Chapter Summaries

Old Wang entered Black Panther Goddess Bast’s Mental World and introduced her to Princess Shuri, who wanted to become the Black Panther. Bast marked Shuri to strengthen the Heart-Shaped Herb’s effects, while Old Wang encouraged her to claim the ritual publicly; Bast then asked him to reveal his true purpose.

• Princess Shuri led Old Wang into the Goddess’s Sacred Land, where he sensed the Heart-Shaped Herb and yellow sand connected to Bast’s Mental World.
• Old Wang entered Bast’s Mental World, met the Goddess, and revealed his ties to the Immortal Iron Fist and the four Wild Gods.
• Old Wang brought Princess Shuri’s soul into the Mental World and explained that she wanted to become the Black Panther despite her brother already holding the title.
• Bast marked Princess Shuri and said the mark would improve the Heart-Shaped Herb’s effects, agreeing that she could reveal it publicly to gain permission for the ritual.
• Bast told Old Wang she knew he had come for more than Princess Shuri and asked him to state his true purpose.

Old Wang showed Bast the Emerald Dream and offered her a Mother Tree G'Hanir seed to help her Mental World become more real. Bast gave him a fragment of her soul in return, and the seed sprouted into a tree rooted in both her Mental World and Wakanda.

• Old Wang brought Bast and Princess Shuri into his Mental World and showed Bast the Emerald Dream.
• Bast agreed to split off a wisp of her soul for Old Wang in exchange for hope of advancing her Mental World.
• Old Wang exchanged 100 grams of Azeroth Blood for a Mother Tree G'Hanir seed.
• Bast nourished the seed with her mental power and life energy while Old Wang used Eternal Water to help it grow.
• The seed became a sapling rooted in Wakanda and Bast's Mental World, and Old Wang left with Princess Shuri.

Princess Shuri became Bast’s chosen Black Panther, then declined the throne in favor of T’Challa. The royal family discussed how much Vibranium Wakanda should offer Old Wang for the Cosmic Cube, and the Old King left the decision to consider with the Council of Elders.

• Princess Shuri explained how Bast had chosen her, and Bast appeared to confirm that Shuri was more suited than anyone to be the Black Panther.
• Old Wang urged the Old King to hold a ceremony, and the Queen gave Shuri the Heart-Shaped Herb; afterward, Shuri emerged with enhanced physical abilities.
• At dinner, Shuri said she preferred being a scientist and wanted T’Challa to rule, easing the Old King’s and T’Challa’s concerns.
• The Old King asked T’Challa to assess the Cosmic Cube’s value, and T’Challa explained its energy and portal functions as well as its research potential.
• T’Challa estimated that 1,000 tons of Vibranium would be a reasonable trade, and the Old King worried over the cost while T’Challa advised buying the Cube even at a premium.

Old Wang traded the Cosmic Cube to Wakanda for one thousand tons of Vibranium, then revealed to his team that he had kept the Space Stone. Shuri left Wakanda to study at the Azeroth Laboratory, while T'Challa considered joining the Shengun Bureau.

• Old King hurriedly persuaded Old Wang to stay while Wakanda’s scientists urged him to buy the Cosmic Cube, and the tribal elders debated selling Vibranium.
• Old King offered increasingly large amounts of Vibranium, and Old Wang accepted one thousand tons in exchange for the Cosmic Cube.
• At the National Research Institute, Old King worried about the cost of the deal and Shuri’s departure, while T'Challa agreed that joining the Shengun Bureau was an opportunity.
• Back at the Azeroth Laboratory, Fitz complained that Old Wang had sold the Cosmic Cube too cheaply.
• Old Wang revealed the Space Stone to the team and warned them not to touch it, while claiming the Infinity Stones came from the depths of the universe.

Old Wang planned to cultivate by healing Earth’s environmental problems, beginning with China’s polluted air and deserts. He decided to green the Gobi with help from Azeroth, and exchanged for five seeds of Mother Tree G'Hanir.

• Old Wang explained that Wakanda’s thousand tons of Vibranium would fund upgrades to weapons, aircraft, starships, and energy batteries, but would be used up quickly.
• Old Wang decided to remain on Earth, travel across it, and cultivate by helping the planet recover from environmental damage.
• Old Wang chose China as his first destination and identified greening its deserts as a way to improve air quality and ease population pressure.
• Old Wang asked Azeroth to exchange for seeds of Mother Tree G'Hanir and chose five.

