Chapter Summaries

Doctor Strange told Chen Mu that another Strange had found the Book of the Vishanti and invited him to retrieve it, but Chen Mu decided to go with him and address the dangers of Dreamwalking. As Strange opened a connection to the other world, Chen Mu identified it as Universe 4.

• Doctor Strange reflected that China's powerful mages could help Earth face Thanos and explained how he and Tony Stark had brought people from three other worlds to their own.
• Doctor Strange told Chen Mu that another Strange had found the Book of the Vishanti and asked him to help obtain it.
• Chen Mu mocked the Illuminati for trying to destroy a world that had helped them, and Strange clarified that he had never agreed with their decision.
• Doctor Strange asked whether he should refuse the invitation because China's strength made the Book seem less necessary, but Chen Mu told him they would go retrieve it and deal with Dreamwalking's dangers.
• Doctor Strange connected to the world containing the Book of the Vishanti, and Chen Mu traced its coordinates and designated it Universe 4.

Chen Mu reassured Xu Jia about his relationship with Wanda as she arrived to serve as Universe Zero’s diplomatic representative. Tony Stark then confirmed that the Chinese Kunpeng Battleship had reached orbit to help defend Earth, and reminded Chen Mu that Wanda wanted him to visit her children.

• Doctor Strange stopped using Dark Magic after Chen Mu said they had found their target.
• Xu Jia and Apple arrived, and Xu Jia teased Chen Mu about Wanda and her twin sons before explaining she would stay as Universe Zero’s diplomatic representative.
• Chen Mu swore he had no ulterior motives toward Wanda, and a sonic boom accompanied Tony Stark’s arrival.
• Tony asked whether the Chinese warship in orbit belonged to China, and Chen Mu confirmed it was the Kunpeng Battleship sent as reinforcements from another world.
• Tony told Chen Mu that Wanda wanted to know when he would visit the children.

Chen Mu traveled with Apple to Universe Four to find the original Book of the Vishanti. Defender Strange led them beyond the worlds, where they spotted the book hovering above an altar.

• Xu Jia left Apple with Chen Mu as a spy, and Tony and Doctor Strange fled after Chen Mu said he would deal with them.
• Chen Mu gave Apple a God of Mischief Red Crystal and a Thunder Sword, then took her through a portal to Universe Four.
• Chen Mu met Defender Strange, who offered to take him to the Book of the Vishanti.
• Defender Strange explained that the original Book of the Vishanti lay outside all universes and opened a way there.
• Chen Mu, Apple, and Defender Strange reached the strange space between worlds and saw the Book of the Vishanti above a floating altar.

Chen Mu showed Defender Strange how the Illuminati planned to protect Universe 3 by sacrificing Universe 4 after Dreamwalking threatened both worlds. Chen Mu promised to reconfigure their timelines so both universes would survive.

• Defender Strange found the true Book of the Vishanti and learned that Chen Mu had already handled Thanos's threat in Universe 3.
• Chen Mu warned Defender Strange that Dreamwalking between their worlds could cause their timelines to collide and destroy one or both universes.
• Chen Mu showed Defender Strange a video of Captain Carter and the Illuminati discussing sacrificing another world to protect their own.
• Defender Strange grew furious at the Illuminati for planning to destroy his world after he had helped them.
• Chen Mu promised to reconfigure both timelines and keep both worlds safe, relieving Defender Strange.

Chen Mu acquired the Book of the Vishanti and explained to Defender Strange how his uniqueness could give two colliding worlds unpredictable futures. He planned to meet America and establish magic schools in China, leaving Doctor Strange astonished by his methods.

• Chen Mu criticized the Illuminati’s self-righteous defense of choosing their own world and began analyzing the Book of the Vishanti.
• Chen Mu told Defender Strange he would stay to resolve the timeline crisis by making both worlds’ futures unpredictable through his uniqueness.
• Defender Strange told Chen Mu about America, a girl with the ability to travel between worlds who had visited more than seventy worlds.
• After returning to the Earth Universe with Doctor Strange and Apple, Chen Mu said he would meet America and establish magic schools in China.
• Chen Mu asked Doctor Strange and Kamar-Taj to teach at the schools, and showed him how official backing and student modification could make magical education flourish.

