Recaps

Xiang Qian told Wong and Stephen Strange that Death and Eternity were fighting over the Soul Universe, leaving Earth vulnerable to a prolonged proxy war. The group concluded that they had to prepare for an invasion, while the threat of the Soul Universe colliding with their own remained unresolved.

• Xiang Qian explained that Death and Eternity both sought the Soul Universe, and Wong and Strange realized neither side could safely be appeased.
• Xiang Qian warned that Death could use agents from the Hell Dimension to attack Earth while Eternity and Death remained deadlocked.
• Strange suggested separating the Soul Universe from Xiang Qian, but Xiang Qian explained that its two-hundred-million-light-year diameter made it impossible to contain safely.
• Xiang Qian said a collision between the Soul Universe and their universe could merge or destroy both, and either outcome would doom Earth.
• Wong urged them to reinforce the Dimensional Barrier and prepare for war, then demanded that Xiang Qian send their spiritual consciousnesses out of his mind.

After Wanda’s telepathic bond with Xiang Qian exposed his memories and feelings, Jean concluded that the bond made them share affection, while Magik fled in embarrassment. Xiang Qian left alone with Wanda, who was about to ask him about Magneto after seeing a DNA test report in his memories.

• Jean and Magik left the Soul Realm, and Wanda ran off after becoming flustered about facing Xiang Qian alone.
• Wanda admitted she could not sever her telepathic bond with Xiang Qian, and Jean suggested that their feelings were influencing each other.
• Wanda revealed that Xiang Qian’s memories included intimate thoughts about Magik, making Magik blush and teleport back to Limbo.
• Jean inferred that Wanda’s affection reflected Xiang Qian’s feelings, then went to sleep while Xiang Qian took Wanda outside.
• Xiang Qian sensed Wanda’s hesitation through their bond, and realized she had seen a DNA test report about Magneto in his memories.

Wanda learned that Magneto was her father and that Lorna was likely another of his daughters, so she and Xiang Qian sought Professor Xavier’s help locating him. Their visit was interrupted by Deadpool, whose arrival ended with Xiang Qian magically silencing him.

• Wanda accepted that Magneto was her father and asked Xiang Qian where he was, but Xiang Qian said they needed to ask Professor Xavier.
• Xiang Qian revealed that Lorna was likely another of Magneto’s daughters, and Jean suggested Charles tell her.
• Jean, Wanda, and Xiang Qian entered Professor Xavier’s office while Deadpool loudly complained to Colossus in the hall.
• Deadpool turned around, startling Wanda with his appearance, then rushed toward Xiang Qian and introduced himself as a service provider.
• Xiang Qian restrained Deadpool with magic and silenced him, and the others asked who the avocado-looking man was.

Xiang Qian learned that Cable had traveled from the future to hunt Russell Collins and discovered that Juggernaut was imprisoned in the same facility Deadpool wanted to raid. He then revealed DNA reports identifying Wanda and Lorna as Magneto’s daughters, leaving the X-Mansion crowd to examine the results and question how he obtained the samples.

• Xiang Qian learned from Colossus that Deadpool wanted help rescuing Russell Collins from prison before Cable could pursue him, and that Cable had supposedly come from the future.
• Professor Xavier explained that the prison was a legitimate facility for mutant criminals and revealed that Juggernaut, who might know Magneto’s whereabouts, was also held there.
• Xiang Qian decided he needed to meet Cable and seek out Magneto, then had Colossus carry Deadpool out of the mansion with his mouth still sealed.
• Deadpool ranted about Xiang Qian as Colossus carried him through the gates, where the spell wore off and he was left outside.
• Xiang Qian presented DNA reports identifying Wanda and Lorna as Magneto’s daughters, revealed that he had secretly helped Lorna before, and faced questions from Cyclops and Beast about the samples and their accuracy.

Xiang Qian went to intercept a mobile prison to find Juggernaut, but arrived after Deadpool’s chaotic rescue attempt had wrecked the convoy. He learned Juggernaut had left with Russell Collins, then took Deadpool and the Black woman through a portal to Hell’s Kitchen.

• Xiang Qian and the X-Mansion mutants prepared to break Juggernaut out of the mobile prison holding mutant criminals.
• Deadpool’s rescue attempt caused a massive crash that destroyed the prison convoy and left him torn in half beside a Black woman with an afro.
• Xiang Qian sealed Deadpool’s mouth with magic, trapped him in asphalt, and questioned the woman about the wreck.
• The woman explained that Deadpool had recruited a team to rescue Russell Collins, and that a man called Thanos had appeared before Juggernaut folded Deadpool in half.
• Xiang Qian learned that Juggernaut had left with Russell Collins and opened a portal to take the woman and Deadpool to Hell’s Kitchen.
• After they arrived, Deadpool argued with the woman about her luck, Xiang Qian, and the fee she was owed.

