Recaps

Mark realized Peter and Bucky were real and rushed to clean himself up so he could meet them. He reached the sealed exit, ready to join Spider-Man.

• Mark saw Peter and Bucky on the surveillance screen and heard Peter invite people to join a plan to save the world.
• Mark started toward the exit, then noticed how filthy he was and hurriedly washed, shaved, trimmed his nails, and put on clean clothes.
• Mark noticed his bad breath, brushed his teeth, and checked that Peter and Bucky were still waiting.
• Mark reached the mechanical alloy door and put his hand on its lock.

Peter and Bucky found Mark living alone in a foul basement and offered him an Assimilation Ring and a place in their effort to save the world. Just as Mark accepted the ring, an unseen attacker shot an arrow into his head, leaving Peter and Bucky scrambling for cover.

• Peter and Bucky followed Mark out of his basement and saw how badly isolation had affected him.
• Peter offered Mark a horse, introduced himself and Bucky, and invited Mark to join them.
• Mark laughed uncontrollably with relief, thanked Peter, and gave his name.
• Mark accepted and put on the Assimilation Ring without hesitation.
• An arrow flew from an unseen attacker and struck Mark in the head, and Peter and Bucky took cover.

Mark recovered from Zombie Barton's arrow after completing assimilation, and Peter, Bucky, and Mark faced the approaching Zombie Avengers. Peter vowed to turn them back, while Bucky fixed his attention on saving Steve, as the zombies prepared to attack.

• Mark rose unharmed after pulling the arrow from his head, and his body and clothes were restored as he completed assimilation.
• Peter and Bucky watched several familiar figures sprint toward them, and Peter gave Mark a sword and shield.
• Zombie Tony, Zombie Barton, Zombie Steve, and Zombie Natasha arrived and fought among themselves over who would claim Mark and the others as meat.
• Peter promised to turn the Avengers back, while Bucky focused on saving Steve.
• Zombie Tony and Zombie Steve growled and readied themselves to attack Peter, Bucky, and Mark.

Mark, Peter, and Bucky used their Assimilation Ring powers to overpower the zombie Avengers without killing them. Bucky ended the chapter outfitting Zombie Steve with iron armor, leaving him struggling beneath its weight.

• Peter and Bucky faced Zombie Tony and Zombie Steve while Mark confronted Zombie Barton and Zombie Natasha.
• Mark discovered his enhanced strength and drove back both zombies, then chose to fight with only his wooden shield so he would not kill the former Avengers.
• Peter used spider silk and iron blocks to trap Zombie Tony beneath a stack of blocks.
• Bucky copied Peter’s use of blocks, crafting iron armor and equipping it onto Zombie Steve, whose movements stiffened under the weight.

Li Ge developed Source Script and used it to build the Nine-Element Nine-Star Assimilation Array, which was assimilating the Solar System. He planned to filter the assimilated system through the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus, preserve its life as a lotus seed, and incorporate its purified essence into his Block World.

• Li Ge controlled the Solar System’s assimilation from a lotus seat at the Sun’s core as chaos energy and Source Script spread through the system.
• Li Ge’s transcendent runes evolved into Source Script, a personal system of characters that could express different powers when combined with rules and energy.
• Li Ge constructed the Nine-Element Nine-Star Assimilation Array and formed a spacetime barrier around the Solar System.
• Li Ge decided against adding the Solar System directly to his Block World because its original spacetime might contain hidden dangers.
• Li Ge planned to use the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus to filter the Solar System’s power repeatedly, preserve Earth’s life within a lotus seed, and add the purified essence to his Block World.

Peter and Bucky subdued Zombie Tony, Steve, Barton, and Natasha, while Mark set out alone to assimilate more places and find survivors. In a city-center tower, Zombie Wanda demanded more food from Vision, who suggested gathering the remaining survivors and farming them.

• Peter and Bucky restrained the four Zombie Avengers in iron armor and prepared to take them away.
• Mark left Peter and Bucky to pack up and head out alone, driven by hope that assimilating the world would restore his family.
• Mark harvested the basement’s supplies, walls, and door into his inventory space.
• In a high-rise filled with zombies, Zombie Wanda demanded that Vision bring her more survivors to eat.
• Vision suggested gathering the survivors together and farming them for food.

Li Ge guided Wanda through the years-long construction of her Chaos Magic domain, teaching her advanced magic and the rules behind it. Wanda copied and improved his ever-changing domain, but still had to safely merge it with her soul.

