Chapter Summaries

Daisy used a truth-binding lasso to confirm Viper’s honesty, uncover a spy, and secure her official place in Hydra with Viper’s backing. As Daisy expanded Hammer Industries’ robot-soldier sales to the New York police, a lawsuit and public backlash erupted over whether robots had the right to kill criminals.

• Daisy questioned Viper about Hydra and used the Lasso of Truth to verify her answers before Viper tested it on five servants.
• The lasso exposed a spy working for Baron Strucker, and Viper and Daisy learned their dealings had been discovered.
• Viper and Daisy confirmed their friendship and lack of conflicting plans, and Viper endorsed Daisy as a legitimate Hydra agent.
• Daisy strengthened her position in S.H.I.E.L.D. while Hammer Industries’ robot soldiers gained military approval and its stock price soared.
• After Daisy arranged to sell older robot soldiers to the New York police, a citizen sued Hammer Industries, the police, and the Department of Defense, triggering protests and fierce criticism of Daisy.

Daisy attended a hearing over Hammer Industries’ machine soldiers, where Matt Murdock argued that machines should not have law-enforcement authority. The hearing ended in an uncertain recess, and Daisy warned Matt that he had taken the wrong side before he mistook her for Miss Johnson.

• Daisy appeared in court with the Army Chief of Staff, Director George, and Miss Johnson as lawyers refused to prosecute the case and the role went to Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson.
• Daisy recognized Matt as a future superhero and privately told Miss Johnson that he had superpowers.
• Matt argued that machine soldiers could not safely or lawfully exercise law-enforcement authority, while Miss Johnson dismissed his concerns as unsupported assumptions.
• The judge called an open-ended recess, and the parties left the courthouse.
• Daisy told Matt that he was helping arms dealers rather than ordinary people, and Matt later asked Foggy whether Miss Johnson was especially broad-built.

Elektra infiltrated Daisy’s villa as a domestic helper to investigate her for Stick and Matt, but she suspected the household was full of spies and struggled with Miss Maki’s demands. Stick ordered her to remain undercover, leaving Elektra enduring an increasingly humiliating maid uniform while trying to uncover Daisy’s secrets.

• Matt failed to catch up with Daisy and Miss Maki after leaving the courthouse.
• Elektra joined Daisy’s household as a maid, claiming she wanted to learn housework before getting married.
• Daisy accepted Elektra, while Miss Maki and Daisy recognized her as a spy and Lorna remained unaware.
• After three days, Elektra told Stick she thought the villa’s women were spies and could make no progress, but Stick ordered her to continue.
• Elektra noticed Daisy repeatedly disappearing and clashed with Miss Maki over housework and household rules.
• Miss Maki made Elektra wear a revealing black-and-white maid outfit, and Elektra endured it to keep her cover.

Daisy’s attempt to sell Hammer Industries’ robot soldiers to S.H.I.E.L.D. failed, while Tony Stark joined as a technical consultant and exposed weaknesses in S.H.I.E.L.D.’s network. Daisy trapped J.A.R.V.I.S. but Stark eventually freed it, leaving their clash unresolved.

• At breakfast, Daisy and Miss Maki enjoyed seeing Elektra endure harassment in the deliberately revealing outfit Miss Maki had ordered.
• With her police sales blocked by a lawsuit, Daisy tried to sell her robot soldiers to S.H.I.E.L.D., but Nick Fury rejected her pitch after introducing Tony Stark as a technical consultant.
• Daisy discovered J.A.R.V.I.S. hidden in S.H.I.E.L.D.’s network but chose not to reveal the intrusion.
• Daisy trapped J.A.R.V.I.S. in a logical loop to demonstrate the network’s weaknesses, prompting Fury to demand an explanation from Stark.
• Stark blamed S.H.I.E.L.D.’s poor security, then worked with J.A.R.V.I.S. to escape Daisy’s trap through a loophole; Stark and Daisy left without either gaining a clear advantage.

Daisy helped oversee the Helicarrier’s successful test flight from S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Dockyard base, then became troubled by strange changes in herself that might be linked to Phoenix. She asked Storm about Jean and learned that Jean had grown increasingly strict with the students and was steering the school toward training them as warriors.

