Chapter Summaries

Lu Xi agreed to let Helen Cho research one of his feathers under strict conditions, then followed a mysterious portal to meet the original Lucifer. Lucifer confirmed that he had brought Lu Xi to the Marvel Universe and began explaining his origins.

• Lu Xi allowed Helen Cho to study one feather at his villa, forbidding internet access and the removal of research materials, and warned that its energy could destroy Queens.
• Lu Xi entered a gray portal and found an elderly man whose aura matched his own and the force that had brought him to the Marvel Universe, along with a middle-aged man fishing nearby.
• After watching the men fish, Lu Xi revealed himself and asked the old man whether he was Lucifer, interrupting his chance to catch a fish.
• The old man identified himself as the original Lucifer and explained that God had created him as an opposing existence to make God's own existence real.
• Lucifer angrily told Lu Xi that the claim that he was God's son was a rumor God had spread to annoy him.

The little old man revealed that he was the DC Universe’s Lucifer and had brought Lu Xi to Marvel to make him his successor. He showed Lu Xi an attack on Earth by six demon gods and promised to intervene once before returning home, leaving Lu Xi to face future troubles alone.

• The little old man explained that he and God were opposing forces who could not kill each other without destroying the universe, and said he had come from the DC Universe.
• The little old man told Lu Xi that only another Lucifer could inherit his position, and that Lu Xi was the purest variant because his world had neither Heaven nor Hell.
• The little old man complained that he had worked for twenty billion years without a break, while Lu Xi’s lives had been unusually lucky.
• The little old man showed Lu Xi six demon gods forcing Black-Winged Lucifer to lead an attack on Earth, and said he would intervene once before returning to his own universe.
• The little old man sent Lu Xi through a portal, then cried out when the fish slipped off his hook, and Lu Xi fled before the old man could vent his anger.

Lu Xi prepared his villa as a laboratory for Helen Cho and spread his telekinetic awareness across the Earth while waiting for Mephisto. He discovered that U.S. officials were debating how to attack him, but their proposed nuclear strike faced obvious practical problems.

• Lu Xi welcomed Helen Cho and had workers move her research equipment into the villa’s side building.
• Lu Xi gave Helen Cho a glowing feather to study and asked her to report any findings.
• Wanda agreed to move into the main building with Lu Xi after Pietro had left for S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Lu Xi spread his telekinesis across the Earth and observed a secret meeting beneath the White House.
• A four-star general proposed eliminating Lu Xi, but a Cabinet official challenged how the military could hit him with a nuclear bomb.
• The general suggested luring Lu Xi elsewhere and detonating dozens of nuclear bombs at once.

The President adopted a conciliatory approach toward Lu Xi and brought General Ross to apologize for provoking him. After Lu Xi accepted the apology, he sensed a demonic godly aura and left to face an impending battle.

• The President ordered General Ross arrested after Ross accidentally revealed himself as Russian by cursing in Russian, then secured the cabinet and military's agreement to appease Lu Xi.
• The President arrived at Lu Xi's villa with Ross, who apologized and admitted he had acted without authorization.
• Lu Xi mocked Ross as a nobody, and the President had S.H.I.E.L.D. agents arrest him despite promising that the FBI would not.
• Lu Xi accepted the resolution but sensed a faint demonic godly aura and told the President he had urgent business to attend to.

Peggy Carter, Steve Rogers, and Daredevil confronted The Hand as its leaders used a demon statue to break a seal and summon power from Hell. The building collapsed as a rift opened in the sky, and Lu Xi appeared before the gathered fighters.

• Peggy Carter told Steve Rogers about her marriage, her late husband, and how a deal with a demon god had made her young again.
• The Hand attacked a building in Hell's Kitchen and carried a demon statue underground to a sealed chamber.
• Alexandra used the statue to activate a magic circle, intending to draw on the Dragon Bone's power and summon a demon god.
• Peggy and Steve fought their way underground, met Daredevil, and attacked The Hand's leaders and their magic circle.
• The circle fired a blood-red beam into the sky, opening a rift and causing the building to collapse as The Hand fled.
• Lu Xi appeared beside Peggy, Steve, Daredevil, and The Hand as sulfurous air poured from the rift.

Lu Xi destroyed The Hand, then entered the Hell Dimension to confront Mephisto and three powerful demon gods while demons emerged on Earth. Ancient One fought three other demon gods but warned that she could not hold them back for long, leaving Lu Xi facing Mephisto’s challenge.

