Recaps

Chen Xiao reassured Clarice about his kindness, then used repeated fights in the Virtual Battlefield to improve his ability to coordinate his whole body’s strength. The next day, he joined Clarice and other students on an outing to Westchester, where Logan warned him to stay reachable in case the group needed him.

• Clarice asked Chen Xiao why he was so good to her, and he told her she was likable and that he wanted to protect her.
• Chen Xiao fought the black-clad man seven times in the Virtual Battlefield, increasing the number of punches he could withstand from nineteen to fifty-seven while learning to coordinate his strength.
• Chen Xiao and Clarice joined a group of students on a supervised trip into Westchester, where Storm gave them safety rules and free time until four o’clock.
• As Chen Xiao and Clarice left the bus, Logan told him to keep his communicator signal available in case he needed to step in.

Clarice went shopping with Chen Xiao and Kitty, who helped her feel more confident and arranged an expensive makeover for her. Meanwhile, Scott left the school to travel to Alkali Lake, and Clarice’s new hairstyle and look were still being completed.

• Kitty joined Clarice and Chen Xiao on a shopping trip, where Clarice revealed that Vitas had drawn a manga called Dragon Ball.
• Scott told Professor X he planned to visit Alkali Lake, then rode away from the school on his motorcycle.
• Clarice felt out of place in Westchester’s upscale mall until Chen Xiao reassured her, and Kitty reminded her that the X-Men upheld order.
• Kitty bought several outfits, and Chen Xiao offered to buy clothes for Clarice with the hundred thousand dollars Professor X had given him as a mission reward.
• Chen Xiao chose a fresh, lively hairstyle for Clarice at an upscale image consulting salon, where the stylist began her makeover.

Chen Xiao struggled to overcome his virtual opponent despite mastering connected force, then learned that Scott had left for Alkali Lake. An emergency mission prompted him to race after Cyclops before Jean Grey fully awakened.

• Clarice drew attention at the station in her red dress, then told Chen Xiao she liked the outfit but disliked being surrounded by admirers.
• Chen Xiao fought his virtual opponent repeatedly, mastered connected force, and still died eight times without breaking through the opponent’s defense.
• The next day, Chen Xiao heard students say Scott had left and realized he was likely heading to Alkali Lake.
• Chen Xiao decided to intercept Scott, and the system issued him an emergency mission to escort Cyclops safely out of the area before Jean Grey awakened.
• Chen Xiao accepted the mission and raced toward the underground base entrance at two hundred meters per second.

Chen Xiao persuaded Professor X that Jean Grey might still be alive and could awaken dangerously if Scott reached Alkali Lake, so Professor X sent Chen Xiao, Logan, and Storm to intercept him. Scott arrived at the lake and Jean rose from its waters, but she faced him with cold indifference.

• Chen Xiao told Professor X that Jean might have survived the flood and that Scott’s optic energy could trigger her dormant power.
• Professor X sent Chen Xiao, Logan, and Storm to Alkali Lake aboard a fighter jet.
• Scott reached Alkali Lake after riding through the night and heard Jean’s voice calling to him from the water.
• Scott fired his optic beams across the lake, stirring a huge vortex at its center.
• Jean Grey emerged from the lake and approached Scott, showing no warmth as he stared at her in shock.

Chen Xiao rushed to Alkali Lake as Jean Grey drained Scott and fought to break through her telekinetic barrier. After enhancing his X-Gene ability with his last Origin point, he clashed with Jean in a devastating lakeshore battle, and the two ended the chapter facing each other across a crater.

• Jean kissed Scott and began draining his energy as her telekinetic power surged across the valley.
• Chen Xiao jumped from the Blackbird and struck Jean's barrier, but she blasted him into the woods.
• Chen Xiao spent his remaining Origin point to enhance his X-Gene ability and unleashed a stronger golden-powered attack.
• Chen Xiao's punch collided with Jean's blood-red telekinetic barrier, creating a massive explosion that left a crater on the lakeshore.
• Chen Xiao and Jean stood on opposite sides of the crater, still facing each other as Storm and Wolverine watched.

