Chapter Summaries

Xu Mo confronted The Deep at Vought International to learn where the two captured women were, then tried to lure Homelander back. When Homelander saw Xu Mo on the room’s camera and refused to return, Xu Mo decided to use Queen Maeve, Homelander’s girlfriend, to force a meeting.

• Xu Mo slammed The Deep to the floor, and The Deep agreed to explain what he knew.
• The Deep said Homelander had taken the two women and was away on vacation, so Xu Mo ordered him to call Homelander.
• Homelander berated The Deep, then called back after seeing Xu Mo on camera and accused The Deep of setting him up.
• Queen Maeve rushed into the room, and Xu Mo realized he could use her to make Homelander return.

Xu Mo restrained Queen Maeve and used a camera and her phone to provoke Homelander into returning for a confrontation. Homelander recognized the trap but answered Xu Mo’s call, leaving the story with Xu Mo demanding that he trade the two captives for Maeve within an hour.

• Queen Maeve attacked Xu Mo, but his Star Devouring Vine tendrils bound and suspended her.
• The Deep mistook Xu Mo’s intentions and left to stand guard, while Maeve warned Xu Mo that Homelander would retaliate.
• Xu Mo aimed a hidden camera at Maeve, searched her for her phone, and called Homelander.
• Homelander watched the scene through the camera, grew furious, and decided not to return until the Symbiote could strengthen him.
• Homelander answered Xu Mo’s call, and Xu Mo demanded that he exchange the two captives for Maeve within an hour.

Xu Mo failed to provoke Homelander into coming back for Queen Maeve, so he turned to finding Homelander’s son while Queen Maeve provoked Xu Mo into destroying the room’s cameras. Furious after seeing her underwear in a message, Homelander ordered his researchers to fuse him with the Symbiote within half a month and planned to kill Xu Mo afterward.

• Homelander refused to return for Queen Maeve despite Xu Mo threatening her, and Xu Mo hung up to seek information about Homelander’s son.
• Queen Maeve taunted Xu Mo after Homelander abandoned her, and Xu Mo enclosed the room with the Star Devouring Vine and destroyed its cameras.
• Homelander watched the room’s image disappear, then ordered researchers at his secret laboratory to make the Symbiote safe to fuse with him within half a month.
• When a researcher objected to the deadline, Homelander killed him with eye lasers and threatened the others into continuing their work.
• Homelander decided to stay at the laboratory until he fused with the Symbiote, then received a picture of Queen Maeve’s underwear and smashed his phone in fury.

Xu Mo tracked down Billy and his family, then used a staged photograph of Billy’s wife and Homelander’s son to lure Homelander out. Homelander received the message and opened it despite knowing it was meant to provoke him.

• Xu Mo questioned Madelyn at Vought Tower about the whereabouts of Homelander’s son.
• Xu Mo found Billy, his wife, and the boy in Queens, disarmed Billy, and explained that he wanted to draw out Homelander.
• Billy and his wife agreed to cooperate after Xu Mo promised that the plan could help them escape Homelander’s harassment.
• Xu Mo took a staged photo of Billy’s wife and the boy appearing bruised and tied up, then sent it to Homelander.
• Homelander received a new phone and opened the provocative message from Queen Maeve despite initially intending to ignore it.

Xu Mo confronted Homelander at Vought International after locating him in New York, demanding that he return the two people he had captured. Homelander attacked, but Xu Mo easily overpowered him, leaving A-Train, Starlight, and Black Noir stunned and unwilling to intervene.

• Homelander saw Xu Mo's photo of his captive woman and child, flew out of his villa, and headed for Vought International.
• Xu Mo sensed Homelander gathering A-Train, Starlight, and Black Noir to test his strength, then entered through a Spatial Gate.
• Xu Mo demanded that Homelander hand over the two captives, warning that otherwise he would give him an undignified death.
• Homelander fired his laser vision at Xu Mo, but the Feather God Armor blocked it without effect.
• Xu Mo moved too quickly for the others to follow and slammed Homelander into a wall, gripping him by the throat.
• A-Train, Starlight, and Black Noir stayed still as Homelander realized Xu Mo had overwhelmed him and began to fear him.

