Recaps

Tony and others examined Li Ge’s Ultraman sealing cards and reacted to their immense power and appeal. As people across different worlds considered bidding, the chapter left Ultraman poised to capture the interest of heroes, governments, organizations, and ordinary people alike.

• Tony asked JARVIS to research Ultraman, then learned that the beings were immensely powerful, long-lived protectors who bonded with worthy humans by choice.
• James admired Ultraman but decided to wait, believing the sealing cards were beyond his means.
• Li Ge watched James and told Wanda and Pietro that he planned to teach his future disciple to pilot the God Tree instead.
• Li Chuang chose not to bid on Ultraman, while Alice dismissed the cards and focused on Xiaobai and Tiger Vanguard.
• Capitalists, organizations, nations, and other individuals considered using or bidding on Ultraman for their own reasons.
• Peter considered bidding with his remaining crystals, Harry received Norman’s permission to use their Crystal Cores, and people across three other worlds focused on the cards.

Skynet demonstrated an Ultraman Summoner, explaining that it required a worthy bearer and could allow indefinite transformation under sunlight or moonlight. He announced that the summoners would be distributed to righteous people across four worlds, leaving observers with mixed reactions to Li Ge’s refusal to auction them for money.

• Skynet transformed into Ultraman and demonstrated its powers and summoner requirements to the audience.
• Skynet announced that one hundred summoners would be distributed evenly among four worlds to people with light in their hearts, rather than auctioned for Crystal Cores.
• Skynet vanished with the sealing cards, then let them disappear when Pietro tried to inspect them.
• James, Tony, Steve, Nick Fury, Bruce, and Peter reacted to the announcement with thoughts ranging from skepticism and relief to agreement and anticipation.

After ending the auction, Li Ge summoned James and accepted him as a disciple. He showed James the Spirit Tree and explained that its fruits held immense mental power, but James could not safely consume one without first gaining the means to control laws.

• Li Ge ended the auction and announced that the next session would begin the following morning.
• James received Li Ge's invitation to become his disciple and accepted it, then vanished from his sofa in a flash of light.
• Li Ge introduced James to Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet beside the magnificent Spirit Tree.
• Li Ge warned James that the Spirit Fruits could destroy an ordinary person's soul, though successfully absorbing one could strengthen a soul to the level of a god or demon.
• Li Ge explained that powerful souls alone did not make gods and demons; they also needed to control laws.

Kaecilius, already corrupted by Dormammu, grew resentful after learning about Li Ge’s power and decided to draw him into the Dark Dimension. Dormammu read Kaecilius’s memories and became determined to devour Li Ge and claim Earth.

• Kaecilius reflected on Li Ge’s Nine Heavens and the Path to Godhood, and his jealousy and bitterness intensified.
• Kaecilius decided to bring Li Ge into contact with Dormammu and opened a portal to a remote wasteland.
• Kaecilius concealed himself and began a ritual to contact Dormammu, as darkness spread around him and his body withered.
• Dormammu sensed the ritual and forced his consciousness into Kaecilius’s mind to read his memories.
• Dormammu learned about Li Ge, the Nine Heavens, and the Samsara Realm, then vowed to devour Li Ge and take Earth.

Li Ge welcomed James as his disciple and planned to teach him, while warning him to keep their relationship secret to protect his family. When James eagerly asked to begin training, Li Ge gave him a mountain of books to study first.

• Li Ge considered founding an immortal sect with James as its first sect master, but decided to lead it himself and suggested James could someday establish a magic academy.
• Skynet explained Eastern immortal sects to James, who became more confident about Li Ge’s expectations for him.
• Li Ge warned James that his family could be used against him and said James would have to protect them himself; James promised to grow strong enough to do so.
• James asked when his lessons would begin, and Li Ge conjured books covering magic, elemental powers, runes, and mental and physical cultivation.
• Li Ge sent the books into James’s Samsara Bracelet and told him to read and memorize them before beginning formal training.

Li Ge visited the Ancient One and checked on Strange before wandering through cities to see how Transcendent powers and Crystal Cores had changed ordinary life. Back at the base, he remembered David and wondered whether to take him as a disciple as well as James.

