Chapter Summaries

Xu Yue learned that the Beiyang Society had been captured or pursued after Chen Hang tried to negotiate with rival factions, and he agreed to ask Tony for help. After Tony flew toward the warehouse where the captives were supposedly held, Xu Yue revealed that the two messengers had targeted Tony’s home, just as a disturbance began below Stark Tower.

• Xu Yue learned that Chen Hang had been detained and most of the Beiyang Society had been captured, while the survivors were being hunted by the Holy Saints of Heaven.
• Two pursued Beiyang Society members asked Xu Yue to persuade Tony to rescue Chen Hang and the other core members, showing him the tracking marks they were suppressing with black threads.
• Xu Yue agreed to ask Tony for help, and Tony accepted before flying alone toward the warehouse district the two men marked on a map.
• After Tony departed, Xu Yue told the two men that he had no way to contact Tony directly and suggested they had targeted Tony’s home.
• A disturbance broke out below Stark Tower.

Holy Saints of Heaven Reincarnators raided Stark Tower after luring Tony away, but Xu Yue exposed the defectors and killed one of them. The raiders escaped with valuable equipment and celebrated their gains, while someone offered to send them back.

• A Reincarnator and his office-attired companion broke into Stark Tower, expecting S.H.I.E.L.D. not to intervene while Tony was away.
• Xu Yue killed one of the defectors, learned that Li Hui, Liu Hongtao, and Sun Lin had escaped, and took the dead man’s appearance.
• Tailin and the other Holy Saints of Heaven Reincarnators reached the tower, looted Stark Laboratory with a spatial crystal, and escaped before their deadline.
• At a harbor, the group celebrated opening a new route and divided credit for their Stark Tower and Hammer Industries gains, while discussing how to deal with the Beiyang Society.
• As the group said they were impatient for the mission to end, someone offered to send them back.

Xu Yue revealed overwhelming strength by catching attacks from Tailin and Saiyang, then subdued Saiyang before he could escape. Meanwhile, Sun Lin ambushed the guards at the warehouse where the Beiyang Society members were imprisoned, though Liu Hongtao and Li Hui followed her with visible reluctance.

• Tailin mocked Xu Yue and attacked him, but Xu Yue caught his powered-gauntlet punch with one hand.
• Saiyang rushed Xu Yue with a full-strength golden-flame attack, but Xu Yue caught him with his other hand and planted the power of his eyes in Saiyang’s mind.
• Chen Hang tried to reassure the imprisoned Beiyang Society members that the Holy Hill Legion would protect them, while guards outside mocked their hopes.
• Sun Lin used a one-time item and a surprise attack to take down the three Veteran Reincarnators guarding the warehouse.
• Liu Hongtao and Li Hui followed Sun Lin to the warehouse, though neither seemed pleased to be there.

Chen Hang and the Beiyang Society members escaped their captors but found the Holy Saints of Heaven squad dead at the docks, leaving them afraid they would be blamed. Lord Ba arrived to punish them, but an unseen voice claiming to be from S.H.I.E.L.D. seized him and took him away.

• Chen Hang rebuked Liu Hongtao and Li Hui, then led the rescued Beiyang Society members away from the warehouse, leaving the three captured guards alive.
• At the docks, Chen Hang found the Holy Saints of Heaven squad dead and feared the survivors would be blamed for the massacre.
• Lord Ba arrived, freed the three guards, and heard their account, which cast Chen Hang and his group as offenders.
• Lord Ba decided to punish the Beiyang Society members and gathered a destructive point of light at his fingertip.
• An unseen person grabbed Lord Ba's finger, extinguished the attack, and vanished with him while claiming S.H.I.E.L.D. was investigating the Stark Tower attack.

After the Holy Saints of Heaven’s defeat, Xu Yue concealed his role in the theft of Tony Stark’s laboratory while S.H.I.E.L.D. investigated the captured Reincarnator. Nick Fury met Xu Yue and became impressed by his abilities and apparent suitability for S.H.I.E.L.D.’s research team.

• News spread that S.H.I.E.L.D. had eliminated the Holy Saints of Heaven and captured another Reincarnator, leaving the Beiyang Society relieved that its rivals were gone.
• Tony Stark returned to find his laboratory stripped, and Xu Yue falsely claimed he had tracked down the thieves and handed their leader to S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Xu Yue concealed that he had taken Tony’s laboratory and Hammer Industries’ production line, while Hammer Industries was blamed for the theft and investigated.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. examined the captured leader, whose soul Xu Yue had erased, and discovered that his physical vitality far exceeded Captain America’s.
• Nick Fury met Xu Yue, assessed his abilities and personality, and decided he could be a valuable addition to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s research work.

