Chapter Summaries

Shen Fei confronted Muzan at the Ubuyashiki estate and followed him into the Infinity Castle, where he trapped the demons inside a Mirror Dimension. After Nakime died and the castle began to collapse, Shen Fei faced the Upper Moons and swiftly tore Kaigaku apart, leaving him to regenerate.

• Shen Fei waited near the Ubuyashiki estate as Muzan arrived, then attacked him with a red Nichirin Blade before Kagaya Ubuyashiki could detonate the explosives.
• Muzan called for Nakime, who transported him and Shen Fei into the Infinity Castle; Shen Fei enclosed the castle in a Mirror Dimension.
• Muzan repeatedly ordered Nakime to send him out, but she died before she could respond, and the Infinity Castle began collapsing around them.
• Doma assigned Kaigaku to fight Shen Fei while the other Upper Moons watched.
• Kaigaku attacked with Thunder Breathing, but Shen Fei used Thunderclap and Flash to slice him apart and left him to recover.

Shen Fei fought the Upper Moon Demons in the Infinity Castle, repeatedly cutting them down despite their attacks and regeneration. He exposed Hantengu’s hidden true body and impaled him, leaving the other demons too wary to attack.

• Kaigaku brooded over the insults from Shen Fei and Doma while Kokushibo showed no interest in his fate.
• Gyokko attacked Shen Fei with Water Prison Pot, but Shen Fei escaped and cut him down before striking Hantengu.
• Akaza charged Shen Fei and lost his arm, shoulder, and head, while Doma’s Creeping Lotus attack ended with Shen Fei cutting him down too.
• Kaigaku, Gyokko, Hantengu, and Akaza launched a joint ranged attack after recovering, but Shen Fei evaded it and defeated them again, destroying Gyokko’s jars and locating Hantengu’s hidden body.
• Shen Fei burned Hantengu’s trees, pierced his exposed true body with his Nichirin Blade, and taunted him until the other Upper Moon Demons stopped attacking.

Shen Fei defeated the Upper Moon Demons, obtained Kokushibo’s knowledge of Sun Breathing, and prepared to confront Kibutsuji Muzan. The chapter ended with Muzan attacking Shen Fei inside his room.

• Shen Fei effortlessly defeated Akaza, Doma, and Gyokko after silencing Hantengu.
• Shen Fei broke Kokushibo’s sword and severed his arms with one strike, leaving Kokushibo to reflect on his rivalry with Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
• Shen Fei bound the six Upper Moon Demons and transmuted them, then hypnotized Kokushibo to obtain the Sun Breathing training method.
• Shen Fei learned that Yoriichi Tsugikuni had nearly exterminated the demons and wounded Muzan so badly that he needed more than a hundred years to recover.
• Muzan cursed the defeated Upper Moon Demons from hiding, but Shen Fei found him in his room, where Muzan launched an attack and demanded to know why the Demon Slayer Corps kept hunting demons.

Shen Fei defeated Muzan, learned that Yoriichi Tsugikuni’s wounds had tormented the Demon King for centuries, and used Muzan’s blood to complete his research before destroying it. News of Muzan’s death and the disappearance of demons reached the Demon Slayer Corps, where the Pillars realized Shen Fei had succeeded.

• Muzan argued that demons should be treated like victims of natural disasters, but Shen Fei cut him apart and discovered the lingering wounds Yoriichi Tsugikuni had left on him.
• Shen Fei beheaded Muzan, who overcame decapitation and regrew his head, then used the Op-Op Fruit to split and disable him.
• Shen Fei pretended to have been Muzan’s original doctor, sealed Muzan’s head, and psychologically taunted him before studying his blood for a week.
• Shen Fei analyzed Muzan’s blood, destroyed it, and found that Muzan’s death had killed every demon still under his control.
• At Demon Slayer Corps headquarters, the Wind Pillar read Shen Fei’s message announcing Muzan’s death, and Lady Amane reported that the demons at Mt. Fujikasane had disappeared.

