Chapter Summaries

Li Wei used a dimensional invasion during New York’s Battle of New York anniversary to reveal the Myriad Realms Secret Society and demonstrate its overwhelming power. After making a public declaration, he returned to his base as S.H.I.E.L.D. and Kamar-Taj began responding to his appearance.

• Three unstable spatial vortices opened over Manhattan, and strange dimensional creatures attacked during Tony Stark’s speech.
• Li Wei arrived with ten Shadow Guards, froze the invaders with psychic force, and annihilated the creatures and vortices.
• Li Wei announced that the Myriad Realms Secret Society would involve itself in the world’s affairs and offered cooperation while warning against threats.
• Li Wei told Tony Stark that the Society would bill him for its assistance, then left through a portal with the Shadow Guards.
• Nick Fury ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to investigate Li Wei and contact Kamar-Taj, while Li Wei instructed the Crimson Empress to prepare information and receive the bill.
• The Crimson Empress reported an encrypted communication request from Master Ancient One, and Li Wei told her to connect it.

Li Wei deterred S.H.I.E.L.D., Hydra, major powers, and Asgard with overwhelming force, establishing the Myriad Realms Secret Society as a power others feared to challenge. He then prepared to travel to X-Men: First Class to seek mutant gene optimization technology and early Tesseract application data.

• Li Wei disabled a S.H.I.E.L.D. Quinjet that approached his apartment and returned it to the Triskelion, prompting Nick Fury to halt active reconnaissance.
• Li Wei trapped a Hydra squad in a spacetime labyrinth, had the Shadow Guards disarm and expose them, and sent their records and part of Hydra's agent list to the FBI.
• Li Wei sent world leaders a price list for finished advanced technologies, while King T'Chaka ordered Wakanda to strengthen its defenses and observe.
• Odin warned Thor not to provoke Li Wei and ordered Asgard to remain vigilant and show appropriate respect.
• The Crimson Empress reported reduced reconnaissance and Hydra activity, and Li Wei told her to delay Fury's meeting and send Stark's bill to interested countries.
• Li Wei learned that the next target world was X-Men: First Class and ordered the transfer to pursue mutant gene optimization technology and early Tesseract data.

Li Wei inserted himself into the conflict between Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, and Sebastian Shaw, offering his help while secretly seeking mutant genetic samples. He located Jean Grey and Storm and collected X-Gene samples from the Original X-Men, leaving their analysis and optimization underway.

• Li Wei arrived in Miami and had the Crimson Empress gather intelligence about mutants, Shaw's Hellfire Club, and the CIA's X-Men team.
• Li Wei revealed himself to Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, and Moira at the CIA base, demonstrated his abilities, and offered to help them fight Shaw in exchange for studying their X-Genes.
• Charles and Erik temporarily accepted Li Wei as an ally because of Shaw's threat, despite Charles's doubts about Li Wei's motives.
• Li Wei used the Crimson Empress to locate young Jean Grey and Ororo Munroe, also known as Storm.
• Li Wei collected genetic samples from Charles, Erik, Raven Darkholme, Hank McCoy, Alex Summers, and other X-Men, and began analyzing and optimizing them.

Li Wei secretly gathered Sebastian Shaw’s X-Gene sample and studied his energy absorption ability during the battle off Cuba. After stopping missiles and declaring the Myriad Realms Secret Society would protect the planet, he left through a portal with Raven, Jean, and Ororo, reshaping the future of mutants.

• Li Wei collected Havok’s released energy, observed Shaw’s power, and obtained Shaw’s blood before Erik killed him.
• When Erik threatened the fleets with missiles, Li Wei intervened between them and destroyed the incoming missiles with his powers.
• Li Wei declared that the Myriad Realms Secret Society would protect the planet and warned both humans and mutants against persecution and genocide.
• Li Wei opened a portal to his base and summoned Raven, while a prepared teleportation array brought Jean and Ororo to him.
• Li Wei left the waters off Cuba with Raven, Jean, Ororo, and the collected X-Gene samples, leaving Charles and Erik stunned.

Li Wei welcomed Raven, Jean Grey, and Ororo Munroe to the Myriad Realms Secret Society and helped them begin training. He fused optimized X-gene fragments into his own body, then turned his attention back to the Marvel main world and the turmoil caused by the “bill.”

• Raven, Jean Grey, and Ororo Munroe explored the Mirror Dimension base as Li Wei welcomed them to their new home.
• Li Wei arranged rooms and training for the three recruits, adding mental safeguards for Jean and teaching Ororo to control her connection with nature.
• Li Wei used the Crimson Empress, Umbrella Corporation technology, Extremis, and magic to develop an X-Gene Optimization Expression Technique.
• Li Wei fused optimized abilities drawn from Mystique, Havok, Shaw, and Charles, raising his strength to Continental Level (Beginner) and gaining three derived abilities.
• The Crimson Empress reported that it had built an initial energy model of the Tesseract from data recovered from Shaw’s laboratory.
• Li Wei prepared to return his attention to the Marvel main world and investigate the turmoil stirred up by the “bill.”

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.