Arc 17The Snap and the TVA

Su Ming handed Thanos the Mind Stone, then absorbed the world’s hatred while the Snap devastated the universe and the Avengers failed to reverse it. Taken to the TVA, Su Ming investigated Sylvie’s attacks and found a strange black cube in a warehouse.

  • Thanos arrived in Wakanda with five Infinity Stones, and Su Ming removed Vision’s Mind Stone and tossed it to him so the Snap could happen.
  • Thanos snapped his fingers, causing Peter, Wanda, Groot, Bucky, and half of all life to vanish, while Su Ming reassured them and absorbed the resulting resentment.
  • The Avengers found Thanos on a remote planet, learned he had destroyed the Infinity Stones, and watched Thor kill him, and Deadpool then found Su Ming’s hidden base.
  • Deadpool repeatedly regenerated from Su Ming’s attacks, while Rocket received Bucky’s mechanical arm and later helped the Avengers locate Thanos.
  • The TVA captured Su Ming, Deadpool, and Rocket, and Su Ming agreed to help Mobius investigate attacks on timelines after discovering that the Infinity Stones were powerless there.
  • Su Ming traced the attacks to Sylvie, helped demonstrate that her targets were doomed timelines, and became a temporary TVA agent with Deadpool and Rocket.
  • Sylvie triggered hidden Time Resetters and destabilized timelines, then infiltrated TVA headquarters as Su Ming followed Purple Jewel to a warehouse.
  • Su Ming found a pitch-black cube with a faint trace of vitality and carefully picked it up.
Chapters 401–425 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 401The Endgame Begins

Thanos arrived on Titan to claim the Time Stone, defeated Tony, Peter, and Strange with the three Stones he carried, and left with a fourth Stone after Strange surrendered it to save Tony. Strange called the coming conflict the Endgame, while the brutal battle continued on Earth in Wakanda.

  • Thanos arrived on Titan and recognized the ruins of his former home as Doctor Strange confronted him.
  • Thanos explained his plan to erase half of all life, then fought Tony, Peter, and Strange with the Power, Reality, and Space Stones.
  • Thanos wounded Tony and was about to kill him when Strange offered the Time Stone in exchange for Tony's life.
  • Thanos took the Time Stone and departed through a spatial vortex, leaving Strange to tell Tony that the Endgame had already begun.
  • On the Wakanda battlefield, Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, and Black Dwarf led an army of Outriders, while Black Dwarf's earlier fall had left him alive after he crashed into Proxima Midnight's fleet.

Ch. 402What a Sin

Wakanda’s defenders were close to being overwhelmed until Thor and Su Ming’s Galaxy Guard Corps arrived and turned the battle. Su Ming was pulled into Earth’s core, where Earth’s Will angrily confronted him, and he tried to explain his plan to stop Thanos while privately doubting he could control everything.

  • Wakanda opened its frontal energy barrier to draw the Outriders away from Vision, and the Avengers and Wakandan warriors struggled to hold the line.
  • Thor, Loki, Rocket, Quicksilver, Yondu, Mantis, and Groot arrived through a spatial portal and began clearing the battlefield.
  • Su Ming’s Galaxy Guard Corps shifted the battle in Wakanda’s favor, with Thor unleashing a powerful attack of lightning and fire.
  • Earth’s Will pulled Su Ming into the Earthcore Secret Realm and angrily accused him of allowing aliens to harm Earth.
  • Su Ming claimed he had delayed Thanos, protected Gamora, and prepared a trap involving Nebula, while privately admitting he lacked confidence about his larger plan.

Ch. 403Thanos's Method

After calming Earth's Will, Su Ming left to join the battle in Wakanda, while Thanos used the Time and Space Stones to abduct a Gamora from another universe and sacrifice her to obtain the Soul Stone. Thanos set his sights on Earth and the Mind Stone as Su Ming arrived above a battlefield where the heroes were gaining ground.

