Recaps

Li Congxin learned that Thor had been captured and sold to the Grandmaster of Saka Planet after retrieving Surtur's Crown, so Odin asked him to rescue Thor and recover the Crown. Odin gave Li Congxin Gungnir and Sleipnir, and Li Congxin set off for Saka Planet.

• Li Congxin met Odin and Frigga in Norway, where Odin revealed that Ultron's attack had worsened his injuries and he could not leave Earth without risking Hela's seal.
• Odin told Li Congxin that Thor had retrieved Surtur's Crown but was ambushed after traveling to Xandar and sold as a slave to the Grandmaster of Saka Planet.
• Li Congxin agreed to rescue Thor and retrieve Surtur's Crown for Odin.
• Odin gave Li Congxin Gungnir and introduced him to Sleipnir, his eight-legged mount capable of traveling at the speed of light.
• Li Congxin mounted Sleipnir and rode away toward Saka Planet.

Li Congxin and Daisy traveled to Saka Planet, where scavengers attacked them shortly after they arrived. Li Congxin defeated the attackers and demanded to know where Grandmaster was.

• Li Congxin chose Daisy to accompany him to Saka Planet and explained that they traveled the long way to expand their Star Chart and keep the Space Stone secret.
• Li Congxin and Daisy crossed the asteroid belt and a spatial vortex on Sleipnir, arriving on a garbage-covered planet.
• Li Congxin explained that Saka Planet was a cosmic junkyard where scavengers hunted valuable debris and captured powerful warriors for Grandmaster.
• A group of scavengers approached Li Congxin and Daisy with hostile intent.
• Li Congxin cut down most of the scavengers, knocked their leader into a wreck, and held Gungnir to his throat while asking where Grandmaster was.

Li Congxin negotiated with Grandmaster to win Thor’s release through arena matches, then learned how Thor had been captured after traveling to Xandar to buy Jane Foster drinks. While showing Daisy the planet’s renowned hairstylist, Li Congxin heard the old man offer cryptic advice about resolving trouble by helping others.

• Li Congxin met Grandmaster, who proposed an arena wager, and negotiated for Daisy to compete first before Li Congxin faced Grandmaster’s strongest warrior on the fourth night.
• Li Congxin visited Thor and learned that pirates had captured him with a neural-speed electrical shock device after he went to Xandar to buy drinks for Jane Foster.
• Li Congxin told Thor to wait while he found a way to free him, then asked Daisy whether she wanted food or rest.
• Daisy asked to get her hair done, so Li Congxin accompanied her to meet Champion Building’s white-haired hairstylist.
• Daisy declined a haircut after seeing the old man trim a prisoner’s hair with a chainsaw-like clipper, and the hairstylist gave Li Congxin cryptic advice about helping others.

Li Congxin watched Daisy fight through Grandmaster’s tournament and recognized Beta Ray Bill as her likely final opponent. He and Grandmaster wagered one billion Credits on the final, where Daisy fell behind to Beta Ray Bill’s experience, and Li Congxin prepared to play music during the fight.

• Li Congxin used the Random BGM Draw Card, received God of Gamblers, and spent more than ten million Impression Points to maximize its effects.
• Daisy easily defeated her first opponent, a Kree, while Li Congxin declined to bet against Grandmaster on the early match.
• Li Congxin watched Beta Ray Bill defeat an opponent with his hammer and suspected he would face Daisy in the final.
• Over three days of matches, Daisy and Beta Ray Bill swiftly defeated their opponents, and Daisy complained that her fights offered little training.
• Li Congxin and Grandmaster agreed to wager one billion Credits on Daisy’s final battle against Beta Ray Bill.
• Beta Ray Bill’s experience put Daisy at a disadvantage, so Li Congxin asked Grandmaster to let him play music during the fight.

Li Congxin collected his winnings from Grandmaster and learned that The Collector had acquired Surtur’s crown before demanding to fight Grandmaster’s strongest opponent immediately. He faced Ares, God of War, and their duel began with Ares catching him off guard by changing weapons and fighting styles.

