Chapter Summaries

T'Challa drank the Heart-shaped Grass potion to seek the Black Panther God and inherit the wisdom of Wakanda's past kings. In the dream, he witnessed Xu Fan's overwhelming power before meeting his father, who led him toward the Black Panther God.

• T'Challa agreed to undergo the Heart-shaped Grass ritual, while Okoye and Wakabi worried about its risks.
• High Priest Zuli prepared the potion, and T'Challa drank it before sinking into a painful near-death state.
• T'Challa entered a dreamlike grassland and saw memories of Xu Fan arriving in Wakanda and tearing out the Vibranium ore vein.
• He witnessed Xu Fan unleash Susanoo and summon Sand Soldiers, leaving him convinced that Wakanda could not defeat him.
• T'Chaka appeared, calmed T'Challa, and told him the Black Panther God was waiting.

Xu Fan and Orochimaru brought an enhanced army through a portal into Wakanda, where Princess Shuri prepared the nation’s defenses. The enemy halted on the grasslands, and Shuri suspected they were waiting for Wakanda to assemble its forces.

• Xu Fan equipped Orochimaru’s force with Heart-shaped Grass enhancements, Cursed Seal users, Chakra bullets, and fighters including Kimimaro.
• Xu Fan opened a portal from the Land of Fire to Wakanda and sent Orochimaru, Kabuto Yakushi, Kimimaro, and the assembled troops through it.
• Xu Fan stayed behind as the army advanced across Wakanda’s grasslands and closed the portal after the last person crossed.
• Princess Shuri detected the enemy’s arrival, ordered Wakabi and the other tribal leaders to prepare for battle, and learned that the invaders had stopped instead of advancing.
• Princess Shuri suspected that the enemy was waiting for Wakanda to gather its army.

Princess Shuri learned that Xu Fan had returned with an army of over ten thousand, while T'Challa remained unconscious during his ceremony. In the dream realm, Bastet offered T'Challa five minutes without Xu Fan's magic as his only chance to save Wakanda.

• Princess Shuri warned her commanders that Xu Fan had returned with a legion and hurried to tell T'Challa's companions.
• Okoye and Wakabi left to buy time on the front lines while T'Challa's ceremony continued.
• T'Challa met Bastet in the dream realm and learned Xu Fan wielded powerful ancient White Magic.
• Bastet offered to sever Xu Fan's connection to the Vishanti for five minutes, and T'Challa accepted the chance to fight him.

After awakening with power from Black Panther God Bast, T'Challa prepared to face Xu Fan and defend Wakanda. Xu Fan bypassed Wakanda's energy barrier with a ring of fire, leaving the gathered warriors fearful as the battle began.

• T'Challa woke from his dream knowing Wakanda's situation and the power Bast had granted him.
• T'Challa ordered Shuri to remain behind and locate Xu Fan, then set out for the front lines in his Vibranium suit.
• T'Challa arrived as Wakanda's five tribes gathered, and Okoye and Wakabi greeted him as their new King.
• Xu Fan waited for T'Challa before starting his attack, intending to conquer Wakanda.
• Xu Fan created a ring of fire that bypassed Wakanda's energy barrier, alarming the warriors and frightening Okoye.

T'Challa led Wakanda's warriors into battle against Orochimaru's forces, but Chakra-enhanced bullets and Manda quickly put them under pressure. Okoye sent Wakabi's armored rhinos to confront the giant snake while T'Challa charged toward Xu Fan.

• T'Challa rallied Wakanda's warriors and led their charge as Orochimaru joined the battle and sent Kimimaro after him.
• Orochimaru summoned Manda and promised him the Wakandan warriors as food.
• Ninjas and prisoners fired Chakra bullets that set the grassland ablaze and used Wind and Lightning Release to overwhelm Wakanda's cloaks.
• Okoye ordered the warriors to charge and called on Wakabi, who sent armored rhinos against Manda.
• Okoye told T'Challa to conserve his strength for Xu Fan, and T'Challa leaped forward and blasted prisoners aside with a purple energy field.

