Chapter Summaries

Pietro planned to earn money by entering an underground boxing match, while Xu Mo suggested robbery as a faster alternative. After dinner with Pietro’s family, Xu Mo accompanied him to the venue, where Pietro’s fight quickly ended and the crowd erupted.

• Pietro showed Xu Mo an advertisement for an underground boxing match and said he planned to compete for the three-thousand-dollar prize.
• Xu Mo told Pietro that robbery was the fastest way to make money, but Pietro rejected the idea as illegal.
• Xu Mo and Pietro ate dinner with Aunt May and Uncle Ben, then told Uncle Ben they were going to a classmate’s party to conceal their real destination.
• Pietro registered at the underground boxing venue and was matched against the winner of the ongoing fight.
• Pietro entered the cage in a red hoodie and mask, quickly finished the fight, and left Xu Mo frowning as he headed for the exit.

Xu Mo let Pietro decide what to do with money stolen from a boxing ring, then took a share and drew blood from him for research. He went to an MIT laboratory to seek out Reed and study the spider, ending as he asked whether the man was Reed.

• Xu Mo told Pietro where the robber had gone and left him to choose whether to recover the stolen money.
• Pietro returned with a briefcase full of cash, and Xu Mo took one-third while leaving the rest to him.
• Xu Mo drew half a syringe of blood from Pietro and gave him wild ginseng to help him recover.
• Xu Mo considered Norman Osborn unsuitable for studying the spider and decided to seek out Mister Fantastic.
• Xu Mo opened a Spatial Gate to an MIT laboratory, met a man in a lab coat, and asked whether he was Reed.

Xu Mo recruited Reed Richards to develop a drug that could give ordinary people extraordinary strength, supplying him with Pietro’s blood and the genetically modified spider. He arranged for Reed to build a laboratory and left a monster named Grace to watch over him.

• Xu Mo explained Pietro’s situation to Reed and asked him to develop a drug that ordinary people could use.
• Reed agreed to lead the research and listed potential assistants for Xu Mo to recruit.
• Xu Mo gave Reed a sample of Pietro’s blood and the genetically modified spider, then promised to fund a new laboratory.
• Xu Mo left the laboratory’s construction to Reed and brought a sentient monster from Weird World to watch him.
• Xu Mo asked the monster her name, and she introduced herself as Grace.

Xu Mo assigned Grace to sell the shipwreck’s treasures and use the proceeds with Reed to establish an advanced biological laboratory. After Grace sold the haul for over $13 billion, Xu Mo introduced her to Reed so they could manage the project together.

• Xu Mo recognized Grace as the woman from The Others and assigned her a room and responsibilities.
• Grace obtained identification documents, then Xu Mo transported the shipwreck’s antiques and gold coins into a warehouse for her to sell.
• A week later, Grace reported that the treasures had sold for $13.257 billion and gave Xu Mo the report and bank card.
• Xu Mo told Grace to work with Reed to build a biological laboratory using the proceeds.
• Reed arrived with a site and equipment proposal, and Xu Mo introduced Grace as his secretary and his partner in handling the laboratory.

Xu Mo tried to recruit Dr. Sean at Oscorp’s carnival and gave Sean’s son Bill a pendant, then watched the Green Goblin attack the plaza. The chapter ended with a falling truss threatening Bill and his mother while Sean and Pietro were unable to reach them.

• Xu Mo approached Dr. Sean at the carnival and tried to persuade him to join his laboratory.
• Xu Mo gave Sean’s son Bill a black pendant and left Sean with Grace’s business card.
• Xu Mo met Pietro, who said he worked as a photographer for the Daily Bugle.
• Xu Mo and Grace went to a rooftop and watched the Green Goblin attack Oscorp’s shareholders as Pietro fought him.
• A collapsing truss fell toward Bill and his mother, while Sean could not reach them and the Green Goblin slammed Pietro into a wall.

Xu Mo watched the pendant he had given Dr. Sean’s son save Sean’s family, then went to Norman Osborn’s villa to obtain the Goblin Glider and Pumpkin Bomb blueprints. Grace extracted the designs from Norman’s mind, and Xu Mo ordered her to destroy only Norman’s evil personality before they left.

