Recaps

Mary Jane visited Ta Lo with Lin Hai, Gwen, Peter, and Harry, where she saw its magical creatures and the Azure Dragon. Lin Hai began his final Life Force transformation beside the lake, and after two days his power started radiating outward in rhythmic waves.

• Lin Hai brought Mary Jane and the others to Ta Lo, where Old Chen welcomed them and guided them toward the lake.
• Peter showed Mary Jane Ta Lo's Nine-Tailed Foxes, Qilin Horses, Vermilion Bird descendants, and other creatures before she saw the Azure Dragon.
• Lin Hai declined the Azure Dragon's invitation to fly and meditated with the metal sphere in the lakeside pavilion while Gwen stayed beside him.
• Old Chen took Peter and Mary Jane to see Ta Lo, while Harry visited the weapon workshop to seek dragon-scale scraps for their suits.
• After two days, Gwen felt wind and saw a cyan glow spreading and contracting around Lin Hai as the Azure Dragon watched from the lake.

Lin Hai absorbed the Dark Energy that entered his dantian and transformed his Life Force into a more advanced power that united life and death. He emerged with less total energy but greater confidence facing the Destroyer and Thor, while Gwen and the Azure Dragon watched over him.

• Lin Hai completed harmonizing his Life Force with the black crystal, but Dark Energy followed his withdrawing energy into his body.
• The Dark Energy reached Lin Hai's dantian, where his two golden Divine Dragons restrained it as he guided his Life Force to absorb it.
• Lin Hai's Energy Core transformed into a smaller, denser core with a deep azure and dark-gold color, and his energy reached the threshold of Demon God-level power.
• Lin Hai recognized that the transformation had reduced his total energy and considered using Ego's flower bud to replenish it.
• Lin Hai inspected his body, found no abnormalities, and opened his eyes to Gwen standing nearby as the Azure Dragon watched from the lake.

After Lin Hai absorbed the Demon God Pioneer's remaining energy and completed his transformation, he and his friends relaxed in Ta Lo before celebrating Chinese New Year with his family. Back in New York, Lin Hai and Gwen researched Asgard at Kamar-Taj to prepare for what might come.

• Lin Hai told Gwen that the Dark Energy had transformed his Life Force, and he pocketed the now-empty sphere that had held the Demon God Pioneer crystal.
• Lin Hai and his friends spent nearly two weeks in Ta Lo, where they worked and relaxed with the villagers before celebrating Chinese New Year's Eve with his family.
• After the holiday, Peter and Harry returned to their underground laboratory to work on Tony's optimization plan, while Lin Hai and Gwen visited Kamar-Taj to research Asgard.
• Mage Hamil led Lin Hai and Gwen to the library's Nine Realms records, and they studied information about Asgard, the Bifrost, and the Destroyer.
• Gwen took detailed notes so she could help Lin Hai research when he was busy.

After Nick Fury reported an unusual incident near Puente Antiguo, Lin Hai told Gwen, Harry, and Peter that figures from mythology might be involved and warned them to stay alert. They agreed to go with him to New Mexico after breakfast.

• Nick Fury called Lin Hai and sent him the location of the incident near Puente Antiguo, along with Coulson's contact information.
• Lin Hai called Peter and told him that they would investigate the unusual event in New Mexico.
• Peter arrived at Lin Hai's home, where he, Gwen, Harry, and Lin Hai ate breakfast together.
• Lin Hai warned the group that the danger could involve figures from mythology and urged Peter to trust his Peter Tingle and retreat if anything felt wrong.
• Gwen, Harry, and Peter agreed to stay alert, and Lin Hai said they would prepare to leave for New Mexico after breakfast.

Lin Hai and his friends prepared to visit New Mexico, where Thor’s hammer had fallen, and used a Portal to meet Coulson. They arrived as a crowd tried unsuccessfully to lift Mjolnir, leaving them at the edge of the pit with the hammer confirmed as Thor’s.

