Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng returned from the Time Variance Authority after taking its warehouse collectibles, while the TVA found no way to trace the theft. The captain investigated the empty warehouse, and Kiana worried she would be blamed for spreading the news.

• The warehouse administrator found the TVA warehouse completely empty and sounded the alarm.
• The captain reversed time in the warehouse, but found no collectibles or evidence even after rewinding nearly 300 hours.
• The captain took the warehouse administrator to report the theft and warned Kiana not to tell anyone.
• Kiana's roommate told her that collectibles had disappeared and the warehouse had been robbed, leaving Kiana worried the captain would suspect her of leaking the news.
• Lin Feng returned to the Marvel Universe, confident the TVA could not trace him through his past or future.

Lin Feng returned to the universe with a sack of powered-up Infinity Stones and planned to absorb them while arranging several matters on Blue Star. After sensing an ominous unease shared by the Ancient One, he returned a Time Stone to her and revealed a second one.

• Lin Feng discovered that the Infinity Stones regained their power outside the Time Variance Authority and decided to absorb the entire sack to strengthen himself.
• Lin Feng returned to Blue Star and planned to arrange Tony's armies, help Wanda awaken her powers, and meet the S.P.E.A.R. director surnamed Wang.
• Lin Feng visited Kamar-Taj and asked the Ancient One whether she had seen any recent disasters.
• The Ancient One said she had seen no disaster but shared Lin Feng's strange feeling that something ominous was brewing.
• Lin Feng gave the Ancient One a powered-up Time Stone, then produced another identical Time Stone and asked where it had come from.

Lin Feng returned the Time Stone to the Ancient One after testing what she knew about the Time Variance Authority, then gave Tony the Mind Stone to support his plans for Symbiote and Transformers armies. Tony promised not to use it for the research that could create Ultron and began imagining Iron Armor powered by the stone.

• The Ancient One could not explain where Lin Feng's second Time Stone came from, and her silence led him to suspect she knew something about the Time Variance Authority.
• Lin Feng returned the Time Stone to the Ancient One and left Kamar-Taj without getting a direct answer from her.
• Lin Feng and Tony discussed building Symbiote and Transformers armies, and Tony promised to have them ready by the time Lin Feng returned.
• Lin Feng gave Tony the Mind Stone and warned him not to use it for the research that could create Ultron.
• Tony accepted the Mind Stone, promised to honor Lin Feng's condition, and imagined using it to power Iron Armor.

Lin Feng persuaded Wanda to distrust Black Egg and use magic against him if he approached her again, while Jilly and Martina watched and discussed Lin Feng’s sweet-talking. The chapter left Jilly and Martina absorbed in an anime and Lin Feng wary of Jilly’s mischievous attention.

• Lin Feng lectured Wanda about Black Egg, S.H.I.E.L.D., and Hydra, then enlisted Susan to convince Wanda to defend herself with magic.
• Wanda agreed to use a binding spell on Black Egg if he returned, though she still intended to show mercy unless he crossed a line.
• Martina asked Jilly whether Lin Feng had fooled many girls with his sweet-talking, and Jilly suggested asking Susan while agreeing that Lin Feng seemed untrustworthy.
• Lin Feng noticed Jilly studying him and worried that she might cause trouble, recalling her recent graffiti on his Lamborghini.
• Jilly and Martina watched an anime with bizarre moves, and Martina became too engrossed to keep thinking about Lin Feng.

Lin Feng reflected on the family warmth he had found and his determination to become strong enough to protect it. After falling asleep at home, he was jolted awake by Lin Jili’s playful ambush, and the household gathered for dinner.

• Lin Feng rested on the sofa, thinking about his childhood at the orphanage and resolving to grow stronger to protect those he cherished.
• Susan and Wanda prepared a lavish seafood dinner while Lin Feng slept, and Susan decided to let him rest.
• Lin Jili launched herself onto Lin Feng’s stomach with her new move, “Crow Rides the Plane,” waking him up.
• Lin Feng warned Lin Jili not to use the move on other people, and she fled to the dining table to eat her crabs.
• Lin Feng joined the others for dinner, and the villa’s warm atmosphere continued.