• Lu Xi killed Murakami, the other leaders of The Hand, and their ninjas with telekinetic force, then dismissed Daredevil’s objections to vigilante justice.
• Peggy Carter kicked Daredevil away and asked Lu Xi about the rift, and he explained that the Hell Dimension was threatening to descend on Earth.
• Demons emerged from a magic circle on the ground, and Lu Xi left Peggy Carter and the others to defend Earth before flying into the rift.
• Lu Xi arrived in the Hell Dimension, where Mephisto introduced Black-Winged Lucifer, Chthon, and Cyttorak as his opponents.
• Lu Xi sensed Ancient One battling Baphomet, Beelzebub, and Satannish in a Mirror Dimension, and she warned him to finish quickly before she lost control.

Lu Xi gained Lucifer’s Demon God and Hell Lord authorities, then overwhelmed Mephisto in Hell while Chthon and Cyttorak watched. As Chthon prepared to attack, Lu Xi summoned Kamar-Taj’s assembled forces through portals, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Mephisto sent Black-Winged Lucifer to attack Lu Xi, but Lucifer disintegrated into energy and gave Lu Xi his powers and authorities.
• Mephisto charged Lu Xi in his true form, but Lu Xi knocked him into the air and beat him mercilessly.
• Chthon and Cyttorak recognized that Lu Xi had become a powerful Universal-level fighter on his home ground.
• Cyttorak sensed Lucifer’s true body, an old man with a fishing rod, outside his Crimson Universe and gathered the power of his counterparts to face him.
• Cyttorak abandoned Mephisto, briefly returned to rebuke him for cursing, then vanished again.
• As Chthon prepared to attack, Lu Xi opened portals and summoned Kamar-Taj’s mages, including Mordo, Kaecilius, Hamir, and Wong.

Lu Xi defeated Mephisto after Chthon fled, then forced Mephisto to sign over his soul and Hell territory. The transfer raised Lu Xi’s strength to Universal-level, and he flew off with Mephisto to claim the territory.

• Chthon judged the mages’ formation too strong to break and fled, leaving Mephisto to face Lu Xi.
• Lu Xi struck Mephisto down and taunted him into saying, “If you're a brother, come hack me,” before continuing the beating.
• Mage Mordo and the other mages left through portals to support the Sorcerer Supreme.
• Lu Xi demanded Mephisto’s soul and Hell territory, beat him when he hesitated, and rejected Mephisto’s deceptive contract.
• Lu Xi promised to leave Mephisto part of his territory, and Mephisto signed Lu Xi’s contract, surrendering control of his soul and territory.
• The transfer boosted Lu Xi to Universal-level, and he flew away with Mephisto toward the newly acquired territory.

Lu Xi seized Mephisto’s Hell Territory but left him only a hundred-square-meter fragment, then learned why Hell’s territories merged and why great demon gods rarely traveled across the Multiverse. He returned to Earth, where Ancient One reported that three demon gods had fled and the superheroes were containing the demons.

• Lu Xi took over Mephisto’s territory and reduced the portion left to him to a hundred square meters, causing Mephisto to faint from rage.
• Lu Xi woke Mephisto with a painful soul attack and learned that territories belonging to the same demon god merged because Hell had shattered into fragments.
• Mephisto explained that great demon gods generally avoided roaming the Multiverse because the Living Tribunal had ordered them not to, and Lu Xi left him in Hell.
• Lu Xi returned above Hell’s Kitchen and learned from Ancient One that Beelzebub and two other demon gods had fled.
• Peggy Carter, Steve, Tony Stark, Daredevil, and Spider-Man continued fighting the demons within the superheroes’ encirclement.

Lu Xi stopped a demon attack, then discovered that Wanda's Chaos Magic had awakened and that Chthon had made her a spatial coordinate. He reassured Wanda that he would protect her, leaving her determined to trust him.

• Lu Xi used telekinesis to force the demons back into their teleportation array, destroyed it, and gave Steve, Daredevil, and Spider-Man Divine Power business cards before leaving.
• Daisy told Lu Xi that Wanda could not control her powers, and he sensed that her Chaos Magic had fully awakened.
• Lu Xi realized Wanda's awakened soul could now be contracted and sensed Chthon's mark on her.
• Lu Xi summoned Mephisto, who explained that Wanda's growing Chaos Magic could let Chthon use her as a coordinate to bypass Earth's defenses and descend.
• Lu Xi assured Wanda that Chthon could not reach Earth while she stayed with him, sent Mephisto away, and Wanda said she trusted him.

