Recaps

Hela drove Thor and the others back through Asgard’s royal city and charged toward the Golden Palace, but Li Congxin arrived and overwhelmed her. He kicked Hela through an Any Door into an unknown realm and followed her, leaving the battle’s outcome unclear.

• Hela’s power grew as she neared the Golden Palace, and she defeated the Avengers, Thor, Beta Ray Bill, and the other defenders while Loki revealed himself as Odin in disguise.
• Thor urged Heimdall to seek Li Congxin’s help, but Hela dismissed the threat and charged toward the Golden Palace after proclaiming her imminent rise to Celestial-level power.
• Li Congxin emerged from the Golden Palace and sent Hela flying out of the royal city and into the undead army.
• Hela attacked Li Congxin with her twin Swords of the Night Sky, but he caught both blades between his fingers without being moved.
• Li Congxin kicked Hela through an Any Door into a hell-like realm, collected her swords, and followed her as the door closed behind them.

Li Congxin fought Hela on the Soul Stone’s world, using the Power Stone’s power to overwhelm her and claiming he had found a way to kill her. Red Skull misread their battle as a tragic love story under the influence of Li Congxin’s BGM, while Li Congxin dropped Hela toward the Soul Stone altar and stopped her from resisting.

• Li Congxin silenced Red Skull, then played a song that made the Soul Stone guardian interpret his fight with Hela as a tragic romance.
• Hela attacked Li Congxin, who caught her wrist and said he had found a way to kill her before throwing her toward the mountain cliff.
• Hela unleashed her deathly power and fought Li Congxin, but he used his mastery of the Power Stone to land more than a hundred heavy blows.
• Li Congxin seized Hela by the throat, carried her beyond the cliff, and dropped her toward the Soul Stone altar.
• Li Congxin sent a purple energy wave at Hela as she fell, scattering her gathered power and forcing her down toward the altar.

Li Congxin killed Hela, returned to Asgard, and helped arrange Thor’s coronation before bringing Thanos’s corpse back to Earth for study. As the Avengers prepared for further plans, Nebula encountered Star Fox and Champion on a planet in the depths of space.

• Li Congxin killed Hela with the Soul Stone, reclaimed the stone, and returned to Asgard, where he found Hela’s undead army turning to dust.
• Li Congxin persuaded Thor to become Asgard’s All-Father and Loki to serve as prime minister, then celebrated with the Asgardians and the Avengers.
• Li Congxin brought Thanos’s corpse to an Avengers meeting and tasked Doctor Hulk with leading research into its Eternal genes.
• Li Congxin planned repairs and new equipment at Nidavellir, told Ava to bring Nebula back to Earth, and asked Eris to watch for a Nine-Star Alignment.
• Nebula finished killing a band of space pirates, then saw a Titan-civilization ship arrive and deposit Star Fox and Champion nearby.

Nebula was cornered by Star Fox, Champion, and a young purple man who wanted her to join them against Thanos. On Earth, Li Congxin discussed Peggy’s lifespan and Thanos’s death with Steve Rogers, then teleported away after revealing that Nebula’s father was Thanos, just as the Nine-Star Alignment approached and Jane Foster investigated its effects.

• Star Fox, Champion, and a young purple man approached Nebula and tried to recruit her to help fight Thanos, surrounding her when she refused.
• Li Congxin offered to extend Peggy’s life, but Steve Rogers declined and warned that Li Congxin’s alien research could endanger Earth.
• Li Congxin told Steve a story about a girl and her friends attacking her father, prompting Steve to condemn their actions.
• Steve received a message saying the Nine-Star Alignment was approaching and Jane Foster had gone to investigate likely affected locations.
• Nebula messaged Li Congxin that difficult people had delayed her, while assuring him she was safe and would handle the situation herself.
• Li Congxin revealed that the girl in his story was Nebula and her father was Thanos, then teleported away with the Space Stone.

