Chapter Summaries

Li Feng helped Steve overpower Loki while remaining invisible, until Stark arrived and blasted Loki into surrendering. During the flight to S.H.I.E.L.D., Loki tried to turn the team against Li Feng, but Li Feng redirected the conversation toward Fury’s hidden misdeeds and prompted Steve to investigate S.H.I.E.L.D.’s archives.

• Li Feng secretly targeted Loki with a Time Stop Spell while Loki fought Steve, disrupting Loki’s attacks and giving Steve openings to strike.
• Stark arrived in his Iron Man suit and blasted Loki, who surrendered after Steve took his staff and the team outnumbered him.
• On the Quinjet, Loki warned Natasha and the others that Li Feng’s use of Dark Energy could corrupt him, but Li Feng dismissed the claim and praised Loki’s skill at sowing discord.
• Li Feng told Loki he had planned to encourage Steve to search S.H.I.E.L.D.’s records for evidence about Fury, making Steve and Loki realize he was openly raising doubts about the director.

Li Feng deflected Loki’s questions about Dark Energy, the Scythe, and Hellfire by boasting about Earth’s Mages and the Ancient One. Thor seized Loki and jumped from the jet, while Li Feng stayed aboard as Natasha exposed how deliberately he had muddied the conversation.

• Loki warned that Li Feng’s Uru Metal Scythe could anger Asgard, but Li Feng argued Odin would thank him for saving Thor.
• Loki accused Li Feng of relying on Demons to wield Hellfire, and Li Feng claimed the Ancient One could defeat Dormammu.
• Loki questioned whether the Ancient One existed, then fell silent when thunder sounded and admitted he disliked the person who arrived with lightning.
• Thor burst into the jet, grabbed Loki, and jumped out; Stark and Steve followed, while Li Feng stayed behind with Natasha.
• Natasha explained that Li Feng had avoided revealing anything about Dark Energy or Hellfire, and Li Feng insisted he was an honest young gentleman.

Li Feng told Fury that he could glimpse possible futures and warned him that Loki would cause the Battle of New York, while cautioning that sharing the information could change events. After rejoining Thor and Steve aboard Natasha’s fighter jet, Li Feng learned Stark had gone home after Thor hit him.

• Natasha told Li Feng that Fury wanted to know how he gained benefits and whether he could see the future.
• Fury asked Li Feng if he could see the future, and Li Feng confirmed he could use Time Spell and divination to glimpse uncertain outcomes.
• Li Feng warned Fury about the Battle of New York and said Loki particularly disliked Stark.
• Natasha suggested Fury had threatened Li Feng to test whether he would abandon the mission, leaving Li Feng wondering whether Fury suspected his motives.
• Steve asked Li Feng to open a Portal, and Li Feng brought Steve and Thor, who was holding Loki, aboard Natasha’s fighter jet.
• Thor greeted Li Feng and explained that Stark had gone home to change after Thor hit him.

Li Feng secretly replaced Loki's Mind Stone with a fake and secured the real Stone inside his Matryoshka Doll, while Coulson agreed to help him keep the staff in exchange for lifting Barton's spell. He was then drawn into an argument about the Tesseract and warned S.H.I.E.L.D. about the Chitauri invasion before sensing danger and raising a shield.

• Coulson revealed that he had guessed Li Feng wanted Loki's staff and offered it to him in exchange for helping Barton, but Li Feng accepted the staff without agreeing to the exchange.
• In the Mirror Dimension, Li Feng removed the Mind Stone, sealed it in his Matryoshka Doll, and put a fake Stone back in the staff.
• Coulson summoned Li Feng to a heated argument, where Fury questioned why S.H.I.E.L.D. had used the Tesseract to research weapons and pointed to the dangers posed by aliens and Mages.
• Li Feng told Fury about Mordo and the Ancient One, then explained that the Chitauri would invade Earth and that destroying their mothership might disable their soldiers.
• After Li Feng doubted electronic interference would stop the Chitauri, he suddenly sensed danger and cast a shield around himself.

After an attack crippled the Helicarrier, Li Feng repaired its engine and helped Stark free Barton from Loki’s control, but Loki escaped and trapped Thor in an ejection cage. Coulson confronted Loki, who killed him with his wand.

• An explosion damaged the Helicarrier, and Fury sent Stark to find Barton while Li Feng went to repair the engine.
• Li Feng used magic to restore the engine, though he warned Fury that the conjured parts would dissipate within hours.
• Stark found Barton heading toward Loki, and Li Feng broke the spell controlling him; Barton warned that another group was rescuing Loki before Loki summoned his wand away and escaped.
• Loki tricked Thor into entering the containment cage, trapped him inside, and prepared to eject the cage from the Helicarrier.
• Coulson confronted Loki with an energy gun, but Loki used an illusion to get behind him and stabbed him through the heart with his wand.

