Chapter Summaries

Chu Hang and Zero trapped the Mapmakers, fed on their energy, and extracted their technology, transforming the Ark. As the crew reacted to the upgrade and Adam absorbed filtered Beyonder energy, a vast presence from a higher dimension appeared to notice them.

• Zero locked the three Mapmakers inside a dimensional cage, preventing one from transmitting data to the Beyond Realm or self-destructing.
• At Chu Hang's command, the Ark pierced all three Mapmakers with tentacles and absorbed their energy while Zero extracted their core technology.
• Wanda let Adam absorb a wisp of filtered Beyonder energy, and the child’s unstable power settled before he fell asleep.
• Zero reported extracting advanced weapons, a multiverse coordinate system, an energy converter, and a dimensional shuttle engine as the Ark began integrating them.
• A brilliant white light tore through from a higher dimension, and the crew sensed the multidimensional universe turning its gaze toward them.

A Higher-Dimensional Will scanned Universe-404, and Chu Hang disguised the Mapmakers’ remains with Adam’s Beyonder power to make the scan withdraw. As the universe began collapsing, Chu Hang stole a fragment of the Ivory King’s Beyonder Power while the Ark prepared to escape.

• A white gaze scanned the Ark and Universe-404, and Zero warned that it would lock onto them within seconds.
• Chu Hang rewrote the three Mapmakers’ energy clusters to mimic completed missions, while Adam’s power helped forge a signal that fooled the scan.
• The white light withdrew after verifying the disguise, but it left a mark that began destabilizing Universe-404.
• Zero warned that the Dimensional Shuttle Engine needed twelve seconds to charge, so Chu Hang used Greed Concept to tear a fragment of Beyonder Power from the retreating projection.
• The control room’s instruments failed as the stolen fragment’s power disrupted their systems.

As the universe was erased, Chu Hang forced a fragment of the Beyonders' essence into Zero's core, enabling the Ark to escape by jumping beyond its dimension. The survivors arrived in a Concept Junkyard, where Zero reported that he had assimilated the fragment and gained new system permissions.

• Tony reported that the universe's physical constants were collapsing as stars vanished, while Reed's engine countdown neared completion.
• Chu Hang slammed the fragment from the Ivory King's shadow into the Ark's core, forcing Zero to fuse it with his existing systems.
• Zero consumed the Beyonder Power fragment as the Ark's hull transformed, and Reed realized Chu Hang's plan was to make the ship pass as an agent of the Beyonders.
• Chu Hang ordered Zero to make the jump, and the Ark vanished from the collapsing universe on a conceptual level.
• The Ark and its crew survived in a gray zone Chu Hang called a Concept Junkyard, where Reed discovered that Zero's core had been rebuilt.
• Zero announced that the Beyonder Power fragment had been assimilated and that the Ark had acquired new system permissions.

After Zero hid the Ark from the Beyonders’ observation system, Chu Hang led the exhausted ship into a void filled with the remains of erased universes and ordered it to feed. The Ark’s attack on a corpse of a Living Tribunal variant triggered its defenses and attracted a swarm of Void Scavengers.

• Zero redefined the Ark as deleted, garbled code in the Beyonders’ observation system, making it seem too insignificant for the Ivory King to notice.
• Clark saw that the gray void was filled with the conceptual remains of universes, and Chu Hang identified it as a dumping ground for the Multiverse.
• Chu Hang ordered Zero to activate predation mode, and the Ark’s tendrils absorbed a dead universe’s energy while Zero stored its extracted conceptual toxins.
• Chu Hang directed the Ark to devour a larger crystal-covered mass, which Clark recognized as the corpse of a Living Tribunal variant that had resisted the Beyonders.
• The corpse’s defensive reflex damaged the Ark because it mistook the ship’s Beyonder energy signature for an enemy, and its attack drew the attention of nearby Void Scavengers.

