Chapter Summaries

Li Ge refined the Tower Reaching Heaven while Wanda taught gifted students on Immortal Mountain to use the God Tree System. On the moon, Maximus and Black Bolt each led Inhumans in building block-based continents, leaving Attilan’s old royal order behind.

• Li Ge protected the Chaos Stone as his core and embedded rule-based pathways and replicas of the Samsara Realm and Nine Heavens into the Tower Reaching Heaven.
• Wanda taught dozens of selected students the modified God Tree System, while David and James began awakening powers sealed within them.
• Wanda’s students received offspring of the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus, which could grow into personalized divine artifacts.
• Maximus left Attilan with his followers and used Daughter Cubes to build an Inhuman Continent larger than Attilan.
• Black Bolt saw Attilan emptying and its residents building block bases, so he abandoned royal rule and led the remaining Inhumans in creating a smaller continent.

Earth’s nations and organizations sent spacecraft into the Solar System to gather Transcendents and establish their own continents, but many Transcendents kept their bases independent. As the Skrulls and Li Ge’s acquaintances built territories and pursued their own plans, the Solar System grew more populated and Nick Fury faced another headache.

• Nations and organizations used spacecraft to seek out Transcendents, but many refused to surrender control of their bases, leaving the Solar System dotted with privately owned bases and middling continents.
• The Skrulls established a continent that had grown to the size of a large city, while Li Ge continued to tolerate them and collected the faith of his believers.
• Nations and organizations pooled spacecraft to establish a Solar System transport service, and the number of Transcendents on Earth fell as travel between bases became easier.
• Tony asked Li Ge for a Mother Cube and a place near the Sun to build a vast continent, while Peter, Gwen Stacy, and Harry established cube bases of their own.
• Natasha, Barton, Coulson, Steve, Thor, Sif, Jane Foster, and Nick Fury continued developing their abilities or training, while the Mutants established a continent of their own.

On Christmas, Li Ge prepared to sever the Samsara Realm and the Nine Heavens from the outside world, while he and his family celebrated together in the Gourmet World. The year’s upheavals ended in laughter, and a new year began.

• Li Ge announced that on Christmas he would isolate the Samsara Realm and the Nine Heavens and replace them with Tower Reaching Heaven subsidiary bodies.
• Wanda returned from teaching on Immortal Mountain, while Skynet came back to the base from the cube continent and Li Chuang and Alice brought Pietro home.
• Li Ge, Wanda, and Pietro shopped for Christmas and New Year supplies in New York’s Chinatown, then shared lunch at a Chinese restaurant.
• Li Chuang, Alice, and Skynet prepared decorations and food at the base while Li Ge and the others spent the day in the city.
• Li Ge’s family gathered in the Gourmet World for a feast, and Tony arrived with Pepper and a bottle of wine.
• The family celebrated amid laughter as the year’s events came to a close and a new story began.

After hearing rumors that he had deceived the four worlds, Li Ge revealed his true form to Peter and the others and began setting rules for the Tower Reaching Heaven. He left the pagoda barred to those who disrespected or bore malice toward him.

• After Christmas, Li Ge continued resting and discussing plans with Wanda, Pietro, Skynet, Li Chuang, and Alice while delaying the Tower Reaching Heaven.
• As the Nine Heavens and the Samsara Realm remained closed, rumors spread through the four worlds that Li Ge had lied or planned to monopolize them, though many believers remained faithful.
• Peter, Gwen Stacy, and Harry told Li Ge about the rumors, and Li Ge decided to punish those who repaid his favors with malice or slander.
• Li Ge produced a small, nine-story pagoda and revealed his true form, causing Peter and the others to see visions when they looked into his eyes.
• Li Ge warned them not to look at his eyes, then infused the pagoda with rules barring those who disrespected him, harbored malice toward him, or received his gifts without showing respect.

Li Ge explained that he would no longer let foolish people’s opinions influence his path, though he would still give power to those who revered him. He then began creating four new pagodas, each joined with a copy of the Samsara Realm and the Fourth Heaven.

• Wanda asked whether Li Ge’s change in attitude was because of his eyes and why people spoke badly about him despite his power.
• Pietro condemned those who insulted Li Ge, and Harry argued that Li Ge’s generosity had made some people mistake him for weak and controllable.
• Peter struggled to disagree with Harry, while Gwen Stacy and Skynet quietly observed the discussion.
• Li Ge said he would let people keep their power but exclude those who could not control their mouths from his path.
• Li Ge used four Chaos Redstone cores and the original pagoda to begin forming four pagodas, each incorporating a copy of the Samsara Realm and the Fourth Heaven.