After arranging training for Wanda, Pietro, Martina, and Lin Jili, Lin Feng received shifting Cosmic Cube coordinates from Group Leader Wang and prepared to investigate them. He traveled to the sun to absorb a vast number of Infinity Stones, beginning an evolution that would leave him asleep for a year or two.

• Lin Feng arranged Wanda's Chaos Magic training with a guidance device, left Pietro to practice his speed, and gave Martina a training guide while letting Lin Jili develop on her own.
• Lin Feng learned that Group Leader Wang had left Blue Star and sent him a beeper displaying shifting Cosmic Cube coordinates and a note explaining his departure.
• Lin Feng realized the coordinates pointed to a potentially powerful Cosmic Cube, questioned Group Leader Wang's intentions, and decided to verify them after strengthening himself.
• Lin Feng discussed the Symbiote army plan with Tony, then flew to the sun and surrounded himself with the Infinity Stones he had kept for his own use.
• Lin Feng began absorbing energy from the Infinity Stones and fell asleep, expecting to awaken in a year or two as the Symbiote army and Transformers developed.

Tony built a Symbiote Legion on Blue Star, beginning with Happy as the first host and recruiting strong, loyal candidates. After the J-Faction publicly accused him of plotting against the government, Tony showed Rhodey the growing legion, leaving him stunned by its power.

• Tony gave Happy Symbiote tissue, and Happy gained strength far beyond Captain America's.
• Tony recruited physically fit candidates and built a facility to test and train them as Symbiote hosts.
• Nick Fury's requests to meet Tony were rejected, while Secretary G used the media to accuse Tony of building forces against the government.
• Tony had Rhodey tour the facility and see the Symbiote Legion, whose power left Rhodey shaken.

Over the past year, Tony built a powerful Symbiote Legion and a small Transformers Legion, while advancing his technology and gaining the means to threaten the J-Faction and S.H.I.E.L.D. He still had no news of Lin Feng, and the chapter ended with Tony ordering the Symbiote Legion to expand to ten thousand.

• Tony provided the J-Faction with Second-Generation Symbiotes under strict conditions, while secretly ensuring its legion remained weaker than his own.
• Martina learned to create intelligent Autobots, and Tony established a Transformers Legion that grew to fewer than twenty members.
• Tony expanded his Symbiote Legion, upgraded his armor and weapons, and deployed three satellites armed with space-based laser cannons.
• Tony used the Mind Stone to power a reactor and asked JARVIS for news of Lin Feng, who had disappeared near the sun twenty-one months earlier.
• Tony ordered the third phase of the Symbiote Legion plan and raised its population cap to ten thousand.

Lin Feng’s technological materials propelled the East through a year of rapid breakthroughs, leaving Western nations alarmed and demanding access to its advances. As the second year began, the East stunned the world again with crates of lunar soil and a manned Mars landing project.

• The East’s researchers studied Lin Feng’s materials and prioritized technologies such as the Optimized Super Soldier Serum.
• The East announced breakthroughs including Controlled Nuclear Fusion, Electromagnetic Railguns, Seventh-Generation Fighter Jets, and Space-Based Laser Weapons.
• The East livestreamed weapons tests and piloted fusion power generation, while the United States and its allies condemned it and demanded shared technology.
• The East ignored Western pressure, and the first year ended with several priority technologies replicated and researchers and soldiers receiving the Optimized Super Soldier Serum.
• At the start of the second year, the East revealed its lunar soil haul and manned Mars landing project, stunning the West.

After nearly two years absorbing the Infinity Stones in the Marvel Universe, Lin Feng awakened with power that let him cross universes and even create brief-lived life. He remained below Golden Superman’s level, but believed he was close to reaching it.

• The East’s military parade left Western nations intimidated, and they began competing to win its favor and gain access to its technology.
• Lin Feng continued absorbing the Infinity Stones at the center of the sun as most of them exhausted their energy and crumbled.
• Two months later, the final Infinity Stones turned to dust, Lin Feng awakened, and golden light shot from his eyes through the sun.
• Lin Feng tested his power by traveling through Hyperspace and the Transformers universe before returning to Blue Star, nearly two years after he had left.
• Lin Feng created a living rabbit with a thought, but it vanished less than a minute later.
• Lin Feng concluded that he was still weaker than Golden Superman, though he believed the next step was within reach.

