Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiao began drawing in the emotional power of the Green Lantern universe through his desire clone, Xu Xuanpin, while leaving Thanos to handle the remaining threat from a defeated projection. As the Lantern Entities and Corps lost their power, they followed the emotional traces toward the source.

• Xu Xiao told Thanos to deal with the surviving higher-dimensional being’s future clones after its projection dissipated.
• Xu Xiao reviewed his plans in the DC worlds and prepared to lure in the Lantern Entities of the Seven Lantern Corps.
• Xu Xuanpin revealed the Divinity of Desire and began absorbing the universe’s emotional power, growing into a colossal true form.
• Xu Xiao accepted the risk that Xu Xuanpin might one day overpower him, and let his desire clone continue to grow.
• The Ion Shark and Parallax rampaged on Planet Oa as emotional power drained from the power battery and Green Lanterns lost their ring powers.
• The Lantern Entities across the universe flew toward the source of the emotional traces.

Xu Xiao attacked the Blue Lantern Corps after they arrived to investigate the giant consuming emotional energy, killing Saint Walker and his teammates before turning on Adara. He overwhelmed Adara with Space Slashes that drained its power of hope, leaving it unable to counterattack.

• Adara brought Saint Walker and the Blue Lantern Corps to investigate Xu Xuanpin, whose giant body was consuming emotional energy across the universe.
• Xu Xiao crossed several light-years and killed Saint Walker with a single punch.
• Xu Xiao killed the other Blue Lantern Corps members as Adara tried to revive them.
• Xu Xiao dodged Adara's attack and tore open its body with a Space Slash.
• Xu Xiao struck Adara with a storm of Space Slashes, forcing it to spend its power of hope healing while it could barely fight back.

Xu Xiao attacked the Lantern beasts and their allies, draining their emotional power to fuel Xu Xuanpin’s ascending divine form. As their energy dwindled, Xu Xiao began drawing out the rules at the cores of the Lantern beasts.

• Xu Xiao killed Adara and sent her power of hope to Xu Xuanpin through the Divinity.
• Parallax and the other Lantern beasts arrived with Sinestro and Lantern ring bearers, surrounding Xu Xiao.
• Xu Xiao sealed off the area and drained Butcher’s rage, killing several Red Lantern Corps members.
• Xu Xiao struck Parallax and pierced the Lantern beasts’ cores with seven-colored light, drawing their power into Xu Xuanpin’s divine form.
• As the Lantern beasts’ energy was nearly exhausted, Xu Xiao began extracting the rules within their cores.

Xu Xiao devoured four Lantern Entities and absorbed their emotional powers into his Divinity of Desire. As he prepared to take another core, the Death Black Lantern appeared, revealing that the universe’s will and a higher-dimensional force had begun to oppose him.

• Xu Xiao destroyed Ophidian’s core and absorbed greed, causing the Lantern Entities to realize he could permanently kill them.
• Xu Xiao ignored Parallax’s plea, destroyed the Butcher’s core, and absorbed rage.
• Xu Xiao crushed the Predator Beast’s core and absorbed love, leaving the Ion Shark, Proselyte, and Parallax among the remaining Lantern Entities.
• A warning from fate shifted Xu Xiao away just before the Death Black Lantern appeared in his former position.
• Xu Xiao sensed a karmic thread connecting the Black Lantern to a higher dimension and realized the DC Universe’s higher-dimensional beings were relying on its will to confront him while they fought Marvel’s higher-dimensional beings.

Xu Xiao tested the Death Black Lantern and found that its power of death countered his power of desire. He sent Xu Yuantui to fight the Death Superman, who was destroyed by the clone’s Dao-powered strikes, though the Black Lantern’s flame remained lit.

• Xu Xiao struck the Death Black Lantern with golden divine power, but the lantern absorbed the attack and strengthened its black flame.
• A deathly hand seized the lantern and revealed a powerful, controlled Death Superman, who charged Xu Xiao and was knocked back in their clash.
• Xu Xiao sent Xu Yuantui to face Death Superman while he continued dealing with the Lantern Entity cores.
• Xu Yuantui’s corpse-like body resisted the power of death, and his Dao-infused fists battered Death Superman and scattered the death Qi.
• Xu Yuantui unleashed Nine Heavens Divine Lightning, destroying Death Superman and the surrounding death Qi, but the Black Lantern’s flame persisted.

Xu Yuantui resisted the Death Black Lantern while Xu Xiao completed the collection of the seven emotional powers by destroying the Ion Shark, Hal Jordan, and Parallax. Xu Xuanpin reclaimed his completed divinity and announced that he lacked nothing.

