Recaps

A girl escaped the Red Room Base during a mysterious attack and encountered a powerful youth who had arrived from another world. After searching her memories, he learned he was on Earth in a universe unlike the Cultivation World.

• An unidentified object approached the Red Room Base, disabled its defenses, and plunged the base into darkness before the power returned.
• A fleeing officer ordered the soldiers to investigate the unexplained incident and sent the girl to gather personnel.
• The girl escaped through a ventilation duct, crossed the electrified fence, and vowed to rescue Yelena and destroy the base.
• The girl found a crater and a strange, blood-stained youth, who stopped her from running away.
• The youth calmed the girl and searched her memories, discovering details about Earth, Bear Nation, the Red Room Base, and Natasha Romanoff.
• The youth realized that he had fallen into a universe separate from the ninety-nine heavens of the Cultivation World.

Feng Xu recalled how the other Immortal Emperors had destroyed his sect and forced him to destroy his former world, then saved Natasha after his unstable aura nearly killed her. He took Natasha as his disciple and left with her to recover, while his blood transformed the surrounding mountains.

• Feng Xu remembered how rival Immortal Emperors had ambushed him, destroyed his sect, and driven him to destroy the Cultivation World.
• Feng Xu healed Natasha after his aura crushed her and offered to take her as his disciple.
• Natasha asked whether her restored body could have children and whether cultivation could help her rescue Yelena from the Red Room.
• Feng Xu told Natasha she could destroy the Red Room within six years, and she agreed to become his disciple.
• Feng Xu took Natasha away, while the approaching people's heads burst and his spilled blood caused plants and trees to grow enormously.

After accepting Natasha as his disciple, Feng Xu gave her an immortal artifact and set out to claim a home for their sect by visiting Earth’s strongest expert. When The Watcher spied on him, Feng Xu wounded him, but The Watcher decided to warn his old friend in the Himalayas.

• Feng Xu emerged from the canyon after surveying Earth and the surrounding universe, and Natasha complained that she had nearly frozen while waiting for him.
• Feng Xu claimed Natasha had passed a test, forged a warm, strength-enhancing pendant for her, and accepted her thanks.
• Feng Xu took Natasha toward the Himalayas to visit the planet’s strongest expert and find a location for their sect.
• When Feng Xu sensed someone watching him, he released his aura, warned the unseen spy, then concealed himself and his heavenly secrets.
• The Watcher collapsed with bloody tears after Feng Xu’s counterattack, then secretly looked again and decided to warn his old friend at the Himalayan summit.

Feng Xu and Natasha entered Kamar-Taj through a hidden portal in a Kathmandu supermarket, while Ancient One used the Eye of Agamotto to investigate the timelines and discovered that she vanished after leaving the library. Believing a powerful intruder was coming for her, Ancient One abandoned her body and tried to reach Eternity, but a terrifying voice stopped her.

• Feng Xu and Natasha entered the supermarket and passed through its concealed portal despite Wong's attempts to stop them.
• Wong used his Sling Ring to return to Kamar-Taj and warn the mages that intruders had arrived.
• Ancient One searched timelines with the Eye of Agamotto and discovered that she disappeared after leaving the library.
• Ancient One concluded that a powerful mage might seek her position and chose to abandon her body rather than wait for an attack.
• Ancient One opened a portal toward Eternity, but a terrifying voice froze her soul and challenged her conduct as a host.

Feng Xu overwhelmed Ancient One and the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj with his control over souls and space. Ancient One bowed her head and agreed to hear his demands, while Kaecilius and Mordo still demanded that he return their teacher's life.

• Feng Xu trapped Ancient One's astral form, drew her body from the library, and remarked on her powerful soul and weak physical body.
• Wong rallied the Kamar-Taj sorcerers against Feng Xu and Natasha, and Kaecilius, Mordo, and Hamir led the charge.
• Feng Xu transported the sorcerers to the rooftops and then transformed the surrounding world into floating fragments over an abyss.
• Ancient One lowered her head and offered to hear Feng Xu's demands, so he released her soul and restored the courtyard.
• Kaecilius and Mordo continued to demand that Feng Xu return their teacher's life.

Feng Xu defeated Kaecilius and Mordo, revealed his mastery of spatial laws, and announced that he would establish a cultivation sect in place of Kamar-Taj. After learning about this universe and its magic, he renamed the school the Ethereal Ascension Sect and set out to stock its library with cultivation manuals.