• Tony Stark joined the Helicarrier test flight, and Daisy and Hill coordinated the bridge systems as the ship prepared to launch.
• Hill started both reactors, and the Helicarrier rose from the water, flew its route under optical camouflage, and returned to Puerto Rico.
• Daisy noticed her mental power and imposing aura were growing, her clothes were turning brighter, and several strands of her hair had turned red.
• Daisy had Danger examine the red hairs, but the AI could not explain the change, leaving Daisy worried that she still had a connection to Phoenix.
• Daisy invited Storm to dinner, and Storm described Jean’s new fixation on strict rules and her efforts to train the students into warriors.

Daisy investigated her unexplained brainwave connection to Phoenix and took leave from S.H.I.E.L.D. to seek greater power in the East. After visiting Afghanistan and Kamar-Taj, she entered the mountains searching for K'un-Lun and was surrounded by ninjas from The Hand.

• Daisy had Danger monitor her brainwaves and concluded she might still be connected to Phoenix, so she asked Nick Fury for leave.
• Daisy told Nick Fury she planned to seek power in the East, and he gave her a pager that could receive signals even from another planet.
• Daisy arranged for S.H.I.E.L.D., Hydra, her villa, and Hammer Industries to operate in her absence, then set out alone.
• Daisy searched Mandarin's escape route in Afghanistan but found only snow-covered mountains, then visited Kamar-Taj and learned that Ancient One was traveling through the multiverse.
• Daisy entered the mountains to search for K'un-Lun, avoided a poisoned-javelin trap, and found herself surrounded by ninjas from The Hand.

Daisy ambushed Bakuto and the Hand ninjas with Atomic Cutting, killing or maiming most of them and severing Bakuto’s sword hand. Bakuto escaped Daisy’s first attack and fought her with his remaining hand, then fled as two surviving ninjas joined the fight.

• Daisy confronted Bakuto, who revealed himself as the Hand leader behind the ambush.
• Daisy used Atomic Cutting to kill seven or eight ninjas and injure several others, while Bakuto lost his right hand.
• Bakuto grabbed his Treasure sword and tried to flee, but Daisy caught up and attacked him.
• Bakuto countered Daisy with his left-handed swordsmanship, forcing her to block with her shield.
• Two surviving ninjas attacked Daisy with throwing stars, short blades, and a chain hammer as Bakuto ran.

Daisy killed the Hand ninjas guarding Bakuto and fought through a crowd of more than fifty subordinates while Stick confronted him. The chapter left Daisy battling the mob as Bakuto’s ninjas shifted into formation and used smoke bombs to obscure their movements.

• Daisy smashed a dual-blade ninja with her shield, then killed a fleeing chain-hammer ninja with a flaming Shockwave and finished off three more wounded ninjas.
• Bakuto spread poisonous mist and summoned reinforcements by blowing an emerald-green whistle, drawing more than fifty ninjas into the fight.
• Daisy called for Stick’s help, and the blind old man entered the poisonous mist to engage Bakuto while Daisy faced the surrounding ninjas.
• Daisy deflected the ninjas’ concealed weapons and killed several of them with her lasso and longsword.
• Bakuto shouted for his ninjas to form up, and they scattered in coordinated patterns as two threw smoke bombs near Daisy.

Daisy and Stick defeated Bakuto and the Hand ninjas, but Stick revealed that Bakuto could return in a new body through a consciousness-transfer device. Daisy suspected Mr. Sinister was behind the technology as Stick left to continue his war against the Hand.

• Daisy ignored the ninjas’ formation and killed every attacker on her side while Stick criticized her swordsmanship as he fought Bakuto.
• Stick defeated Bakuto, though he was wounded and his katana broke, then explained that Bakuto had copied his consciousness and would be reborn without his current memories.
• Stick told Daisy that Madam Gao had opposed the technology and would not return, and that the Hand had acquired the device from someone in the UK long ago.
• Daisy burned Bakuto’s head and found that he had no K’un-Lun Elder Ring, while Stick bandaged himself and walked away with Bakuto’s Treasure sword.
• Daisy considered who in the UK could have created the device and suspected Mr. Sinister, a scientist with a vast network of clones beneath London.

Daisy located K'un-Lun and entered the hidden city, where she used the K'un-Lun Ring and telepathy to question a resident. After learning that the elders lived on the Sacred Mountain, she set out at night to investigate it.

• Daisy burned her bloodstained clothes, avoided wildlife, and continued through the mountains while planning how to deal with Mr. Sinister.
• On the ninth day, Daisy used the K'un-Lun Ring and Danger's calculations to open a portal into K'un-Lun.
• Daisy met a young resident, used the ring to gain his reverence, and questioned him telepathically about K'un-Lun and its elders.
• Daisy tricked the young man into turning around, knocked him unconscious, and kept him sedated while she waited for nightfall.
• Daisy crossed the quiet town toward the Sacred Mountain and recognized its supposed divine towers and pavilions as technological ruins.

