Chapter Summaries

Chen Mu assembled a team to travel to Universe Three and fight Thanos. After arriving on Earth, he gathered the others from Dark Doctor Strange’s pocket universe, bringing the team to five members from four universes.

• Deadpool suggested inviting Cable to join the fight against Thanos, and Chen Mu opened a portal to bring him to X-Academy.
• Cable agreed to travel to another world, while Colossus stayed behind to guard the X-Men’s base.
• Deadpool offered Cable ten thousand RMB for the mercenary job, then grew jealous when Cable revealed he owned fully paid apartments in the capitals of both worlds.
• Chen Mu opened a portal to Universe Three, and Deadpool, Apple, and Cable followed him through.
• On Earth in Universe Three, Chen Mu opened a portal to Dark Doctor Strange’s pocket universe and brought him out to join the group.

Deadpool, Cable, and Chen Mu met Dark Doctor Strange, who explained that his reckless attempt to reverse an absolute point in time caused his world to perish. The Doctor Strange of this world then confronted his darker counterpart, who learned that Christine was alive and working alongside him before bitterly predicting they would not end well.

• Deadpool excitedly mistook Dark Doctor Strange for the heroic Doctor Strange who had defeated Dormammu, then learned that Dark Strange had caused his world's destruction by creating a temporal paradox.
• Deadpool and Cable worried that their own time travel might endanger their worlds, but Dark Strange explained that only reversing an absolute point in time had doomed his.
• Doctor Strange of this world emerged from the Mirror Dimension and questioned Dark Strange about destroying a world and seeking magic to save Christine.
• Dark Strange learned that this world's Christine was alive, loved Doctor Strange, and worked as an Illuminati researcher alongside him.
• Dark Strange grew jealous and warned Doctor Strange that he and Christine would not end well.

Chen Mu told Doctor Strange that his worlds had trained hundreds of thousands of powerful mages and offered to establish a permanent Dimensional Gate to help fight Thanos. The offer came with a restriction from Deadpool: the gate could only be in China and used by Chinese people.

• Deadpool tried to flatter the newly arrived Doctor Strange, who ignored him and asked Dark Strange what he meant by his warning about Dark Magic.
• Dark Strange warned Doctor Strange that pursuing Dark Magic would make him lose Christine, but Doctor Strange said he had no choice against Thanos.
• Chen Mu told Doctor Strange that Ancient One was alive in his world and had helped establish Magic Schools in China, where hundreds of thousands of powerful mages had graduated.
• Chen Mu claimed that Thanos posed little threat to his worlds and offered to create a permanent Dimensional Gate between them.
• Deadpool declared that the gate could only be located in China and used by Chinese people.

Doctor Strange explained that Tony Stark had formed the Illuminati and recruited help from other universes to prepare for Thanos. Chen Mu and his companions agreed to meet the Illuminati and entered through Doctor Strange’s portal.

• Doctor Strange said Tony Stark had created Ultron and founded the Illuminati, which had taken responsibility for protecting Earth.
• Doctor Strange explained that he and Tony had used Dreamwalking to contact alternate versions of himself and recruit aid from other worlds.
• Doctor Strange named Black Bolt, Professor X Charles, and Mister Fantastic Richard as recruits who had joined the Illuminati.
• Deadpool introduced himself and Chen Mu’s group as allies who had come to take down Thanos, then asked how much they would be paid.
• Chen Mu agreed to meet the Illuminati, and Doctor Strange opened a portal that he and the others followed.

Chen Mu and his companions arrived at the Illuminati's lunar base to help defend against Thanos, where Doctor Strange introduced them to the organization's members. The meeting turned hostile when Captain Marvel Rambo mocked Chen Mu, who accused her of suffering from radiation sickness and said she needed treatment.

• Doctor Strange brought Chen Mu and his companions through a portal to the Illuminati's lunar base and explained that he had summoned the other members.
• Mister Fantastic, Captain Marvel Maria Rambeau, and Black Bolt arrived, followed by Captain Carter and Professor X.
• Deadpool greeted Professor X and told him that America had been wiped out and China had unified Earth in Deadpool's world.
• Chen Mu introduced himself, Cable, Apple, and Doctor Strange to Professor X and said they had come to help fight Thanos.
• Captain Marvel Rambo mocked Chen Mu, and he replied that her powers came from Space Stone radiation and that she needed treatment.