After analyzing the Book of the Vishanti, Chen Mu learned how the gods became divine and concluded that Kamar-Taj’s borrowed-power system kept its mages from reaching godhood. He felt reassured that Chinese Magic Schools emphasized self-cultivation, leaving the story with apprentices able to choose between cultivating their own power and borrowing it.

• Chen Mu read that Oshtur, Agamotto, and Hoggoth formed the Vishanti and became immensely powerful gods.
• Chen Mu concluded that becoming a god required cultivating energy until it transformed, while borrowing the Vishanti’s power limited mages’ potential.
• Chen Mu judged Kamar-Taj’s system to be a trap that kept its followers dependent on the Vishanti.
• Chen Mu noted that Ancient One secretly borrowed power from the Dark Dimension to extend her life, while ordinary Kamar-Taj mages relied on the Vishanti.
• Chen Mu was relieved that Chinese Magic Schools taught both borrowed magic and self-cultivation, and that most apprentices chose the latter.

Chen Mu helped Universe Four’s China develop its magic schools and cosmic technology while warning Defender Strange that Vishanti’s magic kept mages dependent and limited their potential. Defender Strange accepted the concern, and Chen Mu planned to bring America to China for safety.

• Chen Mu decided that borrowing Vishanti’s magic without repaying it was justified and resolved to warn magic students against becoming gods’ followers.
• Defender Strange told Chen Mu that the Magic Schools were being built smoothly, and Chen Mu approved using the Mirror Dimension and the Time Stone to accelerate training.
• Chen Mu gave Defender Strange the Vishanti God Book and urged him to reduce Vishanti’s influence so Chinese mages would not remain dependent on gods.
• Defender Strange read the book and understood that Vishanti’s magic limited mages’ power and lifespan, while Chen Mu encouraged him to pursue Chinese citizenship.
• Defender Strange returned the book and offered to take Chen Mu to meet America, whom he planned to move from New York to China for safety.

Doctor Strange brought America to meet Chen Mu and explained her uncontrolled multiverse-traversal ability and painful past. Chen Mu offered to replace her power with Blink’s portal-opening ability, and America agreed.

• Doctor Strange introduced America to Chen Mu and explained that her uncontrolled ability sent her between worlds.
• America described her original world and said her power had caused her to lose her two mothers.
• Chen Mu asked whether America wanted to give up her ability, which she called a curse.
• Chen Mu offered to exchange her traversal power for Blink’s ability to open portals.
• America accepted Chen Mu’s offer.

Chen Mu exchanged America’s uncontrollable Traversal Ability for Blink’s portal power and enhanced her body. America left for her school in the United States, while Chen Mu gained the ability he wanted.

• Chen Mu used the Tablet of Life to remove America’s Traversal Ability, give her Blink’s portal power, and strengthen her body.
• America asked whether her new abilities could get her into the Avengers, and Chen Mu and Doctor Strange said her strength could help, but acceptance depended on her character.
• America opened a portal to her school in the United States and left without looking back.
• Doctor Strange thought America had traded away a more valuable ability, while Chen Mu was satisfied that he had obtained the power he wanted.

After the system analyzed America’s Traversal Ability, it unlocked a multiverse-travel function for Chen Mu. He tested it by traveling to Pacific Rim, leaving behind a communicator and a note.

• Doctor Strange questioned Chen Mu about helping America give up her Traversal Ability, but Chen Mu said it had been her choice.
• Doctor Strange left to teach magic in China, while Chen Mu examined the system’s new traversal function.
• Chen Mu learned that America’s ability reached worlds within Marvel but could not be granted to others, and that his own ability was only a temporary seal on hers.
• The system found Pacific Rim, and Chen Mu opened a portal to that world.
• Chen Mu left a communicator and a note before stepping through the portal to evade Apple and Xu Jia.

Chen Mu arrived in the Pacific Rim world above Sydney and tested how his technology and magic worked there. He spotted a Kaiju attacking the Wall of Life and watched as the city began to evacuate.

