Chapter Summaries

Xu Mo and Apocalypse defeated Ikaris when the Eternals came to Death Island to rescue Tina. Xu Mo let Apocalypse take Ikaris’s body, while Gilgamesh asked what it would take to free Tina.

• Ikaris fired eye beams at the soldiers, but Xu Mo struck him away before the lasers could hit them.
• Apocalypse intercepted Ikaris and used his force field, portals, and controlled sand to defeat and incapacitate him.
• Xu Mo explained that Apocalypse could change bodies to maintain his immortality and allowed him to try possessing Ikaris.
• Apocalypse took Ikaris away, and Gilgamesh asked Xu Mo what it would take to release Tina.

Xu Mo assessed his gains from the Chitauri invasion, spent most of his points on resources for his Beast God Avatar and Star Devouring Vine, and successfully completed the first tribulation of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual. His strength doubled to 6 billion tons, and his genetic level rose to 200x.

• Xu Mo used the Mind Stone to command Gilgamesh to find the Eternals' machinery expert and take him to the island nation to set off fireworks.
• Xu Mo reviewed the Infinity Stones, Chitauri spoils, and his 670 million points, then exchanged 580 million points for five Immortal Crystals and a Star Devouring Vine evolution metal formula.
• Xu Mo fed Immortal Crystals to the Beast God Avatar and sent the Star Devouring Vine into the metals needed for its Universe Level evolution.
• Xu Mo cultivated the first tribulation of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual, carefully guiding green energy through his body as his cells transformed.
• Xu Mo completed the first tribulation and discovered that his strength had reached 6 billion tons and his genetic level had risen to 200x.

Xu Mo took possession of Nick Fury’s two Helicarriers and brought more than a thousand Black Widows to Death Island to crew them. After a successful Symbiote bonding and combat test, he decided the enhanced Black Widows were ready to enter other worlds.

• Nick Fury delivered the two Helicarriers to Xu Mo, resigned himself to losing his position, and left to handle matters he still had to deal with.
• Xu Mo sent more than a thousand trained Black Widows to Death Island to inspect and operate the Helicarriers.
• With Xu Mo’s approval, Evelyn bonded with a Symbiote and emerged from the test room transformed in a red suit.
• Strucker confirmed Evelyn’s vital signs were normal, and she later defeated more than a dozen Warlord-rank Black Widows in under a minute.
• Xu Mo judged that Symbiote-enhanced Black Widows were powerful enough to protect themselves in other worlds and prepared to send them there.

Xu Mo sent 10,000 Black Widows through portals to a thousand worlds to earn points, equipping their teams and instructing the captains to contact him when they needed help. After their early success brought in nearly twenty million points, Xu Mo traveled to Seoul to recruit researchers for his island’s expanding research projects.

• Xu Mo used the Astral Tower’s Enslavement Space to establish connections with a thousand Black Widow captains and gave them Storage Rings stocked with gear, supplies, and a guide to valuable treasures.
• Xu Mo opened portals aboard the Helicarrier and sent 10,000 Black Widows in teams of ten to a thousand different worlds, warning their captains to contact him about dangerous threats or items in the guide.
• Emma joined Xu Mo on the empty Helicarrier, and he took her to the bridge’s top floor.
• A week later, Xu Mo saw that the Black Widows’ expeditions had earned nearly twenty million points and traveled to Seoul to recruit researchers from a biological genetics laboratory studying nanotechnology.

Xu Mo met Helen Cho to recruit her for his private laboratory and offered unusually generous terms. When Helen questioned his motives, he showed her a collection of Chitauri corpses as evidence of the research resources available to the project.

• Xu Mo visited the Eugene Genetic Research Laboratory and arranged to meet its director, Helen Cho.
• Helen Cho met Xu Mo at a café and questioned why he had chosen her and offered such generous terms.
• Xu Mo explained that his organization had invited experts around the world and would offer more experienced researchers even better terms.
• Xu Mo showed Helen an image of rows of Chitauri corpses, and she recognized them with astonishment.
• Xu Mo confirmed that the image showed Chitauri corpses.

