Chapter Summaries

Li Ge finished creating a virtual dimensional world and returned to his body, where the X-Men had been waiting for him to wake. He explained that the world was still tiny and virtual, while Cyclops hoped Li Ge could still help him fix his power’s flaw.

• Li Ge completed a thousand-meter-cube virtual world, then formed a grass block to serve as its operating system and merged it into the square sun.
• The X-Men moved the unconscious Li Ge to the medical room, where Storm and Phoenix watched over him.
• Li Ge woke, and the Professor hurried back to hear him explain that he had created a virtual world that needed more energy or matter to become real.
• Li Ge said the usable space was only one cubic meter for now, but he might later invite the X-Men inside to experience its rules.
• Cyclops became excited at the prospect of fixing his power’s flaw, while Li Ge felt embarrassed that creating the dimension had delayed helping him.

Li Ge designed a Sharingan-inspired set of abilities to solve Cyclops's inability to stop his laser beams and give him greater control over his energy. He sealed the new ability into a card, ready to present it to Cyclops.

• Cyclops told Li Ge that his only requirement was to be able to remove his glasses, and said he trusted Li Ge to design the rest.
• Li Ge decided to give Cyclops a Sharingan-inspired power set, including a demon transformation and a giant armored Demon True Form.
• Li Ge designed the ability to store and control laser energy, perceive things, strengthen Cyclops's soul, and burn other souls.
• Li Ge manifested the ability on a card, showing a red eye with three tomoe and the description of its powers.

Cyclops bound Li Ge’s Sharingan ability card and transformed into a lava-armored demon, startling the Professor and the others. He confirmed that the transformation was an ability called Transform into a Demon and marveled at its power.

• Cyclops cut his finger and used his blood to bind the Sharingan card, which became a ball of light and fused with him.
• Li Ge told Phoenix that Cyclops’s eyes were connected to a space filled with optic blast energy and that he had designed abilities to help Cyclops use it.
• Cyclops’s body and clothes transformed into dark red armor, and a pair of horns grew from his forehead.
• Phoenix feared Cyclops had lost control, but the Professor used telepathy and found no sign of his powers being uncontrolled.
• Cyclops recognized his form as Demon Transformation and explained that he had used the energy from his eyes to activate Transform into a Demon.

Cyclops tested the demon transformation and Sharingan Li Ge had designed for him, discovering that he could control his optic blasts and see without his glasses. After the X-Men celebrated his new abilities, Phoenix eagerly sought Li Ge’s help, but Li Ge said her unusual condition would require careful thought.

• Cyclops controlled his transformed energy, explained his new abilities to Phoenix and Storm, and caught Wolverine’s surprise punch.
• The Professor thanked Li Ge for resolving Cyclops’s eye problem, and Cyclops promised to help Li Ge if he ever needed him.
• Phoenix asked Li Ge to help control her powers, but he said her situation was unusual and needed careful consideration.
• The Professor worried about the force inside Phoenix, Wolverine questioned whether Li Ge simply did not want to help, and Storm offered to assist with finding a solution.

Li Ge explained that Jean was the host of a Phoenix Force fragment and that a second personality in her mind had greater control over it. Jean asked him to help her control the Phoenix Force without destroying that personality, and Li Ge said he had a solution with serious consequences.

• Li Ge told the X-Men that Jean hosted a fragment of the Phoenix Force, an ancient power capable of destroying a planet.
• Li Ge explained that he knew about the Phoenix Force through an ability he had designed to scan and record information.
• Li Ge revealed that the professor's seal had contributed to a second personality emerging in Jean's mind, and that this personality was close to breaking through the seal.
• Jean told Li Ge she did not blame the professor and asked him to preserve her second personality while helping her control the Phoenix Force.
• Li Ge said he had a solution that would meet Jean's requirements, though it would have serious consequences.

Li Ge gave Jean a clone ability that would separate her second personality into an independent person and balance their Phoenix Force. Jean accepted the ability, while the Professor prepared to help suppress her second personality during the separation.

• Li Ge told Jean that he would separate her second personality and make her a younger sister with an independent body.
• The Professor offered to help in the mental realm, and Li Ge asked him to suppress Jean’s second personality temporarily.
• Li Ge created a ball of light containing Jean’s clone ability and explained that he had used Cyclops to test a sealing card.
• Jean pressed the ball of light between her eyebrows and began receiving the ability’s information.
• Li Ge explained that Jean and her clone would each govern creation or destruction, balancing the Phoenix Force and allowing them to grow stronger.

Li Ge explained how the Professor could help Phoenix separate her second personality and guide her into an energy clone. The Professor found the violent, malicious consciousness sealed within Phoenix’s mind and began preparing to move it into the clone.

• Li Ge explained that Phoenix needed the Professor’s help to separate her second personality and guide it into a clone.
• Phoenix agreed to proceed, and Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, and Li Ge encouraged her.
• Phoenix created a solid energy clone with no abilities, then asked the Professor for help.
• The Professor entered Phoenix’s mind and followed the energy link through the seal around the Phoenix Force.
• The Professor discovered Phoenix’s second personality, whose thoughts were filled with brutality, malice, and destruction.