Chen Mu confronted Captain Marvel Rambo after she attacked him, stripping away her powers with the Tesseract and leaving her badly injured. Captain Carter challenged him on behalf of the Illuminati, but Chen Mu questioned why they had let Rambo attack first.

• Captain Marvel Rambo charged at Chen Mu, while the Illuminati watched and Doctor Strange refrained from intervening after Dark Doctor Strange warned him.
• Chen Mu used the Tesseract to draw the Space Stone energy out of Rambo, removing her powers and causing her to fall and crash to the ground.
• The Illuminati tried to rescue Rambo, but Chen Mu blocked their efforts with mirror-like space.
• Captain Carter confronted Chen Mu and accused him of declaring war on the Illuminati after Rambo was crippled.
• Chen Mu asked why no one had stopped Rambo when she attacked him, and the Illuminati fell silent.

Chen Mu used the Space Stone energy he had taken from Rambo to give Captain Carter Captain Marvel’s powers. Carter gained immense strength, but her energy could not regenerate, leaving the chapter with her newly empowered and unaware of the full cost.

• Chen Mu ignored Deadpool’s request for the energy and offered it to Captain Carter instead.
• Captain Carter lowered her guard, saying the approaching threat of Thanos mattered more than fighting Chen Mu.
• Chen Mu used the Tablet of Life to modify Carter, giving her the ability to control energy like Nick Fury.
• Chen Mu transferred Rambo’s Space Stone energy into Carter, leaving Rambo powerless and Carter with a finite supply of energy.
• Captain Carter felt the power coursing through her and marveled at its strength.

Chen Mu defeated Captain Marvel and transferred her power to Captain Carter, leaving the Illuminati unwilling to oppose him. He then met the group’s members and asked Mister Fantastic to show him the Time Platform.

• Chen Mu transferred Captain Marvel’s energy to Captain Carter, who celebrated her new power while the Illuminati ordered Rambeau taken away.
• Carter agreed to let Chen Mu return the energy to Rambeau if she recovered, while privately considering how to avoid giving it up.
• Chen Mu teased Carter about possibly getting rid of Rambeau, then asked Doctor Strange whether everyone in the Illuminati was present.
• The Illuminati members greeted Chen Mu warmly, and Doctor Strange said Iron Man had not come.
• Chen Mu met Mister Fantastic, analyzed his rubber physique, and asked to examine the Time Platform.

Mister Fantastic showed Chen Mu the Time Platform, a prototype that could teleport through space and might eventually travel through time, and Chen Mu offered to exchange technology with its creators. When Professor X tried to read Chen Mu’s mind, he died instantly, leaving the group stunned.

• Mister Fantastic explained that he and Victor had built the Time Platform and that Victor was studying magic at Kamar-Taj.
• Chen Mu analyzed the prototype and offered to exchange time-travel technology with Mister Fantastic and Victor.
• Captain Carter and Doctor Strange urged the group to show Chen Mu and his companions around.
• Professor X questioned Chen Mu about what had happened to America, and Chen Mu said he did not know the details.
• Professor X tried to probe Chen Mu’s mind, then bled from his seven orifices and died.

After the system killed Professor X for a psychic intrusion, Chen Mu gave Deadpool a God of Mischief Ruby that could grant Red Tank powers. Chen Mu planned to mass-produce the rubies and use Red Tanks as workers and soldiers, while Deadpool eagerly tested his new gift.

• The system detected Professor X's psychic intrusion and erased him before Chen Mu could act.
• Deadpool backed Chen Mu's account of Professor X's death, then complained that Chen Mu had given Captain Marvel's power to Captain Carter instead of him.
• Chen Mu explained that Captain Marvel's glowing powers would not suit Deadpool and gave him a God of Mischief Ruby.
• Chen Mu explained that the ruby could turn its user into a Red Tank, draw power from the God of Mischief, and be deactivated remotely by its creator.
• Chen Mu said the ruby's production method had been given to the Celestial Court so it could create contractors and Red Tank troops.
• Deadpool kissed the ruby and hid it in his crotch while the others looked on in disbelief.