  • Su Ming persuaded Earth's Will that the immediate threat was under control and promised to clear the invaders from Wakanda.
  • On Vormir, Thanos used the Time and Space Stones to find and pull a version of Gamora from another universe.
  • Thanos used the Reality Stone to implant his feelings for his Gamora into Goth Gamora, then threw her from the cliff as a sacrifice.
  • Thanos obtained the Soul Stone and resolved to claim the Mind Stone on Earth.
  • Su Ming appeared above the Wakandan battlefield, where Thor, Loki, the Galaxy Guard Corps, Wakanda, and the Avengers were pushing back the Outriders.
  • Su Ming watched Wanda use her Chaos Magic to wipe out swaths of Outriders and wondered when she had become so powerful.

Ch. 404Super Player Thanos

Su Ming wiped out Thanos’s invading forces, but Thanos arrived with five Infinity Stones and attacked Vision. As Thor and the heroes struggled against Thanos’s power to rewind time, Su Ming seized time-law energy and triggered a talent upgrade just as the Silver Duke cut off Banner’s legs.

  • Su Ming used the Soul Resonance Art to kill the Outriders and cripple the Black Order, then claimed the prisoners and warships for his forces.
  • Thanos arrived on the Wakandan battlefield with five Infinity Stones and charged toward Vision while Wakandan technology worked to remove the Mind Stone.
  • Su Ming used Superdimensional Vision to discover that Thanos had obtained the Soul Stone by bringing a parallel-world Gamora to Vormir.
  • Thanos overwhelmed the heroes with the Infinity Stones, but Thor’s Thunderfire Battleaxe briefly forced him to defend himself.
  • Thanos repeatedly rewound time to undo attacks, while Su Ming seized a thread of energy from the Time Stone and received a talent-upgrade notification.
  • Su Ming thanked the Silver Duke after he cut off both of Banner’s legs.

Ch. 405Numbing the Entire Battlefield

Su Ming accidentally sliced apart Banner’s Anti-Hulk Armor, then decided to end the battle by removing the Mind Stone from Vision and tossing it to Thanos. The entire Wakanda battlefield went numb as Thanos caught the final Stone.

  • Su Ming’s Heat Vision severed Banner’s Anti-Hulk Armor, and Hulk briefly transformed to save Banner’s legs before disappearing again.
  • Doctor Strange returned with Tony and Little Spider and revealed that Thanos was resetting time, then said the heroes had to let him obtain all the Stones.
  • Su Ming bypassed Vision’s protectors, removed the Mind Stone without killing Vision, and threw it toward Thanos.
  • Thanos caught the Mind Stone, and everyone on the battlefield became numb as time seemed to freeze.

Ch. 406Though Late, It Came

Su Ming handed Thanos the Mind Stone, and Thanos completed the Infinity Gauntlet despite Thor wounding him. Thanos snapped his fingers, causing lives across Wakanda, Earth, and the universe to begin turning to ash.

  • Su Ming tossed the Mind Stone to Thanos and urged him to place it in the Infinity Gauntlet.
  • Thanos set in the Mind Stone and gathered all six Infinity Stones.
  • Thor struck Thanos in the chest with the Thunderfire Battleaxe and tried to drive it into his heart.
  • Thanos raised the completed Infinity Gauntlet and snapped his fingers.
  • Bucky Barnes, T'Challa, Groot, and many others began disintegrating into ash.
  • Peter Parker turned transparent as Tony Stark tried to hold him and reassure him.

Ch. 407Red Alert

After Thanos erased half of all life, Su Ming secretly preserved the vanished souls but was blamed by the survivors for handing Thanos the Mind Stone. Thanos settled on a peaceful planet, while Nick Fury and Maria Hill faced signs of a new catastrophe in New York.

  • Peter, Gamora, Pietro, Wanda, and others vanished in the purge, while Su Ming reassured them before they disappeared.
  • Thanos left the battlefield through a spatial portal, believing his ideal had been fulfilled.
  • Su Ming told Earth's Will that he had completed the mission, and she angrily berated him while recognizing that he had preserved the vanished souls.
  • Tony Stark, Captain America, Thor, and survivors across Earth condemned Su Ming as a traitor, while Rocket stayed by his side.
  • Thanos rested on a beautiful planet as Nick Fury and Maria Hill investigated reports of spacecraft over Wakanda.
  • Nick and Hill crashed into an unattended van, then saw an uncontrolled helicopter crash and called a red alert.

