Chapter Summaries

Xu Yue helped Dr. Pym complete the equipment to enter the Quantum Realm, where he discovered that his power anchored him against its distortions and reflected on the space’s hidden constraints. He returned safely as Pym reunited with Janet, while warships gathered over Xandar.

• Xu Yue refused Zhou Bofu and the others, then passed them to Hollow Rice Noodles before returning to help Dr. Pym.
• After Pym praised the Solar Furnace and GN Particles, Xu Yue asked to enter the Quantum Realm, and Pym agreed once their calculations were complete.
• Hope activated the machine, sending Xu Yue and Pym into the Quantum Realm while Scott struggled with the controls.
• The Quantum Realm’s distortions swept Pym away from Xu Yue, but Xu Yue remained anchored, sensed versions of himself across timelines, and pushed himself back out.
• Pym returned with Janet, and Hope and Pym reunited with her before Xu Yue emerged and reassured everyone.
• Warships gathered above Xandar as the threat of war approached.

Thanos’s legion attacked Xandar to claim the Power Stone, but the Guardians of the Galaxy stole it and escaped with the Nova Corps’ help. The Guardians then decided to contact Xu Yue, while Thanos prepared to pursue his changed plan for gathering the Infinity Stones.

• Ebony Maw offered Xandar a chance to surrender the Power Stone, and the Nova Corps debated whether to resist Thanos’s overwhelming forces.
• The Nova Corps chose to hand over the Stone, but discovered the Guardians of the Galaxy had stolen it, so they attacked Thanos’s legion to cover the Guardians’ escape.
• Thanos explained that a growing sense of urgency had made him seek the Power Stone before obtaining the Infinity Gauntlet, and he ordered his forces to pursue their objective.
• Thanos’s legion defeated Xandar and killed half its population, but the Guardians escaped with the Power Stone.
• Gamora told the Guardians that Thanos planned to collect all six Infinity Stones and destroy half of all life, and Mantis suggested contacting Xu Yue for help.

Xu Yue left Earth to rescue the Guardians of the Galaxy after Star-Lord reported that they had taken the Power Stone and were being pursued by Thanos. Gamora surrendered the Stone to Thanos to save the others, and Xu Yue arrived with Kree escorts as the stranded Guardians awaited help.

• Xu Yue learned that Star-Lord and the Guardians had taken the Power Stone and were being hunted, then set out to rescue them.
• Rocket piloted the damaged ship as Thanos's forces pursued the Guardians, until Xu Yue's mech struck their ship and lodged it in an asteroid.
• Gamora knocked out Star-Lord, took the Power Stone, and offered it to Thanos in exchange for the Guardians' lives.
• Thanos agreed to spare the Guardians but demanded that Gamora reveal the Soul Stone's location, then departed with her.
• Rocket sent a distress signal while Star-Lord mourned Gamora's departure, and a Kree ship arrived.
• Xu Yue emerged from the Kree ship and greeted the Guardians as the Kree behind him clapped stiffly.

Xu Yue went to the Dwarves’ forge to repay a favor and confronted Thanos after he had the Infinity Gauntlet forged and ordered the Dwarves slaughtered. Xu Yue introduced himself as Asgard’s greatest warrior and Regent, then asked Thanos to spare the Dwarves, leaving Thanos to challenge his claim to kingship.

• Star-Lord begged Xu Yue to rescue Gamora, and Xu Yue agreed to pursue Thanos despite his unhealed injuries.
• Xu Yue deduced that Thanos would travel to the Dwarves to have an Infinity Gauntlet forged.
• Thanos forced Eitri and the Dwarves to forge the gauntlet, set the Power Stone into it, and ordered his forces to kill all but one Dwarf.
• Xu Yue appeared beside Eitri and stopped Thanos’s subordinates from carrying out the slaughter.
• Xu Yue told Eitri that Odin was dead and Asgard had been destroyed, then introduced himself to Thanos as Asgard’s greatest warrior and Regent and asked him to spare the Dwarves.
• Thanos challenged Xu Yue’s right to call himself king.

Xu Yue fought Thanos on Nidavellir and forced him to withdraw, then helped Eitri forge Stormbreaker for Thor. After returning to Earth with Thor and the Guardians, Xu Yue warned the Avengers that Thanos would come for the Infinity Stones.

• Thanos attacked Xu Yue with the Power Stone, but Xu Yue struck him through a mothership, and both recognized that neither could defeat the other decisively.
• Thanos acknowledged Xu Yue as a king and withdrew with Gamora and his forces, having already obtained what he wanted from Nidavellir.
• Xu Yue thanked Eitri for his help and asked him to forge Stormbreaker for Thor from the remaining materials.
• After Eitri forged Stormbreaker, Xu Yue brought Thor and the Guardians of the Galaxy back to Earth, where the remaining four stones were held.
• Thor welcomed Stormbreaker and declared his eagerness to face Thanos while Xu Yue recovered.