Chen Xiao stopped Jean from killing Scott, but using his newly evolved Energy Fission nearly drained his life force. At the underground base, Professor X explained Jean’s instinctive attack and asked Chen Xiao to help move Scott to a life-support pod.

• Jean’s telekinetic power surged as she struggled over Scott, then subsided when she lost consciousness.
• Chen Xiao withdrew his power after the crisis, exhausted, and received two origin points for completing the mission.
• Storm and Wolverine carried Jean and Scott to the jet, while Chen Xiao followed; he later inspected his status and learned that level-two Energy Fission burned his life essence.
• At the medical wing, Professor X said Jean had attacked Scott by instinct to absorb energy and repair her failing body, and warned the X-Men not to agitate her when she woke.
• Professor X kept Chen Xiao behind to help move Scott to a life-support pod and asked about the golden energy he had unleashed at the lake.

After awakening a tremendous new power, Chen Xiao learned that using it could consume his life force, then defeated his longtime virtual opponent in easy mode and gained combat techniques. He tried hard mode against two saber-wielding opponents but was killed before he could withstand a single move.

• Professor X warned Chen Xiao that mutants who exceed their limits burn through their life force, and Chen Xiao agreed to reserve his second awakening for emergencies.
• Chen Xiao saw Jean in a life-support pod and helped place Scott in another pod under Professor X's care.
• Chen Xiao defeated the virtual opponent who had repeatedly beaten him, clearing easy mode and receiving the Fist Technique Essentials reward.
• Chen Xiao absorbed the principles of Snake Fist, Qin Na Hand, and Tongbei Jin, then selected hard mode.
• Two saber-wielding opponents killed Chen Xiao almost instantly, and he woke on the rooftop shocked that he had not withstood a single move.

Chen Xiao trained against two blade-wielding opponents, grew stronger, and watched Dragon Ball become a hit among the school’s mutant students. A pharmaceutical company announced a permanent treatment for mutants, and Storm arrived to question Chen Xiao about his abilities.

• Chen Xiao repeatedly lost to two blade-wielding opponents in the virtual battlefield, but studied their vibrating blades and improved during each fight.
• Clarice asked to photocopy Chen Xiao’s Dragon Ball comics for her dormmates, and he agreed; over the next few days, the comics spread throughout the school.
• Chen Xiao’s constitution rose to 2,600, his mental attribute neared 1,000, and his grip strength exceeded 41 tons as he continued attending class.
• Mutant students crowded around Chen Xiao to discuss Dragon Ball, while Clarice grew more sociable with her dormmates.
• Worthington Kedes announced that his company had developed a drug that could permanently suppress mutant gene expression.
• Storm found Chen Xiao resting in a tree and asked how he could lie on its branches without sinking, connecting the trick to his jump from ten thousand meters.

Chen Xiao and the X-Men began a combat simulation against Sentinels designed to copy mutant abilities. The team discovered that the machines could adapt to their powers, but Colossus, Storm, Kitty, and Iceman managed to disable two of them while another Sentinel pursued Chen Xiao.

• Storm gathered Chen Xiao and the X-Men at the training base and explained that their exercise was to defeat mechanical soldiers capable of simulating mutant abilities.
• The simulation began with a rocket barrage; Iceman froze incoming rockets, Shadowcat phased through one, and Chen Xiao destroyed three with Heat Rays before three Sentinels appeared.
• Chen Xiao recognized the machines as first-generation Sentinels and realized Professor X had designed the exercise to prepare the X-Men for real attacks.
• The Sentinels split up and overwhelmed the team with gunfire and grenades, forcing Chen Xiao to evade while the others struggled to find an opening.
• Colossus punched one Sentinel and Storm struck it with lightning, but it copied Colossus's metal form and resisted the electricity before its attempt to copy Storm's power overloaded its circuits.
• Kitty trapped another Sentinel's legs underground, and Iceman froze it solid; the remaining Sentinel continued pursuing Chen Xiao.

