Chapter Summaries

Tony Stark demanded access to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Cosmic Cube and other secrets, while Old Wang delivered Resurrection Serum and made a separate deal with Director Fury. As Old Wang expanded his company and absorbed Hydra assets, Fitz finished mapping the Five Fingers’ memories, and Old Wang began searching Madame Gao’s memories for K’un-Lun.

• Tony Stark revealed that J.A.R.V.I.S. had hacked S.H.I.E.L.D. and demanded to research the Sky Carrier, 084 items, Hydra weapons, and the Cosmic Cube in exchange for free work.
• Director Fury agreed to let Tony research S.H.I.E.L.D.’s secrets at its facility, and Tony left for Washington D.C. to see Pepper Potts.
• Old Wang gave Director Fury one hundred Resurrection Serum injections and reached an agreement with him on another matter.
• Old Wang planned an Azeroth Group headquarters in Chinatown and sent Daredevil and others to seize Hydra assets, expanding his wealth and recruiting Hydra members.
• Fitz told Old Wang that Brain Mapping and Memory Upload of the Five Fingers were complete, and Old Wang set safeguards for reviewing their memories.
• Old Wang searched Madame Gao’s memories for K’un-Lun and saw its history unfold.

Old Wang led Stick, Matt, Elektra, and the unconscious Five Fingers to the Kunlun Mountains, intending to enter K'un-Lun and become its next Iron Fist. Unable to open the Kunlun Gate, he struck its spatial barrier and announced that he had come as a friend of the Ancient One, carrying K'un-Lun's traitors.

• Old Wang assigned Robbie, the Crimson Magic Belt, and Skye to guard his operations while he traveled to K'un-Lun with Stick, Matt, and Elektra.
• Elektra piloted the Quinjet to China, and Old Wang searched the Kunlun Mountains on foot until he found the platform where the Kunlun Gate was located.
• Old Wang detected K'un-Lun's spatial barrier and admitted to Stick that he was not the Iron Fist, though he intended to become the new one.
• Old Wang struck the barrier with his True Qi, shaking it and triggering an avalanche, then presented the five unconscious Five Fingers and called himself a friend of the Ancient One.
• The Ancient One sensed the disturbance, watched Old Wang through a mirror, and decided not to interfere.

Old Wang reached K'un-Lun and invoked Ancient One’s name to gain entry, while Jade Emperor and Lei Gong assessed the visitor and the five returning traitors. Ancient One asked Old Wang to persuade K'un-Lun to cooperate with Kamar-Taj, and Lei Gong emerged to greet him.

• Jade Emperor sensed Old Wang’s power and recognized the five traitors accompanying him, then sent Lei Gong to meet the visitors.
• Old Wang recovered his True Qi with the Well of Eternity Bottle and waited outside K'un-Lun’s barrier.
• Ancient One confronted Old Wang about claiming they were close and asked him to secure K'un-Lun’s cooperation with Kamar-Taj after becoming Iron Fist.
• Old Wang agreed to Ancient One’s request, and the Kunlun Gate appeared before him and his companions.
• Lei Gong stepped through the gate, introduced himself, and invited the visitors inside.

Old Wang entered K'un-Lun with Lei Gong and learned that the Jade Emperor had defeated Lei Gong, who had gone a century without finding a worthy opponent. Lei Gong challenged Old Wang, and the chapter ended as his powerful punch neared the calm fighter.

• Lei Gong sent the Five Fingers through the Kunlun Gate, and Old Wang led Stick and the others into K'un-Lun while ordering the Quinjet hidden from S.H.I.E.L.D. and Tony.
• Old Wang surveyed K'un-Lun and spoke with Lei Gong, who revealed that he had defeated the Five Great Elders but lost to the Jade Emperor in three moves.
• Lei Gong explained that K'un-Lun had not produced a Grandmaster in several thousand years and described the longevity and physical advantages of its people.
• Lei Gong sensed Old Wang's lack of interest and launched a thunderous punch at him, terrifying Elektra, Daredevil, and Stick.
• Daredevil, Stick, and Elektra sensed Lei Gong as a savage predator and Old Wang as an immense, ancient golden bell.

Old Wang defeated Lei Gong in a devastating clash on K'un-Lun's mountaintop platform, then sent the weakened Lei Gong and the captured traitors to the Council of Elders with Matt, Stick, and Elektra. The Jade Emperor sensed Old Wang's strength and resolved to pursue his own breakthrough into the Dao through martial arts.

