Recaps

Xiang Qian helped the Spear Bureau defeat Temugin and took the Mandarin’s ring, then explored its powers and faced Jean Grey’s Phoenix Force in his Soul Realm. News of Worthington Industries’ Mutant Gene Inhibitor exposed a widening conflict, while the Bureau moved to protect Project Houyi and Xiang Qian confronted the U.S. military over its response.

• Xiang Qian used a radar-equipped drone and Tony Stark’s satellite to uncover Hashimov’s betrayal and track the Ten Rings’ attack on the joint forces’ camp.
• Xiang Qian and the task force repelled the assault, and he defeated Temugin, contained the ring’s flames, and took the Ruby Ring after the Mandarin fled their mental battle.
• Xiang Qian tested the ring’s energy field in his Soul Universe and met Jean Grey, warning her that the Phoenix Force could overwhelm her while showing her how to communicate with it.
• Vector tried to hack Xiang Qian’s system, and their ensuing encounter brought Xiang Tian to confront him before the Spear Bureau learned of a Ten Rings plan involving something he cherished.
• Zheng Xian ordered Xiang Tian’s task force to protect Project Houyi after the Bureau considered possible targets, while Xiang Qian heard from Tony about the battlefield recording and the Jericho Missile.
• Xiang Qian learned that Worthington Industries had announced a Mutant Gene Inhibitor, sued over its breach of contract, and agreed to meet Professor X in San Francisco.
• Xiang Qian clashed with Worthington II and Lieutenant General Ross over the drug, then told Ross that he was no longer in control and challenged him about going to war.

Xiang Qian maneuvered between the X-Men, Magneto, the military, and S.H.I.E.L.D. as the fight over Jimmy and the Mutant Serum erupted on Alcatraz Island. He removed Jimmy from danger, copied Worthington Industries’ research, and left San Francisco under intense surveillance.

• Xiang Qian secured General Ross’s agreement to accept X-Men assistance and sought government approval to travel to the United States for his plan involving the mutant gene serum.
• Mystique joined Xiang Qian on his flight to San Francisco, offered to investigate Magneto’s plans, and later provided intelligence from within the radical Mutant group.
• Xiang Qian met Worthington II on Alcatraz Island, assessed the military’s defenses, and confronted Jimmy about whether he would be a savior or a threat.
• Xiang Qian met Professor Xavier and the X-Men, argued that the serum could give the government a deterrent against Mutants, and revealed that Cerebral Wave Disruptors made X-Mansion unsafe as a hiding place.
• Magneto attacked San Francisco, and Xiang Qian secretly jammed S.H.I.E.L.D.’s communications and used Nick Fury’s voice to order an attack that forced Magneto to retaliate against the task force.
• As Magneto’s forces crossed to Alcatraz Island, Xiang Qian used a Spider-Bot to extract Jimmy from his room and sent him through a portal to safety.
• Xiang Qian returned to Alcatraz, wounded Juggernaut, copied the laboratory’s research data, and persuaded Magneto to leave after Mystique told him the child was gone.
• Xiang Qian returned to his hotel with the data, resisted agents trying to enter his suite, drew tabloid attention by dating both Hilton Sisters, and departed for Los Angeles as a director ordered him monitored.

Xiang Qian navigated rival Hell Lords’ interest in his Soul Universe, briefed the Spear Bureau on mutant research, and joined S.H.I.E.L.D.’s search for Tony Stark. After locating Tony in a Ten Rings cave base, Xiang Qian and Magik fought their way toward the entrance as Hawkeye’s team came under attack.

• Mephisto renewed his offers to Xiang Qian, while S.H.I.E.L.D. began investigating Xiang Qian’s encounters with apparently invisible visitors.
• Xiang Qian showed Tony Stark the Heat Container and its Energy Circuits, and they agreed to cooperate on nuclear fusion technology.
• Magik revealed that Belasco had sent her to summon Xiang Qian, and Ancient One explained that Eternity had asked her to monitor the Soul Universe.
• Mephisto offered Xiang Qian a supply of human souls in exchange for priority access to a soul passage, but Xiang Qian declined to commit.
• At the Spear Bureau briefing, Xiang Qian explained Jimmy’s ability to suppress mutant powers and discussed testing students for latent X-Genes.
• After learning Tony had disappeared, Xiang Qian used Tony’s satellites and an upgraded drone to search Afghanistan, then sent Hawkeye to investigate suspicious sites.
• Spider-Bots confirmed that Tony was held inside a guarded cave, while Magik told Xiang Qian that Belasco threatened to kill Piotr unless she brought him back.
• When Ten Rings attackers ambushed Hawkeye’s team, Xiang Qian went with Magik to Afghanistan, infiltrated the base, and hurried toward the cave as she caught up after a dangerous fall.

Xiang Qian killed Mandarin, rescued Tony Stark, and helped Magik overthrow Belasco and become Limbo’s ruler. After confronting Mephisto and debating Project Insight, Xiang Qian learned the Ancient One wanted him to succeed her as Sorcerer Supreme and helped prepare for Kaecilius’s threat.

• Xiang Qian defeated Mandarin, took his Ten Rings, and killed him after learning that Tony Stark had been rescued with Dr. Yinsen’s help.
• Xiang Qian warned Tony that someone had leaked his itinerary, left him with the arriving military, and took Magik to Limbo to meet Belasco.
• Belasco tried to recruit Xiang Qian and then imprison him, but Xiang Qian and Magik fought back, using Mandarin’s soul to empower Magik’s Soul Sword.
• Xiang Qian destroyed Limbo’s imprint within Belasco’s Soul Realm, weakening him, and Magik killed him with her Soul Sword.
• Mephisto attacked Xiang Qian in the collapsing Limbo, but the Ancient One intervened, and Xiang Qian helped Magik synchronize her soul with Limbo’s will and become its new ruler.
• Xiang Qian examined Mandarin’s Ten Rings, then opposed Alexander Pierce’s Project Insight and warned that its Helicarrier could destabilize society.
• Pierce learned that James Zion’s childhood exposure to an unknown energy source was likely connected to the Tesseract, while the Ancient One offered Xiang Qian her position as Sorcerer Supreme.
• The Ancient One explained Kaecilius’s obsession with reviving his wife and his temptation by Dormammu, then ordered Wong and Mordo to warn Kamar-Taj and the Three Sanctums.