Chapter Summaries

Bai Jing reached Asgard ahead of the Avengers, hid atop its royal palace, and began evolving as the Power of Mind and Power of Space strengthened him. While Mr. Fantastic repaired the Bifrost and the Avengers prepared for war, Bai Jing secretly emptied Odin’s treasury.

• Bai Jing arrived in Asgard, surveyed its inhabitants, and concealed himself on the central tower as Thor brought the others to meet Odin.
• Bai Jing overheard the plan to use the repaired Bifrost against him, then rested while the two stones’ energy transformed his body and strengthened his powers.
• Mr. Fantastic repaired the Bifrost with divine metals and Uru Metal, explaining that it would take about a month for the passage to fully reopen.
• Odin offered the Avengers weapons and training, and they chose divine artifacts from his treasury.
• After the Avengers left the treasury, Bai Jing made its treasures, materials, and shelves vanish without Asgard noticing.

Bai Jing destroyed Asgard with Almighty Push, then confronted Odin, Thor, and Loki over their past enmity. Just as he prepared to kill the three gods, Mr. Fantastic arrived and interrupted the fight.

• Bai Jing watched the two bodies on the icy planet grow stronger, then emerged from concealment atop Asgard as the Avengers waited for the Bifrost to be repaired.
• Bai Jing unleashed Almighty Push, flattening Asgard and killing or scattering its inhabitants; Odin realized Freya had likely died, while Thor and Loki survived on the Bifrost.
• Bai Jing told Odin he was taking revenge for Odin's attempted betrayal and revealed that he had exterminated the Frost Giants.
• Loki pretended to side with Bai Jing, then attacked him with a dagger; Bai Jing easily repelled Loki and prepared to kill him, Thor, and Odin.
• Mr. Fantastic arrived in an aircraft before Bai Jing could strike, and Odin told him the destruction of Asgard was not his fault.

Bai Jing absorbed the Bifrost’s dark energy in Muspelheim and fought Surtur, overwhelming him with repeated Almighty Pushes. Thor gathered Asgardians and Avengers to confront Bai Jing, who challenged them all to attack him together.

• Bai Jing realized the Bifrost had sent him to Muspelheim and absorbed its invisible dark energy while hiding that he could withstand it.
• Surtur charged Bai Jing with the Twilight Sword, but Bai Jing repeatedly blasted holes in his regenerating body with Almighty Push.
• Thor arrived with Odin, gods, warriors, and Avengers, and urged Surtur to join them against Bai Jing.
• Surtur refused Thor’s alliance and pointed out that Thor was also his enemy because he had not returned the Eternal Fire.
• Thor and Captain America called Bai Jing a villain, and Bai Jing challenged everyone present to fight him together.

Bai Jing overwhelmed the assembled Asgardian and Avengers forces in Muspelheim, killing Surtur and taking his Twilight Sword and crown while Odin, Thor, and the others were left reeling. As Odin removed his eyepatch and prepared to fight again, Bai Jing still faced the surviving heroes.

• Odin warned Thor to stay back as he, Surtur, and Carol formed a triangle around Bai Jing.
• Bai Jing blasted Odin away with a sonic shout, then kicked him hard enough to leave him badly injured.
• Bai Jing slammed Carol's head into Adamantium, then destroyed Surtur's head with Almighty Push.
• Bai Jing shrank Surtur's Twilight Sword, took it and the Twilight Crown, and pulled Thor's Mjolnir into his grasp.
• Odin struggled back to his feet and removed his eyepatch, preparing to continue the fight.

Odin embraced his old berserker nature and named Thor king before attacking Bai Jing, who fought him while Hawkeye completed the trap. The heroes sealed Bai Jing inside a torrent of dark energy, and Natasha stayed behind to watch as Hawkeye left to deal with the Order Society.

• Odin revealed that his recklessness had once nearly destroyed Asgard, then entered a berserker state and declared Thor king.
• Bai Jing and Odin clashed, while Hawkeye confirmed that the item in his hand had vanished and Loki tried to stop Thor from acting against their father.
• Mr. Fantastic activated the Bifrost, sending a torrent of dark energy toward the battlefield, while Captain Marvel used a World Tree sapling to trap the area and Thor activated Asgard's Net of Forbidden Domain.
• With spatial abilities blocked, Bai Jing beheaded Odin in one stroke, and Thor chose to remain behind the net rather than charge at him.
• The dark-energy torrent engulfed Bai Jing, and Captain Marvel proposed keeping it active for three months while the others discussed eliminating and absorbing the Order Society.
• Hawkeye left to deal with the Order Society, but Natasha stayed to watch the torrent, leaving Hawkeye feeling as though she had betrayed him.