• Lei Gong attacked Old Wang with a punch and then a Ring Pommel Greatsword, but Old Wang blocked and shattered the weapon with a single fist aura.
• The shockwave blasted Daredevil, Stick, and Elektra across the platform, while the clash drew the attention of thousands of people and the Jade Emperor.
• Lei Gong admitted defeat and, too exhausted to carry the captured traitors, accepted Old Wang's offer to have Matt, Elektra, and Stick escort them to the Council of Elders.
• Old Wang sensed the Jade Emperor watching from a distant courtyard, greeted him, and headed to the training grounds.
• The Jade Emperor withdrew his gaze, judged Old Wang to be an ancient master, and decided to seek a path to becoming a Grandmaster through martial arts.

Old Wang explored K'un-Lun, learned about its martial arts tradition and the Iron Fists, and waited for the Jade Emperor after accepting Master Chen's hospitality. The Jade Emperor arrived and asked why he had come to K'un-Lun.

• Old Wang surveyed K'un-Lun's training grounds and concluded that its people had declined from their ancestors, then noticed several white students without identifying Danny Rand.
• Master Chen led Old Wang to the Iron Fists' ancestral hall, where he saw Wu Fengji's memorial tablet and the name Olsen Rand.
• Master Chen told Old Wang that the Jade Emperor and the Council of Elders were interrogating the traitors while his three disciples waited nearby.
• Master Chen invited Old Wang to stay at her home and answer her martial arts questions, and he spent three hours with her before the Jade Emperor arrived.
• The Jade Emperor entered in green robes and asked Old Wang why he had come to K'un-Lun.

Old Wang explained that he wanted to study Shou-Lao and K'un-Lun, then promised the Jade Emperor he could provide K'un-Lun with a Grandmaster. The Jade Emperor brought him to a sacred courtyard, where Lei Gong and the Council of Elders gathered to discuss the Dao.

• Old Wang told the Jade Emperor that Shou-Lao's power might help him find a path to a breakthrough, while the Jade Emperor explained Shou-Lao's origins and how Fan Fei became the first Iron Fist.
• The Jade Emperor said K'un-Lun required a Grandmaster to protect it if it was to do without an Iron Fist, and Old Wang promised to give K'un-Lun one.
• The Jade Emperor led Old Wang to his residence to discuss the Dao and demonstrate his claim.
• Old Wang sensed Lei Gong and the Council of Elders waiting in the courtyard, where the Jade Emperor began the discussion by asking Lei Gong to speak.

Matt and the other two trained in K'un-Lun while Master Chen spread stories about Grandmaster Wang's discussions of the Dao with the Jade Emperor and Lei Gong. The chapter ended as the long-awaited battle between the Jade Emperor and Grandmaster Wang was announced, drawing a crowd to Kunlun Summit.

• Master Chen arranged for Matt and the other two to train alongside K'un-Lun's students, where they studied martial arts for seven days.
• Master Chen spread exaggerated accounts of Lei Gong, the Jade Emperor, and Grandmaster Wang discussing the Dao, including a story about Grandmaster Wang teaching an old white ape.
• Matt and the other two learned that Master Wang was known as Grandmaster Wang and felt proud of how powerful he was.
• Master Chen announced that the Jade Emperor and Grandmaster Wang would fight at Kunlun Summit at dusk.
• Half of K'un-Lun gathered at the foot of the mountain, while elders warned young people not to approach the Grandmasters' battle.

After seven days of exchanging martial insights, Old Wang and the Jade Emperor began a battle intended to push them both toward a higher realm. As their clash shattered space within K'un-Lun, Lei Gong saw a possible path to becoming a Grandmaster.

• Old Wang, the Jade Emperor, and Lei Gong concluded their seven-day discussion, and the Jade Emperor, Lei Gong, and the Five Great Elders bowed to Old Wang as a teacher.
• Old Wang urged the battle to begin, and Lei Gong sent everyone except the Five Great Elders out of the courtyard before they retreated farther away for safety.
• The Jade Emperor and Old Wang gathered their strength as a storm of wind, rain, and lightning engulfed Kunlun Summit, startling the spectators below.
• The Jade Emperor and Old Wang manifested the Immortal Dragon and Yu'lon and clashed at tremendous speed while the Five Great Elders watched without understanding their techniques.
• Lei Gong saw spatial rifts form around the fighters and realized the battle offered him a glimmer of hope of advancing to Grandmaster.

Master Wang revealed overwhelming power, while the Jade Emperor reached the Grandmaster realm. The group then visited Sacred Mountain, where Master Wang killed Shou-Lao for the Iron Fist ritual, and the dragon reincarnated as an egg.

