Recaps

Loki accepted Li Ge’s offer to exchange fifteen Rule Stones for the Zombie World’s unstable timeline, believing Li Ge mainly wanted its powerless Infinity Stones as materials for divine artifacts. Li Ge saw the trade as a chance to learn how to control tangible timelines and use them for far greater purposes.

• Loki considered whether to trade the Zombie World’s timeline and concluded that handing it over would be easier than risking Li Ge taking it by force.
• Loki reasoned that the timeline was already collapsing and that the Infinity Stones from destroyed universes would be safer in Li Ge’s hands, then accepted the exchange.
• Li Ge judged that his fifteen Rule Stones were worth more than the timeline but reconsidered after remembering Loki’s tangible green timelines.
• Li Ge imagined using the block and chaos rules to assimilate and control timelines, potentially replicating them or forging universe-level artifacts.
• Li Ge decided the trade could be worthwhile and planned to ask Loki to include the abandoned Infinity Stones, expecting Loki to mistake them for his main objective.

Li Ge and Loki struck a deal to exchange fifteen Rule Stones for the Zombie World's timeline and every empty Infinity Stone shell in the Time Variance Authority. Loki stabilized the timeline and sent Li Ge a gift, which turned out to be Cassandra, frozen in spacetime.

• Li Ge asked Loki to prepare the Zombie World's timeline as sturdy, portable vines, and Loki agreed while demanding fifteen full-strength Rule Stones in exchange for the timeline and all the empty Infinity Stone shells.
• Loki used divine power to slow the timeline's collapse, and Li Ge confirmed the change through Animal Path Cloning before promising to make the stones.
• Loki asked Li Ge to open a gap in spacetime so he could deliver a gift and see the concealed Solar System, but Li Ge declined and told him to send it to Knowhere instead.
• Loki teleported the gift to Human Way, who brought it into the Divine Weapon Hall and recognized Cassandra frozen in spacetime as Loki's captive.

Li Ge paused the Solar System’s assimilation to condense fifteen new Rule Stones for his planned trade with Loki, and asked Wanda to oversee the array. After sharing a kiss, he marked Wanda with an imprint and connected her consciousness to the array’s operational core.

• Li Ge decided to pause assimilating the Solar System and condense fifteen new Rule Stones to trade with Loki.
• Li Ge asked Wanda to control the Assimilation Array while he worked, and Wanda agreed to keep it running steadily.
• Li Ge kissed Wanda, and they discussed waiting until their powers were closer in strength before pursuing dual cultivation.
• Li Ge placed an All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus mark between Wanda’s brows and guided her consciousness into the array’s operational core.

Li Ge learned that the main world faced a Skrull threat and brought the cultivators back from the Infinity Star Divine Artifacts to respond. He sent them through a spacetime passage to the main world, while Wanda stayed behind and Skynet carried the Space Stone and Mind Stone back.

• Li Ge told Tony and Scott that the main world was in danger, and they demanded to return and protect Earth.
• Li Ge explained the situation and his contract with the Skrulls to the other cultivators, who also asked to go back.
• Li Ge brought the group to Asgard, where Li Chuang and Alice joined them in requesting a return to the main world.
• Li Ge left Wanda behind to operate the array and woke Skynet, giving him the Space Stone to take back with the Mind Stone.
• Li Ge opened a spacetime passage, and the group departed for the main world.

Li Ge showed Wanda that the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus contained fifteen lotus seeds formed from Rule Stones, and explained how its nine outer seeds were linked to the Elemental Rule Stars Divine Artifacts. Wanda nearly lost control of her Chaos Domain to the lotus, but stopped herself, and learned that the inner six seeds held the other Rule Stones.

• Li Ge transformed Asgard's throne into the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus and offered it to Wanda.
• The lotus's fragrance drew Wanda's Chaos Domain toward it, but she broke free, threw the lotus away, and sealed her domain back inside her mental space.
• Li Ge pointed out that the lotus contained fifteen seeds arranged in an outer ring of nine and an inner ring of six, and Wanda recognized them as Rule Stones.
• Li Ge explained that the nine outer seeds were empty projections that would control the nine Elemental Rule Stars Divine Artifacts, while the six inner seeds contained other Rule Stones.
• Li Ge showed Wanda the lotus's inner spacetime, where the nine outer seeds appeared as illusory stars and the six inner seeds as larger, tangible stars.
• Li Ge explained that the outer seeds would become the actual nine Elemental Rule Stars Divine Artifacts once the Solar System was fully assimilated.

