Chapter Summaries

Shen Fei rejected Bast’s refusal to grant Osborn joint Vibranium mining rights and challenged her to fight. He overwhelmed her with a sudden close-range attack and then blasted her with eye lasers and magic, leaving Bast buried in dust.

• Bast hesitated over Shen Fei’s offer, but T’Challa warned her that Osborn could strip the Vibranium mines bare, so she refused the deal.
• Shen Fei told Wanda to stop anyone from interfering, and Osborn’s superhuman forces gathered as the Wakandans faced them.
• Shen Fei attacked Bast and sent her crashing into the ground with a powerful blow.
• Bast retaliated with claws and divine pressure, but Shen Fei evaded her attack and struck back with eye lasers and Vishanti Power.
• Shen Fei transformed Bast’s purple energy wave into paper cranes, then blasted her into the ground with his lasers.

Shen Fei overwhelmed Bast in their fight, while Wanda and Osborn’s forces joined the battle against Wakanda. The chapter left Bast badly wounded but still fighting as the larger conflict spread across Wakanda.

• Shen Fei struck Bast repeatedly with Divine Dragon Power, breaking through her divine power and sending her crashing to the ground.
• T'Challa ordered Wakanda's forces to help Bast as Sentinel Robots, Jessica's forces, and Osborn's troops advanced.
• Wanda sided with Shen Fei and fought Vision, triggering a battle between Osborn and Wakanda.
• Ross refused to help either side, choosing to wait until one was weakened.
• Shen Fei froze Bast with his cold breath, then struck her again, leaving her covered in wounds.

Shen Fei fought Bast, the Black Panther God, and overwhelmed her with his speed, powers, and combat skill. He froze and restrained her, leaving Bast trapped in a massive block of ice and the god defeated.

• Bast attacked Shen Fei with Purple Panthers and rapid divine-powered claw strikes, but he dodged them at incredible speed.
• Shen Fei stopped testing Bast and fought back, trading devastating blows with her as their battle wrecked the area around Wakanda.
• Shen Fei used a magic portal to redirect Bast's Panther Claw and struck her hard enough to send her crashing into the ground.
• Shen Fei seized Bast and combined his Super Breathing, Ice Magic, psychic waves, Divine Dragon Power, Superman Armor, and magnetism to immobilize and freeze her.
• A massive block of ice encased Bast, leaving Shen Fei standing as the victor.

After Shen Fei defeated Bast, governments and powerful groups reconsidered how they could deal with him. Charles and Nick both chose to avoid confrontation and seek better relations, while the world watched in fear.

• Tony, T'Challa, Shuri, and other observers watched Bast frozen after Shen Fei defeated her, and Wakanda's leaders despaired.
• At X-Men Academy, Charles told Erik and the others to return, then proposed using Wanda's relationship with Shen Fei to improve his view of Mutants.
• Charles agreed to let Deadpool work as a security guard at Osborn Company and urged the academy to get on Shen Fei's good side.
• At the S.H.I.E.L.D. base, Nick recognized that the battle had surpassed his control and told Coulson to let Rogers act as he saw fit.
• Nick doubted that Carol could defeat Shen Fei, while officials around the world watched the battle and feared the God of Man.

Erik, Ororo, and the others left while Tony tried to negotiate with Shen Fei over Wakanda’s fate. When T’Challa rejected Shen Fei’s demands and ordered his forces to attack, Shen Fei froze Wakanda’s army, leaving it completely annihilated.

• Erik and Ororo departed with Bobby and the others, while Tony decided to negotiate with Shen Fei.
• Shen Fei demanded access to Wakanda’s Vibranium mines and technology, and that Shuri join Osborn’s company.
• Shen Fei argued that Wakanda had refused to help Earth during earlier crises, and Tony fell silent.
• After Shen Fei offered submission or death, T’Challa ordered Wakanda’s forces to attack.
• Shen Fei unleashed a freezing wind that encased Wakanda’s soldiers, tribal leaders, and aircraft in ice, annihilating the army.

Shen Fei killed T'Challa and forced Wakanda to submit, then kept Shuri alive and challenged her to invent a way to kill him. Shuri became Wakanda's person in charge under the threat that Shen Fei would kill one hundred Wakandans if she failed.

