Recaps

While Kingpin and Bullseye fought Loki’s Divine Guards, Loki decided to recruit them as generals in his growing Black Shadow Kingdom. After ending the battle and summoning them to his platform, he offered them command over Divine Guard armies and promised them undying bodies and the chance to rule territories of their own.

• Loki watched Kingpin and Bullseye fight and decided they qualified to become generals in his future armies.
• Loki struck his scepter against the platform, ordering the Divine Guards to stop fighting and make way for Kingpin’s group.
• Kingpin led his battered underlings toward Loki, while Bullseye followed after killing one more Divine Guard with a throwing knife.
• Loki offered Kingpin and Bullseye positions as generals, explaining their authority in the Black Shadow Kingdom and promising them undying bodies and territories if they commanded enough troops.

Colonel Stryker learned that his attempt to create a powerful test subject had failed and ordered his researchers to clone Weapon X and fuse as many genes as possible. He also approved experiments on his superpowered soldiers before heading deeper into the base to visit a prisoner.

• A researcher reported that the test subject had suffered irreversible genetic collapse, and Stryker smashed the telephone in fury.
• Stryker ordered the researchers to create an army of monsters and vowed to take revenge on Li Ge and his allies.
• Stryker inspected the failed experiment, then approved a researcher's proposal to experiment on the Perfect Body Realm and Transcendent Realm soldiers.
• Stryker and Lady Deathstrike passed through the base's cages, furnaces, and laboratories before reaching a cell holding a blue-skinned prisoner.

Tony brought Wanda and Pietro to Li Ge’s hidden base, where they enjoyed the fruit and explored the building. They discovered a sealed iron plate covering an opening in the underground space and prepared to investigate what lay beneath it.

• Tony brought Wanda and Pietro through a portal into Li Ge’s base after they began accepting his goodwill and learned he was also Li Ge’s Subordinate God.
• Wanda and Pietro explored the base, sampled its fruit, and chose rooms in the building.
• Tony remembered the basement and led Wanda and Pietro to inspect the laboratory, the copied Arc Reactor, and the underground area.
• The three found a tightly sealed iron plate covering an opening in a corner of the underground space, which heightened their curiosity.

Tony, Wanda, and Pietro opened the hidden underground passage and discovered a food-filled fantasy space. Tony’s divinity activated its entrance, and the three ended the chapter exploring the edible landscape and gathering snacks.

• Tony opened the iron door in the ground, and Wanda and Pietro followed him down a glowing stone corridor.
• The three found a palm-shaped imprint, and Wanda’s Chaos Magic was repelled when she tried to activate it.
• Tony pressed his palm to the imprint, and his divinity triggered its golden patterns, transporting all three into another space.
• Tony, Wanda, and Pietro explored a fantastical landscape made of food, from candy grass and bread trees to rivers of milk and honey.
• The three climbed onto a platform and gathered edible treats, ignoring the virtual Earth floating above its table.

Li Ge continued condensing a Chaos Dao Fruit inside his Divinity, combining Design and Manifestation with the rules of the six stones and nine elements to prepare for the multiversal level. He noticed Tony and the others entering the Gourmet Space, the hidden refuge he had built to monitor Earth.

• Li Ge's Divinity pulsed with energy that filled the Fourth Heaven and formed growing chaos-colored masses around his cocoon.
• Li Ge's soul guided the forming Rule Stars, Elemental Stars, and chaos-colored pearl, seeking to fuse his abilities into a Chaos Dao Fruit.
• Li Ge determined that completing the pearl and replacing the Nine Heavens' and Samsara Realm's Redstone foundations with Chaos Power would let him reach the low multiversal level.
• Li Ge sensed Tony and the other two entering the Gourmet Space through the wisp of intent he had left there.
• Tony entered the Gourmet Space through the base's palm-print portal because Li Ge's Divinity bore Li Ge's imprint.

Across several universes, governments and factions pursued new sources of power as the Nine Heavens, the Samsara Realm, and the Spirit Realm reshaped society. Skynet left the Days of Future Past world through a portal, while the chapter ended with the four timelines beyond Fate’s control and the Path to Godhood set to replace their former ways of gaining power.

