Chapter Summaries

People from four worlds entered the Samsara Realm as Li Ge transformed the Spirit Tree and prepared for the auction. At ten, eligible participants received invitations and were drawn toward the auction, while others entered the Samsara Continent to watch.

• Peter arrived in the Samsara Realm and contacted Gwen, Harry, and the others to discuss Li Ge's auction.
• As arrivals flooded the realm, surging emotions ripened the Spirit Tree's fruit, and Li Ge used three Infinity Stones to strengthen it and grant it spirituality.
• At ten, the Samsara Bracelets notified people whether they qualified for the auction, and both invited and uninvited people entered the Samsara Continent.
• James reunited with his parents in the wilderness, received their blessing, and pressed his golden invitation.
• Golden trails from invitations across the Samsara Continent streamed together and flowed toward the distant depths of space.

The auction venue appeared in the heavens, and James and the other participants were transported to seats among billions of jade-white stars. Li Ge sent Skynet to the central platform to begin hosting the auction.

• The people left on the Samsara Continent saw the starry auction venue unfold above them and realized they could watch from below.
• James traveled through space, saw the Samsara Continent from above, and landed in a glowing jade-white armchair among the stars.
• Li Ge, Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet watched the proceedings from a concealed space as footage of participants appeared on their screen.
• Li Ge asked Wanda and Pietro whether they would join the auction, but they declined because they had few Crystal Cores and wanted nothing.
• Skynet appeared on the platform and welcomed everyone to the auction as its host.

Skynet opened the auction’s first round by explaining the adamantium weapons and the bidding rules. As the one-hour countdown began, participants searched the Weapon Lake for weapons to bid on.

• Skynet’s introduction as Li Ge’s intelligent-life creation prompted reactions from Tony, Logan, Vision, Li Chuang, and others.
• Skynet announced the first round would auction weapons, equipment, and mounts, beginning with adamantium weapons.
• Skynet created the Weapon Lake, a vast lake filled with adamantium weapons, and explained how participants could choose weapons and bid through their Samsara Bracelets.
• Skynet started the sixty-minute countdown and returned to Li Ge’s hidden space as participants began searching the lake for weapons.

People across four worlds competed fiercely for the adamantium weapons in Weapon Lake, while Wakanda discovered that its vibranium had been taken to forge them. The auction ended after an hour, with every weapon sold.

• Tony and others suspected Li Ge had taken the vibranium from Wakanda, and Wakanda's investigations revealed that one world's deposit had a huge cavity.
• The affected Wakandans decided not to confront Immortal and considered offering him vibranium as tribute, while the Wolverines chose not to bid.
• James decided to save his Crystal Cores for an item that could grant genuine Transcendent power, while Peter and Harry discussed bidding on weapons.
• People from four worlds bid against one another for the adamantium weapons, with S.P.E.A.R. and other organizations spending heavily to secure them.
• After an hour of bidding, every weapon in Weapon Lake had disappeared.

Skynet auctioned vibranium suits, drawing intense interest from bidders across the multiverse. While watching the auction, Li Ge considered taking James as an apprentice, prompting Pietro to volunteer and hint at his hopes for Li Ge and Wanda.

• Skynet ended the weapon auction, collected its sealing card, and introduced the vibranium suits as the next auction item.
• Skynet demonstrated a suit transforming from a bracelet into a black robe with golden dragons, then began the one-hour auction.
• James declined to bid, while Wakandans, heroes, villains, capitalists, and ordinary people competed for the suits.
• Li Ge cleared the crowded auction image and told Wanda, Pietro, and the others that James seemed like a promising apprentice.
• Pietro urged Li Ge to choose him instead and hinted that Li Ge and Wanda would become a couple, until Wanda angrily interrupted him.

Li Ge decided to stop keeping Wanda waiting and asked whether she was willing to belong to him alone. Wanda gladly accepted, and the chapter left them having made their relationship official.

• Li Ge decided to confess his intentions to Wanda, while Pietro teased Skynet about calling him Uncle.
• Skynet offered to train Pietro, frightening him into backing down and agreeing to call Skynet big brother.
• Li Ge approached the nervous Wanda and asked whether she was willing to become a girl who belonged to him alone.
• Wanda recalled how her affection for Li Ge had grown through their quiet life together and firmly told him she was.

Li Ge and Wanda shared a tender moment before Skynet introduced the auction’s third item: customizable mounts. Skynet demonstrated one transformed into a giant ape and explained its abilities and limits.

• Wanda accepted Li Ge’s feelings, and he gently stroked her head while Pietro teased them.
• Skynet congratulated Li Ge and Wanda, then said his studies of the Dao had helped him consider his future.
• After the Vibranium Suits sold out, Skynet announced that the auction rules would change for the mounts.
• Skynet revealed a small golden blob, combined it with energy, and transformed it into a giant ape.
• Skynet explained that owners could shape and nourish mounts, which could become catastrophic threats if their restrictions were lifted.

Skynet unveiled ten thousand mounts that could grow into legendary beasts and opened a ten-minute auction for them. As bidders rushed to compete, Li Chuang, Alice, and others discussed the mounts, while Li Ge returned to his conversation with Wanda.