Ch. 408God-King Body

After Thanos’s snap turned the world against Su Ming, he absorbed the universe’s resentment to advance his Soul Resonance Art. When the negative energy began destroying his body, he upgraded his God-King Body and emerged strong enough to withstand it.

  • Nick Fury and Agent Hill disintegrated, and Fury’s pager sent a signal that reached Carol Danvers.
  • Carol detected a vast cosmic energy surge, recognized Fury’s call, and raced back toward Earth.
  • Steve’s account of Su Ming handing Thanos the Mind Stone turned humanity’s grief and fear into hatred directed at Su Ming.
  • Su Ming discovered that absorbing negative emotions could advance the fourth layer of the Soul Resonance Art, and he began drawing the resentment into himself.
  • The Earth girl mistook Su Ming’s absorption of the resentment for a sacrifice to protect Earth and resolved to reward him.
  • As the energy tore apart Su Ming’s body, he upgraded his God-King Body, which rebuilt him to withstand the power of his cultivation and the universe’s hatred.

Ch. 409Captain Marvel Returns

Carol Danvers answered Nick Fury’s pager and learned that Thanos had erased half of all life with the Infinity Stones. As the Avengers searched for a way to find Thanos, they reluctantly agreed to contact Su Ming, who remained unreachable while consolidating his God-King Body.

  • Carol Danvers found Fury’s pager and learned from the Avengers that Thanos had snapped his fingers and made half the universe disappear.
  • Thor tested Carol with his Thunderfire Battleaxe, and she remained unfazed, earning his approval.
  • The Avengers realized they needed Rocket’s interstellar tracking skills, but Tony Stark refused to ask Su Ming for help, accusing him of causing the disaster.
  • Natasha Romanoff, Banner, and Thor argued that Su Ming might still be trustworthy, and Tony reluctantly agreed to contact him.
  • The Avengers tried multiple channels to reach Su Ming, but their messages went unanswered as he absorbed the world’s resentment and consolidated his God-King Body.

Ch. 410Goodbye, Thanos

Rocket tracked Thanos for the Avengers after they asked for his help, and the surviving heroes set out without Su Ming. They found Thanos living alone on a remote planet, scarred, unarmed, and tending a garden.

  • Rocket grew lonely at Su Ming's deserted base while Su Ming remained in the core chamber.
  • Captain America and the Avengers asked Rocket to locate Thanos, and Rocket used his upgraded tracking system to find the planet's coordinates.
  • Rocket remotely helped the surviving Avengers modify a Quinjet, and they flew toward Thanos's location.
  • Rocket watched the ship leave and quietly wished his friends success.
  • The Avengers reached the remote planet and found Thanos watering a garden beside a thatched hut, with severe facial scars and no Infinity Gauntlet.

Ch. 411Unexpected Guest

The Avengers found Thanos after he destroyed the Infinity Stones, and Thor killed him in grief and rage. Meanwhile, Deadpool stumbled into Su Ming’s advanced base, where Su Ming emerged from a breakthrough and encountered him.

  • The Avengers restrained Thanos and discovered that the Infinity Gauntlet was only battered scrap metal with no stones.
  • Thanos revealed that he had destroyed the Infinity Stones, leaving the vanished half of all life beyond restoration.
  • Thor killed Thanos with his Thunderfire Battleaxe, while Tony and the others realized their hope of undoing the losses was gone.
  • Deadpool fled through a mountain tunnel and crashed into Su Ming’s hidden base, where he found advanced equipment and strange messages on a screen.
  • Su Ming emerged after reaching the fourth level of the Soul Resonance Art and saw Deadpool in his base.

Ch. 412Sticky and Gross

Su Ming tried repeatedly to kill Deadpool, but Deadpool’s Healing Factor restored him every time and left him begging for permanent death. Deadpool also exposed Su Ming’s private history by reading the higher-dimensional comments, driving Su Ming to consider leaving Earth for peace.

  • Deadpool interrupted Su Ming at his base, and Su Ming blasted him into minced meat.
  • Deadpool regenerated, begged Su Ming to kill him permanently, and pursued him despite being repeatedly destroyed.
  • Su Ming tried soul-burning attacks, physical force, and other methods, but Deadpool kept regenerating from even a tiny piece of flesh.
  • Deadpool read the higher-dimensional comments aloud, revealing details about Su Ming’s past and mocking him.
  • Su Ming lost patience as Deadpool kept talking and decided he could no longer stay at the base.