• Lin Hai, Gwen, Peter, and Harry discussed their plans and what to wear for their trip to New Mexico.
• Lin Hai called Coulson, who confirmed that the site was concealed from uninvolved people.
• Lin Hai and his friends stepped through a Portal and surprised Coulson and the nearby S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
• Coulson welcomed Lin Hai as a S.H.I.E.L.D. consultant and explained the situation at the site.
• Lin Hai watched people in a pit fail to lift a hammer and recognized it as Mjolnir.

Lin Hai and the others tried to lift Mjolnir, but none could move it. When Lin Hai used his Life Force while holding the handle, the hammer's energies entered his body and formed a new power, leaving him with an unexplained ability.

• Coulson cleared the crater and set up a S.H.I.E.L.D. camp around Mjolnir.
• Coulson, Harry, Gwen, and Lin Hai each tried to lift Mjolnir while Peter took photos, but the hammer did not move for any of them.
• Lin Hai used his Life Force while gripping Mjolnir's handle, causing nebula-like light and lightning to spread across the hammer.
• Thor sensed something strange from a nearby van, but could not identify the feeling.
• The hammer's energies flowed into Lin Hai and merged near his liver into a new power before the lights vanished.
• Lin Hai told Coulson he was fine and privately assured Gwen that he had gained a new ability.

Peter Parker made Mjolnir shift briefly while trying to pose for a photograph, but he could not move it again. Lin Hai guessed the hammer’s restriction depended on character or another specific condition, while Thor sensed another disturbance from where Mjolnir lay.

• Peter Parker gripped Mjolnir for a photograph, and the hammer shifted before he lost his grip and fell.
• Peter declared that he could lift the hammer, but repeated attempts left it motionless.
• Lin Hai reasoned that the hammer could not be moved by strength or magical ability alone and guessed that Peter had only partially met its requirements.
• Thor felt an even stronger disturbance from Mjolnir and lamented that he could do nothing without his powers.

Lin Hai and his companions accompanied Coulson to Puente Antiguo, where S.H.I.E.L.D. seized Jane Foster’s equipment and research. Lin Hai and Gwen offered to help Jane get her belongings back after S.H.I.E.L.D. finished using them.

• Lin Hai accepted Coulson’s vehicle keys and traveled with him to Puente Antiguo to find astrophysicist Erik Selvig.
• Coulson and his agents searched Selvig’s workshop and began taking its equipment, records, and data.
• Jane Foster arrived and angrily protested as Coulson explained that S.H.I.E.L.D. needed her research for a security investigation.
• Coulson’s agents left with the workshop’s instruments and data, leaving Jane, Selvig, and Daisy frustrated and helpless.
• Gwen and Lin Hai introduced themselves to Jane and offered to ask S.H.I.E.L.D. to return her belongings after its investigation.

Lin Hai and his companions learned that Jane’s research team had encountered Thor, whom Lin Hai identified as Thor Odinson, the Thunder God. After hearing that Thor had lost his powers and might be heading toward S.H.I.E.L.D., Lin Hai proposed that they go find him.

• Lin Hai answered Jane’s questions about the hammer while Daisy listed the research materials S.H.I.E.L.D. had taken, including her tablet.
• Eric asked Lin Hai about Bruce Banner, and Lin Hai said Banner was likely safe and working somewhere isolated.
• Jane worried that Thor might seek his hammer and be arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D., then described how she and Daisy had met him.
• Lin Hai identified Thor as Thor Odinson, son of Odin, and explained that Mjolnir was his hammer.
• Daisy revealed that she had knocked Thor out with a stun gun, and Lin Hai suggested they go look for him before S.H.I.E.L.D. did.

Lin Hai and his companions searched the New Mexico town for Thor, while Daisy tried to strike up a conversation with Harry. They found Thor at a pet store, where he recognized Lin Hai and Gwen as Kamar-Taj mages and asked for their help; the group headed back to the workshop to talk.