Li Feng explained why his Resurrection Spell would turn Coulson into an evil being and expose him to harm, then described how he had bargained with Demons to keep Abomination’s soul. He left Coulson to decide whether to be resurrected, warning that the bargain might require sacrificing Coulson’s blood relatives.

• Stark brought Li Feng to Loki’s cell after Loki had escaped and thrown Thor from the Helicarrier, leaving Coulson dead beside Fury.
• Fury asked Li Feng to resurrect Coulson, and Stark panicked when Li Feng initially refused and confirmed that Coulson was dead.
• Li Feng used an Astral Projection Spell to return Coulson’s soul to his body temporarily and explained that his Resurrection Spell would leave Coulson’s injured, decaying body beyond his Healing Spell’s reach.
• Li Feng explained that he had paid a Demon with fresh souls to switch Abomination’s place among the dead, and Fury confirmed that the soldiers killed by Li Feng had supplied those souls.
• Li Feng warned Coulson that he might disguise Coulson’s blood relatives as Coulson and sacrifice them to a Demon, then asked whether Coulson still wanted resurrection.

Coulson refused resurrection if it required sacrificing his family, so Fury arranged to keep him officially dead while he investigated a serious problem within S.H.I.E.L.D. Li Feng sealed Coulson’s soul in the Black Gourd and handed it to Fury for safekeeping.

• Coulson rejected the Resurrection Spell because he would not sacrifice any living relatives, and Stark left the room after hearing his decision.
• Fury questioned Li Feng about the spell’s contract, and Li Feng explained that it protected a resurrected soul from Hell and from dissipating.
• Fury considered restoring Coulson’s body but decided Coulson should remain officially dead and go undercover to investigate a serious problem within S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Fury asked Li Feng to help Coulson when needed, and Coulson agreed to the mission despite the cost to his personal life.
• Li Feng collected Coulson’s soul in the Black Gourd and gave it to Fury, who hurried away to hide it from magical creatures.

After Coulson died fighting Loki, Li Feng secretly convinced Stark that S.H.I.E.L.D. could revive him, while Fury used Coulson’s apparent sacrifice to rally the Avengers. Li Feng returned home to prepare for the coming battle and considered how to conceal the Mind Stone before carrying it with him.

• S.H.I.E.L.D. medics found footprints showing that Coulson had walked after his heart was pierced, while Li Feng left the cell pleased with his resurrection ruse.
• Stark confronted Li Feng for not using the Time-Turner to save Coulson, and Li Feng showed him a resurrection technique that would erase Coulson’s memories.
• Stark accepted that Li Feng had been unable to save Coulson and left to focus on finding Loki, while Fury presented Coulson’s bloodstained Captain cards to Steve and rallied the Avengers.
• Li Feng opened a Portal to his lakeside home after telling Fury he could help hold off Loki, then retrieved the Matryoshka Doll containing the Mind Stone.
• Li Feng rejected leaving the Mind Stone at home because of Mephisto’s possible interest and worried that its energy could reveal it, so he decided to disguise it before carrying it.

Stark and Steve worked out Loki’s likely target, but Stark failed to stop Selvig from activating the Tesseract device and was forced to confront Loki without his armor. Loki’s attempts to control Stark failed because Li Feng had taken the Mind Stone, and Loki threw Stark out a window.

• Steve left Fury and went to mourn Coulson, where he and Stark argued about Coulson’s death and whether he should have waited for backup.
• Stark realized Loki would target his company, and Steve alerted the others as they rushed to prepare for the fight.
• Stark reached the rooftop and tried to stop Selvig, but the Tesseract’s shield rebounded his energy blast and drained his armor.
• Loki intercepted Stark at his company, and Stark stalled him while waiting for his armor to arrive and warned him that the Avengers would oppose him.
• Loki tried twice to control Stark with his scepter, but the spells failed because Li Feng had taken the Mind Stone; Loki then grabbed Stark by the throat and threw him out the window.

Stark and Li Feng fought the Chitauri invasion as Li Feng opened fire with a powerful Fireball and unleashed his Dementor army. The Dementors devoured the invaders’ souls while Thor fought Loki, and the Chitauri commander grew alarmed by Earth’s defenses.

• Stark put on the Mark 7, attacked Loki, and then turned to fight the Chitauri pouring through the Portal.
• Li Feng reached Stark Tower, sent the unconscious Selvig to his motorhome, and summoned the Dementors while charging a Fireball.
• Li Feng launched a nuclear-reaction Fireball through the Portal, destroying Chitauri as Stark drew the remaining attackers away.
• Loki tried to stop Li Feng, but Thor confronted him, fought him, and drove him from Stark Tower.
• Li Feng ordered Wangcai to lead the Dementors to feed, and they gathered by the Portal and began devouring Chitauri souls.
• Steve, Hawkeye, and Natasha arrived as Chitauri soldiers fell from the sky, while the Chitauri commander discovered their weapons could not harm the Dementors.

