Chapter Summaries

Li Congxin learned that he could erase Dormammu’s mark by approaching Odin’s power and agreed to help the injured Ancient One stop Dormammu’s sister, Omal, from crossing into Earth. While preparing for the coming battle, he endured Mindy’s painful Light treatment, then turned to Doctor Banner’s successfully developed perfect serum and arranged trials on captured criminals.

• The Ancient One told Li Congxin that approaching Odin’s level would let him erase Dormammu’s mark, then warned that Omal would cross through a Space Rift in half a month and asked him to fight her.
• Li Congxin returned to Los Angeles and had Mindy use her Light abilities to wear away his Dark Energy, but five days of painful treatment removed less than one percent.
• Doctor Banner told Li Congxin that the perfect serum had passed its mouse tests, and Li Congxin insisted on human trials for certainty.
• Li Congxin used Matthew’s Hand network to capture one hundred fugitive criminals for the trials, and Banner agreed after reviewing their records.
• All one hundred criminals survived the serum trials and gained power, but Li Congxin killed each of them before they could act on it.

Li Congxin perfected the Ultimate Serum, restored several allies, and reunited with Skye, helping her father begin treatment. The chapter ended with Sif arriving at Li Congxin’s villa to request his help.

• Li Congxin confirmed the perfect serum was safe, then used Dragon Bone essence to create seven Ultimate Serum doses for his closest family and friends.
• Li Congxin restored Old Pi, Hope, and Xiao Bai to their youthful prime, while Xiao Bai insisted she wanted to remain his little sister and stay single.
• Li Congxin restored Daredevil Matthew’s eyesight and gave him scripts for three Batman films.
• Skye called Li Congxin for help with her unstable father, Calvin Zabo, and Li Congxin brought them to his villa so Calvin could receive treatment.
• Skye told Li Congxin about her experiences and reunion with her family in Afterlife.
• Qingfeng showed Li Congxin that Sif had arrived at the villa, looking battle-worn and asking for his help.

Sif arrived on Earth with three missions, including investigating Kree activity and capturing the escaped Lorelei, while Li Congxin learned that the Kree had attacked Afterlife. He took Skye and the others there and found the settlement in ruins, with more than twenty people held hostage by blue-skinned aliens.

• Sif recovered her memory after listening to music with Carl and told Li Congxin about her missions to investigate the Kree, capture Lorelei, and address a third matter.
• Sif explained that Lorelei had escaped to Earth and could control men through touch and sound, while Skye learned that Sif and Thor were Asgardians.
• Wounded Gordon arrived and told Skye that the Kree had attacked Afterlife; Li Congxin insisted on going with her and gave Gordon his phone to help locate the settlement.
• Gordon returned to Afterlife, and Qingfeng tracked Li Congxin’s phone signal so Li Congxin could take Skye and the others there through an Any Door.
• Li Congxin and the others arrived at Afterlife and found it devastated, while more than twenty people were held at gunpoint by three blue-skinned aliens.

Li Congxin and Sif rescued captured Inhumans from Kree soldiers and used Heimdall’s vision to locate several groups being pursued. At the final battlefield, they found the Kree leader Yong Luoge, who prepared to confront Sif and Li Congxin.

• Li Congxin subdued three Kree soldiers, while Skye and Sif helped free the captured Inhumans.
• Lincoln told Skye that Gordon had rescued her mother and the others, but three Kree were tracking them.
• Sif contacted Heimdall, who shared visions of the Kree pursuing the Inhumans, and Li Congxin sent the captured soldiers to Captain America.
• Li Congxin, Skye, and Sif rescued the pursued Inhumans at two locations and sent their Kree attackers to Captain America.
• Sif traced the last pursuit to a convenience store, where Li Congxin found a Kree soldier threatening a hooded man and learned the leader was Yong Luoge.

Li Congxin and Skye subdued the Kree agent Yong Luoge and exposed Lorelei, an Asgardian siren who had disguised herself as an Inhuman. After Yong Luoge threatened Earth and Asgard, Li Congxin killed him, leaving Lorelei captured and the conflict with the Kree unresolved.

• Li Congxin told Skye how Carol defeated Yong Luoge's attempts to manipulate her, and Skye blasted Yong Luoge through the convenience store wall.
• A disguised Lorelei tried to control Li Congxin by touching him, but his repulsive magnetic field threw her against the wall and exposed her identity.
• Sif restrained Lorelei with a sound-blocking collar and handcuffs, while Li Congxin refused to explain how he had identified her.
• Yong Luoge returned and aimed a pistol at Lorelei, but Li Congxin disarmed him and declared him a prisoner for attacking Earth's people.
• Yong Luoge threatened to summon the Kree and Ronan, while Sif affirmed Asgard's alliance with Earth.
• Li Congxin killed Yong Luoge with a sword-like palm strike.

