Chapter Summaries

Tao Yu returned to the Nightcrawler World, tested his ability to manipulate spatial strings, and then went to the shinobi world to consult the Sage of Six Paths. He learned that the Witch Church had offered a truce and heard that Namikaze Minato was embroiled in an affair scandal.

• Tao Yu entrusted Madam Long and Long Yin'er with day-to-day affairs in the old Pioneer Zone, gave his family protective scrolls, and spent a month consolidating his talents.
• Tao Yu discussed the dangers of independent worlds with Sun Shiyu and Sun Shiqing, considering using captured Boundary Breakers or xenomorphs to scout them.
• Tao Yu returned to the Nightcrawler World and used a spatial string to erase everything above three meters across a city, terrifying a group of Boundary Breakers.
• Tao Yu learned from Ou Ling that the teleportation device in Tianlong City was nearly ready, then traveled to the shinobi world and spoke with the Sage of Six Paths.
• The Sage of Six Paths told Tao Yu that a Quasi-Saint had offered peace on behalf of the Witch Church and that Namikaze Minato's former Nine-Tails Jinchuriki was at odds with him over an affair.

Tao Yu brought Namikaze Minato and squads from Konoha and Taki Village into an independent world, where their powers were heavily suppressed and they landed on an uninhabited island. After finding a lighter marked with the Umbrella Corporation logo, they encountered armed Atlanteans, leaving Tao Yu unsure whether this world was a Marvel setting or something more complicated.

• Kushina complained about Minato, but he agreed to join Tao Yu's expedition with an elite squad, and she gave him a charm before he left.
• Tao Yu led the Konoha and Taki Village groups from the EVA world toward a deep-sea independent world, while Saint Ou refused to return to the ninja world despite Tao Yu's reassurance.
• Tao Yu crossed into the independent world with the groups, and they emerged on a deserted island where their abilities were severely restricted.
• Shui Yan found a discarded lighter bearing the Umbrella Corporation logo, and the group spotted someone watching them from the sea.
• Several armed, blue-skinned Atlanteans confronted the group, and Tao Yu identified them while trying to reassure their wary captain.

Tao Yu and his group left their island, reached Mexico, and took control of a local gang while he investigated the Marvel world’s timeline and Umbrella Corporation. He contacted Tony Stark through J.A.R.V.I.S. and considered using Stark’s resources to pursue the Mind Stone and learn more about the danger posed by Umbrella.

• Tao Yu convinced an Atlantean captain that he was a Seer, learned that the Ancient One had sealed a mysterious deep-sea trench, and received a vibranium spear and a magical conch shell.
• Tao Yu and the others built a raft, set out for shore, and collided with a crowded speedboat carrying Wang Dawei and other migrants before forcing the crew to take them to Mexico.
• Tao Yu shot the leader of a Matamoros gang and defeated Vicente’s men, then made Vicente arrange documents and other resources for the group.
• Tao Yu left Shui Yan and Inuzuka Gaku to manage the gang while he identified the world’s timeline as around Iron Man 2 and worried that Umbrella Corporation’s presence might signal a larger threat.
• Tao Yu emailed J.A.R.V.I.S. at Stark Industries with ideas for smartphones, hoping to get Tony Stark’s attention and establish a connection.

Tao Yu reached New York with his companions to meet Tony Stark, but an apparent Umbrella Corporation attack erupted before they arrived at Stark Tower. Tony joined the fight, and J.A.R.V.I.S. identified the attacker as a zombie like those described by Leon.

• Tony learned that Tao Yu’s phone design had interested J.A.R.V.I.S. and agreed to develop a project called “Anthony,” while Tao Yu crossed from Mexico and traveled toward New York.
• Tao Yu and his companions evaded police, met Phil Coulson, and learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. wanted information about threats to Tony; a newspaper image also showed a Tyrant at Tony’s racetrack attack.
• Tao called J.A.R.V.I.S. to arrange a meeting with Tony, but a man infected with the T-Virus attacked them in a parking garage.
• Namikaze Minato shot two armed men who rushed toward the group, while a sniper killed one and Tao Yu stopped another shot aimed at the witnesses.
• Tony arrived in his Iron Man suit, arranged to contact the police and a lawyer, and approached Airi Suzuki before the zombie knocked him down and J.A.R.V.I.S. confirmed it was dead.

