Chapter Summaries

Xia Yu followed a mysterious phone link and vanished in a flash of light, then woke in a version of his home from the era of his old Nokia phone. He realized he had transmigrated to the past, though the changed street outside suggested he was somewhere unfamiliar.

• Xia Yu found a flyer in his elevator asking whether he wanted extraordinary powers and displaying his phone number.
• Xia Yu texted the sender, who called himself Qingfeng, and followed a link to a pictograph-covered agreement that signed itself and loaded a system.
• A white light engulfed Xia Yu and his phone, and they disappeared from his apartment.
• Xia Yu woke in bed, noticed unfamiliar American Legend cigarettes, and found his old Nokia 5710 on the bedside table.
• Xia Yu discovered that his home’s appliances had reverted to an earlier era and that the apartment now overlooked a commercial street with traditional Chinese and English signs.

After discovering that he had transmigrated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Xia Yu received a system that promised to help him become a superhero. The system told him to reopen his grandfather’s traditional Chinese medicine studio, and the chapter ended when a visitor arrived with the promised surprise.

• Xia Yu watched the news and realized he was in the Marvel Cinematic Universe after seeing a report about Tony Stark.
• The system introduced itself, gave Xia Yu the name Tmall, and explained his identity, abilities, and superhero progression system.
• Xia Yu learned that he was in Manhattan in August 2007, six months before Iron Man 1, and had inherited his grandfather’s property and medical studio.
• Tmall told Xia Yu to reopen the studio and practice Chinese medicine before pursuing superhero work.
• Xia Yu opened the studio but received no customers all day, then went to leave for dinner when someone knocked at the door.

Xia Yu welcomed Nick Fury, an old friend of his late grandfather, and treated his headaches and insomnia with acupuncture. The system rewarded Xia Yu with points and a lottery draw, which left him facing a shop full of techniques he could not yet afford and a wheel whose prizes began with Lingbo Weibu.

• Xia Yu told Nick Fury that his grandfather had died, and Nick came inside to reminisce over tea.
• Nick asked Xia Yu to treat his headaches as his grandfather had, and Xia agreed despite insisting that he should have booked an appointment.
• Xia Yu used acupuncture to put Nick Fury into a deep sleep, following the treatment routine his grandfather had used.
• The system rewarded Xia Yu with thirty points and a lottery draw for treating Nick Fury, and it opened the points shop.
• Xia Yu found that even the cheapest technique cost more points than he had and asked Tmall to show him the lottery prizes.

Xia Yu learned Lingbo Weibu and received a quest to stop 100 crimes in New York within 30 days. After experimenting with wuxia costumes, he designed a black-armored outfit and prepared to begin his superhero career.

• Xia Yu questioned Tmall about the identical lottery prizes, then won and equipped Lingbo Weibu.
• Nick Fury woke up, praised Xia Yu's treatment, ate the congee Xia Yu had brought, and left.
• Xia Yu received a quest to stop 100 crimes in New York within 30 days for points and a lottery draw.
• Xia Yu asked Tmall about superhero costumes and rejected several outfits based on wuxia heroes.
• Xia Yu designed a black Cangyun Sect outfit with a mask and false ponytail, then prepared to go out in costume.

Xia Yu went to Brooklyn to begin his superhero career and responded to a drug deal after his minimap marked an alley crime. A dealer’s gunfire triggered Xia Yu’s Lingbo Weibu instinct, and the encounter left him shaken and more aware of the danger of treating the movie world like a game.

• Xia Yu patrolled Brooklyn in disguise and followed a red dot on his minimap into an alley where a drug deal was taking place.
• The dealer pointed a gun at Xia Yu, who froze and failed to respond to his warnings.
• The dealer fired, and Xia Yu instinctively dodged both shots, crossed the alley, and knocked the dealer unconscious with a chop.
• Tianmao awarded Xia Yu 20 points and explained that the street crime was meant to help him practice Lingbo Weibu.
• Xia Yu realized that ordinary criminals could be deadly and corrected his gaming-like outlook on the movie world.
• Xia Yu took the dealer’s gun and cash, learned that police would arrive soon, and fled the alley using Lingbo Weibu.

