Chapter Summaries

Shen Fei stopped Robbie from using the Penance Stare and agreed to spare him if Johnny and the Spirits of Vengeance would serve as backup for a mission. He told Wong that he planned to travel to the Zombie Universe while Wong continued guarding the New York Sanctum.

• Johnny arrived and pleaded with Shen Fei to spare Robbie, explaining that Spirits of Vengeance were needed to fight Great Demon Zarthus.
• Shen Fei began stripping Eli's power from Robbie, then stopped when Johnny and Wong promised Robbie had learned his lesson and agreed to do something for Shen Fei.
• Shen Fei told Johnny that the Spirits of Vengeance would be backup for a mission against evil people, and Johnny led Robbie away.
• Shen Fei told Tony that Spirits of Vengeance judged souls and rejected the idea that Tony could recruit them from S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Wong confronted Shen Fei about weakening the barriers between universes, but Shen Fei said the Ancient One and Lord Vishanti knew about it.
• Shen Fei revealed that he planned to visit the Zombie Universe and told Wong to keep guarding the New York Sanctum; he joked that Wong could become Sorcerer Supreme if Strange was not ready.

Shen Fei captured Thanos from another universe and had him dissected to study the Eternals Gene and the Celestials’ ability to create life. The analysis revealed that Eternals were naturally powerful but genetically rigid, leaving Shen Fei considering how to use their genes to improve humanity while preserving its variability.

• Shen Fei explained that Zombie Swordsman could wait while he studied the Thanos he had captured from another universe.
• Shen Fei identified himself as the Sorcerer Supreme and told Thanos that he intended to study him.
• Shen Fei restrained Thanos with psionic chains as Connors and the assistants dissected him and sent their findings to Al.
• Shen Fei compared Thanos’s genes with those of Mutants and observed their natural structure and similarity, along with the Eternals’ lack of variability.
• Shen Fei decided he might need to find the Kree to learn more about Celestial technology and considered combining Eternals and Asgardian genes to improve humanity.

Shen Fei studied Zombie Swordsman and discovered that Gladiator’s confidence-dependent powers came from absorbing energy from a Spirit Energy Dimension. By tracing that ability, Shen Fei found a way to locate the Zombie Universe’s dimension and potentially make his own dimension devour it.

• Shen Fei imprisoned Thanos in the Dark Dimension and considered how controlling the World Tree could strengthen him, though he remained committed to pursuing the Infinity Stones Body.
• Connors reported that Death Spores were deactivating Zombie Swordsman’s Zombie Virus, while an unknown power resisted them, and Shen Fei ordered more to be injected.
• Shen Fei analyzed Zombie Swordsman’s genes and identified how Gladiator’s confidence activated genes that opened the Spirit Energy Dimension and absorbed its energy.
• Shen Fei realized Zombie Swordsman drew Spirit Energy from the Zombie Universe, allowing him to use the genes to locate its dimension and plan to have his own dimension devour it.
• Shen Fei removed the genes that produced the special proteins, then absorbed the resulting vial of Zombie Swordsman’s material without worrying about the Zombie Virus.

After strengthening his abilities with Gladiator's genes, Shen Fei decided to claim the source of his Divine Dragon Power. He arrived in Kunlun, where the Jade Emperor and Thunder Duke were searching for the missing Iron Fist, and revealed that he had killed Daniel.

• Shen Fei absorbed the potion, which strengthened his abilities and made him realize he needed to take complete control of the Divine Dragon Power.
• Shen Fei learned Reed needed seven days to locate the Zombie Universe and decided to use the time to deal with Kunlun.
• The Jade Emperor asked Thunder Duke where Iron Fist was as Kunlun prepared for the Seven Cities Tournament.
• Shen Fei appeared in Kunlun and told the Jade Emperor and Thunder Duke that he had killed Daniel.
• Shen Fei displayed Divine Dragon Power, leaving Thunder Duke and the Jade Emperor stunned.

Shen Fei invaded Kunlun to investigate Shou-Lao and discovered that its cultivators were aliens whose true qi came from a magical energy source. After overpowering Thunder Duke and identifying Kunlun as a pocket universe, he headed to Shou-Lao, while Jade Emperor and Thunder Duke prepared to release it.