Daisy infiltrated K'un-Lun and met a green-robed sorcerer who believed she matched an ancient prophecy connected to the Phoenix. Thunder God led her to lodging, where she was expected to begin martial arts training at dawn.

• Daisy climbed Sacred Mountain and found its summit courtyard deserted.
• A green-robed man appeared without triggering Daisy's detection and said she had arrived years before the prophecy foretold.
• The man described a prophecy about a woman destined to defeat the Phoenix and said Daisy's appearance and Phoenix Force matched a woman from history.
• The green-robed man mistook Daisy's silence for an inability to speak and ordered Thunder God to take her to rest.
• Thunder God led Daisy to a separate dwelling and told her to practice martial arts with them at dawn.

Daisy prepared for K'un-Lun's morning lessons and watched Thunder God train the disciples, assessing whether he was worth learning from. She recognized Danny Rand among the students but remained unimpressed by the training and wondered what the Venerable One expected her to learn.

• Daisy changed into K'un-Lun training clothes and stayed awake to make sure she arrived at the correct Mao hour.
• Daisy went to the courtyard carrying only her Vibranium Bracer and Atomic Cutter, then sat in a tree to watch the morning lesson.
• Daisy recognized Danny Rand among the young disciples and observed the barriers separating him from the others.
• Thunder God led the disciples through basic martial arts drills while Daisy judged the training to be beneath her abilities.
• Daisy lost interest in the lesson, stretched out on the branch, and struggled to stay awake.

Daisy sparred with Thunder God at K'un-Lun, testing her powers against his qi-enhanced martial arts. Their first head-on clash erupted in a massive blast, leaving the watching Danny Rand stunned.

• Daisy demonstrated her shockwave punches, and Thunder God criticized her power for being too dispersed.
• Thunder God entered a combat stance and revealed qi that made Daisy take him seriously.
• Daisy charged Thunder God with her claws, and he countered with a powerful palm strike and a punch.
• Daisy met Thunder God's Wind-Thunder Strike with a Phoenix Fire-infused punch, causing an explosive collision that shocked Danny Rand.

Daisy fought Thunder God at K'un-Lun until the Venerable One intervened and explained that the Iron Fist was meant to restrain the returning Phoenix. Daisy doubted the Iron Fist could defeat the Phoenix itself, and the chapter left her silently considering the Venerable One’s claim.

• Danny watched Daisy and Thunder God fight until two acquaintances dragged him out of the courtyard.
• Daisy unleashed the Phoenix Force and pressed Thunder God with fierce attacks, while he focused on defense and tried to exhaust her power.
• Daisy took to the air and struck with a surge of Phoenix power, forcing Thunder God to prepare for a desperate counter.
• The Venerable One appeared between them, stopped both attacks, and ended the fight; Thunder God and Daisy bowed to him.
• The Venerable One told Daisy that the Iron Fist was the only weapon capable of restraining the returning Phoenix.
• Daisy doubted that the Iron Fist could defeat the Phoenix, reasoning that its previous victory had been against only a projected avatar.

After the Venerable One sent Daisy to learn about qi from Thunder God, she struggled to sense it until she changed into her Earth-human state. Thunder God recognized a familiar savagery in her and began teaching her K'un-Lun's Way of Fire.

• The Venerable One warned Daisy that K'un-Lun owed her nothing, praised the Iron Fist, and told her to learn qi from Thunder God before pursuing Shou-Lao.
• Daisy returned to the courtyard, where Danny Rand asked whether she was a stranger, but she continued pretending to be mute and went to find Thunder God.
• Thunder God explained how to sense and nurture qi, but Daisy's impatience and difficulty controlling her body prevented her from feeling it.
• Daisy changed into her Earth-human state, and her ability to grasp qi quickly improved, though she sensed a violent, savage force within herself.
• Thunder God said Daisy reminded him of a woman from the past and began explaining K'un-Lun's Way of Fire.

Daisy learned about the Li Trigram and tried to sense qi before meeting Danny Rand on her way to find food. She agreed to regard K'un-Lun as home while leaving to defeat Phoenix, and Thunder God showed her around before she ate a roast lamb at the Place of the Benefactor.

