Chapter Summaries

Li Feng confronted Hank and Raven, explained that he wanted Jean's Phoenix Force and Hank's expertise to help Blitz evolve into a Sentinel. The chapter ended with Li Feng promising Jean would survive losing the Phoenix Force, while reviving Archangel again.

• Li Feng invited Hank to help him, while Jean warned Charles that Li Feng had defeated Apocalypse and possessed powerful psychic abilities.
• Erik asked Li Feng to revive his wife and daughter, and Li Feng promised to do so if Erik brought their intact bodies to him.
• Li Feng caught Peter's attack and teased Erik about being his biological father before Raven approached disguised as Hank.
• Li Feng froze Raven after she attacked him, and the real Hank emerged to protect her and ask what Li Feng wanted.
• Li Feng told Hank that he sought Jean's Phoenix Force and needed Hank's knowledge to help Blitz evolve into a Sentinel.
• Charles asked what the Phoenix Force was and what would happen to Jean without it; Li Feng said Jean would not die and revived Archangel.

After Li Feng resurrected Archangel, Mephisto arrived and tried to claim the Phoenix Force and Archangel’s soul. Li Feng drove Mephisto off the Phoenix Force but suspected he had a plan for Jean, then took her and Charles toward Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters while demanding a feast.

• Archangel awoke in agony after being burned at the stake, then tried to kill himself again by diving into the ruins.
• Mephisto appeared, and Charles failed to probe his mind before warning the mutants to stay on alert.
• Mephisto accused Li Feng of resurrecting humans without permission, then approached Jean after sensing the Phoenix Force.
• Li Feng kicked Mephisto away from Jean and threatened him with Holy Water, after which Mephisto took Archangel away to pursue a contract.
• Li Feng warned Charles that Mephisto’s sudden retreat from the Phoenix Force seemed suspicious and raised the possibility that he planned to turn Archangel into Ghost Rider.
• Charles refused to hand Jean’s Phoenix Force to Li Feng, who opened a Portal and demanded that Charles treat him to a feast.

Li Feng negotiated with Moira and the CIA for Mutant research materials, researchers, William Stryker, the Alkali Lake base, and its Adamantium in exchange for training Mages. He explained that he studied Mutants to seek clues to further evolution and find his way home, leaving Charles and Moira considering the implications of Mutants’ origins.

• Li Feng demonstrated his ability to reverse and accelerate time on a steak, while Moira asked whether ordinary people could become Mages.
• Li Feng said he could train anyone to become a Mage, and Moira asked what he wanted in return.
• Li Feng demanded Mutant research materials and experts, William Stryker, the base beneath the dam, and the Adamantium beneath Alkali Lake from the CIA.
• Charles asked why Li Feng experimented on Mutants and imprisoned Apocalypse, and Li Feng explained his interest in Mutant evolution and his search for a way home.
• Charles realized Li Feng had imprisoned Apocalypse to learn a method of evolution, and Li Feng confirmed that evolution was his goal.

Li Feng erased Moira’s memories of mutant origins with the Mind Stone and Soul Stone, then offered Charles magic in exchange for the Phoenix Force and proposed building a mutant ecosystem. When Jean reported that the military had surrounded the school, Li Feng headed out to negotiate, warning Charles that force might decide the transaction.

• Charles panicked after Li Feng explained that Moira could reveal the link between mutants and evolution, and he attacked Li Feng with a dinner knife that broke against him.
• Charles accused Li Feng of deliberately exposing the mutant-evolution secret to force mutants to seek help and make Jean’s Phoenix Force a bargaining chip.
• Li Feng erased Moira’s memories of mutant origins from both her mind and soul, then said he wanted to trade magic for the Phoenix Force and could build a mutant ecosystem in return.
• Jean rushed in and told Charles that the military had surrounded the school.
• Li Feng went to meet the military and warned Charles that the strong might take what they wanted, while Charles asked Jean to carry him outside.