Xu Yue entered S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Space Stone research base, while his Wood Clone continued working in Asgard and watched Loki's plot push Thor toward defying Odin. Thor's anger over the attack on the vault grew, and Loki's suggestion left him eager to act.

• Tony Stark questioned why Xu Yue was leaving, and Xu Yue said he wanted meaningful work while promising to send Tony takeaway pizza.
• Nick Fury and Natasha escorted Xu Yue through security and admitted him to the classified Space Stone research team.
• Xu Yue sensed the Space Stone's immense power and joined the research team, though Dr. Erik Selvig was not there.
• In Asgard, Xu Yue's Wood Clone discussed with Loki how Loki had let Frost Giants into the palace and directed them toward Odin's Vault; the Destroyer annihilated the intruders.
• Thor urged Odin to send troops against the Frost Giants, but Odin refused and reminded him that a wise king did not start wars lightly.
• At Thor's private banquet, Loki suggested they go themselves, and Thor eagerly considered acting against Odin's orders despite Sif's objection.

Xu Yue joined Thor's party in Jotunheim at Heimdall's request, where Thor's confrontation with Laufey erupted into a battle with the Frost Giants. As the group became surrounded and Xu Yue's companions struggled to protect him, he announced that his abilities could counter the giants and began using a fire technique.

• Heimdall asked Xu Yue to accompany Thor's group to Jotunheim and triggered a mission to bring them back safely while avoiding significant Frost Giant casualties.
• Xu Yue joined Thor, Loki, Sif, and the Warriors of the Three Palaces, raising the group's favorability toward him while Loki privately questioned why he had come.
• The group met Laufey, and Thor attacked him after Laufey called him a little princess, provoking the Frost Giants into a full battle.
• Loki's wrist was grabbed by a Frost Giant, triggering the Frost Giant king's bloodline within him, while the group struggled to advance through the enemy forces.
• When the Frost Giants began focusing their attacks on Xu Yue and the party became increasingly surrounded, he told Thor he could counter them and formed hand seals for Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation.

Xu Yue helped Thor and the others escape the Frost Beast before Odin ended the Asgardian conflict and exiled Thor to Earth. Xu Yue joined Phil Coulson’s mission to retrieve Mjolnir, then reunited with Thor at a restaurant.

• Xu Yue’s fire attacks scattered the Frost Giants, but Laufey released a Frost Beast that charged through his flames; Xu Yue used his Wood Clone’s eye technique to make it lie down.
• Odin arrived, ended the battle, and broke the peace agreement; he stripped Thor of his divine power and exiled him to Earth with Mjolnir.
• Xu Yue learned short-range travel through the Astral Dimension from Ancient One, then left to investigate Thor’s situation.
• Thor woke in a hospital, was subdued by security guards, and later spent time with Erik Selvig, Jane, and Daisy while searching for his hammer.
• Xu Yue took leave from S.H.I.E.L.D. and joined Phil Coulson’s mission to retrieve a mysterious hammer that no one could lift.
• Thor recognized Xu Yue when he entered the restaurant and greeted him with delight.

Xu Yue pretended to be Thor’s psychiatrist while his Wood Clone investigated Mjolnir with S.H.I.E.L.D., identifying it as Thor’s hammer. He told Nick Fury that Thor had been exiled to Earth, leaving S.H.I.E.L.D.’s director reeling from the revelation.

• Thor joyfully reunited with Xu Yue, who told Jane, Erik Selvig, and Daisy that Thor was his patient.
• Xu Yue privately advised Thor to tolerate the complicated situation on Earth for the time being.
• Xu Yue’s Wood Clone joined Phil Coulson at Mjolnir’s crater, tried and failed to lift the hammer, and began studying it.
• Xu Yue convinced Phil and Hawkeye that the hammer was Mjolnir by matching it with Norse mythology, prompting Phil to call Nick Fury.
• Nick Fury arrived with Grant Ward, and Xu Yue told him that Thor was Asgard’s Crown Prince and had been exiled to Earth.

After learning he was the Frost Giants' king's son, Loki became Asgard's temporary ruler while Odin entered Odin's Sleep. Tendo Xu Yue steered Loki toward sending the weakened Destroyer to Earth, where Xu Yue prepared to exploit the plan and raid Odin's Vault.

• Loki touched the Casket of Ancient Winters, and Odin revealed that Loki was the biological son of the Frost Giants' king before collapsing into Odin's Sleep.
• Tendo Xu Yue appeared in Odin's Vault and persuaded Loki that he should rule Asgard while Thor was exiled and Frigga guarded Odin.
• Loki's Illusion Technique failed against Tendo Xu Yue, and Loki took up Gungnir as Asgard's temporary ruler.
• Tendo Xu Yue suggested that Loki use the Destroyer against Thor, then vanished after revealing his interest in Odin's Vault.
• Xu Yue learned of the plan from his avatar and expected Loki to send the weakened Destroyer to Earth, giving him a chance to obtain the vault's treasures.

