Chapter Summaries

Thanos erased Jehovah with a casual sweep of the Blade of Destruction, forcing the god to flee to Heaven. As the allies reeled from the collapse of their faith, Steve rallied them while Su Ming and Carol kept their focus on Thanos.

• Thanos swept the Blade of Destruction and erased Jehovah, then turned his attention back to Su Ming and Captain Marvel.
• Jehovah returned to Heaven, realized Thanos wielded the power of a law, and ordered the angels to prepare for war against Satan while avoiding Vormir.
• Rocket Raccoon and the other heroes mocked Jehovah’s retreat, while the believers struggled with their shattered faith.
• Steve Rogers urged the allied forces to rely on one another and remember that their heroes were still fighting.
• Carol turned away from where Jehovah had vanished and fixed her gaze on Thanos.

Su Ming struggled against Demon Thanos and the Blade of Destruction after Carol was badly injured protecting him. When Little White could offer no weapon or direct help, Ancient Spirit appeared and berated Su Ming, who angrily challenged him to fight instead.

• Demon Thanos redirected the Blade of Destruction's black flames at Carol, shattering her faceplate and sending her flying.
• Su Ming caught Carol with his Dharma Giant and sent her to the others to recover.
• Su Ming contacted Little White and asked for a divine weapon, but Little White said he could not provide one or defeat Demon Thanos.
• Ancient Spirit pushed into the system interface and scolded Su Ming for failing to overcome Demon Thanos.
• Su Ming defended his limited time practicing the cultivation technique and angrily told Ancient Spirit to fight if he was so capable.

Ancient Spirit lent Su Ming a projection of the Xuanyuan Sword, giving him a weapon to face Demon Thanos. Su Ming charged into battle with a fiery named attack, while the Human Alliance watched in anticipation.

• Little White revealed that Ancient Spirit was the Heirloom Seal of the Realm's artifact spirit and an old sword spirit of the Xuanyuan Lineage.
• Ancient Spirit summoned the Xuanyuan Sword's sword intent and lent it to Su Ming after taunting him into proving himself.
• Su Ming grasped the sword, which merged with his energy, and challenged Demon Thanos with a strike he called “Thirty Years of Blazing Fire.”
• The Human Alliance cheered and speculated about Su Ming's attack as he swung the Xuanyuan Sword at Demon Thanos.

Su Ming used the Xuanyuan Sword to meet Demon Thanos’s Blade of Destruction in a devastating clash, injuring Thanos and turning the Human Alliance’s fear into hope. Watching from the Annihilation Domain, Destruction Law decided Su Ming would make a better representative than Thanos and resolved to claim him as its vessel.

• Su Ming poured his power into the Xuanyuan Sword, which unexpectedly unleashed an immense wave of ice-blue frost instead of flames.
• Su Ming and Demon Thanos clashed their weapons, shattering space and unleashing a shockwave that the Human Alliance struggled to withstand.
• Su Ming’s strike severed one of Demon Thanos’s wings and broke a horn, leaving his energy unstable and his Blade of Destruction nearly extinguished.
• Tony, Rocket, Little Spider, Steve, and the allied warriors celebrated as they saw Su Ming gain the upper hand.
• Destruction Law recognized the Xuanyuan Sword’s power and decided Su Ming was a more suitable representative than Thanos, resolving to make him its vessel.

As the Destruction Law became distracted by Su Ming, Thanos broke free from its control and returned to his original form, discovering that his army and generals had been destroyed. Defeated and consumed by rage, he devised a scheme to lure Su Ming to the Destruction Law and sent it an offer.

• The Destruction Law's interest in Su Ming weakened its control over Demon Thanos, allowing Thanos to struggle against it.
• Thanos realized the Destruction Law had used him and was trying to consume his will and take his body.
• With the Soul Stone and Starcore Fragment supporting him, Thanos broke through the suppression and transformed back into his usual form.
• Thanos surveyed the ruined battlefield and saw that his army and the Black Order were dead, while Su Ming and the Human Alliance had survived.
• Thanos decided to make everyone who had defeated or betrayed him perish with him.
• Thanos used his remaining connection to the Destruction Law to offer a way to make Su Ming willingly join it.

Thanos triggered a catastrophic self-destruction with the Soul Stone and the Starcore Fragment, forcing Su Ming to evacuate the Human Alliance through a spatial rift. Wanda stayed behind to face the blast with Su Ming, who built a vast defensive formation as the explosion began.

