Recaps

Mephisto entered a dying man’s body and discovered that human souls could pass through the bracelet’s connection, so he took the name Murphy. Meanwhile, Nick Fury assembled the Avengers to discuss General Ross, Loki’s Divine Guard, and the city in Mexico, leaving Thor to trade barbs with Tony Stark.

• Mephisto reflected on the Nine Heavens and the Samsara Realm, deciding against taking them by force after witnessing Li Ge’s power.
• Mephisto entered a pale, sickly man through his head, and the man later awoke with Mephisto in control.
• Mephisto sensed a connection through the white bracelet and concluded that only human souls were allowed through, so he chose the name Murphy.
• Nick Fury gathered the Avengers and Thor to review General Ross’s movements, events in the Mexican city, and Loki’s growing Divine Guard.
• Tony Stark teased Thor about his relationships, and Thor replied that Jane and Sif could not live without him.

The Avengers agreed to help protect Loki, and Tony brought Li Ge to meet them after failing to buy cats with money. Li Ge bonded cats with Tony and Nick Fury, while Thor promised to return with treasures for a lightning cat.

• Thor praised Loki for winning a city's faith, while Natasha and Bruce exchanged a knowing look and Tony noticed them.
• The group agreed to get involved to protect Loki, and Tony suggested inviting Li Ge because he had given Loki his power.
• Peter and Eddie Brock declined to buy cats from Li Ge; Eddie chose to focus on raising Venom, while Peter decided to save his points for daily life.
• Tony visited Li Ge, tried to buy the cats with dollars, and promised to make him a Golden Body Armor in exchange for a metal-element cat.
• Tony brought Li Ge and their cats to the Avengers, where Nick Fury traded permission to select 084 items for a yin-element cat and Thor promised to bring Asgardian treasures for a lightning cat.
• Li Ge activated the master-binding contracts, entering symbiosis between the cats and Nick Fury and Tony.

General Ross injected a serum made from Titan spinal fluid and Hulk blood, then underwent a gamma-ray transformation to gain overwhelming power. The transformation produced a gigantic, armored Titan, whose fate remained unknown.

• General Ross chose to undergo Titan transformation so he could claim greater power and become the true king of the Titans.
• General Ross’s researchers combined spinal fluid from Titans with varied abilities and Hulk blood to create a potent serum.
• General Ross injected the serum and ordered the researcher to activate the gamma-ray apparatus.
• A golden lightning bolt struck as General Ross’s body transformed amid screams and the sounds of tearing flesh.
• Searchlights revealed a roughly hundred-meter Titan with charred, fissured skin, bone armor, and translucent blue bones in its hands.

General Ross transformed into a rampaging titan and devastated the soldiers and steel behemoths sent to capture him. As the Titan Legion arrived, Bob Dylan spotted a chance to escape and began preparing a new body.

• The general ordered his soldiers and steel behemoths to cripple the titan and rescue General Ross, but the titan’s roar and flaming bone spikes devastated their forces.
• The general ordered a retreat and summoned the Titan Legion as the titan charged after the fleeing soldiers, crushing them and their machines.
• Bob Dylan arrived with the Titan Legion and noticed the fleeing soldiers and the much larger charred titan.
• Bob Dylan grew a new body inside the titan, transferred his consciousness into it, and planned to fake his death at the charred titan’s hands.

Bob Dylan used the battle against the charred titan to escape his Colossal Titan body and set off toward Loki’s city. In Kamui Space, Tony and the others watched the bombardment, while Li Ge discussed trading for a cat with Thor.

• The titans pinned down the charred titan, but it formed energy bone armor that repelled their attacks.
• The general ordered the soldiers to bombard the charred titan, disregarding the titans caught in the explosions.
• Bob Dylan escaped inside a ball of compressed flesh and bone, having arranged to fake his death and travel to Loki’s city.
• Tony showed the others the battle on a screen in Kamui Space; Steve objected to the soldiers’ suffering, while Nick Fury and Coulson argued that they should not interfere.
• The surviving titan power holders regenerated as soldiers prepared to extract General Ross, and Li Ge discussed trading with Thor for a cat.