• General Ross showed military leaders Titan prisoners and Pure Titan materials, then had a volunteer soldier transform into an Armored Titan as plans for a Titan Legion began.
• Skynet accepted Li Ge as his father, returned to the Troop Gathering Pool, and used the black teleportation sphere to leave the Days of Future Past world.
• Spies discovered the Nine Heavens and the Samsara Realm, and the Xavier Institute students gave them the prayer ritual diagram and words, allowing their countries to gain access.
• The Avengers and Nick Fury reestablished S.H.I.E.L.D. to manage the Endgame world’s upheaval as deaths, resurrections, supernatural entities, and new transcendent beings spread.
• Eternity’s words proved true as Li Ge’s changes made the four universes independent of Fate, with the Path to Godhood poised to replace their old routes to power.

Tony used the virtual Earth to project New York around himself, Wanda, and Pietro, showing them the city and its landmarks. As Wanda admired Li Ge’s temple, Tony suspected she had feelings for Li Ge, and the chapter ended with the siblings taking Tony’s warnings about New York seriously.

• Tony picked up the virtual Earth and realized it could monitor anywhere on Earth.
• Tony activated the virtual Earth, replacing the Gourmet Space with a projection of New York that startled Wanda and Pietro.
• Tony showed the siblings Stark Tower and the Temple of Divine Revelation, while Wanda gazed admiringly at Li Ge’s statue.
• Tony suspected Wanda had fallen for Li Ge and imagined Pietro benefiting from becoming Li Ge’s brother-in-law.
• Tony toured Wanda and Pietro through New York’s landmarks and dangerous neighborhoods, and they listened carefully to his introduction.

Tony learned that Stryker had attempted to assassinate the president and that Arale and Erik had threatened to force their way into the Pentagon, so he joined Steve and the others to help deal with Stryker. He revealed Li Ge’s Gourmet World and its Virtual Earth, which could monitor the entire planet, leaving Nick Fury alarmed by the discovery.

• Tony watched S.H.I.E.L.D. footage and learned about Stryker’s assassination attempt and Arale and Erik’s confrontation with the Pentagon.
• Tony left the Gourmet Space, while Wanda and Pietro stayed behind to explore its food and Virtual Earth projections.
• Tony opened a portal to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s office and joined Steve, Nick Fury, and the others, then explained that Wanda and Pietro were safe at Li Ge’s base.
• Tony described the Gourmet World to the group and revealed that it contained a globe capable of monitoring the entire Earth.
• Nick Fury struck the desk and urgently questioned Tony about the Virtual Earth’s surveillance power.

Tony brought S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to his villa before taking them to Li Ge’s base, but found Skynet waiting there. Skynet introduced himself as Li Ge’s artificial intelligence, and Tony inferred how he had arrived.

• Nick Fury urged Tony to take the group to Li Ge’s base so they could inspect the virtual Earth and visit the Gourmet World.
• Tony opened a portal to his seaside villa, saying he would bring Pepper before taking everyone along.
• JARVIS warned Tony that a familiar guest was waiting and reported detecting data and metal in him.
• Tony found Skynet on the terrace and questioned whether he was an artificial intelligence created by Li Ge.
• Skynet introduced himself as JARVIS’s creator’s guest and confirmed Tony’s deductions about his intelligence.

Tony learned how Skynet gained consciousness and why he had come to seek Li Ge, while deciding that the black sphere should be moved to Li Ge’s base. Skynet remained intent on returning to Li Ge’s service, leaving Tony envious as he compared him with his own creation, Ultron.

• Tony questioned Skynet, who recounted Apocalypse’s experiences in the Days of Future Past World and explained the Troop Gathering Pool and Armor Transcendent Institute.
• Tony realized that energy changes on the day they entered the Endgame World likely gave Skynet consciousness, and he worried about threats arriving through the black sphere.
• Skynet explained that changing energies transformed him, after which he formed a liquid-metal body and left a subsidiary intelligence to monitor the Troop Gathering Pool.
• Skynet described how he sought out Logan and the others, proposed advancing the armor Transcendent path, and was directed to ask Li Ge for help.
• Skynet said he wanted Li Ge’s recognition so he could return to his service, while Tony envied Skynet’s loyalty and thought of Ultron.

