Chapter Summaries

The Death Goddess examined Su Ming and recognized his Nascent Soul as a path with the potential to bear the authority of Infinity and Eternity. She ignored the Cosmic Demon's accusations, took Purple Jewel away, and left Su Ming and the demon bewildered.

• The Cosmic Demon panicked and hurried through the ice to reach the Death Goddess before Su Ming could turn her against him.
• The Death Goddess inspected Su Ming's Starcore Fragments and Infinity Stones without interest, then became astonished by his Nascent Soul and its potential.
• The Cosmic Demon emerged from the ice and tried to accuse Su Ming, but the Death Goddess dismissed his concerns as meaningless.
• The Death Goddess looked toward Earth's Will, who stood protectively, and responded with a faint smile and a disdainful sound.
• The Death Goddess summoned Purple Jewel and vanished with her, leaving Su Ming confused and the Cosmic Demon dumbfounded.

The Death Goddess returned to her realm, reunited with Infinity and Eternity, and ordered them to keep Su Ming from inheriting Pangu’s power. In 2012, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Rocket Raccoon, and Nebula arrived near Stark Tower and saw Su Ming fighting the Chitauri invasion.

• The Death Goddess entered her domain, restored her energy, and questioned Infinity and Eternity about whether they had revealed anything to Su Ming.
• Infinity and Eternity admitted they had helped Su Ming, and the Death Goddess allowed them to return to him while ordering them to prevent him from receiving Pangu’s Inheritance.
• The Death Goddess warned that Pangu’s will could make Su Ming a threat to the Supreme Laws, and Infinity and Eternity agreed to her task.
• Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Rocket Raccoon, and Nebula emerged from the Quantum Tunnel near Stark Tower in 2012 as the Chitauri attacked.
• Tony told Rocket that Su Ming had previously held back the Chitauri and saved his life, and Rocket spotted Su Ming fighting near the portal.

After escaping Su Ming, the Cosmic Demon secretly summoned other demons and infiltrated Earth as Steve Rogers to target the Infinity Stones. Meanwhile, the Death Goddess’s influence transformed Earth’s underworlds, triggering a drop in human birth rates, public blame of the Avengers, and an early rift over government oversight, leaving Tony Stark fed up with the conflict and ready to leave with Pepper Potts.

• The Cosmic Demon returned to his Galactus form, faked a desperate attack on Su Ming, and used the clash to flee into near-Earth orbit.
• The Cosmic Demon sent other demons Earth's coordinates and a claim that five ownerless Starcore Fragments were there, then disguised himself as Steve Rogers and infiltrated Earth to approach the Avengers.
• Gold Jewel and Purple Jewel returned to Su Ming, and their contact with the Death Law caused Earth's Western Hell, Eastern Netherworld, and other underworlds to expand and strengthen.
• The underworlds' changing reincarnation systems coincided with plummeting human birth rates and rising biodiversity, and experts and officials blamed the Battle of New York and the Avengers.
• Senator Pierce proposed the Superhuman Activity Registration and Regulation Act, widening the divide between Tony Stark, who favored oversight, and Steve Rogers, who opposed it.
• Tony Stark ended an argument with his teammates by taking Pepper Potts away and saying they were going to the Maldives.

Future Su Ming warned his past self that their growth was being orchestrated and that Cosmic Demons were pursuing the Starcore Fragments and Ancient God Godhood. Meanwhile, the Avengers tracked the Tesseract to Mongolia, while the demon posing as Steve infiltrated the Mind Scepter transport headed for Sokovia.

• Future Su Ming visited his past self and explained that their transmigration was a carefully arranged script meant to prepare them for powerful enemies.
• Purple Jewel and Gold Jewel appeared, and the past Su Ming learned that they called him Daddy and that Cosmic Demons were targeting them.
• Nebula detected a Tesseract-like energy signature in Mongolia, so Steve, Tony, and Nebula prepared to go there while Rocket stayed behind to contact Su Ming.
• The demon posing as Steve used Crossbones to learn that the Mind Scepter was being transported to Hydra's base in Sokovia.
• The demon joined the transport team, intending to seize the Mind Scepter and grow stronger before his coming battles with the Cosmic Demons and Su Ming.

Clint, Bruce Banner, and James Rhodes returned to Vormir to confront Red Skull and reclaim the Soul Stone, but found him hiding. Thanos and Gamora arrived and attacked the Avengers, while Red Skull considered letting Thanos take the stone so he could escape his curse.

