Chapter Summaries

Xu Mo freed the Collector’s captives and left Knowhere with Karina, but Ronan’s fleet blocked their way. Xu Mo destroyed dozens of Ronan’s ships with laser cannons, and his spacecraft then charged toward Ronan’s warship.

• Xu Mo told Gamora that he collected the Infinity Stones to keep powerful weapons in his own hands, then released the creatures trapped in the Collector’s displays.
• The Guardians of the Galaxy realized Drax had lured Ronan to Knowhere, while Xu Mo and Karina left through a Spatial Gate aboard the Mechanical Race spacecraft.
• Ronan’s ships intercepted Xu Mo’s spacecraft as it emerged from Knowhere, and Xu Mo ordered Star Ji to fire the weapons.
• Xu Mo’s Laser Cannons instantly destroyed dozens of Ronan’s spacecraft, wiping out half the strength of his fleet.
• Ronan watched in shock as Xu Mo’s spacecraft rammed toward his warship.

Xu Mo destroyed the Kree Empire mothership by ramming it, then traveled to the planet where Wood Ya Essence had been found. He discovered that the planet’s cosmic energy was unusually dense and increasing toward the east, and flew toward the source.

• Xu Mo accelerated his Mechanical Race spacecraft into the Kree Empire mothership, destroying most of it while leaving his own ship unharmed.
• Ronan’s surviving subordinates activated the control room’s escape module, which detached from the mothership and flew toward Knowhere.
• Xu Mo sent Karina to Sakaar and traveled to the planet where Wood Ya Essence had previously been discovered.
• Xu Mo approached the blue, heavily forested planet, put away his spacecraft, and covered himself with the Feather God Armor and Star Devouring Vine armor.
• Xu Mo sensed that the planet’s cosmic energy was more than twice the surrounding density and found it grew stronger toward the east.
• Xu Mo flew east toward the region where the Wood Ya Essence had been found.

Xu Mo discovered the ruins of a destroyed city beneath a jungle and encountered an evolved Ankylosaurus with strength comparable to an Intermediate Wargod. He realized the planet could provide abundant beast meat and a training ground, then knocked the Ankylosaurus unconscious to test its meat.

• Xu Mo found extensive city ruins beneath giant trees and spotted a massive Ankylosaurus inside a collapsed building.
• Xu Mo struck the Ankylosaurus with a concrete slab, but the creature suffered only a light injury and charged into the building where he stood.
• Xu Mo concluded that mutated creatures had likely destroyed the planet’s civilization and recognized that their powerful flesh could supply energy-rich beast meat.
• The Ankylosaurus attacked Xu Mo, who caught its tail, swung it into the air, and smashed it into the ground until it fainted.

Xu Mo found the planet’s enormous living tree and discovered that the trees around it produced over ten thousand Wood Ya Essences. As his Star Devouring Vine attacked the tree, he considered how many Planetary Level powerhouses the essences could help create.

• Xu Mo roasted and ate Ankylosaurus meat, then stored the remaining carcass in his Storage Ring.
• Xu Mo followed the Sakaar man’s directions to a damaged spacecraft and found a giant ape near the skeletons of its former crew.
• Xu Mo traced the planet’s strongest energy concentration to a tree more than three thousand meters tall, which attacked him with its roots.
• Xu Mo sent out the Star Devouring Vine to fight the giant tree while he searched the surrounding area.
• Xu Mo found thousands of Wood Ya Essence-producing trees and estimated that they held over ten thousand essences.

Xu Mo subdued the giant tree after the Star Devouring Vine drained it, then learned the tree had gathered cosmic energy and caused the planet’s ecosystem to evolve. He discovered the Wood Ya Essence forest was renewable, but worried that taking the tree and forest would change the planet, and wondered whether he could store the whole planet in the Astral Tower.