Li Feng confronted Colonel Smith’s military force after they tried to take Erik, then demonstrated overwhelming power and demanded a deal. Smith agreed to negotiate with Blitz, while Erik asked Li Feng for leave to go home and dig up graves.

• Blitz protected Erik from Colonel Smith’s soldiers and helicopters, and Li Feng arrived to ask what was happening.
• Smith refused to discuss a deal and invited Li Feng to the military base, so Li Feng destroyed the satellites and displayed his magical and mechanical forces.
• Li Feng warned Smith that the military could not win and told Blitz to negotiate the full price for learning magic.
• Smith agreed to discuss terms with Blitz, who dismissed the Golden Army and moved aside to negotiate.
• Erik asked Li Feng for leave to go home and dig up graves, and Li Feng told him to go.

Li Feng oversaw the growing alliance between the military and mutants as both sides trained novice Mages at Alkali Lake, while his allies developed new abilities and he advanced his own path of evolution. He sensed another Phoenix Force approaching Earth and rushed into space, where he spotted an alien warship in orbit.

• Blitz reported the military’s staged deal to Li Feng, and Li Feng asked the mutants whether they wanted to learn magic before leaving Charles and the students to negotiate privately.
• Li Feng told Blitz he intended to preserve access to this world as a base and ordered him to handle the mutant trade while Li Feng worked on resurrecting Erik’s wife and daughter.
• Months later, military and mutant novices trained inside Merlin’s Ring at the Alkali Lake dam as Ororo gained control over her weather powers and Scott continued training.
• Erik studied magnetic fields, Charles secretly upgraded his wheelchair, and Blitz gained multiple mutant abilities with help from Hank, Stryker, and Trask.
• Li Feng used his gains from the Phoenix Force and mutant research to strengthen his power and map a path toward becoming a Celestial Father-tier powerhouse.
• Li Feng sensed another Phoenix Force near Earth, opened a Portal into space, and spotted an alien warship in orbit before turning invisible and charging toward the force.

Charles was pressured into organizing a dangerous rescue of six astronauts after their spacecraft lost power and position during a solar flare. As the X-Men prepared to act, Li Feng offered to help only if the mutants worked for him, revealing his ambition to build a magical institution in their world.

• Stryker told Charles that a solar flare had disabled a spacecraft carrying six astronauts, leaving them without communication or positioning and rapidly consuming their oxygen.
• Charles recognized that refusing the rescue would damage mutants’ public standing, and Hank warned that the X-Men’s fighter might not be suited to spaceflight.
• Raven suggested contacting Li Feng or Blitz and reminded Charles that Li Feng’s Resurrection Spell could bring the astronauts back even if they were dead.
• Charles sent the X-Men to take a fighter and ordered Raven to end the mission if the rescue became too dangerous, while he went to Cerebro to contact Li Feng.
• Blitz relayed Charles’s request to Li Feng, who agreed to consider the rescue if the mutants worked for him and said he wanted to build his own Kamar-Taj.

Jean, Hank, and the others rescued astronauts from a spinning spaceship while Li Feng pursued and devoured the Phoenix Force. After the Phoenix Force rushed toward Jean, Li Feng consumed it all, then confronted the D'Bari warship as its crew planned to hide on Earth.

• Jean slowed the spaceship with telekinesis while Ororo froze its thrusters, allowing Kurt Wagner and Peter to teleport aboard and rescue five astronauts.
• When the astronauts insisted their missing commander be saved, Hank warned that rising heat made staying too dangerous, and the survivors abandoned the commander.
• Jean spotted Li Feng inside the Solar Flare, and he teleported the spaceship to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters after Charles agreed to his deal.
• The Phoenix Force turned toward Jean, so Li Feng put on the Infinity Gauntlet and devoured the remaining energy before the D'Bari could capture it.
• Vuk decided the D'Bari would disguise themselves as humans and investigate Li Feng and Earth, but Li Feng exposed their cloaked warship and ordered them to surrender.

