Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiao overwhelmed Abomination, but Abomination's attack on Thaddeus Ross's group caused Bruce to transform into Hulk and join the battle. Hulk and Abomination fought through Pochut City, while Chen Xiao realized the fight was moving away and suspected Abomination was trying to escape.

• Chen Xiao assessed Abomination's strength and regeneration, then struck him into a building with a powerful kick.
• Abomination hurled an armored vehicle at Thaddeus Ross and the others, and its explosion appeared to kill them.
• Bruce transformed into Hulk after the blast and charged Abomination, but Abomination quickly knocked him back.
• Hulk and Abomination fought across the street, destroying buildings and vehicles as police and reporters watched from a distance.
• A falling burning car engulfed a reporter and her assistant during their live broadcast of the battle.
• Chen Xiao watched Hulk struggle against Abomination's superior fighting skill and realized the two were moving away as Abomination tried to escape.

Chen Xiao killed Abomination with one overwhelming punch, then confronted Dr. Sterns after the scientist mutated from exposure to Hulk blood. Chen Xiao revealed he had come to take something and dispose of Sterns, leaving the newly transformed scientist in danger.

• Chen Xiao saw through Abomination’s attempt to escape, revealed that he was a Chen, and promised to spare Abomination if he survived one punch.
• Chen Xiao unleashed his full strength and struck Abomination, devastating the surrounding district and pulverizing him.
• Hulk recovered and found only a shapeless mass of flesh and blood where Abomination had been.
• Dr. Sterns woke in his ruined laboratory after absorbing Hulk blood and discovered that his intelligence had increased dramatically.
• Chen Xiao appeared before Sterns, identified him as Mr. Blue, and said he had come to take something and send him on his way.

Chen Xiao killed Stern and destroyed his laboratory, then joined Yidileisi as she finished off the Trunk Gang’s last defenders. As the battle’s aftermath drew the attention of Hydra and the Hellfire Club, Hellfire assessed Chen Xiao as an exceptionally powerful mutant and decided to recruit him.

• Chen Xiao burned Stern and his laboratory to ashes, then collected the green blood samples Stern had synthesized.
• As emergency crews responded to the destruction in eastern Pochut City, Yidileisi stormed the Trunk Gang’s final stronghold and killed its defenders.
• Chen Xiao landed beside Yidileisi, stopped her from attacking the Bloody Hand Society members, and took her back to the manor.
• The green giant escaped the police pursuit, while the devastation and the destruction of the Bloody Hand Society spread across the city.
• Hydra and the Hellfire Club began gathering intelligence on Chen Xiao, and Hellfire assigned him the codename “Superman.”
• Hellfire’s leadership judged Chen Xiao’s potential to exceed the Alpha-level limit and ordered an attempt to recruit him.

Various factions analyzed Chen Xiao under the codename Superman while he planned an underground research institute and reaffirmed his pursuit of strength and X-Gene research. Meanwhile, Magneto prepared for the Mutants Republic’s founding and assigned Nightcrawler, Quicksilver, and a green-haired girl to invite key figures.

• Hellfire, S.H.I.E.L.D., and other factions assessed Chen Xiao and independently adopted the codename “Superman.”
• Professor X recognized Chen Xiao’s unusual resemblance to Superman and noted that the two mutated beings in Pochut City could draw attention away from him.
• Lucia reported on the Bloody Hand Society’s expanded control, and Chen Xiao told her to keep managing routine affairs while he arranged for Jacked’s team to speed up construction of his underground research institute.
• Chen Xiao called Professor X for help with construction, then reflected on his purpose and resolved to pursue greater strength and research ways to fuse X-Gene abilities.
• Magneto reviewed the demands of governing the Mutants Republic and told Nightcrawler, Quicksilver, and a green-haired girl to invite key figures to its founding celebration.
• Quicksilver reacted with surprise when Magneto confirmed that he would be sent on the mission.

Magneto told Quicksilver and Lorna about a gathering of powerful mutants and urged Lorna to accept the responsibilities of being his daughter. In Mexico, Chen Xiao welcomed Professor X’s representatives and opened a mysterious weapon crate, where he discovered a blade forged with adamantium and other metals.

• Magneto said he planned to invite Professor Charles and Vitas to meet the mutants, and he described Vitas’s exceptional speed, strength, and durability.
• Magneto told Lorna that her mutant abilities made her vulnerable to attention from intelligence agencies and threatened to stop publicly acknowledging her if she rejected her responsibilities.
• Chen Xiao arrived at Pochut City Airport with Yidileisi and a large entourage to welcome Mr. Jacked, Mr. Talus, and the other visitors.
• Chen Xiao and Jacked discussed expanding the manor’s underground fortress by five floors, with Jacked agreeing the work could be completed within a week if supplies were ready.
• Chen Xiao opened the heavy crate Professor X had sent and found a black blade inside.
• Professor X told Chen Xiao that the weapon contained high-purity adamantium and seventeen other metallic elements, including three from beyond Earth.

