Chapter Summaries

After hearing that Christine Palmer had died in a car accident, Lin Xu feared Doctor Strange would destroy the universe trying to bring her back. He ordered his assistant Daisy to preserve Christine’s body and alerted Nick Fury, who reconsidered Lin’s growing role in S.H.I.E.L.D.’s reorganization.

• Lin Xu heard news that Colonel Rhodey had been injured while pursuing a superpowered criminal and that the Sokovia Accords were being discussed.
• Lin Xu learned that Stephen Strange had survived a car accident but Christine Palmer had died, and he feared Strange would destroy the universe using the Time Stone.
• Lin Xu ordered Daisy to switch Christine’s body and preserve her cells, and told her to involve Skrull technology if necessary.
• Daisy confirmed to Nick Fury that Lin Xu had exposed her as an agent, and Fury told her to stay by Lin Xu and act as if nothing had happened.
• Nick Fury reviewed Lin Xu’s history of predicting major events and wondered whether to involve him in S.H.I.E.L.D.’s reorganization.

Lin Xu made plans to restore Christine and visited Adrian Toomes to inspect a new flight suit powered by miniature arc reactors. Meanwhile, Tony learned that Lin Xu had asked about Stephen Strange and ordered F.R.I.D.A.Y. to create files on the Skrulls and Nick Fury’s pager.

• Lin Xu considered several ways to bring Christine back, set aside killing Stephen, and decided to pursue another plan after Doctor Strange dealt with Dormammu.
• Lin Xu visited Adrian Toomes at the Houston research center and saw the second model of Adrian’s winged flight suit, which combined a hovering rotor with jet propulsion.
• Adrian revealed that the research center had received miniature arc reactors, and he and Lin Xu joked about how many had been lost before heading to test the suit.
• On the helicopter, Tony learned from F.R.I.D.A.Y. that Lin Xu had asked about Stephen Strange and had sought his biological cells through a junior assistant.
• Tony connected Lin Xu’s inquiry to Nick Fury and ordered F.R.I.D.A.Y. to create files on the Skrulls and Nick Fury’s pager.

Lin Xu tested the specifications of Adrian’s Unit Two suit but declined to fly it, then entered a portal after the Ancient One invited him to Kamar-Taj. The Ancient One revealed himself as Yao, leaving Lin Xu stunned by the Sorcerer Supreme’s male appearance.

• Adrian showed Lin Xu Unit Two’s specifications, but Lin Xu refused to try it because he lacked experience with wingsuit flying.
• A portal opened in the basement, and the Ancient One used his voice and mind-reading to summon Lin Xu and answer his thoughts.
• Lin Xu reassured Adrian and stepped through the portal into Kamar-Taj.
• The Ancient One identified the Vishanti statue and introduced himself as the Sorcerer Supreme, Yao.
• Lin Xu was shocked to find that the Ancient One was a man.

At Kamar-Taj, the Ancient One explained how Lin Xu’s actions had split the timeline and warned that his attempt to save Christine could bring Dark Strange to Earth. After seeing more than two hundred million possible futures, she had found that nearly every outcome ended in Earth’s destruction.

• The Ancient One teased Lin Xu, and after his chair broke, he cursed her out; she admitted she had wanted him to stop holding back at Kamar-Taj.
• The Ancient One described how changes create new timelines, and Lin Xu realized that saving Christine could draw Dark Strange from a neighboring universe.
• The Ancient One recalled observing Lin Xu since his arrival eight years earlier and learning from Eternity that beings like him could create miracles and must not be killed.
• The Ancient One revealed that Nick Fury’s replacement of Christine’s corpse had split the timeline despite her efforts to reinforce it.
• The Ancient One recounted millions of futures in which Lin Xu’s success or failure led to Earth’s destruction, while she could see him only as an ordinary person in a Vulture suit.

Lin Xu was stranded on a freezing snowy mountain and struggled to activate the Sling Ring the Ancient One had thrown after him. He finally opened a portal just before his hands went numb.

• The Ancient One kicked Lin Xu through a portal to a snowy mountain and tossed a Sling Ring after him.
• Lin Xu dug the ring out of the snow, tried spells, and realized the Ancient One's tea might have given him the energy to use it.
• Hamir told the Ancient One he planned to retire and have Wong take over the Hong Kong Sanctum, but she assigned Wong to guard the library instead.
• Lin Xu used the Sling Ring after relieving himself in the snow, and sparks formed into a full-sized portal.