Li Feng seized the D'Bari warship and sent its surviving crew through a Portal to Xavier's School, where they struggled to communicate with Charles and Smith. As Li Feng entered seclusion to digest the Phoenix Force, Charles worried about his motives while Smith withheld what the military knew.

• Vuk surrendered the warship after deciding that the D'Bari could not defeat Li Feng or escape.
• Li Feng claimed the warship, refused Vuk's request for escape pods, and sent the D'Bari through a Portal to Xavier's School.
• Li Feng shrank the warship into his shoulder bag and returned to Alkali Lake Dam to digest the Phoenix Force for several months.
• At Xavier's School, Vuk, Charles, and Smith failed to communicate because none of them shared a language.
• Charles questioned why Li Feng had sent the D'Bari to Earth, while Smith brushed him off and kept the military's information to himself.

Blitz arranged for the military, mutants, and D'Bari to acquire three magical energy nodes and establish magical ecosystems under Li Feng's terms. He set conditions for each group and left Charles wondering whether he and Li Feng were preparing to depart.

• Blitz brought Erik, Charles, Smith, and Vuk to the restaurant at 177 Bleecker Street, then explained that it stood on one of Earth's magical energy nodes.
• Blitz revealed that New York, London, and Hong Kong were energy nodes and said Li Feng would establish magical ecosystems there, with the military, mutants, and D'Bari each occupying one.
• Blitz told Charles that the mutants would tend Li Feng's magical plants and creatures in exchange for half the profits, and Charles accepted the arrangement.
• Blitz asked the D'Bari to locate other Phoenix Force fragments; Vuk offered to search the universe, and Erik agreed to accompany them as captain of their shrunken spaceship.
• Blitz asked Smith to continue the mutant gene experiments and report progress to Erik, while Charles agreed to supervise in Erik's absence.
• Charles asked whether Blitz and Li Feng were preparing to leave Earth.

Li Feng returned from the mutant world to find that Kreacher had moved his home to Sokovia after constant visits from people seeking Li Feng. Stark then arrived and explained how the Avengers’ dispute over the Sokovia Accords had turned personal after he learned Bucky had killed his parents, and he asked Li Feng to help him see them again.

• Li Feng returned to Earth and found his lakeside home replaced by a dry mud pit and a deep hole where the God Tree had stood.
• Kreacher explained that he had moved the home to Sokovia because S.H.I.E.L.D., Stark, the Secretary of State, and the United Nations kept visiting and seeking Li Feng.
• Kreacher told Li Feng that Robbie Reyes had exposed every hidden Ghost Rider in S.H.I.E.L.D., prompting Li Feng to tell Brandt to bring them back.
• Kreacher said the Secretary of State and the United Nations wanted Li Feng and his associates to sign the Sokovia Accords, which Li Feng rejected.
• Stark told Li Feng that Bucky had been blamed for the Wakandan king’s death, then revealed he had learned Bucky killed his parents and that Steve had helped Bucky escape punishment.
• Stark told Li Feng he had not come to ask for Bucky’s location; he wanted to see his parents again.

Li Feng refused to help Stark resurrect his parents or travel through time, but gave him a white monolith that could open a Time Gate. The chapter ended with Kreacher reporting that two black-robed visitors bearing Odin and Frigga’s auras had arrived in Sokovia.

• Stark asked Li Feng to help him see his deceased parents, first by resurrection and then by traveling into the past.
• Li Feng refused to help Stark use the Time-Turner after pointing out that it could send him to the past but could not bring him back.
• Stark explained that the Air Sprite’s time magic could change someone’s age but could not send them into the past.
• Li Feng gave Stark a white monolith fragment that could open a Time Gate, and Stark left to research a positioning device.
• Stark told Li Feng he had never intended for him to sign the Sokovia Accords, then departed to begin his research.
• Kreacher told Li Feng that two black-robed guests had arrived in Sokovia carrying Odin and Frigga’s auras.