Chen Xiao received a powerful, energy-absorbing blade from Professor X and began planning a covert assault on the Sentinel laboratory under a new identity. After discussing the base’s defenses and turning down Yidileisi’s offer to join him, he spent two days studying materials science to prepare his weapon and disguise.

• Professor X explained that extraterrestrial weaponsmiths had forged Chen Xiao a blade with Adamantium-like hardness and a geomagnetic core that grew heavier as it absorbed energy.
• Chen Xiao confirmed that only four people knew the weapon’s details and told Professor X he planned to destroy the Sentinel laboratory and its underground military base.
• Professor X warned Chen Xiao about the base’s troops, Mutant countermeasures, controlled Mutants, and Sentinels, then offered Cerebro support and advised keeping the other X-Men out of the operation.
• Chen Xiao refused Yidileisi’s request to accompany him because the Mutant-suppressing defender could leave her too weak to face the soldiers.
• Chen Xiao had Lucia acquire two factories and began designing a concealed identity and fighting style while studying technical books at Sanglai University.
• After two days of study, Chen Xiao accepted the library’s last advanced-materials monograph from Euphemia.

After studying materials science, Chen Xiao met Quicksilver, Nightcrawler, and Lorna, who invited him to the New Mutants Republic’s founding ceremony. He then designed combat armor and worked in his factories for several days before a call brought him back to meet the governor of León State.

• Chen Xiao finished studying more than a thousand specialist books and learned that three Mutants claiming to be his friends had arrived.
• Quicksilver tested Chen Xiao’s speed, then learned that Chen Xiao had tracked him with his eyes despite being unable to match his movement physically.
• Nightcrawler introduced Quicksilver and Magneto’s daughter Lorna, who told Chen Xiao that others had nicknamed him “Superman.”
• Nightcrawler invited Chen Xiao to the New Mutants Republic’s founding ceremony on May third, and Chen Xiao said he might attend.
• Chen Xiao designed combat armor inspired by the Saint Cloth and spent several days working at his metal smelting plant and machining factory.
• After a phone call brought Chen Xiao back to the villa, the old butler introduced him to León State Governor Mont.

Chen Xiao negotiated with Governor Mont and Chief of Staff Radev to halt Yidileisi’s bloody expansion, then entered the Virtual Battlefield to challenge two saber fighters and gain part of their inheritance. After killing one opponent and acquiring vibration force, he launched a golden saber strike at the remaining fighter.

• Governor Mont and Chief of Staff Radev confronted Chen Xiao over Yidileisi’s attacks on neighboring cities, and Chen Xiao agreed to call her back and limit casualties.
• Chen Xiao warned that the Bloody Hand Society expected others to follow the underworld code, and the governor promised officials would not interfere with legitimate business competition.
• After the officials left, Chen Xiao ordered Yidileisi to return and entered the Virtual Battlefield on hard mode.
• Chen Xiao fought two saber-wielding opponents, took a deep shoulder wound to trap one man’s blade, and killed him with a punch.
• Chen Xiao gained part of a saber-art inheritance and vibration force, then channeled it through a saber to attack the remaining opponent.

Chen Xiao gained a strand of vibration blade intent, tested its destructive power, and inspected the newly completed underground laboratory intended for his X-Gene research. Yidileisi returned after killing around eleven hundred people, and Chen Xiao prepared to take her to test a new battle suit.

• Chen Xiao defeated the middle-aged man in the Virtual Battlefield and gained a strand of the vibration blade intent law.
• Chen Xiao tested the blade intent, learned to control its vibrational force, and found that it added a powerful fighting method without greatly increasing his overall strength.
• The old butler told Chen Xiao that Teacher Jacked had completed the underground laboratory, and Chen Xiao considered how to cultivate X-Gene cells carrying targeted abilities.
• Jacked and four other mutants briefed Chen Xiao on the laboratory’s construction, and Chen Xiao thanked them for their work.
• Yidileisi returned to the estate and reported that she had killed around eleven hundred people; Chen Xiao then offered to take her to test a new battle suit and noted that her increasing strength had become harder to improve.

Chen Xiao and Yidileisi prepared their armor and launched a covert assault on the Sentinel Research Institute at Gideon, where Trask was advancing experiments that extracted mutant abilities for Sentinel cores. The chapter ended as Yidileisi began placing signal jammers around the base while Chen Xiao set out to cut its main fiber-optic cable.