• Xu Yuantui seized the Death Black Lantern and repelled its death Qi and black mud with his glazed body and lightning.
• Xu Xiao broke down the Ion Shark and Hal Jordan’s will, then destroyed the Ion Shark and erased Hal after his ring shattered.
• The universe’s will reacted violently to Hal’s death, while Xu Xiao crushed and absorbed Parallax’s fear core.
• Xu Xuanpin reclaimed the completed divinity from his chest as his vast consciousness swept across the universe.
• Xu Xuanpin declared, “I lack nothing!”

Xu Xuanpin gathered the seven emotional powers and began ascending, only to face the Death Black Lantern and the DC Universe’s will as they unleashed death to destroy the universe. He purified the river of death with the desires of living beings, while Xu Xiao hinted that the universe’s collapse had been anticipated.

• Xu Xuanpin’s divine body grew to a hundred times the sun’s size as he gathered the seven emotional powers and prepared to ascend.
• Xu Yuantui released the Death Black Lantern when the universe’s death Qi overwhelmed him, then returned to Xu Xiao and merged with him.
• The Death Black Lantern and the universe’s will unleashed a river of death that devoured stars, energy, and laws across the universe.
• Xu Xuanpin entered the river of death and used a multicolored curtain formed from living beings’ desires to purify it.
• The incarnation of death warned Xu Xuanpin that the sealed universe’s collapse would strengthen it, but Xu Xiao said the situation was within his expectations.

The First Firmament and Darkseid led Marvel and DC’s higher-dimensional beings into a war across their multiverses. When Xu Xiao’s rise to a new Dao resonance revealed that he had stolen DC’s origin power, Darkseid and the other DC beings turned their wrath on the universe where Green Lantern was.

• The First Firmament and Darkseid clashed while Marvel and DC’s supreme beings fought across higher-dimensional spacetime.
• The First Firmament and Darkseid exchanged attacks with the laws of creation and destruction, while other beings fought over death, time, and nothingness.
• Darkseid noticed a change in destiny and realized Xu Xiao had become a new being of their stature.
• The First Firmament revealed that Xu Xiao had exploited the multiversal conflict to steal DC’s origin power.
• Darkseid and the DC beings unleashed their rules upon the three-dimensional world and surrounded the universe where Green Lantern was.

Higher-dimensional DC beings sealed the collapsing Green Lantern Universe to trap Xu Xiao until its destruction, while Marvel’s powerful beings watched without helping. Xu Xiao revealed that the World-Crossing Gate could still let him escape and began a plan to use the Emotional Spectrum to help Xu Xuanpin resist the Long River of Death.

• DC’s supreme beings isolated the Green Lantern Universe from all parallel universes, timelines, and dimensions, intending to kill Xu Xiao after its collapse.
• The First Firmament and other Marvel powerhouses chose to watch, treating the confrontation as entertainment and refusing to intervene.
• Xu Xiao sensed the higher-dimensional beings and mocked their attempt to trap him, confident that the World-Crossing Gate could overcome their seal.
• Xu Xiao recalled that he had secretly gathered Emotional Spectrum power during the Marvel–DC conflict, seeking to combine it with Xu Xuanpin’s Dao of Desire and pursue the power of life.
• Xu Xiao opened his Golden Pupil of Myriad Phenomena and sent a beam of light toward Xu Xuanpin, who released seven-colored divine light into the Long River of Death.

Xu Xuanpin poured out his divine power to purify the Long River of Death, while Death Essence retreated and waited for him to weaken. As Xu Xuanpin began burning his own divine body, emotional illusions appeared in the cleared regions of the universe.

• Xu Xuanpin pursued Death Essence and used his seven-colored divine light to drive the Death Qi back, despite the rapid loss of divine power.
• Death Essence avoided fighting and conserved his strength, expecting Xu Xuanpin to run out of power before the universe collapsed.
• The heroic spirits of Xu Xuanpin's believers sacrificed themselves to replenish his divine power as he continued his assault.
• Xu Xiao used the Golden Pupil of Myriad Phenomena to calculate the situation and told Xu Xuanpin they were approaching equilibrium.
• Xu Xuanpin began burning his divine body, and emotional illusions appeared in the regions where his light had cleared the Death Qi.

Xu Xiao completed his changes to the Green Lantern Universe, and Xu Xuanpin sacrificed his Great Dao to trigger strange new rules as the universe entered its extinction phase. Xu Xiao revealed that he was the original and left through the World-Crossing Gate, while Death Essence was left to face the transformed universe.