• Xu Mo realized the giant tree was far stronger than the newly advanced Star Devouring Vine and observed it gathering dense cosmic energy.
• The Star Devouring Vine overwhelmed the giant tree, drained its energy, and advanced to Universe Level Third Order.
• Xu Mo threatened the weakened giant tree through the Star Devouring Vine, and the tree accepted his essence blood and became his contracted creature.
• Xu Mo learned that the giant tree had mutated, gathered cosmic energy, and driven the evolution of the planet’s monsters until humans disappeared.
• Xu Mo found that the Wood Ya Essence forest had spread from a single mutated plant and could keep growing.
• Xu Mo considered taking the giant tree and forest, then wondered whether the Astral Tower could store the entire planet.

Xu Mo failed to move an entire planet into the Astral Tower, so he stored the giant tree and surrounding Wood Ya Essence instead. He returned to Death Island and arranged for its researchers and soldiers to explore the newly discovered world, leaving Helen Cho eager to cross over.

• Xu Mo found that his vortex was still too small to draw the whole planet into the Astral Tower.
• Xu Mo uprooted the giant tree and a surrounding area of land, storing them and the nearby Wood Ya Essence in the Astral Tower.
• Xu Mo opened a portal to Death Island and explained to Helen Cho that the planet beyond was suitable for human habitation.
• Helen Cho asked to take her research team to the planet, and Xu Mo agreed while noting that he could not yet create a permanent spatial passage.
• Emma arrived and began arranging for the island's soldiers to train on the planet, while Helen Cho asked Xu Mo if she could go take a look.

Xu Mo began building a base on Apocalypse Planet and brought Helen Cho along despite the planet’s dangers. He summoned the Hundredfold Gene Soul-Eating Beast to guard the construction site.

• Xu Mo refused Helen Cho’s request to visit Apocalypse Planet because its jungle was too dangerous for researchers and soldiers.
• Xu Mo opened the Spatial Gate wider, and soldiers and oversized machines crossed to begin clearing land for a base.
• Xu Mo agreed to take Helen Cho with him, and they arrived beside the crater chosen as the base site.
• Xu Mo summoned the Soul-Eating Beast and ordered it to kill any monsters that approached the construction area.

Xu Mo captured a Planetary Level Golden Eagle to guard the base, then discovered a rare fruit tree that had drawn powerful monsters to the area. He took the tree while two beasts fought over it, leaving them enraged when they realized it was gone.

• Xu Mo had the Soul-Eating Beast defeat and capture a Golden Eagle, then placed the unconscious bird in the Astral Tower's Enslavement Space.
• Xu Mo and Helen Cho rode the Golden Eagle to a mountaintop, where the Star Devouring Vine spread underground and revealed many powerful monsters nearby.
• Xu Mo spotted a wolf-like beast and a cow-like beast fighting over a white fruit growing on a small tree beside a lake.
• Xu Mo arrived at the lake and took both the fruit and the tree while the beasts were still battling.
• The two beasts stopped fighting, saw that the tree and fruit were gone, and grew furious at Xu Mo.

Xu Mo collected the fruit trees around the lake after the Shaluo Flower drained two Warlord Rank beasts and grew stronger. When Helen Cho was bitten by a centipede-like insect, Xu Mo reassured her and found Hundred-Grass Dew in the store as a cure for any poison or injury.

• Xu Mo stored the fruit tree, then the two Warlord Peak beasts attacked him and he knocked them out.
• Xu Mo had the Shaluo Flower drain the beasts, raising it to Apprentice Level Fourth Stage.
• Xu Mo discovered and transplanted six more fruit trees by the lake into the Astral Tower.
• Xu Mo returned to Helen Cho and learned that an insect had bitten her finger while she collected samples.
• Xu Mo checked the bite, reassured Helen Cho, and found Hundred-Grass Dew in the store, which could cure any poison or injury.

Xu Mo captured the planet’s Planetary Level Beast Kings and discovered Star-Lord, Drax, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot fleeing a powerful Black Panther-like beast. Rocket Raccoon’s explosive failed to stop it, leaving the group in danger.