T'Challa fought through the invaders on Wakanda's grasslands and ordered Shuri to open the energy barrier so he could reach Xu Fan, who was watching from outside. Kimimaro intercepted him and attacked with deadly bone projectiles, but T'Challa charged at him to continue toward Xu Fan.

• T'Challa used his Vibranium suit and Bast's power to break through groups of invaders while conserving his strength to confront Xu Fan.
• Shuri told T'Challa that Xu Fan was outside Wakanda's energy barrier, and T'Challa ordered her to open the section between them.
• Kimimaro dropped in front of T'Challa and fired finger bones at his throat, but the projectiles bounced off his Vibranium suit and killed nearby fighters.
• Kimimaro pulled his spine from his back to use as a weapon, and T'Challa charged at him.

Xu Fan watched Kimimaro trap T'Challa in a forest of bones and thought Wakanda’s defeat was inevitable. Then Bastet’s divine power awakened across Wakanda, and the Black Panther God prepared to fight Xu Fan.

• Xu Fan watched Kimimaro intercept T'Challa and considered strengthening Kimimaro by injecting him with secondary Adamantium.
• T'Challa attacked Kimimaro, but Kimimaro used his bones to absorb and contain the blows.
• Kimimaro unleashed Dance of the Ferns, sealing himself and T'Challa inside a vast forest of bones.
• Xu Fan believed Kimimaro had stopped Wakanda’s king and that the war was over.
• Dark clouds gathered as Bastet’s divine power awakened across Wakanda, and the Black Panther God declared she would fight the Sorcerer Supreme.

Bastet merged with T'Challa and helped him break free of Kimimaro, empowering him to charge Xu Fan. As T'Challa attacked, Bastet raised a barrier intended to cut Xu Fan off from the Vishanti and prevent him from using White Magic.

• Bastet unleashed a storm across the battlefield and destroyed Kimimaro's bone forest, freeing T'Challa.
• Bastet threw Kimimaro into the tornado, then merged with T'Challa.
• Empowered by Bastet, T'Challa raced through the battlefield and passed through the energy barrier's only gap.
• T'Challa leaped at Xu Fan, declaring that his punch was for his father.
• Bastet's panther head appeared behind T'Challa and cast a barrier designed to sever Xu Fan's connection to the Vishanti.

Xu Fan overcame Bastet’s barrier with Six Paths power and easily defeated T'Challa, whose suit and body were pierced by the Truth-Seeking Orbs. T'Challa died as Xu Fan stood victorious over Wakanda’s defenders.

• Bastet’s barrier cut Xu Fan off from White Magic, so he relied on Six Paths power instead.
• Xu Fan transformed, summoned Truth-Seeking Orbs and a staff, and sent T'Challa flying with a single clash.
• Bastet linked Wakandans’ thoughts to T'Challa, renewing his resolve to protect them.
• T'Challa charged Xu Fan, but Xu Fan sent three Truth-Seeking Orbs through his Vibranium suit.
• The Orbs pierced T'Challa’s body and killed him.

Xu Fan defeated Bastet after she sacrificed her soul to unleash the opposing powers of life and death. With Bastet beaten and Wakanda’s fate sealed, she recognized that Xu Fan surpassed even the legendary Agamotto.

• After T'Challa's death, Bastet transformed and burned her soul to gather the elements into a final attack against Xu Fan.
• Bastet sent immense gravity and twin spheres of life and death power crashing toward Xu Fan.
• Xu Fan summoned Perfect Susanoo and the True Several Thousand Hands, then attacked with multiple Tailed Beast Bomb Rasenshuriken.
• Xu Fan's attack shattered Bastet's magic and cleared the storm, leaving him barely spent.
• Bastet admitted that Xu Fan's strength surpassed even Agamotto's, and Xu Fan raised his hand to strike her down.

