Chapter Summaries

Asura Path Xu Yue fought the Avengers, demonstrating overwhelming power before sparing them from a devastating attack. Meanwhile, Xu Yue completed a new Vibranium-based Asura Path body and prepared to return to Asgard with it.

• Tony, Captain America, and Black Panther apologized to Zemo, who awakened Bucky from hypnosis and challenged the Avengers to defeat him.
• Asura Path Xu Yue blasted Ultron through a concrete wall and fought the Avengers as they joined forces against him.
• Ultron and Scarlet Witch helped turn the tide briefly, but Asura Path Xu Yue unleashed a black curtain that erased a vast area and gave the Avengers time to escape.
• Ultron concluded that Asura Path Xu Yue had deliberately spared them, and the Avengers discussed exercising more restraint and changing Ultron's operating methods.
• Xu Yue completed a new Vibranium-based Asura Path body, revived another Asura Path Xu Yue, and planned to take the new body back to Asgard.

Xu Yue returned to Asgard and told Odin he wanted a fair fight before Odin died, offering to restore Odin to his peak with the Destroyer armor. Thor arrived with Surtur’s crown, and Xu Yue revealed that Thor had an older sister, prompting Odin to prepare to explain the truth.

• Heimdall brought Xu Yue back to Asgard, where he told him that Odin was waiting.
• Xu Yue met Odin and learned that Loki had been imprisoned again; he offered to help Thor secure the throne.
• Odin offered Xu Yue the title of Prince of Asgard and clues about the Infinity Stones, but Xu Yue refused and asked to fight Odin fairly before his death.
• Xu Yue gave Odin the restored Destroyer armor so Odin could recover his strength for their fight.
• Thor entered carrying Surtur’s crown, and Xu Yue told him he had an older sister.
• Odin turned from the Destroyer armor and began telling Thor what he needed to know.

Xu Yue secured Odin’s agreement to make him Regent Prince of Asgard, while Odin named Thor his heir and prepared to confront Xu Yue in the Destroyer armor. Odin revealed that he believed Xu Yue was the true cause of Ragnarok, leaving the two poised for battle on an abandoned planet.

• Xu Yue left Odin and Thor to talk, then visited Loki in prison and told him he might soon be released; Loki refused to take the blame for Xu Yue again.
• Odin publicly named Xu Yue Regent Prince of Asgard and declared that Thor would inherit the throne after his death.
• Odin announced that he was going to the Tomb of the Gods and asked Xu Yue to accompany him, while Frigga ordered Asgard placed on high alert.
• Odin and Xu Yue arrived on an abandoned planet, where Odin recalled conquering it in his youth and explained his changing understanding of Ragnarok.
• Odin donned the Destroyer armor and declared that he believed Xu Yue was Ragnarok; Xu Yue accepted that Thor could not stop him as he was now.

Xu Yue and Odin fought across space, each countering the other's formidable powers until Odin's body began to fail. Odin unleashed a fatal strike that pierced Xu Yue's heart and invaded his body and soul, just as a long-dormant power revived within Xu Yue.

• Odin attacked Xu Yue with Gungnir, and Xu Yue blocked it with a golden sword formed from twelve Truth-Seeking Orbs and two Infinity Stones.
• Xu Yue and Odin clashed repeatedly, destroying the surrounding nebulae and planet as their divine powers warped the void.
• Odin gained the upper hand, though his body began cracking inside the Destroyer Armor, while Xu Yue fought on despite his wounds.
• Odin abandoned his original plan and merged with Gungnir to unleash a lethal attack on Xu Yue.
• Gungnir pierced Xu Yue's heart and spread destructive power through his body and soul, and a dormant power revived within him.

Xu Yue defeated Odin but was left gravely wounded and withdrew instead of continuing his planned fights. Hela emerged from imprisonment, mistook Odin’s death for a sacrifice to eliminate his enemy, and headed toward Asgard as Frigga prepared to face the crisis.

• Odin admitted defeat and vanished with Gungnir, leaving Xu Yue with a wound that resisted healing.
• Xu Yue abandoned his plan to fight Hela and Surtur, opened a portal, and retreated to recover.
• Hela emerged in space, found traces of the battle, and concluded that Odin had died killing a powerful enemy.
• Hela took a spaceship toward Asgard after Heimdall failed to answer her call.
• Heimdall told Frigga that Odin had fallen and Hela was approaching, while concealing what he had witnessed under Odin’s final order.
• Frigga ordered Loki released and sent Thor to Earth to seek help from the Avengers.

