Recaps

Human Way used the Chaos Redstone to spread Li Ge’s power across Knowhere and began replacing its sky, leaving the inhabitants convinced an overwhelming god had arrived. In Asgard, Li Ge told everyone not to disturb him, while Wanda took comfort from Natasha and went to see the divine artifact being forged for her on Venus.

• Human Way formed a reddish-gray sun and a grass-block pupil, then poured his mental power into the Chaos Redstone to spread Li Ge’s influence across Knowhere.
• Human Way sat on a crimson lotus platform as the sky changed, and people throughout Knowhere reacted with shock and fear to the being they called Immortal.
• Li Ge redirected his will to Human Way and warned everyone in Asgard not to disturb him, telling Wanda that his work was important but good.
• Wanda worried that she was too weak to help Li Ge, and Natasha comforted her by pointing out how much he cared for her.
• Wanda resolved to keep studying and flew toward Venus to see her lotus platform, while Tony, Logan, and Scott worked beneath it.

Li Ge examined Knowhere’s place in the multiverse’s cycle and discovered that its power recycled energy from erased timelines. He considered whether taking control would bind him there, then decided he could establish an organization to manage Knowhere while he stayed to benefit from it.

• Li Ge transformed into his more powerful form and used Chaos Power to examine Knowhere and its connection to the timelines.
• Li Ge discovered that the Time Variance Authority helped regulate broken timelines, while Knowhere decomposed their remnants and returned energy to the multiverse.
• Li Ge realized Knowhere’s space-time power suited his chaos abilities and suspected the One Above All might be guiding him toward controlling it.
• Li Ge hesitated to take direct control because he still hoped to travel across worlds and return to his original one.
• Li Ge decided he could imitate the Time Variance Authority by creating an organization to manage Knowhere while he remained there to gain its benefits.

Li Ge enclosed an ordinary planet-sized territory in Knowhere and began remodeling it, while survivors watched in alarm as energy lotus pedestals transformed the ground. Sabretooth Victor discovered that touching a pedestal strengthened him, prompting the survivors to rush for more.

• Li Ge formed an energy barrier around his territory, directed timeline remnants to its edges, and left passages connecting it to the outside.
• Survivors feared Li Ge’s changes and some began to flee, but stopped to watch as timeline remnants and hazards were separated along the barrier.
• Energy lotus pedestals landed and sent ripples through the ground, restructuring its matter and leaving stones and sand unusually vivid.
• Sabretooth Victor touched a lotus pedestal and felt his body absorb its energy and grow stronger.
• Victor charged toward another pedestal, and the other survivors rushed to collect them, abandoning their usual duties and fears.

Li Ge scattered energy lotus platforms across his territory in Knowhere, strengthening the survivors while surveying the region and its inhabitants. Meanwhile, Loki captured Cassandra and considered whether Li Ge might be destined to take his place; Li Ge then turned to a pile of blood-filled glass tubes.

• Li Ge's energy lotus platforms empowered survivors across his territory, though each person could absorb only a limited amount.
• Li Ge surveyed the territory and found fewer than a million survivors, most of them Mutants, with no one stronger than the Domain Realm.
• Loki captured Cassandra after catching her secretly investigating Mr. Paradox's location, and decided to hand her over to Li Ge instead of erasing her.
• Loki observed Li Ge transforming part of Knowhere and wondered whether he was building a paradise and might become the next Loki.
• Li Ge set aside his thoughts about Cassandra and took out glass tubes of blood that he had frozen with the power of time.

Li Ge refined blood collected from elite Mutants into a single drop of pure liquid, then opened a rift revealing the Ten Domains and the layers of reality within it. The survivors below mistook the rift for Li Ge’s divine kingdom as they felt its pressure and were drawn to its power.

• Li Ge examined tubes of Mutant blood collected by Erik and the others, then destroyed the tubes while preserving the blood.
• Li Ge studied the blood’s genes and used the Eight Trigrams Furnace and Nine Extremes Primordial Fire to refine it into a jade-white drop of essence.
• Li Ge infused the drop with manifestation power and chaos energy, causing it and the furnace to expand until the furnace shone like a second sun.
• Li Ge opened a vast spatial rift that revealed ten layers of heaven and earth, from the Samsara Realm to the Block World.
• The survivors felt the rift’s immense pressure and attraction, and concluded that it showed Li Ge’s divine kingdom.