• Dr. Sean’s wife and son survived the scaffolding collapse inside a barrier powered by Xu Mo’s black pendant, which crumbled after its energy ran out.
• Xu Mo watched Sean’s family escape and decided to take the Goblin Glider blueprints to compensate for Venom and Spider-Man’s inability to fly.
• Xu Mo entered Norman Osborn’s workshop and demanded the Goblin Glider and Pumpkin Bomb blueprints.
• Grace immobilized Norman and extracted his knowledge of the glider and bombs while recording it on paper.
• Xu Mo stored a Pumpkin Bomb and told Grace to destroy Norman’s evil personality, leaving his kind personality intact.

Xu Mo traveled to Grand Isle to recruit retired genetics professor Ford Herman, but an approaching mist that blocked his Psychic Force interrupted his plans. He was pulled into a supermarket as the town sounded an air raid siren, leaving the threat in the mist unexplained.

• Grace told Xu Mo that Dr. Sean had agreed to join the laboratory in exchange for two protective pendants, and she gave Xu Mo a list of other potential recruits.
• Xu Mo chose retired Harvard professor Ford Herman as a recruitment target and prepared to leave.
• Outside the villa, Grace frightened Johnny by apparently reaching into his head, and Susan dismissed Johnny’s account as nonsense and forbade him from leaving home for a week.
• Xu Mo arrived in Grand Isle through a portal as an air raid siren sounded and a strange mist rapidly spread toward town.
• A bloodied old man warned Xu Mo that something was in the mist, and a young cashier pulled him into the supermarket while his Psychic Force failed to penetrate the mist.

Xu Mo recognized the mist as the setting of a monster-filled movie and searched for its source while returning to recruit Professor Herman. Herman agreed to join Xu Mo’s laboratory if Xu Mo could ensure his survival, just as an angry woman confronted Xu Mo.

• Xu Mo spotted Professor Herman in the supermarket and learned that a tentacle had dragged John away into the mist.
• Xu Mo identified the disaster as resembling The Mist, used Spatial Gates to inspect the fog’s range, and summoned a million undead troops to search for its origin.
• Xu Mo returned to the supermarket and invited Professor Herman to join his Physical Enhancement Serum research.
• Herman agreed to join the laboratory if Xu Mo could guarantee his survival through the disaster.
• A short-haired woman carrying a baseball bat saw Xu Mo smiling and called him a useless coward.

Xu Mo confronted a woman who demanded that others risk their lives to save her son, then spent a quiet stretch with Sally as danger gathered outside the supermarket. After he fought off a swarm of monsters at the windows, the Undead Army found the source of The Mist.

• Xu Mo rebuked the short-haired woman for demanding that others save her son, then slapped her when she swung a baseball bat at him.
• Xu Mo held the short-haired woman at gunpoint until she left, and warned the middle-aged woman to stay quiet.
• Sally introduced herself to Xu Mo, defended him, and shared ice cream with him while he checked the Undead Army's search.
• After dark, the male protagonist's group returned from the back exit covered in blood and reported encountering monsters.
• Locust-like monsters gathered outside the supermarket windows, and Xu Mo used his Adamantium Throwing Knives to kill them and earn points.
• The Undead Army found the source of The Mist.

Xu Mo discovered that the island’s mist came from a shrinking crystal that mutated insects and animals, then stored the crystal to halt its emissions. He returned to the supermarket to spend the night with Sally while his undead army cleared the island, and the chapter ended with them waking up tangled together.

• Xu Mo found that a large crystal produced the mist and that the mist mutated nearby animals and insects, while the crystal itself was gradually shrinking.
• Xu Mo stored the crystal in a time-stopping storage ring, then sent nearly two million undead troops to clear the island’s monsters before the military could claim the points.
• Xu Mo returned to the supermarket, where Sally offered to share her blanket, and he brought out a mattress and blankets from his storage.
• Xu Mo arranged Skeleton Soldiers to guard the supermarket and slept beside Sally; the next morning, he woke to find her wrapped around him.
• Sally woke, realized how she was holding Xu Mo, and apologized for being restless in her sleep.

