Recaps

Xiang Qian questioned the Ancient One about Eternity’s motives and learned that the Quantum Realm could shield events from cosmic beings. He confirmed Kang the Conqueror’s identity, killed him with White Magic, and sent the Rune couple home after using Kang’s blood in a spell.

• The Ancient One warned Xiang Qian that their meeting might be something Eternity wanted and explained that the Quantum Realm resisted the influence of beings like Eternity and Death.
• Xiang Qian concluded that Kang had committed no crimes in their world, then asked Janet to confirm that he was the war criminal she feared.
• Janet identified Kang, and Xiang Qian dissolved his body into a ball of blood with White Magic.
• Xiang Qian used the blood to affect the Rune couple, erased the magical traces, and returned the unconscious pair to their home in an experimental pod.
• Xiang Qian vanished from the Quantum Realm before the pod finished starting up.

Xiang Qian entered Muspelheim and found Hela imprisoned there, then used the Mind Stone and Hell’s source power to reach her and send a signal to Death. He challenged Death to kill him or interfere with Eternity’s plan.

• Xiang Qian teleported into devastated Muspelheim and approached the fiery prison where Hela was held.
• Xiang Qian entered Hela’s Soul Realm with the Mind Stone and imprisoned her consciousness before she could resist.
• Xiang Qian sent a mass of Hell’s source power into Hela to revive her spirits, while keeping control of the energy.
• Xiang Qian drew deathly mist from the Underworld and tapped its source power with a Rune, creating a boom that carried into a dark abyss.
• Xiang Qian called out to Death and offered a chance to kill him or ruin Eternity’s plan.

Xiang Hou questioned Death about Eternity’s plans for the universe inside his soul and whether Eternity feared total annihilation. Death revealed that Eternity’s personality was contending with him across the universe and that Xiang Hou might be a fragment of Eternity’s consciousness, leaving Xiang Hou seeking to understand Eternity’s intentions before choosing what to do.

• Xiang Qian met Death in Hela’s Soul Realm using only part of his consciousness and asked how Eternity intended to use the universe in his soul.
• Death questioned whether Xiang Hou was truly an intelligent primate or an avatar of Eternity, and said Xiang Hou would understand the truth when the time came.
• Xiang Hou proposed that the soul universe might be a refuge for Eternity from complete annihilation and argued that returning a universe to a singularity was not the same as destroying the multiverse.
• Death revealed that Eternity’s personality was still contending with him throughout the universe and dismissed Xiang Hou as, at most, a strand of Eternity’s consciousness.
• Xiang Hou described how white magic corroded a model universe and asked whether increasing entropy meant the universe would eventually face entropic annihilation.

Death explained that Eternity planned to preserve his individual identity through the universe’s annihilation and seize the power of the next Eternity. Xiang Qian recognized that stopping the plan could require him to become the Soul Universe’s Creator God, but the consequences of hastening the universe’s destruction left him weighing his own interests against the lives that would be lost.

• Death told Xiang Qian that Eternity intended to transfer his identity into the Soul Universe, then take the next Eternity’s place after the universe was reborn.
• Death explained that Eternity needed a vast universe with independent rules to preserve the power and identity he would carry across the multiverse’s annihilation.
• Xiang Qian learned that transferring Eternity’s power would accelerate the universe’s destruction and prevent many future lives from being born.
• Death said Xiang Qian could stop Eternity by becoming the Soul Universe’s Creator God, but Xiang Qian remained wary of the cost and of losing his independent consciousness.
• Xiang Qian realized that Jean Grey and the Phoenix Force, which contained the emotional power of future lives, might have a particular stake in resisting Eternity’s plan.

Xiang Qian questioned the origin of his aversion to Divinity while Death watched through Hela, then used a fire dragon’s enraged soul to probe and break through his Soul Realm. A familiar figure with Xiang Qian’s face emerged from the breach, and Xiang Qian greeted him with resignation.