After gaining Universal-level strength and demon-god status, Lu Xi discovered that he could contract supervillains and then began a relationship with Wanda. Mordo brought him to Kamar-Taj, where Ancient One revealed that she had faked her apparent illness to explain a complaint against her to the Vishanti, though Lu Xi saw through the act and reminded her that she was favored by Eternity.

• Lu Xi assessed his new Universal-level strength, expanded Hell Territory, and ability to contract supervillains, considering Hydra as a source of targets.
• Wanda confessed her feelings to Lu Xi, and he took her into Hell Territory; the next day, she returned to her room to sleep after spending the night with him.
• Mordo arrived through a portal and told Lu Xi that Ancient One wanted to see him about trouble at Kamar-Taj.
• At Kamar-Taj, Lu Xi found Ancient One pretending to be gravely injured and asking to speak with him alone.
• Ancient One admitted that three demon gods had complained to the Vishanti that she used dark magic, and Lu Xi pointed out that her ties to Eternity made her removal from office unlikely.

Ancient One persuaded Lu Xi to become the new Sorcerer Supreme by offering him the Time Stone and access to willing mages’ souls. After handing over the role, Ancient One faked his death and escaped to a prepared beachfront retreat.

• Ancient One argued that Kamar-Taj needed a successor and urged Lu Xi to take the vacant Sorcerer Supreme position.
• Ancient One offered Lu Xi the Eye of Agamotto and permission to contract willing mages’ souls, and Lu Xi accepted.
• Ancient One gave the Eye of Agamotto to Lu Xi, then pretended to die before the gathered mages and named Lu Xi his successor.
• Lu Xi let Ancient One sneak out while Mordo welcomed him as Sorcerer Supreme and offered to show him around Kamar-Taj.
• Ancient One opened a portal to his beachfront retreat and celebrated his early retirement.

At Kamar-Taj, Lu Xi learned how sorcerers borrowed magic power and tested whether Mordo could use power from Hell. After discovering it worked, Lu Xi offered Mordo a deal to use Hell’s magic power in exchange for his soul after death, and Mordo signed without hesitation.

• Mordo explained that Kamar-Taj sorcerers borrowed magic power from the Vishanti, repaid it through missions, and trained in combat to conserve power.
• Lu Xi teleported Mordo to his Hell Territory and flooded him with magic power, prompting Mordo to create black Ring of Raggadorr shields.
• Mordo confirmed that Hell’s magic power worked, and Lu Xi proposed lending it to Kamar-Taj sorcerers at better rates than the Vishanti.
• Lu Xi offered Mordo unlimited Hell magic power with no repayment in exchange for his soul after death, and Mordo eagerly signed the contract.

Lu Xi announced mana loans and a limited Soul Contract benefit called Infinite Firepower Mode, prompting the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj to compete for access. After Kaecilius signed a contract and Mordo demonstrated his amplified magic, Wong watched Mordo’s overwhelming display and headed to the library, ready to sign up.

• Lu Xi announced that his Hell Dimension would offer mana loans and unlimited, no-repayment spellcasting to sorcerers who signed Soul Contracts.
• Mordo demonstrated the power of Infinite Firepower Mode by rapidly casting high-level spells, and Lu Xi announced limited contracts plus two rotating monthly trial slots.
• Kaecilius signed a Soul Contract, while Wong remained hesitant and the sorcerers worked hard to qualify for the benefit.
• Mordo showed Wong a swarm of duplicates casting more than a hundred Bolts of Balthakk at once, clearing the clouds above the training grounds.
• Wong headed toward the library, determined to get Infinite Firepower Mode.

Lu Xi studied the Time Stone and discovered he could control time directly by understanding its laws. He then arrived at a Hydra gathering inside a S.H.I.E.L.D. base and tested Pierce’s boast about the agents’ obedience with a shocking command.

• Lu Xi touched the Time Stone, experienced visions of past and possible futures, and realized his unusual affinity let him sense its power without using time magic.
• After studying the stone, Lu Xi froze time throughout Kamar-Taj, then returned the Time Stone to the Eye of Agamotto and left through a portal.
• Lu Xi arrived at a S.H.I.E.L.D. base where Pierce had assembled Hydra members, including Baron Zemo, Crossbones Rumlow, Garrett, Grant Ward, and Bucky Barnes, for soul transactions.
• Pierce claimed Hydra’s brainwashing made its soldiers obey any command, so Lu Xi ordered everyone to crush their own balls.
• The low-ranking agents began to obey, and the mid-level personnel painfully followed suit.

Lu Xi disciplined Hydra, contracted several members’ souls, and ordered Bucky Barnes to cause Doctor Stephen Strange’s car accident so Strange could take on the Sorcerer Supreme role. Back at the villa, Lu Xi watched Tony Stark defeat Whiplash and learned Daisy had left to work with Dr. Foster, signaling Thor’s imminent arrival.

