Chapter Summaries

Lin Hai agreed to help Norman Osborn investigate high-energy plants in exchange for independent research access and a map to their source. In a Missouri forest, he discovered Ego’s alien seed and, after glimpsing Ego through its energy, decided to postpone absorbing its power until he could prepare safely.

• Lin Hai cultivated his plant abilities while maintaining his routines at school, Master Chen’s clinic, and the greenhouse.
• Norman Osborn offered Lin Hai and Harry access to a Missouri forest in exchange for collaborating on research into high-energy plants, and Lin Hai accepted on the condition that he receive independent exploration authority and copies of the data.
• A week later, Lin Hai, Harry, and the Osborn Group team traveled to the forest, where Lin Hai sensed immense Life Energy and led them to a buried, glowing flower bud.
• Lin Hai touched the bud with his Life Energy and saw a cosmic vision of Ego, confirming that the flower was his alien seed.
• Lin Hai considered absorbing the seed’s power but broke contact after realizing the risks, and resolved to make preparations before approaching it again.

Lin Hai absorbed energy from Ego's flower bud, triggering a dangerous transformation that the Seven-Colored Essence stabilized and fused into a new Emerald Energy. After his abilities and connection to plants greatly increased, Lin Hai warned Harry that the flower bud represented something far more complicated than they imagined.

• Lin Hai cautiously began drawing Life Energy from Ego's flower bud while Harry and the Osborn research team monitored him.
• Over seven days, Lin Hai increased his energy exchanges with the bud, and blue extraterrestrial energy mingled with the energy in his dantian.
• During the seventh exchange, the energy surged out of control, injuring Lin Hai and throwing Harry back as the researchers tried to stop the flow.
• The Seven-Colored Essence repaired Lin Hai's damaged meridians and fused his white, green, and blue energies into Emerald Energy.
• Lin Hai awoke with enhanced physical abilities, emerald eyes, and a stronger ability to communicate with and influence plants.
• After the Osborn scientists recorded his new abilities, Lin Hai told Harry that the flower bud was more complicated than they imagined.

Lin Hai tested his evolved plant-control and healing abilities while Harry recorded the results, then watched the Osborn Group researchers fail to extract a sample from Ego’s flower bud. The team withdrew from the Missouri forest, leaving the flower bud untouched.

• Lin Hai demonstrated perception and control over nearby plants, raising steel-hard wooden spikes from roots and growing seeds into throwing spikes and needles.
• Lin Hai stabbed his own palm to test his healing, and the wound closed within five minutes under Emerald Energy.
• Lin Hai continued absorbing energy from the flower bud, and Harry reported that exhausting its energy would take at least three thousand years.
• Dr. Connors and the Osborn Group researchers tried lasers, hydraulic clamps, and a hammer on the flower bud, but none could damage or move it.
• Lin Hai told Connors that further extraction attempts would fail, and the Osborn Group team departed by helicopter the next morning.

Lin Hai learned that Norman Osborn planned human trials of an enhancement serum to treat the Osborn family's hereditary disease, despite the risk of catastrophic side effects. After Harry gave Lin Hai a blood sample, Lin Hai began targeted research, leaving the story at the start of a race against Norman's experiments.

• Lin Hai reunited with Peter, Gwen, and Harry after returning from Missouri, then decided he needed to solve the Osborn family's hereditary illness before Norman became the Green Goblin.
• Norman met Lin Hai outside school and probed him about the Human Enhancement Project and genetic defects, but Lin Hai avoided revealing anything useful.
• Lin Hai visited Harry's laboratory and sensed that Harry's life force showed the same abnormal pattern as Norman's.
• Harry revealed that the Osborn men faced a hereditary neurodegenerative disease, that Norman planned human trials the following week, and that serum testing could cause brain mutations or genetic collapse.
• Lin Hai asked Harry for a blood sample, and Harry agreed so Lin Hai could begin targeted experiments.

Lin Hai, Harry, Gwen, and Peter analyzed Harry’s blood and prepared for Norman Osborn’s dangerous experiment, but Norman injected himself with the Third-Generation Enhancer before they could finish their research. The chapter ended with Norman transformed by the enhancer and his Green Goblin persona emerging.

• After finals, Lin Hai, Gwen, Peter, and Harry gathered Harry’s blood sample and began analyzing the Osborn family genetic disease in Harry’s private laboratory.
• Harry learned that Norman planned to test the Third-Generation Enhancer on himself, so Lin Hai urged the others to prepare equipment and refine the Healing Potion for a possible crisis.
• Norman’s hallucinations intensified as he argued with his reflection, which urged him to inject the enhancer before his illness killed him.
• Norman opened his biometric safe and injected the fluorescent green liquid, enduring a painful transformation that gave him heightened strength, speed, healing, and senses.
• Norman punched through the laboratory glass as his reflection grinned back at him, signaling the Green Goblin’s emergence.

