Recaps

Chu Hang stripped the consciousness and corruption from the Book of the Vishanti and Darkhold’s source essences, completing his twelfth law and driving Chthon away. He sealed Chthon’s connection to Wanda just as Loki warned that the Council of Kangs’ vanguard would reach the Main Universe in six hours.

• Chu Hang’s clone merged the Book of the Vishanti’s light and the Darkhold’s darkness into his original body, and Chu Hang used his greed concept to strip away their wills and complete the dark law.
• Chthon tore open a fissure from the Dark Dimension and attacked Chu Hang, who combined light and darkness to strike Chthon and force him back.
• Chu Hang sealed the channels connecting Wanda’s Chaos Magic to Chthon, freeing her from his influence.
• Loki told Chu Hang that the Council of Kangs’ vanguard had entered the Main Universe’s boundary and its main force would arrive in six hours.
• Chu Hang told Loki to prepare Thor and Stormbreaker, and Wanda joined him as her Chaos Magic began to grow stronger.

Chu Hang transferred Vishanti’s Essence to Strange, transforming him into an independent source of white magic and strengthening the Avengers’ sorcerers. The Council of Kangs’ vanguard fleet arrived in Earth’s orbit, and the story left the heroes facing an imminent invasion.

• Strange told Chu Hang that his attempt to use the Time Stone to predict the Council of Kangs’ plans had revealed their power to alter causality and erase existence.
• Chu Hang returned the Time Stone to Stormbreaker and offered Strange the Vishanti’s Essence he had brought from Universe-838.
• Strange absorbed the Essence over three hours, gained a golden Third Eye, and became a source of Order Law and white magic.
• Wanda’s Chaos Law Magic settled in response to Strange’s new power, while Thor and Chu Hang recognized the transformation.
• The sky split open, and tens of thousands of ships bearing the Council of Kangs’ symbol emerged from timeline rifts into Earth’s orbit.

The Council of Kangs invaded Earth and sent a Kang variant to test Strange, who defeated him but learned that the encounter had transmitted his combat data to the Council. As five stronger Kangs surrounded the Avengers and the fleet prepared to fire on Earth, Chu Hang and his allies readied themselves for battle.

• Thousands of Council of Kangs warships arrived in Earth's orbit, and a Kang variant declared the Avengers' timeline would be pruned.
• Chu Hang stopped Thor from attacking and sent Strange to face the Kang variant as a test of his new power.
• Strange repelled the variant's temporal and causality weapons, broke his shield, and restrained him.
• The Kang variant revealed that he had transmitted Strange's combat data to the Council before being recalled.
• The fleet charged its main cannon as five more Kangs appeared around the base, and Chu Hang, Thor, Strange, and Wanda prepared to fight.

Chu Hang and the Avengers defeated Kang’s vanguard, and Chu Hang absorbed the Timeline Erasure Cannon before destroying its flagship. As the Council of Kangs retreated after collecting their data, Nathaniel Richards warned that Chu Hang was right about the threat ahead.

• The five Kangs attacked the Avengers, but Thor, Wanda, and Strange quickly defeated Heavy Armor Kang, Speed Kang, Tech Rune Kang, and Time Kang.
• Kang-2099 ordered the flagship to fire its Timeline Erasure Cannon at North America, and Chu Hang absorbed the timeline-erasing beam with his greed domain.
• Chu Hang converted the cannon’s energy into power and destroyed the flagship with a punch combining twelve kinds of law power.
• Kang-2099 called for retreat, warned Chu Hang that stronger forces would come next, and vanished as the remaining fleet escaped through spacetime rifts.
• Chu Hang told the Avengers that the Council of Kangs had gathered their data, and Nathaniel Richards agreed that the danger was real.

Chu Hang absorbed the Kangs’ attack, then learned that Gorr the God Butcher had invaded Asgard and gravely wounded Hela. He and Thor reached the ruined palace, where Gorr confronted them with the Necrosword.