• Xu Mo used a leaf from the Hundred-Grass Dew to revive Helen Cho and kept her safe inside his space capsule.
• The Star Devouring Vine brought Xu Mo more than thirty Beast Kings, which he stored in the Astral Tower.
• Xu Mo sent Helen Cho back to Earth, then spent hours capturing every Planetary Level Beast King on the planet and feeding some to the Shaluo Flower.
• The Star Devouring Vine showed Xu Mo that Star-Lord, Drax, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot were being pursued through a forest by a leopard-like beast.
• Rocket Raccoon detonated a powerful bomb, but the Black Panther-like beast emerged nearly unharmed and turned its icy gaze on the fleeing group.

The Black Panther overwhelmed Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, and Drax until Xu Mo arrived and rescued them. Xu Mo killed the beast with the Shaluo Flower, leaving Star-Lord wary of him.

• The Black Panther survived the explosion, chased the group, and knocked Drax into a tree.
• Groot tried to restrain the Black Panther with vines, but it severed them and attacked Star-Lord.
• Xu Mo arrived and froze the Black Panther with his Space Freeze ability.
• Xu Mo used the Shaluo Flower to drain the Black Panther until only its empty skin remained.
• Star-Lord whispered to Rocket Raccoon that Xu Mo seemed like a bad person.

Xu Mo agreed to heal Gamora in exchange for Star-Lord spreading word that the planet was extremely dangerous. After giving Star-Lord a vial of Life Water, Xu Mo left to continue securing the planet against future visitors.

• Star-Lord told Xu Mo that he and his companions had come seeking Wood Ya Essence after Gamora was seriously injured in Ronan's attack.
• Xu Mo realized news of the fruit and planet had spread widely, and worried that adventurers would come to exploit the planet's beasts and their meat.
• Star-Lord argued with Rocket Raccoon about whether to keep searching for a cure for Gamora, then prepared to head deeper into the forest alone.
• Xu Mo offered to save Gamora if Star-Lord agreed to tell others the planet was extremely dangerous, and Star-Lord accepted.
• Xu Mo and the group returned to their spacecraft, fighting two Warlord Rank beasts along the way, and Xu Mo gave Star-Lord Life Water to heal Gamora.

Xu Mo brought Soundwave into space to test whether he could monitor the planet as a satellite, while Emma used the AllSpark to create and control an Autobot from her Lamborghini. Soundwave could initially survey only half the planet, so Xu Mo ordered four of The Fallen's subordinates to sacrifice themselves and merge with him.

• Xu Mo warned Emma that cosmic explorers might come to the planet and that they lacked a way to track landings across it.
• Xu Mo took Emma into space and asked Soundwave to transform into satellite form and monitor the planet.
• Emma used the AllSpark to transform her Lamborghini into an Autobot, then controlled it with a soul secret technique.
• Soundwave reported that he could monitor only about half the planet.
• Xu Mo ordered four of The Fallen's subordinates to sacrifice themselves, and they merged their bodies and Sparks into Soundwave.

Soundwave transformed into a satellite and established planetary surveillance, while Xu Mo returned to Earth and met with Skye, who asked him to help Rising Tide expose information hidden by the government. The chapter ended with Skye surprised that Xu Mo knew she belonged to the organization.

• Soundwave transformed into a satellite, deployed auxiliary satellites around the planet, and connected to the base to report any arriving spacecraft.
• Xu Mo asked Emma to have Apocalypse come protect the planetary base, then returned to Earth.
• Xu Mo received a call from Skye and met her at a secluded Queens café.
• Skye asked Xu Mo whether he was a Mutant and explained that she wanted to expose government secrets through Rising Tide.
• Xu Mo guessed that Skye wanted him to join Rising Tide, and she was surprised that he knew she belonged to it.

Skye asked Xu Mo to help her escape the United States after S.H.I.E.L.D. exposed her identity as a member of Rising Tide. Xu Mo agreed to take her with him, and the two vanished from the café restroom, leaving a young man baffled.