Li Ge refined gene fusion and diverse materials in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, forging them into the embryonic form of a magnificent temple. As the people below watched the divine artifact take shape, his energy lotus platforms continued transforming the desolate land into a green territory threaded with new rivers.

• Li Ge cut a piece of refined gene fusion and stored it in the Block World, resolving to use it as a material and develop it into a source of power called the Gift of the God of Mutants.
• Li Ge closed the spatial rift and poured Nine Extremes Primordial Fire into the Eight Trigrams Furnace to refine the gene fusion with the gathered materials and rules.
• The furnace’s golden-red light warmed the land and faintly strengthened people below, while Li Ge increased the spread of his energy lotus platforms.
• Li Ge compressed and shaped the molten mixture, then used chaos-energy tools to forge and carve it into the thousand-meter-tall embryonic form of a temple.
• People watched the celestial phenomena and concluded that Li Ge was forging a divine artifact, while he noticed green growth and forming rivers below.

Tiga Dark continued draining the Dark Dimension while evading Dormammu, and the Demon Realm sent converted Chaos Redstone to Li Ge’s Block World. In Hell, Mephisto uncovered the Heavenly Dao’s scattered lord opportunities and began searching for them, setting the stage for the demons to pursue their power.

• Tiga Dark fought Dormammu for the fifth time, escaped again, and kept the Demon Realm moving through the Dark Dimension to consume its energy.
• Tiga Dark recovered from his injuries while the Demon Realm converted over a million Chaos Redstone and transmitted most of it to Li Ge’s Block World.
• Mephisto tested the fake Pietro by trying to transform him into a demon, but the illusion dissolved and left a mocking projection of Li Ge.
• Mephisto raged over the deception, then discovered demons secretly assimilating territory and learned about the lord opportunities and their link between power and territory size.
• Mephisto sent high-level demons searching for the scattered opportunities, while the Heavenly Dao welcomed the chance that Hell’s demons would covet them.

Three Stranges and three Christines fought monsters in a Demon Realm canyon, then gathered to sort their loot and discuss Li Ge’s power of blocks. The main-world Strange agreed to ask Li Ge to grant the power to the other Christines as well.

• Three Stranges used spells and close combat to defeat the monsters filling the canyon.
• Three Christines emerged from a hidden lounge and joined the Stranges to sort their loot.
• The main-world Strange asked Christine whether she wanted him to request the power of blocks from Li Ge.
• The Strange who had met Li Ge in the Dark Dimension asked the main-world Strange to request the power for his Christine too.
• The Endgame World's Christine praised the power of blocks, and both Stranges described the strength and cost of Li Ge’s believers.

Strange and Carol Danvers fought near the Milky Way’s central black hole after Carol suspected he planned to endanger the galaxy. Strange insisted he only wanted to place a marker, but Carol remained unconvinced and questioned why he thought Earth needed rebuilding.

• The chapter described how Strange, Christine, and powerful figures from several Li Ge-connected worlds increasingly traveled between universes and developed ways to cross timelines.
• Li Ge reflected that Marvel’s fragile spacetime had made it unusually easy for him to gain power and manipulate space and time.
• In the Zombie World, Strange, transformed into Ultraman, battled Carol Danvers near the Milky Way’s central black hole.
• Strange told Carol he only wanted to place a marker beside the black hole and urged her to return to Earth to help rebuild it.
• Carol refused to let Strange approach the black hole and said Earth seemed fine because her pager had not contacted her.

Strange confronted Carol Danvers over her absence during Earth's zombie catastrophe and explained how Li Ge had saved the planet. Carol accepted that Strange could search for black holes but vowed to stop Li Ge if he threatened the universe, then set off for Earth.

• Strange recalled how zombified Tony and the others ambushed Nick Fury, who was later abandoned, imprisoned by Strange, and sealed in a card by Li Ge.
• Angry at Carol Danvers for neglecting Earth, Strange rebuked her and began recounting the zombie outbreak.
• Strange described how the virus collapsed society and how Li Ge took control of the Solar System, promising to restore the dead and care for Earth's people.
• Carol Danvers listened in guilty silence, then agreed not to interfere with Strange's search for black holes but warned that she would stop Li Ge if he threatened the universe.
• Carol Danvers flew toward Earth to verify Strange's account, and Strange hoped Li Ge would not confront her.