• Li Ge answered the Ancient One’s summons, gave her sealing cards and an Ultraman Summoner, then checked on Strange and left ingredients for Master Wong.
• Li Ge disguised himself and explored a city, seeing outlandish outfits, few conflicts, and shops accepting Crystal Cores as currency.
• Li Ge secretly traveled through several cities, observing how people’s lives had changed with the spread of Transcendent powers.
• As dinner approached, Li Ge returned to the base and remembered David while thinking about Crystal Core exchanges.
• Li Ge wondered whether he should take David as a disciple now that he had already taken James.

David confronted Harold, Jack, and Corey about their suspicious behavior at the renovated factory base, and they revealed their hidden identities. The chapter ended with Jack admitting he was an Inhuman.

• David questioned Jack about avoiding the Heaven Ascension Battlefield, Harold about his recruitment claims, and Corey about his pale appearance and cold aura.
• Harold argued that Immortal’s auctions and Crystal Cores made their treasure-hunting team seem unnecessary, but David cut him off.
• Corey revealed that he had become a Daywalker vampire after being bitten in high school and had gained ice powers through his Nine Heavens water ability.
• Harold admitted he had inherited a Hydra subordinate unit, financed the base renovations, and planned to recruit his own subordinates.
• Jack revealed that he was an Inhuman.

David, Corey, Jack, and Harold revealed their unusual backgrounds while discussing their team and Harold’s ties to Hydra. They accepted Harold’s explanation that his family had long since become independent and run legal businesses, while Li Ge watched from the Desert Space.

• David laughed at the team’s hidden identities and asked Jack to explain Inhumans.
• Jack described how he learned he was an Inhuman, declined to awaken with Terrigen Crystals, and chose to train in the Nine Heavens instead of joining Afterlife.
• Corey revealed he was a Daywalker, and Harold explained Blade’s similar condition to David and Jack.
• David, Corey, and Jack confronted Harold about his family’s Hydra ties, and Harold said his family had separated from other Hydra factions and operated legal businesses for generations.
• Li Ge watched the conversation from the Desert Space and marveled at the team’s complicated backgrounds.

Li Ge took David as a disciple, then woke his main body to update him on recent events and discuss their plans. The main body approved Li Ge’s choices, gave him three stones, and said its transformation would take another six months to a year.

• Li Ge made David his disciple, gave him books to study, and told him not to spend Crystal Cores on the auction items he had prepared for ordinary people.
• Li Ge reassured David that Harold, Jack, and Corey’s backgrounds did not matter as long as their accounts were true, then left David celebrating his new master.
• James struggled to study the large collection of knowledge on his Samsara Bracelet while keeping his discipleship secret from his parents.
• Li Ge awakened his main body and shared news about Wanda, his disciples, the auction, and his plan to establish a cultivation sect.
• The main body accepted Li Ge’s plans, sent him its cultivation system, and gave him blue, yellow, and green stones while asking not to be disturbed during its transformation.
• Li Ge stored the three stones with the purple, orange, and red stones, and decided he still needed to collect the other three stones from their world.

Li Ge visited Zheng Xian at S.P.E.A.R. before the auction and shared food from his Gourmet World with him and the staff. After breakfast, Li Ge told Zheng Xian he had come to warn him not to interfere with what he was about to do.

• Li Ge got up early, gave Skynet information about the auction, and left to collect ingredients from the Gourmet World.
• Zheng Xian reviewed reports of people trying to seize auction items and prepared to refer offenders for action.
• Li Ge appeared in Zheng Xian's office, introduced food from his Gourmet World, and ate breakfast with him.
• Li Ge shared the strange-looking food with S.P.E.A.R. staff, who sampled it and left with their portions.
• Zheng Xian cautioned Li Ge about asking S.P.E.A.R. for help, and Li Ge said he only wanted them not to stop his upcoming actions.

Li Ge secured approval from the Eastern Nation to establish a sect, then explored the country with Zheng Xian, Sun Wukong, and Weather Witch. He decided to create a flying immortal mountain and set off with Wanda and Pietro, leaving Skynet to host the auction.