The Professor drew Dark Phoenix’s consciousness from the barrier into the clone, where she awakened with a childlike but intensely malicious nature. Phoenix named her Cassie and hoped she could leave the darkness of the past behind.

• The Professor used his telepathy to bring Dark Phoenix’s consciousness out of the barrier and into the clone.
• Dark Phoenix awakened in the clone, displayed her malice, and recognized Phoenix’s authority over her body.
• Dark Phoenix became fixated on Wolverine and kissed him, while Storm teased Phoenix and Cyclops felt relieved.
• Cyclops asked Phoenix to choose a name for her younger sister, and Phoenix named her Cassie.

Li Ge left the underground base and reflected on how his abilities could grow by absorbing knowledge and understanding rules. He decided to spread his abilities to gather information and seek contact with the Avengers, whose eventual connection to the Infinity Stones could help him study them.

• Li Ge left the Professor and wandered around the school, observing the Mutant students and their abilities.
• Li Ge rested in the sun while his Divinity absorbed energy to strengthen his Redstone.
• Li Ge realized his designed abilities could not surpass his understanding and that rule-based powers would need time to develop.
• Li Ge considered learning magic from the Ancient One but decided to focus on gathering knowledge through his Information Scanning and Recording ability.
• Li Ge planned to spread his abilities so others could help record knowledge, and considered using them to study the Infinity Stones.
• Li Ge decided to seek contact with the Avengers and concluded he was in a dangerous Marvel parallel universe.

Li Ge met Kitty Pryde and Bobby Drake, introduced himself as Immortal, and revealed that he could design abilities and grant them to others. After they struggled to choose, he gave each an orb containing telekinesis.

• Kitty Pryde and Bobby Drake introduced themselves to Li Ge as Shadowcat and Iceman, and Li Ge chose the codename Immortal.
• Li Ge explained that he could design abilities and give them to other people, astonishing Kitty and Bobby.
• Li Ge offered to grant Kitty and Bobby abilities, but they could not decide what to ask for.
• Li Ge chose telekinesis for both of them and pressed an ability orb against each of their foreheads.

Li Ge shared his abilities and knowledge with the academy’s mutants, strengthening his own dimensional world. Mystique investigated him, but Li Ge recognized her disguise and revealed enough to make her hurry to contact Magneto.

• Shadowcat and Iceman kept Li Ge’s Telekinesis secret and discouraged others from probing him.
• Li Ge helped Beast regain his human form and improve his abilities, and Beast shared his research with him.
• The Professor and the others gave Li Ge access to their knowledge and mutant genetic research, which he recorded in his Divinity.
• Mystique noticed the X-Men’s unusual activity around Li Ge and disguised herself as Shadowcat to investigate him.
• Li Ge recognized Mystique but pretended not to, then hinted that he had given her Telekinesis and could offer stronger abilities.
• Mystique left abruptly and decided to contact Magneto about Li Ge.

Mystique told Magneto that Li Ge could grant other people superpowers, prompting Magneto to fly to the school to recruit him. While waiting, Mystique asked Li Ge how mutants should deal with humans, and he proposed establishing a mutant nation.

• Mystique contacted Magneto and told him that Li Ge could give others superpowers, including the Telekinesis he had given a student.
• Magneto ordered Mystique to keep watch over Li Ge, then set off alone for the school using his magnetic powers.
• Mystique returned to Li Ge disguised as Shadowcat and asked whether mutants should pursue peaceful coexistence or fight humans.
• Li Ge said both sides were too extreme and proposed that mutants establish their own nation, using their abilities to build and defend it.

Mystique and Magneto tried to recruit Li Ge to the Brotherhood of Mutants, but the professor and the X-Men opposed them. Magneto tested Cyclops’s newly designed ability and discovered that Cyclops could summon a powerful lava-like Demon True Form.

• Mystique approached Li Ge disguised as Shadowcat, but the professor exposed her and she reverted to her blue-skinned form.
• Li Ge copied Mystique’s shapeshifting ability while she questioned how he had seen through her disguise.
• The professor confronted Mystique, and Magneto arrived to invite Li Ge to join the Brotherhood of Mutants.
• Li Ge declined to choose a side, and Cyclops stepped forward to defend his right to decide for himself.
• Magneto attacked Cyclops with metal, but Cyclops summoned a dark red energy shield that melted the metal.
• Cyclops manifested a lava-like Demon True Form and crushed Magneto’s metal dragon without being harmed.

Cyclops defeated Magneto with the power of his Demon True Form, while Li Ge watched and then rejected both the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants. He argued that mutants should found their own nation, leaving the Professor and the others to consider his proposal.