• Chu Hang absorbed the Timeline Erasure Cannon’s blast, and Tony and Strange began examining the fallen Kangs.
• Chu Hang sensed Hela’s law mark burning and learned that Gorr had wounded her and was consuming Asgard with the Necrosword.
• Chu Hang told Tony to continue guarding the Compound, then opened a rift to Asgard with Thor.
• Chu Hang and Thor found the Bifrost and much of Asgard covered in a darkness that erased buildings and harvested souls.
• Chu Hang and Thor entered the ruined palace, where Gorr identified himself and vowed that every god deserved to die.

Thor fought Gorr and the Necrosword while Chu Hang discovered that the weapon had permanently severed Hela’s connection to Asgard. Chu Hang countered Gorr’s attacks and learned that the Necrosword was tied to the ancient darkness Knull, leaving him eager to consume the blade.

• Thor attacked Gorr with Stormbreaker and its Infinity Stones, but the Necrosword absorbed some of the energy and blocked Thor’s lightning.
• Chu Hang examined Hela’s erased left arm and determined that the Necrosword had permanently severed her connection to Asgard; he could not restore it.
• Gorr wore Thor down with shadow weapons that repeatedly reformed, while Chu Hang absorbed the shadows using the Dark Law and Devouring Law.
• Chu Hang caught the Necrosword between two fingers and explained that he was not a god, so its god-slaying power could not target him as it did divine beings.
• Chu Hang sensed the Necrosword’s will and identified the ancient entity behind it as Knull, then absorbed Gorr’s sword energies and threatened to eat the weapon.
• Hela watched Chu Hang face Gorr and recognized that his power had always been beyond her reach.

Chu Hang defeated Gorr, took the Necrosword, and restored Gorr’s daughter Love in exchange. He returned to Asgard, where Thor and Hela recognized the crisis was over and Hela pledged him a debt of gratitude.

• Chu Hang overwhelmed Gorr’s attacks and began devouring the Necrosword, whose dark will feared his Greed Concept.
• Gorr revealed that he had slaughtered gods to reach Eternity and resurrect his daughter, Love, and Chu Hang offered to bring her back in exchange for the sword.
• Gorr surrendered the Necrosword, and Chu Hang absorbed its power, drawing the attention of its creator, Knull, who sensed Greed and planted a seed of vengeance.
• Chu Hang restored Love at her grave, and Gorr reunited with his daughter before Chu Hang claimed the deal was complete.
• Chu Hang returned to Asgard and told Thor and Hela that Gorr would not return; Hela thanked him and acknowledged that she owed him her life before he departed through a spatial rift.

Chu Hang and the Avengers prepared for the Council of Kangs’ arrival, then faced its overwhelming fleet and countless variants as they attacked Earth. Chu Hang challenged the Kangs, but the chapter ended before the battle with their three hidden trump cards began.

• Chu Hang returned from Asgard with Thor and revealed he had gained the abyss as his thirteenth law from the Necrosword.
• The Avengers reviewed their defenses as the seventy-two-hour deadline for the Council of Kangs’ arrival approached, and Strange announced that they had arrived.
• Chronopolis appeared above Earth, and the Council of Kangs declared the timeline marked for pruning; Chu Hang repelled their pressure with his Law Domain.
• The Kangs’ ships attacked, and Tony, Strange, Wanda, Thor, and the others used Earth’s defenses to hold them back.
• Black-Armored Kang fired a beam of death at Thor, while Chu Hang noticed that Nathaniel’s Dimension Beacon scar had begun glowing again.
• Pharaoh Kang offered Chu Hang three choices, and Chu Hang rejected him, declaring that the Kangs were ants before a Cosmic Overlord.

Chu Hang erased Pharaoh Kang and his fleet, then copied Young Kang’s Spacetime Sovereignty and used dimensional backlash to trap the three remaining Kangs. He realized Nathaniel was their living conduit and left the Avengers to hold the line while he went to save the boy.

