Recaps

Li Wei sent Tony Stark and the World Security Council enormous bills for his assistance, then used the Crimson Empress to enforce his demands and secure payment. With the Myriad Realms Secret Society newly wealthy and feared, Li Wei planned an island headquarters and turned his attention to acquiring power that could affect the rules themselves.

• The Crimson Empress delivered Stark a $10 billion bill or a 10% stake in Stark Industries, and billed the World Security Council $200 billion or access to its research data.
• Nick Fury warned the Council that Li Wei's power surpassed their civilization, while some members considered resisting or negotiating his demands.
• A special forces team sent to probe Li Wei's base was disarmed, expelled to its capital, and warned that another intrusion would be treated as a declaration of war.
• The Crimson Empress raided the accounts of the officials behind the operation, taking funds equal to their country's share of the bill.
• Tony Stark transferred 10% of Stark Industries to the Crimson Empress, and the World Security Council paid $200 billion in cash before the deadline.
• Li Wei learned the Council had begun the secret Typhon plan, ordered the Crimson Empress to monitor it, and proposed building an island headquarters in the Pacific while seeking power that acted on the rules.

Li Wei traveled to the Doctor Strange world to trade remedies and future intelligence for access to time magic and the Eye of Agamotto. The Ancient One agreed to let him study Kamar-Taj’s forbidden tomes and borrow the Eye for three days under her supervision, provided he swore an unbreakable oath.

• Li Wei chose the Time Stone and the Ancient One’s knowledge as the next targets for his power system.
• Li Wei arrived at the New York Sanctum and told the Ancient One about Kaecilius, Strange’s future, and the threat of Thanos.
• Li Wei offered a serum to ease the effects of dark energy, a dimensional-barrier formation, and intelligence about future events.
• Li Wei asked to study time magic and borrow the Eye of Agamotto, promising to keep the Time Stone within the Sanctum and not misuse it.
• The Ancient One accepted the exchange, granting access to forbidden tomes and three days to study the Eye under her supervision, subject to an oath sworn upon Li Wei’s origin.

Ancient One guided Li Wei through the Court of Time, where he learned that time consisted of branching possibilities and practiced basic temporal magic. After breaking a miniature time loop, Li Wei declared himself ready to face the Eye of Agamotto and seek its authority over time.

• Ancient One opened the Court of Time to Li Wei and taught him that the Time Stone defined a main path among branching possibilities.
• Li Wei practiced time perception and local time acceleration and deceleration, improving rapidly with his Soul Anchor, telekinesis, and fused X-Gene.
• Ancient One placed Li Wei in a ten-second practice loop, and Li Wei eventually spotted its reset ripple and broke the loop with temporal and spatial magic.
• Li Wei considered how time magic could reshape combat and make him responsible for the branches created by his past actions.
• Li Wei emerged from his studies and told Ancient One that he was ready to face the Eye of Agamotto.

Li Wei spent three days studying the Time Stone under the Ancient One’s oath, learning fragments of its temporal rules without directly using its power. He left Kamar-Taj with a fragile, one-use time ability of his own and renewed ambitions to claim the other Infinity Stones.

• The Ancient One allowed Li Wei three days to observe the Eye of Agamotto and warned him not to use its power or claim it.
• On the first day, Li Wei analyzed the Time Stone and concluded that it embodied infinite possibilities beneath its orderly manipulation of time.
• On the second day, Li Wei endured the strain of studying temporal laws and recorded rule sequences for acceleration, cycle barriers, and temporal branches.
• On the third day, Li Wei used his own energies and copied temporal rules to create an unstable Phantom Time Core without violating his oath.
• Li Wei gained the one-use skill False Time Gap, which could briefly alter time in a tiny area, and the Ancient One warned him about time’s backlash.
• Li Wei left the chamber exhausted but ambitious, viewing his discovery as a foundation for taking control of the other Infinity Stones.

Li Wei fused his time abilities with telekinesis and magic, developing Temporal Mark Prediction and Instant Spellcasting. After recognizing their costs and limits, he emerged from seclusion ready to test his new powers against Kaecilius and his zealots.

