Chapter Summaries

He Shenyan learned that the Spider Totem was not dying; its Spider-Men were being displaced from their proper worlds, and some suffered conceptual injuries that ordinary healing could not mend. He entered the world where the Sorcerer Supreme Spider-Man had been hunted and stopped a fireball from killing Kraven.

• He Shenyan met Peter Parker number seventeen, rejected Gwen’s claim that she would make him feel attracted to her again, and left the Spider-Men’s meeting when their debate turned to pizza.
• The Sorcerer Supreme Spider-Man returned gravely wounded, and He Shenyan discovered that his missing body parts had been erased conceptually, preventing him from healing.
• The dying Sorcerer Supreme Spider-Man told He Shenyan that the Spider Totem was safe but its followers were being taken away from where they belonged.
• He Shenyan paused the Sorcerer Supreme Spider-Man’s time, extracted the coordinates of the world he had visited, and entered it through a Portal.
• He Shenyan stopped a fireball from killing Kraven, who thanked him because he could now finish the joke he had been trying to think of.

He Shenyan investigated the man who had hunted Sorcerer Supreme Spider-Man after learning that he could inflict conceptual injuries. When the man left Adam Tibbs alive but unable to die after torturing him, He Shenyan ended Adam’s suffering and vowed to find the attacker.

• A mysterious small man manipulated Adam Tibbs into stabbing him, then tortured Adam with hundreds of wounds and removed his ability to die.
• A newspaper reported that Adam had survived his injuries, and He Shenyan followed the story to Saint Bellucci Hospital, where government guards protected him.
• He Shenyan entered Adam’s ward and discovered that a conceptual injury prevented Adam from dying.
• He Shenyan told Adam that his crimes did not warrant such torment, restored his death, and promised to find the man responsible.

An angel who had been killing people to satisfy Heaven confronted He Shenyan, but the Mage burned through its faith-fueled power before believers around the world. In New York, Jesus appeared to Father John Trick and killed him, leaving the black-haired man wearing his identity.

• The little man killed Rachel Gerli for calling him short, then recognized He Shenyan and transformed into a towering, twelve-winged angel.
• The angel seized He Shenyan and broadcast its supposed victory to believers around the world, absorbing their faith as they watched.
• He Shenyan mocked the angel’s spectacle, then burned its hand with psionic flames and vowed to destroy its heavenly home.
• At Saint John's Cathedral, Jesus asked Father John Trick to give his life for the Lord, and John agreed.
• Jesus crushed John Trick to death, then emerged from the cathedral wearing the dead priest’s appearance.

Joanna mistook her husband Joseph for a devil after witnessing a demon beat an angel, and Jesus praised her after she killed him. Meanwhile, He Shenyan continued tormenting the angelic being with golden Psionic flames and promised to discover whether it had a soul before killing it.

• Joanna saw a demon beating an angel, while her husband Joseph could not see the scene.
• Joanna decided Joseph was a devil, took a kitchen knife, and stabbed him to death.
• Jesus appeared and told Joanna that she had killed the devil.
• He Shenyan taunted the burning angelic being and said he would kill it and investigate whether it had a soul.
• The angelic being struggled against the golden Psionic flames and threatened that the Lord would kill He Shenyan and everyone else.

Joanna witnessed Jesus incite believers to kill those they suspected of being devils and demand further repentance. Meanwhile, He Shenyan exposed the angel’s faith-gathering scheme during their fight, then detected a sudden arrival in the sky as the chapter ended.

• Joanna accepted Jesus’s claim that she had killed the devil and followed him into a burning, violent street.
• Jesus burned Chris’s daughter’s corpse and persuaded the despairing crowd that they had begun to repent by killing hidden devils.
• He Shenyan mocked the battered angel and recognized that it was using visions of their battle to absorb believers’ faith and strengthen itself.
• He Shenyan searched for Jesus with psychic power but found a world that seemed suspiciously normal.
• A fiery spark appeared in the sky with a shout of “Satan,” and He Shenyan sent his magical moon to collide with it.

