Chapter Summaries

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.

Chen Xiao returned to the manor and announced that he would take over as chairman of the Bloody Hand Society and expose the mole who betrayed his parents. After killing Doragon and his men, he revealed his supposed mind-reading ability and accused Alders, who seized the Li Family head and triggered an armed standoff.

• Chen Xiao arrived at the manor, where the old butler introduced him to the leaders of the seven great families and the Bloody Hand Society.
• Chen Xiao announced that he would become chairman and demanded that the person who betrayed his parents step forward.
• Chen Xiao exposed Doragon as a traitor by reading his thoughts, then killed him and three of his men when they drew their guns.
• Chen Xiao claimed he could hear thoughts under certain conditions, while Yidileisi recognized that this was not one of his mutant abilities.
• Chen Xiao accused Alders of betraying the Chen Family and reminded him of the support he had received from Chen Xiao's grandfather.
• Alders seized the Li Family head as a hostage, and his men raised their guns as the other families' bodyguards aimed back at them.

Chen Xiao took control of the Bloody Hand Society, punished Alders for betraying the Chen Family, and ordered a decisive campaign against Trunk's forces in Taiwo District. Trunk learned that a mutant had destroyed his troops and prepared to defend the district, while his second-in-command suggested contacting Blonsky.

• Chen Xiao ordered Yidileisi to sever Alders's and his three subordinates' arms, then commanded the butler to take them away for public execution.
• Chen Xiao secured the representatives' agreement to his presidency, appointed Stodod to lead the Blood Tiger Combat Group, and ordered George, Salata, and Stodod to destroy the Tailaduo Family.
• Chen Xiao ordered Lucia to assemble the Bloody Hand Society in Taiwo District, encircle Trunk's forces without attacking, and locate Blonsky.
• Trunk examined evidence that a mutant had annihilated Torid's group and ordered his forces recalled, armed, and positioned to defend Taiwo District.
• Trunk's second-in-command suggested contacting Blonsky to help fight the mutant.

As Trunk’s gang and the Bloody Hand Society fought across Pochut City, Chen Xiao sent Yidileisi to attack and stormed Trunk’s fortified factory himself. The chapter ended as Chen Xiao reached the ground floor and Trunk’s men opened fire.

• Trunk learned Blonsky’s phone was off and prepared his forces as the Bloody Hand Society mobilized across Pochut City.
• Lucia told Chen Xiao that Banner, Dr. Sterns, Blonsky, and a US special operations team were converging on the research institute, and Chen Xiao ordered a feint against Trunk’s gang.
• When the gang battle began, Yidileisi leaped from a rooftop and cut through the Kuru Building before rockets drove her away.
• Trunk received reports of Yidileisi’s attack and suspected that the Bloody Hand Society was trying to exhaust his ammunition before deploying its mutants.
• Chen Xiao inspected Trunk’s heavily armed factory from above, then crashed through its roof and used his Heat Ray to descend through the building.
• Chen Xiao reached the ground floor, where a Trunk Gang member shouted for the guards to open fire.

Chen Xiao destroyed Trunk’s gang and headed for Laboratory No. 109, where Bruce Banner underwent an attempt to suppress the Hulk. The military captured Bruce, while Blonsky stayed behind to force Dr. Sterns to inject him with Hulk’s blood, and Chen Xiao watched without intervening.

• Chen Xiao slaughtered Trunk’s men and brought down their ring-shaped base, while the red-haired girl continued killing gang members nearby.
• At Laboratory No. 109, Dr. Sterns injected Bruce Banner with an inhibitor and used an electric current to trigger his transformation.
• Thaddeus Ross’s troops sealed the laboratory and captured the sedated Bruce, then departed with him and Betty.
• Blonsky remained behind, held Dr. Sterns at gunpoint, and forced him to inject him with Hulk’s blood.
• Chen Xiao watched the military convoy leave and considered using Hulk’s mutated cells for his X-Gene research.

Abomination rampaged through the streets toward Thaddeus Ross’s convoy, forcing Bruce to leave the overturned vehicle and face him. Chen Xiao intervened, caught Abomination’s attacks with ease, and ended the chapter by punching him through a forty-story building.

• Abomination escaped from the laboratory, attacked civilians, and pursued Thaddeus Ross’s convoy.
• Abomination destroyed the convoy’s rear vehicle and demanded that Bruce release Hulk for a fight.
• Bruce left the overturned armored vehicle to confront Abomination, but Chen Xiao landed between them.
• Chen Xiao caught Abomination’s punch and blocked his barrage while Bruce, Thaddeus Ross, Betty, and the others watched.
• Chen Xiao struck Abomination in the chest, sending him through a building and crashing onto the street.