• Clint, Bruce Banner, and James Rhodes arrived on Vormir and found the altar empty as Red Skull hid nearby.
• Red Skull watched the Avengers and recalled that he was bound to Vormir by his curse, while Clint shouted for him to return the stone.
• Rhodes proposed using missiles to flush Red Skull out, but Clint stopped him for fear of harming Natasha below the cliff.
• Bruce guessed that Red Skull was hiding because a powerful force kept him from leaving Vormir with the stone.
• Thanos and Gamora appeared, prompting Rhodes and Bruce to attack Thanos while Gamora blocked Clint from searching for Red Skull.
• Red Skull decided that Thanos might be a suitable person to take the Soul Stone away and free him from his curse.

Thanos obtained the Soul Stone on Vormir after Red Skull gave it to him, while the Death Goddess erased Red Skull for betraying his duty. Back in 2012 New York, Alisha discovered that two Su Mings were present and asked whether her future boss had become a god.

• Thanos defeated Rhodey, Hulk, and Clint while Gamora subdued Clint on Vormir.
• Red Skull gave Thanos the Soul Stone, and Thanos left Vormir with Gamora as the injured Avengers failed to stop him.
• Red Skull prepared to attack the Avengers, but the Death Goddess erased him for handing over the Soul Stone.
• The Avengers remained stranded on Vormir, and Hawkeye asked the others to take Natasha back.
• In 2012 New York, Alisha saw future Su Ming, and he restored her shattered coffee cup and spilled coffee with a gesture.
• Alisha believed the time-travel explanation and asked future Su Ming whether he had become a god.

Su Ming pursued the Cosmic Demon through time to stop it from destabilizing the timeline, leaving Alisha and his past self behind. Meanwhile, Clint descended the cliff on Vormir to retrieve Natasha, and Tony, Steve, Nebula, and Rocket arrived in the Gobi Desert to track a spatial energy signal.

• Su Ming embraced Alisha, then sensed the Cosmic Demon traveling to Sokovia to seize the Mind Scepter and opened a Time Door to stop it.
• Su Ming's clone and the Time Law warned that the Demon's repeated time jumps could create dangerous branches and destabilize the timeline.
• On Vormir, Rhodes anchored a cable while Hulk held it steady, and Clint rappelled down the cliff to retrieve Natasha.
• Tony, Steve, Nebula, and Rocket arrived in the Gobi Desert, where Nebula detected a spatial energy signal three kilometers away.
• Nebula and Tony rushed toward the signal while Rocket fell into the sand again and shouted for them to wait.

Steve, Rocket, Nebula, and Tony raced across the desert toward the Infinity Stones as Cosmic Demons gathered in Earth’s low orbit. Su Ming traveled twenty years into the past to Sokovia to help Wanda and Pietro, and he discovered that young Wanda was already showing signs of her powers.

• Steve surfed across the sand on his shield, and Rocket blasted himself onto Steve’s shoulder so they could race after Nebula and Tony.
• Cosmic Demons gathered in dark energy clouds above Earth, while Earth’s Will sensed Su Ming’s departure and anxiously called for him to return.
• Su Ming traveled back twenty years to Sokovia, intending to change Wanda and Pietro’s tragic past.
• Su Ming found young Wanda and Pietro playing at home and watched Wanda’s power mysteriously stop a coffee cup from falling.

Su Ming discovered that young Wanda already had an innate connection to Reality Law, which activated when she instinctively protected Pietro from a missile. He diverted the other missiles to reduce casualties, comforted Wanda before disappearing, and left her with a mysterious memory of the person who saved her.

• Su Ming observed Wanda unconsciously use Scarlet energy to stop a coffee cup from falling and realized her Reality Law affinity had existed since childhood.
• As missiles struck the town, Su Ming subtly redirected them away from populated areas, reducing the attack’s casualties.
• A missile crashed into Wanda and Pietro’s home, and Wanda’s fear-triggered power cut off its detonation, saving them both.
• Wanda spotted Su Ming outside the window, and he silently reassured her before vanishing into the night.
• Wanda treasured the encounter as a warm childhood mystery, while a voice in the distant universe praised Su Ming.

Tony, Steve, Rocket, and Nebula found the Tesseract in the Gobi while the TVA captured Loki, but a Time Restorer erased their memories of the encounter. Days later, the Reality God sensed an extraordinary reaction from the Reality Stone and reacted with disbelief.