After completing a hundred crime-fighting tasks, Xia Yu spent his reward points on the Yijin Jing and endured its painful transformation of his body. He then bought the Nine Yang Divine Skill, which began circulating automatically as he prepared to adapt to his new strength before his next task.

• Xia Yu completed a hundred minor crime-fighting tasks in just over ten days and received 4,060 points, including the task reward.
• Xia Yu used the prize draw and learned the Yijin Jing, enduring intense pain as it transformed and strengthened his body.
• Xia Yu recovered, noticed that his senses and physical condition had improved, and asked Tmall what to buy with his remaining points.
• Tmall recommended the Nine Yang Divine Skill, and Xia Yu spent 4,000 points to learn it.
• Xia Yu discovered that the Nine Yang Divine Skill circulated energy throughout his body automatically, and Tmall told him a new task would arrive in three days.

Xia Yu treated Pepper Potts with acupuncture and received a system reward after helping a plot character. The reward was an enhanced Life and Death Talisman, which he could control but could not use on plot characters.

• Xia Yu agreed to recommend Uncle Wang’s Chinese patent medicines to his patients.
• Xia Yu met Pepper Potts, who came seeking treatment to improve her skin after hearing about a friend’s results.
• Xia Yu identified Pepper Potts’s constipation and minor cervical spine problems, then used acupuncture and the Nine Yang Divine Skill to treat her.
• Pepper Potts felt relaxed after the treatment, agreed to return weekly, and received Xia Yu’s cell number.
• The system awarded Xia Yu 50 points and a lottery draw, which gave him an enhanced Life and Death Talisman.

Xia Yu used the Life and Death Talisman to recruit gang members and began hunting gang deals to fulfill his new mission. After killing everyone at his first major drug deal, he continued attacking gangs across New York, leaving the police baffled and his own killing aura growing stronger.

• Xia Yu tested the Life and Death Talisman and received a mission to kill everyone involved in fifteen gang deals within ninety days.
• Xia Yu tortured John Abuz and his underling into agreeing to work for him, then killed the underling to enforce his threat.
• Xia Yu received intelligence about a drug deal at an abandoned factory and killed all twenty-one people involved, taking the cash and leaving the drugs behind.
• New York police found the bodies the next day and described the massacre as a gang feud.
• Over the next month, Xia Yu attacked six more times and killed over a hundred people, relying increasingly on his fists and feet.

Xia Yu nearly killed Natasha when she surprised him in his studio, but stopped himself and injured himself instead. As she treated his emotional distress with gentle concern, he broke down and fell asleep against her, pulled back from the killing spiral he had been descending into.

• Xia Yu returned to his building after killing seventeen people and found someone waiting in his studio.
• Natasha attacked Xia Yu when he entered, and he nearly struck her in the throat before recognizing her and stopping at the cost of injuring himself.
• Xia Yu set Natasha’s broken rib and used the Nine Yang Divine Skill to help it heal, while Natasha questioned his abilities and offered concern for his own injury.
• Natasha asked Xia Yu whether he had killed someone and invited him to talk, prompting him to collapse into tears.
• Natasha comforted Xia Yu as he cried for more than an hour, and he eventually fell asleep against her.

Xia Yu and Natasha spent a relaxed day together while she recovered from her injuries, growing closer as they shopped and listened to a street singer. When a system quest prompted him to perform a wuxia song, Xia Yu sang for the crowd and hurried away with Natasha as people began taking their pictures.

• Natasha decided to stay at Xia Yu’s home for a few more days while her ribs healed, and she asked him to take her shopping for clothes.
• Xia Yu and Natasha went shopping in Times Square, held hands, ate lunch, drank coffee, and watched a movie together.
• Natasha hummed along to a street singer, and Xia Yu thought about her lonely life before taking the singer’s guitar and performing “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.”
• The emotional performance moved Natasha to tears and drew applause from the crowd.
• After the crowd demanded another song, the system gave Xia Yu a temporary quest to sing a wuxia theme song for a divine weapon, so he performed “Sword Like a Dream.”
• Xia Yu returned the guitar and hurried away with Natasha as the crowd took pictures and the singer urged him to become a professional.

Xia Yu and Natasha grew closer while he treated her injuries and spent several peaceful days with her. Natasha then told him she had to return to work, and Xia Yu promised he would protect her while keeping the future events he knew secret.

