Chapter Summaries

After defeating Thanos, Xu Fan agreed to retrieve the souls sent to the Hell Dimension and went there with Thor and Stark. He repaired Stark’s Iron Suit with the Time Stone, then opened a passage to Hell, leaving Rogers to oversee New York.

• With Thanos defeated, Xu Fan assured Stark and Thor that he could retrieve the souls Thanos had sent to the Hell Dimension.
• The Sign-in Assistant ordered Xu Fan to visit the Hell Dimension, so he decided to go there in person; Thor and Stark volunteered to accompany him.
• Hulk chose to return to Asgard, and Thor opened the Rainbow Bridge so Hulk could leave.
• Xu Fan opened a wormhole to the Hell Dimension and used the Time Stone to repair Stark’s damaged Mark LXXXV Iron Suit.
• Xu Fan entered the wormhole, followed by Thor and Stark, while Stark asked Rogers to take charge of New York.

Xu Fan, Thor, and Stark entered the Hell Dimension and Xu Fan destroyed the creatures that surrounded them. Xu Fan searched for the nearly four billion souls Thanos had sent there, but even after more than ten minutes he had not found them.

• Xu Fan sealed his and his companions’ sense of smell as the stench of the Hell Dimension overwhelmed Thor and Stark.
• Vicious fiends, demons, and Netherlings gathered around Xu Fan, Thor, and Stark, then charged at them.
• Xu Fan unleashed powerful White Magic and wiped out every creature attacking them.
• Stark and Thor realized that the Hell Dimension’s creatures might have devoured the souls Thanos sent there, including Pepper’s soul.
• Xu Fan told Stark he was already searching, but after more than ten minutes he still had not found the nearly four billion souls.

Xu Fan, Thor, and Stark entered the Hell Dimension to recover four billion souls, but Mephisto appeared and claimed the souls could not be taken by force. He offered to trade them for something of equal value.

• Xu Fan suspected Mephisto had hidden the four billion souls and destroyed a second wave of fiends and monsters with White Magic.
• Xu Fan summoned the Infinity Stones, prompting Mephisto to appear and stop a third wave of monsters.
• Mephisto welcomed Xu Fan and admitted he knew they had come for the souls.
• Thor asked Mephisto to return the souls, but Mephisto said he was invincible in the Hell Dimension and the souls were impossible to find and take.
• Mephisto offered to give them the four billion souls in exchange for something of equal value.

Mephisto offered Xu Fan a deal: surrender the Infinity Stones to save four billion souls, whom he had hidden in the Hell Dimension. Xu Fan confirmed the souls were safe but could not locate them, and Mephisto pressed him to choose.

• Mephisto offered Xu Fan a bargain, claiming four billion souls—including people connected to Xu Fan—could be saved in exchange for a small sacrifice.
• Stark demanded to know where the souls were, while Xu Fan tried and failed to read Mephisto's mind.
• Mephisto explained that he was strongest in the Hell Dimension and could not be killed or banished there, and he challenged Xu Fan to find the souls with the Soul Stone.
• Xu Fan asked what Mephisto wanted and recognized his interest in the six Infinity Stones, while Stark warned him not to hand them over.
• Mephisto insisted that Elder Gods honored their contracts and asked Xu Fan whether he would give up the Stones or abandon the four billion souls.

Xu Fan rejected Mephisto’s demand for the Infinity Stones and offered to trade Mephisto’s life for the four billion souls. Mephisto attacked him, but Xu Fan severed his arm, leaving the confrontation on the verge of battle.

• Mephisto demanded the Infinity Stones in exchange for the four billion souls and gave Xu Fan ten minutes to decide.
• Xu Fan told Mephisto he wanted both the souls and the Infinity Stones, then proposed trading Mephisto’s life for the souls.
• Mephisto laughed at Xu Fan’s offer, but realized Xu Fan was serious.
• Mephisto grew furious and slashed at Xu Fan’s throat, but his arm was cut off.

Xu Fan fought Mephisto in the Hell Dimension while Thor and Stark battled the demons around them. After Mephisto overwhelmed Xu Fan with black magic and tried to bargain for the Infinity Stones, Xu Fan unleashed White Magic, dark magic, and Chaos Magic together, devastating Mephisto.

