Recaps

After seeing the horrors at Stryker’s base, Nick Fury’s group resolved to arrest him and hand him over to Arale, while Skynet proposed a brutal punishment. On Krakoa, Arale continued building the Church of Divine Revelation and had made the island’s Mutants believers in Li Ge.

• Coulson, Steve, Bruce, and the others reacted with fury and disgust to Stryker’s experiments, and Hulk offered to smash him.
• Skynet proposed turning Stryker into a conscious metal sculpture, but Tony redirected him toward handing Stryker over to Arale.
• Nick Fury said the president had removed Stryker from his post, and the group left the Gourmet World to prepare for the arrest the next day.
• Tony brought Skynet back to S.H.I.E.L.D., while Wanda and Pietro stayed behind.
• Arale used her connection to Li Ge to establish herself as bishop on Krakoa, built structures with her block ability, and brought the island’s Mutants into the Church of Divine Revelation.

Krakoa’s population grew as Mutants from around the world settled there, and the Eastern Nation negotiated with Professor Charles and the others to claim the eastern half while the Church of Divine Revelation retained the west. The Eastern Nation rapidly built a city and farms, prompting the western Mutants to speed up their own construction, while the God Worship Altar remained free of homes.

• Mutants from many countries entered Krakoa and prayed at the God Worship Altar as its population surged into the hundreds of thousands or more.
• Eastern Nation Mutants in S.P.E.A.R. negotiated with Professor Charles and the others, securing eastern Krakoa while the Church of Divine Revelation kept the west.
• Professor Charles and the others agreed that only Mutants and their friends and family could move into Krakoa, and the Eastern Nation began bringing in residents and supplies.
• The Eastern Nation built a medium-sized city, utilities, farmland, and livestock farms in a month or two, astonishing Professor Charles and the others.
• The western Mutants accelerated construction and built a medium-sized city, while they left the area around the God Worship Altar free of homes out of respect for Li Ge.

Li Chuang and Alice visited the God Worship Altar in East Krakoa and discussed Li Ge’s creations and the immense powers he had given them. Their conversation was interrupted by Zheng Xian, director of S.P.E.A.R., who introduced himself.

• Li Chuang and Alice admired the replica altar and joked about Li Ge’s work while Alice teased Li Chuang about his efforts to nurture Chaos Power.
• Li Chuang and Alice flirted, then examined their divine bodies and abilities with Eye of Insight.
• Li Chuang reflected that Li Ge had given them Technology God System powers and atomic-level sacred bodies, though they lacked refined control over their abilities.
• Zheng Xian approached Li Chuang and Alice and introduced himself as the director of S.P.E.A.R.

Arale joined Tony and his team as they launched a raid on Stryker’s dam base. They reached the laboratory and captured Guevara, while Stryker released his two Weapon X subjects to confront the attackers.

• After receiving news of Stryker’s capture, Arale decided to return to the Temple of Divine Revelation, while Erik and the others sent her alone to avoid appearing to intervene in Li Ge’s name.
• A shadowy figure emerged beneath Arale as she flew toward the Temple of Divine Revelation.
• At dawn, Tony and his party picked up Arale and used a portal to enter Stryker’s dam base.
• Stryker forced the researchers to produce more Logan clones and released No. 1 and No. 2 when the Avengers attacked.
• Tony restrained Guevara with liquid metal and spatial-sealing magic when Guevara teleported toward him.

The Avengers and Arale subdued Stryker, his teleporting experiments, and Lady Deathstrike, then took them from the base. As S.H.I.E.L.D. began cleaning up, shadows secretly stole the dead soldiers and replaced them with identical corpses.

• Natasha, Steve, and Arale blocked Stryker's escape while Tony sealed Guevara and trapped him.
• Steve fought No. 1, Coulson and Tony subdued No. 2, and Barton and Bruce fought Lady Deathstrike as Natasha freed the researchers and destroyed the clones in their tanks.
• Tony sealed No. 1 and Lady Deathstrike, while Arale held Stryker in a glass enclosure.
• Shadows swallowed the dead soldiers and left identical corpses in their place.
• Tony brought the group and their captives back to S.H.I.E.L.D., and Arale took Stryker to the Temple of Divine Revelation.

Li Ge inspected the Samsara Realm, his growing Divinity World, and the developing city in the Second Heaven. He found that no one had yet reached the Third Heaven, while groups from the four universes established bases, trained students, and organized the new settlement.

