Chapter Summaries

Li Ge brought Coulson to confront Abomination and gave him a costume-changing ability that created a black military greatcoat. Coulson transformed into his Tyrant form and approached Abomination as General Ross spotted him and Bruce from a helicopter.

• Li Ge summoned Coulson, asked him to fight Abomination, and Coulson accepted after Nick Fury ordered him to take the job.
• Li Ge restrained Coulson and gave him a costume-changing ability, which Coulson used to create a black military greatcoat.
• Coulson transformed into his Tyrant form, jumped from the rooftop, and walked toward Abomination.
• Abomination dismissed Coulson and demanded that Hulk appear.
• General Ross spotted Coulson, Bruce, and Li Ge from his helicopter and ordered the pilot to get closer.

Coulson fought Abomination while Li Ge used telekinesis to torment General Ross’s helicopter and keep Bruce from fleeing. As Abomination grew stronger and began overpowering Coulson, Coulson felt his Tyrant power nearing its next stage.

• Coulson and Abomination charged into each other, then traded powerful punches without either gaining the advantage.
• General Ross arrived by helicopter and demanded that Bruce go with him, while Li Ge reassured Bruce and refused Ross’s warning to stay away.
• Li Ge shook General Ross’s helicopter with telekinesis, leaving Ross clinging to the doorway as Bruce watched.
• Abomination’s bone spurs and muscles grew as he absorbed more of the hulk serum’s power, and he began forcing Coulson back.
• Coulson endured Abomination’s attacks and felt the restless power within him nearing an eruption.

Coulson transformed into a stronger, clawed form and turned the fight against Abomination, whose wounds began outpacing his ability to heal. Nick Fury watched the battle and realized Coulson could become even more powerful.

• Coulson and Abomination paused their fight and introduced themselves as Tyrant and Abomination.
• Coulson underwent a painful transformation, gaining metallic skin and sharp claws that cut through a wall.
• Bruce warned Li Ge about Coulson's changes, and Li Ge reassured him that the transformation was normal.
• Abomination charged Coulson, but Coulson caught his fist and slashed his chest with his claws.
• Coulson overwhelmed Abomination with punches and claw strikes until Abomination's healing began to falter.
• Nick Fury watched the satellite feed and eagerly considered Coulson's potential for further upgrades.

Coulson defeated Abomination and prepared to hand him over to General Ross, who then threatened Bruce and Li Ge over Hulk. Li Ge pulled Ross from his helicopter, but Bruce and Coulson stopped him from escalating the confrontation, leaving Ross still insisting that Hulk belonged to the military.

• Nick Fury ordered Coulson to hand Abomination over to General Ross because the military had created him.
• Coulson defeated Abomination, and General Ross summoned soldiers to retrieve him while demanding that Bruce return to the military.
• General Ross threatened Li Ge and warned him to stay out of Bruce's affairs, citing his mutant status.
• Coulson revealed that he worked for S.H.I.E.L.D. and delivered Nick Fury's message that Ross should handle the military's creation himself.
• Li Ge used Telekinesis to pull Ross from his helicopter and threatened to get rid of him, but Bruce urged Li Ge not to act and Coulson offered to mediate.
• Ross backed down somewhat for S.H.I.E.L.D.'s sake but insisted that Hulk belonged to the military.

Li Ge offered Bruce a way to separate Hulk from himself, even after Bruce chose to go with Coulson to S.H.I.E.L.D. Bruce accepted the ability, and Hulk emerged as a small, childlike being who Bruce decided to treat as his younger brother.

• General Ross left after accepting that Bruce would not go with him, and Bruce chose to accompany Coulson to S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Li Ge offered to help Bruce resolve his problem by giving him an ability like the one he had given another Mutant.
• Bruce agreed after Li Ge explained that the ability would collect information about his powers, and Coulson confirmed he knew why.
• Li Ge gave Bruce the clone ability, and Bruce used it to bring Hulk out as a small green child.
• Bruce observed Hulk's innocent, childlike behavior and decided to treat him as his younger brother.