Chen Mu’s group arrived at the lunar base, where Captain Marvel Rambo was left half-paralyzed and Professor X suddenly died. Iron Man and Baron Mordo joined the others as they prepared for a possible attack by Thanos’s army.

• Doctor Strange ordered Ultron Robots to carry away the half-paralyzed Rambo and the dead Professor X, while the Illuminati chose not to seek revenge.
• Chen Mu told the Illuminati he had not harmed Professor X and asked them to explain the death to the mutants.
• Tony Stark arrived through a Time Platform portal, introduced himself to Chen Mu, and explained that he had created Ultron using the Mind Stone.
• Deadpool mistook Tony for Tom Cruise, and Chen Mu criticized the Ultron Robots as industrial trash.
• Baron Mordo arrived after detecting spatial fluctuations that might indicate Thanos’s army, then threatened Dark Doctor Strange because of his dark aura.
• Doctor Strange defended Dark Doctor Strange and admitted by his silence that he too had used Dark Magic, angering Mordo.

Doctor Strange learned that his repeated Dreamwalking had put his world and another universe on a path toward collision, while Mordo demanded that the Illuminati stop the two Stranges. The chapter left Strange alarmed by the danger and searching for the original Book of the Vishanti to defeat Thanos.

• Mordo accused both Doctor Stranges of being threats because they had used Dark Magic, but the Illuminati refused to attack them.
• Doctor Strange explained that he had found the original Book of the Vishanti in another universe and that its Doctor Strange was willing to help defeat Thanos.
• Dark Doctor Strange warned that Dreamwalking brought two universes closer together and could cause irreversible destruction.
• Chen Mu explained that the universes could destroy one another, destroy both, or merge and become unstable.
• Mordo called for Captain Rambo to help fight the Stranges, but Doctor Strange said she could not stand up anymore.
• Doctor Strange realized that his Dreamwalking had unknowingly endangered two worlds.

Dark Doctor Strange told the Illuminati that Dreamwalking would make two worlds collide, forcing them to choose which one survived. Chen Mu said he could prevent the collision by visiting the other world, and asked Doctor Strange for its coordinates, though he saw no need to hurry.

• Dark Doctor Strange said the two worlds could not be separated and that one had to die for the other to survive.
• The Illuminati silently favored saving their own world, and Captain Carter openly chose to protect it.
• Chen Mu challenged Dark Doctor Strange’s claim that there was no solution and explained that his presence could give the other world a new timeline.
• Doctor Strange asked if Chen Mu could stop the collision, and Chen Mu said he needed the other world’s coordinates but there was no need to rush.

Chen Mu learned that Thanos had taken the Space Stone and was preparing to come to Earth for the remaining Infinity Stones. He proposed taking the Stones to another world instead of destroying Wanda’s Mind Stone, leaving the Illuminati to consider his plan.

• Baron Mordo told Chen Mu that Hela had destroyed Asgard and that Thanos’s forces had ambushed the fleeing Asgardians and stolen the Space Stone.
• Doctor Strange revealed that Thanos now possessed four Infinity Stones and argued that Earth should destroy Wanda’s Mind Stone before Thanos arrived.
• Doctor Strange explained that Wanda held the Mind Stone and had retired to raise her children, while he kept the Time Stone needed to protect Earth.
• Chen Mu suggested taking the Infinity Stones to another world, where Thanos could not reach them.
• Chen Mu showed the Illuminati two Tesseracts and pointed out that he and the two Doctor Stranges already possessed three Time Stones.

Chen Mu proposed taking the Infinity Stones to another world, and Tony led the group to find Wanda, who possessed the Mind Stone. Wanda refused to let them destroy it because its power had created her children, Tommy and Billy.

• Chen Mu argued that the Infinity Stones would be safer with him than with Thanos, while Mordo doubted his strength.
• An Ultron Robot reported that Captain Rambo had suffered a spinal fracture and lower-body paralysis after falling from the sky.
• Tony said Wanda still had the Mind Stone, and Doctor Strange explained that she had used its power to create her children.
• Doctor Strange opened a portal and took Tony and Chen Mu's group to Wanda, while Mordo left intending to turn Christine against Strange.
• Wanda refused to let the group destroy the Mind Stone, warning that Tommy and Billy would disappear without it.