• Zheng Xian consulted his superiors, who approved Li Ge's request to establish a sect anywhere in the Eastern Nation and offered help building it.
• Zheng Xian brought Sun Wukong and Weather Witch to accompany Li Ge as he teleported around the country and toured its cities.
• Li Ge returned to S.P.E.A.R.'s flying base, then went back to his own base without staying to hear the agents' reports.
• Skynet told Li Ge that the morning auction had sold the super genes and spell-learning cards and that the afternoon would feature Stand Arrows, King Fruits, and Spirit Fruits.
• Li Ge invited Wanda and Pietro to help him create a flying immortal mountain in the Eastern Nation, and they agreed to go with him.
• Li Ge left Skynet to host the remaining auction and took Wanda and Pietro to Zheng Xian's office.

Li Ge took Zheng Xian, Sun Wukong, Weather Witch, Wanda, and Pietro beyond Earth’s atmosphere and built Immortal Mountain around Demon Blade’s God Tree form. He left an empty God Tree shell to sustain the sky island’s energy circulation and kept Demon Blade with him as a cat.

• Li Ge explained that he auctioned easy-to-learn spells and super genes to help others gain power, then led the group through a portal to space above Earth.
• Li Ge concealed the area with the Mirror Dimension and transformed Demon Blade into the immense God Tree.
• Li Ge explained that the God Tree would be the source of his power, which required accepting a seed and returning one’s soul to his divine kingdom after death.
• Li Ge expanded the God Tree’s roots into a vast sky island, filled it with trees, dwellings, soil, lakes, ponds, and rivers, and named it Immortal Mountain.
• Li Ge infused the dragon pearl with energy, leaving an empty God Tree shell to sustain Immortal Mountain’s energy circulation while Demon Blade returned to his arms as a cat.

Li Ge created nine-colored cats on the immortal mountain, each able to grant power seeds to those who earned its recognition, then showed his companions the mountain’s trees, homes, and special fruit. He returned to the base with Wanda and Pietro, while the cats began to settle into their new home.

• Li Ge used Demon Blade’s hairs and his Rinnegan to create hundreds of elemental cats, which could grant power seeds and potentially qualify someone to inherit his power.
• Sun Wukong, Weather Witch, and Zheng Xian declined to pursue the cats’ power seeds, and Li Ge left the cats beneath the God Tree.
• Li Ge led the group around the continent, where Sun Wukong picked fruit and Li Ge explained it was a discarded attempt at making the King Fruit.
• Li Ge showed them homes grown inside giant trees and brought them to the mountain’s edge to watch darkness advancing across Earth.
• Li Ge sent Zheng Xian, Sun Wukong, and Weather Witch back to their office, then returned to the base with Wanda and Pietro as the cats settled into the immortal mountain.

After winning a Stand Arrow at the auction, Tony used it in his laboratory and entered a strange mental space where he chose a star reflecting mechanical order. He awakened his Stand, Ultron, and revealed it to Pepper.

• Tony recalled buying the Stand Arrow for ten red crystals and prepared his laboratory instruments to study it.
• Tony activated the arrow, which turned into mental energy and entered his head, leaving him unconscious as JARVIS called Pepper.
• In a dark mental space, Tony reached for an icy blue star filled with swirling data while the other stars disappeared.
• Tony regained consciousness and told Pepper that the stars represented traits in his subconscious and that he had chosen one to form his Stand.
• Tony used his mental power to reveal a silver-gray robot to Pepper and named the Stand Ultron.

Li Ge brought David and James to Immortal Mountain and introduced them to his family before attending the final auction. Skynet opened the auction with storage rings and Dragon Guards, while buyers across the four worlds gathered resources for the afternoon’s top-tier treasures.

• Li Ge told David and James that they could enter Immortal Mountain to cultivate.
• Li Ge brought David and James to the auction’s hidden space and introduced them to Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet, easing the distance between the disciples and their master.
• Skynet began the final auction, announcing exotic treasures as its theme and opening bids for storage rings of various sizes.
• Organizations, nations, and families bought every storage ring and all ten thousand Dragon Guards after fierce bidding.
• During the noon break, powerful bidders hurried to gather more Crystal Cores in preparation for the afternoon auction.

Li Ge gave Wanda, Pietro, David, and James spatial rings containing customizable alternate spaces, while the auction on the Samsara Continent offered powerful magic arrays and Domain Crowns. The bidding for the crowns ended at enormous prices, and the appearance of Secret Realms sent excitement soaring as the chapter ended.