Li Ge brought his companions to Heaven-Reaching Island to show them the Samsara Realm’s reincarnation. He invoked the world’s Heavenly Dao, and the nine planets’ orbits collapsed together into a singularity containing the realm’s energy and information.

• Li Ge explained that reincarnation referred to the entire Samsara Realm, not just the instances on the Samsara Continent.
• Li Ge transported Peter, Wanda, Pietro, Harry, Gwen Stacy, and Skynet from the base to the pavilion on Heaven-Reaching Island.
• Li Ge sent the four spheres of light into the faith space hidden within the Sun.
• Li Ge used his power to show the group the nine planets and moved Heaven-Reaching Island above the Sun.
• Li Ge decreed reincarnation, causing the nine planets’ orbits to tangle and collapse into a singularity.

Li Ge guided the Samsara Realm through its first complete century-long cycle of annihilation and creation, then used the Sun’s projection to retrieve four newly materialized Towers Reaching Heaven. With the pagodas’ nine floors established and the Samsara Realm incorporated, he declared that the Nine Heavens now lived up to their name.

• Li Ge shared a wisp of the Samsara Realm’s information with the group as they watched the realm condense into a singularity and recreate its nine planets.
• The Samsara Realm completed fifty years of annihilation and fifty years of creation, while the Samsara Continent returned to its original shape and the instances condensed into an information-energy aggregate.
• Li Ge placed the aggregate into the replica Samsara Realm on the first floor of the Tower Reaching Heaven.
• Li Ge shook the Sun’s projection, causing four chaos-colored balls of light to emerge and solidify into treasure pagodas in his hand.
• Li Ge examined the four Towers Reaching Heaven, noting that each held nine interconnected floors, and said the Nine Heavens now truly deserved their name.

After showing Peter, Gwen Stacy, and Harry the Samsara Realm, Li Ge sent them home with his new scepter and prepared to set up the Tower Reaching Heaven. He left Wanda and Pietro at the base, where Wanda planned to make meat-sauce noodles for lunch and Pietro discussed moving out with Skynet.

• Li Ge sealed the others’ overwhelming knowledge, then sent Peter, Gwen Stacy, and Harry home using his scepter’s spatial magic.
• Pietro examined the scepter’s dangerous spells before Li Ge took it back and put it away.
• Li Ge said he would set up the Tower Reaching Heaven and return for lunch, while Wanda offered to make meat-sauce noodles.
• Pietro complained about Li Ge and Wanda’s affection and suggested that he and Skynet move out together.
• Skynet agreed to move with Pietro and said he also planned to return to the Days of Future Past World.

Li Ge placed the Tower Reaching Heaven over the Sun in the Days of Future Past World, the Mutants Nation, and the Endgame World, then announced that the Nine Heavens had opened. In the Endgame World, he found Mars transformed and Christine studying on the Divine Eye Continent.

• Li Ge surveyed the Days of Future Past World and the expanding network of cube islands, continents, and spaceships around the Sun.
• Li Ge used his scepter to send the Tower Reaching Heaven toward the Sun, where it expanded, obscured the star, and vanished into the gaps in space.
• Li Ge announced that the Tower Reaching Heaven had appeared and the Nine Heavens were open, prompting people across Earth and the cube continents to react and attempt to enter.
• Li Ge repeated the Tower Reaching Heaven's placement and announcement in the Mutants Nation and the Endgame World.
• Li Ge checked on the Endgame World, where Mars had become green and livable, the spaceship base had moved to a cube continent, and Christine was studying on the Divine Eye Continent.

Li Ge observed Christine, inspected Tony’s enormous block-planet project, and sent the final Tower Reaching Heaven toward the Sun. After a black-and-purple spark portal swallowed the unfinished tower, Li Ge sensed that it had left the dimension of reality.

• Christine felt an inexplicable pleasure while speaking with a believer, then wondered what Strange was doing.
• Li Ge sensed Christine’s emotion and decided to limit how many dependents he created, the power he granted them, and the attention he paid them.
• Li Ge inspected Tony’s block planet and recognized that Tony and Skynet were building a machine that could transform into a planet and a space battleship.
• Li Ge threw the final Tower Reaching Heaven toward the Sun and left before it completed its expansion.
• A black-and-purple spark portal opened and pulled the unfinished Tower Reaching Heaven inside before collapsing.
• Li Ge returned to the base, noticed his connection to the tower had grown indistinct, and concluded it was outside the dimension of reality.

