Chapter Summaries

Su Ming tracked the Constructors to a dark Single Universe and found Little Rich and Doctor Doom waiting there. Doom and Little Rich had captured one of the Constructors and were holding it in a cage of Zero Matter.

• Su Ming watched the war between the Constructors and the Beyonders and explained how the Constructors created and abandoned their experimental life forms.
• Little Guy said two Constructors had entered the Transcendence Dimension, and Su Ming identified a Single Universe that suddenly turned black as their destination.
• Su Ming led Wanda, Squirrel Girl, and Little Guy into the Single Universe and traveled to its medieval-style Earth.
• Su Ming met Little Rich and Doctor Doom, who revealed that Earth had originally been overrun by monsters and that Little Rich had remade them.
• Doctor Doom explained that he had anticipated Su Ming's arrival and had come to find allies, then showed Su Ming the captured Constructor trapped in Zero Matter.

Su Ming questioned a captured Constructor about helping destroy the Beyonders, but the emotionless alien insulted the Little Guy and refused to cooperate. Franklin killed the prisoner and began searching for another Constructor.

• Su Ming approached Doom’s captured Constructor while Wanda and Doom discussed spellcasters and Doom’s abilities.
• Su Ming communicated with the Constructor and explained that their goal was to destroy the Beyonders and protect their universe.
• The Constructor called the Little Guy an inferior inorganic entity, and she tearfully asked Su Ming to kill him.
• Franklin compressed the Constructor’s Zero Matter cube, killing the alien, then offered to locate another Constructor.
• Su Ming comforted the Little Guy and left the search for another Constructor to Franklin.

Su Ming comforted Little Guy after she feared he would abandon her, while Adjutant reported trouble restoring troop communications and Franklin explained how he had transcended dimensions in the Beyond Realm. Franklin then revealed that the other Constructor had been captured by a Beyonder across the street, leaving Su Ming to decide whether to rescue him.

• Little Guy kissed Su Ming after he killed the Constructor who had exposed her as an inferior Cube, and Su Ming reassured her that her emotions made her stronger.
• Adjutant returned online but said she could not yet deploy troops because she was struggling to make Spider Web accept Zero Matter.
• Franklin explained to Little Guy how he used the Beyond Realm's rules to ascend dimensions and revealed that Su Ming and Deadpool were stronger than he was.
• Franklin told Su Ming that the other Constructor had been captured by a Beyonder across the street and might be killed.

Deathstroke and his group entered the Quantum Realm to find the captured Constructor and encountered the Original Beyonder, who was more interested in guessing how they had arrived than fighting them. While the Beyonder covered his ears to avoid a hint, Deathstroke's team rescued the Constructor and took his imitation Mjolnir.

• Franklin identified a park as a collection of Quantum Realms and located the captured Constructor inside.
• Franklin shrank the group and brought them into the Quantum Realm, where they found the Original Beyonder tormenting a Constructor transformed into a yellow ball.
• The Original Beyonder recognized the group as humans and insisted on guessing how they had entered instead of listening to Deathstroke explain.
• Deathstroke distracted the Original Beyonder, who tossed aside the Constructor and his imitation Mjolnir as he covered his ears.
• The Force passed the yellow ball to Little Rich, and Deathstroke took the imitation Mjolnir.

Su Ming’s group captured a Constructor and negotiated for its Omniverse reconnaissance technology. Little Rich built a device that could track the Celestials, and it pointed toward a direction.

• Little Rich trapped the Original Beyonder in a multidimensional space, and Su Ming explained that the playful being could be handled by indulging his love of games.
• Franklin returned the group to the Beyond Realm, where they met Dracula in a fast-food restaurant and prepared to negotiate with a captured Constructor.
• Wanda turned the little yellow ball into a humanoid, and Su Ming demanded the Constructor’s Omniverse reconnaissance technology in exchange for its rescue.
• Doctor Doom warned the Constructor that its mission would fail if it died, and the Constructor agreed to provide a secondary observation technology.
• Franklin learned the technology and created a device, which examined metal imitated by Strangle and pointed toward the Celestials.