Li Feng used the Statue of Liberty and two enlarged metal replicas to fight the Chitauri Leviathans while he continued studying how to close the Tesseract. Fury was left worrying about the real statue’s public antics as the battle continued.

• Loki urged the Chitauri commander to send more troops through the Portal and target Li Feng, while Wangcai directed the Dementors to devour individual soldiers instead of the Leviathans.
• A Leviathan flew straight toward Li Feng, so he summoned the Statue of Liberty, which crushed the creature and nearby Chitauri soldiers.
• The Chitauri commander sent more Leviathans, and Li Feng asked Stark for additional metal statues rather than abandon his chance to study the Tesseract.
• Stark delivered two small Statue of Liberty models and told Li Feng that Banner and Thor were holding off Leviathans; Fury then shouted at Li Feng for moving the real statue, but Li Feng ignored him.
• Li Feng enlarged the two models and changed their torches and books into spiked clubs and shields; the animated statues killed Leviathans and scattered Chitauri soldiers.
• Fury watched the replicas celebrate and worried that Li Feng might make the real Statue of Liberty perform for the world.

Li Feng crushed the Chitauri invasion with his forces, but became furious when Stark warned him that a nuclear weapon was heading for New York. He used Portals to confront Fury and threaten retaliation unless the official who ordered the launch was brought to him, leaving the Avengers facing an armed standoff as the weapon neared detonation.

• Li Feng awakened the Iron Eagles atop the Empire State Building and used them, his Dementors, the Statues of Liberty, and Hulk to rout the Chitauri across New York.
• Li Feng stopped sensing spatial energy after he noticed S.H.I.E.L.D. agents near Stark Tower, then prepared to close the Tesseract as Stark warned him about an incoming nuclear weapon.
• Li Feng closed the Portal, ordered Stark to bring him the nuclear weapon, and teleported Stark and the weapon in front of him when Stark flew toward space instead.
• Li Feng trapped the nuclear weapon in a looping Portal and demanded that Fury deliver the official who had ordered the launch before it detonated.
• Li Feng threatened to bomb American cities if Fury refused, while Steve, Thor, Banner, Stark, Loki, and the others gathered around the weapon and argued over what to do.

With the nuclear missile seconds from detonating, Li Feng threatened Fury into naming those behind the launch and argued that the military had abandoned New York. Ancient One intervened to send the missile into space, then warned Li Feng not to destroy New York because the blast could damage the New York Sanctum.

• Thor took Loki's hand and stood behind Li Feng, demanding that Fury identify whoever had ordered the nuclear launch, while Barton and Natasha urged Li Feng to give Fury more time.
• Li Feng threatened to extract the World Security Council members' souls and challenged Steve over the military's failure to protect New York.
• Li Feng pulled Steve behind him and prepared to shelter everyone in the Mirror Dimension as the nuclear weapon's countdown neared zero.
• Ancient One emerged through a Portal and ordered Li Feng to throw the nuclear weapon away, so he sent it through a Portal into outer space.
• Ancient One told Li Feng not to destroy New York and praised his necklace before leaving, and Li Feng realized she had intervened to protect the New York Sanctum.

Fury and Hill realized that Li Feng had been pretending to be foolish and discussed how he had repeatedly thwarted Loki’s plans. Steve asked Li Feng to restore New York, and Li Feng offered him the Genie Lamp in exchange for Fury bringing the person who ordered the nuclear strike before him.

• Fury watched the nuclear weapon explode in space and worried that Li Feng could use portals to threaten New York.
• Hill asked Fury how he planned to placate Li Feng, and Fury argued that Li Feng’s intelligence showed he was not mentally disabled.
• Fury and Hill recalled how Li Feng had disrupted Loki’s plans in New Mexico and during the Chitauri invasion.
• Steve asked Li Feng whether magic could restore New York, and Li Feng said it would take about a month with his current Mana.
• Li Feng gave Steve the Genie Lamp and asked him to make Fury bring the person who ordered the nuclear launch before him.
• A genie appeared before Steve, and Stark called for Jarvis to bring his suit.

After Steve wished for Jafar to restore New York, the Avengers saw the damaged buildings return to normal, while Li Feng and Loki discussed the scepter’s energy source. The chapter ended with Loki exposing Li Feng’s excuse for keeping the Statue of Liberty at Stark Tower as a way to pressure Fury.

