Chapter Summaries

Human Way visited Strange at Kamar-Taj, reassured him about becoming Sorcerer Supreme, and urged him to marry Christine. He then entered the Secret Realm and flew toward a food mountain where a block island was moving.

• Human Way met Strange at Kamar-Taj, drank milk tea, and said he had already spoken with the Ancient One before she left.
• Strange asked whether Human Way objected to him becoming Sorcerer Supreme, and Human Way said the position did not matter to him.
• Human Way told Strange to marry Christine soon, then vanished before Strange could ask what he meant.
• Human Way entered the Secret Realm through the spacetime anchor in the ice pagoda at the Himalayas.
• Human Way crossed the Secret Realm, spotted a moving block island above a mountain of food, and accelerated toward it with crimson energy.

Human Way sent Tony, the mutants, and a group of Earth’s defenders to the Zombie World, then went to Krakoa to investigate Deadpool. He recognized Deadpool’s connection to death and addressed the arriving Lady Death, who had come to meet him.

• Human Way sent Wanda and the mutant elites to the Zombie World, then opened a passage there for Coulson, Natasha, Steve, and Barton at their request.
• Human Way arrived on Krakoa and found Deadpool bound by twisted metal beside Erik and Professor Charles.
• Human Way described Deadpool as a terminal cancer patient made nearly immortal by mutant serum experiments and the rules of death.
• Human Way addressed the dark presence behind Deadpool as Lady Death, who appeared and asked why he seemed unsurprised.

Lady Death explained that Human Way could take control of the Zombie World and use the Time Variance Authority, but warned him to preserve the main universe timeline and enough timelines to support the multiverse. Human Way understood the limits of his plans and prepared to begin.

• Lady Death arrived and sat in a chair formed from Deadpool, then told Human Way she did not mind what he did with the Zombie World.
• Human Way revealed that he intended to take control of the Zombie World and move it, and Lady Death said she would not stop him as long as the multiverse remained safe.
• Lady Death explained that the multiverse contained more timelines than the portion managed by the Time Variance Authority.
• Lady Death told Human Way he could use Knowhere and the Time Variance Authority to spread his influence, but must not greatly alter the main universe timeline.
• Lady Death explained that the main universe timeline and enough pseudo-main universe timelines formed the multiverse’s framework, and Human Way concluded he could freely handle the other timelines.

Coulson, Natasha, Steve, and Barton returned to Asgard through the Human Way and saw the vast Solar System projection in Li Ge’s hall. Li Ge shielded them from its overwhelming secrets, gifted them the knowledge they had glimpsed, and sent them to join Tony and the others so they could grow stronger.

• Coulson, Natasha, Steve, and Barton emerged from a scarlet portal in Asgard and recovered from their journey through the Human Way.
• Coulson, Natasha, Steve, and Barton were stunned by Li Ge’s hall, where living golden dragons, shifting landscapes, and a projection of the Solar System filled their view.
• Li Ge brought them before his throne, where they examined the Solar System’s formations, Source Scripts, and elemental rules until the knowledge began to overwhelm them.
• Li Ge snapped them out of their trance, concealed the projection’s profundities, and gave them the remaining knowledge as a gift.
• Li Ge sent Coulson, Natasha, Steve, and Barton to find Tony and the others, then thought about the multiverse timelines, Knowhere, and swallowing this world.

Natasha and the others arrived in Zombie World and learned that Li Ge was transforming the Solar System while they waited to study its advanced magic and divine-artifact knowledge. On Krakoa, Human Way explained Lady Death to Erik and Charles, then freed Deadpool and ordered him to lead the way to the master of the Time Variance Authority.

• Natasha and the others joined Tony, Wanda, and the others on a mountaintop platform, where they learned they had arrived a week after the first group.
• Wanda and the others explained that Li Ge was assimilating the Solar System and reshaping Earth, and Natasha's group learned they could study magic, laws, and divine-artifact forging.
• Erik and Charles woke in the headmaster's office and asked Human Way what had happened to them and Deadpool.
• Human Way recounted his conversation with Lady Death, leaving Erik and Charles stunned by the scale of the multiverse and its laws.
• Human Way erased Deadpool's restraints and told him to lead the way to the master of the Time Variance Authority, while Deadpool panicked about being subjected to Time Stop.

