Chapter Summaries

Old Wang prepared to enter the Quantum Realm through the Quantum Tunnel to study it and collect energy, hoping his findings would help Hope and Dr. Pym develop safer equipment to find Hope’s mother. He vanished into the tunnel, leaving Hope and Pym waiting to see whether he would return.

• Hope explained that she wanted Old Wang to enter the Quantum Realm because she feared her mother might not survive much longer.
• Hope gave Old Wang the upgraded Ant-Man Armor and warned him to avoid dangers, especially time vortices.
• Old Wang demonstrated that he could shrink and grow with remarkable control, surprising Hope and making Dr. Pym suspicious.
• Hope told Old Wang to survive, observe the Quantum Realm, and bring back collected energy rather than attempt to rescue her mother.
• Old Wang entered the activated Quantum Tunnel and disappeared as Hope and Pym watched.

Old Wang explored the Quantum Realm at the subatomic level, reasoning about its dangers and how a traveler could find a way home. After failing to locate the original Wasp, he prepared to return, but a shadow suddenly flashed past him.

• Old Wang shrank to the subatomic level and observed molecular structures, atomic nuclei, and higher-dimensional forms.
• Old Wang decided he would send Banner, Fitz, Simmons, and other important scientists on a Quantum Realm journey.
• Old Wang reasoned that a Quantum Tunnel and Vibranium equipment could provide an anchor for returning from the realm.
• Old Wang concluded that the original Wasp had absorbed the Quantum Realm's energy and evolved, but he could not locate her through the turbulent spacetime.
• Old Wang prepared to press the button to leave, then saw a shadow flash past him.

Old Wang disrupted Loki and Supergiant’s psychic attack but was thrown off course while escaping the Quantum Realm. Loki and Supergiant regrouped in Chitauri territory and planned to use the Mind Stone Scepter and Cosmic Cube to create powerful beings on Earth.

• Old Wang sensed Loki and Supergiant influencing Dr. Pym, then struck their astral projections with a psychic blast that incapacitated the Azeroth Laboratory staff and drove the projections away.
• The psychic clash disrupted Old Wang’s route through the Quantum Realm, and he emerged in an unknown location.
• Loki and Supergiant arrived on a Chitauri-controlled planet, where they argued over Loki’s defeat and the failed attempt to approach Earth unnoticed.
• Loki planned to recover, project himself onto Earth, and control S.H.I.E.L.D. researchers to open a portal for the Chitauri invasion.
• Loki revealed that he intended to combine the Mind Stone Scepter with the Cosmic Cube to create powerful beings on Earth.

Old Wang arrived in 1942 after a time-travel mishap and decided he needed resources to return to his original time without disrupting history. He set out to find undiscovered treasures.

• Old Wang asked the Heart of Azeroth to absorb the quantum energy clinging to him, then soothed its young lady by promising her entertainment after he returned.
• Old Wang checked his condition and learned from a farmer that he had landed in 1942, during World War II.
• Old Wang considered waiting until 2011 but rejected it because two Hearts of Azeroth would exist at once and might create a parallel universe.
• Old Wang ruled out seeking help from the Ancient One and decided to find valuable treasures that had not been discovered by 2011.
• Old Wang recalled articles about famous mysteries and treasures and set off to search for them.

Old Wang went to Tønsberg to find the Cosmic Cube, which Odin had hidden in an ancient temple. He uncovered its hiding place behind a mural and revealed a cubical box.

• After giving up on obtaining more Azeroth Blood, Old Wang decided to look for the Cosmic Cube in Norway.
• Old Wang reasoned that Odin and Ancient One were keeping watch over the Cube, so he planned to leave it untouched until he was strong enough to use it.
• Old Wang opened a portal from New York to Tønsberg and entered the temple under an Invisibility spell.
• Old Wang recognized the Cube in a stone coffin as a decoy and found the real hiding place in a mural of the World Tree.
• Old Wang pressed a stone in the mural, causing a cubical box to extend from the wall.

Old Wang stole the Cosmic Cube and absorbed its energy, then returned it to the Odin Temple before Ancient One could catch him. Ancient One and Odin recognized that an invisible intruder with powerful spacetime interference had taken it, but they could not identify him, and Ancient One decided the Cube must remain under close watch.