Lin Hai fought the Green Goblin after Norman Osborn injected himself with an unsafe dose of the Enhancement Serum. With Peter's Healing Potion and his own Life Force, Lin subdued Norman and helped restore his consciousness.

• Harry's security footage showed Norman breaking into Osborn Tower's restricted laboratory and transforming after injecting the Enhancement Serum.
• Norman invited Harry and his friends to dinner, and Lin Hai realized he was hunting everyone who knew his secret.
• Lin Hai confronted the armored Green Goblin on the Osborn Tower rooftop and used seeds, vines, and Tai Chi to fight him.
• After Peter completed the Healing Potion, Lin Hai unleashed Deep Forest Emergence to trap the Green Goblin and injected the potion into Norman.
• Lin Hai used Life Force to counter the serum's effects, and Norman regained consciousness and apologized to Harry.

Lin Hai and his friends chose Missouri for their summer trip, partly so he could revisit the forest and Ego's Flower Bud. The five friends arrived in Missouri and set out in Harry's RV, with Lin Hai carrying seeds, medicine, and a map marking the flower bud's location.

• Norman Osborn thanked Lin Hai for curing his hereditary disease and migraines, and Lin Hai asked him to consider funding research into environmentally friendly materials.
• Lin Hai persuaded Harry, Gwen, and Peter to make Missouri their summer destination so he could return to the forest where Ego's Flower Bud grew.
• Peter asked to invite Mary Jane, and the friends welcomed her onto the trip.
• The five friends prepared for the journey, met at the airport, and flew to Missouri on Harry's private jet.
• Harry arranged a luxury RV at the Missouri airport, and Lin Hai checked his supplies and map before volunteering to drive.

The five friends visited St. Louis landmarks before Lin Hai discovered that an ancient grapevine remembered extraterrestrial energy and led the group to Ego’s flower bud in a forest. Lin Hai absorbed its Life Force while Mary Jane witnessed the supernatural for the first time, and the group left to continue their trip.

• At the Gateway Arch, Mary Jane lost her balance, and Peter and Lin Hai caught her while Harry secretly photographed the group.
• At the Anheuser-Busch Brewery, Lin Hai revived an ancient display grapevine and learned from its memories that extraterrestrial energy had irradiated it decades earlier.
• Lin Hai told Harry that a meteorite had fallen in Missouri and that the grapevine’s memories pointed to Ego’s flower bud.
• Lin Hai led Harry, Peter, Gwen, and Mary Jane into the forest, where they found the faintly glowing flower bud.
• Lin Hai touched the flower bud and absorbed its Life Force as Peter recorded the moment and Mary Jane reacted with shock.
• After Lin Hai felt replenished but noticed no major change in his abilities, the friends left the forest and continued their trip.

Lin Hai and his friends camped in Mark Twain National Forest, where fireflies and Lin Hai’s Life Force-created glowing fungi lit up the night. The group enjoyed a peaceful evening together, with Peter growing closer to Mary Jane and Gwen showing curiosity about Lin Hai’s abilities.

• Lin Hai drove Peter, Mary Jane, Gwen, and Harry to Firefly Valley in Mark Twain National Forest.
• The friends watched thousands of fireflies glow in sync, and Lin Hai secretly used Emerald Energy to awaken luminous fungi in the grass.
• The group set up camp despite Harry refusing to work and Peter getting tangled in his attempt to secure the canopy.
• Peter explained firefly bioluminescence to Mary Jane, who encouraged him, while Harry teased them and filmed the exchange.
• Harry reflected on how relaxed he felt after Norman recovered, and Lin Hai gave him calming tea.
• Gwen asked Lin Hai to make the fungi glow again, and the friends spent the night relaxing beneath the stars.

After returning from Missouri, Lin Hai spent the summer training Peter and conducting research with Harry and Gwen while the friends shared meals and time together. As summer vacation ended, the five friends looked forward to starting their second year at Midtown High School.

• Lin Hai resumed Tai Chi practice at Master Chen's clinic and focused on strengthening and balancing his Life Force.
• Peter trained with Lin Hai twice a week, while Harry and Lin Hai investigated a strange sequence in Harry's father's genetic data and Gwen studied how Lin Hai's Life Force affected fungi.
• Gwen asked Lin Hai who knew about his abilities, and he said that only she, the others, and Master Chen knew.
• Peter brought Mary Jane to dinner with Lin Hai, Gwen, and Harry at their usual Chinatown hot pot restaurant.
• As summer ended, Lin Hai, Peter, Gwen, Harry, and Mary Jane watched the sunset in Central Park and toasted the start of their second year at Midtown High School.