• T'Challa charged at Shen Fei after his people were frozen, but Shen Fei seized him and used Cyclops's blasts and magnetic power to pierce his Vibranium suit.
• Tony tried to intervene, but Max and Osborn's superhumans blocked him and the other Avengers while Shen Fei altered gravity around them.
• T'Challa revealed that he had taken Osborn's serum and obtained Phoenix II, but Shen Fei attacked his mind and killed him.
• Shen Fei demanded Wakanda's submission, and Shuri surrendered to protect the remaining people of her nation.
• Shen Fei kept Shuri as Wakanda's person in charge and ordered her to use only her own inventions to find a way to kill him, threatening to execute one hundred Wakandans if she failed.

After defeating Wakanda, Shen Fei offered Shuri a chance to resurrect T'Challa and began arranging the territory’s resources. He negotiated Vibranium trades with Tony, Rogers, and Ross, then disappeared through a portal to dissect Bast.

• Shen Fei let Shuri take T'Challa's body and offered her a chance to bring him back.
• Shen Fei told Klaw to organize Vibranium mining and find a place to cultivate Heart-Shaped Herb.
• Tony, Rogers, and Ross waited to negotiate for Vibranium and considered how to deal with Shen Fei's growing power.
• Shen Fei offered Vibranium in exchange for Cold Fusion Technology, rare samples, or Tony's help with research, and warned Ross against using fallen soldiers as leverage.
• Shen Fei sent Tony, Rogers, Ross, and Klaw away through a portal, then entered another portal to dissect Bast.

Shen Fei and Osborn's researchers dissected the weakened Bast to study divine power and the Black Panther God’s nature. As they gathered data, Shen Fei suspected divine power could be key to creating a Source of Magic Power.

• Connors and Otto reported that Bast’s energy was declining, her chaotic magnetic fields were fading, and her energy body was becoming flesh and blood.
• Shen Fei ordered the researchers to restrain Bast, suppress her abilities, and extract her energy, while he watched her divine power fall to a controllable level.
• Otto opened the chamber, and Pym, Norman, Gordon, and Connors began dissecting Bast as Shen Fei directed the tests.
• Bast awakened in pain and fury, unable to resist after losing her divine power and the Power of Faith from Wakanda.
• The researchers documented Bast’s unusual cells and used Dragon Bone knives to dissect her brain while restricting her mental fluctuations.
• Shen Fei analyzed the findings and wondered why the Black Panther God had been born, identifying her as a Nature Spirit and questioning the source of her power.

Wong confronted Shen Fei in Kamar-Taj’s library and learned that Shen Fei had captured Bast for study. As Shen Fei investigated how divine power transformed flesh, he considered the link between Nature Spirits and Gaia and left Strange to find his own way to Kamar-Taj.

• Wong traced someone stealing books from Kamar-Taj’s library and found Shen Fei with the captive Bast.
• Shen Fei read about gods and concluded that Nature Spirits drew their power from Gaia, prompting him to consider studying more gods.
• Wong told Shen Fei that Strange had been in a car accident and asked whether Shen Fei would heal him or take him as a disciple; Shen Fei said to let Strange come to his own understanding.
• Wong explained that the New York Sanctum’s formations could suppress Dimensional Creatures, and Shen Fei asked to use the Sanctum as his laboratory.
• Shen Fei studied Bast’s dissected flesh and observed it transforming into energy under the influence of divine power, leading him to wonder whether psionic power could produce the same effect.

Shen Fei experimented with Bast’s tissue and different mystical powers while seeking a path to the Skyfather Level. Ancient One warned him against using psionic energy alone, and Shen Fei proposed combining it with the Particle Dimension, a path Ancient One said could rival Odin if successful.

• Shen Fei tested Bast’s tissue with Demon Power and found that some of it fused before violently exploding.
• Shen Fei considered using psionic energy as the foundation for his Skyfather breakthrough but could not identify what he had overlooked.
• Shen Fei visited Ancient One and explained his plan to unite dimensional power with his body and soul.
• Ancient One warned that psionic energy would favor the soul, leaving Shen Fei’s body and soul unable to advance together.
• Shen Fei proposed combining psionic energy with the Particle Dimension, and Ancient One said success could make him as strong as Odin.

