Recaps

Magneto led his followers in an assault on Alcatraz, using the Golden Gate Bridge and the prison’s metal watchtowers to overwhelm the defenders despite their suppressant weapons. As the government called for reinforcements, Nick and Trask realized the X-Men had not arrived and considered deploying the Sentry Force early.

• Magneto lifted the Golden Gate Bridge and dropped it across Alcatraz, while soldiers armed with plastic suppressant weapons prepared to defend the laboratory.
• Nightcrawler identified the test subject’s location, and Magneto ordered his followers to attack after suppressant rounds stripped dozens of mutants of their powers.
• Magneto tore six watchtowers from the ground and used them as giant steel arms to scatter the soldiers, while Quake shattered weapons and incapacitated guards with shockwaves.
• Magneto sent Juggernaut into the laboratory to retrieve the test subject and warned his followers that the American government would send more forces.
• The colonel begged the president for help, while Nick learned that the X-Men had left Xavier’s School but had not reached Alcatraz, prompting Trask to suggest deploying the Sentry Force early.

Chen Xiao brought the X-Men closer to Alcatraz while waiting to see the authorities’ trump card, and Trask deployed twelve Sentinels to crush the mutant resistance and seize Leech. Magneto fought the specially designed Sentinel with Pyro, Nightcrawler, and Psylocke as the other Sentinels attacked the prison.

• Chen Xiao reported that Magneto’s forces had breached the defenses, then told Storm to descend while keeping the Blackbird cloaked above the battlefield.
• Trask ordered the Sentinels deployed, directing them to extract Leech and warning them to avoid coming within a hundred meters of Erik unless they were the Sentinel built to counter metal manipulation.
• Twelve Sentinels attacked Alcatraz, killing mutants and soldiers with a missile barrage while one silver-gray unit confronted Magneto.
• Magneto identified the Sentinels and sent Pyro John and Nightcrawler to occupy the metal-free unit while he attacked the others.
• Nightcrawler wounded the Sentinel, Psylocke blasted it, and Pyro forced it to land as it activated a freezing field and struck the ground.
• Psylocke, Nightcrawler, and Pyro coordinated energy, sonic, and fire attacks, suppressing the Sentinel built to counter Magneto.

Magneto destroyed the Sentinels at the prison while Chen Xiao revealed the government’s Alcatraz Plan and led the X-Men into action. As Chen Xiao went to destroy a Sentinel and rescue the prisoners, Storm and the others confronted Magneto, and Jean remained under the control of her dark personality.

• Magneto crushed several Sentinels and sent his allies into the prison to retrieve the test subject.
• Trask and Nick watched the Sentinels fail against Magneto and his followers.
• Chen Xiao told the X-Men he had hacked the government network and uncovered the plan to use them as the first wave before deploying Sentinels.
• Chen Xiao ordered the team to stop Magneto and destroy the Sentinels, then flew toward the western Sentinel while Storm landed the aircraft at the prison.
• Magneto accused the X-Men of betraying mutantkind and tried to sway Jean, whose dark personality remained unmoved.
• Storm attacked Magneto with lightning and wind while Magneto used Wolverine to knock down Iceman and trapped Hank with metal bars; Iceman retaliated with ice spikes.

Chen Xiao arrived at the burning island and tore through the prison laboratory, killing soldiers and Mutants who attacked him. He reached a Sentinel in the corridor and stopped its charge with one arm.

• Magneto held off Storm, Iceman, Colossus, Wolverine, and Hank while fighting across the island intensified.
• A Sentinel killed two Mutants near a tower, but Chen Xiao descended at nearly four times the speed of sound and destroyed it.
• Chen Xiao shrugged off soldiers’ bullets, demolished the tower with a punch, and forced his way into the prison laboratory.
• Chen Xiao killed soldiers and attacking Mutants as he smashed through the laboratory corridors, then used Heat Rays to destroy a Mutant’s rocket and its shooter.
• A second Sentinel charged Chen Xiao, who blocked its clawed forelimb and dismissed its strength and speed as pathetic.

Chen Xiao destroyed the Sentinels in the laboratory and burst into the battle between Magneto and the X-Men. After smashing Magneto’s metal shield barrier, he seized Nightcrawler, leaving the fight in chaos.