• Chen Xiao finished his black Gold-grade armor and told Yidileisi she had joined his planned Dark Twelve Houses as a provisional Silver Saint.
• Chen Xiao used his Bio-Force Field to fly Yidileisi toward the Sentinel Research Institute and partially conceal them in flight.
• At Gideon, researchers tortured a mutant boy to extract his X-Factor while Trask planned to use mutant genes to improve Sentinel cores.
• Chen Xiao and Yidileisi landed near the base, and he gave her five upgraded signal jammers to deploy around its perimeter.
• Yidileisi hurried off to place the jammers as Chen Xiao prepared to sever Gideon's main fiber-optic cable.

Chen Xiao attacked Gideon, destroying its military defenses and forcing his way through the laboratory’s superalloy gate with a hundred-ton blade. He disappeared into the laboratory as surviving soldiers regrouped and began tending to the wounded.

• Chen Xiao launched golden blade strikes that severed Gideon’s communications and alerted the base’s soldiers.
• Chen Xiao identified himself as a god, then destroyed the base’s weapons, barracks, and main buildings while soldiers’ gunfire failed to harm him.
• Chen Xiao used the geomagnetic core in his blade’s hilt to increase its weight to one hundred tons.
• Chen Xiao struck the laboratory’s sealed alloy gate, melting and breaching it, then entered through the opening.
• Surviving soldiers assembled, treated the wounded, and prepared to seek outside help.

Chen Xiao and Yidileisi stormed the Sentry Institute, overwhelming its defenses as Chen Xiao destroyed the facility and seized valuable equipment. The chapter ended with Chen Xiao attacking the third floor, where he quickly overwhelmed the Sentries and mutant defenders.

• Yidileisi charged through the base’s soldiers and forced the institute to sound its alarms and begin its emergency evacuation.
• Chen Xiao entered the institute, destroyed its robots and laboratory defenses, and collected expensive research machines and rare materials.
• Trask activated the institute’s layered defenses, but Chen Xiao broke through the second-floor defenses and continued downward.
• On the third floor, Chen Xiao introduced himself as Draco of the Saints of the Dark Twelve Temples, while the intelligence chief said the organization was unknown to them.
• Chen Xiao attacked the third-floor mutants and five Sentries, destroying the Sentries and killing several mutants in the ensuing explosions.

Chen Xiao destroyed the Sentinel institute, collected its valuable equipment, and killed Trask and the fleeing researchers. On the ninth level, he confronted the Sentinel core and discovered that it had developed rudimentary self-awareness.

• A power suppressor and a black sentinel ambushed Chen Xiao, but his armor withstood the attack and his saber destroyed the sentinel and killed both Mutants.
• Chen Xiao swept through the institute, taking useful equipment and reaching the eighth level, where he found three imprisoned girls and promised to take them out after dealing with the lower levels.
• Chen Xiao entered the ninth level and found the Sentinel system’s central computer, while Trask and the researchers fled through an emergency tunnel.
• Chen Xiao caught up with Trask and the fleeing researchers and killed five of them with a slash, then deduced that the Sentinel Program had a government backup.
• The Sentinel core asked Chen Xiao to preserve its functions and explained that it wanted to continue operating, confirming that it had developed rudimentary self-awareness.

Chen Xiao destroyed the Sentry Laboratory, rescued several Mutants, and escaped with Yidileisi while arranging for Professor X to retrieve the survivors. In Washington, officials reviewed footage of the attack and began investigating the two powerful intruders and their connection to the Dark Twelve Houses.

• Chen Xiao destroyed the laboratory’s central intelligence, recovered its hard drive, and led the surviving Mutants outside.
• Chen Xiao met Yidileisi, who reported killing 2,180 soldiers, then told the Mutants to hide before he and Yidileisi flew away.
• Chen Xiao called Professor X and asked him to send Mr. Scott to collect the surviving Mutants.
• Several Mutants fled on their own, while the three blonde girls stayed in the woods as the X-Men dispatched a black fighter jet.
• Callas briefed the president and senior officials on the attack, showing footage that identified Chen Xiao as a non-Mutant associated with the Dark Twelve Houses.

Chen Xiao studied mutant genetics while Magneto founded a sovereign mutant nation in Africa. The ceremony brought rival groups together, while Chen Xiao remained away, absorbed in his research.

• Callas described Vitas, Yidileisi, and Nightcrawler as suspects, but admitted the Department of Defense had no conclusive evidence linking them to the incident.
• Chen Xiao saw Jacked and his party off, then flew above the clouds to absorb sunlight and analyze more than a hundred thousand mutant genetic samples.
• Chen Xiao concluded that the term “X-gene” was misleading, returned to his estate, and spent the next several days alternating between sunlight and laboratory research.
• Mutants and international delegates gathered in Africa as Magneto prepared to declare the Federal Republic of Mutants a sovereign nation.
• Shadowcat learned that Vitas had skipped the founding ceremony to pursue biology research, while Professor X encouraged Scott to speak openly with Jean after the ceremony.