Thor left Asgard after Jane Foster disappeared inside an abandoned factory in New York, where Li Congxin found her unconscious in a strange spatial realm. Li Congxin discovered that the Aether had been extracted from Jane and warned Thor that the Dark Elves likely had it, leaving them facing the threat of their return.

• Thor secretly watched Jane Foster through the Golden Palace’s spy network, then convinced Loki to let him leave Asgard after Jane vanished and strange spatial fluctuations appeared.
• Loki agreed to manage Asgard while Thor went to Earth, and privately embraced the chance to govern without his brother in the way.
• Li Congxin and Sharon Carter arrived at the factory, where Li Congxin explained that the Nine-Star Alignment was causing spatial disturbances rather than gravitational changes.
• Thor arrived, and Li Congxin led him through a spatial wormhole into a dark realm, where Thor found Jane unconscious.
• Li Congxin found traces of Aether particles on Jane but said the particles had been extracted, and he warned Thor that the Dark Elves likely possessed them.

Li Congxin prepared Asgard for the Dark Elves’ attack, then led Thor and Beta Ray Bill into battle when Malekith’s army breached the city. As the Thors fought the invading troops, Li Congxin disabled Dark Elf ships and spotted their flagship.

• Li Congxin warned Loki and Thor that Malekith and the Cursed Warriors posed a threat, and arranged alarms to alert them to Dark Elf infiltrations.
• Music triggered Li Congxin’s alarm, revealing that the Dark Elves had arrived, and he rushed toward the Bifrost with Thor following.
• Malekith’s forces breached Asgard’s weakened defenses, and Li Congxin asked Thor not to damage the Dark Elf ships because he intended to keep them.
• Thor and Beta Ray Bill attacked the Dark Elf troops while Li Congxin precisely eliminated the pilots aboard more than a hundred ships.
• Li Congxin spotted what he believed was the Dark Elf flagship.

Li Congxin boarded Malekith’s flagship to confront him while Thor and Beta Ray Bill fought the Cursed Warrior on the Bifrost. Thor and Beta Ray Bill discovered how to combine their opposing lightning powers and drove Kurse back, leaving them convinced Li Congxin had foreseen the secret.

• Li Congxin teleported onto Malekith’s flagship and destroyed a squad of Dark Elves before Malekith attacked him with dark-red energy.
• Kurse knocked Stormbreaker away, withstood Thor’s lightning, and sent Thor flying, but Thor and Beta Ray Bill kept returning to the fight.
• Beta Ray Bill’s lightning accidentally struck Thor, who combined it with his own power to blast Kurse’s arm apart and send him flying.
• Thor and Beta Ray Bill realized that Stormbreaker’s yin lightning could combine with Thor’s yang lightning, and they attacked Kurse together.
• The two Thors coordinated their fused lightning through Mjolnir and Stormbreaker, forcing Kurse onto the defensive as they praised Li Congxin’s supposed foresight.

Thor and Beta Ray Bill destroyed the Cursed Warrior and the Dark Elf forces with their combined hammers, while Li Congxin failed to catch Malekith after he escaped through an unstable wormhole. Li Congxin began monitoring the Nine Realms from the Golden Palace, where he detected Dormammu’s influence over Malekith and received a new mission to stop their plan.

• Thor and Beta Ray Bill combined their powers and obliterated the Cursed Warrior, the Dark Elf army, and the fortress on the Bifrost.
• Li Congxin praised the two Thors, then agreed to use the Golden Palace to watch over the Nine Realms.
• Li Congxin explained that Malekith had escaped through an unstable wormhole created by the Nine-Star Alignment.
• Li Congxin sent a clone to S.H.I.E.L.D. to consult Egghead about Earth’s defenses, then used the Golden Palace to observe the Nine Realms.
• Li Congxin detected Dormammu’s dark magic surging from Svartalfheim and learned that Malekith planned to draw all nine realms into the Dark Dimension.
• The system activated the Bonfire Assignment, ordering Li Congxin to eliminate Malekith and seize the Pym Particles he possessed.

