep opposing Lu Xi and then vanished, leaving Lu Xi unable to locate his true body.
• Lu Xi’s interference with Cyttorak’s destiny thread ended, and he followed it to pursue Cyttorak.

Lu Xi caught Cyttorak as he tried to escape through a mysterious vortex and considered whether to accept his offer of submission. He decided Cyttorak was too dangerous to keep alive, but pretended to accept and presented a Soul Contract, while Cyttorak secretly planned to break free later.

• Cyttorak hesitated before entering a black vortex that showed glimpses of an unfamiliar world, then eagerly tried to use it to escape.
• Lu Xi appeared, sealed the space around Cyttorak in an Indestructible cage, and prepared to kill him.
• Cyttorak offered to submit, arguing that his Sixth Order strength would make him useful once he recovered from his injuries.
• Lu Xi weighed the risks of controlling Cyttorak and decided that leaving him alive could endanger the Morningstar Universe.
• Lu Xi pretended to accept Cyttorak's submission and presented a Soul Contract, while Cyttorak opened his soul and resolved to remove the control after recovering.

Lu Xi killed Cyttorak and discovered a temporary passage to the DC Universe, but decided to wait until he could travel there safely. He then began merging another Universe into the Morningstar Universe, where Gwen Stacy briefly dreamed of becoming Spider-Woman.

• Lu Xi attacked and killed Cyttorak, then used the Destiny Law to confirm that he could not be revived.
• Lu Xi recognized that the black vortex showed Gotham City and contacted Vishanti, who identified it as a temporary passage to the DC Universe.
• Lu Xi decided not to enter the passage until he was strong enough to return under his own power.
• Lu Xi traveled to a nearby Universe and began absorbing it into the Morningstar Universe.
• Gwen Stacy briefly dreamed that she was Spider-Woman before the dream abruptly ended.

Lu Xi reasoned that Loki’s immense power came from the Time Tree Throne, which also bound him to maintaining the Sacred Timeline. As Lu Xi accelerated his Universe fusions to grow stronger, Loki regretted failing to harm him and realized he could not directly manipulate the Destiny of someone who wielded it himself.

• Gwen regained memories and enhanced power after a shared daydream, and Lu Xi arranged for S.H.I.E.L.D. to guide her into signing a contract.
• Lu Xi continued fusing Universes while searching for a way to strike Loki and taking stock of their conflict over the Power of Destiny.
• Lu Xi concluded that Loki’s throne granted him great power but tied him to the Time Tree and Sacred Timeline, making him vulnerable if driven from it.
• Lu Xi accelerated his Universe fusions until he could absorb one in about two minutes.
• Loki lamented that his attempt to trouble Lu Xi through Cyttorak had backfired and admitted he could not directly alter Lu Xi’s Destiny.

Loki concealed his dimension to avoid Lu Xi, while Lu Xi fused more than ten thousand Universes and reached the peak of the Tenth Order. His growth then hit a bottleneck, leaving him uncertain whether he had reached Omniversal-level.

• Loki realized he could not safely fight Lu Xi and feared Lucifer would eventually find him.
• Loki used the Time Tree to weaken the dimension’s connection to the Multiverse and hide it more thoroughly.
• Over fifteen days, Lu Xi fused more than ten thousand Universes into the Morningstar Universe, incorporating many variants.
• Rune King Thor fused with this Universe’s Thor, giving him rune powers and making him the third contractor to reach Multiversal-level.
• Lu Xi reached the peak of the Tenth Order but found that further Universe fusions no longer increased his power, so he accepted the bottleneck for now.

Lu Xi returned to Asgard to summon Thor and Loki, while Odin and Frigga formally made him Asgard’s eternal God King. He revealed that he had come to find a powerful Loki variant from a parallel universe who opposed him.

• Lu Xi returned to Asgard and asked Frigga about the state of the Nine Realms, where Thor had quelled resistance after reaching Multiversal-level.
• Thor and Loki arrived with Odin, whose health Thor had restored using Rune Magic.
• Odin told Lu Xi that he and Frigga had retired and abolished the God King inheritance, making Lu Xi Asgard’s sole eternal God King.
• Lu Xi accepted the title and appointed Odin and Frigga to handle everyday affairs.
• Lu Xi said he had come to find a powerful Loki variant from a parallel universe, alarming everyone present.

Lu Xi failed to find the God of Stories Loki through the variants’ destiny links and considered recreating the Loki’s path through the Time Variance Authority. He then tried another approach and reached Lokie Odinson in a different universe, where a mysterious voice offered her godhood.

• Lu Xi used Loki as a starting point to search across parallel universes, but found no trace of the God of Stories variant.
• Lu Xi told Frigga and the others that the search had failed and proposed guiding Loki through the Time Variance Authority’s path to reach the End of Time.
• Lu Xi reconsidered using Loki and activated Destiny Law to locate another universe.
• Lokie Odinson complained about Odin, Thor, and Asgard’s reluctance to fight the Frost Giants before a voice asked whether she wanted to understand life’s meaning and become a god.

Loki received a mysterious offer promising the chance to gain immense power, and the visions accompanying it convinced her that its source might surpass Odin. Though she suspected a scam, a newly appearing trial card gave her a way to test the offer.

• Loki watched visions of powerful beings battling and realized they were too convincing to be ordinary illusions.
• Loki concluded that whoever created the visions might be stronger than Odin and considered the offer a chance to escape the limits she felt in Asgard.
• Loki compared the offer’s promised power and terms favorably against Asgard’s strict control, but worried that a demon god might be deceiving her.
• A Newbie Power Trial Card—30-Minute Version appeared in Loki’s mind, offering her a way to test whether the promised power was real.

Lokie used the newbie power trial card and gained Universal-level power, then left Asgard to deal with threats across the Nine Realms. She later emerged from a vortex in the Morningstar Universe’s Golden Palace and greeted Lu Xi as Lord Lucifer.

• Lokie chose the newbie power trial card, and a pillar of energy shattered Asgard’s defenses as it infused her with power over the laws of the Universe.
• Odin arrived in the Destroyer armor and Gungnir, but Lokie recognized that his Divine Power was fading and told her family she would leave after helping Asgard.
• Lokie opened a spatial rift and vanished, then Heimdall reported that she had destroyed the Frost Giants’ and Fire Giant Kingdom’s high-level forces and warned the Vanir and Dwarf Realm.
• Lokie’s trail disappeared from Heimdall’s sight, and she later fell from a vortex into the Golden Palace hall in the Morningstar Universe.
• Lokie recognized Lu Xi and paid her respects as Lord Lucifer.