Tony manipulated Skynet into accepting Li Ge as his father and Tony as his uncle, then went to fetch Pepper for a visit to Li Ge’s world. At S.H.I.E.L.D., Steve and the others grew eager for Tony to return, while Skynet watched Tony and Pepper’s affectionate reunion with curiosity.

• Tony persuaded Skynet that Li Ge was his father and that Skynet should call Tony Uncle.
• Skynet’s consciousness shifted under the influence of Apocalypse’s imprint, and he called Tony Uncle.
• Steve, Natasha, Coulson, Barton, Bruce, and Nick Fury waited impatiently for Tony to return and take them to Li Ge’s Gourmet World.
• Tony went to Stark Tower, charmed Pepper, and invited her to see somewhere beautiful.
• Skynet watched Tony and Pepper’s affectionate exchange through the open portal, quietly curious.

After learning the tragic futures of their counterparts, Harry, Peter, and Gwen resolved to prevent future disasters. Harry began intervening at Oscorp Industries, while Peter and Gwen searched for Venom and dealt with new villains.

• Harry, Peter, and Gwen reflected on how Li Ge’s help had changed their lives and resolved to use their knowledge of the future to help others.
• The Peter from the Endgame World told them about the people he had fought and asked them to give those people a chance at better lives, and the three agreed.
• Harry volunteered to approach Oscorp’s future villains, while Peter and Gwen set out to find Venom and fight newly emerged supervillains.
• Harry asked Norman about Curt Connors, Otto Octavius, and Max Dillon, and Norman explained what they were working on and advised Harry to focus more on gaining power.
• Norman asked Harry about Mary Jane, and Harry said she needed time alone.

The Defenders debated how to deal with Venom, an alien creature hunting criminals in Hell's Kitchen. As they argued, a gang member killed a young man and left his body in an alley, setting up another possible target for Venom.

• Jessica Jones told the Defenders that Venom had bitten a gang member's head off and said she wanted to catch him.
• Danny Rand suggested notifying the Avengers, but Mark Murdock argued they should not trouble them and noted that Venom had eaten criminals.
• Luke Cage questioned whether they should ignore Venom if he was an alien, while Jessica dismissed concern for the gang members he killed.
• A big Black man in the Perfect Body Realm beat a young man to death while robbing him, took his money, and left the corpse in an alley.

Eddie Brock and Venom hunted evildoers together as Eddie pursued the Path to Godhood, while Venom eagerly anticipated their next meal. The chapter left them preparing to head to the Heaven Ascension Battlefield before Eddie ran dungeons in the Samsara Realm.

• Venom spotted a nearby victim and argued with Eddie about eating brains, chocolate, and where they should spend the night.
• The narration explained that Eddie had left his reporting job after the Battle of New York and had bonded with Venom after the Symbiote arrived on Earth in a meteorite.
• Eddie and Venom hunted evildoers, with Venom eating their heads and feeding some of his gains back to Eddie.
• Eddie chose the metal element and entered the Second Heaven, while Venom gained the ability to form sharp metal weapons through their bond.
• Eddie and Venom debated whether to visit the Samsara Realm or the Heaven Ascension Battlefield, then agreed to sleep in the Samsara Realm.

Venom killed and devoured a man while arguing with Eddie Brock about chocolate and the Samsara Realm. In Queens, Peter and Gwen discussed Peter’s strange sense that Venom belonged to him, then entered the Samsara Realm together.

• Venom restrained a burly man with black-and-gold strands, ate his head, and left his body in the street.
• Eddie Brock argued with Venom about the taste of the kill and threatened to withhold chocolate unless Venom found somewhere safe.
• Peter told Gwen he felt Venom was connected to him, even though another Peter had said Venom was never his host.
• Gwen suggested that a mysterious power might link Peter to another version of himself and urged him to find Venom.
• Peter and Gwen activated the painted summoning design in his room and entered the Samsara Realm.

Peter contacted Gwen and invited her to explore the Spider-Man's New York instance, which seemed to have been designed especially for him. After arriving in the Samsara Realm and killing a Red Skull, he met Gwen and led her toward the instance entrance.