Xu Yue revealed Thor’s identity to S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra while guiding Thor to Mjolnir, which Thor still could not lift. After Phil Coulson approached him, Thor recognized that Xu Yue had told them who he was, leaving Phil surprised that the two knew each other.

• Xu Yue brought Thor to the Mjolnir site, where Thor confidently headed into the facility to reclaim his hammer.
• Xu Yue stopped Hawkeye from targeting Thor and told Hawkeye, Grant Ward, and Phil Coulson that Thor was Odin’s eldest son and Mjolnir’s original owner.
• Phil Coulson allowed Thor to reach Mjolnir, but Thor failed to lift it and collapsed in despair.
• Phil Coulson approached Thor and greeted him as the Prince of Asgard, and Thor asked whether Xu Yue had told him.
• Phil Coulson was stunned that Thor knew Xu Yue.

Xu Yue convinced S.H.I.E.L.D. of his Asgardian identity while steering Thor toward the truth about Loki, and Thor’s companions arrived on Earth. In Asgard, Loki responded by sending the Destroyer after Thor and preparing to confront Xu Yue.

• Xu Yue told Phil Coulson and the others that he was an Asgardian chef, and his stew convinced Coulson of his claim.
• Xu Yue told Thor about Asgard’s situation and hinted at his dissatisfaction with Loki’s actions.
• A group of Reincarnators working for Hydra received an assassination mission and planned to attack their targets together.
• Jane’s equipment detected the Rainbow Bridge, and Thor’s companions arrived on Earth, confirming Xu Yue’s story to Nick Fury.
• Loki realized that Heimdall and Thor’s companions had defied his orders, then summoned the Destroyer to attack Thor’s group.

Nick Fury witnessed the Asgardians’ arrival and realized their technology posed a grave threat, while Xu Yue stopped a sniper’s attack and killed the Reincarnator who fired it. Xu Yue warned that Thor’s pursuers had arrived, and a beam of light descended outside the town.

• Nick Fury watched Thor and the Warriors of the Three Palaces arrive by Bifrost and feared the scale of Asgard’s technology.
• Thor reunited with his friends, who credited Xu Yue with warning them about Loki, and Nick Fury welcomed the Asgardians on behalf of Earth’s leaders.
• A Reincarnator fired a high-powered bullet at Thor, but Xu Yue caught it and sent it back to kill the sniper.
• Nick Fury ordered agents to respond as the remaining Reincarnators fled, mistaking S.H.I.E.L.D. for the cause of their captain’s death.
• Xu Yue urged Nick Fury to evacuate the town because Thor’s pursuers had arrived, and a beam of light landed outside town.

Xu Yue and Thor faced the Destroyer after Nick Fury’s airstrike failed, then drew the battle into the Astral Dimension to protect the town. Thor regained Mjolnir and weakened the Destroyer, allowing Xu Yue to finish it with Kamui.

• Nick Fury’s airstrike struck the Destroyer, but it emerged unharmed and shot down two F-22s.
• Xu Yue moved the fighters and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents into the Astral Dimension, where the Warriors of the Three Palaces and Sif attacked the Destroyer.
• Xu Yue urged Thor to protect Jane and the civilians, and Thor regained Mjolnir and his divine power.
• Thor used a thunderstorm tornado to unbalance the Destroyer, then blocked its firing port and made it damage itself.
• Xu Yue used Kamui to swallow the weakened Destroyer after its divine markings vanished.

Tendo Xu Yue tested Gungnir’s tracking attack and countered Loki, but Loki revealed that he had prepared the Casket of Ancient Winters and enlisted Laufey to fight alongside him. As the two closed in, Xu Yue’s main body arrived in Six Paths Mode, turning the battle into a confrontation against both enemies.

• Loki fired Gungnir at Tendo Xu Yue, who survived by using Kamui Space, an AT Field, and a substitution technique before identifying how the weapon’s attacks behaved.
• Tendo Xu Yue returned from Kamui Space, used Flying Thunder God to attack Loki with a Lava Release Rasenshuriken, and discovered that Loki’s Casket of Ancient Winters protected him.
• Laufey emerged from Loki’s illusion and attacked Xu Yue with an ice sword after Loki had arranged for the King of the Frost Giants to help him.
• Laufey demanded the Casket of Ancient Winters, while Loki mocked Xu Yue and revealed the scale of his preparations.
• Tendo Xu Yue faced Loki and Laufey until Xu Yue’s main body arrived in Six Paths Mode.