• Natasha kissed Xia Yu in an alley, and he gave a homeless man money after the man interrupted them.
• Xia Yu checked his reward and learned the Heaven Reliant Sword was as durable as Vibranium, though it did not contain martial arts manuals.
• Xia Yu and Natasha spent several days together, and he used his true qi to treat her broken bone and hidden injuries.
• Natasha told Xia Yu she had to leave for work, and he complained that Nick Fury was giving her too much to do.
• Xia Yu admitted he knew about some major events but would not reveal them, while Natasha said she trusted him and urged him to stay true to himself.

Xia Yu strengthened himself with the Dugu Nine Swords and the first three levels of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill while planning how to navigate the coming Marvel events. When Pepper Potts called to ask him to become Tony Stark’s personal physician, he rejected the offer and hung up, hoping to make a stronger impression on Tony.

• After more than two months without seeing Natasha, Xia Yu received the Dugu Nine Swords from a system lottery and reviewed his martial arts skills.
• At Tmall’s recommendation, Xia Yu spent 24,000 points on the first three levels of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill and endured a painful bodily transformation.
• Xia Yu considered the upcoming Marvel events and decided he would likely need to get close to S.H.I.E.L.D. and Tony Stark while avoiding stronger figures for now.
• Pepper Potts called Xia Yu late at night and asked him to come to Los Angeles to interview for a job as Tony Stark’s personal physician.
• Xia Yu refused Tony’s offer and ended the call, believing that rejecting him would leave a stronger impression than becoming his employee.

Tony Stark visited Xia Yu’s clinic after Pepper Potts urged him to seek treatment for his declining health. Xia agreed to help with Tony’s private ailment, but only if Tony followed his treatment arrangements.

• Pepper Potts persuaded Tony Stark to travel to New York after he refused to hire Xia Yu as his private health-care doctor.
• Tony Stark mocked Xia Yu’s age and medical abilities, but Xia traded barbs with him and identified his private health problem.
• Tony Stark explained that overwork had affected his bodily functions and asked Xia to restore his stamina without harming his health.
• Xia Yu said effective treatment required daily care for nearly a month and abstinence during a longer course, so Tony invited him to Los Angeles.
• Xia Yu declined to become Tony’s private doctor but offered to treat him if Tony followed all his arrangements until the treatment was complete.

Xia Yu settled into Tony Stark’s home with Pepper Potts, sharing a rooftop hot pot dinner before beginning Tony’s treatment the next morning. He used the Nine Yang Divine Skill to force open and cleanse Tony’s meridians, then struck his body to expel impurities, leaving Tony suspended as black blood sprayed from his pores.

• Xia Yu accepted the mission to treat Tony Stark and moved into Tony’s Los Angeles home with Pepper Potts for a month.
• Xia Yu and Pepper prepared a rooftop hot pot dinner, and Tony joined them, ate enthusiastically, and drank until he became drunk.
• Xia Yu explored Tony’s laboratory the next morning, then began examining and treating Tony with his inner force.
• Xia Yu forced his energy through Tony’s meridians, opened and stabilized them, and knocked Tony unconscious when the pain made him shout.
• Xia Yu suspended Tony in the air and delivered more than two hundred palm strikes before striking his spine, causing black blood to spray from Tony’s pores.

Xia Yu used Chinese martial arts to cleanse Tony Stark’s body, and Tony later questioned him about the power after JARVIS analyzed the lab footage. Xia Yu explained his abilities, but Tony wanted to know why he had revealed them so freely during their first meeting.

• Pepper Potts rushed to Tony Stark after seeing his filthy condition, and Xia Yu woke him so he could reassure her.
• Tony Stark and Pepper Potts showered, then Tony asked JARVIS to review the lab footage and scan his body.
• JARVIS reported that Tony’s organs and muscles were in perfect condition and his metabolism resembled that of a teenager, while Xia Yu’s energy remained unidentified.
• Tony showed Xia Yu and Pepper Potts the footage over breakfast and asked whether Xia Yu’s ability was a superpower.
• Xia Yu explained that his power came from advanced Chinese martial arts that cultivated energy within the body.
• Tony Stark asked why Xia Yu had revealed his unusual ability so openly during their first meeting.