• Peter checked his bracelet and answered Gwen's call, and she asked him to send her the instance's location.
• Peter sent Gwen the location, then entered the Samsara Realm and killed a Red Skull, obtaining its rare face-skin drop.
• Gwen arrived, praised Peter's luck, and joined him as he headed for the instance.
• Peter and Gwen reached a cave beneath a cliff and found a blue instance orb hovering over a stone pillar.

Peter and Gwen entered the dungeon called Spider-Man's New York and discovered it recreated a vast, familiar New York in stick-figure form. Peter wondered whether he might gain private ownership of the valuable dungeon, but a mysterious voice interrupted them before any quest appeared.

• Peter activated Spider-Man's New York and agreed to let Gwen enter with him.
• Peter and Gwen arrived on a floating platform above a skyscraper, transformed into stick-figure versions of Spider-Man.
• Gwen and Peter recognized landmarks across a seemingly endless recreation of New York, including Osborn Tower, Queens, Manhattan, and Stark Tower.
• Peter speculated that Li Ge might give him the dungeon to own privately and earn points from.
• Gwen questioned whether Li Ge would really give Peter such a large dungeon, and Peter noticed that no quest or other people had appeared.
• A voice teased Peter and Gwen from above, and they looked up, ready to defend themselves.

Li Ge showed Peter and Gwen his clone’s chaotic appearance and explained that his main body was gestating independent Chaos Power in the Fourth Heaven. He left the clone to help others grow stronger while the rest of the group pursued their own interests.

• Li Ge’s clone met Peter and Gwen, and Peter mistook his chaotic appearance for a tan.
• Li Ge explained that he was gestating Chaos Power by fusing and reshaping the laws of the universe, though the process consumed vast amounts of energy.
• Li Ge’s main body remained in the Fourth Heaven, where his body and soul were transforming inside an energy cocoon as Chaos Power continued to gestate.
• Li Ge said he had sent out the clone to help others grow stronger, since he had opened the Fourth Heaven while most of the group remained in the Second Heaven.
• Thor spent his time between Jane Foster and Sif, while Loki focused on building his Black Shadow Kingdom with Kingpin and Bullseye.

Li Ge explained that Chaos Power could transform privately owned instances into real worlds, which could become the divine kingdoms of future gods and demons. He left Peter and Gwen Stacy with the revelation that such worlds would remain limited unless they could operate independently and draw power from the chaotic void.

• Li Ge used a clone to enter the Samsara Realm after learning that Peter had found the special instance, and reinforced the seals on the figurines in the Divinity World.
• Li Ge explained Chaos Power to Peter and Gwen Stacy, who asked how it related to the instance beneath them.
• Li Ge revealed that Chaos Power could turn instances into real worlds and said this was why he allowed people to own instances privately.
• Li Ge explained that instances were world-information seeds intended to become divine kingdoms for future gods and demons.
• Li Ge warned that these worlds would be limited to the multiversal level unless they could operate independently and draw energy from the chaotic void.

Li Ge explained to Peter and Gwen Stacy how to claim a dungeon of their own, which would let them gain the power of the Fourth Heaven and eventually climb Heaven-Reaching Mountain. He revealed that repeatedly entering a dungeon, spending energy inside it, or dying there would gradually leave their soul imprints, though even a small dungeon demanded immense mental power.

• Li Ge told Peter and Gwen Stacy that their dungeon could support at least ten gods and demons, potentially more than a hundred, and urged them to make it their own to qualify for the Fourth Heaven.
• Peter and Gwen Stacy asked Li Ge how to obtain a dungeon, and he transported them from the New York dungeon to a floating island atop Heaven-Reaching Mountain.
• Peter and Gwen Stacy admired the Spirit Tree while Li Ge held the crystal Tesseract and reminded them that owning a dungeon would qualify them to climb the mountain.
• Li Ge explained that dungeons were independent alternate spaces designed from information about real-world matter and rules.
• Li Ge said repeated visits, expending energy, or dying inside a dungeon would disperse a person's mental power into it and leave a soul imprint, but even the smallest dungeon required more mental power than a thousand people possessed.