• Lu Xi forced Hydra’s members, including its higher-ups, to harm themselves, then reversed their injuries with time magic and punished those who had hesitated.
• Lu Xi contracted the souls of several Hydra members, but his contract failed on the brainwashed Bucky Barnes.
• Lu Xi ordered Pierce to arrange for Bucky to hit Doctor Stephen Strange with a car and ensure the incident appeared on the news.
• Lu Xi returned to the villa, where Helen Cho asked if he would help Tony Stark fight Whiplash, but Lu Xi said Tony had chosen to handle the problem himself.
• Tony Stark and Iron Patriot defeated Whiplash, and Wanda told Lu Xi that Daisy had gone away with Dr. Foster to conduct astrophysics research.

After S.H.I.E.L.D. confiscated Jane Foster’s research equipment, Lu Xi brought Jane, Erik, Daisy, and Thor to its temporary base to retrieve it and Thor’s hammer. Lu Xi confronted Heimdall across the distance and revealed to Coulson that Thor was the divine prince he had prophesied about.

• Jane Foster and Professor Erik told Daisy that S.H.I.E.L.D. had confiscated their research equipment and data, and Daisy promised to get it back with Lu Xi’s help.
• Lu Xi arrived in New Mexico, met Jane and Erik, and sensed Heimdall watching Thor; Lu Xi’s mental challenge frightened Heimdall into believing Lu Xi surpassed Odin.
• Thor appeared and announced that he had found out where Mjolnir was, and Lu Xi recognized him as Thor of Asgard.
• Lu Xi flew everyone to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s temporary base, where Coulson stopped the guards from confronting them.
• Lu Xi asked Coulson to return Jane’s equipment and Thor’s hammer, then identified Thor as the divine prince he had prophesied about.

Thor went to retrieve Mjolnir but found he could not lift it, while Lu Xi eventually seized it by force and overcame its resistance. Thor was struck by the hammer’s lightning and lost consciousness, leaving Lu Xi holding Mjolnir.

• Coulson led Thor, Lu Xi, Daisy, Jane, and Professor Erik to the crater where Mjolnir lay.
• Thor tried to lift Mjolnir but failed and collapsed in despair.
• Lu Xi tried the hammer, then used greater strength until he lifted it as a lightning storm erupted.
• Mjolnir resisted Lu Xi and unleashed lightning, prompting the others to flee the crater.
• Lu Xi released his Universal-level power against Mjolnir, and a stray bolt struck Thor, knocking him unconscious.
• The lightning vanished, and Mjolnir stopped resisting as Lu Xi tossed it in his hand.

Lu Xi became Mjolnir’s new master after Thor lost his worthiness, then arranged for Strange’s crash and instructed Pierce to set up a confrontation between the Winter Soldier and Captain America. He left Pierce to carry out the plan while preparing to use Steve’s search for Bucky to obtain his soul.

• Lu Xi rejected the armor offered with Mjolnir, healed Thor’s physical injuries, and told him he would return the hammer if he became worthy again.
• Nick Fury met Thor while Lu Xi left the infirmary with Daisy and returned to his villa.
• Lu Xi monitored Bucky as he rammed Strange’s Ferrari off a mountain, using telekinesis to keep Strange alive and preserve his path toward becoming Doctor Strange.
• When Pierce failed to answer his call, Lu Xi found him hiding in a wardrobe, struck him with lightning, and ordered him to reveal the Winter Soldier’s whereabouts so Captain America could find him, then hide him again.
• Pierce agreed to follow Lu Xi’s orders, and Lu Xi withdrew his consciousness.

Thor learned that Loki had sent the Destroyer to kill him, but Lu Xi’s interference and the loss of Thor’s power led to Thor’s death before Lu Xi revived him with time reversal. Lu Xi returned Thor’s power to Mjolnir, and Thor regained the hammer and his Asgardian form.

• Thor told Jane and Erik that Loki had said their father had died and exiled Thor from Asgard.
• The Warriors Three and Lady Sif reunited with Thor and revealed Loki’s conspiracy as the Destroyer arrived.
• Lu Xi appeared with Daisy and refused to fight the Destroyer, saying Thor needed to face his own trial.
• The Destroyer blasted Thor to death, and Lu Xi crushed it before using Time Reversal to restore Thor’s body.
• Lu Xi returned Thor’s power to Mjolnir, and Thor caught the hammer and transformed into his armored form.