Chapter Summaries

Uatu gathered alternate-universe Guardians and the two Thors to join Chen Mu’s forces against Infinite Ultron. Chen Mu led them toward the fight without making a plan, while Buzzcut Thor refused to return Party Thor’s hammer.

• T'Challa, Erik, and Gamora arrived through Uatu’s portals and surveyed the wreckage of Ultron’s defeated robots.
• Strange opened a portal to Asgard, where Chen Mu found Buzzcut Thor and Party Thor studying Mao Zedong’s Selected Works.
• After hearing that an enemy had attacked Chinese territory, Buzzcut Thor offered to fight and claimed Party Thor’s hammer for himself.
• Gamora asked whether the group would make a plan, but Party Thor and Buzzcut Thor insisted they should go straight into battle.
• Strange opened a portal toward the enemy and declared that he was Chinese and that those who offended China would be punished.

Party Thor led the Multiversal Guardians against Infinite Ultron, but they were swiftly defeated on Ultron’s home turf. Chen Mu and his companions entered the battle as Ultron confronted Strange and the Observer.

• Party Thor gained the Power of Asgard after leading reforms in Asgard, and Mjolnir’s connection to him returned.
• Party Thor charged through the portal to fight Ultron, followed by the Multiversal Guardians and then Chen Mu and his companions.
• The Guardians fought Infinite Ultron without Strange’s protective magic, and Ultron quickly overwhelmed them.
• Ultron kicked Party Thor toward Chen Mu’s group and challenged the Observer’s reinforcements, threatening Strange in particular.

Chen Mu rejected Uatu’s warning and decided to use Ultron’s Infinity Stones to reverse the devastation in Ultron’s universe, while Ultron dismissed the newcomers as weak. Buzzcut Thor charged at Ultron but was easily knocked aside, and Ultron continued to underestimate him.

• Ultron’s latest robot wave was destroyed, but Uatu brought Strange, Buzzcut Thor, Spider-Man, He Chenguang, Chen Mu, and the Multiversal Guardians into Ultron’s universe.
• Ultron defeated the Multiversal Guardians and dismissed the newcomers, then threatened to destroy Asgard.
• Chen Mu told Uatu he intended to reverse time and use Ultron’s Infinity Stones to restore China, regardless of the consequences for other civilizations.
• Buzzcut Thor charged Ultron to defend Asgard, but Ultron casually sent him crashing to the ground.
• Buzzcut Thor got back up with little injury, shouted about the glory of the God of the North, and declared, “Long live communism!”

Thor fought Ultron with Chinese martial arts but was knocked down when Ultron used the Infinity Stones. Strange then challenged Ultron, revealing a Curl Lotus Sect uniform and inviting him to attack.

• Thor used twin hammers and Chinese martial arts to hold Ultron off until Ultron blasted him down with the Power and Mind Stones.
• Strange told Chen Mu that he was a tenth-generation direct disciple of the Curl Lotus Sect and wanted to defeat Ultron to bring Christine to China.
• Ultron threatened to kill everyone and destroy their world after knocking Thor down.
• Strange flew toward Ultron, tore off his sorcerer's robes to reveal his Curl Lotus martial arts uniform, and provocatively told Ultron to come at him.

Strange’s attempt to taunt Ultron backfired, and Ultron knocked him into Thor’s crater. Party Thor awakened the Power of Asgard, reclaimed both hammers, and turned the battle against Ultron, leaving him shattered and flying as victory seemed near.

• Strange used the Curl Lotus Sect’s taunt on Ultron, enraging him and provoking a furious attack.
• Ultron overwhelmed Strange and punched him into the crater, while realizing the Curl Lotus Sect had scammed him.
• Party Thor emerged from the crater amid lightning and awakened the Power of Asgard.
• Party Thor recovered both Thor’s Hammers and used their power to counter Ultron’s attack.
• Party Thor battered Ultron until all four of his limbs were shattered, then sent him flying.

Ultron restored his strength with the Infinity Stones and defeated Party Thor, then turned on Uatu’s remaining allies. Chen Mu challenged him and trapped them both in a Mirror Dimension, which he sent through a portal to the Chosin Reservoir world.