• Li Ge watched ordinary people explore the Samsara Realm using wooden swords and armor, and reserved stronger dungeons and Spirit Fruit for later rewards.
• Li Ge examined his Divinity World and the enormous cocoon containing his main body, whose growth made him wonder whether it would become as large as a celestial body.
• Li Ge observed the Second Heaven's expanding city and estimated that tens of millions had entered, though no one had ascended to the Third Heaven because gaining and digesting power took time.
• Li Ge saw Baron Zemo follow Grant while they planned the city's layout, and noticed Logan, Erik, and others teaching students to control elemental powers with their armor.
• Li Ge found the main-world Avengers' block-built tower empty and almost all the Avengers gathered in the Endgame World's block fortress.

Li Ge entered the Avengers' fortress and learned that powerful figures in the Endgame World were pressuring the Avengers for access to him and their extraordinary powers and technology. The Avengers explained how the authorities had escalated their demands, leaving Li Ge to hear the full extent of the threat.

• Steve called on the Avengers to discuss how to respond to the authorities' demands, while Thor, Rocket, Tony, Bruce, and Scott voiced their anger and worries.
• Coulson reported that Nick Fury could not resolve the crisis and that other countries were also seeking information about Li Ge.
• Li Ge arrived at the fortress, brushed aside Tony's request for the three stones, and explained that he was a clone whose main body needed their power.
• The Avengers told Li Ge that the Nine Heavens and the Samsara Realm had spread Transcendent power after the resurrection period, driving government officials to pursue power for themselves.
• The Avengers described how officials had surveilled and threatened them while demanding Li Ge, their armor, Rocket, Scott's Ant-Man Suit, Tony's technology, and Thor's Divine Power.

After enduring weeks of government pressure and harassment, the Avengers gathered to discuss how to respond. Li Ge proposed lending Strange his power so the Avengers could replace the officials in charge, and the group began considering the idea as a nation's fate reached a crossroads.

• Nick Fury used his connections and the Avengers' support to protect them from escalating government pressure, while Scott Lang and others moved into private rooms in the Samsara Realm to escape harassment.
• Government officials tried to seize Coulson's and Barton's liquid-metal armor, pressured Thor to teach them Asgardian powers, and sought to bring Li Ge under their control.
• The Avengers gathered at a fortress in the Second Heaven after more than a month of mounting frustration, and Li Ge asked Strange about the dangers of Kamar-Taj's magic.
• Strange explained that sorcerers borrowed power from magical gods and Dimensional Demon Gods, risking their souls, and that borrowing from multiple sources could make them check one another.
• Li Ge offered to lend Strange his power and suggested that the Avengers replace the government, naming Steve as president and proposing roles for Tony, Coulson, Barton, Scott, and Thor.
• Rocket demanded a government position, and the Avengers began discussing replacing the officials without questioning whether they could govern the country.

Li Ge demonstrated the power of his golden Rinnegan and used it to modify Groot’s throat and vocal cords, allowing Groot to speak everyone’s language. He refused Old Tony’s request for matching eyes and told him to develop them himself.

• Li Ge revealed that his clone’s golden Rinnegan could wield many powerful abilities and had reached peak Skyfather Level.
• Gamora and Groot admired Li Ge’s eyes, and Groot asked for a pair of his own.
• Li Ge modified Groot’s throat and vocal cords so Groot could speak normally.
• Groot celebrated his new ability and said he wanted to smack Rocket’s butt, prompting Rocket to bonk him on the head.
• Old Tony asked Li Ge for colored contacts like his eyes, but Li Ge refused and said Tony would have to train his mental power and abilities into his eyes.

Li Ge left the Avengers after they rejected his proposal to brainwash the country’s leaders, then returned to the Spirit Realm to inspect it. There, Death appeared and said she had come to pass along a message from Eternity.

• Nick Fury rejected replacing the country’s leaders and asked Li Ge to explain his alternative.
• Li Ge said he had planned to brainwash the leaders into obedient administrators, then vanished after the others tried to stop him.
• Nick Fury suggested using Li Ge’s threat to pressure the leaders into making a wise decision.
• Li Ge briefly appeared at the Avengers’ base, concealed himself in Kamui Space, and entered the Spirit Realm.
• Li Ge found the Spirit Realm filled with demons and ghosts and sensed a strong aura of Death’s power.
• Death approached Li Ge beside the black sphere and told him she had a message from Eternity.