The X-Men defeated the Sentry training robots, but Wolverine questioned Professor X’s growing focus on combat as the team returned to the school. Professor X then led an ethics lesson about how mutants should use their power, leaving Chen Xiao under his solemn gaze.

• Wolverine warned that a frozen Sentry was still alive, and he decapitated it after it burst free while Chen Xiao destroyed another robot with overwhelming force.
• Storm praised the team’s coordination, and Iceman and Rogue Anna discussed the threat the training machines could pose in reality.
• Kitty praised Chen Xiao’s performance, while Anna worried that her copying ability made it difficult for her to fight without harming others.
• Wolverine challenged Storm about Professor X’s increasingly intense preparations for war, and Storm reminded him that threats to mutant peace remained.
• Wei'er Kadi greeted Chen Xiao and the others before a caregiver escorted her away, and Professor X invited them to his ethics class.
• Professor X taught that mutants must use their power responsibly and argued that law and morality set limits, while Colossus asked how those standards applied to a marginalized people.

Hank McCoy informed Professor X that the government-backed Mutants Cure had been developed, sparking fear and debate among mutants. As opposition gathered at Mox Cathedral, a hidden force drew powerful mutants to Duwa City, where several voices accused humans of seeking their extinction.

• Professor X taught his students that mutant rights and responsibilities were linked, and Chen Xiao challenged the idea that power automatically required greater responsibility.
• Hank McCoy told Professor X and the X-Men that a pharmaceutical company had created a lasting antibody to suppress mutant genes, and Storm rejected the idea that mutants needed a cure.
• Chen Xiao reassured Clarice that her friends accepted her, but warned that mutants stripped of their abilities could become targets for experimentation.
• News of the cure spread through the Xavier Institute and the world, prompting mutants across America to stir and powerful mutants to gather in Duwa City.
• At Mox Cathedral, a middle-aged mutant called for resistance and unity, while voices in the crowd claimed humans wanted mutants to disappear.

Magneto recruited mutants opposed to the cure while the X-Men school grappled with the cure’s announcement. Jean suddenly awakened with overwhelming telekinetic power, and Professor X set out to find her as Wolverine warned against trying to restrain her.

• Magneto denounced the authorities’ cure as a threat to mutant survival, then left with Pyro John and several new followers, including Callisto, Arclight, and Psylocke.
• At the school, Rogue Anna insisted she would take the cure, while Bobby tried to change her mind; Chen Xiao told Kitty he would not take it and dismissed her fears about mutants being forced to submit.
• A blast tore apart the basketball court, and Jean shot into the sky amid immense telekinetic power; Professor X told the students she was alive but had fled because she could not control her newly awakened abilities.
• In the underground base, Professor X said Jean was blocking his telepathy and that the X-Men needed to find her before her power caused a catastrophe.
• Wolverine cautioned Professor X that trying to restrain Jean could make her resist more fiercely, leaving Chen Xiao to recognize that Logan was urging the professor to stop confining her with his will.

Chen Xiao accompanied Professor X, Wolverine, and Storm to Andry Town to find Jean, while the system assigned him a mission to defeat Juggernaut. On the journey, Professor X admitted he had sealed Jean’s power and revealed the Peak Agreement that kept Mutants and other hidden powerhouses from intervening in one another’s affairs.

• The system issued Chen Xiao a mission to defeat Juggernaut as Professor X set out to find Jean with Wolverine, Storm, and Vitas.
• Nightcrawler sensed an immense magnetic field, and Magneto realized Jean’s power had returned before deciding to bring her back.
• Storm drove Professor X, Wolverine, and Chen Xiao toward Andry Town after Jean’s rampage had left the academy’s jet unusable.
• Chen Xiao warned Professor X that his presence might worsen Jean’s state, but Professor X insisted on going and confirmed he had sealed her power when she was a child.
• Professor X told Storm, Wolverine, and Chen Xiao about the Peak Agreement, which restricted Mutants and other hidden powerhouses from interfering in each other’s affairs.