He Shenyan confronted Jesus, mocked his identity and origins, and rejected the claim that he was Satan. Jesus pursued him into space, where He Shenyan continued taunting him and declared that neither of them was who they seemed to be.

• He Shenyan crushed and consumed an angel before Jesus arrived and called him Satan.
• He Shenyan stopped a landslide from reaching a village, shaped it into an earthen dragon, and watched Jesus command it to halt.
• He Shenyan asked Jesus about Joseph, then mocked the story of Joseph and Mary; Jesus insisted he was the Son of God and the Messiah.
• Jesus unleashed enormous fireballs at He Shenyan, who escaped through a Portal and dragged the flames into the realm of shadow to consume them.
• Jesus flew into space after He Shenyan, who taunted him about human nature and said that he was neither Satan nor Jesus.

He Shenyan defeated Jesus by revealing that his memories and personality were fabricated and that he was only a wooden carving animated by false faith. Joanna woke from a nightmare and realized her marriage had been built on love, not God.

• Jesus broke free of He Shenyan's shadow tentacles, grew enormous, and searched across the universe for him while He Shenyan taunted him.
• Jesus found He Shenyan, but the Mage vanished and told him that an angel had shaped him with false faith and that the world did not need saving.
• Jesus realized he was a god who did not need to breathe, and He Shenyan crushed him into wooden fragments, returning to the mountain scene.
• Joanna woke beside her husband, Joseph, and recalled their life together before realizing that love, not God, had kept them together.

He Shenyan considered how to stop Eternal Heaven from conquering worlds and stripping them from the Spider Totem. Meanwhile, Wong and Kara Zor-El searched for He Shenyan, warning Tony Stark that his disappearance was becoming a serious problem.

• He Shenyan kept Jesus trapped in a cycle of death and life while weighing how to stop Eternal Heaven's multiversal invasion.
• Tony Stark dismissed his meetings after his daughter rejected him, then took a call from Agent Coulson, who urgently asked him to find He Shenyan.
• Jarvis alerted Tony that Kara Zor-El was approaching, and she arrived carrying Wong under her arm.
• Wong asked Tony whether he had seen He Shenyan, and Tony said he did not know where he was.
• Wong worried that He Shenyan's absence meant a big problem.

Wong told Tony Stark that every mage in Kamar-Taj had lost the ability to cast spells, though their magical energy remained, and asked him to help find Strange. Strange was at the Sanctum sustaining a global barrier by painfully channeling magical energy, and he struggled to endure the task.

• Kara brought Wong to Tony, who learned that the mages of Kamar-Taj could no longer cast spells.
• Wong explained that Strange was maintaining barriers across the world while the Sorcerer Supreme was away dealing with dimensional connections.
• Wong admitted that Kamar-Taj had relied on magic to avoid paying phone bills, leaving Tony unable to hide his awkwardness.
• Strange endured severe pain as he poured his magical energy into the global barrier, while the Spirit of the Sanctum could not cast spells to help him.
• Strange called Christine, pretended he was going to a week-long meeting, and then asked the Spirit of the Sanctum for a blanket as he grew cold and weakened.

He Shenyan restored Sorcerer Supreme Spider-Man using the remains of a powerful angel and learned that the angel’s influence was connected to The Void. He and Peter realized that Eternal Heaven could potentially use its followers to invade every world in the Endless Star Sea.

• He Shenyan used an angel’s body and his magic to restore Sorcerer Supreme Spider-Man’s damaged body and return the concepts taken from him.
• Sorcerer Supreme Peter woke, confirmed that he could still sense the angel, and said he might be able to use its authority for about three days.
• He Shenyan asked Peter what he knew about Eternal Heaven, and Peter described how the angel had pursued him and revealed memories of a Soul Forge that used humans as fuel.
• He Shenyan explained that the Heavens and angels across the Endless Star Sea might have originated from disturbances caused by The Void, and that Heaven’s magic had nearly transformed a dragon into an invasion outpost.
• Peter recognized from the angel’s memories that believers existed in almost every parallel world, and He Shenyan concluded that The Void could invade every world at once.

