Chapter Summaries

Chen Mu and China's forces defeated Thanos and the Black Order, and Chen Mu took three Infinity Stones from Thanos's gauntlet. With Universe Six's affairs settled, Chen Mu prepared to return to his own world while China joined Multivariate China's interworld exchanges.

• Thanos tried to leave peacefully, then offered his army as a vanguard when Chen Mu refused to let him go.
• Chen Mu ordered He Chenguang and the soldiers to capture Thanos and the Black Order, who were quickly subdued.
• Chen Mu took three stones from Thanos's Infinity Gauntlet and explained that China had handled its own conflict.
• Chen Mu told He Chenguang to manage the captives and encouraged the newly joined China to exchange knowledge with other Chinas.
• Chen Mu said he had matters to handle back home and prepared to return through the Dimensional Gate.

After returning to Universe Zero with three more Infinity Stones, Chen Mu installed all six in the Heavenly Court’s prepared device, which he planned to use for cross-world transport and strikes. He returned to Earth to find his parents traveling through space and China’s people roaming the universe, then got a call from Tony inviting him for a drink.

• Chen Mu returned to Universe Zero with three Infinity Stones and planned to use all six to power the Heavenly Court’s Heavenly Ladder transport system and Divine Retribution weapon.
• Chen Mu placed the Stones inside the nearly half-completed Heavenly Court and considered using Uatu’s space as its future base.
• Chen Mu returned to Earth and learned from his father’s message that his parents were traveling to other planets.
• Chen Mu reflected on how China’s citizens were using spaceships to seek resources and explore the universe, while robots and foreign workers handled most jobs on Earth.
• Tony called Chen Mu and invited him for a drink.

As America collapsed into violence and fragmentation, Tony told Chen Mu that attempts to save the country had failed and that ordinary people were suffering amid shootings and police brutality. Fed up with the country, Tony asked Chen Mu to take him to another world where no one knew him.

• Chen Mu visited a haggard, drinking Tony, who said America was beyond saving.
• Tony explained that more than a dozen states had left America and that Steve Rogers and the Winter Soldier had failed to rebuild the military.
• Tony described a bullied student using a Hammer Industries children's rifle to kill classmates at a New York school.
• Tony told Chen Mu that police had shot and killed a person who had tried to commit suicide.
• Tony asked Chen Mu to take him to another world, while Chen Mu noted that Tony was already a prospective Chinese citizen.

Chen Mu invited Tony to join China and explained the Reincarnation Hall Plan, which would send squads to other worlds on missions for Contribution Points. Tony formally became Chinese and learned that China planned to expand across countless worlds.

• Chen Mu explained that China's nearly completed world-discovery machine would support the Reincarnation Hall Plan by finding worlds in Marvel's multiverse.
• Chen Mu asked Tony if he was ready to officially join China, and Tony accepted, saying he had already lost his American citizenship.
• Chen Mu told Tony that Contribution Points, earned through missions, would matter more than money in China.
• Chen Mu explained that Heaven Court's Reincarnation Hall would open to Chinese citizens in a year, allowing them to take missions in other worlds.
• Tony was stunned by the scope of China's plans and felt reassured that joining China had been the right choice.

Chen Mu explained that China explored other worlds to build Multivariate China through cooperation, not to seize resources, prompting Tony to reflect on how technology should serve humanity. Tony arranged to bring his loved ones to China before joining Chen Mu on a trip to another world.

• Tony questioned whether China could manage all the worlds it explored, and Chen Mu explained that China sought cooperation rather than conquest or resources.
• Chen Mu told Tony that China was searching for Chinese people across worlds to build Multivariate China and develop together.
• Tony reflected on how his weapons had caused suffering and recognized that his plans for a robot army conflicted with his belief that technology should serve humanity.
• Chen Mu told Tony to recycle his robot army, then asked when they could leave for another world.
• Tony said he would leave after arranging for Little Pepper, Happy, and May to go to China, and Chen Mu agreed they could go whenever they wanted.