Li Ge accepted Nick Fury’s invitation to S.H.I.E.L.D., where Bruce Banner agreed to become a special technical consultant in exchange for protection from General Ross. After sharing his King Fruit drinks, Li Ge explained his plan to create a Path to Godhood and prepared to show Nick Fury and Bruce what he could do.

• Li Ge used a portal to take Coulson and Bruce Banner to Nick Fury’s office at S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Nick Fury assured Bruce that S.H.I.E.L.D. would protect him, and Bruce agreed to join as a special technical consultant.
• Li Ge shared his King Fruit drinks with Coulson, explaining that they could heal injuries and restore energy.
• Nick Fury and Bruce tried the drinks, then Nick Fury asked Li Ge whether he could truly create a Path to Godhood.
• Li Ge explained why he wanted people to gain power and keep evolving, then decided to take Nick Fury and Bruce to his world to demonstrate his abilities.

Nick Fury considered how to manage Li Ge’s immense power and decided against summoning Captain Marvel. Meanwhile, Tony Stark investigated footage of Coulson fighting Blonsky and discovered that Li Ge, a mutant, had been with Coulson and Bruce Banner.

• Nick Fury offered Li Ge a secret consultant role at S.H.I.E.L.D. and promised help gathering transcendent powers in exchange for a chance to try the Path to Godhood.
• After Li Ge left, Nick Fury considered calling Carol Danvers back but put away the pager to avoid provoking Li Ge.
• Tony Stark watched footage of Coulson fighting Blonsky and asked JARVIS to identify them.
• JARVIS identified Coulson and Blonsky, then showed Tony footage of Coulson transforming into a Tyrant alongside Bruce Banner and Li Ge.
• JARVIS told Tony that Bruce was the Hulk and that Li Ge was a mutant attending Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.
• Tony wondered whether Li Ge had caused Coulson's transformation.

Tony Stark visited Li Ge after watching footage of Coulson’s battle with Abomination and becoming curious about Li Ge’s powers. Li Ge brought Tony into his world and began explaining his plan to create the Path to Godhood, along with the gods and demons behind it.

• Tony Stark watched Coulson defeat Abomination, saw Li Ge’s portal, and decided to visit Li Ge’s research institute.
• Li Ge considered visiting parallel universes to collect powers, including abilities from Apocalypse and powerful mutants.
• Tony Stark arrived at Li Ge’s fishing spot, introduced himself, and explained that he had come to investigate Coulson’s transformation and Li Ge’s portal.
• Li Ge revealed that the institute was his domain and brought Tony into his world.
• After Tony recovered from losing contact with JARVIS, Li Ge told him about the Path to Godhood and the existence of gods and demons.

Tony Stark agreed to join Li Ge’s Path to Godhood as a subordinate god after learning how divinities worked and that the plan would gather the wisdom of its participants. He accepted Li Ge’s invitation to visit parallel universes, and Li Ge urged him to merge with his divinity before the trip for protection.

• Tony Stark decided he would join Li Ge’s plan and help oversee the Path to Godhood.
• Li Ge explained that Tony would receive a blank divinity to fill with powers and knowledge, and that his parents were already subordinate gods.
• Li Ge told Tony that participants would contract to offer up their knowledge and would need to sleep while their souls merged with their divinities.
• Tony asked to take his divinity home to study, and Li Ge agreed as long as he did not give it to anyone else.
• Li Ge invited Tony to visit parallel universes, and Tony eagerly accepted.
• Li Ge urged Tony to merge with his divinity before the trip because his armor was too crude to protect him in stronger worlds.

Li Ge returned to Kamar-Taj to ask the Ancient One how to locate parallel universes accurately and avoid returning at the wrong time. The Ancient One let him place an information-gathering mark on the Time Stone, and Li Ge then asked her about pinpointing parallel universes.

• Tony Stark accepted the sealed Divinity from Li Ge and flew away after exchanging contact information with him.
• Li Ge visited Kamar-Taj, greeted Strange, and explained that he planned to collect things from parallel universes.
• Li Ge met the Ancient One in the tea room and declined her offer of the Sorcerer Supreme position in exchange for the Time Stone.
• The Ancient One handed Li Ge the Eye of Agamotto, and Li Ge merged an information-gathering mark into the Time Stone before returning it.
• Li Ge asked the Ancient One how to locate parallel universes accurately and ensure he returned at the right time.