After Muzan's death, Shen Fei returned to the Demon Slayer Corps, revealed that he had awakened a mark, and used the Philosopher's Stone to reduce Shinobu's poison. He left to travel and investigate a way around the mark's lifespan cost, then found that the eastern country he visited was not in need of his intervention.

• Kagaya Ubuyashiki ordered the Corps to confirm that demons were gone and search for Shen Fei, who had spent a week studying Sun Breathing and the Transparent World.
• Shen Fei returned to headquarters, where Kagaya Ubuyashiki realized he had awakened a mark; Shen Fei explained how it had helped him kill Muzan and said the mark's side effect might have a solution.
• Shen Fei used the Philosopher's Stone to lower Shinobu's wisteria poison to a level ordinary medicine could treat.
• After several days at the Butterfly Mansion, Shen Fei gave Shinobu his Nichirin Blade and left to travel and seek a solution to the mark's effects.
• Shen Fei used the Quinjet to visit an eastern country, learned it was not being bullied, and decided not to interfere.

As the Triwizard Tournament began, Shen Fei focused on helping Ada and Robin learn magic, bought winged horses for Stark and Pepper, and left Hogwarts after Harry was selected as a contestant. Back in the Marvel Universe, he saw news of a city-center gunfight and recognized that his enemies had made their move.

• Shen Fei watched Hogwarts prepare for the Triwizard Tournament and planned to have Ada and Robin learn useful spells such as Apparition and the Undetectable Extension Charm.
• Shen Fei gave up on hunting a dragon, bought dragon meat and two winged horses, and arranged for the horses to be gifts for Stark and Pepper.
• Ron invited Hermione to the dance, while Harry's name emerged from the Goblet of Fire and he was made to compete despite objections from the visiting schools.
• Shen Fei dealt with Rita Skeeter, left Ada and Robin at Hogwarts, and returned to the Marvel Universe to give Stark and Pepper the winged horses.
• Shen Fei watched a report about a city-center gunfight and recognized the destroyed black car, realizing that his enemies had made their move.

As Project Insight began, Shen Fei intervened at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters and confronted Pierce about Hydra’s plan to use the Zola Algorithm to kill at least a hundred million people. He exposed his knowledge of Hydra’s hidden branches and warned Pierce that targeting him and other powerful figures had made the plan personal.

• Shen Fei watched reports of Fury’s ambush and weighed whether he could secretly take one or more Helicarriers.
• Using information from Whitehall, Shen Fei learned that Pierce had moved Project Insight’s launch forward after Fury’s agents disappeared.
• As Captain’s message reached S.H.I.E.L.D. staff, Hydra members continued working and the Helicarriers began to rise.
• Shen Fei broke into Fury’s office, disarmed Pierce, and took control of the room as Pierce revealed Project Insight to the Security Council.
• Shen Fei challenged Pierce’s justification for killing millions, while Natasha revealed herself among the Security Council members.
• Shen Fei explained Hydra’s multiple hidden branches and told Pierce that targeting him and other powerful people had provoked their response.

Shen Fei explained that Project Insight had never been secret from powerful beings and helped stop the Helicarriers while Fury exposed Hydra within S.H.I.E.L.D. The chapter ended with nations mobilizing against Hydra as Shen Fei secretly kept one Helicarrier.

• Shen Fei told Pierce and the Security Council that Project Insight had provoked Mephisto, Lucifer, Michael, and other powerful beings, making the plan doomed from the start.
• Fury arrived, confirmed that Hydra had deeply infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., and said he had come to deal with more urgent matters.
• Shen Fei joined the fight on the Helicarriers, rescued Sherry from a Winter Soldier, and defeated her opponent.
• Shen Fei shrank one Helicarrier and hid it, then created a fake and sent it burning into the sea while the other two exchanged fire.
• Fury released intelligence exposing Hydra, prompting the Five Great Nations and other countries to begin pursuing its agents.