• Daisy defeated Beta Ray Bill after a shard of her broken bracer pierced his foot, and Grandmaster repeatedly shocked the unconscious warrior with a remote control.
• Li Congxin claimed the 1.1 billion Credits he had won and learned that the space pirate who sold Thor to Grandmaster had sold Surtur’s crown to The Collector.
• Li Congxin challenged Grandmaster’s strongest fighter that day, and Grandmaster agreed but warned that he would not count music-assisted combat as a loss.
• Ares emerged in golden armor with a war chariot loaded with weapons, introduced himself as one of the Twelve Olympian Gods, and sent the weapons flying at Li Congxin.
• Li Congxin repelled the weapons and crossed swords with Ares, matching his skill through several exchanges before Ares switched to a saber and shield and caught him off guard.

Li Congxin defeated Ares in the arena, but Grandmaster betrayed him after promising to release Thor. Li Congxin escaped the trap, knocked Grandmaster into the arena, and annihilated the fleet sent against him, leaving Grandmaster fleeing.

• Li Congxin and Ares fought for over an hour, changing weapons and techniques until Grandmaster ordered Ares to end the match quickly.
• Ares formed enormous molten weapons, but Li Congxin destroyed them with the Power Stone and knocked Ares unconscious with a blow to the neck.
• Li Congxin claimed his victory and accepted Grandmaster's Champion's Golden Belt, but the belt activated a neurotoxin shock device and dropped him to the floor.
• Grandmaster tried to seize Miraculous Hands, Spring Returns, but Li Congxin vanished and reappeared in the box, then kicked Grandmaster through the window into the arena.
• Saka Planet's defense forces attacked Li Congxin, who used the Power Stone to blast their fleet into ash.
• Grandmaster pulled himself out of the ground, saw his fleet destroyed, and ran without threatening Li Congxin.

Li Congxin fought Grandmaster after destroying his fleet, while Ares revealed he had faked being incapacitated and escaped. Grandmaster unleashed his extraordinary energy and durability, and the chapter ended with Li Congxin facing a surprise barrage from Grandmaster’s mouth.

• Li Congxin used the Power Stone to wipe out Grandmaster’s guards, but Grandmaster survived and fled toward his spacecraft.
• Ares trapped Grandmaster in a metal cage, revealed he had broken free of the Neurotoxin Stunner, and escaped in Grandmaster’s ship.
• Grandmaster broke out of the cage with a powerful energy blast, then attacked Li Congxin as Daisy arrived and joined the fight.
• Li Congxin reflected Grandmaster’s blast away from Daisy, but Grandmaster destroyed Ares’s spacecraft and launched attacks from his hands and eyes.
• As Li Congxin countered Grandmaster’s attacks, Grandmaster fired two more energy beams from his mouth, leaving Li Congxin unable to block them.

Li Congxin defeated Grandmaster by sealing his spatial abilities and battering him until he could refine him into an eye. The resulting Cosmic Energy brought Li Congxin close to the perfected Sub-Celestial realm, and he returned to the battlefield on Saka Planet.

• Grandmaster blasted Ares into the ruins of Champion Building after Ares attacked him with a storm of blades.
• Li Congxin used the Overture of the Little Knife Society to reach the Celestial Father level and beat Grandmaster while sealing his spatial abilities with the Space Stone.
• After the music ended, Li Congxin bound Grandmaster with spatial energy and used You Are My Eyes to melt and refine him into an eyeball.
• Grandmaster’s Cosmic Energy flowed into Li Congxin, raising him to the peak of the Sub-Celestial level and leaving him close to the perfected realm.
• Li Congxin stored the Celestial Eye in his private space and returned to the battlefield on Saka Planet.

