Chapter Summaries

The Avengers fought off the Hulk and invading forces aboard the Helicarrier as twelve Reincarnator mechs arrived, only to be brought under Julie’s command. At Loki’s prison, Xu Yue confronted him and blasted him through the Helicarrier with a Cross-shaped beam.

• Thor kept the Hulk occupied while Hawkeye damaged a Helicarrier engine, Iron Man repaired it, and Captain America, Black Widow, and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents suppressed the invaders.
• Twelve winged mechs arrived, but Hawkeye destroyed one with an explosive arrow before leaving to find Loki.
• Julie forced the surviving mech pilots to obey her after killing their captain for trying to say more than “understood.”
• Loki trapped Thor in the Hulk’s cage and stabbed Phil Coulson after deceiving him with an illusion.
• Xu Yue of the Human Path arrived on a giant python, confronted Loki, and fired a Cross-shaped beam that sent Loki hurtling out of the Helicarrier.

Shirley revealed herself to the Reincarnators and helped the Avengers learn that Loki was preparing to open a portal from Stark Tower. As Tony Stark confronted Loki, the Space Stone opened a portal over New York and the Chitauri army poured through, while Tendo Xu Yue watched with a stiff smile.

• Shirley revealed her identity and recruited the Reincarnators by promising intelligence about Bernard, the Nightmare Demon.
• Nick Fury learned that Phil Coulson had been revived, and the Avengers used Hawkeye's information to locate Loki at Stark Tower.
• Loki told Tendo Xu Yue he expected him to honor his promise as they prepared to open the portal.
• Tony Stark returned to Stark Tower and baited Loki while secretly summoning his Mark VII suit.
• Tony Stark's suit knocked Loki aside and assembled around him, but the Space Stone opened a stable portal above New York.
• The Chitauri army poured through the portal as Tendo Xu Yue sat watching with a stiff smile.

Reincarnators gathered in New York prepared to join the Battle of New York for its rewards, while the Chitauri invasion began under a barrage of mech attacks. The chapter left the invading army under assault from waves of bizarre attacks.

• Street performers and other Reincarnators saw the Chitauri army emerge and planned to earn rewards by following the expected course of the battle.
• A disheveled red-haired man received Shirley’s letter and argued with his companion that their group should join the mission.
• Jia Mei sensed something was wrong and chose to pursue only the guaranteed reward.
• Edward Rothschild and Alice agreed to cooperate with Shirley’s faction, and Edward decided to let Chen Hang’s Beiyang Society exchange students tag along.
• A Chitauri assault squad entered New York, where dozens of mechs attacked and devastated the vanguard.
• Reincarnators unleashed a storm of further attacks on the Chitauri, with some arguing over who would claim the best targets.

Shirley gathered powerful Reincarnators to attack Loki, confident that her borrowed scroll would protect them from his Illusion Technique. As Shirley and Human Path Xu Yue launched mental attacks, Xu Yue secretly targeted Loki’s Mind Scepter instead of Loki himself.

• Shirley and Human Path Xu Yue flew toward Stark Tower to join forces against Loki, while Shirley felt uneasy about the battle below.
• Shirley leaped from the Quinjet onto Stark Tower, where Johnson, Edward Rothschild, and Alice joined her and Human Path Xu Yue.
• A massive Chitauri landing ship emerged from the expanded spatial passage and struck the Reincarnator forces with dense energy fire.
• Loki used his Illusion Technique to send Tony Stark toward the landing ship, but Shirley’s group remained unaffected by the Angel's Protection scroll.
• Human Path Xu Yue launched a powerful mental attack at Loki’s Mind Scepter, and Shirley followed with an assault aimed at Loki.

Shirley and the Reincarnators fought Loki, and Johnson unleashed a life-consuming arrow that devastated a New York street but failed to kill him. As the group pursued the injured Loki, Tendo Xu Yue appeared and summoned Complete Form Susanoo to block them.

• Shirley used a magic crystal to shield her team from Loki’s Mind Scepter attacks, while Howard empowered Johnson and Johnson burned scrolls to strengthen his attack.
• Johnson fired Meteor Stream at Loki, melting everything along one street, but the Mind Scepter’s force field protected Loki from the blast.
• Edward Rothschild pierced an illusion of Loki, while the injured Loki escaped on a Chitauri aircraft and urged Qi to intervene.
• Tendo Xu Yue blocked the pursuing Reincarnators’ ice spikes and ignited them with purple flames to form Complete Form Susanoo.

Xu Yue used his Susanoo and the Six Paths to pull New York’s airborne fighters and Chitauri to the ground, then summoned an asteroid toward the city. The chapter left the meteor blazing toward New York as Xu Yue unleashed Tengai Shinsei.

