Chapter Summaries

Nuada found the Crown Shard and took Nuala hostage, then demanded the remaining shards from Abe. Abe and Klaus brought the gravely wounded Hellboy to Li Feng for help, and Li Feng agreed to treat him if they could pay his price.

• Nuada used the real map cylinder to locate the Golden Army and sensed that Nuala had hidden the Crown Shard among the books.
• Nuala triggered the alarm, and Nuada threatened her and Abe after learning she was close to him; Hellboy challenged Nuada but was stabbed in the chest.
• Nuada took Nuala hostage and demanded that Abe bring him the remaining Crown Shards if he wanted to save Hellboy and see her again.
• Abe, Klaus, and an unfamiliar woman carried the barely alive Hellboy to Li Feng's tent in Troll Market.
• Li Feng said he could treat the spear wound but asked what the group could offer him, and Hellboy weakly asked what he wanted.

Li Feng treated Hellboy, extracted some of his Demon Fire, and joined Klaus's team to rescue Nuala from Nuada. The group headed through Li Feng's Portal toward the Golden Army's resting place in Northern Ireland, while Abel secretly kept the Crown Shard hidden.

• Li Feng removed the spearhead from Hellboy and healed his wound with a potion.
• Li Feng trapped Hellboy in an illusion, provoked him into transforming, and collected a portion of his Demon Fire.
• Klaus explained that Nuada had kidnapped Nuala to recruit the Golden Army, and Li Feng joined the rescue mission in exchange for a chance at a reward.
• Abel secretly decided not to reveal that he had found the Crown Shard, fearing it could endanger Nuala.
• Li Feng opened a Portal to the Golden Army's location in Antrim County, and Abel stepped through first.

Li Feng’s group found the Golden Army’s resting place after he healed the Genie in exchange for lessons in forging. The Genie warned them not to awaken the army, but Li Feng took him along as a witness and challenged Nuada.

• Li Feng sensed the entrance to an Otherspace among the rocks, and Abel searched the stones for it.
• The Genie offered to guide the group to Nuada, and Li Feng agreed to regrow his legs in exchange for the craft of forging the Golden Army.
• The Genie explained that only someone of noble blood could command the army, and that Hellboy could challenge Nuada for control.
• The Genie blew a whistle to awaken a stone giant, revealing the entrance, and led the group into the cavern where the Golden Army lay dormant.
• The Genie warned the group not to awaken the Golden Army and said he would wait outside, but Li Feng used magic to bring him along as a witness.
• Li Feng transformed, floated up the staircase, and shouted for Nuada to come out and bleed.

Nuada reassembled the Crown Shards and awakened the Golden Army while Li Feng watched, then challenged Li Feng after learning he was a human demigod. Nuada’s spear was consumed by Li Feng’s Spirit Fire, and he ordered Abel to stop Li Feng.

• Nuada threatened Nuala, but Li Feng taunted him and Abel urged Nuada to release his sister.
• Abel handed Nuada the final Crown Shard despite Klaus and Hellboy’s protests.
• Nuada assembled the crown and awakened the Golden Army while Li Feng refused to stop him.
• Li Feng revealed his Nuclear Reaction Fireball and declared himself a human demigod, shocking Nuada and the others.
• Nuada charged Li Feng, but his spear was consumed by the Spirit Fire, so he retreated beside Nuala and ordered Abel to intervene.

Li Feng sealed Nuada and negotiated his surrender after Nuala pleaded for her brother’s life. He left with Nuada and the goblin, while Nuala followed him to arrange a ransom and the Golden Army remained behind.

• Abel asked Li Feng to spare Nuada, arguing that his death could spark a war between humans and elves.
• Li Feng sealed Nuada with a Time Stop Spell and rejected Nuala’s plea to release him until she explained that she wanted Nuada to lead the elves.
• Nuala offered Nuada as a prisoner, and Li Feng demanded that he surrender and that the elves provide magical materials, books, herbs, and seeds.
• Nuada refused to surrender the Golden Army until Li Feng pointed out that human missiles and spaceflight could render its ground forces useless.
• Li Feng petrified Nuada, took the goblin through a Portal to the Troll Market, and invited Nuala to follow him to arrange the ransom.
• Klaus asked Abel whether summoning Li Feng had been a mistake, and Abel said Li Feng had resolved the crisis but proved himself a money-grubber.

Nuala brought Nuada’s ransom to Li Feng’s tent, while Klaus arrived with a human envoy to discuss compensation for Red’s damage. The chapter left Li Feng selecting magical herbs and seeds from the humans’ offered list, refusing their attempt to win him over.

