Chapter Summaries

Li Ge arrived and embraced Wanda while the others exchanged affectionate reunions and reflected on those they missed. Carol Danvers erupted into Binary Mode, but after meeting Li Ge’s gaze, she began to doubt her anger and consider talking with him.

• Li Ge appeared on Wanda’s lotus platform, embraced her, and asked if she had missed him.
• Tony and Pepper, Peter and Gwen, Logan and Cassie, Scott and Jean, and Harry and Mary Jane shared affectionate moments while others thought of loved ones they missed.
• Carol Danvers grew furious at everyone’s behavior and surged into Binary Mode, filling the surrounding space with energy.
• Li Ge and Wanda approached Carol on the lotus platform as the others spread out and surrounded her.
• Carol looked into Li Ge’s eyes, softened, and reconsidered attacking him as Li Ge secretly sent powers of the mind and soul into her mind.

Li Ge arranged for Carol Danvers to answer everyone’s questions after demonstrating her power in a fight with Tony. Their battle reached a stalemate in Asgard’s training ground, and Li Ge called for them to stop.

• Li Ge calmed Carol Danvers and persuaded her to fight his friends before answering their questions.
• Li Ge opened a portal to Asgard’s training ground, where his friends gathered to watch Tony face Carol Danvers.
• Li Chuang and Alice arrived after spotting the portal and joined the spectators.
• Tony and Carol Danvers fought fiercely, escalating their clash as Carol entered Binary mode and Tony unleashed his Giant Form.
• Li Ge judged that the evenly matched fighters would eventually favor Carol’s greater energy reserves and told them to stop.

Nick Fury learned that Li Ge had agreed to a hundred-year contract with the Skrulls and prepared to inform the United Nations. Meanwhile, Peter Quill flew toward Earth to investigate why the Skrulls were gathering there and defied his adoptive father, Yondu.

• Talos told Nick Fury that Li Ge had shortened the Skrulls’ contract to one hundred years and would leave relations between Earth and the Skrulls to them.
• Nick Fury reasoned that Li Ge had likely anticipated other threats and agreed to coordinate with the United Nations while Talos prepared the Skrulls’ scientific and technological knowledge.
• Peter Quill danced aboard his battered spaceship as it flew toward Earth on autopilot.
• Peter Quill said he wanted to investigate the Skrulls gathering on his home planet and hoped to find something valuable.
• Peter Quill mocked Yondu during their call, refused to return to the Ravagers, and ended the call.

Peter Quill continued toward Earth while, in Asgard in the Zombie World, Li Ge used Carol Danvers as a sparring partner for his allies to test their training. Scott eventually lost ground to Carol, and Li Ge stopped their fight so Jean Grey could take her turn.

• Peter Quill ended his call with Yondu, told the ship's AI to keep heading for Earth, and danced out of the cockpit.
• Li Ge explained that he had controlled Carol Danvers because he disliked her and wanted his allies to test their combat strength against her; Steve and the others accepted this and hoped she would learn her lesson.
• Scott fought Carol with his Demon True Form, which he had mastered well enough to reshape, and traded powerful blows with her using an energy broadsword.
• Scott began to lose ground as his body and soul strained to support the energy he drew on, so Li Ge stopped the fight and separated them with a spatial barrier.
• Jean Grey entered the desert to fight next, while Carol replenished her strength and Scott rejoined the others to watch.

Li Ge remembered that he had forgotten two of his disciples, whom he planned to use in experiments for the realm beyond the Domain Realm, and returned to the Block World to find them. The chapter left their reunion and the experiments ahead.

• Jean Grey revealed the Phoenix Force behind her as Carol Danvers watched warily.
• Li Ge told everyone that his Block Rule had evolved from his domain, then vanished after speaking privately to Wanda.
• Li Chuang and Alice questioned Wanda, who said Li Ge had matters to attend to.
• Li Ge realized he had forgotten his two disciples and entered the Block World to find them.

David and James had asked Li Ge to help them master the powers of their gifted eyes, and Human Way had placed them in a secret experiment. Li Ge found them meditating in the Samsara Realm and began examining and connecting their divine halos with chaos power.

