Recaps

The TVA concluded that Xia Yu no longer posed a threat, while the Snap left S.W.O.R.D. in disarray and Earth commemorated Xia Yu’s sacrifice. Two years after he vanished into the lunar energy vortex, Xia Yu’s multicolored soul opened its eyes.

• The Black-Clad Man and his subordinates discussed Thanos’s death and the shattered Infinity Stones, deciding Xia Yu could no longer gather the Stones or travel between timelines.
• A Skrull reported that the Snap had killed 41.34% of the population and that untouched regions across several star systems formed a line ending at Earth.
• Captain Marvel resolved to visit Earth to investigate the spared area and seek a way to revive the dead, but first continued handling the crisis’s aftermath.
• Earth’s governments and the Avengers eventually revealed that Xia Yu had sacrificed himself to protect the planet, and May 18 became Resurrection Day.
• On Resurrection Day two years later, Xia Yu’s glowing soul opened its eyes amid the chaos on the moon.

After absorbing the Infinity Stones’ Source power for over two years, Xia Yu awakened with a solid soul and the ability to create matter, then formed a new body. He reunited with the Avengers and learned that Peter had died many years ago and the young man before him was Peter’s grandson.

• Xia Yu awakened after absorbing the Stones’ Source power and discovered the Soul Stone had helped him fuse their laws, though his power still felt incomplete.
• Xia Yu absorbed the chaotic energy surrounding the moon and created a new body for himself.
• Tony, Natasha, Thor, Captain, and the other Avengers arrived and reunited with Xia Yu, who transported them all to the Avengers Compound.
• Xia Yu recognized a young man as Peter, but Tony explained that Peter had died many years ago and the young man was his grandson.

After waking from a two-year coma, Xia Yu met Tony and Pepper’s daughter, Morgan, and learned Tony had transferred Xia Yu’s Herbal medicine Group shares to her. Later, Xia Yu questioned Tony about the Black-Clad Man and concluded that the man had escaped the moon and might be connected to the Quantum Realm.

• Xia Yu met Morgan, learned Tony and Pepper had married and had her while he was unconscious, and happily held his niece.
• Natasha revealed that Tony had transferred Xia Yu’s Herbal medicine Group shares to Morgan, prompting Xia Yu to confront Tony and demand his money.
• Morgan cried during the confrontation, and Tony escaped while Xia Yu soothed her.
• That night, Xia Yu dragged Tony back to the compound, gave him a black eye, and asked about the Black-Clad Man who had been beside Thanos on the moon.
• Xia Yu told Tony that the Black-Clad Man had escaped the moon and that his familiar gaze made Xia Yu suspect a connection to the Quantum Realm.

After waking from a two-year coma, Xia Yu asked Tony to develop technology for navigating the Quantum Realm so he could complete the Infinity Stone energy within him and prevent another Snap. Tony agreed, while Xia Yu learned what had happened during his absence and refused to meet Captain Marvel.

• Xia Yu told Tony he wanted to enter the Quantum Realm and asked him to build a locator that could navigate different space-times.
• Tony agreed to work on the device but warned that it would take a long time and might require luck.
• Tony told Xia Yu about events during his two-year absence, including Earth entering the space age and Captain Marvel visiting after Nick Fury was erased by the Snap.
• Xia Yu explained that his absorbed Infinity Stone energy was incomplete and that he could not restore the vanished lives without completing it.
• Xia Yu decided not to visit Captain Marvel and said she could come to him if she needed something.

Xia Yu clashed with Captain Marvel over Nick Fury and the Skrulls she had left on Earth. After she refused to visit him, he captured the Skrulls and forced them to summon her, leaving Captain Marvel enraged and heading to Earth to confront him.

• Xia Yu called Captain Marvel and demanded that she come to Earth and take the Skrulls with her, while she insisted they needed to discuss saving Nick Fury.
• Xia Yu mocked Captain Marvel’s attitude and refused to work with her, then warned her not to think he could not find the Skrulls.
• After waiting three days for Captain Marvel, Xia Yu scanned Earth and found twelve Skrulls living under the identities of people who had died in accidents.
• Xia Yu brought the twelve Skrulls to his base and told them to warn Captain Marvel that he would send them into space if nobody collected them within two days.
• Captain Marvel ordered a spaceship to Earth and activated Binary Mode, determined to beat Xia Yu up.