Loki and Murphy secretly moved to claim people, corpses, and souls amid the battle, while Li Ge watched General Ross’s unstable nine-element giant form crumble. The chapter left Ross’s fate uncertain as Li Ge wondered whether he would regain his senses.

• Loki sensed the unusual energy near the military base and sent a Divine Guard to investigate, then decided to capture Bob Dylan and recruit the giants for his Divine Guards.
• Loki ordered Divine Guards to pursue Bob Dylan’s escaping soul and secretly collect intact soldiers’ corpses to turn into cannon fodder.
• Murphy secretly took several Transcendent soldiers’ souls, while Li Ge’s policy reserved souls of those below the Fourth Heaven for other demon gods.
• Li Ge watched General Ross’s charred giant collapse under the attacks, concluding that the nine-element power had overwhelmed him and wondering whether Ross could regain his senses.

Li Ge sensed Wanda and Vision trying to teleport into his world and opened a portal for them. They arrived seeking refuge from the oppressive atmosphere of their world and asked to settle in his.

• Li Ge felt a teleportation request battering the restrictions on his ring while Tony and the others discussed General Ross and other worlds.
• Li Ge identified the visitor's universe, and Thor reacted to hearing about another version of himself.
• At Steve's urging, Li Ge opened a portal with his ring and welcomed Wanda and Vision into his world.
• Wanda teased Li Ge for resisting their arrival, and Vision asked whether he and his wife could settle there.

Loki tried to take General Ross into the Shadow Kingdom, but the sedated general transformed into a savage Red Hulk-like creature and broke free. General Ross’s rampage destroyed the laboratory and nearby buildings, plunging the base into chaos.

• Loki bewitched the guards and researcher, disabled the laboratory cameras, and began engulfing General Ross in shadows to make him a shadow giant general.
• Nick Fury urged Li Ge and Thor to stop Loki, while Tony prepared to open a portal to the laboratory.
• General Ross awoke with blood-red eyes, transformed into a tattooed, scarlet giant, and snapped his restraints.
• General Ross struck out with a roar, and the laboratory and neighboring buildings were smashed apart.
• The base’s soldiers fled as smoke, screams, and curses spread through the ruined facility.

Li Ge took Steve and the others into the nascent Paths Space and used Demon Blade to create a gigantic God Tree that expanded the space. As the white sand spread across the realm, Li Ge announced that the Founding Titan would take its place next.

• Steve urged Li Ge to stop General Ross from rampaging through the base, but Li Ge refused and noticed the Paths Space beginning to open within the charred giant.
• Li Ge transported Steve, Tony, Wanda, Thor, and Nick Fury into the small Paths Space, overriding Tony's control of Kamui Space.
• Li Ge threw Demon Blade into the darkness and summoned a towering God Tree with dragon-like features and nine-colored lightning.
• Li Ge ordered Demon Blade to take control of the space, and the God Tree spread white sand across the realm.
• Li Ge declared that it was time for the Founding Titan to take its place.

Li Ge showed the Avengers General Ross’s transformation and explained that Ross’s soul had been ruined by trying to control too many powers. He kept Ross in Paths Space as the Founding Titan, leaving Steve, Nick Fury, and Tony objecting to what they thought was enslavement.

• Li Ge brought everyone to the God Tree and showed them a vision of the Titans changing in the real world.
• General Ross and the other Titan power holders transformed, while their consciousnesses were drawn into Paths Space and learned their connection to Li Ge and the God Tree.
• The Titan power holders praised Li Ge, and he returned their consciousnesses to their bodies while keeping Ross’s damaged soul in Paths Space.
• Li Ge introduced Ross as the Founding Titan and demonstrated how he could shape Titan bodies from sand.
• Steve, Nick Fury, and Tony challenged Li Ge over keeping Ross, but Li Ge explained that Ross’s soul was irreparably damaged after he tried to master Titan and gamma Titan powers.