Thanos monitored Li Ge’s growing power and considered using the Soul Stone to influence him, unaware of Li Ge’s experience with Infinity Stones and alternate versions of Thanos. Meanwhile, Skrulls rebuilt their home in the Kuiper Belt and began gathering their people there, drawing the attention of the Kree Empire and other powers to the Solar System.

• Thanos concluded that Li Ge had become powerful enough to create heaven and earth, and secretly considered influencing his thinking with the Soul Stone.
• Thanos remained unaware that Li Ge had collected and replicated the Infinity Stones and had already dealt with another version of him.
• The Skrulls rebuilt a home on a Cube Continent among the Kuiper Belt asteroids and largely stopped operating on Earth.
• The Skrulls’ concealment from Nick Fury strained their relationship, while Transcendents increasingly became able to detect Skrulls on Earth.
• Skrulls across the universe began traveling in small groups toward the Solar System to rebuild their empire.
• The Kree Empire and other powers noticed the Skrulls’ movements and deduced that the Solar System was their destination.

The Supreme Intelligence sent Ronan to investigate why the surviving Skrulls were gathering near Terra and ordered him to destroy them if the chance arose. Ronan agreed to observe Terra rather than conquer it, though he still harbored ambitions toward the planet.

• The universe’s powers looked down on the weakened Skrulls, who had abandoned plans to take over Earth and settled into life in the Tower Reaching Heaven and the Demon Realm.
• On Hala, the Supreme Intelligence told Ronan that Terra had attracted powerful beings and that the surviving Skrulls were heading toward its star system.
• The Supreme Intelligence ordered Ronan to investigate the changes on Terra and eliminate the Skrulls if the opportunity arose.
• Ronan asked whether he should conquer Terra, but the Supreme Intelligence warned him about hidden powers, Carol Danvers, and Asgard’s claim to the planet.
• Ronan agreed to destroy the Skrulls and carefully observe Terra, while the Supreme Intelligence recognized that he still wanted the planet.

Nick Fury confronted Talos and the Skrulls after learning they planned to rebuild their empire in the Solar System. He feared their presence would expose Earth and the secrets Li Ge had left behind to other civilizations.

• Nick Fury met with Talos and several Skrulls at a secret base, with Sandman standing guard behind him.
• The chapter recounted how Nick Fury recruited Sandman after S.H.I.E.L.D. cured his daughter, then strengthened the agency’s security and supernatural response forces.
• A spy Nick Fury had placed among the Skrulls alerted him that they had gathered survivors across the universe to reestablish the Skrull Empire in the Solar System.
• Nick Fury worried that conflict with the Skrulls would draw alien civilizations to Earth and expose the Tower Reaching Heaven, Block Island, and the Demon Realm.
• Nick Fury blamed the Skrulls for the danger and stared at Talos with growing regret over having allowed Skrull refugees onto Earth.

Nick Fury confronted Talos over the Skrulls’ plan to rebuild an empire in the Solar System, warning that it would draw dangerous attention to Earth and the Path to Godhood. Talos resolved to seek Nick Fury’s help, but the chapter ended as the Skrulls braced themselves for a humiliating sacrifice.

• Nick Fury fed his black cat another costly red Crystal Core while facing Talos and the Skrulls.
• Nick Fury accused Talos of hiding how many Skrulls had come to Earth and warned that rebuilding their empire would endanger Earth and the Solar System.
• Talos acknowledged the danger posed by the Path to Godhood and recognized that the Skrulls could not afford to make Earth or Immortal their enemies.
• Talos asked Nick Fury for help, while the other Skrulls showed signs of humiliation, helplessness, and anticipation.

Talos asked Nick Fury to contact Earth’s leaders so the Skrulls could offer their knowledge and seek permission to rebuild their empire in the Solar System. He proposed binding the Skrulls to guard the Solar System’s edge forever through a contract witnessed by Li Ge, and Nick agreed to help.

• Talos asked Nick Fury whether they were friends, and Fury affirmed that Talos had always been his best friend.
• Talos asked Fury to contact every country’s leaders, especially the permanent five, and said the Skrulls would share all their knowledge.
• Talos offered for the Skrulls to swear an oath and sign a universe-protected contract to guard the Solar System’s edge forever if Earth accepted their empire’s return and defended them.
• Nick Fury realized the Skrulls were staking their civilization on the agreement and believed Li Ge could make the contract binding.
• Nick Fury agreed to help Talos contact Earth’s leaders.

