Chapter Summaries

Lu Yifang learned that Roch planned to use his half-devil son Danny as a host and traveled with his team to the Monastic order’s church in Eastern Europe. There, they discovered Danny had fled after Roch’s forces attacked, and the monks revealed that mercenaries had carried out the assault.

• Mephisto told Lu Yifang and Luna that Roch needed a suitable host and identified Danny, Roch’s half-devil child, as his best choice.
• Mephisto gave Lu Yifang a photograph and the address of the church where Danny was staying, then left after addressing Johnny as his Knight.
• Lu Yifang and Coulson arranged to use a S.H.I.E.L.D. Quinjet and flew to Eastern Europe with Melinda piloting.
• Coulson showed the monks his S.H.I.E.L.D. identification and asked about Danny, but the elderly monk said Danny had fled during Roch’s attack.
• Luna sensed no dark power at the church, and the elderly monk explained that Roch had sent mercenaries rather than demonic followers.

Lu Yifang and Coulson tracked down Father Morro, who asked Johnny Blaze to use Ghost Rider's power to find Roch and the Son of Devil. Johnny refused to reconnect with Mephisto, but Morro offered to help break Johnny's contract with the Devil.

• The old monk told Lu Yifang and Coulson that a priest had helped the Son of Devil escape, and the group used surveillance equipment to locate him.
• Lu Yifang rescued the priest, Father Morro, who recognized Johnny Blaze as the current host of Ghost Rider.
• Father Morro asked Johnny to use Ghost Rider's power to find Roch and the Son of Devil, explaining that the Sorcerer Supreme had severed Johnny's connection to Mephisto.
• Johnny grabbed Father Morro and refused to reconnect with Mephisto, but released him when Morro offered to break Johnny's contract with the Devil.

A Black priest and Father Moloch tried to free Johnny Blaze from Mephisto’s contract, but the Spirit of Vengeance resisted their plan. After the ritual restored the contract, Ghost Rider emerged with a blackened skull and sped away, leaving the group to pursue him.

• The Black priest offered Johnny a chance to reclaim his soul, but the Spirit of Vengeance struck him to prevent the contract from being lifted.
• Lu Yifang sent Coulson to stop Johnny from losing control, and Coulson knocked the transformed Ghost Rider unconscious.
• Father Moloch prepared a ritual to restore Johnny’s contract with Mephisto and said the group only needed to remove Doctor Strange’s blocking spell.
• The ritual caused a storm around the warehouse, and Johnny emerged with a black skull after restoring his contract.
• Luna warned that Father Moloch’s repeated betrayals could turn the Spirit of Vengeance into a powerful demon, while Father Moloch recalled that the first Ghost Rider’s fallen radiance had been blue.
• Coulson urged the group to board the plane and pursue Ghost Rider.

Nadia and her son Danny were ambushed by Carrigan’s mercenaries, but Ghost Rider intervened before they could be taken. Lu Yifang arrived and stopped Ghost Rider from killing every mercenary, while Carrigan escaped with Danny and a driver.

• Nadia and Danny discussed their life on the run and Nadia’s dream of being rescued by a winged superhero.
• Carrigan’s men rammed Nadia’s car, captured her and Danny, and Carrigan revealed he intended to hand Danny to his employer while punishing Nadia for cheating on him.
• Ghost Rider arrived on his flaming motorcycle, killed several mercenaries, and fought off their heavy weapons as Carrigan fled with Danny and a driver.
• Ghost Rider’s Hellfire killed the remaining attackers, but Lu Yifang intervened and ordered him to leave one alive.
• Ghost Rider relented and reverted to the unconscious Johnny, while Lu Yifang said Coulson and Melinda were tracking Carrigan’s car and turned to Nadia.

Lu Yifang and S.H.I.E.L.D. found Nadia and learned that Carrigan planned an arms deal at a quarry, while a mercenary’s account revealed the crew’s temporary base. Elsewhere, Mephisto admitted he had altered his Knight to undermine Roch, who prepared to unleash forces from the darkness.

• Lu Yifang and Coulson reassured Nadia that S.H.I.E.L.D. would protect her and Danny.
• Coulson explained that the mercenaries’ Wuling Hongguang vanished after an impossible drift, leading Lu Yifang and Coulson to suspect a superpower.
• Lu Yifang threatened a captured mercenary with Johnny and learned that Carrigan planned an arms deal at a quarry the following night.
• Coulson asked Melinda to locate the quarry, but she ignored him and walked into the Quinjet.
• Mephisto told Roch that he had altered his Knight to draw out something powerful, and Roch summoned red-eyed forces from the darkness.