Wanda refused to destroy the Mind Stone because doing so would kill her infant children, and she challenged the heroes to sacrifice the Time Stone instead. Chen Mu clarified that he had come to safeguard the Mind Stone, leaving Wanda reassured that Thanos would not be able to take it.

• Wanda shielded Tommy and Billy and refused Doctor Strange’s request to destroy the Mind Stone.
• Wanda argued that Doctor Strange should destroy the Time Stone instead, and Doctor Strange said Earth might need it to defend against other dimensions.
• Deadpool mocked the heroes for demanding that others make sacrifices and pointed out that they could destroy the Time Stone or Space Stone.
• Wanda agreed with Deadpool and told Doctor Strange she could destroy the Time Stone herself.
• Chen Mu stepped forward and told Wanda he intended to safeguard the Mind Stone so Thanos could never take it.

Chen Mu and Doctor Strange persuaded Wanda to hand over the Mind Stone so Thanos could not find it, and Wanda asked Chen Mu to become Tommy and Billy’s godfather. The chapter ended with Wanda changing the children’s appearances to resemble Chen Mu and Deadpool teasing him about accepting them as his own.

• Wanda confronted Chen Mu and asked whether he was with the people trying to destroy the Mind Stone.
• Chen Mu and Doctor Strange proposed moving the Mind Stone to another world, assuring Wanda that her children would remain safe.
• Wanda agreed to trust Chen Mu and asked him to become Tommy and Billy’s godfather.
• Wanda changed Tommy and Billy’s appearances from blond, blue-eyed children to black-haired, yellow-skinned children who resembled Chen Mu.
• Chen Mu said he had a wife and child, while Wanda insisted he only needed to be her children’s father in her world.
• Deadpool teased Chen Mu for pretending he did not want a wife and two children for free.

Chen Mu agreed to become Wanda’s twins’ godfather, while Wanda kept the Mind Stone and asked him to visit their home. He returned to China with Cable, Apple, and Dark Doctor Strange, leaving Tony and Doctor Strange to report back to the Illuminati.

• Chen Mu agreed to be Wanda’s children’s godfather and sent Deadpool through a portal to another world.
• Wanda produced the Mind Stone and urged Chen Mu to protect their children, but he refused to take it and left with Cable, Apple, and Dark Doctor Strange.
• Dark Doctor Strange told Doctor Strange that across countless worlds, Strange and Christine never had a good ending before following Chen Mu through the portal.
• Wanda ordered Tony and Doctor Strange to leave, and they returned to the Illuminati to discuss the team’s losses and the threat of Thanos.
• Apple teased Chen Mu about becoming Wanda’s husband and asked if she could be his wife in her own world.

Chen Mu reassured Doctor Strange that China was prepared for Thanos, revealing a vast force of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals sent to defend Earth. Doctor Strange was left stunned by the scale and power of the army.

• China in Universe Three joined the Multivariate China family, and Universe Zero sent military forces to protect China in Universe 838.
• Doctor Strange visited Chen Mu to seek the Book of the Vishanti after learning Thanos had taken the Space Stone and might target Earth.
• Chen Mu told Doctor Strange that China had prepared an army and would defeat Thanos if he came.
• Chen Mu demonstrated a Heavenly Soldier Robot and explained that each one had more than ten Level Four abilities.
• Doctor Strange learned that China had one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldier Robots, along with Heavenly Generals and Great Captains.

Chen Mu explained that China had deployed overwhelming forces and civilian support to protect China in Universe Three from Thanos. Doctor Strange realized that Thanos’s invasion would face armies from multiple worlds, and Chinese civilians were already signing up to fight.

• Chen Mu told Doctor Strange that China had established permanent Dimensional Gates and sent Heavenly Soldier Robots and Red Crystals to Universe Three.
• Chen Mu revealed that China also had a hundred Heavenly Generals with power equal to Captain Marvel, along with a space fleet capable of destroying moons.
• Chen Mu explained that China’s civilians included hundreds of thousands of trained mages and described how Chinese villagers had once wiped out Wakanda.
• Civilians from World Zero and World One eagerly signed up to help their compatriots in Universe Three fight Thanos’s army.