Chu Hang defied the Ark crew’s demand to flee and attacked the Void Scavengers and the Living Tribunal’s corpse, devouring its Judgment Light and then absorbing its remaining conceptual power. As his Inner Universe transformed, Chu Hang began evolving from a Universal-level being toward a Multiversal-level existence.

• With the Ark’s shields failing and the Void Scavengers closing in, Chu Hang refused to abandon the Living Tribunal’s corpse and flew out to claim it.
• Chu Hang used the Greed Concept to shred and devour more than a hundred Void Scavengers as they swarmed him.
• Chu Hang charged into the corpse’s Judgment Light, endured severe injuries, and devoured the entire beam by combining Greed with his fourteen laws.
• Chu Hang opened his Inner Universe and enclosed the Living Tribunal’s corpse, using the Control Origin to break down its attacks and rewrite its Arbitration Concept.
• Chu Hang absorbed the corpse’s Concept Fragments, causing the laws in his Inner Universe to fuse and his body to transform.
• Tony’s systems failed, Reed recognized Chu Hang’s evolution toward the Multiversal level, and Clark watched Chu Hang’s wounds heal as reality warped around him.

Chu Hang absorbed the Living Tribunal’s authority, completed his Inner Universe, and turned the Ark’s fight against the Void Scavengers into a hunt. He recovered the coordinates of the Beyonders’ Engine Room, leaving the crew facing a destination at the top of the Multiverse where theory predicted only Absolute Nothingness.

• Chu Hang absorbed the Living Tribunal’s corpse and fused its powers of arbitration and balance into his Inner Universe, completing his evolution.
• Chu Hang used his new authority to devour the fleeing Void Scavengers, while the Ark transformed into Predator Form and joined the hunt.
• Reed ordered Zero to disable the Ark’s safety protocols, and the ship harvested Scavengers and their Concept Fragments to evolve and build conceptual weapons.
• Chu Hang returned to the control room, claimed supreme authority over the Ark, and received memories revealing the Beyonders’ Engine Room and the All Things Die Bomb.
• Chu Hang produced coordinates for the Engine Room, and Reed recognized that the location lay at the top of the Multiverse, where his theories predicted Absolute Nothingness.

Chu Hang forced the Ark through higher-dimensional barriers and used the authority of the Living Tribunal to demolish the Wall of Sighs. After absorbing the wall’s universe remnants, he ordered the Ark onward into the deeper void.

• Chu Hang ordered Zero to overload the Ark’s engines and charge toward the Summit of the Multiverse, while Reed warned that the coordinate was a forbidden conceptual vacuum zone.
• Zero transformed the Ark into its full-power War Form, and the ship broke through the Fourth-Dimensional Wall and successive dimensional membranes.
• As the Ark entered the eighth dimension and neared the ninth, Chu Hang projected an absolute domain to stabilize the ship and guided it through the Ninth Dimension membrane.
• Zero identified the Beyonders’ defensive system, the Wall of Sighs, and Reed warned that contact would erase them.
• Chu Hang invoked the Living Tribunal’s authority, judged the Wall of Sighs an illegal obstruction, and destroyed it with a golden pillar of judgment.
• Chu Hang absorbed the wall’s universe remnants and ordered Zero to take the Ark deeper into the void.

Chu Hang brought the Ark through the Wall of Sighs into the Beyond Realm and used his authority to protect the crew from its warped laws. At the Ivory Tower, he confronted the Ivory King as a conceptual attack began, then noticed a torn black Narrative Thread leaking dark green energy and recognized Doctor Doom.

• The Ark breached the Wall of Sighs, and Chu Hang used his power to shield the crew from the Beyond Realm’s high-dimensional effects.
• Chu Hang imposed his own laws on the surrounding void, restoring time, space, and the Ark’s failing defenses.
• The crew discovered the Ivory Tower and learned from Reed that its Narrative Threads recorded the lives of entire universes.
• The Ivory King appeared and attacked the Ark with Words Become Law, but Chu Hang challenged his authority and resisted the pressure.
• The Ivory King unleashed the Narrative Threads to erase the Ark, and Chu Hang spotted a torn black thread leaking dark green energy that reminded him of Doctor Doom.