• Tendo Xu Yue manifested a giant Susanoo that struck Shirley and the other Reincarnators from the sky.
• Shirley unleashed Extreme Ice Cold and Ice Age, but her attacks barely affected the Susanoo before gravity dragged her down.
• The Six Paths Xu Yue formed a barrier around New York and used Super Banshō Ten'in to pull nearly everything in the sky toward the ground.
• Tendo Xu Yue drew on the main body’s Chakra and summoned an asteroid toward New York.
• Governments launched missiles and F-16s at the asteroid, but their attacks failed to stop it.
• The blazing asteroid descended over New York as Tendo Xu Yue unleashed Tengai Shinsei.

Tendo Xu Yue’s meteor attack forced the Avengers, Chitauri, and Reincarnators to unite against the falling fragments, but a second meteor prompted Ancient One to intervene. After Tendo Xu Yue persuaded Ancient One not to stop him, Ancient One moved the entire battle into the Astral Dimension, where the conflict continued.

• Thor shattered the first meteor, and the Avengers, Chitauri, and Reincarnators worked together to destroy most of its fragments, though some caused damage across New York.
• Thor crashed near a group of Reincarnators, who recognized him as their target and decided to attack him.
• Shirley and Alice debated whether Loki or Tendo Xu Yue was the real threat as a second meteor descended.
• Ancient One pulled Tendo Xu Yue and the second meteor into the Astral Dimension, then shifted the meteor’s destruction away.
• Tendo Xu Yue warned Ancient One that stopping him could allow Dormammu to descend, then promised to target only the outsiders and Chitauri.
• Ancient One accepted Tendo Xu Yue’s explanation but drew New York and everyone involved in the battle into the Astral Dimension.

After Tendo Xu Yue persuaded Ancient One to move the battle into the Astral Dimension, the Avengers and Reincarnators agreed to target Loki while Tendo attacked the Chitauri. The chapter left Shirley and the other Reincarnators facing Tendo’s suddenly appearing Susanoo as it drew its sword behind them.

• Tendo Xu Yue reported that Ancient One had been persuaded, and the other Six Paths Xu Yue clones canceled the contingency plan as the Astral Dimension removed ordinary civilians from the battlefield.
• The Reincarnators recognized S.H.I.E.L.D.'s intervention and celebrated that they had been treated as allies, while Loki realized Tendo had deliberately attacked his army.
• Captain America, Thor, and the other Avengers agreed to deal with Loki before closing the spatial passage, and Shirley’s group also decided to attack him to secure a high mission evaluation.
• Tendo Xu Yue used Susanoo to slash through the Chitauri with a black sword beam that drained their life force, alarming Loki, the Avengers, and the Reincarnators.
• Hulk charged at Tendo, and Shirley and the other Reincarnators moved in to attack, but Tendo teleported behind them and began drawing his sword.

Johnson’s sacrifice attack and a nuclear missile left Tendo Xu Yue’s Susanoo nearly destroyed, but Tendo survived the blast and stood in the crater. The battlefield’s Reincarnators had believed the fight was over before he emerged.

• Thor rammed the Susanoo, but Tendo Xu Yue blasted him away with a repulsive force.
• Hulk grabbed the Susanoo’s leg as Shirley gave Johnson a Cross medal, and Johnson’s sacrifice attack struck Hulk instead of the target, badly damaging the Susanoo.
• Shirley urged the Reincarnators to attack, but the Susanoo killed many of them as it fought back.
• Tony Stark brought in a Tactical Nuclear Missile while Thor restrained the Susanoo with lightning, and the blast tore apart its remaining body.
• Tendo Xu Yue emerged alive from the crater, protected by a glowing force field despite his severe burns.

Tendo Xu Yue survived the nuclear blast and countered the Reincarnators and Avengers as they attacked him. After Shirley froze his Wood Realm, he summoned the True Thousand-Armed Buddha and prepared to strike back.

• Tendo Xu Yue endured the nuclear explosion behind his AT Field, badly burned but still alive.
• The Reincarnator big shots and other surviving fighters launched a coordinated assault on Tendo Xu Yue.
• Tendo Xu Yue used Sage Art: Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence to bind attackers and lift himself above the battlefield.
• Shirley unleashed Ice Age, freezing much of the Wood Realm before it could overwhelm the fighters.
• Iron Man, Thor, and Loki attacked Tendo Xu Yue while the Hulk remained missing after the blast.
• Tendo Xu Yue revealed the True Thousand-Armed Buddha, towering over New York, and announced that he would strike back.

Xu Yue unleashed the True Thousand-Armed Buddha, wiping out the Chitauri army and nearly all the Reincarnators before reaching his limit. As Shirley and the survivors faced a group of apparent French Credit executives, Human Path Xu Yue revealed that he and the others had been on the same side as the defeated BOSS all along.