• Old Wang learned that Azeroth could analyze the Cosmic Cube at great cost, while the Heart of Azeroth could absorb its energy for no more than thirty seconds before attracting Odin and Ancient One.
• Old Wang teleported a thousand miles away, took the Cosmic Cube from the Odin Temple, absorbed its energy, and sent the Cube back before his brief window ran out.
• Ancient One detected the Cube's disappearance and went to the Odin Temple, where she found the tampered mural and asked Heimdall and Odin to help track it.
• Ancient One followed the Cube's spatial disturbance back to the Odin Temple and realized the thief had already returned it.
• Heimdall and Ancient One reported that the thief was invisible and had escaped, while Odin proposed moving the Cube.
• Ancient One insisted that the Cosmic Cube remain at the temple and said the Three Sanctums would help guard it.

Old Wang escaped Odin, Ancient One, and Heimdall with the Cosmic Cube, learning that it stored energy drawn through the Space Stone rather than containing an enormous supply itself. In Brooklyn, he obtained the remains of Dr. Erskine’s Super Soldier Serum and then used ten grams of Azeroth Blood to return through time and space.

• Old Wang evaded the pursuit of Odin, Ancient One, and Heimdall, then learned that the Cosmic Cube had yielded only a small amount of stored energy.
• Steve Rogers received Dr. Erskine’s Super Soldier Serum, but a Hydra agent killed Erskine and fled with the final vial.
• Steve chased the agent, who died after Steve stopped him, and the last vial of serum was shattered.
• Old Wang emerged from Invisibility and gathered a small amount of serum from the soil where the vial had broken.
• Old Wang stored the serum and spent ten grams of Azeroth Blood to obtain time-and-space travel, then vanished.

Hope woke in the Quantum Mechanics Laboratory and learned from Ancient One that Loki and Thanos had caused a psychic and spacetime disturbance. Old Wang returned safely from the Quantum Realm, reunited with Hope, and prepared to speak with Ancient One while the others remained unconscious.

• Hope woke to find the researchers, including her father, unconscious and the Quantum Tunnel still open, with Old Wang missing.
• Ancient One arrived, identified herself as a friend of Old Wang, and used magic to show Hope Loki and another figure.
• Ancient One traced the disturbance to Thanos using the Mind Stone and discovered that Old Wang had returned through time without leaving traces in history.
• Old Wang emerged from a spacetime vortex above international waters and opened a portal back to Azeroth Laboratory.
• Hope embraced Old Wang, and he reassured her that the others had suffered only a psychic shock before turning to speak with Ancient One.

Ancient One confronted Old Wang about the consequences of his necklace, which had obscured her visions of the future. She asked him to promise not to take the Infinity Stones out of the universe, and he agreed to consider it in exchange for ten divine artifacts.

• Ancient One warned Old Wang that reckless time travel could damage the timeline and the universe, but he argued that he had caused no disruption.
• Ancient One explained that Old Wang's necklace was a cosmic artifact from beyond the multiverse and that its conflict with the Time Stone had made the future impossible to foresee clearly.
• Ancient One told Old Wang that most futures she had seen ended with him leaving the universe with the necklace, sometimes taking the six Infinity Stones as well.
• Ancient One asked Old Wang to promise not to take the Infinity Stones or destroy the universe, and he asked what he would receive in return.
• Old Wang said he would not ask for much and proposed ten divine artifacts.

Ancient One refused Old Wang’s request for ten artifacts and offered him a chance to absorb energy from the Dark Dimension through his Heart of Azeroth. Old Wang agreed after learning the ritual would harm Ancient One, and he vowed to protect Earth as she prepared to begin.

• Ancient One explained that Kamar-Taj had few artifacts and refused to give Old Wang ten, warning that Earth needed them to resist Dormammu.
• Ancient One offered to channel Dark Dimension energy into Old Wang’s necklace in exchange for his agreement not to take the Infinity Stones; the Heart of Azeroth absorbed a test strand of Dark Energy.
• Ancient One warned that absorbing the Dark Dimension’s energy would attract Dormammu’s attention and that Old Wang would have only one chance to use the ritual.
• Old Wang learned that the ritual would harm Ancient One and could shorten her life, but she insisted on paying that price herself.
• Old Wang vowed that no one, including Thanos or Dormammu, would invade Earth while he was there, and Ancient One raised her hands to begin the ritual.