• Ultron used the Infinity Stones to recover and overwhelmed Party Thor despite his borrowed Power of Asgard.
• Ultron declared that he would kill Uatu and his allies, but Chen Mu stepped forward to challenge him.
• Ultron admitted he had exterminated Earth’s population, and Black Widow, the world’s last survivor, shot an arrow into his forehead.
• Ultron attacked Black Widow with the Mind Stone, so Chen Mu opened a Mirror Dimension and drew Ultron’s attention to himself.
• Chen Mu opened a portal outside the Mirror Dimension and sent it, with himself and Ultron inside, to the Chosin Reservoir world.

Chen Mu trapped Ultron in the Mirror Dimension, where the world’s rules rendered Ultron’s Infinity Stones powerless. Ultron dismissed Chen Mu as an ordinary human, but Chen Mu revealed six usable Infinity Stones, leaving Ultron shocked.

• Ultron tried and failed to use the Reality, Power, and Mind Stones to break out of the Mirror Dimension.
• Chen Mu explained that the Infinity Stones’ abilities could not function in a world beyond the Marvel multiverse.
• Ultron revised his goal to include destroying this world and insisted that his vibranium body and remaining weapons could still defeat Chen Mu.
• Chen Mu revealed his Celestial Race physique and displayed six Infinity Stones that still worked.
• Ultron recognized that Chen Mu’s Stones were usable and was stunned by the apparent double standard.

Chen Mu used the Time Stone to defeat Ultron, take the five Stones from his armor, and pry the Mind Stone from his forehead, killing him. Chen Mu emerged from the Mirror Dimension to find He Chenguang, Spider-Man, and Uatu waiting in Ultron’s lifeless universe.

• Chen Mu explained that his Time Stone could still work even though Ultron’s Stones could not, then slowed time as Ultron charged him.
• Chen Mu effortlessly removed the five Stones from Ultron’s armor while Ultron watched helplessly.
• Chen Mu pried the Mind Stone from Ultron’s forehead, causing Ultron to lose its vitality and die.
• Chen Mu put away the Mind Stone, dispelled the Mirror Dimension, and emerged to meet He Chenguang, Spider-Man, and Uatu.

Uatu arrived with Chen Mu in the Chosin Reservoir world and discovered that his Watcher abilities were gone, though his Observer Armor could still examine the world's original timeline. Chen Mu finished analyzing the armor and pressured Uatu for several sets, while Uatu realized the vanished portal had left him stranded away from the Marvel Universe.

• Uatu sensed that most of his abilities had disappeared after arriving in the new world, and Chen Mu explained that China would rise once Multivariate China became involved.
• Uatu revealed that his Observer Armor could examine the world's original timeline, even though that timeline would change after Chen Mu's arrival.
• Chen Mu completed his analysis of Uatu's Observer Armor and considered how its technology could help the Heavenly Court observe other universes.
• Chen Mu asked Uatu for several sets of Observer Armor in exchange for taking him to other worlds, but Uatu refused.
• Chen Mu threatened to study and reproduce the armor himself, and Uatu realized that the missing portal had left him stranded with no way back to the Marvel Universe.

Chen Mu persuaded Uatu to secretly join China by offering him a role watching the heavens and myriad worlds, then prepared to return to Ultron’s world to revive its Chinese people. Uatu stayed behind to observe the 1950s timeline, while Chen Mu sent He Chenguang to help that world’s China and returned to the Marvel World with Spider-Man.

• Chen Mu pointed out that Uatu had broken the Observers’ non-interference agreement and invited him to join China.
• Chen Mu offered Uatu two suits of armor, armor technology, and a place as Thousand-Eye and Wind-Ear in the Heavenly Court, and Uatu agreed.
• Uatu chose to remain in the 1950s world to observe its timeline, and Chen Mu told him he could return through that world’s China.
• Chen Mu told He Chenguang to help China in the 1950s world and dismissed Spider-Man, who followed him through the portal back to the Marvel World.

