Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng reunited with Tony and Morgan, then explained that he was looking for Dark-Circled Strange. Tony said that Strange and another magic user were staying at the New York Sanctum, and asked why Lin Feng wanted to find him.

• Tony mistook Lin Feng for a stranger approaching Morgan, then recognized him and apologized.
• Tony told Lin Feng that people had repeatedly tried to approach Morgan to get at Stark Industries’ technology, and explained why he chose her school.
• Tony invited Lin Feng to join him and Morgan on a trip to buy her promised bear, and they drove to the toy store in Tony’s car.
• Lin Feng asked Tony about Dark-Circled Strange, and Tony said he and another spellcaster were staying at the New York Sanctum.

Lin Feng asked Dark Doctor Strange how to reach Cagliostro’s Library, where every book in the universe was kept. Dark Doctor Strange remembered the place and its role in his tragic past, but the chapter ended before he answered whether he could return there.

• Tony took Morgan home with her twenty-first giant teddy bear, then drove Lin Feng to the New York Sanctum to collect both Stranges and Wong for dinner.
• During the drive, Dark Doctor Strange asked why Lin Feng had sought him out, and Lin Feng said he was a unique being across the universes.
• At a Chinese barbecue restaurant, Lin Feng asked Dark Doctor Strange how he had reached Cagliostro’s Library and whether it was still possible to go there.
• Strange explained that the library contained every book in the universe and that its knowledge could bring great power as well as terrible consequences.
• Dark Doctor Strange recalled seeking the library while trying to resurrect Christine, and how the Ancient One’s magic split him into two Stranges on different timelines.

Lin Feng asked Dark Doctor Strange to take him to the Lost Book City so he could find a way to strengthen his soul. After dinner, they traveled through the jungle and entered the city, where Lin Feng began looking over its vast collection of books.

• Lin Feng told Dark Doctor Strange he wanted to strengthen his soul, and Strange agreed to take him to the Lost Book City after dinner.
• Lin Feng, Dark Doctor Strange, Strange, Tony, and Wong ate and drank at a barbecue restaurant until the evening ended.
• Strange and Wong returned to the Sanctum through a Portal, while Tony flew home in his Nanotech Suit and Lin Feng left with Dark Doctor Strange.
• Dark Doctor Strange led Lin Feng through the jungle and recalled his centuries there and his failed attempt to reverse the Absolute Point.
• Dark Doctor Strange dispelled the magic at the Lost Book City's entrance, and he and Lin Feng entered its towering halls of books.

Lin Feng explored the Lost Book City and absorbed its vast collection of books on magic and the soul. When Dark Forbidden Magic books approached him, a powerful white-magic book drove them back and settled into his hand.

• Lin Feng stayed behind in the Lost Book City after Dark Doctor Strange left through a Portal.
• Lin Feng summoned books from the shelves and rapidly absorbed knowledge about magic, energy, and the soul.
• Several Dark Forbidden Magic books approached Lin Feng, and he hesitated before reaching for one.
• A sacred orb of white light struck the Dark Magic Book, and their forces clashed, sending books flying throughout the library.
• The white light repelled the Dark Magic Book and transformed into an ornate white-magic book in Lin Feng's palm.

Lin Feng discovered the Radiant Magic Book, absorbed its vast magical knowledge, and learned to cast radiant spells with a shape-changing Wand it produced. After his attempted Harry Potter curses failed, he decided to take the book with him when he left Lost Book City.

• Lin Feng opened the Radiant Magic Book, whose light filled the library as its knowledge poured into him.
• Lin Feng spent an hour reading only three pages and learned powerful spells, including the Aurora Spell and the Nameless Curse.
• Lin Feng practiced Radiant Magic, summoning a glowing deer that he transformed into a sword.
• The Radiant Magic Book produced a Wand that absorbed Lin Feng's energy and strengthened his spells.
• Lin Feng tried casting the Unforgivable Curses, but nothing happened, and the book reacted with displeasure.
• Lin Feng turned the Wand into a ring and decided to take the Radiant Magic Book from Lost Book City as a souvenir.