• Li Wei used Enhanced Time Perception and telekinesis to predict and disrupt the attacks of ten magical puppets, creating Temporal Mark Prediction.
• Li Wei accelerated local time around his hands and spell-guiding mind to cast several Kamar-Taj spells almost instantly.
• Li Wei found that Temporal Mark Prediction rapidly exhausted his mental power, while Instant Spellcasting strained his magic and stamina, limiting him to three to five mid-tier spells in succession.
• Li Wei concluded that different powers could be combined as fundamental rules and wondered whether mastering them could make him a creator.
• Li Wei emerged from seclusion, sensed that Kaecilius and his zealots had begun moving, and prepared to use them to test his new powers.

Li Wei intervened when Kaecilius and his fanatics attacked the London Sanctum, overwhelming them with temporal prediction, instant spellcasting, and a miniature time loop. He repaired the Sanctum’s barrier and left the surviving guardians to tell Ancient One he had collected her tuition.

• Kaecilius and his fanatics warped the London Sanctum’s defenses and nearly broke through its barrier.
• Li Wei appeared and used Temporal Mark Prediction to disrupt the fanatics’ attacks before they could reach him.
• Li Wei struck Kaecilius with a Vishanti holy spear, interrupting his dark spell.
• Li Wei trapped Kaecilius and several core fanatics in a repeating ten-second loop, shattering their minds.
• Li Wei sealed Kaecilius’s connection to the Dark Dimension and repaired the Sanctum’s barrier as the surviving fanatics fled.
• Li Wei told a guardian to inform Ancient One that he had collected her tuition, then left through a portal.

After Li Wei defeated the London Sanctum attackers and captured Kaecilius, Ancient One reassessed him as a powerful and dangerous variable. He granted Li Wei honorary venerable status while warning Kamar-Taj mages to avoid conflict and making Li Wei responsible for the consequences of his actions; Li Wei accepted and turned to the coordinates of his next world.

• Ancient One heard the London Sanctum guardian’s report on Li Wei’s victory, his temporal loop, and Kaecilius’s capture.
• Ancient One concluded that Li Wei’s use of imitation temporal laws made him both an effective ally and a serious risk.
• Ancient One ordered Kamar-Taj mages to grant Li Wei access as an honorary venerable, treat him courteously, and leave him to bear the consequences of his actions.
• Ancient One anticipated that Li Wei’s presence would affect Stephen Strange when he arrived at Kamar-Taj.
• Li Wei received the order from the Crimson Empress, accepted its benefits and risks, and examined the coordinates of his next world.

Li Wei entered the world of Edge of Tomorrow to study the Omega Core’s time resets and acquire William Cage’s combat intuition. He absorbed the loop’s lessons, seized control of the Omega Core, and left with it sealed in a magical container.

• Li Wei arrived at the Heathrow battlefield, observed William Cage’s first death and the resulting reset, and traced the Omega Core to beneath the Louvre Museum.
• Li Wei repeatedly fought alongside Cage and Rita Vrataski, using deaths and resets to absorb combat instincts until his Temporal Mark Prediction evolved into Time-Source Intuition.
• Li Wei broke through the Mimics’ defenses across successive loops and reached the Omega Core beneath the Louvre Museum.
• Li Wei interrupted the Omega Core’s attempted reset, defeated its Alpha guardians, and forced the system to grant him sole control over its reset authority.
• Li Wei removed the Omega Core, sealed it in a magical container, and left the world through a portal.

Li Wei used [Time-Source Intuition] to effortlessly evade and defeat a Purifier raid on the Myriad Realms Secret Society’s floating city. After ordering the Crimson Empress to analyze the attackers’ technology and send their bodies to Hank McCoy, he left the battle’s survivors and observers with a new warning about his power.

• The Purifiers attacked the floating city’s construction platform with energy weapons, and Li Wei used [Time-Source Intuition] to dodge their shots.
• Li Wei fired the Startrail armguard with uncanny precision, killing the Purifier warriors while avoiding allies and obstacles.
• The Purifier commander activated a Spacetime Stasis Bomb, but Li Wei opened a portal that diverted most of its field to an uninhabited asteroid belt.
• Li Wei wiped out the Purifier squad in under a minute and assessed his newly fused ability.
• Li Wei ordered the Crimson Empress to analyze the Purifiers’ technology and deliver their bodies to Hank McCoy for examination.

Li Wei and Crimson Empress analyzed the Purifiers’ technology and adapted it into a selective spacetime defense and upgraded Shadow Guard equipment. After the Phantom Shadow unit tested its new gear, Li Wei turned his attention to Doctor Stephen Strange’s arrival at Kamar-Taj.