• Daisy gravitated toward Harry and chatted with him, while Lin Hai and Gwen silently watched her efforts.
• Jane spotted Thor entering a pet store and called out to him.
• Thor greeted Jane, Erik, and Daisy, then asked who Lin Hai, Gwen, Peter, and Harry were.
• Lin Hai and Gwen introduced themselves as Kamar-Taj mages and offered to help Thor with his trouble.
• Lin Hai suggested they discuss the matter at the workshop, and Erik led the stunned group back there.

Lin Hai helped Thor reconsider why Odin had exiled him to Earth and urged him to discover the purpose through his own experience. Thor began to question what he needed to learn, but the answer remained unclear.

• Thor told Lin Hai that Odin had exiled him after he tried to attack the Frost Giants in Jotunheim.
• Lin Hai suggested Odin had made Thor mortal to help him gain something rather than simply punish him.
• Thor realized Odin could have imprisoned him if he had meant only to punish him, but he could not identify what he was meant to gain.
• Lin Hai told Thor that only personal experience could teach him what he needed to learn.
• Thor looked at his powerless hands and quietly repeated Lin Hai's words that he had to accomplish it himself.

Lin Hai left Thor in Eric, Jane, and Daisy’s care, then asked Peter to analyze Thor’s character and the Allfather’s purpose. Peter concluded that Thor’s exile was meant to teach him humility and restraint, and the group ended the day together in the sunset.

• Lin Hai entrusted Thor to Eric, Jane, and Daisy and left with Gwen, Peter, and Harry.
• Peter questioned whether Thor should be taken to Kamar-Taj, and Lin Hai explained that the Allfather had a purpose for sending him to Earth.
• Lin Hai asked Peter to infer what Thor’s actions and exile meant.
• Peter concluded that Thor had acted out of hunger for glory and that the Allfather had sent him to Earth to learn humility and restraint.
• Lin Hai praised Peter’s reasoning, and Peter and Harry joked and chased each other through town as the sun set.

Thor asked Jane Foster to take him to retrieve his hammer, hoping to regain his divine power. At the hammer's heavily guarded crater, Jane stopped him from charging in and suggested they use Lin Hai's connection to S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Thor helped Eric move furniture and build a bed, then grew tired without his divine power.
• Thor asked Jane to take him to the place where his hammer had landed, and she agreed.
• During the drive, Thor described Asgard and admitted that its wars and feasts now seemed exhausting.
• Jane and Thor reached the crater and watched S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fortified camp from a nearby slope.
• Thor prepared to enter the camp, but Jane reminded him that Lin Hai was working with S.H.I.E.L.D., and Thor agreed to seek his help.

Thor and Jane Foster reached S.H.I.E.L.D.’s camp and asked to see the object that had fallen from the sky. Coulson let them in after confirming they knew Lin Hai, who gave permission for Thor to try lifting it and said he would give up afterward.

• Thor and Jane approached the S.H.I.E.L.D. camp and asked an agent to let them inside.
• Coulson recognized Jane and questioned her and Thor about how they knew Lin Hai.
• Coulson let them through the fence as a storm gathered and led them toward the camp’s command center.
• Coulson called Lin Hai on speakerphone to verify their story.
• Lin Hai confirmed they could see the object and told them Thor could try to lift it, predicting he would give up.

Thor tried to reclaim Mjolnir at the S.H.I.E.L.D. camp but could not move it, leaving him devastated in the rain. Jane reminded him that Lin Hai had predicted the failure and said they could ask him for help when he arrived the next day.

• Coulson escorted Thor and Jane into the enclosure where Mjolnir stood, while Thor refused an umbrella.
• Thor gripped Mjolnir and tried repeatedly to lift and move it, but the hammer remained still.
• Thor fell to his knees in the mud and roared in despair as Jane watched.
• Jane recalled Lin Hai's prediction that Thor would give up after trying and suggested asking him for help the next day.
• Thor silently agreed to wait for Lin Hai.

Thor returned to Jane’s workshop unable to lift Mjolnir and struggled to sleep, consumed by regret over his exile. Loki appeared and told him Odin had died, that Loki would inherit the throne, and that Thor could not return to Asgard.