• Chen Xiao crushed a Sentinel that failed to copy his ability, then rampaged through the laboratory and destroyed five of the seven invading Sentinels.
• Chen Xiao found a dead bald youth and a trapped Juggernaut, then destroyed the Sentinel constricting Juggernaut and sent Juggernaut flying through the prison walls.
• Pyro John, Psylocke, Quake, and Nightcrawler joined Magneto’s fight against the X-Men after the group defeated the silver Sentinel.
• Magneto’s reinforcements drove the X-Men onto the defensive as Pyro attacked Iceman, Nightcrawler targeted Storm, Psylocke attacked Beast, and Quake repelled Wolverine.
• Chen Xiao burst into the battlefield, smashed through Magneto’s metal shields, and crossed the distance to seize Nightcrawler and hurl her into a brick wall.

Chen Xiao defeated Magneto’s allies while holding back, then discussed Mutant independence with Magneto. Magneto invited him to help build a Mutant nation, but Chen Xiao refused, and the surviving fighters withdrew after learning the test subject was dead.

• Chen Xiao swiftly knocked Quake, Psylocke, Pyro, and others out of the fight, then repelled Magneto’s metal javelins and stopped his attack.
• Magneto recognized that Chen Xiao had spared his companions and asked whether Mutants and humans could coexist; Chen Xiao argued that Mutants needed an independent community.
• Juggernaut reported that the test subject had died at the hands of strange robots, prompting Magneto to call off the battle.
• Magneto invited Chen Xiao to join his plan to establish an autonomous Mutant nation, but Chen Xiao declined.
• Magneto ordered the survivors to withdraw, and more than thirty Mutants and ordinary people emerged to join his group.

Trask detonated a concealed bomb inside the destroyed Sentry, triggering Jean Grey’s Phoenix power and sending her into an uncontrollable rampage. As Jean began destroying Alcatraz, Chen Xiao unleashed a vastly amplified golden power and prepared to confront her.

• Trask pressed a remote that detonated a nonmetallic bomb hidden inside Sentry’s wreckage, blasting Magneto’s group and the nearby X-Men.
• Jean Grey emerged from the flames wreathed in crimson light, and Magneto recognized the danger and fled with Juggernaut and the others.
• Jean’s power summoned a vast storm and lifted seawater into the air as her telekinetic force began disintegrating the island and its survivors.
• Wolverine charged toward Jean to stop her, but she blasted him away and repeatedly disintegrated his flesh as his healing factor struggled to repair it.
• Chen Xiao ordered Teacher Ororo to evacuate everyone, then unleashed his dormant golden power, startling Magneto and the others with its immense strength.

Chen Xiao fought Jean’s Phoenix-fueled destruction while protecting Scott and trying to reach Jean through memories of Professor X and Scott. Jean’s power overwhelmed Alcatraz, leaving the X-Men fleeing across the sea as the island was destroyed.

• Chen Xiao broke through Jean’s psychic assault, rescued Scott’s life-support pod from the Blackbird, and charged at Jean.
• Chen Xiao showed Jean Scott and reminded her of Professor X, briefly stirring her awareness before her destructive power intensified.
• Jean manifested enormous crimson phoenix wings, forcing Chen Xiao to increase his power as he pressed forward with Scott exposed behind a golden barrier.
• Jean unleashed a catastrophic blast that shattered Alcatraz and sent the X-Men fleeing on an iceberg built and guided by Iceman and Storm.
• Wolverine watched a massive reef vanish under a streak of crimson light as the X-Men struggled to withstand the aftershocks.

Chen Xiao pushed Jean to resist the Phoenix Force by threatening Scott, while Professor X revealed that he had hidden his consciousness inside Jean and began burning away her dark personality with his psychic power. The chapter ended with Professor X’s apparition briefly thanking Chen Xiao before fading away.

• Wolverine, Hank, and Shadowcat watched Chen Xiao hold off Jean’s destructive power as Iceman and Storm evacuated the others on an iceberg.
• Chen Xiao used Scott’s danger to provoke Jean, and she briefly halted her rampaging energy to protect him.
• Chen Xiao raised his amplification to a hundredfold and prepared to retreat with Scott as Jean began losing control again.
• Professor X’s voice reached Jean, and his psychic power manifested as a clear flame that burned away the Phoenix Force’s dark presence within her.
• Chen Xiao realized Professor X had hidden his consciousness inside Jean, and Professor X briefly appeared to him before his apparition dispersed.

Jean Grey recovered from the Phoenix Force’s rampage after Professor X suppressed it, while Chen Xiao and Scott survived their battle at the cost of severe injuries. Magneto’s group left San Francisco for Africa as Nick feared their growing power would spark a new crisis.