Tony Stark brought Tao Yu and his companions to Stark Tower after they were released on bail, where Tao Yu learned Tony was considering the T-Virus as a cure for his palladium poisoning. Tao Yu treated Tony with a healing technique, and Tony offered him Stark Industries, but Tao Yu proposed helping as a friend instead.

• NYPD officers killed the zombie and the surrendered attacker, and Tony arranged for Tao Yu, Namikaze Minato, and Airi Suzuki to be released on bail.
• Tao Yu entrusted Tony with a vibranium spear, then met Natasha at Stark Tower and noticed her interest in Namikaze Minato.
• Tao Yu suggested phone-based apps and social platforms, and Tony promised to resolve their identity problems and reward them with company shares.
• Tony revealed that he had extracted the T-Virus and was considering it as a treatment for his palladium poisoning after showing Tao Yu footage of a Tyrant attacking him.
• Tao Yu warned Tony about the virus and demonstrated his supernatural healing ability, clearing the palladium toxins from Tony's body for the time being.
• Tony offered Tao Yu the entire company built around his business ideas if he would become his doctor, but Tao Yu declined employment and offered to help as a friend.

Tao Yu helped Tony stabilize his palladium poisoning, began learning artificial intelligence from him, and exposed Natasha as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. When surgeon Stephen Strange arrived, he showed signs of a grotesque infection and attacked the Iron Man suits.

• Tao Yu advised Tony to have a top surgeon remove the shrapnel, and Tony asked J.A.R.V.I.S. to find the best candidate, Stephen Strange.
• Tao Yu asked Tony to teach him artificial intelligence, and Tony began instructing him as Tao Yu rapidly learned and started building a simple AI.
• Nick Fury ordered Natasha to monitor Tony and investigate Tao Yu's group, while Pepper arrived and learned Tao Yu and his companions were testing Iron Man suits.
• Tony recognized Natasha as a trained agent, and she admitted she had been monitoring his health before offering medicine for his palladium poisoning.
• Tony explained his condition to Pepper and Rhodes and credited Tao Yu with helping him; Tao Yu gained new knowledge and a Truth Analysis skill.
• Stephen Strange arrived at Tony's lab displaying signs of infection, then his arm grotesquely transformed and knocked aside the Iron Man suits.

Stephen Strange was infected with an enhanced G-Virus strain, but Tao Yu sealed the mutation and saved Stephen and Rhodes. Tony and Tao Yu hijacked Umbrella helicopters and exposed a hidden laboratory in Umbrella Tower, where armored robots emerged to attack them.

• Stephen Strange mutated and hurled Iron Man suits through Stark Tower, while the G-Virus mucus infected Rhodes.
• Tao Yu fought Stephen with a vibranium spear, learned that a homeless man had cut him before he arrived, and sealed the mutations in Stephen and Rhodes.
• Tony and Tao Yu pursued Umbrella’s helicopters, arrested the reporters and response team, and flew toward Umbrella Tower.
• Nick Fury’s team was ambushed by Kingpin’s gang, and Nick concluded that Umbrella was trying to stop them from investigating its bioweapons lab.
• Tony and Tao Yu crashed the helicopters into Umbrella Tower and revealed a laboratory holding human specimens and imprisoned homeless people.
• Umbrella’s signal cut out, and a swarm of armored humanoid robots emerged and attacked Tony and Tao Yu.

Tony Stark and Tao Yu exposed Umbrella's laboratory and fought its robot army, but Alexander Pierce helped cover up the evidence and steered blame away from Umbrella. Nick Fury began to suspect Pierce, while Tony agreed to cooperate with S.H.I.E.L.D. against Umbrella; the chapter ended with Doctor Stephen waking up and breaking down over his injuries.

• Nick Fury called Alexander Pierce for help after Umbrella's robots appeared, while Pierce secretly ordered Red Queen to erase the laboratory's traces and blame the incident on a bear.
• Tao Yu and Tony fought Umbrella's robots while their reporters filmed the battle, and the laboratory exploded before they could collect more evidence.
• Nick Fury's attempt to secure the site was blocked by the military, and he began to suspect Alexander Pierce after Umbrella avoided serious consequences.
• Tony and Nick Fury discussed working together against Umbrella, and Tony accepted Howard's belongings while agreeing to share intelligence with S.H.I.E.L.D.
• J.A.R.V.I.S. reported that Doctor Stephen had awakened, and Tao Yu and the others found him arguing with Rhodes before he became despondent over his weakened body.

