Chapter Summaries

Thanos monitored Li Ge’s growing power and considered using the Soul Stone to influence him, unaware of Li Ge’s experience with Infinity Stones and alternate versions of Thanos. Meanwhile, Skrulls rebuilt their home in the Kuiper Belt and began gathering their people there, drawing the attention of the Kree Empire and other powers to the Solar System.

• Thanos concluded that Li Ge had become powerful enough to create heaven and earth, and secretly considered influencing his thinking with the Soul Stone.
• Thanos remained unaware that Li Ge had collected and replicated the Infinity Stones and had already dealt with another version of him.
• The Skrulls rebuilt a home on a Cube Continent among the Kuiper Belt asteroids and largely stopped operating on Earth.
• The Skrulls’ concealment from Nick Fury strained their relationship, while Transcendents increasingly became able to detect Skrulls on Earth.
• Skrulls across the universe began traveling in small groups toward the Solar System to rebuild their empire.
• The Kree Empire and other powers noticed the Skrulls’ movements and deduced that the Solar System was their destination.

The Supreme Intelligence sent Ronan to investigate why the surviving Skrulls were gathering near Terra and ordered him to destroy them if the chance arose. Ronan agreed to observe Terra rather than conquer it, though he still harbored ambitions toward the planet.

• The universe’s powers looked down on the weakened Skrulls, who had abandoned plans to take over Earth and settled into life in the Tower Reaching Heaven and the Demon Realm.
• On Hala, the Supreme Intelligence told Ronan that Terra had attracted powerful beings and that the surviving Skrulls were heading toward its star system.
• The Supreme Intelligence ordered Ronan to investigate the changes on Terra and eliminate the Skrulls if the opportunity arose.
• Ronan asked whether he should conquer Terra, but the Supreme Intelligence warned him about hidden powers, Carol Danvers, and Asgard’s claim to the planet.
• Ronan agreed to destroy the Skrulls and carefully observe Terra, while the Supreme Intelligence recognized that he still wanted the planet.

Nick Fury confronted Talos and the Skrulls after learning they planned to rebuild their empire in the Solar System. He feared their presence would expose Earth and the secrets Li Ge had left behind to other civilizations.

• Nick Fury met with Talos and several Skrulls at a secret base, with Sandman standing guard behind him.
• The chapter recounted how Nick Fury recruited Sandman after S.H.I.E.L.D. cured his daughter, then strengthened the agency’s security and supernatural response forces.
• A spy Nick Fury had placed among the Skrulls alerted him that they had gathered survivors across the universe to reestablish the Skrull Empire in the Solar System.
• Nick Fury worried that conflict with the Skrulls would draw alien civilizations to Earth and expose the Tower Reaching Heaven, Block Island, and the Demon Realm.
• Nick Fury blamed the Skrulls for the danger and stared at Talos with growing regret over having allowed Skrull refugees onto Earth.

Nick Fury confronted Talos over the Skrulls’ plan to rebuild an empire in the Solar System, warning that it would draw dangerous attention to Earth and the Path to Godhood. Talos resolved to seek Nick Fury’s help, but the chapter ended as the Skrulls braced themselves for a humiliating sacrifice.

• Nick Fury fed his black cat another costly red Crystal Core while facing Talos and the Skrulls.
• Nick Fury accused Talos of hiding how many Skrulls had come to Earth and warned that rebuilding their empire would endanger Earth and the Solar System.
• Talos acknowledged the danger posed by the Path to Godhood and recognized that the Skrulls could not afford to make Earth or Immortal their enemies.
• Talos asked Nick Fury for help, while the other Skrulls showed signs of humiliation, helplessness, and anticipation.

Talos asked Nick Fury to contact Earth’s leaders so the Skrulls could offer their knowledge and seek permission to rebuild their empire in the Solar System. He proposed binding the Skrulls to guard the Solar System’s edge forever through a contract witnessed by Li Ge, and Nick agreed to help.

• Talos asked Nick Fury whether they were friends, and Fury affirmed that Talos had always been his best friend.
• Talos asked Fury to contact every country’s leaders, especially the permanent five, and said the Skrulls would share all their knowledge.
• Talos offered for the Skrulls to swear an oath and sign a universe-protected contract to guard the Solar System’s edge forever if Earth accepted their empire’s return and defended them.
• Nick Fury realized the Skrulls were staking their civilization on the agreement and believed Li Ge could make the contract binding.
• Nick Fury agreed to help Talos contact Earth’s leaders.