Li Ge explained that General Ross had become an empty shell and put him to work building Titans, while Thor’s remarks made the others recognize Li Ge as a godlike being who claimed powerful souls for his own purposes. In the real world, Loki and Mephisto fought over Ross’s falling body as his Titan form disintegrated.

• Li Ge restored General Ross’s uniform and sent him to build Titans, explaining that Ross’s soul was broken and his consciousness was gone.
• Thor told the others that Li Ge was already stronger than Odin and described the Samsara Realm as a place for souls, prompting Li Ge to explain that he wanted powerful beings who could help him.
• Loki and Mephisto noticed that the Titans’ consciousnesses had been pulled away and coveted General Ross’s unusually powerful body.
• As Ross fell from his disintegrating Titan, Loki’s shadow python struck Mephisto and forced him away from the body.

Loki seized General Ross’s body and placed it in the Shadow Kingdom, then faced Mephisto’s avatar in a battle that devastated the base. The Titans and soldiers fled while the two giants continued their armed clash.

• Loki formed a hundred-meter shadow body, caught the shadow python, and sent General Ross’s body into the Shadow Kingdom.
• Mephisto revealed his demonic form and threatened Loki, who answered by unleashing his shadow power.
• Loki struck Mephisto with a python-turned-hammer, then stabbed him in the kidney with a shadow dagger.
• Mephisto forged an obsidian sword from lava, and he and Loki began fighting with their weapons.
• The Titans and soldiers escaped as the battle wrecked the base, while a fleeing general cursed the disastrous mission.

Li Ge watched Loki battle Mephisto after consolidating Paths Space and Kamui Space into Desert Space within his Rinnegan. As the fight devastated a military base, Li Ge and the others observed from Kamui Space and weighed Loki’s startling strength.

• Li Ge merged Paths Space with Desert Space inside his Rinnegan, leaving Demon Blade in Paths Space as the God Tree and planning to let its future offspring roam there.
• Li Ge watched Mephisto and Loki’s unexpected battle on a screen and chose to wait before deciding whether to intervene.
• Loki and Mephisto fought with immense power, destroying a military base and frightening the soldiers and Titan power holders who had escaped.
• Tony mocked Mephisto and Loki, while Li Ge teased Thor that Loki might surpass him as Asgard’s greatest warrior.
• Thor insisted he would not surrender his title, while Wanda, Vision, and Nick Fury reacted to Loki’s dramatically increased power.

Loki trapped Mephisto in a shadow dimension, forcing the demon king to abandon his giant form and flee. As Mephisto raced toward the edge of the domain, Loki failed to stop him in time.

• Steve, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and Bruce watched the destruction at the military base and reacted to Loki and Mephisto’s battle.
• Li Ge noticed the others’ reactions and awkwardly deflected Tony’s teasing question about Wanda and Pietro living at his base.
• Loki decided Mephisto’s clone had reached its limits and declared he would end their fight.
• Loki activated the shadow domain he had secretly prepared, surrounding Mephisto with a dark dimension.
• Mephisto sensed the danger, returned to his human form, and fled toward the edge of the shadow domain.

Mephisto escaped Loki’s Shadow Kingdom, only to emerge in Li Ge’s realm and be ambushed by Li Ge and the Avengers. They overwhelmed the weakened demon and sealed him inside a small sculpture.

• Loki sent waves of Divine Guards to stop Mephisto from escaping the Shadow Kingdom, but Mephisto blasted through its weakened boundary and fled through a spatial rift.
• Loki watched the rift close, then turned his attention to the transformed General Ross and urged him not to disappoint.
• Mephisto found himself in an unfamiliar, starless desert and recognized the dragon-headed God Tree as belonging to the Immortal.
• Li Ge appeared with the Avengers and attacked Mephisto with a net of Truth-Seeking Balls and their combined powers.
• Li Ge sealed Mephisto in a lifelike, palm-sized demon sculpture.