Tony exposed Umbrella’s bioweapons and arranged to provide S.H.I.E.L.D. with a T-Virus vaccine in exchange for help launching a social platform, while Tao Yu set out with Tony to investigate Thor’s Hammer in New Mexico. At the gathering, Tony identified the hammer as Mjolnir, and Tao Yu prepared to test whether he could lift it.

• Nick Fury saw that Stephen and Rhodes had survived the virus and asked Tony about a vaccine; Tony offered the vaccine and its manufacturing process in exchange for help with his new company’s permits.
• Tao Yu warned Stephen that speaking out against Umbrella could put him in danger, and Tony held a press conference showing footage of Stephen’s transformation and letting Stephen describe what happened.
• Mambo reported a hammer in New Mexico that no one could move, so Tao Yu assigned Minato to protect Stephen and Airi Suzuki to watch over Pepper before heading out with Tony.
• Tao Yu and Tony arrived at a farm gathering, where villagers told them about the immovable hammer and welcomed them to the bonfire.
• Tony’s scan identified the hammer as Mjolnir, and Tao Yu sensed its powerful thunder and Odin’s seal before considering whether he could lift it.

Tao Yu lifted Thor's Hammer after breaking through Odin's seal, awakening his lightning and weather powers, while Heimdall and Loki reacted to the unexpected recognition. Back in New York, Tao Yu learned Stephen's injuries might end his surgical career, but Doctor Baul mentioned a previously paralyzed patient who had recovered enough to play basketball.

• Tony tested Thor's Hammer and found it completely immovable, while Tao Yu explained that Odin's enchantment fixed it in place.
• Tao Yu resonated with Thor's Hammer, slipped through Odin's seal, and lifted it as lightning and storm clouds gathered.
• Heimdall saw Tao Yu wield the hammer, and Loki vowed to retrieve the Asgardian weapon after learning a mortal had lifted it.
• Tao Yu returned to Stark Tower with Thor's Hammer, left the drunken Tony in J.A.R.V.I.S.'s care, and heard that Stephen's hand injuries were severe.
• Stephen visited Doctor Baul to discuss stem cell treatment, and Baul recalled a paralyzed patient who had recently been seen playing basketball.

Stephen decided to seek help in Nepal, while Tao Yu, Tony, and their companions traveled there and faced Hydra’s attack. Tao Yu captured the Winter Soldier and uncovered that he had killed Tony’s parents, leaving Tony determined to hunt down everyone responsible.

• Stephen asked Namikaze Minato to take him to Kamar-Taj in Nepal, and Tao Yu and Tony joined their journey on Tony’s private plane.
• Loki watched Thor living quietly in New Mexico, then asked Alexander Pierce to arrange transport so he could confront the person who had taken Thor’s Hammer.
• Hydra sent fighters to intercept the plane and Bucky to shoot Tony at the Nepal airport, but Tao Yu blocked the sniper’s shot with Thor’s Hammer.
• Tao Yu tracked down and captured Bucky, then used his conditioning trigger words to question him; Bucky revealed that he worked for Hydra.
• Bucky identified Howard Stark and his wife as assassination targets he had killed, and Tony responded by maiming him and vowing to destroy everyone behind the murders.

Tao Yu met the corrupted Ancient One, who passed him the Eye of Agamotto and chose him to become the next Sorcerer Supreme. As Tao Yu and the others began studying magic, Loki returned to Asgard vowing revenge, and an argument outside the monastery interrupted their lesson.

• Tony cauterized Bucky's wound, and Coulson arrived to take him to Nick Fury while asking Tony and Tao Yu for help against Hydra's moles.
• Namikaze Minato found Kamar-Taj, where Tao Yu, Tony, Stephen, and Namikaze Minato met Mordo and entered the Ancient One's hidden mountaintop sanctuary.
• The Ancient One revealed that the Abyss had corrupted her and disrupted her visions, then named Tao Yu as her successor because he existed outside the world's future.
• The Ancient One gave Tao Yu the Eye of Agamotto and access to the Sorcerer Supreme's legacy, including the Book of Vishanti and the Darkhold.
• Loki escaped a looping spell in Nepal and returned to Asgard, threatening the sorcerer and deciding that Thor's return to power had to be stopped.
• Wong began teaching Tao Yu, Tony, and Stephen the basics of magic, but an arrogant visitor argued with Mordo outside.