After releasing the Original Beyonder, Su Ming’s group crossed the Blank Zone in search of the frozen planet and the Celestials. They encountered another Beyonder who challenged them, and Su Ming began fighting him.

• Su Ming’s group released the Original Beyonder after the Constructors supplied technology and the frozen planet’s location, and Deathstroke kicked him through a restaurant window when he insulted humanity.
• Deathstroke led the group into the Blank Zone, where they crossed an endless white desert while searching for the Celestials and frozen planet.
• Squirrel Girl grew tired of walking, while Franklin admitted he could not find a way to navigate the unknown region more easily.
• A bald man appeared and revealed himself as a Beyonder who had observed Deathstroke before, then urged the group to leave.
• The Beyonder dismissed the Original Beyonder’s emotions as childish, and Su Ming attacked him with Omega Beams as the desert rose around them.

Su Ming considered the Beyonders’ weaknesses and prepared to use his greater power and knowledge against them. He overpowered the Virus Beyonder, leaving it pinned in the white sand.

• Su Ming reasoned that Strangle had adapted to the Beyond Realm by transforming its cells into Perpetua’s life-form, and suspected the group had been watched from the start.
• Su Ming reviewed ways to defeat Beyonders, including overwhelming energy, powerful melee fighters, time-based abilities, and special artifacts or weapons.
• The Virus Beyonder charged at Su Ming, who caught its lance-like arm as a Black Sun rose above them.
• Su Ming’s power surged with the appearance of a golden ∑ symbol on his mask, and he slammed the Virus Beyonder into the sand and pinned it by the throat.

Su Ming recalled the stories that revealed the Beyonders' limits and the Celestials' greater power, then decided CCU was a tool he could seize rather than a threat he needed to destroy. The chapter left him intending to profit from the bridge-like Beyond Power.

• Su Ming remembered how the Beyonders had slaughtered powerful beings during Secret Wars and how he had once admired their strength.
• Su Ming recalled Kobik showing Kosmos that the Beyonders were only experimental data to the Celestials and that a black-and-red Celestial had destroyed the Beyond Realm with a thought.
• Kobik and Kosmos concluded that their usefulness to the Celestials had allowed them to survive, then continued exploring the Firmament.
• Su Ming considered the Beyond Power a bridge that could be weaponized but was not inherently meant for killing.
• Su Ming decided he would seize CCU and profit from it instead of destroying it.

Su Ming killed a virus-level Beyonder after revealing enough to make it fear the Celestial Destructor, then explained the coming Celestial threat to his team. He led them onward, intending to provoke a war that would destroy the Beyonders while preserving what he could from the Beyond Realm.

• Su Ming had Strangle distract the Beyonder with fragments of information, then Strangle tore off and swallowed its head.
• Wanda questioned why Su Ming had killed the Beyonder before she could fight, and he explained that the virus-level enemy was weaker than expected.
• Su Ming told Doctor Doom that the red-and-black Celestial was the Celestial Destructor, a weapon created by the First Firmament to destroy the Eighth Firmament.
• Su Ming warned the team about the Final Host, and Little Rich accidentally blackened his face while trying to make a miniature Cosmic Cube.
• Su Ming led the team onward with Marshmallow, planning to use a powerful Celestial to help eliminate the Beyonders while saving valuable things from the Beyond Realm.

Su Ming led his companions across the Beyond Realm’s white desert, reasoning that the timing favored them and that they would find the frozen planet and the Celestials searching for it. They encountered a crashed Nuwali warship and reunited with its surviving crew.

• Su Ming discussed the Beyonders’ arrogance and concluded that he needed to enter the Beyond Realm to protect the universe and profit from the chaos.
• Franklin spoke with Squirrel Girl about self-awareness and the unknowable Chaos and The Void, while Wanda and Doom examined a fragment of the Beyonder.
• Su Ming consulted Strangle and the Adjutant about the weakened Beyond Realm and the strength of the Ivory Kings and the CCU.
• Su Ming and his companions crossed the white desert and found a crashed Nuwali warship with its crew repairing it.
• A Nuwali comrade greeted Deathstroke and asked whether he and his companions were unharmed.