Xia Yu explained why he had revealed his Internal Energy to Tony Stark and Pepper Potts, then demonstrated his abilities and prepared to teach Tony martial arts. He inducted Tony into the Sun Moon Divine Cult, and Pepper and Tony welcomed Xia Yu as family before he revealed Tony’s sect title.

• Xia Yu told Tony Stark and Pepper Potts that fate and his need to study his abilities had led him to reveal his power, and they accepted his explanation.
• Xia Yu demonstrated Internal Energy and Qinggong for Tony and Pepper, prompting Tony to order equipment for his lab.
• Xia Yu treated Tony and Pepper with medicinal meals and decided to teach Tony a simplified version of the Yijin Jing.
• Xia Yu brought Tony to Chinatown to buy ceremonial supplies, then initiated him into the Sun Moon Divine Cult at Tony’s villa.
• Pepper embraced Xia Yu and called him family, and Xia Yu told Tony that his sect title was “Dong! Fang! Bu! Bai!”

Xia Yu helped Tony Stark train and restore his health, then joined him at an extravagant yacht party. The yacht set sail with busloads of bikini-clad guests, and Tony announced that the party had begun.

• Tony Stark built a high-speed treadmill and tested Xia Yu's strength, speed, and jumping ability, while JARVIS failed to detect his meridians and acupoints.
• Xia Yu explained that Tony could not gain his inner force or physical strength through a shortcut, and Tony went to his laboratory to investigate meridians scientifically.
• After nourishing Tony's offal until the treatment was complete, Xia Yu received ten thousand system points but could not buy the fourth level of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill on its own.
• Tony arranged a business trip for Pepper Potts and invited Xia Yu to a yacht party.
• Tony showed Xia Yu his 120-meter yacht, then welcomed three busloads of bikini-clad beauties aboard.
• The yacht set sail, fireworks lit up the sky, and Tony announced that the party had begun.

Tony threw Xia Yu into the spotlight at his yacht party, where Xia Yu’s singing won over the crowd. The next day, Tony and Xia Yu agreed to start a beauty-medicine company, then Tony discovered that a woman was peeing in his pool.

• Tony introduced Xia Yu as the party’s star, and Xia Yu sang “Rolling in the Deep” to a cheering crowd.
• Xia Yu woke among several women the next morning and spoke with Tony about the wild party.
• Tony told Xia Yu that Pepper’s recommendation had revealed the market potential of Xia Yu’s grandfather’s medicine.
• Xia Yu and Tony agreed to start a company, with Xia Yu receiving sixty percent of the shares.
• Tony showed Xia Yu the hidden room beneath the pool, and Xia Yu pointed out that a woman was peeing in the water.

After Herbal Medicine opened, Tony Stark gave Xia Yu a furnished rooftop apartment for Valentine’s Day. Xia Yu settled into his new home after Tony and Pepper left for their first date, then received a teasing message from Tony encouraging him to go out that night.

• Pepper organized Herbal Medicine’s setup, and Tony bought a twenty-story office building for the company.
• Tony and Xia Yu introduced themselves to the staff at the company’s Valentine’s Day luncheon, where Pepper handed out gifts.
• Pepper revealed that Tony had built Xia Yu a private apartment on the building’s rooftop and showed him its smart home controls.
• Tony and Pepper told Xia Yu they were going on their first date, then left him to enjoy his new apartment.
• Xia Yu tried calling Natasha but could not reach her, and Tony texted him to go to a nightclub and bring someone home.

Xia Yu bought Natasha a magical pair of linked spatial rings for Valentine's Day, and she surprised him at his new home. After exchanging gifts and spending the day together, Natasha agreed to return to New York with him for the Chinese Lantern Festival.

• Tmall suggested that Xia Yu buy Natasha a Lover's Spatial Ring, and he purchased the linked rings despite their ten-thousand-point cost.
• Xia Yu returned from a supermarket trip and found Natasha waiting in a bikini at his apartment.
• Xia Yu and Natasha kissed and spent the afternoon together before talking in the bathtub.
• Xia Yu gave Natasha the ring, explaining that it held storage space and that only they could see the names displayed on it.
• Natasha gave Xia Yu a watch that monitored his vital signs so she could find him if he was badly hurt.
• Xia Yu cooked Natasha a candlelit dinner, and she agreed to go with him to New York for the Chinese Lantern Festival.