Chapter Summaries

After a year of cultivation, Li Feng received Zhao Zheng’s request for help against Sushi Country’s supernatural forces and the foreign armies gathering there. Li Feng joined Zhao Zheng’s camp and suggested capturing the allied soldiers to use as miners instead of killing them.

• Li Feng spent a year cultivating in the Eternal Spring, purifying his Mana and gaining a glimpse of the Refining Qi into Spirit realm.
• A soldier delivered Zhao Zheng’s letter, explaining that Onmyoji and their Shikigami were killing Zhao Zheng’s troops while foreign countries sent reinforcements to Sushi Country.
• Li Feng agreed to help, had Kreacher pack their belongings, and Apparated with the messenger to Zhao Zheng’s captured city.
• Zhao Zheng welcomed Li Feng at his command tent and showed him a map marked with the allied countries’ reinforcements.
• Li Feng handed Zhao Zheng the Oracle Bone Book and proposed capturing the allied soldiers and sending them to work in the mines.

Li Feng warned Zhao Zheng that Sushi Country’s apparently obedient miners might be hiding a threat, and Zhao Zheng began reconsidering how safe his rule was. The chapter ended with Zhao Zheng sending Li Feng away so he could think over the danger.

• Zhao Zheng told Li Feng that captured dwarves from Sushi Country worked obediently in his mines and described how they stoned a miner who had gone out to dig wild vegetables.
• Li Feng cautioned Zhao Zheng that the miners’ servility could conceal a willingness to betray him, then jokingly suggested training them to bow even in battle.
• Li Feng offered to take Sushi Country’s people to cultivate a Vengeful Spirit, but Zhao Zheng refused because he needed them to support his soldiers and help them start families.
• Li Feng questioned whether the miner’s death had been staged to let an Onmyoji observe Zhao Zheng, and Zhao Zheng considered that the miners might have killed the man to silence him.
• Li Feng warned that Sushi Country’s people could turn against Zhao Zheng if a stronger enemy or new technology threatened his power, and Zhao Zheng sent him away to think.

Li Feng learned that Zhao Zheng’s cultivation technique could not take him into the Innate Realm, then spent his three idle days exploring a nearby Sushi Country city. After being unnerved by women’s traditional makeup, he returned to camp and refused dinner when he saw white steamed buns.

• Li Feng asked Zhao Zheng for later cultivation techniques and advice, and Zhao Zheng said reaching the Innate Realm depended on personal comprehension of the Heavenly Dao.
• Li Feng visited the warehouse, gave Amulets to Zhao Zheng’s guards, and learned they were inventorying spellcasting materials for a plan three days later.
• Li Feng flew to a prosperous city in Sushi Country to look at women, but mistook their shaved eyebrows, blackened teeth, and white makeup for a frightening appearance.
• Li Feng returned to Zhao Zheng’s Qin Empire, slept through the day on a rooftop, and refused dinner after seeing white steamed buns.

Zhao Zheng’s search for the mine infiltrator led to a failed camp hunt, while Li Feng was ambushed by a masked assassin. Kreacher saved Li Feng by taking the sword strike, and Li Feng brought him to the Eternal Spring, where he began to recover.

• Zhao Zheng learned that the miners involved in the deaths had all died mysteriously, then ordered tighter security and a search for the infiltrator.
• Zhao Zheng’s soldiers exposed a fake pregnant woman disguised as an infiltrator, but the assassin killed several soldiers and escaped.
• Li Feng drank beer with Kreacher on a rooftop and spoke about missing home before a masked assassin charged at him.
• Kreacher leaped in front of Li Feng and was stabbed by the assassin’s soul-devouring sword.
• Li Feng froze Kreacher in time, fought off the assassin with his staff and Fiendfyre, and escaped through a Portal to the Eternal Spring.
• Li Feng released the Time Stop Spell and watched Kreacher begin to heal, then discovered the sword had turned his long staff into a Strange Scythe.