Shen Fei discussed the difficulty of claiming both the Spirit Energy Dimension and the Particle Dimension, while Ancient One advised him to find his own path. He also learned that Strange’s hands had healed with Osborn’s Self-Healing Spray and decided to bring Strange into magic by making him lose the use of his hands again.

• Shen Fei asked Ancient One how he could claim two dimensions at once, and she told him to devise a path of his own rather than rely on existing books.
• Ancient One reassured Shen Fei that Lord Vishanti and the Spider-Totem would not interfere with his breakthrough to Skyfather Level.
• Ancient One told Shen Fei that the Self-Healing Spray had restored Strange’s hands, and Shen Fei decided to make Strange learn magic by breaking them again.
• Strange completed an operation and asked the nurse to use the Self-Healing Spray to help the patient recover.
• Strange told Christine that Osborn’s Self-Healing Spray was an excellent tool and wondered how Shen Fei had developed it.

Strange operated on a young man whose injuries concealed a demonic sigil, but the patient awakened as a demon’s lackey and ruined Strange’s hands. Shen Fei captured the creature, while Strange was left unable to feel or move his hands and hoped the Osborn Company could help him.

• Strange and Christine were summoned to operate on an important figure’s injured son, and Strange hoped the surgery would earn him a promotion.
• Strange treated the young man’s severe injuries and used the Self-Healing Spray, revealing a demonic sigil carved across his chest and abdomen.
• The patient awakened with black eyes, sealed the operating-room doors, and attacked Strange with corrosive energy that destroyed the feeling in his hands.
• Shen Fei entered through a portal, bound the demon’s lackey, and dragged him away.
• Christine sprayed Strange’s hands with the Self-Healing Spray, but Strange could not feel or move them and turned his hopes to the Osborn Company.

After his hands proved beyond the hospital’s ability to heal, Strange searched for Kamar-Taj as his last hope. Mordo brought him there, where Strange met Shen Fei, who introduced himself as the Sorcerer Supreme.

• An Osborn hospital doctor told Strange that the damage to his hands could not be healed, leaving him unable to operate again.
• Christine suggested that Kamar-Taj might be able to help, and Strange learned its location from a former patient who had recovered from paralysis.
• Strange searched Kathmandu for Kamar-Taj, was attacked by three robbers, and was rescued by Mordo.
• Mordo returned Strange’s watch and led him to Kamar-Taj, recognizing the Demon Power affecting his hands.
• Strange entered Kamar-Taj and met Shen Fei, who introduced himself as the Sorcerer Supreme.

Shen Fei demonstrated magic to Stephen Strange by separating his soul from his body and showing him the demonic energy afflicting his hands, then refused to teach him and had Mordo throw him out. As Strange waited outside Kamar-Taj, Shen Fei continued studying the Eye of Agamotto and worried that Dormammu was approaching.

• Strange recognized Shen Fei and accused him of having been able to heal his hands, but Shen Fei asked why he should help him.
• When Strange called him a fraud, Shen Fei struck him and separated his soul from his body, revealing black demonic energy on his soul’s hands.
• Shen Fei returned Strange’s soul to his body, and Strange accepted that magic was real and begged to be taught.
• Shen Fei ordered Mordo to throw Strange out, leaving Strange pounding on Kamar-Taj’s door for hours.
• Mordo questioned Shen Fei’s treatment of Strange, while Shen Fei explained that Strange needed to learn the value of his opportunity and continued considering how to use the Time Stone against the approaching Dormammu.

Strange returned to Kamar-Taj and began learning magic under Shen Fei, who planned to use the Time Stone for an experiment. Strange struggled to master the spatial portal while Mordo revealed how extraordinary Shen Fei’s magical talent was.

• Strange spent the night outside the cabin, and Mordo brought him to Shen Fei after he agreed to meet.
• Shen Fei took Strange to Kamar-Taj, where the magicians greeted him as Great Magician Shen, then told Ancient One he wanted to try a method involving the Time Stone.
• Ancient One told Shen Fei to teach Strange the spatial portal and promised to assist when the crucial moment came.
• After ten days, Strange had sensed magical energy but still struggled to make a spatial portal, so Shen Fei left Mordo to teach him while he conducted an experiment.
• Mordo encouraged Strange and explained that Shen Fei had sensed magical energy in three days and mastered the spatial portal in three days.