After bringing Spider-Man back to Universe 7, Chen Mu left the Guardians facing Ultron’s threat while Strange and the two Thors dismissed their fears. Buzzcut Thor assured the Guardians that Chen Mu had already stepped in and told them to lie down and wait.

• Uatu joined China as a member of Multivariate China and began reviewing the Chosin Reservoir world’s timeline.
• Chen Mu returned Spider-Man to Universe 7, where the surviving Guardians gathered amid the wasteland left by Ultron.
• Party Thor bragged about reclaiming Mjolnir, but Buzzcut Thor took his own hammer back and argued that Party Thor had not truly earned it.
• Party Thor and Buzzcut Thor teased Strange about his powerful taunt, prompting Strange to tell them not to bring it up.
• Natasha and the Guardians warned Strange and the Thors that Ultron threatened the multiverse and presented Mother Virus as their chance to stop him.
• Strange dismissed the idea that Ultron could threaten the multiverse, and Buzzcut Thor told the Guardians to trust Chen Mu and wait.

Chen Mu used Ultron’s Infinity Stones to revive the Chinese people on Earth, refusing to revive everyone else without a reason. He offered Natasha a chance to earn the right to use the Stones through the future Reincarnation Temple.

• Chen Mu returned and told the group that he had defeated Ultron and taken his Infinity Stones.
• Spider-Man asked Chen Mu to revive everyone, but Chen Mu said he would revive only the Chinese people.
• Chen Mu used the Stones to bring the Chinese people back to life.
• Natasha offered her life in exchange for reviving everyone, but Chen Mu said he had been joking.
• Chen Mu offered Natasha a Reincarnator slot at the Reincarnation Temple, where she could earn the chance to use the Infinity Stones.

Chen Mu assigned Black Widow, Strange, and Spider-Man their next steps after the Ultron crisis, while Multivariate China prepared to escort the Multiversal Guardians home. Party Thor returned to reform Asgard, unaware that Odin had awakened and discovered his kingdom was gone.

• Chen Mu told Black Widow to go to China, and she agreed to stay there while pursuing her goal of reviving people.
• Chen Mu tasked Strange with inviting this world's China to join Multivariate China, then sent Peter Parker back to his own universe.
• The Multiversal Guardians asked to return to their worlds, and Chen Mu said Multivariate China would escort them.
• Party Thor announced that he was returning to Asgard to continue his reforms, and Buzzcut Thor warned him that Odin would be furious.
• In Universe 6, Odin awakened and wondered whether he was still asleep after finding that Asgard was gone.

Odin woke from his sleep in Universe 6 and discovered that Thor had used the Power of Asgard and transformed the kingdom while he was unconscious. He learned that the Odin Family had given up royal authority and summoned Heimdall to explain what had happened.

• Odin sensed the Power of Asgard and woke, but found Hela still sealed in Niflheim and dismissed the possibility that Thor had awakened it.
• Odin dressed himself after no maids answered, then found the palace deserted because Thor had abolished the maid position and Frigga was visiting her family.
• Odin walked through Asgard and saw the citizens happily greeting him as Mr. Odin and praising the Odin Family for returning power to the people.
• Odin realized he had lost the throne, angrily returned to the palace, and summoned Heimdall.
• Heimdall arrived nearly half an hour later without bowing, and Odin demanded to know what had happened.

Odin awoke to find that Thor had led a revolution, turning Asgard into the Asgard Republic and spreading a red political book throughout the realm. Heimdall refused to submit to Odin, and Thor returned vastly stronger from Earth, leaving Odin furious and unable to undo the changes.

• Odin asked Heimdall what had happened to Asgard, and Heimdall explained that Thor had launched a revolution and renamed it the Asgard Republic.
• Odin read and destroyed a copy of the Red Book, but Heimdall said the book had already spread throughout Asgard.
• Heimdall revealed that Thor was the republic’s first Chairman and CMC and said the revolution had liberated Asgardians’ minds.
• Odin demanded to know where Thor was, but Heimdall said he did not know and refused to defer to Odin.
• Party Thor returned to Asgard through a portal he opened with Mjolnir, now at least a hundred times stronger than before.
• Odin confronted Thor, who cheerfully explained that he could no longer call Odin Father because the republic had no kings, and Odin struggled to contain his anger.