Chu Hang revealed Doctor Doom’s hidden Memetic Virus and used it to infect the Ivory King’s Narrative Network, turning its erasure attack against its master. As the network collapsed into chaos, the Ivory King showed panic and Chu Hang ordered it to explode.

• The Ivory King attacked the Ark with a torrent of Narrative Threads, gravely injuring Clark, Thor, Wanda, and the rest of the team.
• Chu Hang held back the higher-dimensional attack with the power of fourteen Supreme Laws and grabbed the black thread Doctor Doom had hidden in the Narrative Network.
• Chu Hang tore the thread free, releasing Doctor Doom’s green Memetic Virus into the network.
• The virus infected seven main Narrative Threads and reversed their purpose, redirecting their destructive power toward the Ivory King.
• The Ivory King panicked as the network collapsed, and Chu Hang commanded it to explode.

After destroying the Inner Universe passage, Chu Hang began to be erased from existence as the Phoenix Origin and Greed’s power tore through him. Adam absorbed the rampaging energy and temporarily stabilized him, leaving the group three days to repair Chu Hang’s source while hiding in a Conceptual Blind Spot.

• Chu Hang collapsed after ordering repairs to Target Zero, and Reed explained that the Ivory King’s attack was erasing Chu Hang from the Multiverse’s Causality Law.
• The Phoenix Origin and Greed’s power clashed inside Chu Hang, releasing a shockwave that injured Clark, Tony, Wanda, and the others and threatened to destroy the dimension.
• Adam touched Chu Hang’s chest and absorbed the Void energy, stopping the crack from spreading.
• Reed warned that Adam could only serve as a temporary vessel and that Chu Hang had three days to live without a repair to his source.
• Tony ordered Chu Hang moved to a medical pod, assigned the others to stabilize him and repair the Ark, and told Wanda to protect Adam.

With Chu Hang’s essence collapsing, Tony and the others planned a dangerous mission to the Concept Junkyard to retrieve Divine Residue. They left with Adam, whose evolving Void Origin could locate the residue, while Reed and Strange stayed behind to keep Chu Hang alive; hostile lights began pursuing the shuttles.

• Reed explained that Chu Hang’s Dao was breaking down and that Divine Residue from erased gods might repair his essence.
• Tony organized a strike team to search the Concept Junkyard, but Wanda and Strange warned that Adam had to stay near Chu Hang to buffer his destructive energy.
• Reed and Strange discovered that Adam could sense the Divine Residue and was evolving into a new god by absorbing concepts.
• Wanda agreed to bring Adam, and Tony set an eight-hour deadline for the team to retrieve the residue and return.
• Tony, Clark, Thor, Wanda, and Adam launched in three shuttles as Reed and Strange stayed behind to protect Chu Hang.
• Strange shielded Chu Hang while Reed fought the awakening Zero System, and hostile lights changed course to pursue the departing shuttles.

Chu Hang destroyed the system core and transcended its borrowed powers, becoming Infinity and restoring the Multiverse by creating the World Tree. After sending his allies home, he began a new system from the concept of Greed and released it into the Multiverse to find another ambitious soul.

• Tony sealed three remnants of divinity, but injecting them into Chu Hang failed to repair the cracks in his origin.
• Chu Hang crushed the Superpower Copier System core, endured the collapse of his borrowed powers, and returned transformed, with every particle of his body embodying a universal law.
• Chu Hang used Words Become Law to reverse the Ivory King's destruction, restore the Multiverse, and create the World Tree as its backbone.
• Chu Hang sent Tony, Clark, Thor, Wanda, Reed, Strange, and Little Adam back to their restored homes.
• Alone in the supreme dimension, Chu Hang shaped the concept of Greed into a new system and cast it into the Multiverse to seek its next host.