Recaps

Lin Xu discovered that the ranch kidnappers were delivering people to Stryker’s operation at Duke Kraft Reservoir. After learning their Asian accomplice had been killed to cover up the operation, Lin Xu revealed himself as a mutant and confronted the remaining kidnappers.

• The white man found Lin Xu’s phone, wallet, and bank card, then demanded his PIN while threatening him.
• The Asian man recognized Lin Xu’s dates as evidence of time travel and realized he might be a mutant, then left to check the vehicle.
• Lin Xu used the Eye of Agamotto to see that the Asian man had died by suicide in a car, with a woman standing nearby.
• The white man told Lin Xu they planned to take him to Duke Kraft Reservoir, and Lin Xu deduced that Stryker’s people were using locals to procure human test subjects.
• Lin Xu transformed his folding fan into a spear, prompting the black man to aim his gun at him while the white man dropped his weapon and pleaded that it was a misunderstanding.

Lin Xu helped Kara rescue Emma Frost, then reunited her with Logan and Victor through portals before the group headed to free the other Mutants. After several days of fishing and training, he was sent back to his own world by Agamotto.

• Lin Xu let the white man and the Black man leave, but Kara controlled them into killing each other outside the base.
• Lin Xu revealed that he knew Logan and threatened to tell him about Kara, then used a portal to kill Tom Chen and the driver.
• Lin Xu opened a portal to Emma Frost, allowing her to reunite with Kara, and then connected them to Logan and Victor in Las Vegas.
• Logan and Victor agreed to help Kara and Emma rescue the other imprisoned Mutants, while Lin Xu closed the portal and left them to fight.
• Lin Xu spent the next few days fishing, eating livestock, and training until his strength reached about ten tons.
• On the fifth day, Lin Xu released the ranch livestock near Old Sam's farm and felt Agamotto sending him back to his own world.

Lin Xu returned to Kamar-Taj carrying tokens from two of the Vishanti, and the Ancient One saw a chance to retire. In New York, Tony Stark modified Spider-Man’s armor and moved to protect Adrian, the Eagleman, from Senator Ross.

• The Ancient One told Mordo she would not repeat her mistake with Kaecilius after he warned her that Strange's past resembled Kaecilius's.
• Lin Xu emerged from the Vishanti’s light, reunited with the Ancient One, and revealed he had traveled through multiple universes for what he thought had been six months.
• The Ancient One noticed Lin Xu carried two pendants from the Vishanti and concluded he was their likely choice for the next Sorcerer Supreme.
• Tony Stark asked F.R.I.D.A.Y. to improve Peter Parker’s suit by adding four more spider legs and renaming Baby 3 to A15.
• Rhodey told Tony that Senator Ross wanted the Avengers to arrest Eagleman, and Tony instructed him to describe the Eagle Armor as a nonlethal Avengers rescue project.
• Tony’s phone rang, and the caller ID showed Lin Xu.

After six months away, Lin Xu returned to contact with Tony Stark and Adrian, then visited Wong at the library and fled after Wong remembered a promised meal. S.H.I.E.L.D. detected the Prophet's signal but could not locate him, leaving Nick Fury frustrated by another unreachable place.

• Lin Xu called Tony Stark to confirm that his shares were safe, and Tony told him Adrian had joined the Avengers as Male Hawkman.
• Adrian told Lin Xu that Daisy Johnson had faked her death, the drone research center had moved from Houston to New York after the Dallas 1677 Incident, and he had become a masked hero in armor.
• Lin Xu visited the library, greeted Wong, and was caught with Wong's Sling Ring.
• Lin Xu escaped through a portal to his Houston villa, while Wong shouted after him about the meal he had promised.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. detected the Prophet's signal but could not locate him, and Nick Fury compared the mystery to Wakanda's hidden network.

Kaecilius ambushed Lin Xu at home in the Mirror Dimension and tried to take him to Dormammu, but Lin Xu wounded him before Dormammu pulled him away. The Ancient One explained that Dormammu wanted the White Magic connected to Lin Xu and offered two ways to escape, leaving Lin Xu to choose.

• Lin Xu returned to his home in Piney Point, but Kaecilius trapped him in the Mirror Dimension and bound him with the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak.
• Lin Xu broke free, wounded Kaecilius with Gungnir, and struck him with the Bolts of Balthakk before Dormammu rescued him.
• The Ancient One arrived and explained that Dormammu sought the Book of the Vishanti’s White Magic to gain complete control of the Dark Dimension.
• The Ancient One offered Lin Xu two options: leave Earth or travel to a universe where Strange had negotiated with Dormammu, though she could not bring him back.

