Recaps

Xu Xiao conquered the Shinobi World, used faith and the Golden Pupil to advance his power, and defeated Osiris before launching a worldwide struggle against ancient gods. The arc left Liu Sandao and other Desire Pursuers facing a government plan to hold the gods in place for a nuclear strike.

• Xu Xiao absorbed the Ten-Tails, summoned Kaguya, defeated Isshiki, and used the God Tree’s Chakra Fruit to awaken the Golden Pupil of Myriad Phenomena.
• Xu Xiao conquered the Shinobi World, built the Carefree Heavenly Desire Sect, and began exploring how faith could lead him toward godhood.
• Xu Xiao gave Asimo a Seed of Desire, then traveled with Evelyn’s expedition to Hamunaptra and released Imhotep to investigate the Egyptian gods.
• Xu Xiao entered Osiris’s sealed divine kingdom, defeated him through the Law of Desire, and made him a puppet who explained the path to godhood.
• Xu Xiao restrained the World Will and sent five thousand Seeds of Desire across the world as the ancient gods retaliated by unleashing monsters.
• Liu Sandao received the Ultimate Desire System, survived a zombie attack, and resolved to become king of the apocalypse as Desire Pursuers gained strength.
• Marshal Gao asked the Desire Pursuers, including Liu Sandao, to help hold the Ancient Gods in place for a nuclear strike, while Madman and Liu Qingqing questioned the plan.

After the Demigods defeated Yanluo, Xu Xiao reclaimed the power he had granted them and turned his attention to expanding his influence across worlds. In the Marvel universe, he directed Apocalypse and Magneto to spread Mutants as the X-Men investigated the altered timeline and attacked Magneto.

• Liu Sandao demanded that Huaxia’s leaders and their descendants share Marshal Gao’s risk in the alliance, and Marshal Gao agreed before presenting the battle plan.
• The Demigods drew Yanluo away from Mount Tai, sealed him in Feng Bujue’s modified Five Elements formation, and humanity destroyed his body with nuclear strikes, but a presence from the void seized his essence.
• Ancient Gods launched a worldwide assault, and after Huaxia’s remaining fighters defeated several of them, Xu Xiao reclaimed the Seeds of Desire, drained Liu Sandao, and extracted the essence of the surviving Ancient Gods.
• Xu Xiao used the World-Crossing Gate to absorb the Cabin in the Woods World’s authority, created the avatar Xu Xuanpin, and then spread divine power through the Great Tang Twin Dragons World, empowering Xu Tianci.
• Xu Xiao suppressed Apocalypse and took control of his consciousness, then sent him to gather Mutant powers while trapping the Phoenix Force in his divine kingdom and carrying it across worlds.
• Apocalypse took over Professor X’s body, recruited Magneto, and began the X Project, while Xu Xiao redirected it into a plan to spread Mutants across multiple Marvel universes.
• Magneto captured Stryker and other anti-Mutant figures, injected them with the X-Gene, and staged their escape as the X-Men arrived in the altered universe and decided to target him.
• The X-Men assembled at Long Island Park and began their surprise attack on Magneto as he greeted a crowd of newly transformed Mutants.

Apocalypse empowered Mutants, fought a coalition of heroes across universes, and claimed authority over Mutant powers. Xu Xiao secured the Superpower Dimension through an alliance with the First Firmament and returned to the Doomsday Base, uncertain what had changed.

• Apocalypse empowered Jack and other followers with the X-Gene, then sent Jack to seize the Tesseract in Norway.
• Jack’s followers took the Tesseract from HYDRA, and Apocalypse entered Asgard before returning to Earth with Jack empowered to Omega level.
• Apocalypse battled Galactus, whose greed became a rival consciousness, then drained and sealed away much of Galactus’s origin energy.
• Apocalypse fought the Illuminati and gathered thirteen Mutant apostles, while Xu Xiao agreed to work with the First Firmament in exchange for access to the Superpower Dimension.
• Apocalypse’s forces killed Captain Marvel, Tony Stark, and many other heroes as the multiversal coalition attacked Egypt.
• Xu Xiao fought Dormammu and drove off the gathered dimensional demon gods while Apocalypse entered the Superpower Dimension.
• The Phoenixes and Scarlet Witch fought Apocalypse, who killed Jean Grey before Phoenix revived her, and Apocalypse then claimed authority over Mutant powers across worlds.
• Apocalypse resurrected and strengthened his apostles as the heroes prepared to fight on, while Xu Xiao returned to the Doomsday Base after agreeing to join the First Firmament’s invasion of the DC Multiverse.

Xu Xiao helped the main world ascend, built forces from other worlds, and gained authority by appearing as its first God. He then interfered in the Wind and Cloud world through Duan Lang, who began claiming treasures meant for Nie Feng.

• Xu Xiao traced the main world's transformation to laws flowing in from other worlds, connected himself to its emerging World Will, and learned that the World-Crossing Gate could transport living things.
• Xu Yuantui recruited Homelander and Soldier Boy with Seeds of Desire, then sent them with Azu, Ryan, and captured scientists to another world for Compound V research.
• Xu Yuantui found Alice in the zombie-ravaged Resident Evil world, revealed her origins, healed Alicia Marcus, and gathered Umbrella's researchers, data, virus samples, and the Red Queen.
• Orochimaru developed Symbiote troops, Aberrants, and rare Resonators, while Xu Xiao prepared the forces for a future invasion of the DC Universe.
• Zhang Qiang fought the Kun Dragon through its evolution, and Xu Xiao intervened by presenting himself as the main world's first God and claiming about thirty percent of its authority.
• Xu Xiao discovered a seven-colored opening in the world barrier and later reviewed Orochimaru's super-soldier classes before turning his attention to the Wind and Cloud world.
• Xu Xiao bound the Myriad Worlds Martial Arts System to Duan Lang, whose rise at the Tianxia Society helped divert the world from Feng and Yun's original story.
• Duan Lang entered Lingyun Cave, took the Fire Qilin Sword, and greedily consumed Blood Bodhi that had belonged to Nie Feng.