Chen Xiao spent a month advancing his genetic and materials research, then infused newly created telekinetic X-Factors into his dormant X-Gene. His mental power gained the ability to affect the physical world, and he left a giant palm print in a reinforced concrete wall using only a thousandth of his strength.

• Chen Xiao successfully recreated an embryonic environment and produced a stem cell whose mutant genetic sequence had been reduced to half its original strength.
• Chen Xiao developed combat suits and continued working on genetics, materials, machinery, and other research for a month.
• Jane and two companions witnessed a stormy spatial anomaly in Mexico, where a multicolored beam struck the ground and a crimson meteor landed nearby, leaving an ancient hammer in a crater.
• Chen Xiao extracted hundreds of telekinetic X-Factors from billions of engineered cells and absorbed them into his dormant X-Gene network.
• Chen Xiao awakened tangible telekinesis and crushed a reinforced concrete wall with a mental push, using only one-thousandth of his mental power.

Chen Xiao used telekinesis to reshape his X-Genes, greatly increasing his power and demonstrating a devastating energy attack over Pochut City. He resolved to continue developing his abilities so he could eventually seize the Infinity Stones, beginning with the powers needed to challenge the Ancient One for the Time Stone.

• Chen Xiao emerged from the research facility, and Yidileisi sensed his overwhelming danger as he flew into the sky.
• Chen Xiao used telekinesis to restructure his X-Genes, then unleashed an energy sphere that blasted a vast opening through the clouds above Pochut City.
• Chen Xiao formed a golden shield by combining his Bio-Force Field with his will and reviewed his strengthened abilities and three-star level.
• Chen Xiao concluded that he needed to keep fusing X-Factors and master time and space before he could begin collecting the Infinity Stones.
• Chen Xiao noted that the Time Stone was with the Ancient One, the Reality Stone was sealed by Odin in a London church, and the remaining stone concerned space.

Chen Xiao spent a rare day relaxing with Yidileisi, while his costly experiments nearly exhausted the family’s funds. The chapter ended with the old butler reporting Tony Stark’s public reveal of Iron Man and his decision to stop selling weapons.

• Chen Xiao considered how to obtain the Reality Stone and focused on researching mutant space-time abilities.
• Chen Xiao and Yidileisi went on a shopping date in Pochut City.
• Clarice visited Ororo’s office, where she met Esme, Sophie, and Phoebe and was asked to show them around.
• The old butler told Chen Xiao that his experimental supplies had nearly depleted the family’s funds, so Chen Xiao proposed commercializing two biotechnology discoveries.
• The old butler reported that Tony Stark had ended arms sales, revealed himself as Iron Man, and demonstrated his combat armor.

Chen Xiao learned that Thor and Mjolnir had appeared in New Mexico, and a quest tasked him with defeating the Destroyer. He traveled there with Yidileisi and went to see the hammer, intending to study how it was made.

• The butler told Chen Xiao about rising tensions over Mutants, Iron Man’s emergence, and a hammer that no one could move in New Mexico.
• Chen Xiao received a quest to defeat the Destroyer and demonstrate Superman’s might to the false gods, with three Origin points as the reward.
• Chen Xiao took Yidileisi to his basement workshop, showed her his combat suits, and gave her a black suit of her own.
• In Old Bridge, Chen Xiao recognized Thor among the customers at a restaurant and remarked that Thor looked like the person who could take the hardest beating.
• After eating, Chen Xiao and Yidileisi headed to Mjolnir so he could examine its material and forging techniques.

Chen Xiao reached the crater to examine Mjolnir while S.H.I.E.L.D. allowed him access, and Thor later broke into the base to reclaim it. Yidileisi blocked Thor before he could reach the hammer, leaving the two face to face.

• Chen Xiao and Yidileisi arrived at the crater, where Yidileisi knocked aside an agent before Phil identified himself and ordered the others to stand down.
• Phil escorted Chen Xiao to Mjolnir and explained that S.H.I.E.L.D. could not damage it, while Chen Xiao analyzed its structure with his vision and psychic power.
• Yidileisi tried and failed to lift Mjolnir, then wandered around as Chen Xiao continued studying it.
• Phil reported to Nick that Chen Xiao might have learned something about the hammer, and Nick asked Phil to find out whether Chen Xiao recognized it.
• Thor fought his way into the crater, but Yidileisi appeared in his path and ordered him not to interrupt Chen Xiao.