Recaps

Du Mu battled Yaozu Quan, who unleashed the accumulated qi of generations of Iron Fists after his monster army began losing. Du Mu drew power from the Solar Flower and met Yaozu Quan’s devastating punch head-on, leaving their fight raging across the battlefield.

• Yaozu Quan attacked Du Mu with Iron Fist techniques, but Du Mu countered with dragon-shaped attacks from his Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.
• As their battle continued, Yaozu Quan realized Du Mu had no martial qi and grew alarmed, while the Immortal Weapons and humans pushed his monster army back.
• Yaozu Quan revealed that he had secretly absorbed qi from the Book of the Iron Fist for a thousand years and used it to unleash the power of dozens of Iron Fists in one punch.
• Du Mu drew sunlight with the Solar Flower and struck back instead of evading, and their clash sent shock waves across the battlefield as everyone nearby fled.

Du Mu defeated Yaozu Quan after refusing his offer to build and jointly rule a new K'un-Lun, ending the threat to K'un-Lun. The quest rewards arrived, including an expired Great Recovery Pill and a Tathagata Palm manual, neither of which Du Mu was eager to use.

• Du Mu fought Yaozu Quan, revealed he was not from K'un-Lun, and rejected Yaozu Quan's offer to create a new K'un-Lun together.
• Yaozu Quan powered up with his remaining chi and traded illuminated punches with Du Mu, who used Bullet Fist and stomped on Yaozu Quan's toes to break his grip.
• Yaozu Quan launched a final all-out attack, but Du Mu met it head-on and remained standing while Yaozu Quan collapsed, drained and badly injured.
• The Immortal Weapons arrived and admired Du Mu's apparent composure, unaware he was secretly rubbing his sore arms.
• Du Mu completed the Rescue the Hostages quest and received 2,500 EXP, favorability, an expired Ten-Thousand-Year Great Recovery Pill, and Tathagata Palm.

Du Mu learned that Changming’s secret art had created an inexhaustible source of monsters in the Eighth City, then persuaded the Immortal Weapons to let him take charge of guarding it. After the gate was closed and his mission was completed, he received rewards that gave him a convenient way to travel to the city.

• Du Mu ate the Ten-Thousand-Year Great Recovery Pill, then saved the dying Yaozu Quan with a Life Potion and used Shou-Lao’s Dragon Bones to get him to answer questions.
• Yaozu Quan explained that Changming had opened a one-way passage to another world in the Eighth City, allowing monsters to keep arriving, and that the passage could only be closed by destroying the city.
• Du Mu proposed guarding the Eighth City himself, and the Immortal Weapons agreed to leave it in his hands, believing his oath to remain until Hell was empty.
• Du Mu had Mordo send Danny Rand to the Eighth City, where Yaozu Quan learned that Danny was the sixty-sixth Iron Fist and could only make both fists glow.
• The seven Immortal Weapons used their energy to close the Eighth City's gate, completing Du Mu's mission and earning him experience, attribute points, a Nether Portal technique, Obsidian, and a Regeneration Potion.

Du Mu sent the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven’s captives home, then had Kamar-Taj sorcerers clear the Eighth City and recruited Yaozu Quan under the new title Mighty Diamond Leg. He discovered the city’s rift could continuously spawn monsters and began planning a dungeon for sorcerers, while Lei Kung saw the Eighth City as a way to establish trade between the isolated cities.

• Du Mu sent the Immortal Weapons and their captives back to the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven, then summoned Mordo and ordered Kamar-Taj sorcerers to clear the Eighth City of monsters.
• Du Mu persuaded Yaozu Quan to stay and work for him, renamed him Mighty Diamond Leg, and left the sorcerers to finish the monster sweep.
• Du Mu found that newly spawned monsters from the Eighth City’s rift granted experience, so he ordered Mordo to guard the area and planned a monster dungeon for Kamar-Taj sorcerers.
• The Immortal Weapons reported the events to their city leaders, who feared Du Mu’s power but did not dare challenge his control of the Eighth City.
• Lei Kung contacted Du Mu with a plan to use the Eighth City as a transit hub and establish trade among the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven.