Xiang Qian tracked down Cable and took the electronic bracelet Cable used to travel through time, hoping to study it. Cable revealed he had picked it up while pursuing a mysterious target named Kang, and Xiang Qian left him free to continue his mission.

• Xiang Qian traced the man who fought Deadpool to his hideout using surveillance footage and vehicles reported stolen nearby.
• Cable opened fire on Xiang Qian, but Xiang Qian stopped the bullets and trapped Cable in the Mirror Dimension.
• Xiang Qian questioned Cable about being called Thanos and whether he had traveled from the future, then identified Cable's electronic bracelet as his time-travel device.
• Cable warned Xiang Qian not to take the bracelet, but Xiang Qian removed it and promised to return it after studying it.
• Cable said he had found the bracelet while pursuing Kang on a strange mercenary mission, and Xiang Qian encouraged him to continue his plans while he investigated whether Cable could change history.

Xiang Qian asked Tony Stark to help him find Hope van Dyne so he could obtain Pym particles and mass-produce a time-travel device. Tony agreed to help in exchange for borrowing the device, but Xiang Qian refused to let him change history, leaving Tony furious and grieving over his parents’ deaths.

• Xiang Qian used Cable’s time-space device to send white mice five minutes into the future, and Tony Stark’s tests detected quantum fields and Entropy.
• Xiang Qian explained that the device’s time-travel route passed through the Quantum Realm and said he needed Pym particles to reproduce it.
• Tony said he had no news of Dr. Pym, so Xiang Qian showed him a photo of Pym’s daughter, Hope van Dyne, and asked him to find her.
• Tony agreed to help Xiang Qian find Hope in exchange for borrowing the time machine, while Xiang Qian forbade him from changing history.
• Xiang Qian warned Tony that time travel could only create another possibility, not alter their reality, and Tony angrily questioned why he had to live in a world where his parents were dead.

Xiang Qian told Tony that he had traveled through time 127 times to save his parents, but none of those trips changed their world. After revealing Tony and Pepper’s possible future daughter, Morgan, Xiang Qian persuaded Tony to help locate Hank Pym while keeping the conversation from Pepper.

• Xiang Qian told Tony that he had made 127 time-travel trips, saved his parents each time, and found that his world remained unchanged.
• Xiang Qian explained that he had lived roughly 340 years across other timelines and aged far more slowly than ordinary people.
• Xiang Qian told Tony that in one timeline Tony and Pepper had married and had a daughter named Morgan.
• When Pepper returned and asked about a child's name, Xiang Qian and Tony pretended they had been discussing Hank Pym's daughter, Hope van Dyne.
• Xiang Qian asked Tony to help find Hank Pym, and Tony agreed to try after Xiang Qian threatened to expose his past with Hope.

Xiang Qian learned that Russell Collins and Juggernaut were heading to a rehabilitation center where Russell planned to take revenge, while the X-Men arranged to help without intervening directly. After Xiang Qian left, Professor Xavier secretly watched Logan and wondered whether their past actions together had been pointless.

• Beast Hank told Xiang Qian that Russell Collins had escaped from a special rehabilitation center and was likely returning with Juggernaut to take revenge.
• Professor Xavier said the X-Men would not intervene directly but had leaked Russell's whereabouts to Cable and would send Piotr and the Young X-Men to help Wade Wilson.
• Xiang Qian told Professor Xavier that Cable's efforts would be pointless and promised to explain the matter after returning.
• After Xiang Qian left, Professor Xavier secretly used telepathy to watch Logan and wondered whether their past actions together had also been pointless.
• Logan sensed something, looked around, then turned away after seeing Xiang Qian and Jean walking together.

Xiang Qian, Wanda, Colossus, and Selene traveled to the rehabilitation center while Xiang Qian and Wanda tested her telepathy. They arrived to find the center in ruins, where Deadpool and Juggernaut appeared, and Xiang Qian stayed back to avoid complicating his plans to question Juggernaut about Magneto.

• Xiang Qian teased Colossus during the drive while Wanda admitted she knew Xiang Qian had said similar things to Magik.
• Xiang Qian and Wanda spent the journey testing the range of Wanda's telepathic abilities.
• The group arrived at the rehabilitation center and found its gate destroyed and staff members dead.
• Deadpool appeared with a steel bar through his head, and Colossus pulled it free to restore his thinking.
• Juggernaut emerged from the courtyard, and Deadpool went deeper into the center while Colossus and Selene faced him.
• Xiang Qian refused to leave the car, saying he needed to ask Juggernaut about Magneto and did not want to escalate their conflict.