Lin Xu began training at Kamar-Taj and secretly swapped his Sling Ring with Wong’s. In New Jersey, Hill watched over Christine as a future guardian confronted Mephisto, reclaimed Christine’s soul, and vanished with her.

• The Ancient One told Lin Xu to study the mystic arts, and Wong took him on a tour of Kamar-Taj.
• Lin Xu distracted Wong with promises of food and secretly exchanged their Sling Rings.
• Hill placed Christine in a Skrull healing vessel, where a Z9-5 solution restored her body.
• A green rune appeared above the vessel, and Hill’s gunfire and call for backup failed to stop it.
• A future guardian threatened Mephisto, who returned Christine’s soul before retreating.
• The green light took Christine and the vessel away, and Hill passed out after witnessing the confrontation.

Nick Fury investigated Hill’s account of Christine’s disappearance, while Lin Xu learned that his plan had worked and concealed his role from S.H.I.E.L.D. He left Fury with a fabricated warning that Thanos would soon threaten Earth.

• Nick Fury found Hill unconscious, revived her, and ordered her to undergo a drug test after watching footage that showed her firing at nothing before Christine vanished.
• Lin Xu studied the Mystic Arts at Kamar-Taj and answered a call from Daisy, who reported Christine had disappeared along with her nutrient solution.
• Lin Xu pretended to be furious about the disappearance while privately concluding that his plan to deceive time had succeeded.
• Nick Fury questioned Lin Xu about the crisis, and Lin Xu warned that Thanos would return within five years, mixing verifiable claims with fabricated details.

Lin Xu studied the mystic arts and considered borrowing power from a dying god so he could eventually claim it for himself, then rushed to find the Ancient One to discuss the idea. Meanwhile, Tony returned alone to the Avengers Compound and searched for help for Rhodey’s severe nerve damage, ultimately telling F.R.I.D.A.Y. to find Lin.

• Lin Xu replied to Adrian, Mayor Sylvester Turner, and Liz, then continued studying the mystic arts.
• Lin Xu learned about relaying, borrowing, and intercepting dimensional power and decided that intercepting power was the method he wanted to pursue.
• Lin Xu realized he might borrow power from a god-king who was about to die and hurried out to find the Ancient One.
• Tony returned to the Avengers Compound, where F.R.I.D.A.Y. told him Rhodey might need mechanical assistance because of severe nerve damage.
• Tony rejected F.R.I.D.A.Y.'s suggestions and ordered it to find Lin, hoping Lin could identify someone who could help Rhodey.

The Ancient One brought Lin Xu to Norway to ask Odin about transferring the Asgardian divine power before it was lost. Odin warned that Lin Xu could not safely take on the Odinforce, and the Ancient One clarified that she had not proposed it for him.

• The Ancient One explained that borrowed power could be contained in a bodily sub-dimension, but that making the body too strong could prevent one from opening or maintaining one.
• The Ancient One took Lin Xu through a portal to the Rainbow Bridge Nursing Home in Norway, where Loki had sent Odin.
• Lin Xu took Odin’s orange cat, Thor, and used the biscuit to encourage him to jump for it; Odin’s encouragement helped Thor reach the biscuit.
• Odin’s eyes cleared as he watched Thor, and he asked why the Ancient One had come to see him despite his declining health.
• The Ancient One said Asgardian divine power returned to Asgard after its bearer died and would be wasted amid Ragnarok, then revealed she wanted to discuss Odin’s power.
• Odin warned that Lin Xu would die if he took on the Odinforce, and the Ancient One said she had never intended it for herself.

Odin gave Lin Xu his Odinforce, Gungnir, and Grani, and Lin Xu took the name Fengxian Borsen when representing Asgard. Back at Kamar-Taj, Lin Xu tried to use Gungnir for spatial magic and disappeared, leaving the Ancient One too late to stop him.

• Odin offered Lin Xu nearly all his divine power, along with Gungnir and Grani, and the Ancient One transferred the power into a Subdimension in Lin Xu.
• Lin Xu nearly harmed himself by probing the incoming divine power, but the Ancient One saved him with White Magic and scolded him.
• Odin explained that Lin Xu was technically Bor's offspring, and Lin Xu accepted him as a sworn elder brother and adopted the name Fengxian Borsen for Asgard.
• The Ancient One and Lin Xu returned to Kamar-Taj with their gifts, where Grani turned back into a fat orange cat and Gungnir became a folding fan.
• Lin Xu studied spatial mystic arts and tried a medium-category incantation with Gungnir, but he vanished before the Ancient One could stop him.

