Recaps

Xia Yu defeated Ego, took control of his planet, and transformed it into AC City, the Avengers’ new base. As the Avengers opened the city to visitors, Peter Parker’s school life and pursuit of Vulture led him to team up with Harry and plan a young heroes’ alliance.

• Xia Yu helped Star-Lord escape Ego’s control, then had Rocket sedate Ego so he could reach and take over the planet’s core.
• Ayesha tried to possess Xia Yu but was consumed by the strange power within him, while Ego’s Planet fell still and Yondu survived after sacrificing himself to save Star-Lord.
• Xia Yu restored Ego’s Planet, absorbed Ego’s energy, and brought the planet to Earth as the Avengers’ new base, AC City.
• Peter Parker’s videos made AC City a worldwide sensation, and the Avengers organized paid tours and a documentary while Tony arranged a school dance there for Peter’s classmates.
• Ned discovered Peter’s Spider-Man identity, and Peter tracked Adrian’s arms dealers to Maryland while heading to Washington for the Academic Decathlon.
• Peter met Harry, who revealed his homemade Armor, and the two became friends after getting trapped together at a secret supply base.
• Peter and Harry pursued Vulture, learned that the alien energy block could explode, and formed plans for a Young Avengers Alliance with Ned and Tate.
• Harry printed a blue-and-white Armor with help from Peter, Ant-Man, and Xia Yu, while Natasha told Xia Yu that Tate’s suit was nearly finished and it was his turn.

The Young Avengers confronted Vulture, while Xia Yu learned why the Ancient One had been told to kill Doctor Strange and helped strengthen Earth’s Sanctums. Kaecilius destroyed several Sanctums and cornered Strange, Wong, and Mordo at the Sky Temple until Xia Yu arrived.

• Spider-Man, Harry, and Tate fought Vulture aboard a Hudson River cruise boat, saved the passengers from the splitting ship, and were approved as the Young Avengers under Tony’s conditions.
• Tony and Xia Yu left Vulture’s fate to Spider-Man, who accepted a three-year house-arrest arrangement in AC City, and Vulture told his family the truth, and Peter apologized to him.
• The Ancient One showed Xia Yu a hidden Sanctum and revealed that its altar had instructed her to kill Doctor Strange, but the altar’s strange courtyard led Xia Yu to an old man who recognized him as a transmigrator.
• The old man explained that Xia Yu should wait for Ragnarok before absorbing Asgard’s origin, returned the system’s orb to him, and directed him to help the Ancient One build a new Sanctum in Sky City.
• Xia Yu and the Ancient One established the Sky Temple beside the Avengers Compound and strengthened its protective formation, while Tate challenged Doctor Strange and impressed him with his flying swords.
• Dormammu empowered Kaecilius, who destroyed the London and New York Sanctums before attacking the Sky Temple, where Strange, Wong, and Mordo fought him as the Ancient One remained missing.
• A magical cloak chose Doctor Strange as its master, but Kaecilius overpowered the sorcerers and transformed into a monstrous form, and Xia Yu appeared at the Sky Temple and challenged him.

Xia Yu helped the Ancient One survive, then defeated and imprisoned Dormammu after Doctor Strange trapped him in a time loop. A year later, Odin revealed Hela’s return, and Thor, Loki, Xia Yu, and Hela went to Asgard as Heimdall uncovered the location of Asgard’s Source.

• Xia Yu helped the Ancient One return to life, and she later gave up the Time Stone and her role as Sorcerer Supreme.
• Doctor Strange used the Time Stone to trap Dormammu in a repeating ten-minute loop, while Xia Yu attacked Dormammu in the void and pursued him through the Dark Dimension.
• Xia Yu exhausted Dormammu’s power with mechanical soldiers and captured his surviving soul fragments with the Ancient One’s help.
• Stan Lee warned Xia Yu that fate had strayed from its original course, and Xia Yu absorbed some of the Time Stone’s power before Odin summoned him a year later.
• Odin revealed that Loki had impersonated him and warned Thor and Loki that their sister Hela would threaten the Nine Realms.
• Hela attacked Xia Yu, who fought her at sea before Thor decided to bring her to Asgard and the Bifrost transported them there.
• Heimdall told Thor that Asgard’s people were safe and showed him the hidden location of Asgard’s Source beneath the dungeon.

Xia Yu absorbed Asgard’s origin power, strengthened the Avengers, and pursued the Soul Stone while learning more about his arrival in the Marvel universe. After Thanos destroyed Xandar and struck Chinatown to punish Xia Yu for changing a destined death, Xia Yu accepted responsibility and prepared to act.

• Heimdall revealed Odin’s plan for the World Tree’s origin power, and Xia Yu absorbed it while Thor and Heimdall evacuated Asgard’s people to AC City.
• Xia Yu restored Hela, erased her memories, and sent her to live as an ordinary person, then secured Heart-Shaped Herbs from Bast and granted divine positions to the Avengers.
• Xia Yu traveled to Vormir for the Soul Stone, where Red Skull’s spirit pulled him into the Soul Stone’s gray space and he met Old Master Li.
• Old Master Li explained that Xia Yu’s arrival had disrupted the universe’s original course, and Xia Yu returned to the Avengers while they trained and upgraded their equipment with Eitri.
• Xia Yu and Tony tested Tony’s new Iron Man armor, then learned from Dorothea that Thanos had attacked Xandar and sent a message about fated destruction.
• A report revealed that Thanos had destroyed Xia Yu’s childhood home in Chinatown, killing and injuring its residents as revenge for preventing a destined death.
• Xia Yu went to Chinatown, apologized to Uncle Wang and the grieving residents, and declared on live television that he would take responsibility.