Bai Jing absorbed dark energy and discovered that it let him develop dark-matter abilities, then escaped Reed's formation and killed Reed and Heimdall. After wiping out the remaining life in Asgard, he returned to Muspelheim to deal with those trapped there.

• Bai Jing absorbed dark energy and found that it was changing his body into a lifeform capable of observing, producing, and using dark matter.
• Bai Jing used dark energy to leave Reed's formation, teleported to the former Asgard, and killed Reed before he could learn more about Bai Jing's abilities.
• Bai Jing killed Heimdall after Heimdall pleaded for his life, then erased both corpses and absorbed the divine essence of the God of Light and the God of Dawn.
• Bai Jing killed every surviving lifeform in Asgard and decided that he would not let anyone escape to threaten him later.
• Bai Jing returned to Muspelheim, where Thor and Loki remained trapped.

Thor and Loki discussed rebuilding Asgard and learned that Thanos was seeking the Infinity Stones, while Natasha and Captain America talked about their plans after returning. Bai Jing broke free as a colossal Sun God Bird, forcing the heroes to flee before it caught up with them in a sea of fire.

• Thor and Loki agreed that Earth could be a home for the rebuilt Asgard, and Loki told Thor that Thanos was gathering the six Infinity Stones.
• Loki revealed that the Space Stone, Mind Stone, and Time Stone were on Earth, and Thor believed defeating Bai Kunlun could thwart Thanos.
• Natasha told Captain America she was not grieving for the suffering of her enemy, while Captain America said he hoped to make amends to a woman.
• A crimson blaze erupted inside the anti-flight zone, Bai Jing broke free, and his flames destroyed the World Tree sapling and engulfed Muspelheim.
• Carol carried Natasha and Captain America away as Thor and the others fled, then they saw Bai Jing’s immense Sun God Bird form.
• Thor tried to signal Heimdall for help, but received no response, and the Sun God Bird crossed the distance at the speed of light and surrounded the heroes with fire.

Bai Jing revealed his Golden Crow form and trapped the remaining heroes in a sea of golden flames, killing most of them with ease. Carol Danvers then began to detonate the energy inside her, hoping to take Bai Jing down with her.

• Bai Jing revealed that he was a Golden Crow born within a star and trapped the heroes inside his golden flames.
• Bai Jing killed Natasha, Captain America, Human Torch, and Invisible Woman after rejecting their pleas.
• Loki accepted his death with a farewell to Thor and evaporated in Bai Jing’s flames.
• Carol Danvers attacked Bai Jing, but her body passed through his light-based form and Thor died in the flames.
• Carol drew on the Tesseract’s energy and declared that she would explode to drag Bai Jing to hell with her.

After Carol Danvers’s spatial explosion destroyed Bai Jing’s body but loosened the world barrier, Bai Jing used the opening to enter a parallel universe. He arrived in Muspelheim and used the Space Stone to find a way out.

• Carol Danvers’s spatial energy annihilated space and destroyed Bai Jing’s divine-bird body, but his soul survived with the Tesseract and Mind Stone.
• Bai Jing decided to exploit the loosened spatial barrier, reasoning that his apparent death would draw attention away from his allies and the Order Society.
• Bai Jing widened the crack with the Power of Space and slipped through into another universe.
• Bai Jing found himself in a parallel Muspelheim, where Surtur was alive and the Eternal Fire had been stolen.
• Bai Jing created a body of dark energy and used the Space Stone to locate a matching spatial node, then left Muspelheim.

Bai Jing traveled to an unfamiliar universe, found a filthy man using the Tesseract to teleport, and followed him to Los Angeles. After the man lost the cube to three women who assaulted him, Bai Jing fused its Space Stone with his own, increasing its power and connecting the two universes.

