Recaps

Lu Xi devoured the remaining Crimson Universe, raising his own strength and expanding the Morningstar Universe until it could no longer fit inside his body. He returned to the Morningstar Universe to examine the changes, while postponing his plans to absorb the nearby Mutant Universe.

• Lu Xi used the Devouring Law to absorb the Crimson Universe and send its origin power into the Morningstar Universe.
• The Morningstar Universe burst out of Lu Xi's body because he had absorbed more power than he could control, and Lu Xi reached Multiversal-level Ninth Order.
• Lu Xi realized the Morningstar Universe had grown to about one-third the Crimson Universe's former size and greatly increased the boost it gave him near its boundaries.
• Lu Xi decided not to risk confronting [Death] or the other Five Gods yet, and returned to the Morningstar Universe to digest his gains before absorbing the Mutant Universe.
• Lu Xi visited Kamar-Taj, left Natasha to settle the newly arrived Mutants, and sensed the Morningstar Universe's changes as a sorcerer's Bolts of Balthakk displayed increased power.

Lu Xi tested the enhanced Morningstar Universe’s ability to suppress cosmic destruction by having Wanda and Strange fight at full strength. He confirmed he could confine their attacks’ impact to a small area while preserving their power, leaving the Universe far more resilient but still vulnerable to a prolonged battle.

• A mage’s lightning struck the training ground with little damage, prompting Lu Xi to consider how much stronger the Morningstar Universe had become.
• Lu Xi summoned Wanda and Strange to the edge of the Universe and told them to fight at full strength for his experiment.
• Wanda and Strange’s battle triggered the Cosmic Will, which automatically limited their attacks’ destruction to several nearby galaxies.
• Lu Xi actively strengthened the cosmic suppression, shrinking the battle’s impact to within one light-year while keeping the attacks’ power unchanged.
• Lu Xi ended the test and concluded that the Morningstar Universe could endure a fight between him and an enemy for a limited time.
• Wanda and Strange thanked Lu Xi for the opportunity to become Multiversal-level powerhouses and said they were glad to serve him.

Lu Xi embedded the Reality Stone in Wanda’s forehead, combining its power with her Chaos Magic and greatly increasing her strength. Wanda demonstrated her ability to reshape reality and create a Solar System, then learned she could theoretically make a universe, though it would lack origin power.

• Lu Xi sent Strange back to Earth and asked Wanda to stay behind.
• Lu Xi explained that the Reality Stone matched Wanda’s reality-altering Chaos Magic and embedded the reduced gem in her forehead.
• Wanda experienced the reality network and discovered she could shift among possibilities and turn imagined scenes into reality.
• The Reality Stone’s power raised Wanda from the first tier to the third tier.
• Wanda created a detailed Solar System in the void, and Lu Xi told her that creating a universe was possible, though it would begin as an empty shell without origin power.

Lu Xi finished absorbing most of the Crimson Universe’s power and began fusing the Mutant Universe, using Juggernaut’s connection to Cyttorak to locate him. Cyttorak, weakened and fleeing across the multiverse, decided he had to escape beyond its boundaries, unaware that Lu Xi was already tracking him.

• Wanda vowed to work hard toward becoming powerful enough to create worlds after Lu Xi encouraged her.
• After two days of absorbing the Crimson Universe’s power, Lu Xi went to the Mutant Universe to begin fusing it.
• Lu Xi pulled Juggernaut from the Mariana Trench, imprisoned him, and used his aura to help trace Cyttorak through the Power of Destiny.
• Cyttorak fled through the multiverse, weakened by losing the Crimson Universe and suffering injuries from its destruction.
• Cyttorak concluded that he had to flee beyond the multiverse to avoid Lu Xi, who was already closing in.

Cyttorak fled to the Multiversal boundary and prepared to risk entering the Chaos Mist rather than face Lucifer. As Lu Xi pursued him, he sensed Cyttorak’s destined death changing, and the chapter ended with his fate growing solid again.

• Cyttorak recalled how the Chaos Mist had drained and nearly assimilated him when he previously ventured beyond the Multiversal boundary.
• Fearing Lucifer would kill him if he stayed, Cyttorak decided to gamble on crossing the mist into another world.
• A massive black vortex opened in the void near Cyttorak just as he was about to enter the mist.
• Lu Xi tracked Cyttorak through repeated teleports and used the Destiny Law to inspect his fate.
• Lu Xi saw Cyttorak’s collapsing Destiny of death stop collapsing and begin to grow solid, prompting him to realize it had been rewritten.

