Chapter Summaries

Li Chuang and Alice watched events unfold from their hidden Heavenly Court as the Inhumans prepared to attend Immortal’s auction. In Attilan, Maximus secretly rejected his brother’s caution and revealed a strange new power in his eyes.

• Alice and Li Chuang watched information about the auction and an unusual city, and Li Chuang said Xiao Ge would shape the world’s future.
• Medusa told Black Bolt that the auction invitation had reached everyone and that Crystal had investigated Earth; Black Bolt agreed that the Inhumans should attend and notify their people.
• Maximus secretly listened to Medusa’s report and lamented Attilan’s cramped life and the Inhumans’ weakness.
• Maximus declared that the Inhumans should reveal themselves through power, then saw three black tomoe appear in his scarlet eyes.

News of Li Ge’s world auction spread to the other three worlds, whose people learned they were not included and urgently sought a way in. Leaders and groups across the worlds decided to ask their connections to Li Ge for admission, while Li Ge’s own mutants and Arale’s Church of Divine Revelation prepared to attend.

• People in the other three worlds compared details and discovered that four distinct versions of the world existed, then learned the auction was not open to them.
• In Avengers Tower, Old Tony, Steve, Strange, Thor, Nick Fury, and the others agreed they had to attend the auction and asked Tony to help secure entry.
• At the Pentagon, Erik urged the Mutants Nation to pursue the auction, while Jimmy proposed asking Li Ge to create a separate space for mutants; Charles assigned Jimmy to seek admission through the other worlds.
• At the Xavier Transcendent Institute, the Days of Future Past World’s mutants chose Logan to contact Li Ge and obtain entry to the auction.
• Li Ge’s mutants and Arale’s Church of Divine Revelation became eager to attend the auction.

Li Ge introduced Crystal Cores as a currency for trading transcendent goods and explained their energy capacities, prices, and use as a source of energy. The chapter ended with Demon Blade devouring a red Crystal Core, prompting Li Ge to consider adding flavors to them.

• Wanda asked Li Ge what currency he would use for the auction, and Pietro suggested gold.
• Li Ge presented white, blue, and red Crystal Cores, explaining their differing energy capacities and prices in points.
• Li Ge designated Crystal Cores as currency for transactions involving transcendent powers, separate from ordinary money and shop points.
• Wanda asked whether Crystal Cores could replenish energy, and Demon Blade snatched and ate a red one.
• Li Ge explained that Transcendents could absorb Crystal Cores for energy and considered letting buyers choose their flavors.

Li Ge contacted Arale and appointed her to organize people connected to him across the four worlds for the crystal-core auction. Arale eagerly accepted the task and prepared to visit the Second Heaven.

• Arale lay awake in her tower, longing for Li Ge to remember her and summon her.
• Li Ge contacted Arale and granted her the right to enter and leave Heaven-Reaching Mountain in the Samsara Realm.
• Li Ge instructed Arale to explain the crystal-core auction, its blue-core entry requirement, and the minimum price for white cores to his contacts across the four worlds.
• Li Ge sent Arale information about those contacts and suggested she find them in the Second Heaven.
• Arale accepted the assignment enthusiastically, glad that Li Ge needed her.

Arale visited Tony to share Li Ge’s plan to create crystal cores as currency and recruit others to help carry it out. Tony immediately recognized the idea’s benefits and admired Li Ge for coming up with it.

• Arale woke at dawn, used Telekinesis to dress and groom herself, and ate breakfast using the Gourmet World.
• Arale jumped from her tower and greeted the people of New York as she made her way to Stark Tower.
• Arale met Tony and Pepper, then told them what Li Ge had said and asked Tony to help contact others through their Samsara Bracelets.
• Tony praised Li Ge’s crystal-core currency plan for giving dungeon rewards monetary value and providing Transcendents with a source of energy.

Li Ge prepared a range of auction items, from mounts and divine weapons to ready-to-use giant bodies resembling Ultraman, hoping to make power more accessible. He visited Alice and Li Chuang with Tiger Vanguard and gave his parents a light-element cat and a mount to claim.