Li Feng led his Scarab Beetles into Sushi Country to draw out the Onmyoji and ninjas who might know who had attacked Zhao Zheng. After the swarm surrounded a city and began devouring its outskirts, Li Feng deliberately kept its people alive and sent distress signals, forcing Sushi Country's Emperor to decide how to respond.

• Li Feng admitted he did not know Sushi Country's geography and sent the Scarab Beetles in a random direction to lure supernaturals into revealing themselves.
• Zhao Zheng ordered ammunition distributed so his army could attack when Li Feng's actions drew out Sushi Country's forces.
• Li Feng ordered the Scarab Beetles to devastate the countryside, driving animals and fleeing residents toward a nearby city.
• Li Feng turned some wounded residents into Vengeful Spirits, then sent Dementors into the city to search for supernaturals, but Wangcai found none.
• Li Feng surrounded the city without breaking through its wall, intending to keep residents sending distress signals until the Emperor dispatched supernaturals.
• Sushi Country's Emperor faced pressure to rescue the besieged city despite recognizing that the Scarab Beetles were controlled and could not be stopped by a fence wall.

Li Feng discovered that the assassin’s blade contained a Nekomata and damaged his long staff while trying to remove it, so he made do with the Scythe and healed Kreacher. After Kreacher recovered, Li Feng began assembling a vast Scarab Beetle swarm as reinforcements for his revenge against Sushi Country, while Zhao Zheng realized the swarm’s real strength depended on Li Feng staying alive.

• Li Feng inspected the blade, found a sealed Nekomata inside, and learned that the Skull Mask could shield its wearer from the spirit’s instincts.
• Li Feng used the mask to pull at the blade, but its magic-breaking ability damaged the long staff’s runes, leaving the staff fragile and unable to knock people out safely.
• Li Feng repeatedly cast Healing Spells on Kreacher, who recovered overnight and joked that Li Feng looked like the Grim Reaper in his black Cloak, Skull Mask, and Scythe.
• Li Feng took Kreacher to the City of the Dead, summoned Scarab Beetles, and sent them underground near the border between the Qin Empire and Sushi Country while searching the desert for more.
• After Li Feng exhausted his Mana and returned to the Qin Empire to recover, Zhao Zheng observed hundreds of Dementors guarding him and concluded that defeating Li Feng was necessary to stop his Scarab Beetle swarm.

Abe Sukeyoshi organized a negotiation with Li Feng while secretly preparing to assassinate him, and Li Feng waited as the delegation approached. Zhao Zheng told Li Feng to continue the siege, leaving the assassination plan underway.

• Hirohito put Abe Sukeyoshi in charge of negotiating with Li Feng after Abe argued that talks would show Sushi Country was trying to rescue the city’s people.
• Abe Sukeyoshi planned a public show of goodwill and a secret attempt to kill Li Feng while framing Zhao Zheng.
• Zhao Zheng told Li Feng to continue the siege and return to the Qin Empire once every hour, so Li Feng stayed to await the Onmyoji.
• Abe Sukeyoshi’s delegation reached Li Feng, and Shida Daixiong recognized the mask and blade Li Feng had taken from him in an earlier encounter.
• Shida Daixiong claimed Li Feng was vulnerable to a close-range attack, and Abe assigned him to lead the assassination while ordering messengers to lure Li Feng down.

Li Feng uncovered Shida Daixiong’s second assassination attempt, turned the attackers against one another, and captured the Shikigami’s memories. After learning that Onmyoji could modify Shikigami and control them through techniques worth adapting, he headed for Abe Sukeyoshi to extract his memories and pursue those methods.