Li Ge restored the formation hidden around the Solar System after allowing Wanda’s Nine-Colored Lotus Throne to take root in his All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus. Outside the Solar System, he saw it glowing like a burning lotus, while Strange finished a temporal vision that revealed Li Ge could decide the world’s destruction and rebirth.

• Li Ge gave Wanda the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus again and let her Nine-Colored Lotus Throne take root in it.
• Li Ge transformed the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus back into a throne, restarting the formation and causing the Sun to flicker and change brightness.
• Li Ge left Wanda to control the formation and saw the Solar System as a vast, burning red-gray lotus whose appearance overlapped with his divine artifact.
• Li Ge wondered how many black holes Strange had found and teleported away from the Solar System.
• Strange completed his vision with the Time Stone and concluded that Li Ge could determine the world’s destruction and rebirth.

The Pantheon gathered the universe’s gods in its celestial city, where Asgard’s diminished survivors stood as a reminder of the disasters that had devastated their realm. The chapter traced Asgard’s downfall through the zombie outbreak and left its pantheon weakened and nearly leaderless.

• The Pantheon convened as the rulers of the universe met in their independent, ring-shaped city.
• The gods from Earth’s pantheons held the dominant position, while a handful of Asgardians remained in their temple without Odin, Thor, or Loki.
• Asgard suffered Frigga’s assassination, Odin’s death, Hela’s escape, and Surtur’s destruction of the realm after Loki resurrected him.
• Thanos slaughtered Asgard’s survivors, killed Loki, and wounded Thor, while the Infinity War further depleted Asgard’s strength.
• The zombie outbreak killed most of the Avengers and Thor, and Li Ge later found Thor among the zombies Strange had suppressed in Kamar-Taj.
• The other pantheons looked on as Asgard survived only in name and missed a later conflict involving Thor, Zeus, and Gorr the God Butcher.

Li Ge explained that most gods were powerful aliens whose inherited bloodlines, rather than human faith, gave them their divinity, and that they quietly cultivated belief through events on Earth. He judged the gods’ power against his own realm system and concluded that most relied on ancient advantages while restricting ordinary people’s paths to godhood.

• Li Ge considered how gods shaped Earth’s heroes and villains, including Juggernaut, Xu Wenwu, Black Panther, Spider-Man, and Moon Knight, to sustain belief in them.
• Li Ge recalled that the gods had noticed his rapid growth but had not challenged him, and that he had encountered only Asgard’s gods directly.
• Li Ge classified most gods as reaching only the Transcendent or Divine Power Realm, while identifying Odin and Hela as among the rare gods who met his Domain Realm standards.
• Li Ge contrasted his Path to Godhood with the gods’ bloodline-based strength and flawed systems such as Kamar-Taj’s white magic.
• Li Ge concluded that ordinary people could rival the gods if given their origins, but that exceptional figures like Strange, Bruce, Tony, Jean Grey, and himself had broken through the restrictions.

The gods gathered in the Pantheon to discuss Li Ge’s assimilation of the Solar System and the timeline crisis, while weighing whether to approach or confront him. Zeus acknowledged that Li Ge’s power surpassed anything the assembled gods could achieve, leaving them facing a threat they could not resist.

• Valkyrie warned Zeus and the gathered gods that Li Ge’s actions had put the universe and its timeline in danger, and asked how they should respond.
• Zeus praised Valkyrie’s analysis and invited the gods to speak while he appeared to drink and joke.
• The Jade Emperor proposed talking to Li Ge to clarify his intentions and discuss the Solar System and timeline problems.
• Bast demanded that Li Ge stop assimilating Earth and the Solar System because his actions were weakening her worship and faith.
• Anubis listed Li Ge’s transformations and powers, arguing that none of the gods dared confront him directly.
• Zeus admitted that Anubis was right and reminded the gods that Li Ge had altered their territory and disrupted the timeline with overwhelming power.

Zeus declared that he would tolerate Li Ge as long as he stayed within the Solar System and resolved the timeline problem, but threatened to confront him if he crossed those limits. The gods privately weighed their options, and Bast decided she had to speak with Li Ge herself as his assimilation drained her believers.