• Skynet demonstrated how the giant ape mount could shrink to a portable size and explained that the ten thousand mounts would go to the highest bidders.
• Skynet released the mounts and revealed them as creatures including dragons, phoenixes, qilins, and other legendary beasts, prompting viewers to submit bids.
• Li Chuang asked Li Ge whether Tiger Vanguard and Xiaobai had come from the same source as the auction mounts, while Alice considered bidding for a phoenix and asked whether Li Chuang wanted to raise a dragon.
• Li Ge explained the difference between his original body and clone to Wanda, then offered to create another God Tree for her as Pietro admired the mounts.
• Loki, Logan, Tony, and Nick Fury considered bidding, while many viewers placed high bids before the auction countdown ended.

The auction paused for lunch, and Li Ge gave Pietro a wind elemental kitten after teasing him about wanting one. Harry and the others received their purchases in Osborn Tower, where Harry bonded with his golden jelly mount as bidders and organizations prepared for the auction to resume.

• Skynet announced the lunch break, and Li Ge brought Wanda and the others back to the table in the Gourmet World.
• Li Ge teased Pietro with a wind elemental kitten, and Pietro eagerly took it from him.
• Harry and the others summoned their auction purchases from their Samsara Bracelets after returning to Osborn Tower.
• Harry cut his palm and formed a soul contract with the golden jelly, then discovered that only he could hear its affectionate cry.
• Some bidders coveted the mounts and considered waiting until the auction ended, while organizations and nations secured their weapons, suits, and mounts.

As the auction resumed, Li Ge decided to take James as his disciple and prepared a special invitation. Skynet unveiled the auction’s final lot: sealing cards containing beings that attendees recognized as angels, igniting excitement and fierce hopes of winning them.

• James worried that he had missed his only chance to afford the auction’s weapons and battle suits, but held on to hope for cheaper lots.
• Li Ge examined James’s past and thoughts, admired his character, and decided to make him his disciple.
• Wanda supported Li Ge, while Pietro tried to persuade him to pass his power on and asked about the better future Li Ge had promised him.
• Li Ge began composing an unusual invitation and told Pietro to wait until the auctions were over to hear about his future.
• Skynet resumed the auction and displayed rows of sealing cards containing angels, prompting attendees to celebrate their existence and prepare to bid.

Tony and others examined Li Ge’s Ultraman sealing cards and reacted to their immense power and appeal. As people across different worlds considered bidding, the chapter left Ultraman poised to capture the interest of heroes, governments, organizations, and ordinary people alike.

• Tony asked JARVIS to research Ultraman, then learned that the beings were immensely powerful, long-lived protectors who bonded with worthy humans by choice.
• James admired Ultraman but decided to wait, believing the sealing cards were beyond his means.
• Li Ge watched James and told Wanda and Pietro that he planned to teach his future disciple to pilot the God Tree instead.
• Li Chuang chose not to bid on Ultraman, while Alice dismissed the cards and focused on Xiaobai and Tiger Vanguard.
• Capitalists, organizations, nations, and other individuals considered using or bidding on Ultraman for their own reasons.
• Peter considered bidding with his remaining crystals, Harry received Norman’s permission to use their Crystal Cores, and people across three other worlds focused on the cards.

Skynet demonstrated an Ultraman Summoner, explaining that it required a worthy bearer and could allow indefinite transformation under sunlight or moonlight. He announced that the summoners would be distributed to righteous people across four worlds, leaving observers with mixed reactions to Li Ge’s refusal to auction them for money.

• Skynet transformed into Ultraman and demonstrated its powers and summoner requirements to the audience.
• Skynet announced that one hundred summoners would be distributed evenly among four worlds to people with light in their hearts, rather than auctioned for Crystal Cores.
• Skynet vanished with the sealing cards, then let them disappear when Pietro tried to inspect them.
• James, Tony, Steve, Nick Fury, Bruce, and Peter reacted to the announcement with thoughts ranging from skepticism and relief to agreement and anticipation.

After ending the auction, Li Ge summoned James and accepted him as a disciple. He showed James the Spirit Tree and explained that its fruits held immense mental power, but James could not safely consume one without first gaining the means to control laws.

• Li Ge ended the auction and announced that the next session would begin the following morning.
• James received Li Ge's invitation to become his disciple and accepted it, then vanished from his sofa in a flash of light.
• Li Ge introduced James to Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet beside the magnificent Spirit Tree.
• Li Ge warned James that the Spirit Fruits could destroy an ordinary person's soul, though successfully absorbing one could strengthen a soul to the level of a god or demon.
• Li Ge explained that powerful souls alone did not make gods and demons; they also needed to control laws.

Kaecilius, already corrupted by Dormammu, grew resentful after learning about Li Ge’s power and decided to draw him into the Dark Dimension. Dormammu read Kaecilius’s memories and became determined to devour Li Ge and claim Earth.

