Chapter Summaries

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.

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.