• Li Ge sent Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet to the Samsara Realm to prepare the auction venue, then returned to the Desert Space to work on auction items.
• Li Ge planned to offer blank-slate mounts, divine weapons, and high-end items that could be used immediately, alongside the elemental cats and mounts he had already prepared.
• Li Ge inspected General Ross's sand sculptures, including several giant bodies resembling Ultraman that he intended to auction.
• Li Ge rode Tiger Vanguard to a magnificent hall, where Alice and Li Chuang greeted him.
• Li Chuang admired Tiger Vanguard and asked for a mount, so Li Ge gave him a light-element cat; Alice immediately took the cat and cuddled it.

Li Ge gathered vibranium from Wakanda and magical materials from Kamar-Taj to prepare divine weapons for the auction. After returning to base, he resumed refining the materials while Wanda and the others prepared the auction venue.

• Li Ge left energy crystals with his parents, then traveled with Tiger Vanguard to Wakanda and secretly took about half the vibranium ore from its mine.
• Li Ge visited Kamar-Taj, where Master Mordo let him collect magical materials in exchange for energy crystals.
• The Ancient One watched Li Ge leave while discussing with Odin whether he should become Li Ge’s Subordinate God; Odin said he would wait for Li Ge’s original body to finish transforming.
• Li Ge returned to base for lunch, then Wanda and the other two continued preparing the auction venue while he began refining the vibranium in the Desert Space.

Li Ge refined vibranium and adamantium into weapons and nanotech battle suits while Arale and Tony organized a gathering about auction eligibility across the four worlds. As crystal-core purchases began, the Samsara Bracelet shop added information about crystal cores.

• Li Ge spent the afternoon turning vibranium and adamantium into weapons and vibranium into nanotech battle suits, then used the two miniature suns to nourish the God Tree.
• Arale and Tony relayed information across the four worlds and invited people connected to Li Ge to gather on Heaven-Reaching Mountain.
• Arale explained the auction’s eligibility requirements, including crystal cores and points, and said only qualified Transcendents from the other three worlds could participate.
• Li Ge added crystal-core information to the Samsara Bracelet shop.
• Old Tony and Nick Fury arranged secret high-priced crystal-core purchases, the Mutants Nation used its treasury to buy crystal cores, and the Days of Future Past World instructed Transcendent academies to purchase them openly.

With four days left before the auction, James hunted a Pure Titan in the Samsara Realm and earned five hundred points. Back in his room, he discovered that blue Crystal Cores could be exchanged for points and sold for a million dollars each, leaving him unsure whether to sell them or use them in the auction.

• James, a bullied high school student, trained in the Samsara Realm to prepare for gaining power when he became an adult.
• James encountered a Pure Titan, equipped himself with a wooden shield, and killed it through repeated attacks.
• James received five hundred points for defeating the Titan, bringing his total to just over twenty thousand.
• James returned to his room and found a message announcing three types of Crystal Cores and the million-dollar price of a blue core.
• James wondered whether to exchange points for blue Crystal Cores to sell or save them for the auction.

As Crystal Core prices surged ahead of Li Ge’s auction, people across the four worlds weighed money against the chance to obtain auction treasures. Li Ge paid Pietro, Wanda, and Skynet for their work, while Peter, Eddie Brock, and Loki made plans to use their points or resources to join the auction.

• By the third day, wealthy buyers and organizations had pushed the price of a white Crystal Core to fifteen thousand dollars before agreeing to stop raising their bids.
• Li Ge gave Pietro and Wanda three blue Crystal Cores each as payment and gave Skynet a red Crystal Core, which Wanda accepted after initially hesitating.
• On the moon, Tiger Vanguard and Xiaobai ate bowls full of white Crystal Cores while Alice and Li Chuang discussed the tiger as a mount.
• Peter considered saving his points for the auction and wondered whether Gwen Stacy needed Crystal Cores, while Eddie Brock and Venom decided they wanted auction treasures rather than money.
• Loki ordered Kingpin, Bullseye, and the Divine Guard to earn points and spend the Shadow Kingdom’s available money on Crystal Cores, forbidding them from hoarding any before the auction.

Li Ge gathered and prepared materials and creatures from the Samsara Realm and the first three Heavens as auction items. He left the Fourth Heaven unvisited and wondered how much his growing main body had changed.