• Tony, Rocket, Steve, and Nebula arrived in the Gobi and found Loki surrounded by TVA agents beside the Tesseract.
• Tony attacked the TVA, but its agents blocked his blast, and the team focused on claiming the Tesseract instead of rescuing Loki.
• The TVA took Loki through a Time Door, while Steve picked up the Tesseract and a Time Restorer swept over the remaining heroes.
• Tony, Steve, Rocket, and Nebula lost their memories of finding the Tesseract, and Rocket mistakenly credited the discovery to his own luck.
• Nebula recovered the erased memories from cloud storage and realized the TVA had Infinity Stones in abundance, deciding to report it to her father.
• Days later, the Reality God sensed an astonishing reaction from the Reality Stone he had sent into the universe.

The Reality Elder sensed Wanda’s rare connection to the Reality Law and resolved to protect her, while secretly blessing Su Ming. Twenty years later, Su Ming returned to the castle in Sokovia and watched the Demon Captain assault Jack Sparrow as Hydra agents looked on in shock.

• The Reality Elder recognized Wanda as a potential successor to the Reality Law and decided to protect her until he could pass on its authority.
• The Reality Elder noticed Su Ming’s actions in Sokovia and sent him an unseen blessing.
• Su Ming returned to the castle in Sokovia twenty years later as a convoy approached its gates.
• Jack Sparrow stopped the convoy and questioned it, unaware that it was carrying the Mind Scepter.
• The Demon Captain emerged from the convoy and repeatedly slapped Jack, leaving him and the Hydra agents stunned.

Su Ming recruited Captain Jack Sparrow to harass Demon Captain and raise Baron Strucker’s suspicions while Demon Captain waited for a chance to seize the scepter. As the harassment pushed Demon Captain to the brink, he sensed a terrifying law aura and realized he had been discovered.

• Su Ming watched Demon Captain impersonate Captain America inside Sokovia Castle and decided to use Captain Jack Sparrow to disrupt his plans.
• Su Ming disguised himself as a Hydra agent, paid Jack gold coins, and persuaded him to harass Demon Captain and report suspicious behavior.
• Jack splashed dirty water on Demon Captain, tormented him in the cafeteria, and prevented him from approaching the underground scepter warehouse.
• Jack reported fabricated suspicious behavior to Baron Strucker, who grew wary and began secretly observing Demon Captain.
• Demon Captain struggled to endure Jack’s harassment, then sensed a terrifying aura of law and realized he had been discovered.

Su Ming captured the Demon Captain, but Earth's Will warned him that a Demon God army had surrounded Earth in 2012. When Tony, Steve, Nebula, and the Rocket Squad returned there to find Su Ming, they arrived amid the invasion and saw the Avengers being overwhelmed.

• The Demon Captain escaped to the Mind Scepter lab, but Su Ming restrained him and prepared to take him back through a Time Door.
• Su Ming sensed Earth's Will's fear and used his Superdimensional Vision to see the Demon God army surrounding Earth in 2012.
• Tony, Steve, Nebula, and the Rocket Squad chose to return to 2012 to find Su Ming and coordinate their plans.
• The team arrived in New York and found Earth encircled by the Demon God army, with Dormammu demanding the Starcore Fragment and Infinity Stones.
• Demon God vanguards routed the 2012 Avengers, leaving Earth’s people watching in despair.

Future Tony, Steve, and Rocket briefly turned the battle against Dormammu’s demons before Greed overwhelmed them and Dormammu wounded Hulk. Ancient One intervened, but as Dormammu threatened to break her defenses, Su Ming returned in a blaze of golden light.

• Future Tony arrived in advanced nanotech armor, rescued his 2012 self, and destroyed several demon minions.
• Future Tony, Steve, and Rocket joined the fight and drove back the ordinary demons, while Nebula reported to Thanos that the Cosmic Demons sought the Infinity Stones.
• Dormammu sent Greed into battle, and the demon defeated the future Avengers before Hulk intervened; Dormammu struck Hulk down with dark energy.
• Ancient One shielded the Avengers and pierced Greed with Vishanti magic, but Dormammu attacked her and began breaking through her defenses.
• Su Ming tore open the dark storm clouds and descended before the demons, halting their advance with his presence.

In 2012, Su Ming refused to join the battle against the demon gods and sent Alisha to find the Federal Reserve’s gold vault so he could rob it. As The Ancient One’s shield shattered and Dormammu moved to kill her, a powerful Su Ming appeared in the sky and tore open the darkness.