Ch. 413The Secret to Comforting People

Su Ming wrecked Rocket’s newly upgraded base while trying to destroy Deadpool, then gave Rocket Bucky Barnes’s mechanical arm to make amends. Rocket eagerly asked for a capital ship next, while Su Ming wondered whether recovering everyone would require revisiting the past and collecting the Infinity Stones again.

  • Su Ming’s attacks repeatedly reduced Deadpool to pieces and devastated Rocket’s upgraded base until Rocket emerged and angrily demanded compensation.
  • Su Ming summoned Bucky Barnes’s Vibranium mechanical arm and gave it to Rocket, who immediately forgot his anger and excitedly praised the gift.
  • Rocket asked Su Ming to bring him a capital ship, but Su Ming walked away while Rocket called after him.
  • Deadpool praised Su Ming’s attacks as an enjoyable massage and declared Su Ming his personal euthanasia doctor.
  • Rocket and Deadpool traded insults, while Su Ming wondered if bringing everyone back required reliving the original story and collecting the Infinity Stones.

Ch. 414The Sorrow of the Snap

After Thanos destroyed the Infinity Stones, the Avengers confronted the apparent permanence of their defeat while Su Ming prepared for new guests. The world mourned the vanished, China focused on rebuilding, and Tony Stark obsessively searched for a way to undo the catastrophe.

  • Deadpool and Rocket argued until Su Ming stopped them and the Avengers called to report that Thanos had destroyed the Infinity Stones.
  • Thor told Su Ming that the Avengers had killed Thanos but could not undo the Snap, leaving Rocket grieving for Groot and Gamora.
  • Su Ming ordered Rocket to repair the base and went to eat, while Deadpool followed him.
  • People mourned the vanished at Avengers Memorial Park and condemned Su Ming, while China resisted calls for sanctions and prioritized recovery and cooperation.
  • Tony Stark isolated himself in the laboratory to study time and space, repeatedly hitting dead ends and thinking of Parker.

Ch. 415Someone from Above Had Arrived

The TVA launched a capture operation at Su Ming’s base and forced him to surrender by collaring Rocket and Deadpool and threatening Rocket with an erasure device. Su Ming allowed the agents to collar him as well, but his thoughts hinted that he was curious about the TVA and its resources.

  • Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, Natasha Romanoff, and Thor continued struggling with grief and despair after Bucky’s disappearance and their losses.
  • Mobius led TVA agents through a fluorescent passage and surrounded Su Ming, Deadpool, and Rocket at the base.
  • Su Ming refused Mobius’s request to cooperate, so TVA agents restrained Deadpool and Rocket with suppressive collars.
  • Mobius threatened to erase Rocket with a TVA device, and Su Ming surrendered to protect his companions.
  • A TVA agent put a collar on Su Ming, suppressing most of his talents as his status panel showed them turning gray.

Ch. 416The Dramatic Girl

Su Ming was taken to the TVA, though his Soul Resonance Art let him retain his cultivated power and Purple Jewel’s help. Mobius persuaded the judge to keep Su Ming alive for research under close surveillance, while Su Ming began exploring the TVA and eyeing its warehouse.

  • Su Ming discovered that his Soul Resonance Art and Golden Core power still worked despite the collar, and Purple Jewel offered to help him find valuables.
  • Su Ming told Earth's Will that he had been kidnapped and promised to bring her souvenirs from the TVA.
  • Mobius escorted Su Ming, Deadpool, and Rocket through a Time Door to the TVA.
  • The female judge proposed eliminating Su Ming, but Mobius convinced her to keep him as a research subject under the highest surveillance.
  • Su Ming sat in a TVA holding cell while secretly exploring the facility with his divine sense and anticipating a visit to its warehouse.

Ch. 417The Ticket's Right Here!

The TVA detained Su Ming, Rocket, and Deadpool, but Rocket’s strange energy and Deadpool’s predicted contribution spared them from immediate deletion. Locked in a time-loop cell, Su Ming sent his divine sense through the TVA and found Infinity Stones in a cluttered office, where examining the Power Stone made his expression change.