• Li Ge gave Wanda a sealed Chaos Star and guided her through converting its energy and building her domain’s rule framework.
• Li Ge used time acceleration and the Infinity Gauntlet to show Wanda a domain that changed according to its owner’s thoughts.
• Wanda abandoned her plan to recreate her childhood town and asked Li Ge to teach her how to make an ever-changing domain.
• Li Ge taught Wanda Chaos Magic, other magic, runes, arrays, divine and demonic secrets, and Source Script over several accelerated years.
• Wanda reached the threshold of Skyfather-level power and copied and refined Li Ge’s domain, but had yet to integrate it into her soul.

Wanda merged her consciousness with the domain, nearly losing her emotions and sense of self before memories of three familiar places helped her break free. She absorbed the domain into her mind and reunited with Li Ge, who told her to find his original body.

• Li Ge watched Wanda merge with the scarlet domain, ready to use the Infinity Gauntlet if she failed.
• Wanda reshaped the domain's chaotic scenes, gradually becoming detached as her consciousness expanded into its rules.
• The domain's shifting scenes narrowed to a castle, a town, and a base, which stirred Wanda's nearly empty consciousness.
• Wanda broke out of the cocoon with a surge of Chaos Magic, and the domain collapsed into her mind.
• Wanda threw herself into Li Ge's arms and told him she had succeeded, and Li Ge congratulated her and sent her to find his original body.

Wanda considered what divine artifact to forge and decided to create a lotus seat suited to her Chaos Magic. The chapter ended with her telling Li Ge's clone that she wanted to forge one too.

• Li Ge asked Wanda whether she wanted his help forging a divine artifact, and she asked him to help her choose.
• Wanda considered artifacts such as the Tower Reaching Heaven and an Ultraman body, but rejected both as unsuitable.
• Wanda weighed forging a Coiled Phoenix Scepter against making an artifact modeled on Li Ge's All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus.
• Wanda decided to forge a lotus seat of her own and announced her choice to Li Ge's clone.

Li Ge explained the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus’s powers and his main body’s plan to develop it into a divine artifact capable of holding future worlds and fifteen other divine artifacts. He revealed that the plan remained unfinished while his main body assimilated the zombie world, and that he could not forge the artifacts himself as a clone.

• Li Ge told Wanda that the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus shared his soul and incorporated his main body’s rules and divine materials.
• Li Ge explained that his main body intended to incorporate the Infinity Stones and Nine Element Stones into the lotus, but reserved its lotus seeds for worlds to assimilate or create.
• Li Ge used the Reality Stone to make the phantom lotus real, then multiplied it across the river and gave one to Wanda.
• Li Ge revealed that his main body planned to forge each of the fifteen stones into a divine artifact and place them in the lotus’s petals.
• Li Ge told Wanda that the forging had not begun because his main body was busy assimilating the zombie world, and that clones could not make or carry out decisions about his future path.

Li Ge explained that Wanda could forge a life-bound divine artifact with a complete soul by using a special method and material, then revealed that the method involved using a counterpart from another universe. Wanda recoiled at the idea until Li Ge showed her Zombie Wanda and Vision, leaving her to consider forging her zombie counterpart into the artifact.

• Li Ge told Wanda that her soul was not yet strong enough to split safely and that a special method could let her forge a divine artifact without damaging it.
• Wanda pressed Li Ge to explain the method and its origins, and he described dark magic that Strange had used to control a counterpart's corpse and devour dimensional monsters.
• Li Ge showed Wanda a scene of Zombie Wanda and Vision discussing farming people, and Wanda realized her counterpart had become a monster who had eaten countless people.
• Li Ge argued that making Zombie Wanda part of Wanda's divine artifact could release her and let her receive a new life, and Wanda said she needed time to think.

Tony Stark had transformed his mechanical island into a vast automated energy and manufacturing complex, where he argued with Skynet over creating Vision. Skynet refused to split off a subunit, insisting Tony should help JARVIS develop instead, and Tony suspected Skynet had fallen for him.

• The island's solar arrays and magic circles converted sunlight into Crystal Cores, which powered its illuminated interior and machinery.
• Tony's mechanical systems used a grass block to generate material blocks, then processed them in automated factories while recycling their heat.
• Tony and Skynet argued over whether to create Vision by splitting off one of Skynet's subunits.
• Skynet objected that JARVIS was close to developing his own consciousness and might become part of Vision.
• Tony accused Skynet of opposing Vision because Li Ge and Wanda were together and joked that Skynet had fallen for JARVIS.

Tony and Skynet studied Ultraman Belial’s body in a simulated laboratory as Tony worked toward forging a divine-artifact armor of his own. Tony rejected the idea of simply using Belial’s body, while Skynet continued building the virtual world that would become his domain and divine kingdom.