Kaecilius challenged Tao Yu over being chosen as the next Sorcerer Supreme, but Tao Yu defeated him and exposed his connection to the Dark Dimension. With Kaecilius taken back by Dormammu and The Ancient One still in seclusion, Tao Yu agreed to study magic and help defend Earth.

• Kaecilius barged into Wong's lesson and challenged Tao Yu's appointment, then attacked Tony with a magical whip.
• Tony used the Sling Ring to defend himself and retaliated, while Tao Yu struck Kaecilius with Thor's Hammer and seized control of the Mirrored Space.
• Kaecilius drew on the Dark Dimension, but Tao Yu unleashed black sludge that shattered the mirrored world before Dormammu pulled Kaecilius back into the Dark Dimension.
• Tao Yu restored the classroom and told Mordo that the Three Sanctums had blocked the Dark Dimension's invasion, and the Sanctums' representatives later confirmed it.
• Mordo asked Tao Yu and his friends to train in magic to prepare for danger, and Tao Yu agreed and opened a portal to Stark Tower.

Tao Yu studied the Book of Vishanti and Darkhold while helping Tony develop magic-based technology, then learned that the Hand was supplying Umbrella with T-Virus in New York. As Tony prepared to launch their phone, Tao Yu warned Nick Fury about a possible outbreak and arrived at the launch with Airi Suzuki, who offered to arrange a meeting with Natasha.

• Tao Yu studied both magical books and discussed theories of space, particles, and magic with Tony while asking him to create an environment that blocked cosmic noise.
• At Madame Gao’s order, Akimichi Dōton agreed to negotiate a new supply channel with his contact in Mexico and support Umbrella in New Mexico.
• After the Hand’s warehouse burned and its shipment was destroyed by a masked vigilante and a sniper, Akimichi secretly exchanged coded messages with Inuzuka Gaku.
• Tony told Tao Yu that the Hand planned to work with Umbrella and that its destroyed New York shipment contained T-Virus bound for New Mexico; Tao Yu warned Nick Fury that the virus might be spreading through Hell’s Kitchen.
• Tony told Tao Yu that the Anthony phone launch was scheduled for the next day, and Tao Yu agreed to attend and urged him to tell Fury about the outbreak risk.
• At the launch venue, Airi Suzuki told Tao Yu that Natasha had asked for help and offered to arrange a meeting with her.

Namikaze Minato launched Stark Industries’ Anthony smartphone at a low price, while Nick Fury, Natasha, and Leon investigated a looming T-Virus outbreak in Hell’s Kitchen. Matt Murdock helped them escape an ambush and led them to Frank, who had been bitten by an infected man and was showing symptoms, but Nick Fury had a vaccine.

• Namikaze Minato demonstrated the Anthony smartphone’s features and announced its price as 199 dollars, prompting consumers to rush to buy it and competitors to reconsider their plans.
• Nick Fury, Natasha, and Leon discussed reports of T-Virus-carrying rats in Hell’s Kitchen and their efforts to get military support and gather evidence of an outbreak.
• Matt Murdock warned Nick Fury, Natasha, and Leon about a bomb, then guided them through nearby buildings and rooftops to evade an armed squad.
• Natasha sent her location to a contact labeled "Nonhuman" after their phone signal returned.
• Matt Murdock brought the group to Frank, who revealed that an infected man had bitten him while he investigated disappearances in the sewers.
• Nick Fury gave Frank a syringe of vaccine and warned him that the bite could have killed him without it.

Frank injected Nick Fury’s vaccine after learning that the T-Virus outbreak in Hell’s Kitchen may have originated from a Hand warehouse he had bombed, while Luke Cage transformed into a powerful zombie. As the crisis spread and Tony broadcast its horrors, Tao Yu arrived to help Natasha’s group, and a lightning-charged hammer destroyed the Umbrella helicopter pursuing them.

• Nick Fury explained the T-Virus outbreak to Frank, who injected the vaccine and suspected his bombing of a Hand warehouse had caused the leak.
• Frank and Nick Fury learned that Luke Cage had become a zombie, while armed teams fought infected people across Hell’s Kitchen.
• Wilson Fisk tried to flee the district as an infected Luke Cage attacked an Umbrella helicopter, survived its crash, and began devouring zombies.
• Tony blamed Umbrella during a live broadcast, restored phone signals with a temporary base station, and helped survivors share footage that sparked public demands for rescue and accountability.
• Luke Cage and an Umbrella helicopter pursued Nick Fury, Natasha, Frank, Matt, and Eagle Eye across the rooftops; Natasha called Tao Yu, who appeared through a ring of light.
• Tao Yu confronted Luke Cage as a lightning-charged hammer struck and destroyed the pursuing Umbrella helicopter.