He Shenyan returned to his world and discovered that magic itself had disappeared, while Wong and Tony struggled to reach the Sanctum Sanctorum. Tony prepared a way for Wong to join the coming war, and a mysterious ring activated as soon as Wong put it on.

• He Shenyan returned through a dimensional portal and found that magic had vanished, then watched a portal to the Sanctum Sanctorum flicker shut.
• Wong and Tony failed to contact Strange or enter the Sanctum Sanctorum, and Wong said the crisis was beyond their abilities without the Master or He Shenyan.
• Tony revealed two soul-verified Composite Armor rings and offered Wong the white one.
• Wong put on the white ring, and a cool sensation jolted his brain.

Wong tested the magic armor Tony and He Shenyan had built and discovered it was equipped with powerful combat spells for the Mages of Kamar-Taj. Meanwhile, He Shenyan inspected the great barrier’s core and found that it had been altered into a seal trapping everyone on Earth.

• Tony helped Wong activate the armor, which supplied its own magic and let Wong open a Portal.
• Wong examined the armor’s 157 spells and learned Tony had made enough suits for every Mage in Kamar-Taj.
• He Shenyan traveled to the Ancient One’s grave in the Himalayas and uncovered the Dynamo Stone, the barrier’s intended core.
• He Shenyan discovered that the barrier had been repurposed to seal Earth and prevent anyone from leaving.

He Shenyan learned from Chthon that angels and Dimensional Gods had united against him, beginning their assault by depriving the world of magic. He left to face them alone while Chthon refused to join the enemy and warned the hidden gods that they could not threaten him into submission.

• He Shenyan confronted Chthon with the Dynamo Stone and asked when the Great Barrier had been altered.
• Chthon warned He Shenyan that angels and Dimensional Gods had joined forces to destroy Earth and that no one could help him.
• Chthon revealed that the first stage of the assault would deprive the world of light, which meant taking magic from Mages.
• He Shenyan predicted that the enemy's real goal was to strip away everything he had and force him to join them, then departed.
• A shadow confronted Chthon, who said he had refused the enemy's invitation and mocked their chances of winning.

He Shenyan turned Earth into a battleground for a dimensional invasion and directed Tony, Kara, and Wong to fight the shadow beasts emerging in New York and Los Angeles. Wong rapidly cleared much of the invasion on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and prepared to continue fighting.

• He Shenyan spread his psychic power across Earth while keeping the Great Barrier in place for the coming battle.
• Tony practiced magic with Wong in his basement, while Kara accidentally crashed into the ceiling using an acceleration spell.
• Wong learned of an invasion in Los Angeles and left through a Portal as He Shenyan warned Tony that thousands of shadow beasts were entering New York.
• Tony opened a Portal to New York, received He Shenyan's instructions, and prepared to fight alongside Kara with his armor.
• Wong arrived in Los Angeles, combined acceleration and enhancement spells, and cleared nearly a third of the monsters with a blast of blue fire.

Wong swiftly defeated the monsters at the Hollywood Walk of Fame and prepared to close the dimensional Portal with a magical trap. Meanwhile, Tony and Kara struggled to work together against the Shadow Beasts while He Shenyan remained occupied with an invasion in Africa.

• Wong killed the monsters at the Hollywood Walk of Fame in three minutes using chained lightning and a gravity spell.
• Wong began closing the dimensional Portal and prepared a magical gift for the invaders as He Shenyan praised his fighting.
• Tony accidentally struck Kara with his Lightning Chain after she had flown into the swarm he was targeting.
• Tony asked Jarvis for spell recommendations while Kara confronted him about hitting friendly forces.
• He Shenyan monitored Tony and Kara's clumsy battle while he dealt with extradimensional creatures covering Africa.