Li Congxin killed Lorelei and covered up the deaths of the Kree squad, then invited Jia Ying and the Inhumans to stay at his home. Before departing, Sif revealed Odin’s prophecy of a Chitauri invasion in 2012, leaving Li Congxin concerned that the Cosmic Cube in his possession could change how the invasion reached Earth.

• Li Congxin killed Lorelei, fabricated a story blaming her for the Kree squad’s deaths, and arranged to make the remaining Kree prisoners’ deaths look authentic.
• Li Congxin invited Jia Ying and the Inhumans to his home, then gave Skye access to Nirvana Group’s resources to help her people.
• Sif told Li Congxin that Odin had sent her to warn Earth that Thanos would lead the Chitauri in an invasion in 2012, with Thor available to help if needed.
• After Sif left with the six corpses, Li Congxin realized the Cosmic Cube was in his possession and wondered whether the invasion could still be stopped by closing a portal.

Li Congxin warned Egghead that the Chitauri would invade Earth in 2012, potentially arriving in warships instead of through a portal, and helped S.H.I.E.L.D. persuade Earth’s leaders to prepare. After taking a Security Council seat, he arranged his family’s safety and began assembling and equipping the Avengers for the coming war.

• Li Congxin told Egghead that the Chitauri invasion was coming in 2012 and that the enemy might attack directly with warships rather than use Loki’s portal plan.
• Li Congxin agreed to give Egghead most of the Kree weapons and spacecraft he had seized so S.H.I.E.L.D. could use them to persuade Earth’s governments to prepare.
• Egghead proposed Li Congxin for the Security Council seat Pierce had left vacant, and Li Congxin accepted after initially resisting.
• Li Congxin sent Xiao Bai, Hope, Mindy, and Old Pi to a Los Angeles villa, while Jia Ying moved the Inhumans to a new base and Skye stayed behind.
• Li Congxin and Egghead spent half a month persuading Earth’s decision-makers to support preparations, after which Egghead organized S.H.I.E.L.D. for the defense effort.
• Li Congxin took responsibility for assembling and equipping the Avengers and providing their logistical support for the coming Chitauri invasion.

Natasha asked Li Congxin to strengthen her so she could better contribute her combat experience to the Avengers. He revealed that Pym Laboratories had recreated the perfect Super Soldier Serum, but the two injections he showed Natasha and Hawkeye were the last ones.

• Natasha confronted Li Congxin about being one of the Avengers’ weakest fighters and asked him for an enhancement.
• Li Congxin agreed that Natasha needed greater strength and invited her to bring Hawkeye to Pym Laboratories.
• Li Congxin showed Natasha and Hawkeye two blue injections and revealed that Pym Laboratories had recreated the perfect Super Soldier Serum.
• Li Congxin said the serum’s special Dragon Bone ingredient was scarce and exhausted, making the two injections the last perfect serums in the world.

Li Congxin developed a new light-energy attack while preparing the Avengers for the coming Chitauri invasion. After the Avengers failed to stop a thief who stole a Quantum Tunnel component from Pym Laboratories, he was summoned to the lab.

• Li Congxin limited production of the Perfect Serum and used it to enhance Natasha and Hawkeye.
• Over the following year, Li Congxin helped the Avengers improve their teamwork and gave them Gravity Chambers while training in a new chamber built by Old Pi and Shuri.
• Li Congxin used sunlight and mirrors to cultivate light energy, then developed Light Energy Vision, a pair of concentrated beams that cut through the mirrors.
• Qingfeng told Li Congxin that Mr. Pym had sent two messages about a stolen Quantum Tunnel component.
• Li Congxin read that the Avengers had failed to intercept the thief and that the thief had escaped with the component, so he prepared to go to the laboratory.

Li Congxin identified Ghost Girl Ava as the thief who stole a vital component from Pym Laboratories and used S.H.I.E.L.D. records to locate her hideout. He and Nick Fury reached the secret base, where Li Congxin opened the electronic lock with its password, surprising Fury.

• Li Congxin learned that the thief had stolen a quantum component from Pym Laboratories and suspected Ghost Girl Ava.
• Li Congxin asked Nick Fury for information on Ava, and Fury found her background, abilities, and current location in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s records.
• Nick Fury accompanied Li Congxin through an Any Door from Washington to Ava's hideout in a New York forest park.
• Li Congxin entered the base's password to unlock its door, leaving Nick Fury amazed that he knew it.

Li Congxin and Egghead investigated a basement at Pym Laboratories, where they encountered Ghost Ava and learned her unstable condition was tied to quantum energy. Li Congxin suppressed her phasing ability and agreed to help her in exchange for the stolen equipment, then moved to wake Egghead.