The military abandoned plans to reclaim Loki’s city and focused on mass-producing Titan soldiers after learning about Li Ge’s Titan abilities. Wanda and Vision settled in Li Ge’s world to escape the harassment they faced in the Endgame World, and Old Barton explained why they had left.

• The military’s leaders decided Titan powers could provide mass-produced soldiers and tacitly accepted Loki’s control of the city in Mexico.
• Wanda and Vision settled in Li Ge’s world with Tony’s help, saying they could no longer live peacefully in the Endgame World.
• The Avengers visited Old Barton, who explained that government officials had continued surveilling and pressuring the Avengers to obtain their technology and power.
• Old Barton said the officials’ growing control over Transcendents had encouraged them to target the Avengers despite their power.
• Wanda and Vision chose to leave their old lives behind and use the black teleportation orb to seek refuge in Li Ge’s world.

Li Ge created a dark-gold tiger mount called Tiger Vanguard and tested its speed with Wanda and Pietro watching. Inspired by their excitement, he decided to hold a world-spanning auction of mounts, kittens, weapons, and other powerful items.

• Li Ge had breakfast with Wanda and Pietro in the Gourmet World, where Skynet served them.
• Li Ge separated Demon Blade’s cat form from his God Tree form, leaving the unconscious God Tree to fuel General Ross’s giant body.
• Pietro secretly collected some of Demon Blade’s shed fur while pretending to clean it.
• Li Ge combined Demon Blade’s three-element offspring with a Truth-Seeking Ball tiger sculpture, creating Tiger Vanguard, and rode him through the sky.
• Li Ge proposed holding a grand auction featuring mounts, kittens, Transcendent weapons, items, skill cards, and special ability cards.

Li Ge brought Wanda and Pietro to the Samsara Realm to prepare the Starry Sky Auction House, leaving them to build its seats while he prepared the auction items. He then announced a world auction in one week, and the message stunned everyone with a Samsara Bracelet.

• Pietro volunteered to host the auction and suggested Wanda, but Wanda refused and warned him not to meddle in Li Ge’s plans.
• Li Ge transformed himself, Wanda, and Pietro into soul-energy bodies and took them to deep space in the Samsara Realm to build the Starry Sky Auction House.
• Li Ge gave Wanda and Pietro powers to fly, travel through space, and place blocks in batches, then asked them to make ten billion seats.
• Wanda and Pietro began building the auction house as Li Ge left to prepare the auction items.
• Li Ge sent a message to everyone with a Samsara Bracelet, announcing that the Starry Sky Auction House would hold its auction in one week.

Tony and the Avengers reacted to Li Ge’s announcement of a world auction, speculating about what he would sell and how they could participate. The chapter ended with Loki, Kingpin, the Ancient One, and organizations around the world preparing to pursue the auction’s treasures.

• Tony complained to Skynet that Li Ge had not told him about the auction, then decided to wait until they met in the Samsara Realm in a week.
• The Avengers discussed the auction in Nick Fury’s office, where Thor revealed Li Ge had studied Asgard’s books and learned forging techniques on Nidavellir.
• Bruce wondered whether bidders would need points, and Nick Fury recalled that he and Tony had acquired their cats without spending any.
• Loki, Kingpin, and the Ancient One each considered attending the auction for treasures that might serve their own goals.
• Organizations and countries began tallying resources and planning how to secure a place at the world auction.

Wanda and Vision, Eddie Brock and Venom, and Peter’s team discussed the disorder Li Ge’s activities might bring and the coming auction. Meanwhile, Li Chuang and Alice began selecting candidates for a super-soldier program in the Eastern Nation, leaving the race to develop enhanced forces underway.

• Wanda and Vision discussed whether Li Ge’s arrival would plunge their world into chaos.
• Eddie Brock and Venom joked about spending their points on the auction and argued over Venom’s panda form.
• Peter told Harry’s Flying Hero Squad that he had ten million points and explained his agreement with Li Ge; the group discussed the auction, their research, and their trial progress.
• Li Chuang and Alice selected candidates to turn into super soldiers as part of a plan to establish a technological Heavenly Court.
• Li Chuang and Alice’s super-soldier program was presented as the Eastern Nation’s response to the Bald Eagle’s Titan Legion project.