• Kaecilius and Mordo attacked Natasha with a cauldron, but Feng Xu pressed them into its surface using spatial laws.
• Feng Xu told Ancient One that he planned to teach cultivation and immortality, and she accepted him as Kamar-Taj's new leader.
• Ancient One shared knowledge of the universe with Feng Xu, who criticized the mages' practice of borrowing power from higher beings.
• Feng Xu renamed Kamar-Taj the Ethereal Ascension Sect and agreed to let Ancient One attend his lessons.
• Feng Xu released Kaecilius and Mordo, and Ancient One ordered them to make a sign bearing the sect's new name.
• Ancient One led Feng Xu toward the library so he could place cultivation manuals there.

Feng Xu brought Ancient One to the Kamar-Taj library and filled half its shelves with jade slips containing cultivation techniques. Ancient One was overwhelmed by the methods and thanked Feng Xu for revealing a new path, while Feng Xu left to prepare spiritual-power cultivation slips for the next day.

• Ancient One showed Feng Xu the Kamar-Taj library and explained that he had gathered its magical books to keep dangerous dimensional mediums under watch.
• Feng Xu agreed to preserve the magic books on half the shelves and filled the other half with jade slips containing cultivation techniques.
• Ancient One examined a jade slip and became fascinated by its mind-readable information before discovering the cultivation method within.
• Ancient One praised the path of cultivation, bowed to Feng Xu, and asked to receive his teachings, but Feng Xu declined the master-disciple relationship.
• Feng Xu told Ancient One that he would prepare jade slips for spiritual-power cultivation before tomorrow, then left the library.

Feng Xu began the first cultivation lecture for the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj, establishing his Ethereal Ascension Sect and explaining its rules and teachings. He distributed jade slips containing the Longevity Formula, leaving the disciples ready to begin cultivation.

• Natasha woke to Mordo and Kaecilius, who escorted her to breakfast and asked about Feng Xu after experiencing the jade pendants’ effects.
• Hamir led Natasha, Mordo, and Kaecilius to the crowded plaza, where Feng Xu waited to give his lecture.
• Ancient One arrived late after studying cultivation manuals all night and asked Feng Xu for the cultivation method he had promised.
• Feng Xu introduced himself as the sect master, outlined the Ethereal Ascension Sect’s rules and disciple ranks, and explained inner cultivation methods and martial techniques.
• Feng Xu sent jade slips containing the Longevity Formula to the gathered sorcerers.

Feng Xu introduced the Longevity Formula and explained the cultivation realms to the Kamar-Taj mages, who embraced the new path with excitement. After dismissing the group to cultivate, he asked Ancient One and Natasha to stay behind.

• The mages read the jade slips and praised the Longevity Formula, while Hamir asked Feng Xu about spiritual energy and cultivation techniques.
• Ancient One explained that spiritual energy came from the Multiverse and other dimensions, and Feng Xu confirmed that techniques were available in the Scripture Pavilion.
• Feng Xu outlined the warrior and immortal realms, from Tenfold Body Tempering through the Immortal Emperor Stage, and described the powers immortals could attain.
• Mordo questioned whether immortal cultivators would drain the universe, and Feng Xu explained that advanced cultivators could create worlds and eventually generate energy themselves.
• Kaecilius hoped cultivation might let him restore his deceased wife and child, and Ancient One urged everyone to begin cultivating.
• Feng Xu dismissed the mages and told Ancient One and Natasha to remain behind.

Feng Xu set up a Spirit-Gathering Formation and Body-Tempering Elixirs so Ancient One and Natasha could rapidly improve their physiques. After cultivating, Ancient One reached Body Tempering Stage Four by absorbing more spiritual energy than Natasha, leaving her furious.

• Ancient One protested being made to handle affairs, but changed his mind when Feng Xu revealed the treatment could raise someone by three Body Tempering levels.
• Feng Xu arranged the Small Spirit-Gathering Formation, explained the Body Tempering Elixirs, and put Ancient One and Natasha into the vats to cultivate.
• Feng Xu explained how opening acupoints advanced Body Tempering, while Ancient One focused on his head and Natasha on her palm.
• After the formation and elixirs were exhausted, Ancient One reached Body Tempering Stage Four and looked younger.
• Natasha accused Ancient One of stealing her spiritual energy, while he feigned innocence and teased her.