After killing Grandmaster, Li Congxin looted his practical treasures and departed Saka Planet with Daisy Johnson, Thor, and Beta Ray Bill. He then met The Collector and offered Thanos's throne in exchange for Surtur's Crown.

• Li Congxin explored Grandmaster's base and packed its Credits, spacecraft, weapons, and valuable materials into his private space.
• Li Congxin revealed that he had killed Grandmaster and gave the remaining Saka commanders the choice to stand aside or face his Power Stone; they let him and his companions leave.
• Li Congxin returned Daisy Johnson and the two Thors to Avengers Base, then teleported to The Void.
• The Collector recognized a familiar energy in Li Congxin, who explained how Grandmaster had obtained Surtur's Crown and why he had killed him.
• The Collector offered to return Surtur's Crown, but Li Congxin proposed trading it for Thanos's throne.

Li Congxin traded Thanos's throne for Surtur's Crown, then prepared to face Hela after Odin's death. He froze Hela and sent her away temporarily, ordering Thor and Loki to mobilize Asgard's forces for the coming battle.

• Li Congxin traded Thanos's throne to the Collector for Surtur's Crown and returned to Earth.
• Li Congxin received Odin's final message and went to Tønsberg, where Thor and Loki brought him the Eternal Flame.
• Odin entrusted Li Congxin with authority over the fight against Ragnarok, then died peacefully beside Frigga, Thor, and Loki.
• Hela emerged and demanded that Thor kneel, but Li Congxin stopped her and made her dance against her will.
• Li Congxin sent Hela to another corner of the universe and ordered Thor and Loki to return to Asgard and prepare its troops for battle.

Li Congxin fought Hela on Planet Knowhere for three days, using her as a sparring partner before leaving her stranded there. After returning to Earth, he was summoned to the Avengers headquarters over a mysterious attempt to steal Pym Particles, where Old Pi led him to see the detained culprit.

• Hela escaped Li Congxin’s musical control, and the two fought with swords before Li Congxin switched to his staff.
• Hela and Li Congxin exchanged fatal blows but quickly recovered, and they continued battling for three days and nights.
• Li Congxin left Hela stranded on Planet Knowhere and returned to Earth.
• Tony told Li Congxin that Ant-Man had been caught trying to steal Pym Particles, leaving Li Congxin puzzled about why he would need to steal them.
• Scott Lang returned to the rebuilt Avengers headquarters, confused by Tony’s questions, and Old Pi told Li Congxin the culprit was being held in the third-floor detention room.

Li Congxin and the Avengers discovered that the captured Ant-Man was Scott Lang from a future timeline, seeking Pym Particles to help stop Thanos. As Li Congxin explained how branching timelines could account for their different pasts, a mysterious man dressed like an ancient Egyptian pharaoh appeared behind them.

• Li Congxin and the others compared the captured Scott Lang with the Scott Lang accompanying them and questioned the prisoner about his identity and motives.
• Li Congxin realized the prisoner recognized everyone except him and Yi Long, then guessed that he was hiding another suit; the prisoner admitted he came from the future.
• Scott Lang described the Avengers' plan to collect the Infinity Stones and explained how an accident during a Quantum Battle Suit test brought him to this timeline.
• Old Pi challenged Scott Lang's account because he did not know Clark or Yi Long, and Li Congxin explained that the future Scott came from a branching timeline where he had never become an Avenger.
• Li Congxin sensed someone behind the group, and everyone turned to see a strange man in Egyptian-style clothing and a blue cloak.

Observer Uatu warned the Avengers that a universe-wide crisis awaited Future Scott Lang’s timeline, and Li Congxin decided to accompany Scott there to change its tragic outcome. After learning the mission involved saving the heroes who would die in Endgame, Li Congxin asked the elderly Captain America to recount the battle, including every sacrifice.