After S.H.I.E.L.D. collapsed amid the exposure of Hydra, Shen Fei learned that Hydra was rescuing its leaders and attacking S.H.I.E.L.D. facilities. He went to the Fridge, where he found Ian Quinn hidden on its secret lowest level and uncovered the importance of the Gravitonium he had discovered.

• Fury released S.H.I.E.L.D.'s secret files, had Pierce taken into custody, and met with Shen Fei, who identified Fury's cat as a juvenile Flerken and repeated his story about Lucifer and the others.
• Hydra agents ambushed Pierce's military escort and rescued him, while Hydra leaders including Malick fled and Hydra members attacked S.H.I.E.L.D. bases.
• Hand repelled Hydra's assault on the S.H.I.E.L.D. center, and Shen Fei arranged for his legal team to help her.
• Shen Fei chose to visit the Fridge, where Hydra attackers freed prisoners and stole dangerous items before leaving.
• Shen Fei opened the Fridge's hidden hundred-and-first floor and pulled Ian Quinn out, finding the man tied to the dangerous substance Gravitonium.

Shen Fei tracked down the Hydra leaders hiding with Malick and confronted them with Hydra’s history and Hive’s true origins. After revealing that he had killed Hive on the planet where he was exiled, Shen Fei prepared to kill Malick, Pierce, and Whitehall.

• Shen Fei used Legilimency on Ian Quinn, learned that Doctor Franklin Hall had discovered Gravitonium, and shot Ian dead.
• Alexander Pierce and Whitehall met with Malick at his secluded villa, where Malick told Pierce to lie low after the failure of Project Insight.
• Shen Fei appeared in the villa through an Arcane Gate, knocked out Malick’s bodyguard Giyera, and prevented Malick from summoning his guards.
• Shen Fei took Malick, Pierce, and Whitehall through an Arcane Gate to Hive’s barren exoplanet and told them he had killed Hive there.
• Shen Fei explained that Hive had been a Kree-created Inhuman slave and declared that he would kill the Hydra leaders.

Shen Fei recovered Gravitonium and Hydra’s trove of Kree technology, then killed Hale and her daughter after discovering their connection to Hydra. He destroyed Hydra Academy and left with the technology, while considering whether to use its signal generator to contact the Colonisers Alliance.

• Shen Fei took the Gravitonium and other dangerous items from Hydra after burying Pierce, Malick, and Whitehall.
• Talbot arrested a traitorous lieutenant general at a United States Air Force base, while Hale kept the hard drive he had given her.
• Hale became the highest leader of Hydra Academy and examined files revealing a Kree signal generator that could contact distant Kree and enable spatial transportation.
• Shen Fei disarmed Hale and killed her daughter when the girl attacked him, then killed Hale as she tried to retaliate.
• Shen Fei destroyed Hydra Academy and recovered the Kree device, a particle generator, and other items from a secret Hydra warehouse.
• Shen Fei considered contacting the Colonisers Alliance but decided it was probably too early, recalling that Talbot later defeated its leaders before dying in space.

After S.H.I.E.L.D. dissolved, Shen Fei recruited Agent Hand and brought Rebecca into his laboratory while considering his growing resources and the Avengers' uncertain future. At Stark's villa, he declined to join the Avengers but offered logistical support and asked Stark to consider two potential recruits.

• Shen Fei reflected that Hydra's leaders had fallen but declined to spend his time eliminating its remaining operatives, and he discussed how Kingpin benefited from corruption and government interests.
• Shen Fei recruited Agent Hand after she signed his contract, then vouched for Rebecca and offered her a place in his laboratory.
• Shen Fei noted that Helen Cho's successful Nanotechnology research could support the laboratory and make it easier for him to carry equipment.
• Shen Fei considered the Avengers' independence vulnerable to government intervention, even without the Sokovia incident or Civil War.
• At Stark's villa, Shen Fei refused to join the Avengers but offered logistical support and asked Stark to meet two people he wanted to recommend.