Li Congxin fought Malekith, who had joined Dormammu and used the Reality Stone to resurrect himself after being defeated. Li Congxin trapped Malekith with the Space and Soul Stones and revealed that he possessed three gemstones.

• Li Congxin confronted Malekith, who blamed the Asgardians for the destruction of the Dark Elf race and attacked with dark magic and the Aether Particle.
• Li Congxin countered Malekith's attacks, but Malekith used the Reality Stone to reverse his death and restore himself.
• Malekith created nearly a thousand spatial black holes and tried to open a passage to the Dark Dimension, while Li Congxin erased the obstacles and struck him down again.
• Malekith resurrected himself once more, then fled through a spatial wormhole, only to reappear before Li Congxin.
• Li Congxin immobilized Malekith with the Space Stone, sealed his soul with the Soul Stone, and revealed that he had three gemstones.

Li Congxin killed Malekith, claimed the Reality Stone, and drove off Dormammu’s avatar before meeting the Living Tribunal over the dimensional rift threatening the Nine Realms. He won five years to resolve the Dark Dimension threat himself and returned to Earth with several urgent tasks ahead.

• Li Congxin killed Malekith, took the Reality Stone, and added it and the Soul Stone to Miraculous Hands, Spring Returns.
• Dormammu appeared as an avatar, threatened to reclaim what belonged to him, and vanished when Li Congxin swept him away with divine power.
• Li Congxin tried to seal the dimensional rift but could only make a temporary repair, even after Thor and Beta Ray Bill offered help.
• The Living Tribunal proposed restarting the Nine Realms, but Li Congxin refused because it would erase the lives of their inhabitants.
• The Living Tribunal agreed to give Li Congxin five years to stop the Dark Dimension threat before intervening himself.
• Li Congxin returned to Earth to pursue another Infinity Stone fusion, upgrade the Avengers’ weapons, contact Nebula, and find a lasting solution to the Dark Dimension.

After fusing with the Space Stone, Li Congxin met with Nick Fury, who introduced him to Peter Parker, and passed Peter’s development to Tony. Li Congxin then went with Mordo to Kamar-Taj to discuss increasing dimensional threats, while Tony helped Peter solve the lock on a mysterious case.

• Li Congxin completed his Space Stone fusion, strengthening himself, and learned from Captain America that Nick Fury wanted to speak with him.
• Nick Fury showed Li Congxin Peter Parker’s profile and videos; Li Congxin agreed Peter had potential but noted he was still a child.
• Li Congxin recommended Peter to Tony, who agreed to meet him and later offered him a Stark Industries internship and scholarship as a pretext to get acquainted.
• Mordo told Li Congxin that the Ancient One wanted to discuss increasingly frequent battles with other dimensions, and Li Congxin agreed to go to Kamar-Taj.
• Tony visited Peter Parker and answered many of his questions; afterward, Peter used Tony’s guidance to figure out how to open a mysterious case he had found at the ruins of Pym Laboratories.

Three years after his battle with Omal, Li Congxin received the Eye of Agamotto from The Ancient One and promised not to interfere with Stephen Strange’s destined trial. He then rushed to help Tony, where he discovered a symbiote had corrupted Little Spider and used a piercing note to force it off him.

• The Ancient One told Li Congxin that she was nearing the end of her life and warned that his true body could no longer enter the Space Rift.
• The Ancient One asked Li Congxin not to heal Stephen Strange when fate brought him to Kamar-Taj, and she gave him the Eye of Agamotto.
• Tony called Li Congxin for help while battling a black-suited Little Spider at an outdoor stadium in Queens.
• Li Congxin recognized that something had corrupted Little Spider and stepped in while Tony urged him not to hurt the child.
• Li Congxin unleashed a piercing dolphin note that drove the symbiote off Little Spider.