Lin Feng took the Radiant Magic Book and examined the Dark Magic Books in Lost Book City, finding their spells dangerous and their soul knowledge too costly to use. Meanwhile, two avatars obtained the Heart of the Universe Fragments and were told to help guard the other avatars’ location.

• Lin Feng stored the Radiant Magic Book and opened a Dark Magic Book, whose smoke monster appeared to frighten him before retreating into its pages.
• Lin Feng read the Dark Magic Book’s lessons on curses and sealing spells, then stopped when he saw how cruel and harmful they were.
• Lin Feng examined the other Dark Magic Books and found that their soul-related methods could corrupt the caster, so he returned them to the shelf.
• Lin Feng continued reading ordinary magic books in Lost Book City and set himself a time limit.
• Two avatars met after obtaining the Heart of the Universe Fragments, and one reported that Lin Feng had told them to keep the fragments and help guard the other avatars’ location.

Hela and her companion reconsidered how to stop Lin Feng from collecting the remaining Heart of the Universe Fragments. At the New York Sanctum, Strange’s suggestion that Lin Feng might be able to bring Christine back rekindled Dark Doctor Strange’s hope, leaving him tempted to try again.

• After two fragments were taken, Hela and her companion found the abandoned location and learned Lin Feng’s clones guarded the remaining sites.
• Hela rejected her companion’s plan to confront the clones and proposed finding another person who held a fragment.
• At the New York Sanctum, Strange and Wong brought tea to Dark Doctor Strange, who was thinking about Christine.
• Strange suggested asking Lin Feng whether he could bring Christine back, and Wong warned that changing an Absolute Point could destroy a world.
• After Strange was dragged away, Dark Doctor Strange began to hope that Lin Feng might succeed where he had failed.

Thor challenged Hela again in the Martial Arena, where his sister easily beat him despite his improving fighting skills. Hela continued to consider her plans for Asgard’s throne, wary of Lin Feng, while Thor lay on the ground as the crowd cheered.

• After Loki’s spell failed, Odin, Frigga, and Hela returned to Asgard, where Odin beat Loki and imprisoned him.
• Thor returned to Asgard and repeatedly clashed with Hela, while Odin left his conflict with Hela unresolved.
• Hela postponed her plans to seize the throne because she feared Lin Feng would stop her from waging war across the Nine Realms.
• Thor challenged Hela again in the Martial Arena, where she dodged his charge and kicked him to the ground.

Thor welcomed Tony and his family to Asgard and began showing them the realm. Meanwhile, Lin Feng finished studying in the Lost Book City, returned the books, and prepared to leave.

• Thor lost another sparring match to Hela, then failed to persuade her to welcome Tony and his family because she walked away when he mentioned Lin Feng.
• Heimdall activated the Bifrost, bringing Tony, Pepper, Morgan, Howard, and Howard's wife to Asgard.
• Thor greeted Tony, introduced himself to Howard and his wife, and took the family on a flying boat tour of Asgard.
• Tony, Pepper, Morgan, and Howard and his wife admired Asgard's scenery and architecture during the tour.
• Lin Feng finished reading a book about bodiless souls, returned the books he had borrowed, and decided to leave the Lost Book City after a week.

After reading the Soul-Being Race’s history, Lin Feng suspected that an unseen force had manipulated the race and treated its planet like a laboratory. He found the planet and discovered it was lifeless, scarred, and missing its core, leaving his suspicions with new evidence.

• Lin Feng left the Lost Book City and used Instant Transmission to reach the Soul-Being Race’s former home system.
• Lin Feng read that the race had abandoned its bodies to save their collapsing planet, then fell into rage and devoured one another until none survived.
• Lin Feng concluded that an unseen hand had engineered the race’s development and compared the planet to a petri dish.
• Lin Feng found the small planet beneath a bloodred star and saw that its vegetation and other signs of life had vanished.
• Lin Feng used Super Vision to inspect the planet and found its core had become a vast cavity, as though something had been removed.

Lin Feng discovered that Black Robes had extracted the core of the Soul-Being Race’s planet and hidden the event from the Timeline, then returned to the Solar System to prepare a gift for Dark Doctor Strange. He ended the chapter by pulling a soul being from a void-like hole, uncertain whether restoring it would affect an Absolute Point.