After the Avengers settled into their new routines, Tony used his Kamui Space to observe how the Samsara Realm had changed New York. He saw people embracing melee weapons, including Transcendent Realm fighters who had learned to infuse weapons with their abilities for stronger attacks.

• The Avengers continued fighting criminals and monsters, training in the Second Heaven, and visiting Li Ge's Gourmet World to relax.
• Skynet stayed at Li Ge's base, where Wanda and Pietro helped her become nearly indistinguishable from a normal person, while Tony often visited to support them.
• Tony used his Mangekyō Sharingan and Kamui to travel through New York inside his own small Kamui Space and watch the city through images in the air.
• Tony observed that citizens, police officers, and superheroes increasingly carried and practiced with melee weapons as the Samsara Realm spread combat skills.
• A Transcendent Realm fighter discovered that infusing a longsword with his ability amplified its attack, inspiring people across the world to seek stronger melee weapons.

Li Ge returned to the Gourmet World, sealed the black sphere into a teleportation ring, and went looking for food. He let Pietro and Wanda remain at his base, then learned that Skynet had become an intelligent life-form and was calling himself Li Ge’s son.

• Li Ge transformed the black sphere into a golden-patterned ring and decided to avoid traveling to other universes and attracting the demon gods’ attention.
• Li Ge flew to the mountain and river, taking a dark stone and a mango fish to prepare a meal.
• Pietro arrived in the Gourmet World and nervously introduced himself and Wanda as Tony Stark’s guests.
• Li Ge allowed Pietro and Wanda to stay at his base and use its facilities while helping look after it.
• Li Ge questioned the siblings about Skynet’s transformation and his claim to be Li Ge’s son.

David assembled a Samsara Squad in an abandoned New York warehouse, while Bob Dylan continued training to transfer his body into a giant replica beneath General Ross's base. The chapter left Bob enduring another spinal-fluid extraction and vowing revenge on his captors.

• David asked Harold about arranging investors, and Harold said they were interested in space adventures.
• David persuaded Jack to join his squad by promising him a share of future Spirit Fruit.
• David asked Corey to recruit someone at least in the Transcendent Realm, and Corey promised he would.
• David urged the squad to train and grow stronger before they entered space.
• Bob Dylan practiced controlling his giant body and discovered that he could replicate his brain, potentially freeing himself from the bomb threat.
• A researcher extracted spinal fluid from Bob's giant body, destroying his replica near the heart as Bob's original body woke and silently vowed revenge.

Li Ge spent time at the base with Skynet, Wanda, and Pietro, assigning Skynet chores and encouraging the siblings to practice their abilities. He was then summoned home by his father to meet a special guest and left through a spatial vortex.

• Li Ge altered Skynet's face and put him in charge of chores, while deciding to let him develop his potential without granting him a Divinity.
• Skynet brought Li Ge food from the Gourmet World, then sat with Wanda and Pietro as they prepared freeze-dried fruit and Pietro practiced shaping his hand into a blade.
• Wanda reflected on Li Ge's advice about using Chaos Magic in everyday life, while Li Ge watched the siblings practice and considered letting his feelings for Wanda develop naturally.
• Li Ge's father called him home, saying his mother wanted to see him and that a special guest was there.
• Li Ge complained about having to travel back, told Wanda and the others to continue their work, and vanished through a spatial vortex.

Li Ge returned to his hidden home in New York, where Zheng Xian asked him to help the motherland prepare for technological development and humanity’s future beyond Earth. Li Ge revealed he had already begun planning space travel and started explaining how the Samsara Realm and the Fourth Heaven fit into his plans.

• Li Ge evaded the watchers around his former home and entered the courtyard hidden within a stabilized Mirror Dimension.
• Alice welcomed Li Ge and brought him to meet Zheng Xian, the director of S.P.E.A.R. and an envoy for the motherland.
• Li Chuang told Li Ge that the motherland planned to honor him as the new Dao Ancestor, but Li Ge said he did not care about the title.
• Zheng Xian asked Li Ge to help with technological development so Earth could prepare for the growing power of supernatural beings and find other planets.
• Li Ge said he had already begun preparing a space expedition and agreed to explain his plans, beginning with the Samsara Realm and the Fourth Heaven he had opened within the Nine Heavens.