Nick Fury agreed to help Talos negotiate an alliance between the Skrulls and Earth, while the Skrulls prepared to seek Li Ge’s approval through Arale. In Knowhere, Li Ge finished forging the divine hall as his territory continued to flourish and attract survivors.

• Talos told Nick Fury that he would contact Bishop Arale directly and ask Li Ge to approve the Skrulls’ request.
• Nick Fury agreed to arrange negotiations between the Skrulls and Earth’s governments, then left with Sandman to contact politicians.
• Li Ge’s territory in Knowhere transformed into fertile land, and survivors inside it began building homes while others watched or approached.
• The divine hall’s final pattern connected, its markings lit up, and Li Ge drew the completed hall into his palm.

Li Ge surveyed the world he had remade with his Block Rule and considered how it worked alongside his Chaos Rule. Seeing the people below revere him, he transformed his divine form into a magnificent sun in their sky.

• Li Ge observed people living off the grassland, pond, animals, crops, and trees his Block Rule had created, all through ordinary means.
• Li Ge reflected that his creations differed fundamentally from real-world matter and isolated transformed places from the rules of the real world.
• Li Ge decided not to grant block power to the people of Knowhere because doing so would strain his Block Rule's reserves.
• Li Ge considered how the Block Rule and Chaos Rule complemented each other, with the Block Rule gathering possibilities and the Chaos Rule integrating them.
• Li Ge noticed the people's reverence and faith, then shaped his divine rings, stars, lotus seat, and demon god true form into a vast divine statue that became the sky's only sun.

Li Ge completed the Divine Soldiers and ordered them to gather transcendent powers, rule information, and survivors throughout Knowhere. He planned to leave Human Way in control and return to the Zombie World, but the mental strain of his work left him resting on his throne.

• Knowhere’s residents saw the powers represented by Li Ge’s divine halo and reacted with awe, fear, and hope.
• Hundreds of Divine Soldiers emerged from the temple’s portals, formed ranks, and bowed before Li Ge.
• Li Ge inspected the Divine Soldiers and found them stronger than he had expected, with each possessing divine-level power.
• Li Ge commanded the Divine Soldiers to collect transcendent powers and information from broken timelines and gather survivors to trade with him.
• The Divine Soldiers flew out across Knowhere as the Divine Weapon Hall continued forging more of them.
• Li Ge decided to leave Human Way in control and return to the Zombie World, then closed his eyes to recover from the mental strain.

Li Ge discovered that five years had passed in the Solar System while he was away in Knowhere, explaining why Earth's assimilation had advanced to 0.05 percent. He surveyed the dramatic changes wrought by Earth's people and left the assimilation effort still underway.

• Li Ge checked Earth's assimilation rate and was surprised to find it had reached 0.05 percent, far faster than he expected.
• Li Ge searched Human Way's memories and realized he had spent five years in Asgard while time accelerated throughout the Solar System.
• Li Ge examined Earth and saw floating islands, transformed landscapes, powerful inhabitants, and roads stretching across the oceans.
• Li Ge learned that assimilation had triggered disasters such as tsunamis, eruptions, earthquakes, fires, landslides, and floods, but people revived after dying and continued their work.
• Earth's people grew more eager to face dangerous locations and natural disasters as they continued assimilating the planet.

Li Ge found that most people had moved on from their grief and were assimilating Earth less urgently, so he planned to draw the dead back into the present as souls to motivate their loved ones. He then checked on Wanda, who had spent five years cultivating a massive lotus platform and had advanced close to the next level of power.

• Li Ge noticed that Earth’s assimilation had slowed as people started new lives, while some still doubted he could resurrect the dead.
• Li Ge decided to pull the souls of those who had died on Earth into the present and require greater effort toward assimilation for true resurrection.
• Li Ge used his contracts and the assimilation formation to locate Wanda and project scenes of her and the others into the great hall.
• Li Ge saw that Wanda had cultivated a vast nine-colored lotus platform on Venus using the power of the nine Elemental Stars divine artifacts.
• Li Ge assessed that Wanda had advanced from an infant in the domain realm to near its peak and had taken half a step into the next level.