Lu Xi pursued Cyttorak, but an unknown force repeatedly obscured the trail and altered his fate. He confronted the force in the Destiny Dimension and discovered it was Loki, the God of Stories.

• Lu Xi reasoned that Cyttorak’s survival meant either Cyttorak had surpassed the Ninth Order or another powerful being had rewritten his fate.
• Lu Xi used Destiny Law to trace Cyttorak, but the trail split into thousands of branches after an obscure Law fluctuation intervened.
• Lu Xi abandoned the search for Cyttorak and focused on identifying the hidden being, suspecting it could rival him.
• Lu Xi clashed with the fluctuation in the Destiny Dimension, where he saw Loki, the God of Stories, seated at the Heart of the Time Tree.

Lu Xi confronted Loki, who admitted to disrupting Lu Xi’s plans because he wanted to seize Lu Xi’s Destiny Law. After Loki’s phantom withdrew, Lu Xi resumed pursuing Cyttorak.

• Lu Xi challenged Loki’s phantom and accused him of deliberately opposing him.
• Loki claimed Lu Xi had disrupted the Universe’s fateful paths, but Lu Xi recognized that Loki wanted his Destiny Law.
• Lu Xi mocked Loki as “Toilet Loki” and deduced that Loki’s throne-bound role and limited ability to leave his post kept him from confronting Lu Xi directly.
• Loki warned that he would keep opposing Lu Xi and then vanished, leaving Lu Xi unable to locate his true body.
• Lu Xi’s interference with Cyttorak’s destiny thread ended, and he followed it to pursue Cyttorak.

Lu Xi caught Cyttorak as he tried to escape through a mysterious vortex and considered whether to accept his offer of submission. He decided Cyttorak was too dangerous to keep alive, but pretended to accept and presented a Soul Contract, while Cyttorak secretly planned to break free later.

• Cyttorak hesitated before entering a black vortex that showed glimpses of an unfamiliar world, then eagerly tried to use it to escape.
• Lu Xi appeared, sealed the space around Cyttorak in an Indestructible cage, and prepared to kill him.
• Cyttorak offered to submit, arguing that his Sixth Order strength would make him useful once he recovered from his injuries.
• Lu Xi weighed the risks of controlling Cyttorak and decided that leaving him alive could endanger the Morningstar Universe.
• Lu Xi pretended to accept Cyttorak's submission and presented a Soul Contract, while Cyttorak opened his soul and resolved to remove the control after recovering.

Lu Xi killed Cyttorak and discovered a temporary passage to the DC Universe, but decided to wait until he could travel there safely. He then began merging another Universe into the Morningstar Universe, where Gwen Stacy briefly dreamed of becoming Spider-Woman.

• Lu Xi attacked and killed Cyttorak, then used the Destiny Law to confirm that he could not be revived.
• Lu Xi recognized that the black vortex showed Gotham City and contacted Vishanti, who identified it as a temporary passage to the DC Universe.
• Lu Xi decided not to enter the passage until he was strong enough to return under his own power.
• Lu Xi traveled to a nearby Universe and began absorbing it into the Morningstar Universe.
• Gwen Stacy briefly dreamed that she was Spider-Woman before the dream abruptly ended.

Lu Xi reasoned that Loki’s immense power came from the Time Tree Throne, which also bound him to maintaining the Sacred Timeline. As Lu Xi accelerated his Universe fusions to grow stronger, Loki regretted failing to harm him and realized he could not directly manipulate the Destiny of someone who wielded it himself.

• Gwen regained memories and enhanced power after a shared daydream, and Lu Xi arranged for S.H.I.E.L.D. to guide her into signing a contract.
• Lu Xi continued fusing Universes while searching for a way to strike Loki and taking stock of their conflict over the Power of Destiny.
• Lu Xi concluded that Loki’s throne granted him great power but tied him to the Time Tree and Sacred Timeline, making him vulnerable if driven from it.
• Lu Xi accelerated his Universe fusions until he could absorb one in about two minutes.
• Loki lamented that his attempt to trouble Lu Xi through Cyttorak had backfired and admitted he could not directly alter Lu Xi’s Destiny.