• The three Death Warriors ignored the interpreter’s request for warmer clothes as they approached Li Feng, while Shida Daixiong and his Ninjas moved in invisibly to ambush him.
• Wangcai detected the hidden attackers, and Li Feng used his Mystic Eyes to identify Shida Daixiong and the Shikigami concealed within a Death Warrior.
• The Death Warriors and Ninjas attacked Li Feng, but he enchanted the Death Warriors to turn on their allies and sent Scarab Beetles after the fleeing Shida Daixiong.
• Li Feng restrained Shida Daixiong with Scarab Beetles, killed the Ninjas, and knocked the Shikigami’s Astral Body away before extracting its memories and burning it with Fiendfyre.
• Li Feng learned that Onmyoji modified Shikigami and controlled them in ways he could apply to his Dementors and Slave Contract, then captured Abe Sukeyoshi, extracted his memories, and stomped him to death so he could question him through Necrolanguage.

Li Feng enslaved Abe Sukeyoshi and the interpreter after destroying their forces in Sushi Country, then researched ways to modify Dementors. Zhao Zheng revealed that Li Feng's plague had killed Hirohito and devastated Kyoto, ruining his plans to control Sushi Country through a puppet Emperor, so Li Feng decided to leave for a place with hot springs.

• Li Feng extracted memories from Abe Sukeyoshi and the Onmyoji, while the Ninjas escaped and he infected them with curses and the Black Death.
• Li Feng revived the interpreter and Abe Sukeyoshi in the Qin Empire and bound them with Slave Contracts.
• Li Feng spent several days studying Shikigami and spells, then devised a technique for modifying living creatures and prepared to test it on a Dementor.
• Zhao Zheng told Li Feng that Hirohito and most of Kyoto's population had died from the plague, and explained that this had destroyed his plan to rule Sushi Country through Hirohito as a puppet.
• Li Feng shrugged off Zhao Zheng's anger and told Kreacher to pack for their move to a place with hot springs.

After nearly two years in the Mummy World, Li Feng returned to the Marvel Universe and found Stark near death after a battle at Stark Industries. He revived Stark with Eternal Spring and reunited with Potts and Coulson.

• Li Feng spent months modifying Dementors and repeatedly raiding Sushi Country before his time in the Mummy World ran out.
• Li Feng and Kreacher returned through the Transdimensional Portal, and Li Feng heard a woman named Jenny calling for help, possibly Janet Pym.
• Li Feng opened a Portal to New York and spotted a beam above Stark Industries, then found the building wrecked and Stark unconscious with his Arc Reactor extinguished.
• Li Feng gave Stark a drop of Eternal Spring, and Stark regained consciousness.
• Potts and Coulson arrived, and Li Feng reassured Potts that Stark would survive while explaining the Gourd's contents to Coulson.

Li Feng refused to sell Stark the Eternal Spring, then used magic to restore most of Stark Industries and summoned Obadiah’s soul projection from the Underworld. He left Obadiah under his control while demanding his bank details, shocking Stark, Potts, and Coulson.

• Stark tried to buy the Eternal Spring, but Li Feng refused and the two traded threats over Stark’s motorhome and Li Feng’s place to live.
• Potts told Li Feng that rebuilding Stark Industries would delay work on his lakeside property, so Li Feng offered to restore the damaged company in ten minutes.
• Li Feng cast Reparo, restoring the building and the Iron Monger, but could not repair the powerful Arc Reactor.
• Li Feng summoned Obadiah’s soul projection and threatened to rob him of his bank cards and passwords.
• Obadiah asked whether giving Li Feng his money would earn his freedom, but Li Feng intended to keep him under control.

Li Feng sent Obadiah back to Hell after extracting his financial information, then helped Stark through another bout of life-threatening weakness. Fury discovered signs of an invisible presence and tasked Coulson with investigating Li Feng, while Stark confronted Li Feng about his dealings with S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Li Feng forced Obadiah to reveal his bank account number and safe password, then sent him back to Hell.
• Stark weakened as the Eternal Spring could no longer keep up with his loss of vitality, so Li Feng eased his pain and gave him a Healing Potion before taking him home through a Portal.
• Fury landed on Stark Industries' rooftop, discussed the Eternal Spring with Coulson, and found child-sized footprints that Coulson could not explain.
• Fury identified the footprints as Kreacher's and ordered Coulson to investigate Li Feng's spells and invisible subordinates.
• At Stark's home, Li Feng told Stark he had visited a pyramid to look for Scarab Beetles and refused to reveal information about the Magic World.
• Stark accused Li Feng of staging the display of his resurrection spell to attract S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attention, and Li Feng called S.H.I.E.L.D. a tourist attraction.