Li Ge visited the Ancient One to learn how to locate parallel universes, then returned to the school to collect Wolverine’s and the Professor’s blood as connections for his planned journey. The X-Men considered joining him, but the Professor refused, leaving Li Ge to prepare for the trip alone.

• The Ancient One explained that Li Ge would need objects connected to his target parallel universes to locate them.
• Li Ge returned to the school and asked Wolverine for blood, explaining that he needed it to find mutant parallel universes.
• Wolverine agreed, and Li Ge collected his blood before telling the Professor and the others about his plans.
• The Professor allowed Li Ge to take his blood, but rejected the X-Men’s request to travel with him because they needed to build Krakoa.
• The X-Men abandoned the idea of joining Li Ge, who remained content not to tie his plans too closely to mutants.

Tony discovered that divinity was transforming his body, then told Pepper he planned to travel to a parallel universe with Li Ge. As Tony and Li Ge prepared to leave, Li Ge gave Pepper telekinesis for protection.

• Tony asked JARVIS to scan him, and JARVIS reported that his brain activity, physical strength, and hormone levels were increasing as he evolved.
• Tony realized Li Ge had invited him because he valued Tony’s intelligence, then told Pepper about the planned trip and asked her to manage the company if he did not return promptly.
• Pepper accepted Tony’s plan and said she hoped to become a god and accompany him someday.
• Li Ge arrived while Tony and Pepper were about to kiss, and Tony complained that Li Ge had not announced himself.
• Tony suggested they prepare for the journey in his laboratory and asked Li Ge to give Pepper defensive powers.
• Li Ge gave Pepper a multicolored orb of light that granted her telekinesis, including the ability to attack, defend, and fly.

Li Ge and Tony opened a portal to a parallel universe using Wolverine's blood, while Jimmy underwent the Weapon X procedure. Jimmy survived the adamantium bonding, escaped his restraints, and emerged with metal claws.

• Li Ge activated his portal ability and used Wolverine's blood to open a passage to a parallel universe.
• Tony scanned the portal, and Li Ge sent him through before following him while Pepper stayed behind.
• Jimmy recalled Kayla's death, Victor's attacks on his former teammates, and his decision to join Stryker's Weapon X Program.
• Stryker ordered the adamantium injections, and Jimmy endured the painful bonding as his healing factor repeatedly restored his damaged body.
• Jimmy heard Stryker order his memories erased, broke his restraints and needles, and burst from the tank with adamantium claws.

Jimmy escaped Stryker’s laboratory and ran naked through the wilderness, where he encountered Li Ge and Tony. Li Ge gave him clothes and explained that they had come from a parallel universe, leaving Jimmy to learn about his counterpart, Logan.

• Jimmy escaped Agent Zero’s gunfire by cutting through the laboratory wall and jumping into a waterfall.
• Li Ge and Tony arrived in the wilderness through a portal, and Li Ge recognized Jimmy as the counterpart of their friend.
• Tony began asking F.R.I.D.A.Y. to investigate the world, but Li Ge stopped him after spotting Jimmy running naked.
• Li Ge took pictures of Jimmy, then conjured clothes for him; Jimmy accepted them and said his name was Jimmy, not Logan.
• After an elderly couple drove past, Li Ge introduced himself and Tony and told Jimmy they came from a parallel universe where his counterpart went by Logan.

Li Ge revealed to Jimmy that Kayla was alive and led him and Tony back to Stryker's experimental base to investigate and collect Adamantium. They found the metal, but Stryker had already left.

• After learning about parallel universes and Mutants, Jimmy asked Li Ge to tell him about Logan, his counterpart.
• Li Ge explained that he had prepared for the trip and told Tony to master magnetism manipulation and Telekinesis before attempting to wield the power of time.
• Li Ge told Jimmy that Kayla had not died and that he had been tricked, then opened a portal back to the experimental base.
• Tony entered the base in his armor, and Li Ge used Telekinesis to dismantle the water tank and show Tony the molten Adamantium.
• Li Ge searched the base but found only support personnel; Stryker was gone.