Li Congxin freed Peter Parker from the symbiote, destroyed the creature, and discovered Peter’s fate was tied to a coming multiversal disaster. He secretly gave Peter divine power and a music player to aid his recovery, leaving him excited about his gift and unaware of the danger ahead.

• Li Congxin used penetrating music to drive the symbiote out of Peter Parker, then explained its weaknesses to Tony Stark.
• Peter told Li Congxin he had found the symbiote inside a safe beneath the ruins of Pym Laboratories, where it had been forgotten after Old Pi captured and sealed it.
• Li Congxin annihilated the symbiote with the Power Stone after deciding it was too dangerous to study or preserve.
• Li Congxin discovered that Peter’s Threads of Fate connected him to a future parallel-universe trial and a multiversal disaster, then secretly placed divine power within him.
• Li Congxin gave Peter a music player containing the Qing Xin Zhou recording, and Peter excitedly celebrated receiving a gift from his idol.

Li Congxin took several Avengers to Nidavellir to upgrade their equipment, leaving Stephen Strange to seek help at Kamar-Taj after a car crash ruined his hands. At Nidavellir, he learned Thanos had threatened the dwarves into forging an Infinity Gauntlet and confronted the envoy delivering the ultimatum.

• Li Congxin gave Mindy Gungnir and taught her how to summon the Eight-legged Divine Horse before leaving Earth with Captain America, Hulk, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Daisy, and Ava.
• Stephen Strange sought treatment for his injured hands, learned Li Congxin had left Earth, and traveled to Kamar-Taj to seek help from The Ancient One.
• Li Congxin and the Avengers arrived at Nidavellir and found the dwarves fearful after Thanos demanded they forge a gauntlet for all six Infinity Stones by noon.
• Clancy told Li Congxin that Thanos would attack and destroy Nidavellir if King Eitri refused the demand.
• Li Congxin led the Avengers to Eitri's palace and confronted Thanos's arrogant envoy, whom he recognized as an old acquaintance.

Li Congxin killed Ebony Maw after he threatened the Dwarves, then told Eitri he intended to deal with Thanos. Thanos learned Ebony Maw had died when his ship returned with the general’s severed head.

• Ebony Maw attacked Li Congxin with telekinetically controlled axes, but Li stopped them and dismissed his threats about Thanos.
• Li Congxin revealed his past attacks on Thanos’s forces and used the Space Stone to immobilize Ebony Maw before killing him with an axe.
• Eitri thanked Li Congxin, who explained that he had arrived by coincidence and planned to discuss forged equipment after dealing with Thanos.
• Thanos waited aboard Sanctum Sanctorum III for Ebony Maw’s report, intending to cripple Eitri and destroy Nidavellir regardless of the negotiations.
• A Chitauri leader presented Thanos with a box containing Ebony Maw’s severed head, revealing that the general had been killed.

Li Congxin attacked Thanos's forces at Nidavellir, overwhelmed Thanos in battle, and nearly killed him before a Titan spaceship rescued him. Nebula then explained that Thanos's son Zayn had been involved in the plan, leaving Li Congxin intent on confronting him.

• Thanos ordered his army to attack Nidavellir, but Li Congxin destroyed the vanguard and killed the Dark Cult's soldiers aboard Sanctum Sanctorum III.
• Li Congxin confronted Thanos, declared the Nine Realms under his protection, and moved their fight away from the ship.
• Li Congxin disarmed Thanos, shattered his armor, and badly wounded him with three punches.
• A Titan spaceship rescued the half-dead Thanos, and Li Congxin boarded Nebula's ship to demand an explanation.
• Nebula revealed that Zayn had joined her, Star Fox, and Champion in their plan against Thanos, and Li Congxin asked whether Zayn was aboard the Titan ship.

Nebula and Star Fox explained that Zayn had been reborn with the Phoenix Force and was slaughtering worlds, while the Avengers kept Thanos alive as a possible counter. On Chitauri, Li Congxin confronted Zayn, who attacked him after Li called him inferior to Thanos.