Captain Marvel broke into AC City and demanded to see Xia Yu, but Captain America stopped her when he sensed her anger. Their fight triggered the base alarm, and Tony went to watch.

• Captain Marvel tore through AC City's Energy Shield and entered the perimeter, where Captain America greeted her and asked if she had come to see Xia Yu.
• Captain Marvel refused to explain herself and tried to fly past Captain America, so he grabbed her ankle and demanded to know her intentions.
• Captain Marvel broke free and struck Captain America, who blocked her attack with his modified shield.
• Captain Marvel launched a full-strength assault, and their clash sent a shockwave through the area and triggered the alarm again.
• Tony saw footage of Captain America fighting Captain Marvel, turned off the alarm, and put on his Armor to watch.

Captain Marvel came to the Avengers base to confront Xia Yu but fought Captain America first and struggled to get past his defense. Tony Stark then provoked her into attacking him, and their fight continued as Captain America left to find Xia Yu.

• Captain Marvel grew frustrated as Captain America blocked her attacks with his shield and invited her to stop fighting and talk.
• Captain Marvel told Captain America she was looking for Xia Yu, and Tony joked that Xia Yu had romantic debts and a girlfriend.
• Captain Marvel fired an energy beam at Tony, who blocked it with a small shield, then continued teasing her.
• Captain Marvel struck Tony and sent him flying, but a golden-red Iron Man Armor appeared behind her and knocked her out of the sky with a hammer-like blow.
• Captain Marvel rose into the air and threatened Tony, who kept mocking her as Captain America decided not to intervene and went to find Xia Yu.

Xia Yu, Tony, and Wong trapped Captain Marvel in a spatial cage after she wrecked the Sky Temple during a fight. After keeping her imprisoned for three days, Xia Yu tried to talk with her, but she responded by attacking him, leaving him unsure whether the confinement had broken her spirit.

• Captain Marvel and Tony fought across the outskirts of the Avengers Compound, and their battle blasted a hole through the Sky Temple wall.
• Wong sent Captain Marvel through portals to the Arctic and Antarctica, then teamed up with Tony to trap her in a cage of linked portals.
• Xia Yu kept Captain Marvel imprisoned for three days and released her on the morning of the fourth day.
• Xia Yu offered Captain Marvel tea, coffee, and breakfast, then tried to discuss saving the universe and Nick Fury, but she stayed silent.
• Captain Marvel punched and clawed at Xia Yu, who blocked her attacks with a spatial barrier and wondered if he had driven her into silence.

Xia Yu told Captain Marvel that the Avengers planned to collect the remaining Infinity Stones and use them to restore Thanos’s victims, while asking her to take the Skrulls away from Earth. Tony and Xia Yu then learned that the Möbius strip simulation was complete, bringing them closer to preparing their time-travel equipment.

• Xia Yu explained the Avengers’ plan to collect the Soul, Reality, and Power Stones and bring back everyone Thanos had wiped out.
• Captain Marvel agreed to leave and wait for the Avengers’ equipment, and Xia Yu asked her to take the Skrulls away from Earth.
• Tony asked Xia Yu about the GPS positioning system, then learned that his lab’s Möbius strip simulation was complete.
• Tony admired the holographic Möbius strip and began its initial construction, crediting his good luck to Morgan Stark.

Xia Yu, Natasha, and Tony tested Tony’s redesigned Quantum Realm equipment by traveling to February 14, 2008, but Xia Yu was stopped by an invisible barrier while Natasha and Tony passed through. In 2008, they found no sign of Xia Yu or the Herbal medicine Tower.

• Tony redesigned the Quantum Realm Armor and called an Avengers meeting to decide whether to risk traveling through time to save lives across the universe.
• Xia Yu chose to test the equipment, and Natasha and Tony insisted on accompanying him.
• Natasha set the destination to February 14, 2008, and the three entered the Quantum Realm passage after Tony warned them not to change the past.
• Tony and Natasha passed through the time portal, but Xia Yu hit an invisible barrier and failed to follow them, even after attacking it with Infinity Stone energy.
• Tony and Natasha arrived in 2008 and discovered that Xia Yu and the Herbal medicine Tower were absent.