• Shen Fei stripped Iron Fist of his power and examined the magical energy within Thunder Duke.
• Thunder Duke attacked Shen Fei, who used portals to send him falling through the hall and then hurled him away.
• Jade Emperor recognized Shen Fei as the Sorcerer Supreme and Superman, and asked why he had invaded Kunlun.
• Shen Fei explained that he wanted to investigate Shou-Lao and detected a powerful source of Cosmic Energy within Kunlun.
• Jade Emperor and Thunder Duke hurried toward Shou-Lao and agreed to release it if they could not stop Shen Fei.

Shen Fei entered the cave containing Shou-Lao’s heart and waited for Thunder Duke to unseal the dragon’s power. Shou-Lao awakened and attacked Shen Fei, leaving their clash underway as ice and fire collided inside the shaking cave.

• Shen Fei entered the cave and found Shou-Lao’s heart burning in a brazier, sensing that its energy was the source of the Divine Dragon Power.
• Thunder Duke and the Jade Emperor arrived, and Thunder Duke used an awl-like object to unleash Shou-Lao’s power.
• Shou-Lao’s heart flew into the Stone Dragon, which shed its stone covering and awakened in its full Half-Step Skyfather form.
• Shou-Lao recognized Shen Fei as the thief who had stolen its power and attacked him with flames.
• Shen Fei answered with cold wind, and their ice and fire clashed as the cave shook violently.

Shen Fei defeated and absorbed Shou-Lao, then explored its memories and discovered its ties to the Da Luo Heavenly Immortal Race and other pantheons. With seven days remaining, he went to Knowhere to meet the Collector, Taneleer Tivan.

• Shen Fei overpowered Shou-Lao and absorbed its Divine Dragon Power while Thunder Duke and the Jade Emperor watched.
• Shen Fei probed Shou-Lao's memories, saw past Iron Fists, Wu Fengxi, Chang Ming, and the Da Luo Heavenly Immortal Race, then erased Shou-Lao's soul and took its heart.
• Thunder Duke collapsed after Shen Fei vanished with Shou-Lao, leaving Kunlun without its guardian and the source of Iron Fist's power.
• Shen Fei sent Shou-Lao's heart to Osborn for Connors to study and traveled to Knowhere.
• A guide brought Shen Fei to the Collector's residence, where Taneleer Tivan arrived and was introduced as the greatest Collector in the universe.

Shen Fei confronted Taneleer Tivan on Knowhere and traded the Power Stone for the Reality Stone. He left Tivan with a warning not to try to take it back by force.

• Tivan greeted Shen Fei and asked why the Sorcerer Supreme had come to Knowhere.
• Shen Fei demanded the Reality Stone, and Tivan reminded him that it was an Infinity Stone entrusted to him by the Asgardians.
• Shen Fei offered Tivan the Power Stone in exchange and warned that he could summon Thor to reclaim the Reality Stone.
• Tivan agreed to the trade, handing over the dark-red Reality Stone while Shen Fei gave him the Power Stone.
• Shen Fei condensed the Reality Stone into a gem and warned Tivan that he could try to attack if he wanted.

Shen Fei began Osborn Company’s first multiverse operation, sending a team to the Zombie Universe to capture superhuman zombies and develop ways to control them. As the time-space crossing prepared to begin, Wanda stayed behind to protect the company’s base.

• Tivan feared Knull’s power, let Shen Fei leave with the Orb, and celebrated obtaining the Power Stone.
• Shen Fei returned to Osborn Company and decided to prioritize a visit to the Zombie Universe while leaving the Soul Stone for Thanos to find.
• Reed explained that temporal-spatial interference prevented the team from locking onto a time before the zombie outbreak.
• Shen Fei assigned the Defenders to capture superhuman zombies while Osborn Company’s scientists developed serums and weapons to restrain them.
• Several days later, Shen Fei prepared to lead the crossing, while Wanda remained at the base to protect it.

Shen Fei and the Defenders traveled by train to Universe 2149, a world devastated by zombies, and began establishing a fortified base after arriving. There, Shen Fei encountered Peter and Strange, who revealed that the universe had already begun looping.

• Shen Fei boarded Reed's Electric Train and traveled through the Time-Space Shuttle to Universe 2149.
• Peter and Cage used Cosmic Energy to make Gladiator disappear, then watched the villainous zombies retreat from New Wakanda.
• A massive train appeared above Earth, and Shen Fei's troops emerged and used Pym Particles to build large defensive fortifications.
• Shen Fei met Peter, who realized the arrivals had come from another Parallel Universe.
• Strange arrived, and Shen Fei learned that Zombie Sentinel had killed powerful beings such as Doctor Strange and that Universe 2149 had begun looping.