Xiang Qian discovered that Juggernaut’s strength came from dangerous dimensional magic, then rescued Selene and revived Deadpool after Deadpool tried to die to change Russell Collins’s future. Deadpool admitted he had wanted to see Death, leaving Xiang Qian stunned by their relationship.

• Juggernaut nearly defeated Colossus and Selene, while Xiang Qian examined the magical power within Juggernaut and used subspace to protect the car.
• Xiang Qian secretly helped Selene evade Juggernaut, and Colossus incapacitated Juggernaut with a high-voltage power line.
• Xiang Qian sensed death magic at the rehabilitation center and found Deadpool apparently dead after taking a bullet for Russell Collins and wearing a collar that suppressed his healing.
• Xiang Qian refused Cable’s demand for the time-travel device, shattered Deadpool’s collar, and restored Deadpool to life.
• Xiang Qian restrained Deadpool and questioned him, learning that Deadpool had met Death and had wanted to die so he could see her again.

Xiang Qian learned from Deadpool that Thanos and Death had a secret relationship, then returned to the X-Mansion with Juggernaut. Professor Xavier asked about time travel, and Xiang Qian argued that Logan’s trip to 1973 had created a parallel universe, leaving Xavier to reconsider the history he remembered.

• Deadpool recounted his tangled grudge with Death and Thanos, alerting Xiang Qian to their secret relationship.
• Xiang Qian took Juggernaut back to the X-Mansion and handed him over to Professor Xavier while asking about Magneto.
• Professor Xavier asked Xiang Qian to explain why Cable’s attempt to change the past was futile and revealed that Logan’s consciousness had traveled to 1973 through Kitty’s ability.
• Xiang Qian explained that Logan had come from another world and that his arrival had created a branching timeline rather than changed their history.
• Professor Xavier recalled that Logan had misremembered Pietro Maximoff as someone who could help them, and Xiang Qian pointed out that Pietro and Wanda had not yet been born in 1973.

Xiang Qian discussed the Sentinel Program and alternate timelines with Professor Xavier, then returned to Kamar-Taj and probed the Eye of Agamotto. The chapter left him investigating the Time Stone’s depths.

• Professor Xavier showed Xiang Qian surveillance records of people and companies once connected to the Sentinel Program, which he had secretly monitored.
• Xiang Qian explained that the future Logan’s world and Cable’s fate were only possibilities among infinite timelines.
• Xiang Qian left Professor Xavier after joking about Magneto meeting his grandson, while Wanda stayed behind with her newly discovered sister and nephew.
• Xiang Qian returned alone to Kamar-Taj and entered the forbidden chamber where Stephen Strange had stored the Eye of Agamotto.
• Xiang Qian opened the Eye’s casing and sent most of his consciousness into the gem, reaching its core without obstruction.

Xiang Qian absorbed the Time Stone’s laws and used his understanding of time and space to reverse and collapse the Soul Universe, engraving time laws into it. As the universe reached a singularity and began the Big Bang, the Phoenix chick greeted Xiang Qian as its father.

• Xiang Qian entered the Time Stone’s core and built a magical memory system to bear its laws of time without linking the stone to his Soul Universe.
• Xiang Qian perceived countless timelines and a vast, chaotic realm but could not find the presence he sought, so he withdrew from the Time Stone.
• Xiang Qian combined his knowledge of the Time Stone with his quantum-world research to deepen his understanding of time and space.
• Xiang Qian enveloped the Soul Universe with his consciousness and reversed its expansion, engraving time laws into the collapsing cosmos.
• The Phoenix chick sensed Xiang Qian, flew to him with joyful cries, and regarded him as its father.
• Xiang Qian compressed the Soul Universe into a singularity, and the Big Bang began.

After Xiang Qian rebuilt the laws of time and watched the Soul Universe expand, Eternity entered the Soul Realm and explained that its growth depended on Xiang Qian writing its laws rather than Death imposing hers. Eternity revealed that Xiang Qian’s timeline had a short, single-lane section and said that when the Soul Universe reached perfection, Xiang Qian would leave no trace yet be everywhere.