Lin Xu landed in a different universe, where he accidentally opened a portal to a telecom scam operation and then forgot the spell needed to return. Seeking Gungnir to get back to his original universe, he killed Harry Osborn and unexpectedly changed Electro back into a human.

• Lin Xu emerged in a dark forest near an Osborn Electric power plant, where Electro fought Spider-Man.
• Lin Xu opened a portal to what he thought was Kamar-Taj but found a telecom scam operation, then realized he had forgotten the spell for returning.
• Lin Xu decided to search for the method to activate Gungnir and threw the spear toward Manhattan.
• Gungnir returned with Harry Osborn's corpse impaled on it, while Gwen's plan helped Peter restrain Electro.
• A dark red rune swept across the sky, Electro vanished, and Peter found Harry dead; Gwen arrived moments later.
• Electro reappeared elsewhere in a human body, wearing a green firefighter's suit.

Lin Xu fled to Kamar-Taj and faced Wong, while Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy built a life together before Peter suddenly vanished. Wong recognized a familiar engraving on Lin Xu’s Sling Ring, leaving him to wonder how it had become part of Hamir’s legacy.

• Lin Xu left the Queensboro Bridge and went to Kamar-Taj seeking Wong’s help.
• Peter chose to stay in New York, became Spider-Man, and later reunited with Gwen Stacy and started a family with her.
• Gwen gave Peter a new protective suit and equipment, and Peter apologized for the worry his life as Spider-Man caused her.
• A red flash made Peter vanish, leaving Gwen to fall to the floor and call for him.
• Wong attacked Lin Xu with Crimson Bands of Cyttorak, but Lin Xu broke them with divine power and Wong identified him as Asgardian.
• Lin Xu gave Wong his Sling Ring, and Wong found Hamir’s engraved Sanskrit character on it.

Wong learned that Lin Xu had arrived from another universe through a dangerous spell and ordered him to stay at Kamar-Taj and study. Meanwhile, Andrew Garfield Spider-Man tracked down Tobey Spider-Man, and the two discovered their worlds’ Spider-Men and enemies had crossed universes before Andrew challenged Tobey to a fight.

• Wong mistook Lin Xu for someone from the future and fought him before hearing how he had arrived in this universe.
• Lin Xu explained that Gungnir had transported him across universes after Strange used Kof-Carl's Ruins, and Wong ordered him to stay at Kamar-Taj and study the library.
• Andrew Garfield Spider-Man researched the universe and suspected that Dr. Connors and the figures on the Queensboro Bridge had come from other universes.
• Andrew Garfield Spider-Man followed his clues to Flushing and met Tobey Spider-Man.
• Andrew Garfield Spider-Man showed Tobey Spider-Man pictures of Norman Osborn and Dr. Octavius, then challenged him to a spar.

Lin Xu studied Astral Projection and Energy Projection at Kamar-Taj while the two Spider-Men tracked a Daily Bugle report to Wall Street East. In the original universe, Ancient One realized that he was the constant in the time loop, while Lin Xu’s absence did not prevent its completion.

• Lin Xu asked Master Hamir to teach him Astral Projection and Energy Projection, and Hamir agreed after Lin Xu offered to beat up a version of the Sorcerer Supreme.
• Hamir began explaining Astral Projection to Lin Xu as the young sorcerer watched them in silence.
• Garfield's Spider-Man and Tobey's Spider-Man checked the Daily Bugle website and saw a livestream locating Spider-Man and monsters inside a building.
• Tobey's Spider-Man identified the building as Wall Street East, and the two Spider-Men set off from Hell's Kitchen.
• Ancient One searched more than three hundred million futures and found no sign of Lin Xu, then concluded that he himself was the real constant in the time loop.

Andrew Garfield Spider-Man rescued Aunt May and joined the other Spider-Men in defeating Norman Osborn. At Kamar-Taj, Lin Xu’s boastful praise of Hoggoth awakened the library’s ancient magic, and its bookshelves transformed into armor for him.

• Tobey Spider-Man destroyed the Goblin Glider, while Andrew Garfield Spider-Man rescued Aunt May from Norman Osborn’s Pumpkin Bomb.
• The three Spider-Men defeated Norman, after which Andrew Garfield Spider-Man headed into the sewers to find Dr. Connors.
• Lin Xu separated his soul from his body to practice Astral Projection and asked Hamir to judge his magical talent.
• Lin Xu insulted Ancient One and praised Agamotto, Oshtur, and Hoggoth, causing the library to shake.
• The library bookshelves transformed into silver-white armor on Lin Xu’s body, and the three learned it was Hoggoth’s Rib.