• Thanos fused the Soul Stone’s power with the collapsing Starcore Fragment to unleash a self-destruction aimed at destroying the battlefield and striking the incarnation of the Destruction Law.
• Su Ming opened a rift to New York, and Steve, Tony, Rhodey, Thor, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Rocket, Groot, and the other Alliance warriors escaped through it.
• Wanda Maximoff secretly remained beside Su Ming and insisted on standing with him against Thanos’s self-destruction.
• Su Ming and Wanda faced the blast together as Su Ming formed eighty-one layered energy shields and Wanda concentrated her Chaos Magic.

Thanos detonated the Soul Stone and Starcore Fragment, destroying Vormir and unleashing a storm that Su Ming and Wanda struggled to withstand together. As the blast threatened them, Reality Elder and Death Goddess watched and agreed to protect Wanda’s soul if she died.

• Wanda formed a Chaos Magic barrier around herself, Su Ming, and his shields as Thanos’s self-destruction reached its peak.
• Thanos’s explosion consumed Vormir and shattered Su Ming’s shields, while Su Ming protected Wanda and she used Chaos Magic to weaken the blast.
• Reality Elder and Death Goddess watched the explosion and discussed how Thanos’s attack could damage Destruction’s projected incarnation.
• Reality Elder tried to rescue Wanda, but Death Goddess argued she had to face the trial herself.
• Death Goddess agreed to shield Wanda’s soul from Death Law if her body perished, and Reality Elder returned his attention to the explosion.

The Death Goddess explained that Destruction was nearly inexhaustible and warned that she would confront its wielder if he harmed civilizations unjustly. At Avengers Base, the battered survivors mourned Su Ming and Wanda after returning from Vormir, while Pietro learned that no one had seen his sister.

• The Death Goddess told Reality Elder that Destruction drew strength from conflict and said she would personally confront its wielder if he crossed the line.
• Su Ming used the Xuanyuan Sword and Space Stone to send the stranded warriors through a rift to Earth, but remained behind as Destruction engulfed the Vormir battlefield.
• The survivors landed near Avengers Base, and Nick Fury ordered Coulson to disguise the event as a joint S.W.O.R.D. and Avengers exercise.
• Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, Carol Danvers, and the others grieved as they recalled Su Ming sacrificing himself to save them.
• Alisha broke down over Su Ming and Wanda, and her sobs unleashed the survivors' suppressed grief.
• Pietro searched the crowd for Wanda, received no news, and stared at the sky in despair.

Su Ming and Wanda were trapped in Thanos's self-destruction blast, and Su Ming began reversing all his power to save her. The reversal unleashed the Starcore Fragments, Infinity Stones, and Pangu Origin, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Thanos's blast shattered Su Ming and Wanda's defenses, and Su Ming shielded Wanda while she reinforced his barrier with Chaos Magic.
• The blast burned Wanda and overwhelmed their defenses, while Su Ming suffered severe injuries and bled golden-red blood.
• Su Ming told Wanda to watch him and deliberately reversed all his energy, risking complete annihilation.
• Wanda tried to give Su Ming her remaining Chaos Magic, but Su Ming's power blocked her and forced her to leave the burden to him.
• Su Ming unleashed the reversed power of the five Starcore Fragments, five Infinity Stones, and Pangu Origin from within his body.

Su Ming used the power from reversing his self-destruction to heal Wanda and send her through a rift to Earth, then unleashed his full power against the incarnation of the Destruction Law. Wanda returned alone to the Avengers Base and told the survivors that Su Ming had sacrificed himself, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Su Ming healed Wanda with the power from reversing his self-destruction, opened a rift to Earth, and pushed her through it.
• Su Ming faced the wavering incarnation of the Destruction Law and released his restraints as his body and soul neared collapse.
• A spatial rift opened above the Avengers Base, and Wanda fell through alone as the survivors hoped Su Ming would follow.
• Pietro caught Wanda, but the rift closed without Su Ming appearing.
• Wanda told the others that Su Ming had reversed all the energy to save her and self-destructed in the Destruction Starfield.
• Alisha and the Avengers mourned Su Ming as Wanda sobbed, while his ultimate fate remained unknown.

At the ruins of Vormir, Su Ming began a catastrophic self-destruction using five reversed Star Core fragments, five collapsing Infinity Stones, and Pangu Energy after sending Wanda to safety. Destruction Law realized the blast could devastate his avatar and harm his true body, but he still refused to admit defeat.