As Kamar-Taj adopted Feng Xu’s cultivation rules, Ancient One offered him the Time Stone to power a Spirit-Gathering Formation. Feng Xu took it to study its Time Law and left with Natasha, who chose a cultivation art.

• Feng Xu established sect rules, appointed Ancient One deputy sect master, and made Natasha an outer disciple after she reached the Body Tempering Realm.
• Ancient One asked Feng Xu for formation instructions, and he directed her to formation jade slips while explaining that formations needed scarce Spirit Stones or other sources of spiritual power.
• Ancient One revealed the Time Stone, and Feng Xu recognized it and took it despite her warning that organic lifeforms could not touch it.
• The Time Stone became docile in Feng Xu’s hand, and he said he would keep it to study its Time Law before returning it to Ancient One.
• Natasha chose the Ninety-Nine Heavens Spirit-Calling Art, and Feng Xu led her out while Hamir wondered whether she needed to register it.

Feng Xu taught Natasha the Ninety-Nine Heavens Spirit-Calling Art, and she later summoned Golden Armored Warriors as a Body Tempering Stage Four cultivator. Meanwhile, Feng Xu and Ancient One continued developing their powers, and Natasha left Kamar-Taj to fulfill a promise.

• Feng Xu passed Natasha knowledge of Eastern myths and taught her to cultivate the Ninety-Nine Heavens Spirit-Calling Art.
• Over the following year, Feng Xu recovered to the peak of the Golden Immortal Realm, while Ancient One used the Time Stone and Sanctum artifacts to supply Kamar-Taj with spiritual energy.
• Natasha summoned two Golden Armored Warriors, and Mordo and Kaecilius complained when she teased them about their chosen demon arts.
• Natasha rode one of her summoned warriors away from Kamar-Taj, and Feng Xu told Ancient One that she could handle the dangers outside.
• Ancient One said she had made five avatars with the Myriad Thought Manifestation Art and joked that she might one day surpass Feng Xu, who teased her until she left.

Natasha infiltrated the Red House Base to destroy it and rescue its captives, but her attack on the warehouse exposed her presence. As she prepared to change tactics, a man hiding in the truck claimed to be another undercover agent.

• Natasha used a supply truck to pass the guarded perimeter and suspected the bizarre plants and creatures around the base were connected to Teacher.
• Natasha saw teenage female agents standing among the remains of a giant grasshopper and scattered human limbs after a deadly hunting test.
• Natasha ambushed the truck drivers and Bear soldiers in the warehouse, then summoned a Golden Armored Warrior to kill the remaining defenders.
• Natasha dismissed the Golden Armored Warrior and aimed her rifle at the truck after hearing someone inside claim he was an infiltrated agent.

Natasha questioned Nick Fury after he infiltrated the Red House Base, and she learned about S.H.I.E.L.D. and a woman with extraordinary abilities. As Red House soldiers approached, Natasha and Nick Fury prepared to fight together.

• Nick Fury claimed he had gotten lost, but Natasha pinned him against a car and demanded to know who he was and why he had come.
• Nick Fury identified himself as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s deputy director and said he had come to rescue his captured subordinates and investigate the changes caused by an unknown object from the sky.
• Natasha became excited when Nick Fury described a woman who could fly and fire photon energy, then threatened him after realizing she had revealed too much about her organization.
• Nick Fury tried to recruit Natasha into S.H.I.E.L.D., but she dislocated his arm when he kept talking.
• When Red House soldiers approached, Natasha snapped Nick Fury's arm back into place and headed toward the passageway while he followed with small discs in hand.

Natasha fought through the Red Room to rescue her sister and destroy the facility while Nick Fury searched for Agent Coulson and faced the graduating spies. Dreykov ordered Melina and Alexei to capture Natasha alive, hoping to seize the power she had gained from an extraterrestrial object.

• Natasha shot her way through the Red Room corridors as Nick Fury used stun bombs and learned she intended to rescue her sister and destroy the facility.
• Nick Fury spotted graduating Red Room spies approaching and prepared to face them while Natasha continued on alone.
• Dreykov watched Natasha defeat guards and young spies on the surveillance feed as Melina and Alexei entered the control room.
• Dreykov ordered Melina and Alexei to capture Natasha alive, and Alexei reluctantly agreed after Dreykov threatened him with prison.
• Dreykov watched Natasha on the monitor and resolved to take the power she had gained from the extraterrestrial object.