Lin Xu arrived in another universe and sought Wong’s help to repair the timeline, then used Strange’s phone to send Tony instructions for rescuing Scott Lang. The chapter ended with Tony receiving the message and realizing he needed to investigate the quantum van in San Francisco.

• Lin Xu appeared in a storage facility in San Francisco, where he found a quantum van and unfamiliar equipment.
• Stormbreaker reacted violently to Lin Xu’s arrival, waking Thor in New Asgard.
• Lin Xu went to Kamar-Taj and explained his situation to Wong, who agreed to connect him with Stark.
• Lin Xu used Strange’s phone to text Tony the storage facility’s location and instructions to restart the quantum van and save Scott Lang.
• Tony received Strange’s message and sent Morgan away so he could deal with the unexpected request.

Tony Stark decided to travel to San Francisco after reading a message about the one-in-fourteen-million chance of success. At Kamar-Taj, Lin Xu discovered a more powerful form of Hoggoth’s Hoary Hosts and then prepared to take Fat Orange to the new Asgard.

• Tony Stark thought about Peter and arranged travel to the San Francisco Bay Arena.
• Thor woke from a drunken stupor in New Asgard, learned Stormbreaker was hiding, and demanded furniture and entertainment.
• Lin Xu used Hoggoth’s bone armor to cast a towering white-tiger version of Hoggoth’s Hoary Hosts, impressing Wong.
• Lin Xu hinted that Wong should revisit the library to understand the mystic art, then prepared to practice the Mirror Dimension.
• Fat Orange returned with a scorched piece of gold from Asgard, and Lin Xu comforted him by explaining that Asgard lived wherever its people were.
• Lin Xu transformed his folding fan into Gungnir and set off with Fat Orange to visit Thor in the new Asgard.

Lin Xu introduced himself to Thor as Fengxian Borsen, claimed Odin had exiled him to another universe, and comforted Thor about Asgard’s destruction before asking to see New Asgard. At the Avengers Compound, Tony returned with Scott and surprised Natasha and Steve.

• Lin Xu arrived in New Asgard on Grani with Gungnir, and Thor confronted him after a rainbow beam brought him there.
• Lin Xu claimed to be Fengxian Borsen, Odin’s brother, and said Odin had exiled him to another universe by changing the Bifrost’s incantation.
• Lin Xu reassured Thor that Asgard’s destruction was not his fault, and Thor called him Uncle Fengxian.
• Lin Xu asked Thor to show him New Asgard and told him to wash his hair and lose weight.
• At the Avengers Compound, Tony arrived with Scott and explained that he had rescued him, surprising Natasha and Steve.

Tony began assembling a plan to use the Quantum Realm to reverse the people lost to Thanos, while Lin Xu prepared to join the effort and rely on Tony’s technology to help him return to his own universe. In New Asgard, Thor agreed to go with Banner and Rocket after learning they had found a way to bring everyone back.

• Tony explained that time flowed differently in the Quantum Realm and gave Captain America a newly painted Vibranium Shield.
• Tony and Captain America discussed how Scott had returned, but Tony refused to reveal how he had rescued him.
• Doc Green and Rocket arrived in New Asgard and found Thor training by dragging a massive granite block while Lin Xu watched.
• Lin Xu greeted Banner and Rocket, and Thor introduced Lin Xu as his uncle, Fengxian Borsen.
• Banner told Thor they had found a way to bring the disappeared back, and Rocket confirmed they needed Thor’s help.
• Thor agreed to join them, saying he would help his friends and leave his workout behind.

Lin Xu joined the Avengers Compound and devised a way to warn the team that obtaining the Soul Stone required a soul for a soul. After Nebula confirmed Thanos had sacrificed her sister to get the Stone, Hawkeye asked whether the sacrificed soul had to be human.

• Lin Xu told Tony Stark that the Eye of Agamotto was unique to each universe and explained that sorcerers existed among the Ravagers.
• Lin Xu considered three ways to obtain the Soul Stone without a sacrifice, then approached Captain America and pretended to share stories from another universe.
• Lin Xu claimed that Red Skull had been banished to Vormir and that the Soul Stone required the soul of the person its seeker loved most.
• Nebula confirmed that Thanos had taken her sister away and returned with the Soul Stone, leaving the Avengers stunned.
• Hawkeye asked whether the Soul Stone's sacrifice had to be a human soul.

Lin Xu learned how to open a Dimension Portal and summoned Mephisto to negotiate for two loving souls, offering to restore the souls lost in Thanos’s snap. Mephisto agreed to provide a Flame of Vengeance as well, while Lin Xu planned to purify it with the Book of the Vishanti.