Natasha and Tony arrived in 2008 without Xia Yu and discovered that this timeline held no record of him. Trapped in the Quantum Realm, Xia Yu found the Time Variance Authority and attacked its buildings, recognizing the black-clad men as enemies.

• Natasha and Tony materialized in Los Angeles and realized Xia Yu had not arrived with them.
• Tony checked the date and location and found that this 2008 timeline contained no records of Xia Yu.
• Natasha checked S.H.I.E.L.D.'s database, confirmed the same absence, and agreed with Tony to find somewhere safe.
• Xia Yu searched the Quantum Realm for the black-clad men and located the Time Variance Authority's hidden territory.
• Xia Yu slipped through the closing membrane, destroyed one of the Authority's buildings, and spotted a black-clad man among the survivors.

Xia Yu confronted three men in black in the Quantum Realm and discovered that they were soulless decoys. After breaking through the membrane beneath him, he fell toward the true location of the Time Variance Authority.

• Xia Yu smashed the men in black’s energy shield and demanded to know why he could not travel through time.
• The leader told Xia Yu that fate was predetermined, and Xia Yu killed two of the men in black.
• The remaining man urged Xia Yu to join them and help repair fate, but Xia Yu noticed his panic when the membrane shook.
• Xia Yu realized the men in black were not real people and shattered the membrane with repeated stomps.
• Xia Yu fell through the broken membrane toward the true location of the Time Variance Authority.

Xia Yu confronted more than a hundred Time Variance Authority members in the Quantum Realm, while Tony and Natasha learned that the world had rejected Xia Yu and encountered another Black-Clad Man. The Black-Clad Man began showing them the future and the original course of fate.

• Xia Yu landed at the Time Variance Authority headquarters, where the Black-Clad Man's followers prepared to attack him.
• Xia Yu pressured the assembled agents and charged into their crowd without relying on energy.
• Tony told Natasha that their world followed the original timeline and theorized that Xia Yu had been rejected by it.
• A second Black-Clad Man appeared before Tony and Natasha, claimed he repaired damaged fates, and said Xia Yu was safe.
• The Black-Clad Man waved his hand and made the world fast-forward to show Tony and Natasha what would happen.

Xia Yu defeated the Time Variance Authority agents and questioned their leader about their origins and purpose. Before the leader could reveal what had happened during an earlier mission, a golden beam vaporized the agents, and Xia Yu charged into the building to uncover what it was hiding.

• Xia Yu overwhelmed more than a hundred Time Variance Authority agents without using energy, leaving only their leader standing.
• Xia Yu questioned the man in black, who identified the group as the Time Variance Authority and said they were assigned to correct disruptions to fate.
• The man in black explained that each parallel universe or spacetime had its own identical Time Variance Authority, and began to describe an earlier deployment.
• The man in black clutched his head in pain, and Xia Yu sensed danger and leaped away.
• A golden beam from the building vaporized the Time Variance Authority agents, and Xia Yu rushed into the building to investigate.

After seeing the future the Black-Clad Man claimed was destined, Tony and Natasha rejected his argument and killed him. Xia Yu attacked the Time Variance Authority building after it killed its own agents, while another enormous structure in the Quantum Realm sounded an alarm.

• Tony and Natasha watched visions of the Avengers' future, including the deaths and sacrifices that followed Thanos's attack.
• The Black-Clad Man claimed that following fate would prevent greater chaos, but Tony and Natasha refused to accept his view and shot him together.
• Xia Yu's energy cannon destroyed the Black-Clad Man's fellow agents, so Xia Yu attacked the Time Variance Authority building.
• All four sections of the building fired lasers at Xia Yu, but his energy shield held as he pushed forward against their force.
• An alarm sounded inside a superstructure in the Quantum Realm, where it stood on a continent contained within a floating balloon-shaped membrane.

Xia Yu survived the Time Variance Authority headquarters’ self-destruct and returned to the Avengers Compound, where Natasha and Tony had already arrived from their time-travel mission. The chapter ended with Xia Yu reappearing on the Quantum Tunnel.

