Chapter Summaries

Bai Jing forced Coulson to agree that S.H.I.E.L.D. and other institutions would stop employing New Asians, while Coulson secretly prepared to eliminate him. At Mjolnir’s landing site, Thor recognized the hammer and claimed his identity as the Thunder God.

• Natasha found Bai Jing at the bloodstained site and called Coulson at his request.
• Coulson decided to use the opportunity to try to eliminate Bai Jing and kept him talking by phone.
• Bai Jing demanded that S.H.I.E.L.D. stop hiring New Asians and fire those already employed; Coulson agreed but asked him not to kill more agents.
• Bai Jing said he would not attack anyone who left him alone, then returned the phone to Natasha.
• Coulson ordered the Avengers to assemble and told S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to avoid attacking Asian men first.
• Thor asked about the heavy object, recognized it as Mjolnir, and declared that only he could lift it.

Coulson assembled Tony Stark, Captain America, and Human Torch to attack Bai Kunlun while he was in New Mexico. Bai Jing watched Thor and Jane fall for each other, then spotted the Avengers arriving to confront him.

• Coulson told Tony Stark, Captain America, and Human Torch that Bai Kunlun was in New Mexico and urged them to seize the chance to attack him.
• Tony Stark revealed that he had designed anti-Kunlun armor, and Coulson warned the team not to debate Bai Kunlun during the battle.
• Thor recovered Jane's confiscated research notebook and returned it to her, and the two began to fall in love.
• Bai Jing briefly removed the pair's love-related hormones, then let their romance continue because it could lead to the Reality Stone.
• Bai Jing spotted a Quinjet arriving with Tony Stark, Captain America, and Human Torch, along with three suits of armor, and realized they had come for him.

Bai Jing secretly mocked the heroes’ plans to capture him while Coulson organized an attack based on the assumption that Bai Jing controlled electromagnetic force. Loki arrived to tell Thor that Odin was dead and that Thor was to remain exiled on Earth, leaving Thor devastated and Jane confused.

• Bai Jing wrote a taunting Chinese message on Tony Stark’s armor without Tony noticing, and J.A.R.V.I.S. translated it for the heroes.
• Coulson decided the heroes would still fight Bai Jing and assigned Tony, Captain America, and Human Torch to attack, Natasha to support, and Hawkeye to deliver the killing blow with a carbon-fiber arrow.
• Bai Jing overheard the strategy meeting and realized the heroes believed he controlled electromagnetic force.
• Loki ended his concealment in front of Thor and Jane, then told Thor that Odin had died after Thor’s exile and that Thor could never return to Asgard.
• Loki said he had agreed with the Frost Giants to keep Thor exiled forever, advised him to marry Jane, and vanished, leaving Thor distraught and Jane bewildered.

Bai Jing confronted Loki and tried to recruit him, arguing that Odin had adopted him to secure Asgard against the Frost Giants and that Loki could never become king. Loki left to consider Bai Jing’s claims and was told he could seek him out at the Order Society.

• Loki attempted to return, but Bai Jing appeared and asked about his connection to Jörmungandr.
• Bai Jing introduced himself as the Order Society’s chief consultant and an unaffiliated Sun God, then invited Loki to become his son and join him.
• Bai Jing told Loki that Odin had rescued him as a political bridge between Asgard and Jotunheim and suggested Odin’s love was tied to protecting Asgard.
• Loki struggled to refute Bai Jing’s reasoning that he could never become King of Asgard, then left to question his parents.
• Bai Jing told Loki to find him at the Order Society if he decided to come.

Bai Jing used Hetu to turn League of Legends matches into battles between godlike players, then watched Thor defeat Loki’s Destroyer. He criticized Odin’s wasteful use of Asgard’s resources and decided Odin was the one he should take down.

• Bai Jing found League of Legends dull because his heightened perception let him dominate the game, so he had Hetu create a million accounts and play against him.
• Bai Jing faced human opponents and discovered Hetu had mastered advanced tactics, while the accounts made the North American server seem full of godlike players.
• Bai Jing quit playing and turned his attention to serious matters as Loki sent the Destroyer to Earth.
• Thor stood up for his companions, regained Mjolnir, and crushed the Destroyer.
• Bai Jing examined the Destroyer, judged its design wasteful, and decided to take down Odin.