• Death silently watched Xiang Qian and gathered power through Hela’s soul as he reconsidered his resistance to Divinity.
• Xiang Qian used White Magic to make a fire dragon’s agonizing death provoke a destructive evil spirit that attacked his Soul Realm.
• Xiang Qian controlled the fire dragon spirit’s attacks to probe the Soul Realm and locate a weak point in its dome.
• Xiang Qian sent the spirit crashing through the dome, leaving a breach from which a blood-colored droplet descended and formed a person with his face.
• Xiang Qian absorbed the fire dragon’s flesh, blood, and soul into his body, then told the familiar figure that he had not wanted to see him again.

Xiang Qian confronted the hidden alternate personality within his consciousness and learned how it had separated itself from the malice personality. As Xiang Qian prepared a spell to eliminate it, the alternate insisted it knew no more about Eternity’s influence than he did.

• The alternate Xiang Qian explained that it began as a seed and grew after Xiang Qian split off his malicious thoughts, then secretly separated itself from the malice personality.
• The alternate said it had spent much of its time observing the Soul Universe, but Xiang Qian doubted that this explained why it had hidden for so long.
• Xiang Qian decided to remove the alternate personality, warning that it could pose a danger during his current turning point.
• The alternate said it was only a consequence of a thought Eternity had stirred in Xiang Qian and knew no more about Eternity or Death than Xiang Qian did.
• On the physical plane, Xiang Qian drew magical power from creatures dragged to him by the blood cocoon while he prepared to act against the alternate.

After cutting away a damaged part of his soul, Xiang Qian tried to negotiate with Death over how to stop Eternity without surrendering his independent personality. The five-minute window was nearly over, and they remained deadlocked over whether to awaken Eternity’s original Divinity or seek another solution.

• Xiang Qian endured the agony of precisely cutting his own soul, leaving his magic in disarray and part of his Soul Universe irreparably collapsed.
• Death warned Xiang Qian that he might need to act soon and urged him to master the Soul Universe’s rules, but he refused to give up his independent personality.
• Xiang Qian revealed that he had delayed the Pyms’ return from the Quantum Realm, buying himself more time before Eternity could learn of their meeting.
• Xiang Qian proposed awakening Eternity’s original Divinity to restrain his self-personality, while Death argued that finding it would take too long and that Eternity’s plan was near its critical stage.
• Xiang Qian offered to negotiate with Eternity and rent him the Soul Universe, but Death rejected the proposal, leaving them deadlocked as the five-minute window ran out.

Death left to search for Eternity's Divinity after warning Xiang Qian that he was running out of time. Eternity then attacked Xiang Qian and erased Muspelheim, leaving Xiang Qian resisting the spacetime rules while he tried to uncover Eternity's plan.

• Death warned Xiang Qian that she might fail to find or awaken Eternity's Divinity, then departed to search for it.
• Eternity erased Muspelheim with the power of spacetime and left only Xiang Qian and unconscious Hela alive.
• Xiang Qian transformed himself into a tiny Magic Great World and used its rules to resist Eternity's assault.
• Eternity told Xiang Qian that he would not survive to see Death return and kept weakening the Magic Great World's rules.
• Xiang Qian asked whether Eternity had tampered with the Time Stone and was indirectly controlling the Soul Universe.

Eternity tried to erase Xiang Qian and his Magic Small World across every level of existence, but Xiang Qian joined forces with Jean Grey and the Phoenix Force to transform the world and resist. Eternity was forced to start its assault over as their clash threatened the surrounding space-time.

• Eternity attacked Xiang Qian's Magic Small World, using time to undermine its rules and deny Xiang Qian's existence.
• Xiang Qian questioned Eternity about luring him into the Quantum Realm, but Eternity refused to answer and continued its assault.
• Jean Grey appeared beside Xiang Qian, and he joked that his greatest talent was living off women.
• The Phoenix Force poured into the Magic Small World, transforming it with the emotions and vitality of intelligent beings.
• Eternity reacted with shock as the Phoenix's power disrupted its infiltration, while the two worlds' rules collided and shook the Nine Realms.

Xiang Qian, Jean, and Wanda resisted Eternity as Wanda’s Chaos Magic disrupted his control of space-time. Eternity offered to preserve Xiang Qian and his loved ones in a new universe, but Xiang Qian remained determined to fight for the chance to awaken Eternity’s divinity.