Xu Mo persuaded Helen Cho to join him and recruit her laboratory team, then left after clashing with Park Jin-ho, who began investigating him. At a Seoul hotel, Kim Min-hee urged her sister to make a move on their rescuer, then headed to the bedroom when Kim Li-su refused.

• Helen Cho accepted Xu Mo’s offer and agreed to ask the laboratory’s twelve researchers and forty-six staff members whether they would join him for triple pay.
• Park Jin-ho arrived at the café, and Helen Cho told him she had resigned because she was tired.
• Park Jin-ho tried to stop Xu Mo from leaving and invoked his father’s status, but Xu Mo shoved him aside and left; Helen Cho followed.
• Park Jin-ho called Jeong-hyeok and asked him to investigate Xu Mo.
• At a Seoul hotel, Kim Min-hee encouraged Kim Li-su to pursue their rescuer, but Kim Li-su refused, so Kim Min-hee took clothing from her spatial ring and went toward the bedroom.

Xu Mo spent the day touring Seoul with Kim Min-hee and Kim Li-su, then found Park Jin-ho and armed men waiting in their hotel suite to take revenge. After the sisters interrogated Park Jin-ho and learned why he had come, Xu Mo ordered them to sink the intruders in the river.

• Xu Mo joined Kim Min-hee and Kim Li-su in Seoul, but found the sightseeing dull and stayed because the sisters were enjoying themselves.
• Xu Mo and the sisters returned to their hotel through a Spatial Gate and found Park Jin-ho and seven or eight armed men inside their suite.
• Kim Min-hee and Kim Li-su bound the intruders, silenced them, and questioned Park Jin-ho while Xu Mo watched.
• Kim Li-su shocked Park Jin-ho until he confessed that he had come to seek revenge because Xu Mo had slighted him.
• Xu Mo told Kim Min-hee and Kim Li-su to sink Park Jin-ho and his men in the river.

Xu Mo used his Hydra-controlled forces to dismantle the Jixuan Group after Park Jin-ho’s disappearance. Park Seok-hyun was killed during a staged confrontation, leaving the young Prosecutor Kim wounded and promised a promotion.

• Helen Cho told Xu Mo that the others would leave only if he guaranteed their families’ safety, and Xu Mo told them to wait two days.
• Xu Mo ordered a Hydra officer in South Korea to make the Jixuan Group disappear within two days, then explained that Hydra’s branches had fallen under his control.
• South Korean media exposed scandals across the Jixuan Group, government agencies inspected its subsidiaries, and its businesses shut down as its funds were frozen.
• Park Seok-hyun grew furious when his contacts refused to help and beat an unconscious woman in his office.
• A prosecutor and police officers entered Park Seok-hyun’s villa, shot him dead, and staged the scene to make it look as if he had shot Prosecutor Kim.

Xu Mo brought Helen Cho and the other researchers and their families to Death Island, then took Helen to the research center. A collision with Raven nearly sent both women flying, and Raven was assigned to show Helen around the laboratory.

• Xu Mo welcomed Helen Cho and the researchers to Death Island after the organization took over Jixuan Group’s assets.
• Helen asked Xu Mo to take her straight to the laboratory, and he flew her there on a Chitauri vehicle.
• Raven shot out of a research-center window on a Goblin Glider, and Xu Mo stopped both vehicles with his Psychic Force as Helen and Raven were thrown into the air.
• Xu Mo caught Helen and Raven, while Raven playfully squeezed Helen against him before Xu Mo landed and reprimanded her for flying too fast.
• Xu Mo assigned Raven to show Helen the laboratory, then vanished, leaving Raven to guide the startled Helen inside.

Xu Mo joined Evelyn and the Black Widows in the Transformers world after they stole the AllSpark, then learned that a Decepticon spy had escaped and revealed their location. The Decepticons were likely approaching the villa.

• Raven visited Xu Mo at his villa and used Helen Cho's appearance to draw him into the room.
• Xu Mo spent the next few days studying the laws of space with the Space Stone in Astral Tower.
• Evelyn told Xu Mo that her squad had stolen the AllSpark from Hoover Dam and brought it to their villa near Santa Ana.
• Xu Mo arrived through a Spatial Gate, took the AllSpark, and stored it inside Astral Tower.
• Mikaela reported that a little robot had escaped from her bag, and Xu Mo recognized it as the Decepticon spy Frenzy.