Lin Feng returned to New York after looting the Time Variance Authority and discovered Martina had turned his Lamborghini into an Autobot who guarded the villa. He reunited with Tony to ask about major events during his absence, but Tony began telling him about Nick Fury before Lin Feng interrupted to ask why he had switched from drinking to tea.

• Lin Feng flew home and found his Lamborghini transformed into an Autobot, who explained that Martina had ordered him to guard the villa.
• Lin Feng learned that Martina led dozens of Autobots, while she and Lin Jili were in class and Susan and Wanda were out.
• Lin Feng flew to Stark Tower and happily reunited with Tony, who had not seen him for two years.
• Lin Feng asked Tony whether any disasters or major events had happened, and Tony said the world had been peaceful apart from two noteworthy things.
• Tony brought out a tea set and mentioned Nick Fury, but Lin Feng asked why he had switched from drinking to tea.

Tony told Lin Feng that he and Pepper had been trying for a baby for a year without success, and Lin Feng suspected the Worldline was keeping Little Morgan’s birth on schedule. Tony then discussed S.H.I.E.L.D., Peter Parker, and his Symbiote Legion before taking Lin Feng to see its training base.

• Tony admitted that he and Pepper had been trying to conceive for a year, and Lin Feng suggested the Worldline might be delaying Little Morgan’s birth.
• Tony reported that the Hydra remnants’ conspiracy with aliens and the fake Nick Fury had been dealt with.
• Tony told Lin Feng that Peter Parker had gained powers from a spider bite and that he planned to recruit him into the Symbiote Legion; Lin Feng approved.
• Tony invited Lin Feng to visit the Symbiote Legion’s training base and explained that its first batch had become instructors for the second phase.
• Tony described the Legion’s selection rules, Symbiote breeding, and hierarchy as he and Lin Feng flew to the base.

Lin Feng visited Tony’s Second Symbiote Legion and learned that Black Widow Natasha led it, while Tony kept S.H.I.E.L.D.’s influence in check. After collecting Tony’s space exploration research, Lin Feng used his new aura-sensing ability to find Linglu beyond the Marvel Universe.

• Tony showed Lin Feng the Second Symbiote Legion’s brutal training and explained its members’ regenerative abilities and lucrative work arrangements.
• Natasha revealed herself as the legion’s leader, and Tony explained that he had placed her in charge to appease Nick Fury while preventing S.H.I.E.L.D. from taking control.
• Tony told Lin Feng he had avoided excessively studying the Mind Stone, then showed him the dismantled Sanctuary II and prepared documents on space exploration.
• Lin Feng took the documents and reflected that Tony’s life and forces were developing well.
• Lin Feng sensed Linglu’s aura and teleported to her, discovering that he could locate her even outside the Marvel Universe.

Lin Feng reunited with Linglu, learned that the Overmind had kept her trapped despite her completing missions, and took her to confront it. He began threatening and attacking the Overmind while Linglu watched in awe.

• Lin Feng found Linglu eating noodles with three teammates and asked why she was still doing missions while Xixing and the others were gone.
• Linglu explained that the Overmind had broken its promise and refused to let her leave because she was too strong, while also reducing her rewards.
• Lin Feng took Linglu by Instant Transmission to the Overmind, determined to get justice for her.
• Lin Feng confronted the trembling green sphere, demanded an explanation, and kicked it when it stayed silent.
• The Overmind became angry but quickly feared Lin Feng and reminded itself not to get mad because its life mattered.

Lin Feng forced the Overmind to explain why it had trapped Linglu after she completed her mission. The Overmind revealed that it wanted to keep using Linglu to fulfill the quotas required for its freedom.

• Lin Feng kicked the Overmind repeatedly, then threatened to crush it with his Bio-Force Field until it transformed and agreed to talk.
• The Overmind tried to intimidate Lin Feng, but he kicked it twice and made it answer Linglu's questions.
• The Overmind explained that an indescribable existence had created it and confined it to a room until it completed enormous performance quotas.
• The Overmind said it recruited people near death to complete missions in mutated worlds, but most recruits failed and died.
• The Overmind revealed that Linglu's perfect mission success rate made her its ideal tool, so it had no intention of letting her return.