• Xu Yue used Sage Art Wood Style: True Thousand-Armed Buddha to bombard the battlefield for several minutes, destroying the Chitauri and nearly all the Reincarnators in range.
• The surviving Avengers escaped with Iron Man and Thor, Loki endured under the Mind Scepter's protection, and Shirley had hidden several Reincarnator bigshots in another world.
• Tendo Xu Yue's Buddha statue cracked apart as his injuries and Chakra depletion left him unable to maintain it, but the survivors hesitated to approach him.
• Johnson agreed to let Shirley use his ability despite Howard's warning that it would consume his highest-authority item, until Human Path Xu Yue said Johnson was about to die.
• Human Path Xu Yue and four other figures appeared, while Jigokudo Xu Yue placed Tendo Xu Yue in the King of Hell to repair him using the souls of the dead.
• Human Path Xu Yue revealed that the group had been on the same side from the beginning and showed the same Eternal Mangekyo and Rinnegan as Tendo Xu Yue, shocking Shirley and the others.

Tendo Xu Yue and the Six Paths Xu Yue fought Thor, who was empowered by Shirley and the other Reincarnators, while Ancient One contained the battle inside the Astral Dimension. The fight shifted when Hulk returned stronger than before and charged into the battlefield, knocking Hungry Ghost Path Xu Yue away.

• Iron Man carried Black Widow through the Astral Dimension and asked Nick for more units, while the Reincarnators realized their enemy could restore the Deva Path with the King of Hell.
• Edward Rothschild convinced Shirley and the other Reincarnators to stay and support the fight rather than retreat, and Loki abandoned his resentment to offer Tendo Xu Yue his help.
• Thor gathered lightning and received the Reincarnators' enhancement items, then fought the Six Paths Xu Yue while Shirley and the others supported him from the outskirts.
• Ancient One contained the destructive battle as lightning filled the Astral Dimension, and distant Reincarnators watched from safety.
• Hulk returned to the battlefield with increased strength, ignored Human Path Xu Yue's attempt to control him, and sent Hungry Ghost Path Xu Yue flying with one punch.

Thor and Hulk gained the upper hand against the Six Paths Xu Yue until Xu Yue arrived and subdued them. Xu Yue revealed he had destroyed the Chitauri forces, then used Kamui to remove the remaining Xu Yue clones, leaving Shirley and the others bewildered.

• Thor and Hulk overwhelmed the Six Paths Xu Yue, targeting Jigokudo Xu Yue and forcing the others to protect him.
• Loki fired the Mind Scepter at Hulk, making him even more powerful, then persuaded Thor that he had switched sides to help him.
• Thor and Hulk nearly broke through Tendo Xu Yue's AT Field before chains from outside the Astral Dimension bound them and shattered it.
• Xu Yue appeared above the spatial passage and told Ancient One he had traveled through Asgard and the Chitauri forces to reach Earth.
• Xu Yue revealed that the Chitauri mothership and army had been destroyed, then used Kamui to swallow the other Six Paths Xu Yue and leave Shirley and the others stunned.

Xu Yue secured the Space Stone by using Loki’s scepter to close its portal, then advanced-drew his mission reward despite warnings that S.H.I.E.L.D. had revoked his authority and his Promotion Mission was about to fail. The Space Stone acknowledged him and fused with Kamui Space, leaving Xu Yue with new spatial powers and turning his attention to Shirley and the other Reincarnators.

• After Ancient One left the battlefield, Xu Yue considered the risks of S.H.I.E.L.D. suspecting him and the possible failure of his Promotion Mission.
• Thor accepted Xu Yue’s excuse for hiding his Sealing Jutsu, while Shirley and the other Reincarnators anticipated rewards for their part in the battle.
• Xu Yue took Loki’s scepter and used it to close the Space Stone’s portal atop Stark Tower.
• Xu Yue ignored the Space’s warnings and advanced-drew his reward, causing the Space Stone to enter his right eye and merge with Kamui Space.
• Xu Yue gained spatial exemption and enhanced spatial abilities, then looked toward Shirley and the others as he considered making up for his reduced rewards.

Xu Yue confronted Johnson after detecting that he had seen through his disguise, then crushed Johnson’s desperate attack and took control of the room. Johnson’s allies were captured or killed, leaving Shirley in Alice’s hands.

• Xu Yue sent Thor and Loki away, then met with the S.H.I.E.L.D. legions’ leaders in a room at Stark Tower.
• Xu Yue identified Johnson’s Clairvoyance EX as the reason he had noticed Xu Yue’s disguise, and Johnson realized Xu Yue was a Reincarnator.
• Johnson launched Meteor Stream at Xu Yue and urged Shirley to escape.
• Xu Yue caught and crushed Johnson’s attack between two fingers, while Alice seized Shirley and Edward Rothschild pierced Howard’s heart.