Chen Xiao realized Professor X planned to let Jean kill him so she might overcome her dark personality, while relying on consciousness transfer to survive. Professor X admitted the transfer had a seventy percent chance of success, and he and Magneto arrived at Jean’s old home, leaving Storm and Wolverine outside as they prepared to enter together.

• Chen Xiao connected the professor’s plan to Jean’s possible awakening and realized Professor X expected to transfer his consciousness into his vegetative twin brother’s body.
• Professor X telepathically confirmed Chen Xiao had guessed his plan, then revealed that consciousness transfer had only a seventy percent chance of success.
• Chen Xiao recalled how Jean would later lose control and how Wolverine would ultimately kill her, but kept his knowledge to himself.
• Storm drove Professor X, Chen Xiao, and Wolverine to Jean’s former home, where Professor X remembered first taking her away with Magneto.
• Magneto arrived with several mutants and said he had come to visit Jean, then offered to accompany Professor X inside.
• Professor X told Storm and Wolverine to wait outside while he entered alone, prompting Storm to object.

Chen Xiao faced Juggernaut outside the villa while Storm and Wolverine fought Magneto’s subordinates and Professor X entered to reach Jean. After their first clash ended in a stalemate, Juggernaut began building momentum for a stronger charge as Chen Xiao prepared to fight back.

• Professor X asked Chen Xiao to watch over Ororo and the others while he went with Magneto to take Jean home.
• Chen Xiao provoked Juggernaut, and Nightcrawler sensed a terrifying power within him.
• Storm broke through the villa’s door to reach Professor X, while Arclight’s Shockwave blasted Wolverine into a shed.
• Chen Xiao met Juggernaut’s charge with a golden-powered punch, and their collision shattered the pavement and forced both men backward.
• Chen Xiao activated level-one Energy Berserk mode as Juggernaut circled the avenue to build momentum for another charge.

Chen Xiao battled Juggernaut while Jean’s Phoenix Force erupted inside the villa, killing Professor X as he tried to reach her. Magneto helped the distraught Jean leave, and the group found Juggernaut battered and barely breathing at the town’s entrance.

• Chen Xiao used his speed and close-combat skill to overpower Juggernaut and drive their fight away from Jean’s villa.
• Jean’s Phoenix Force lifted the villa and pinned everyone inside while Professor X tried to suppress the dark personality in her mind.
• Jean’s uncontrolled power disintegrated Professor X, and his death caused her destructive telekinetic force to subside.
• Magneto helped Jean leave the ruined villa as Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, Arclight, and Quill recovered and followed.
• Magneto and the others reached the town’s entrance and found Juggernaut lying battered in a crater after his fight with Chen Xiao.

After Professor X died during Jean Grey’s loss of control, the X-Men mourned while Magneto prepared to exploit the weakened academy and S.H.I.E.L.D. considered intervening. The chapter ended with Chen Xiao watching the grieving students from a rooftop after the professor’s funeral.

• Magneto shattered Juggernaut’s helmet, saw how badly he had been beaten, and led his group away as Chen Xiao headed back to Jean Grey’s villa.
• Chen Xiao found Storm and Wolverine at the ruined villa, where Wolverine told him that Jean had killed Professor X.
• Storm recounted the events to the students, while Magneto told the Brotherhood that Jean’s arrival had made humanity no threat and set their sights on the mutant suppressant.
• Nick Fury and Phil Coulson investigated the scene, assessed Vitas Chen’s strength, and ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to prepare defenses and monitor him.
• The X-Men held Professor X’s funeral, and Chen Xiao watched the grieving students from the dormitory rooftop.

