Chapter Summaries

Loki grew powerful enough to fight Thor head-on, though the brothers agreed not to unleash their full domains after a clash nearly endangered the Asgardians. After learning about the Skrulls’ shapeshifting ability, Loki traveled in disguise to their new home, hoping to add that power to his Divine Guard Legion.

• Loki and Thor clashed at full strength on Asgard’s training grounds, and Odin stopped their domains’ aftershocks before they could harm the onlookers.
• Loki and Thor agreed to limit their fights to basic domain power, while Loki grew jealous of Thor’s closeness with Sif and Jane Foster.
• After hearing about the Skrulls, Loki decided their ability to transform into other people would benefit his Divine Guards.
• Loki concealed his Block Island and used Shadow Jumps between nearby islands as he traveled toward the Skrulls’ new home.
• Loki disguised himself as an ordinary Skrull and walked openly into the Skrulls’ settlement.

Loki discovered that Supergiant was secretly brainwashing Skrulls on Thanos's orders, but chose to stay hidden and watch events unfold. He suspected Thanos was trying to provoke conflict over Earth's Infinity Stones and decided to exploit the coming chaos for his own benefit.

• Several factions, including Thanos, had sent disguised agents to the Skrull settlement, while Talos withheld shared knowledge until Li Ge established the Skrulls' contract with Earth.
• Loki secretly tried to recruit newly arrived Skrulls into the Shadow Kingdom while the Skrulls and humans negotiated their agreement.
• Loki spotted Supergiant and hid as she used her psychic powers to brainwash Skrulls.
• Supergiant sensed someone nearby but failed to find Loki, then continued carrying out her lord's orders to brainwash more Skrulls.
• Loki inferred that Thanos planned to use the Skrulls to provoke conflict over Earth's Infinity Stones, and decided to observe the situation and seek opportunities for himself.

Dr. Zola’s hidden Hydra laboratory failed to extract powers from Transcendents, so he prepared to use a reproduced Founding Titan Serum instead. He had only one dose, and he looked toward Bucky’s cryogenic coffin as he readied it.

• Dr. Zola’s researchers reported that they still could not extract ability serums from their test subjects.
• Dr. Zola punished the reporting researcher and ordered him taken away for experiments, then drove the other researchers from the laboratory.
• Dr. Zola decided to use the Founding Titan Serum he had reproduced by monitoring General Ross’s research and obtaining Titan tissue samples.
• Dr. Zola took the sole dose from a compartment in his chest and looked toward Bucky, who remained asleep in a cryogenic coffin.

Dr. Zola planned to use the sole dose of Founding Titan Serum, a vibranium body, and advanced technology to bring himself back to life. After learning about the Skrulls, he decided to accelerate the plan so Hydra could exploit the coming upheaval.

• Dr. Zola failed to replicate another dose of Founding Titan Serum because Li Ge’s Chaos Rule Shackles prevented technological analysis of powers on the Path to Godhood.
• Dr. Zola prepared to use Regeneration Cradle technology, a vibranium body, and the serum to become a powerful living being.
• Dr. Zola sent Hydra Transcendents into the Demon Realm to hunt spiders and gather silk, which he converted into vibranium using hundreds of red Crystal Cores.
• After learning about the Skrulls, Dr. Zola decided to build the body and transfer his consciousness as quickly as possible, hoping Hydra could rise amid the upheaval.

The chapter described how Grant and Baron Zemo administered parts of the Tower Reaching Heaven, while Li Ge considered the requirements for entering the Domain Realm. It also recounted the Defenders’ work in a more dangerous Hell’s Kitchen and how Eddie Brock and Venom joined their ranks.

• Baron Zemo administered the tower’s brutal second-floor trial, recording top performers and helping them survive, while his life remained bound to the tower.
• Grant governed the expanding city on the third floor of the Tower Reaching Heaven, under the same restrictions as Baron Zemo.
• Li Ge decided that entering the Domain Realm could not be achieved through a trial and required deep understanding of one’s powers, talent, and effort.
• The Defenders continued fighting gangs in Hell’s Kitchen as Transcendent powers reshaped the city’s criminal underworld.
• Daredevil and the other superheroes proved unusually skilled at controlling their abilities, and Matt defeated a powerful Divine Power Realm gang boss almost unscathed.
• Eddie Brock and Venom met Frank during a misunderstanding in Hell’s Kitchen, teamed up with him against gangs, and later joined the Defenders.