• Li Ge gave Wanda, Pietro, David, and James spatial rings with alternate spaces and explained how they worked.
• Pietro accidentally entered his ring space, inspected its empty, hundred-meter cube interior, and returned after Wanda tried to follow him.
• Skynet opened the auction with Crystal Core Condensation Magic Arrays, offering a million sealed arrays for bidding.
• Skynet presented ten thousand Domain Crowns, and nations, organizations, and ancient families bid fiercely for them.
• The Domain Crowns sold for between five thousand and fifteen thousand red crystals, before Secret Realms appeared as the final auction item.

Skynet announced an auction for keys to four continent-sized secret realms, prompting people and major factions to compete for access. Li Ge explained that the auction was designed to let many people benefit, while the bidding neared its end.

• Skynet described secret realms and explained that a powerful being could refine one into a divine kingdom and become an undying god or demon.
• Skynet announced that four secret realms would be merged into four worlds, with ten million entry keys for each world auctioned before the realms opened on the day of the Beginning of Winter.
• Li Ge revealed to Wanda and the others that he had limited the auction to keys so more people could participate rather than letting a few factions monopolize the realms.
• David asked whether their rings were secret realms, and Li Ge explained how alternate spaces could be classified and transformed.
• Major factions bid repeatedly for keys as the auction neared its end, while the auction rules gave smaller factions and lone bidders a chance.

After the auction ended, Li Ge returned to his base with Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet, then put off his many plans to choose dinner ingredients in the Gourmet World. Loki tested the Domain Crown in the desert, discovering how its domain and army worked and how much energy its strongest soldiers required.

• The auction ended, and Li Ge sent the participants back to their bodies as the Samsara Realm screens vanished.
• Li Ge harvested Spirit Fruit with Wanda and the others, stored the Truth-Seeking Ball boxes in a spatial ring, and returned to the base with Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet.
• Li Ge considered returning the Infinity Stones, placing Secret Realms, exploring other worlds, and recruiting disciples, but chose to visit the Gourmet World to select dinner ingredients.
• Loki examined the Domain Crown card, traveled through shadows to a desert, and summoned the crown onto his head.
• Loki activated the crown's domain, reshaped its terrain, and summoned an army of ten thousand stick figures.
• Loki increased the army's power until fewer than a thousand figures reached their limit, realizing that fully powering all ten thousand would cost an enormous amount of energy.

Maximus and Black Bolt surveyed their auction purchases on the moon, while Li Chuang and Alice planned a trip to the other three worlds and settled in for the night. The chapter leaves them asleep as their super soldiers continued training on the floating island.

• Maximus admired his auction haul and declared that his changing eyes showed he would soon become king of the Inhumans, though he remembered Black Bolt's destructive power.
• Black Bolt and Medusa sorted through their many auction purchases, which Black Bolt could command using the Inhumans' Crystal Cores.
• Alice fed Crystal Cores to Xiaobai and Tiger Vanguard while Li Chuang sampled Crystal Cores and played with a Domain Crown.
• Alice suggested that she and Li Chuang visit the other three worlds with Li Ge, and Li Chuang agreed to tell Zheng Xian about their plans and the super soldiers.
• Li Chuang and Alice went to bed, while Xiaobai and Tiger Vanguard left the room and the super soldiers continued training through the night.

Tony and Pepper, Big Wanda and Vision, and Li Chuang and Alice visited Li Ge’s base while he was asleep, then explored the Gourmet World with Skynet. After Li Ge joined them for a meal, he learned why the visitors wanted to travel to other worlds, and the group’s plans were left unstated.

• Tony brought Pepper through a portal to the base, followed by Big Wanda and Vision, then Li Chuang and Alice, who used the Divinity computer to teleport there.
• Big Wanda and Vision nearly confronted Li Chuang and Alice until Tony explained who they were.
• Skynet greeted Li Chuang and Alice as his grandparents, then led the visitors into the Gourmet World while Li Ge slept.
• Li Ge woke, entered the Gourmet World through its corridor, and joined the others at the dining table.
• Tony said he wanted to take Pepper to meet Morgan, while Big Wanda said she and Vision planned to return to their own world.
• Li Chuang and Alice admitted they wanted to visit other worlds, and Li Ge recognized their purpose.