He Shenyan and T'Challa faced five dimensional Portals over Africa, which merged and released infected versions of Hulk and the Sentry. He Shenyan destroyed Hulk and confronted the Sentry, who attacked him with the zombie virus but failed to infect him.

• He Shenyan explained to T'Challa that five Portals would merge above Africa and unleash an unprecedented invasion, while T'Challa prepared Wakanda's cannons.
• The Portals merged into a vast void, and a zombie Hulk emerged under the cannons' fire.
• He Shenyan burned Hulk until not a single cell remained, while T'Challa watched the attack's aftermath.
• The Sentry appeared, tore off T'Challa's right leg, and began eating it before He Shenyan punched through his chest and tore out his spine.
• The Sentry ignited with golden flames, bit He Shenyan's hand, and found that the virus could not infect him; He Shenyan raised his hand and told the Sentry to die.

He Shenyan cured Sentry of the zombie virus, then erased him and discussed the possibility that the outbreak came from another world. Meanwhile, Wong investigated a summoning spell tied to Surtur and asked Rajiv to help reach the sealed Sanctum Sanctorum.

• He Shenyan restored Sentry by unleashing the power within him, but then killed him and erased his existence.
• He Shenyan told T'Challa that the zombie Hulk suggested a world where everyone had become a zombie.
• Wong discovered that the monsters at the Hollywood Walk of Fame were Dog-Cows and that a ragged crimson cloth bore a spell meant to summon Surtur.
• Wong sealed the cloth and asked Rajiv to use the Fake Key spell to enter the Sanctum Sanctorum, which Wong could no longer contact.

Wong and Rajiv struggled to recreate the Fake Key spell while He Shenyan learned about T'Challa's mechanical body. As a massive red beast emerged from the sky hollow over Africa, He Shenyan recognized Surtur and prepared to fight.

• Wong and Rajiv tried to simulate the magical signature needed to open the Sanctum Sanctorum, knowing they might need thousands of attempts.
• T'Challa installed a high-tech prosthetic leg and described how he had replaced nearly his entire body with machinery.
• He Shenyan explained that the hollow was gathering strength and asked T'Challa about his mechanical eyes and body.
• T'Challa described his uploaded memories, mechanical abilities, and dependence on energy while He Shenyan considered his soul still present.
• Wailing came from the hollow, and a massive deep-red beast emerged over Africa; He Shenyan identified it as Surtur.

He Shenyan killed and absorbed Surtur’s Crimson Beast, telling T'Challa that he had to face the Dimensional Gods alone and become stronger by taking in dangerous power. Meanwhile, Wong and Rajiv opened the Sanctum Sanctorum’s doors and found an unexpected scene inside.

• He Shenyan punched the Crimson Beast, planted timed magical bombs inside it, and killed it with a massive blade made from Surtur’s magic.
• He Shenyan absorbed the beast’s Crimson Power and told T'Challa that he was Earth’s final defense and could not rely on Thor or anyone else.
• Wong and Rajiv used spheres of magic to open the Sanctum Sanctorum’s rune-protected gates after confirming its wards still worked.
• Wong and Rajiv entered the Sanctum Sanctorum and froze at the unexpected sight inside.

Wong and Rajiv were stranded in a hostile desert dimension and fought an undead army and a giant scorpion. At the breach in the sky, Shuma-Gorath proposed an alliance with He Shenyan against the angels, and He Shenyan accepted.

• Wong used an All-Seeing Eye and confirmed that he and Rajiv were trapped in another dimension.
• Rajiv summoned a tornado and then a flame giant to destroy an approaching undead army, drawing the attention of a giant scorpion.
• He Shenyan defeated two more Crimson Beasts sent by Surtur while guarding the breach in the sky.
• Shuma-Gorath appeared and warned He Shenyan that the angels intended to betray the dimensional gods.
• Shuma-Gorath offered to stop other dimensional gods from attacking Earth if He Shenyan killed the angels, and He Shenyan agreed to the contract.