• Xu Fan severed Mephisto's arm and struck him, but Mephisto regenerated and grew into a giant.
• Mephisto unleashed black magic and summoned fiends, spirits, and monsters to attack Xu Fan, Thor, and Stark.
• Thor used Stormbreaker to destroy the demons attacking him while Stark relied on his Iron Suit's flight to avoid becoming a burden.
• Mephisto's black magic overpowered Xu Fan's White Magic, and he warned that the strain would kill Xu Fan before offering to return four billion souls for the Infinity Stones.
• Xu Fan released White Magic, dark magic, and Chaos Magic together, destroying Mephisto's magical power and dissolving his body in agony.

After Mephisto regenerated from Xu Fan’s magic, he threatened to claim four billion souls unless Xu Fan surrendered the Infinity Stones. Xu Fan revealed his gamma power and transformed, combining multiple powerful abilities as Mephisto and Thor watched in shock.

• Xu Fan’s magic reduced Mephisto to bones, but Mephisto regenerated by drawing power from the Hell Dimension.
• Mephisto praised Xu Fan’s magic, then warned that the hourglass was nearly out of time and demanded a choice between the Infinity Stones and four billion souls.
• Xu Fan said magic was not his only power and unleashed gamma divine power, revealing strength beyond Hulk’s.
• Mephisto reassured himself that Xu Fan could not find his hidden heart, which let him revive endlessly.
• Xu Fan grew over eight meters tall, awakened the Eye of Agamotto and Nine Tomoe Rinnegan, gathered Six Paths power and cosmic energy, and summoned Gungnir.
• Thor and Mephisto stared in disbelief as Mephisto wondered whether Xu Fan was truly a Sorcerer Supreme or an Elder God.

Xu Fan used his power to defeat Mephisto and discovered that Mephisto’s hidden heart was the source of his repeated resurrections. Mephisto surrendered the four billion souls, but Xu Fan crushed his heart instead of returning it.

• Xu Fan repeatedly killed Mephisto with his power, while Mephisto resurrected and insisted he could not be killed.
• Xu Fan used the Eye of Agamotto to locate Mephisto’s hidden heart and pulled it through a portal.
• Mephisto tried to reclaim his heart, but Xu Fan overpowered him and destroyed half his body.
• Mephisto offered a deal and placed the four billion souls before Xu Fan.
• Xu Fan confirmed the souls and used the Soul Stone to return them to their bodies.
• Mephisto demanded his heart back, but Xu Fan crushed it.

Xu Fan reclaimed four billion souls, killed Mephisto, and gained the Heart of the Dimension, becoming ruler of Hell. After returning to New York to celebrate with his allies, he drew Dormammu’s attention as a threat to the Dark Dimension.

• Xu Fan crushed Mephisto’s heart and erased him after reclaiming the four billion souls, then defeated Mephisto’s final attack and killed him.
• The Sign-in Assistant rewarded Xu Fan with the Heart of the Dimension, whose power made him the new ruler of Hell.
• Thor and Stark questioned Xu Fan, who explained that he had inherited Mephisto’s legacy and commanded Hell’s power.
• Xu Fan opened a portal and returned to New York, where Rogers, Arthur, Anna, and Strange celebrated the return of the vanished souls.
• Dormammu watched Xu Fan’s victory and decided that Xu Fan had become a threat who might target the Dark Dimension’s Heart.

Dormammu warned Sithorn that Xu Fan had killed Mephisto, taken his Heart of the Dimension, gathered all the Infinity Stones, and remained Earth's Sorcerer Supreme. Sithorn confirmed Mephisto's death and recognized Xu Fan as a threat, and Dormammu proposed that they cooperate against him.

• Dormammu sought Sithorn's help because Xu Fan and Earth's Three Sanctums prevented him from invading Earth.
• Dormammu told Sithorn that Xu Fan had killed Mephisto and seized his Heart of the Dimension, and Sithorn confirmed Mephisto was dead.
• Dormammu explained that Xu Fan had returned to Earth as Sorcerer Supreme instead of replacing Mephisto as Lord of the Hell Dimension.
• Dormammu revealed that Xu Fan possessed all six Infinity Stones and an Infinity Gauntlet, shocking Sithorn.
• Sithorn accepted that Xu Fan could threaten him, and Dormammu said he had a plan for them to work together.