Deadpool visited a Chinese comic exhibition and discovered that another cosplayer was using his appearance to grope women. After the bootleg Deadpool shared his shameless tactics, a call for security drew a crowd and he rushed to watch.

• Deadpool bought sweet douhua from a Guangzhou vendor and headed to a crowded comic exhibition.
• Deadpool admired the cosplayers and criticized their portrayals of Marvel characters.
• Deadpool saw a bootleg cosplayer dressed as him flirt with women, take photos, and grope them.
• The bootleg Deadpool advised Deadpool that shamelessness and grabbing women’s buttocks were part of portraying the character.
• Someone called for security, and the bootleg Deadpool ran toward the commotion.

Deadpool was recruited by Zhou Minghui to infiltrate the De Bao laboratory and retrieve evidence linking it to the virus. After accepting the mission for a million RMB and an apartment, Deadpool used his portal to enter the facility, landing in a bat-breeding chamber where infected bats attacked him.

• Zhou Minghui mistook a Deadpool cosplayer for Deadpool and briefed him on the mission to expose De Bao.
• Zhou Minghui offered Deadpool a million RMB and an apartment in exchange for completing the mission, and Deadpool accepted.
• China returned Deadpool’s multifunctional wristband, and he opened a portal to the laboratory.
• Deadpool emerged in a chamber full of virus-carrying bats, which swarmed and bit him.

Deadpool infiltrated Fort Detrick, copied its research data, and stole paper files from President Trump's study. He escaped the FBI through a portal, leaving his draft Party Membership Application behind.

• Deadpool broke into Fort Detrick's laboratory and copied its data while alarms summoned armed guards.
• Deadpool used virus-carrying bats to scatter the guards, then killed the security captain after the captain shot him.
• Deadpool tossed a grenade into the laboratory and escaped through a portal to President Trump's residence.
• Deadpool found and stored the paper documents, then drafted a Party Membership Application in Trump's study.
• The FBI surrounded and searched the estate, but Deadpool escaped through another portal and left the application behind.

Chen Mu took Tony to the Heavenly Court space city and showed him how China connected and cooperated across worlds. They prepared to travel somewhere Tony would be unknown, and the system found the world of Wandering Earth.

• Chen Mu brought Tony to the Heavenly Court space station, where Tony was amazed by its size and location near the Asteroid Belt.
• Chen Mu explained how magic helped China build the space city and described the South Heaven Gate Project and its lunar and Martian bases.
• Chen Mu showed Tony the Reception Hall, where Chinese people from different worlds could communicate and travel between worlds.
• Chen Mu prepared to take Tony through a portal to another world, and the system found Wandering Earth.

Chen Mu and Tony traveled through a Dimensional Gate to a frozen Shanghai in the Wandering Earth world, where they discovered that humanity was still alive and trying to escape the dying Sun. The chapter leaves them learning about the Wandering Earth Project as Jarvis reports that an advanced program has blocked his network access.

• Chen Mu told Tony to wear his armor before they traveled to the Wandering Earth world.
• Tony showed off his Nano Armor, then followed Chen Mu through the Dimensional Gate.
• Chen Mu and Tony arrived in a frozen Shanghai, where Tony recognized the buried Shanghai Pearl.
• Tony used Jarvis to connect to the network and discovered that people still survived on Earth.
• Chen Mu explained that the Sun was becoming a red giant and humanity had built ten thousand Planetary Engines to push Earth out of its orbit.
• Jarvis reported that an advanced intelligent program had blocked his access to the network.

Chen Mu and Tony arrived in the Wandering Earth world, where Chen Mu explained that ordinary people—not Super Heroes—saved the world. After an earthquake threatened a rescue convoy, they stepped in to help and met its captain, Wang Lei.