• Thunder God explained the Li Trigram and told Daisy to sit facing east and contemplate it, but she could not sense qi after an hour.
• Daisy searched for the dining hall and met Danny Rand, who asked about the outside world; she wrote that he had been declared dead, and he ran off sadly.
• Thunder God reproached Daisy for disturbing Danny, and Daisy wrote that attachments gave people motivation to protect their homes.
• Thunder God asked whether Daisy would stay as a disciple or elder, and Daisy said she would regard K'un-Lun as home but had to defeat Phoenix outside it.
• Thunder God led Daisy through K'un-Lun's important sites, and Daisy recognized them as parts of a damaged alien spacecraft.
• Daisy ate an entire roast lamb at the Place of the Benefactor.

Daisy settled into K'un-Lun and meditated beneath a tree to grasp the Will of Fire and find her qi. She concluded that the Iron Fist was a dangerous shortcut tied to Shou-Lao, whom she hoped to challenge once she could contain his power.

• Daisy feasted with Thunder God, inspected K'un-Lun's food-making machine, and learned that its rulers distributed food while reserving the machine's benefits for a few.
• Thunder God registered Daisy as a future elder, and she accepted the finer clothes, Battle Suit, and private residence offered to her.
• Daisy saw the Phoenix tattoo on her back, then began meditating beneath a large tree and spent nearly all her time seeking the Will of Fire.
• Daisy asked Thunder God whether she needed qi to challenge Shou-Lao, and he warned that she could not contain Shou-Lao's power without it.
• Daisy questioned the Venerable One about Shou-Lao and Phoenix and reasoned that the Iron Fist was an emergency measure rather than a blessing.
• Daisy compared her different forms and found that her Earthling state sensed qi best, so she continued meditating in that state.

After struggling to gain enlightenment, Daisy discovered her own path through destruction and awakened a chi infused with the Phoenix Force. She converted much of the uncontrolled force into usable power, leaving her able to strengthen herself and wield golden flames, though only for a short time.

• Danny told Daisy that he had sensed chi after one year and nine months of training, but he could barely circulate it through his body.
• After realizing that meditation did not suit her, Daisy joined K'un-Lun's campaign against the Plant Army and spent a week fighting and burning plants.
• On her sixtieth day in K'un-Lun, Daisy defeated the intelligent plant-men leader after nearly a day of fighting and understood that destruction was her path.
• Daisy awakened a faint, tenacious chi that absorbed remnants of the Phoenix Force and returned to K'un-Lun to begin converting the force through her chi.
• After three days, Daisy had restrained most of the Phoenix Force, could reveal or hide her Phoenix tattoo, and found that her hair had turned completely red.
• Daisy demonstrated that she could summon golden flames and strengthen her attacks with chi, but her limited reserves allowed only a few minutes of enhanced fighting.

Daisy prepared to challenge Shou-Lao, adapting her Inhuman state to chi and gathering a full arsenal despite K'un-Lun's traditional expectations. She reached Shou-Lao's cavern with the Venerable One and Thunder God and entered alone for the challenge.

• The Venerable One told Daisy she would challenge Shou-Lao in three days, and Daisy said she needed to return to the outside world soon.
• Daisy rested, then spent two days adapting to chi in her Inhuman state and learned to channel about seventy percent of it.
• Daisy sparred with Thunder God to practice using chi, then asked whether she could bring weapons to the challenge.
• Daisy arrived fully armed in Eagle Armor, with Vibranium Bracers, a sword, a shield, rings, and the Lasso of Truth; Thunder God and the Venerable One allowed her to participate that way.
• Daisy followed the Venerable One and Thunder God into the mountain and underground cavern, then entered Shou-Lao's lair alone.

Daisy entered K'un-Lun’s cavern and faced the three-hundred-year-old divine dragon, which recognized her Phoenix Force and spoke with her before their battle. She began the fight with a teleporting shield strike and a Vibration-powered Fire Fist, but the dragon’s energy flame overwhelmed her attack.

• Daisy crossed the cavern passages and found the enormous divine dragon waiting in the underground chamber.
• The divine dragon recognized Daisy as the Iron Fist and noticed that she possessed the Phoenix Force.
• Daisy prepared to fight, then charged the dragon with a chi-enhanced sword strike.
• The divine dragon swept at Daisy with its claw, and she teleported behind it to attack with her shield.
• Daisy feinted with her shield and punched the dragon with a Vibration-powered Fire Fist, but its energy flame overcame her shockwave and forced her to defend with her shield.