Recaps

Yongye rejected the Heroes' Conference and urged the factions to destroy the other Earth's planet, then left after they opposed him. Back at the Eye Society headquarters, he learned his departure had earned him a Super Blind Box and opened it.

• Yongye proposed a surprise attack to destroy the other Earth's planet, but Superman, Steve, Thor, Diana, T'Chaka, Arthur, and Mera opposed the plan.
• Yongye dismissed the meeting and insulted everyone before leaving, while Batman insisted the conference continue without him.
• Batman resumed the meeting and began discussing a unified statement and the delegation's members.
• Yongye watched the expanding vortex from his office and received a Super Blind Box for the heroes' emotional breakdowns.
• Yongye opened the Super Blind Box.

Yongye gained the Phoenix Force, which transformed his body and expanded his psychic perception across the planet. As the public speculated about his absence from the heroes’ conference, he decided to make Fusang suffer a little more.

• Yongye absorbed the Phoenix Force, reshaping his body into an ordinary-looking form while filling him with cosmic power.
• Yongye used his expanded perception to sense life across the planet and spread a calming halo over his neighborhood.
• Yongye checked online arguments about his absence from the heroes’ conference and the Multiversal Incursion crisis.
• Yongye dismissed the speculation and decided to use his old method to make Fusang suffer more.

Yongye arranged for Tamamo-no-Mae to summon Nōhime to Manhattan, intending to use her status as Oda Nobunaga’s wife alongside Asano Nene’s to advance his plans. As the television announced the Heroes’ Conference teams, a Wood Clone of Yongye slipped away unnoticed.

• Yongye asked Tamamo-no-Mae to contact Takamagahara and bring Nōhime to Manhattan.
• Tamamo-no-Mae sent a message through the mirror and said Amaterasu-Ōmikami would ensure Nōhime arrived within half a day.
• The television announced Natasha Romanoff as leader of the reception team, with Tony Stark, Diana, Superman, and Princess Mera as members.
• The television announced Batman as leader of the Delegation, with the Flash, Thor, Selina Kyle, and Cyborg as members.
• As Kikyo, Asano Nene, and Tamamo-no-Mae watched the broadcast, a Wood Clone of Yongye emerged from behind the sofa and vanished.

Yongye invited Lois Lane to his apartment for an exclusive interview, but made her wait while they went into the bedroom. When Nōhime arrived, Yongye ordered her to massage him in front of Lois’s camera, leaving her to endure another public humiliation.

• Yongye invited Lois Lane over for an exclusive interview, and she hurried to his apartment.
• Lois entered and met Tamamo-no-Mae, Asano Nene, and Kikyo before Yongye led her into the bedroom.
• Kikyo told Asano Nene she was used to Yongye’s behavior, startling her.
• Nōhime arrived at two in the afternoon and scanned the living room warily before sitting beside Asano Nene.
• Lois returned, set up her camera, and watched as Yongye ordered Nōhime to massage his shoulders and pound his back.

Yongye explained to Lois why he had skipped the Heroes' Conference, dismissing its cautious approach to the Multiversal Incursion and claiming he was busy helping Nōhime and Asano Nene. He left both women massaging him while Lois continued her interview, visibly skeptical of his explanation.

• Nōhime and Asano Nene reluctantly massaged Yongye while Lois prepared to interview him.
• Lois asked why Yongye had skipped the Heroes' Conference, and he said he favored striking first by destroying the other universe's Earth.
• Yongye criticized Superman, Steve, Thor, and Diana for opposing his plan and said he had no time to waste talking with them.
• When Lois asked what he had done instead, Yongye introduced Nōhime and Asano Nene and claimed he was teaching them.
• Yongye invented a five-phases explanation for why the women needed his help, while Nōhime angrily continued massaging him and Asano Nene blushed in silence.

Lois interviewed Yongye about his belief that the other Earth’s Professor X planned to destroy their world and his decision to wait for the Superheroes to fail. After Lois left, Yongye resumed instructing Nōhime and Asano Nene, while the broadcast of the interview caused a worldwide online frenzy.

• Lois asked why Yongye believed Professor X intended to destroy their Earth, and Yongye said he judged the other side by his own willingness to destroy an Earth to save his world.
• Yongye said he would wait for the other side to act and for the Superheroes to fail before they came to him for help.
• Lois ended the interview and left, while Nōhime and Asano Nene remained with Yongye.
• Yongye told Asano Nene to prepare for the next lesson, and Nōhime later left the apartment unsteadily, cursing him.
• Lois Lane’s interview aired on the Daily Planet, crashed social media platforms, and sparked worldwide arguments about Yongye and the other Earth.

Yongye’s public treatment of Nōhime and Asano Nene sparked worldwide ridicule and humiliation for Fusang and Takamagahara. In the Divine Council Hall, Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi lost their restraint and set out to kill Yongye.

• People across the world mocked Fusang as Nōhime and Asano Nene massaged Yongye during a global livestream.
• Fusang’s social media users condemned Takamagahara for sending its Divine Envoys to sue for peace and surrendering the country’s dignity.
• Amaterasu-Ōmikami and the other gods discussed Yongye’s public humiliation of Takamagahara and admitted they could not avenge Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s death.
• Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, enraged by their wives’ public humiliation, drew their swords and declared they would kill Yongye.

Amaterasu-Ōmikami stopped Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi from attacking Yongye, planning instead to lure him to Takamagahara. After sending Selina Kyle to question the X-Men about Spider-Man, Yongye gained Ultimate Authority over Takamagahara and prepared to confront Amaterasu-Ōmikami and Kaguya-hime.