Du Mu turned the Eighth City into a trade hub, then secured it a place in the Heart of Heaven Tournament by unveiling Hydra as its Guardian Beast and Strange as its Immortal Weapon. Strange was left trapped in Kamar-Taj, forced to study the Tathagata Palm Manual while the Eighteen Copper Men blocked his escape.

• Du Mu and Lei Kung agreed that K'un-Lun would pay tolls to travel through the Eighth City and could hire Kamar-Taj sorcerers for trips to the real world.
• Lei Kung and the other city leaders established trade routes and unrestricted travel, then agreed to hold the Heart of Heaven Tournament with a new prize pool.
• Du Mu insisted that the Eighth City compete, revealed Hydra as its Guardian Beast, and named Strange its Immortal Weapon.
• Strange worried he could not match the other cities' Immortal Weapons, but Du Mu forced him to practice the Tathagata Palm Manual.
• Strange tried to leave, but the Eighteen Copper Men blocked him with magic, prompting him to abandon his plan to fight them.

Du Mu expanded his control over the Shadow Kingdom, upgrading King of Shadow Flow into Lord of Shadow Flow and gaining the ability to turn slain enemies into shadow soldiers. He destroyed Corvus Glaive’s weapon and soul, leaving him dead in the Dark Dimension.

• Du Mu entered the Shadow Kingdom and used his existing permissions to seize more control, increasing his strength within the dimension.
• The skill King of Shadow Flow evolved into Lord of Shadow Flow, granting Du Mu stronger boosts in darkness and the power to create shadow soldiers from slain enemies.
• Du Mu found Corvus Glaive trapped in the Shadow Kingdom and stopped his attack with two fingers before blasting him into a temporary death.
• Du Mu took Corvus Glaive’s Glaive and crushed it despite Corvus Glaive begging for mercy.
• With his weapon and the soul bound inside it destroyed, Corvus Glaive crumbled into dust and died.

Du Mu strengthened his forces, oversaw his organizations, and reviewed Marvel Company’s growing success before Erik reported that a blue-skinned mutant had abducted Charles. Du Mu suspected Apocalypse and tried to contact Charles, but an ancient voice suddenly spoke to everyone.

• Corvus Glaive’s shadow was refined into a loyal, immortal shadow soldier under Du Mu’s control.
• Du Mu reviewed preparations for the Heart of Heaven’s Way tournament, visited Sokovia, and checked on old Steve’s efforts to oppose Hydra.
• Psylocke reported Marvel Company’s success, the X-Men’s rising popularity, and Hank’s breakthrough in producing unstable compound V.
• Erik told Du Mu that a blue-skinned stranger had appeared during a rescue mission and vanished with Charles.
• Du Mu suspected En Sabah Nur, called Apocalypse, and tried to contact Charles, but Charles did not respond before an ancient voice spoke in everyone’s mind.

Apocalypse announced his return, seized Charles’s power to neutralize the world’s nuclear weapons, and challenged the X-Men from Cairo. The Marvel Company accepted the challenge and announced a global livestream of the coming battle.

• Apocalypse broadcast a declaration calling for mutant rule, but mutants and humans mocked and condemned him online.
• Du Mu returned to the X-Mansion, explained Apocalypse’s history and body-transfer ability, and warned that he wanted Charles’s Telepathy.
• Apocalypse hijacked television broadcasts, sent the world’s nuclear missiles into space using Charles’s power, and transformed Cairo’s buildings into a giant pyramid.
• Apocalypse challenged the X-Men while holding the unconscious Charles, prompting governments and the public to recognize him as a global threat.
• The Marvel Company said Charles had sacrificed himself to protect civilians, accepted Apocalypse’s challenge on the X-Men’s behalf, and announced that the fight would be livestreamed worldwide.

Du Mu and the Brotherhood flew to Cairo to rescue Charles, but Apocalypse attacked Jean Grey through her psychic link and tried to take over her body. Du Mu used a Charles Xavier skin card to enter Jean’s mental world and challenge Apocalypse, where the two transformed into hundred-meter giants.