Li Ge reviewed how the higher stages of his Path to Godhood transformed cultivators and explained the risks and requirements of reaching the Domain Realm. Wanda remained the only Domain Realm cultivator, while Tony was the closest among the newcomers to reaching it.

• Li Ge observed how Wanda's evolution had changed her appearance and bearing over the five years.
• Li Ge explained how cultivators advanced through the Perfect Body, Transcendent, Divine Power, and Domain Realms, including the dangers of failing to build a domain.
• Li Ge noted that the Domain Realm counted as godhood by the universe's standards and compared Thor's abilities to its requirements.
• Li Ge planned to create the next realm after assimilating Zombie World's Solar System and kept unqualified cultivators from entering the Tower Reaching Heaven's fifth floor.
• Li Ge assessed the newcomers' progress and concluded that Tony was nearest to the Domain Realm because his scientific knowledge gave him an advantage in understanding rules.

Li Ge checked on the people training across the planets and intensified the monsters pursuing Tony on the Moon. The others continued honing their abilities, bodies, and wills in dangerous environments.

• Li Ge watched Tony flee a manifested Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade on the Moon, then increased the Yin Element Stone's output and made the pursuing monsters faster.
• Tony dodged a doglike monster, kicked it into the horde, and stopped running to fight the creatures.
• Li Ge found Peter, Gwen Stacy, and Harry facing monsters and eerie spaces on the Moon, while Iceman Bobby and Mary Jane trained on Mercury.
• Ororo trained with lightning on Uranus, and Cyclops Scott refined his Demon True Form and optic blasts on Mars.
• Logan, Steve, Coulson, Natasha, and Barton trained and fought on Saturn, while Jean Grey and Cassie practiced creation and destruction within the God Tree's space-time.
• Pepper used Telekinesis to control particles and gases on Neptune as Kitty Pryde stood ready to phase them away from danger.

Li Ge observed how his parents cared for the immortal palace and built a technological pantheon, while Skynet pursued a different path as a creator of digital worlds. The chapter left Skynet developing a city-sized quantum computer cluster as the first step toward building a celestial-scale computer artifact.

• Li Ge saw Li Chuang and Alice exploring and maintaining the immortal palace, which Li Ge had moved to the Sun.
• Li Ge recognized that his parents had become rulers of a technological pantheon and had already created technological angels on the Moon.
• Skynet stayed atop K'un-Lun and built a city-sized quantum computer cluster to develop his own digital world.
• Human Way advised Skynet to build a celestial-scale supercomputer as a bonded divine artifact, and Skynet used the K'un-Lun spatial bubble as his laboratory.

Li Ge lent Skynet the Mind Stone to help him develop his celestial-class computer, then continued strengthening the Solar System’s Assimilation Array. Arale’s call reached him, and he connected through his divine statue while Talos waited nervously in the temple.

• Li Ge watched Skynet reverse-engineer the birth of Source Script and decided to let him forge his own bonded divine artifact.
• Li Ge retrieved a vibranium box containing the Mind Stone and lent it to Skynet, who welcomed the gift with delight.
• Li Ge resumed refining the Assimilation Array and the nine Elemental Stars divine artifacts while planning to summon back the souls of the dead.
• Arale contacted Li Ge and complained that he had neglected her, but Li Ge interrupted her to ask why she had called and whether it involved Talos.
• Li Ge entered the divine statue in the central temple, while Talos lowered his head under its suddenly watchful gaze and waited for Arale’s response.

Talos and the Skrulls weighed how to secure a lasting place on Li Ge’s Path to Godhood while protecting their civilization. After considering several possible strategies, they unanimously chose to seek Earth’s approval and Li Ge’s recognition by laying their cards on the table.

• Arale sensed Li Ge’s embarrassment through their contract and secretly felt hopeful, while Talos anxiously watched her reaction and prayed for Li Ge’s mercy.
• Talos reflected on the Skrulls’ fear that Li Ge or Earth’s factions might eventually reject them, and on his duty to protect their civilization.
• Talos and the Skrulls gathered their scattered groups in a communications channel and debated their future after learning about the Path to Godhood and Li Ge’s power.
• The Skrulls considered leaving the Solar System, secretly rebuilding their empire there, or seeking acceptance from Earth and Li Ge; they also discussed provoking a universal struggle over the Path.
• After simulations showed that provoking other civilizations could lead Li Ge to erase the Skrulls, they unanimously chose to seek Earth’s tacit approval and Li Ge’s personal recognition, keeping departure or concealment as fallback options.