Loki concealed his dimension to avoid Lu Xi, while Lu Xi fused more than ten thousand Universes and reached the peak of the Tenth Order. His growth then hit a bottleneck, leaving him uncertain whether he had reached Omniversal-level.

• Loki realized he could not safely fight Lu Xi and feared Lucifer would eventually find him.
• Loki used the Time Tree to weaken the dimension’s connection to the Multiverse and hide it more thoroughly.
• Over fifteen days, Lu Xi fused more than ten thousand Universes into the Morningstar Universe, incorporating many variants.
• Rune King Thor fused with this Universe’s Thor, giving him rune powers and making him the third contractor to reach Multiversal-level.
• Lu Xi reached the peak of the Tenth Order but found that further Universe fusions no longer increased his power, so he accepted the bottleneck for now.

Lu Xi returned to Asgard to summon Thor and Loki, while Odin and Frigga formally made him Asgard’s eternal God King. He revealed that he had come to find a powerful Loki variant from a parallel universe who opposed him.

• Lu Xi returned to Asgard and asked Frigga about the state of the Nine Realms, where Thor had quelled resistance after reaching Multiversal-level.
• Thor and Loki arrived with Odin, whose health Thor had restored using Rune Magic.
• Odin told Lu Xi that he and Frigga had retired and abolished the God King inheritance, making Lu Xi Asgard’s sole eternal God King.
• Lu Xi accepted the title and appointed Odin and Frigga to handle everyday affairs.
• Lu Xi said he had come to find a powerful Loki variant from a parallel universe, alarming everyone present.

Lu Xi failed to find the God of Stories Loki through the variants’ destiny links and considered recreating the Loki’s path through the Time Variance Authority. He then tried another approach and reached Lokie Odinson in a different universe, where a mysterious voice offered her godhood.

• Lu Xi used Loki as a starting point to search across parallel universes, but found no trace of the God of Stories variant.
• Lu Xi told Frigga and the others that the search had failed and proposed guiding Loki through the Time Variance Authority’s path to reach the End of Time.
• Lu Xi reconsidered using Loki and activated Destiny Law to locate another universe.
• Lokie Odinson complained about Odin, Thor, and Asgard’s reluctance to fight the Frost Giants before a voice asked whether she wanted to understand life’s meaning and become a god.

Loki received a mysterious offer promising the chance to gain immense power, and the visions accompanying it convinced her that its source might surpass Odin. Though she suspected a scam, a newly appearing trial card gave her a way to test the offer.

• Loki watched visions of powerful beings battling and realized they were too convincing to be ordinary illusions.
• Loki concluded that whoever created the visions might be stronger than Odin and considered the offer a chance to escape the limits she felt in Asgard.
• Loki compared the offer’s promised power and terms favorably against Asgard’s strict control, but worried that a demon god might be deceiving her.
• A Newbie Power Trial Card—30-Minute Version appeared in Loki’s mind, offering her a way to test whether the promised power was real.

Lokie used the newbie power trial card and gained Universal-level power, then left Asgard to deal with threats across the Nine Realms. She later emerged from a vortex in the Morningstar Universe’s Golden Palace and greeted Lu Xi as Lord Lucifer.

• Lokie chose the newbie power trial card, and a pillar of energy shattered Asgard’s defenses as it infused her with power over the laws of the Universe.
• Odin arrived in the Destroyer armor and Gungnir, but Lokie recognized that his Divine Power was fading and told her family she would leave after helping Asgard.
• Lokie opened a spatial rift and vanished, then Heimdall reported that she had destroyed the Frost Giants’ and Fire Giant Kingdom’s high-level forces and warned the Vanir and Dwarf Realm.
• Lokie’s trail disappeared from Heimdall’s sight, and she later fell from a vortex into the Golden Palace hall in the Morningstar Universe.
• Lokie recognized Lu Xi and paid her respects as Lord Lucifer.

Lu Xi brought a female Loki to a universe monitored by the Time Variance Authority and gave her a system to guide her mission. After TVA guards arrested her, the original Loki sensed her return and reacted with alarm and anger.