Gwen became Professor Curt Connors’s intern assistant at Osborn Group, and Lin Hai warned her that Connors’s risky cross-species research could have dangerous consequences. When Gwen brought Peter and Lin Hai to the lab, they saw the Lizard Serum’s early results, and Lin Hai raised a new concern about its effects on the brain.

• Gwen told Lin Hai she had been chosen as Connors’s intern assistant, and Lin Hai explained Connors’s past and cautioned her about cross-species gene fusion.
• Peter persuaded Gwen to take him to Osborn Group’s official biology lab, and she agreed on the condition that he obey the rules.
• Gwen brought Peter and Lin Hai to Osborn Tower, where Connors greeted Lin Hai and showed them his Cross-Species Gene Research.
• Connors showed them a mouse whose amputated leg had begun to regenerate, while Lin Hai sensed its cellular activity was dangerously vigorous.
• Lin Hai asked whether the serum could disrupt the user’s neurotransmitter system, and Connors said he would have the team investigate that possibility.

Peter asked Professor Connors about his father’s research, then was bitten by one of Richard Parker’s engineered spiders. The bite awakened Peter’s powers, and he fled home after causing chaos on the subway.

• Lin Hai encouraged Peter to ask Professor Connors about Richard Parker, and Connors explained their different research fields.
• Connors showed Peter the special spider Richard had cultivated, and Peter entered its laboratory after Connors left for a meeting.
• The spider bit Peter, while Lin Hai watched and warned him that some things could change his life.
• Peter woke on the subway with heightened senses, sticky fingers, and uncontrollable strength, then fled after knocking out a punk and clinging to the ceiling.
• Peter arrived home exhausted and ravenous, while Ben’s comment about Aunt May’s meatballs sparked an argument between them.

After the spider bite left Peter with overwhelming strength and other new abilities, he sought answers from Professor Connors and Lin Hai. Lin Hai helped Peter begin controlling his powers, while Peter and his friends grew concerned that Connors might misuse his father's formula.

• Peter accidentally smashed his alarm clock and broke several household items as he discovered his new strength.
• Peter showed Professor Connors his father's formula, and Connors realized Richard Parker had derived a way to fuse animal genes with humans.
• Peter told Lin Hai about his spider-like abilities, and Lin Hai explained that they seemed to come from genetic modification rather than Life Energy.
• Lin Hai guided Peter through Tai Chi practice to help him control his strength, and Peter began to dodge thrown stones as his Spider-Sense awakened.
• Peter warned Lin Hai that Connors might make a dangerous experiment with the formula, and Lin Hai offered to help keep an eye on him.
• Peter, Gwen, Harry, and Lin Hai met in Harry's laboratory, where Lin Hai revealed that Peter could easily lift a ton.

Lin Hai helped Peter develop his web-shooters while Harry grew ambitious and Professor Curt Connors prepared the Lizard Serum for human testing. Peter used his new equipment to stop an armed robber, leaving Uncle Ben aware of Peter’s secret and insisting that Aunt May never learn about it.

• Gwen worried that Peter’s recklessness could endanger him and Lin Hai, while Lin Hai promised to keep an eye on Peter.
• Harry wondered whether he could gain extraordinary powers using his father’s armor and enhancement serum.
• Peter demonstrated his completed web-shooters to Gwen, Harry, and Lin Hai, who suggested the name Spider-Man.
• Professor Curt Connors completed most of the Lizard Serum and decided to prepare it for human testing.
• Peter used his web-shooters and trained reflexes to disarm and capture a robber threatening an elderly woman and Uncle Ben.
• Uncle Ben saw Peter’s web-shooters and told him to keep the incident secret from Aunt May.

Peter told Uncle Ben about his spider-given powers and struggled to understand what responsibility they placed on him. Lin Hai helped him set limits on how he should use his abilities, while Gwen, Harry, and Professor Connors pursued their own projects that hinted at trouble ahead.

• Peter explained to Uncle Ben that a spider bite had given him superpowers, and Ben told him that great power brought great responsibility.
• Peter questioned whether he had to stop every bad thing, and Lin Hai explained that his responsibility should match his abilities, role, and resources.
• Lin Hai advised Peter to stop nearby danger when he could, avoid seeking out every problem, and ask Lin Hai, Gwen, or Harry for guidance.
• Peter felt reassured and learned new martial arts moves from Lin Hai before heading home in better spirits.
• Gwen studied Peter's webbing and biological enhancement files, Harry kept Norman Osborn's green armor plans nearby, and Professor Connors had a syringe prepared.