• Coulson offered Jane and Thor a place to stay at the S.H.I.E.L.D. camp, but Jane chose to drive them back to town.
• Jane returned to the workshop with Thor, who silently went to bed but could not sleep.
• Loki appeared before Thor and told him Odin had died after Thor’s exile and the threat of war.
• Loki told Thor that he would inherit Asgard’s throne and that Thor could never lift Mjolnir again.
• Thor begged Loki to let him return home, but Loki said their mother would not permit it and then vanished.

Thor struggled with the loss of his powers and his mistakes, so Eric took him out for drinks and offered advice while warning him not to hurt Jane. Thor and Eric drank until Eric was drunk, and Thor carried him back to the workshop, where Jane helped put him to bed.

• Thor apologized to Eric for keeping him awake and admitted he had not gotten back what belonged to him.
• Eric took Thor to a bar, where Thor confessed he had ruined everything and did not know what to do.
• Eric told Thor to admit he was lost and warned him that Jane cared for him, and Thor promised not to hurt her.
• Thor and Eric challenged each other to drink, and Thor eventually carried the drunken Eric back to the workshop.
• Jane helped Thor put Eric to bed, where Eric slurred that he believed Thor was really Thor.

Thor learned that Odin had exiled him to Earth to teach him the qualities of a king, though he still did not know what he needed to learn. After Coulson warned of a powerful energy surge, Lin Hai prepared his group for battle and opened a Portal as Eric, Jane, and Daisy witnessed magic firsthand.

• Lin Hai asked Peter to explain that Thor's impulsive, glory-seeking nature made him unfit to rule, and Thor wondered what qualities he needed to learn.
• Coulson called Lin Hai about a powerful energy surge, and Lin Hai warned him to evacuate the town and stay away because a dangerous threat was coming.
• Lin Hai opened a Portal to his living room and told everyone to prepare for battle.
• Peter retrieved Lin Hai's Plum Blossom Spear, while Gwen and Harry equipped themselves in mage robes and Nova Armor.
• Eric, Jane, and Daisy watched in amazement as the Portal opened and the group returned through it before it closed.

Thor and his companions reunited with Sif and the Three Warriors after Lin Hai prepared his group for their arrival. The Asgardians met Lin Hai, Gwen, Peter, and Harry, while Daisy struggled to believe what she was seeing.

• Eric and Jane recovered from their surprise at the Portal, and Daisy examined Harry's Nova Armor while Thor wondered why Lin Hai had prepared for battle.
• Lin Hai told Thor that their visitors had arrived, and Thor saw Sif, Fandral, Volstagg, and Hogun approaching through the workshop door.
• Thor embraced Sif and the Three Warriors, then introduced them to Eric, Jane, and Daisy.
• Thor introduced Gwen, Peter, Harry, and Lin Hai to the Asgardians, who studied Lin Hai after Thor described him as mysterious and likely powerful.
• Daisy asked Harry whether she was dreaming, and Harry told her she was not.

Thor learned from Sif that Odin was still alive and that Loki had lied to him, while Lin Hai warned Coulson that the Destroyer had arrived. Coulson’s team fled the Destroyer’s attack, leaving them alive as the construct remained in the town.

• Thor told his friends he could not return to Asgard because he believed Odin had died and he had been exiled forever.
• Sif told Thor that Odin was alive, making Thor realize Loki had lied about his father’s death and his mother forbidding his return.
• A swirling cloud appeared above the Bifrost site, and the Destroyer descended from it as S.H.I.E.L.D. evacuated the town’s residents.
• Lin Hai warned Coulson that the Destroyer was a magical weapon from beyond Earth and urged him to flee.
• Coulson ordered his agents into their vehicles and escaped as the Destroyer fired a beam that destroyed one of their cars.

Thor and Lin Hai’s group prepared to face the Destroyer while Thor helped evacuate the town’s residents. Sif’s team launched a coordinated attack, but the Destroyer easily knocked Volstagg aside, leaving Peter to reconsider his enthusiasm for a combo move.