Tao Yu killed the infected Luke Cage, restored his body but found his soul missing, then used a new spell to destroy the zombies and cure infected survivors across Hell’s Kitchen. As Tony prepared to expose and attack Umbrella, Tao Yu left through a portal, still troubled by the force behind Luke’s lost soul.

• Tao Yu arrived through a portal, destroyed Luke Cage with an AT Field, then used the Eye of Agamotto to restore Luke’s body and rewind his infection, but found his soul was gone.
• Tao Yu’s attempt to divine the danger failed when his cards scattered, and he examined Luke’s body while Tony rescued survivors and livestreamed the crisis.
• Nick Fury told Tony’s livestream that Umbrella’s T-Virus had spread through the sewers and that Umbrella had infiltrated powerful institutions; Tony vowed to seek evidence and confront the corporation.
• Tao Yu unleashed Zombie Formula 1.0, linking zombies with beams of light that caused them to collapse and also removed the infection from bitten survivors across Hell’s Kitchen.
• Tony praised Tao Yu, who urged him to hold Umbrella accountable and departed through a portal to Mount Everest, while Tony prepared to act against Umbrella.

Tony and Tao Yu helped expose Umbrella’s bioweapon crimes while tracking a powerful presence to a New Mexico town, where they encountered Thor’s Asgardian allies. The chapter ended with the Warriors Three and Sif accepting Tao Yu after he revealed he could lift Mjolnir.

• Umbrella executives watched Tao Yu destroy the zombies in Hell’s Kitchen and prepared to counter Tony’s planned attack.
• Nick Fury organized public demonstrations against Umbrella as Frank, Matt, Natasha, and Leon joined his effort.
• Tao Yu let dissatisfied sorcerers leave Kamar-Taj, gave Mordo and Wong smartphones, and agreed to back Tony against Umbrella.
• Tony and Tao Yu carried out surprise attacks on Umbrella sites, and the company began filing for bankruptcy as evidence spread online.
• Tao Yu sensed a powerful, savage presence near a New Mexico town and went there with Tony to investigate.
• Tao Yu met Jane, Dr. Erik Selvig, MAX, Sif, and the Warriors Three, then placed Mjolnir on the table and claimed he had passed its test.

Tao Yu and the Asgardians tracked the captured Thor to an Umbrella laboratory, where the Leader used Thor’s divine power to open a breach to the Abyss and corrupt him. Tao Yu brought the Abyss’s chaos under his control and restored Thor, though the Leader escaped.

• Sif explained that Loki had deceived Thor and that Umbrella captured him after he fought their agents, while Tao Yu discovered his divination about Heimdall was being blocked.
• Umbrella snipers attacked Tao Yu and the others as they left the restaurant, but Tao Yu stopped the bullets and sent them back at the shooters.
• Tao Yu followed his divining pocket watch to an underground farm laboratory and blasted open its roof with Thor’s Hammer.
• The Leader revealed that he had used Thor’s power to connect with the Abyss, then unleashed corrupted Thor against Tao Yu and the others.
• Tao Yu used Gaf’s Gate to bring order to the Abyssal chaos, stripped away Thor’s corruption, and returned him to his friends outside the laboratory.

Thor recovered from the Abyss's corruption and awakened his thunder power, while Tony livestreamed proof that Umbrella had abducted and experimented on him. As the group sought the missing Leader, Loki appeared with a warning that Heimdall had gone mad and might destroy the Nine Realms, but his past lies made his claim hard to trust.

• Tao Yu subdued Thor when the Abyss's corruption made him violent, then explained that Thor could wield thunder without his hammer and offered to keep the hammer until Thor was ready to lift it.
• Tony livestreamed Thor's power and exposed Umbrella's experiments, prompting a UN envoy to contact him and forcing Umbrella to deny responsibility for the abduction.
• Tao Yu and Tony reviewed Umbrella's files and discussed finding the Leader, who had erased his traces and disappeared after returning to the company.
• J.A.R.V.I.S. reported that an anonymous caller knew a hidden route to Asgard, and the group met Loki in a café after Thor tried to attack him.
• Loki said Heimdall had gone mad and threatened the Nine Realms, and that he had frozen Heimdall and the Bifrost with the Frostborne Casket while a powerful force began melting the ice.