Chapter Summaries

Scott and Shen Fei entered the Quantum Realm and found Jenny, whom Scott had come to rescue. Shen Fei stayed behind to confront Kang, while Jenny was shocked that he knew about her connection to him.

• Hope kissed Scott before he and Shen Fei entered the Quantum Shuttle to find Jenny.
• Scott and Shen Fei traveled through the quantum passage and arrived in a strange void filled with floating islands and glowing vines.
• Scott found Jenny and introduced himself, while Pym spoke with her through the communicator.
• Shen Fei told Scott to take Jenny back while he stayed in the Quantum Realm.
• Jenny warned Shen Fei about the realm’s dangers, and he asked if she meant Kang.
• Jenny was startled when Shen Fei revealed that he knew about her relationship with Kang.

Shen Fei reached Conqueror Kang’s advanced city in the Quantum Realm and identified Kang as the variant who had been exiled there. He asked Kang about his Multiverse Shuttle, leaving Kang surprised that Shen Fei knew about it.

• Shen Fei flew toward the psychic fluctuations and found the high-tech city Conqueror Kang had built in the Quantum Realm.
• Shen Fei considered how the Kangs might be pursuing multiversal power by consolidating their will and becoming unique.
• Conqueror Kang emerged from the city in a spacecraft and asked Shen Fei who he was.
• Shen Fei identified himself as the Sorcerer Supreme, explained that the Ancient One had been his teacher, and introduced Strange as his disciple and Wanda as his lover.
• Shen Fei said he was interested in Kang’s Multiverse Shuttle, and Kang asked how he knew about it.

Shen Fei confronted Kang the Conqueror and seized the Multiverse Shuttle after overcoming his weapons and rejecting his offer to trade its blueprints. Kang died after splitting off a hidden variant in the Quantum Void, leaving Shen Fei to anticipate further trouble from the Kang Council.

• Kang was stunned when Shen Fei revealed what he knew about him and demanded the Multiverse Shuttle.
• Kang attacked Shen Fei with neutrino weapons and particles, but Shen Fei neutralized both and located the concentrated temporal energy.
• Kang offered Shen Fei the Multiverse Shuttle blueprints in exchange for keeping the finished device, but Shen Fei refused.
• Shen Fei took the Multiverse Shuttle and recognized manufacturing methods associated with Reed.
• Kang warned that the Kang Council would come for the shuttle, then activated a device and died as his soul vanished.
• Shen Fei concluded that Kang had used the Quantum Void to split off a hidden variant of himself.

Jenny revealed that Kang had been exiled to the Quantum Realm after destroying countless universes, and Shen Fei arrived with Kang’s research and Multiverse Shuttle. He explained Kang’s connection to Reed and the multiversal wars, leaving the group to confront how often their multiverse may have been restarted.

• Jenny told Pym that she had spent thirty years in the Quantum Realm with Kang before discovering his history of destroying universes and escaping after destroying his energy core.
• Shen Fei appeared in the laboratory with Kang’s research documents and the Multiverse Shuttle, saying one Kang had killed himself and another had escaped.
• Reed recognized the shuttle’s design and learned from Shen Fei that Kang was also called Nathaniel Richards.
• Shen Fei described how different Kangs formed a council, fought a multiversal war, and how the winning Kang established the Time Variance Authority to preserve the Sacred Timeline.
• Pym asked whether they were living after the multiverse had been restarted, and Shen Fei said it could have been restarted many times by powerful beings.

Shen Fei established spirit energy magic using himself as its source and successfully taught Susan to cast a spell, then considered making her the leader of a new magical faction. Wanda also learned the magic immediately, revealing that she could wield spirit energy without Shen Fei’s consent.

• Shen Fei began testing his Spirit Energy Warlock plan after researching magic and the Spirit Energy Dimension.
• Susan drank Shen Fei’s potion, followed his instructions, and successfully created a Spirit Energy Cone through magic.
• Shen Fei proposed that Susan help lead a new magical faction focused on spirit energy.
• Wanda entered, asked to learn spirit energy magic, and immediately formed a Spirit Energy Cone without Shen Fei’s consent.
• Shen Fei wondered whether Wanda’s ability to use spirit energy directly was connected to Chaos Magic.

Shen Fei performed a Kamar-Taj ritual to meet the Trinity Vishanti and ask Agamotto how to reach the Single Universe level. Agamotto affirmed Shen Fei’s potential but told him the answer was already in his hands, leaving him to discover his own path.