• David and James realized that mastering the powers of the Rinnegan and Tenseigan required far more study and cultivation than they could manage at their current pace.
• David and James chose to pursue full mastery and asked Li Ge for help, after which Human Way arranged for them to become test subjects in Li Ge's plan.
• Li Ge remembered the experiment and opened a screen displaying the Samsara Realm, where David and James floated in a pure white space.
• Li Ge examined the six-colored divine halos behind David and James's heads and connected them with wisps of chaos power.
• David and James shuddered as the chaos power touched their halos, then relaxed and faintly smiled.

Li Ge extracted the memories of David and James from their divine halos and learned how Human Way had sent their souls through lifetimes of reincarnation in the new Samsara Realm. As he watched the memories unfold, he recognized his Temple of Divine Revelation in the illusory world they had experienced.

• Li Ge carefully pulled two spheres of light from David's and James's divine halos without harming their souls.
• Li Ge explained that the new Samsara Realm could generate illusory worlds, and considered turning its surplus worlds into a divine artifact.
• Li Ge examined the spheres and recognized them as memory fragments from David's and James's experiences.
• Five years earlier, Human Way offered David and James the chance to join an experiment using the Samsara Realm, and they agreed.
• Human Way placed their souls in one illusory world, where they experienced lifetimes of reincarnation while their bodies slept.
• Li Ge saw the Temple of Divine Revelation appear in their memories and wondered whether the illusory world had evolved into an Earth.

Li Ge entered the illusory world created by David and James through his incarnation, discovering that the incarnation was its creator god. As he explored the incarnation’s memories, he learned how it had built the world and decided to make all his future incarnations creator gods as well.

• Li Ge followed the karmic connection to his incarnation in Immortal Mountain, hidden within a spatial bubble atop K'un-Lun Mountain.
• Li Ge took control of the incarnation and discovered that it was regarded as the creator god of the illusory world.
• Li Ge used his Chaos Power to patch the identities of his incarnations in future illusory worlds.
• Li Ge learned that the incarnation had awakened in chaos and received information from two balls of light, one pale purple and one pale blue.
• The incarnation used the information to create a stable spacetime, Earth, the Moon, and illusions of other celestial bodies before taking on Li Ge’s middle-aged appearance.

Li Ge’s avatar guided humanity through history, developed an immortal cultivation system, and spread it across Earth. Earth became a civilization of cultivation and technology whose factions expanded the illusory world by claiming territory among the stars.

• Li Ge’s avatar created humans, plants, and animals on Earth, then guided human development from the shadows through many eras.
• After people gave him exalted titles and sought transcendence, the avatar adapted the Path to Godhood and developed immortal cultivation methods up to the God Transformation Realm.
• Li Ge copied the avatar’s cultivation knowledge into the Chaos Stone, and the Towers Reaching Heaven began correcting their teachings for the completed realms.
• The avatar adopted the code name Immortal, took disciples, and helped Earth develop into a civilization where immortal cultivation and technology advanced together.
• Earth’s factions opened spatial bubbles and claimed territory beyond Earth, gradually turning parts of the Solar System from illusory into real while competing to control Earth.

After watching David and James’s memories, Li Ge saw that they had reincarnated for thousands of years while helping establish the Church of Divine Revelation and mastering their eyes’ powers. James proposed visiting Immortal Mountain to find Li Ge’s avatar, but David reminded him that their reincarnations were meant to help pioneer a realm beyond the domain realm.

• Li Ge reviewed his avatar’s memories and watched what David and James experienced after arriving in the world.
• David and James reflected on their many reincarnations across different eras and how Immortal had guided their cultivation while preserving their original identities.
• David recalled how he and James founded the Church of Divine Revelation, whose followers found them after each reincarnation and helped them cultivate their Rinnegan and Tenseigan.
• James suggested that he and David visit Immortal Mountain to find Immortal’s avatar and ask whether he could contact the real Immortal.
• David reminded James that Immortal had sent them to help pioneer a realm beyond the domain realm, and that they had not yet reached the required level.

Li Ge realized Human Way had not told David and James the specifics of their experiment and decided to end their long reincarnations in the illusory world. He opened a portal to bring them back to the real world, while planning to use mechanically intelligent NPCs for future experiments.