• Li Congxin explained how he had deduced the electronic lock’s password by observing the keypad and opened the way into the building.
• Li Congxin and Egghead found a basement filled with equipment and a device resembling a bed, while Li Congxin sensed quantum energy fluctuations.
• Ava knocked Egghead unconscious and attacked Li Congxin, but her strike failed to hurt him.
• Li Congxin used his quantum-infused qi to stop Ava from phasing through a wall and offered to help stabilize her condition.
• Ava returned the stolen quantum components after Li Congxin agreed to take her with him and keep helping her.
• Li Congxin transferred qi into Egghead to wake him.

Li Congxin learned that uncontrolled Inhuman transformations had injured several people and assigned the Avengers to handle the incidents. He then distributed customized equipment to the team, ending with Hawkeye receiving a powerful blade named Black Blade: Night.

• Egghead received messages from Hill describing three Inhumans who had injured people during uncontrolled transformations.
• Li Congxin told Egghead to let the Avengers subdue the Inhumans and have S.H.I.E.L.D. detain them while they planned what to do next.
• Li Congxin brought Ava to Pym Laboratories, where the Avengers grew sympathetic after hearing about her experiences.
• Li Congxin found Tony watching a fashion-show replay, then asked him to bring the finished equipment for the Avengers.
• Li Congxin distributed the team's customized gear and gave Hawkeye a magically enhanced blade made from vibranium and Destroyer metal, naming it Black Blade: Night.

Li Congxin investigated the worldwide awakening of Inhumans, then visited prison to recruit Scott Lang as Ant-Man. A superpowered prisoner named Marcus Milton escaped during their meeting, and Li Congxin intercepted him as Marcus attacked.

• Li Congxin gave Hawkeye the Precious Saber and sent the Avengers to subdue newly awakened Inhumans who were endangering civilians.
• Daisy contacted Lincoln and Gordon, reached the Inhumans’ settlement, and learned that Terrigen-contaminated seafood had caused the widespread transformations.
• Li Congxin traced the Terrigen contamination to crystals scattered near Afterlife and learned that agencies were recalling affected food, though further awakenings were likely.
• Li Congxin visited Scott Lang in prison and offered him a place on a superhero team, with financial support and help seeking custody of his daughter.
• An explosion shook the prison, and Li Congxin flew out to find that Marcus Milton had escaped through the building.
• Li Congxin used an Any Door to intercept Marcus, who accelerated and punched at him.

Li Congxin fought the escaped prisoner Marcus Milton, whose overwhelming powers resembled Superman’s, but failed to stop him from fleeing. After helping contain a prison break at Nashenmo Prison, Li Congxin learned from the prisoner’s records that Marcus had used the codename Hyperion.

• Li Congxin deflected Marcus Milton’s attacks and sent him flying with palm strikes, but Marcus quickly improved his control and attacked with heat vision.
• Li Congxin used Miraculous Hands, Spring Returns and Cube Void Slash to counter Marcus’s heat vision, prompting Marcus to flee and escape by flying.
• Li Congxin returned to the prison, helped capture more than ninety percent of the escaped prisoners, and learned that nearly fifty had still escaped.
• Li Congxin assured the warden he would explain the prison break to the government, requested Marcus’s records, and called Egghead to report Marcus’s powers.
• Li Congxin read that Marcus had murdered sixteen innocent civilians while on the run and had once infiltrated a gang under the codename Hyperion.

Li Congxin investigated Hyperion’s escape and discovered that a stolen necklace had suppressed the newly awakened man’s powers, while the necklace’s thief was found dead with no visible injuries. He visited The Ancient One, who refused his serum, then entered the Space Rift to face Omal as her invasion began.

• Li Congxin reviewed the prison footage and learned that Hyperion’s powers erupted after Smith Gerard stole his necklace.
• Guards found Smith Gerard and four other escaped prisoners dead in a hijacked police car, but the necklace was missing.
• Li Congxin drew the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss card, then visited The Ancient One at Kamar-Taj with an Ultimate Serum she refused.
• The Ancient One explained that the Space Rift and Omal’s invasion had been delayed, and Li Congxin agreed to join the coming battle.
• The Ancient One opened an Any Door to the Space Rift, where Li Congxin saw Dark Energy condense into the image of a green-haired woman.

Li Congxin fought Omal, an unstable avatar of a Dark Dimension demon, in a Space Rift where the abundant light energy strengthened him and suppressed her. He wounded her with the Cube Space Rend Slash, but Omal ensnared him, and he countered with repeated Light Energy Shock attacks that left her unable to think or control her body.

