Recaps

Su Ming and his allies destroyed the C'tan Shard, traveled to Terra, and negotiated a sweeping bargain with the Emperor. Back home, Su Ming learned of a Shi'ar invitation, then rushed to Xavier’s School when the Phoenix Force appeared and found the X-Men dealing with Jean Grey’s disappearance.

• Su Ming, Efferal, and Wade trapped and weakened the C'tan Shard until Cloak consumed it, then Su Ming gathered Necron technology and arranged the planet’s destruction.
• Su Ming traveled with Efferal and Wade through the Dark Angels’ and Space Wolves’ territories before reaching Terra and entering the Golden Underground Palace.
• Su Ming and Efferal joined Wade in the Webway, where Su Ming challenged the Emperor’s treatment of humanity and proposed a new path for its future.
• Su Ming and the Emperor agreed to exchange forces and resources, relocate the habitable remains of Terra, and explore the possibility of the Emperor’s ascension.
• Su Ming returned to Kamar-Taj, settled Efferal in New York, and later learned from Natasha that the Shi'ar had invited humans on a free interstellar cruise.
• A red blaze appeared over Xavier’s School, and Su Ming found the grounds burning as the X-Men responded to Jean Grey’s disappearance and Cyclops’s breakdown.
• Su Ming brought Daisy to Xavier Mansion, where Storm treated Charles, and joked about the professor’s condition until Storm reprimanded him.

After the Phoenix escaped with Jean Grey and devastated a Shi'ar world, Su Ming left the X-Men to pursue it across space with Daisy and Peter Quill. He followed evidence of the Phoenix’s trail toward the Shi'ar Empire and left the story suspecting it had returned to its host.

• Su Ming confronted Professor X over Jean’s escaping Phoenix, while the Shi'ar threatened the X-Men after the Phoenix destroyed a vessel and killed sixty billion people.
• Su Ming advised the X-Men to disband and move the students to That Village, then took Daisy into space to pursue the Phoenix.
• Su Ming borrowed a spacecraft from Black Bolt and brought Daisy to Contraxia, where he recruited Peter Quill from Yondu’s crew.
• Su Ming took Daisy and Peter to Sakaar, where Daisy fought scavengers and Su Ming met with the Grandmaster for information about the Phoenix.
• Su Ming left Thor on Sakaar to compete in the arena and followed the Phoenix’s blazing trail to a charred planet with Daisy and Peter.
• Su Ming uncovered an underground shelter and used the Kwee Kwee’s memories to learn that another spacecraft had followed the Phoenix.
• Su Ming traced the Phoenix’s route toward the Shi'ar Empire and stopped at Sparta Star, where Jason reported that no Phoenix had been detected.
• Su Ming suggested that the Phoenix might have returned to its host and could be somewhere within the Shi'ar Empire.

Su Ming brought Jean Grey to Chandilar and helped Lilandra oppose Vulcan and Deathbird while preventing the Phoenix from destroying the Shi'ar capital. After Vulcan was killed and the civil war shifted in Lilandra’s favor, Su Ming returned to his island, where Volstagg arrived with an answer.

• Su Ming brought Daisy and Peter to Chandilar, drew Jean Grey out by attacking Shi'ar forces, and persuaded her to seek peace with the Phoenix rather than die.
• After learning that Vulcan had lured Jean toward Chandilar to provoke a disaster, Su Ming agreed to help Lilandra against Deathbird and brought Charles Xavier to meet her.
• Su Ming and Gladiator traveled to Featherfall and arranged to undermine Vulcan with fabricated videos before luring him away from the capital for a duel.
• Vulcan flew into space to fight Gladiator, and Su Ming, Deathstroke, and Daisy killed him while Phoenix stayed out of the battle.
• Su Ming noticed irregularities in Vulcan's memories, then returned to Lilandra's palace ship as Charles and the telepaths dealt with Featherfall's population.
• Su Ming returned to his island with Daisy and Peter, explained the distinction between anti-Mutant military groups and S.W.O.R.D., and received Volstagg, who had come with an answer.

Su Ming investigated Odin’s disappearance, uncovering evidence that Freyr had returned and tried to enter Odin’s Slumber while an unexplained black substance emerged in Asgard. He left the substance’s origins under investigation and traveled to Knowhere to seek information from the Collector.

• Volstagg told Su Ming that Odin had disappeared, so Su Ming sent Volstagg back to protect Hera and left with Daisy to investigate.
• Su Ming questioned Heimdall and learned that he had abandoned his post under Frigga’s secret order, while his observation of Laufey gave the Frost Giant an alibi.
• At Odin’s Slumber, Su Ming found a listening device and a cut on Odin’s blanket, suggesting Odin had fought an intruder before pursuing them.
• Su Ming questioned Laufey, who identified the visitor that taught the Frost Giants to use fire as Freyr and gave Su Ming a black box linked to the listening device.
• A regenerating black substance appeared in the Golden Palace, and Su Ming evacuated it to a ravine before bringing in Monark and the Council of the Sky to investigate.
• Larloch and the Lords of Glyphs identified the substance as an aborted soul formed from inanimate matter, energy, and hatred, while Su Ming sent Monark to check whether Wanda was involved.
• Su Ming traveled with Daisy to Knowhere, bought her a Universal Translator, and visited Taneleer Tivan to discuss a deal.
• Su Ming identified the Collector’s imprisoned space dog as Cosmo, sang the Soviet anthem to him, and learned that Cosmo had powerful Psionic Power and near-human intelligence.