Xu Fan killed Bastet and T'Challa, then intensified his assault on Wakanda with Sand Soldiers and his army. With Wakanda's defeat certain, Princess Shuri announced that the nation would surrender and end the war.

• Xu Fan's Susanoo cut Bastet's soul in two, destroyed her, and broke Wakanda's energy barrier, while the sword energy killed many Wakandan warriors.
• The Heart-shaped Grass across Wakanda began to wither, and Xu Fan resolved to conquer the nation and seize its Vibranium and technology.
• Xu Fan summoned Sand Soldiers, while Manda swallowed Wakanda's Vibranium-armored rhinos and attacked soldiers across the battlefield.
• Okoye learned from Princess Shuri that T'Challa had fallen and that Wakanda could no longer win.
• Princess Shuri, now Wakanda's highest leader, announced that the nation would surrender and end the war.

Princess Shuri rejected surrender and launched a final attack on Xu Fan, inspiring Wakanda’s surviving warriors to resist. Xu Fan countered with a combined spell that engulfed her Vibranium aircraft, declaring that only the victor was justice.

• Shuri abandoned her plan to surrender and flew alone toward Xu Fan in Wakanda’s most advanced aircraft.
• Shuri fired every weapon aboard, but Xu Fan’s Susanoo blocked the attacks without harm.
• Shuri broadcast a declaration that Wakanda would never be conquered in spirit, stirring the surviving warriors to charge the opposing forces.
• Shuri accelerated her aircraft to ram Xu Fan as he dismissed her claim that justice would defeat evil.
• Xu Fan combined White Magic, black magic, and Chaos Magic, engulfed Shuri’s aircraft in light, and said Vibranium was not indestructible.

Xu Fan destroyed Shuri and the Wakandan royal family, then received a new check-in location in New Mexico. There he encountered Phil Coulson and witnessed a failed attempt to move Mjolnir.

• Xu Fan annihilated Shuri and her Vibranium spacecraft, killing the last members of Wakanda’s royal family and ending Bastet’s existence.
• Xu Fan left the remaining battle to Orochimaru and opened a portal to New Mexico after receiving a new check-in mission.
• Xu Fan arrived in New Mexico and encountered S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson, who asked him about the hammer that had fallen from the sky.
• Xu Fan and Coulson approached Mjolnir’s impact site, where a tourist’s truck broke apart while trying to tow the hammer.
• Coulson exclaimed in amazement as Mjolnir remained unmoved.

Xu Fan and Coulson visited the crater where Mjolnir had fallen, and Coulson tried but failed to lift the hammer. Xu Fan suggested it came from Norse mythology, leaving Coulson to wonder whether the gods in the old stories were real.

• Coulson was astonished to see Mjolnir, while Xu Fan explained he had no interest in claiming the hammer.
• Xu Fan and Coulson joined the tourists gathered around the crater, where a bearded man described Mjolnir as a divine trial to choose a warrior.
• Coulson decided to test his strength and tried three times to lift Mjolnir, but it did not move.
• Coulson asked Xu Fan where the hammer came from, and Xu Fan asked whether he had heard of Norse mythology.
• Coulson recognized Odin, Loki, and Thor from the myths and realized they might have been real.

Xu Fan considered the Norse gods’ possible arrival and accepted Coulson’s invitation to try lifting Mjolnir. When he approached the hammer, his check-in system rewarded him with Awakened Thor’s power, leaving him infused with thunder drawn from heaven and earth.

• Coulson realized Mjolnir might bring the Norse gods into the human world and asked Xu Fan whether that would cause trouble.
• Xu Fan reflected on Thor’s hardships and said he did not know what the gods would do.
• Coulson encouraged Xu Fan to try lifting Mjolnir, and the gathered travelers cheered him on.
• Xu Fan walked into the crater and approached Mjolnir, triggering the check-in system.
• Xu Fan received Awakened Thor’s power, which surged through him as thunder from across the world.