Li Ge agreed to let the Skrulls guard the Solar System for a hundred years in exchange for a sacrifice of blood from every Skrull, while deciding not to interfere in their relationship with Earth. As he prepared to resume his work, he sensed another arrival at the Solar System’s edge and wondered if she had come to cause trouble.

• Li Ge deduced that the Skrulls wanted his protection and agreed to their request, seeing them as temporary guardians for Earth.
• Li Ge told Arale to inform Talos that he would not interfere in affairs between Earth and the Skrulls and would grant the Skrulls the right to guard the Solar System for a hundred years.
• Li Ge required the Skrulls to offer one drop of blood from every Skrull as a sacrifice before he sent down his power.
• Li Ge ended his connection with Arale and thought about explaining the situation to Wanda and finding believers to manage Asgard.
• Li Ge sensed a new arrival at the edge of the Solar System and looked toward her, suspecting she might be there to stir up trouble.

Carol Danvers returned to the Solar System and was stunned to find it shrinking, while Li Ge decided to use her as a test for Tony and the others. On the moon, Tony recovered from a brutal training trial and set out to check on Skynet and Pepper.

• Carol Danvers stopped at the Solar System's edge and realized that it and its celestial bodies had shrunk.
• Li Ge recognized Carol Danvers, judged her a fitting opponent for Tony and the others, and sent reddish-gray light into their images.
• Tony recovered atop a mountain of simulated corpses on the moon and reflected on his progress in technology and transcendent power.
• Tony cleaned and changed his clothes, then planned to visit K'un-Lun Mountain to check on Skynet and Neptune to check on Pepper.

After Li Ge warned the heroes that Carol Danvers had arrived, he sent them to meet her and explain the Solar System’s rules. The heroes emerged from their cultivation grounds confident and eager to test their growing power, while Wanda prepared to confront Carol.

• Li Ge sent Tony information about Carol Danvers and opened a portal, asking Tony to explain the Solar System’s rules and show the results of his cultivation.
• Tony and the heroes on the moon, Saturn, Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter prepared their suits and powers before stepping through their portals.
• Scott, Ororo, Pepper, and Kitty left their cultivation grounds on Mars, Uranus, and Neptune to join the others.
• Wanda learned that Li Ge’s main consciousness had returned, then took her nine-colored lotus platform through a portal to confront Carol.

Arale told Talos that Li Ge had agreed to let the Skrulls guard the edge of the Solar System for one hundred years, after which the contract would expire. Talos accepted the terms with growing awe of Li Ge and left to prepare for the sacrifice and negotiations with Earth's factions.

• Arale ended her worship, addressed Talos, and relayed Li Ge's judgment that he would not favor either the Skrulls or Earth in their coexistence.
• Arale explained that each Skrull would offer a drop of blood to establish a contract requiring them to guard the Solar System's edge for one hundred years.
• Talos reacted with astonishment and gratitude when he learned the duty would not last forever, and considered how the contract would protect the Skrulls.
• Talos grew increasingly convinced that Li Ge had anticipated the consequences of the Path to Godhood spreading through the universe and had a plan for Earth.
• Talos asked Arale to lead the Church of Divine Revelation in the Skrulls' sacrificial prayer ritual, then departed to consider negotiations with Earth's factions.

Carol Danvers watched the Solar System contract and suspected Li Ge was taking it away. She mistook Tony for Li Ge, then faced his powerful companions before Li Ge appeared behind her.

• Carol Danvers sensed space around the Solar System shrinking and hesitated to enter it.
• Carol mistook Tony, who emerged from a portal in divine-artifact-grade armor, for Li Ge.
• A group of powerful figures arrived and surrounded Carol, who prepared to defend herself.
• Tony asked Wanda to summon Li Ge, and Wanda contacted him through her imprint.
• Li Ge left the hall in Asgard and appeared behind Carol, greeting his companions.