• Uatu appeared at Avengers Base, identified himself as an Observer, and warned that Future Scott Lang’s timeline faced a catastrophe with almost no chance of peaceful survival.
• After Uatu vanished, Li Congxin received a system mission to travel to the Avengers 4 timeline and save the superheroes who would sacrifice themselves during Endgame.
• Li Congxin agreed to give Scott Lang Pym Particles and personally help his timeline, then told him about defeating Thanos’s forces.
• The scientists began improving the Quantum Battle Suit while Li Congxin went to Britain to question the elderly Captain America.
• The elderly Captain America revealed that Tony and Natasha had died in the battle.

Hela trapped N'Jadaka on Planet Knowhere and used his damaged ship to send a distress call while Li Congxin and future Scott Lang traveled back to 1990. Their next jump brought them to a crowd of exhausted Avengers, leaving Li Congxin wondering why they had arrived together.

• Hela spotted N'Jadaka escape a destroyed ship, disarmed him, and forced him to explain who he was and whether he could pilot a ship.
• Hela inspected the pirates' ship, learned its communications system still worked, and sent a distress call while pretending to be a stranded princess.
• At Avengers Base, Tony prepared Li Congxin and future Scott Lang to travel through time and warned them not to interfere with the past.
• Li Congxin and Scott Lang arrived on an uninhabited Pacific island in 1990, confirmed the date, and activated their time regulators for another jump.
• Li Congxin and Scott Lang appeared before a haggard group of Avengers, who stared at them in surprise.

Li Congxin joined the Avengers’ effort to undo Thanos’s snap, asserted his authority by defeating Thor and criticizing his neglect of Asgard, and supplied the team with technology and Pym Particles. The Avengers accepted his leadership in planning, giving them enough particles to make repeated time-travel trips.

• Scott Lang introduced Li Congxin as a powerful Avenger from another timeline, and Captain America welcomed him to the team.
• Li Congxin assigned Tony and Doctor Banner tasks before apologizing for taking command, then joked with Tony about their relationship in his timeline.
• Thor challenged Li Congxin to a fight, but Li Congxin knocked him unconscious with a hidden neurotoxin electric shock device.
• Li Congxin rebuked Thor for neglecting Asgard’s people, and Tony and Captain America accepted Li Congxin’s role in planning.
• Li Congxin revealed a case containing eighty portions of Pym Particles, giving the Avengers enough supplies for multiple time-travel trips.

Li Congxin won the Avengers’ respect, then proposed a plan to retrieve the Infinity Stones and revealed he would handle the Soul Stone himself. He set out to change Black Widow’s fate as the team prepared for its time-travel mission.

• Li Congxin defeated the Avengers who challenged him, earning their confidence, and explained Thor’s untapped potential during the five years after Thanos’s victory.
• Tony announced that the Quantum Battle Suits were upgraded and gathered the Avengers to discuss their time-travel operation.
• Li Congxin assigned teams to retrieve the Infinity Stones from New York, Asgard, and Morag, while instructing Nebula and Rhodey to prioritize safety on their Power Stone mission.
• Natasha and Nebula questioned Li Congxin’s priorities, and he revealed that he already possessed two Infinity Stones.
• Tony noticed that Li Congxin had left out the Soul Stone, and Li Congxin said he would retrieve it himself after realizing Nebula knew how to acquire it.
• Li Congxin resolved to save Black Widow from her destined sacrifice while pursuing the Soul Stone.

Li Congxin traveled to Vormir and stole the Soul Stone from an unconscious Thanos after Thanos sacrificed Gamora to obtain it. He returned to the Avengers Base in 2023, relieved that he had prevented Black Widow from having to die for the Stone.

• Thanos and Gamora reached the cliff on Vormir, where the Red Skull explained that the Soul Stone required a sacrifice of the person one loved most.
• Thanos pushed Gamora off the cliff and obtained the Soul Stone, while Li Congxin arrived and attached seventeen electroshock devices to Thanos's head.
• Li Congxin used a remote to knock Thanos unconscious, took the Soul Stone, and vanished after telling the Red Skull, "Hail Hydra!"
• Li Congxin returned to the Avengers Base in 2023 and reflected that Black Widow would otherwise have sacrificed herself on Vormir after defeating Hawkeye in a fight over who would pay the price.