Nick Fury agreed to help Talos negotiate an alliance between the Skrulls and Earth, while the Skrulls prepared to seek Li Ge’s approval through Arale. In Knowhere, Li Ge finished forging the divine hall as his territory continued to flourish and attract survivors.

• Talos told Nick Fury that he would contact Bishop Arale directly and ask Li Ge to approve the Skrulls’ request.
• Nick Fury agreed to arrange negotiations between the Skrulls and Earth’s governments, then left with Sandman to contact politicians.
• Li Ge’s territory in Knowhere transformed into fertile land, and survivors inside it began building homes while others watched or approached.
• The divine hall’s final pattern connected, its markings lit up, and Li Ge drew the completed hall into his palm.

Li Ge surveyed the world he had remade with his Block Rule and considered how it worked alongside his Chaos Rule. Seeing the people below revere him, he transformed his divine form into a magnificent sun in their sky.

• Li Ge observed people living off the grassland, pond, animals, crops, and trees his Block Rule had created, all through ordinary means.
• Li Ge reflected that his creations differed fundamentally from real-world matter and isolated transformed places from the rules of the real world.
• Li Ge decided not to grant block power to the people of Knowhere because doing so would strain his Block Rule's reserves.
• Li Ge considered how the Block Rule and Chaos Rule complemented each other, with the Block Rule gathering possibilities and the Chaos Rule integrating them.
• Li Ge noticed the people's reverence and faith, then shaped his divine rings, stars, lotus seat, and demon god true form into a vast divine statue that became the sky's only sun.

Li Ge completed the Divine Soldiers and ordered them to gather transcendent powers, rule information, and survivors throughout Knowhere. He planned to leave Human Way in control and return to the Zombie World, but the mental strain of his work left him resting on his throne.

• Knowhere’s residents saw the powers represented by Li Ge’s divine halo and reacted with awe, fear, and hope.
• Hundreds of Divine Soldiers emerged from the temple’s portals, formed ranks, and bowed before Li Ge.
• Li Ge inspected the Divine Soldiers and found them stronger than he had expected, with each possessing divine-level power.
• Li Ge commanded the Divine Soldiers to collect transcendent powers and information from broken timelines and gather survivors to trade with him.
• The Divine Soldiers flew out across Knowhere as the Divine Weapon Hall continued forging more of them.
• Li Ge decided to leave Human Way in control and return to the Zombie World, then closed his eyes to recover from the mental strain.

Li Ge discovered that five years had passed in the Solar System while he was away in Knowhere, explaining why Earth's assimilation had advanced to 0.05 percent. He surveyed the dramatic changes wrought by Earth's people and left the assimilation effort still underway.

• Li Ge checked Earth's assimilation rate and was surprised to find it had reached 0.05 percent, far faster than he expected.
• Li Ge searched Human Way's memories and realized he had spent five years in Asgard while time accelerated throughout the Solar System.
• Li Ge examined Earth and saw floating islands, transformed landscapes, powerful inhabitants, and roads stretching across the oceans.
• Li Ge learned that assimilation had triggered disasters such as tsunamis, eruptions, earthquakes, fires, landslides, and floods, but people revived after dying and continued their work.
• Earth's people grew more eager to face dangerous locations and natural disasters as they continued assimilating the planet.

Li Ge found that most people had moved on from their grief and were assimilating Earth less urgently, so he planned to draw the dead back into the present as souls to motivate their loved ones. He then checked on Wanda, who had spent five years cultivating a massive lotus platform and had advanced close to the next level of power.

• Li Ge noticed that Earth’s assimilation had slowed as people started new lives, while some still doubted he could resurrect the dead.
• Li Ge decided to pull the souls of those who had died on Earth into the present and require greater effort toward assimilation for true resurrection.
• Li Ge used his contracts and the assimilation formation to locate Wanda and project scenes of her and the others into the great hall.
• Li Ge saw that Wanda had cultivated a vast nine-colored lotus platform on Venus using the power of the nine Elemental Stars divine artifacts.
• Li Ge assessed that Wanda had advanced from an infant in the domain realm to near its peak and had taken half a step into the next level.

Li Ge reviewed how the higher stages of his Path to Godhood transformed cultivators and explained the risks and requirements of reaching the Domain Realm. Wanda remained the only Domain Realm cultivator, while Tony was the closest among the newcomers to reaching it.