Xu Yue weighed how to handle Hela and Surtur while recovering from his wounds, then considered using the Avengers to buy time. Meanwhile, Tony and the Avengers arrived in Wakanda for T'Challa’s succession ceremony and discovered that the supposedly Third World country possessed a cloaked spacecraft far beyond their expectations.

• Xu Yue assessed his injuries and decided that the Avengers might be able to delay Hela and Surtur while he recovered.
• Earth’s Avengers settled their civil war, compromised on the Superhero Registration Act, and adopted a civilian-protection priority system with Tony’s help from Ultron.
• Tony flew to Wakanda to discuss investment, accompanied by Captain America, Black Widow, Banner, Falcon, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, and Quicksilver.
• W'Kabi welcomed the Avengers on T'Challa’s behalf and offered to take them to the succession ceremony.
• Tony offered to travel by Quinjet, but W'Kabi pointed out Wakanda’s arriving spacecraft, which emerged from its cloak and stunned the Avengers.

The Avengers visited Wakanda, where Xu Yue warned them that Thor’s sister Hela was a world-ending threat. After Ultron summoned them back because Thor had arrived seeking help, Hela entered Earth’s atmosphere and Stephen mistook Loki for a dangerous fake, leaving Loki trapped in a falling illusion.

• Tony and the Avengers arrived in Wakanda and discovered its hidden technological city before meeting T'Challa and the tribal leaders.
• Tony confronted Xu Yue, who revealed that Hela had pierced his heart and described her as the Goddess of Death, with another world-ending threat to follow.
• T'Challa defeated the mountaintop tribe’s Chief in the royal succession ceremony.
• Ultron reported that Thor had arrived at Avengers headquarters seeking help, so the group hurried back to face the threat Xu Yue had described.
• Hela destroyed a satellite in Earth's orbit and plunged toward the planet after spotting the Rainbow Bridge.
• Stephen attacked Loki at Avengers headquarters, mistook him for a fake, and left him falling in an endless illusion while Thor wondered where his brother had gone.

Stephen confirmed that the Loki they had encountered earlier was likely not the real Loki, though the Avengers repeatedly attacked him anyway. Thor gathered everyone to ask for help against Hela, but she arrived at Avengers Tower before they could plan.

• Stephen dropped Loki from a portal, and Hulk mistook him for the Loki who had threatened Earth and smashed him into the floor.
• Thor tried to reassure Loki, but Captain America struck him with his shield before Xu Yue explained that the earlier enemy might have been someone else.
• Thor told the Avengers that his sister Hela threatened the Nine Realms and that Asgard could no longer stop her alone.
• Tony and T'Challa doubted the group could defeat Hela, but she crashed into the plaza outside Avengers Tower and emerged from the crater.

Hela confronted the Avengers at their headquarters and demanded their submission, but the team used Ultron’s Vibranium legion, the Mind Stone, Stephen’s Time Stone, and Xu Yue’s control of space to banish and seal her. The Avengers bought themselves time, though they did not know how long the trap would hold.

• Hela arrived at Avengers Headquarters and demanded that the Avengers submit or die, rejecting Thor’s offer to surrender the throne under conditions.
• Ultron struck Hela with satellite weapons, but she survived and pierced his Vibranium body with a spear before he repaired himself.
• Ultron sent his Vibranium legion against Hela and ordered Stephen and the others to retreat as he attacked her with the Mind Stone.
• Stephen used the Time Stone to disrupt time, buried Hela with a spell, and sent her through a portal.
• Xu Yue sealed the surrounding space after Hela vanished, preventing her from returning directly.

Xu Yue and the others escaped Hela by traveling to Asgard, where they had fifty-three days to prepare for her arrival. As Hela flew toward them, Xu Yue healed and readied his companions for battle, ending the chapter with everyone devouring his specially prepared meal.

• Xu Yue reminded the group that they could leave Earth, and Thor called Heimdall to transport them to Asgard with the Rainbow Bridge.
• Hela saw the group depart for Asgard, accepted that she had obtained three Infinity Stones, and began flying there after finding the nearby jump points sealed.
• Thor welcomed the Avengers and their allies to Asgard, while Heimdall warned that Hela would arrive in fifty-three days and that their earlier tactics would not work again.
• Xu Yue spent the fifty-three days healing his chest wound and concluded that he would need his companions' help against Hela and Surtur.
• Xu Yue served a meal that increased toughness and reflexes, and the group eagerly ate it after Tony and Thor began devouring the food.