Wang Xin witnessed Old Wang transform the desert near Mogao Caves by planting a rapidly growing World Tree and bringing in seawater, creating the foundation for a vast oasis. Old Wang then prepared to activate another Heart of Azeroth ability, Freyja's Natural Covenant.

• Wang Xin spotted a giant tree rising from the sand near Mogao Caves and watched the desert become a vast crater filled through more than a hundred portals.
• Wang Xin heard Old Wang name the tree Jianmu, then saw him walk toward it on stairs of clouds and disappear into the sky.
• Old Wang explained that he had planted a seed of Mother Tree G'Hanir after soaking it in Well of Eternity Water, and that Jianmu would help turn the desert into an oasis.
• Old Wang used Earth Spirit, Storm Spirit, and portals to send sand into the ocean and draw seawater into the crater, while seafloor silt began filling the area.
• Old Wang asked the Heart of Azeroth to activate Freyja's Natural Covenant.

Old Wang unlocked Freyja's Natural Covenant, strengthening his bond with nature and accelerating Jianmu's growth. He created Ancient Protectors to guard the World Tree, then departed into the sky.

• Old Wang spent 100 points of My Blood to unlock Freyja's Natural Covenant and received a natural mark between his brows.
• Old Wang used natural energy to speed Jianmu's growth and realized the covenant gave him the abilities of a powerful Druid.
• Old Wang worried that others might covet Jianmu and decided the World Tree needed permanent guardians.
• Old Wang infused branches with Well of Eternity Water, awakening them as Ancient Protectors that could uproot themselves and defend Jianmu.
• Old Wang climbed beyond the clouds and rode the wind away.

Old Wang strengthened his bond with Shennongjia and planned to expand the World Trees’ influence until his Mental World connected with Earth. Fitz contacted him to announce that he and Simmons had agreed to marry, and Old Wang accepted their request to be the witness.

• The five World Trees grew across China, and their branches took root nearby while people credited the unseen Director Wang.
• Old Wang spent a month cultivating in Shennongjia with Freyja’s Natural Covenant, doubling his True Qi and gaining strength from the forest.
• Old Wang reflected that the World Trees could connect his Mental World to Earth, but he lacked enough Azeroth Blood to plant more.
• Old Wang decided to move to the Amazon Rainforest, hoping its recognition would bring him closer to the demigod realm.
• Fitz told Old Wang that Simmons had accepted his proposal and that they planned to marry the next day.
• Old Wang agreed to witness Fitz and Simmons’s wedding.

Fitz and Skye prepared for a hastily arranged wedding while Fitz presented Old Wang with a new clean-energy battery developed by The Laboratory. Old Wang approved production and set plans for sharing the profits and funding education, then stored the Mind Stone Scepter in the Heart of Azeroth.

• Fitz told Old Wang that Skye and their friends had arranged their wedding, including their home, invitations, and an officiant.
• Fitz told Old Wang that The Laboratory had developed safe, pollution-free energy batteries using Kree, Chitauri, and Wakandan technology.
• Fitz demonstrated batteries ranging from affordable motorcycle power cells to a huge unit intended for the Shengun, and explained their capacity and costs.
• Old Wang approved production through Azeroth Clean Energy Co., Ltd. and proposed distributing company shares among the research team while reserving funds for education.
• Old Wang urged Banner and Doctor Simmons to develop a Low-Tier Serum for the public, then stored the Mind Stone Scepter in the Heart of Azeroth.

Old Wang analyzed the Mind Stone Scepter and reconstructed its mental abilities in the Heart of Azeroth. He used his new worldwide telepathy to expose crimes and hunt infiltrators on Earth, beginning with an apparently ordinary man.

• Old Wang spent his remaining Azeroth Blood analyzing the Mind Stone Scepter, then learned its abilities and flaws.
• Fitz and Simmons held their wedding, and Old Wang reflected on how every reunion eventually ended in farewell.
• Old Wang reconstructed the scepter's abilities in the Heart of Azeroth, gaining worldwide telepathy, a mind shield, astral projection, mind control, and memory theft.
• Old Wang swept his consciousness across Earth, found crimes, and alerted Daredevil and the others so they could make arrests.
• Old Wang searched for demons, hell visitors, dark-force followers, and aliens evading the Three Sanctums, then focused on an apparently ordinary man.