Xu Mo returned from Grand Island to New York with Professor Herman and Sally after the mist began to clear and his points exceeded eighty million. He offered Sally a job at his research institute, and she learned she would earn thirty-two thousand dollars a month as an assistant secretary.

• Xu Mo saw that the mist had thinned, recalled his Undead Army, and found that his points had surpassed eighty million.
• Xu Mo used a Spatial Gate to bring Professor Herman and Sally to his New York research institute.
• Xu Mo asked Grace to arrange a place for Herman to stay, then offered Sally work at the institute.
• Sally decided to remain in New York, and Grace told her she would work as an assistant secretary for thirty-two thousand dollars a month.

Xu Mo’s Beast God Avatar advanced to the Stellar Level, formed an Inner World, and awakened the Heaven-Rending Claw. After testing it on a distant planet, he realized the attack could cause mass extinction on Earth and was nearly impossible for anyone without mastery of the Time Law to evade.

• Xu Mo entered a Sleep Pod in the laboratory and returned to his original world, then shifted his consciousness to the Beast God Avatar.
• The Beast God Avatar absorbed vast amounts of cosmic energy, formed an Origin Core and Inner World, and completed its advancement to the Stellar Level.
• The Beast God Avatar awakened the Heaven-Rending Claw and tested it on a lifeless planet, piercing the planet to its core.
• Xu Mo realized the Heaven-Rending Claw could devastate Earth and could not be evaded by anyone who did not understand the Time Law.

Xu Mo advanced to Stellar Level One, and Star Ji explained the Astral Tower’s newly unlocked functions. The tower could now accelerate cultivation up to one hundred times and enslave captured beings in its taming space, though Xu Mo did not know its rank or what beings could resist it.

• Xu Mo’s micro-planets transformed into stars, advancing his main body to Stellar Level One.
• Xu Mo checked his system panel and saw that his strength and psychic power had reached 100 million tons.
• Star Ji congratulated Xu Mo and explained that the cultivation chamber could now accelerate time by up to one hundred times.
• Star Ji told Xu Mo that the Astral Tower’s taming space could imprint a soul mark on captured beings whose rank did not exceed the tower’s.
• Xu Mo remained uncertain about the Astral Tower’s rank and whether any beings could resist its power.

Xu Mo brought Lorelei, Verona, Aleera, and Marishka to the Soul Enslavement space, where the light sphere enslaved their souls and made them regard him as their closest person. After spending time with them, he presented fresh blood from Taro Village’s divine beasts for them to test, leaving the results of the experiment unknown.

• Star Ji brought Xu Mo to the Soul Enslavement space and explained that its light sphere could enslave anyone brought inside.
• Xu Mo summoned Lorelei and the three vampire brides, and the light sphere quickly completed the Soul Enslavement Technique on them.
• Xu Mo returned with the four women to their Forbidden Land Space, where Lorelei invited him to test what she had learned; Aleera, Verona, and Marishka followed them into the villa.
• Xu Mo and the women emerged the next day, and he offered them barrels of divine beast blood from Taro Village to see whether it could strengthen them.

Xu Mo helped Verona, Aleera, and Marishka grow stronger by absorbing energy from fresh blood, then visited Emma to discuss the mutants’ request to learn cultivation. He proposed using a Soul Enslavement technique to communicate with Emma across parallel worlds, and she agreed.

• Verona, Aleera, and Marishka absorbed the energy in barrels of blood and increased their strength, with Verona gaining one thousand kilograms of physical power.
• Xu Mo gave the three women several hundred more barrels of blood to absorb and decided to seek a steadier source of high-energy blood rather than risk giving them Beast God's Blood.
• Xu Mo arrived through a Spatial Gate at Emma’s villa, where she explained that Raven wanted to cultivate but Emma had hesitated to share the method without his approval.
• Xu Mo asked Emma to notify him when Raven returned from her mission, then proposed using the Soul Enslavement Technique as a way to communicate reliably.
• Emma teased Xu Mo about keeping her like a kept mistress and told him to cast the technique.