• Du Mu assembled a combat team from the Brotherhood, accepted Raven’s quest to retrieve Charles, and flew to Cairo with a professional camera crew.
• Jean Grey shielded the Blackbird from Charles’s psychic storm, but Apocalypse used her psychic link to invade her mind.
• Du Mu activated the Charles Xavier skin card, gained immense Cerebro-enhanced telepathy, and entered Jean Grey’s mental world.
• Apocalypse tried to seize Jean Grey’s body, but Du Mu interrupted him with a Leo Kick and countered his psychic attack by turning it into butterflies.
• Apocalypse and Du Mu each grew to a hundred-meter giant in Jean Grey’s mental space, while Jean hid and feared for her surroundings.

Du Mu defeated Apocalypse in Jean Grey’s mental world and forced him to retreat, but Apocalypse soon confronted the group with his Four Horsemen. As Ororo attacked and Erik rejected Apocalypse’s offer, the battle began again.

• Du Mu overwhelmed Apocalypse by flooding his mind with thoughts from across the planet, and Apocalypse severed their connection and fled Jean Grey’s consciousness.
• The jet was caught in a storm and nearly crashed, but Erik used his powers to land it safely; Apocalypse then arrived through a portal with Ororo, Warren, Fred Dukes, and Shiro Yoshida.
• Du Mu mocked Apocalypse’s Horsemen, and Apocalypse explained that mutants in this era preferred becoming celebrities to joining his cause.
• Ororo attacked the Brotherhood with lightning, but Du Mu absorbed the bolts and attempted to control her mind before Apocalypse blocked him.
• Erik attacked Apocalypse to recover Charles, and Apocalypse blocked the strike and offered Erik a place among his Horsemen, which Erik refused.

Erik tried to sway Apocalypse’s Four Horsemen with a speech about peaceful coexistence, while Du Mu challenged Apocalypse and fought him as the X-Men battled the Horsemen. Du Mu’s powers and strength impressed Apocalypse, who declared him the strongest fighter of the modern era, and their fight remained unresolved.

• Erik defended the X-Men’s peaceful ideals during the livestream, and his speech began to move Apocalypse’s Four Horsemen.
• Du Mu mocked Apocalypse, who ordered the Horsemen to attack the X-Men; Quicksilver intercepted Warren’s feather blades while the X-Men overwhelmed the Horsemen.
• Du Mu used hellfire to give the X-Men striking new appearances that also increased their strength.
• Apocalypse attacked Du Mu with earth, energy barriers, telekinesis, and spears, but Du Mu countered with immense strength, golden lightning, and control of the sand.
• Du Mu burst through Apocalypse’s barrier and punched him in the face, after which Apocalypse healed and praised him as the strongest fighter of the modern era.

Du Mu battled Apocalypse before a worldwide audience, trading blows until Apocalypse deduced that Du Mu’s strength depended on sunlight and arranged for Ororo to cover the sky. Du Mu revealed that his apparent weakness was a ruse and struck Apocalypse with black energy, slicing him in half.

• Apocalypse praised Du Mu as the strongest of the modern age, while Du Mu dismissed Apocalypse and attacked him with sand.
• Apocalypse buried Du Mu beneath an enormous sand pyramid, but Du Mu shattered it, pierced Apocalypse’s head with the Spear of Longinus, and battered him with a Blade Storm.
• Apocalypse endured the Blade Storm while healing, then broke the golden blades with telekinesis and charged Du Mu with an Ancient Egyptian Sickle Sword.
• As the two fought at close range, Apocalypse noticed Du Mu’s strength weakening and concluded it depended on sunlight.
• Apocalypse sent Ororo an encrypted order, and she covered the sky with dark clouds, blocking the sunlight and seemingly weakening Du Mu.
• Apocalypse attacked what he believed was a weakened Du Mu, but Du Mu unleashed black energy and sliced Apocalypse in half.

Du Mu used his abilities and a Carbonadium Steel Knife to overcome Apocalypse, whose healing factor the weapon suppressed. After Apocalypse tried to flee as hundreds of pieces of flesh, Du Mu hunted down and destroyed every fragment, leaving Apocalypse dead.