Bai Jing confronted Thor as he tried to return to Asgard, demanding Thor's hammer and repeatedly evading his attacks. After Thor's lightning attack endangered Jane, Bai Jing rescued her and used the Nordic Paradox to make her question her relationship with Thor.

• Thor said goodbye to Jane and prepared to leave for Asgard, but Bai Jing stopped him and demanded his hammer.
• Tony Stark arrived and offered to help, while Thor repeatedly swung his hammer at Bai Jing without hitting him.
• Thor called down lightning, but Bai Jing raised dirt to conduct the bolt into the ground.
• Thor spread a hundred-meter thunder domain across the ground, and Bai Jing lifted Jane out of danger.
• Bai Jing cited the Nordic Paradox and asked Jane whether she still wanted to love Thor.

Bai Jing faced the assembled heroes, who tried to restrain his powers and overwhelm him with specialized equipment. He used a Vibranium spear to defeat their coordinated attack while leaving Captain America behind his shield, and Tony discovered that Bai Jing had disabled his lasers.

• Tony activated a magnetic-field containment device, and Coulson arrived with Natasha, Captain America, Hawkeye, Human Torch, and Thor to confront Bai Jing.
• Sif urged Thor to leave Jane and return to Asgard, but Thor joined Coulson's group to fight Bai Jing and hoped to extend Jane's lifespan once he became king.
• Human Torch attacked Bai Jing, who knocked him into the ground with an iron-sand sword, then disarmed Captain America and took his Vibranium spear.
• Coulson ordered the heroes to attack together, and Human Torch, Natasha, Captain America, Thor, and Tony struck from different directions while Hawkeye readied an arrow.
• Bai Jing's spear technique knocked away Natasha's needles, drove Human Torch from the fight, and left Thor's arm covered in wounds, while Captain America remained behind his shield.
• Tony realized Bai Jing had reflected lasers into the armor's emitters, burning them out.

Bai Jing defeated S.H.I.E.L.D. and forced Coulson to agree to approve the Order Society referendum, then demanded Thor’s hammer. After Odin’s Gungnir failed to stop him, Odin offered the Casket of Ancient Winters in exchange for Mjolnir.

• Bai Jing overwhelmed S.H.I.E.L.D.’s fighters with his spear techniques, and Coulson agreed to approve the Order Society referendum to save them.
• Bai Jing demanded Thor’s hammer, but Odin opened the Bifrost and sent Gungnir after him.
• Bai Jing caught Gungnir and recognized Odin’s projection, while Odin admitted he would not face Bai Jing in person.
• Odin offered the Casket of Ancient Winters, a weapon capable of freezing the Nine Realms, in exchange for Mjolnir.

Bai Jing accepted Odin’s offer of the Casket of Ancient Winters, then analyzed its powers and left the defeated Avengers behind. The Avengers regrouped on Earth, where Tony agreed to study the Tesseract and Jane decided to find Bai Jing and fight alongside him.

• Odin gave Bai Jing the Casket of Ancient Winters to divert Jotunheim’s threat, and Bai Jing departed with the casket while erasing the spacetime power around Gungnir.
• Bai Jing used Gravity Scan to learn that the casket contained the divine radiances Absolute Sealing and Absolute Silence, which could store objects and freeze surrounding space.
• Bai Jing dismissed the Avengers and left with Jane, while Thor and the others remained behind after their defeat.
• Human Torch accused Captain America of aiding Bai Jing, but Captain America argued that the team had been outmatched regardless of the spear.
• Coulson invited Tony to study the Tesseract, and Tony accepted.
• Jane refused Coulson’s offer and vowed to find Bai Jing so she could fight alongside him.

Bai Jing returned to Order Society headquarters and found it transformed into a thriving organization with a new tower. There he reunited with the now-grown Lumira and met her best friend and vigilante partner, Skye.

• Bai Jing concluded that divine radiances defied ordinary physical laws but were not invincible, and decided to give them to his subordinates rather than devour them.
• Bai Jing arrived at the new Order Tower and learned from Wood Sun that the Society had developed without difficulty while he was away.
• Bai Jing entered his room and discovered Lumira playing a game with another girl.
• Lumira introduced her friend Skye, a self-taught hacker who had partnered with Lumira since they were fourteen, supporting her vigilante work by gathering intelligence and planning routes.