Xu Mo brutally beat Homelander until he revealed the location of the island laboratory where two Black Widows were being held. After Xu Mo arrived and found them sedated and restrained, a researcher approached one of them and reached toward her, unaware that Xu Mo had come to the island.

• Xu Mo struck Homelander repeatedly, then stopped him from escaping and broke his spine with a kick.
• Homelander gave Xu Mo the location of a remote island in the Atlantic Ocean, and Xu Mo carried him through a portal.
• Xu Mo used his Psychic Force to find two restrained Black Widows inside a large laboratory on the island.
• A researcher prepared to inject the Black Widows with sedatives and dismissed one woman's warning that her captain would find them.
• The researcher reached toward one Black Widow, and she gathered her strength and shouted that he was courting death.

Xu Mo rescued two Black Widow members from a laboratory, returned their Symbiotes, and handed Homelander over to them. He left Lena to handle the researchers and the experimental base.

• The two Black Widow members used their powers to blind the sleazy man, and Xu Mo arrived through a Spatial Gate.
• Xu Mo freed the women from their restraints and opened a gate so Lena and the other Black Widows could reach them.
• Xu Mo brought the women’s Symbiotes back, and they rejoined their hosts and purged the sedatives.
• Xu Mo declared the laboratory the Black Widows’ base in this world and left Homelander for the rescued women to deal with.
• The researchers arrived, saw the Black Widows reunited with their Symbiotes and Homelander lying half-dead, and Xu Mo left Lena in charge.

After taking control of the experimental base, Xu Mo prepared the Black Widows to face other threats in The Boys world and returned to Marvel. He accepted a deal to buy Gamora’s Orb and then returned to Asgard, where he found Valkyrie drunk and Karina still working.

• Xu Mo gave Lena a list of dangerous people in The Boys world and warned the Black Widows to investigate before acting.
• Xu Mo gave the Black Widows ten portions of Dragon Blood to strengthen them and told them to contact him if they needed help.
• Xu Mo answered a call from Gamora, agreed to buy the Orb for twenty million, and arranged to meet on Knowhere in three days.
• Xu Mo opened a Spatial Gate to Asgard and returned to his residence, where Karina welcomed him and he found Valkyrie drunk.

Xu Mo forced Valkyrie to guide him to Sakaar so he could rob the Grandmaster, and he departed Asgard with Valkyrie and Karina aboard a powerful Mechanical Race Spaceship. The ship reached light speed and entered the Dark Universe, beginning their journey toward Sakaar.

• Xu Mo shocked Valkyrie after she cursed him, then offered to restore her freedom if she did him a favor.
• Valkyrie agreed to guide Xu Mo to Junk Planet, and he told her that he intended to rob the Grandmaster.
• Xu Mo brought Valkyrie and Karina aboard an E9-class Mechanical Race Spaceship and entered the route to Sakaar into its navigation system.
• Valkyrie pointed out a jump point that led directly to Sakaar, and Xu Mo ordered Star Ji to activate panoramic simulation and accelerate.
• The spaceship sped up to light speed and entered the Dark Universe.

Xu Mo took Valkyrie and Karina through the Dark Universe and arrived at Sakaar in a powerful Mechanical Race spaceship. The Grandmaster welcomed him and invited him to drink, while secretly coveting the ship.

• Xu Mo's spaceship crossed the Dark Universe and reached a spatial jump point in only six or seven minutes, shocking Valkyrie and Karina.
• The ship passed through a jump point and emerged above Sakaar, a planet filled with portals linking distant regions of the universe.
• When Sakaar's ships demanded an inspection, Xu Mo ignored them and ordered Star Ji to fly toward the capital.
• Xu Mo arrived at the capital, where Valkyrie identified the Grandmaster as Sakaar's ruler.
• The Grandmaster invited Xu Mo to leave his spaceship and join him for drinks, and Xu Mo landed the ship outside the city.