Xu Mo defeated Megatron and Starscream when they came to demand the AllSpark, then used the Astral Tower's Enslavement Space to enslave them. He discovered he could extinguish their AllSparks at will and decided he did not need to destroy all the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth.

• Xu Mo sensed Megatron and Starscream approaching, and he and the Black Widows went outside while Mikaela followed after Evelyn reassured her that reinforcements had arrived.
• Xu Mo seized Frenzy with his Psychic Force and crushed him into an iron ball before tossing him into a trash can.
• Megatron and Starscream transformed from fighter jets into robots and demanded that Evelyn hand over the AllSpark.
• Xu Mo struck Megatron and Starscream with his hammer, then redirected Megatron's rockets through Spatial Gates so they exploded behind the two Decepticons.
• Xu Mo sent the still-living Megatron and Starscream into the Astral Tower's Enslavement Space, where the light enslaved them.
• Xu Mo felt that he could extinguish their AllSparks with a thought and concluded that he did not need to wipe out all the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth.

Xu Mo subdued Megatron and Starscream, made them wait for the other Decepticons, and rewarded the Black Widows for their work. After Evelyn left Mikaela with him, Mikaela asked to follow Xu Mo, and he agreed.

• Xu Mo subdued Megatron and Starscream, who woke up and pledged obedience to him.
• Megatron told Xu Mo that the remaining Decepticons were on their way and the Autobots were probably still in Los Santos; Xu Mo ordered the two Decepticons to wait outside.
• Xu Mo gave the Black Widows Life Water and awarded Evelyn Dragon Blood for her contributions.
• Xu Mo ordered the Black Widows to avoid Los Santos while he dealt with the Transformers, and Evelyn left Mikaela at the villa with him.
• Mikaela told Xu Mo she wanted to follow him for a better life and offered to give him everything; Xu Mo agreed.

Xu Mo gathered Megatron’s Decepticons at the lake, then returned to the villa with Mikaela. After testing the AllSpark and enslaving it through the Astral Tower, he received information that explained what had happened.

• Xu Mo subdued Blackout and the Decepticons Megatron had summoned, then learned that more Decepticons would arrive from space.
• Xu Mo returned to the villa, where Mikaela emerged from the shower and invited him to join her in bed.
• Xu Mo examined the AllSpark and used it to transform a speaker into a hostile miniature robot, which he crushed.
• Xu Mo brought the AllSpark into the Enslavement Space, where the orb sent a massive pillar of light into it for over half an hour.
• Xu Mo received information from the orb and realized what had happened to the AllSpark.

Xu Mo brought Mikaela home and used the AllSpark to turn her Lamborghini into a female Autobot, while Sam and Bumblebee spotted the AllSpark and fled when Barricade appeared. Xu Mo expected Bumblebee to lead Optimus Prime and the other Autobots to him soon.

• Xu Mo learned that the AllSpark had been modified so robots it created would be under his control.
• Xu Mo drove Mikaela to her old house, where Sam saw her with Xu Mo and walked back to Bumblebee.
• Xu Mo dropped and retrieved the AllSpark in view of Bumblebee, prompting Sam to urge Bumblebee to seize it.
• Xu Mo's Lamborghini transformed into a female Autobot, and Barricade arrived in his police-car disguise.
• Bumblebee recognized Barricade as a Decepticon and fled with Sam, while Xu Mo let them go so they could draw the Autobots to him.

Xu Mo trapped Optimus Prime and the Autobots in a Mirror Dimension after they demanded the AllSpark, which he refused to surrender. When Ironhide attacked, Xu Mo immobilized the group and tore off both of Ironhide’s arms.

• Bumblebee told Sam that the Decepticons had the AllSpark and that the Autobots needed to recover it before Earth was endangered.
• Xu Mo sensed the approaching Autobots, then drew them, Barricade, and the Lamborghini into the Mirror Dimension.
• Optimus Prime asked Xu Mo to hand over the AllSpark, but Xu Mo refused and said it was safest with him.
• Ironhide fired at Xu Mo, who used his Psychic Force to freeze all five Autobots in place.
• Xu Mo tore off Ironhide’s arms after Ironhide threatened him.