• Zeus told the Pantheon he would let Li Ge alone if he stayed in the Solar System and fixed the timeline, but vowed to show him the gods’ power if he went further.
• Several gods cheered Zeus’s defiance, while Valkyrie doubted that Zeus could actually handle Li Ge and considered whether Asgard could benefit from him.
• The Jade Emperor wondered whether Li Ge’s power could help him surpass other divine beings, while Anubis considered seeking a subordinate role under Li Ge.
• Bast blamed Li Ge for winning over her believers and decided to approach him herself, as most of Wakanda had accepted his assimilation.
• Izanagi, Brahma, Shiva, Quetzalcoatl, and other gods planned to stay neutral and support whichever side seemed likely to win, unaware that they could not access Li Ge’s Path to Godhood.

After the gods chose to wait and see how events unfolded around Li Ge, he traveled through the universe on a small ranch, fishing planets out of space-time to add to his collection. The chapter left him continuing his journey with a growing stockpile of materials.

• The gods ended their meeting about Li Ge and the timeline by deciding to wait and see.
• Li Ge traveled through the universe aboard a small ranch that made repeated spatial jumps.
• Li Ge used a fishing rod made of chaos energy and a spatial-energy line to pull a compressed metal planet from a pond.
• Li Ge surveyed his collection of compressed planets and stars, gathered as materials for future construction and forging.
• Li Ge reflected that his mastery of the rules now let him compress and retrieve planets as easily as fishing.

Li Ge traveled toward the black hole Strange had marked, collecting planets while avoiding inhabited worlds and concealing his Block Ranch from nearby civilizations. At the black hole, his spatial and temporal powers failed to affect it, so he scanned it and concluded he still needed to gather more knowledge.

• Li Ge used spatial jumps to search planets along his route, compressing useful or collectible ones into sealed crystalline balls.
• Li Ge's collecting disrupted star systems, though the resulting orbital chaos would take years or far longer to unfold.
• Li Ge avoided signs of life and concealed his Block Ranch from civilizations and spacecraft he encountered as he neared the black hole Strange had marked.
• Li Ge kept the Block Ranch beyond the black hole's gravitational influence and found that his spatial power collapsed into it while his temporal power was stretched around it.
• Li Ge used the Eye of Chaos and his law-based vision to scan and record the black hole, then resolved to keep collecting knowledge.

Li Ge gathered information about a nearby black hole, then assumed his Demon God Dharma Form to enter it and condense the gem. The chapter ended as he plunged into the black hole.

• Li Ge accelerated time for himself and spent less than a day collecting and analyzing information about the black hole.
• Li Ge put away Block Ranch and expanded into his thirty-thousand-meter Demon God True Body.
• Li Ge transformed into his Demon God Dharma Form, summoning divine rings, Elemental Rule Stars, and a Nine-Colored Lotus Throne.
• Li Ge declared that it was time to condense the gem and rode the lotus throne into the black hole.

Li Ge entered a black hole to use its extreme time dilation to forge fifteen new Rule Stones for his deal with Loki. He began smelting planets and rare materials into sturdy divine-artifact vessels, a process that would take centuries or millennia even with the accelerated time.

• Li Ge endured the black hole’s crushing forces and confirmed that its time dilation let him observe the outside universe moving almost imperceptibly slowly.
• Li Ge activated the Nine Extremes Primordial Fire and used the Chaos Redstone Sun and Source Scripts to form fifteen rule-energy conversion arrays.
• Li Ge explained that the new Rule Stones needed durable vessels because, unlike his first set, they could not draw energy from his power.
• Li Ge placed compressed planets into the arrays and began smelting them with Uru Divine Metal, vibranium, adamantium, and World Tree wood to forge the Rule Stones as divine artifacts.
• Li Ge continued the lengthy forging process inside the black hole, intending to make the stones powerful enough to satisfy Loki’s exchange for the Infinity Stones held by the Time Variance Authority.

As Li Ge entered the black hole to condense the Rule Stone, his allies and factions prepared for the Skrulls’ approach while alien forces converged on Earth. Elsewhere, Dark Strange finished preparing to undo his regret and set out to trouble a certain beneficiary.

• Tony and the others briefed their factions on their cultivation in Zombie World and discussed the Skrulls, Earth’s security, and the guardianship contract.
• Peter and the others joined the Avengers’ meeting, while Logan and the other Mutants consulted Professor Charles and prepared for possible conflict with the Skrulls.
• David and James reunited with their families on Block Island and agreed to watch the Solar System’s edge and report suspicious activity.
• Talos negotiated with the United Nations General Assembly as Block Islands, Ronan, Peter Quill, Yondu, Skrulls, and other cosmic powers moved toward Earth.
• Tiga Dark exploited Dormammu, Mephisto investigated the Heavenly Dao Clone’s opportunities, and Human Way kept watch on Loki in Knowhere.
• Dark Strange completed his preparations and set out to undo his regret and trouble a certain beneficiary.