• Shen Fei decided to contact the Vishanti for support and guidance as he approached the multiverse.
• Shen Fei used the Eye of Agamotto, the Time Stone, and the Book of the Vishanti to perform Kamar-Taj’s ritual and reach the Trinity Vishanti.
• Agamotto welcomed Shen Fei and explained that his past help against Dormammu had been an investment in a potential multiversal ally.
• Agamotto told Shen Fei that multiversal beings formed factions and that greater paths existed beyond the multiverse.
• Shen Fei asked how to reach the Single Universe level, and Agamotto replied that Shen Fei already held the answer and had to explore his own path.

Shen Fei considered how to use the Infinity Stones and two dimensions to create an inner universe and reach the Single Universe level. Meanwhile, Tony and the Superhuman Alliance prepared to defend Earth against a new fleet, only to learn that the Xandarians had come to form an alliance.

• Shen Fei concluded that he needed to study the Infinity Stones and planned to transform their power through the Particle Dimension and Spirit Energy Dimension to create a universe within himself.
• Tony worked on superhuman regulations and the starship project while extraterrestrial satellites detected a large fleet approaching Earth.
• Tony and Charles discussed the unknown fleet, but Shen Fei could not be reached, so Tony ordered the available starships deployed.
• When Friday reported that the fleet was descending toward Wakanda, Tony gathered the Superhuman Alliance and flew there with Rogers, Falcon, Hawkeye, Logan, and others.
• Irani told Tony that the fleet came from Xandar to form a strategic alliance with Earth and exchange resources and technology in gratitude for the Sorcerer Supreme's help.

Tony arranged an alliance between Earth and Xandar, then discovered another Tony had appeared at Stark Group. The apparent intruder and his companions turned out to be Avengers from another universe who had traveled to the wrong time, and Shen Fei realized they were visitors from a parallel universe.

• Shen Fei introduced Irani of Xandar to Tony and left Tony to negotiate Earth's alliance with Xandar.
• Tony signed an agreement with Irani and learned that Xandar would share intelligence and technology with Earth.
• Friday alerted Tony to someone impersonating him inside Stark Group, and Tony went to confront the intruder.
• Tony discovered that the stranger wore Iron Armor like his own and heard from Scott that their time travel had gone wrong.
• Shen Fei met Rogers and identified him and his companions as Avengers from another universe who had arrived at the wrong time.

Tony and the others failed to travel back to the Battle of New York because Shen Fei’s presence had anchored the timeline. Shen Fei revealed he had the Space Stone and helped Vision give up the Mind Stone safely, leaving Tony’s group with the Stone they needed and Shen Fei planning to travel to their universe.

• Tony tried another time jump with Rogers and Ant-Man, but they returned to Shen Fei’s sofa without moving through time.
• Shen Fei revealed that he possessed the Space Stone and offered to accompany Tony’s group to their universe, where another Thanos would appear.
• Tony agreed to Shen Fei’s help but said they still needed the Mind Stone from Vision.
• Vision agreed to let Shen Fei remove the Mind Stone to help save Tony and the others.
• Shen Fei transferred Vision’s soul into a Life Cradle brain and removed the Mind Stone from Vision’s forehead.

The Avengers assembled the six Infinity Stones and Banner used them to restore everyone who had vanished, though Black Widow remained dead. As people returned across Earth, Shen Fei sensed that Thanos and his forces had arrived.

• Banner and the others returned to the Time-Space Shuttle with the Time Stone, Soul Stone, Reality Stone, and Power Stone, then Tony arrived with Shen Fei carrying the Space Stone and Mind Stone.
• Shen Fei told the others that Black Widow could not be brought back, and Banner urged them to make her sacrifice count.
• Tony and Banner placed all six Stones in the Infinity Gauntlet, and Banner took it on because he could withstand its Gamma Ray energy.
• Banner snapped his fingers, sending out a force that restored the vanished people and caused chaos as they reappeared across Earth.
• Hawkeye received a call from his wife and realized she had returned, while Shen Fei looked to the sky and said Thanos's forces were here.

Shen Fei and the Avengers exposed Thanos’s infiltrator and confronted the invading Thanos, whom Shen Fei quickly overpowered. Shen Fei then transported Thanos, the Black Order, and their forces away, while Strange arrived to assist the Avengers.