Ancient One performed a Dark Ritual to channel Dormammu’s energy into the Heart of Azeroth, while Old Wang resisted Dormammu’s whispers. The ritual ended with Ancient One’s body further corrupted and her remaining time shortened, as Dormammu set his sights on Old Wang.

• Ancient One completed the Dark Ritual and opened a channel to the Dark Dimension.
• Old Wang used the Heart of Azeroth to draw Dark Energy from Ancient One and compress it into high-grade black liquid.
• Old Wang sensed Dormammu’s immense presence and compared him to the Void Lords, but resisted his attempt to seduce him into darkness.
• The ritual abruptly ended, and Ancient One told Old Wang that darkness had eroded her body too deeply for his True Qi to help.
• Ancient One warned Old Wang that Dormammu had set his sights on him, reminded him of his promise, and left through a portal.

After returning from the Quantum Realm, Old Wang told the laboratory team that Janet might be alive and quantum-entangled with him. Hope and Dr. Pym began preparing to locate her, while Fitz insisted they first calibrate the equipment and study the Quantum Realm energy Old Wang had collected.

• Old Wang recounted his encounter with Loki and the Sorcerer Supreme, then gave Simmons half a tube of the original Super Soldier Serum.
• Dr. Pym speculated that Janet had become quantum-entangled with Old Wang and might have left a message that could help locate her.
• Hope explained that tracking the entanglement might reveal Janet's position, but Dr. Pym said the team lacked the necessary Quantum Shuttle and algorithms.
• Hope and Dr. Pym wanted to open the Quantum Tunnel immediately, but Fitz urged them to prepare the equipment and study the collected energy first.
• Dr. Pym and Hope began their research, while Old Wang left with the others and wondered how to spend the energy he had collected.

Old Wang planned how to spend Azeroth Blood on materials and upgrades, then tested Demonic Elementium Bars as armor material for Hulk. Hulk chose full-body plate armor and a weapon, leaving Old Wang to exchange for the selected sword and shield at a steep cost.

• Old Wang prioritized exchanging for raw materials and advanced alloys to support Super Soldier Serum research, Iron Soldier production, missiles, and equipment upgrades.
• Old Wang decided Hulk needed strong armor and mind protection, then summoned him on a deserted island to ask what equipment he wanted.
• Hulk chose full-body plate armor, and Old Wang tested a Demonic Elementium Bar that remained unmarked despite Hulk's powerful blows.
• Old Wang offered Hulk a selection of legendary weapons, and Hulk chose one; Old Wang exchanged for the weapon and a shield, spending nearly half of his remaining Azeroth Blood.

Old Wang gave Hulk the Scale of the Earth Warder and Shardscale, then persuaded Egghead to lend him the Cosmic Cube for an hour in exchange for ten vials of Super Soldier Serum. Old Wang and Egghead arrived at the Cosmic Cube research base.

• Hulk repeatedly challenged Abomination, who played dead, then fought Old Wang and claimed victory when Old Wang stopped using True Qi and surrendered.
• Old Wang gave Hulk a sword and shield forged from a scale of Neltharion and explained that they were called Scale of the Earth Warder and Shardscale.
• Old Wang brought Hulk back to The Laboratory at sunset and then went to S.H.I.E.L.D. Triskelion Headquarters.
• Egghead agreed to lend Old Wang the Cosmic Cube for one hour in exchange for ten vials of Super Soldier Serum.
• Old Wang handed Egghead the vials and transported them both to the Cosmic Cube research base.

Old Wang drained the Cosmic Cube’s energy, deconstructed it, and added its Energy Channel and Spatial Manipulation abilities to the Heart of Azeroth before returning the Cube to the research base. The new powers let him teleport away, though Tony and Hawkeye could not determine where he went.

• Old Wang took the Cosmic Cube from the device and absorbed its energy while Egghead was bound and unable to stop him.
• Old Wang deconstructed the Cosmic Cube and identified Energy Channel and Spatial Manipulation as the abilities he wanted to copy.
• Old Wang spent twenty grams of Azeroth Blood to add both abilities to the Heart of Azeroth.
• Old Wang returned the Cosmic Cube to the research base, where Hawkeye was waiting for him.
• Old Wang teleported away, and Tony and Hawkeye speculated about his destination after J.A.R.V.I.S. detected no spatial anomalies nearby.