• Chu Hang devoured Pharaoh Kang and disintegrated his vanguard fleet.
• Black-Armored Kang attacked the Avengers with the concept of death, but Chu Hang resisted and exposed the dimensional backlash weakening the three Kangs.
• Young Kang used Nathaniel as an anchor to stabilize the Kangs, and Chu Hang copied Young Kang’s Spacetime Sovereignty.
• Chu Hang redirected dimensional backlash against the three Kangs, forcing them to rely on Nathaniel as their living conduit while Chronopolis descended toward Earth.
• Chu Hang told Tony to help sever Nathaniel’s connection rather than kill him, then trapped the Kangs in a backlash cage and teleported to Nathaniel to save him.

Chu Hang removed the Dimension Beacon from Nathaniel and expelled the Council of Kangs, devouring Black-Armored Kang and erasing Data Kang while Young Kang escaped into the Multiversal Rift. The invasion ended, but Chu Hang warned that the Anti-Monitor might pose a greater threat.

• Chu Hang used the Alchemical Law to separate the Dimension Beacon from Nathaniel without killing him, then destroyed it.
• Chu Hang invoked Spacetime Sovereignty to expel the three Kangs and the collapsing Chronopolis from the universe.
• Black-Armored Kang attacked with the Death Concept, but Chu Hang absorbed his power and devoured him; Chu Hang erased Data Kang with the Reality Warp Law.
• Young Kang detonated remnants of the other Kangs to open a rift and escaped into the Multiversal Rift.
• Chu Hang regrouped with Tony, Steve, Natasha, and Wanda, learned Nathaniel was stable, and said remnants of the Alchemical Law might give him abilities.
• Chu Hang privately identified the Anti-Monitor as a greater looming threat, but declined to explain further to Tony.

After removing Nathaniel Richards’s Dimension Beacon, Chu Hang left the boy with a golden trace of the Alchemical Law that awakened his ability to control liquid metal. As the Phoenix Force awakened within Chu Hang, a warning about a coming World-Eater drove him to send an avatar into the Multiverse while his true body prepared to enter seclusion.

• Chu Hang told Tony Stark that Nathaniel would survive and suggested Tony guide him, then left to confront the Phoenix Force stirring within him.
• Nathaniel woke and discovered he could reshape a metal tray into a sphere, and Tony welcomed him as his student.
• Chu Hang found Wanda beside him as the Phoenix Force surged, and Loki warned that Young Kang was summoning a hungry entity known as the World-Eater.
• Chu Hang created an exploration avatar to seek power that could contain the Phoenix Force, and the avatar entered the Multiverse.
• Chu Hang prepared to enter seclusion while Wanda promised to protect Earth and wait for him.
• The avatar sensed a primal force of thunder and bloodlust in a new world and changed course toward it.

Chu Hang entered a universe where Omni-Man was slaughtering the Global Guardians and copied the Viltrumite Smart Atom structure to help his body withstand the Phoenix Force. He left after defeating Omni-Man and went to observe Mark Grayson, seeking further ways to strengthen his body.

• Chu Hang found Omni-Man attacking the Global Guardians and stopped him from killing War Woman.
• Chu Hang scanned Omni-Man’s Smart Atoms, copied the Viltrumite Physiology, and found that it only partly eased the Phoenix Force’s erosion.
• Chu Hang restrained Omni-Man with the Law of Space and punched him deep underground, sparing his life.
• Chu Hang detected other potential sources of genetic and Viltrumite data, including Mark Grayson.
• Chu Hang traveled to Mark Grayson’s home and watched him have dinner with his mother.

Chu Hang secretly observed Mark Grayson and tested his potential during an alien invasion, revealing that Mark’s Smart Atoms could grow stronger under extreme pressure. After disabling the GDA’s attempt to retrieve Mark, Chu Hang offered to teach him control and warned that the aliens would return stronger, leaving Mark unsure what to do.