• Xu Xuanpin and Death Essence continued their battle, while Xu Xiao used World Power to modify the Green Lantern Universe’s final rule.
• Xu Xiao completed the change, causing the universe to resume its collapse and enter the extinction phase.
• Xu Xuanpin sent Death Essence flying, then disintegrated his divine body and Great Dao into fragments that spread throughout the universe.
• Strange rules and a new, insubstantial vitality appeared in the universe after Xu Xuanpin’s sacrifice.
• Xu Xiao told Death Essence that Xu Xuanpin was his clone and that he was the original, then entered the World-Crossing Gate.

Xu Xiao revealed that he had been using the World-Crossing Gate to avoid Death Essence while arranging the Green Lantern Universe’s collapse to turn into chaos instead of oblivion. As the universe began resetting, he left Death Essence facing the same transformation and prepared for his own rebirth.

• Xu Xiao entered the World-Crossing Gate, where Death Essence could neither reach nor target him, and explained that he was waiting for the changes he had planned.
• Xu Xiao told Death Essence that the universe would return to chaos and revealed that he had anticipated the DC higher-dimensional beings’ attempt to trap him.
• Xu Xiao explained that he had injected fundamental rules into the Green Lantern Universe, disrupting its expected collapse into oblivion.
• Death Essence recognized that the restored rules would cause the universe to return to chaos and accused Xu Xiao of reshaping them.
• Xu Xiao thanked Death Essence for its sacrifice as the expanding colorless energy consumed other forces and the Green Lantern Universe entered chaos.

After the Green Lantern Universe collapsed into chaos, higher-dimensional beings realized Xu Xiao was using it as a furnace to cultivate a True Spirit Seed and create a new Creator God. They could only wait to see whether Xu Xuanpin and the preparations he and Xu Xiao had made would allow the dangerous gamble to succeed.

• The Green Lantern Universe dissolved into chaos, and the higher-dimensional beings recognized that their rules had sealed it off from the outside.
• The beings speculated that Xu Xiao had turned the universe into a chaos furnace to gather its rules and nurture his Great Dao through a True Spirit Seed.
• The beings explained that Xu Xuanpin was Xu Xiao’s specially prepared clone, and that the World-Crossing Gate had helped Xu Xiao prepare the Green Lantern source world for his advancement.
• The beings concluded they could only wait to learn whether Xu Xuanpin would succeed, and warned that Xu Xiao would face another battle with them afterward.
• The DC and Marvel beings continued fighting on the higher-dimensional battlefield as the universe remained quiet.

Xu Xiao arrived in the Journey to the West Great World, determined to cultivate his own strength while Xu Xuanpin remained in the DC Universe. He chose the Dao of Cultivating Perfection as his best path toward becoming a Golden Immortal and entered the city to face the Journey to the West Calamity.

• Xu Xiao appeared in an alley and used Telekinesis to remake his clothes before joining the crowds.
• Xu Xiao considered how time flowed differently across worlds and how Apocalypse could keep him informed about events in Marvel.
• Xu Xiao reviewed his various cultivation paths and judged the Dao of Cultivating Perfection his best route to surpassing his other powers.
• Xu Xiao reflected on the dangers of relying on raw strength and divine power, recalling Xu Xuanpin's battle against Death Essence in the DC Universe.
• Xu Xiao entered the Journey to the West Great World to pursue the Dao of Cultivating Perfection and face its calamity.

Xu Xiao explored the Southern Jambudvipa Continent and discovered its cities were protected by incense gods, human destiny, and guardian spirits, while Daoist cultivators roamed the wilderness. After criticizing the Western Sect, he met a powerful middle-aged Daoist who invited him to visit his sanctuary, and Xu Xiao agreed to follow him.

• Xu Xiao traveled across the Southern Jambudvipa Continent and sensed that its laws suppressed powers other than immortal arts.
• Xu Xiao discovered that major cities had gods sustained by incense, while smaller settlements relied on human destiny and guardian spirits for protection.
• Xu Xiao encountered many Daoist Qi refiners and concluded that the Southern Jambudvipa Continent held powerful cultivators of its own.
• A middle-aged Daoist appeared behind Xu Xiao, agreed with his criticism of the Western Sect, and explained that he had followed him because Xu Xiao carried the presence of an old acquaintance.
• The middle-aged Daoist invited Xu Xiao to his Daoist sanctuary, and Xu Xiao accepted and followed him into the air.

Xu Xiao arrived in the Journey to the West world and was brought to meet Great Emperor Zhenwu, who recognized a presence connected to Guangchengzi in Xu Xiao’s cultivation inheritance. Zhenwu explained that he had followed Xu Xiao to investigate the unexpected appearance of someone connected to the Jade Void Palace.