• Klaus and Nuala’s groups arrived at the Troll Market, where Klaus warned the human envoy to avoid provoking the magical creatures.
• Klaus delivered Abraham’s letter to Nuala, then led her and the envoy to Li Feng’s tent.
• Nuala found Nuada working behind the counter with sealing runes carved across his face and neck, and Li Feng explained how the runes restrained him.
• Nuala brought nearly fifty crates as Nuada’s ransom, and Li Feng eagerly welcomed the payment.
• Klaus offered Li Feng a list of magical items as compensation for Red’s damage, and Li Feng chose magical herbs and their seeds while rejecting the humans’ effort to win his support.

Li Feng rejected Edwin Boggs’s offer to head a human magic academy, while Edwin tried to persuade Nuada to join as vice headmaster and adapt the Elves to a changing world. Edwin’s argument gave Li Feng a possible way to obtain the Time Stone: trade for it.

• Edwin Boggs offered Li Feng the headmaster position at a planned human magic academy, but Li Feng questioned whether it was worthwhile given the decline of magical creatures.
• Nuada condemned humans for hunting animals and destroying nature, and Edwin offered him the vice headmaster position with the possibility of admitting magical creatures.
• Edwin argued that the Elves risked extinction if they refused to change, and suggested they send some children to the academy to test a new way of life.
• Li Feng connected Edwin’s advice about adapting to new environments with his problem of obtaining the Time Stone and considered trading for it.

Nuala rejected Edwin Boggs’s proposed cooperation with humans, while Li Feng exposed Boggs’s political maneuvering and warned that humanity would need magical creatures against extraterrestrial demons. Li Feng returned to the Golden Army cave, where he faced a long list of research and modification projects.

• Nuala explained to Nuala that human schools and media would assimilate magical creatures, then left to tell her more about humanity.
• Li Feng accused Edwin Boggs of using the cooperation proposal to divide magical races and warned that humanity would need them against extraterrestrial demons.
• Li Feng opened a Portal and left the tent, while Klaus blamed Edwin Boggs for damaging relations with Nuala and Li Feng.
• In the cave, Li Feng worked on a plan to obtain the Time Stone and listed the many magical research projects and army modifications he still needed to complete.

Li Feng returned to Kamar-Taj and gave Strange the Eye of Agamotto, herb seeds, and a scroll of cultivation methods and spells. He also gifted Danny a Seraphim Feather to protect him from Dark Energy, while Strange saw Li Feng’s offerings as the start of Kamar-Taj’s rise to a future filled with True Gods and demigods.

• Strange introduced Danny as his disciple when Li Feng returned to Kamar-Taj, and Li Feng returned the Eye of Agamotto to Strange.
• Li Feng gave Kamar-Taj seeds for more than five hundred kinds of Magical Herbs and a scroll containing cultivation methods and detailed spell explanations.
• Li Feng gave Danny a Pseudo-Seraph Feather that could resist Dark Energy and kill Little Demons, then left through a Portal.
• Strange read Li Feng’s scroll and explained to Wong that its cultivation method could help Mages surpass mortal limits.
• Strange told Wong that Li Feng would eventually share the method to become a True God, envisioning Kamar-Taj with True Gods everywhere and demigods as common as dogs.

Li Feng returned home, heard Janet Pym's plea for help from the Quantum Realm, and summoned a Tree God Race creature to show Skye. The creature grew into a hundred-meter-tall tree beside the lake, leaving Li Feng wondering how they would get sunlight beneath its enormous canopy.

• Li Feng returned through the Portal, drank Kreacher's home-brewed beer, and learned that Skye had begun controlling her vibration ability.
• Kreacher told Li Feng that Stark had borrowed Skye's Colchian Fire Bull to research a mechanical bull he claimed was important to Earth's safety.
• While meditating, Li Feng heard Janet ask him to find her in the Quantum Realm within two hours and pass a message to her daughter, but her call ended before she could finish.
• Skye brought Li Feng beer and fried peanuts, and he summoned a Tree God Race creature by tossing a seed toward the lake.
• The creature rose to two hundred meters tall, then shortened itself into a hundred-meter tree whose vast canopy blocked the sunlight.

Coulson’s team found Sif in Portugal with amnesia and brought her to Li Feng, where he restored her memories. Sif revealed that she had come to Earth to capture Kree and then identified Skye as an Inhuman of Kree origin, intending to take her to Asgard.