• Su Ming told Alisha he would not risk his life fighting Greed and the demon gods, insisting that he needed to make money and trusting that his future self would protect Earth.
• Alisha breached the Federal Reserve’s systems and found that its New York vault held about 8,300 tons of gold.
• Su Ming headed toward Manhattan to carry out his Golden Heist.
• Dormammu broke The Ancient One’s shield, leaving her exhausted and exposed to his attack.
• A radiant figure identified as Su Ming appeared above Earth and blasted a vast rift through the darkness, allowing sunlight to reach the planet.

Su Ming returned to 2012, restrained an alternate Captain America, and faced Dormammu’s army as his cultivation recovered. With one sweep of time and Mind Stone power, he erased much of the demonic horde and let sunlight reach the devastated Earth, while Dormammu angrily demanded the stolen powers back.

• Su Ming appeared before the exhausted Ancient One and the Avengers, sealed the alternate Captain America he had brought with him, and tossed him onto the ruins.
• Rocket celebrated Su Ming’s arrival, then learned Su Ming had not come because of his cross-timeline communicator; Rocket also noticed the third Captain America.
• The Avengers and people watching worldwide welcomed Su Ming, while the Ancient One teleported away to recover and Dormammu fixed his attention on Su Ming.
• Su Ming recognized Dormammu from their encounter on Ego’s Planet and confidently raised his hand against the demonic army.
• Su Ming’s sweep erased a vast portion of the demonic horde and dispersed much of the dark cloud cover, bringing sunlight and cheers to survivors around the world.
• Dormammu roared at Su Ming for stealing the powers of time and the Mind Stone and demanded that he return them.

Su Ming answered Dormammu’s renewed challenge by forming a radiant Dharma Giant powered by global Faith Energy, while the Avengers recovered and regrouped below. Dormammu opened more rifts, and five Lords of Sin emerged as the sixth rift began to open.

• Su Ming declared his strength and formed a Dharma Giant whose halo gathered Faith Energy from people around the world.
• The two Tonys joked about their damaged condition and JARVIS, while Steve and Captain America 2012 helped each other stand and noticed a hostile Steve impostor among the ruins.
• Dormammu froze the darkness beyond the dimensional rift and tore open several fissures, covering Earth with a crushing aura.
• Raziel, the Lord of Pride, Samael, the Lord of Wrath, Asmodeus, the Lord of Lust, Beelzebub, the Lord of Gluttony, and Leviathan, the Lord of Envy, emerged from separate rifts.
• Leviathan fixed his envious gaze on Su Ming’s Starcore Fragments and gemstone phantoms as a sixth, stranger rift opened.

Su Ming faced the six Cosmic Demon generals and raised the Wall of Faith to shield Earth from their attacks. The barrier held, leaving humanity safe while he stood alone against the demons.

• Nick Fury watched the six Cosmic Demon generals appear and reached for an old pager as the others realized the danger.
• Raziel, Samael, Asmodeus, Beelzebub, Leviathan, and Belphegor attacked Su Ming from every direction.
• Su Ming stopped himself from counterattacking when he considered the danger to Earth and its inhabitants.
• Su Ming formed seals and summoned the Wall of Faith, which gathered humanity’s prayers and blocked the demons’ attacks.
• Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, and Natasha Romanoff watched from behind the barrier as they recognized Su Ming’s protection of Earth.

Su Ming endured the six demon generals’ attacks, absorbed some of their power, and unleashed a punch that instantly destroyed them and cleared the threat near Earth. He survived, and people across the world celebrated his victory.

• Su Ming withstood attacks from Raziel, Samael, and the other four demon generals while gathering his power and drawing on Faith Energy, the Time Stone, and the Mind Stone.
• Su Ming unleashed a devastating punch that overwhelmed the demons’ defenses and erased all six generals.
• The punch’s aftermath cleared nearby demon warriors and destroyed Hydra’s surveillance satellites and thousands of other satellites in its path.
• Rocket Raccoon cheered when Su Ming emerged victorious, and people around the world erupted in celebration.

After Su Ming’s victory over Dormammu’s forces, Dormammu accidentally freed the Cosmic Demon, who revealed himself as Galactus. Galactus targeted both Captain Americas, but an unfamiliar voice interrupted him as Su Ming prepared to act.

• Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Thor, Alisha, and people around the world celebrated Su Ming’s victory and praised Crimson Silver Baron.
• Dormammu suspected the Cosmic Demon was hiding among humanity and captured a man with a matching aura.
• The Cosmic Demon absorbed Dormammu’s energy and broke free of Su Ming’s seals.
• The Cosmic Demon regained his true form as Galactus, and Dormammu offered to serve him.
• Galactus tried to devour both Captain Americas, but a voice called for him to stop.