Shen Fei offered Peter and the other survivors a serum that could partially reverse the Zombie Virus, then left to capture zombie superhumans for research. Peter took the serum in New Wakanda, where his physiological indicators returned to normal, and the survivors planned to send another vial to Asteroid M for Banner.

• Shen Fei told Peter that his group had developed a serum to ease the appetite of some superhuman zombies, though they still needed samples to find a complete cure.
• Shen Fei sent his team to the Baxter Building and told Strange to go with them.
• Peter agreed to test the serum in New Wakanda, and Reynolds injected it into him.
• The serum restored Peter's physiological indicators to normal and ended his unbearable appetite, though his appearance remained savage.
• Black Panther ordered one vial kept for research and the other sent to Asteroid M to treat Banner.

Peter visited Osborn Company to meet Norman and learned that Dr. Shen was working to cure the zombies. Norman reassured him that the company could restore him and told him about Shen’s achievements, leaving Peter amazed by what might have been possible in his universe.

• Peter agreed to bring Dr. Shen’s people to the survivors while Reynolds prepared to inject Hulk with Antibody Serum.
• Peter arrived at Osborn Company, where guards restrained him despite his Antibody Serum injection.
• Peter saw captured zombie villains, including Rhino, Wolverine, and Cyclops, and wondered whether Osborn Company had become Earth’s ruler.
• Peter met Norman, who recognized his kind nature and had the guards remove his handcuffs.
• Norman told Peter that Shen had cured his genetic disease, healed Dr. Connors’s arm, and was developing a way to cure the zombies.

Shen Fei found Zombie Strange in the New York Sanctum and learned that the Watcher and two Sorcerer Supremes had trapped the Zombie Chaos in a repeating cycle between two universes. After Shen Fei revealed he had developed a cure and possessed something with uniqueness, Strange wondered whether they could finally be saved.

• Shen Fei traveled to a ruined New York and used the Eye of Agamotto to locate the New York Sanctum.
• Shen Fei found Zombie Strange waiting among the remains and asked why he had not stopped the Zombie Chaos.
• Strange explained that the Watcher and the Sorcerer Supremes had created a Space-Time Loop with the Time Stone and Space Stone to contain the Zombie Virus.
• Shen Fei revealed that he had developed a cure, and Strange explained that the virus had Pseudo-Uniqueness and spread across the multiverse in different forms.
• Strange realized Shen Fei possessed something with uniqueness and asked if they could be saved.

Shen Fei learned how Strange and the Watcher had trapped two universes in a Space-Time Loop to contain the Zombie Virus, then agreed to break the loop and stop the infection at its source. After collecting four Infinity Stones, he began researching the Zombie Serum as Osborn Company raided Baxter Building to gather samples.

• Strange explained that he and the Watcher had created the Space-Time Loop, which had trapped two universes in a repeating zombie apocalypse.
• Shen Fei said he would help resolve the power behind the loop if the universe became one of his footholds and he could research the Infinity Stones.
• Strange handed Shen Fei the Reality Stone, Mind Stone, Soul Stone, and Power Stone, warning that using the stones against the loop's power could contaminate them and collapse the universe.
• Shen Fei left the New York Sanctum with a plan to break the loop and use the Infinity Gauntlet to stop Magneto from spreading the Zombie Virus.
• Osborn Company raided Baxter Building with Self-Healing Factor weapons and Sentinel Robots, forcing Zombie Phoenix to flee while the company collected samples.
• Shen Fei began experiments at Osborn Company, and analysis of the samples advanced the Zombie Serum research.

Shen Fei pushed Osborn’s experiments toward a treatment that could replace the Zombie Virus inside superhumans’ X-Genes, while he continued analyzing the Power Stone. Connors reported that the experiments had succeeded, and Shen Fei suspected that only his intervention could overcome a force obstructing a complete cure.

• Connors told Shen Fei that Death Spores could remove zombie traits but could not yet provide a complete cure, and Shen ordered experiments using cloned subjects.
• Shen Fei reasoned that Death Spores might replace the Zombie Virus and directed the lab to test the approach alongside Nanomaterials.
• Tests on cloned Zombie Wolverines showed that the virus’s structure within their X-Genes could be transformed, though the treatment dosage and its effects on the body still required more data.
• Shen Fei analyzed the Power Stone and refined the Power Stone structure within his body.
• Connors rushed in to tell Shen Fei that they had succeeded, and Shen Fei concluded that his intervention could overcome the force preventing a complete cure.