After Chen Xiao’s spirit surpassed one thousand, his soul and body completed their fusion, unlocking and recalibrating his Superman abilities. At a meeting about the academy’s future after Professor X’s apparent death, Chen Xiao argued that the school should remain open, while Hank warned that outside factions could threaten it.

• Chen Xiao’s spirit crossed one thousand, triggering the fusion of his soul and body and enhancing his senses, thinking, and Superman abilities.
• Clarice told Chen Xiao that Storm wanted him in the office, where the X-Men and students gathered to discuss the academy after Professor X’s death.
• Hank proposed closing the academy and sending the students home, while Iceman pointed out that many had nowhere else to go.
• Chen Xiao argued that the academy should continue as Professor X’s legacy and confirmed with Storm that its funding and staff remained in place.
• Hank warned that Professor X’s prestige had protected the academy from outside factions, and that keeping it open could now provoke serious trouble.

After Professor X's death, Chen Xiao used a threat of overwhelming force to persuade Hank and the X-Men that the school could still deter its enemies. The school stayed open under Storm's leadership, while Chen Xiao returned to training and discovered that sunlight fueled an accelerating process of cellular evolution.

• Chen Xiao warned Hank that if the authorities threatened the school, he could devastate New York and target Washington, convincing Hank that the school remained a force to be reckoned with.
• Hank agreed to report Chen Xiao's warning to the president, support Storm and the others in running the school, and notify them of any government action.
• Hank told Storm that Worthington Labs had hidden the mutant cure on Alcatraz, where he planned to investigate it in person.
• Storm announced that she would become headmistress and that Shadowcat, Colossus, and Iceman would train students as combat instructors, prompting the students to celebrate the school's continued operation.
• Chen Xiao explained that he had intervened because Xavier's School was worth protecting, then returned to the rooftop and discovered that sunlight was being amplified inside his cells to drive his rapid evolution.

Warren Worthington III revealed that the mutant cure was derived from a living mutant’s suppressor ability, while Magneto’s Brotherhood launched coordinated attacks across America and declared war over the drug. The X-Men debated how to respond, knowing their weakened team faced Magneto, Jean, and a large, organized force.

• Warren Worthington III arrived at the Xavier Institute, where Ororo welcomed him despite his father’s role in developing the cure.
• Warren told Ororo and Logan that the cure came from a mutant whose gene suppressed other mutants’ abilities and could not be artificially synthesized.
• Mutant protesters gathered outside a Worthington Company facility, but an explosion struck the building and sent the crowd fleeing.
• Magneto released a video declaring further attacks would continue while the cure remained available, and attacks hit more than ten American cities that day.
• Storm asked the X-Men how to respond, and Wolverine urged them to stop Magneto while Storm warned that their depleted team might not be able to defeat the Brotherhood.

After the X-Men chose to avoid a head-on confrontation with the Brotherhood, Chen Xiao privately suggested that Professor X might have transferred his consciousness into his comatose twin brother, giving Storm hope that the professor could still be alive. He then comforted Clarice about the school’s uncertain future before entering the Virtual Battlefield to study the saber technique, where his first direct clash ended with his weapon shattering and a second blade closing on his neck.

• Chen Xiao agreed with Wolverine that the X-Men should hold their position and wait while they regrouped and assessed the Brotherhood’s intentions.
• Chen Xiao asked Storm about Professor X’s twin brother and suggested that the professor could have transferred his consciousness into him; Storm agreed to keep the possibility secret.
• Chen Xiao found Clarice anxious about having nowhere to go if the school closed, reassured her, and teased her about marrying him when she was older, making her flee in embarrassment.
• Chen Xiao entered the Virtual Battlefield on Hard mode and evaded two saber-wielding opponents while analyzing the energy behind their blades.
• Chen Xiao clashed directly with one opponent’s saber, shattered his own weapon, and stumbled as the second opponent’s blade swept toward his neck.