Natasha used the Ninety-Nine Heavens Spirit-Calling Art to knock Alexei unconscious with a single kick, leaving Melina and Dreykov stunned. Dreykov ordered Melina and Alexei to receive the unstable Berserker Serum as he tried to save his base, while Melina seemed to make a decision of her own.

• Natasha defeated a young agent, then rejected Alexei's demand that she return and accused Melina of betraying her.
• Natasha charged Alexei and invoked the Golden Armored Warrior technique, strengthening her kick.
• Alexei tried to block Natasha's attack but was sent spinning into a wall and knocked unconscious.
• Dreykov ordered Melina to revive Alexei and inject him with the unstable Berserker Serum, but Melina warned that it could kill them and make Alexei attack Natasha.
• Dreykov ordered two doses of Berserker Serum prepared for remote injection into Alexei and Melina, while Melina quietly agreed and appeared to have made a decision.

Melina joined Natasha in resisting Dreykov and revealed that Alexei had been injected with a serum that drove him berserk. Natasha summoned Golden Armored Warriors to fight Alexei, and the chapter ended as she summoned a second one.

• Melina destroyed a surveillance camera, admitted she wanted to resist Dreykov, and offered to help Natasha find Yelena.
• Melina explained that Dreykov had ordered her to inject Alexei with a serum that temporarily enhanced his strength and destroyed his sanity.
• Alexei attacked them while under the serum, so Melina revealed Yelena's location and prepared to hold him off.
• Natasha summoned a Golden Armored Warrior, which blocked Alexei's attacks and fought him in the corridor.
• When Melina worried that Alexei would die in the evenly matched fight, Natasha summoned a second Golden Armored Warrior.

Alexei survived the Berserker Serum without its expected side effects and became much stronger after Natasha’s Golden Armored Warriors beat him. Natasha headed to confront Dreykov while Melina and Alexei went to find Yelena, and Dreykov prepared to flee and destroy the Red Room base.

• After the serum wore off, Alexei discovered that he had grown stronger, and Melina and Natasha discussed how external force might help the body withstand it.
• Natasha told Melina and Alexei to find Yelena while she dealt with Dreykov, then rode a Golden Armored Warrior toward the center of the base.
• Melina warned that Dreykov might evacuate and trigger the base’s self-destruct sequence, while Natasha said she would return to Kamar-Taj after the mission.
• Dreykov ordered helicopters and the research team prepared for departure, then took a hidden remote and headed for the base’s highest-clearance area.
• Natasha reached the center of the base ahead of Dreykov and declared that she would destroy him and the Red Room.

Natasha caught up with Dreykov and killed him after learning that the Red Room had abducted her from her mother and that Dreykov had ordered her mother's death. As the base began to self-destruct, Natasha escaped with the Golden Armored Warrior.

• Dreykov ordered six guards to use serum and delay Natasha while he fled to retrieve an item.
• Natasha sent one Golden Armored Warrior to fight the guards and rode another after Dreykov.
• Natasha cornered Dreykov, rejected his offer to share power, and mutilated him as he tried to bargain.
• Dreykov revealed that the Red Room had taken Natasha from her mother and that he had ordered her mother's death.
• Dreykov activated the base's self-destruct sequence, but Natasha beheaded him and escaped through the outer walls with the Golden Armored Warrior.

Nick Fury and Phil Coulson tried to rescue Yelena Belova from the Red Room, but Fury’s arrival sparked a fight before he managed to get Yelena moving with them. They ran into Melina and Alexei just as Dreykov triggered the base’s self-destruct, and Melina led everyone toward her backup plan.

• Nick Fury explained to Phil Coulson that Natasha Romanoff had extraordinary abilities and persuaded him that helping her would earn her gratitude.
• Fury and Coulson reached the girls’ training room, where the trainees attacked them after Coulson called out Yelena Belova’s name.
• Fury told Yelena that Natasha had sent him to rescue her, then used a flashbang to help them escape the room.
• Fury, Coulson, and Yelena met Melina and Alexei in the corridor as the base began shaking and exploding.
• Melina said Dreykov had activated the self-destruct and urged everyone to follow her backup plan.