Stark renovated Li Feng’s motorhome, while secretly installing a Locator in its electronic dashboard. Li Feng then began modifying Dementors to strengthen their soul-related abilities, and left Kreacher responsible for the remaining 364 after completing the first.

• Stark showed Li Feng the motorhome’s renovated interior, including a kitchen, a Small Brewing Machine, and an electronic dashboard that secretly contained a Locator.
• Li Feng brought the motorhome to the desert and, after eating at Stark’s house, began modifying a Dementor in his laboratory.
• Li Feng developed the Dementor’s ability to sense emotions toward sensing souls and aimed to make its Kiss devour souls, while leaving its Frost Aura unchanged.
• After three days, Li Feng completed the first Dementor’s modification and asked Kreacher whether he had memorized the process.
• Li Feng handed Kreacher the Scythe and ordered him to modify the remaining 364 Dementors, then went to sleep.

Li Feng received a late-night call from Fury, who arranged to meet him at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters to discuss buying the Eternal Spring. Fury suspected Li Feng planned to target Tri-Wing and prepared Coulson to receive Kreacher while he met Li Feng alone.

• Li Feng answered Fury's call while groggy and let slip that it was nighttime, leading Fury to infer he was in Afghanistan and track his location.
• Fury asked to buy something from Li Feng, who guessed he wanted the Eternal Spring and claimed it was too precious for Fury to afford.
• Fury proposed meeting at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, and Li Feng agreed to visit after waking up.
• Fury summoned Coulson and explained that Li Feng had a House-elf servant named Kreacher who could remain invisible and might have ways to evade their detection systems.
• Fury told Coulson he believed Li Feng intended to target Tri-Wing, then assigned Coulson to receive Kreacher while he spoke with Li Feng alone.

Li Feng arrived at S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Tri-Wing Building with Coulson while Fury watched for an excuse to arrest him. During a restroom stop, Li Feng secretly sent Vengeful Spirits into the building to find and possess Living Corpses, leaving Fury unaware of his plan.

• Coulson picked up Li Feng near Stark Industries, where Li Feng teased him about Natasha and asked why she was visiting Stark Industries.
• Coulson drove Li Feng to the Tri-Wing Building while Fury monitored the surveillance system and prepared to arrest him if he detected suspicious energy.
• Li Feng entered the restroom and released Vengeful Spirits from a black Gourd, ordering them to search for Living Corpses and possess them when possible.
• The Vengeful Spirits passed through the wall as Coulson and Fury discussed whether Li Feng might bring invisible subordinates into the building.
• Li Feng left the restroom without triggering the detection system, and Fury ordered Coulson to bring him over.

Li Feng exposed Fury’s double and thwarted S.H.I.E.L.D.’s setup, then discovered Peggy Carter’s file while Fury monitored his magic. The real Fury remained in hiding as Coulson reported that Li Feng seemed to know why Natasha was going to Stark’s company.

• Fury’s double shot tranquilizer darts at Li Feng, but Li Feng’s Shield Charm reflected them and knocked the fake Fury unconscious.
• Li Feng recognized the double, dragged him across the office, and spun a story to Coulson and the Special Operations Unit about Fury shooting himself to sleep.
• The real Fury ordered Coulson to clear the office after learning Li Feng had seen through the double.
• While waiting for Fury, Li Feng opened a computer file labeled Peggy Carter as Fury watched his detected magic on a monitoring screen.
• Coulson told Fury that Li Feng seemed to know why Natasha was heading to Stark’s company.