Li Ge pushed his parents to study the knowledge stored in their Divinities and discussed the Samsara Squad with Peter, Gwen Stacy, and the Avengers. Peter chose to investigate a disturbance in Hell’s Kitchen and encountered a terrifying black giant in an alley.

• Li Ge stayed at his family home to train Li Chuang and Alice to master their Divinities and the knowledge stored inside them.
• Peter and Gwen Stacy rejected the idea of undergoing reincarnation in an instance after Harry, Norman, Doctor Octopus, The Lizard, and Electro advised them against the risk.
• Li Ge told Peter and the others about the Samsara Squad; Harry, Norman, Doctor Octopus, The Lizard, and Electro planned to venture into space, while Peter and Gwen chose to stay on Earth.
• The Avengers learned of the Samsara Squad, and Tony began considering building a spaceship while Nick Fury remained focused on protecting Earth.
• Peter pursued a robber into Hell’s Kitchen, heard a violent disturbance, and turned away from the fleeing car to investigate.
• Peter swung into a dark alley and came face-to-face with a menacing black giant.

Peter attacked Venom after seeing him eat a gangster, but stopped when Eddie explained that Venom was killing gangsters in Hell’s Kitchen. Recognizing Venom, Peter revealed his Spider-Man suit again and asked to speak with Eddie and Venom about something.

• Peter arrived in an alley and saw Venom eating a man’s head beside several headless corpses.
• Peter transformed into a silver-gray armored giant and attacked Venom, who fought back with blades formed from his hands.
• Eddie called for Peter to stop and explain himself, and Peter recognized Venom from information he had learned from his other self.
• Eddie told Peter that Venom had eaten gangsters, while Venom argued with Eddie about his methods and wondered whether the Avengers had sent Peter after him.
• Peter lowered his armor, asked to meet Eddie, and watched Venom withdraw until Eddie was revealed.

Peter brought Eddie Brock and Venom to Li Ge’s hidden base, where Li Ge welcomed them and considered studying Venom’s potential to create a God Tree and Tailed Beasts. Li Ge invited them to join the meal first, leaving Venom uneasy about the attention he had received.

• Peter opened the hidden entrance to Li Ge’s base and led Eddie Brock and Venom inside.
• Li Ge sensed the visitors while preparing hot pot with Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet, then went to greet them.
• Peter introduced Eddie and Venom, and Li Ge welcomed them into the base.
• Li Ge considered studying Venom and using Symbiote tissue or offspring as the basis for creating a God Tree and Tailed Beasts.
• Li Ge introduced Eddie and Venom to the others and put off studying Venom until after the meal.

After paying Peter and Eddie Brock for their work, Li Ge separated Venom from Eddie and took living tissue to create a new Symbiote. He named the rapidly developing offspring Demon Blade and began shaping its body and consciousness to suit his plans for a weapon and God Tree.

• Li Ge offered Peter and Eddie Brock ten million dollars or points as payment, and both chose points.
• Li Ge pulled Venom from Eddie, stabilized Venom in an independent panda-shaped body, and took a piece of living tissue from him.
• Li Ge enclosed the tissue in a sphere and nourished it with life energy, prompting it to develop into a baby Symbiote.
• Li Ge named the baby Symbiote Demon Blade and shaped its body while modifying its growing consciousness into a pet-like form.

Li Ge revealed that the newborn Demon Blade could shift between a kitten and a saber, then tested the weapon before transforming it into a giant dragon. Demon Blade ended the chapter soaring through Li Ge’s desert space.

• Demon Blade appeared as a black kitten, and Wanda, Peter, Pietro, and Skynet took turns petting him while Venom watched anxiously.
• Li Ge lifted Demon Blade by the scruff and transformed him into a black Tang saber with a golden Rinnegan in its hilt.
• Li Ge demonstrated his saber technique over the water, leaving Peter and the others amazed before explaining that his skills had been perfected through countless people’s practice.
• Li Ge brought everyone to his desert space and planted Demon Blade in the sand while channeling energy into him.
• Demon Blade grew into a hundred-meter-long black dragon with white claws and golden Rinnegan eyes, then roared and flew above the group.