Li Ge and the others plundered much of his Gourmet World, relying on its ability to restore itself. Afterward, Li Ge stored his base and the Gourmet World in his base ring, then gave base rings to his friends and parents.

• Tony, Big Wanda, Li Chuang, Alice, Pietro, and Wanda harvested food and materials throughout Li Ge's Gourmet World as it restored itself behind them.
• Li Ge led everyone outside and used his base ring to store the base and its anchored Gourmet World, expanding the ring's space to fit them.
• Pietro explained the base rings to the others, prompting Tony, Pepper, Big Wanda, and Vision to show interest in having portable bases.
• Li Ge gave base rings to Tony, Big Wanda, Vision, Li Chuang, and Alice, while Skynet already had one.
• Pietro and Skynet considered finding locations to store in their rings, while Wanda decided her Gourmet World haul was sufficient.

Li Ge brought his companions through the Spirit Realm, taught Pietro a dangerous lesson for rushing ahead, and showed everyone the realm’s growing communities. Afterward, he returned the three stones to Old Tony for safekeeping and gave Li Chuang and Alice permission to travel between the four worlds; he then left with Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet to find a location for the Secret Realm.

• Li Ge returned to the Spirit Realm with his companions and showed them how it had become a haven for Transcendent creatures.
• Pietro rushed toward the Spirit Realm’s boundary, hit its spatial barrier, and was nearly pulled into a rift before Li Ge rescued him.
• Big Wanda told Pietro about her brother’s death, and Li Ge took the group on a tour of the Spirit Realm’s settlements.
• Li Ge took the three stones from the Truth-Seeking Ball box and had Old Tony store them separately in containment devices.
• Big Wanda and Vision left to establish a secret home, while Li Ge let Li Chuang and Alice travel freely between the four worlds.
• Li Ge left Old Tony’s home with Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet to find a suitable place for the Secret Realm.

Li Ge brought Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet to Kamar-Taj to arrange protection for a Secret Realm he planned to place in the Himalayas. After striking open a spatial rift at Mount Everest and sending a sealed sphere through it, he watched an enormous landmass appear within the realm’s barrier as the rift began to heal.

• Li Ge arrived at Kamar-Taj with Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet, and Strange and Master Wong joined them after the sorcerers recognized him.
• Li Ge agreed that Kamar-Taj would protect the Secret Realm in exchange for its sorcerers receiving an extra entry each year.
• Li Ge took the group to Mount Everest, where they paused to admire the view before he explained his ideas about cultivation and rules.
• Li Ge used his power to open a spatial rift and forced a sphere wrapped in Truth-Seeking Balls and sealing runes into it.
• Li Ge removed the sphere’s sealing runes and hurled it deeper into the rift, where the others saw a vast landmass forming inside its barrier.

Li Ge anchored the Secret Realm at the summit of the Himalayas and built an ice crystal tower around its entrance, complete with a statue of himself. Back at Kamar-Taj, Strange revealed that he hoped Li Ge’s power over the Infinity Stones could bring a deceased woman back to life.

• Li Ge anchored the Secret Realm to the Himalayas and enclosed its entrance in an ice crystal tower with a statue holding the Realm’s anchor point.
• Pietro climbed onto the statue and admired it, while Strange and Master Wong hurried everyone back to Kamar-Taj.
• Strange asked whether Li Ge had mastered the power of all six Infinity Stones, and Li Ge said he had replicated six Stones using his own power.
• Strange recounted a relationship between a brilliant surgeon and a female doctor that ended in death, then asked Li Ge if he could bring her back to life.

Li Ge refused Strange’s request to resurrect his girlfriend with his clone, explaining that her death was a spacetime singularity that could not be prevented. He promised that his main body could bring her into the present by creating a substitute to fulfill her destined death, and Strange agreed to wait for him.

• Strange begged Li Ge to resurrect his girlfriend, but Li Ge refused because he was only a weakened clone.
• Li Ge explained to Strange, Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet that the woman’s death was a spacetime singularity that could not be changed or avoided.
• Li Ge said his main body could copy her and bring the real woman into the present while a substitute died in the past to preserve the singularity.
• Wanda and Pietro questioned whether the plan amounted to making someone die in her place, so Li Ge proposed using a soulless puppet instead.
• Strange accepted Li Ge’s proposal and decided to wait for his main body to emerge from seclusion.