• Lu Xi took the female Loki to a desert universe where the TVA monitored temporal anomalies.
• Lu Xi implanted the God of Stories Growth System in Loki and warned her to follow its instructions as the TVA approached.
• TVA guards arrived, identified Loki as a Temporal Anomaly, and ordered her to return with them for judgment.
• Loki obeyed the system and went with the guards, while the system’s plan aimed to lead her to kill the person behind the TVA.
• At the Time Tree Throne, the original Loki sensed the arrest through the Destiny Law and opened his eyes in alarm and anger.

Loki realized Lucifer was using Lady Loki to recreate the path that led him to godhood and expose the End-of-Time Dimension. After Lucifer destroyed Loki’s avatar, Loki chose to make a risky move to muddy the waters across the Multiverse.

• Loki tried to alter Lady Loki’s destiny but found Lucifer resisting him, and he realized her path could reveal his location.
• Loki sent a multiversal avatar on a covert route toward Lady Loki’s universe to eliminate her.
• Lucifer ambushed Loki’s avatar as soon as it entered the universe and destroyed it.
• Loki felt the loss of his avatar’s power, judged that he could not safely attack Lucifer himself, and decided to set a dangerous plan in motion.

Loki tried to use the Time Tree to disrupt Lu Xi’s plan, while the Vishanti investigated the disappearance of Eternity and learned that the Crimson Universe had been destroyed. They found signs that Lucifer had fought Cyttorak, leaving Cyttorak possibly gravely injured or dead.

• Loki endured the damage to his power and began a draining spell that made him merge with the Time Tree, hoping to disrupt Lu Xi’s plan.
• Hoggoth and Oshtur reported that their searches among Eternity’s descendants and Infinity’s few subordinates had uncovered no clues.
• Ancient One reported that the Crimson Universe had disappeared and the surrounding void had been shattered in a terrifying battle.
• Agamotto led the Vishanti through a portal to the destroyed region, where they found a shattered void filled with dangerous residual energy.
• Agamotto identified Cyttorak’s Crimson Force and remnants of powerful spells, while Oshtur recognized Lucifer’s aura.
• Hoggoth concluded that Cyttorak might be severely injured or dead after his battle with Lucifer.

Agamotto told Oshtur and Hoggoth that Cyttorak had fallen and revealed that Oblivion’s messenger, Gatekeeper, might lead them to Oblivion’s Realm. They decided to contact Lucifer for help, while Lu Xi continued hunting Loki’s avatars and sensed a subtle change within himself.

• Agamotto reported that Cyttorak had lost his power across the Parallel Universes and was almost certainly dead.
• Agamotto explained that Gatekeeper was Demar Davis, a resurrected Mutant who could open passages to Oblivion’s Realm, and that he had found him unconscious while maintaining such a passage.
• Oshtur and Hoggoth discussed the dangers of entering Death’s Realm and Oblivion’s Realm, and Agamotto proposed seeking help from Lucifer.
• Agamotto, Oshtur, and Hoggoth agreed to contact Lucifer because his power might let him withstand Oblivion’s Realm.
• Lu Xi destroyed Loki’s avatar with a punch, hid in the void, and continued searching for a way to reach the Omniversal-level.
• Lu Xi sensed subtle changes within himself while focusing on his breakthrough.

After killing Loki’s avatar, Lu Xi discovered that absorbing the Power of Destiny could increase his mastery of laws and reveal a path beyond the Multiversal-level. The Vishanti then asked him to investigate Oblivion’s Realm, where they suspected Eternity and others were trapped, and Lu Xi weighed the risks of going there.

• Lu Xi realized that mastering a higher law was necessary to break through to the Omniversal-level, and that Loki had attacked him to gain a chance at advancement.
• Lu Xi saw that his Destiny Law mastery had risen to 50.01% while Loki’s was 50%, and concluded that killing Loki’s avatar had given him a trace of the law’s power.
• Lu Xi checked his Devouring Law and found that devouring abandoned Universes had raised his mastery to 23.3%, giving him another way to grow stronger.
• The Vishanti contacted Lu Xi and arrived at his Universe, where Agamotto asked him to investigate Oblivion’s Realm for signs of Eternity and the others.
• Lu Xi considered the dangers of entering Oblivion’s Realm and wondered whether he could survive if Eternity and the others were still fighting inside.