Lumira revealed why Bai Jing had saved her and insisted on joining his cause, while Skye offered to join as well. Bai Jing accepted them into the Order Society as future Judges and took them to the laboratory to develop their abilities.

• Lumira told Bai Jing that she had killed her abusive father and that he had brought her back to life, then declared she would fight beside him.
• Lumira explained that she had inferred Bai Jing wanted China to rise and America to fall, and Skye also said she wanted to join him.
• After questioning Lumira about her views, Bai Jing agreed to take her and Skye into the Order Society.
• Bai Jing named Lumira Ice Arrow God and Skye Shockwave Heavenly Maiden, and designated them future Judges who needed to reach Heavenly Father level.
• Bai Jing told Hetu to add Black Iron and Master ranks to League of Legends, then led Lumira and Skye to the laboratory.

Bai Jing showed Lumira and Skye his human experiments and explained that he was testing how Shenhua interacted with people. After one test subject died from genetic collapse, Bai Jing noticed the resulting genetic fragments looked familiar.

• Bai Jing explained his experiments to Lumira and Skye, and they accepted his methods and chose to stay with him.
• Bai Jing showed Lumira and Skye the facility and explained that Shenhua required compatible cellular structures to fuse with a person.
• Bai Jing observed Shenhua fuse with a D-class personnel member, whose genes collapsed and who died within minutes.
• Bai Jing studied the genetic fragments left by the experiment and recognized that they seemed familiar.

Bai Jing connected Skye’s Inhuman genes to the Kree’s ancient experiments and went into seclusion to study the powers they could produce. Meanwhile, Tony and Erik’s Tesseract research was interrupted by a sudden Gamma Rays radiation burst, leaving them worried about what had caused it.

• Bai Jing recognized that Skye’s genes resembled the incomplete genes in his test subjects and recalled that the Kree had created the Inhumans on Earth.
• Bai Jing decided to study the Kree’s methods, considered how he might distribute several abilities, and chose to keep Absolute Seal for himself.
• Bai Jing went into seclusion to research the powers that genes could produce without divine essence.
• Tony met Erik in S.H.I.E.L.D.’s underground laboratory to review his research on the Tesseract.
• The Tesseract triggered a violent energy burst that set off a Gamma Rays radiation alarm, forcing Tony and Erik to evacuate.
• After the radiation subsided, Tony and Erik returned to find damaged equipment and agreed that the unprecedented burst was troubling.

Loki invaded the laboratory through the Tesseract, killed Coulson, controlled Hawkeye and Erik, and escaped with the Space Stone, scientists, and equipment. With Coulson dead and Hawkeye exposed as a traitor, Alexander Pierce persuaded Natasha to become the next S.H.I.E.L.D. director.

• Erik warned Coulson that the Tesseract's energy fluctuations might be caused by lifeforms on the other side of its gateway.
• Loki emerged from a spatial gateway, killed the guards, controlled Doctor Erik and Hawkeye, and escaped with the Space Stone, scientists, and instruments.
• Hawkeye shot Coulson dead, and Tony discovered what had happened by watching the laboratory surveillance footage.
• Natasha reported Loki's invasion and Coulson's death at a S.H.I.E.L.D. meeting attended by Alexander Pierce, Tony, and Captain America.
• Alexander Pierce proposed Natasha as the new S.H.I.E.L.D. director, and Tony and Captain America approved.

Bai Jing explored the Mind Stone’s power and discovered the Mind Ocean, gaining access to the thoughts and knowledge of all life. His research produced a Frost Giant, and he considered using the Mind Ocean to alter the prisoner’s memories.

• Bai Jing dismissed Natasha’s appointment as director, then watched Loki gather scientists at a hidden base and prepare to announce himself to the world.
• Bai Jing touched the Mind Scepter with his gravity and perceived the Mind Ocean, which contained the thoughts of all living beings throughout history.
• Bai Jing used the Scepter’s enhancement to accelerate his research and transformed a Black man into a Frost Giant.
• Bai Jing searched the Mind Ocean and realized that Frost Giants had inherited weakened traits from attempts to fuse with Silent Butterfly’s divine radiance.
• Bai Jing learned that his new bloodline could produce temperatures as low as -80°C and considered fabricating memories for the imprisoned Frost Giant.

Bai Jing awakened Skye’s vibration power and instructed her and Lumira to study Mandarin and strengthen their minds. Meanwhile, Mosas attempted to destroy Earth in New York but was killed by Tony, and Loki surrendered.

