Recaps

During the exchange tournament, Modu University substitute summoner Sun Jiao unexpectedly summoned a level-twenty-four legendary Crimson Flame Ape, putting Suhang University in grave danger. As the ape’s firestorms threatened to break Liu Yang’s shield, Zhou Rui told his teammates to leave the arena and said he would subdue it alone.

• Suhang University charged Modu University while Sun Jiao summoned a legion of creatures to defend her team.
• Sun Jiao cast Random: Nature Summoning, which drained her mana and opened a huge gate in the sky.
• A level-twenty-four legendary Crimson Flame Ape emerged, and its flames shook the arena and threatened the protective barrier.
• Suhang University identified the ape as a legendary creature, while its fire whirlwind battered Liu Yang’s Heavy Water Shield.
• Zhou Rui told his teammates to leave the arena, saying he could subdue the Crimson Flame Ape but would not be able to protect them during the fight.

Kurd pushed his second awakening to its limit and briefly forced Chen Xiao back before burning through his life and disintegrating. Chen Xiao then pursued the fleeing Ahmet and trapped Nicole inside her time-freezing zone beneath a crushing attack.

• Kurd's strength surged past two hundredfold as he attacked Chen Xiao, who blocked his blows without being shaken.
• Kurd unleashed a deep-blue strike that pierced Chen Xiao's Bio-Force Field and forced him half a step back.
• Chen Xiao revealed that he had let Kurd continue so he could witness the second awakening's ultimate fission, and Kurd's life burned away until he scattered into motes of light.
• Chen Xiao detected someone escaping and launched a powerful punch into Nicole's frozen zone before speeding across the city to intercept Ahmet.
• Nicole emerged inside her frozen zone and realized that the suspended force of Chen Xiao's punch threatened to overwhelm her already exhausted ability.

Chen Xiao and Yidileisi survived a Hellfire Club ambush, killing Nicole and Ahmet while Chen Xiao learned the attackers belonged to the organization. He demanded that Hellfire explain itself within three days and prepared to retaliate if it did not.

• Yidileisi escaped the exploding blast zone and killed Nicole as Chen Xiao had instructed her to leave the corpse intact.
• Ahmet absorbed Superman's Heat Vision until his body overloaded and exploded, creating a vast crater and devastating the surrounding area.
• Chen Xiao called Professor X, identified the attackers as Hellfire Club members, and demanded an explanation within three days or he would destroy the organization.
• Chen Xiao reassured Yidileisi that the ambush was not her fault and urged her to strengthen and master her steel-hardening ability.
• Yidileisi asked what they would do next, and Chen Xiao implied that he would retaliate against those who had mistaken him for an easy target.

After the Arela Group’s mutant ambush, Chen Xiao ordered the Bloody Hand Society to seize its southern territory and collected genetic samples from Nicole and Ahmet. The destruction in Qigela City alarmed the world, and the Hellfire Club chose peace talks after learning how powerful Vitas had become.

• Chen Xiao ordered Yidileisi to contact George and mobilize the Blood Wolf Group to take the Arela Group’s territory, while directing the Bloody Hand Society to eliminate anyone who resisted.
• Chen Xiao collected a bone marrow sample from Nicole and recalled that he had secretly preserved genetic tissue from Ahmet to study his cosmic energy absorption ability.
• Footage of the battle spread worldwide, bringing reports of more than a hundred thousand dead or missing and a surge of anti-mutant sentiment.
• The White Queen told the Hellfire Club that Vitas had demanded an answer within three days, then presented an assessment showing his nuclear-scale strength, speed, and defense.
• The Hellfire Club rejected a fight and agreed to appease Vitas by liquidating Ahmet’s assets and killing the buyer who had funded the operation.

Chen Xiao focused on developing the Time X-Factor and other projects after accepting the Hellfire Club’s compensation and learning that Britain’s Lupton Laboratory had targeted his genes. In the research institute, Clarice’s new energy-absorbing X-Gene began steadily strengthening her body.

• Nick Fury and other observers feared Chen Xiao’s immense power, while Chen Xiao returned to his manor and concentrated on research into the Time X-Factor.
• Chen Xiao dismissed the Sentry Serum as an unreliable path to power and chose instead to strengthen himself and prepare for the Infinity Stones.
• The White Queen gave Chen Xiao 2.3 billion dollars in assets and information about the assassination plot, identifying Lupton Laboratory as the likely force behind it.
• Chen Xiao accepted the Hellfire Club’s compensation, planned to verify the British connection later, and used the funds to accelerate his research.
• Chen Xiao observed Clarice absorbing thermal rays through her newly implanted X-Gene and noted that her body was growing stronger and more mature.

