Recaps

After breaking free of his system, Xia Yu restored Chinatown and stood with the Avengers against government demands, then joined the fight against Thanos’s accelerating hunt for the Infinity Stones. Xia Yu stopped the Snap’s cosmic force at the cost of his body, and his shattered soul began absorbing the released energy as his allies guarded him.

• Xia Yu crushed the system controlling him, rewound Chinatown to before Thanos’s attack, and confronted the officials who had suppressed news of the destruction.
• Xia Yu exposed Craig Wayne’s role in the smear campaign and killed him on livestream, then revived and killed three other congressmen at the Avengers’ headquarters.
• The Avengers rejected government oversight and stood with Xia Yu, who renounced his American citizenship and threatened anyone who targeted his friends.
• Xia Yu entered the Quantum Realm with Dr. Pym and helped him reunite with Janet, while he sensed a hidden watcher and returned to the Avengers’ base.
• As Thanos’s massacres spread, Xia Yu warned Star-Lord that Gamora was in danger, but Thanos captured her and took her to Vormir for the Soul Stone.
• Xia Yu reached Vormir after Gamora and the Soul Stone were gone, then rushed to the moon when Rocket’s tracker detected an immense Infinity Stone energy signature.
• Xia Yu and the Avengers channeled the Stones’ power through the Aether to hold back the Snap, and Xia Yu struck Thanos after grabbing the Power Stone.
• Thanos disintegrated as the Stones, Aether, and Xia Yu’s body shattered, while the Ancient One kept his allies away and Xia Yu’s soul began absorbing the released source energy.

Xia Yu returned from the dead, confronted the Time Variance Authority, and learned how destiny had been shaped around his arrival. He set out to replace the Cosmic Will’s control by establishing planetary Rivers of Destiny, while the Avengers fought across worlds and Loki secretly met with a black-clad man.

• Two years after the Snap, Xia Yu revived on the moon, formed a new body, and reunited with the Avengers, who told him that Tony had married Pepper and had a daughter named Morgan.
• Xia Yu pursued the black-clad men through the Quantum Realm after Tony and Natasha traveled to 2008 without him, and he reached the Time Variance Authority headquarters as the agents tried to stop him.
• Xia Yu escaped the Authority’s self-destruction with a mysterious tube, and Stan Lee identified it as the Pillar of Destiny, whose threads showed how Xia Yu had altered the Avengers’ fates.
• After Xia Yu told Natasha that he was a transmigrator, the Avengers rejected the future they had seen and prepared to act against the Time Variance Authority.
• Xia Yu and Captain Marvel found a River of Destiny beneath a planet spared by the Snap, then Xia Yu showed Ancient One, Doctor Strange, and Tony another River beneath Earth.
• Xia Yu concluded that he had to replace the Cosmic Will’s commands, planted his imprint in planetary Temples of Destiny, and enlisted the Avengers and Skrulls to change fates across inhabited worlds.
• When the Time Variance Authority sent Thanos’s army to Wakanda, Xia Yu destroyed the invading legion while Tony built a protective shield, and the Avengers began traveling between planets.
• As the Authority delayed its response, Loki secretly met a black-clad man in AC City while under house arrest at the Avengers’ base.

After discovering Yuwen Feishuang’s betrayal and surviving the damage to his soul, Xia Yu helped the Avengers prepare for war by evacuating Earth and merging Rivers of Destiny. He and the Avengers fought Thanos variants sent by Kang the Conqueror, while Tony’s attempt to accelerate the River’s absorption left him in mortal danger.

• Xia Yu found the Soul Stone fragment Sif had discovered, and Ancient One separated Hulk’s soul from Banner so Xia Yu could give Hulk a new body and Godhood.
• Inside the Soul Temple, Yuwen Feishuang revealed that Xia Yu was his continuation and tried to take his body, but Xia Yu resisted before Yuwen’s self-destruction damaged Xia Yu’s soul.
• Ancient One and Doctor Strange repaired Xia Yu’s soul, and Stan Lee told him that he needed another Soul Stone, prompting Xia Yu to focus on establishing the River of Destiny.
• Tony studied the River of Destiny as Xia Yu and Peggy Carter organized Earth’s evacuation, and Xia Yu fused more than a hundred Rivers into a cosmic-scale river before Loki detonated the Avengers Compound.
• Thanos arrived from another universe and fought Captain America, Tony, and Thor, but Xia Yu appeared and overwhelmed him despite limiting his own energy.
• Xia Yu and the Avengers revealed that they had fooled the TVA and Thanos, then battled Thanos and his variants, using the Infinity Stones and Tony’s Reality Stone-powered robots to turn the tide.
• As the Avengers continued evacuating Earth and defending AC City, Xia Yu confronted Kang the Conqueror, who demanded that he restore fate and destroy his own soul.
• Kang summoned more Thanos variants while Tony used Destiny Energy to accelerate the River of Destiny’s absorption, but the energy became uncontrollable and the variants broke into the chamber to attack him.
• Xia Yu froze nearby enemies with his Source power and rushed to help Tony as the attackers shattered his Space Stone barrier.