• Professor X’s psychic power quelled the Phoenix Force inside Jean, and the resulting collapse of the suspended seawater engulfed Nick and Trask as Alcatraz vanished beneath the destruction.
• Nightcrawler sensed that Jean was strong and Chen Xiao was near death, while Magneto and his allies assumed Jean had won their battle.
• Jean healed Scott, thanked Chen Xiao, and flew away before joining Magneto on the broken bridge.
• Storm’s group rescued Chen Xiao and Scott and took them to a San Francisco hospital, where Scott was fully recovered and Chen Xiao’s vital signs proved normal despite his exhaustion.
• The American government increased funding for a new generation of Sentinels, while Magneto and his allies boarded a plane for Africa as Nick watched and feared a coming storm.

After surviving the battle with Jean’s Phoenix Force, Chen Xiao recovered in the hospital while the X-Men confirmed that Jean had regained control but left with Magneto. The group returned to Xavier’s School, where the students welcomed them and Clarice spotted Chen Xiao in a wheelchair.

• Nick ordered intelligence on Vitas raised to S-rank and discussed the threat Magneto posed with Phil.
• Chen Xiao woke in the hospital and reflected on the cost of his second awakening and the outcome of the battle.
• Kitty and the other X-Men visited Chen Xiao, who confirmed Jean had recovered control of her power and left with Magneto.
• The X-Men flew back toward Westchester, with Chen Xiao in a wheelchair and Scott unconscious on a stretcher.
• The students gathered to welcome the returning X-Men, and Clarice fixed her gaze on Chen Xiao as Kitty pushed his wheelchair off the bus.

Chen Xiao recovered in sunlight while Clarice worried over him, as Magneto announced a sovereign mutant nation in South Africa and demonstrated Jean Grey's power to destroy a hill with the force of a nuclear blast. Back at the school, Chen Xiao studied his newly enhanced cellular perception, and Scott awoke from his coma.

• Clarice pushed Chen Xiao around campus, and he reassured her that he was only exhausted while sunlight rapidly replenished his strength.
• Magneto announced that mutants would establish a sovereign nation in Narnia, South Africa, and revealed Jean Grey surviving two missile explosions and turning their energy on a hill.
• The X-Men rejected a White House invitation to discuss Magneto's plans and demanded a credible account of the Sentinel Program before resuming negotiations.
• Chen Xiao studied biology as sunlight strengthened him and discovered he could perceive microscopic activity inside his cells.
• Scott opened his eyes in the underground base's ward after more than a week in a coma.

Scott awoke with full control of his optic blasts, then learned how Professor X had sacrificed himself to help Jean control the Phoenix Force and heard about his contingency plan. The X-Men cautiously hoped Professor X had survived, and in a remote Canadian research institute, Charles awoke and greeted Mora.

• Scott awoke and discovered he could control his optic blasts without his glasses.
• Storm told Scott that Jean had killed Professor X, and Chen Xiao explained the professor’s sacrifice, his plans for Jean, and his consciousness-transfer contingency.
• Shadowcat questioned why Professor X had confided in Chen Xiao, who joked that it was because he was powerful and handsome.
• Storm realized Professor X might truly have died after burning away his psychic power, but Chen Xiao urged the X-Men to trust in the professor’s preparations.
• The X-Men returned to training, while Charles awoke in a research institute in British Columbia and greeted Mora.

Chen Xiao studied his cells and shifted his research focus from rapidly changing Kryptonian cells to the more stable X-Gene, while helping Clarice learn. After recovering his strength from the Alcatraz battle, he began examining his own X-Gene cells as Storm received a phone call in the headmaster’s office.

• Chen Xiao observed how sunlight transformed his Kryptonian cells, but concluded that their rapid evolution and the mental strain made them too difficult to study systematically.
• Chen Xiao decided to focus on stable X-Gene cells, and he helped Clarice with her studies as she made rapid progress in mathematics and programming.
• Chen Xiao considered how research into the X-Gene could expand his abilities before the impending Phoenix Force crisis.
• Chen Xiao felt his depleted origin energy replenished after five days of recovery in sunlight and reflected on how much stronger he had become since the Alcatraz battle.
• Chen Xiao began recording and comparing the structure and activity of his X-Gene cells while answering Clarice’s questions.
• Storm’s phone vibrated as she reviewed documents in the headmaster’s office.

Professor X returned to the Xavier Institute after Storm and Scott brought him back from Canada, where he explained that his consciousness had survived because it was separate from his psychic power. Meanwhile, Chen Xiao began building computer tools and an image database to analyze his X-Gene cells, and the chapter ended as Professor X started explaining the distinction between consciousness and psychic energy.