• For three days, Chu Hang watched Mark’s ordinary life and clumsy attempts to fly, then observed him rush into the city to fight an alien invasion.
• Mark fought the alien attackers with brute strength, while Chu Hang secretly prevented his mistakes from causing further destruction.
• When an alien commander nearly killed Mark, Chu Hang crushed it with an invisible force and pinned Mark down as well.
• Mark’s rage awakened his Smart Atoms, and he broke free before stopping his punch just short of Chu Hang’s face.
• Chu Hang disabled the GDA’s teleportation portal and explained that Mark’s Smart Atoms could grow beyond his father’s limits, offering to teach him control.
• Chu Hang warned Mark that the aliens would return with weapons designed for him, then vanished as Mark stood among the ruins, uncertain about his future.

After being defeated by Chu Hang, Nolan returned home and lied to Debbie and Mark about his absence, but Mark tested his father and realized he was hiding the truth about Smart Atoms. Chu Hang then appeared in the GDA command center, demanded Sinclair’s research, and warned Cecil that Nolan was dangerous, leaving Cecil to order Nolan’s surveillance.

• Nolan escaped from the Earth's core, returned home, and told Debbie and Mark that he had dealt with a powerful alien.
• Mark told Nolan that a strange man had mentioned Smart Atoms and his mother; Nolan concealed his reaction, then claimed Smart Atoms were the name of Viltrumite cells.
• Mark tested Nolan by repeating that his potential came from his mother, and Nolan admitted it was partly true while warning Mark not to trust the stranger.
• Cecil Stedman learned that Nolan had been punched into the Earth's core and classified the unknown attacker as an Omega-level threat.
• Chu Hang appeared in the GDA command center, demanded Sinclair's research materials, and offered to intervene if Nolan lost control.
• Cecil agreed to provide the research, then ordered the GDA to place Nolan under the highest level of surveillance and keep watch on Mark.

Mark fought a prepared Flaxan invasion whose Time Synchronizers erased his speed advantage, while Nolan watched and forced him to face the threat alone. On the verge of death, Mark awakened his Smart Atoms, healed, and gained enough power to destroy the Flaxan officer, leaving the surrounding soldiers stunned.

• A purple rift opened above Mark's school, and he flew up to confront the returning Flaxans as their shielded fleet poured through.
• Mark struggled against soldiers wearing Time Synchronizers, which let them track and attack him, and he realized their force had canceled his time-based speed advantage.
• The Flaxan officer wounded Mark and overwhelmed him, while Nolan watched from above without intervening until Mark was about to be killed.
• Nolan stopped the officer's first lethal attack, then challenged Mark to rise using his own strength and prove his potential.
• Facing another energy sphere, Mark embraced the pain of his Smart Atoms awakening, survived the blast, and rapidly healed.
• Mark's new power let him smash the officer's armor and gemstone with one punch, sending him crashing through three warships.

Mark defeated the Flaxan invasion after his power surged, while Nolan watched with wary scrutiny. Chu Hang rejected Sinclair’s resurrection research, learned Robot’s location from Cecil, and Nolan later dismissed Mark’s questions about Smart Atoms.

• Mark wiped out the remaining Flaxans after an unseen force destroyed their fleet and closed the dimensional rift.
• Nolan praised Mark’s limitless potential but regarded him with concealed wariness.
• Chu Hang took a Flaxan Time Synchronizer and decided to seek information from Cecil Stedman.
• Chu Hang read Sinclair’s memories, destroyed the reanimated corpse, and dismissed the Sinclair Project as worthless.
• Cecil told Chu Hang where to find Robot, and Chu Hang reaffirmed his deal to intervene if Omni-Man lost control.
• At dinner, Nolan denied Mark’s questions about Smart Atoms and said Mark’s strength came from his Viltrumite blood.

Chu Hang infiltrated the Teen Titans' base, copied Rudy Connors's biological genetic engineering knowledge, and developed a plan to reprogram Viltrumite Smart Atoms to contain the Phoenix Force. He left after giving Rudy Alchemical Law, but discovered the transformation would require a century of a medium-mass star's energy and began searching the universe for a sufficient power source.