Lu Yifang rescued Danny from Carrigan’s quarry, while Ghost Rider turned a giant excavator into a Hellfire-fueled weapon and attacked the mercenaries. Carrigan fled in a Wuling Hongguang, but Ghost Rider chased him down the road.

• Carrigan bought heavy weapons for his arms deal, but Lu Yifang burst into the quarry and quickly knocked down the mercenaries before rescuing Danny.
• Carrigan tried to escape as Ghost Rider blocked the mercenaries’ path and began hunting them.
• After Carrigan’s missiles blasted the flames from Ghost Rider, Johnny climbed into a giant excavator and transformed it with Hellfire.
• Carrigan escaped in a Wuling Hongguang, and Coulson told Lu Yifang the vehicle had gone invisible.
• Ghost Rider tracked Carrigan by his aura of sin, pursued him in the flaming excavator, and swung its digging arm at the fleeing car.

Lu Yifang and Luna accompanied Johnny and Danny to a desert monastic order that promised to lift Johnny’s Ghost Rider curse. While exploring the caves, Luna found signs of a hidden source of holy light and explained the order’s zealotry, the angel within Johnny, and the true gods and Demigods drawn to Earth.

• Lu Yifang, Luna, Johnny, Danny, Coulson, Melinda, and Father Moloch arrived at the desert monastic order, where ascetics led the visitors in separate directions.
• Luna created apparitions to follow the others, then took Lu Yifang to investigate a cave after sensing a strong presence of holy light.
• Luna explained that the ascetics were fanatical believers who had supplied many members of the Inquisition, and she said they would decide Danny’s fate by the next day.
• Lu Yifang and Luna examined murals depicting an angel and Jehovah, and Luna identified the angel as the energy-based being inside Johnny.
• Luna told Lu Yifang that some beings called Father Gods were powerful Demigods, and that Earth’s human population attracted them because it was a Celestial experiment.

Lu Yifang and Luna found Jehovah’s Primal Bible, and Luna accepted it after Jehovah offered it in exchange for a future favor. When they returned from the Mirror Dimension, they found ascetics fighting winged demons, and the demons turned on them.

• Luna led Lu Yifang to a statue holding a golden book, and touching it transported them into a golden space.
• Jehovah’s consciousness offered Lu Yifang the chance to become a Son of Holy Light, but Lu Yifang refused.
• Luna explained that she wanted the Primal Bible to study Jehovah’s path, and Jehovah agreed to give it to her in exchange for a future favor.
• Luna took the Primal Bible, causing the Mirror Dimension to collapse and return her and Lu Yifang to the monastery.
• Lu Yifang and Luna found ascetics battling winged demons, which abandoned the wounded ascetics and swarmed toward them.

After escaping the Mirror Dimension, Lu Yifang reunited with Coulson’s group and learned that Danny had been taken by demons during a dispute over whether to kill him. The group headed for Roch’s ritual site in Turkey, and Johnny insisted on joining them despite losing his Ghost Rider powers.

• Lu Yifang and Luna returned from the Mirror Dimension, rescued Johnny from demons, and found Coulson’s group gathered with the ascetics and Father Moloch.
• Lu Yifang destroyed the demons with lightning, then learned that the ascetics had planned to kill Danny and that demons had taken him.
• The ascetic leader told Lu Yifang that Roch was performing his ritual in Uzkagokden, Turkey, where Hell was closest to the human world.
• Johnny insisted on joining the mission to rescue Danny, and Luna supported letting him come.

Lu Yifang and his allies tried to stop Roch from possessing Danny, but Roch entered Danny and opened a Portal to Hell. As demons emerged and Strange was delayed, a burst of multicolored energy brought an unexpected arrival.

• Lu Yifang and Melinda defeated the Devil worshippers and smashed through the plaza walls while Roch's possession ritual neared completion.
• Roch shattered his body and poured into Danny, but Luna said the costly forced possession could be driven out.
• Roch, controlling Danny, gathered the worshippers' souls and opened Hell's Gate at a spatial nexus as Lu Yifang tore off a demon's claw reaching through the rift.
• Roch summoned his demon army and taunted Lu Yifang, while Strange said he would arrive by plane in two hours because portals were unreliable.
• A column of multicolored energy pierced the clouds, and a furious man complained that Heimdall had sent him to the wrong place.