Li Congxin gathered the six Infinity Stones and insisted on making the snap himself, claiming he could withstand the cost. After studying the Stones for a month, he snapped his fingers to bring back everyone who had disappeared, but the backlash badly injured him.

• Li Congxin returned with the Soul Stone, joining the other ten time travelers as they brought back the remaining five Stones and Thor's weapons.
• Li Congxin persuaded the Avengers to entrust him with the Stones, saying he would make the snap and asking Tony to build a sturdy, shock-absorbing gauntlet.
• Li Congxin spent a month in seclusion studying the Stones' cosmic laws, while Tony built the gauntlet and Nebula caused no trouble.
• Li Congxin put on the gauntlet, announced his many titles, and snapped his fingers to bring everyone who had disappeared back to the present.
• The snap severely damaged Li Congxin's body and left his left hand numb, so he removed the gauntlet and waited for his immortal body to heal.

Li Congxin discovered that the Infinity Stones had stripped away his immortality on the alternate timeline, then recovered enough to return the Stones and gained the powerful BGM “Difficult Sutra.” When Thanos failed to appear, Li Congxin confronted Nebula and revealed that she was the Nebula from 2014, leaving the Avengers shocked by the discovery of a traitor.

• Li Congxin realized that Death’s curse did not extend to this timeline, leaving him gravely injured after using the Infinity Stones; he swallowed a Senzu Bean and kept the gauntlet while he recovered.
• Li Congxin told the Avengers he had stolen the Soul Stone from Thanos, and they agreed not to risk returning it immediately.
• Li Congxin used his Random BGM Draw Card and received “Difficult Sutra,” a BGM that increased his combat power according to his fighting spirit but could not be used on this timeline.
• After a month of recovery, Li Congxin returned the borrowed Infinity Stones, but Thanos never attacked.
• Li Congxin questioned Nebula in a confidential Avengers meeting and accused her of being the Nebula from 2014; Nebula’s response confirmed his suspicion.

Nebula revealed that Thanos had learned about the future and planned to erase all life, but she chose to oppose him and helped the heroes prepare a battlefield on Morag. When Thanos arrived, the heroes ambushed his forces and destroyed Sanctum Sanctorum II.

• Nebula explained that Thanos had sent her to infiltrate the group and bring him to their timeline, but she hated him and hoped Li Congxin could help kill him.
• The heroes agreed to confront Thanos and chose Morag as the battlefield, with Li Congxin proposing they control the timing and location of the fight.
• Half a month later, Nebula activated the quantum transmission device, bringing Thanos and Sanctum Sanctorum II to Morag.
• Tony's eighty-one energy cannons bombarded the ship, and Captain Marvel tore through it with repeated attacks.
• Li Congxin struck Sanctum Sanctorum II with the Power Stone, disintegrating the ship and its forces.

Li Congxin and the Avengers surrounded Thanos and his forces after destroying Sanctum Sanctorum II, then launched an overwhelming attack. The Black Order was wiped out, leaving Thanos alone against Li Congxin and the assembled heroes.

• Thanos, Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, Hyperion, and Ebony Maw escaped Sanctum Sanctorum II before Li Congxin destroyed it, and Captain Marvel brought Gamora and Nebula to safety.
• Falcon opened portals across the battlefield, allowing heroes and Wakandan troops to arrive and surround Thanos's group.
• Star-Lord tried to hug Gamora, who kicked him in the groin, while Ebony Maw proposed a five-on-five fight and Li Congxin rejected the offer.
• Li Congxin joined the Avengers' assault on Thanos, and his music played across the battlefield despite his system being unable to provide combat bonuses.
• Scarlet Witch and Doctor Strange killed Ebony Maw, Captain America and Thor killed Hyperion, and Wanda used Corvus Glaive's weapon to kill him and Proxima Midnight.
• With the Black Order defeated, Li Congxin and the assembled Avengers faced Thanos together.