  • The TVA sentenced Su Ming to detention, but Su Ming secretly infused Rocket with an unknown energy that postponed Rocket’s deletion and sent him to the Research Division.
  • Deadpool’s predicted beneficial contribution prompted the judge to detain him instead of deleting him, and all three were sent to sign liability waivers and letters of repentance.
  • After witnessing a time criminal dissolve for lacking a ticket, Rocket and Deadpool hurriedly showed their red tickets to the clerk.
  • Mobius left after receiving a message, and Su Ming, Deadpool, and Rocket were locked in a time-loop cell; Deadpool and Rocket’s escape attempts returned them to their starting points.
  • Su Ming sent his divine sense through the TVA, explored its vast operations, and found Infinity Stones in a cluttered office.
  • Su Ming examined the Power Stone with his divine sense, and his expression changed instantly.

Ch. 418Akashic Gold Coin

Su Ming agreed to help Mobius investigate the attacks on Time Variance Authority agents in exchange for an Akashic Gold Coin. He arrived with Deadpool and Rocket at the latest crime scene outside Loyalton, where he began examining the damaged timeline.

  • Su Ming discovered that the Infinity Stones were powerless inside the Time Variance Authority.
  • Mobius returned from investigating the massacre of Hunter C-20's squad and asked Su Ming for help.
  • Su Ming accurately described the crime scene without having visited it, convincing Mobius to offer him a rare gold coin.
  • Su Ming appraised the coin at 800 trillion dollars and agreed to help, insisting that Deadpool and Rocket come along.
  • The group traveled to 1985 outside Loyalton, where Su Ming examined the wrecked spacetime and noted how often revenge had figured in the attacks.

Ch. 419On-Site Investigation

Su Ming deduced that Sylvie hid her crimes by carrying them out on timelines already destined to collapse, while Sylvie continued her pursuit of the TVA’s secrets. Su Ming, Rocket, and Deadpool became temporary TVA agents, though Rocket was denied permission to remove his collar.

  • Su Ming exchanged the Yorkshire Gold Coin and used his Superdimensional Vision to reconstruct the crime scene, then presented Mobius with a partial analysis of the attacker.
  • Rocket asked Mobius how the TVA erased evidence after missions, and Mobius explained how the Time Restorer repaired timeline disturbances.
  • When the timeline began collapsing, Su Ming stopped Mobius from using the Time Restorer and explained that the attacker chose doomed timelines so their destruction erased all evidence.
  • Sylvie tortured C-20, shattered her faith in the TVA, took her Time Controller and equipment, and declared that the game had only begun.
  • The TVA made Su Ming, Rocket, and Deadpool temporary agents and issued them uniforms, but a judge refused Rocket’s request to remove his collar.

Ch. 420Dance, Little Deadpool

Su Ming took Mobius, Deadpool, and Rocket to a 2025 rally to test his theory that the TVA’s timeline records could be wrong. Deadpool attacked the rallygoers at Su Ming’s urging, and Mobius was shocked when the temporal controller showed the timeline was not collapsing.

  • Mobius doubted Su Ming’s theory, so Su Ming seized his temporal device and opened a time door to a disaster-bound scene.
  • Su Ming, Deadpool, Rocket, and Mobius arrived at a 2025 rally where a politician urged invasion and the crowd cheered.
  • Su Ming ordered Rocket to attack the rallygoers, but Rocket had no weapons, so Deadpool volunteered and Su Ming gave him a broken iron railing.
  • Deadpool leaped onto the stage and brutally attacked the rallygoers with the railing while Mobius warned that the interference could collapse the timeline.
  • Su Ming told Mobius to check the temporal controller, and Mobius stared at its reading in shock.

Ch. 421World-Ending Storm

Su Ming, Deadpool, Rocket, and Mobius escaped a timeline-ending storm and returned to the Time Variance Authority. Deadpool survived being hurled through the Time Door, though he was severely injured.

  • Mobius confirmed that Deadpool's slaughter had caused no variant energy, then joined Su Ming and Rocket in applauding Deadpool's rampage.
  • Mobius's Time Controller alarmed as a catastrophic storm approached, and he warned Su Ming that it would destroy the timeline.
  • Su Ming fled through the Time Door with Rocket and Mobius, while the storm struck and sent Deadpool flying after them.
  • Deadpool crashed into a wall at the Time Variance Authority, leaving a bloody trail and suffering severe injuries.
  • Mobius began to express his regret, but Deadpool interrupted to say that he thought he could still be saved.