Shen Fei brought Wanda and Pietro into the Avengers’ fight against Hydra while repairing a captured Helicarrier and developing Nano-Armor. He traded Gravitonium for cosmic knowledge on Xandar, spotted Rocket and Groot, and then observed Wakanda’s concealed technological power.

• Shen Fei recommended Wanda and Pietro for the Avengers, and Captain and the others welcomed them to the team.
• Shen Fei repaired the captured Helicarrier, set it aside, and used nanotechnology to upgrade his Ant-Man Suit and Iron Armor.
• Hydra released imprisoned Inhumans and mental patients around the world as the Avengers prepared to confront its remaining forces.
• Shen Fei sold Gravitonium to a broker on Xandar and received cosmic knowledge and information about the material’s uses.
• Shen Fei saw Rocket Raccoon and Groot capture a wanted criminal on Xandar, then decided to buy alien computers.
• Shen Fei observed Wakanda and recognized that its apparent poverty concealed advanced technology and a force field that hid the nation.

Shen Fei infiltrated Wakanda, took Vibranium and Heart-Shaped Herb, and arranged for Ulysses Klaue and Erik to attack while Black Panther defeated them. Back at Stark's villa, Stark revealed his Ultron global defense plan, which the Avengers opposed, but Stark refused to abandon it.

• Shen Fei used Ulysses Klaue's information to infiltrate Wakanda and take two tons of Vibranium and the Heart-Shaped Herb.
• Shen Fei sent Ulysses Klaue and Erik to attack Wakanda, then took advantage of the battle to carry out his plan.
• Black Panther arrived, defeated the attackers, and killed Erik while Shen Fei escaped with the materials.
• Shen Fei planned to have Wapol combine Vibranium with other materials to make powerful armor.
• Stark demonstrated his new Nano-Armor to Shen Fei and the Avengers, then explained that he wanted to build the Ultron global defense system.
• Captain, Natasha, and the other Avengers challenged Stark's plan, but Stark insisted it would protect world peace, and they parted on bad terms.

Shen Fei considered the danger of Stark creating Ultron, then met with Coulson’s surviving S.H.I.E.L.D. team after they asked for his help. Coulson showed him footage of Ghost Rider, and the team learned that her power came from Mephisto; Shen Fei refused to help stop her for punishing sinners.

• Shen Fei concluded that Stark might create Ultron but thought the absence of the Mind Stone would likely keep it from becoming an intelligent lifeform.
• Coulson contacted Shen Fei for help, and Shen Fei joined Coulson, Skye, Fitz, Simmons, Tripplett, Lance Hunter, and Mike aboard their plane.
• Coulson showed Shen Fei satellite footage of Ghost Rider and the bizarre deaths left in her wake.
• Shen Fei identified the Ghost Riders in the footage and told Coulson he would not help target Ghost Rider because she killed sinners.
• Shen Fei explained that Ghost Rider’s power came from a contract with Mephisto, leaving Lance shocked that Hell existed.

Shen Fei investigated Hell’s presence in Texas and discovered that Blackheart was seeking the San Venganza Contract. He defeated Blackheart’s demons, then turned to face Blackheart himself.

• Shen Fei told Coulson that Ghost Rider judged the guilty and recommended leaving him alone, then visited Skye, Fitz, and Simmons aboard the aircraft.
• Coulson summoned Shen Fei to investigate a Texas bar where more than a dozen people had died, and Shen Fei sensed an aura from Hell at the scene.
• Shen Fei, Skye, and Hunter tracked Ghost Rider, watched Johnny Blaze evade police, and waited until he left a cemetery before approaching Carter Slade.
• Shen Fei confronted Carter Slade and revealed he had come to take and destroy the San Venganza Contract before demons could claim it.
• Blackheart arrived with Abigail and Wallow, but Shen Fei destroyed both demons with Kamar-Taj magic and Fiendfyre.
• Blackheart attacked Shen Fei, who directed the Fiendfyre at him and noted that the demon prince was weaker in the human world than in Hell.