• Melinda told Coulson that a woman in Portugal had flung a man dozens of meters, so Coulson sent a team to investigate.
• Coulson recognized the woman as Sif, but she could remember only her childhood and her home in Asgard.
• Coulson split the team, sending Mike to investigate in Portugal while he and Melinda brought Sif to Li Feng.
• Coulson and Melinda arrived at Li Feng’s lakeside home and saw its enormous thinking tree, while Skye practiced her powers against Carter Slade.
• Li Feng restored Sif’s memories, and she explained that Heimdall had seen a Kree ship land on Earth and that Asgard had sent her to capture its occupants.
• Sif identified Skye as an Inhuman of Kree origin and said she would take her to Asgard for Earth’s safety.

Sif warned that Skye’s Inhuman powers could draw the Kree to Earth and tried to take her to Asgard, but Li Feng refused and demonstrated the forces at his command. After Sif agreed Skye could stay, Coulson left with her to address the Kree threat while Skye asked Li Feng to let her see them.

• Coulson objected when Sif said she wanted to take Skye to Asgard, and Sif explained that the Kree had created Altered as soldiers and that Skye’s powers might bring them to Earth.
• Li Feng corrected Sif’s claims about Inhumans and threatened to destroy Hala, summoning Dementors and mechanical soldiers to demonstrate his strength.
• Li Feng revealed that he was a demigod, and Sif decided that taking Skye away was not worth the risk of a conflict with him.
• Sif warned Li Feng that some events might be predetermined, then told Coulson that they needed to deal with the Kree coming to Earth.
• Skye asked Li Feng to let her see the Kree, but he refused because she was too inexperienced to fight or outrun them.

Skye showed Coulson, Melinda, and Sif the magical equipment Li Feng had prepared for her aboard the Quinjet and asked about joining the Avengers. Meanwhile, Li Feng learned that The Lighthouse held two monoliths and that the missing black monolith was likely aboard Gonzales's aircraft carrier.

• Skye explained how her breastplate, bracers, knee guards, and mechanical warriors worked, and described the potions and spatial pouch Li Feng had given her.
• Skye showed Melinda a hollow Short Staff that could extend when she activated its runes, and explained that Li Feng was holding back more advanced weapons until she gained better control of her power.
• Skye asked Coulson whether she could join the Avengers after mastering her abilities, but decided against asking Stark because she expected Li Feng to stop her.
• Li Feng checked that Skye's soul fragment was developing as planned, then praised Kreacher for gathering information about the monoliths.
• Kreacher told Li Feng that Harris had found the time and latitude monoliths in the abandoned Lighthouse base, while the black monolith was believed to be aboard an aircraft carrier led by Gonzales.
• Kreacher reported that Harris had seen Bobbi and Mike aboard the carrier, confirming for Li Feng that the black monolith was likely there.

Li Feng visited Dr. Pym to relay Janet’s message about tracking her in the Quantum Realm and sending her sweets. Pym learned Janet might be rescued and asked Li Feng what he wanted in return.

• Li Feng left Kreacher to monitor Skye’s soul fragment and flew to Dr. Pym’s home after learning Pym was researching the Quantum Realm.
• Li Feng entered Pym’s ant-monitored villa and used his Mystic Eyes to locate Pym hiding in a secret room.
• Li Feng told Pym that Janet had sent a message about using a subatomic frequency tracking signal to find her, and added her request for sweets.
• Pym became overjoyed at the news that Janet was alive, but questioned whether Li Feng was telling the truth.
• Pym asked Li Feng why he was helping and what he wanted, and Li Feng said he expected benefits.

Li Feng negotiated with Hank Pym for help studying the Quantum Realm and modifying his motorhome, while convincing Pym he was a Mage. Pym agreed to Li Feng’s conditions in principle but offered only to lend him the equipment or give him its blueprints.

• Li Feng demanded that Pym teach him about the Quantum Realm, provide equipment for observing it, and modify his motorhome, while secretly hoping to gain access to Pym Particles.
• Li Feng demonstrated his ability to change size and mocked Pym’s Pym Particles, lowering Pym’s guard and prompting him to call Selvig to verify Li Feng’s identity.
• After Selvig confirmed Li Feng’s identity as Austin, Pym left the Chamber of Secrets with a handgun and asked whether Li Feng was a Mage.
• Li Feng transformed Pym’s handgun into a singing Bubble Gun, and Pym tested it before throwing it down in embarrassment.
• Pym agreed to Li Feng’s conditions but said he would only lend him the Quantum Realm equipment or provide its blueprints for Li Feng to build himself.