Hela arrived at Asgard and attacked its defenses, forcing the Avengers to fight her while Xu Yue watched for an opening. After the Space triggered a mission involving Surtur, Xu Yue decided to use Kree motherships as part of a backup plan.

• Hela reached Asgard, destroyed its defensive turrets, and mocked Frigga's attempt to negotiate.
• Hulk and Abomination charged Hela in Vibranium armor, but their clash shattered Asgard's force field and sent them flying.
• The Avengers attacked Hela together, but she avoided Ultron's Stone beam and easily caught Thor's lightning-charged hammer strike.
• The Space triggered the mission Surtur's Longing, prompting Xu Yue to reconsider when to release Surtur.
• Xu Yue told the Avengers to stall Hela and activated several Kree motherships near Asgard.

Xu Yue evacuated the Asgardians aboard the Kree mothership while Surtur rose from the Eternal Flame and began destroying Asgard. As Hela confronted Xu Yue, he blocked her lethal strike with the power of life, and his chest wound revealed his connection to Gungnir.

• Xu Yue urged the Queen to evacuate the Asgardians, and she ordered them to board the Kree mothership.
• Xu Yue told Heimdall about the Eternal Flame and Surtur, prompting Heimdall to board the ship as Xu Yue went to Odin's Vault.
• Surtur absorbed the Eternal Flame and erupted from Asgard, forcing Thor and the Avengers to flee toward the mothership.
• Hela attacked Xu Yue in fury, but he blocked her strike with a golden sword and neutralized her power of death.
• Hela saw the wound on Xu Yue's chest and realized that he had been the one connected to Gungnir.

Xu Yue turned against Hela and Surtur, trapping them in a divine kingdom reinforced by two Infinity Stones and overwhelming them despite his injuries. Hela and Surtur kept rising after his attacks, leaving Xu Yue to continue wearing down their immense endurance.

• Xu Yue and Hela’s clash sent them flying apart, and the shockwave helped destroy Asgard’s last Divine Mark as the realm began to split apart.
• Hela attacked Xu Yue, but Surtur intervened; Xu Yue severed Surtur’s arms, prompting Surtur and Hela to join forces against him.
• Xu Yue opened a divine kingdom around Hela and Surtur, using two Infinity Stones to strengthen it and suppress their powers.
• Xu Yue struck Hela with a sword blow that shattered her weapons and sent her flying, then bisected Surtur with another attack.
• Hela and Surtur recovered from their injuries, and Xu Yue prepared to keep fighting until their endurance was exhausted.

Xu Yue defeated Hela and Surtur after a prolonged battle, then learned that Thanos had not yet obtained the Power Stone and decided he needed to take a risk. As Asgard’s refugees settled in Greenland and worried about Xu Yue’s absence, he returned to New York to recover and pursue other plans.

• After nearly ten days of fighting, Xu Yue wore down Hela and Surtur, and Hela begged to negotiate before Xu Yue prepared a final strike.
• Xu Yue checked the situation through Six Paths Xu Yue, learned that Xandar had not fallen and Thanos had not yet acquired the Power Stone, and decided to take a risk.
• Thor secured Earth’s agreement to shelter the Asgardian refugees, and the Kree mothership brought them to a new home near Greenland.
• Thor and Tony worried about Xu Yue, while Loki insisted that Xu Yue was hiding somewhere and argued with Thor.
• Xu Yue returned to New York to recover, recalled the Six Paths, and planned to search for Reincarnators and advance Ant-Man 2’s work on the Quantum Realm.

Xu Yue learned that the remaining Reincarnators were nearly eliminated, while Scott, Dr. Pym, and Hope were captured by Sonny Burch and his Reincarnator allies for their technology. The captors forced Pym to work for them, and Pym agreed while secretly planning to escape.

• Tamura Iyozo told Xu Yue that he had dealt with the remaining Reincarnators from the Sino-Japanese Alliance, leaving only a few survivors from other groups.
• Scott refused to keep helping Dr. Pym and Hope search for a way into the Quantum Realm, then prepared to leave.
• Sonny Burch arrived with Reincarnator subordinates, and one of them used strange words to incapacitate Scott.
• Xu Yue received a triggered mission after Scott and Pym were captured, but regretted that the incident interrupted his desk work.
• Sonny Burch demanded that Pym work for him in exchange for research supplies, and Pym agreed while looking for a chance to escape.