• Cyclops formed a dark red greatsword and drove Magneto to dodge its sword qi, then caught him in the skeletal hand.
• Storm brought the Professor, Beast, and Shadowcat over as Li Ge and Mystique watched; Li Ge asked the Professor to arrest Mystique, who was impersonating Kitty.
• The Professor invited Li Ge, Mystique, and Magneto to the conference room, where Magneto and Mystique urged Li Ge to join the Brotherhood of Mutants.
• Li Ge said he would join neither the X-Men nor the Brotherhood, explaining that he had come to the academy to integrate into the mutant community.
• The Professor asked for Li Ge's ideas about the future of mutants, and Li Ge said they should found a nation of their own.

Li Ge proposed creating a mutant nation without taking land from humans, revealing that he intended to make a new world for mutants. He explained that the world would be an alternate dimension supported by reality, and the others were left stunned by the possibility.

• Magneto supported Li Ge's proposal for a mutant nation and urged him to seize territory, while the Professor warned that this would provoke war.
• Li Ge clarified that he did not plan to take human territory and suggested mutants should use their abilities to create their own kind of nation.
• Mystique guessed that Li Ge meant using mutant powers, and Li Ge described a divine kingdom for mutants.
• Li Ge asked the Professor what he thought about creating another world, reminding him of the world Li Ge had already made.
• Li Ge explained that a new, reality-like dimension could be created more quickly because it would depend on the real world, leaving Magneto and the others astonished.

Li Ge brought the Professor, Magneto, and the others into his fully manifested Minecraft world, where they discovered its block-based rules. He began showing them how to gather resources and craft, leaving them ready to explore the world’s features.

• Magneto asked Li Ge for proof that he could create a world, and Li Ge revealed that his Minecraft world had been fully manifested.
• Li Ge warned the group about the world’s unusual rules and transported them there, while Wolverine arrived at the empty conference room too late to see Magneto.
• The Professor and the others found themselves with block-shaped bodies in a world made of blocks, and Li Ge explained that they could change back.
• Li Ge showed Shadowcat how punching a tree produced collectible wood blocks, and Magneto tried gathering wood himself.
• Li Ge collected enough wood to make a crafting table as the others watched.

Li Ge showed the Professor and the others the inventory and crafting mechanics of his Minecraft-like world, then cooked beef whose wondrous effects restored sensation and movement to the Professor’s legs. The Professor stood and took his first steps, amazed by his recovery.

• Magneto discovered the inventory and panel while gathering wood, and Li Ge explained that everyone in the world received them.
• Li Ge crafted a stone furnace, gathered beef with Telekinesis, and cooked it for the Professor.
• The Professor ate the beef and regained sensation in his legs.
• The Professor stood from his wheelchair and took a few steps as the others watched in amazement.

Li Ge showed the Professor, Magneto, and the others that his world could support life, then explained that mutants would need to build their own civilization rather than rely on him. With everyone agreeing to his plan, he began manifesting the World Seed and formed a spatial crystal sphere containing a tiny world.

• Magneto reflected on his history with the Professor and recognized Li Ge's world as a way to give mutants a future beyond human persecution.
• Li Ge gathered the group and asked whether they were satisfied with the world he had designed.
• Shadowcat asked whether the mutant world would be like Li Ge's, and Li Ge explained that mutants should develop their own civilization.
• The Professor agreed with Li Ge, while Magneto smiled and Mystique looked on with renewed hope.
• Li Ge summoned the enlarged Redstone and used its energy to form a glowing spatial crystal sphere with a tiny world inside.

Li Ge showed the Professor and the others the World Seed he had created and explained how its simulated life and expansion would work. He gave them marks that granted access to the world and storage space, then returned them to the meeting room to begin merging it with Earth's spatial gaps.

• Li Ge presented the World Seed and described its regions, its Redstone sun, and how it would expand and strengthen its contents.
• Li Ge explained that the plants and animals were reproductions governed by designed rules, not truly living creatures.
• Li Ge demonstrated the illusory marks that let people enter and leave areas covered by the expanding world, and the Professor and the others each obtained one.
• Li Ge had everyone remove their blocks before leaving the world and told them that their marks also granted one cubic meter of storage space.
• Li Ge transported the group back to the meeting room and prepared to merge the World Seed into the gaps in Earth's space.

Shadowcat and the others tested their new storage spaces before the group named Li Ge’s world Krakoa, a sanctuary for mutants. Li Ge began merging the world into a spatial gap, leaving a hole to chaotic spatial turbulence open before him.

• Shadowcat accidentally stored her chair and fell, prompting the others to test their own storage spaces on the conference room chairs.
• The Professor named the world Krakoa, and Magneto agreed that it would be a sanctuary and hope for mutants.
• Li Ge led everyone to the underground training ground and introduced them to Phoenix, Dark Phoenix, and Wolverine before explaining Krakoa to them.
• Li Ge struck the air, cracked open space, and tore away a fragment with his bare hand.
• A hole exposed chaotic spatial turbulence, but Li Ge absorbed the forces trying to pull him in as energy.