Xu Mo dismantled Ironhide and took his Spark, then Sam approached Mikaela’s house and was beaten by a neighbor who mistook him for a peeper. Mikaela recognized the injured intruder as Sam and decided the neighborhood was too unsafe.

• Xu Mo tore Ironhide’s Spark from his body, then stored it and Ironhide’s scattered parts in the Astral Tower.
• Sam left his hiding place and sneaked toward Mikaela’s house, assuming Xu Mo had left with the AllSpark.
• A middle-aged Black woman spotted Sam peering over Mikaela’s fence, shouted “Pervert!” and beat him with a baseball bat.
• Mikaela came outside after neighbors gathered, saw the man being hauled up, and recognized him as Sam.

After Mikaela rejected Sam and told him to stay away, Xu Mo sent him through a portal to an unknown grassland. The next morning, Xu Mo went to an Air Force museum to find Skyfire and learn how to transfer Spark energy.

• Mikaela recognized Sam after the neighbors beat him, but told him to keep his distance and not visit her again because Xu Mo might misunderstand.
• Xu Mo emerged from the Mirror Dimension and sent Sam through a Spatial Gate, dropping him into a marshy grassland.
• Xu Mo concluded that transferring Spark energy required a special method after Ironhide failed to transfer his Spark energy to Venom.
• Xu Mo visited the United States Air Force Museum in Dayton to search for Skyfire and learn how to transfer Spark energy.
• Xu Mo hired Ruth as a guide, and she led him toward the hall displaying old fighter jets.

Xu Mo brought Ruth and a Blackbird reconnaissance plane into the Mirror Dimension, where he awakened the Transformer Skyfire and asked him how to transfer energy from a Spark. Skyfire’s attempt to escape through a spatial passage failed, and he was left confused about where he was and who Xu Mo was.

• Xu Mo sensed that Ruth knew Skyfire and pulled her and the Blackbird into the Mirror Dimension.
• Xu Mo kicked the Blackbird upright, awakening Skyfire, who transformed while parts fell off his aging body.
• Skyfire mistook a fallen part for Xu Mo, then Xu Mo restrained him and straightened his hunched back.
• Xu Mo asked Skyfire how to transfer energy from a Spark, and Skyfire began to explain.
• Skyfire tried to open a spatial passage, but the Mirror Dimension stopped his escape.
• Skyfire forgot where he was and who Xu Mo was, and Xu Mo blamed his failing memory modules.

Xu Mo forced Skyfire to reveal how to transfer AllSpark energy and the coordinates of the Matrix of Leadership. He left Skyfire with Ruth at the museum and arrived at the pyramid site, where he found the hidden structure.

• Xu Mo pinned Skyfire with Psychic Force and struck him with a hammer until Skyfire agreed to cooperate.
• Skyfire transmitted the AllSpark energy transfer method to Venom and gave Xu Mo the Matrix of Leadership's coordinates.
• Xu Mo spared Skyfire and left him at the museum, where Ruth recognized him as the plane she had visited as a child.
• Xu Mo traveled to Egypt, searched the pyramid with his Psychic Force, and found the hidden structure.

Xu Mo recovered the Matrix of Leadership and the AllSpark-charging device, then removed the remaining threats to Earth from Mars and the Moon. A month later, he accompanied Mikaela to her graduation prom, where she introduced him to her friends.

• Xu Mo recharged the Matrix of Leadership with the AllSpark, took it, and stored the device hidden beneath the pyramid in the Astral Tower.
• Xu Mo captured The Fallen and the Decepticons aboard the exploration ship on Mars, then took Sentinel Prime from the Moon.
• Xu Mo expected the Cybertronians who received Megatron's and Optimus Prime's signals to reach Earth within a month.
• Xu Mo arrived at Mikaela's graduation prom with her and met her friends Casey, Elena, Mandy, and Monica.
• Kent introduced himself to Xu Mo as Monica's date.