As Li Ge condensed fifteen Rule Stones in a black hole, he reviewed the four realms he planned to pioneer beyond the Domain Realm and explained his path toward the Divine Kingdom Realm. After making a deal with Loki, the God of Stories, he shifted his goal from assimilating the Zombie World's Solar System to taking control of the entire Zombie Universe's spacetime.

• Talos continued negotiating with Earth's powers at the United Nations General Assembly as superheroes, supervillains, nations, factions, and Transcendents prepared for an unknown upheaval.
• Li Ge's fifteen Rule Stones neared completion as his consciousness entered a state of enlightenment inside the black hole.
• Li Ge outlined the Divine Soul Realm, Divine Body Realm, Divinity Realm, and Divine Kingdom Realm as the final four stages of his Path to Godhood.
• Li Ge explained that the Zombie World's Solar System had been an experiment in controlling independent spacetime, but his deal with Loki, the God of Stories, changed his target to the entire Zombie Universe.

While condensing fifteen Rule Stones inside a black hole, Li Ge fell asleep and dreamed of an illusory world where he was Immortal, the creator of the universe and the Path to Godhood. The dream ended with Immortal disappearing from public view as his followers spread his cultivation system across the sea of stars.

• Li Ge continued creating fifteen Rule Stones and considered using the process to experience cultivation from its earliest stages.
• Li Ge's consciousness fell asleep, and an illusory world formed within his dream.
• In the dream, Li Ge's parents taught him the legend of Immortal, who created the universe and six fundamental rules.
• Immortal created nine additional rules and fifteen Rule Stones to maintain the universe, then slept to recover.
• After waking, Immortal discovered intelligent life and created the Path to Godhood with help from his followers as test subjects.
• Immortal departed, while his followers spread the Path to Godhood among the races of the sea of stars.

After years of grueling preparation and rapid cultivation, Li Ge advanced through the inheritance dimension’s trials, mastering nine elemental powers and Telekinesis. In his latest Heaven Ascension Battlefield trial, he destroyed a lightning-wielding puppet and earned the qualification to receive the Domain Realm inheritance.

• Before coming of age, Li Ge trained relentlessly under his parents and challenged instances in the illusory world.
• Li Ge endured the seven-day Perfect Body Realm trial, consumed the highest-grade King Fruit, and reached the level required for the next trial.
• Li Ge completed the Heaven Ascension Battlefield trial by fighting a humanoid puppet and later entered the inheritance dimension’s third level.
• Li Ge endured the trials for all nine elements and gained Telekinesis, then used their combined powers to destroy six puppets in the Divine Power Realm trial.
• Li Ge rapidly reached the Divine Power Realm energy core limit, gathered materials in the Demon Realm, and forged a nine-colored lotus platform.
• Li Ge used the lotus platform and a trace of Chaos Power to smash the lightning puppet before the trial ended, qualifying for the Domain Realm inheritance.

After obtaining a chaos-energy star, Li Ge delayed creating his domain and traveled across Earth and the Solar System to gather experience and study different powers. In a hazy vision, he saw his lotus-dais artifact overlap with the Solar System and recognized sixteen kinds of rules before wondering if his name was also Immortal.

• Li Ge consulted his Domain Realm parents, then chose to travel and strengthen his soul before building a domain.
• Li Ge encountered many unusual races and chaotic adventures on Earth, while recognizing that his experiences felt like a dream.
• Li Ge visited the Solar System’s celestial bodies and sensed their different elemental powers and rules.
• Li Ge perceived himself merging with the workings of the nine celestial bodies and saw the Solar System as a vast formation shaped like a lotus dais.
• Li Ge summoned his lotus-dais artifact and saw sixteen lotus seeds, each bearing a different rule.
• Li Ge wondered through his hazy consciousness whether he was not only Li Ge, but also Immortal.

Li Ge remembered that he was both Li Ge and Immortal, creator of the universe and the Path to Godhood, then realized he was dreaming and decided to wake up. While he slept inside the black hole, his Chaos Rule transformed it into a reddish-gray sun that converted everything it swallowed into chaos energy.