Chen Xiao spent time with Clarice and Yidileisi, strengthening their abilities and growing closer to Yidileisi as she reported the Blood Hand Council’s victories over the Arela Group. At Xavier’s School, Scott asked Professor X to use Cerebro to find his missing younger brother Alexander, and Professor X began scanning the Earth.

• Chen Xiao invited Clarice into town, then spent the following days paying more attention to her.
• Yidileisi returned after leading the Blood Hand Council in conquering half the Arela Group’s territory and eliminating its core leadership.
• Chen Xiao helped Yidileisi absorb energy factors, adding energy ray absorption to her abilities.
• Chen Xiao and Yidileisi spent the day together, while Yidileisi reported that the Arela Group had lost the will to resist.
• Scott told Professor X that his younger brother Alexander had been missing for over a week and explained that Alexander could absorb energy and fire high-energy shock waves.
• Professor X used Cerebro to search for Alexander, extending his psychic perception across the Earth.

Professor X discovered Larry Trask's hidden Sentinel laboratory in southern Africa, and the X-Men and Magneto's mutants destroyed it and rescued its prisoners. As Colossus touched a strange piece of wood, it carried a message from Illyana in Limbo; meanwhile, Chen Xiao continued absorbing sunlight above Qigela City as his power grew.

• Professor X traced Alexander's mind-signature to Larry Trask's secret laboratory and ordered the X-Men to destroy it.
• Cyclops, Storm, Quicksilver, and Magneto's mutant force joined together to assault Trask Military Industries in southern Africa.
• Storm and Cyclops demolished the town's outer defenses, and the combined mutant teams overran the facility and destroyed its Sentinel prototypes.
• The mutants rescued Havok, Alexander, and other prisoners, while Colossus found a strange wooden object that delivered a message from Illyana in Limbo.
• Chen Xiao continued absorbing sunlight above Qigela City, where his strength and gravitational field had grown dramatically.

Chen Xiao combined his X-Gene with his Kryptonian cells to unleash a devastating punch, then hurried to the school after Professor X said Peter needed help. There, he learned about Colossus’s trouble and examined a magical talisman while the three clone sisters recognized him as Superman.

• Chen Xiao used his X-Gene to awaken the super energy in his Kryptonian cells and tore a long rift through the clouds with a punch.
• Professor X called Chen Xiao to the school because Peter had run into trouble, and Chen Xiao flew there at supersonic speed.
• Chen Xiao met Shadowcat, who said Peter had been acting strangely and accompanied him to see Professor X.
• Esme, Sophie, and Phoebe sensed something familiar in Chen Xiao, then used Telepathy to learn about his past and identify him as Superman.
• Professor X showed Chen Xiao, Shadowcat, Colossus, Cyclops, and Storm a magically enchanted talisman and explained that ancient magicians still existed.

Chen Xiao and Colossus traveled to Limbo to find Peter’s sister Illyana, fighting through its monsters and smashing the magical barrier around Belasco’s castle. Belasco confronted them and summoned an army of demons, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Professor X explained that the talisman could take Chen Xiao and Colossus to Hell’s Boundary, and Colossus insisted on searching for Illyana.
• Chen Xiao agreed to accompany Colossus, and they used the talisman to arrive in Limbo.
• Chen Xiao surveyed the realm, spotted Belasco’s castle, and carried Colossus toward it, destroying several waves of flying monsters along the way.
• Chen Xiao punched through the barrier surrounding the castle and destroyed the eight towers powering its magical formation.
• Belasco appeared, accused Chen Xiao and Colossus of trespassing, and summoned swarms of monsters from dimensional rifts.

Belasco sent his demon legion and several magical attacks against Chen Xiao and Colossus, but Chen Xiao countered with overwhelming force. After Belasco’s curse weakened Colossus, Chen Xiao unleashed amplified golden energy that destroyed it and turned his attention to Belasco’s army.

• Belasco ordered his demon legion to attack, and Chen Xiao cut down thousands with his Heat Rays while Colossus smashed an incoming lava fireball.
• Belasco summoned giant tentacles through spatial rifts, but Chen Xiao burned them away as one struck Colossus into a trench.
• Belasco sent emerald energy spheres and an Evil God's Whisper curse; Chen Xiao blocked the spheres, while the curse weakened Colossus but could not penetrate Chen Xiao’s Bio-Force Field.
• Chen Xiao released eightfold-amplified power and hurled a golden orb through the curse skull, vaporizing it with a blast of destructive energy.
• Chen Xiao looked toward Belasco and the approaching demon legion and declared that he could use energy attacks too.