Xu Fan gained Awakened Thor's power and lifted Mjolnir, summoning lightning before throwing the hammer and catching it after it circled the Earth. He told the stunned crowd he was only a passerby, while Coulson suspected a Norse god would come to reclaim the weapon.

• Xu Fan sensed that Mjolnir resonated with the divine power he had gained and decided to test whether he could lift it.
• Xu Fan lifted Mjolnir from the ground as Coulson and the travelers watched in shock.
• Xu Fan raised the hammer, drawing dark clouds and lightning, then threw it into the distance.
• Mjolnir circled the Earth and returned, and Xu Fan caught it with his bare hand.
• Xu Fan let Mjolnir fall back into its pit and told the crowd he was merely a passerby, not its owner.
• Coulson interpreted Xu Fan's words as a hint that a Norse god would come for the hammer, while Xu Fan's actions stirred ripples across the universe.

After Xu Fan lifted Mjolnir and kept Thor’s power even after setting it down, Nick Fury, Odin, Loki, and Dormammu each recognized him as a growing threat. Odin’s attempt to probe Xu Fan’s mind was repelled, and Loki resolved to challenge him while Dormammu decided Xu Fan had to be eliminated.

• Nick Fury watched Xu Fan lift Mjolnir, realized S.H.I.E.L.D. had lost a possible means of restraining him, and decided to return to Earth.
• Odin saw that Xu Fan retained Thor’s power after putting down Mjolnir and tried to examine his mind.
• Xu Fan’s spiritual power struck Odin as he reached toward his consciousness, leaving the weakened king shaken.
• Loki watched Xu Fan wield Mjolnir and decided to make him understand that Asgard’s gods could not be insulted.
• Dormammu recognized Xu Fan’s new Godly power as another obstacle to invading Earth and decided to eliminate him.

Xu Fan refused Coulson’s request to move Mjolnir and watched as the mortal Thor reached the hammer. Thor tried to lift it and reclaim his power, but Mjolnir remained still.

• Xu Fan dismissed an unexplained mental probe and ignored the Sign-in Assistant’s instruction to visit the town when the Destroyer arrived.
• Coulson established a temporary research center around Mjolnir after Xu Fan refused to take the hammer to S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters.
• Thor arrived with Foster and Erik and fought past the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents guarding Mjolnir.
• Coulson asked Xu Fan whether Thor was the hammer’s owner, but Xu Fan said there was no harm in letting him try.
• Coulson ordered the agents to stand down, and Thor reached Mjolnir and tried to lift it.
• Thor declared himself Thor, but Mjolnir did not move.

Thor failed to lift Mjolnir and was captured by Coulson’s agents, while Loki secretly considered killing him but could not go through with it. Loki visited Thor in custody and told him that Odin was dead.

• Thor failed to lift Mjolnir, and Coulson ordered the agents to seize him.
• Loki watched from concealment and considered killing Thor, but memories of their childhood stopped him.
• The agents took Thor to a room, where Coulson questioned him before Foster and Erik arrived.
• Loki appeared to Thor in custody, and Thor asked about Odin.
• Loki told Thor that their father was dead.

Loki told Thor that Odin had died after Laufey declared war on Asgard, and Thor chose to remain on Midgard in self-imposed exile. Loki then confronted Xu Fan, who effortlessly humiliated him with a magical portal.

• Loki claimed that Odin had died after Laufey renewed the war and Thor’s choices brought grief to Asgard.
• Thor refused to return to Asgard and chose to stay on Midgard until he died.
• Loki sensed Xu Fan’s spiritual surveillance and found him at the temporary research center.
• Loki recognized Xu Fan as the mortal who had lifted Thor’s hammer and declared himself a god.
• Xu Fan dropped Loki through a ring of fire, left him to fall back into the room, and mocked him; Loki shouted that he was Asgard’s God of Mischief.