Lin Xu waited at Kamar-Taj for Strange to send him back, but the Amazing Spider-Man universe rejected him after its world membrane was patched. He escaped through Gungnir into an unknown universe and arrived in 1979 British Columbia, where a couple waited for their missing son, Carrett.

• Wong returned to Kamar-Taj, resented Lin Xu receiving a skeleton, and left while Hamir and Hart continued sorting the books.
• Lin Xu studied Kamar-Taj’s library, waited for Strange to send him back, and then opened a portal to the Statue of Liberty when nothing happened.
• Wong entered the Mirror Dimension and found Strange trapped without his Sling Ring; Strange later assumed Lin Xu was a Spider-Man from another universe.
• At Ned’s home, Andrew Garfield Spider-Man finished the antidote, and the group prepared to send everyone back as Lin Xu vanished from Strange’s sight.
• Lin Xu learned that the Amazing Spider-Man universe had rejected him, used Gungnir to escape the space between universes, and landed in 1979 British Columbia.
• A couple at a farm wondered whether their son Carrett would return after seven years away.

Lin Xu was pulled into a fragile universe after activating Gungnir, and Agamotto prevented him from disturbing its timeline. Unable to return or leave without damaging the universe, Lin Xu was left waiting to learn whether Agamotto could place him outside time.

• Sam found Lin Xu's motionless body on a forest road and decided to bury him with his wife nearby.
• Lin Xu's soul was pulled from his body to an ancient complex, where he encountered the Sorcerer Supreme.
• The Sorcerer Supreme explained that the universe's time and space were fragile and that Lin Xu could not interfere with its timeline or break out of it.
• Lin Xu realized the Sorcerer Supreme might be Agamotto and learned that Hoggoth's rib had protected him from dying upon arrival.
• Agamotto said he might try to place Lin Xu outside time.

Lin Xu refused to abandon his body to transcend time, so Agamotto taught him how to convert Odin’s divine power and gave him an empty Eye of Agamotto to shield him from the timeline. Lin Xu returned to his body beside the road, then encountered the pickup truck that had buried him.

• Lin Xu told Agamotto that Odin Borson had lent him divine power, and Agamotto explained that converting it could take ten to a hundred years.
• Agamotto said Lin Xu would need to abandon his physical body to transcend time, but Lin Xu insisted on pursuing transcendence in physical form.
• Agamotto gave Lin Xu a page from the Book of the Vishanti with instructions for converting divine power and an empty Eye of Agamotto to hide him from the timeline.
• Agamotto sent Lin Xu's soul back to his body, and Lin Xu burst out of his roadside grave.
• Lin Xu recognized the location where he had first teleported and waited for the driver who had buried him to return.
• Sam stopped his pickup truck when he saw Lin Xu standing beside the grave, and someone cried out, "Cassia!!!"

Lin Xu encountered Old Sam and his ailing wife while traveling through the Canadian wilderness, then healed her with mystic arts. At Sam’s farm, he recognized the naked escapee as Logan and came face to face with the short-statured Wolverine.

• Lin Xu apologized to Old Sam for frightening his wife and offered to cure her; Sam agreed after learning Lin Xu needed electricity.
• Old Sam drove Lin Xu and his unconscious wife toward their farm and told him that his son had been missing for seven years.
• Lin Xu spotted a naked man running toward the farm and recognized him as Logan, who had escaped after being injected with adamantium.
• Old Sam went to the grain barn while Lin Xu carried Cassia into the house and charged his phone.
• Lin Xu used the Healing Mystic Art and Restoration Mystic Art to cure Cassia, then left Sam to explain her recovery when she began to wake.
• Lin Xu saw James Logan Howlett in the living room and was surprised by his short height and Hugh Jackman’s face.

Lin Xu used a blood-pact search to locate Old Sam and Cassia’s missing son, Carrett, in a secret laboratory and helped Logan rescue him. The chapter ended with Carrett gravely injured at home and Logan furious at Stryker.

• Lin Xu introduced himself to Logan, then stayed with Old Sam and Cassia while Logan showered.
• Lin Xu used Cassia’s hair to open a portal with the Blood Pact Secret Technique and found Carrett imprisoned in a metal laboratory.
• Two lab workers attacked Lin Xu, who killed them with energy beams while his bone armor stopped the bullets.
• Logan crossed the portal, freed Carrett, and carried him back as Old Sam and Cassia recognized their son.
• Lin Xu examined Carrett and found him severely malnourished, with partially necrotic arms and atrophied legs.
• Logan kicked the coffee table and angrily called out Stryker.