Chen Xiao devastated Belasco’s realm and overwhelmed Belasco, preparing to destroy the entire dimension until Colossus and a girl on the castle wall stopped him. The girl held a rune matching Colossus’s, and Chen Xiao asked whether she was Illyana, Piotr Rasputin’s sister.

• Chen Xiao’s golden attack obliterated the demons and transformed the surrounding landscape, while Colossus emerged from the rubble alive.
• Belasco returned and attacked Chen Xiao, but Chen Xiao shattered his defensive barriers and punched him into a crater.
• Belasco claimed he could not die while his realm remained intact, so Chen Xiao awakened Energy Fission and prepared to destroy the world.
• Chen Xiao immobilized Belasco and demanded to see his strongest magic, threatening to erase him and the realm.
• A blonde girl appeared on the castle wall holding a rune that matched Colossus’s, and Colossus warned Chen Xiao that his sister was there.
• Chen Xiao stopped his attack and asked the girl whether she was Illyana, Piotr Rasputin’s sister.

Chen Xiao brought Illyana back from Hell's Boundary after Belasco agreed to let her leave, and she reunited with Colossus and the X-Men. At the school, Chen Xiao revealed that he had successfully integrated telekinesis into himself and agreed that Professor X could try the procedure.

• Chen Xiao learned that Illyana considered Belasco her teacher, and Belasco agreed to let her return to Earth after she said she wanted to go home.
• Chen Xiao, Colossus, and Illyana returned to the Xavier Institute, where Illyana met Professor X and Storm and was recognized as a mutant.
• Chen Xiao declined Shadowcat's invitation to stay because he needed to oversee experiments at his research institute.
• Chen Xiao told the gathered X-Men that he had isolated and integrated telekinesis-related X-Gene fragments, though the ability used only about five percent of his mental power.
• Professor X asked whether he could undergo the procedure, and Chen Xiao agreed while explaining that telekinesis was the only ability his technology could currently integrate.

Chen Xiao completed a telekinesis factor tailored for Professor X as global tensions escalated after Jean Grey destroyed an Australian fleet. Cyclops, Colossus, and Storm brought the factor to Xavier's School, where the X-Men gathered to witness the breakthrough.

• Chen Xiao explained the limits of ability fusion to Professor X and decided to keep the X-Factor technology restricted to people he personally approved.
• News reports showed Jean Grey destroying thirteen Australian warships, prompting global protests and condemnation of the Mutants Republic.
• Chen Xiao suspected that someone had provoked the clash to turn the world against mutants and warned that a human-mutant war was nearing.
• A report showed an attacker using replicated Iron Man-style armor to attack Tony Stark at a racetrack, and Chen Xiao remarked that the world had become chaotic.
• More than half a month later, Chen Xiao finished purifying a telekinesis factor for Professor X.
• Cyclops, Colossus, and Storm delivered the factor to Xavier's School, where the X-Men, including Havok and Magik, gathered in Professor X's office.

Professor X used the X-Factor to awaken vastly greater telekinetic power, while Chen Xiao completed a spatial X-Factor and gained a deeper understanding of space. He left the chapter with new spatial abilities, plans to improve the Stellar Suit, and the belief that Mutants could overcome limits imposed on their powers.

• Cyclops delivered Vitas's X-Factor, and Professor X absorbed it, triggering a massive surge in his telekinetic power across the school.
• A month later, Chen Xiao finished cultivating a spatial X-Factor and absorbed it, gaining a microscopic perception of space and the ability to cut and distort it.
• Chen Xiao demonstrated spatial cutting and crushing to Clarice, then teleported with her from the laboratory to the mansion's garden.
• Chen Xiao concluded that Mutant abilities had underlying limits planted by the Celestials and that breaking those shackles could lead to Omega-level power.
• Chen Xiao planned to use spatial compression and multiple fusion cores to strengthen the Stellar Suit and ensure a reliable energy supply for future battles.

After reaching the Bronze Peak, Chen Xiao decided to travel to Britain and investigate the Knights of Divine Punishment amid growing tensions between humans and mutants. Clarice provided the Knights’ classified records, and Chen Xiao prepared to act with his strength now vastly greater than before.