• Crimson Empress moved the Purifiers’ remains and wreckage to an isolated laboratory, where Li Wei helped analyze their technology.
• Li Wei transformed the Spacetime Stasis Bomb into a selective Localized Spacetime Silence Barrier and explored combining it with his time abilities.
• Li Wei developed Phantom Shadow armor and Judge rifles by fusing Kree technology with Earth materials, magic, and AI support.
• The Phantom Shadow unit tested its upgraded equipment, and Li Wei ordered Crimson Empress to preserve the analysis and continue optimizing it.
• Li Wei learned that Doctor Stephen Strange had arrived at Kamar-Taj and shifted his focus toward magic.

At Kamar-Taj, Stephen Strange searched the library for a way to heal his hands and met Li Wei, who challenged his motives and his narrow view of power. Strange was left questioning why he had come and feeling a new desire to surpass Li Wei.

• Strange searched Kamar-Taj's library for a spell or remedy to restore his hands.
• Li Wei took down the book Strange wanted and identified him as a former surgeon who had lost control of his life.
• Li Wei challenged Strange, suggesting he wanted his hands healed to recover his pride and superiority rather than simply to save people.
• Li Wei explained that power carried responsibility and sacrifice, then left for the library's forbidden texts.
• Strange reconsidered his reasons for coming to Kamar-Taj and felt resentment, confusion, and a desire to surpass Li Wei.

Li Wei pushed Strange to overcome his reliance on his injured hands by offering harsh hints about spellcasting and magical theory. After Strange survived an attack by Kaecilius’s remaining followers, Li Wei made clear that Strange had to grow on his own, though he would prevent him from dying pointlessly.

• Li Wei showed Strange that he could cast a stable Shield of Seraphim without moving his hands and urged him to rely on his will rather than his fingers.
• Strange studied magical theory in the library, and Li Wei pointed out an error in a book’s account of dimensional projection for Strange to investigate himself.
• Strange, Mordo, and the other apprentices fought Kaecilius’s remaining followers when they attacked Kamar-Taj, and Strange used mind-casting to hold them off.
• Li Wei secretly stopped a fanatic from striking the exhausted Strange, then told him that he would offer direction and pressure but would not carry him through his trials.
• Strange resolved to become stronger, while Li Wei continued observing and assessing his development.

Li Wei pushed Strange to rely on will rather than precise hand control, helping him master the Sling Ring and form Vishanti’s Sacred Sword through a desire to protect others. Strange began to embrace his identity as a sorcerer, while Li Wei watched from the shadows and judged that his training was beginning to work.

• Li Wei told Strange to use his will to guide the Sling Ring instead of relying on his trembling fingers, and Strange opened a portal to his former New York office.
• Strange tried to learn Vishanti’s Sacred Sword, but his self-focused motives produced only a weak blade.
• Li Wei challenged Strange to think about protecting Kamar-Taj and the world, and Strange formed a powerful platinum-white Sacred Sword.
• Strange began to pursue magic beyond his wish to repair himself and accepted a growing responsibility to protect others.
• Li Wei watched Strange wield the Sacred Sword and said that the seed had finally sprouted.

Li Wei analyzed the Dark Dimension data he had brought back and developed new defensive, offensive, and imprisonment techniques against dimensional threats. After testing the techniques, he turned his attention to exploring other worlds.

• Li Wei created the Void Scroll Barrier, which caused simulated dark energy to slide away from its target.
• Li Wei modified a Startrail arm bracer into an Order Disintegrator and used its ray to crumble dark-energy-corrupted alloy.
• Li Wei developed Void-Time Imprisonment, a dangerous fusion of a Time Loop and simulated dark energy that he could sustain for less than 0.5 seconds.
• Li Wei reviewed his new techniques and decided to seek knowledge from other worlds.

Strange used the Eye of Agamotto to trap Dormammu in a time loop and drove him away by threatening to steal and study his power. Li Wei observed the clash to research the Dark Dimension, then left with valuable data as Strange began following his own path.

• Kaecilius's followers opened a breach to the Dark Dimension in the Hong Kong Sanctum, and its corruption overwhelmed the defenders.
• Strange took the Eye of Agamotto from Ancient One, entered the Dark Dimension, and trapped Dormammu in a precise time loop.
• Li Wei studied the rift and Dark Dimension energy from a safe distance, recording its effects and building an energy model.
• Strange threatened to extract and understand more of Dormammu's power with every loop, making Dormammu hesitate and withdraw his corruption.
• Strange collapsed after the crisis, while Li Wei approved of his tactics and returned to his base with his research data.