• Bai Jing arrived on an alien planet and found a disheveled man growing crops, playing Super Mario, and keeping the Tesseract beside him.
• The man used the Tesseract to teleport to a Los Angeles alley, where three women mistook him for a vagrant and chased him when he escaped.
• Bai Jing tripped the man, and the women pinned him down and assaulted him before the blue-haired woman tossed out the Tesseract.
• Bai Jing picked up the cube, fused its Space Stone with his own, and discovered that the combined stone had greater power and could sense spatial nodes in both universes.
• Bai Jing watched the three women leave the man alive but devastated, then acknowledged his endurance.

Bai Jing met Steve Rogers in a world where a virus had killed nearly all men and learned how the resulting society controlled the few survivors. He transformed Rogers into a woman, leaving him free to eat without being treated as a rare male.

• Bai Jing introduced himself to Steve Rogers, claimed he had recently awakened from being frozen, and made Rogers invisible.
• Rogers and Bai Jing left the alley as a tank company approached, and Rogers confirmed that the women driving the tanks could not see him.
• Rogers explained that a wartime virus had killed almost all men, leading women to monitor male survivors and regulate childbirth.
• Bai Jing learned that Bruce Banner and Tony Stark were unknown in this world, while Howard Stark had died when the virus broke out.
• Bai Jing transformed Rogers into a woman, and Rogers thanked him through tears.

Bai Jing deduced that someone had used the Infinity Stones to create a parallel universe where almost all men had been eliminated. He searched Kamar-Taj for the person behind the upheaval and found one male sorcerer who had survived since World War II.

• Bai Jing concluded that no virus existed and that the precise male survival rate pointed to a wish made with the Infinity Stones.
• Bai Jing reasoned that a driven Kamar-Taj sorcerer had stolen the Time Stone and gathered the other Stones to make the wish.
• Bai Jing decided the wish-maker was the source of the upheaval and teleported to Kathmandu to investigate Kamar-Taj.
• Bai Jing used Luoshu to scan Kamar-Taj and found that seventy-five of its seventy-six sorcerers were women.
• Luoshu identified Jean-Bruno Carrod as Kamar-Taj’s lone male, a sorcerer who had survived the virus after magic backlash burned most of his skin.

Bai Jing confronted Karolod, who had created a parallel universe with the six stones and planned to possess Bai Jing’s body. After healing Karolod and learning how he gathered the stones and why the Heavenly God Group was watching him, Bai Jing prepared to decide Karolod’s fate.

• Karolod tried to attack Bai Jing with a magical dagger, but it failed to penetrate Bai Jing’s defenses.
• Bai Jing exposed Karolod’s wish, the damage it had done to his body, and his plan to take over Bai Jing’s body.
• Bai Jing healed Karolod’s ruined hand, persuading him to explain that The Grandmaster had warned him the Heavenly God Group would capture him.
• Karolod described how he collected the six stones, including killing an alien for the Mind Stone and throwing a pursuer off a cliff to obtain the Soul Stone.
• Bai Jing concluded that he had learned how Karolod created the parallel universe and turned his attention to dealing with him.

Bai Jing turned Karolod into hydrogen, recreated him from lunar soil, and used him to draw out a Heavenly God Group being. After witnessing its reality-warping power, Bai Jing left without investigating it and decided to collect Stones across parallel universes and expand the Order Society.

• Bai Jing refused to treat Karolod, then disintegrated him into hydrogen after Karolod failed to retaliate.
• Bai Jing recreated Karolod’s body from lunar soil and fashioned him a copy of his original mage’s robe.
• Bai Jing carried Karolod beyond the solar system, where a crimson-metal Heavenly God Group robot emerged through space altered by twisted natural laws.
• Bai Jing heeded a warning not to scan the robot and threw Karolod toward it, watching it catch him through a method Bai Jing could not understand.
• Bai Jing worried the Heavenly God Group might notice his unusual presence and resolved to collect Stones from parallel universes and establish an Order Society in each one.

After the Heavenly God Group took Karolod away, Bai Jing received divine radiance that let him create life. He used it to make two billion Male Elves and sent them to Earth, then considered how to help the upheaval he had caused.

• The Heavenly God Group took Karolod and left Bai Jing a strand of divine radiance called Life as a reward.
• Bai Jing fused the divine radiance with a strand of hair, transforming it into a Creation Whip.
• To address Earth's shortage of men without triggering the laws, Bai Jing used the Creation Whip and Luoshu to create two billion Male Elves with blank minds.
• Bai Jing gave the elves basic knowledge, sent them through spatial gates to plazas around the world, and supplied Earth with food made from transformed meteors.
• Bai Jing considered bringing over the neighboring China to help the women and newly created elves manage the sudden population and economic upheaval.

