Chapter Summaries

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.

Lin Xu joined Captain Marvel and the Watcher in a fight against Ultron in Times Square, helping suppress the Infinity Stones and sever Ultron’s head. Captain America looked at the caped fighters and wondered why they were all so powerful.

• Lin Xu secretly waited in the Mirror Dimension while Captain America and Thaddeus Ross prepared for an unknown threat in Times Square.
• Captain Marvel returned to Earth, and she joined Captain America after he explained that Banner was on Sakaar.
• Ultron emerged through a tear in the sky, struck the Watcher, and injured Captain Marvel while the blast shattered Manhattan’s windows and killed nearby troops and agents.
• The Watcher suppressed Ultron’s phasing ability, and Lin Xu used the Huntian Cloak to restrain Ultron and limit the Infinity Stones.
• Lin Xu struck Ultron’s neck with the Tyrant’s Butcher Blade, and Captain Marvel’s punch drove the blade through, killing Ultron.
• Captain America saw the capes worn by the fighters and wondered whether everyone who wore one was that powerful.

After Infinity Ultron was defeated, Lin Xu spoke with Kaecilius and Captain America, then helped the Watcher bring Natasha Romanoff from another universe. The Watcher questioned Lin Xu about Chthon before leaving with the Reality Stone meant as payment.

• The Watcher removed the Mind Stone from Ultron, while Lin Xu took the Time Stone and prepared to give the Reality Stone to Cyttorak.
• Kaecilius arrived with Kamar-Taj’s sorcerers, and Lin Xu explained that the Ancient One had created a companion timeline to prevent the universe’s destruction.
• Steven thanked Lin Xu for warning New York, then learned that Lin Xu was Fengxian Borsen, Thor’s uncle.
• The Watcher returned with Natasha Romanoff, who mistook Steven for the Captain America from her ruined universe and mourned Hawkeye, Sam, and the Captain’s deaths.
• The Watcher asked Lin Xu about a male Ancient One and Chthon; Lin Xu claimed Chthon had sent him to retrieve the Reality Stone, and the Watcher abruptly left.

Uatu gave Lin Xu a bag of Reality Stones to deliver to Chthon, explaining that he had intervened to help stop Infinity Ultron and risked punishment for it. After Lin Xu confronted General Ross’s soldiers over their attempt to claim Ultron’s remains, he fought them and knocked Ross into the rubble, where a red figure emerged.

• Uatu gave Lin Xu a bag of Reality Stones and said he could not provide Time Stones because they returned to Eternity when a universe was destroyed.
• Uatu explained that he had helped assemble a Multiverse Avengers team to defeat Infinity Ultron and accepted that he might lose his position for interfering.
• Lin Xu saw General Ross and his troops collecting Ultron’s remains, then refused their order to leave the area.
• Lin Xu used Images of Ikonn to make clones disarm the soldiers and slap or kill those who resisted.
• Lin Xu argued with Ross over who had the right to claim Ultron’s remains, then punched Ross into the rubble.
• A red figure burst out of the rubble with a furious roar.

Lin Xu defeated Red Hulk during the battle over Ultron’s remains, then took Red Hulk, Ultron’s head, and the Reality Stones to Cyttorak. Cyttorak accepted the offerings but asked what Lin Xu wanted in return.

• Lin Xu fought Red Hulk head-on, knocked him unconscious, and decided to bring him to Cyttorak because of his red skin.
• Steve questioned the surviving soldiers, who blamed the deaths on Red Hulk and denied seeing Thaddeus Ross.
• Lin Xu told Steve that Uatu had taken the Power Stone and that he was giving the Reality Stones away, then took Ultron’s head and Red Hulk with him.
• Lin Xu opened a portal to the Crimson Dimension and presented Cyttorak with twenty-nine Reality Stones, Ultron’s head, and Red Hulk.
• Cyttorak accepted the offerings and asked Lin Xu what else he wanted.

Lin Xu received Cyttorak’s help with the threats posed by Knull and Dormammu, then returned to his original universe after spending a month with Hank Pym’s family. He arrived in a changed world where Tony Stark no longer recognized him and treated him as an intruder.

• Cyttorak concealed the White Magic Book’s aura and reinforced Lin Xu’s Sub-Dimension, while explaining that Knull could not track him down.
• Lin Xu spent a month in San Francisco as Hank Pym mastered the Quantum Locator, then watched Scott rescue his mother-in-law from the Quantum Realm.
• Lin Xu said goodbye to Hank and his family and returned to Death Valley, where he realized Cyttorak had sent him to a different world.
• Lin Xu could not open portals to his home or Kamar-Taj, so he traveled to Tony Stark’s house instead.
• F.R.I.D.A.Y. failed to recognize Lin Xu, and Tony confronted him in the Mark 47 armor, mistaking him for a stranger.