• Eternity appeared in the Soul Realm and told Xiang Qian that he was glad to see the Soul Universe mature.
• Eternity explained that he had stopped Death because the Soul Universe needed laws written by Xiang Qian, not laws imposed by Death.
• Xiang Qian told Eternity that he had found no other version of himself across the timelines, and Eternity answered that this was both true and untrue.
• Eternity explained that Xiang Qian’s timeline was single-lane only from 1983 to a point not far in the future, while the rest was normal.
• Eternity said he could not know when the Soul Universe would reach perfection and told Xiang Qian that he would then leave no trace yet be everywhere.

Xiang Qian spoke with Eternity, who warned him that Death would send enemies he could not stop and promised to seek an agreement when Xiang Qian's Soul Universe was complete. After questioning Eternity's motives and collapsing from exhaustion, Xiang Qian was rescued by Wanda, whose improvised portal spell wrecked the forbidden chamber before they fled.

• Eternity told Xiang Qian that it wanted a promise once his Soul Universe was complete and warned that Death's next agents would be beyond its power to stop.
• Xiang Qian left the Soul Realm and wondered whether Eternity had arranged for Ancient One to leave so he would investigate the Time Stone and discover the truth about the timeline.
• Wanda sensed Xiang Qian weakening, used his memories to learn how to open a portal, and found him in the forbidden chamber.
• Wanda's unstable portal shattered and unleashed magic that sent bookshelves, artifacts, and other objects flying through the chamber.
• Xiang Qian opened a short-distance portal, grabbed Wanda, and escaped before Wong arrived.

While Xiang Qian slept, his Soul Universe’s expanding galaxies spilled into Wanda’s room, and she used Chaos Magic to contain them. As Xiang Qian recovered inside his Soul Realm, he considered what it meant for the universe’s laws of time to be complete, ending without knowing what flaw Eternity had identified.

• Wanda watched galaxies manifest around the sleeping Xiang Qian as his exhausted mind lost control of projections from his Soul Universe.
• Wanda sealed the room in a Chaos Magic barrier, stopping the projections from spreading, then fell asleep beside Xiang Qian.
• Wong heard that Xiang Qian had gone into a young woman’s room and left, mistakenly assuming Wanda and Xiang Qian were together.
• Kamar-Taj disciples spread gossip that Xiang Qian had seduced Wanda, while the unconscious Xiang Qian remained unaware of the rumors.
• Xiang Qian observed his Soul Universe’s laws of time and space and questioned what Eternity had meant by calling its laws of time incomplete.

After spending several days with Wanda, Xiang Qian was interrupted by Magik, who reported that Death’s presence had completely vanished from many territories in Hell. Xiang Qian considered whether Death was withdrawing its power, leaving the cause of the upheaval unresolved.

• Xiang Qian spent several days alone with Wanda until Magik suddenly arrived and found them together.
• Xiang Qian teased Magik and pulled her onto the bed before asking why she had come.
• Magik told Xiang Qian that Death’s presence had disappeared completely from many Hell Lords’ territories.
• Magik said no affected Hell Lords had appeared, leaving it unknown whether they had died like Mephisto or were waiting in hiding.
• Xiang Qian concluded that the ancient Hell Lords would avoid rash action and wondered whether Death was drawing back its power.

Xiang Qian and Wong discovered a dangerous magical disturbance near the Baltic Sea, which Xiang Qian recognized as a threat involving Odin. Wong set out to warn Thor while Xiang Qian rushed to the site.

• Wong scolded Xiang Qian for spending three days with Wanda, then learned Magik had taken Wanda away after warning Xiang Qian about upheaval in Hell.
• Wong worried that Wanda and Magik might fight and endanger Earth, but Xiang Qian confidently claimed he would prevent it.
• The Dimensional Barrier detected violent magical fluctuations near the Baltic Sea, and Wong identified the location through its monitoring map.
• Xiang Qian told Wong to contact Thor and warn him that his father was in danger, then opened a portal and rushed off.
• Wong considered portaling to Thor but realized Thor might be in bed with his girlfriend, so he decided to call him instead.

Xiang Qian helped Odin release Hela from her failing seal, then sealed the rift to Niflheim as Hela emerged empowered by Death. Thor arrived and was dragged down by Hela’s control of Mjolnir, leaving Xiang Qian to introduce him to his long-lost sister.

• Xiang Qian reached Odin at the spatial disturbance and urged him to stop wasting his strength resisting Hela’s escape.
• Odin withdrew his divine power from the seal, and Hela emerged from the black fog stronger than before.
• Xiang Qian sealed the rift between Earth and Niflheim while Hela revealed that Death’s power had bolstered her.
• Hela sensed Mjolnir approaching and used her power to send Thor crashing across the ground.
• Thor found Odin, and Xiang Qian introduced Hela as his older sister.