• Skye explained that S.H.I.E.L.D. had captured several Rising Tide members and exposed her identity, forcing her to seek a way out of the country.
• Skye admitted she did not know where to go, and Xu Mo told her to come with him.
• A young man repeatedly blocked Skye and bragged about his family, but Skye shoved past him to follow Xu Mo.
• The young man followed Skye and Xu Mo to the restroom, then later found it empty and fled the café in alarm.

Xu Mo brought Skye into S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, where she mistook his actions for betrayal and attacked him. After he restrained her and urged her to follow, Skye realized S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were ignoring her because Xu Mo had authority there.

• Xu Mo and Skye appeared inside a Manhattan skyscraper, and he revealed that they were in S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.
• Skye feared Xu Mo had turned her in, planned to escape, and attacked him with a whip kick.
• Xu Mo caught Skye's attacks, pinned her against a wall, and asked why she had come to him if she did not trust him.
• Xu Mo lowered Skye's leg and led her through a busy S.H.I.E.L.D. office, where staff ignored them.
• Skye realized S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel had noticed her but were leaving her alone because of Xu Mo.

Xu Mo had Coulson remove Skye’s wanted notice, and Skye asked to join S.H.I.E.L.D. so she could investigate her origins. Xu Mo arranged for her to join Coulson’s team, where May was set to help her complete onboarding.

• Xu Mo told Coulson that Skye had joined him and asked him to remove her wanted notice, which Coulson did.
• Skye asked Xu Mo if she could join S.H.I.E.L.D. to search for information about her past.
• Skye offered to accept any condition if Xu Mo helped her join, and Xu Mo agreed.
• Xu Mo asked Coulson to put Skye on his team because of her hacking skills, and Coulson accepted.
• Coulson summoned May and told her to take Skye through the onboarding procedures.

Xu Mo took Skye to her home in Queens after she joined S.H.I.E.L.D., and she showed him her modest apartment. The chapter left them together inside as Skye prepared to make him something.

• Xu Mo helped Skye complete her S.H.I.E.L.D. paperwork and drove her home in his self-driving Ferrari.
• Skye marveled at the car’s artificial intelligence during the ride to her address in Queens.
• Skye invited Xu Mo upstairs, and the Ferrari parked itself while they entered her building.
• Mrs. Connie reminded Skye that she was two months behind on rent, and Skye promised to pay what she owed after starting her new job.
• Skye explained that Rising Tide did not pay its members, then welcomed Xu Mo into her clean but small apartment and went to the kitchen.

Xu Mo and Skye shared coffee before he opened a Spatial Gate to a massive food warehouse so they could prepare steak. While waiting on the balcony, Xu Mo recognized his neighbor’s family as Peter Parker and Aunt May, discovering that Spider-Man lived nearby.

• Skye asked Xu Mo about S.H.I.E.L.D. pay and death benefits, then drank coffee with him as the room grew awkwardly quiet.
• Xu Mo opened a Spatial Gate to the island’s free food warehouse, where Skye chose ingredients for steak.
• Xu Mo stepped onto the balcony and noticed a woman hanging laundry in a nearby backyard.
• Xu Mo used his telekinesis to examine a photograph and notebook, confirming that Peter Parker and Aunt May lived next door.

Xu Mo brought Skye to a luxurious Manhattan home after their night together, then visited Taro Village and found that the Divine Dragon’s hatchling had been born. The Little Divine Dragon followed him after he fed it roasted lamb, and Xu Mo took it into his Enslavement Space to secure its loyalty.

• Skye thanked Xu Mo for helping her, shared wine with him, and became his lover.
• Xu Mo told Skye to move to Manhattan and gave her the car, then brought her to a large house through a Spatial Gate.
• Xu Mo returned to Taro Village and found the newly hatched Little Divine Dragon atop its mother’s head.
• The Divine Dragon sent the Little Divine Dragon to Xu Mo, then plunged into the lake despite her reluctance to part with it.
• Xu Mo fed the Little Divine Dragon a roasted lamb leg, and it warmed to him.
• Xu Mo brought the Little Divine Dragon into the Enslavement Space before beginning to nurture it.