• Nebula, Star Fox, and Champion told the Avengers that Zayn had obtained the Phoenix Force through Phoenix Rebirth and was rampaging across the universe.
• Nebula explained that she had shot Zayn through the heart but had not confirmed his death, and she argued that Thanos might know how to counter the Phoenix Force.
• Zayn burned cities on Chitauri and told Lady Death that he intended to keep offering her sacrifices by killing Thanos's followers.
• Lady Death warned Zayn that Li Congxin had arrived and asked him to teach Li a lesson, though he could not kill him.
• Li Congxin confronted Zayn and called him inferior to Thanos, provoking Zayn to attack with ten flaming arrows.

Li Congxin fought Zayn with superior tactics, but their escalating battle destroyed Chitauri Star before Li Congxin withdrew. Lady Death warned Zayn not to provoke him, and Zayn set off to attack Thanos's lair, the Dark Dimension.

• Li Congxin dodged Zayn's Phoenix Force attack with teleportation, struck him from behind, and taunted him while searching for weaknesses.
• Zayn unleashed the Phoenix Force against Li Congxin, and their battle devastated the planet until Chitauri Star exploded.
• Zayn survived the explosion, while Lady Death appeared and explained that Li Congxin had withdrawn out of consideration for her.
• Lady Death warned Zayn that Li Congxin was stronger and told him to avoid provoking him or causing trouble on Earth or in the Nine Realms.
• Zayn accepted Lady Death's warning, then flew toward Thanos's lair, the Dark Dimension.

Li Congxin told the Avengers about Zayn’s Phoenix-powered threat and revealed that Death’s presence had interfered with his fight. Thanos offered a way to counter the Phoenix Force, leaving Li Congxin to decide whether to restore and empower him.

• Li Congxin returned to the reception hall, described his battle with Zayn, and explained that Zayn’s Phoenix-fueled healing could turn him into a mindless killer.
• Li Congxin admitted he had been injured by the Phoenix Force and explained that Death’s arrival had disrupted him during the fight.
• Li Congxin asked Thanos to help deal with Zayn, but Thanos refused to cooperate when threatened with death.
• Li Congxin revealed that Death posed a far greater danger than Zayn and that he lacked confidence against her.
• Thanos named God's Quarry as a place that could restore his power and suppress the Phoenix Force, then asked Li Congxin whether he would let him grow stronger.

Li Congxin chose to send Thanos to God's Quarry to restore his power and deal with the danger from his own bloodline, then set out with a small group to reach the site. Meanwhile, a young Spider-Man was pulled through a Spatial Vortex and woke in an unfamiliar room, where a woman who felt strangely like himself watched him.

• Li Congxin removed the divine power he had placed in Thanos and decided Thanos would go to God's Quarry, explaining that Thanos knew its trials best and that Li Congxin could handle any danger if Thanos regained power.
• Li Congxin chose Thanos, Nebula, Champion, Star Fox, and Daisy to accompany him to God's Quarry, while the others stayed in Nidavellir to help Eitri upgrade their equipment.
• Li Congxin ordered Nebula to pilot the spaceship and, near their destination, send a message to the Dark Dimension in Thanos's name so Zayn could see it.
• In Queens, Spider-Man stopped a robber from striking an older woman, but a Spatial Vortex appeared and swallowed him despite his attempt to cling to its edge.
• Spider-Man woke in a warm bed, saw that his suit and mask were intact, and faced a young woman whose presence felt strangely like another version of himself.

Peter Parker met Gwen Stacy in a parallel universe, where they planned to investigate Kingpin’s role in their arrival. Li Congxin’s divine power protected Peter from the universe’s rejection, and Peter chose to share it with Gwen as Li Congxin’s main body reached God’s Quarry.