N'Jadaka arrived in Wakanda and used the royal family's betrayal of his father to rally Wakabi and the elders against the Old King. T'Challa challenged him for the throne, but their fight was interrupted by a Chinese man riding a black panther.

• N'Jadaka showed Wakabi a royal Vibranium ring, and a persuasive voice convinced Wakabi to take him to the palace.
• The Old King admitted that he had killed N'Jobu, while the elders and Wakabi demanded that he abdicate.
• The Old King failed to reach the Goddess or contact anyone through his Vibranium beads, and Wakabi called for an immediate challenge to the throne.
• T'Challa accepted the challenge and fought N'Jadaka after drinking the potion that removed his Black Panther power.
• A force separated T'Challa and N'Jadaka as a black panther carrying a slightly chubby young Chinese man arrived on an auspicious cloud.

Director Wang arrived during Erik’s challenge for Wakanda’s throne, exposed the Beast controlling him, and let Bast confront it in her true form. As Bast and the Beast prepared to fight, Director Wang watched, intending to seal the Beast rather than destroy it.

• Director Wang appeared at Wakanda’s ritual and knocked unconscious Wakabi, the elders, and the Royal Guard when they threatened him.
• Director Wang told Bast to handle Wakanda’s crisis herself, and Bast awakened her true body.
• The Beast emerged from Erik as a huge, armored monster, prompting the Old King to ask what it was.
• Director Wang explained that the Beast was a manifestation of humanity’s negative emotions, then stepped aside to watch Bast face it.

Black Panther Goddess Bast battled Beast in her Mental World, but Beast’s dispersed essence threatened to corrupt it. Old Wang and Elektra trapped Beast in a shrinking psychic prison, which Old Wang sent into Elektra’s body.

• Bast drew Beast into her Mental World and attacked it with the help of hundreds of ancient black panthers.
• Beast began contaminating Bast’s world with negative emotions, leaving her frightened and unable to win without risking corruption.
• Old Wang summoned Black Sky Elektra and prepared her for a plan while Beast continued fighting Bast.
• Old Wang’s four Demigods of the Wilds enclosed Beast in a prison formed from overlapping Mental Worlds.
• Old Wang shrank the prison, separated the Mental Worlds, and sent the prison containing Beast into Elektra’s body.

Old Wang sealed Beast’s power within Elektra and freed the Wakandans from its lingering influence. After leaving Wakanda’s succession to play out, he set off to hunt disguised impostors on Earth.

• Elektra endured Beast’s overwhelming mental power until Old Wang calmed her and sealed the power within her, leaving a fragment of his mental will to help her master it.
• Old Wang sent Elektra back to Azeroth Laboratory and cleared Beast’s residual influence from the Wakandan elders and Royal Guards.
• The Wakandans saw Bast in her physical form and knelt before her, while Bast transformed into a small panther and rode on Old Wang’s shoulder.
• Old Wang expected T’Challa to challenge Erik for the throne and believed Bast would favor T’Challa, but he left Wakanda to handle its own succession.
• Old Wang set out to find disguised impostors across Earth, intending to deal personally with the most powerful threats.

Earth’s hidden impostors were ordered by their masters to retreat as a purge began, but the spiritual mist prevented them from escaping. Nearly twenty figures from the Dark World gathered in an abandoned graveyard to learn who had summoned them, and a tall, thin man appeared claiming responsibility.

• The surviving impostors contacted their masters and were ordered to retreat, but Earth’s spiritual mist cut off their usual means of communication.
• A week passed without any impostor managing to leave Earth, and a Hell Earl arrived at an abandoned graveyard in the western United States.
• The Hell Earl met Valkyrie, a subordinate of Hela, and Count Dracula at the gathering place.
• Nearly twenty figures from the Dark World assembled, including Frost Giants, demons, and traitorous Asgardians.
• After the gathered figures denied summoning everyone, a tall, thin man stepped through a ripple in space and said he had called them.

Kaecilius gathered leaders of Earth’s dark forces and urged them to unite against the Shengun Bureau, claiming Ancient One was too injured to intervene. The leaders agreed to consider his plan as he began a ritual to bind them with an Unbreakable Vow.