Deadpool amused Charles, Erik, and the Human Way with his loud “whispers” before the Human Way ordered him to use the Time-Space Teleporter to open a portal to the Time Variance Authority. Deadpool negotiated for powers instead of his face, then began operating the device as Charles and Erik accepted that Cassandra would have to be handled for her crimes.

• The Human Way threatened to send Deadpool to the Ganges, and Deadpool whispered insults about Erik and Charles to the Editorial Department while praising the Human Way.
• The Human Way interrupted Deadpool and ordered him to open a portal to the Time Variance Authority with the Time-Space Teleporter.
• Deadpool asked to have his face restored, but the Human Way suggested Lady Death liked him as he was and offered him other powers instead.
• Deadpool negotiated for adamantium bones, long blades, optic blasts, and teleportation, and the Human Way agreed before telling him to begin.
• Charles wished the Human Way luck and hesitated to ask him to spare Cassandra, while Erik reminded Charles that Cassandra was not his real sister.

Human Way accompanied Deadpool to the Time Variance Authority, where Mr. Paradox’s aggression provoked Human Way into encasing the guards and city in scarlet crystal. Loki revealed himself as the God of Stories, sent Deadpool away with a sealing card, and took Human Way aside to talk while Mr. Paradox was arrested.

• Mr. Paradox confronted Deadpool about finding a replacement Spacetime Anchor and ordered the time guards to arrest Human Way.
• Human Way encased Mr. Paradox, the time guards, and the surrounding streets in scarlet crystal, then called out Loki.
• Loki appeared and revealed himself as the God of Stories after Human Way identified him.
• Loki told Deadpool he would find a suitable Spacetime Anchor, and Human Way gave Deadpool a vibranium sealing card.
• Loki opened a portal for Human Way, who released the crystal before leaving with him.
• A stern-faced woman arrived and arrested Mr. Paradox and the other time guards.

Little Demon used the power Heavenly Dao granted him to build a hidden territory inside a Hell cliff and grew far stronger through assimilation. He began expanding underground, determined to become powerful enough to defy Mephisto and one day rule a demon kingdom.

• Little Demon finished sorting his harvest in his hidden home and reflected on how Heavenly Dao’s power had transformed him.
• He resolved to grow strong enough to survive Mephisto and considered that he might one day become Satan.
• Little Demon took his pickaxe into a deeper passage and began excavating and assimilating more territory.
• Remembering Heavenly Dao’s instructions to defeat other lords and annex their territories, Little Demon vowed to become a king and dug harder.
• Elsewhere in Hell, other demons found sculptures, crystal balls, and blocks that drew them into Li Ge’s plan.

Heavenly Dao trained Pietro in Hell while they watched demons fight over food, then Human Way arrived in Knowhere after securing control of it and its divergent timelines from Loki. He discovered Cassandra’s base among the remains of Ant-Man but could not find Cassandra.

• Heavenly Dao made Pietro eat while demons fought over roasted meat, using the scene to train both their willpower.
• Heavenly Dao urged Pietro to study magic fundamentals and threatened to leave him with only his spells among a horde of demons if he failed to study seriously.
• Human Way stepped through a portal into Knowhere after Loki agreed to give him control of it and the erroneous timelines.
• Human Way sensed Ant-Man’s remains and a group of Mutants, identifying the area as Cassandra’s base, but did not detect Cassandra.
• Human Way rode a crimson lotus seat toward the base, protected from the wind and sand by an energy barrier.

Human Way arrived at Cassandra’s base and announced himself as Immortal, overwhelming the mutants with his presence. He transformed into a gigantic, divine-looking figure visible across Knowhere, leaving survivors everywhere staring up at him.

• Cassandra ordered her mutants to capture survivors for her amusement, then left the base without explaining where she was going.
• Human Way flew openly to the prone skeleton base on his crimson cloud-lotus platform and cleared away the sandstorm with a wall of wind.
• Human Way released a trace of his pressure, causing the mutants to freeze, then landed in the base’s plaza.
• A bearded mutant asked Human Way who he was and what he intended to do, and Human Way called himself Immortal.
• Human Way transformed and grew to an immense size, drawing the gaze of survivors across Knowhere.