• Du Mu revealed that darkness empowered him and used the Carbonadium Steel Knife to suppress Apocalypse's healing factor.
• Apocalypse attacked Du Mu with energy from his severed lower half, while Du Mu entered Charles's mindscape and found Charles trapped there.
• Apocalypse invaded the mindscape, but Du Mu blinded him with a flash and overwhelmed his consciousness with grotesque memories.
• Du Mu shattered Apocalypse's energy defenses and cut his body into pieces, preventing the fragments from healing.
• Apocalypse's flesh fragments fled in every direction, but Du Mu captured or burned them all and destroyed the final piece.

Du Mu defeated Apocalypse, captured the Four Horsemen, and rescued Charles, using his remaining time in Charles's body to implant secret commands across the world. He left Charles bald as a prank, while the battle made Du Mu a global sensation and turned Cairo's ruins into a tourist attraction.

• Du Mu defeated Apocalypse, stopped the Four Horsemen from fleeing, and used Telepathy to recruit them into the Hellfire Club.
• Before the Charles Skin Card expired, Du Mu implanted hidden commands in selected groups around the world, then used Quicksilver's tunnel to rescue Charles and completed his mission.
• Du Mu gave Charles the Hair Growth Potion, then convinced him that Apocalypse had destroyed his hair follicles before dying.
• The X-Men saw Charles's bald head after Du Mu brought him back, and Erik laughed at his new appearance.
• Tourists and businesses flocked to Cairo, and the Marvel Company profited from the battle's livestream as Du Mu rose to the top of superhero rankings.

Du Mu turned Apocalypse into a Shadow Soldier, then used Blood God Power to begin a quest for the Original Darkhold. He summoned Dracula to learn where to find it, but Dracula tried to escape and discovered that Du Mu had inherited the Sorcerer Supreme title.

• Du Mu crushed Apocalypse with a Shadow Giant Palm, and the Shadow Kingdom transformed Apocalypse into a Shadow Soldier.
• Du Mu used the Blood God Power item and received a quest to find the Original Darkhold, then suspected Dracula could lead him to it.
• Du Mu contacted Blade, gathered vampire blood and pureblood vampires, and performed the ritual to summon Dracula.
• Dracula emerged from the ritual and recounted how the Ancient One had imprisoned him after his previous defeat.
• Dracula threatened Du Mu and tried to fly away, but Du Mu restrained him and revealed that he was now the Sorcerer Supreme.

Du Mu forced Dracula to help locate the genuine Darkhold, and they used a spell to travel to a parallel world overrun by zombies. After saving Wong in the Sanctum Sanctorum, Du Mu learned that the outbreak had recently begun and that Stephen Strange and the other superheroes had died in a Helicarrier disaster.

• Du Mu offered Dracula bags of blood in exchange for information, and Dracula revealed a spell that could lead them to the Darkhold.
• Dracula completed the magic array, and Du Mu dragged him through the portal into a gore-filled city.
• Du Mu recognized New York's Sanctum Sanctorum and entered it with Dracula, where Doctor Druid was attacking Wong.
• Du Mu killed Doctor Druid and introduced himself to Wong as a parallel-world Sorcerer Supreme named Du Mu, also known as God-Monarch Doom.
• Wong explained that a recent zombie outbreak had infected many heroes and villains, and that Mister Fantastic had deliberately infected the Helicarrier, killing Stephen Strange and the other gathered superheroes.

Du Mu, Wong, and Dracula tracked the Darkhold to Doctor Doom’s castle in zombie-infested Latveria. After looting the Sanctum Sanctorum and fighting their way inside, Du Mu clashed with Doom and accused him of copying his identity.

• Wong told Du Mu that the Darkhold was hidden in Latveria and offered to guide him to clues in the Library.
• Du Mu tortured the Living Tome until it revealed the Darkhold’s location, then emptied the Library and looted the Sanctum Sanctorum.
• Wong opened a portal to Latveria, where Du Mu shot attacking super-zombies and followed the Living Tome’s directions northwest.
• Du Mu forced his way through the magical barrier around a castle and confronted Doctor Doom, who attacked him with green magic.
• Du Mu countered Doom’s blast and accused him of imitating the great God Emperor Du Mu.