Zhou Bofu and his Reincarnator team went to meet Adrian Toomes’s Vulture gang to obtain a high-tech item for Sonny Burch, intending to rob them if the deal turned hostile. The chapter ends as Zhou Bofu’s group breaks into Vulture’s workshop and eyes its weapons and production setup.

• Zhou Bofu’s Reincarnators agreed to carry out Sonny Burch’s transaction with Vulture and planned to seize the gang’s weapons if they had the chance.
• Sonny Burch gave Zhou Bofu the item details and sent him and most of his team to meet Vulture, leaving two members to guard their base.
• Adrian Toomes returned to his workshop and discussed the prepared item and Sonny Burch’s reputation with his partners.
• Zhou Bofu and his team blasted open the workshop doors and entered, drawing greedy stares toward Vulture’s high-tech weapons.

Zhou Bofu led his Reincarnators in an attempt to seize the factory’s goods and mission objective, but Vulture’s team escaped after a fierce exchange. Spider-Man then confronted the group, and magical runes appeared around Peter’s web-shooters as Zhou Bofu realized the fight was not what he had expected.

• Zhou Bofu decided to abandon the production line and destroy the factory before taking its finished products and mission objective.
• Vulture’s team used their high-energy weapons to kill one Veteran Reincarnator and hold Zhou Bofu’s group at bay.
• Vulture suppressed the Reincarnators while the Mechanic packed up their device, then the team escaped by flying away.
• Zhou Bofu ordered his group to search the wreckage, and Spider-Man arrived, chattering about the explosion and offering to hand over dangerous debris.
• Zhou Bofu told his Reincarnators to attack Spider-Man, but Peter dodged their first strikes with the help of his Spider-Sense.
• Magical patterns appeared around Peter’s wrists and disk-shaped runes formed in the air, leaving Zhou Bofu stunned.

Spider-Man Peter fought Zhou Bofu while trying to protect the other Reincarnators, but Zhou nearly defeated him. Xu Yue arrived in Unit 02, demanded to know where Dr. Pym and the others were, and ended the confrontation by forcing Zhou to surrender.

• Zhou Bofu broke through Peter's webs and attacked him, leaving Peter to evade with magic while the other Reincarnators remained bound.
• Zhou used a sudden movement technique to smash Peter into the factory ruins, but Xu Yue's beam blasted Zhou away and shattered his protective necklace.
• Xu Yue arrived in Unit 02 carrying Vulture and the others, then asked Zhou where Dr. Pym and the others were.
• Zhou accused Xu Yue of attacking him and destroying his treasure, then prepared to fight the mech.
• Xu Yue unleashed Absolute Rejection, and Zhou dropped to his knees and surrendered.

Xu Yue rescued Dr. Pym, Scott, and the others after Zhou Bofu surrendered and led them to the captives. Just as Xu Yue spoke with Pym about the Quantum Realm, Yu Yefeng and his men attacked Zhou Bofu’s group and took them away.

• Zhou Bofu pretended to surrender, then tried to ambush Xu Yue with his speed ability before switching to fawning submission and offering to reveal Dr. Pym’s location.
• Xu Yue, Spider-Man, and Zhou Bofu’s group rescued Dr. Pym, Scott, and the others, then arrested Sonny Burch, Vulture, and their crew.
• Xu Yue let Zhou Bofu and his group leave, while Spider-Man and Ant-Man quickly became friendly.
• Dr. Pym thanked Xu Yue for the rescue and politely declined his offer of help with the Quantum Realm.
• Yu Yefeng and his trench-coated men returned, beat Zhou Bofu’s group, and ordered their subordinates to take them away.

Yu Yefeng targeted Dr. Pym and confronted Xu Yue, proposing that three moves determine how they would divide the spoils. Xu Yue killed Yu Yefeng with one punch, and Zhou Bofu and his men turned on Yu Yefeng’s followers.

• Yu Yefeng tracked Dr. Pym to Spider-Man and Ant-Man after learning that Japan’s Kanto Legion had lost interest in the Pym Group.
• Yu Yefeng pinned Zhou Bofu down and challenged Xu Yue to settle their dispute in three moves.
• Xu Yue agreed, then struck Yu Yefeng so quickly that he could not move and broke his neck with one punch.
• Yu Yefeng begged Xu Yue to spare him because he was close to Zhang Xiaolin, but he died before Xu Yue could finish explaining their past encounter.
• Zhou Bofu sprang up, killed Yu Yefeng’s subordinates with the Chaotic Cloak Blade Technique, and his men joined him in attacking the corpses.