Li Ge concealed the loss of the Tower Reaching Heaven from Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet while preparing to track whoever had taken it. Kaecilius and Dormammu had stolen the tower into a Mirror Dimension, where Kaecilius struggled to keep it from vanishing into a spatial rift.

• Li Ge reassured Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet, then paused time and sent a thought clone to place the Tower Reaching Heaven beyond the Sun and wait for it to vanish into a spatial rift.
• Li Ge resumed time and joined Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet in the kitchen, while Wanda sensed a slight fluctuation in time.
• Kaecilius and Dormammu's mages channeled dark energy in a Mirror Dimension as Dormammu's claws dragged the Tower Reaching Heaven into a vortex.
• Kaecilius had waited on a cube island for Li Ge to replace the Nine Heavens and the Samsara Realm, hoping to steal the new structure for Dormammu.
• When Li Ge deployed the Tower Reaching Heaven, Kaecilius opened a portal and pulled it into the Mirror Dimension, then hurriedly closed the portal.
• Kaecilius continued casting dark magic over the unsealed tower to hide it from Li Ge and prevent it from vanishing into a spatial rift.

Dormammu learned that Li Ge had become a powerful Omega-level Mutant and plotted to exploit his creations and capture the Tower Reaching Heaven. With Kaecilius and corrupted sorcerers sacrificing themselves to open a passage, Dormammu began dragging the tower into the Dark Dimension.

• Kaecilius told Dormammu that Li Ge had created the Nine Heavens, the Samsara Realm, and a path by which ordinary people could pursue godhood.
• Dormammu ordered Kaecilius to monitor Li Ge, while Kaecilius secretly corrupted sorcerers and the Ancient One repeatedly erased his attempts to influence Strange and the others.
• Kaecilius reported Li Ge's miraculous blocks and plans to replace the Nine Heavens and the Samsara Realm, increasing Dormammu's interest in taking the replacements.
• Dormammu empowered Kaecilius to open a passage from the Mirror Dimension into the Dark Dimension, and Kaecilius and the fallen sorcerers used it to bring in the Tower Reaching Heaven.
• Dormammu extended enormous claws and began dragging the Tower Reaching Heaven into the Dark Dimension as Kaecilius and the fallen sorcerers' bodies collapsed from sustaining the passage.

Kaecilius recovered after the ritual and discovered that the Dark Dimension’s energy had transformed him into a being made entirely of dark energy. He realized that his survival depended on his unusual resilience, Li Ge’s power, Dormammu’s energy, and the sorcerers who died protecting him.

• Kaecilius awoke amid the dead sorcerers and found that no one in the group was still alive.
• Kaecilius regained his strength and learned that his body, eyes, and the cracks in his skin had become conduits for dark energy.
• Kaecilius discovered that he could draw power from the Dark Dimension without Dormammu’s permission and that Dormammu’s influence over his thoughts had weakened.
• Kaecilius reflected on how Li Ge’s King Fruit, his will, the Wisdom Offering Contract, Dormammu’s energy, and the fallen sorcerers had enabled his transformation.

Li Ge traced strange information about dark elements to Kaecilius, who had transformed himself with the Dark Dimension’s power and stolen the Tower Reaching Heaven. He sealed Kaecilius’s block island and shrank it into a palm-sized model, leaving Kaecilius trapped inside.

• Li Ge noticed unusual information about dark elements while teaching Wanda, Pietro, and Skynet, then left them to investigate its source.
• Li Ge followed the information’s contractual connection to a hidden space inside a block island near the Sun, where he found Kaecilius among more than a hundred dead mages.
• Li Ge pieced together that Kaecilius had used the Mirror Dimension and Dormammu’s power to steal the Tower Reaching Heaven, and he grew furious.
• Li Ge teleported to Kaecilius’s block island, sealed it with Spacetime Lockdown, and prevented Kaecilius from opening a portal.
• Li Ge used spatial rules to collapse the block island into a palm-sized model and erased the space’s traces.

Li Ge brought the trapped Kaecilius to the Ancient One and asked for detailed information about Dormammu and the Dark Dimension. She gave him an ancient spellbook and said Dormammu had taken something that was not his, leaving Li Ge to deal with Kaecilius and pursue the stolen Tower Reaching Heaven.

• Li Ge returned to his base with Kaecilius trapped inside a glass marble, then went to Kamar-Taj after deciding to speak with the Ancient One.
• Li Ge arrived at Kamar-Taj, drew the sorcerers' attention with his aura, and followed Mordo to the Ancient One's sanctuary.
• Li Ge placed the glass marble before the Ancient One and demanded detailed information about Dormammu and the Dark Dimension.
• The Ancient One returned the marble to Li Ge and gave him a spellbook containing records about Dormammu and the Dark Dimension.
• The Ancient One told Li Ge that Kaecilius had made his own choices and said Dormammu had taken Li Ge's Tower Reaching Heaven.