• Chen Mu emerged from a portal above Sydney and found that his technological abilities still worked, while magic required mana or energy converted from another source.
• Chen Mu used an Arc Reactor to confirm that he could convert its energy into mana.
• Chen Mu recalled that the Precursors sent Kaiju through a Pacific Ocean portal and became interested in seeing the monsters and Jaegers firsthand.
• Chen Mu spotted a Kaiju swimming toward Sydney and saw that the city relied on the Wall of Life rather than Jaegers.
• The Kaiju attacked the Wall of Life, making it sway, while Sydney residents fled and Chen Mu watched.

Chen Mu watched Eureka Striker defeat the Category 4 monster Virus in Sydney, then appeared inside the Jaeger’s cockpit and asked its pilots to take him to their base in Hong Kong. The Hansen father and son agreed and piloted Eureka Striker back to humanity’s last remaining Jaeger base.

• Chen Mu assessed Virus as a powerful but slow land fighter and watched it break through the Wall of Life and destroy Sydney.
• Eureka Striker arrived and fought Virus, eventually killing it with a punch and high-explosive missiles.
• Chen Mu watched the battle and judged both the Jaeger and monster weak compared with his Xingtian Armor, though he enjoyed their close combat.
• After Eureka Striker detected something nearby, Chen Mu opened a portal into its cockpit and analyzed the Jaeger and its neural interface.
• The Hansen father and son asked Chen Mu who he was, and he called himself a passerby and asked them to take him to their base.
• The Hansen father and son piloted Eureka Striker toward the last remaining Jaeger base in Hong Kong, China.

Chen Mu arrived at the Hong Kong Jaeger base after a satellite detected life energy above the Category 5 threshold. He introduced himself to General Panthe as a Chinese mage, leaving the base uncertain about his origins and power.

• Eureka Striker defeated a virus, but a satellite scan detected an immense life signal near the battle site.
• General Panthe ordered the area rescanned, triggering an alarm that classified the signal as a possible Category 5 monster.
• Hansen father and son reported finding Chen Mu beside Eureka Striker's cockpit and relayed his request to visit the base.
• Chen Mu opened a portal from Eureka Striker's cockpit and stepped through to the base's landing pad, with Hansen father and son following him.
• General Panthe greeted Chen Mu, who called himself a passing Chinese mage and said they only needed to know he was human.

Chen Mu entered the Shatterdome and announced that he came from another world to help China, then decided to take Crimson Typhoon with him. He vanished the Jaeger with a snap of his fingers, leaving General Panthe and the Wei Brothers stunned.

• Chen Mu opened a portal into the Shatterdome and analyzed the Jaegers while General Panthe hurried after him.
• Chen Mu told General Panthe that he came from China in another world and planned to stay in China, whether General Panthe believed him or not.
• Chen Mu chose Crimson Typhoon and asked for its pilots, the Wei Brothers, to come along.
• General Panthe described Crimson Typhoon and warned Chen Mu that taking it was impossible without its pilots.
• Chen Mu snapped his fingers and made Crimson Typhoon disappear, shocking General Panthe and the Wei Brothers.

Chen Mu took Crimson Typhoon from the Shatterdome and upgraded it, then met with China's leaders and learned that they wanted to help other countries fight the Kaiju. He refused to support other nations but allowed China to use the modified Jaeger if it chose to do so.

• Chen Mu used mental magic to silence General Panthe and took Crimson Typhoon, bringing the Wei Brothers through a portal to China's capital.
• General Panthe ordered his staff to contact China and began considering a search for Gipsy Danger's pilots.
• Chen Mu demonstrated his abilities and the Dimensional Gate to China's leaders, gaining their trust.
• Wei Xiang urged Chen Mu to help other countries fight Kaiju, explaining that portals could let Jaegers respond quickly.
• Chen Mu refused to help other countries but revealed that Xiao Hong had been upgraded and said China could still send it to support them.

Chen Mu finished upgrading Crimson Typhoon and returned it to the Wei brothers, who were stunned by its new capabilities. He left the mech ready to defend the Pacific Rift against the monsters.