Lin Feng forced the Overmind to release Linglu from its missions by threatening to destroy its room. He then asked how the Overmind had brought Linglu from her world and whether it could send his body there.

• Lin Feng criticized the Overmind’s weak mission rewards, and it explained that its creator had never completed its reward module.
• Linglu showed Lin Feng the Energy Hand Cannon, and the Overmind said it would take up to fifty thousand years to reach its mission target with her help.
• The Overmind refused to release Linglu, claiming it would revive as long as its room remained, so Lin Feng used his power to make the room begin collapsing.
• The Overmind agreed to release Linglu, and Lin Feng stopped the room from shaking.
• Lin Feng asked how the Overmind had brought Linglu from her world and whether it could send his body there.

Lin Feng learned that the Overmind could not send him to his home world because it was hidden from view, then arranged for Linglu to return home permanently. He left to master his enhanced abilities and seek the Cosmic Cube, while the Overmind considered finding another Spirit Dog.

• The Overmind explained that Linglu could return to her world because she belonged there and carried a World Imprint, but Lin Feng had no such connection and could not be sent there.
• Lin Feng ordered the Overmind to stop sending Linglu on missions and learned that Blue Star had advanced rapidly using the technology he had brought back.
• Lin Feng gave Linglu Tony's information and told her to press the Distress Beacon every three months so he could track his homeland's progress.
• The Overmind teleported Linglu home, and Lin Feng warned him not to target her again before leaving to study his new abilities and search for the Cosmic Cube.
• After Lin Feng departed, the Overmind resigned himself to finding another Spirit Dog.

After returning to Blue Star, Lin Feng reunited with his family and said he would stay longer while he adjusted to the abilities gained from the Infinity Stones. He agreed to take Susan on vacation, but Martina and Lin Jili tried to force their way into the trip with a fake crying fit.

• Lin Feng checked the shifting Cosmic Cube coordinates but could not find Group Leader Wang, then flew to the villa.
• Lin Feng reunited with Susan, Wanda, Martina, and Lin Jili, who had changed little during his two-year absence.
• At dinner, Lin Feng told Susan he planned to stay longer, and Susan suggested a vacation; Lin Feng agreed to leave the next day.
• Lin Jili demanded to join the trip, and after Lin Feng refused, she and Martina staged an exaggerated tantrum.
• Wanda avoided joining the girls’ scheme while Susan laughed at their antics.

Susan, Lin Feng, Wanda, Martina, and Lin Jili traveled to the Maldives on Tony’s private jet. Martina considered turning the plane into a Transformer, prompting Lin Feng to wonder whether Sanctuary II could be transformed too, but Tony revealed Martina could only bring small, simple aircraft to life.

• Susan suggested that everyone travel together, and Lin Jili and Martina stopped pretending to cry so they could join the trip.
• Lin Feng gave the two girls five days off, and the group of five boarded Tony’s private jet for the Maldives.
• During the flight, Martina wondered whether she could turn the plane into an Autobot.
• Lin Feng imagined using the AllSpark to transform Sanctuary II and called Tony to discuss the idea.
• Tony told Lin Feng that Martina had already tried transforming large machines but could only animate a small civilian helicopter.

Lin Feng and his companions reached the Maldives and settled into a villa with an underwater bedroom. As Lin Jili and Martina explored the beach, Lin Feng discovered that Martina had brought Transformer surfboards made with Tony Stark’s help.

• Lin Feng accelerated the plane with his Bio-Force Field, and the group arrived in the Maldives.
• Lin Feng and the others checked into a villa on Harbor Music Island, where Lin Feng admired its underwater bedroom.
• Lin Jili and Martina ran to the beach while Susan and Wanda prepared to relax beneath a parasol.
• Martina and Lin Jili rode metallic surfboards that transformed and fired jets, and Lin Feng identified them as Silicon-Based Lifeforms made with Tony Stark’s help.