• Bai Jing used the Power of Mind to convince Nigga that he was the Frost Giant World Destroyer Mosas and flung him toward New York.
• Bai Jing strengthened Skye’s mind, causing her vibration power to awaken, then told her to develop it through study and set Lumira to learning Mandarin too.
• Mosas arrived at the Empire State Building and threatened to unleash a world of ultimate ice, but his attempt produced no effect.
• Tony blasted a hole through Mosas’s heart, kicked him to the ground, and challenged Loki about his invasion force.
• Loki raised his hands and surrendered to Tony.

Bai Jing studied the Frost Giant bloodline and discovered how divine brilliance fused with different life forms, then created three living divine artifacts for Lumira. With the artifacts granting her ice, sure-hit, and binding powers, he claimed she could defeat Odin, whom she did not know.

• Bai Jing dismissed Mosas as weak, while Laufey learned that the Casket of Ancient Winters had moved to Midgard and ordered Jotunheim's troops to prepare for Earth.
• Bai Jing's Frost Giant experiment reached 30% gene integrity, producing a subject whose freezing breath could cover a small town, but whose altered appearance made Lumira hesitate to undergo the same transformation.
• Bai Jing discovered that higher-level life forms could fuse with divine brilliance without being grotesquely transformed, and he used his Starry Sky Dragon cells and the Mind Stone to create the living Ice Soul Profound Divine Light.
• Bai Jing attached Ice Soul Profound Divine Light to Lumira, giving her ice powers, then created the Heavenly Dragon Bow and Golden Crow Rope from more of his cells.
• Bai Jing told Lumira that her new artifacts could let her defeat Odin, and Lumira asked who Odin was.

Lumira and Skye encountered Frost Giants while driving, and Lumira discovered that Laufey believed her hair and Golden Crow Rope were parts of the Casket of Ancient Winters. After Laufey threatened them, Lumira froze the Frost Giant King with an arrow from the Heavenly Dragon Bow.

• Bai Jing abandoned plans to create beings with specific abilities and decided to research the vibration gene instead.
• Lumira and Skye discussed Lumira's feelings for Bai Jing as they drove through New Jersey.
• Lumira braked when Frost Giants appeared on the road, but one of their foot soldiers stopped the car with a single hand.
• Lumira bound two Frost Giant foot soldiers with the Golden Crow Rope, which drained their powers and revealed it as a supreme divine artifact.
• King Laufey recognized the Casket of Ancient Winters' aura in Lumira's hair and demanded to know who had transformed it.
• Lumira fired an arrow from the Heavenly Dragon Bow and froze Laufey solid with the power of ultimate stillness.

Bai Jing explored Laufey’s palace in Jotunheim, took its Nine Realms portal, and discovered that Jotunheim was an icy planet in a solar system. After Lumira returned to Earth with Skye, Bai Jing restrained the Frost Giants and began speaking to them in an unknown language.

• Bai Jing confirmed that Laufey had died and learned that the Frost Giants had used a divine artifact to reach the Nine Realms.
• Bai Jing entered the Frost Giant temple, removed the Uru Metal Star Gate from the wall, and found a rod containing the divine radiance Intimidation.
• Bai Jing discovered that Jotunheim was a planet on the edge of a solar system and found that its other planets were lifeless.
• The Frost Giants asked Lumira to become their king, but Bai Jing told them he had already decided their future.
• Bai Jing sent Lumira and Skye through a portal to Earth and warned them that a major battle would take place in New York the next day.
• Bai Jing immobilized the Frost Giants, who could no longer move or speak, and addressed them in a language they did not understand.

Bai Jing wiped out every Frost Giant on Jotunheim and returned to China, where he sought government contact to discuss access to a habitable star system. The chapter ended with Fu Zheng asking Bai Jing to take him there and prove it.

• Bai Jing killed every Frost Giant on Jotunheim, leaving Loki as the race’s last survivor, though Loki did not consider himself one of them.
• Bai Jing opened a portal to China and introduced himself to a police officer as Bai Kunlun, Chief Advisor of the Order Society.
• After the officer confirmed Bai Jing’s identity, Bai Jing vanished and appeared in Director Fu Zheng’s office.
• Bai Jing told Fu Zheng he could reach a star system with planets suitable for human habitation, and Fu Zheng asked him to take him there.