Li Ge and the Ancient One discussed Dormammu’s threat and agreed that Li Ge would confront him by helping suitable allies divide control of the Dark Dimension. The Ancient One revealed she intended to retire through corpse liberation, leaving Li Ge curious about the hidden truth of Eastern immortals as he departed to deal with Dormammu.

• Li Ge asked the Ancient One how far she wanted him to go against Dormammu, and she explained that Dormammu’s schemes made confrontation unavoidable.
• The Ancient One proposed finding suitable candidates to share control of the Dark Dimension, and Li Ge agreed with the approach.
• Li Ge returned the Time Stone to the Ancient One and asked whether she still planned to retire.
• The Ancient One said she could undergo corpse liberation, then confirmed that the immortals and gods of Eastern legends were real.
• Li Ge left the Ancient One, saying he would deal with Dormammu.

Li Ge studied Dormammu’s weaknesses and concluded that his own powers could counter the Dark Dimension’s ruler. He began considering which allies could safely claim portions of Dormammu’s authority, leaving the selection and plan unresolved.

• Li Ge disguised himself, read the Ancient One’s magic book in a New York café, and identified several weaknesses in Dormammu’s reliance on the Dark Dimension.
• Li Ge decided he could withstand dark energy and potentially turn power borrowed from the Dark Dimension into nourishment.
• Li Ge considered Strange, Wanda, Bruce and Hulk, Harry and Norman, Venom and Eddie, Loki, Cassie, Jean Grey, and Ghost Rider as possible candidates to share Dormammu’s authority.
• Li Ge resolved to choose candidates suited to the Dark Dimension, ensure they could be restrained, and find a way for them to divide Dormammu’s control.

Li Ge revised his plan to involve qualified supernatural beings from all four worlds in competing for a place in the Dark Dimension, and began turning Dormammu’s stolen Tower Reaching Heaven into a secret realm. He also collected General Ross and tens of thousands of Ultraman bodies to prepare equipment for the tower’s guards.

• Li Ge decided that supernatural beings at the perfect body realm or above from all four worlds could compete for a place in the Dark Dimension, while those barred from his towers would be excluded.
• Li Ge planned to transform the Tower Reaching Heaven stolen by Dormammu into a Dark Dimension secret realm offering power and artifacts to attract challengers.
• Li Ge used the Rinnegan Stone to inspect the Desert Space and saw General Ross sculpting tens of thousands of Ultraman bodies.
• Li Ge compressed the Ultraman bodies into collectible-sized figures and brought them to the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus to strengthen them for the Dark Dimension’s tower guards.
• Li Ge transferred General Ross’s soul into a new Founding Titan body and placed the figure beside Thanos on the Block World display shelf.

After hearing that several lords were competing for control of people’s cube islands, Li Ge followed the crowd to the plaza outside the Church of Divine Revelation. Hidden in the Mirror Dimension, he watched the groups facing off and found the situation interesting.

• Li Ge overheard four Transcendents discussing lords who wanted people to merge their cube islands into the continents they controlled.
• The men said they preferred pursuing the Path to Godhood over spending Crystal Cores on Domain Crowns, and Li Ge secretly marked their contracts to make them easier to notice.
• Li Ge followed the crowd toward the reported standoff, moving unseen through the streets.
• Li Ge reached the plaza in front of the Church of Divine Revelation, concealed himself in the Mirror Dimension, and looked over the groups facing off.

Li Ge brought Tony into the Mirror Dimension to discuss a plan to reclaim the Tower Reaching Heaven that Dormammu had stolen and use it to weaken Dormammu’s control over the Dark Dimension. He showed Tony the Tower’s Ultraman guardians and asked whether he wanted to become a giant of light.

• Li Ge secretly replaced Tony at the Church of Divine Revelation with an illusion and brought the real Tony into the Mirror Dimension.
• Tony teased Li Ge for neglecting him, and Li Ge claimed he had come to discuss an exciting plan.
• Li Ge explained how Dormammu stole a Tower Reaching Heaven and proposed turning it into a foothold for carving up the Dark Dimension.
• Li Ge showed Tony the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus and its Ultraman statues, then said he would strengthen them to fight Dormammu.
• Li Ge asked Tony whether he wanted to become a giant of light.