Du Mu and Doctor Doom fought before agreeing to defend Doom’s castle while he evacuated Latveria through a parallel-world device. Du Mu found that the Darkhold was only one of four fragments, then prepared to search other worlds for the rest.

• Du Mu and Doctor Doom fought, denied being counterparts, and agreed that Doctor Doom would give Du Mu the Darkhold in exchange for help protecting his castle.
• Doctor Doom showed Du Mu, Wong, and Dracula the zombie-ravaged Earth and explained his plan to evacuate Latveria through a Parallel World Traversal Device.
• Du Mu accepted the castle-defense quest, and Doctor Doom directed him to the castle Library, where he found the Book of the Dead, a Darkhold fragment.
• Du Mu shocked the Book of the Dead until it revealed that Wanda had split the Darkhold into four fragments scattered across parallel worlds.
• Du Mu told Dracula to locate the next fragment, Wong chose to travel with Du Mu, and Du Mu ordered Wong to help loot the castle.

Du Mu, Doctor Doom, and Wong fought to protect Latveria’s evacuating civilians from an army of super zombies while the Trans-Dimensional Device calibrated. Du Mu seized Thor’s Hammer and faced the charging Zombie Hulk outside the castle.

• Doctor Doom warned Du Mu and Wong that more than a hundred super zombies would reach the castle before the Trans-Dimensional Device was ready.
• Du Mu, Doctor Doom, and Wong defended the castle as combat robots battled the advancing horde; Wong wielded Du Mu’s magical Gatling gun, and Du Mu deployed a Peashooter.
• Zombie Thor attacked with lightning and Thor’s Hammer, but Du Mu absorbed the lightning and caught the hammer, which no longer recognized Thor as its wielder.
• Zombie Hulk charged toward the castle, and Du Mu jumped from the terrace with Thor’s Hammer, declaring himself Thor.

Du Mu fought off the Super Zombies threatening the castle, using his Shadow Soldiers, stored electricity, hellfire, and a Jalapeno bomb while Doctor Doom rejoined the battle. The chapter ended with Captain Marvel charging at Du Mu and calling him a snack.

• Du Mu used Thor's Hammer to blast Zombie Hulk, then summoned Shadow Soldiers led by the shadows of Corvus Glaive and Apocalypse to battle the Super Zombies.
• Du Mu caught Zombie Captain America's shield, fought the attackers with electricity and Thor's Hammer, and burned Zombie Wolverine down to his adamantium skeleton.
• Du Mu sent hellfire-powered Ultron Robots after the Zombie X-Men and fought the surrounding Super Zombies with two Thor's Hammers.
• Du Mu threw a Jalapeno into the densest part of the horde, opening a clearing, then fought Zombie Hulk and met Juggernaut's charge head-on.
• Doctor Doom landed beside Du Mu, and the two joined shields to stop Captain Marvel before blasting her back.
• Captain Marvel recovered and focused on Du Mu, calling him a snack.

Du Mu fought Zombie Captain Marvel while Doctor Doom held off the other Super Zombies and the citizens of Latveria evacuated. After overpowering her with a Strength Pill, Du Mu pinned her with Thor’s Hammer and killed her with the Spear of Longinus.

• Du Mu recognized Zombie Captain Marvel, who remembered his earlier escape, and asked Doctor Doom to hold off the other Super Zombies while he fought her.
• Du Mu swallowed a Strength Pill, taunted Zombie Captain Marvel, and defeated her in a clash of strength, forcing their battle away from the castle.
• Zombie Captain Marvel’s photon blasts and charging attack drove Du Mu into a crater, but he redirected her beam, shocked her, and battered her with his helmet and fists.
• Du Mu hurled Zombie Captain Marvel into the ground and pinned her chest with Thor’s Hammer.
• Du Mu pierced Zombie Captain Marvel’s head with the Spear of Longinus, killing her.

Du Mu used Thor's Hammer to kill zombified Captain Marvel and then fought alongside Doctor Doom against the super zombies. After Du Mu cured Doctor Doom's infection and defeated Juggernaut and Hulk, zombified Sentinel arrived to challenge him.