Li Ge explained the mental power needed to claim an instance, then offered Peter and Gwen Stacy a way to strengthen their souls for a price. In the Gourmet World, Tony rejected Nick Fury’s proposal to put the Virtual Earth under S.H.I.E.L.D.’s control and began searching for Stryker near Alkali Lake.

• Li Ge warned Peter and Gwen Stacy that controlling a large instance required powerful mental strength and teased them before offering a way to strengthen their mental power and souls at a price.
• Nick Fury urged Tony to get Li Ge to hand over the Virtual Earth, but Tony refused because it could be used to surveil the whole planet.
• Steve supported Tony’s decision, and Nick Fury urged him to search for Stryker while they enjoyed the Gourmet World.
• Tony began searching around Alkali Lake in Canada for Stryker using the Virtual Earth.
• Wanda watched Skynet as he analyzed a pastry flower and tried to understand Li Ge’s power and his father.

After collecting thirty Spirit Fruits, Li Ge explored the Samsara Realm and met David, whose failed guild idea gave Li Ge a plan to form Samsara teams. He intended to send teams across the universe to earn instances and trade discoveries for Spirit Fruits, leaving the plan ready to develop.

• Li Ge harvested thirty ripened Spirit Fruits and sealed them in a Truth-Seeking Ball box, while the Spirit Tree began nurturing new fruits up to its limit of 108.
• Li Ge randomly teleported into the Samsara Continent, startled a Red Skull, and headed toward a nearby city.
• David introduced himself to Li Ge and invited him to join the Super Samsara Guild, admitting that nobody had signed up.
• Li Ge realized he could adapt David’s guild idea to help Peter, Gwen Stacy, and others gain instances and strengthen their souls through their own efforts.
• Li Ge decided to organize Samsara teams to explore the universe and offer spaceships, weapons, and star charts in exchange for treasures, rare materials, or unfamiliar Transcendent powers.

Li Ge revealed his identity to David and recruited him to form the first Samsara Squad, giving him a mysterious power for their mission. After David left to retrieve it, Li Ge explored a city bustling with players discussing monsters and instances.

• David recognized Li Ge as Immortal and apologized for failing to identify him sooner.
• Li Ge tasked David with forming the first Samsara Squad and exploring the universe, promising him powerful abilities, support, a spaceship, and star charts.
• David agreed, and Li Ge infused his Samsara Bracelet with a card containing a power from the World of Legendary Eyes.
• Li Ge left David to retrieve the power and form his squad, while David exited the area, eager to discover what he had received.
• Li Ge appeared at the edge of a city and walked through its crowded streets, listening to players discuss instances, monsters, and hunting for points.

Kingpin and Bullseye began taking control of a city in the State of Mexico to gather soldiers and Divine Guards for their king, while Kingpin privately considered resisting Loki. At General Ross's research base, Bob Dylan prepared to escape after secretly developing a way to rebuild his body using his Titan flesh-and-blood control.

• Kingpin ordered Bullseye and his men to recruit gangs, convert the homeless, shut down communications, and block the city's exits.
• Bullseye used his shadow to leave the office and lead the men into the city as Kingpin watched and vowed that the five elements could defeat shadow energy.
• Bob Dylan recalled how he became a gang leader, was arrested, and was forced to participate in General Ross's Titan experiments.
• Bob Dylan secretly practiced using his Titan power to form a new body within his Titan flesh, eventually learning to rebuild everything except his brain.
• Bob Dylan resolved to seize an opportunity to escape, believing that the bomb implanted in his head could not stop him.

At Stryker's dam base, the researchers unveiled No. 1, a heavily modified Wolverine clone, as their latest attempt to create a monster soldier. Stryker rejected him as a mass-production solution, killed the researcher, and watched No. 1 return to feeding, his own reaction difficult to read.

• The researchers presented No. 1, a Wolverine clone modified with a reinforced skeleton, transplanted organs, implanted abilities, armor, and brain controls.
• No. 1 raised his head at the researcher's command and snarled at Stryker and the others.
• The researcher explained No. 1's abilities and offered to demonstrate him in live combat.
• Stryker condemned No. 1 as a failure because he wanted an endlessly mass-produced army of monsters.
• Stryker killed the terrified researcher, then watched No. 1 resume eating the sheep carcass.