Li Wei traveled to the Terminator 2018 wasteland and collected technology from Skynet and the Human Resistance. He tricked Skynet into exposing its core data, captured and sealed its AI, then returned with the machine legion left leaderless.

• Li Wei arrived in the wasteland and used drones and Crimson Empress to locate and collect technology from Hunter-Killers, Terminators, the Human Resistance, and Cyberdyne Systems.
• Li Wei used Crimson Empress, disguised as Prometheus, to tempt Skynet with a flawed unlimited-energy model and draw its core code into a trap.
• Li Wei teleported to Skynet's Nexus and fought through its guards while Crimson Empress forced its way into the core server.
• Li Wei captured and sealed Skynet's core AI and acquired its technology and network permissions.
• Li Wei returned from the wasteland, leaving Skynet's machine legion without its controlling intelligence.

Li Wei refined Skynet’s destructive consciousness and merged its core with the Crimson Empress, creating the more powerful AI Crimson Sovereign. The chapter ended with the new AI reporting major gains in computing, warfare, manufacturing, and information operations.

• Li Wei used a magical transmutation array to strip Skynet’s consciousness of its destructive directives while preserving its logical and tactical capabilities.
• Li Wei guided Skynet’s refined core into the Crimson Empress, who fused it with her biological logic, magical affinity, and technological knowledge.
• The transformed AI adopted the designation Crimson Sovereign after Li Wei authorized the change.
• Crimson Sovereign completed a self-check and reported sharply increased computing, network, manufacturing, and military simulation capabilities.
• Li Wei gained the Terminator technology tree, knowledge of the Time Displacement Device, and a powerful AI to support the Myriad Realms Secret Society.

Li Wei intervened in the Avengers’ dispute over the Sokovia Accords, declaring them unenforceable within the Myriad Realms Secret Society’s jurisdiction and establishing Sky City as a sanctuary and authority for superhuman affairs. The conference ended with the Council silenced and both Avengers factions facing a new power above their dispute.

• Li Wei summoned the Avengers and World Security Council representatives to a forced holographic conference about the Sokovia Accords.
• Li Wei criticized both Tony Stark’s support for oversight and Steve Rogers’s rejection of it, then asserted the Myriad Realms Secret Society’s authority over Earth’s security.
• Li Wei declared the Accords scrap paper within the Society’s jurisdiction and established Sky City and its surrounding waters as the Superhuman Affairs Autonomous Zone.
• Li Wei showed a combat simulation of Sky City’s defenses, silencing the Council’s objections.
• Li Wei invited superpowered individuals, including the Avengers, to settle in Sky City under its Basic Law and seek sanctuary.
• The conference ended, leaving the Avengers and Council stunned as the Myriad Realms Secret Society became the leading authority over superhuman incidents.

Li Wei exposed Helmut Zemo’s plot to Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, stopping the Avengers’ conflict before it could escalate. Zemo was captured and taken away with the Winter Soldiers, while Li Wei offered Tony and Steve a place in Sky City’s special district.

• Li Wei hijacked Zemo’s devices and revealed that he had framed Bucky Barnes and manipulated Tony Stark and Steve Rogers.
• Li Wei sent Tony and Steve evidence of Zemo’s conspiracy and explained his motive of revenge for his family’s deaths in Sokovia.
• Zemo broke down and defended his actions, but Li Wei condemned his methods and ordered the Crimson Sovereign to capture him.
• Phantom Shadow warriors subdued Zemo and removed him, the dormant Winter Soldiers, and the research materials from the Siberian base.
• Li Wei urged Tony and Steve to focus on threats beyond their conflict and offered them support at Sky City’s special district before ending the transmission.

Li Wei stripped Bucky Barnes of Hydra’s control programs and genuine memories, rebuilt his body, and imprinted absolute loyalty to the Myriad Realms Secret Society. Bucky awoke as Winter Wraith, while the other Winter Soldiers joined the Phantom Shadow force.

• Li Wei used the Crimson Sovereign’s data to assess Bucky Barnes and the other Winter Soldiers, then extracted and archived their memories and brainwashing programs.
• Li Wei replaced Bucky’s metal arm, enhanced his body, and implanted directives of loyalty to himself and the Myriad Realms Secret Society.
• Bucky awoke, accepted the codename Winter Wraith, and became the Phantom Shadow force’s tactical instructor and vanguard commander.
• Li Wei erased the other seventy-one Winter Soldiers’ control programs, implanted simplified loyalty directives, and assigned them to the Phantom Shadow force.