After the Red House Base was destroyed, Nick Fury and the survivors searched for Natasha but found no trace of her, so he invited Melina, Alexei, and Yelena to stay with S.H.I.E.L.D. Natasha had been rescued to Kamar-Taj, where she woke up as Kaecilius and Mordo argued over who was responsible for her injuries.

• Nick Fury's team searched the Red House ruins and found survivors, but no sign of Natasha.
• Nick Fury told Melina, Alexei, and Yelena about Kamar-Taj and asked them to stay with S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Alexei, Yelena, and Melina each agreed to stay with S.H.I.E.L.D.
• At Kamar-Taj, Kaecilius and Mordo argued about their failure to prevent Natasha from being caught in the explosion.
• Natasha woke up and told Kaecilius and Mordo to stop arguing because she was fine.

Natasha reunited with Mordo and Kaecilius after taking revenge on Dreykov, then returned to Kamar-Taj and admitted her unauthorized departure to Feng Xu. Feng Xu ordered her to remain in the sect until she reached the Qi Refining Realm, leaving her unable to visit her family for now.

• Natasha told Mordo and Kaecilius what had happened, and the three argued about her revenge before she urged them to cultivate harder.
• Mordo reminded Natasha that leaving without permission had broken sect rules and told her to see Feng Xu.
• Natasha found Feng Xu playing chess with Ancient One, whose orange-cat avatar heard her thoughts and insisted she was not a pervert.
• Feng Xu told Natasha to cultivate peacefully now that her worldly ties were settled, but punished her by forbidding her to leave the sect until she reached the Qi Refining Realm.
• Natasha began to protest that she still had not seen her sister and family, but Feng Xu silenced her and she accepted the order.

Natasha focused on cultivation so she could reunite with her family, while the Ethereal Ascension Sect expanded into a full cultivation sect and struggled to maintain its spiritual energy. Mordo and Kaecilius proposed drawing power from Dormammu’s Dark Dimension, but Natasha rejected their dangerous plan and threw them out.

• Natasha asked Feng Xu whether her family could join the sect, and Ancient One explained that they would need aptitude and to pass trials.
• Over the next few years, the Ethereal Ascension Sect expanded, its disciples settled on specialized peaks, and Ancient One used his clones to produce Spirit Stones for the Spirit-Gathering Formation.
• As the expanded sect’s spiritual energy thinned and the Time Stone could not supply more, Ancient One considered targeting the Space Stone in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Tesseract.
• Mordo and Kaecilius told Natasha that the Book of Cagliostro could help them draw spiritual energy from the Dark Dimension or enter it to cultivate.
• Natasha realized the plan would risk provoking Dormammu, so she dismissed the Golden Armored Warriors’ tea service and threw Mordo and Kaecilius out.

Natasha reluctantly agreed to help Mordo and Kaecilius after they paid her with treasured materials, then learned their plan was to use an improved portal spell to open a breach into the Dark Dimension and absorb its energy. The two wanted her Immortal Artifact Jade Pendant to hold off Dormammu briefly if he discovered the breach, leaving Natasha wary of the danger.

• Mordo and Kaecilius persuaded Natasha to join their plan by invoking Feng Xu's teachings and giving her White Jade Bone and Blood Drop as protection fees.
• Natasha accepted the materials and teased the two about lacking an Immortal Artifact Jade Pendant like hers.
• Kaecilius explained that they planned to open a huge breach in the Dark Dimension with the Sect Master's improved portal spell and cultivate by absorbing its energy.
• Natasha realized Mordo and Kaecilius wanted her jade pendant to delay Dormammu if he discovered the breach, rather than relying on Teacher to clean up.

Natasha helped Mordo and Kaecilius prepare a courtyard for opening a portal to the Dark Dimension, while the two bickered as usual. Their ritual opened the portal, and Dormammu recognized Kaecilius’s curse and threatened to kill him.

• Natasha summoned the Fortune and Virtue Deity, who built a courtyard on Spirit-Commanding Peak.
• Mordo and Kaecilius argued over their demon arts and their supposed friendship before preparing to summon Dormammu.
• Kaecilius began the summoning ritual while Natasha readied her jade pendant to block Dormammu from entering.
• Kaecilius cursed Dormammu during the final part of the incantation, and Mordo completed the portal to the Dark Dimension.
• Dormammu recognized the curse and angrily vowed to kill Kaecilius.