• Steve thanked Jafar for repairing the city, and Jafar returned to the Genie Lamp.
• Loki questioned Li Feng about the energy source he had taken from the scepter, and Li Feng claimed it was a high-quality imitation Mind Stone.
• Li Feng demonstrated his ability to view past events and convinced Loki that he had seen the gem destroyed in the future.
• Steve returned the Genie Lamp to Li Feng and asked him to move the Statue of Liberty and the other landmarks back to their places.
• Loki revealed that Li Feng had recovered much of his Mana and was keeping the Statue of Liberty at Stark Tower to pressure Fury.

After the Battle of New York, Li Feng obtained the Darkhold and considered asking the Ancient One for help studying it. He also gave Stark Merlin’s Ring to test his magical talent, leaving Stark excitedly studying the book.

• Selvig took the Tesseract and Loki’s Scepter away, and Li Feng learned that Happy had found the Darkhold.
• Loki warned the others that dark magic was dangerous, while Steve and Thor urged Li Feng to avoid Dark Energy; Li Feng said his Mana was naturally dark and showed them his light-based magic.
• Stark received a photo from Happy, and Li Feng opened a Portal for Happy to deliver the Darkhold in a briefcase.
• Stark told Li Feng that Jarvis had noticed the Ancient One looking at him differently, prompting Li Feng to wonder whether Stark could use magic.
• Li Feng gave Stark Merlin’s Ring to study, and Stark asked Jarvis to scan it as he began exploring its magic.

Li Feng helped Selvig recover from Loki’s control and comforted him as he struggled with guilt, then prepared to see him off to work with Jane. When the military blocked the road to Li Feng’s home and declared it a restricted zone, he discovered Fury had arranged the soldiers because of the nuclear weapon he made.

• Li Feng dispelled Loki’s control spell on Selvig, told him Loki had been captured, and urged him to rest while he recovered.
• Several days later, Selvig told Li Feng he planned to work with Jane in England and wanted to leave through proper channels.
• A driver called to report that soldiers had blocked the only road to Li Feng’s house and labeled it a restricted zone.
• Li Feng opened a Portal so Selvig could reach the taxi, then confronted the soldiers at the barricade.
• A colonel handed Li Feng a phone, and Fury explained that the soldiers were guarding his home because of the nuclear weapon Li Feng had made.

Li Feng attended Coulson’s secret resurrection at a S.H.I.E.L.D. base, restoring his soul to his revived body after identifying the Kree blood used in the procedure. He warned Fury that Coulson might suffer effects from the blood, and that sealing his memories could be possible only if the effects were not too deep.

• Li Feng confronted Fury about soldiers monitoring his home, discovered surveillance in the phone Fury gave him, and learned about Coulson’s secret funeral.
• Li Feng declined Loki’s scepter and went to a S.H.I.E.L.D. base after Fury finally sent him the location.
• Li Feng released Coulson’s soul in the operating room, and Coulson examined his ghostly form while Li Feng explained what he could do.
• Li Feng identified the dark green liquid reviving Coulson as Kree blood and warned Fury that its owner should be killed and burned.
• After Coulson’s body was reactivated, Li Feng returned his soul to it and warned Fury that Kree blood could affect Coulson in ways spells might not fully address.

Li Feng left Fury after demanding that he hand over the people behind the nuclear launch, then traveled to another world to find a safe way to read the Darkhold. There he discovered that the world was Bruce Almighty’s and met God, who persuaded him to tell his story.

• Li Feng gave Fury half a month to hand over the conspirators or he would drag them out and expose them at S.H.I.E.L.D.’s entrance.
• Back at his lakeside house, Li Feng weighed ways to read the Darkhold safely and decided to travel to another world for help.
• Li Feng and Kreacher arrived in a desert and followed a barefoot congressman toward his house.
• An elderly man appeared on lumber nearby, identified Li Feng as a visitor from another world, and said he was God.
• God stopped Li Feng from leaving and persuaded him to recount his life, so Li Feng honestly described his journey through the Marvel Universe and his goal of returning home.

Li Feng learned that God could not send him home, so he explained his plan to use the Transdimensional Portal and Infinity Stones to return. God then tasked Evan Baxter with building an ark and ordered Li Feng to help, leaving both men facing the project.

• God told Li Feng He could not send him to another world, and Li Feng said he would give up his powers or fight anyone to get home.
• Li Feng explained that he planned to use the Transdimensional Portal and Infinity Stones, and God offered to help assess his plan.
• God told Evan Baxter to build an ark, and Evan questioned whether God planned another great flood.
• Li Feng revealed his magic to Evan, who remained skeptical until Li Feng opened a Portal to the Himalayas.
• God ordered Li Feng to help Evan build the ark.