• Chen Xiao continued researching his suit while superpowered crimes and clashes between mutants and ordinary people drove superheroes into the public spotlight.
• During a meeting with Professor X and Magneto, Chen Xiao agreed that powerful interests were manufacturing fear of mutants and announced he would go to London to settle old scores.
• Magneto asked Jean, Quicksilver, and Polaris to assess Chen Xiao, and Jean described him as a gifted strategist whose strength had likely grown enormously.
• Clarice told Chen Xiao that Britain’s Knights of Divine Punishment had twelve members led by Captain Britain, Brian Braddock, and outlined their powers and government ties.
• Clarice explained that she had hacked Britain’s highest-level firewall to obtain the Knights’ files, while Chen Xiao had reached the Bronze Peak, with strength and speed far beyond his previous limits.

Chen Xiao prepared to travel to Britain to avenge the plot against him, allowing Yidileisi and Clarice to join him while sealing his underground research institute inside deep space. As his private jet headed for London, British officials and the Knights of Divine Punishment learned how rapidly his power had grown and argued over whether they could possibly stop him.

• Chen Xiao reviewed his rapidly evolving Kryptonian abilities and agreed to depart for Britain that evening.
• Yidileisi returned from Kedala State and insisted on joining Chen Xiao and Clarice, declaring that those who plotted against him should die.
• Chen Xiao warned the women not to underestimate their enemies, then sealed the underground research institute inside the third layer of deep space.
• Chen Xiao, Yidileisi, and Clarice flew from Pochut City toward London, and news of his arrival spread quickly.
• British officials and the Knights of Divine Punishment studied Chen Xiao's history and combat growth, panicking as they realized how difficult he would be to fight.

Rudoston proposed killing Vitas with a multimegaton hydrogen bomb, but Britain’s leaders rejected the plan and ordered the Knights of Divine Punishment to meet him and seek a peaceful resolution if possible. When Chen Xiao arrived in London, he greeted Brian calmly before asking about Rudoston, leaving the reason for his question unclear.

• Brian asked Ruth to assess Vitas’s weaknesses, but she could not guarantee success.
• Rudoston proposed striking Vitas’s plane over the Atlantic with a multimegaton hydrogen bomb, though Britain’s highest decision-makers had already rejected the plan as too risky.
• A British official instructed the Knights of Divine Punishment to negotiate if Vitas was willing and demonstrate their strength if he took a hard line.
• Brian led all twelve Knights of Divine Punishment to greet Chen Xiao at the airport the next morning.
• Chen Xiao descended from his plane with Yidileisi and Clarice, greeted Brian, and asked whether the order included a member named Rudoston.

Chen Xiao attacked the Knights of Divine Punishment at London Airport, killing Rudoston and rapidly destroying most of the team after accusing Britain of backing the attempt on his life. Brian escaped through a magical portal to a hidden island, but Chen Xiao attacked him through the passage as an old man and an armored woman came to his rescue.

• Chen Xiao crushed Rudoston with a palm strike after confronting him about hiring assassins to steal Chen Xiao’s cells and genes.
• Chen Xiao accused Brian and Britain of backing Rudoston, and Ruth foresaw danger before Chen Xiao killed her.
• Chen Xiao killed several Knights of Divine Punishment at superhuman speed and badly injured Brian, whose talisman transported him away.
• Chen Xiao seized the spatial passage leading to a starlit island and fired destructive beams at Brian.
• The old man on the island intervened and moved Brian safely to his side.

Chen Xiao destroyed Buckingham Palace to threaten Britain, then searched an abandoned factory and found a spatial fissure linked to the Reality Stone. The chapter left him examining the fissure as intelligence agencies reacted to his attack.

• Chen Xiao told Yidileisi that Merlin had intercepted Brian and that Brian was no threat to him.
• Chen Xiao destroyed Buckingham Palace and warned Britain to answer him within three days or face annihilation.
• The British prime minister ordered emergency rescue efforts and consultations while London descended into chaos.
• Chen Xiao, Yidileisi, and Clarice searched the fifth abandoned religious site and found a pebble floating above the factory floor.
• Chen Xiao identified a spatial fissure connected to the Reality Stone and examined the folds in space around it.
• Nick Fury reviewed reports and satellite images of Chen Xiao's attack at S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters.

After Vitas destroyed Buckingham Palace and killed the queen, Britain’s prime minister sought Agatha’s help negotiating with him. As Agatha and Wanda departed for London, Merlin began repairing the void breach Chen Xiao had torn into the island containing the Citadel of Starlight.

• S.H.I.E.L.D. and the newly forming Avengers were judged too weak to stop Vitas, while Professor X and Magneto anticipated Britain’s response to the attack.
• Britain’s prime minister ordered Yodel to approach Chen Xiao and then traveled to Agatha’s home to ask her to intervene.
• The prime minister told Agatha and Wanda that Vitas had killed the Knights of Divine Punishment, destroyed Buckingham Palace, and threatened to wipe out Britain within three days.
• Agatha agreed to speak with Vitas but made no promise to persuade him, while Wanda remained wary of the prime minister’s account.
• Merlin watched stone fragments close the breach Chen Xiao’s strike had torn into the island holding the Citadel of Starlight.