• Li Ge drew two mental-energy gemstones from the Spirit Tree, harvested ripe Spirit Fruit, and collected hidden instance orbs across the Samsara Realm.
• Li Ge gathered all the King Fruit from the King Fruit Tree in the First Heaven.
• Li Ge took Dragon Guards from the Second Heaven and collected the liquid elemental energy from its central fifth-tier elemental pools.
• Li Ge ordered the Third Heaven's Energy Core sun and liquid biometal ocean to produce sealed armor and Energy Core sets for auction.
• Li Ge put the new auction items in the Desert Space and speculated that his main body might have grown to over a hundred meters tall.

Li Ge refused Nick Fury’s request for an auction catalog but offered S.H.I.E.L.D. a Crystal Core Condensation Magic Array in exchange for a big-bellied cat. Nick Fury realized Li Ge knew about the Skrulls and agreed to trade the Flerken, leaving Coulson with the array card.

• Coulson visited Li Ge and asked for an auction catalog and a way for S.H.I.E.L.D. to obtain Crystal Cores.
• Li Ge refused to reveal the auction items and offered a permanent Crystal Core Condensation Magic Array in exchange for Nick Fury’s big-bellied kitty.
• Li Ge explained that the array would convert energy into Crystal Cores and take one-tenth of the output as his fee.
• Coulson relayed Li Ge’s offer to Nick Fury, who realized Li Ge knew about the Skrulls and agreed to trade the Flerken.
• Coulson returned to Li Ge’s base and left for S.H.I.E.L.D. with the array card.

Li Ge entered the Nine Heavens to gather illusory stars for an auction item and check on his transforming main body, while Coulson delivered news of a magic array that condensed Crystal Cores. Tony agreed to help S.H.I.E.L.D. obtain the array, and the Ancient One saw it as a way for Kamar-Taj to stop relying on borrowed power.

• Li Ge set out for the Fourth Heaven to collect illusory stars and try to wake his main body.
• Coulson flew back to S.H.I.E.L.D. in liquid biometal armor and told Tony about the Crystal Core Condensation Magic Array.
• Tony agreed to build a large Arc Reactor for S.H.I.E.L.D. and stopped Pepper from focusing on buying Crystal Cores.
• Coulson gave Nick Fury the sealing card and confirmed that Tony had agreed to help.
• The Ancient One considered how the array could let Kamar-Taj sorcerers use Crystal Cores instead of borrowed power.

Li Ge’s clone found his true body undergoing a vast transformation in the Fourth Heaven and awakened him to explain the auction and ask for help. Li Ge sent his clone a Chaos Orb and the Reality, Power, and Soul Stones, then returned to his transformation.

• Li Ge saw that his true body’s chaos-energy cocoon had grown to nearly ten thousand meters across and tried to wake him.
• Inside the Divinity World, Li Ge’s soul awakened as the Chaos Stone continued forming and his body was nurtured by chaos energy.
• Li Ge connected with his clone and learned about the World Auction, the Paths Space, the crystal cores, and the auction items.
• Li Ge decided to let things take their course with Wanda and sent his clone a Chaos Orb along with the Reality, Power, and Soul Stones.
• Li Ge closed his eyes and resumed comprehending the rules of chaos.

Li Ge’s clone collected gems and sealed illusory stars to prepare items for the auction. James decided to earn more points with his parents so they could try bidding at the auction, which was three days away.

• Li Ge placed four gems in Truth-Seeking Ball boxes and gathered fist-sized illusory stars, sealing them in cards until he ran out of paper.
• Li Ge left the Fourth Heaven, and his original body heard the clone’s parting words before its consciousness fell still.
• James decided to take leave from school and earn points in the Samsara Realm to afford a chance at the auction.
• James learned that his parents’ company planned to buy Crystal Cores for the auction, but his parents doubted they could earn many points.
• James told his parents he had over twenty thousand points and asked them to take time off to hunt giants with him; they agreed.

With three days remaining before the auction, Li Ge used the Infinity Stones to transform the unfinished venue in the Samsara Realm into a vast, orderly arrangement of seats around a central platform. He left Wanda and Pietro looking over the completed design while Skynet stayed behind to reflect on the Stones.