• Amaterasu-Ōmikami warned Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi that they would die if they went after Yongye, and said they would punish him once he came to Takamagahara.
• Selina Kyle asked Yongye what to watch for in the X-Men world, and he told her to ask whether they remembered the Spider-Man whose home they had destroyed.
• Yongye told Selina to watch for guilty reactions and said he would take action if she found any; she left for the X-Men world.
• Yongye received an Ultimate Blind Box after the people of Fusang and the gods of Takamagahara suffered linked emotional breakdowns.
• Yongye opened the blind box and gained Ultimate Authority over Takamagahara, revealing its structures, defenses, and Amaterasu-Ōmikami’s hidden contingency to him.
• Yongye resolved to go to Takamagahara and confront Amaterasu-Ōmikami and Kaguya-hime.

Jean Grey secretly used her telepathy to assess the heroes of this Earth and discovered that their strength far surpassed the X-Men’s, while Yongye’s true power remained an unreadable abyss. She returned to the surface conversation without revealing her alarm.

• Natasha welcomed Hank McCoy, Scott Summers, Jean Grey, and Logan, while Tony and Hank began discussing technology.
• Jean spread her telepathy through the reception corridor and quietly examined the team’s mental surfaces.
• As Tony and Hank paused to discuss dimensional energy, Jean probed deeper through Natasha and Superman’s shared memories.
• Jean witnessed visions of the Golden Armor God of War, Yongye defeating General Zod, the Justice League’s defeat, and Yongye’s willingness to destroy the other Earth first.
• Jean’s probe touched the edge of Yongye’s hidden darkness and was repelled, leaving her convinced that the X-Men faced overwhelming danger.

The Delegation visited the X-Men’s world and saw the memorials and school that reflected the persecution mutants had endured. At Xavier’s School, Charles welcomed them and described the X-Men’s sacrifices, while Jean concealed her growing fear about his true intentions.

• Jean recalled Professor X’s plan to destroy the other universe and worried that Natasha might discover it.
• Storm guided the Delegation past memorials to mutants who had been killed or disappeared, and described how past resistance had led to harsher persecution.
• Storm showed the Delegation the mutant children living at Xavier’s School, including students whose abilities appeared as they played.
• Charles welcomed the Delegation in a room lined with photographs of X-Men and told them the X-Men had paid a great price to preserve world peace.

Selina tested Charles and Storm by asking whether they remembered Spider-Man, but Charles had already read the question from her mind and arranged their denial in advance. Batman noticed their answers seemed rehearsed, yet Charles redirected him with a question about mutants, and Batman forgot why he had looked toward Cyborg.

• Selina asked Charles and Storm whether they remembered Spider-Man, the hero whose home they had destroyed.
• Charles and Storm pretended not to know Spider-Man, and Selina concluded that Yongye had been mistaken.
• The chapter revealed that Charles had read Selina's thoughts twenty minutes earlier and instructed Storm how to respond.
• Batman grew suspicious of their natural-sounding denials and considered asking Cyborg to search for Spider-Man.
• Charles read Batman's thoughts and asked for his views on mutants, causing Batman to forget why he had looked at Cyborg.

During the talks at Xavier School, Charles secretly used telepathy to cover Batman’s suspicions, while Yongye watched from outside. Yongye then sensed a barely living Spider-Man-like presence beneath the school and entered the sealed cellar where it lay.

• Charles led a forty-minute discussion with Batman and the others while repeatedly overlaying Batman’s thoughts about investigating the local network.
• Batman forgot why he had tried to signal Cyborg, and Charles also redirected Selina’s suspicion that Bruce was acting strangely.
• Yongye watched the meeting from outside, amused as Charles suppressed Batman’s repeated suspicions.
• Clear Sword Heart alerted Yongye to a faint presence beneath Xavier School that matched Spider-Man, including a spider-monster version.
• Yongye’s Wood Clone vanished from the sky and emerged through a fissure in a sealed cellar beneath the school, where someone lay on an iron bed.

Yongye used his Sharingan to uncover Peter Parker’s memories of the X-Men destroying his Earth during a doomed attempt to stop a multiversal incursion. He left Peter asleep and decided to exploit the revelation to seek justice and destroy the other Earth.

• Yongye found Peter Parker restrained in a cellar and used genjutsu to make him reveal his memories.
• Peter recalled that the X-Men’s superweapon destroyed part of the moon and set off a chain of disasters that wrecked his universe and solar system.
• Peter said he escaped through a dimensional rift and was captured by Charles, who kept urging him to forget his past and start over.
• Yongye marked Peter with a spatial seal and put him back to sleep, promising to expose the X-Men and destroy their Earth.
• Yongye sensed Charles speaking with Thor upstairs and decided to fan the flames while Charles continued his own game.

The X-Men planned to stop the multiversal incursion by destroying the other Earth, but first they needed to eliminate Yongye, whose retaliation could threaten their world. Jean proposed using Rogue and Blink in a honey trap, with Rogue’s power striking Yongye and Blink escaping with her.

• Jean explained that one of the speedsters could be used to send the other universe’s Earth into a near-light-speed collision.
• Scott and Hank said destroying the other Earth was their only chance to save their own universe.
• Charles and the others agreed that Yongye had to be dealt with before the attack because he would retaliate.
• Jean revealed that she had secretly tested Yongye and believed even her full Phoenix Force might not defeat him directly.
• Jean proposed using Rogue and Blink in a honey trap, then having Rogue kill Yongye with her ability while Blink took her to safety.