Strange and Christine returned from the Demon Realm with the spoils of their joint hunts, then prepared to strengthen Christine’s lotus-platform divine artifact using a Lotus Platform Formation. Christine began the forging process, replenishing her energy with a red Crystal Core as the artifact started to grow.

• Strange and Christine returned to the New York Sanctum carrying Crystal Cores, spider silk, zombie meat, and bone powder from their Demon Realm hunts.
• Strange and Christine went to the Lotus Platform Formation they had inscribed and arranged spider silk around its outer lotus seeds.
• Christine placed her necklace on the Chaos Rule Stone pattern, where it expanded into a pink lotus platform, and sat upon it to begin the forging.
• Christine activated the formation, which turned the spider silk into molten jade-white liquid that flowed into and enlarged her lotus platform.
• Christine placed a red Crystal Core in her mouth to replenish the energy the formation was draining from her.

Strange secretly joined two alternate versions of himself in the Demon Realm to use their Time Stones to investigate the figure he had glimpsed in the future. Their divination revealed a painful truth, leaving the Endgame Strange asking how he should face the person he had wronged.

• As Christine continued strengthening her lotus platform inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace, Strange left the room after recalling the mysterious figure he had glimpsed through the Time Stone.
• Strange secretly activated the teleportation and contract formation and traveled to the Demon Realm.
• Strange met the main-world Strange and the Dark Dimension Strange, and they agreed to investigate the future together.
• The three Stranges combined their Time Stones and performed a divination that pierced the barriers hiding their visions.
• The Endgame Strange admitted that he had wronged the figure they had seen and asked the others how he should face him.

Dark Strange traced a strange spacetime fluctuation and discovered that Li Ge had resurrected Christine in the Endgame World, giving him new ways to pursue his own Christine. He tried to imitate Li Ge’s method by using a temporal duplicate, but the attempt failed because the duplicate still belonged to the original timeline.

• Dark Strange secretly devoured dimensional creatures, demons, and evil gods while serving as Sorcerer Supreme in a universe without other superheroes or supernatural factions.
• After repeatedly failing to resurrect Christine, Dark Strange used the Time Stone to investigate a faint spacetime fluctuation.
• Dark Strange eventually traced the fluctuation and learned about his timeline’s origins, the other Strange and Christine, and Li Ge’s role in resurrecting her.
• Dark Strange considered learning Li Ge’s method, asking Li Ge for help, or replacing the other Strange to claim his Christine.
• Dark Strange repeatedly reversed spacetime and nearly substituted a temporal duplicate for Christine, but the duplicate had to return to its place in the original timeline.

Dark Strange decided to visit the Endgame World and learn about Li Ge before choosing whether to ask him to resurrect Christine. In the Zombie World, Strange discovered Li Ge had resurrected another Christine and hurried back to Earth, while Li Ge continued forging fifteen stars into vessels for rules.

• Dark Strange considered replacing his counterpart or seeking Li Ge, then resolved to visit the Endgame World and observe Strange and Christine there.
• Strange in the Endgame World detected the threat posed by Dark Strange and secretly joined two other Stranges in the Demon Realm to investigate the future with the Time Stone.
• In the Zombie World, Strange glimpsed Dark Strange's possible arrival and learned that Li Ge had resurrected Christine in another world.
• Strange accelerated his journey to Earth, hoping Li Ge would fulfill his promise to grant new life to the Christine he had lost.
• Li Ge continued refining fifteen stars, filling them with rule information until they became compressed space-times containing oceans of rules.

Li Ge continued developing his power and harvesting assimilated territory in Hell while his Heavenly Dao Clone turned the demons’ ambition into growth for a private Hell. Meanwhile, Loki and the Shadow Kingdom grew stronger in the Demon Realm, and Loki’s followers remained under his control.

• Li Ge used his active clones to track events outside the black hole and continued observing other universes and the main world.
• The Heavenly Dao Clone gathered land assimilated by demons in Hell, while Mephisto hunted those demons to slow the process.
• Little Demon secretly assimilated Hell’s land until he grew strong enough to fight lord-level demons, and Li Ge’s power could restore demons who died.
• Loki brought the Shadow Kingdom and his followers into the Demon Realm and absorbed dark energy to strengthen his shadow power.
• The Shadow Kingdom grew into a world-sized domain, Loki reached the Domain Realm, and his subordinates approached the Divine Power Realm.
• Kingpin’s attempt to remove Loki’s mark had been exposed, leaving him unable to escape Loki’s control.