Wanda repaired the Nuwali ship, and Su Ming’s team boarded it to travel through the Omniverse in search of an item. As the journey began, Su Ming and Doctor Doom discussed preparing Earth’s nations for an Age of Exploration, while Su Ming expected the voyage to last several days.

• Wanda used Chaos energy to repair the Nuwali ship and alter its engine exhaust, delighting the Nuwali crew.
• The Nuwali praised Wanda and humanity, and Deathstroke let them keep their mistaken impression of human strength.
• Little Rich gave the Marshmallow Compass to the Nuwali, who escorted Su Ming’s team to a spacious private suite aboard the ship.
• Doctor Doom admired the ship’s garden and agreed that Latveria would join Su Ming’s planned Age of Exploration.
• Su Ming said he had coordinated with Old Zheng to guide Latveria and China first, with Wakanda and Utopia to follow, and he expected the team to travel for days.

After a long journey across the white desert, Su Ming’s group reached a strange icy planet hovering above the sands. Deadpool returned from his mission with a hired Mexican farmer, and the team prepared to investigate the planet.

• The group passed the days aboard the spacecraft until the Sorcerer Supreme spotted an icy planet hovering over the desert.
• Deadpool arrived in a wheelchair with a Mexican farmer, then explained that he had hired the man to push him after dealing with the Three Witches.
• Doom gave the farmer money, and Deadpool used his Teleportation Belt to send him home to The Boys Universe.
• Su Ming ordered Deadpool and The Grand Duke to lead the way to the planet and warned them to endure any attack from the Celestials.

Su Ming paid Deadpool for his work and prepared to investigate why the Celestials had not arrived at Xient Star. Deadpool and Dracula found no Celestials there, and the chapter left them waiting in the planet's shadow.

• Deadpool asked Su Ming for payment, and Su Ming gave him a thirty-thousand-dollar check and five hundred dollars in cash.
• Su Ming told Wanda to open a portal to the planet's Arctic and explained that they needed to provoke the Creator Lords into summoning their leader.
• Deadpool and Dracula went ahead to check whether the Celestials were watching Xient Star.
• Deadpool and Dracula circled the white sands but found no Celestials or other signs of life.
• Deadpool questioned Dracula about drinking blood, then turned to address an unseen audience with another lewd remark.

Deathstroke waited on Xient Star for the Celestials to arrive, hoping to bargain with them over Knull rather than fight. The Creator Lords split open the planet and began sorting the Dark Celestials’ corpses, while Wade was crushed in the strike.

• Su Ming had Strangle confirm that the Dark Celestials’ corpses remained beneath Xient Star and prepared to negotiate with the Celestials using Knull as leverage.
• Deathstroke ordered the team to hide underground and summoned Deadpool and the Grand Duke after opening a shaft to the corpses.
• The surviving Creator Lord squad arrived and flew toward the Arctic, ignoring the Nuvali Starship to recover the Dark Celestials.
• Deadpool lay in the shaft and shouted at the Celestials, but a hammer-bearing Celestial struck Xient Star and crushed him.
• The blow split the planet open, revealing a sphere of Dark Celestials, and the Creator Lords began pulling apart and sorting the bodies.

Su Ming confronted the Creator Lords over their recovery of the Dark Celestials and demanded to speak with their leader. After his team defeated the Celestial squad, he forced its leader to kneel and revealed that he knew they were searching for the Final Host, leaving the leader asking how a human learned the secret.

• Su Ming flew to the corpse sphere and confronted the Creator Lords, demanding compensation and asking them to call OAA.
• Doom pierced a Creator Lord with Zero Matter, prompting the other Celestials to attack Su Ming's team.
• Franklin used Beyonder material to create armor and destroyed the attacking Celestials with energy beams.
• Strangle restrained the surviving Creator Lord and severed its feet, while Su Ming questioned it about the Dark Celestials and the Final Host.
• The Creator Lord asked Su Ming how he knew their secret, and Su Ming replied that humanity would eventually uncover what they did.