Merlin saved Brian after the Mutant’s attack killed his companions and said Brian could only avenge them by drawing the true Sword in the Stone. Meanwhile, Chen Xiao entered Odin’s sealed chamber, freed the Reality Stone, and chose to fuse it into his Superman body to begin advancing.

• Merlin and Roma used the Amulet of Life to heal Brian, then told him that Ruth and the others had been killed by the Mutant.
• Merlin said Brian might defeat the Mutant if he drew the true Sword in the Stone, which lay deep within Avalon.
• Chen Xiao opened a passage into Odin’s sealed land and warned Yidileisi and Clarice to retreat if a dangerous enemy appeared.
• Chen Xiao reached the Reality Stone inside an ancient pillar and shattered the weakened seal holding it.
• The system offered Chen Xiao a choice of how to use the Reality Stone, and he spent five Origin points to fuse it into his Superman body.

Chen Xiao refined the Reality Stone and began ascending along the Silver Superman path, greatly strengthening his powers and breaking through his former limits. Outside the factory, Agatha and Wanda waited under Yidileisi’s guard while Chen Xiao examined his transformed abilities.

• Chen Xiao chose the Silver Superman ascension path and absorbed the Reality Stone’s energy, accelerating the evolution of his Kryptonian genes and X-Gene.
• The British prime minister left Agatha and Wanda at the abandoned factory, intending to use Agatha’s standing with the Secret Alliance to secure mediation and persuade Superman Vitas to leave London.
• Yidileisi barred Agatha and Wanda from entering and drew her blade when Agatha probed the factory with mental power; Agatha apologized and agreed to wait.
• Chen Xiao awoke inside the sealed grounds and inspected his updated attribute panel, which showed his Silver Age Kryptonian bloodline and enhanced abilities.

Chen Xiao reviewed his new strength after acquiring the Reality Stone, while Brian received the Sword in the Stone and returned to Earth. Chen Xiao then agreed to settle his dispute with Britain through Agatha, leaving her with a USB drive containing the demanded technical materials.

• Chen Xiao examined his upgraded abilities and used the Reality Stone to teleport away.
• Brian drew the Sword in the Stone, whose strike carved a vast chasm through space, and Merlin and Roma explained its power and the omniverse.
• Merlin revealed that the original Brian had died when this Brian activated the Amulet of Life, then wondered whether he could overcome the sword’s threshold.
• Chen Xiao arrived with Clarice and met Agatha, who explained that deaths near London could endanger the magical barrier protecting Earth from Dormammu.
• Chen Xiao gave Agatha a USB drive containing the materials Britain had to deliver in exchange for ending their conflict.

Brian returned to London and challenged Chen Xiao over the destruction of Buckingham Palace and the deaths of civilians. Their battle devastated much of the city, and the chapter ended as Chen Xiao’s punch struck the Amulet of Life protecting Brian.

• Brian arrived at Buckingham Palace’s ruins, learned that the queen and thousands of civilians had died, and flew into the sky to challenge Chen Xiao.
• Chen Xiao defended his actions and blamed Rudoston and Britain’s leaders, while Brian insisted he answer for the innocent victims.
• Brian unleashed the Sword in the Stone’s immense power, but Chen Xiao evaded the strike; its impact tore through central London and caused mass casualties.
• Brian charged Chen Xiao at close range, but his attacks missed, and one sword strike escaped Earth’s atmosphere and destroyed dozens of satellites.
• Chen Xiao launched a golden punch at Brian, but the Amulet of Life formed a blue barrier in front of him.

Chen Xiao annihilated Brian with a single punch after Brian’s battle with him devastated London. As rescue efforts began across the ruins, Chen Xiao found that the lifeless Sword in the Stone absorbed his attempt to move it.

• Chen Xiao battered Brian across London, then rendered him immune to the Sword in the Stone’s attack and destroyed him with a punch that annihilated his body.
• The battle’s blasts reduced much of London to ruins, killing more than a million people and leaving survivors trapped beneath collapsed buildings.
• The British prime minister and ministers ordered emergency rescue operations, while the Scarlet Witch, Agatha, and Mutants used their abilities to save survivors.
• Chen Xiao judged the British people responsible for their government’s choices and showed no sympathy for them as he approached Brian’s fallen weapons.
• Chen Xiao tried to lift the Sword in the Stone, but it absorbed his immense force without moving.