The Avengers prepared Wakanda for Thanos, deciding they might destroy the Mind Stone if they could not stop him. Thanos arrived in person with an enormous army, and as Wakanda’s forces held the initial assault, Ebony Maw led the Children of Thanos onto the battlefield.

• Tony proposed destroying an Infinity Stone, but Stephen and Ultron warned that unleashing its power could destroy Earth; Xu Yue suggested Wanda might safely counteract the Mind Stone’s backlash.
• Tony declared that they would destroy the Mind Stone as a last resort and assigned Ultron to the mission, while Xu Yue suggested Wakanda as the battlefield.
• The Avengers gathered in Wakanda, with Stephen, Ultron, and Xu Yue guarded in the rear as they waited for Thanos.
• Thanos arrived aboard landing ships with a vast army, and Nick Fury pressed his pager as the invasion threatened Earth.
• Wakanda opened the front of its energy barrier, funneling the attackers into a barrage that the tireless robot army held back.
• Ebony Maw asked Thanos for permission to fight, then led the Children of Thanos onto the battlefield.

Thanos’s forces attacked, and a disguised Black Dwarf obtained the Mind Stone and handed it to Thanos, who killed him and demanded the Time Stone from Stephen. Thor then turned his full power against Thanos, while Loki realized that the Thor fighting beside them was an impostor.

• Black Dwarf struck Thor away, but Thor returned with a lightning storm and devastated Thanos’s army.
• Stephen and Tony moved the battle into the Astral Dimension, and Xu Yue took over maintaining it so Stephen could fight with the Time Stone.
• Black Dwarf resisted the Avengers’ attacks and Stephen’s time control, pulled the Mind Stone from Ultron, and threw it to Thanos.
• Thanos entered the Astral Dimension, annihilated Black Dwarf, and demanded Stephen hand over the Stone.
• Thor overwhelmed the remaining Black Order members and charged at Thanos, while Loki realized Thor was not the real Thor.

Xu Yue disguised himself as Thor to fight Thanos, who took the Time Stone and escaped with four Stones. After the battle, Thor returned from a constructed world, and Loki accused Xu Yue of being fake.

• Xu Yue, posing as Thor, pierced Thanos with Stormbreaker but was hurt by the combined power of the Mind and Soul Stones.
• Thanos overpowered Stephen, took the Time Stone, and escaped through a rupture in space with four Infinity Stones.
• Xu Yue reflected that the battle had met his objective and prepared to reunite the real Thor with the others.
• Thor fought a separate battle against the Black Order and a counterfeit Thanos, then realized Thanos had escaped with the Time Stone.
• Loki accused Xu Yue of being fake, and Thor carried him away as he continued protesting.

After ten days of recovery, Xu Yue and the Avengers faced Thanos’s renewed invasion, with Captain Marvel destroying most of his fleet. Loki’s soul clone stole two Infinity Stones and agreed to confront Thanos after Wanda threatened the real Loki.

• Xu Yue warned that Thanos would return within ten days with his forces, and the group prepared while he recovered.
• Nick Fury brought Captain Marvel and a Flerken to join the Avengers, and an alarm revealed Thanos’s fleet entering Earth’s orbit.
• Captain Marvel tore through the invading ships while Thor faced the Black Order, but Ebony Maw trapped Thor in stone with a desperate attack.
• Loki recognized the real Thor and celebrated, allowing Xu Yue’s disguised soul clone to strike him and seize two Infinity Stones.
• Wanda captured the real Loki and threatened his soul clone, who agreed to fight Thanos as Thanos descended with four Stones.

Xu Yue revealed his identity and fought Thanos in shattered space, where their battle devastated Earth. After Thanos’s Gauntlet broke, Xu Yue claimed all six Infinity Stones and snapped his fingers while the Avengers accused him of betraying them.

• Thanos used the Mind and Soul Stones against Xu Yue and exposed him as Asgard’s Regent, but Xu Yue resisted and summoned his Zanpakuto: Yui.
• Xu Yue and Thanos fought in shattered space as their clashing power caused catastrophic disasters across Earth.
• The two emerged badly wounded, and Thanos’s cracked Infinity Gauntlet shattered, releasing its four Stones, which Xu Yue captured.
• The Avengers surrounded Xu Yue and accused him of betraying their trust and causing countless deaths.
• Xu Yue gathered all six Stones, snapped his fingers, and declared himself the final threat.