Li Feng returned to Sokovia and found Odin and Frigga waiting for him, with Odin insisting they fight. As Odin forced Li Feng into combat, Li Feng realized the confrontation was connected to the Infinity Stones and Odin was demanding he use the Infinity Gauntlet.

• Li Feng admired Sokovia’s transformation and gave his clones Celestials solar energy technology, prompting them to complain about more work.
• Li Feng joined Odin and Frigga for tea, flirted with Frigga, and denied knowing anything about the Sovereign bounty.
• Odin challenged Li Feng to fight, then attacked him after Frigga and Fenris left the area.
• Li Feng tried to evade Odin by entering the Mirror Dimension, but Odin followed through a Portal and shattered it.
• Odin demanded that Li Feng use the Infinity Gauntlet or die, then fired a massive bolt of lightning at him.

Li Feng survived Odin’s attack with the Reality Stone, then watched Odin leave without taking the Infinity Stones and asked Blitz to analyze his motives. Blitz concluded Odin wanted the Stones exposed, while Fury learned that four Stone-like energy sources had appeared in Sokovia and decided to visit Li Feng.

• Li Feng used the Reality Stone to turn Odin’s lethal lightning into drizzle and activated all four Stones as he demanded to know why Odin had come.
• Odin put away his armor and Gungnir, then departed with Frigga after saying he had come for the Infinity Stones.
• Li Feng searched for Odin and Frigga, questioned Fenris, and sent Blitz a detailed account of their visit for analysis.
• Hill told Fury that Stark’s satellite had detected four powerful energy sources in Sokovia, and Fury suspected they were Infinity Stones connected to Austin.
• Blitz concluded that Odin wanted the Infinity Stones exposed, and Li Feng suspected Odin planned to use the resulting conflict to fuel Ragnarok.
• Fury called Li Feng about the four Stones and Ghost Riders in S.H.I.E.L.D.; Li Feng hung up, and Fury decided to visit him in person.

Fury traveled to Avengers Base to ask Stark for a Portal to Austin, worried about Li Feng’s Infinity Stone collection and growing armies. After Kreacher suggested gathering Infinity Stones across other universes, Li Feng abandoned his plan to flee and decided to explore neighboring universes, just as Stark and Fury arrived and joined the gathering.

• Fury drove to Avengers Base and asked Stark to open a Portal to Austin so he could question Li Feng about the Infinity Stones and his expanding legions.
• Stark suspected Li Feng might be isolated or preparing for a hidden threat, then opened a Portal and took Fury to Sokovia.
• Li Feng discussed fleeing the coming war with Blitz, Brandt, Fenris, Wangcai, and Kreacher, but rejected Blitz’s advice to stay home.
• Kreacher told Li Feng he could travel to other universes and collect Infinity Stones there, prompting Li Feng to decide to explore neighboring universes instead of running away.
• Stark and Fury arrived through a Portal, and Li Feng welcomed them as Kreacher went to prepare a lavish meal.

During a banquet, Li Feng revealed that Thanos was heading for Earth and explained that he had prepared his legion to face the Black Order. Stark shared divine essence extracted from the Black and White Demons and asked Li Feng to help complete the Regret Machine, leaving the group preparing for the coming threat.

• Kreacher served a banquet, and Fury eagerly drank the magical beer while Stark teased Li Feng about his relationships.
• Stark asked why Li Feng avoided people and formed a legion, so Li Feng opened the Mirror Dimension and revealed Thanos planned to kill half the universe's population and was already on his way to Earth.
• Li Feng named Thanos's Black Order and said even Odin did not dare underestimate Thanos; Fury realized Li Feng had formed a legion to counter the group.
• Stark inferred that Li Feng had concealed the threat because Earth was too weak to act on the information, then gave him test tubes of divinity extracted from the Black and White Demons.
• Stark said he needed Li Feng's help to finish the Regret Machine using the Time Locator.