• Storm spoke with Professor X, learned he was in Canada, and left with Scott to bring him back.
• Chen Xiao requested a powerful laptop and drawing tablet, then began writing an analysis program and cataloging the different X-Gene cells in his body.
• Kitty Pryde told Chen Xiao that Professor X had returned, and students and staff gathered at the gates to welcome him.
• Professor X arrived at the institute in a wheelchair and was greeted by the joyful students and staff.
• At a meeting, Professor X explained that he had separated his consciousness from his psychic power years earlier.

Chen Xiao studied mutant experimentation records while Professor X faced questions from S.H.I.E.L.D. about Magneto and the X-Men’s role. After uncovering leads related to his second awakening, Chen Xiao tested his strengthened Bio-Force Field and flew to ten thousand meters.

• Professor X told Chen Xiao how he had transferred his consciousness into a new body and asked what reward Chen Xiao wanted for helping the X-Men.
• Chen Xiao requested access to the sealed records from illegal mutant laboratories, and Professor X opened the archive for him.
• Chen Xiao spent several days studying the records and tracking changes in his X-Gene cells as news of Professor X’s return spread.
• Magneto called Professor X from Africa, and Director Nick later questioned him about Erik and the machines that copied mutant abilities during the Alcatraz incident.
• Chen Xiao left the underground base, launched himself into the sky, and used his Bio-Force Field to hover and rise to ten thousand meters.

Chen Xiao gathered sunlight above the clouds and dramatically increased his strength, while Yidileisi arrived at the school and searched for the X-Man who had saved her. The chapter left Chen Xiao newly powerful and Yidileisi heading out to find Vitas.

• Chen Xiao discovered he could fly and considered using his Bio-Force Field to bend light and become invisible.
• Yidileisi toured the school, drew the attention of Warren Worthington and other students, and turned down David’s offer of friendship.
• Yidileisi explained she was looking for a black-haired X-Man who had saved her, and the students identified him as Vitas.
• Chen Xiao spread his Bio-Force Field above the clouds to gather sunlight, then slept as his strength increased.
• Chen Xiao woke to find his grip strength had reached twenty-seven hundred tons and his punching power seventeen thousand tons, then dove through the clouds at two hundred meters per second.

Chen Xiao learned that Professor X’s dream therapy had caused Yidileisi to associate him with her happiest memories, explaining her intense affection. He set a boundary with her and suggested they stay close but not become lovers unless his feelings developed naturally over time.

• Chen Xiao landed behind the dormitory, where Yidileisi woke and embraced him, calling him her darling; he fled from her ardent attention.
• Chen Xiao asked Professor X why Yidileisi loved him so intensely, and Professor X explained that he had guided her into a healing dream centered on her rescue by Chen Xiao.
• Chen Xiao told Professor X he wanted to test theoretical research ideas, and Professor X approved the experiments while warning him not to cross ethical boundaries.
• After spending the night reviewing research files, Chen Xiao confronted Yidileisi about her pet names and explained that her attachment came from dreams rather than a shared relationship.
• Yidileisi said she knew the dreams were unreal but still liked Chen Xiao, who asked her to keep some distance while they got to know each other and see whether his feelings might grow.

After learning that his family had been slaughtered by Trunk’s faction, Chen Xiao decided to take revenge while keeping the X-Men out of the conflict. He left the school’s future uncertain as he prepared to act alone.

• Yidileisi joined Chen Xiao for breakfast, and he spent the day training his strength in the clouds.
• Chen Rong arrived at Xavier’s School and told Storm that Vitas Chen’s family had been murdered.
• Chen Xiao learned that Blonsky had approached the Chen family to help find Bruce Banner, then Trunk’s faction attacked and killed his relatives and grandfather.
• Chen Xiao recognized Blonsky as the future Abomination and vowed to repay the killings with lives.
• Kitty, Colossus, and the other X-Men offered to join him, but Chen Xiao refused to involve them because the school was already under political scrutiny.

Chen Xiao prepared to leave Xavier's School for Mexico with Yidileisi to settle old scores and take over the Chen family business. Before they departed, Professor X warned him about hidden threats and revealed that Yidileisi had two separate personalities, while Clarice struggled with his leaving.