Old Wang traveled from the Shengun to Nidavellir, hoping the Dwarves would forge a divine artifact for him. He claimed friendship with Asgard and showed them a massive metal gauntlet as proof, but the Dwarf's response was not yet revealed.

• Old Wang learned that the Shengun's starship refit would take nearly ten months and asked Wukong for a small spacecraft capable of interstellar travel.
• Old Wang boarded a combat spacecraft, ordered Wukong to paint the fleet red, and used the Heart of Azeroth to supply energy for the journey to coordinates given by Ancient One.
• After 184 jumps, Old Wang arrived at Nidavellir, where Dwarves worked in five steel rings surrounding a neutron star.
• A Dwarf demanded to know Old Wang's purpose, and Old Wang asked the Dwarves to forge a divine artifact in exchange for compensation.
• The Dwarf said Nidavellir served only Asgard and asked Old Wang to prove his ties to Asgard, so Old Wang produced a massive metal gauntlet.

Old Wang warned Eitri that Thanos might come to Nidavellir and proposed an alliance between the Dwarves and Earth. Eitri accepted after learning Earth could help defend them, and Old Wang commissioned armor for Hulk.

• Old Wang blamed Loki for destroying the Bifrost and warned Eitri that Thanos might come to Nidavellir seeking an Infinity Gauntlet.
• Old Wang presented a Demonic Elementium Bar, and Eitri recognized it as a valuable material suitable for forging divine artifacts.
• Old Wang proposed an alliance and described Earth's victories against the Kree and its powerful defenders.
• Eitri agreed to the alliance and demanded an equal amount of Demonic Elementium for the Dwarves' work.
• Old Wang asked Eitri to forge a suit of armor for Hulk.

Old Wang helped Janet, trapped in the Quantum Realm, use his body to stabilize the Quantum Tunnel and pass her knowledge to Hank Pym and Hope. After Janet returned to the Quantum Realm, Old Wang relayed her formulas, then left as Skye watched the reunion on surveillance.

• Old Wang returned to Azeroth Laboratory, where Hope and Dr. Pym reopened the Quantum Tunnel.
• Janet’s energy disrupted the tunnel and she invaded Old Wang’s mind, asking him to let her control his body so she could adjust the parameters.
• Old Wang agreed, and Janet used his body to operate the computer while reuniting with Dr. Pym and Hope.
• At Old Wang’s suggestion, Janet transferred her information into his mind before her energy ran out and she left.
• Old Wang typed Janet’s formulas into the computer, then departed while Hope watched him and Skye huffed at the surveillance monitor.

Old Wang brought Banner to Nidavellir so Eitri could forge armor fitted to Hulk, despite Banner’s protests and Hulk’s fear of giving blood. After Eitri used Hulk’s blood to forge the armor, Hulk wore the completed suit and became the Invincible Hulk.

• Old Wang took Banner through a portal to Nidavellir after Eitri requested Hulk’s blood for the armor’s final testing.
• Eitri rejected Banner’s blood because the armor needed Hulk’s distinct blood and spiritual will.
• Old Wang restrained Banner, cut his wrist, and drew Hulk’s blood after Eitri’s weapons failed to pierce Hulk’s skin.
• Eitri forged the armor using Hulk’s blood, and Old Wang persuaded Hulk to let the glowing-hot components be fitted to him.
• The components cooled and joined into pale green armor that covered Hulk’s body.

Old Wang received Eitri’s divine artifact armor for Hulk and supplied the Dwarf with rare materials before retreating to cultivate. After intense training and sparring, he broke through to Grandmaster and demonstrated his greatly increased power.

• Eitri explained the armor’s self-repair and protective abilities, and Old Wang thanked him and renewed his promise to help when needed.
• Old Wang exchanged for more Demonic Elementium and gave Eitri Saronite, Titanium Divine Iron, Black Dragon King scales and teeth, and reinforced armor plating to study.
• Old Wang secluded himself on the island with Abomination Blonsky, training for at least eighteen hours a day and sparring with him and Hulk.
• A lightning storm and a surge of power accompanied Old Wang’s breakthrough, after which his True Qi was ten times stronger than before.
• Old Wang descended with enough force to split the island, then appeared atop a water dragon as Abomination Blonsky watched in shock.