After using the united Infinity Stones, Xu Yue erased half of all life, destroyed the Space Stone, and told the survivors to come after him. The Avengers decided to travel through the Quantum Realm to gather Stones from other worlds, while Xu Yue watched them depart.

• Xu Yue recovered from using the united Infinity Stones but learned that the snap had left a lasting injury to his origin.
• Xu Yue placed the Space Stone in Captain Marvel’s path and shattered it, convincing the survivors that the vanished could not be brought back with the remaining Stones.
• Xu Yue vanished after telling the survivors to find him at Alliance headquarters if they believed they could defeat him.
• Thor proposed repairing the damaged gauntlet and gathering another set of Infinity Stones, while Tony and Captain Marvel admitted they could not take the Stones from Xu Yue.
• Scott suggested using the Quantum Realm to reach other worlds with Infinity Stones, and Tony agreed to the plan.
• The survivors prepared a Quantum passage and departed to search other worlds as Xu Yue watched from Avengers Tower.

Tony, Stephen, and the others found that New York’s battle had unfolded without Xu Yue or the other powerful heroes they remembered, while Star-Lord’s team retrieved the Power Stone. In Asgard, Thor and Loki arrived too late to save Frigga, and the chapter ended with the present-day Thor confronting them.

• Tony, Stephen, Captain America, Banner, and Ant-Man arrived in a devastated New York and realized the battle differed sharply from the one they remembered.
• Tony sent Stephen to find the Time Stone and Captain America to retrieve the Mind Stone while he and the others went after the Space Stone.
• Star-Lord knocked out his parallel self and took the Power Stone, while Hawkeye and Black Widow set off for the Soul Stone; Nebula was struck by chaotic images as Star-Lord departed.
• Thor, Loki, and Rocket arrived in Asgard during the Dark Elves’ attack, but found Frigga mortally wounded and Xu Yue absent.
• Thor and Loki mourned Frigga as she died, while Rocket extracted the Reality Stone from Jane.
• The present-day Thor attacked the visitors, but future Thor caught his hammer and demanded to know what had happened.

Stephen obtained the Time Stone from the Ancient One, and the Avengers returned from their time heist only to find Xu Yue confronting them with all six Stones. Hulk and Abomination each snapped to counter Xu Yue, but the fight remained unresolved as Thanos's mothership appeared above Earth.

• Stephen told the Ancient One about Xu Yue, received the Time Stone, and returned to the Avengers as Captain America shut down the Space Stone portal.
• The Avengers returned to their timeline without Hawkeye, learned that Xu Yue was absent from the worlds they visited, and installed the Stones in Tony's repaired Gauntlet.
• Nebula secretly manipulated the Quantum travel machine while Banner prepared to use the Gauntlet.
• Xu Yue arrived with all six Stones and announced his plan to destroy the world's source and reset it.
• Hulk snapped at the same time as Xu Yue, canceling their powers and badly injuring both; Abomination then snapped to counter Xu Yue again.
• Thanos's mothership appeared above Earth and blasted the laboratory apart.

Xu Yue blocked Thanos’s attempts to use the Infinity Stones, but both were weakened by the backlash and the Avengers joined the fight. Tony seized control of the Stones and snapped his fingers, leaving the world silent.

• Thanos offered Xu Yue a chance to join him, but Xu Yue refused and sent Abomination’s Infinity Gauntlet to him.
• Captain Marvel, Thor, and Wanda tried to stop Thanos, but Xu Yue redirected their attacks and canceled Thanos’s snap with his own.
• Thanos used his remaining strength to snap again, and Xu Yue blocked him despite his severe injuries.
• Captain Marvel and Wanda attacked Xu Yue while Thor and the others fought Thanos, and Stephen signaled Tony to act.
• Tony charged Thanos, activated the backdoor he had built into the Infinity Gauntlet, and took control of all six Infinity Stones.
• Tony snapped his fingers, and the world fell silent.

After sacrificing himself to restore Tony and erase Thanos, Xu Yue returned to the Reincarnation Space badly weakened but vastly more powerful from using the six Infinity Stones. He reported that he had been set up as Zhou Tong and Huang Hao requested to deliver intelligence about Zhang Xun, who was trapped in Beiyang Camp after dying.

• Xu Yue used his final snap without changing anything, saved Tony with the Life Red Dragon’s blessing, and vanished while the Avengers wondered what he had been trying to accomplish.
• Xu Yue re-formed in the settlement area and assessed the cost of using the six Stones, including severe backlash, depleted funds, and Unit 02 mortgaged to the Space.
• Xu Yue left the Reincarnation Space and told the Beiyang Intruders that he had been set up and needed to see Marshal Zhang.
• Zhou Tong and Huang Hao separately requested to report crucial intelligence after surviving Zhang Xun’s attack because damage between allied legions had been reduced.
• Zhang Xun emerged from the place of rebirth, then learned his legion privileges were frozen and he was confined inside Beiyang Camp.