Human Way used the Chaos Redstone to spread Li Ge’s power across Knowhere and began replacing its sky, leaving the inhabitants convinced an overwhelming god had arrived. In Asgard, Li Ge told everyone not to disturb him, while Wanda took comfort from Natasha and went to see the divine artifact being forged for her on Venus.

• Human Way formed a reddish-gray sun and a grass-block pupil, then poured his mental power into the Chaos Redstone to spread Li Ge’s influence across Knowhere.
• Human Way sat on a crimson lotus platform as the sky changed, and people throughout Knowhere reacted with shock and fear to the being they called Immortal.
• Li Ge redirected his will to Human Way and warned everyone in Asgard not to disturb him, telling Wanda that his work was important but good.
• Wanda worried that she was too weak to help Li Ge, and Natasha comforted her by pointing out how much he cared for her.
• Wanda resolved to keep studying and flew toward Venus to see her lotus platform, while Tony, Logan, and Scott worked beneath it.

Li Ge examined Knowhere’s place in the multiverse’s cycle and discovered that its power recycled energy from erased timelines. He considered whether taking control would bind him there, then decided he could establish an organization to manage Knowhere while he stayed to benefit from it.

• Li Ge transformed into his more powerful form and used Chaos Power to examine Knowhere and its connection to the timelines.
• Li Ge discovered that the Time Variance Authority helped regulate broken timelines, while Knowhere decomposed their remnants and returned energy to the multiverse.
• Li Ge realized Knowhere’s space-time power suited his chaos abilities and suspected the One Above All might be guiding him toward controlling it.
• Li Ge hesitated to take direct control because he still hoped to travel across worlds and return to his original one.
• Li Ge decided he could imitate the Time Variance Authority by creating an organization to manage Knowhere while he remained there to gain its benefits.

Li Ge enclosed an ordinary planet-sized territory in Knowhere and began remodeling it, while survivors watched in alarm as energy lotus pedestals transformed the ground. Sabretooth Victor discovered that touching a pedestal strengthened him, prompting the survivors to rush for more.

• Li Ge formed an energy barrier around his territory, directed timeline remnants to its edges, and left passages connecting it to the outside.
• Survivors feared Li Ge’s changes and some began to flee, but stopped to watch as timeline remnants and hazards were separated along the barrier.
• Energy lotus pedestals landed and sent ripples through the ground, restructuring its matter and leaving stones and sand unusually vivid.
• Sabretooth Victor touched a lotus pedestal and felt his body absorb its energy and grow stronger.
• Victor charged toward another pedestal, and the other survivors rushed to collect them, abandoning their usual duties and fears.

Li Ge scattered energy lotus platforms across his territory in Knowhere, strengthening the survivors while surveying the region and its inhabitants. Meanwhile, Loki captured Cassandra and considered whether Li Ge might be destined to take his place; Li Ge then turned to a pile of blood-filled glass tubes.

• Li Ge's energy lotus platforms empowered survivors across his territory, though each person could absorb only a limited amount.
• Li Ge surveyed the territory and found fewer than a million survivors, most of them Mutants, with no one stronger than the Domain Realm.
• Loki captured Cassandra after catching her secretly investigating Mr. Paradox's location, and decided to hand her over to Li Ge instead of erasing her.
• Loki observed Li Ge transforming part of Knowhere and wondered whether he was building a paradise and might become the next Loki.
• Li Ge set aside his thoughts about Cassandra and took out glass tubes of blood that he had frozen with the power of time.

Li Ge refined blood collected from elite Mutants into a single drop of pure liquid, then opened a rift revealing the Ten Domains and the layers of reality within it. The survivors below mistook the rift for Li Ge’s divine kingdom as they felt its pressure and were drawn to its power.

• Li Ge examined tubes of Mutant blood collected by Erik and the others, then destroyed the tubes while preserving the blood.
• Li Ge studied the blood’s genes and used the Eight Trigrams Furnace and Nine Extremes Primordial Fire to refine it into a jade-white drop of essence.
• Li Ge infused the drop with manifestation power and chaos energy, causing it and the furnace to expand until the furnace shone like a second sun.
• Li Ge opened a vast spatial rift that revealed ten layers of heaven and earth, from the Samsara Realm to the Block World.
• The survivors felt the rift’s immense pressure and attraction, and concluded that it showed Li Ge’s divine kingdom.