Dormammu and Sithorn planned to strip Xu Fan of the Infinity Stones’ power by destroying the universe and its Three Sanctums. Dormammu proposed triggering Ragnarok to draw Xu Fan away from Earth, leaving Wanda free to destroy the Sanctums.

• Dormammu argued that they needed to destroy the Infinity Stones or remove their power to defeat Xu Fan, and Sithorn dismissed the idea of stealing them.
• Sithorn explained that destroying all six Infinity Stones together would require immense power, especially while Earth’s Three Sanctums restricted him.
• Dormammu proposed having Sithorn influence Wanda to destroy the Three Sanctums, after which Dormammu could invade and destroy the universe.
• Sithorn agreed the plan could work but warned that Xu Fan would stop Wanda unless they first lured him away from Earth.
• Dormammu proposed triggering Ragnarok so Xu Fan would leave Earth to protect Asgard, and said they would help Surtur merge with Asgard’s Eternal Fire.

Dormammu and Sithorn used Sithorn’s control of Wanda to steal the Eternal Fire from Asgard and bring it to Surtur in Muspelheim. Wanda offered it to Surtur, claiming they shared a hatred of Asgard, and left him poised to join their plan.

• Dormammu and Sithorn planned to kill Xu Fan and divide Earth, beginning by taking the Eternal Fire and drawing Xu Fan away from the planet.
• Sithorn took control of Wanda and used her body to infiltrate Asgard, where she stole the Eternal Fire from the treasury.
• Wanda traveled to Muspelheim and destroyed the fire demons that attacked her with Chaos Magic.
• Surtur confronted Wanda and struck at her, but her magical barrier repelled his Flame Sword.
• Wanda showed Surtur the Eternal Fire and offered it to him, saying she wanted Asgard destroyed and had brought the flame because they shared an enemy.

Wanda made a contract with Surtur and gave him the Eternal Fire, allowing him to destroy Odin’s seal and attack Asgard. Heimdall warned Frigga and contacted Thor, who was told that he and Xu Fan were needed to stop Ragnarok.

• Wanda agreed to give Surtur the Eternal Fire under a contract that would protect her from him.
• Surtur merged with the Eternal Fire, grew into a true fire giant, and destroyed Odin’s seal between Muspelheim and Asgard.
• Heimdall spotted Surtur approaching Asgard and told Frigga that Ragnarok had begun.
• Frigga went to gather Xu Fan’s Iron Legion while Heimdall contacted Thor on Earth.
• Heimdall told Thor that Surtur had the Eternal Fire and that Asgard needed both Thor and Xu Fan to stop him.

Thor and Loki asked Xu Fan to help stop Surtur, who had regained his full power by merging with the Eternal Fire and invaded Asgard. Surtur destroyed Xu Fan’s mechanical defenders and was about to shatter Asgard when a seven-colored pillar of energy descended.

• Thor learned from Heimdall that the Eternal Fire had vanished and realized Surtur might have regained his full strength.
• Thor and Loki explained the danger to Xu Fan, who agreed to travel with them to Asgard.
• Surtur broke through the barrier between Muspelheim and Asgard and attacked the realm.
• Frigga and Heimdall sent Xu Fan’s mechanical life forms against Surtur, but he destroyed them with ease.
• Surtur raised his Sword of Flames to strike Asgard’s ground, but a seven-colored pillar of energy descended before he could land the blow.

Thor and Loki returned to Asgard as Surtur attacked, but Thor was quickly defeated by the flame giant. Xu Fan arrived just in time to catch Surtur’s Sword of Flames and identified himself as the Sorcerer Supreme.

• Thor and Loki emerged from the Rainbow Bridge, and Heimdall looked to Xu Fan as Asgard’s best hope against Surtur.
• Thor attacked Surtur with Stormbreaker and a storm of lightning while Loki and the others watched.
• Surtur overwhelmed Thor, knocked Stormbreaker from his hand, and smashed him into Asgard’s plaza.
• Surtur thrust his Sword of Flames toward Thor, but Xu Fan appeared beside him and caught the blade.
• Surtur asked who Xu Fan was, and Xu Fan said he was the Sorcerer Supreme.