• Chu Hang passed through the Teen Titans' defenses, withstood Rex's attacks, and dismantled Eve's metal barrier before confronting Robot.
• Chu Hang revealed that Robot's true body was Rudy Connors and promised to cure him, persuading Robot to lead him to the underground laboratory.
• Chu Hang copied Rudy's S-rank biological genetic engineering mastery and learned that Viltrumite Smart Atoms could be reprogrammed as energy-containment units.
• Chu Hang gave Rudy the foundational theory of Alchemical Law and departed under the name Prometheus.
• Chu Hang calculated that reprogramming every Smart Atom in his body required the energy of a medium-mass star burning for one hundred years, then searched for another vast energy source.

Chu Hang invaded the Grayson home, overpowered Nolan, exposed his Viltrumite mission to Debbie and Mark, and drained much of Nolan’s stored energy to advance his own Smart Atom reconstruction. He left Mark powerless but urged him to train, while Mark’s Smart Atoms began responding to his anger and determination.

• Chu Hang confronted Nolan in the Grayson dining room and immobilized him by rewriting his Smart Atom commands.
• Chu Hang revealed that Nolan was Omni-Man, a Viltrumite advance agent sent to prepare Earth for the Empire’s invasion, and Nolan’s silence devastated Debbie and Mark.
• Chu Hang drained Nolan’s stored energy, advancing his own Smart Atom reconstruction to thirty percent while leaving Nolan alive but severely weakened.
• Mark’s Smart Atoms fluctuated as he watched his father being drained, and Chu Hang noted that Mark had greater potential than Nolan.
• Chu Hang warned Mark to take care of Debbie and train before vanishing, and Mark’s anger and determination stirred his Smart Atoms.

After Nolan was imprisoned, Mark refused Cecil’s offer to join the GDA but vowed to help protect Earth and began training. Three weeks later, Chu Hang defeated Allen, copied his adaptive-evolution ability, learned the Interstellar Council’s location and the Viltrum Empire’s patrol routes, and set off to hunt the Empire.

• Cecil told Mark that the GDA had known Nolan was a Viltrumite, and Mark refused to join the agency while promising to help if Earth was threatened.
• Mark returned home with Debbie and began training, determined to grow stronger after realizing how powerless he had been against Chu Hang.
• Three weeks later, Chu Hang encountered Allen in Earth orbit and defeated him in a fight.
• Chu Hang copied Allen’s adaptive-evolution ability and forced him to reveal the Interstellar Council’s location and the Viltrum Empire’s patrol routes.
• Chu Hang flew toward the Viltrum Empire’s border patrol line, while Allen headed to warn the Council and Nolan waited for the Empire to retaliate.

Chu Hang attacked the Viltrumite cruiser Conqueror, defeated its fifteen warriors, and drained their energy to advance his Smart Atoms’ reconstruction. He left the aged commander Craig alive to warn the Viltrumite emperor that the hunters had become prey.

• Chu Hang approached the Conqueror and survived its main cannon blast, with Adaptive Evolution Physiology healing and strengthening his body.
• Chu Hang let a Viltrumite warrior strike him, then broke the warrior’s wrist and hurled him into two companions.
• Chu Hang fought the remaining warriors and incapacitated all fourteen in less than three minutes.
• Chu Hang drained Craig’s life force and raised his reconstruction progress from thirty to thirty-five percent.
• Chu Hang drained the fourteen injured warriors, raising reconstruction progress to sixty-five percent, then ordered Craig to warn the emperor that a hunter had arrived.
• Craig remained alive as Chu Hang flew away, terrified and intending to report the threat to the Grand Regent.

After Chu Hang’s attack left Viltrumite forces terrified, Thragg sent Conquest to hunt him, while Chu Hang continued draining Viltrumites to complete his transformation. On Earth, Cecil gave Mark information about the Viltrumites and his father as Mark prepared to grow stronger.

• Craig returned alone to the Viltrumite command hall, delivered Chu Hang’s warning that Viltrumites were now the prey, and Thragg killed him.
• Thragg ordered Conquest and his Reckoners squad to find Chu Hang, while placing border fleets on maximum combat readiness.
• Chu Hang destroyed a Viltrumite cruiser and drained twelve warriors at Furnace Star, raising his energy reserves to 85%.
• Chu Hang sensed Conquest approaching and waited for the Viltrumite warrior, expecting his energy to complete the final 15% of his transformation.
• Cecil showed Mark footage of Chu Hang’s attacks and gave him data on the Viltrumites, including information about his father, and Mark left determined to get stronger.