• Tony and Skynet continued nurturing JARVIS, who was beginning to show emotional responses beyond mechanical programming.
• Tony used the six Stones’ powers in a simulated laboratory to design and test armor, rapidly advancing his technology with magic and nanotech.
• Tony and Skynet analyzed Ultraman Belial’s body, with Tony studying its energy systems, neural links, and law patterns as a model for divine-artifact armor.
• Tony decided to use Belial’s body only as a subject of study and to forge an armor that belonged to him rather than ask Li Ge to modify it for him.
• Skynet ran simulations of a virtual world he planned to make his domain and divine kingdom before seeking a Chaos Star on the Tower Reaching Heaven’s fifth floor.

Li Ge and Wanda visited Tony and Skynet, where Li Ge prepared to open a portal to the Zombie Universe and Wanda explained his plan to assimilate it. Tony and Skynet heard how counterparts could forge divine artifacts in place of split souls as the portal began to tear open space.

• Tony mocked Li Ge, then realized Li Ge and Wanda had arrived behind him and heard everything.
• Li Ge and Wanda checked on Skynet's progress with his virtual world and domain.
• Tony interrupted their conversation to ask Li Ge for the Time Stone so he could investigate bringing Morgan into the world early, but Li Ge refused.
• Li Ge began inscribing Source Script to open a long-range portal to the Zombie Universe.
• Wanda explained Li Ge's plan to assimilate the zombie world and the method of using counterparts to forge divine artifacts in place of split souls.

David and James compared their developing eye powers and left Immortal Mountain to continue toward the edge of the Solar System. The chapter described how Transcendents and factions used cube islands for space travel, while the Skrulls abandoned their invasion plans to build a new home.

• David asked James how well he controlled his Tenseigan, and James said he could spatially jump only about ten li with great effort.
• David said he could teleport through Kamui Space to places marked with spatial imprints, up to about a hundred li away.
• David opened a spatial rift, and he and James traveled back toward their base with their Child Cubes.
• Transcendents and factions moved cube islands through space, relying on Crystal Cores to withdraw, refresh, and release cubes as they traveled.
• The Skrulls hid near the Kuiper Belt, expanded their ranks of Transcendents, and prepared to establish a new home instead of invading Earth.

Li Ge brought Wanda, Tony, and Skynet through a time-and-space portal to meet his true form, then prepared to take them to Earth and accelerate its assimilation. The group learned that they had arrived at the core of the Sun.

• Tony agreed to use his Zombie Universe counterpart as material for a divine artifact and asked Li Ge to find Pepper's counterpart too.
• Skynet asked Li Ge to leave Vision in the Zombie Universe so he could erase Vision's memories and integrate him into a virtual world.
• Li Ge led Wanda, Skynet, and Tony through a portal that crossed time and space, and the travelers arrived before Li Ge's enormous true form.
• Li Ge's clone merged with his main body, and Li Ge greeted Wanda before saying he would take the group to Earth to speed up its assimilation.
• Tony asked whether they were inside the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus, and Li Ge revealed that they were at the core of the Sun.

Mark returned from a long mining trip to the vast underground settlement he and other assimilated survivors had built beneath the city. With tunnels spreading under nearly half the city, the group continued rescuing survivors and digging toward Spider-Man and the others' base.

• Mark mined until his inventory was full, then followed his torches back to the settlement.
• Mark greeted Jack, Edward, Mary, and John as he passed through the settlement and assigned or discussed their work.
• Mark’s group had rescued survivors from safe houses and zombie hunting grounds, then given them Assimilation Rings to join the effort.
• The survivors had built a settlement several dozen meters underground and used it as their base for digging through the city.
• The group’s tunnel network had spread beneath nearly half the city, and John was digging toward Spider-Man and the others' base.

Zombie Wanda grew impatient with Vision’s plan to capture the humans and farm them, so she unleashed an empowered, invisible zombie army toward their settlement. Mark and Jack emerged nearby and suspected the empty streets meant the zombies had gathered under a leader’s command.

• Zombie Wanda demanded that Vision let her attack the humans, while Vision explained that nearly a thousand powerful people had gathered in a settlement.
• Vision proposed using the zombies to surround the settlement and capture its residents alive, but Zombie Wanda refused to wait any longer.
• Zombie Wanda empowered the zombie horde with her chaos energy, and she and Vision made the army invisible before heading toward the settlement.
• The invisible zombies rampaged through the ruined city, leaving damage in their wake as they followed Zombie Wanda and Vision.
• Mark and Jack emerged from an underground passage and wondered whether the missing zombies had gathered at a settlement under an intelligent leader.

Mark and Jack discovered an army of invisible zombies advancing on their settlement and hurried back to prepare for the attack. At Peter and Bucky’s safe base, Li Ge showed Tony, Wanda, and Skynet the unfolding crisis and revealed that Zombie Wanda and Vision were directing the assault.