• The Reality Elder praised Su Ming for sending Wanda away, while the Death Goddess sensed that his self-destruction could erase existence.
• The Reality Elder and Death Goddess judged that Thanos's close-range detonation of a Starcore Fragment and the Soul Stone had badly weakened Destruction Law's avatar.
• After confirming Wanda was safe, Su Ming turned his attention to Destruction Law's battered avatar as his body and soul began to collapse.
• Destruction Law recognized that Su Ming was reversing five Star Core fragments and collapsing five Infinity Stones alongside Pangu Energy.
• Destruction Law panicked when he realized Su Ming's self-destruction could destroy his avatar and damage his true body, and he shouted for Su Ming to stop.

Su Ming unleashed his reversed energy in a final chaotic blast, destroying the Avatar of Destruction and erasing Vormir as he vanished with the explosion. Earth’s Will and Little White learned that Su Ming had disappeared, leaving his survival uncertain and the mission marked as a failure.

• The Avatar of Destruction offered to help stabilize Su Ming, but Su Ming released all restraint over his reversed energy.
• Su Ming’s chaotic radiance tore through Thanos’s self-destruction, shattered the Avatar of Destruction’s barriers, and forced its core origin to flee.
• The chaos erased Vormir and swallowed Su Ming, leaving two ring-shaped gaps in space.
• Earth’s Will saw the Guardian Medal crack and feared that Su Ming had perished in a crisis beyond the destruction of stars.
• Ancient Spirit urged Little White to sever its connection to Su Ming, but the system reported that the host’s vital signs had disappeared and began unbinding after declaring the mission a failure.

After Su Ming’s life imprint vanished in Chaos, Little White and Ancient Spirit discovered that his aura had reconnected and was growing stronger. Su Ming awakened amid the destruction, met Pangu’s lingering will, and received a demonstration of the Creation-Opening Intent as Pangu faded away.

• Little White sensed Su Ming’s aura reconnecting, and Ancient Spirit realized that Su Ming had survived the explosion.
• Su Ming’s faint spirit stirred in the Chaos, and the Xuanyuan Sword fragments responded as his Creation-Opening Intent awakened.
• Pangu’s lingering thought recognized Earth’s Will’s aura in Su Ming and learned that Su Ming had protected her and Earth.
• Pangu reassured Su Ming, then demonstrated how he had split Chaos with a single swing of his axe.
• Pangu’s thought faded after asking Su Ming to give his regards to his little sister, while Su Ming entered deep enlightenment about the will behind opening heaven and earth.

Su Ming fused his protective resolve with Pangu’s Heaven-Opening Will and swung the Xuanyuan Sword through primordial chaos, while Earth and his companions mourned him after his apparent death at Vormir. Half a year later, Loki told Alisha and Wanda that Su Ming’s life signal remained gone and urged them to accept a funeral and keep moving forward.

• After Pangu’s consciousness faded, Su Ming’s will merged with the Heaven-Opening Will, and his Xuanyuan Sword responded to his power.
• Su Ming calmly swung the Xuanyuan Sword and sent a gray sword radiance into the chaos.
• Earth honored Su Ming with memorials, tributes, and the designation of 2012 as “Su Ming Year One,” while his allies grieved.
• Steve Rogers proposed a funeral, but Alisha, Wanda, and Maria Hill objected, insisting Su Ming would return.
• After another half year, Loki told Alisha and Wanda that Su Ming’s life signal had been absent and urged them to hold a funeral and move forward.

The Avengers disturbed an ancient tomb while building a cenotaph for Su Ming, awakening its guardian Zhen Chou. The Destruction Law attacked Wanda, but an unknown pale golden force erased his strike, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Alisha finally agreed to build a cenotaph for Su Ming in a remote valley in the Kunlun Mountains.
• Tony's robots disturbed an ancient seal, awakening Zhen Chou, who destroyed the machines and guarded the tomb as stone-armored soldiers emerged behind him.
• The Avengers arrived and prepared to fight Zhen Chou, but the Destruction Law descended into the valley and Wanda recognized him as the one who had fought Su Ming.
• The Destruction Law attacked Wanda, eroding the forest around her and pinning Pietro in place.
• Wanda unleashed her Chaos Magic against the Destruction Law, but it could not penetrate his defense, and his counterattack threatened to erase her.
• Pale golden ripples appeared around Wanda and silently dispelled the Destruction Law's attack.

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.