Xu Mo and his companions met Grandmaster on Sakaar, where Grandmaster tried to seize Xu Mo’s spaceship after he refused to sell it. Xu Mo unleashed the Star Devouring Vine to kill the soldiers in the city and began clearing the planet for his people to take over.

• Andri brought Xu Mo, Valkyrie, and Karina to meet Grandmaster, who welcomed them and invited them to a banquet.
• Grandmaster asked Xu Mo to sell his spaceship, then surrounded him and his companions with soldiers when Xu Mo refused.
• Xu Mo crushed the soldiers’ armor and killed the creatures inside, then transformed the High Elder’s scepter into a baguette.
• Xu Mo sent out the Star Devouring Vine, which covered the city and killed every soldier who attacked it.
• The Star Devouring Vine spread outward to eliminate resistance across Sakaar so Xu Mo’s people could take over.

Xu Mo seized control of Sakaar, took the Grandmaster’s fortune, and appointed Karina to manage the planet. By the next morning, his forces had secured most of Sakaar, and Xu Mo stayed to learn about alien life before meeting Star-Lord and the others.

• Karina and Valkyrie dragged the Grandmaster out, and Karina forced him to transfer eighty billion universal credits to her crystal card.
• Xu Mo promised to release the Grandmaster if he survived one hundred arena matches, then sent Death Island soldiers to seize control of the city.
• Xu Mo assigned Karina to manage Sakaar, and she accepted after initially refusing.
• The Death Island soldiers and Star Devouring Vine brought most of Sakaar’s military under Xu Mo’s control within a day.
• Xu Mo walked through the capital with Valkyrie and Karina, planning to explore alien life while waiting to meet Star-Lord and the others the next afternoon.

Xu Mo, Valkyrie, and Karina visited Sakaar’s largest slave market, where Valkyrie steered them toward the top-floor auction house. Xu Mo approved Karina’s payment for a top-tier private room, and the group entered the auction house.

• Xu Mo had Karina sign a Soul Contract before teaching her a cultivation method, so she could contact him and be protected from outside mind control.
• Valkyrie led Xu Mo and Karina to Sakaar’s largest slave market and suggested they look at its selection of slaves.
• Xu Mo toured the market’s exhibition rooms and saw slaves from many different races.
• Valkyrie took Xu Mo and Karina to the auction house on the top floor.
• Karina hesitated at the thirty-thousand-Cosmic-Coin cost of a top-tier private room, but Xu Mo approved the purchase and she paid with her crystal card.

Xu Mo recognized the auction’s final item as a fruit similar to Wood Ya Essence and had Karina buy it. A rival bidder in another private room ordered his men to ambush Xu Mo’s group and leave no survivors.

• Valkyrie bought more than a hundred female slaves during the auction, while Xu Mo declined to bid on anything.
• The auctioneer presented a fruit that could heal injuries and gradually strengthen the body, though consuming too much could make someone explode.
• Xu Mo recognized the fruit’s resemblance to Wood Ya Essence and told Karina to buy it.
• Karina won the fruit for three million six hundred thousand after outbidding the rival private room.
• The rival bidder learned that Valkyrie was a scavenger and ordered his men to seize the fruit and kill Xu Mo’s group when they left.

After buying the Wood Ya Essence, Xu Mo paid its seller for the coordinates of the planet where it was found. When hostile watchers tried to leave after security officers arrived, Xu Mo immobilized them and ordered Death Island soldiers to take them in for questioning.

• Xu Mo asked the auction house to arrange a meeting with the fruit’s seller and paid the bearded middle-aged man one thousand Cosmic Coins for information.
• The seller gave Xu Mo the planet’s coordinates and warned him that something terrifying lived there.
• Xu Mo left the auction house alone and sensed several people watching him with hostility.
• Xu Mo summoned the nearest security station’s officers, who arrived in small aircraft as the watchers attempted to leave.
• Xu Mo used his power to bind the watchers in place and ordered the Death Island soldiers to take them away for investigation.