• Hawkeye’s question about using animal souls inspired Lin Xu to seek two pure souls from Mephisto.
• Lin Xu studied the forbidden Dimension Portal spell for ten days and mastered the mystic arts needed to reach Hell.
• Lin Xu opened a Dimension Portal in Kamar-Taj and summoned Mephisto to negotiate for two souls in true love.
• Lin Xu told Mephisto he could restore the people erased by Thanos’s snap, promising to replenish Hell’s supply of souls.
• Mephisto agreed to give Lin Xu a Flame of Vengeance, and Lin Xu planned to purify it with the Book of the Vishanti.

Lin Xu brought Romeo and Juliet from Mephisto’s collection to help obtain the Soul Stone, then traveled with Natasha and Hawkeye to Vormir. When Romeo’s sacrifice failed, Lin Xu killed the Red Skull and sent his body over the cliff with Romeo’s soul sealed inside.

• Lin Xu absorbed the Flame of Vengeance into his Hoggoth bone armor and drew Romeo and Juliet’s souls into the Eye of Agamotto after Juliet asked to follow Romeo.
• At the Avengers Compound, Lin Xu revealed that Romeo and Juliet would volunteer for the Soul Stone, and the team divided up to collect the Infinity Stones.
• Lin Xu, Natasha, and Hawkeye traveled to Vormir, where the Red Skull greeted them and Lin Xu released Romeo and Juliet to help obtain the Soul Stone.
• Romeo jumped from the cliff but returned, so Lin Xu pierced the Red Skull with Gungnir, sealed Romeo’s soul inside the corpse, and kicked it over the cliff.

Lin Xu’s group retrieved the Soul Stone, and Romeo and Juliet became its new guardians together. Back at the Avengers Compound, the time-traveling teams returned with the Infinity Stones, while Lin Xu chose not to expose the other universe’s Nebula.

• Lin Xu threw Red Skull’s body off the cliff, and Romeo’s soul emerged with the Soul Stone’s orange glow.
• Romeo reunited with Juliet, made her a guardian alongside him, and gave Lin Xu the Soul Stone.
• Frigga realized Thor’s supposed uncle Fengxian was actually Bor’s horse Grani’s rider, but let Thor keep the comforting family bond.
• The time-traveling teams returned to the Avengers Compound with the Stones, and Lin Xu noticed that Nebula did not belong to their universe.
• Lin Xu decided not to expose Nebula or prevent the events that would lead to Thanos’s counter-invasion.

Lin Xu secretly recovered the Time Stone, escaped the Avengers Compound before Thanos’s bombardment, and arrived as the battle against Thanos began. His fight with Thanos awakened the Flame of Vengeance, drawing Mephisto to the battlefield, where Thanos ordered his fleet to fire.

• After Doc Green snapped, Lin Xu took the Time Stone from the gauntlet and hid it in the Eye of Agamotto before leaving the compound.
• Sanctuary II bombarded the Avengers Compound, and 2014 Thanos arrived; Lin Xu watched from a distance and prepared to join the fight later.
• Thanos quickly overwhelmed Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America, but Lin Xu rode in on Grani and challenged him with Gungnir and spells.
• Lin Xu’s spectral tiger caught Thanos’s thrown blade, but the Flame of Vengeance activated and forced Thanos to confront the people he had killed before he rejected his guilt.
• Mephisto appeared, thanked Lin Xu for restoring Hell, and offered him work; Thanos interrupted their conversation by ordering his fleet to open fire.

Lin Xu redirected Sanctuary II’s bombardment into Thanos, and Mephisto sent Thanos through the gates of hell after Thanos attacked him. Earlier, Strange brought the returned heroes to the Avengers Compound, only to find that the battle was already well underway.

• Lin Xu redirected Sanctuary II’s attacks through a Mystic Portal, blasting Thanos and leaving him wounded but alive.
• Mephisto confronted Thanos over using the Infinity Stones to kill, then pulled him through the gates of hell after Thanos attacked him.
• Mephisto offered Lin Xu a place working for him before entering the gates, where Thanos’s furious roar about Kamar-Taj followed.
• On Titan, Strange drew power from the Hell Dimension to prepare a portal and summoned forces from Wakanda, Kamar-Taj, and New Asgard.
• Strange opened a Mystic Gate to the ruined Avengers Compound and found heroes already fighting Sanctuary II and its forces.
• Additional portals opened as returning allies called out to Captain America.