• The Main Universe Time Variance Authority director activated the self-destruct and blamed his clones for the crisis involving Xia Yu.
• Xia Yu sensed the headquarters was about to be destroyed and stored a mysterious transparent tube in his bracelet before escaping the annihilating light.
• Natasha and Tony returned to the Avengers Compound, where Captain and Dr. Pym asked about Xia Yu and the time-travel mission.
• Tony joked with Ant-Man and the others before confirming that he and Natasha had traveled to the past.
• After half an hour, Xia Yu appeared on the Quantum Tunnel and returned to full size.

Xia Yu and Stan Lee examined a mysterious structure taken from the Time Variance Authority and discovered it projected the universe’s destiny. The vision showed Xia Yu’s influence had changed the past, though the structure was only a projection rather than destiny itself.

• Xia Yu returned to the base and hugged Natasha and Tony, then punched Tony through a glass wall after Tony joked about his marriage.
• Xia Yu met Stan Lee in a bar the old man had created and showed him the enormous tube taken from the Time Variance Authority.
• Stan Lee identified the tube as the Pillar of Destiny, with each golden thread representing a person and thicker threads marking greater influence.
• Xia Yu sensed that the large golden dot intertwined with many threads represented himself, then found that the Avengers’ destinies matched the original movies before his arrival and ended at the present.
• Xia Yu examined Ancient One’s thread and saw that her past had broken where she had died in the original timeline, while her new destiny began from his dot.
• Stan Lee told Xia Yu that the structure was only a projection of destiny and that his changes had mattered.

Xia Yu learned Stan Lee's theory that the River of Destiny might be a counterfeit made after the original was destroyed, while Natasha and Tony told the Avengers what their futures held. The Avengers were left to react to their fates, with Thor focused on whether he had really become fat.

• Xia Yu asked Stan Lee whether the River of Destiny was merely a terminal, and Stan explained that it embodied the movie world's predetermined story.
• Stan Lee speculated that the original River of Destiny for their timeline had been destroyed and that the Cosmic Will had rebuilt a counterfeit from projections of other timelines.
• Xia Yu considered that the world might have been destroyed before, put away the object Stan Lee gave him, and left the club.
• Natasha and Tony recounted to Captain America, Hawkeye, Banner, and Thor the tragic futures they had seen, while withholding Natasha and Banner's relationship.
• Tony asked the Avengers what they thought, and Thor seriously asked whether he had really become fat.

The Avengers agreed to oppose the fate shown by the man in black, while Natasha prepared to talk with Xia Yu about what they knew. Xia Yu confessed that he was a transmigrator and told Natasha about his past and the system, and she answered by embracing and kissing him.

• Thor, Tony, Hawkeye, Banner, and Captain joined Natasha in rejecting the fate that threatened their world.
• Banner urged the Avengers to tell Xia Yu what they knew, and Natasha agreed to think about how to approach him.
• Natasha welcomed Xia Yu home and prepared to speak with him, but Xia Yu first confessed that he was a transmigrator.
• Xia Yu told Natasha about his origins, the system, the World Tree's Source, and what he had learned in the Quantum Realm.
• Natasha responded to Xia Yu's confession by kissing him and pulling him close.

Xia Yu and the Avengers planned to recover the Infinity Stones and rescue the lives lost in the Snap before confronting the Time Variance Authority. Their preparations were interrupted when Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian arrived in New York, where Xia Yu led the Avengers in an attack.

• Xia Yu and Natasha shared their secrets and reaffirmed their love, while Natasha told him how the Avengers had supported him.
• The Avengers planned to search the Quantum Realm for the Time Variance Authority and travel to 2018 to take the Soul Stone from a weakened Thanos.
• The Black-Clad Man ordered the Time Variance Authority to recreate events as a warm-up and activated a controller to reclaim the independent personalities of its branches.
• Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian landed near the New York Sanctum to take Doctor Strange’s Time Stone.
• Xia Yu appeared with Scarlet Witch, Iron Man, Captain, Hawkeye, Vision, Thor, and other heroes, then ordered them to attack Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian.

The Avengers captured and searched Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian, then sent their ship into space with nano-trackers, but it was destroyed and the signal vanished. While Xia Yu pondered the mysteries behind the incident, Captain Marvel arrived and confronted him about a metal fragment that had hit her head.