Thor arrived on Earth during Hell’s invasion and joined Lu Yifang in fighting Roch’s demon army. As Roch transformed into a giant lava demon and knocked Thor’s hammer away, Johnny remained helpless until Luna offered him power.

• Thor arrived through the Bifrost, learned that Hell had invaded Earth, and declared that he would help Lu Yifang fight the demons.
• Roch learned Thor had come alone and sent his demons and devils to attack the group.
• Thor and Lu Yifang pulled lightning down onto the demon army, burning many of the devils and demons.
• Roch transformed into a towering lava demon, but Lu Yifang caught his fist and Thor blasted off one of his arms with Thor’s Hammer.
• Roch slapped Thor away, sending Thor’s Hammer landing near Lu Yifang, who chose not to use it.
• As Lu Yifang and Thor fought Roch and Iron Cavalry Coulson and Father Moloch faced other demons, Luna asked the powerless Johnny if he craved power.

Johnny accepted the Holy Light to gain power, and the Spirit of Vengeance Zarathos was redeemed and transformed into the Holy Spirit Angel. As the angel weakened Hell’s forces and attacked Roch, Lu Yifang considered learning to wield the Holy Light.

• Johnny asked Luna for power to fight alongside the others and agreed to bear the curse if it could help save the world.
• Luna used the Primal Bible to join Holy Light with the Spirit of Vengeance’s lingering power inside Johnny.
• Zarathos sensed the Holy Light, broke free of his chains in Hell, and charged toward the mortal world as Mephisto watched his contract burn.
• Zarathos merged with Johnny’s blue flames and the Holy Light, emerging from a cocoon as the golden, bald Holy Spirit Angel.
• Roch attacked the angel, but Holy Light melted his Hellfire claw and weakened demons and devils across the battlefield.
• Lu Yifang asked Luna about learning the Holy Light, and Luna encouraged him to try believing in it.

Lu Yifang discovered that the Primal Bible could unleash devastating Holy Light against demons and used it to help defeat Roch. After Roch turned his failing body into a final attack, Lu Yifang destroyed him, and the Holy Spirit Angel saved Danny.

• Lu Yifang accidentally killed nearby demons when he struck one with the Primal Bible, then tied it to a chain and used it to devastate the demon horde.
• The Holy Spirit Angel summoned Longinus and pierced Roch with the spear, flooding his body with destructive Holy Light.
• Lu Yifang attacked Roch with the Primal Bible, forcing Roch to abandon his giant body and charge at him in a desperate final attack.
• Lu Yifang and Roch clashed in Holy Light and Hellfire, and the Bible struck Roch's forehead and turned him to ash.
• Nadia held the unconscious Danny, and the Holy Spirit Angel revived him so he could sleep peacefully in her arms.

Lu Yifang defeated Demon Roch and used Thor’s Hammer to drive the Kings of Devils away, but the resulting spatial disturbance scattered people across the Nine Realms. The chapter left Lu Yifang speaking with Coulson, who reported that he and Melinda were in England and had run into more trouble.

• After Roch’s death, Lu Yifang watched the remaining demons and devils flee through the shrinking rift to Hell.
• A King of Devils reopened the rift and challenged Lu Yifang, who lifted Thor’s Hammer and unleashed its full power.
• Lu Yifang’s attack destroyed the rift and caused a massive spatial disturbance, after which he dropped the hammer and ended the fight.
• Thor retrieved his hammer but was left dazed, while Luna explained that the others might have fallen into spatial rifts.
• Lu Yifang received a call from Coulson, who said he and Melinda were in England and had encountered more trouble.

After helping Thor reach London, Lu Yifang and Luna joined Coulson and Melinda as Thor defeated an Ice Wyrm and found Jane. Thor tried to make amends with Jane, but her light tap on his chest sent him crashing into a skyscraper.

• Fury told Lu Yifang that Hell would remain quiet after Roch's defeat, while an Ice Wyrm rampaged through London amid the Nine Realms' overlap.
• Thor recognized Dr. Selvig in footage of London and flew off to find him and Jane, then returned to ask Lu Yifang which way London was.
• Lu Yifang and Luna took Thor to London aboard the Quinjet, which Lu Yifang made fly without a pilot.
• Thor defeated the Ice Wyrm and asked Coulson for help finding Jane, whom Melinda had found weak in a square.
• Thor apologized to Jane and offered his chest for her to hit, but her tap sent him flying into a skyscraper.

