Recaps

Lu Xi expanded his authority over Earth, drawing the Inhumans, Thor, Loki, and global leaders into his power while the Earth Federation formed around his rule. Carol Danvers lost her powers, faced a public hearing over her past choices, and was left reeling after Maria testified against her.

• Lu Xi redirected the Chitauri invasion toward Hala, then watched world leaders debate whether to submit to him and establish an Earth Federation.
• The Inhumans chose to sign soul contracts and move to Kamar-Taj, where Lu Xi explained their powers and assigned Mordo to house them.
• Lu Xi gave Pierce enhanced abilities, defeated Loki through Pierce, and secured soul contracts from Thor and Loki before beginning to fuse with new authority.
• Carol Danvers fought the sorcerers at Kamar-Taj until Lu Xi arrived, stopped the battle, and established that Earth was under his authority.
• Kaecilius revealed Dormammu's mark, and Lu Xi ordered him to feign betrayal while New Church believers attacked priests and the Earth Federation prepared to worship Lucifer.
• Lu Xi healed devoted believers during the Federation's public ceremony, then stripped Carol of her powers and offered to restore them if she served the Federation.
• Carol began studying magic at Kamar-Taj, but Natasha brought her to a televised hearing where Stern and witnesses accused her of neglecting Earth and endangering it.
• Stern revoked Carol's prison sentence, but the crowd abused her until Natasha led her away, and Maria admitted she had testified against Carol to protect herself and Monica.

Lu Xi helped Strange defeat Dormammu, then confronted the Vishanti over the magic debts of his contractors and secured unrestricted access to their power. As Strange gained freedom from Destiny and Thor prepared to face the Dark Elves, zombie Wanda led an invasion from Earth-2149 into Lu Xi’s Universe.

• Carol accepted Lu Xi’s new contract, regained her power through the Space Stone, and learned that he had moved the Skrulls to Attilan.
• Natasha and Barton brought Strange to Kamar-Taj during Kaecilius’s staged attack, where Strange signed Lu Xi’s contract and used Vishanti magic to hold Dormammu back until Lu Xi contained him.
• Lu Xi created arenas where contractors could challenge Dormammu and Laufey, then strengthened Natasha and enchanted Barton’s bow.
• Hoggoth confronted Lu Xi over the sorcerers’ unpaid magic debts, but Lu Xi defeated the Vishanti’s combined Majestic Form and revealed himself as a Universe Sovereign.
• Lu Xi accepted the original Vishanti’s Book, secured restored galaxies and unrestricted magic access for his faction, and ordered Strange to endure a week of continuous arena fights as punishment.
• Strange traded his contract reward for freedom from Destiny’s restraints, and Lu Xi severed the thread keeping Strange and Christine apart.
• Lu Xi extracted the Reality Stone from Jane Foster after the Aether possessed her, while Thor prepared to face Malekith’s Dark Elves.
• Zombie Wanda led heroes from Earth-2149 through a breach into the Morningstar Universe, where they devoured Malekith’s fleet and turned him into a zombie.

Lu Xi contained the Zombie Virus, fused Earth-121698 with his universe, and recruited new contractees while helping the Watcher stop Infinity Ultron. As the Vishanti worried about the missing Creator Gods, Lu Xi discovered Chthon’s mark on Wanda and confronted the Silver Surfer with Wanda and Daisy.

• Lu Xi defeated the zombie horde, erased the remaining infected on Earth-2149, and sealed that universe against outside threats.
• Lu Xi recognized the potential of powerful variants, returned to his universe with Thor, and tried to teach Thor Rune Magic by leaving him hanging from the World Tree.
• Infinity Ultron destroyed his universe and attacked the Watcher, so the Watcher lured him into Lu Xi’s universe, where Lu Xi removed the Time Stone and later all but the Mind Stone.
• Ultron escaped and destroyed his universe, damaging the Morningstar Universe and a neighboring one, so Lu Xi and the Watcher used forbidden Universe Fusion to repair Lu Xi’s reality with Earth-121698.
• Lu Xi made contracts with Reed, Ben, Susan, Jonathan, and Victor von Doom, awakened their powers after the fusion, and received the Watcher’s Multiversal Star Map.
• Lu Xi embedded a reduced Space Stone in Natasha, while Agamotto, Hoggoth, and Oshtur feared that Eternity and the other Creator Gods had disappeared.
• After Wanda defeated Daisy in a sparring match, Lu Xi discovered Chthon’s mark eroding Wanda’s soul, but Wanda chose to keep it for a chance to grow stronger.
• Lu Xi took Wanda and Daisy to fight the Silver Surfer, and they battered him until he called to Galactus for help.

Lu Xi defeated Galactus, inherited the Devouring Rule, and used his growing Destiny Authority to confront threats and strengthen the Morningstar Universe. After helping Wanda and Strange gain power, he turned his attention to the Zombie Virus and the Quantum Realm, while his reach into Destiny expanded beyond his own Universe.

• Galactus arrived at the Morningstar Universe, and Lu Xi fought him while Vishanti, Agamotto, and Oshtur investigated the devoured universes.
• Lu Xi regained enough Destiny Authority through Tony and Wanda’s contracts to become the Morningstar Universe’s Sovereign, then used the Destiny Sword to pierce Galactus’s core and kill him.
• The Devouring Rule attached itself to Lu Xi and repaired the Multiversal void left by Galactus’s death, and Lu Xi agreed to exchange information with the Vishanti.
• Lu Xi rescued Wanda from Chthon’s summoning, learned that Mephisto had arranged the ritual, erased Mephisto across countless Parallel Universes, and bound Chthon so Wanda could absorb his magic.
• Lu Xi made a deal with Dark Supreme Strange to restore his collapsed Pocket Universe, then fused Earth-91233 into the Morningstar Universe and arranged for Strange to inherit Dark Strange’s power.
• Strange reached the Multiversal level and began purging demonic wills from his magic, while Lu Xi revived Christine and brought her with Strange to the Zombie Universe.
• Lu Xi examined Janet van Dyne’s Zombie Virus with the Time Rule and Destiny, then decided to investigate its origin in the Quantum Realm.
• Lu Xi fused with the Destiny Authority he received after Strange advanced, and perceived Destiny threads extending beyond the Morningstar Universe.