Chu Hang drained Conquest to complete his reconstruction, fused with the Phoenix Force, and reached Universal-level before returning to the Main Universe. Thragg learned that Chu Hang was heading back to Earth and ordered the Viltrum Empire to assemble for an attack.

• Conquest arrived at Furnace Star with eleven Viltrumite soldiers and killed a wounded survivor before challenging Chu Hang.
• Chu Hang blocked Conquest’s attacks, used Alchemical Law to immobilize him, and drained his accumulated energy to complete his reconstruction.
• Chu Hang fused with the Phoenix Force, reached Universal-level, and opened a rift to return to the Main Universe.
• The eleven surviving Executioner Squad members fled to the Viltrum Empire and reported Conquest’s defeat to Thragg.
• Thragg ordered every fleet and elite soldier assembled, naming Earth as their target.

Chu Hang's duplicate returned with immense energy and merged with him, stabilizing the thirteen laws within him and transforming him into a universal-level being. The chapter ended with Chu Hang realizing that his will could now become the law of the universe.

• Chu Hang held back the Phoenix Force in a sealed chamber while his duplicate returned from beyond the universe with a vast ocean of energy.
• Tony Stark, Thor, Strange, and Nathan sensed the duplicate's arrival as reality's physical constants began to change.
• The duplicate stepped through a rift and joined palms with Chu Hang, triggering a cosmic wave that affected Earth, the Solar System, and the wider universe.
• The duplicate merged into Chu Hang, who unified the thirteen laws and evolved beyond matter into an energy-based form.
• A giant phoenix calmed the disturbed universe before dissolving into Chu Hang, who awoke as a universal-level being.

After reaching the middle stage of Universal-level, Chu Hang restored the damaged base, upgraded Tony’s armor, and empowered Thor’s Stormbreaker. He made an understanding with Eternity, Death, Infinity, and Oblivion, then prepared for the Council of Kangs’ main force while sensing that the Phoenix Force longed for something beyond the Multiverse.

• Chu Hang revealed that he had become a miniature universe and described himself as middle stage of Universal-level, leaving Tony, Thor, and Strange stunned.
• Chu Hang transformed Tony’s damaged armor with Uru metal and infused Thor’s Stormbreaker with the concept of the Eternal Flame so it could repair and evolve.
• Chu Hang met the creator gods Eternity, Death, Infinity, and Oblivion in the void and assured them he meant no offense, after which they withdrew.
• Chu Hang sensed the Phoenix Force longing toward something beyond the universe and the parallel worlds, but did not explain it to Tony.
• Chu Hang told Tony, Thor, and Strange that everything was ready and that they would wait for the Council of Kangs’ main force to arrive.

Chu Hang sent a powerful duplicate to the DC Universe while remaining in the Marvel Universe to face the Council of Kangs. The duplicate arrived at the Watchtower, rescued the Justice League from the Shadow Demons, and prepared the defenders to confront the Anti-Monitor before it found the Anti-Life Equation.

• Chu Hang sensed the Anti-Monitor’s invasion of the DC Universe and created a mid-stage Cosmic Overlord-level duplicate to answer his promise to Ganthet.
• The duplicate arrived at the besieged Watchtower, erased three Shadow Demons, and healed Batman’s wounds.
• Chu Hang learned that Superman was weakened by Kryptonite weapons, Wonder Woman was nearing her limit, and the Green Lantern Corps had suffered heavy casualties.
• Chu Hang entered the battlefield and erased the Shadow Demons around the Watchtower, then told Superman and Wonder Woman to follow his lead.
• Batman revealed that the Anti-Monitor was searching for the Anti-Life Equation, and Chu Hang called on every remaining hero to prepare for battle.