• The Wei brothers realized Chen Mu meant to return Crimson Typhoon, and they were delighted to get their mech back.
• Chen Mu explained that he had replaced Crimson Typhoon’s power systems with two Arc Reactors, upgraded its materials, and increased its weight to ten thousand tons.
• The Wei brothers questioned how such a heavy mech could move and fight, and Chen Mu revealed that it could fly at supersonic speed using antigravity technology.
• Chen Mu clarified that the upgrades used technology rather than magic and said Crimson Typhoon could now withstand monster attacks and guard the Dimensional Rift alone.

Chen Mu demonstrated that his upgraded AI-assisted neural-link system let one pilot operate Crimson Typhoon without strain, and Wei Hu tested it successfully. After warning the triplets that the Precursors’ attacks might not be accidental, Chen Mu took them toward Hong Kong to intercept two approaching Category 4 monsters.

• Chen Mu brought the three brothers into Crimson Typhoon’s cockpit and explained that AI assistance enabled single-pilot and unmanned operation.
• The three brothers volunteered to test the new system, and Chen Mu chose Wei Hu to pilot Crimson Typhoon back to the Hong Kong Shatterdome base.
• Wei Hu operated Crimson Typhoon easily and praised the system for reducing the burden on pilots.
• Chen Mu told the brothers that the Dimensional Rift and monster attacks might be part of a deliberate alien invasion, but said they need not worry while he was there.
• Chen Mu learned that two Category 4 monsters were heading toward Hong Kong and opened a portal so he and the others could go there, with Wei Hu guiding Crimson Typhoon through.

After Newt drifted with a monster’s brain, he told General Panthe that the Precursors had cloned the monsters to exterminate humanity and had returned to Earth because its environment had changed. With two Category 4 monsters approaching and the Jaeger Program short on resources, the chapter ended as Chen Mu and the Wei Brothers arrived through a portal.

• Newt told General Panthe that the monsters were cloned advance troops sent by the Precursors, who had returned to Earth after its environment became suitable for them.
• General Panthe ordered Newt to drift again and gave him a business card for Zhou, a black-market dealer who might have an intact monster brain.
• General Panthe revealed that the Jaeger Program lacked funding and that two Category 4 monsters had appeared near the Dimensional Rift.
• General Panthe learned that Crimson Typhoon had returned and was told it had appeared on the deck.
• Chen Mu stepped through a portal with the Wei Brothers and said they were already there.

Chen Mu arrived at the Hong Kong base as two Category 4 monsters approached, and warned General Panthe that Newt’s Drift had exposed humanity’s Jaeger weaknesses to the Precursors. General Panthe rushed to alert the pilots before the monsters made contact.

• General Panthe asked Chen Mu to let the Wei Brothers pilot Crimson Typhoon in support of the Jaegers facing the approaching monsters.
• Newt asked Chen Mu about magic, then revealed that he had Drifted with a monster and learned the Precursors had created the monsters to destroy humanity.
• Chen Mu pointed out that Drift shared memories in both directions, so the Precursors had learned humanity’s plans as well as its defenses.
• Chen Mu warned that Newt’s knowledge of the Jaegers’ weaknesses could let the Precursors target their cockpits and other vulnerabilities.
• General Panthe hurried to the command room to warn the Jaeger pilots before they engaged the monsters.

General Panthe watched the Jaegers struggle against Leatherback and Otachi, while Chen Mu sent Wei Hu to reinforce them in the upgraded Crimson Typhoon. Crimson Typhoon arrived just as Leatherback was about to finish off the disabled Eureka Striker.

• General Panthe learned that the three Jaegers were at a disadvantage against Leatherback and Otachi, and Chen Mu agreed to send Wei Hu to help.
• Chen Mu opened a portal for Wei Hu to enter Crimson Typhoon, which took off and flew toward the battlefield at supersonic speed.
• Otachi's electromagnetic pulse disabled Eureka Striker, and Leatherback charged to attack it.
• Crimson Typhoon struck Leatherback and sent it flying, saving Eureka Striker.