• Li Ge regained his memories of awakening in chaos, shaping celestial bodies, creating the Path to Godhood, and training on Earth.
• Li Ge recognized his identity as Immortal and understood that his domain was chaotic spacetime.
• Li Ge viewed the universe from beyond its stars, gathered it into his palm, and declared that he would wake from the dream.
• As Li Ge slept, the Chaos Rule spread from his body and began replacing the black hole’s underlying logic.
• The black hole’s outline and interior turned reddish-gray, transforming it into a sun that converted swallowed matter and energy into chaos energy.

After waking from a dream in which he experienced cultivating from scratch and creating a universe, Li Ge discovered that his subconscious had reshaped the black hole into a Chaos Spacetime Domain. He tested its ability to devour and convert matter, then checked on the fifteen Rule Stones, which were nearly finished condensing.

• Li Ge recalled the dream's cultivation experiences and realized the black hole around him had become the Chaos Spacetime Domain he had imagined.
• Li Ge decided the domain could serve as a future home for the expanding Chaos Sun.
• Li Ge controlled the domain to accelerate its rotation and watched it crush a planet and convert it into chaos energy in less than an hour.
• Li Ge inspected the domain, strengthened its connection to his soul and consciousness, and turned his attention to the divine rings.
• Li Ge saw that the fifteen illusory stellar shells had nearly vanished, revealing fifteen fist-sized lights with differently colored Rule Stone gems at their cores.

Li Ge collected the fifteen completed Rule Stones, sealed them into a lotus pedestal, and withdrew the singularity at the heart of his Chaos Spacetime Domain. He planned to use the domain as the replacement core for the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus he had left with Wanda before returning to her.

• Li Ge shattered the chains linking the Source Script formations and sent the Chaos Sun back to merge with its parent in the Block World.
• Li Ge inspected the fifteen Rule Stones, confirmed their strength and stored energy, and fitted them into a Uru Divine Metal lotus pedestal.
• Li Ge sealed the pedestal with Source Script characters to contain the Rule Stones’ power and judged it capable of rivaling upper-tier Universal Level Dimensional Demon Gods.
• Li Ge decided the Chaos Spacetime Domain could replace the missing core lotus seed in the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus he had left with Wanda.
• Li Ge withdrew the black-hole-like singularity from his domain, reducing it to a red-gray gem in his palm.

Li Ge examined the cosmic devastation caused by removing a black hole, then decided not to collect others whose destruction would endanger civilizations. As he planned to reshape Zombie World into his own divine kingdom, the gods of the Pantheon watched him in fear, and some began plotting how to gain his favor.

• Li Ge scanned the region around the vanished black hole and confirmed that no civilizations or life were nearby, while its disappearance sent stars and planets into chaos.
• Li Ge sensed two other black holes through Strange's imprints and learned that one anchored the Milky Way while the other supported nearby civilizations, so he abandoned plans to collect them.
• Li Ge imagined remodeling the universe after gaining control of its timeline and making Zombie World an independent divine kingdom governed by his power.
• Li Ge sensed that Strange had stopped searching and returned to Earth, and he considered preserving the Infinity Stones' powers as subsidiary bodies of his Rule Stones.
• The gods in the Pantheon watched Li Ge make the black hole disappear, feared his power, and some began considering how to become his trusted confidants.

Li Ge contacted Human Way in Knowhere and told Loki he was ready to complete their deal, while Wanda continued assimilating the Solar System in his absence. In the Main World, the Skrulls prepared for a binding contract ceremony as rival spies and factions quietly pursued their own plans.

• Li Ge left the cosmic storm’s range, rested in the Block Ranch, and contacted Human Way, who reached out to Loki about their deal.
• Wanda continued operating the Assimilation Array and asked Strange to monitor Li Ge while he was away.
• Talos and Arale prepared an altar and ceremony for the Skrulls’ rule-binding contract, but Talos waited for the remaining Skrulls to arrive.
• Loki recruited Skrulls into the Shadow Kingdom, Supergiant brainwashed others, and Raven gathered intelligence for Krakoa as other spies stayed active.
• David and James monitored the Skrulls’ Cube Continent for the Avengers, while Tony built mechanical armies and the Flying Hero Squad fought crime.
• Dr. Zola used the Founding Titan Serum to shape his Vibranium body, while Li Ge’s parents told Zheng Xian they would not interfere in the Skrull situation.