• Doctor Strange declined to join the Avengers’ beating, while Wong eagerly joined in and attacked Cull Obsidian with Xia Yu’s folding stool.
• Xia Yu told Doctor Strange that the aliens had come for the Time Stone and asked him to bring Ancient One to the Avengers Compound to discuss the multiverse.
• The Avengers found nothing useful on Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, or their ship, so they implanted nano-trackers and sent the aliens back into space.
• The ship was destroyed less than two minutes later, leaving Xia Yu to wonder about the person behind the system and resolve to retrieve the Soul Stone.
• Captain Marvel encountered Xia Yu in space and accused him of sending a metal fragment that had struck her head.

Xia Yu joined Captain Marvel in investigating the strange energy emitted by planets spared from the Snap. Deep beneath a planet’s core, they found the energy’s source: the River of Destiny.

• Xia Yu explained to Captain Marvel that he had thrown two of Thanos’s men into space, where their ship had exploded, and asked why she was so far from Earth.
• Captain Marvel showed Xia Yu a planet whose inhabitants emitted an unfamiliar energy that seeped underground, a phenomenon she had found on ninety-two planets spared from the Snap.
• Xia Yu and Captain Marvel descended through the planet’s crust, tracking the energy with her detector while Xia Yu protected them from the extreme heat and pressure.
• They discovered a hidden chamber near the core, where Captain Marvel’s instrument detected the energy again.
• Xia Yu saw a mass of golden threads floating in the chamber and identified it as the River of Destiny.

Xia Yu brought Ancient One, Doctor Strange, and Tony to Earth's newly formed River of Destiny to investigate the Time Variance Authority and the nature of fate. Tony proposed that the universe, parallel universes, and planets worked like a hierarchy of servers, but the chapter ended before the group could test his theory.

• Xia Yu returned to the base, where Ancient One and Doctor Strange joined him and discussed the Time Variance Authority as a tool created by the Cosmic Will.
• Xia Yu took Ancient One, Doctor Strange, and Tony to Earth's core, where they found a River of Destiny that he called Earth's Fate Temple.
• Ancient One wondered whether planetary Rivers of Destiny had formed because Xia Yu took the universe's River of Destiny, and Xia Yu checked a fate thread and confirmed it appeared after their time travel.
• Doctor Strange compared Earth's separate River of Destiny to having its own server, prompting Tony to explain his server system and compare its hierarchy to the universe, parallel universes, and planets.

Tony explained how the River of Destiny and the Time Variance Authority related to the universe’s command system, leading Xia Yu to plan to replace the Main Universe’s commands. Xia Yu launched a universe-wide effort to disrupt planets’ destinies, while the Time Variance Authority sent Thanos’s entire army to attack Wakanda.

• Tony compared the River of Destiny to server logs and explained that the Time Variance Authority was trying to repair the universe’s commands.
• Xia Yu concluded that changing individual destinies would not end the Cosmic Will’s control and decided to replace the Main Universe’s commands outright.
• Xia Yu tested his plan by exchanging influential people between two planets, and each planet formed its own River of Destiny within a day.
• Xia Yu gave Ancient One and Kamar-Taj’s important figures Godhoods in exchange for portals, then strengthened Captain Marvel’s S.W.O.R.D. and enlisted the Skrulls to influence inhabited planets.
• The Time Variance Authority sent Thanos’s entire army to Wakanda.

Xia Yu prepared for the coming battle by marking the Temples of Destiny and protecting those close to him, then effortlessly destroyed Thanos’s invading force in Wakanda. While the Avengers remained busy changing events across the universe, Loki secretly met with a black-clad man connected to the Time Variance Authority.

• Xia Yu traveled between planets, searching for Rivers of Destiny and leaving his spiritual imprint in each planet’s Temple of Destiny.
• Xia Yu arrived in Wakanda as Black Panther and the Wakandan warriors charged at the alien army led by Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive.
• Xia Yu wiped out the alien legion and its spaceships with a giant energy sword, shattering Wakanda’s shield and leaving Black Panther frustrated that he had not fought.
• Tony Stark created a protective shield using Uru Metal and the Space Stone, while Xia Yu ensured the safety of his companions and the Avengers traveled between planets to change their fates.
• Loki, left under house arrest at the Avengers’ base and overlooked by Xia Yu, secretly met a black-clad man several times in AC City as the Time Variance Authority delayed its response.