Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hen confronted Ultron in Korea and demonstrated overwhelming power, destroying the robot attacking him and then wiping out Ultron’s robotic avatars across the country. The Avengers watched him warily as Ultron threatened revenge.

• Ultron’s robot charged Xiao Hen, but an invisible barrier stopped its fist from reaching him.
• Xiao Hen released his aura and destroyed the robot with a flash of light, astonishing Captain America, Black Widow, Wanda, and Quicksilver.
• Captain America and Black Widow discussed whether they could trust Xiao Hen, while Tony and Banner defended their creation of Ultron over the Avengers’ earpieces.
• Ultron threatened Xiao Hen from among a large force of robots, and Xiao Hen said he would leave none of its Korea-based avatars standing.
• Xiao Hen unleashed a strange force across Korea, causing the Ultron robots there to explode as Wanda sensed the power covering the land.

After helping defeat Ultron’s robots in Seoul, Xiao Hen considered Captain America’s invitation to join the Avengers but left without deciding. He obtained the Mind Stone and learned that mysterious enemies were plotting against him, while the Reality Stone and Time Stone remained to be collected.

• Captain America invited Xiao Hen to join the Avengers, but Black Widow urged him to discuss the decision with the team, and Xiao Hen said he would think it over.
• Xiao Hen left Seoul, wary of attracting the attention of powerful beings such as TOAA if he gathered the Infinity Stones.
• Two figures watched Seoul and lamented that Xiao Hen had survived their attack and now possessed the Space Stone and Mind Stone.
• Xiao Hen sensed a familiar aura from North America and realized something about the mysterious figures watching him.
• The Main God Avatar removed the Mind Stone from the sleeping Vision and sent it to Xiao Hen, who grasped it along with a strand of divine power.

Xiao Hen oversaw the creation of a Vibranium-based Archangel Mecha, which he named the Twelve-winged Angel, and planned to award it to the winner of the War of the Saintesses. The war would proceed in the Divine Kingdom while the Main God Avatar investigated a universe where a Heart of the Angel had been imprisoned.

• Xiao Hen considered where the Reality Stone might be and concluded that the Time Stone was the easiest Infinity Stone to obtain.
• At the Star Walker base, Xiao Hen ordered the Koolm scientists to use their remaining Vibranium to build an Archangel Mecha rather than other devices.
• Half a month later, the scientists presented a fiery-red mecha, and Xiao Hen named it the Twelve-winged Angel.
• The Number One Avatar told the Number Two Avatar that the mecha's power would depend on its angel pilot and that it would be the first-place reward in the War of the Saintesses.
• The Number One Avatar decided to preside over the war in the Divine Kingdom, while the Main God Avatar continued investigating the imprisoned Heart of the Angel in another multiverse.

Xiao Hen attacked Schmidt to seize the Cosmic Cube, but Stephen Strange intervened and froze time around him. A second Xiao Hen appeared and revealed himself as Xiao Hen from the future.

• Xiao Hen sent TX, Arnold, and the T-800s to attack the base’s main gate while he headed for the underground laboratory.
• John killed Dr. Zola but failed to stop Schmidt from escaping with the Cosmic Cube, so Xiao Hen pursued them.
• Xiao Hen confronted Schmidt and prepared to kill him and take the Cosmic Cube, but Stephen Strange blocked his sword strike.
• Strange froze time and attacked Xiao Hen, who tried to summon the Shuttle to escape.
• A second Xiao Hen appeared, and Strange recognized him as Xiao Hen from the future.

Future Xiao Hen confronted Doctor Strange and Ancient One, who had traveled back to stop the cosmic war they believed he would cause. After they escaped, he spoke with his past self and sent him back to his own path.

• Xiao Hen questioned Strange and Ancient One about why they wanted to kill him, and learned they had come from the future to prevent his cosmic war.
• Xiao Hen stopped Schmidt, took the Cosmic Cube, and gave it to his past self, explaining that the Space Stone could not be duplicated within one spacetime.
• Ancient One explained that Strange had come from the future to protect Earth, and the two tried to flee when Xiao Hen attacked.
• Strange and Ancient One vanished using the Time Stone, leaving Xiao Hen unable to identify which timeline they had escaped to.
• Xiao Hen told his past self not to interfere with his future experiences, confirmed that his time-travel ability did not come from the Terminator World, and watched him return.