Xu Yue rescued Heimdall and used the Rainbow Bridge to reach Asgard, where he killed Laufey and seized the Casket of Ancient Winters from Loki. Loki escaped to the Rainbow Bridge, but Thor refused to believe his warning that Xu Yue was stealing the vault’s treasures, so Loki fled and aimed the bridge at Earth.

• Xu Yue’s Wood Clone freed Heimdall, who activated the Rainbow Bridge and brought Thor and Xu Yue’s group from Earth to Asgard.
• Xu Yue used his Truth-Seeking Orbs to counter Loki’s Gungnir and kill Laufey, then confronted Loki in Odin’s Vault.
• Xu Yue took the Casket of Ancient Winters from Loki and drove him out of the vault.
• Thor found Loki on the Rainbow Bridge and attacked him, refusing to believe that Xu Yue had betrayed them.
• Loki used Gungnir to send Thor flying, then fled to the control room and aimed the Rainbow Bridge at Earth.

Xu Yue stole several Asgardian artifacts and escaped to Earth while Thor stopped Loki from destroying the planet by breaking the Rainbow Bridge. As S.H.I.E.L.D. advanced its Tesseract research, the cube opened a portal and brought Loki back to Earth with the Mind Scepter.

• Xu Yue sealed the Casket of Ancient Winters and a pinch of Eternal Divine Flame, then fled to Earth as Odin awakened and caught Thor and Loki after the Rainbow Bridge collapsed.
• Loki let go of Odin and fell into the abyss, disappearing to an unknown place.
• Xu Yue told Nick Fury that Thor and Loki had destroyed the Rainbow Bridge, and suggested he might become Asgard’s ambassador to Earth.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. accelerated Tesseract research, selected Erik Selvig, and developed early energy weapons as Xu Yue studied the artifacts he had taken.
• The Tesseract released a surge of energy, opened a spatial gate, and brought Loki back to Earth carrying the Mind Scepter.

Tendo Xu Yue persuaded Loki to cooperate against Xu Yue and took a leading role in Loki’s group as Nick Fury began assembling the Avengers. A high-reward mission drew Reincarnators across the Mission Space toward New York, setting the stage for the coming battle.

• Tendo Xu Yue destroyed Xu Yue’s Wood Clone, told Loki that Xu Yue had betrayed him, and offered to cooperate in exchange for using the Space Stone against their common enemy.
• Loki accepted Tendo Xu Yue as his second-in-command, while secretly planning to exploit him and later discard him.
• Nick Fury began assembling the Avengers, with Tony Stark, Dr. Banner, and Captain America set to join the response to the threat.
• A group of Reincarnators chose to head for New York after receiving an A-Rank mission with rewards potentially reaching SS-Rank.
• Reincarnators throughout the Mission Space received the mission and surged toward New York.

Human Path Xu Yue realized Loki had exposed himself to draw the Avengers away from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s plans, while Odin prepared to send Thor to Earth using dangerous dark energy. Thor arrived as Loki was being transported to the Helicarrier.

• Tony Stark questioned Human Path Xu Yue, and Banner defended him until Tony tested Banner's anger with a welding arc gun.
• S.H.I.E.L.D.'s facial recognition system located Loki at a banquet, and Tony Stark, Black Widow, and Captain America went to capture him.
• Human Path Xu Yue deduced that Loki had deliberately drawn the Avengers out to weaken their alliance and suspected Asgard would respond.
• Heimdall reported Loki's location and theft of the Space Stone to Odin, who decided to use dark energy to send Thor to Earth.
• Odin entered the source of Asgard's dark energy with Thor and Xu Yue, while Xu Yue noted the main body could not travel to Earth.
• Thor appeared on the Quinjet carrying Loki, and Loki showed fear as the aircraft was surrounded by thunder and lightning.

On the Helicarrier, Thor and Banner began arguing until Julie, a powerful Reincarnator, intervened and identified the Mind Scepter as the source of the team’s growing anger. Her attempt to control Banner backfired, triggering Hulk’s transformation and a fight, while Xu Yue recognized her ambitions and the Mind Stone’s influence on her.

• Thor sensed that Xu Yue of the Human Path felt familiar, while Banner rebuked him for speaking casually to Master Belnar.
• Julie entered with Phil Coulson and calmed the argument, then sensed that the Mind Scepter was affecting everyone and that Xu Yue had not been affected.
• Julie tried to soothe Banner, but the Mind Scepter shattered her ability and reversed its effects as Banner transformed into Hulk.
• Hulk punched Thor through a wall, and Julie asked Xu Yue to cooperate after admitting her intervention had been a mistake.
• Xu Yue warned Julie that her goals could exceed an S-Rank mission, and she became increasingly ambitious as the Mind Stone’s glow intensified.