After learning that his grandson had provoked Xu Mo, Sakaar’s Second Elder realized the young man had angered the planet’s new ruler. He decided to send his grandson over to confess and try to save the rest of the family.

• The Second and Third Elders recalled how the new ruler had taken control of Sakaar and how the Second Elder had been injured resisting the transfer of power.
• The Second Elder’s grandson arrived, asking him to get his men released after the security office arrested them.
• The grandson explained that he had tried to seize a fruit from Xu Mo, and the Second Elder realized the entire security office’s involvement meant Xu Mo was likely a high-ranking figure.
• The grandson showed a recording of Xu Mo and the two Valkyries, and both elders recognized the planet’s new ruler.
• The Third Elder hurriedly left, while the Second Elder decided to send his grandson to admit fault before the family was implicated.

Xu Mo let Valkyrie take over Sakaar's slave market after learning that the planet's government-run businesses belonged to him. He enslaved the more than one hundred servants Valkyrie had selected and brought them aboard the Mechanical Race spaceship, where he asked eight nearly identical Elven women their names.

• Valkyrie presented Xu Mo with more than one hundred beautiful servants and asked him to give her a position on Sakaar.
• Xu Mo summoned the Grand Elder, who explained that the planet's arenas, casinos, beast-fighting pits, and slave markets belonged to him.
• Valkyrie asked to manage the capital's slave market, and Xu Mo agreed.
• Valkyrie left for the slave market with the Grand Elder, while Xu Mo sent the servants into the Enslavement Space.
• Xu Mo completed the Soul Enslavement Contract, brought the women aboard the Mechanical Race spaceship, and asked eight nearly identical Elven women their names.

Xu Mo traveled to Knowhere with Karina, arriving at the Collector’s gallery after postponing his trip to the planet where the Wood Ya Essence was found until after his deal for the Power Stone. Karina opened the gallery with a key card, ready to leave her old life behind.

• Xu Mo assigned Lilith, Freya, and the other six Elven girls to manage the women aboard his ship and asked Star Ji to train them.
• Xu Mo plotted a route to the planet where the Wood Ya Essence was found but decided to wait until after his transaction with Star-Lord and the others.
• Karina told Xu Mo that the ship would reach Knowhere shortly, and Star Ji guided the vessel through the Celestial skull’s eye socket into its port.
• Xu Mo and Karina disembarked and walked to The Collector’s gallery, where Xu Mo comforted Karina about her past.
• Karina used the card Xu Mo had obtained from The Collector to open the gallery doors and led Xu Mo inside.

Xu Mo found a Shaluo Flower sapling in Taneleer Tivan’s exhibition hall and made it acknowledge him as its master. After searching the rest of the collection, he waited for Star-Lord and his companions to arrive.

• Xu Mo toured the exhibition hall with Karina and recognized a man-eating plant as a Shaluo Flower with the potential to become extremely powerful.
• Xu Mo broke the display case, subdued the Shaluo Flower, bound it to himself with a drop of blood essence, and shrank it into his body.
• Xu Mo searched the remaining exhibits but found no other treasures.
• Karina greeted Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, and Star-Lord Pietro as they entered the hall.

Xu Mo acquired the Power Stone from Star-Lord and Gamora, then revealed that he already possessed five Infinity Stones. After demonstrating their power, he paid the group, while Gamora wondered if she could take back the Orb.

• Gamora asked Xu Mo if he wanted to buy the Orb, and Star-Lord handed it over.
• Xu Mo crushed the Orb's metal shell and placed the Power Stone into the fifth empty slot on his glove.
• Gamora recognized the five Infinity Stones and realized Xu Mo could be a greater threat than Thanos.
• Xu Mo used the Reality Stone to seat the group around a table, then made coffee appear for them.
• Rocket Raccoon and Star-Lord argued over whose account should receive the payment, while Gamora asked Xu Mo if she could change her mind.