Recaps

Li Ge created the Third Heaven and used a timeline change caused by the Sentry Armor broadcast to carve out a virtual Solar System he named the Samsara Realm. As mutant society rebuilt itself around the armor, Tony began animating his golden giant, Norman endured a trial, and General Ross sought Bruce Banner’s help with Li Ge.

• Raven destroyed the Sentinels at Trask’s base and confronted Trask, while Li Ge began shaping the Third Heaven from Eitri’s weapon blanks.
• Nick Fury’s ring-bearers purged Hydra from S.H.I.E.L.D., and Fury captured Alexander Pierce after Pierce’s bullets failed to harm him.
• Apocalypse opened the Troop Gathering Pool and led Erik and the gathered mutants through a ritual that brought them to the Third Heaven, where liquid metal formed Sentry Armor for them.
• Charles, Erik, and Logan agreed to rebuild the school and demonstrate the armor, while Charles used Cerebro to bring officials to Xavier Mansion and Erik carried a stadium there.
• Li Ge returned to the Days of Future Past world and helped stage the Sentry Armor demonstration, but temporal changes began as the broadcast reached the world.
• Li Ge protected a discarded timeline and extracted its information to create a virtual Solar System, while mutants and governments built a new society around the armor over the following years.
• Logan awoke in the Xavier Transcendent Institute decades later, and Charles welcomed him back, and Li Ge named his virtual world the Samsara Realm and told Apocalypse to watch over their world.
• Li Ge returned to his cabin, Tony began imprinting his consciousness onto the golden body, Norman continued his cactus trial, and General Ross asked Bruce Banner to help ease tensions with Li Ge.

Li Ge developed the Samsara Realm into a dangerous trial world, drew General Ross and other newcomers toward the Nine Heavens, and reclaimed the Shadow Ring while preparing for Loki’s invasion. After meeting the Ancient One and granting Natasha a thread ability, Li Ge negotiated with Death and Galactus to use their information in creating a realm of gods and demons.

• Bruce Banner visited Nick Fury for Li Ge’s address, while General Ross followed him to the institute and Apocalypse detected the pursuit.
• Apocalypse brought Bruce and Ross into the institute, rejected Ross’s demand for military access to the Nine Heavens, and proposed testing giant power instead.
• Li Ge and Apocalypse divided the Samsara Realm into game instances, where Ross, Bruce, Norman, Peter, Harry, and Gwen Stacy fought Red Skull monsters.
• Ross woke from the virtual trial and received flawed Titan powers, while Li Ge later supplied Ross with Pure Titan cards that transformed a soldier and caused chaos.
• Loki staged his death, left Asgard, and accepted Thanos’s offer of an army and power in exchange for the Tesseract.
• Li Ge reclaimed the Shadow Ring from Nick Fury, visited the Tesseract research base, and showed the Ancient One the Samsara Realm.
• Li Ge gave Natasha a card that granted her the power to create and control threads, while Barton resolved to explore the Nine Heavens.
• Death and Galactus confronted Li Ge about the Nine Heavens, then agreed to let him use their information as he planned a realm of gods and demons.

Li Ge guided Loki’s invasion of New York toward its expected course, then revealed the Nine Heavens and drew the world’s consciousness into the Samsara Realm. As he built the new virtual world and its instances, Strange began learning how to survive and earn power there.

• Li Ge secretly tracked Loki, freed Barton from Thanos’s control, and let Loki proceed with the invasion while the Avengers assembled to stop him.
• Loki opened a portal above Stark Tower, and the Avengers fought the Chitauri as the invasion spread through New York.
• Tony learned Li Ge had guided Loki, and Li Ge revealed his gigantic golden form before drawing a nuclear missile into his palm and opening the Samsara Realm to humanity.
• Apocalypse sorted the arriving consciousnesses into rooms, and Li Ge and Apocalypse shaped the virtual Earth into Samsara Continent and prepared its instances.
• Li Ge reunited with Alice and others on his island, heard older Tony recount his timeline, and explained the Samsara Realm, its paths to power, and the King Fruit Tree.
• The Ancient One allowed Li Ge to bring the sorcerers into the Samsara Realm, where Strange learned about its worlds and entered the Stickmen’s Discrimination instance.
• Strange survived repeated attempts at the stickman instance, earned points, bought basic equipment, and met Frank while traveling toward Heaven-Reaching Mountain.
• Li Ge made stick figures a recurring feature of the instances, tested a ninja combat scenario, and praised it as training for fighting skills.

Li Ge built the Nine Heavens into a path for people to gain power, tested its battlefield with the Avengers, and brought allies from another universe to face Thanos. The Avengers fought Thanos’s forces while Li Ge confronted Thanos directly and caught his Tyrant blade.

• Li Ge strengthened his soul with Spirit Fruits, recalled Apocalypse, ended the first trial, and sent participants back to their bodies with Samsara Bracelets.
• Li Ge stopped the Chitauri invasion, gave Loki the Shadow Ring, and opened the Samsara Realm and Nine Heavens to people on Earth, who increasingly sought power through the trials.
• Li Ge turned the Chitauri into Dragon Guards and built the Heaven Ascension Battlefield, where his allies tested its challenges and Tony defeated a Second Heaven Dragon Guard.
• Older Tony and his companions used a portal to bring Li Ge and his allies to their universe, where the group discovered that Nebula had summoned Thanos’s fleet.
• Li Ge transported the group to the Third Heaven, where they used Contract Descent to gain metal giant forms and flew to attack Thanos’s warship.
• The Avengers breached Thanos’s warship and fought its forces while Li Ge appeared before Thanos with Nebula and scanned him.
• Thanos attacked Li Ge with the Tyrant blade, but Li Ge absorbed the force of his first strike and caught the blade between his palms.