• The Hell Earl recognized Kaecilius as a Mystic Master and Kamar-Taj traitor empowered by the Dark Dimension.
• Kaecilius told Count Dracula, Valkyrie, the Hell Earl, and the other gathered leaders that the Shengun Bureau threatened them and had killed many of their followers.
• The Hell Earl warned that Ancient One might intervene, but Kaecilius claimed she had been severely injured and would not act without risking death.
• Valkyrie considered how Ancient One’s injury could aid Hela, while the other leaders grew hopeful that the Dark World could regain power.
• Kaecilius proposed that they join forces to destroy the Shengun Bureau and declare themselves Earth’s true masters.
• Kaecilius formed a ritual array and called on the leaders to forge an Unbreakable Vow that would torment anyone who broke it.

Kaecilius and the Dark World’s leaders bound themselves with an Unbreakable Vow before luring Old Wang into a Mirror Dimension trap prepared by Dormammu. Just as the gathered dark creatures moved to attack, Old Wang shifted everyone into another world, where four versions of him appeared alongside powerful beasts.

• Nearly twenty Dark World leaders invoked powerful beings including Hela, Mephisto, and Surtur to forge an Unbreakable Vow that bound them from harming one another before killing Director Wang and destroying the Shengun Bureau.
• Kaecilius led the leaders into a Mirror Dimension, and Old Wang arrived at the graveyard afterward but could not locate or enter it.
• Dormammu’s power transformed the graveyard into a Mirror Dimension trap, where Kaecilius and thousands of dark creatures confronted Old Wang.
• Old Wang recognized Dormammu’s role and explained that the Dark Dimension had let the conspirators plan for much longer than the minute that had passed outside.
• Old Wang asked why the dark creatures had gathered to die, then shifted the group into another world, where a Black Panther, White Tiger Xuen, the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Crane, Dark Ox, hundreds of Black Panthers, and four Old Wangs appeared.

Old Wang trapped Kaecilius and the dark creatures in Bast’s Mental World, where his black panthers battled their souls while he prepared another move. The arrival of seven Skyfather-Level projections threatened to overwhelm the battlefield, but a streak of green light descended at the end.

• Old Wang revealed that he had drawn the combatants’ souls into Bast’s Mental World and continued connecting with nature through the World Tree while speaking with Kaecilius.
• Kaecilius ordered the dark creature leaders to attack, and thousands of souls surged against Bast’s black panthers.
• Old Wang changed the Mental World’s rules so souls could fly, stripping the vampires of their advantage as the battle settled into a stalemate.
• Count Dracula watched the dark leaders summon powerful beings, and more than ten projections appeared, including Mephisto, Hela, and Surtur.
• Count Dracula realized that seven Skyfather-Level beings threatened Old Wang, then saw a streak of green light descend from the heavens.

Old Wang used the power of nature from two worlds to destroy the invading astral projections of several powerful beings and defend the Mental World. As the battle ended, he sensed that the true enemy had arrived.

• A green light entered the central giant tree, awakening the five trees and unleashing nature's power throughout the Mental World.
• Nature's Whips tore apart Mephisto's astral projection, while a vortex of rain swallowed Surtur's projection.
• Hela attacked Old Wang, but he destroyed her astral projection with his Finger of Death.
• Old Wang surveyed the aftermath, noting that most dark creatures had died and only a few, including Hellboy and Count Dracula, remained alive.
• Old Wang sensed someone had escaped to the Mirror Dimension and felt the real enemy's darkness descend.

Kaecilius escaped the Mental World and tried to kill Old Wang, but Old Wang captured him as Dormammu began invading the Mirror Dimension. Old Wang called on the Sorcerer Supreme, Wanda, Crystal, and the Mystic Masters to help defend Earth.

• Kaecilius escaped the unstable Mental World and found Old Wang's body vulnerable in the Mirror Dimension.
• Kaecilius attacked Old Wang with a spike of Dark Energy, but Old Wang's body resisted it and the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak bound Kaecilius.
• Old Wang awoke as Dormammu's Dark Energy broke through the dimensions and began consuming the Mirror Dimension.
• Kaecilius hailed Dormammu and declared that the Mirror Dimension would serve as a springboard to Earth, while Old Wang silenced him and kept him captive.
• Old Wang chose to defend Earth on its home ground and summoned the Sorcerer Supreme, Wanda, Crystal, and the Mystic Masters for help.