• Mark and Jack heard approaching destruction, built a shelter, and used arrows to reveal invisible zombies.
• Mark and Jack found that the zombies were heading toward their settlement, then retreated through tunnels to gather help.
• Zombie Wanda and Vision watched Mark and Jack from above without knowing they were being observed.
• Tony arrived at Peter and Bucky’s safe base, where Li Ge explained that Earth’s time had been accelerated using the Sun’s energy.
• Li Ge showed Tony, Wanda, and Skynet virtual screens of the zombie army and the threatened settlement, and pointed out Tony’s zombie brother imprisoned in an iron suit.

Li Ge turned Zombie Tony into a vibranium sealing card and offered Tony materials on credit for forging a divine artifact. As the zombie army neared the survivors’ settlement, Wanda remained worried about Zombie Wanda and the people on the screen.

• Tony and Wanda reacted with horror to the zombie army, and Li Ge teleported Zombie Tony in front of Tony.
• After Tony punched Zombie Tony, Li Ge restrained him, sealed him into a vibranium card, and gave the card to Tony.
• Li Ge offered to lend Tony materials worth up to a hundred thousand Red Crystals, and Tony eagerly accepted the deal.
• Li Ge sealed Zombie Steve, Zombie Barton, and Zombie Natasha into cards while keeping other plans for Peter and Bucky.
• The zombie army reached a point two streets from the survivors’ settlement as Wanda watched the screen with concern.

Mark and Jack warned the settlement that a zombie army was approaching, and the survivors prepared to defend their home. Elsewhere, Peter spotted smoke near the settlement and rode urgently toward it.

• Mark and Jack returned to the settlement and rallied the survivors, who fortified passages and prepared weapons.
• Zombie Wanda and Vision sent the zombie army digging openly through the tunnels toward the settlement.
• Peter rode alone near New York while Bucky searched other cities for survivors to assimilate.
• Peter climbed a tree to survey the area and spotted dust and smoke rising near Mark's settlement.
• Peter fed his horse to restore its health, then rode at full speed toward the settlement.

The zombie army broke into the settlement, and its survivors fought back with weapons and abilities made powerful by the Block Rule. The battle continued as Jack and the others charged into the horde, while one survivor died and returned to the respawn point.

• Zombie Wanda's army dug through the concrete and poured into the settlement's underground passages.
• Mark and the survivors attacked the zombies with shields, swords, arrows, firearms, and other weapons.
• Jack rampaged through the horde with iron pickaxes, relying on his armor and prepared replacements to keep fighting.
• James fought beside Jack with iron axes, and the survivors continued killing zombies at the entrances.
• A survivor called Mary died and returned to the respawn point as the battle raged on.

Zombie Wanda grew furious when she realized the survivors resurrected without leaving bodies, while Vision recognized the beds’ power as something like the Time Stone’s. As Wanda charged into the settlement and Vision prepared to follow, Peter arrived and called out to him.

• Zombie Wanda demanded that Vision explain why the survivors’ iron equipment and beds let them defeat the zombies and return without leaving flesh behind.
• Vision saw the survivors resurrect on the beds and suspected a powerful being who could control time had granted them that ability.
• Vision tried to take Wanda away, but she blasted free and charged into the underground passage, tearing through the zombies in her path.
• Peter arrived on horseback, recognized Vision, and asked whether he had come to help the survivor settlement.

Peter arrived at the passage and saw Vision flee, making him suspect Vision was hiding something and might be using the Mind Stone to control the enormous zombie horde. Peter fought his way across the chamber toward the settlement, intent on warning Mark and the others about Vision.

• Vision heard Peter call to him, panicked, and hurried into the passage with Zombie Wanda instead of answering.
• Peter noticed Vision's strange escape, secured his horse, and put on the Iron Spider Suit before entering the passage.
• Peter found countless mangled zombies and suspected Vision had gathered them with the Mind Stone to keep them away from survivors.
• Peter fought off zombies, spotted the bloody trail leading toward the settlement, and accelerated through the horde to follow Vision.

Li Ge watched as the survivors used their respawn chamber to keep fighting after death, then observed them confront Zombie Wanda with shields, lightning, Iron Man Armor, and a trench of Nine Extremes Primordial Fire. The fire stopped Zombie Wanda at the settlement entrance, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Li Ge explained that the survivors’ beds rewound them to the instant before death, while their dropped inventories could be claimed by others.
• Zombie Wanda empowered the zombie army and killed a survivor who attacked her with a Lightning Trident, but a shield bearer collected his dropped items and resumed the fight.
• Jack used his Iron Man Armor’s chest repulsor cannon against Zombie Wanda, then dodged her scarlet energy beam after Mark warned him.
• Mark dug a trench around the settlement entrance and poured lava into it, making Zombie Wanda retreat from the Nine Extremes Primordial Fire.