• Gwen Stacy identified Peter Parker as another Spider-Man and explained that they had arrived in a parallel universe, where this world’s Peter had died.
• Gwen said she suspected Kingpin had caused the spatial distortion, and she and Peter prepared to investigate him.
• Gwen revealed that the parallel universe was making her ill, while Li Congxin’s divine power protected Peter from the same effects.
• Li Congxin told Peter he could transfer some divine power to Gwen, and Peter agreed despite the resulting loss of strength.
• Li Congxin’s main body arrived at God’s Quarry, where Thanos and Zayn’s conflict was poised to unfold.

Li Congxin explained how sensing the energy around God's Quarry could help Daisy improve, while Thanos and Star Fox entered the quarry and encountered the Three Fates of the Infinity. After the witches aged Star Fox and restored him, they showed Thanos a pit filled with petrified Celestials and told him to climb down to regain his divine power.

• Li Congxin advised Daisy to study the divine power fluctuations around the black hole, while Champion questioned his focus on strength.
• Thanos entered God's Quarry, and Star Fox followed him to investigate.
• Star Fox tried to charm the Three Fates of the Infinity, but they trapped him in a lightning triangle and rapidly aged him.
• The Three Fates of the Infinity reversed their power and restored Star Fox to his original age.
• Thanos asked how to restore his divine power, and the witches led him to a quarry full of petrified Celestials and told him to climb down.

Thanos rejected a dream of a happy life with Lady Death and Gamora, breaking the trial of God's Quarry as Zayn headed there to confront him. In a parallel universe, Peter Parker joined the Spider Avengers as they battled Kingpin.

• Thanos saw the fate of those who failed God's Quarry's trial, then was petrified and trapped in a dream of a peaceful universe and family life with Lady Death and Gamora.
• Thanos rejected the dream and shattered it, insisting he wanted to achieve his goals in reality.
• Zayn arrived at the Congxin One, asked Li Congxin where Thanos was, and flew toward the black hole leading to God's Quarry.
• Li Congxin watched Zayn go, expecting a battle between father and son and believing either outcome would benefit him.
• Peter Parker met Spider-people from different universes, including Gwen, Shadow Spider, Spider-Ham Pork, and Peni Parker, as well as the native Miles Morales.
• The seven Spider-Men formed the Spider Avengers and fought Kingpin.

The Spider-Men struggled against Kingpin and his powerful villains while Universe rejection left most of them badly injured. Peter transferred his remaining divine power to Gwen, who used it to overpower Kingpin and send him crashing into a metal wall.

• The Spider-Avengers defeated Green Goblin, Scorpion King, and Lady Ock but lost Penny’s battle robot and suffered heavy injuries.
• Kingpin approached the Spider-Men carrying a bus, threatening the injured members behind Peter, Gwen, and the Little Black Spider.
• Peter remembered Clark Li’s divine power and transferred the remaining power in his body to Gwen.
• Gwen stopped Kingpin’s thrown bus in midair and tore it apart with her power.
• Kingpin attacked Gwen with a powerful punch, but she blocked it effortlessly and sent him flying into a metal wall with a single tap.

Spider-Gwen defeated Kingpin and returned to her universe, where she discovered that Li Congxin’s divine power had remained inside her because Little Spider forgot to take it back. Li Congxin restored her strength and explained the risks of using his power, then asked Gwen to help him return to his main body.

• Spider-Gwen struck Kingpin into the spatial currents, then watched the other Spider-Men return to their universes as Little Spider shut down the collider and handed the villains to the police.
• Little Spider returned to his own universe, remembered that Aunt May might worry about his absence, and hurried home without realizing he had forgotten Li Congxin.
• Spider-Gwen returned to her world exhausted, and Li Congxin revealed that he was inside her as the self-aware sliver of divine power Little Spider had left behind.
• Li Congxin absorbed nearby Cosmic Energy to restore Gwen’s stamina and explained that using his power could eventually assimilate her into its true master.
• Li Congxin told Gwen that his consciousness needed to return safely to his main body and asked her to help him.