Li Feng bargained with Pym for quantum physics equipment and funding, promising to contact Janet, then left on another Otherworld journey. A week later, he returned with Air Sprites after being overwhelmed by their time-stopping swarm and warned Kreacher not to release them.

• Li Feng negotiated with Pym for lessons, equipment blueprints, lab access, and money to build equipment, while Pym insisted on confirming he could contact Janet first.
• Li Feng opened a Portal home and warned Pym to stay there because he could not predict when he would reach Janet; Pym then called Erik to ask about Austin's gigantic tree.
• Li Feng rested by the lake, then decided to travel to another world to obtain equipment and learn more about the Quantum Realm.
• A week later, Li Feng returned with Air Sprites from The Spiderwick Chronicles and warned Kreacher that their songs could imprison living creatures in frozen time and their magic could reverse time.
• Li Feng explained that he had provoked the Air Sprites, whose vast swarm had overwhelmed even the Dementors, and said he had escaped after hiding and searching for magical materials.

Li Feng connected Hank Pym with Janet through the Mind Stone, and Janet taught Pym an algorithm to help locate her in the Quantum Realm. Li Feng joined Pym on the way to his secret laboratory, while Stark struggled to stabilize a trace of Jarvis’s soul aura in a mechanical cow.

• Li Feng used the Mind Stone to establish a three-way spiritual connection, allowing Janet and Pym to speak after thirty years apart.
• Janet taught Pym an algorithm to follow the next signal she made with Austin, and Pym memorized it so he could build the needed laboratory equipment.
• Pym gave Li Feng a USB Drive containing equipment blueprints and agreed to take him along to study quantum science in his laboratory.
• Li Feng packed supplies and traveled with Pym in a van that Pym enlarged using Pym Particles, then asked whether they could shrink a nuclear warhead into a bullet.
• Stark examined a golden mechanical cow and wondered why the trace of Jarvis’s soul aura he detected would not stabilize.

Thor arrived at the Avengers training base seeking Loki’s scepter and learned that Baron Strucker was in Sokovia. Steve assembled a team to attack Strucker’s Hydra research base, while Stark’s boast that he could handle Hulk left him worried about the mission.

• Steve brought Scarface to the Avengers base, where Thor arrived and asked about Loki’s scepter.
• Steve explained that Baron Strucker had the scepter and directed Thor to ask Natasha for Coulson’s information.
• Stark and Thor argued about Jane and Potts until Steve redirected them, and Natasha learned from Coulson that Strucker was in Sokovia.
• Natasha said Strucker’s Hydra base had advanced technology and might require Mage Austin’s help, but Stark insisted that he could handle the mission himself.
• Banner agreed to join the mission, and Steve proposed a surprise attack while Hawkeye and Scarface continued eating without being asked to join.

The Avengers attacked Strucker’s base in Sokovia, where Strucker planned to surrender after testing his defenses and secretly preserving his research. Hawkeye was wounded by a mysterious speedster, while Stark entered the base through a Portal and found Loki’s scepter before a young woman confronted him with red magic.

• Strucker ordered his forces to resist the Avengers while telling his assistant to hide a copy of their research and quietly remove the Twins.
• The Twins disappeared as the Avengers’ frontal assault overwhelmed Strucker’s militia and armored vehicles.
• Hawkeye was knocked from cover by a mysterious speedster and then shot, forcing him to retreat after using a healing potion.
• Thor helped Hawkeye, and Steve told Stark to capture Strucker and end the battle quickly.
• Stark bypassed the base’s shield with a Portal, followed Jarvis’s directions to Loki’s scepter, and encountered a young woman wielding red magic.

Stark encountered Wanda and Peter at Strucker’s base, recognized that both possessed Mana, and later studied the scepter’s hidden Magic Gem. With Banner’s help, he used the gem to give an artificial intelligence a stable soul aura, creating Ultron.

• Stark questioned Wanda about her origins, but she attacked him with stones and tried to retreat when his shield blocked them.
• Peter rushed back to protect Wanda, charged at Stark, and was reflected into a wall by Stark’s shield; Wanda and Peter then fled.
• Jarvis analyzed Wanda and Peter’s Mana abilities as Stark and the Avengers returned to headquarters with the scepter and the captured Strucker.
• Stark discovered that the scepter’s blue shell concealed a red Magic Gem capable of stabilizing a soul’s aura.
• Stark persuaded Banner to help secretly build an artificial intelligence experiment, and three days later they succeeded in creating an innocent AI with a stable soul aura.