Lu Xi discovered that Loki had manipulated the Vishanti into revealing the Gatekeeper’s coordinates, setting up a trap that forced him to choose between himself and the Universe containing female Loki. He shrank the entire Universe and held it in his hand as the Gatekeeper’s vortex descended.

• Lu Xi decided to postpone entering Oblivion's Realm, accepted the Gatekeeper’s coordinates from Agamotto, and sent his consciousness to observe the Gatekeeper.
• The Gatekeeper sensed Lu Xi’s distant gaze after an energy attack bearing the Power of Destiny struck him, then appeared beside Lu Xi’s Universe with an enormous vortex.
• Lu Xi realized Loki had arranged the Vishanti’s visit and erased her aura from the attack so the Gatekeeper would target him.
• Lu Xi saw that dodging would let the vortex engulf the Universe and kill female Loki, while attacking the Gatekeeper risked sending him into Oblivion's Realm.
• Lu Xi chose to preserve the Universe and his plan, slowed time, shrank the Universe to ping-pong-ball size, and held it as the vortex descended.

The Living Tribunal detected an outsider entering Earth-19998, but the universe was obscured from his perception because the visitor possessed Omniversal-level status or higher. He chose not to investigate directly, wary of provoking a being more powerful than himself.

• Lu Xi and the universe vanished into a surge of Oblivion energy, leaving Gatekeeper to maintain a two-meter-wide passage.
• More than half a year earlier, the Living Tribunal noticed another outsider entering Earth-19998 and reflected on how Marvel’s popularity had drawn many visitors.
• The Living Tribunal recalled that system-bearing travelers had caused chaos in several universes, forcing him to restart their timelines.
• The Living Tribunal sensed that the visitor’s status was at least Omniversal-level, leaving the universe hidden behind a mass of fog.
• The Living Tribunal decided the visitor was probably an avatar and refrained from forcing his way through the fog or descending in person.

The Living Tribunal reported a mysterious being in Earth-19998 to OAA, but the outsider began gaining authority over the Destiny Law. When the Living Tribunal sought answers, he discovered that parts of his own authority were disappearing, while OAA remained silent.

• The Living Tribunal contacted OAA about a powerful unknown being in Earth-19998, and OAA said he would handle it.
• The Living Tribunal saw the mist around Earth-19998 thicken and noticed that an unidentified outsider had gained 11% authority over the Destiny Law.
• The Living Tribunal concluded that the outsider was breaking the taboo against foreign beings claiming a world's authorities and demanded an explanation from OAA.
• The Living Tribunal found that his authority over the Five Gods' powers and even his own Judgment Power was fading, but OAA did not respond.

A subtle force corrupted the Living Tribunal after OAA's authorization vanished, driving him to seize the world's authorities and replace OAA. He attacked Galactus as his first target, but Galactus defended himself and demanded an explanation.

• The Living Tribunal lost OAA's authorization, and a hidden force filled him with chaotic thoughts and greed.
• The Living Tribunal erased the Little Tribunal to prevent him from revealing the change.
• The Living Tribunal decided to gather the world's authorities, starting with Galactus, and traveled to confront him.
• Galactus recognized the Living Tribunal's strange appearance and retreated instead of asking what he wanted to borrow.
• The Living Tribunal attacked with Judgment Power, while Galactus activated the Devouring Law to shield himself and demanded to know why he was being attacked.

The Living Tribunal and the Five Gods clashed, forcing Oblivion to move the battle into Oblivion's Realm to protect the Multiverse. Lu Xi arrived there with a protected miniature Universe, where Loki continued her mission unaware of the upheaval outside.

• Eternity intervened to protect Galactus from the Living Tribunal, but Galactus suddenly devoured parts of Death and Infinity and transformed.
• The Living Tribunal attacked Eternity and Oblivion while Death and Infinity fought the changed Galactus, and their battle threatened countless universes.
• Oblivion opened a passage to Oblivion's Realm, and Death and Infinity blasted Galactus through it before following; the Living Tribunal, Eternity, and Oblivion entered afterward.
• Lu Xi emerged in Oblivion's Realm holding a miniature Universe that he had protected with his law power.
• Lu Xi saw that Loki remained unaware of the surrounding chaos and continued her mission according to the system's prompts.