Recaps

The Reality Law appeared to protect Wanda, his chosen successor, and joined the Death Goddess in confronting the weakened Destruction Law. Driven by his plan to seize Earth's core and restore his power, Destruction defied them and began enveloping the planet.

• The Reality Law revealed himself, comforted Wanda, and confronted Destruction for threatening his successor.
• Destruction tried to make Reality take Wanda away, but Reality mocked his weakness and threatened to self-destruct rather than let him harm her.
• The Death Goddess appeared and warned Destruction that his interference violated the rules of the Supreme Laws.
• Destruction decided to seize Earth's core to regain his strength and claimed he would become the rules once restored.
• Destruction unleashed his remaining origin power as deadly threads that spread over Earth to seal it off and extract its core.

Su Ming returned at the height of Destruction’s attack and severed the laws threatening Earth. As Destruction gathered the universe’s destructive power to fight him, Reality Elder sensed something frighteningly familiar about Su Ming and fled.

• Su Ming’s sword light cut through Destruction’s law threads, and he appeared alive before the stunned Avengers, Wanda, Alisha, Zhen Chou, and the emperor.
• Su Ming greeted his allies and challenged Destruction, asking whether he would surrender a hand and a foot or refuse to return.
• Destruction, enraged that Su Ming had survived, gathered destructive power from across the universe into a vast black nebula and threatened to erase him.
• Reality Elder prepared to intervene, but Death Goddess told him to leave the conflict to Su Ming and Destruction.
• Reality Elder sensed Su Ming’s aura, panicked at its resemblance to someone who could carve something from nothing, and fled after telling Wanda to call him if needed.

Su Ming defeated Destruction Law with a strike powered by the unyielding hopes of people across Earth. The original Destruction authority became the higher authority of Pioneering, with Su Ming as its sole wielder.

• Wanda and the Avengers learned that the Death Goddess and Reality Elder had fled because they feared Su Ming, and Thor realized how powerful their ally had become.
• Destruction Law gathered a vast dark nebula and launched it at Su Ming, briefly plunging Earth into darkness and disabling its power grid.
• Su Ming called on the will of people struggling to survive and protect what they cherished, drawing their Hope's Light into the Xuanyuan Sword.
• Su Ming's Creation-Opening Intent transformed into an axe shadow that erased Destruction Law's attack and split its incarnation apart.
• Su Ming received the universe's new supreme authority, Pioneering, after his strike cleaved apart the original Destruction authority.

Three years after Su Ming defeated Destruction, heroes and friends gathered on a private island for Bucky’s wedding. Su Ming had become the spokesperson for the Law of Expansion, and the chapter ended with Okoye telling T’Challa that their wedding gift was gone.

• Little White’s mission to clear the Marvel Universe map completed, freeing him, while Su Ming heard he could choose when to return.
• At the wedding, Tony and Pepper joked with Morgan, Thor and Rhodey discussed Rhodey’s drinking immunity, and Banner’s attempt to speak with Natasha was gently redirected.
• Wanda warned Vision off, Peter and Gwen wondered when Su Ming would arrive, and Steve and Kate hinted at their future together.
• Rocket and Groot decorated the venue with blooming flowers, while Quill, Gamora, Drax, Mantis, and Nebula traded jokes and insults.
• Clint arrived with Laura and their children as T’Challa asked Okoye whether Bucky’s gift was ready; Okoye said it was gone.

At Deadpool and Sylvie’s wedding, Su Ming left a blessing for his friends in the Marvel Universe and departed through a portal with Little White. He arrived in a mysterious realm, where a voice introduced the next leg of his journey by telling competing stories about Sun Wukong.

• Rocket Raccoon gave Bucky Barnes his old metal arm, and Bucky thanked him before T’Challa and Okoye concluded their investigation.
• Carol Danvers told Nick Fury that Su Ming had made a pet paradise for his cat and stocked it with supplies for centuries.
• Deadpool and Sylvie arrived at their wedding, while Loki and Thor discussed Jane Foster’s absence.
• When Su Ming failed to appear as officiant, a golden letter delivered his farewell and blessed the guests; Wanda wished him safe travels.
• Su Ming followed Little White through a passage and entered a misty realm, where voices began recounting different legends about Sun Wukong.