Stark and Li Feng tested the Time Locator, which sent them to a future where Earth had been shattered. They encountered Coulson and Melinda May aboard a spaceship and learned that Quake had destroyed Earth, leaving Li Feng and Stark to consider how to repair the damage.

• Stark explained that the Time Locator could locate a point in time, and he asked Li Feng to help test it.
• Li Feng sent Fury and Brandt away, then he and Stark activated the Time Locator and emerged in space near the ruins of Earth.
• Stark and Li Feng spotted a spaceship, and Li Feng secretly boarded it before discovering Coulson and Melinda May aboard.
• Coulson told Li Feng that a huge white stone had swallowed him and Melinda May, while Stark joined them and asked who had destroyed Earth.
• An older woman identified Quake as the cause, and Li Feng claimed he would clean up Darcy's mess as Stark pointed out the scale of the destruction.

Li Feng returned after seventy years and found Kreacher gravely injured, while Strange explained how Earth was shattered and Thanos attacked. Kreacher gave Li Feng the Time Stone, and Strange revealed he had entered a repeating time loop with Thanos in Kreacher’s place.

• In 2091, Kreacher sensed Li Feng’s return and tried to leave with the Eye of Agamotto, but Strange stopped him and warned that the Time Stone was sustaining his life.
• On the spaceship, Tess recognized Li Feng as a Mage, and Li Feng sensed Strange’s energy and teleported to Kamar-Taj.
• Li Feng reunited with the aged Kreacher, found his life force and soul badly damaged, and used the Infinity Gauntlet to treat him.
• Kreacher presented Li Feng with the Time Stone, but Li Feng refused to take it because doing so would end the spell preserving Kreacher’s life.
• Strange explained that Darcy’s clash with General Talbot shattered Earth, destroyed the Three Sanctums, and left the fragments protected by Mordo’s spell.
• Strange recounted that Thanos invaded after Ragnarok and that Kreacher entered Strange’s repeating Time Spell in his place to keep Thanos from obtaining the Time Stone.

Li Feng struggled to save Kreacher after Kreacher sacrificed himself to protect the Time Stone, while Strange explained Kamar-Taj’s plans to restore Earth. Kreacher chose to die, and Li Feng prepared to hunt down the Kree in his grief and rage.

• Li Feng beat Strange for proposing that Kreacher guard the Eye of Agamotto, then scolded Kreacher for risking his life and learned that his soul and life force were failing.
• Strange explained that the Kree controlled Earth’s food supply and that Kamar-Taj had grown strong enough to consider restoring Earth and reducing its dependence on the Eye of Agamotto.
• Kreacher offered Li Feng the Eye of Agamotto so he could use the Time Stone, but Li Feng returned it, choosing Kreacher over the chance to obtain the Stone.
• Kreacher turned into starlight and died despite Li Feng’s efforts to stop him, while Strange urged Li Feng to respect his choice.
• Li Feng placed the Time Stone in the Infinity Gauntlet and demanded to know where the Kree were.

Kaecilius learned that Strange and Li Feng had entered The Lighthouse, and he hoped to exploit the Infinity Stones Li Feng carried. Li Feng beat Kaecilius unconscious despite his threats, while Strange and a Kree soldier waited for the alarm to bring help—only for Iron Man to arrive.

• A Kree soldier showed Kaecilius footage of Li Feng slaughtering Kree soldiers alongside Strange, and Kaecilius recognized the Infinity Gauntlet and its five stones.
• Kaecilius planned to use the humans in The Lighthouse as hostages and capture Li Feng, but Li Feng and Strange arrived before he could act.
• Li Feng tossed the injured Sinnara at Kaecilius, who threatened to destroy The Lighthouse unless Strange killed Li Feng.
• Strange mocked Kaecilius's threat, and Li Feng kicked him down and beat him unconscious while demanding rare metals.
• Strange ate cherry tomatoes and invited a Kree soldier to join him, while the soldier secretly sounded the alarm.
• Iron Man flew into the hall in response to the alarm, leaving the soldier stunned by the string of unexpected visitors.