Jane’s Aether-induced power erupted, and Luna subdued her before warning Thor that the Aether could drain her life. Thor took Luna and Lu Yifang to Asgard, where Lu Yifang saw the World Tree’s true form and Heimdall recognized him as a Demigod who had fought alongside Asgard.

• Jane accidentally struck Thor and sent Coulson flying when her unstable power flared, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Luna put Jane to sleep, identified the power inside her as the Aether, and warned Thor that it threatened Jane’s life.
• Thor agreed to take Luna and Lu Yifang to Asgard so he could seek help from Odin and Luna could speak with him.
• During the Bifrost journey, Lu Yifang saw that the World Tree was a network of cosmic wormholes connecting the Nine Realms.
• Heimdall greeted Thor in Asgard and recognized Lu Yifang as a Demigod who had helped Asgard fight the Frost Giants on Earth.

Luna and Lu Yifang arrived in Asgard with Thor and Jane, where Odin rejected Jane’s place there and the group learned she carried a dangerous substance. Odin recognized Luna as Selene and confronted the fact that she had become a Demigod while his own body was failing under old injuries and Ymir’s curse.

• Heimdall recognized Luna, and Luna challenged him over Asgard repeatedly diverting its wars to Earth before Thor hurried Jane toward the royal city.
• Odin arrived to examine Jane, and Luna gave Lu Yifang the Nine Realms’ common language by imprinting it into his mind.
• Odin called Jane a fragile mortal who did not belong in Asgard, and Jane woke, understood him, and angrily demanded to know who he was.
• Odin identified himself as God King and Thor’s father, then dismissed Thor’s request to help Jane because he believed her own world should treat her.
• Luna insisted that only Odin could cure Jane, and Odin recognized her as Selene, a former battlefield acquaintance who had become a Demigod.
• Odin acknowledged that he had grown old as the chapter revealed that Ymir’s curse and years of warfare had left him dying before his successor was ready.

Odin sensed the Aether inside Jane and suppressed it, then brought Luna and the others to Asgard’s archives to explain the Dark Elves’ defeat. Meanwhile, Malekith returned to Svartalfheim and prepared to attack Asgard with Berserkers who had already infiltrated the realm.

• Odin considered killing Luna but held back because he feared the damage and remembered a powerful, ambitious woman from his past.
• Odin touched Jane’s hand, sensed the Aether awaken inside her, and suppressed it with his divine power.
• Luna and Odin discussed the Aether’s origins, and Odin led the group to Asgard’s archives to recount how Bor defeated the Dark Elves.
• Luna questioned whether Asgard’s account of the Dark Elves’ destruction was reliable.
• Malekith returned to the wasteland of Svartalfheim, learned that his Berserkers had infiltrated Asgard, and set out to reclaim the Aether and take revenge.

Loki remained imprisoned in Asgard while a masked warrior broke prisoners out, and his spiteful directions sent the intruder toward the defense center. As the Dark Elves launched an attack, Lu Yifang helped Heimdall expose their hidden ships, leaving Asgard facing Malekith’s invading fleet.

• Frigga visited Loki, who rejected her and angrily insisted Odin was not his father.
• A masked warrior freed prisoners throughout Asgard’s dungeon but passed Loki’s cell, so Loki directed him toward the defense center out of spite.
• Lu Yifang met Heimdall on the Bifrost and learned that the Guardian’s Sword was warning of intruders.
• Lu Yifang used magnetism to launch Heimdall into the air, where Heimdall smashed a concealed Dark Elf craft.
• Malekith’s fleet dropped its cloaking and sent swarms of blade-shaped ships into Asgard.

As Dark Elves attacked Asgard, Lu Yifang used Heimdall’s Sword of the Guardian to destroy their warships and seize air superiority. Meanwhile, Luna demanded Ymir’s Heart from Odin in exchange for helping Asgard.

• Heimdall activated Asgard’s shields and joined its warriors, but cursed Dark Elves transformed into giants and overwhelmed the defenders.
• Heimdall split a cursed giant with the Sword of the Guardian, then hurled the sword to destroy a Dark Elf warship.
• Lu Yifang borrowed the Sword of the Guardian and controlled it to destroy several Dark Elf warships, leaving Heimdall stunned by its power.
• Odin praised Lu Yifang’s performance to Luna, who said she would not help Asgard for free.
• Luna demanded Ymir’s Heart, which she said Odin had taken from Laufey along with his son.