• Du Mu exploited Thor's Hammer's rules to kill zombified Captain Marvel and unlocked the Justice Bane title.
• Du Mu joined Doctor Doom in battling the super zombies and learned Doctor Doom had been infected with the Zombie Virus.
• Du Mu and Doctor Doom fought off Juggernaut, with Du Mu killing him using Thor's Hammer and the Spear of Longinus.
• Du Mu overpowered Zombie Hulk and killed him with the Spear of Longinus.
• Du Mu revealed that Purification had removed Doctor Doom's infection but could not cure zombies who had completed their transformation.
• Zombified Sentinel appeared, and Doctor Doom prepared to hold him off while Du Mu evacuated Latveria's people.

Du Mu and Doctor Doom fought Zombie Sentinel, whose overwhelming strength repeatedly pushed Du Mu back. Doctor Doom borrowed escalating power from dark forces to restrain Zombie Sentinel, while Du Mu used a Disco Ball to make him dance at the chapter’s end.

• Du Mu and Doctor Doom attacked Zombie Sentinel, but he broke their defenses and struck them both back.
• Du Mu fought Zombie Sentinel hand to hand, using solar energy to grow stronger, but could not gain the advantage.
• Doctor Doom returned and used borrowed black magic to bind Zombie Sentinel with tentacles, but Zombie Sentinel tore free and attacked Du Mu again.
• Doctor Doom borrowed more power and trapped Zombie Sentinel in an enormous black hand, but Zombie Sentinel burned free and turned on Doom.
• Du Mu tried to stab Zombie Sentinel with the Spear of Longinus, but Zombie Sentinel caught him and moved to bite his head.
• Du Mu threw a Disco Ball, and its music forced Zombie Sentinel to dance.

Du Mu used a Disco Ball to immobilize the Super Zombies and help Doctor Doom evacuate Latveria, then escaped the Zombie Universe with Wong and Dracula after the effect wore off. In a new city, Du Mu collected his mission rewards and reflected that he had once again fled the Zombie Universe rather than fight its strongest zombie.

• Du Mu and Zombie Sentinel were forced to dance by the Disco Ball, and Doctor Doom and the Super Zombies joined in after entering its range.
• Wong opened portals that took Du Mu and Doctor Doom beyond the Disco Ball's reach, and Du Mu sent Doctor Doom to evacuate his people while the zombies remained distracted.
• Doctor Doom gave Du Mu his damaged armor, then Wong brought Du Mu back to the Library, where Dracula had located the other Darkhold Fragment coordinates.
• Doctor Doom destroyed the Trans-Dimensional Device after evacuating Latveria, completing the mission and earning Du Mu experience, attribute points, a Defibrillator, a Necromancy Scroll, and Crazy Dave's Frying Pan.
• Zombie Sentinel and the Super Zombies regained control and rushed the Library, but Du Mu took Dracula and Wong through a portal before they arrived.
• Du Mu, Dracula, and Wong landed in a safe city, where Du Mu considered the rewards and his escape from Zombie Sentinel.

Du Mu arrived in a parallel New York, learned that the Avengers had disbanded and S.H.I.E.L.D. had rebuilt itself underground, and entered its secret base to retrieve a Darkhold Fragment. When S.H.I.E.L.D. assembled its agents to search for two kidnapped colleagues, Du Mu recognized the director and Coulson as the very bio-synthetic infiltrators they claimed to be hunting.

• Du Mu used the Book of the Dead to locate the Darkhold Fragment and had Wong drive him and Dracula toward it while Ultron researched the parallel world.
• Du Mu learned that the Avengers had split over the Sokovia Accords, that Ultron had destroyed Sokovia in this world, and that S.H.I.E.L.D. had survived Hydra's exposure and returned under Director Mace.
• Du Mu discovered that the Darkhold Fragment was inside S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Playground base, left Dracula and Wong behind, and used Ultron to bypass the base's security.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents escorted Du Mu to an emergency assembly after an alarm sounded, where Mace and Coulson announced that Daisy Johnson and Jemma Simmons had been kidnapped and replaced by bio-synthetic robots.
• Du Mu recognized Mace and Coulson as bio-synthetic robots themselves as the agents dispersed to search the base.