Ch. 422Earth's Hidden Secrets

Deadpool’s rapid regeneration astonished Rocket and Mobius, and the Time Variance Authority ordered Su Ming and Mobius to investigate the attacks threatening the Sacred Timeline. While searching the TVA archives, Su Ming uncovered Earth’s hidden history and learned that his presence might have prevented mysterious forces from intervening, leaving him determined to question Earth’s Will.

  • Deadpool regenerated from catastrophic injuries in minutes, convincing Mobius that the killer could be exploiting the Dying Timeline.
  • The female judge told Su Ming and Mobius that the Timekeepers considered the attacks a grave threat and assigned them to focus on the investigation.
  • Mobius brought the team to the TVA archives, where Su Ming used Superdimensional Vision to examine records of Earth’s past crises.
  • Su Ming discovered that mysterious forces from the Huaxia Region had repeatedly saved Earth before TVA timeline corrections, while records showed no such intervention during Thanos’s Snap.
  • A mysterious old man began telling Su Ming that the forces had not intervened because Su Ming was there, then was abruptly cut off.
  • Su Ming suspected that his arrival and role as Earth Guardian were part of a larger plan and resolved to demand answers from Earth’s Will.

Ch. 423Silencing Punishment

Su Ming found a lead on the time criminal, and Mobius assembled a field team led by Agent Roxxon. After Deadpool mocked the audience and the author, a higher-dimensional force silenced him, and Su Ming left him behind as the team prepared to depart.

  • Su Ming found a lead after searching the Time Variance Authority archives, and Mobius briefed a field team that included Agent Roxxon.
  • Roxxon took command of the mission and rejected Rocket’s request for a Time Stick, then explained how the device worked.
  • Deadpool heard a mysterious crack, mocked the audience and author, and was suddenly unable to speak.
  • Deadpool begged Su Ming to help him, but Su Ming sensed a higher-dimensional punishment and chose not to interfere.
  • Su Ming told Mobius to get moving while Deadpool remained silent.

Ch. 424Loki's Fate

The TVA team searched a storm-ravaged supermarket in 2050, where Sylvie possessed Roxxon and a trap involving Time Resetters came to light. Deadpool regained his voice and brutally attacked Sylvie’s host, leaving her questioning what kind of monsters the TVA had brought.

  • Rocket secretly decided to steal a Time Stick and study its powers.
  • Roxxon split the TVA team into two groups and searched the supermarket with Su Ming, Deadpool, and Rocket.
  • Su Ming spotted Loki-like mental energy in a suspicious man, who grabbed Roxxon and let Sylvie possess her.
  • Mobius’s group found Hunter C-20, who rambled that the Timekeepers were fake.
  • Su Ming spotted portable Time Resetters and suspected Sylvie had lured the TVA into a trap, but she vanished before he could act.
  • A burly man attacked Su Ming and bounced off him, then Deadpool regained his voice and savagely beat the man while Sylvie was still possessing him.

Ch. 425Fancy Warehouse

Sylvie unleashed dozens of Time Resetters, throwing the Sacred Timeline into chaos, while Su Ming, Deadpool, and Rocket accidentally returned to TVA headquarters and followed Purple Jewel to a warehouse of confiscated treasures. Su Ming found a mysterious black cube with a faint trace of vitality, while Sylvie was trapped fighting TVA guards.

  • Sylvie activated dozens of hidden Time Resetters, causing widespread timeline instability and prompting Judge Ravonna Renslayer to dispatch TVA teams to Alabama.
  • Su Ming, Deadpool, and Rocket entered Sylvie’s Time Door and emerged in the TVA lobby, where Purple Jewel sensed a nearby source of unusual energy.
  • Sylvie infiltrated TVA headquarters, but her magic failed there, and she was surrounded by guards after fighting two of them.
  • Su Ming followed Purple Jewel to a warehouse and sent Rocket and Deadpool searching among its seemingly powerless treasures.
  • Su Ming spotted a pitch-black cube with a faint trace of vitality and carefully picked it up.
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