• Tony questioned whether the world had Super Heroes, and Chen Mu explained that everyone could be a hero there.
• Chen Mu confirmed that the Time Stone worked in this world, while the other five Infinity Stones retained only their energy-source trait.
• Chen Mu spotted a convoy approaching and decided to meet its people, but a massive earthquake struck before they could reach it.
• Tony rushed to save the convoy, and Chen Mu used a portal to remove a falling block of ice threatening a transport vehicle.
• The earthquake stopped, and Wang Lei introduced himself as the captain of the CN171-11 rescue team and asked Chen Mu and Tony who they were.

Chen Mu and Tony met Wang Qi’s rescue team and revealed that they came from another world. As the team planned to carry an ignition stone to restart Hangzhou’s Planetary Engine, they learned that magma had seeped into Hangzhou Underground City Number One, where Wang Lei’s family was trapped.

• Wang Qi asked Chen Mu and Tony who they were, and Chen Mu said he came from China in another world.
• Tony and Chen Mu learned that the rescue team was trapped by collapsed roads and needed to deliver an ignition stone to Hangzhou Base.
• Zhou Qian proposed using the elevator shafts of nearby high-rises to reach the ice surface, and Wang Lei chose the Oriental Pearl Tower as their route.
• Wang Lei explained that the ignition stone restarted a Planetary Engine, while Tony asked what it was.
• A soldier reported that magma had seeped into Hangzhou Underground City Number One, and Wang Lei realized his wife and daughter were in danger.

Wang Lei and the rescue team hurried to deliver the Fire Stone to Hangzhou Underground City Number One, where magma threatened two hundred thousand people. Chen Mu used a spell to bring the group and the Fire Stone out of the fissure, then decided he would try to save everyone in this united world after contacting its United Government.

• Wang Lei insisted on carrying out the mission after Zhou Qian explained that magma had seeped into Hangzhou Underground City Number One and contact with it had been lost.
• Tony offered to help, then lifted the three-ton Fire Stone and flew toward the surface.
• Tony emerged to find Wang Lei and the others already on the ice, and realized Chen Mu had used a portal to bring them up.
• The group guessed that Chen Mu had made the portal, and he explained that they could think of it as a spell.
• Chen Mu recognized that humanity in this world had united under the United Government and decided to use the Time Stone to save everyone after making contact with the government.

Chen Mu told Han Zi'ang, Han Duoduo, Liu Qi, and the rescue team that everyone would survive and Earth would be restored, though Liu Qi doubted him. He opened a portal to Hangzhou, where they saw that Underground City Number One had been destroyed.

• Han Zi'ang introduced his grandchildren, Han Duoduo and Liu Qi, and asked Chen Mu to protect them.
• Chen Mu said everyone would survive and Earth would return to how it was, while explaining that he planned to turn the United Government into China.
• Liu Qi called Chen Mu a fraud and argued with Han Duoduo about whether gods existed.
• Zhou Qian warned that the rescue team needed to deliver the ignition core to Hangzhou Base, but Chen Mu opened a portal there instead.
• Chen Mu and the others saw that Hangzhou Underground City Number One had been destroyed beneath a lake of magma.

After the Hangzhou Planetary Engine was destroyed and Wang Lei learned that his family had died, Chen Mu promised that the victims would be resurrected later. Wang Lei resumed the rescue mission, and Tony offered to help transport the ignition stone to another engine in need.

• Wang Lei saw that the Hangzhou Underground City had been destroyed, mourned his dead family, and insisted that the mission could still be completed.
• Zhou Qian and the rescue team stopped Wang Lei from trying to deliver the ignition stone to the ruined engine, and he begged Chen Mu for help.
• Chen Mu told Wang Lei and Liu Qi that the victims would be resurrected, but said he would wait until he could turn back time across Earth.
• Wang Lei explained that earthquakes had shut down seventy percent of Earth's engines and ordered the team to find another rescue mission.
• Tony placed the ignition stone in his spatial storage bracelet and volunteered to help the rescue team.

Chen Mu left the rescue team to approach the United Government with his demands, while Tony and the others continued toward a nearby distress signal. They found a crashed aircraft and rescued a survivor from a transport vehicle.