• Wanda Maximoff appeared beside Xiang Qian and Jean as the Scarlet Witch, bringing her Chaos Magic into the confrontation with Eternity.
• Xiang Qian challenged Eternity’s divine airs and argued that resisting was better than accepting death at Eternity’s hands.
• Wanda’s Chaos Magic, Jean’s Phoenix Force, and Xiang Qian’s small magical world interfered with Eternity’s control, causing delays in his use of space-time power.
• Eternity threatened Xiang Qian and offered to preserve his consciousness and reshape the souls of his lover, family, and friends in a new universe.
• Xiang Qian rejected despair and continued to stake everything on stopping Eternity and awakening the divinity.

Eternity tried to kill Xiang Qian by distorting spacetime and forcing the universe toward chaos, while blocking Death from intervening. Xiang Qian summoned Magik to bring Death’s power back, halting Eternity’s process and revealing that he had anticipated the individual personality’s selfishness.

• Eternity gathered enough spacetime power to disrupt the universe’s balance and told Xiang Qian he would keep Death from returning in time.
• Eternity’s power stabilized magical runes and Black Magic, forcing energy systems together as the region near the World Tree began turning toward chaos.
• Xiang Qian revealed Magik as his third prepared ally, and her return to the Hell Dimensions brought Death’s power into the region.
• Death’s power restored the balance of the rules, stopping the forced conversion into chaos and undoing Eternity’s control over magic.
• Eternity accused Xiang Qian of colluding with Death, and Xiang Qian explained that he had predicted Eternity’s individual personality would act selfishly and confront him personally.

Xiang Qian confronted Eternity after emerging from the Quantum Realm, where he and his allies had used the time dilation to improve their abilities. Eternity began compressing galaxies into a localized cosmic collapse, forcing Xiang Qian into a dangerous contest that could also disrupt the multiverse’s timeline.

• Eternity appeared physically before Xiang Qian and asked how long they had spent in the Quantum Realm; Xiang Qian said they had used the time to learn and prepare.
• Eternity compressed the Nine Realms and revealed that he was drawing in galaxies beyond them, while Xiang Qian questioned whether this would help Eternity seize the Soul Universe.
• Eternity argued that the Soul Universe might place its timeline beyond his control, leaving Xiang Qian to weigh the danger of using its power against the danger of doing nothing.
• Eternity began a localized cosmic collapse centered on the World Tree, and Xiang Qian recognized that their coming contest would test whether his small magical world could survive without disrupting the timeline.

Xiang Qian’s gamble against Eternity’s Personality Aspect reached its turning point when Eternity’s Divinity awakened and reclaimed its authority. Death arrived through Magik, and together she and Divinity defeated the Personality Aspect, leaving it as a feeble consciousness in Eternity’s palm.

• A faint sigh announced that Eternity’s Divinity had awakened, while Eternity’s Personality Aspect warned Xiang Qian that Death could not stop the universe’s destruction.
• Xiang Qian sent two women back to the Quantum Realm, leaving Magik behind and allowing his remaining powers to fade.
• Xiang Qian asked why he had stayed on the material plane instead of hiding in the Quantum Realm, prompting the Personality Aspect to attack with the universe’s space-time power.
• Xiang Qian stopped resisting and closed his eyes, then reopened them as Eternity’s Divinity descended and calmed the crushing pressure.
• Death possessed Magik and brought nearly the entire Hell Dimension into the region, joining Divinity against the Personality Aspect.
• Eternity’s true authority returned to Divinity, and the defeated Personality Aspect was reduced to a faint consciousness in his palm.

Eternity returned Xiang Qian’s body and the independent Soul Universe to him after Xiang Qian proposed a way to contain future Personality Aspects. Death recognized the plan’s potential but questioned whether Xiang Qian could be trusted with them, leaving the agreement unresolved.

• Eternity gave Xiang Qian back his body and the Soul Universe, explaining that Xiang Qian had offered a solution to the chaos.
• Xiang Qian explained that Eternity’s duty to protect the timelines meant new self-aware Personality Aspects would continue to emerge and could not be destroyed.
• Xiang Qian proposed that Eternity strip future Personality Aspects of their power and send them to the independent Soul Universe.
• Death acknowledged that the Soul Universe could imprison the powerless Personality Aspects but challenged Xiang Qian’s motives and asked how he could be trusted.