Lin Xu convinced Tony that he came from a parallel universe and gave him the quantum locator to study, while warning him about a universe devastated by Ultron. At Kamar-Taj, the Ancient One realized Lin Xu had rare potential and considered recruiting him before her retirement.

• Lin Xu proved his connection to Tony by identifying the hidden bottle of old Jiaobei and letting F.R.I.D.A.Y. analyze the quantum locator.
• Tony mostly believed Lin Xu and asked to borrow the locator, but Lin Xu warned him that Ultron had used all six stones to slaughter an entire universe.
• Lin Xu gave Tony the locator after removing its Pym Particles, then teased him with news that he had a daughter who called Lin Xu Grandpa.
• Tony called Lin Xu Uncle to learn more about his daughter.
• At Kamar-Taj, the Ancient One said Lin Xu was difficult to perceive and had the potential to reach the multiversal level, and wondered whether she could recruit him before retiring.

Lin Xu visited the New York Sanctum, where Daniel showed him its magical artifacts and told him Ancient One would take him to Norway in two days. Back in his home universe, Ancient One sensed that Lin Xu had been intercepted while someone was sending him back.

• Lin Xu arrived at the New York Sanctum and learned that Ancient One had sent Daniel to meet him.
• Daniel showed Lin Xu the Sanctum's artifacts, but the Cloak of Levitation turned its back on him.
• Daniel said Lin Xu could wait two days for Ancient One to take him to Norway, where Odin was.
• Ancient One used Astral Projection to follow her uneasy feeling and entered a dimensional rift.
• A person in a crimson desert told Ancient One that someone had intercepted Lin Xu while he was being sent home, and Ancient One angrily demanded to know who had done it.

Lin Xu visited Changchun Restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen and learned from his uncle Lin Changkong that this universe’s Lin Xu had died in a drunk-driving accident. The account left Lin Xu alarmed when he realized the woman killed in the crash was a doctor from Presbyterian Hospital.

• Lin Xu went to Changchun Restaurant, which his father had opened in this universe, and ordered traditional Chinese dishes.
• Lin Changkong mistook Lin Xu for his dead nephew, but Lin Xu introduced himself as Lin Fengxian and asked about the other Lin Xu.
• Lin Changkong explained that Lin Xu had kept the restaurant, taken up rally racing, and died in a drunk-driving crash more than half a year earlier.
• Lin Changkong said the crash had killed a Presbyterian Hospital doctor and that her fiancé had also worked there.
• Lin Xu recognized that the accident sounded like one from the Civil War and asked who the doctor was.

Lin Xu used Agamotto's Desire to Know to investigate his past and triggered a timeline crisis that revealed his multiversal uniqueness. After surviving the Eye of Agamotto's backlash, he tried to cultivate in a tree but was interrupted by a child firing at it.

• Lin Xu visited his grave in Green Shade Cemetery and used Agamotto's Desire to Know to inspect his ashes, but the vision blurred and burned him when he tried to see further into his past.
• Ancient One entered the single timeline and discovered that Lin Xu's uniqueness had erased him from her timeline, though her attempt to restore him had made him part of the Strange incident.
• Ancient One realized Lin Xu had died the day before the timeline split and wondered whether Strange had caused the split.
• After nightfall, Lin Xu recovered from the Eye of Agamotto's heat and began converting divine power in a tree near the cemetery.
• Lin Xu broke the tree after a child fired at its trunk, and the child cried out in pain beneath the fallen treetop.

Lin Xu encountered Spider-Man while he was pursuing Adrian’s weapons operation, then intervened after Spider-Man was rescued and persuaded Adrian to reconsider his life as a smuggler. He left Adrian weighing the possibility of becoming a superhero for Liz’s sake.

• Lin Xu met Spider-Man, who rambled about Tony Stark and Happy before rushing off to investigate an energy blast.
• Lin Xu followed Spider-Man and watched Shocker and Prowler beat him, then saw Adrian dump him into the water before the Mark 46 rescued him.
• Lin Xu stopped Adrian and blocked his Chitauri railgun with the Rings of Raggadorr.
• Lin Xu argued that Adrian could become a superhero and urged him to quit smuggling before Liz lost her father.
• Lin Xu left Adrian considering his advice and suggested that he might eventually join the Avengers.