• Kaecilius reflected on Li Ge’s Nine Heavens and the Path to Godhood, and his jealousy and bitterness intensified.
• Kaecilius decided to bring Li Ge into contact with Dormammu and opened a portal to a remote wasteland.
• Kaecilius concealed himself and began a ritual to contact Dormammu, as darkness spread around him and his body withered.
• Dormammu sensed the ritual and forced his consciousness into Kaecilius’s mind to read his memories.
• Dormammu learned about Li Ge, the Nine Heavens, and the Samsara Realm, then vowed to devour Li Ge and take Earth.

Li Ge welcomed James as his disciple and planned to teach him, while warning him to keep their relationship secret to protect his family. When James eagerly asked to begin training, Li Ge gave him a mountain of books to study first.

• Li Ge considered founding an immortal sect with James as its first sect master, but decided to lead it himself and suggested James could someday establish a magic academy.
• Skynet explained Eastern immortal sects to James, who became more confident about Li Ge’s expectations for him.
• Li Ge warned James that his family could be used against him and said James would have to protect them himself; James promised to grow strong enough to do so.
• James asked when his lessons would begin, and Li Ge conjured books covering magic, elemental powers, runes, and mental and physical cultivation.
• Li Ge sent the books into James’s Samsara Bracelet and told him to read and memorize them before beginning formal training.

Li Ge visited the Ancient One and checked on Strange before wandering through cities to see how Transcendent powers and Crystal Cores had changed ordinary life. Back at the base, he remembered David and wondered whether to take him as a disciple as well as James.

• Li Ge answered the Ancient One’s summons, gave her sealing cards and an Ultraman Summoner, then checked on Strange and left ingredients for Master Wong.
• Li Ge disguised himself and explored a city, seeing outlandish outfits, few conflicts, and shops accepting Crystal Cores as currency.
• Li Ge secretly traveled through several cities, observing how people’s lives had changed with the spread of Transcendent powers.
• As dinner approached, Li Ge returned to the base and remembered David while thinking about Crystal Core exchanges.
• Li Ge wondered whether he should take David as a disciple now that he had already taken James.

David confronted Harold, Jack, and Corey about their suspicious behavior at the renovated factory base, and they revealed their hidden identities. The chapter ended with Jack admitting he was an Inhuman.

• David questioned Jack about avoiding the Heaven Ascension Battlefield, Harold about his recruitment claims, and Corey about his pale appearance and cold aura.
• Harold argued that Immortal’s auctions and Crystal Cores made their treasure-hunting team seem unnecessary, but David cut him off.
• Corey revealed that he had become a Daywalker vampire after being bitten in high school and had gained ice powers through his Nine Heavens water ability.
• Harold admitted he had inherited a Hydra subordinate unit, financed the base renovations, and planned to recruit his own subordinates.
• Jack revealed that he was an Inhuman.

David, Corey, Jack, and Harold revealed their unusual backgrounds while discussing their team and Harold’s ties to Hydra. They accepted Harold’s explanation that his family had long since become independent and run legal businesses, while Li Ge watched from the Desert Space.

• David laughed at the team’s hidden identities and asked Jack to explain Inhumans.
• Jack described how he learned he was an Inhuman, declined to awaken with Terrigen Crystals, and chose to train in the Nine Heavens instead of joining Afterlife.
• Corey revealed he was a Daywalker, and Harold explained Blade’s similar condition to David and Jack.
• David, Corey, and Jack confronted Harold about his family’s Hydra ties, and Harold said his family had separated from other Hydra factions and operated legal businesses for generations.
• Li Ge watched the conversation from the Desert Space and marveled at the team’s complicated backgrounds.

Li Ge took David as a disciple, then woke his main body to update him on recent events and discuss their plans. The main body approved Li Ge’s choices, gave him three stones, and said its transformation would take another six months to a year.

• Li Ge made David his disciple, gave him books to study, and told him not to spend Crystal Cores on the auction items he had prepared for ordinary people.
• Li Ge reassured David that Harold, Jack, and Corey’s backgrounds did not matter as long as their accounts were true, then left David celebrating his new master.
• James struggled to study the large collection of knowledge on his Samsara Bracelet while keeping his discipleship secret from his parents.
• Li Ge awakened his main body and shared news about Wanda, his disciples, the auction, and his plan to establish a cultivation sect.
• The main body accepted Li Ge’s plans, sent him its cultivation system, and gave him blue, yellow, and green stones while asking not to be disturbed during its transformation.
• Li Ge stored the three stones with the purple, orange, and red stones, and decided he still needed to collect the other three stones from their world.

Li Ge visited Zheng Xian at S.P.E.A.R. before the auction and shared food from his Gourmet World with him and the staff. After breakfast, Li Ge told Zheng Xian he had come to warn him not to interfere with what he was about to do.

• Li Ge got up early, gave Skynet information about the auction, and left to collect ingredients from the Gourmet World.
• Zheng Xian reviewed reports of people trying to seize auction items and prepared to refer offenders for action.
• Li Ge appeared in Zheng Xian's office, introduced food from his Gourmet World, and ate breakfast with him.
• Li Ge shared the strange-looking food with S.P.E.A.R. staff, who sampled it and left with their portions.
• Zheng Xian cautioned Li Ge about asking S.P.E.A.R. for help, and Li Ge said he only wanted them not to stop his upcoming actions.