Xu Mo bound Emma to him with a mental-power contract and gave her a Storage Ring and a Black God Suit. Emma tested the suit’s forms and defenses, and the chapter ended with her able to summon it instantly beneath her skin.

• Emma insisted on signing the contract, which let Xu Mo control her movements with a thought.
• Xu Mo gave Emma blueprints for a glider and special equipment to pass to the research department.
• Xu Mo gave Emma a Storage Ring and taught her how to use it.
• Emma found a Black God Suit inside the ring, registered it with her blood, and tested its changing forms.
• Xu Mo explained the suit’s defensive properties, and Emma thanked him before making it disappear beneath her skin.

Xu Mo showed Tony an Evil Spirit as a possible renewable energy source after advising him to test his Arc Reactor on a smaller scale first. Tony gained control of the spirit and immediately wondered whether the same method could be used on women.

• Tony explained his plan to build a giant Arc Reactor beneath the Hudson River, but Xu Mo advised him to test a smaller reactor because the shareholders would not fund the hundred-billion-dollar gamble.
• Xu Mo presented Tony with a trapped Evil Spirit and released her, demonstrating that her shriek disrupted the room’s electrical equipment and that Tony’s energy beam could not hurt her.
• When the Evil Spirit attacked, Tony ducked behind Xu Mo, who restrained her and explained that she could be studied as an inexhaustible energy source.
• Xu Mo gave Tony a contract that placed the Evil Spirit under his control, and Tony tested his new control before asking whether it could be used on women.

Hogun and the Warriors Three crash-landed in Missouri and began secretly searching for Xu Mo on Odin’s orders. In New York, Hill told Xu Mo about a mass disappearance before they spotted Nick Fury’s agents surrounding Captain America.

• Hogun pulled the Warriors Three and their pilot out of the dirt after their spaceship crashed in Missouri.
• Sani buried the damaged spaceship underground, and Hogun led the group away to search for Xu Mo in secret.
• Xu Mo met Hill for dinner in Times Square, where she thanked him for saving her and shared S.H.I.E.L.D. intelligence.
• Hill told Xu Mo that nearly a million people had vanished worldwide and investigators believed they were vampires who died in a single night.
• Hill and Xu Mo saw Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents surrounding a young man, whom Hill identified as Captain America, recovered from Antarctic ice.

A group of gunmen attacked Nick Fury and Captain America in Times Square, but S.H.I.E.L.D. and Steve quickly defeated them before a metal-bodied Mutant emerged and overpowered Steve. Xu Mo sent two of his subordinates to confront the Mutant, and they struck him with enough force to send his massive body flying.

• Gunmen disguised as civilians opened fire on Nick Fury, Steve, and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in Times Square, and Steve charged into the attackers while the agents returned fire.
• Steve and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents took down the gunmen, but a black metal statue rose from a bench and attacked Steve.
• Nick Fury threw Steve a shield, but the metal-bodied Mutant struck Steve through the restaurant window and sent him crashing near Xu Mo and Hill.
• Hill reached for her pistol, but Xu Mo stopped her and called on two of his subordinates to deal with the Mutant.
• The two subordinates intercepted the Mutant and hit his chest, sending his nearly half-ton body flying backward.

Xu Mo's two soldiers defeated the metal-bodied mutant in the square, prompting Hill to ask whether Xu Mo had also enhanced Natasha's strength. After the fight, Hill invited Xu Mo to her apartment, where she offered him red wine.

• Two of Xu Mo's soldiers battered the metal mutant back and forth until they flattened him into an iron pancake.
• Steve asked Nick Fury whether the world had changed during his decades away, and Fury worried about the soldiers' power and possible training.
• Hill asked Xu Mo whether he had increased Natasha's strength, and Xu Mo confirmed that he had taught her a few tricks.
• Hill invited Xu Mo to her apartment, then served him red wine when she discovered she had no coffee.