• David and James recalled Human Way's warning but remained troubled by their stalled progress in the Domain Realm and their many reincarnations.
• Li Ge discovered in Human Way's memories that David and James had never been told the experiment's specifics, then reasoned that their time in the illusory world had benefited them.
• Li Ge decided to return David and James to the real world and considered creating game-like worlds populated by mechanically intelligent NPCs for experiments.
• Li Ge sent reddish-gray chaos energy into the illusory world, where it formed a portal above David and James.
• David and James recognized the chaos energy, welcomed the portal, and allowed it to carry them away.

Li Ge brought David and James back from the illusory world after thousands of years of reincarnation, veiling their memories and leaving his avatar in charge of the world. Back in the training grounds, David and James recounted their experiences while the others listened.

• Li Ge told David and James that he had taken over his avatar and had come to bring them back, and they agreed to leave the illusory world in the avatar’s care.
• David and James ordered the Church of Divine Revelation to obey the avatar and accepted Li Ge’s offer to blur their memories of their reincarnations.
• Li Ge turned their sleeping souls into balls of light, departed with them, and entrusted his avatar with the illusory world.
• Li Ge returned to the training grounds with David and James less than an hour later, reflecting on the enormous time difference between the worlds.
• The others explained Carol Danvers’s situation, then asked David and James about their time away, and the pair described their thousands of years of reincarnation.

After the sparring ended, Li Ge prepared to tell Carol Danvers everything she wanted to know. Before doing so, he placed a seal on her as a safeguard, leaving a mysterious mark on her forehead.

• Carol Danvers defeated Logan in their spar, and Cassie rushed to check on him and helped him recover with a red Crystal Core.
• Li Ge ended the sparring, and everyone declined to continue fighting.
• Carol Danvers asked Li Ge to fulfill his promise and tell her everything.
• Li Ge pressed a finger to Carol Danvers's forehead and sealed her with a reddish-gray Source Script mark.

Li Ge sealed Carol Danvers and sent Coulson and the others to help her recover. He refused to let his friends reincarnate in realistic illusory worlds, but offered to create a game-like world for them, warning that its long cycles could damage their minds; no one decided whether to enter.

• Carol Danvers woke from Li Ge's control, confronted him, and struggled against the seal he had placed on her.
• Li Ge told Coulson to help Carol come to her senses, and Natasha, Coulson, Steve, and Barton took her away from the training grounds.
• Tony and Peter asked Li Ge to let them reincarnate in his illusory Samsara World so they could reach the Domain Realm.
• Li Ge explained that the people in his realistic illusory worlds were real to themselves, so he would not let others interfere with their lives or create such worlds for reincarnation.
• Li Ge offered to make a game-like illusory world without truly intelligent inhabitants, but warned that its long reincarnation cycles could alter their minds and said he would not protect them from the consequences.
• The group hesitated and made no immediate decision about entering the game-like world.

Li Ge assigned Ghost Way to manage the illusory worlds and checked on his other clones as Hell descended into chaos over Heavenly Dao’s opportunities and assimilated territories. In Knowhere, Human Way spread Li Ge’s influence, recruited survivors, and expanded the Divine Weapon Hall’s search for transcendent powers.

• Everyone abandoned the idea of using reincarnation as a shortcut and continued cultivating toward breakthroughs through their own efforts.
• Li Ge created Ghost Way to control existing and future illusory worlds, then checked on Heavenly Dao, Pietro, and Human Way.
• Mephisto repeatedly destroyed assimilated territories in Hell, but they regenerated and joined together unless he used enough of Hell’s origin to reclaim them.
• Heavenly Dao kept hiding with Pietro and distributing opportunities as demons grew greedy and wary, while Pietro approached the Divine Power Realm’s limit and prepared to enter the Domain Realm.
• Human Way sent Divine Soldiers across Knowhere to find transcendent powers and told the Pyrates base to spread Li Ge’s rituals and offer assimilation to survivors.
• More Knowhere residents prayed to Li Ge or requested assimilation as blocklike structures spread through the territory and its influence attracted people seeking safety and power.

The Skrulls settled into their new home at the edge of the Solar System while Nick Fury secured Earth’s agreement to coexist with them in exchange for their technological knowledge. Meanwhile, Ronan traveled toward Terra to destroy it, and Peter Quill continued his long journey home aboard his battered ship.