• Lin Feng used his power over time to inspect the planet’s past, but found that the crucial moment after the Soul-Being Race’s extinction had been erased from the Timeline.
• Lin Feng searched the Nameless Wall and found footage of a Black Robe extracting the planet’s core, which turned into a key, before reaching into the void and disappearing.
• Lin Feng concluded that Black Robes had caused the planet’s destruction and wondered why they had created the Soul-Being Race as a cultivation vessel.
• Lin Feng used Instant Transmission to return to the Solar System and prepared an unexpected gift for Dark Doctor Strange.
• Lin Feng reached into a void-like hole and pulled out a soul being, wondering whether the destroyed world was no longer subject to an Absolute Point.

Lin Feng pulled Christine's soul from the Death Realm to bring her to Dark Doctor Strange, explaining that she had died and that her world had been destroyed because of Strange. As Lin Feng prepared to take Christine to Blue Star, a Grim Reaper emerged from the Death Realm rift.

• Lin Feng questioned Christine after she regained her senses in space, and she remembered dying repeatedly and seeing Strange as a monster before her world shattered.
• Christine feared meeting Strange again, but Lin Feng told her that summoning her soul without resurrecting her would not repeat the destruction of her world.
• Lin Feng reassured Christine that Strange had never forgotten her and grabbed her soul to take her to Blue Star.
• The Death Realm rift opened by itself, and a black-hooded figure carrying a huge scythe emerged as Lin Feng turned toward it with a knowing smile.

Lin Feng confronted a reaper who demanded that he return Christine to the Death Realm, but the reaper fled after Lin Feng questioned whether Hela was using souls to grow stronger. Lin Feng brought Christine to the New York Sanctum, where Dark Doctor Strange was stunned to see her.

• The skull-faced reaper accused Lin Feng of disrupting the order of the universe by taking souls from the Death Realm and demanded that Christine return.
• Lin Feng refused to give Christine up and challenged the reaper about Hela and the dazed souls in the Death Realm.
• The reaper struck his scythe into empty space and vanished, leading Lin Feng to suspect that Hela was exploiting the souls.
• Lin Feng took Christine to the New York Sanctum and called for Strange to open the door.
• Dark Doctor Strange opened the door and shouted in shock when he saw Christine beside Lin Feng.

Lin Feng brought Christine’s spirit to the Sanctum, reassuring Dark Doctor Strange that her presence would not immediately endanger the universe and giving the pair a day together before he sent her back. After leaving them alone, Lin Feng sat atop Stark Tower and assessed the difference between the growth of his body and soul.

• Lin Feng explained to Strange, Wong, Dark Doctor Strange, and Christine how he had brought Christine’s spirit back, and Dark Doctor Strange confirmed that the world had not begun collapsing.
• Wong objected to the risk, but Lin Feng said Christine would return by the following evening and left the pair alone for the night.
• Strange dimmed the Sanctum’s lights and encouraged Dark Doctor Strange to make the most of his time with Christine before leaving.
• Dark Doctor Strange and Christine reunited, shared memories, and spent the night together.
• Lin Feng sat atop Stark Tower and concluded that his soul gained only two or three parts of strength for every ten parts his body gained, though his spirit form could still destroy a star system.

Lin Feng tested a method for strengthening his soul by drawing energy from starlight within Blue Star’s magnetic field, then returned to New York. Tony followed him to New Zealand, only to discover that Lin Feng had already come back.

• Lin Feng recalled a soul-strengthening method from an incomplete book and flew to New Zealand’s Mackenzie Dark Sky Reserve.
• Tony learned Lin Feng’s destination from Friday and followed him in his armor to discuss something with him.
• Lin Feng became invisible, separated his soul from his body, and absorbed transformed starlight through Blue Star’s magnetic field.
• Lin Feng confirmed the method could strengthen his soul slowly, then used Instant Transmission to return to New York.
• Tony arrived at the reserve and learned from Friday that Lin Feng had already returned to the city center.