• Master Wang multiplied into elemental copies and summoned divine beasts, overwhelming the Jade Emperor until the Jade Emperor merged with his Azure Dragon and became a Grandmaster.
• K'un-Lun celebrated the Jade Emperor's breakthrough, then the Jade Emperor, Lei Gong, the elders, Matt, Danny, and other aspiring Iron Fists traveled to Sacred Mountain to meet Shou-Lao.
• Shou-Lao refused to resist Master Wang, who killed it with one hand as the group prepared the Iron Fist ritual.
• The Jade Emperor removed Shou-Lao's heart and placed it in the fire basin, causing Shou-Lao's body to shrink into a dragon egg with its soul inside.
• Lei Gong told Master Wang to put his hand inside the basin.

Old Wang refined Shou-Lao's power while reflecting on how to unite Pandaren and K'un-Lun martial arts. Three days later, he completed the refinement and manifested two true dragons, one azure and one gold.

• Old Wang took Shou-Lao's power into his body and used his True Qi to gradually erode and refine it.
• Lei Gong and the Jade Emperor watched Old Wang's complex cultivation method, guessed that Ancient One had helped him, and left Lei Gong to guard him and Shou-Lao's dragon egg.
• At Kamar-Taj, Ancient One sensed something happening in K'un-Lun that might be related to Wang, but chose not to investigate.
• After the others left, Old Wang relaxed and reflected on his past experience refining powerful energies and on combining Pandaren and K'un-Lun martial arts.
• Three days later, Old Wang finished refining Shou-Lao's power, and two true dragons, one azure and one gold, emerged above him.

Old Wang transformed his True Qi into Shou-Lao’s power, revealing strength that astonished Lei Gong and the Jade Emperor. After the Jade Emperor withdrew to cultivate, Old Wang secured K’un-Lun’s agreement to cooperate with Kamar-Taj against an approaching disaster and departed with Matt and the others.

• Lei Gong and the Jade Emperor realized that Old Wang’s power and spiritual realm surpassed their expectations as he completed his transformation into the Iron Fist’s energy.
• The Jade Emperor judged that Old Wang could defeat him, postponed their fight, and left to cultivate in seclusion.
• Old Wang told Lei Gong that Ancient One foresaw a disaster threatening Earth, the Nine Realms, and possibly the universe, and proposed cooperation between K’un-Lun and Kamar-Taj.
• Lei Gong agreed to visit Kamar-Taj within three days to discuss cooperation with the Sorcerer Supreme.
• Old Wang departed K’un-Lun with Matt and the others, and Lei Gong began cultivating in seclusion.

Old Wang returned to The Laboratory, where Skye reunited with her parents and told him Jia Ying wanted to return to Afterlife. He revealed that Attilan, the Inhumans’ true home, was on the moon, then left Skye in Afterlife while its elders considered whether to contact it.

• Old Wang returned to The Laboratory, read his messages, and reunited with Skye, Carl, and Jia Ying.
• Skye told Old Wang that Jia Ying wanted to return to Afterlife, and he agreed to go with them the next day.
• Old Wang told Carl and Jia Ying that Attilan was an ancient Inhuman city on the moon and that the Inhumans’ future lay there.
• Old Wang brought the group to Afterlife, where Gordon whisked Jia Ying away before returning with her less than two hours later.
• Jia Ying said she needed time to persuade the Council of Elders and that the Inhumans had to decide their future themselves.
• Skye chose to stay in Afterlife for a few days, and Old Wang returned to The Laboratory alone.

Egghead learned that five Hydra Winter Soldiers had been released and were assassinating officials across Europe. He ordered agents to hunt them and asked Master Wang for help capturing them, then called Tony Stark.

• Egghead asked Coulson about reproducing the Resurrection Serum, but Coulson said the project needed more Dragon Bone and funding.
• Hill reported that a super soldier had assassinated a senior European Union official using weapons like the Winter Soldier’s.
• Egghead declared that five Winter Soldiers were responsible and ordered every available field agent to find them.
• Black Widow told Egghead that she and Barton had found Hydra’s Siberian base, where five elite Winter Soldiers had been released.
• Egghead ordered Romanoff and Barton to Europe, sent the Winter Soldier files to Master Wang, and asked him to capture the five soldiers for a reward.
• Egghead hesitated over the cost and then asked to be connected to Tony Stark.

Old Wang learned that five Winter Soldiers had appeared, while Bucky discovered the crashed Valkyrie and found Steve frozen inside. Bucky promised to take his old friend home.

• Old Wang ordered Simmons to prepare 100 doses of Resurrection Serum for Director Fury and supported her research into dragon genes.
• Old Wang received news that five Winter Soldiers had appeared and considered how S.H.I.E.L.D. could track and capture them.
• Bucky and Fitz searched Greenland in a Quinjet for more than a month, following the coast for signs of Steve.
• Bucky detected the Valkyrie buried in the ice, cut into its cockpit, and found Steve beneath his shield.
• Bucky told Steve he was there and vowed to take him home.