• Tony and Tim traded remarks about magic, nationality, and reincarnation while Zhou Qian checked the public channel for rescue requests.
• Zhou Qian found a nearby distress signal from a transport vehicle, and Tony agreed to help the survivors.
• Chen Mu opened a portal to the Navigator Space Station to present his demands to the United Government, leaving Tony with the rescue team.
• Tony, Tim, Liu Qi, and the others followed the rescue team through a portal to a crashed aircraft and marveled at its size.
• The rescue team entered the transport vehicle, rescued someone, and called Tony and Tim over.

Tony, Tim, and the rescue team joined Li Yiyi on a mission to deliver an ignition stone to Sulawesi and restart its steering engine. Tony demonstrated his armor and portal magic, but Li Yiyi stayed focused on the mission as they headed toward the Singapore supply station.

• Li Yiyi explained that the team needed to restart the Sulawesi No. 3 Steering Engine using the vehicle’s ignition stone.
• Tony revealed that he had visited Sulawesi before and could open a portal, then used his Nano Armor to create one that brought the team to Singapore.
• Li Yiyi checked their location and directed the team to refuel at the Singapore supply station before continuing to Sulawesi.
• Tony explained that his portal was space magic, while Li Yiyi asked why he had not opened it directly in Sulawesi.
• Wang Lei told Li Yiyi that Tony came from another world, but Li Yiyi remained focused on delivering the ignition stone.

Tony offered to deliver a firestone to the Sulawesi Engine, hoping to prove that Super Heroes were needed, but the engines restarted before he could depart. The rescue succeeded through other convoys, leaving Tony stranded in the air after promising everyone good news.

• Tony revealed that he had another firestone in his storage space, and Wang Lei explained that its previous drivers had sacrificed themselves to protect it.
• Tony offered to fly the firestone to Sulawesi, and Han Zi'ang detached the trailer so Tony could store and carry it.
• Tony told everyone to wait for his good news and prepared to fly toward Sulawesi.
• The steering engines along the equator restarted after other convoys delivered firestones, prompting Li Yiyi and the others to celebrate.
• Tony hovered awkwardly when he realized the rescue had succeeded without his help.

Tony and Li Yiyi discussed the Planetary Engines and each found the other’s technology unscientific. Their argument ended when they realized Jupiter was still drawing closer to Earth, meaning the rescue had failed.

• Tony landed and questioned how the Planetary Engines could push Earth without causing earthquakes or destroying its crust.
• Li Yiyi explained that the engines used heavy-element nuclear fusion and rocks as fuel, astonishing Tony.
• Li Yiyi challenged the physics of Tony’s armor, and the two traded questions about each other’s seemingly impossible technology.
• Tony and Li Yiyi noticed Jupiter growing closer and checked the distance between the planets.
• Li Yiyi reported that the Earth-Jupiter distance was still shrinking, and he and Tony concluded that the rescue had failed.

Tony and Li Yiyi watched Earth continue to fall toward Jupiter despite the engines restarting, while Moss announced that humanity had lost its last chance and would begin the Seed Plan. As Earth’s destruction seemed imminent, Liu Qi recalled his father’s words about Jupiter and asked Li Yiyi whether Earth’s atmosphere could ignite after mixing with Jupiter’s surface.

• Tony and Li Yiyi realized that the restarted Planetary Engines could not overcome Jupiter’s gravity, and Jarvis calculated that Earth would soon be torn apart.
• Moss broadcast that Earth had missed its final chance to escape and announced the Seed Plan aboard Navigator Space Station.
• Lao He and Liu Qi mourned Earth’s coming destruction as Moss urged everyone to spend their final days with family.
• Tony told Liu Qi not to be pessimistic because he believed Chen Mu would not let nearly a billion Chinese people die without acting.
• Liu Qi asked Li Yiyi whether Jupiter’s surface could ignite after mixing with Earth’s atmosphere, reviving a glimmer of hope in Li Yiyi.