Professor Connors tested his Regeneration Drug on himself, transforming into the Lizard Doctor and fleeing with stolen equipment. Harry assembled Lin Hai, Peter, and Gwen to stop him, but their first attempt failed, leaving Connors loose in the sewers with more serum.

• Connors injected the Regeneration Drug, regrew his arm, and began mutating into a lizard creature as his humanity weakened.
• Harry persuaded Norman to give the group one week to handle Connors quietly, and Gwen, Lin Hai, Peter, and Harry planned to find him in the sewers.
• Lin Hai and Peter confronted Connors in his underground lab, but Connors declared the mutation was evolution and attacked them.
• Lin Hai warned Connors that his serum could transform civilians, briefly stirring his remaining reason, but Connors knocked away the sedative and escaped with at least twenty doses.
• Lin Hai and Peter returned to Harry's safehouse with one tube of Lizard Serum to investigate developing a Purification Agent.

Lin Hai, Peter, Gwen, and Harry stopped Professor Connors from turning New York into Lizard Men with artificial rain, instead changing the serum into a temporary healing rain and restoring Connors’s sanity while preserving his new arm. The chapter ended with Connors grateful and Lin Hai calling the outcome a gift for New York.

• Gwen discovered that Connors could use Osborn Tower’s Weather Control Tower to spread Lizard Serum through the clouds, so Norman cleared the building and the group prepared an ambush.
• Connors arrived at the tower during a storm and began sending serum into the cloud-seeding device, but Peter redirected the transmitter while Lin Hai inserted Purification Seeds into its launch pipe.
• The altered serum fell as rain that temporarily boosted people’s health instead of transforming them, while Connors fought Peter and Lin Hai on the rooftop.
• Lin Hai restrained Connors with plants, and Peter injected an improved Purification Agent that removed Connors’s aggression while preserving his regenerated arm.
• Connors regained his sanity and thanked Lin Hai, while Norman joked about using the tower to provide healing rain.

Lin Hai trained Peter, advised Connors and Kingpin, and helped Harry bring Gwen and Peter into his armor project. The group redesigned Harry’s Green Goblin armor, but they still needed to find a safer, stronger material than conventional metal.

• Lin Hai trained Peter in the clinic’s backyard and warned him not to underestimate Professor Connors or treat combat casually.
• Gwen monitored Connors’s recovery and cautioned him about the risks of developing controllable mutation technology.
• Lin Hai reassured Kingpin about Vanessa’s improving health and deflected his questions about Osborn Group research.
• Lin Hai found Harry testing a faulty glider, persuaded him to ask Gwen and Peter for help, and joined them in the lab the next day.
• Peter and Gwen helped Harry redesign the armor’s colors and mask, while the group rejected Harry’s idea of using Norman’s enhancement drugs.

Lin Hai, Harry, Peter, and Gwen designed and built a new armor using Diamond Fruit, ceramic plates, and spider-silk cushioning after shelving the glider’s power problem. Tests showed the armor resisted impacts and bullets but suffered joint damage under loads over two tons, and the team named it the Nova Armor.

• Lin Hai introduced the Diamond Fruit, and the group confirmed it was exceptionally strong and tough.
• Harry, Peter, Gwen, and Lin Hai redesigned the armor around ground mobility and protection instead of relying on the glider.
• The four completed Harry’s armor using Diamond Fruit material, ceramic plates, and Peter’s specialized spider silk.
• Peter and Lin Hai tested the armor’s impact and bullet resistance, while a load-bearing test damaged its left arm transmission system above two tons.
• Harry said the armor would help him support the team, and the group named it the Nova Armor.

Peter's friends helped him design and build his first proper Spider-Suit, then tested it against Harry's Nova Armor. After Peter won the duel and Harry agreed to train with Lin Hai, Peter took his new suit out for its first swing through Queens.

• Peter begged his friends to help him make a proper suit, and Lin Hai and Harry revealed they had recorded his embarrassing pajama-clad exploits.
• Gwen, Harry, Lin Hai, and Peter designed a red-and-blue Spider-Suit using Peter's Silk and Lin Hai's Diamond Fruit fibers, with reinforced guards and upgraded goggles.
• After half a month of work, Peter and Harry tested the completed suit against the Nova Armor in Harry's training ground.
• Peter used his Spider-Sense, Taiji Footwork, and Silk to defeat Harry, who asked Lin Hai to teach him martial arts.
• Lin Hai assigned Harry daily martial arts and combat training, and Peter took his new Spider-Suit out for a swing across Queens.