Xiao Hen left the past timeline with the Mind Stone and returned to New York, where the Avengers debated whether he posed a threat. After studying the Mind Stone and Space Stone, Xiao Hen was confronted by Nick Fury, who demanded that he hand over Vision’s body and the Mind Stone.

• Xiao Hen considered how taking Vibranium from the past might affect the future, then left the timeline.
• Thor, Captain America, Tony, Black Widow, and the others discussed the Mind Stone and agreed to search for Xiao Hen while prioritizing the hunt for Ultron.
• Xiao Hen checked into a New York hotel and discovered that the Mind Stone strengthened his mental abilities while the Space Stone amplified his spatial power.
• Nick Fury tracked Xiao Hen to his hotel and demanded that he surrender Vision’s body and the Mind Stone.

Xiao Hen refused Nick Fury’s demand to return the items he had taken from Ultron and considered which high-level items to buy with his Plot Points. He exchanged for a second Main Godhead.

• Nick Fury asked Xiao Hen to return the government’s items, but Xiao Hen refused, arguing that he had taken them from Ultron.
• Nick Fury left after warning Xiao Hen to reconsider, while Xiao Hen dismissed the government’s offer as inadequate.
• Xiao Hen reviewed the Shuttle’s remaining items and weighed their usefulness against the coming fight for the Infinity Gauntlet and Infinity Stones.
• Xiao Hen asked the Shuttle why the Kroatia Xerxes-class flagship lacked a Unified Force Field, and the Shuttle explained that the force fields had been lost and the Neutron Star Fortress came from another civilization.
• Xiao Hen confirmed his exchange for the Main Godhead.

Xiao Hen gave the Insectoid Mother Queen a soul derived from his own before having her fuse with the Main Godhead, aiming to create a powerful force he could control. She emerged as a newborn woman with a strange detection-blocking crystal, and Xiao Hen began teaching her while examining her new strength.

• Xiao Hen chose the Insectoid Mother Queen as the bearer of the final Main Godhead but struggled to find a way to keep her under his control.
• Xiao Hen's Main God Avatar devised a plan, and Xiao Hen separated part of his soul and implanted it in the Mother Queen.
• The soul fused with the Mother Queen over several days, after which Xiao Hen sent the Main Godhead into her body.
• The Mother Queen fused with the Main Godhead, and her giant egg shrank before breaking open to reveal a sixteen-meter-tall woman.
• Xiao Hen connected with the newborn Mother Queen through Divine Sense, taught her, and began investigating her strength and secrets.

Xiao Hen hesitated to send Elise into the dangerous Marvel Universe, then chose a different Level 8 civilization as a place for her to expand the Insectoid Race. He left Elise there with a weak avatar, setting the stage for the civilization to face the growing Insectoid army.

• At Xiao Hen's instruction, Elise used her Authority of Creation to make a Level 1 Overlord that could produce Insectoid units.
• Xiao Hen considered using Elise and the Insectoid Race to help him obtain the Infinity Stones and Gauntlet, but feared the dangers of the Marvel Universe and rejected the idea of sending an Overlord alone.
• After ruling out the slow-growing Xenomorphs and angels occupied by the coming War of the Saintesses, Xiao Hen decided to take Elise to a mysterious Level 8 civilization in another plane.
• Xiao Hen took Elise to the unfamiliar universe, then returned to the Marvel Universe a few days later and left a weak avatar with her.
• Elise, whose combat power had reached five million, began facing the unfamiliar universe with the Insectoid Race.

Xiao Hen returned to the Marvel Universe and prepared to search the Milky Way for the Reality Stone, but Professor X contacted him on behalf of the government to request the Mind Stone. Xiao Hen refused and put his galactic plans on hold while considering an alliance with Magneto or building a faction of his own.

• Xiao Hen considered the limits of his Infinity Stone research and planned to search the Milky Way for the Reality Stone, while cautiously avoiding Thanos's territory.
• Professor X contacted Xiao Hen telepathically and asked whether he was human, prompting a dispute about mutants and whether they should use their powers to advance civilization.
• Professor X revealed that he had come on behalf of the government to obtain the Mind Stone, but Xiao Hen refused to surrender it and ended their mental link.
• Xiao Hen suspected Nick Fury had sent Professor X and decided to pause his search of the galaxy while considering cooperation with Magneto or forming his own faction.