The Winter Soldier brought the frozen Captain America to Old Wang’s laboratory, where Fitz revived him after sixty-four years. Steve reunited with Bucky and learned that Howard was dead, Bucky had killed him, and Carter was gravely ill.

• Old Wang told the Winter Soldier to transport Captain America in a hibernation pod, and Fitz prepared the laboratory to revive him.
• The Winter Soldier brought Steve to the laboratory, where Fitz used bioelectric stimulation to awaken him and Old Wang asked Bucky about five unstable Hydra assassins who might have escaped control.
• Steve regained consciousness, pieced together his last memories, and recognized Bucky among the unfamiliar people around him.
• Steve embraced Bucky, then asked about Howard and Carter; Bucky said he had killed Howard and that Carter was hospitalized and needed Resurrection Serum.
• Bucky told Steve that he had been asleep for sixty-four years, leaving Steve stunned by how much the world had changed.

Old Wang delivered a hundred doses of Simmons's Resurrection Serum to Egghead at S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters and learned that Tony was upgrading the Sky Carriers. He joked that he wanted one, then left with plans to let S.H.I.E.L.D. build them for him.

• Old Wang gave Captain America time to adjust to the present and arranged for the Winter Soldier to help him train.
• Three days later, Old Wang brought Egghead a hundred doses of Resurrection Serum and sold them for one billion dollars.
• Egghead told Old Wang that Tony was upgrading the Sky Carriers with improved antigravity, cloaking, reactors, and thrusters.
• Old Wang asked Egghead to give him a Sky Carrier, then left after Egghead ignored the request.

Old Wang prepared to strengthen Afterlife and eventually contact Attilan, while he and Skye tracked down potential Inhumans on Earth. A sudden wave of assassinations by five Winter Soldiers prompted Egghead to send Old Wang, Skye, and their allies after the remaining four assassins.

• Skye told Old Wang that the Council of Elders wanted contact with Attilan, but Gordon could not teleport to the moon, so Old Wang postponed the trip until he was strong enough to face Black Bolt.
• Old Wang told Skye to study Tony's virtual technology information and get the Framework running, then later directed her to bring the Inhuman descendants she had found to Afterlife to awaken their powers.
• Skye raised the question of informing Aunt May that Andrew Garner, her ex-husband, was among the people they had found, and Old Wang said he would speak with her.
• Egghead called Old Wang to report that five high-ranking officials had been assassinated simultaneously across five continents.
• At Triskelion Headquarters, Hill identified the killers as five highly capable Winter Soldiers, and Egghead ordered Old Wang, Skye, and two others to capture the four remaining targets alive while Romanoff and Barton pursued the European assassin.

Tony claimed he wanted a Winter Soldier’s body, while Old Wang negotiated with Fury over the remaining prisoners and then organized missions to stop Hydra’s assassins. In Japan, Old Wang identified the next target as part of Hydra’s effort to spread panic, and the story left with his discovery of the Winter Soldier’s location.

• Tony volunteered to capture the bearded Winter Soldier in Oceania and insisted he wanted the man’s body, while Hill warned him against restarting the Super Soldier Program.
• Old Wang told Fury that the Winter Soldiers counted toward the favors Fury owed him and opened a portal to Japan, where Fury worried Old Wang might demand a Sky Carrier.
• Old Wang contacted Bucky and Captain Rogers, who chose to pursue the stronger Winter Soldier in North America, and he sent Matt, Stick, and Elektra to South Africa.
• Skye reported that the Japanese State Minister’s assassination had killed twenty-seven people and injured one hundred and five, and Old Wang explained that the violence was meant to provoke public panic.
• Old Wang described Hydra’s actions as a dying organization’s final declaration and found the Winter Soldier’s location.

Old Wang brought Skye and the others to train by hunting a Super Soldier hiding in Japan. Skye defeated him with a precisely controlled shockwave, and the story ended with the Super Soldier realizing Old Wang had been standing nearby unseen.

• Old Wang used his senses to locate the East Asian Super Soldier in Tokyo and let Skye take the lead as training.
• The Super Soldier hid in a forest, planned to target Japan’s Prime Minister, and recognized Skye as Quake when she appeared.
• The Super Soldier raised his submachine gun, but Skye destroyed it and shattered his heart with a focused shockwave.
• Skye proudly told Old Wang about her improved control, and Old Wang praised her while rubbing her head.
• The dying Super Soldier realized Old Wang had been standing beside him undetected and died overwhelmed by the gap in their strength.