Xu Yue finished securing his gains on Earth, then returned to settlement after helping Thor open the Rainbow Bridge to Asgard. His S.H.I.E.L.D. promotion failed, but he still received the Space Stone and substantial mission rewards.

• Xu Yue forced Shirley to sign agreements, including one not to become his enemy, then killed her before she could use her Rebirth Authority to carry her memories onward.
• Xu Yue took the Space Stone and used Kamui Space to seize Ego's seed, completing an achievement mission.
• Thor apologized to the Avengers and returned to Asgard through the Rainbow Bridge with Xu Yue's help.
• Xu Yue used the word "Return" to end his stay and enter settlement.
• Xu Yue received notice that his S.H.I.E.L.D. promotion had failed, but kept his SS-Rank reward and gained three S-Rank Plots, along with valuable equipment and materials.

After returning from the Mission Space, Xu Yue accepted a B-Rank Plot Point from Chen Hang but refused to share his intelligence, and Sun Lin defended him. Back in the Reincarnation Space, he oversaw the installation of two production lines at Kōkan Station before preparing to refine his plans and make full use of the Infinity Stones.

• The Beiyang Society group returned from the Mission Space, where most had failed their Promotion Missions and lost out on rewards.
• Liu Hongtao and Chen Hang offered to fund Xu Yue's retest in exchange for information about how he had gotten close to Tony Stark, and Chen Hang gave him a B-Rank Plot Point.
• Xu Yue pocketed the Plot Point and started to leave without sharing anything, prompting Chen Hang to threaten him.
• Sun Lin returned the Plot Point to Chen Hang, told him to stay away from Xu Yue, and left with Xu Yue.
• Xu Yue returned to the Reincarnation Space, where Mumei slipped out to hunt Kabane and he oversaw installation of Hulk-plasma and Ironclad Warrior production lines at Kōkan Station.
• Xu Yue finished preparing the production lines and planned to enter the Meditation Room and training room to refine his plans and use the Infinity Stones.

After completing his mission, Xu Yue advanced to Colonel and integrated the Infinity Stones, the Casket of Ancient Winters, and several of his abilities into a Frozen Realm. He strengthened himself and expanded the Penguin Merchant Guild’s influence before the Beiyang Army summoned him and Sun Lin for a special assignment and make-up promotion exam.

• Xu Yue used training and meditation to create an inner Frozen Realm, linking it to the Astral Dimension, Tsukuyomi, and the weakened Ten-Tails.
• Xu Yue traded half a barrel of Hulk’s original blood to Rothschild France Bank for five S-Rank Plot Points and spent three to unlock the Gate of Death.
• Xu Yue anonymously posted a bounty for an upgraded concealment Authority Item, helping the Penguin Merchant Guild attract attention and cooperation offers.
• Xu Yue learned that his next normal reincarnation mission would be in a changed Azeroth Mission Space after his promotion failure.
• The Beiyang Army sent a telegram ordering Xu Yue and Sun Lin to return to China for a special assignment and a legion-arranged make-up promotion exam.

Xu Yue and Sun Lin were recalled to China aboard a Beiyang airship and brought to the Fengtian Clique’s headquarters to meet the Young Marshal. Their arrival led to a confrontation at a lavish gathering, where a young man warned the crowd not to provoke Sun Lin because she was Sun Chuanfang’s little sister.

• A Beiyang airship arrived to retrieve Xu Yue and Sun Lin, and Xu Yue inferred that the legion’s true purpose was to seek his help with Uchiha Yue.
• The airship brought Xu Yue and Sun Lin to the Shenyang North Barracks, where a soldier said the Young Marshal wished to see them.
• Xu Yue and Sun Lin entered a lavish spatial building filled with partygoers and extravagant facilities.
• A short, fat man tried to grab Sun Lin, so she kicked him and jabbed one of his Byakugan.
• A handsome young man stepped forward and warned the crowd that Sun Lin was Sun Chuanfang’s little sister and that provoking her was unwise.

Zhang Xueyou brought Xu Yue into his private space and explained that the Pioneer Corps would designate a mission for him to contact Uchiha Yue. Xu Yue agreed to cooperate and withhold some intelligence from the Japanese Reincarnators after learning Zhang Yulin would personally lead the operation.

• Zhang Xueyou arrived and teased Sun Lin before taking Xu Yue away to discuss business.
• In his private space, Zhang Xueyou told Xu Yue the corps would arrange a make-up examination and designate a mission requiring him to help establish contact with Uchiha Yue.
• Zhang Xueyou revealed that the operation would include Reincarnators from the Shogunate Gate and Japan, and that Zhang Yulin would personally join them.
• Zhang Xueyou asked Xu Yue to sign a space contract and withhold some information from the Japanese side, and Xu Yue agreed.