Bai Jing arrived at a Heavenly Dynasty meeting and revealed that he had discovered two uninhabited worlds and a parallel Earth with a vast population and untapped market. He left the officials planning how to develop the parallel world and connect it to Heavenly Dynasty.

• Fu Zheng and the other officials waited for Bai Kunlun at a secret meeting about the Northern Darkness World.
• Bai Jing appeared, accepted the name Northern Darkness, and told the officials that he had discovered three additional worlds.
• Bai Jing explained that two worlds were uninhabited and that the parallel world had lost 99.999% of its men during World War II.
• Bai Jing revealed that he had created two billion elves with little knowledge of the world and described the parallel world’s enormous potential market.
• The officials became excited about developing the parallel world, and Bai Jing told them to study how many portals to open and where to place them.

Bai Jing opened a portal from Zhongzhou City to Beiming and showed the assembled officials the barren world beyond it. He gave China the Creation Whip to help restore Beiming, then left as the officials began discussing the portal and the artifact.

• Fu Zheng showed Bai Jing the factory site selected to house the portal and explained how it could be disguised as a warehouse.
• Bai Jing opened an azure gate in the warehouse, and the group followed him through it into Beiming.
• The officials surveyed Beiming’s barren mountains and land and worried about how to restore its vegetation.
• Bai Jing gave the officials the Creation Whip, which could create plants and animals, and advised them not to create intelligent life.
• Number One promised to oversee the artifact’s use, and Bai Jing said China could choose where to place another portal before he teleported away.
• The officials discussed the potential uses of the portal and Creation Whip after Bai Jing left.

Beru David, a former Marine embittered by betrayal and hardship, denounced the government at a Veterans Day gathering before detonating himself. Coordinated explosions struck crowded sites across America, killing nearly 170,000 people and injuring more than 500,000, as President Lu Xian called the attacks an act of war.

• Beru David recalled losing his pension and family, then forced his way onto a Veterans Day stage in Queens.
• Beru told the crowd he had served in Afghanistan and accused Congress of stealing his compensation and honor.
• Beru condemned the war as a deception and a fight for oil, then exploded onstage, killing and injuring people nearby.
• Explosions struck crowded locations across New York and elsewhere in America, killing nearly 170,000 people and injuring more than 500,000.
• President Lu Xian addressed the nation and vowed that America would not retreat from its fight against terrorism.

President Lu Xian struggled to get intelligence agencies to investigate coordinated explosions across America, then asked the Order Society for help. He learned who carried out the attacks, but Song Shujun classified them as an internal American matter and refused to intervene.

• Lu Xian berated CIA director Peter Reus for failing to uncover how thousands of human-bomb attacks had been planned.
• Peter Reus suggested that S.H.I.E.L.D. take over, and Lu Xian demanded that the agency investigate the attacks.
• Hawkeye told Lu Xian that S.H.I.E.L.D. was still investigating and had diverted agents to deal with the Order Society.
• Lu Xian called Song Shujun, who denied the Order Society was responsible and revealed that the attackers came from nursing homes and disabled people whose families had received large sums of money.
• Song Shujun said the attacks were an internal American matter and hung up, leaving Lu Xian staring at the receiver.

Bai Jing created the Order Society universe and sent hundreds of thousands of soul-bearing members into its parallel worlds to collect Space Stones. After stretching the universe’s timeline across millions of years of missions and reincarnations, he identified the most resilient survivors as his future force for conquering real parallel worlds.

• Bai Jing explained to Song Shujun that he used time dilation to make gaming challenging, then dismissed Killian’s Extremis bombings as none of their concern.
• Bai Jing created a Marvel universe and hundreds of millions of parallel universes inside his Mind Universe.
• Bai Jing used the Creation Whip to make three hundred thousand souls, gave them bodies and Order Society rules, and dispatched them to collect Space Stones.
• Bai Jing revived failed or treacherous members with their memories and sent them back to attempt their missions again.
• Bai Jing accelerated the universe’s timeline across millions of years, and the members who endured countless reincarnations became his prospective force for conquering parallel worlds.