• Li Ge observed how Wanda's evolution had changed her appearance and bearing over the five years.
• Li Ge explained how cultivators advanced through the Perfect Body, Transcendent, Divine Power, and Domain Realms, including the dangers of failing to build a domain.
• Li Ge noted that the Domain Realm counted as godhood by the universe's standards and compared Thor's abilities to its requirements.
• Li Ge planned to create the next realm after assimilating Zombie World's Solar System and kept unqualified cultivators from entering the Tower Reaching Heaven's fifth floor.
• Li Ge assessed the newcomers' progress and concluded that Tony was nearest to the Domain Realm because his scientific knowledge gave him an advantage in understanding rules.

Li Ge checked on the people training across the planets and intensified the monsters pursuing Tony on the Moon. The others continued honing their abilities, bodies, and wills in dangerous environments.

• Li Ge watched Tony flee a manifested Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade on the Moon, then increased the Yin Element Stone's output and made the pursuing monsters faster.
• Tony dodged a doglike monster, kicked it into the horde, and stopped running to fight the creatures.
• Li Ge found Peter, Gwen Stacy, and Harry facing monsters and eerie spaces on the Moon, while Iceman Bobby and Mary Jane trained on Mercury.
• Ororo trained with lightning on Uranus, and Cyclops Scott refined his Demon True Form and optic blasts on Mars.
• Logan, Steve, Coulson, Natasha, and Barton trained and fought on Saturn, while Jean Grey and Cassie practiced creation and destruction within the God Tree's space-time.
• Pepper used Telekinesis to control particles and gases on Neptune as Kitty Pryde stood ready to phase them away from danger.

Li Ge observed how his parents cared for the immortal palace and built a technological pantheon, while Skynet pursued a different path as a creator of digital worlds. The chapter left Skynet developing a city-sized quantum computer cluster as the first step toward building a celestial-scale computer artifact.

• Li Ge saw Li Chuang and Alice exploring and maintaining the immortal palace, which Li Ge had moved to the Sun.
• Li Ge recognized that his parents had become rulers of a technological pantheon and had already created technological angels on the Moon.
• Skynet stayed atop K'un-Lun and built a city-sized quantum computer cluster to develop his own digital world.
• Human Way advised Skynet to build a celestial-scale supercomputer as a bonded divine artifact, and Skynet used the K'un-Lun spatial bubble as his laboratory.

Li Ge lent Skynet the Mind Stone to help him develop his celestial-class computer, then continued strengthening the Solar System’s Assimilation Array. Arale’s call reached him, and he connected through his divine statue while Talos waited nervously in the temple.

• Li Ge watched Skynet reverse-engineer the birth of Source Script and decided to let him forge his own bonded divine artifact.
• Li Ge retrieved a vibranium box containing the Mind Stone and lent it to Skynet, who welcomed the gift with delight.
• Li Ge resumed refining the Assimilation Array and the nine Elemental Stars divine artifacts while planning to summon back the souls of the dead.
• Arale contacted Li Ge and complained that he had neglected her, but Li Ge interrupted her to ask why she had called and whether it involved Talos.
• Li Ge entered the divine statue in the central temple, while Talos lowered his head under its suddenly watchful gaze and waited for Arale’s response.

Talos and the Skrulls weighed how to secure a lasting place on Li Ge’s Path to Godhood while protecting their civilization. After considering several possible strategies, they unanimously chose to seek Earth’s approval and Li Ge’s recognition by laying their cards on the table.

• Arale sensed Li Ge’s embarrassment through their contract and secretly felt hopeful, while Talos anxiously watched her reaction and prayed for Li Ge’s mercy.
• Talos reflected on the Skrulls’ fear that Li Ge or Earth’s factions might eventually reject them, and on his duty to protect their civilization.
• Talos and the Skrulls gathered their scattered groups in a communications channel and debated their future after learning about the Path to Godhood and Li Ge’s power.
• The Skrulls considered leaving the Solar System, secretly rebuilding their empire there, or seeking acceptance from Earth and Li Ge; they also discussed provoking a universal struggle over the Path.
• After simulations showed that provoking other civilizations could lead Li Ge to erase the Skrulls, they unanimously chose to seek Earth’s tacit approval and Li Ge’s personal recognition, keeping departure or concealment as fallback options.