Shen Fei reviewed the Zombie Virus research and then transformed his body with the Power, Reality, and Space Stones. The three stones’ material powers fused within him, leaving him able to effortlessly alter matter below the Single Universe level.

• Shen Fei found that Logan was among the first to recover, and he told Connors to continue injections while comparing data from identical individuals across universes.
• Shen Fei considered whether the Zombie Universe might be connected to the multiversal collapse in Loki 2, then set the idea aside.
• Shen Fei read the structural data Otto and Reed had collected on the remaining stones and chose to transform himself into the Reality Stone.
• Shen Fei combined the Reality Stone’s structure with the Power Stone’s, using his Spirit Energy and Particle dimensions to contain their clashing forces.
• Shen Fei transformed his body with the Space Stone, which caused the three stones’ powers to intertwine and erupt through him.
• Shen Fei gained the complete material aspect of the Infinity Stones and could effortlessly alter matter below the Single Universe level.

Shen Fei integrated the Space, Time, and Mind Stone structures, greatly enhancing his physical and mental powers. He discovered that the Zombie Universe’s temporal loop was spreading to Osborn Company’s people and sensed the Watcher observing him from Watcher Hall.

• Shen Fei felt the Space Stone’s integration amplify his physical abilities and the power of his two dimensions.
• Shen Fei analyzed the Time Stone and experienced the beginning of the Zombie Universe’s loop, which had been caused by a virus Magneto brought from another universe.
• Shen Fei realized the loop’s temporal aura was contaminating Osborn Company’s people and sensed the Watcher watching him from Watcher Hall.
• Shen Fei integrated the Mind Stone structures from three universes and sensed the thoughts of every living being on Earth.

Shen Fei used the Soul Stone to complete his transformation into the Infinity Body, bringing his physical and spiritual powers into a near-Single-Universe state. He then restrained the escaped Zombie Heroes and sent them to Osborn Company for research.

• Shen Fei sensed the escaped zombies across the universe and used the Soul Stone to begin the final stage of his transformation.
• The Soul Stone awakened the souls within Shen Fei’s cells, and he embraced the change as a chance to realize his idea of Blood Rebirth.
• Shen Fei’s body and spirit fused with the power of the six stones, giving him immense control over matter, fundamental forces, and life within this universe.
• Shen Fei concluded that he had come close to the Single Universe level but still needed to gather auras from other universes to complete the breakthrough.
• Shen Fei summoned the Zombie Heroes, suppressed Zombie Phoenix and the others, and sent them to Osborn Company for research.
• Shen Fei turned his attention to Watcher Hall and stepped toward it.

Shen Fei visited Watcher Hall, where the Watcher agreed to let him study his body after Shen Fei resolved the universe’s crisis, provided Shen Fei did not affect events beyond a certain time point. After examining the Space-Time Loop and learning that it drew enormous energy from other dimensions, Shen Fei returned to Osborn Company to check on Al’s work.

• Shen Fei arrived in Watcher Hall and asked the Watcher for research material in return for helping resolve the universe’s crisis.
• The Watcher explained that his body was made from energy and agreed to Shen Fei’s request, warning him not to influence events beyond the relevant time node.
• The Watcher showed Shen Fei the Space-Time Loop formation, which drew vast amounts of energy from dimensions and had drained some of them dry.
• The Watcher told Shen Fei that the Watcher in the other universe was ready to cooperate, and Shen Fei left to continue resolving the crisis there.
• Shen Fei returned to Osborn Company and asked Al about extracting Galactus’s power and observing the Zombie Serum.

Shen Fei investigated the Zombie Heroes carrying Galactus Power and began extracting it to study and master the cosmic energy. The power entered and was absorbed by the universe within him, triggering enormous changes.

• Shen Fei ordered Al to find psychiatrists for the recovered superhumans and move the Galactus Power samples, including the Zombie Swordsman, into one laboratory.
• Shen Fei examined the Zombie Heroes and concluded that Galactus Power was intertwined with the Zombie Virus and X-Gene, keeping them alive as they consumed life and energy from the universe.
• Shen Fei used his cell-born assistants to research the samples and gather data on the powerful energy within them.
• Shen Fei used the universe within himself to draw Galactus Power out of the Zombie Heroes and absorb it.
• The absorbed Galactus Power caused enormous changes within Shen Fei.