Shen Fei limited his role in the Illuminati to defending Earth and its dimension, then modified Hive's genes into a new ability called Blood Rebirth. He used simulations to test a plan that could make him a Skyfather, and the projected success rate exceeded eighty percent if he ignored the risks of time travel and splitting his soul.

• Shen Fei told Tony he would join the Illuminati only to defend Earth and its dimension, while approving intelligence and resource exchanges.
• Shen Fei directed Tony and Reed to arrange exchanges through Norman, including the requested Vibranium.
• Shen Fei altered Hive's genes in the laboratory and named the resulting ability Blood Rebirth.
• Shen Fei devised a plan to create a body with the Life Cradle, imprint two dimensions, and merge with the vessel using Absorbing Man's ability.
• Shen Fei told Al to simulate the plan, dismissed warnings about parallel timelines and a second consciousness, and learned the conditional success rate exceeded eighty percent.

Shen Fei underwent a rapid cellular evolution that enhanced his abilities, then returned to Kamar-Taj to train Strange in using a Sling Ring portal. He left Strange stranded in the snow and demanded that he portal back on his own or freeze.

• Shen Fei entered the Nutrient Chamber while Connors diverted Osborn Company's energy supply to power his evolution.
• Shen Fei's cells rapidly developed new organelles, causing immense pain and consuming vast amounts of Nutrient Solution and energy.
• After the transformation, Shen Fei found that his cells could change simultaneously, greatly accelerating his ability to absorb and adapt to materials.
• At Kamar-Taj, Shen Fei rebuked Strange for failing to master a Sling Ring portal and dropped him through one into the snow.
• Shen Fei closed the portal and refused to let Mordo rescue Strange, insisting that Strange had to portal back himself.

Shen Fei forced Strange to master portals and then used the Time Stone to travel back to the past. He arrived at his laboratory with Wanda and told Ancient One he planned to break through to Skyfather, while warning that time travel had accelerated Dormammu’s arrival.

• Shen Fei argued with Mordo that Strange needed to master portals, and Strange emerged from the portal after succeeding.
• Shen Fei introduced Strange to Ancient One, then used the Eye of Agamotto and Time Stone to travel through time as his memories collided with his past self.
• Shen Fei returned to a hotel room where Wanda was with him, briefly lost control as his memories became chaotic, then told her he needed to go to the company.
• Shen Fei and Wanda traveled to his laboratory, where Ancient One appeared and confirmed he had come from the future.
• Shen Fei told Ancient One he had found the method to break through to Skyfather and would deal with the consequences of his time travel, including Dormammu’s earlier arrival.
• Shen Fei asked Al to activate Extraordinary Spider so he could modify his genes.

Shen Fei began an experiment to break through to the Skyfather Level by imprinting two dimensions at once and merging his main and sub-consciousnesses. The process began successfully, but he and his duplicate had to finish before his memories were erased.

• Shen Fei told Ancient One about his plan and had Al begin building a Life Cradle.
• Shen Fei created a solution from the Extraordinary Spider and underwent an experiment to divide his consciousness.
• Ancient One gave Shen Fei Mithril to help sustain the body grown from his brain tissue.
• Shen Fei placed his brain tissue and Mithril in the Life Cradle, which printed a second Shen Fei.
• The two Shen Feis prepared to imprint the Particle Dimension and Spirit Energy Dimension before the memories were erased.

Shen Fei successfully fused his main and subconscious selves after connecting to the Particle Dimension, beginning his ascent toward the Skyfather Level. Ancient One warned him that Symbiotes were heading for Earth, and the chapter ended with Tony and Charles learning about the approaching Symbiote invasion while Shen Fei was away.

• Shen Fei connected to the Particle Dimension and fused his subconscious self into his main self, causing his soul and life essence to ascend.
• Ancient One congratulated Shen Fei, then warned him that Symbiotes were coming to Earth while Knull remained frozen.
• Nick, Tony, Reed, Rogers, and their allies detected incoming meteorites, issued a global alert, and watched a dark abyss swallow their nuclear missiles before a giant hand crushed unmanned fighters.
• Tony and Charles reviewed information from Norman that identified the threat as over a million Symbiotes and their god, while Shen Fei was away.
• Charles asked Tony whether he knew about Symbiotes, and Tony confirmed that he did.