Li Chuang and Alice watched events unfold from their hidden Heavenly Court as the Inhumans prepared to attend Immortal’s auction. In Attilan, Maximus secretly rejected his brother’s caution and revealed a strange new power in his eyes.

• Alice and Li Chuang watched information about the auction and an unusual city, and Li Chuang said Xiao Ge would shape the world’s future.
• Medusa told Black Bolt that the auction invitation had reached everyone and that Crystal had investigated Earth; Black Bolt agreed that the Inhumans should attend and notify their people.
• Maximus secretly listened to Medusa’s report and lamented Attilan’s cramped life and the Inhumans’ weakness.
• Maximus declared that the Inhumans should reveal themselves through power, then saw three black tomoe appear in his scarlet eyes.

News of Li Ge’s world auction spread to the other three worlds, whose people learned they were not included and urgently sought a way in. Leaders and groups across the worlds decided to ask their connections to Li Ge for admission, while Li Ge’s own mutants and Arale’s Church of Divine Revelation prepared to attend.

• People in the other three worlds compared details and discovered that four distinct versions of the world existed, then learned the auction was not open to them.
• In Avengers Tower, Old Tony, Steve, Strange, Thor, Nick Fury, and the others agreed they had to attend the auction and asked Tony to help secure entry.
• At the Pentagon, Erik urged the Mutants Nation to pursue the auction, while Jimmy proposed asking Li Ge to create a separate space for mutants; Charles assigned Jimmy to seek admission through the other worlds.
• At the Xavier Transcendent Institute, the Days of Future Past World’s mutants chose Logan to contact Li Ge and obtain entry to the auction.
• Li Ge’s mutants and Arale’s Church of Divine Revelation became eager to attend the auction.

Li Ge introduced Crystal Cores as a currency for trading transcendent goods and explained their energy capacities, prices, and use as a source of energy. The chapter ended with Demon Blade devouring a red Crystal Core, prompting Li Ge to consider adding flavors to them.

• Wanda asked Li Ge what currency he would use for the auction, and Pietro suggested gold.
• Li Ge presented white, blue, and red Crystal Cores, explaining their differing energy capacities and prices in points.
• Li Ge designated Crystal Cores as currency for transactions involving transcendent powers, separate from ordinary money and shop points.
• Wanda asked whether Crystal Cores could replenish energy, and Demon Blade snatched and ate a red one.
• Li Ge explained that Transcendents could absorb Crystal Cores for energy and considered letting buyers choose their flavors.

Li Ge contacted Arale and appointed her to organize people connected to him across the four worlds for the crystal-core auction. Arale eagerly accepted the task and prepared to visit the Second Heaven.

• Arale lay awake in her tower, longing for Li Ge to remember her and summon her.
• Li Ge contacted Arale and granted her the right to enter and leave Heaven-Reaching Mountain in the Samsara Realm.
• Li Ge instructed Arale to explain the crystal-core auction, its blue-core entry requirement, and the minimum price for white cores to his contacts across the four worlds.
• Li Ge sent Arale information about those contacts and suggested she find them in the Second Heaven.
• Arale accepted the assignment enthusiastically, glad that Li Ge needed her.

Arale visited Tony to share Li Ge’s plan to create crystal cores as currency and recruit others to help carry it out. Tony immediately recognized the idea’s benefits and admired Li Ge for coming up with it.

• Arale woke at dawn, used Telekinesis to dress and groom herself, and ate breakfast using the Gourmet World.
• Arale jumped from her tower and greeted the people of New York as she made her way to Stark Tower.
• Arale met Tony and Pepper, then told them what Li Ge had said and asked Tony to help contact others through their Samsara Bracelets.
• Tony praised Li Ge’s crystal-core currency plan for giving dungeon rewards monetary value and providing Transcendents with a source of energy.