• Friday warned that warships had appeared and were attacking the base, and Hawkeye escaped the ruins with the Infinity Gauntlet.
• The Gauntlet flew into Shen Fei’s hand, and Tony, Rogers, and Scott confronted the revealed fake Nebula as Gamora emerged nearby.
• Shen Fei took charge of the Gauntlet and faced Thanos, who had arrived with his forces.
• Shen Fei attacked Thanos, breaking his arms, shrinking away his weapon, and freezing him with a blast of cold air.
• Thanos summoned the Black Order and ordered an attack, but Shen Fei transported Thanos and the invading forces away as Strange announced the Avengers’ arrival.

Black Panther and the Avengers arrived to find Shen Fei had already defeated Thanos’s forces inside a vast Mirror Dimension. After Strange questioned his presence in their universe, Shen Fei challenged the Avengers’ use of other timelines’ Infinity Stones and argued that those branches had been harmed.

• Black Panther and the others emerged from the ruins, and Tony explained that Shen Fei had trapped Thanos and his forces in a Mirror Dimension.
• Strange showed the Avengers what was happening inside the Mirror Dimension but said he could not enter it.
• Shen Fei grew gigantic, destroyed Thanos’s warships and ground troops, then returned to normal size with Thanos frozen in a block of ice.
• Strange questioned why Shen Fei had crossed universes, and Shen Fei challenged Strange’s decision to send the Avengers to other timelines for Infinity Stones.
• Shen Fei compared taking stones from those timelines to stealing organs from clones and argued that the branches created by borrowing the stones still suffered harm.

After Thanos’s defeat, Carol arrived too late to join the battle, while Shen Fei examined the Infinity Stones and tested their power. He put on the Infinity Gauntlet, felt it amplify and unify his body and soul, then snapped his fingers and made a vast building resembling Osborn Company appear outside.

• Tony defused the tense exchange between Shen Fei and Strange, and Strange questioned how Tony’s group had obtained the Space Stone and Mind Stone.
• Carol arrived at the ruined battlefield and asked where Thanos was, but Shen Fei told her the fight was already over.
• At the temporary base, Banner urged the group to return the Infinity Stones, while Shen Fei argued that he only wanted to study them and would keep them in this universe.
• Shen Fei put on the Infinity Gauntlet, which fitted itself to his hand and sent its power through his body and soul.
• Shen Fei snapped his fingers, and Friday reported that an enormous building resembling Osborn Company had appeared outside.

Shen Fei studied the Power Stone and tried to transform his body into a living version of one, discovering that its structures needed additional traits to remain stable. He succeeded using the structure from his own universe and decided to return the borrowed Infinity Stones before the Avengers brought reinforcements.

• Otto reported that the Soul, Reality, and Time Stones remained only partially analyzed, while Al had fully deciphered the Space, Power, and Mind Stones.
• Shen Fei analyzed the Power Stone's structures and concluded that its energy-related patterns could strengthen his body's abilities and serve as a foundation for mastering other powers.
• Shen Fei's first transformation attempt collapsed his body into a slurry before it reformed, and he realized the Power Stone's unique traits were needed for stability.
• Shen Fei used the Power Stone structure from his original universe as the foundation and successfully filled his cells with energy drawn from countless dimensions.
• Shen Fei concluded that he could strengthen himself by combining traits from Stones across universes and chose to return the Infinity Stones before the Avengers sought reinforcements.

Shen Fei returned the Infinity Gauntlet to Tony and went back to his universe, where he found New York overrun by zombies. After learning that Zombie Swordsman had started the outbreak and infected numerous heroes, Shen Fei decided to capture him and use his knowledge to locate the Zombie Universe.

• Shen Fei returned the Infinity Gauntlet to Tony, restored the Osborn Company to its original state, and left for his own universe.
• Shen Fei found New York devastated by zombies and returned to the Osborn Company to ask Al what had happened.
• Al showed Shen Fei that Zombie Swordsman had broken through the New York Sanctum and started the outbreak, while Max had been bitten but escaped infection by severing most of his body.
• Al reported that Wanda and Pietro had gone to confront Zombie Swordsman and that Storm, Juggernaut, Rhino, Human Torch, and others had been infected.
• Tony told Shen Fei that infections had spread across America and that Captain, Kick-Ass, and Punisher had also become zombies.
• Shen Fei decided to capture Zombie Swordsman to obtain the Zombie Universe's coordinates and make that universe a future base for the Osborn Company.