Xiao Hen searched for the Reality Stone on a trading planet and discovered that Thanos had already taken it. After Xiao Hen left, Thanos descended and destroyed the city around the Collector, who knelt before him.

• Xiao Hen arrived on the trading planet and located the Collector, Tivan, in his skyscraper office.
• Xiao Hen overheard Tivan negotiating with Star-Lord and realized the Guardians of the Galaxy had not yet formed.
• Xiao Hen entered Tivan’s office, froze time throughout the building, and searched Tivan’s memories for the Reality Stone.
• Xiao Hen saw Thanos in Tivan’s memories, but Thanos sensed the intrusion and shattered the memories; Xiao Hen realized the Reality Stone was already in Thanos’s hands and left.
• Thanos forced his way into Tivan’s office, destroyed the building and everything within thirty kilometers, and Tivan knelt before him.

After escaping Thanos, Xiao Hen arrived on a primitive planet and encountered Star-Lord, who was searching for the Cosmic Orb. Xiao Hen stayed behind as Star-Lord retrieved the Orb, while Ronan began targeting him for the Power Stone.

• Xiao Hen escaped Thanos and teleported to an uninhabited primitive planet.
• Star-Lord detected Xiao Hen, landed, and offered to help him; Xiao Hen claimed pirates had stranded him there.
• Xiao Hen suggested waiting on the planet while Star-Lord completed his task, and Star-Lord agreed before flying away.
• Star-Lord explored an ancient structure, obtained the Cosmic Orb, and dealt with people who tried to rob him.
• Xiao Hen learned through his Divine Sense that Ronan had set his sights on Star-Lord and the Power Stone.

Xiao Hen traveled with Star-Lord and Nebula to Xandar, where Star-Lord tried to sell the Cosmic Orb to a broker. After the broker rejected him, Gamora appeared, having been sent by Ronan to seize the Orb.

• Xiao Hen joined Star-Lord’s ship bound for Xandar and decided to wait for Ronan to obtain the Power Stone instead of taking it from Star-Lord.
• Nebula warned Star-Lord that Xiao Hen might be a Kree spy, while Xiao Hen told Star-Lord that he came from Earth.
• Star-Lord and Nebula parted ways with Xiao Hen after the ship arrived at Xandar, and Xiao Hen explored the planet.
• Star-Lord went to a broker to sell the Cosmic Orb, but the broker threw him out after Star-Lord mentioned Ronan.
• Gamora, sent by Ronan to seize the Cosmic Orb, watched Star-Lord outside the broker’s building.

Xiao Hen waited on Xandar as Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket, and Groot were arrested and taken to Kyln Prison. He anticipated Ronan’s attack, and the chapter ended as Ronan’s warship appeared beyond Xandar.

• Xiao Hen watched Star-Lord and Gamora fight over the Cosmic Orb, while Rocket and Groot joined the ensuing brawl.
• The Nova Corps arrested Rocket, Groot, Star-Lord, and the unconscious Gamora, then took them to Kyln Prison.
• Xiao Hen stayed on Xandar, considering the Infinity Stones and waiting for the events leading to the coming war to unfold.
• The Nova Empire continued clashing with Ronan’s forces as Ronan attacked its bases across the galaxy.
• Xiao Hen spotted Ronan’s enormous black warship in the void beyond Xandar.

Xiao Hen redeemed a massive Kroatia Xerxes-class Starship and brought out his smaller Marseille-class vessel as Ronan advanced on Xandar with the Power Stone. Star-Lord, Gamora, Yondu, and their allies pursued Ronan while Xandar’s defenses prepared for battle.

• Xiao Hen considered Ronan’s approach and returned to the Super String Space to redeem a Kroatia Xerxes-class Starship for six million plot points.
• Xiao Hen summoned his Marseille-class starship, judging the newly redeemed vessel too conspicuous to use near Xandar.
• Ronan learned that the Ravagers had followed him and warned Xandar, then ordered his forces to ignore the fighters and accelerate toward the planet.
• Star-Lord and Gamora launched fighters to pursue Ronan, while Yondu stayed behind to direct his crew’s attack.
• Xandar’s garrison prepared to defend the planet after Ronan’s warship appeared and began closing in.