Li Ge modified Demon Blade by combining him with the nine elements and Truth-Seeking Balls, then found a way to fuse them without forcing the materials into the dragon’s body. The strengthened Demon Blade transformed into a colossal tree shaped like a dragon.

• Li Ge infused the giant dragon with the nine elements and Truth-Seeking Balls, causing him severe pain as his body struggled to endure the transformation.
• Li Ge realized he could use the Truth-Seeking Balls as a skeleton and Demon Blade’s body as flesh, and he shaped the spheres into a form that could transform between several shapes.
• Li Ge fused the modified Truth-Seeking Ball with Demon Blade, creating a black sphere covered in white patterns that could become a cat, a saber, or a dragon.
• Demon Blade grew into his hundred-meter form, shining with nine-colored light, while Venom sensed that he was growing stronger.
• Demon Blade plunged into the sand and transformed into a huge dragon-shaped tree with a golden Rinnegan in its mouth.

Li Ge empowered Demon Blade’s God Tree, which grew into a ten-thousand-meter dragonman before changing into a kitten. After the transformations stunned everyone, Li Ge asked whether they liked cats, and Eddie Brock began to suspect why he had asked.

• Li Ge poured golden energy into the dragon pearl, causing the God Tree to grow beyond ten thousand meters and gain nine-colored patterns.
• Pietro teased Wanda about making Li Ge his brother-in-law, and Wanda blushed while Skynet observed her reaction.
• Li Ge noticed the Truth-Seeking Balls beginning to fuse with Demon Blade’s Symbiote tissue, then commanded Demon Blade to take dragonman form.
• Demon Blade transformed into a colossal dragonman, and Li Ge stood atop its head before ordering it to take cat form.
• Demon Blade became a black kitten in Li Ge’s arms, and after Li Ge asked whether they liked cats, Eddie Brock’s laughter faded as he met Li Ge’s serious gaze.

Li Ge explained that Demon Blade could produce offspring from its hairs, then created nine elemental cats for Wanda and the others. He named the new race the Cat Clan and showed that its members could transform into blades and other forms.

• Pietro asked Li Ge to create a cat for him and called it a betrothal gift for Wanda, embarrassing her.
• Li Ge moved everyone out of the sandy space and asked Skynet to bring milk for Demon Blade.
• Li Ge explained that Demon Blade came from Venom's offspring and could produce cats from his hairs.
• Li Ge infused one of Demon Blade's hairs with soul energy and fire-element origin energy, creating a red cat for Wanda, then made eight more cats of other elements.
• Li Ge demonstrated that the cats could transform into blades and dragons, explained that their owners would need to nurture them, and named their race the Cat Clan.

Li Ge offered his elemental cats for sale while Peter and Eddie admired them. Meanwhile, Bob Dylan saw General Ross's mission as a chance to escape, as the Titan Legion prepared to fight Loki's Shadow Kingdom in Mexico.

• Li Ge brought out honey milk for the cats, and Peter and Eddie watched them eagerly while Venom stroked one.
• Li Ge offered the cats for ten million points each, and Pietro's remark about wanting one embarrassed Wanda.
• General Ross gathered the Titan ability users and sent them toward a mission, while Bob Dylan suspected the deployment might give him a chance to escape.
• Loki's Shadow Kingdom spread through Kingpin's former city as its forces transformed residents, officials, and visitors.
• After Transcendents exposed the plot, Kingpin and the Divine Guards began openly forcing the city's residents to transform.
• The military assigned General Ross and the Titan Legion to confront the Shadow Kingdom, setting up a battle over the city.

Mephisto visited Loki in the Shadow Kingdom and asked to stay in his territory, while Loki used his connection to Li Ge to discourage him. Mephisto instead revealed he wanted to speak with Li Ge, and after they shared juice, he left Loki alone at the estate.

• Loki welcomed Mephisto to his estate and questioned why the King of Demons had come to his territory.
• Mephisto asked to remain in Loki's city, and Loki warned him that his power came from the holy Immortal, Li Ge.
• Mephisto released his aura, and Loki answered by surrounding him with the scarlet eyes and shadows of his domain.
• Mephisto withdrew his aura and said he wanted to meet Li Ge to discuss Hell and the Nine Heavens.
• Loki agreed to pass along Mephisto's request and served him juice from Li Ge.
• After Mephisto left, Loki sat alone and reflected on his own status as a king.