Zombie Swordsman attacked Pietro and Wanda in Hell’s Kitchen, seeking to conquer Earth and return to his universe. Wanda defeated his allies and confronted him, while he became interested in Shen Fei.

• Zombie Swordsman watched Wanda fight Storm, Juggernaut, and White Queen, then attacked Pietro and knocked him through several buildings.
• Pietro fought back with his Vibranium body but lost ground as Zombie Swordsman’s strength and speed increased.
• Wanda struck back against White Queen’s psychic assault, made Juggernaut and Rhino collide through a portal, and sent Rogers flying.
• Wanda confronted Zombie Swordsman and blasted him away with her magic.
• Zombie Swordsman expressed interest in Shen Fei, and Wanda warned that Shen Fei would have stopped him if he had been present.

Shen Fei returned to find Wanda fighting Zombie Swordsman, then took over the battle and overwhelmed him with his own strength and copied abilities. Zombie Swordsman struggled to regain the advantage, but Shen Fei grabbed his cape.

• Zombie Swordsman bypassed Wanda’s portals and battered her magical defenses while she lashed him with scarlet whips.
• Shen Fei returned, blocked Zombie Swordsman’s punch, and told Wanda to deal with the others.
• Zombie Swordsman attacked Shen Fei, believing that eating him would restore and strengthen him, and the two clashed at superhuman speed.
• Shen Fei matched Zombie Swordsman’s cold breath and eye beams, then blinded and drove him backward with his Radium Ray.
• Shen Fei pressed his advantage with a barrage of punches and grabbed Zombie Swordsman’s cape when he tried to dodge.

Shen Fei defeated Zombie Swordsman and captured the zombified superhumans, then began investigating the Zombie Virus at Osborn Company. He ordered Aleksei to take part in dangerous experiments and launched thousands of tests to find a way to neutralize the virus.

• Shen Fei hurled Zombie Swordsman through the ruins, stopped him with a stomp, and bound him with psionic chains.
• Shen Fei expanded the Mirror Dimension and restrained the zombified superhumans, including Storm and Juggernaut, before probing Zombie Swordsman's mind for information.
• At Osborn Company, Shen Fei offered Aleksei a choice between leaving after the serum was developed or undergoing experiments, and Aleksei chose the experiments.
• Connors and the researchers examined zombified superhuman organs and reported that the virus rapidly spread, altered Storm's X-Gene, and affected psychic and physical superhumans differently.
• Shen Fei ordered ten thousand tests across backup laboratories to find substances that could eliminate the Zombie Virus, and the first lab reported hundreds of samples inactivated.

Shen Fei oversaw experiments that used Death Spores to develop a serum for Aleksei and prepared to adapt it for ordinary people infected with the Zombie Virus. Tony announced the coming treatment at a press conference, where an angry young man confronted him over his brother’s death.

• Aleksei endured painful tests as Shen Fei’s researchers found that No. 1022 Reagent suppressed the Zombie Virus while causing an unknown substance to be absorbed by his cells.
• Shen Fei identified Death Spores as the reagent’s key new ingredient and ordered experiments to continue using No. 1022 Reagent as the base.
• Shen Fei asked Al to inform Tony that medicine for ordinary people was nearly ready, while the Defenders Alliance continued containing and searching for infected people.
• Tony recognized that Shen Fei and Osborn Company were preparing to leave Earth behind, then decided to hold a press conference about the medicine.
• At the press conference, Tony faced complaints from zombie advocates and an accusation that he was responsible for the chaos, as a young man in a racing suit said his brother had become a zombie and been killed.

A grieving young man transformed into Ghost Rider and tried to use the Penance Stare on Tony, but Shen Fei intervened and subdued him. Wong explained Ghost Rider’s history as a guardian of Earth, and the chapter ended with Shen Fei knocking Robbie back into human form.

• The young man blamed Tony and the Super Heroes for his brother’s death, then transformed into Ghost Rider and targeted Tony with the Penance Stare.
• Shen Fei blocked Robbie Reyes’s attack and resisted the Penance Stare, then struck him down with magic.
• Robbie attacked again with hellfire and a flaming muscle car, but Shen Fei stopped both and knocked him down once more.
• Wong arrived and told Tony that Ghost Riders had once defended Earth against the demon Zarathos.
• Robbie tried to use the Penance Stare on Shen Fei again, but Shen Fei struck him back into Robbie’s human form.