Lin Feng studied the Radiant Magic Book for ways to strengthen his soul and discovered a risky Soul Stone method involving a Starry River. Tony eventually tracked him down and visited his hotel room, where the magic book repelled Tony’s attempt to touch it.

• Friday told Tony that Lin Feng had suddenly returned to the city center, so Tony flew back to find him.
• Lin Feng checked into the Central Park Hotel and read about herbs, items, and spells that could strengthen the soul.
• Lin Feng found a method that used the Soul Stone to create a Starry River, where starlight could strengthen a soul outside the body.
• Tony knocked on Lin Feng’s hotel window, entered, and asked where Lin Feng had gotten the glowing magic book.
• The Radiant Magic Book repelled Tony’s hand, and Lin Feng put it away before asking Tony why he had come.

Tony told Lin Feng that an alien had visited Blue Star and taken information about its geography and resources, leaving behind purple cells that survived for nearly a hundred hours and resisted most attempts to kill them. Lin Feng confirmed the cells were dangerous, destroyed one sample, and warned Tony not to study the remaining sample or let it touch any living organism.

• Tony explained to Lin Feng that he had felt uneasy and irritable for days, as he had before Thanos arrived.
• Tony showed Lin Feng footage of a disguised alien who had collected information about Blue Star, along with purple slime left at the alien's locations.
• Lin Feng examined the slime's cells and found them unusually active and aggressive despite having been outside a body for nearly a hundred hours.
• Tony described how the cells resisted drugs and acid, survived most electricity, and divided rapidly when some were killed.
• Lin Feng used Heat Vision to destroy the sample, saw its remaining cells divide frantically, and warned Tony to keep the other sample away from living organisms.

Tony warned Lin Feng about the purple mucus and asked for help against the threat, but explained that Nick Fury had taken the Distress Beacon. Nick Fury arrived with an agent, and his hostile exchange with Tony revealed a strained relationship as he brought information about the strange person.

• Tony told Lin Feng he feared they could not handle the purple mucus threat and asked for his help.
• Tony said Nick Fury had taken the Distress Beacon Lin Feng had given the Avengers.
• Lin Feng heard footsteps and opened the door with Telekinesis as Nick Fury entered with an unfamiliar female agent.
• Tony mocked Nick Fury and accused him of meddling in everything and shifting responsibility onto others.
• Nick Fury handed Tony a file about the strange person, while Tony mocked him for treating people like Peter and Natasha.

Tony rejected Black Egg’s attempt to recruit him against the new enemy, and Lin Feng gave Tony a Distress Beacon so he could summon him when needed. The next day, Lin Feng returned to the Sanctum to send Christine’s soul back, but Dark Doctor Strange asked him to find a way to revive her.

• Black Egg apologized to Tony and urged him to put aside their past disagreements and face the new enemy together, but Tony refused and criticized S.H.I.E.L.D.’s past actions against Peter.
• After Black Egg left, Tony told Lin Feng that he distrusted Nick Fury and feared none of them could withstand the coming threat.
• Lin Feng gave Tony a Distress Beacon, explaining that he had taken it back from Nick Fury, and Tony left pleased with the gift.
• Lin Feng spent the following day buying gifts in New York in 2028, then headed to the Sanctum as evening approached to return Christine’s soul.
• Dark Doctor Strange opened the door and asked Lin Feng whether he could revive Christine.

Dark Doctor Strange asked Lin Feng whether Christine could be resurrected, despite her refusal and the risk of drawing the Death Realm into their world. After Lin Feng explained the dangers, Dark Doctor Strange asked whether Christine’s soul could at least stay in the world for a long time.

• Dark Doctor Strange asked Lin Feng if Christine could be resurrected, and Lin Feng found her in a room in the Sanctum.
• Dark Doctor Strange explained that Christine knew about his wish but refused resurrection because she feared harming the world.
• Lin Feng said resurrection might cause unknown consequences and warned that Dark Doctor Strange could not protect Christine from the Death Realm.
• Dark Doctor Strange accepted that resurrection was dangerous, then asked whether Christine’s soul could remain in the world for a long time.