After a surviving Creator Lord refused to cooperate, Su Ming had Strangle kill him and explained the difference between powerful Original Celestials and the weaker Celestials made for Single Universes. He chose Plan B: revive a Dark Celestial to summon the Final Host, and Deathstroke prepared to show Franklin how.

• The last Creator Lord stayed silent, so Strangle bit off his head and killed him.
• Deathstroke joked about the Celestial having no brain, while Doctor Doom, Franklin, Squirrel Girl, and Little Rich discussed the communication barrier.
• Su Ming explained that Single Universe Celestials were low-energy tools created by One Above All, unlike the powerful Original Celestials.
• Su Ming ordered the team to revive a Dark Celestial and have it summon the Final Host.
• Franklin asked how to revive a Celestial, and Deathstroke told him to watch as he prepared to demonstrate.

Su Ming used Deadpool to retrieve a special Dark Celestial corpse from the core of the black sphere, then ordered Doctor Doom and the others to restart it. The team began trying to revive the Celestial so Su Ming could make it a trading partner.

• Su Ming shouted that Deadpool would get a pay raise, and the black sphere began to tremble and glow.
• Doom cast a shield spell as the black sphere exploded, blasting Deadpool out after he had retrieved a larger Dark Celestial corpse from its core.
• Deadpool asked for his payment, and Su Ming gave him an extra five hundred after inspecting the corpse.
• Su Ming told the team to restart the Dark Celestial and warned them that it might attack.
• Doctor Doom accepted the task, with Franklin, Wanda, and a Cosmic Cube to assist him.

Su Ming explained the Dark Celestials’ history and their self-will as the group tried to revive a dead one. After Wanda’s magic failed, Su Ming ordered Deadpool to try resuscitation, and Deadpool’s mockery ended with a sharp weapon piercing his belly.

• Su Ming explained that the Dark Celestials had rebelled against the First Firmament because they wanted freedom and self-determination.
• Doom let Wanda use Chaos Magic to revive the Dark Celestial, but the corpse did not respond.
• Doom suggested they were approaching the problem incorrectly because saving a person and saving a machine required different methods.
• Su Ming summoned Deadpool with money and ordered him to try artificial respiration and chest compressions on the Dark Celestial.
• Deadpool mocked Su Ming’s order, and a sharp weapon pierced his belly.

Su Ming revived the Dark Celestial by replenishing its energy and planned to ally with the Dark Celestials against the Colored Celestials and the Beyonders. The Dark Celestial recovered, leaving Su Ming's group poised to seek its cooperation.

• Su Ming threw Deadpool onto the Dark Celestial, expecting Deadpool's appearance to jolt the apparently dead machine into reacting.
• The Dark Celestial abruptly sat up, flinging Deadpool into the sky, then clutched its head as it recovered.
• Doctor Doom concluded that the Dark Celestial had been revived by the energy Wanda and the others supplied.
• Su Ming told Doctor Doom and Wanda that he intended to bargain with the Dark Celestials and help them defeat the Colored Celestials.
• Su Ming weighed the factions' strength and considered the Dark Celestials' Final Host a possible weapon against CUU.

Su Ming spoke with the resurrected Dark Celestial and learned how he had survived by repeatedly dividing himself and hiding in Single Universes. The Dark Celestial believed the Colored Celestials had killed the Xient People, while Deathstroke let him keep that misunderstanding.

• Su Ming greeted the Dark Celestial, who recognized Deathstroke from the first cycle and asked if he had saved him.
• Deathstroke claimed he had rescued the Dark Celestial and that the Colored Celestials had killed his kin.
• The Dark Celestial explained that he had hidden from the Colored Celestials by dividing himself into smaller individuals across numerous Cosmos.
• The Dark Celestial said he had created the Xient People and hoped they would revive him through Dark Matter research, but believed the Colored Celestials had killed them.
• Deathstroke denounced the Colored Celestials, concealing that he had caused the Xient People's deaths.