Sithorn-controlled Wanda attacked the New York Sanctum while Dormammu and Sithorn tried to destroy all three Sanctums before Xu Fan returned. Strange and Arthur arrived in time to save the building, but Wanda overwhelmed them and left Strange choking in her grip.

• Wanda used Chaos Magic to destroy the Shanghai and London Sanctums before attacking the New York Sanctum.
• Anna led the New York Sanctum sorcerers against Wanda, but Wanda defeated them and blasted the building.
• Strange and Arthur arrived, and Strange tried to send Wanda through a portal, but she evaded it and grabbed him by the throat.
• Arthur and Anna attacked Wanda with White Magic, but Sithorn shattered their spells and mocked the sorcerers.

Wanda defeated Strange, Arthur, and Anna, then used Sithorn’s Chaos Magic to destroy the New York Sanctum as Dormammu watched. On Asgard, Xu Fan stopped Surtur’s attack and prepared to defeat him, while Hulk rushed in to protect the Asgardians and was swiftly knocked down.

• Wanda knocked Strange unconscious and defeated Arthur and Anna, leaving the New York Sanctum undefended.
• Sithorn lent Wanda his Chaos Magic, and Wanda unleashed it to flatten the building before her.
• Xu Fan blocked Surtur’s Sword of Flames and forced the giant to stumble backward across Asgard.
• Thor, Frigga, Heimdall, Loki, and the Asgardians watched as Xu Fan’s resistance gave them hope against Ragnarok.
• Hulk charged Surtur to defend Asgard, but Surtur pinched him and smashed him into the plaza, where Hulk struggled to get back up.

Xu Fan used his Perfect Susanoo to overpower Surtur and sever his arm, then brought out the Infinity Stones to separate Surtur from the Eternal Fire. Surtur tried to stop him, but the Susanoo blocked every attack.

• Hulk collapsed unconscious after Surtur defeated him, leaving Loki fearful of Surtur's power.
• Xu Fan summoned a Susanoo and transformed it into its Perfect form, which forced Surtur back and severed his arm.
• Thor watched Xu Fan and Surtur clash and vowed to become stronger after the disaster.
• Surtur regenerated his arm with the Eternal Fire, and Xu Fan decided to separate the fire from him.
• Xu Fan put on the Infinity Gauntlet and summoned the six Infinity Stones, prompting Surtur to demand where he had gotten them.
• Surtur attacked Xu Fan to stop him, but the Perfect Susanoo blocked his strikes.

Xu Fan separated Surtur from the Eternal Fire, which the Infinity Gauntlet absorbed, and Thor killed the weakened fire giant. As Asgard celebrated, Frigga promised Xu Fan Uru metal in thanks for saving them.

• Xu Fan used the Infinity Gauntlet to extract the Eternal Fire from Surtur, weakening him and absorbing the flame into the gauntlet.
• Xu Fan told Thor to finish Surtur, and Thor fought him until Surtur’s sword shattered.
• Thor struck Surtur in the head with Stormbreaker, killing him and leaving only his crown behind.
• Thor embraced and kissed Foster as the Asgardians cheered.
• Xu Fan asked Frigga for Uru metal, and she promised to arrange some for him.

After the Infinity Stones suddenly lost their power, Xu Fan returned to Earth with Thor and Loki to investigate and planned to resurrect Thanos for answers. There, Stark attacked them as an enemy, and Thor disabled his suit only for Stark to unleash magical energy.

• Thor noticed that the Infinity Stones in Xu Fan’s gauntlet had gone dim, and Xu Fan failed to activate them even after separating the Eternal Fire.
• Xu Fan decided to return to Earth and resurrect Thanos to learn what had happened, while Thor and Loki chose to accompany him.
• Xu Fan opened a portal to the New York Sanctum, and the three of them stepped through.
• Stark attacked them on arrival, ignoring Thor’s attempts to identify himself and firing laser pulses at him.
• Thor tore the Arc Reactor from Stark’s suit to stop the attack, but Stark released a torrent of magical energy after his armor fell apart.