Fury apologized to Li Feng and asked him to use Eternal Spring to ease Peggy Carter’s suffering, while probing Li Feng’s motives and supernatural knowledge. Li Feng refused to explain the Otherworlds, but confirmed that Hell and Demons existed, leaving Fury with more to consider.

• Fury ordered Coulson to buy Li Feng the beer he had previously drunk, hoping S.H.I.E.L.D. could recover his DNA from it.
• Li Feng mocked Fury about the double, and Fury confronted him about deliberately ruining the double’s artificial face before asking what he knew about Peggy Carter.
• Fury asked Li Feng to sell Eternal Spring to ease Peggy Carter’s pain and offered to negotiate a reward from Stark, but Li Feng rejected his assumptions about wanting Stark Industries shares.
• Fury explained that S.H.I.E.L.D. watched Stark because of his family ties, technology, and public identity as Iron Man, and admitted he had sent Natasha to protect him and investigate Li Feng.
• Li Feng said he had no purpose in approaching Stark and claimed he could resurrect Howard Stark if he wanted shares in Stark Industries.
• Fury questioned Li Feng about souls, Heaven, Hell, and God; Li Feng said he had not seen Heaven or angels but confirmed that Hell existed and that Sanctum Sorcerers fought Demons.

Li Feng explained the limits of his Resurrection Spell and reassured Fury that Bob had no soul, leaving Fury worried about what would happen to him after death. Li Feng then asked to study the Tesseract, and Fury wanted to know what it really was before agreeing to lend it.

• Fury questioned Li Feng about resurrection and tried to learn how the Sanctum Sorcerers monitored the world, but Li Feng refused to reveal their methods.
• Li Feng said his Resurrection Spell could only let the dead speak briefly because Hell managed their souls, and Fury deduced that forcibly taking a soul back would provoke Hell.
• Fury worried that S.H.I.E.L.D.'s resurrected soldiers might draw Hell's attention, but Li Feng explained that Bob had no soul and Hell had no claim over him.
• Li Feng asked Fury for help and revealed that he wanted to study the Tesseract, which Fury's big cat had swallowed.
• Fury asked Li Feng to explain the Tesseract's true nature, and Li Feng offered to explain if Fury would lend it to him for a few days.

Li Feng explained the Tesseract’s spatial powers to Fury and sought to borrow it so he could study the Law of Space. Fury weighed the risks and benefits, then asked how much Eternal Spring water Li Feng would offer.

• Fury proposed having Coulson follow Li Feng in exchange for Li Feng teaching him magic, and Li Feng countered with a trade involving the Eternal Spring.
• Fury examined Li Feng’s Green Gourd and questioned him about its runes and the Tesseract.
• Li Feng explained that the Tesseract contained the Law of Space and could enable spatial travel and other feats beyond ordinary magic.
• Fury realized Li Feng had known the Tesseract’s secret for twelve years and wondered how powerful he had become.
• Li Feng offered to let S.H.I.E.L.D. observe him using the Tesseract, and Fury asked how much Eternal Spring water he could provide.

Li Feng negotiated with Fury for Eternal Spring and limited Resurrection Spell services, then tried to discover whether S.H.I.E.L.D. had any Mages. He left with Fury paying for his night out, while Coulson took him toward Broadway, unaware Li Feng preferred a movie to an opera.

• Fury secured three drops of Eternal Spring and ten free Resurrection Spell castings from Li Feng, while Li Feng received six days to comprehend the Law of Space.
• Li Feng warned Fury and Coulson that Eternal Spring needed magical preservation, but their controlled reactions left him unable to tell whether S.H.I.E.L.D. had a Mage.
• Li Feng transferred one drop of Eternal Spring into Coulson's vacuum test tube for research and kept the other two drops.
• Fury ended the meeting and offered to pay for Li Feng's food, drinks, and entertainment to prevent him from demonstrating magic to the researchers.
• Coulson drove Li Feng to Manhattan's Broadway area, expecting to take him to dinner and an opera, while Li Feng would rather watch a blockbuster.