• Professor X rejected Magneto's plan to found a mutant nation, and Yidileisi volunteered to accompany Chen Xiao to Mexico; he agreed after deciding Clarice was not ready for the danger.
• Chen Xiao received a system quest to kill Abomination for two Origin points, then told Clarice and Shadowcat that he would be away for a long time to settle old scores and manage the Chen family business.
• Professor X warned Chen Xiao about powerful hidden beings and explained that Yidileisi had divided her pre- and post-trauma selves, asking him to keep her from entering her murderous state.
• Chen Xiao said goodbye to the X-Men and Clarice at the school gates, then left for Mexico with Yidileisi and the old butler.

Chen Xiao learned about the Chen Family’s businesses and the factions contesting control of the Bloody Hand Society after returning from the mutant school. Suspecting an insider helped arrange the murders of his relatives, he ordered the family heads summoned and planned to use his return as bait to expose the traitor.

• Chen Xiao said goodbye to Clarice and the X-Men, then flew home with Yidileisi and the old butler.
• The old butler explained the Chen Family’s public and underground operations, the factions within the Bloody Hand Society, and the Trunk Gang’s growing power.
• Chen Xiao learned that the Siteli Family and Ladeduole Family were suspected of secretly cooperating with Trunk, while the Li and Hong Families supported his return.
• Chen Xiao concluded that the attack on his family had required collusion from inside and outside the family, and the old butler confirmed that the family head had suspected a traitor.
• Chen Xiao ordered the old butler to leak his whereabouts and summon every family head to a meeting within three days so he could identify the traitor.

Chen Xiao returned to Pochutla to take over the Chen family and summoned the major families to a meeting, confident that none of them threatened him. Meanwhile, Blonsky dismissed Chen Xiao as a weak mutant, and Trunk ordered an ambush before Chen Xiao reached the city.

• Chen Xiao told the old butler to carry out his plans, then arrived in Pochutla and was welcomed by Stodod and his cousin George Sid.
• Trunk told Blonsky that he had located Banner and learned Banner was seeking Samuel Sterns, then described Chen Xiao as a strength-focused mutant.
• Blonsky judged Chen Xiao too weak to interest him and left to continue pursuing Hulk.
• Trunk decided to attack Chen Xiao before he entered the city and ordered his men to learn the convoy's route.
• Chen Xiao confirmed that the major families had been invited to a meeting and dismissed them as ants.

Chen Xiao led Yidileisi toward an ambush and let the attackers fire on him to demonstrate his strength. As the gunmen’s bullets bounced harmlessly off him, the ambushers realized their target was not what they had been told.

• Chen Xiao warned the convoy that armed men were hiding beyond the intersection and ordered it to stop after turning onto the road.
• Chen Xiao and Yidileisi left the convoy to confront the ambushers, while Stodod and the others prepared to support them.
• Chen Xiao showed Stodod, the old butler, and George that a pistol bullet could not pierce his palm.
• Torid identified Chen Xiao as the Chen Family’s last direct heir and ordered his men to concentrate their fire on him when he came within twenty meters.
• More than fifty ambushers opened fire on Chen Xiao, but their bullets struck him with metallic clangs and sparks without slowing him.

Chen Xiao and Yidileisi slaughtered Torid’s armed men after their bullets, grenades, and rockets failed to harm Chen Xiao. The forest and the attackers’ vehicles burned, and Yidileisi was cutting down the last survivors as the chapter ended.

• Chen Xiao withstood more than fifty submachine guns and killed seven armed men with a single punch.
• Torid ordered grenades and rockets fired at Chen Xiao, but Chen Xiao survived the explosions and destroyed the rockets with Heat Rays.
• Yidileisi pursued the fleeing men while Chen Xiao took to the air and burned their vehicles and much of the forest with Heat Rays.
• The old butler watched Chen Xiao’s display and felt certain the Chen Family could be saved.
• Yidileisi emerged before Torid and the remaining men, then vanished and slashed into the group.

Chen Xiao and Yidileisi returned after destroying the ambush, while the Blood Hand Council gathered to choose a new chairman. Lucia Hong revealed that Vitas Chen’s convoy had also been ambushed, leaving the council leaders accusing one another of betrayal.

• Yidileisi killed more than thirty attackers and strengthened herself by absorbing their life essence, then calmed down when Chen Xiao looked at her.
• Chen Xiao and Yidileisi joined Stodod’s convoy and set out for the estate, leaving the burning woods behind as police and firefighters rushed to the scene.
• At the council meeting, representatives urged the families to appoint a chairman quickly and prepare to retaliate against Trunk.
• Lucia Hong announced that Vitas Chen’s convoy had been ambushed, prompting the council members to suspect that one of their own had leaked his movements.
• Alders accused Salata of meeting Trunk’s men, and Salata denied betraying the Bloody Hand Society.