Lin Xu met Ebony Maw after Maw killed the other members of the Black Order and presented their heads and weapons. He explained to Strange and Wong how Mephisto had taken Thanos away, leaving Strange storming off after Lin Xu mentioned Mephisto's curse against Kamar-Taj.

• Ebony Maw killed Cull Obsidian, Proxima Midnight, and Corvus Glaive, then offered their heads and weapons to Lin Xu.
• Ebony Maw described the properties of the Tyrant's Butcher Blade, the Solar Poison Ray, and the Peerless Blade, and Lin Xu kept two of the weapons.
• Lin Xu met Wong and Strange, joked that he was Christo Palmer, and left Wong laughing while Strange struggled to follow the joke.
• Thor asked whether Lin Xu had an aunt, and Lin Xu scolded him for studying lip-reading instead of military strategy and statecraft.
• Lin Xu told Strange that Mephisto had taken Thanos and cursed Kamar-Taj, prompting Wong to question whether Lin Xu was one of them as Strange walked away.

After the battle, Tony held a second wedding, where Lin Xu secretly gave Morgan and Nate protective Seals of Vishanti. As the celebration ended, Strange asked to borrow the Eye of Agamotto so he could practice mystic arts in a time-loop space, and Lin Xu eagerly joined him.

• Lin Xu handed Ebony Maw over to Captain Marvel after the battle, while Wong took Strange to Kamar-Taj and T'Challa returned to Wakanda.
• Tony held a second wedding at his Long Island villa, and Lin Xu joked with Morgan and Nate before placing protective Seals of Vishanti on them.
• Lin Xu beat Thor, Captain America, Spider-Man, and Doc Green at skipping stones with help from the Water-Repelling Technique.
• Strange decided to train in the Images of Ikonn and later asked Lin Xu to open a time-loop space so he could practice mystic arts.
• Lin Xu handed Strange the Eye of Agamotto and asked to be taken into the time-loop space too.

Lin Xu persuaded Strange to use the Time Stone to restore the Tesseract and secretly create a time loop. Lin Xu was forced out of the loop after four months, while Strange experienced five years, and Lin Xu suspected his newly strengthened body had made him a demigod.

• Strange explained that time loops could not preserve most people's memories, but Lin Xu proposed using the Eye of Agamotto to shield someone from time.
• Lin Xu convinced Tony to let Strange use time magic to restore the repaired Tesseract, and the three went to the basement with the Infinity Stones.
• Lin Xu placed the Time Stone in the gauntlet, and Strange used it to restore the Tesseract before secretly starting a time loop.
• Strange and Lin Xu left the basement, and Lin Xu learned that Strange had experienced five years while he had experienced only four months.
• Lin Xu recalled that his body had become strong enough to make him a demigod and guessed that this had ended the Eye of Agamotto's protection.

Captain America returned the stones and Mjolnir, then appeared as an old man in a different universe and entrusted Tony with a Super Soldier Serum and his shield. Later, Lin Xu used a forbidden spell to uncover the Peerless Blade’s origin and saw it had been forged from residue left by a mysterious black-clad figure’s sword.

• Captain America traveled through the Quantum Tunnel with the stones and Mjolnir, and Rocket’s ship returned without him.
• Lin Xu sensed White Magic by the river, where an older Steve Rogers appeared and reunited with the others.
• Steve gave Tony two bottles of third-generation Super Soldier Serum and his repaired shield, asking him to find a successor; Tony considered Harry for the role.
• Lin Xu trained at Kamar-Taj, converted more of Odin’s divine power, and found that Asgard lacked the tools and knowledge to engrave Runes on the Tyrant's Butcher Blade.
• Lin Xu cast Agamotto's Desire to Know on the Peerless Blade and witnessed its history, including its origin as residue from a sword forged by a black-clad figure.

Lin Xu discovered that the Peerless Blade had been forged from Knull’s All-Black the Necrosword, then traveled to a universe where Tony Stark had died. Odin explained that he and Ancient One had deliberately set catastrophic events in motion to prevent a future threat, and Lin Xu suspected Infinity Ultron was involved.

• Lin Xu realized the Peerless Blade contained power from Knull’s All-Black the Necrosword, then sent it through a portal to Mount Fatherfall.
• Lin Xu left Tony and traveled to a universe after 2018, where he visited the Avengers Memorial and left a cheeseburger for the dead Tony Stark.
• Lin Xu met Odin in Tønsberg and accused him and Ancient One of arranging Hela’s release and the disasters that followed.
• Odin revealed that Ancient One had foreseen the universe’s destruction and that they had accelerated several crises to prevent it.
• Lin Xu learned that Tony Stark was connected to the threatened future and guessed that Infinity Ultron was the danger.