Hela confronted Odin and Thor, overwhelming them and shattering Mjolnir while Xiang Qian prepared for the hidden force behind her. As Xiang Qian sealed Hela’s spatial rift, the Bifrost arrived and engulfed Hela, summoned by an unknown presence.

• Odin revealed that Hela was his daughter and Thor’s sister, and Hela attacked them with a barrage of deathly swords.
• Xiang Qian watched for Hela’s hidden ally while Odin used lightning to hold back her assault.
• Thor hurled Mjolnir at Hela, but she shattered it with a deathly-energy sword, unleashing a shockwave that knocked Thor and Odin down.
• Hela taunted Odin over his missing Gungnir, while Xiang Qian sealed the spatial rift and asked about her helpers.
• Hela summoned a vast storm of swords, but the Bifrost suddenly broke through the clouds and engulfed her.

After Hela seized control of the Bifrost and vanished to Asgard, Odin asked Xiang Qian to help reclaim his realm. Xiang Qian agreed to honor their alliance and proposed building a new Bifrost with the Reality Stone, leaving Odin to consider whether to reveal Asgard’s core designs.

• Hela disappeared through the Bifrost, and Odin realized that her people controlled it and that something had happened in Asgard.
• Odin explained the situation to Thor and asked Xiang Qian for Kamar-Taj’s help.
• Xiang Qian agreed to support Asgard but insisted that Kamar-Taj could not risk leaving Earth exposed to Hela’s hidden allies.
• Xiang Qian proposed building a Bifrost and asked Odin for its blueprints.
• Odin doubted that Midgard could reproduce the Bifrost’s materials, but Xiang Qian revealed the Reality Stone and challenged that assumption.
• Odin wondered whether he should disclose Asgard’s core technology to Xiang Qian.

Xiang Qian used the Reality Stone to build a Bifrost on Earth and revealed he had hidden coordinates for Asgard, alarming Odin. He prepared to use secret locations in Asgard as the destination, then teased Thor about Odin’s old affairs and Thor’s lack of romance.

• Odin revealed the Bifrost’s secrets to Xiang Qian, who used Asgardian knowledge and the Reality Stone to build a new Bifrost from local materials.
• Odin explained that sensing Gungnir had failed and that Heimdall might be unreachable, leaving them without a reliable coordinate point.
• Xiang Qian said he already had coordinates for Asgard, prompting Odin to suspect he had prepared for a future conflict between Asgard and Midgard.
• Thor urged Odin to focus on returning to Asgard and asked whether Xiang Qian’s coordinates were safe.
• Xiang Qian revealed that the coordinates led to hidden rooms Odin had built in Asgard’s noble district and joked about Odin’s past affairs and Thor’s poor romantic instincts.

Xiang Qian, Odin, and Thor returned to Asgard and found the city under attack by the Chitauri, while Hela confronted Loki in the Golden Palace. Xiang Qian destroyed the Chitauri command ship, and Odin and Thor arrived at the palace as Loki faced Hela's demand that he surrender the throne.

• Odin, Thor, and Xiang Qian returned to Asgard and found the Chitauri slaughtering its people beneath a hovering command ship.
• Thor defended Loki, while Odin and Xiang Qian questioned the invasion's connection to Loki and the Tesseract.
• Xiang Qian used spatial magic to destroy the Chitauri command ship, killing the invading troops and sending their craft crashing over the city.
• Xiang Qian opened a portal to the Golden Palace, and Odin and Thor followed him inside.
• Hela ordered Loki, disguised as Odin on the throne, to kneel and swear loyalty to her as Asgard's new queen.

Odin, Thor, and Xiang Qian arrived at the Golden Palace and halted Hela’s attack, while Loki’s disguise was exposed. Xiang Qian found Thanos’s agents escaping with the Tesseract, leaving Thanos able to strike Earth at any time.

• Hela overpowered Loki’s lightning and attacked the Golden Palace guards, but Odin’s arrival unleashed lightning that destroyed her sword rain and frost.
• Odin, Thor, and Xiang Qian entered the hall, and Loki abandoned the throne and stood obediently as himself.
• Hela began fighting Odin, Thor, and the others while Xiang Qian continued toward the Golden Palace treasury.
• Xiang Qian found the Destroyer Armor dismantled and confronted a cloaked man and a woman carrying the Tesseract.
• The woman threw her spear at Xiang Qian and escaped with the cloaked man through the Tesseract’s blue light.
• Xiang Qian realized the Tesseract had fallen into Thanos’s hands, giving him the means to invade Earth.