Xiang Qian defended his right to oversee the Soul Universe, and Eternity affirmed that his choices had thwarted the personality aspect’s plan. After Death and Eternity departed, Eternity gave Xiang Qian information about the universe that had existed before the Soul Universe.

• Death challenged Xiang Qian’s loyalty and ability to resist Eternity’s personality aspects, while Xiang Qian argued that his actions had proved his worth.
• Eternity said he saw wisdom in Xiang Qian and explained how his personality aspect had planned to trigger a collision between the Soul Universe and the multiverse in the Quantum Realm.
• Xiang Qian described the preparations that had helped him avoid the personality aspect’s traps and acknowledged that luck had also played a part.
• Eternity’s judgment settled the dispute, and Death warned Xiang Qian before leaving Magik’s body.
• Eternity revealed that Xiang Qian’s original home was the universe that preceded the Soul Universe and offered him information preserved from that era.
• Xiang Qian accepted the information Eternity sent him, and Eternity vanished.

Xiang Qian discovered that the cloaked ship from the Persian Gulf carried Sersi and a group of Eternals, who said they had come to watch over an infant Celestial. After tensions flared, Xiang Qian took control of the ship and sent it away from the coalition, while weapons platforms locked on to it.

• Xiang Qian used the Reality Stone to reveal the cloaked ship and the Space Stone to enter it, where he recognized Sersi among ten powerful humanoids.
• Xiang Qian teased Sersi about their past at an international college mixer, then asked whether she and her companions were from Earth.
• Tony arrived to warn Xiang Qian that the command center had lost contact and might fire on the ship, then met the group.
• The Eternals identified themselves as agents of the Celestials sent to watch over an infant Celestial, and one young man claimed they had given humanity civilization.
• Xiang Qian used the Mind Stone to weaken the Eternals and forced their ship away from the five-nation coalition, warning that he would kill the Celestial if it threatened him.
• The coalition's weapons systems and an orbital weapons platform locked onto the retreating ship.

After the Emergence crisis, Xiang Qian brought Wanda to meet his sister Xiang Tian, who scolded him while welcoming Wanda into the family. Wanda discovered she was pregnant, and Magik immediately began plotting to use the Time Dilation Zone to give the child younger siblings.

• Xiang Qian took Wanda home to meet Xiang Tian, who criticized him for bringing his girlfriends to meet the family one at a time and defended them by scolding him.
• Xiang Tian spoke privately with Wanda and later explained that she had dressed Xiang Qian down to ease the women’s resentment and help them join the family.
• Xiang Qian told Wanda how Xiang Tian had once fought the boys who mocked her name, and Wanda praised her as “Big Sis Tian.”
• Magik arrived and asked Wanda about meeting Xiang Tian, but Wanda suddenly became nauseated.
• Xiang Qian sensed two faint signs of life and realized Wanda was pregnant; Wanda recalled wishing for a child during their crisis in the Quantum Realm.
• Magik pressed Wanda to use her probability-changing ability, then proposed spending time in the Time Dilation Zone to give Wanda’s child younger siblings, leaving Xiang Qian alarmed.

Xiang Qian viewed the memories Eternity had left him, witnessing the final moments of the Soul Universe’s previous era through the eyes of a young man who looked exactly like him. The young man’s Subspace experiment succeeded, but the collapsing universe engulfed him and his shelter before a blue light carried him, infant-like and without memories, away with the Singularity.

• Xiang Qian examined the memory of the previous era and saw a young man stranded as the last survivor of his civilization.
• The young man learned that the other shelters had been destroyed or lost, then chose to activate the Subspace experiment his parents had worked on.
• The experiment succeeded, creating a black sphere, while the universe’s collapse accelerated and drew the shelter toward a planet and a star.
• The expanding Subspace engulfed the young man before the shelter crashed, and he remained unharmed as the space endured without its apparatus.
• The young man watched the universe collapse toward the Singularity as his body and memories regressed until he became an infant.
• A blue light enveloped the Subspace and Singularity, then carried them away as the universe vanished into chaos.