Li Ge refined gene fusion and diverse materials in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, forging them into the embryonic form of a magnificent temple. As the people below watched the divine artifact take shape, his energy lotus platforms continued transforming the desolate land into a green territory threaded with new rivers.

• Li Ge cut a piece of refined gene fusion and stored it in the Block World, resolving to use it as a material and develop it into a source of power called the Gift of the God of Mutants.
• Li Ge closed the spatial rift and poured Nine Extremes Primordial Fire into the Eight Trigrams Furnace to refine the gene fusion with the gathered materials and rules.
• The furnace’s golden-red light warmed the land and faintly strengthened people below, while Li Ge increased the spread of his energy lotus platforms.
• Li Ge compressed and shaped the molten mixture, then used chaos-energy tools to forge and carve it into the thousand-meter-tall embryonic form of a temple.
• People watched the celestial phenomena and concluded that Li Ge was forging a divine artifact, while he noticed green growth and forming rivers below.

Tiga Dark continued draining the Dark Dimension while evading Dormammu, and the Demon Realm sent converted Chaos Redstone to Li Ge’s Block World. In Hell, Mephisto uncovered the Heavenly Dao’s scattered lord opportunities and began searching for them, setting the stage for the demons to pursue their power.

• Tiga Dark fought Dormammu for the fifth time, escaped again, and kept the Demon Realm moving through the Dark Dimension to consume its energy.
• Tiga Dark recovered from his injuries while the Demon Realm converted over a million Chaos Redstone and transmitted most of it to Li Ge’s Block World.
• Mephisto tested the fake Pietro by trying to transform him into a demon, but the illusion dissolved and left a mocking projection of Li Ge.
• Mephisto raged over the deception, then discovered demons secretly assimilating territory and learned about the lord opportunities and their link between power and territory size.
• Mephisto sent high-level demons searching for the scattered opportunities, while the Heavenly Dao welcomed the chance that Hell’s demons would covet them.

Three Stranges and three Christines fought monsters in a Demon Realm canyon, then gathered to sort their loot and discuss Li Ge’s power of blocks. The main-world Strange agreed to ask Li Ge to grant the power to the other Christines as well.

• Three Stranges used spells and close combat to defeat the monsters filling the canyon.
• Three Christines emerged from a hidden lounge and joined the Stranges to sort their loot.
• The main-world Strange asked Christine whether she wanted him to request the power of blocks from Li Ge.
• The Strange who had met Li Ge in the Dark Dimension asked the main-world Strange to request the power for his Christine too.
• The Endgame World's Christine praised the power of blocks, and both Stranges described the strength and cost of Li Ge’s believers.

Strange and Carol Danvers fought near the Milky Way’s central black hole after Carol suspected he planned to endanger the galaxy. Strange insisted he only wanted to place a marker, but Carol remained unconvinced and questioned why he thought Earth needed rebuilding.

• The chapter described how Strange, Christine, and powerful figures from several Li Ge-connected worlds increasingly traveled between universes and developed ways to cross timelines.
• Li Ge reflected that Marvel’s fragile spacetime had made it unusually easy for him to gain power and manipulate space and time.
• In the Zombie World, Strange, transformed into Ultraman, battled Carol Danvers near the Milky Way’s central black hole.
• Strange told Carol he only wanted to place a marker beside the black hole and urged her to return to Earth to help rebuild it.
• Carol refused to let Strange approach the black hole and said Earth seemed fine because her pager had not contacted her.

Strange confronted Carol Danvers over her absence during Earth's zombie catastrophe and explained how Li Ge had saved the planet. Carol accepted that Strange could search for black holes but vowed to stop Li Ge if he threatened the universe, then set off for Earth.

• Strange recalled how zombified Tony and the others ambushed Nick Fury, who was later abandoned, imprisoned by Strange, and sealed in a card by Li Ge.
• Angry at Carol Danvers for neglecting Earth, Strange rebuked her and began recounting the zombie outbreak.
• Strange described how the virus collapsed society and how Li Ge took control of the Solar System, promising to restore the dead and care for Earth's people.
• Carol Danvers listened in guilty silence, then agreed not to interfere with Strange's search for black holes but warned that she would stop Li Ge if he threatened the universe.
• Carol Danvers flew toward Earth to verify Strange's account, and Strange hoped Li Ge would not confront her.