Loki grew powerful enough to fight Thor head-on, though the brothers agreed not to unleash their full domains after a clash nearly endangered the Asgardians. After learning about the Skrulls’ shapeshifting ability, Loki traveled in disguise to their new home, hoping to add that power to his Divine Guard Legion.

• Loki and Thor clashed at full strength on Asgard’s training grounds, and Odin stopped their domains’ aftershocks before they could harm the onlookers.
• Loki and Thor agreed to limit their fights to basic domain power, while Loki grew jealous of Thor’s closeness with Sif and Jane Foster.
• After hearing about the Skrulls, Loki decided their ability to transform into other people would benefit his Divine Guards.
• Loki concealed his Block Island and used Shadow Jumps between nearby islands as he traveled toward the Skrulls’ new home.
• Loki disguised himself as an ordinary Skrull and walked openly into the Skrulls’ settlement.

Loki discovered that Supergiant was secretly brainwashing Skrulls on Thanos's orders, but chose to stay hidden and watch events unfold. He suspected Thanos was trying to provoke conflict over Earth's Infinity Stones and decided to exploit the coming chaos for his own benefit.

• Several factions, including Thanos, had sent disguised agents to the Skrull settlement, while Talos withheld shared knowledge until Li Ge established the Skrulls' contract with Earth.
• Loki secretly tried to recruit newly arrived Skrulls into the Shadow Kingdom while the Skrulls and humans negotiated their agreement.
• Loki spotted Supergiant and hid as she used her psychic powers to brainwash Skrulls.
• Supergiant sensed someone nearby but failed to find Loki, then continued carrying out her lord's orders to brainwash more Skrulls.
• Loki inferred that Thanos planned to use the Skrulls to provoke conflict over Earth's Infinity Stones, and decided to observe the situation and seek opportunities for himself.

Dr. Zola’s hidden Hydra laboratory failed to extract powers from Transcendents, so he prepared to use a reproduced Founding Titan Serum instead. He had only one dose, and he looked toward Bucky’s cryogenic coffin as he readied it.

• Dr. Zola’s researchers reported that they still could not extract ability serums from their test subjects.
• Dr. Zola punished the reporting researcher and ordered him taken away for experiments, then drove the other researchers from the laboratory.
• Dr. Zola decided to use the Founding Titan Serum he had reproduced by monitoring General Ross’s research and obtaining Titan tissue samples.
• Dr. Zola took the sole dose from a compartment in his chest and looked toward Bucky, who remained asleep in a cryogenic coffin.

Dr. Zola planned to use the sole dose of Founding Titan Serum, a vibranium body, and advanced technology to bring himself back to life. After learning about the Skrulls, he decided to accelerate the plan so Hydra could exploit the coming upheaval.

• Dr. Zola failed to replicate another dose of Founding Titan Serum because Li Ge’s Chaos Rule Shackles prevented technological analysis of powers on the Path to Godhood.
• Dr. Zola prepared to use Regeneration Cradle technology, a vibranium body, and the serum to become a powerful living being.
• Dr. Zola sent Hydra Transcendents into the Demon Realm to hunt spiders and gather silk, which he converted into vibranium using hundreds of red Crystal Cores.
• After learning about the Skrulls, Dr. Zola decided to build the body and transfer his consciousness as quickly as possible, hoping Hydra could rise amid the upheaval.

The chapter described how Grant and Baron Zemo administered parts of the Tower Reaching Heaven, while Li Ge considered the requirements for entering the Domain Realm. It also recounted the Defenders’ work in a more dangerous Hell’s Kitchen and how Eddie Brock and Venom joined their ranks.

• Baron Zemo administered the tower’s brutal second-floor trial, recording top performers and helping them survive, while his life remained bound to the tower.
• Grant governed the expanding city on the third floor of the Tower Reaching Heaven, under the same restrictions as Baron Zemo.
• Li Ge decided that entering the Domain Realm could not be achieved through a trial and required deep understanding of one’s powers, talent, and effort.
• The Defenders continued fighting gangs in Hell’s Kitchen as Transcendent powers reshaped the city’s criminal underworld.
• Daredevil and the other superheroes proved unusually skilled at controlling their abilities, and Matt defeated a powerful Divine Power Realm gang boss almost unscathed.
• Eddie Brock and Venom met Frank during a misunderstanding in Hell’s Kitchen, teamed up with him against gangs, and later joined the Defenders.