• Xu Xiao descended onto Mount Wudang and met a middle-aged Daoist whose abode was filled with Spiritual Energy and incense-born power of wishes.
• The Daoist led Xu Xiao into the main hall, where Xu Xiao recognized the divine figure as Great Emperor Zhenwu.
• Great Emperor Zhenwu saw through Xu Xiao’s show of nervousness and invited him to sit and talk.
• Zhenwu said he had sensed a familiar presence in Xu Xiao and followed him after failing to divine his origins.
• Xu Xiao guessed that the presence came from Guangchengzi, and Zhenwu confirmed that Guangchengzi and his master were fellow disciples.
• Zhenwu explained that he had traced Xu Xiao’s connection to the Jade Void Palace and wanted to investigate why a bearer of its inheritance had appeared.

Xu Xiao told Great Emperor Zhenwu the truth about his connection to Guangchengzi and his arrival in the Journey to the West world. Zhenwu accepted him as a junior brother and invited him to stay at his cultivation ground, leaving Xu Xiao wondering why Zhenwu seemed disappointed that he would not interfere in the Journey to the West Calamity.

• Xu Xiao explained that he had inherited some of Guangchengzi's remains and was a transmigrator, rather than Guangchengzi's disciple.
• Great Emperor Zhenwu welcomed Xu Xiao as a junior brother of the Three Pure Ones Daoist School.
• Zhenwu asked whether Xu Xiao had come to interfere in the Journey to the West Calamity, and Xu Xiao said he only wanted to seek immortality and cultivate.
• Xu Xiao noticed Zhenwu's disappointment and wondered whether the Heavenly Court secretly wanted someone to disrupt the calamity.
• Zhenwu offered Xu Xiao a place to stay at his cultivation ground and scriptures to study.

Xu Xiao spent a hundred days studying Daoist classics at the Zhenwu Daoist Sanctuary and reflecting on how Dao and methods differed. He asked the Great Emperor Zhenwu for guidance on choosing his main path and began demonstrating his knowledge, withholding only the Dao of Desire.

• Xu Xiao studied The Secret of the Golden Flower, the Yellow Court Classic, and the Seven Techniques of the Hidden Talisman, considering how cultivating the Dao differed from mastering protective methods.
• Xu Xiao followed a quiet routine at the sanctuary, studying scriptures, practicing sword techniques, and discussing the Dao with Zhenwu's disciples.
• Taohua summoned Xu Xiao to the Three Pure Ones Hall at the Great Emperor Zhenwu's request.
• Xu Xiao asked Zhenwu which Dao he should pursue, concerned that choosing a path might bring conflict with its existing practitioners.
• Zhenwu invited Xu Xiao to describe the other paths he had studied so he could offer guidance, and Xu Xiao demonstrated his knowledge while concealing the Dao of Desire.

Zhenwu offered Xu Xiao a choice of seven Daoist scriptures and explained that he hoped outsiders like Xu Xiao could become variables in the approaching Journey to the West Calamity. Grand Master Xuandu then revealed that he had a cultivation path suited to Xu Xiao and showed him a mottled Dao mark before asking him to decide whether to work for him.

• Zhenwu offered Xu Xiao seven Daoist scriptures as a principal cultivation method and said he could choose one or suggest another path.
• Zhenwu explained that the Three Pure Ones regarded Xu Xiao as family because of his Yuxu inheritance, while his status as a transmigrator made him a possible variable in the Journey to the West Calamity.
• Zhenwu drew Xu Xiao into his mind to meet Grand Master Xuandu, who said he had sought Xu Xiao out to offer him a great opportunity.
• Xu Xiao cautiously agreed to hear Grand Master Xuandu's proposal without committing himself to it.
• Grand Master Xuandu said he had a path suited to Xu Xiao's ability to travel among myriad worlds, then revealed a mottled Dao mark in Xu Xiao's Sea of Consciousness.

Grand Master Xuandu revealed that a previous transmigrator had used a Dao mark to distort cause and effect, then offered Xu Xiao that power as the Journey to the West Calamity approached. Xu Xiao accepted that he would serve as a chess piece and learned his task: complete the journey west while preventing the monkey from joining Buddhism.

• Xu Xiao recognized that the mottled Dao mark forcibly altered fate, while Xuandu explained that Taibai had taken it from a transmigrator three hundred years earlier.
• The Dao mark showed Xu Xiao how its former owner had disrupted events across lower worlds before the gods and Buddhas suppressed him.
• Xuandu explained that the transmigrator had been punished for trying to seize fortune in the origin world and said the mark might be useful for the coming Journey to the West Calamity.
• Xuandu told Xu Xiao that he had been chosen because Lady Nüwa approved of his character, Guangchengzi's legacy connected him to the Three Pure Ones, and Xuandu could not see through him.
• Xu Xiao asked what Xuandu wanted him to do, and Xuandu instructed him to complete the journey west while keeping the monkey from joining Buddhism.