Chen Xiao used his superbrain to study computing and begin hacking into the White House network, while Wolverine left the school after hearing Jean Grey call for help. The chapter ended with White House security expert Corrod dismissing Chen Xiao’s intrusion as a rookie attack.

• Chen Xiao failed to fully master the advanced blade technique in the Virtual Battlefield and decided he would need to kill one of the middle-aged men to learn it.
• Chen Xiao rapidly studied computer books at the library, and Clarice joined him after he assigned her books on computing and mathematics.
• Logan visited Professor X’s grave, heard Jean Grey urgently ask him for help, argued with Ororo, and rode away on Scott’s motorcycle.
• Chen Xiao broke into Slack Company’s backend and then launched an attack on the White House’s internal network.
• Corrod detected the White House intrusion, drove Chen Xiao off, and told security chief Tart that the attacker was a rookie.

Chen Xiao breached the White House's internal network and learned that twelve first-generation Sentinels were headed to Alcatraz, while the Sentinel laboratory was hidden at a military base. He began planning how to alter the coming conflict, deciding that he would need to help Jean Grey regain control rather than fight the Phoenix Force head-on.

• Chen Xiao tried to enter the White House network again, and Corrod struggled for ten minutes to counter his automated, rapidly switching intrusion engine before it disconnected.
• Clarice found Chen Xiao's laptop smoking, and Chen Xiao borrowed the underground base's main computer from Ororo after lunch.
• Chen Xiao breached the White House network, where Corrod and Tart's team discovered he had already slipped inside during his first probe and read only ordinary government affairs data.
• Chen Xiao found records showing that twelve first-generation Sentinels had departed Trask Industries for Alcatraz, then traced the Sentinel laboratory to a military base and erased his access records.
• Chen Xiao reviewed how Magneto, the X-Men, and Jean Grey would clash at Alcatraz and concluded that he needed to help Jean's original consciousness suppress her dark personality.

After Magneto’s planned attack on Worthington Labs became imminent, Storm agreed to help the government despite losing faith in its assurances. Wolverine returned to Xavier’s School, and the X-Men assembled for battle as Chen Xiao received a quest to destroy the Sentry units.

• Magneto’s followers bombed mutant-suppression businesses, prompting the government to condemn the attacks and threaten compulsory controls.
• Phil Coulson told Storm that Magneto was targeting Worthington Labs on Alcatraz and that Mystique had provided intelligence after Magneto abandoned her when a suppressant round stripped her powers.
• Storm agreed that the X-Men would honor Charles’s agreement with the government, while privately recognizing that the suppressant weapons had been prepared in advance.
• Wolverine woke injured in the woods and raced back toward Xavier’s School, while Chen Xiao continued training and increased his strength.
• Chen Xiao heard Wolverine arrive, hurried through dinner, and joined the students when Storm ordered everyone to assemble.
• The system assigned Chen Xiao a quest to destroy every Sentry unit in the coming battle, and he resolved not to risk his life to save Jean if he could not do so safely.

Chen Xiao persuaded the X-Men to join the mission to stop Magneto and proposed using Scott to provoke Jean into regaining control of her power. The team flew toward San Francisco with Scott’s life-support pod, but no one knew how they could reach Jean if she unleashed her full power.

• Storm explained that Magneto was targeting Worthington Labs and that S.H.I.E.L.D. had requested the X-Men’s help in San Francisco.
• Chen Xiao questioned the team’s lack of a battle plan, and Hank joined the mission after resigning from his cabinet post.
• Chen Xiao removed Scott’s life-support pod from the medical wing and brought it aboard the jet.
• Chen Xiao proposed using Scott to trigger Jean’s emotions and awaken her original consciousness; Hank supported the plan, and Storm accepted it.
• The X-Men boarded their stealth jet and departed for San Francisco as crowds fled along the coastline.