• Thor told Sif, the other Asgardians, and Lin Hai’s group that he would help evacuate residents while they bought time against the Destroyer.
• Sif, Fandral, Volstagg, and Hogun armed themselves, while Lin Hai, Gwen, Peter, and Harry prepared to fight the Destroyer.
• Thor joined Eric, Jane, Daisy, and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in directing residents away from the destruction.
• Sif ordered her team to divide the Destroyer’s attention, and Fandral and Hogun launched Volstagg toward it with a coordinated move.
• The Destroyer swatted Volstagg into a car, where he landed without serious injuries, and Peter abandoned his idea of trying a similar combo move.

Sif’s surprise spear strike briefly disabled the Destroyer, but it recovered and attacked the group. With Lin Hai, Peter, and Gwen holding it back, Harry took up Sif’s spear and prepared to strike from above.

• Volstagg drew the Destroyer’s attention while Sif climbed onto a nearby roof and pierced the back of its neck with her spear.
• The Destroyer recovered, escaped the spear, and blasted at Sif, whose fall was protected by Gwen’s magical shield.
• Peter wrapped the Destroyer’s legs in webbing, but it kicked Harry into a ruined house as Lin Hai restrained it with vines.
• Harry recovered, seized Sif’s spear, and flew skyward while Lin Hai’s vines and Peter’s punch held the Destroyer in place.
• Harry aimed the spear at the Destroyer and dived toward it with his thrusters at full power.

Harry and Peter attacked the Destroyer with Sif’s spear and Silk, but its armor regenerated and it grew to nearly two stories tall. The group regrouped to face the transformed Destroyer while Lin Hai worried about how many of its comic-book abilities it possessed.

• Harry’s spear cut a deep gash across the Destroyer, but he dodged its counterattack rather than risk serious injury.
• Peter pulled the Destroyer’s head aside with Silk, then retreated with Harry after Harry warned that it could regenerate.
• The Destroyer healed its wound and began glowing as its body expanded.
• Sif and the others regrouped beside Lin Hai while Thor watched from a nearby doorway with Eric, Jane, and Daisy.
• The Destroyer stopped growing at roughly four or five meters tall, and Lin Hai feared it might possess more of its comic-book abilities.

Lin Hai summoned a Wood Dragon and fought Odin’s Destroyer Armor with it and the Plum Blossom Spear. He gained a slight advantage, but the Destroyer continued to heal, leaving the battle in a stalemate.

• Lin Hai created a nearly twenty-meter Wood Dragon and mounted its head with the Plum Blossom Spear.
• The Wood Dragon charged the Destroyer, whose beam burned a hole in its body before Life Force rapidly repaired it.
• The Destroyer caught the Wood Dragon’s jaws, but its momentum drove the metal giant backward.
• Lin Hai leaped down and struck the Destroyer’s neck with the Plum Blossom Spear, leaving a wound that healed unusually slowly.
• Lin Hai and the Wood Dragon continued attacking, but the Destroyer’s wounds still healed over time, and the fight remained a grinding stalemate.

Lin Hai and Thor’s friends fought the Destroyer while Thor confronted Loki’s weapon and offered his life to protect them. After the Destroyer struck Thor down, Odin’s test recognized Thor as worthy, and Mjolnir flew toward him.

• Sif, Fandral, Volstagg, Hogun, Peter, Harry, and Gwen joined Lin Hai’s attack, but the Destroyer evaded their blows with its shapeshifting.
• Thor left his hiding place and pleaded with Loki to spare the innocent, offering himself instead.
• The Destroyer appeared to stop, then kicked Thor across the street, and Jane rushed to his side as the others resumed fighting.
• Odin’s test recognized Thor’s willingness to sacrifice himself, and Mjolnir began trembling at its distant location.
• Mjolnir launched toward the injured Thor as Lin Hai realized Thor was about to return to the fight.