Chapter Summaries

After a day of testing the [Mutated Stone], Qi Jun concluded that it could match or surpass the Marvel Reality Stone. When he imagined manifesting a true god of the Marvel multiverse, the stone sent him a message.

• Qi Jun resumed sunbathing after recovering, enduring the pain until sunset and raising his energy reserves to thirty points.
• Qi Jun spent nearly a day exploring the [Mutated Stone] and learned that its own vast energy was beyond his ability to use.
• Qi Jun found that the [Mutated Stone] could perform everything the Marvel Reality Stone could, and more.
• Qi Jun imagined using the [Mutated Stone] to manifest a true god of the Marvel multiverse, and the stone sent him a message.

Qi Jun learned how the [Mutated Stone]’s manifestation ability worked and realized that, with enough energy, it could create things beyond the laws of reality. He began sorting its uses into categories, though its energy demands remained enormous.

• Qi Jun learned that the [Mutated Stone] could manifest a true god if supplied with enough energy.
• After spending half a morning and an afternoon testing it, Qi Jun figured out how to use its manifestation ability.
• Qi Jun identified a first category that could manifest things from ideas alone, but required enormous energy when he lacked materials and knowledge.
• Qi Jun recognized that the first category could create things that defied logic, such as making an ordinary dog smarter than Tony Stark.
• Qi Jun identified a second, less wasteful category for cases where he had either the materials or the knowledge, but not both.

Qi Jun explained how having both knowledge and materials let him manifest complex objects with less energy, then headed out to meet Hit-Girl. After pushing himself to exhaustion, he reached a secluded safe house belonging to Big Daddy and Hit-Girl.

• Qi Jun considered how blueprints and materials could help him manifest a superior Mark II Armor, though he could only dream of doing so for now.
• Qi Jun left his new home and used Infiltrator Sunglasses while heading toward Hit-Girl's location.
• Qi Jun believed the sunglasses were hiding him from surveillance, unaware that the Mutated Stone's passive effect already made him impossible to capture.
• Qi Jun ran at his limit, collapsed from exhaustion three times, and reached a secluded Big Daddy and Hit-Girl safe house half an hour later.

Qi Jun learned that Big Daddy and Hit-Girl planned to rob a shipment belonging to Kingpin's Gang, despite the danger. He prepared two pocket comics as vessels and began manifesting a Firearms Mastery Skill Book.

• Qi Jun received news that Big Daddy and Hit-Girl planned to rob Kingpin's Gang at the docks.
• Qi Jun worried that the pair had been lured into a trap by Frank Amick or another enemy.
• Qi Jun confirmed that Big Daddy and Hit-Girl planned to steal valuable cargo rather than attack Kingpin's headquarters.
• Qi Jun took out two pocket comics he had bought to use as vessels for Firearms Mastery.
• Qi Jun began manifesting a Firearms Mastery Skill Book through the [Mutated Stone].

Qi Jun used the [Mutated Stone] to create firearms skill books based on Big Daddy and Hit-Girl, then learned that basic enhancement required 100 energy points. As Big Daddy and Hit-Girl finished packing, Qi Jun considered the possibilities of future enhancements.

• Qi Jun found that manifesting a firearms skill book based on either Big Daddy or Hit-Girl cost 10 energy points, and decided to create both.
• The [Mutated Stone] copied Big Daddy and Hit-Girl's firearms skills into two books marked 'BD' and 'HG.'
• Qi Jun discovered that basic enhancement cost 100 energy points and wondered whether higher levels of enhancement were available.
• Big Daddy and Hit-Girl nearly finished packing up.

Qi Jun absorbed Big Daddy and Hit-Girl’s firearms expertise, then created a Glock 19 and ammunition using his energy. He followed them as they sneaked out, still reluctant to kill anyone himself unless circumstances forced him.

• Qi Jun gained Big Daddy’s and Hit-Girl’s firearms skills and manufacturing knowledge from the two Skill Books.
• Qi Jun manifested a Glock 19 and a magazine of ammunition, spending 1 energy point in total.
• Qi Jun put away the gun and followed Big Daddy and Hit-Girl as they sneaked out.
• Qi Jun remained unwilling to kill someone himself but resolved to use his gun if circumstances required it.

Qi Jun rejected the idea of becoming a superhero for the United States and resolved to focus on growing stronger while remaining neutral. He followed Big Daddy and Hit-Girl through the city’s alleys.

• Qi Jun argued that his restraint hid his true abilities rather than serving as an act.
• Qi Jun refused to become a superhero for the United States, citing its efforts to suppress Huawei.
• Qi Jun decided to remain neutral and make himself stronger, judging each situation as it arose.
• Qi Jun followed Big Daddy and Hit-Girl through the city’s dark alleys.

Qi Jun was dissatisfied with Big Daddy’s firearms expertise and wanted to learn from an elite all-round soldier. He identified the reported Brazilian drink incident as the beginning of Bruce Banner’s Hulk story and planned to seek out Emil Blonsky, leaving the potential gains of the coming Hulk and Abomination conflict ahead.

• Qi Jun decided that Big Daddy’s police-focused firearms skills did not make him the all-round gun expert he wanted to become.
• Qi Jun recalled a news report about an old man in the United States who became violent after drinking an imported beverage from Brazil.
• Qi Jun recognized the report as an early event in the story of Bruce Banner and the Hulk.
• Qi Jun identified Emil Blonsky, a renowned elite soldier on the team pursuing Bruce Banner, as the person he could learn from.
• Qi Jun considered how even powerful figures such as the Hulk could be defeated by exploiting their weaknesses.

Qi Jun reflected on how effort and strength could overcome limits, then saw the destruction from the Hulk’s battle with Abomination as a source of energy. The chapter left him eyeing the battle’s casualties as an opportunity.

• Qi Jun considered claims that people were bound by their innate potential, but believed that effort and strength could change their fate.
• Qi Jun reasoned that Tony Stark’s focus on mechanical technology had made him vulnerable to the Infinity Stones’ energy.
• Qi Jun realized that the Infinity Stones’ limitless energy could rapidly make him a top-tier powerhouse.
• Qi Jun recognized the destruction in The Incredible Hulk as a shortcut and saw the civilians and soldiers killed in the Hulk and Abomination’s battle as energy he could use.

Qi Jun considered how he could exploit Mr. Blue’s Hulk-blood research and Abomination’s strength, but decided not to interfere yet. He waited for the events leading to the Hulk’s fight with Abomination and Banner’s meeting with Mr. Blue to unfold.

• Qi Jun saw Mr. Blue’s replicated Hulk blood as a valuable resource and imagined helping him become the Leader while keeping him under control.
• Qi Jun judged Abomination another valuable target and considered having the Hulk kill him so he could absorb him afterward.
• Qi Jun reaffirmed that he would not recycle living people, even Abomination, because he believed he needed to keep a bottom line.
• Qi Jun chose not to rush to the fight, since Thunderbolt Ross still needed to pursue Bruce Banner and the later events had not yet occurred.