• Talos welcomed returning Skrulls, organized their settlement, and waited anxiously for Nick Fury’s response.
• Earth’s factions learned that the Skrulls had gathered at the Solar System’s edge, and many Transcendents and ships headed there to confront them.
• Nick Fury told Earth’s leaders that they could accept the Skrulls’ offer of technology and peaceful coexistence or oppose them, and they chose peace.
• Nick Fury ordered Hill to inform Talos of Earth’s decision, then wondered whether Li Ge still considered himself an Earthling.
• Ronan traveled aboard a Kree warship toward Terra and vowed to destroy Carol Danvers’s homeworld and the Skrulls.
• Peter Quill navigated his aging spaceship through another wormhole on his way back to his hometown.

Li Ge collected the souls of the dead from the Zombie World’s timeline and stored them in the Samsara Realm, strengthening his bond with Earth and helping his assimilation. As his efforts drew closer to the present, he discovered that the timeline was collapsing and curling toward it, possibly forming a new universe.

• Li Ge sent Animal Path Cloning through the Zombie World’s timeline to collect the souls and consciousnesses of people at the moment they died, avoiding direct interference with events.
• Gods and demons tried to stop Animal Path or confront Li Ge, but most backed down, were defeated, or became figurines in his collection.
• Li Ge stored the collected souls in the Samsara Realm while Ghost Way continued building a suitable game world for them.
• As Animal Path collected more souls, Earth’s consciousness began cooperating with Li Ge’s assimilation, and the Assimilation Array operated more smoothly.
• Li Ge discovered that the past timeline was collapsing and curling toward the present, as though replacing its original starting point and becoming a new universe.

Human Way reflected on Knowhere’s unmeasurable, chaotic passage of time while Li Ge’s Divine Soldiers explored the vast realm and guided survivors toward his territory. As beings from many familiar universes began gathering there, the chapter left Li Ge’s settlement growing into a refuge for those seeking stability or escape.

• Human Way concluded that Knowhere’s tangled fragments of timelines made its passage of time impossible to quantify.
• Human Way explained how Li Ge’s Six Paths Cloning used each clone’s core rule to command the others, supporting Li Ge’s pursuit of the chaos rule.
• Human Way focused on forging Divine Soldiers and processing the information and requests they sent back.
• Divine Soldiers encountered survivors from numerous universes, contacted them, traded with them, and directed them to Li Ge’s territory.
• Survivors drawn by the spectacle of Li Ge’s power converged on his territory in search of stability, change, or a way out of Knowhere.

Human Way surveyed the growing settlement and the divine statue dedicated to Li Ge before Loki detected the Zombie World's collapsing timeline and examined Animal Path's actions. Human Way then contacted Loki and asked whether he could visit.

• Human Way watched Divine Soldiers leave the Divine Weapon Hall and spread throughout Knowhere.
• Human Way surveyed the settlement, where Li Ge's believers had built a temple and a divine statue representing his powers.
• Loki detected the Zombie World's timeline collapsing toward Li Ge and saw that Animal Path had collected souls and sealed gods and demons.
• Loki tried to observe the present-day Solar System but found it concealed by Li Ge.
• Human Way contacted Loki telepathically and asked if it was a convenient time to visit.

The Human Way asked Loki to let him take the collapsing Zombie World's timeline, and Loki jokingly proposed trading it for Li Ge’s other Rule Stones. The Human Way accepted and tried to expand the deal to include the Infinity Stones held by the Time Variance Authority, leaving Loki to consider a trade that now sounded like a bargain for himself.

• Loki recognized that the Human Way had contacted him on Li Ge’s behalf and saw the Zombie World's timeline collapsing.
• The Human Way asked to remove the timeline from the multiverse instead of repairing it.
• Loki irritably offered to trade the timeline for all of Li Ge’s Rule Stones except the Chaos Rule.
• The Human Way agreed to trade fifteen stones, including six replicated Infinity Stones and nine Elemental Rule Stones, for the timeline.
• After Loki confirmed the stones could operate in any universe, the Human Way proposed adding the Time Variance Authority’s Infinity Stones to the trade.