Shen Fei killed Blackheart with Fiendfyre and obtained the San Venganza Contract from Carter Slade. Back at S.H.I.E.L.D., he explained the contract’s history and why Hell would not easily invade Earth.

• Shen Fei overwhelmed Blackheart with Fiendfyre and watched him vanish, then waited for Mephisto to appear but saw no sign of him.
• Shen Fei asked Carter Slade for the San Venganza Contract, and Carter handed it over after asking whether Shen Fei could destroy it.
• Shen Fei returned to the Quinjet with the contract and told Hunter and Skye that he had handled everything, advising them to send people with little sin if they searched for Ghost Rider.
• At S.H.I.E.L.D. 616, Shen Fei explained Blackheart, Mephisto, Ghost Rider, and the contract to Coulson and the others while keeping Carter Slade’s identity secret.
• Shen Fei recounted how the residents of San Venganza had abused and killed a woman, bringing the once-devout town to ruin and creating the contract’s collection of sinful souls.

Shen Fei turned the San Venganza Contract into a Philosopher's Stone and discovered that its souls were so thoroughly corrupted that he could only use the stone as a consumable. He then returned to the Pirate World, paid the World Government's fee to retain his Seven Warlord privileges, and learned that Don Quixote's slave-catching team had come to his territory.

• Shen Fei explained San Venganza's history to Coulson, advised him to send a kind person to contact Ghost Rider, and departed.
• Shen Fei released the Contract's souls inside a transmutation circle, refined them into a powerful Philosopher's Stone, and found its energy too corrupt to absorb safely.
• Shen Fei decided to keep the stone as a consumable and saw that the released spirits had withered the island's vegetation.
• Shen Fei paid the World Government's agent the fee required to retain his Seven Warlord privileges.
• Shen Fei learned that Don Quixote's slave-catching team had arrived and reacted angrily to their presence.

Shen Fei disguised himself as Cloud and attacked slave-catching crews connected to Doflamingo and the World Government, freeing captives as he traveled toward Sabaody. After the Marines framed Cloud as the Bloody Butcher and issued a 100-million bounty, Shen Fei faced an approaching warship led by Vice Admiral Weasel.

• Shen Fei used a Hydra mask and a transformed greatsword to disguise himself as Cloud before attacking a Don Quixote slave-catching crew.
• Shen Fei forced the surviving captain to warn Doflamingo to stop the human auction house, then killed the crew and freed their captives.
• Shen Fei searched a World Government slave-catcher's mind and continued attacking slave-catching crews as he traveled toward Sabaody.
• Shen Fei learned the Marines had framed Cloud for indiscriminate killings and given him the epithet Bloody Butcher with a 100-million bounty.
• Shen Fei saw a Marine warship approach his island and identified its commander as elite Vice Admiral Weasel.

Shen Fei confronted Vice Admiral Weasel, provoking him by accusing the Marines of protecting slave trading before defeating and killing him. As Marines rushed to avenge Weasel, the story left Shen Fei facing the approaching soldiers.

• Shen Fei waited for Weasel’s warship and blocked the vice admiral’s opening sword wave with a powerful slash.
• Weasel confronted Shen Fei over his alleged crimes, and Shen Fei loudly accused the Marines of enabling slave trading in Sabaody.
• Weasel attacked Shen Fei repeatedly as Shen Fei continued denouncing Marine justice and the World Government’s protection of slave traders.
• Weasel and Shen Fei fought across the island, but Shen Fei’s Nano-Armor absorbed Weasel’s strike while Shen Fei wounded him with a greatsword.
• Shen Fei broke Weasel’s blade and beheaded him, prompting Marines aboard the warship to rush toward him.