As Ronan's Dark Aster descended on Xandar, the Nova Corps activated its Fortress Defense Network while Star-Lord and his allies stormed the warship. Ronan defeated them and destroyed the defensive fighters, and as he prepared to unleash the Power Stone on the planet, Xiao Hen decided to intervene.

• The Empress ordered the Nova Corps garrison to activate the Fortress Defense Network and hold back the Dark Aster while residents were evacuated.
• Rocket broke through the Dark Aster's defenses, and Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, and Groot followed him inside to fight their way toward Ronan.
• Xiao Hen emerged from Super String Space and surveyed the battle as Star-Lord and his allies found Ronan in the Main Control Room.
• Ronan blocked Star-Lord's explosive attack with the Power Stone and struck the group down with his hammer.
• Ronan shattered thousands of linked Nova Corps fighters, then crashed the Dark Aster into Xandar after the evacuation had moved most residents to safety.
• Ronan leaped from the warship and raised his hammer to destroy Xandar, while Xiao Hen decided he had to act.

Xiao Hen stopped Ronan from using the Power Stone to destroy Xandar and took the stone for himself. He revealed that he sought the Infinity Stones for his own purposes and prepared to kill Ronan.

• The Empress refused to flee Xandar and ordered the Nova forces to aim every weapon at Ronan.
• As Ronan brought his hammer down to destroy Xandar, Xiao Hen grabbed it and stopped the strike.
• Xiao Hen shattered Ronan's hammer, caught the Power Stone unharmed, and explained that it embodied energy, one of the universe's six fundamental forces.
• Ronan demanded the Power Stone and asked whether Thanos had sent Xiao Hen, but Xiao Hen said he was not on Thanos's side and intended to keep the stone.
• Xiao Hen put away the Power Stone and told Ronan he could die.

Xiao Hen killed Ronan on Xandar, took the Power Stone, and left before meeting the Nova Empire’s leaders. He confronted Thanos through an illusion and learned that Thanos planned to destroy Earth.

• The Nova Empire’s Empress ordered officials to prepare the highest honors for Xiao Hen after he killed Ronan.
• Star-Lord woke up, learned that Xiao Hen had defeated Ronan, and realized he had unknowingly brought a powerful ally to Xandar.
• Xiao Hen collected the Power Stone, sensed a strange fluctuation, and used the Space Stone to return to Earth while leaving an illusion behind.
• Thanos appeared before Xiao Hen’s illusion, confirmed that Xiao Hen had taken the Power Stone, and warned him that Earth would soon face destruction.
• Xiao Hen considered the threats to Earth and thought that the Avengers, Asgard, and Odin could oppose Thanos and his forces.

Xiao Hen traced Strange through time and searched the past for five months before locating his hiding place in ancient North America. He arrived outside the rainforest where Strange was sheltering with the Ancient One, and the chapter ended as he descended nearby.

• Xiao Hen concluded he had to find the Time Stone within a year before Thanos reached Earth.
• The Main God Avatar spent three months tracing Strange’s timeline and sent Xiao Hen back 6,500 years.
• Xiao Hen searched settlements across Europe, Egypt, Asia, and Africa without alerting Strange.
• After five months, Xiao Hen found Strange meditating with the Ancient One in a rainforest in North America.
• Strange asked the Ancient One about their chances against Xiao Hen, and she said she had seen him destroy the world and kill Strange.
• Xiao Hen descended from the sky outside the rainforest.

Xiao Hen cornered Ancient One and Strange to claim the Time Stone, sealing Earth’s space-time to prevent their escape. Ancient One died helping Strange flee, but Xiao Hen caught him and retrieved the Eye of Agamotto after Strange cast it into a space-time fissure.

• Xiao Hen found Ancient One and Strange at the cabin and sealed the surrounding space-time before demanding the Time Stone.
• Ancient One opened a portal and sent Strange to a desert, sacrificing herself as Xiao Hen killed her.
• Strange tried to escape through time, but Xiao Hen revealed that he had sealed all of Earth and showed Strange Ancient One’s corpse.
• Strange tore open a space-time fissure and threw the Eye of Agamotto inside rather than surrender the Time Stone.
• Xiao Hen entered the fissure, retrieved the Eye of Agamotto, and appeared before Strange.