Li Ge and his companions left Stryker’s first base and recruited this world’s Professor X to help rescue the captured mutants. After arriving at the next experimental facility, Li Ge saw the cruelty inside and decided to change the conditions for mutants in this world before leaving.

• Li Ge used telepathy to send the soldiers at Stryker’s first base away, then led Tony and Jimmy toward the other experimental facility to find adamantium, its formula, and Jimmy’s girlfriend, Kayla.
• Li Ge opened a portal to Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters and asked Professor X to help rescue the mutants; after learning what Stryker was doing, the professor agreed to join them.
• Li Ge brought Tony, Jimmy, and Professor X through a portal to the experimental facility, where Tony hoped to obtain adamantium and Jimmy sought answers from Kayla.
• Li Ge scanned the facility and shared what he saw of the experiments with his companions, then declared that he would teach the researchers a lesson and change conditions for the mutants there.

Li Ge revealed his Tathagata Dharma Form and grew to over two hundred meters tall outside Stryker's experimental base. He reached through the chimney with an apparently intangible palm, leaving the rescue of the trapped mutants and Stryker's fate unresolved.

• The Professor warned Li Ge not to act rashly, but Li Ge said he planned to strip a country of its power rather than kill every bad person.
• Li Ge told the Professor, Tony, and Jimmy not to resist as he prepared to bring the mutants out of the base.
• Li Ge transformed into his golden Tathagata Dharma Form and grew to over two hundred meters tall, astonishing Tony, the Professor, and Jimmy.
• Stryker ordered his subordinates to gather important research materials and evacuate as Li Ge appeared outside the base.
• Li Ge lowered his right palm over the chimney, passed through it like an illusion, and withdrew his hand.

Li Ge rescued the Mutants from Stryker's base and carried them into the sky, while Jimmy reunited with Kayla and confronted Victor. After leaving Earth, Li Ge prepared to reveal his true Tathagata Dharma Form to everyone watching.

• Li Ge pulled the Mutants out of Stryker's base, and Jimmy reunited with Kayla, forgave her, and confronted Victor.
• The professor reassured the rescued Mutants, while Tony tried to offer help before returning to practice Telekinesis.
• Li Ge warned everyone on his palm that he would leave Earth and activate his true Tathagata Dharma Form.
• Li Ge rose above Earth on his lotus pedestal, and the Mutants and Tony watched the planet recede.
• After traveling away from Earth, Li Ge stopped and announced, "True Body of the Tathagata Dharma Form!"

Li Ge froze the world and expanded into a colossal form beyond Earth, while governments scrambled to identify him and decide how to respond. He left Tony and the others in a protective energy sphere above his palm as Earth shrank to the size of a basketball in his sight.

• Li Ge stopped the world's motion, leaving humans able to move while planes, vehicles, weather, and the oceans stood still.
• Leaders in the mysterious country, the nation of steel, and the Black Palace watched satellite footage and debated how to handle Li Ge.
• People around the world reacted to the golden light, and some considered taking advantage of the frozen world.
• Li Ge reached a suitable altitude and began enlarging his body, carefully holding himself in the void to avoid destroying Earth.
• Tony measured Li Ge's growth and saw Earth reduced to a basketball-sized sphere while he and the others hovered in an energy sphere above Li Ge's palm.

Li Ge appeared above Earth in a colossal form and lowered a finger toward Stryker’s base, while the rescued mutants watched from space. The chapter ended with the finger covering the base’s sky as Stryker braced for its descent.

• The rescued mutants, including Jimmy, Kayla, Tony, and the professor, watched Li Ge grow larger than Earth and reacted with awe and devotion.
• Li Ge curled his other fingers and slowly pressed his index finger toward Stryker’s base without disturbing Earth’s atmosphere or clouds.
• Stryker learned that Li Ge had entered space and that the golden light had stopped movement across the world, while military officials blamed him for the crisis.
• Stryker recognized Li Ge above Earth and shouted defiance as people across Bald Eagle panicked and the president urged the military to launch nuclear missiles.
• Li Ge’s finger covered the sky above Stryker’s base, and Stryker watched its ridges loom over the facility.