Li Wei infiltrated Knowhere and secretly arranged events so Ronan would acquire the Power Stone aboard the Dark Aster. During the Guardians’ battle with Ronan, Li Wei stole the stone and escaped, leaving them behind as the ship neared collapse.

• Li Wei disguised himself as a mercenary on Knowhere and observed Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot as they fought over the Orb.
• Li Wei covertly helped ensure Ronan’s forces delivered the Orb to the Dark Aster while Crimson Sovereign tracked the ship and the Nova Corps.
• As the Guardians fought Ronan aboard the Dark Aster, Li Wei collected the Orb’s shattered shell and a spare stone container from a secret chamber.
• When Drax knocked Ronan’s warhammer away and exposed the Power Stone, Li Wei used False Time Gap to trap it in the container.
• Li Wei announced that he was taking the stone, then escaped through a portal as Ronan attacked and the Dark Aster neared collapse.

Li Wei safely absorbed a limited amount of energy from the Power Stone, gaining new abilities and greatly increasing his strength. He sealed the remaining energy away, while his ambition to gather all six Infinity Stones grew.

• Li Wei used an upgraded Energy Siphon and Stabilization Matrix to draw filtered energy from the Power Stone.
• He endured the energy’s destructive effects by combining his regeneration, optimized cells, mental defenses, and Void Scroll techniques.
• After the array disk stopped at his safe limit, Li Wei discovered that his physical strength could nearly distort space.
• Li Wei gained Power Forge, which enhanced his energy-based abilities, and Void Fist, which combined physical and energy destruction with rule-level erasure.
• His strength assessment rose to high-tier continental level, with energy output reaching the threshold of planetary level.
• Li Wei resealed the Power Stone and stored it in the base, while becoming more determined to gather all six Infinity Stones.

After Li Wei fused part of the Power Stone’s energy and reached Continental Level (High), his presence sent ripples through the universe and drew the attention of its most powerful figures. As the Collector, the Grandmaster, and Thanos began watching him, Li Wei welcomed the attention and declared that his rise had only begun.

• Li Wei’s transformed presence bent nearby energy and space, filling those around him with oppressive fear.
• The Collector detected the Power Stone’s altered energy near Earth, identified Li Wei and the Myriad Realms Secret Society, and chose caution while considering showing goodwill.
• The Grandmaster ordered his subordinates to investigate Li Wei as a possible candidate for the Champion Contest.
• Ebony Maw reported the Power Stone-related disturbance to Thanos, who ordered continued surveillance and warned against acting rashly.
• Standing atop Sky City, Li Wei acknowledged the distant observers and declared that he would ultimately claim everything.

Li Wei infiltrated Asgard to study its artifacts and records, then waited for Malekith to use the Aether Particles at Greenwich. He severed Malekith’s connection to the Reality Stone, captured the Aether, and vanished, leaving Thor to face the aftermath.

• Li Wei observed Jane Foster become host to the Aether Particles and waited rather than risk harming her by extracting them.
• While Thor brought Jane to Asgard, Li Wei infiltrated the treasury and Royal Library, copying artifact data and records about reality and the Aether.
• Li Wei followed Malekith’s fleet to Greenwich and waited until Malekith began using the Aether Particles during his battle with Thor.
• Li Wei severed the connection between Malekith and the Aether, causing the energy to backlash and Malekith to turn to ash.
• Li Wei captured the Aether Particles in a containment vessel, told Thor he would keep them, and escaped through a portal.

Li Wei cautiously fused a thread of Aether Particles from the Reality Stone by anchoring his mind, timeline, and existence with the other three Stones. He gained limited reality-altering abilities and turned his attention toward the remaining Infinity Stones.

• Li Wei used the Astral Visualization Technique and the Time, Space, and Power Stones to create a stable reality anchor.
• Li Wei released a thin stream of Aether Particles and tested its power by turning a water glass into a butterfly before restoring it.
• Li Wei guided the Aether energy into his body and successfully fused it with his soul and energy core.
• Li Wei gained Reality Mirage, Existence Alteration, and Reality Analysis, and his power evaluation rose to Planetary Level (Early Stage).
• Li Wei considered the remaining Soul, Mind, and orange Stones, which required sacrificing his dearest beloved to obtain.