• Omal taunted Li Congxin and questioned why The Ancient One had sent him to face her.
• Li Congxin summoned the Cube and Miraculous Hands, Spring Returns, then struck Omal with the Cube Space Rend Slash while countering her lethal beam with Light Energy Vision.
• Li Congxin's sword cut Omal in half, but she survived, turned into dark energy, and entangled him while seizing his sword.
• Li Congxin used the Blood Sky Ring to send Light Energy Shock through Omal, repeatedly striking her until she lost the ability to think or control her avatar.

Li Congxin absorbed Cosmic Energy from Omal while trapped in the Space Rift, greatly increasing his strength before forcing her to retreat. He returned to Kamar-Taj, where The Ancient One recognized his gains and offered to answer questions about matters unrelated to other dimensions.

• Omal’s Dark Energy leaked into Li Congxin and was absorbed by Dormammu’s mark, so Li Congxin changed tactics and sent the energy back into her with vibrations.
• Li Congxin discovered that the process refined Cosmic Energy from Omal’s Dark Energy, strengthening his body and nearly doubling his power.
• As Omal’s Cosmic Energy dwindled, Li Congxin stopped before her avatar and soul could collapse, then expelled the remaining Dark Energy and sent her flying away.
• Omal escaped through a Space Rift, while Li Congxin waited in vain for her to return before leaving as the rift began to close.
• Li Congxin returned to Kamar-Taj through an Any Door, and The Ancient One welcomed him and offered to answer questions unrelated to other dimensions.

Li Congxin learned that Supergiant of Thanos’s Black Order had stolen the Mind Stone necklace and killed Prisoner Smith, but neither the Ancient One nor Heimdall could locate her. Five days later, Hyperion overwhelmed Captain America’s team, and Li Congxin drove him off with a space-cutting sword strike, leaving the heroes in need of the necklace to stop him.

• The Ancient One told Li Congxin that Hyperion was an Eternal whose powers had been suppressed by a Mind Stone necklace, and identified Supergiant as the Mind Controller who killed Prisoner Smith and stole it.
• The Ancient One warned Li Congxin that Earth would face growing supernatural threats and that the Sanctum would not intervene except in a world-ending crisis.
• Li Congxin asked Heimdall to find Supergiant, but Heimdall could not locate her, so Li Congxin alerted Egghead and S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Over the next several days, newly transformed Inhumans appeared across Earth, forcing the Avengers to split into three teams to handle them.
• Five days later, Hyperion nearly killed Luke Cage and badly injured Captain America’s team, prompting Mindy to summon Li Congxin.
• Li Congxin injured Hyperion with sword energy that tore through space, but Hyperion quickly healed and escaped, leaving Li Congxin determined to find the Mind Stone necklace.

Li Congxin helped Hank Pym complete the Quantum Tunnel rescue and welcomed Scott Lang as the Second-Generation Ant-Man. After Janet returned from the Quantum Realm, she restored Li Congxin’s sealed memories, revealing his past conflict with Dormammu.

• Mindy healed the Avengers after Hyperion defeated them, and Li Congxin told the team to contact him if Hyperion appeared again.
• Scott Lang accepted Li Congxin’s invitation, received a pardon, and trained with Hope to become the Second-Generation Ant-Man.
• Li Congxin and the Avengers secured Pym Laboratories while Hank Pym activated the Quantum Tunnel and Scott rescued Janet from the Quantum Realm.
• Scott joined the Avengers, arranged to visit his daughter and friends, and borrowed Li Congxin’s car.
• Janet thanked Li Congxin and used quantum energy to unlock three memory fragments about his past encounters and battle with Dormammu.

Li Congxin recovered his memories of how he first met Dormammu, stole a powerful energy that merged with his soul, and later destroyed Dormammu’s manifestation in the Quantum Realm. After Janet helped restore his and Mindy’s memories, the Avengers celebrated her return, while Ava remained incurable for now and asked Li Congxin to let her sleep with him.

• Li Congxin remembered that during his journey between worlds, he absorbed Dormammu’s refined energy, prompting Dormammu to chase him through the Quantum Realm.
• Li Congxin recalled destroying Dormammu’s manifestation with a Quantum Realm staff after Dormammu attacked him, then escaping with Janet’s help.
• Li Congxin remembered that he and Mindy had traveled from 1999 to 2008 through a Time Vortex while rescuing Old Pi, and resolved to keep the energy Dormammu wanted back.
• Janet helped Li Congxin and Mindy recover their memories and eased their injuries, allowing Li Congxin to sense and begin controlling his Quantum Energy.
• Janet could only suppress Ava’s mutation, so Li Congxin promised to channel qi for her every two days; Ava asked if she could sleep with him that night.