• Li Ge brought Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet to the Samsara Realm, where they had arranged more than seven billion of the auction's ten billion seats.
• Li Ge showed them the Reality Stone, Power Stone, and Soul Stone; Skynet tried to analyze them, but Li Ge stopped him when his body overheated.
• Li Ge explained that mastering the laws represented by the Stones required universal-level power, and that the Stones themselves were only conduits to those laws.
• Li Ge used the Power Stone to strengthen the Soul Stone's energy, then channeled it through the Reality Stone to reshape the auction venue.
• The jade blocks became concentric rings of comfortable seats enclosed in spatial bubbles, surrounding a broad central platform beneath the Samsara Continent.

Li Ge finished preparing the auction venue and its final items while trading sealed magic arrays for a K'un-Lun Qi Refining legacy. As Crystal Core prices fluctuated and buyers competed to stock up, Loki amassed a huge supply and other hopeful bidders rushed to earn more points.

• Li Ge used the three gems to create ten billion private spatial bubbles with seats overlooking the auction platform.
• Tony asked Li Ge for a Crystal Core Condensation Magic Array, and Li Ge gave him a sealed array card and explained that Third Heaven Energy Cores could power it.
• Li Chuang requested ten sealed magic array cards for Zheng Xian, and Li Ge agreed in exchange for Eastern Transcendent knowledge; Zheng Xian provided a K'un-Lun Qi Refining legacy.
• Li Ge studied the legacy, found that its practitioners cultivated life magnetic fields, and stored it away before continuing to prepare auction items.
• Crystal Core prices rose to twenty-one thousand dollars per white core before dropping to twenty thousand, as people sold cores to governments and businesses while Loki's Divine Guards bought them worldwide.
• Loki's Divine Guards challenged dungeons and hunted roaming monsters to gather more Crystal Cores, while other people, including James, pursued points and cores for the auction.

As the four worlds prepared for the auction, Li Ge gathered mental energy to create spirit lifeforms and spent the final day relaxing at his base with Pietro, Wanda, and Skynet. He announced that the auction would begin the next morning, with invitations going to qualified bidders.

• Li Ge discovered that the worlds’ growing anticipation produced surges of mental energy, so he placed marks in densely populated areas to collect it for creating spirit lifeforms.
• Crystal Core prices and trading volume peaked as people across the worlds formed teams and factions to pool their resources for the auction.
• Li Ge spent the final evening fishing and grilling fish at his base while Skynet prepared unusual drinks and Pietro teased Wanda about Li Ge.
• Pietro asked Li Ge whether he would announce the auction, and Li Ge sent a message through the Samsara Bracelets.
• Li Ge told everyone that the auction would start the next morning and that people with at least one blue Crystal Core would receive an invitation to their Samsara Realm private room at ten o’clock.

As Crystal Core prices soared before the auction, powers across the world fought and stole to secure them, revealing the influence of Loki’s Divine Guards. Arale watched the chaos from the Temple of Divine Revelation while Tony was called away to respond to an attack on Osborn Tower.

• As the auction approached, Crystal Core prices surged, and deaths, betrayals, and robberies reshuffled powerful organizations overnight.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers spent the night stopping Crystal Core thefts, while Loki sent his Divine Guards to seize the cores and became feared around the world.
• Arale watched the night’s battles unfold across New York from the Temple of Divine Revelation.
• Tony arrived at the pavilion, complained about being kept awake, and shared tea and bread with Arale.
• Nick Fury told Tony that an unidentified force was attacking Osborn Tower, so Tony left to join the response.

As the first auction approached, people across four worlds gathered Crystal Cores and prepared to enter the Samsara Realm. Li Ge and his companions arrived at the vast auction venue, where Skynet was set to serve as auctioneer.

• Li Ge found Wanda and Pietro eating breakfast in the Gourmet World while Skynet prepared the meal.
• Tony gathered the Avengers, Nick Fury, and Pepper at Arale's home, where they discussed the Crystal Cores and the coming auction.
• James counted his family's Crystal Cores before agreeing with his parents to sleep until the auction began.
• Kingpin and the Divine Guards delivered their collected Crystal Cores to Loki, who prepared for the auction.
• Li Ge saw countless golden lights gathering in the crystalline cube and confirmed that Skynet was ready to auction.
• Li Ge transported Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet to a jade-white sea of stars, where an enormous platform and a silent eye awaited them.