Lin Xu tried to accept Odin’s divine power, but Odin seized control of most of it and attempted to take him over. Lin Xu killed Odin, reclaimed the remaining power, and left for San Francisco after sealing Fat Orange and sending him away.

• Odin offered Lin Xu his divine power, hoping to use Lin Xu’s body to prolong his life.
• Odin took control of most of the divine power in Lin Xu’s Sub-Dimension and revealed his plan to kill him and claim his body.
• Lin Xu used the Spirit of Vengeance’s Penance Stare to immobilize Odin, then cut him in two with the Tyrant's Butcher Blade.
• Odin’s soul vanished, and Lin Xu spent five days recovering the divine power, ending up with roughly 1.6 Odins’ worth.
• Lin Xu sealed Fat Orange into an ordinary cat and sent him away, then chose San Francisco as his next destination.

Lin Xu settled beside Hank Pym while seeking a way to restore the Quantum Suit’s crossing ability, and Scott Lang secretly tracked the quantum signal coming from Lin Xu’s watch. Scott’s discovery prompted Hank and Hope to plan a rescue of Janet, while Lin Xu pretended not to notice Scott.

• Lin Xu paid $22 million in taxes, bought a mansion next to Hank Pym’s, and spent his days practicing magic and converting divine power.
• Scott told Hank Pym and Hope that he had dreamed of Janet, and they realized she might still be alive in the Quantum Realm.
• Hank revealed that a quantum detector had detected a signal coming from something Lin Xu carried, and he asked Scott to investigate it.
• Scott rode a flying ant to Lin Xu’s yard and approached his wrist while Lin Xu acted as if he had not noticed him.
• Scott saw that Lin Xu wore a gold-and-red watch signed Anthony Edward Stark, and Hank reacted with disbelief.

Lin Xu discovered that Infinity Ultron and the Watcher were about to reach his universe, so he urgently sought Hank Pym’s help to leave. When Hank said repairing Lin Xu’s device would take a month, Lin Xu began considering ways to survive the approaching battle.

• Hank Pym saw Tony Stark’s name on Lin Xu’s locator and concluded that Lin Xu had come from another universe where Tony was still alive.
• Lin Xu read that Steven Grant Rogers was running for president and searched his memories, recalling a vision of Infinity Ultron fighting the Watcher.
• Lin Xu realized the two powerful beings would arrive the next morning and rushed to ask Hank Pym to help him leave the universe.
• Hank said he would need about a month to understand and repair Lin Xu’s device, leaving Lin Xu to weigh escape, seeking the Time Stone, or finding help.
• Lin Xu considered finding allies to oppose Infinity Ultron and the Watcher, whose powers might be weakened outside their home universe.

Steve Rogers received a warning that war would come to Times Square the next morning and ordered Sharon Carter to arrange a civilian evacuation. Lin Xu asked Mephisto to help against a threat wielding the Six Infinity Stones, but Mephisto instead offered coordinates to Cyttorak, whose power could counter the stones.

• Steve Rogers read a warning from Fengxian Borsen that war was coming to Times Square the next morning, and the message turned into a rune between his eyebrows.
• Steve told Sharon Carter to contact New York and begin evacuating civilians.
• Lin Xu visited Mephisto in hell and warned him that an intelligent conglomerate life-form with the Six Infinity Stones and a Watcher threatened reality.
• Mephisto refused to fight the threat, saying its power was beyond him and the Hell Dimension combined.
• Mephisto gave Lin Xu coordinates to Cyttorak, a multiversal demon god whose power was immune to the Infinity Stones.

Lin Xu entered the dimensional rift at Strange Rock Salt Lake and contacted Cyttorak in the Crimson Dimension to ask for help. Cyttorak agreed to assist him in exchange for the Reality Stone and gave him a crimson cloak that could resist most Infinity Stone attacks.

• Lin Xu opened a rift at Strange Rock Salt Lake, carried Mephisto’s Coordinate Seed into it, and followed it to a region filled with Crimson Power.
• Lin Xu used the Crimson Power to open a Dimension Portal and called out to Cyttorak.
• Cyttorak took control of the portal, recognized Lin Xu as an outsider, and said he knew what Lin Xu sought.
• Cyttorak agreed to help Lin Xu without conditions, but accepted Lin Xu’s offer to name one: the Reality Stone when Lin Xu captured his target.
• Cyttorak formed a crimson cloak around Lin Xu and said it could withstand ninety-nine percent of Infinity Stone attacks.