After Thanos fell, Li Congxin received three BGM tracks for completing the mission at 150% and claimed the battlefield loot. He recruited the redeemed 2014 Nebula as Xing Hua, then celebrated with the Avengers before fighting Captain Marvel on Morag for three days and winning, though he was left utterly exhausted.

• Li Congxin received the BGM tracks “Moving Heaven,” “Brave Heart,” and “Looks Just Like Love” after saving Natasha Romanoff and Tony Stark and redeeming the 2014 Nebula.
• Li Congxin secretly collected Thanos’s corpse, armor, helmet, and blade, then accepted the Black Order members’ remains and equipment from the Avengers.
• The 2014 Nebula asked to join Li Congxin, and he named her Xing Hua; the other Nebula chose to remain in her timeline with her sister.
• The Avengers held a victory banquet, where Li Congxin drank everyone under the table, including Thor.
• Captain Marvel challenged Li Congxin, and they fought on Morag for three days and three nights; Li Congxin won but was left exhausted.

After returning to his timeline, Li Congxin used the BGM Moving Heaven to begin inheriting the Power Stone’s law of power. Meanwhile, space pirate leader Sha Mao Lian received a distress signal from Princess Hela and redirected his ship toward Planet Knowhere.

• Li Congxin returned from the alternate timeline with Xing Hua and restored his immortality while Tony and the others arranged for her to stay at Avengers Base.
• Li Congxin recovered his strength, removed the Power Stone from his shoulder, and activated Moving Heaven to inherit its law of power.
• Cosmic Energy entered Li Congxin’s villa and transformed his body and soul as the BGM looped, while Yi Long and Captain America guarded him from interruptions.
• Sha Mao Lian worried that the escaped warrior and Grandmaster’s killer might seek revenge after his crew’s failed sale on Saka Planet.
• Sha Mao Lian’s crew received Princess Hela’s distress signal from Planet Knowhere, and he ordered them to change course toward it.

A wounded Valkyrie arrived at the Avengers Base to seek Li Congxin’s help against Hela’s invasion of Asgard, but Li Congxin remained in seclusion. Tony and Hulk prepared to aid Asgard, and a mysterious woman opened a way to the battlefield, where Hulk confronted Hela.

• Xing Hua defeated Kick-Ass in a sparring match and criticized his reluctance to fight decisively.
• Valkyrie arrived through the Bifrost and told the Avengers that Hela and her undead army were overwhelming Thor’s forces in Asgard.
• The Avengers learned that Li Congxin could not be disturbed during his cultivation, so Tony and Hulk volunteered to help Valkyrie.
• A bald woman in a beige cloak offered to send them to the battlefield, and a huge Any Door appeared above Asgard.
• Hulk emerged through the Any Door, drove Hela back with a flurry of attacks, and introduced himself as “Wing Chun, Hulk!”

Li Congxin completed his breakthrough to Cosmic Deity-level power and discovered that he had inherited an incomplete divine seat called the God of Vengeance. As Yi Long arrived with an urgent warning, Li Congxin learned that something had happened while he was in seclusion.

• Doctor Hulk used Yi Long’s Wing Chun and Eight-Cutting Saber techniques to fight Hela with greater skill.
• Tony transformed into his Mark 50 Iron Man suit and blasted Hela, while Captain America arrived and struck Fenrir with a hammer.
• Li Congxin’s body and soul were transformed by the universe’s secret energy, letting him surpass the Sub-Celestial level and gain power comparable to the Celestials.
• Li Congxin realized the Power Stone’s power and laws had become part of him, and he saw a hexagram mark that pointed to his incomplete God of Vengeance divine seat.
• Yi Long rushed in after Li Congxin’s cultivation ended and warned that there might not be time, prompting Li Congxin to ask what had happened.