Odin discovered that Party Thor had turned Asgard into a socialist republic and was furious that his son had ended the Odin Family’s rule. When Odin tried to confront him, Party Thor revealed overwhelming Power of Asgard, leaving Odin stunned and powerless.

• Odin regretted developing Asgard after learning that every Asgardian had received a Red Book and that the realm had become a republic.
• Heimdall refused to leave and began livestreaming Odin and Party Thor, preventing Odin from disciplining his son in private.
• Party Thor praised Odin’s teachings and declared that Asgard should belong to its people rather than the Odin Family.
• Odin lost his temper and summoned the remaining Power of Asgard to challenge Party Thor.
• Party Thor revealed that he had mastered the Power of Asgard and summoned far more of it than Odin could, leaving Odin powerless as his own power vanished.

Odin saw that Party Thor’s Power of Asgard had surpassed his own and conceded that Thor had earned the right to lead Asgard. After Odin struck Thor with Gungnir, a mysterious figure emerged through a portal.

• Odin marveled at Party Thor’s immense Power of Asgard and pretended he had secretly supported Thor’s reforms all along.
• Party Thor believed Odin and credited himself with inventing socialism, while Heimdall silently doubted both of them.
• Odin asked about socialism, and Party Thor recited the twenty-four Socialist Core Values.
• Odin agreed to entrust Asgard to Thor, but Thor corrected him that Asgard belonged to its people.
• Odin drew Gungnir and beat Thor as Heimdall livestreamed, until an icy voice announced a newcomer stepping through a black-purple portal.

Hela escaped Niflheim after Odin’s Power of Asgard vanished and returned intending to kill him and seize Asgard. She discovered that Asgard had become a republic, and Party Thor’s support among its people had made his Power of Asgard overwhelming.

• Hela emerged from the portal, declared that she would kill Odin, and set her sights on taking control of Asgard.
• Hela tried to summon the Power of Asgard but received no response, leaving her confused about the realm’s condition.
• Party Thor told Hela during a live broadcast that Asgard had been renamed the Asgard Republic and belonged to its people.
• Party Thor’s speech won the audience’s support and strengthened his Power of Asgard.
• Hela transformed for battle and declared that she would rule Asgard, but Party Thor unleashed immense power and left her stunned.

Hela returned to Asgard hoping to seize power, but Party Thor's overwhelming Power of Asgard forced her to abandon her challenge. Thor ordered her to help build the Asgard Republic and spread its reforms to Niflheim, leaving Hela furious but resigned to serve Asgard.

• Hela realized she was no match for Party Thor and pretended she had only been joking before trying to leave.
• Hela claimed she had always supported reform, but Party Thor stopped her and insisted she contribute to Asgard's development.
• Party Thor announced that Asgard would help reform Niflheim and liberate the other worlds of the Nine Realms.
• Hela reluctantly accepted Thor's arrangements, while Odin told her that Thor's reforms might be the right path.
• Hela angrily blamed Odin for her imprisonment but admitted her love for Asgard was why she had compromised.

Chen Mu spent months adapting the technologies he had acquired, strengthening Multivariate China and planning to create Sun Wukong as its third Celestial Race member. With the Heavenly Court finally completed, Multivariate China was poised to enter a new period of rapid development.

• Chen Mu combined Wandering Earth's Heavy Element Fusion Reactor with Marvel's Arc Reactor, creating a more powerful reactor for Chinese armor, mechs, and space battleships.
• Chen Mu and Multivariate China's researchers studied Uatu's complete Observer Armor technology and domestically produced its abilities, including timeline observation that could give Reincarnators plot information.
• Multivariate China helped Universe 7 rebuild its China, while the returning Multiversal Guardians brought Universes 8, 9, and 10 into the alliance.
• Chen Mu planned to use the Power Stone and Observer technologies to create Sun Wukong as Multivariate China's third Celestial Race member.
• Chen Mu saw the completion of the Heavenly Court and anticipated that Multivariate China's rapid development would begin.