After Zhang Xun was exposed as a traitor and erased by a Space agreement, Beiyang launched a high-priority search in case he had survived. Meanwhile, Xu Yue recovered some low-level Plot Points, assessed his injuries, and discussed the rapid growth of the ninja recruited into the Penguin Merchant Guild.

• Zhang Yulin and Chen Huan confirmed Zhang Xun had triggered a Space agreement and vanished, though Chen Huan warned he might have bound authority elsewhere.
• Beiyang issued its highest-level pursuit order for Zhang Xun, fearing his betrayal could encourage others to defect.
• Xu Yue used recovered Plot Points to analyze the four remaining gems, but the analysis did not help his injuries.
• Jiraiya, the Espada, Shisui, and Itachi visited Xu Yue in the World of the Living concession, where he complained about his injuries and lack of money.
• Xu Yue reviewed how the Penguin Merchant Guild's ninja had advanced through missions, noting that many had become Chunin or Special Jonin while the guild still needed effective manpower.

As Beiyang weakened under enemy attacks and Feng Guozhang was incapacitated, its leaders debated how to counter the Kanto Legion’s preparations and protect their remaining strength. They decided to send Xu Yue on a Promotion Mission in the King Piccolo world, and he privately looked forward to seeing how much Senzu Beans could help him.

• The Kanto Legion began claiming territory in the Black Southern Three Provinces and preparing a Legion war while enemy forces intercepted Beiyang’s core members.
• Chief Steward Chen, Wu Pei, and other Beiyang leaders discussed their dwindling resources, Feng Guozhang’s inability to fight, and the threat of the enemy’s Legion Formation.
• Beiyang’s leaders proposed activating designated authority to send Xu Yue on his Promotion Mission in a world with strong Native Powers.
• The leaders chose the King Piccolo world and judged that Xu Yue could succeed by avoiding dangerous opponents and entering the Greatest Under the Heavens Martial Arts Tournament.
• Xu Yue agreed to the plan and privately wondered how much Senzu Beans would help him.

Xu Yue entered his Dragon Ball Promotion Mission prepared to recover from his injuries, while Beiyang and its allies arranged a heavily protected team to support him. Zhang Yulin led the group into the frozen spacetime, where they planned to prioritize avoiding combat and collecting Space Capsules.

• Xu Yue assessed his strength and prepared to test Senzu Beans or ask Shenron to help heal his injuries, while avoiding using The Almighty lest Zeno notice.
• Beiyang assigned five powerful figures to accompany Xu Yue, and Chief Steward Chen told him France would officially join the battle.
• Zhang Yulin took command of the team and promised to protect its members, though the others worried they might be targeted by the enemy.
• The team entered the frozen spacetime together as the mission began.

Xu Yue inherited the role of Southern Kai but discovered he lacked the location of Earth and the skills needed to pursue his Promotion Mission. While he sought permission to travel, the Twenty-First Greatest Under the Heavens Martial Arts Tournament ended with Pig King as champion, and rival Intruders realized Xu Yue had never appeared.

• Xu Yue inherited the Southern Kai's position and learned that Earth was outside his jurisdiction.
• Xu Yue found that South Kai's Planet offered little beyond a small house and ten times Earth's gravity, and he lacked Kaio-ken and the Spirit Bomb.
• Xu Yue decided to contact Grand Kai and request leave so he could locate Earth and travel there.
• Pig King was announced as the tournament champion and gestured for Master Roshi to take the honor.
• Qi Hao and the other Intruders searched for Xu Yue and complained that he had skipped the tournament.
• Zhang Yulin remained calm as rival Reincarnators decided to abandon their hunt for Xu Yue and focus on looting the world.

Xu Yue visited the North Kai to ask for Earth’s location, while Ande Hai and Utsunomiya Taro pursued their competing Dragon Ball plans. Near the Red Ribbon Army headquarters, Ulquiorra and Uchiha Itachi discovered that someone was tracking them as they investigated Dr. Gero.

• Xu Yue asked the North Kai where Earth was, and the North Kai prepared a spaceship to take him there.
• Ande Hai blamed Zhang Yulin for repeatedly sabotaging his group and continued gathering Dragon Balls despite the threat.
• Utsunomiya Taro told the Kanto Legion and Shogunate Gate to let Ande Hai collect the Dragon Balls while they accelerated construction of the Legion Formation.
• Ulquiorra halted his team near the Red Ribbon Army headquarters after sensing someone watching them.
• Uchiha Itachi joined Ulquiorra and said the watcher had identified him as belonging to the Penguin Merchant Guild.