Recaps

Old Captain America returned the Space Stone, then joined Lu Qi and Tony in 1991 to prevent Howard and Maria Stark’s deaths. After Bucky attacked a decoy car, Lu Qi and Tony prepared to take the Starks to the future, but Old Captain America arrived before they could leave.

• Old Captain America disguised himself to return the Space Stone and restore the storage room, then visited Carter.
• Lu Qi and Tony traveled to Christmas Eve 1991, where Old Captain America joined them and sent his agents to find the Hydra attackers.
• Lu Qi and Tony pulled Howard and Maria Stark from their car and hid them while Bucky passed by and killed two Dark Energy decoys instead.
• Lu Qi explained Hydra’s role in Bucky’s attack, and Tony told his parents they could not openly return to their old lives.
• Lu Qi offered to take Howard and Maria to the future, and Old Captain America called to ask whether Tony and Lu Qi were going back.

Lu Qi brought Howard and Maria from the past into the future, where Tony reunited with his parents and Maria immediately began pressing him to marry Pepper. As Lu Qi and Galacta discussed their own future, Galactus and Eternity noticed that the universe had produced unusually few unstable factors and decided to investigate.

• Steve revealed to Howard and Maria that he came from another timeline, and Lu Qi confirmed that Tony was their son from a different timeline.
• Tony admitted Howard and Maria were his parents, then embraced them as Maria comforted him about growing up without them.
• Lu Qi asked Steve to arrange a convincing cover-up for their disappearance, then brought Tony, Howard, and Maria through a time passage to the future.
• Steve and Bucky helped Howard and Maria adjust to the modern era, while Maria learned Tony would marry Pepper and began urging them to make it official.
• Lu Qi returned home and told Galacta about Tony's reunion and marriage pressure, then asked when they would marry; Galacta said they would wed after her Cosmic Tapeworm was removed.
• Galactus and Eternity discussed the unusually low number of unstable factors in the universe and agreed to watch for the cause.

Tony hid at Lu Qi’s place after being pressured to marry, and the two joked about marriage, immortality, and Tony’s future godfather plans. Tony chose to pursue other ways of extending his life, while Lu Qi offered to help him.

• Tony hid at Lu Qi’s home and blamed Lu Qi for prompting his mother to pressure him to marry.
• Galacta left to check on Shuri, and Tony teased Lu Qi about when he would marry her.
• Lu Qi said he and Galacta planned to marry after she separated the Cosmic Tapeworm and became fully human, likely in a few hundred years.
• Tony declined Lu Qi’s offer of immortality through a contract and said he wanted to try other methods first.
• Lu Qi offered to help Tony explore other ways to extend his life, and they changed the subject.

Lu Qi and Tony planned to reunite Howard with Hank Pym as a way to help Tony’s parents adapt to modern life and bring Janet back from the Quantum Realm. Tony promised to marry Pepper once his parents settled in, then invited Howard to meet Hank.

• Lu Qi suggested reconnecting Howard and Hank Pym after explaining how the Avengers had stolen Pym Particles in 1951 and sparked their falling-out.
• JARVIS revealed that Darren Cross had learned to produce Pym Particles and planned to weaponize them, while Lu Qi explained that Janet had entered the Quantum Realm to stop a nuclear missile.
• Lu Qi proposed bringing Janet back, believing Hank would set aside his resentment toward Howard if his wife returned.
• Maria and Janet pressed Tony to marry Pepper, and Tony promised he would marry her once his parents had settled into the modern era.
• Tony persuaded Howard to meet an old friend and named Hank Pym.

Tony and Lu Qi brought Howard and Maria to reconcile with Doctor Pym and tell him Janet was still alive in the Quantum Realm. Pym showed them his Quantum Tunnel, confident they could use it to bring Janet home.

• Tony explained to Howard that Avengers from a parallel timeline had taken Pym Particles, and Howard agreed to make amends with Pym.
• Lu Qi told Howard and Maria that Janet had survived in the Quantum Realm, prompting them to seek out Pym.
• At Pym's home, Howard and Pym recognized each other and immediately resumed their old argument until Maria and Lu Qi explained they had come to help Janet.
• Pym welcomed them inside and showed them a Quantum Tunnel built to reach Janet, while Howard warned that the Quantum Realm remained dangerous and poorly understood.
• Pym said Scott's safe return from the Quantum Realm had given him a basic understanding of it and convinced him the tunnel could work.

Tony and Howard helped Doctor Pym finish the Quantum Tunnel, while Lu Qi sensed Ghost hiding nearby and decided to wait for the tunnel’s activation to find her. When the tunnel opened, Ghost began absorbing its quantum energy, and Lu Qi vanished to confront her.

• Tony used JARVIS and Ultron to help complete the Quantum Tunnel, while Howard assisted and Doctor Pym watched eagerly.
• Maria comforted Hope, and Scott showed Lu Qi the facilities as Ghost secretly monitored them from within Pym Technologies.
• Lu Qi suspected Ghost was nearby but could not sense her, then summoned Shadow Ninjas to help Tony bring the tunnel’s components upstairs.
• Doctor Pym activated the completed Quantum Tunnel, opening a passage to the Quantum Realm as Lu Qi tested the energy it released.
• Ghost absorbed the surging quantum energy from a room beside the laboratory, and Lu Qi sensed her presence and vanished toward her.

Lu Qi and the others stabilized the Quantum Tunnel and found a way to locate Janet in the Quantum Realm. Janet used Ava’s body to enter the search parameters, leaving the team with fifteen minutes to reach her.

• After the Quantum Energy stopped, Ava lost control from pain, so Lu Qi trapped her and knocked her unconscious.
• Lu Qi explained Ava’s connection to Doctor Pym, and the group agreed to find a cure for her.
• A government official delivered a device Lu Qi had requested, and Doctor Pym installed it to stabilize the Quantum Tunnel.
• Doctor Pym activated the completed tunnel successfully, but Tony questioned how they could find Janet in the vast Quantum Realm.
• Janet took control of Ava’s body, entered the Quantum Radar parameters, and warned the group they had fifteen minutes to reach her.

Scott entered the Quantum Realm to rescue Janet, and the group learned that time there flowed differently before he returned with her. Janet reunited with her family, while her years in the Quantum Realm appeared to have altered her body, drawing her attention to Lu Qi.

• Scott entered the Quantum Realm in the vehicle while Hope and the others tracked his progress through a communications device.
• The group realized that time flowed more slowly in the Quantum Realm and concluded Janet's fifteen-minute warning referred to time there.
• Lu Qi tested Dark Energy through the Quantum Tunnel, then caught Scott's returning vehicle as it shot out of the tunnel.
• Scott was knocked unconscious in the crash, while Janet reunited with Hope, Doctor Pym, Howard, and his wife.
• Tony questioned how Pym Particles worked and noticed that Janet's appearance did not seem to match the time-flow difference.
• Janet offered Tony some Pym Particles, then stared at the area around Lu Qi as he remembered that the Quantum Realm had altered her body.

Janet stabilized Ava’s Quantum Energy while Lu Qi and Galactus discussed adding the Balance Rule to the Shadow World. Galactus provided a basic framework in exchange for most of Lu Qi’s stored energy, then asked him to watch the unusually quiet Dimensional Demon Gods.

• Janet explained her energy-based abilities and identified Ava’s Quantum Energy as unstable and nearly depleted.
• Janet stabilized Ava’s condition, and Doctor Pym offered the Quantum Tunnel to replenish her energy.
• Lu Qi and Tony left the others; at Stark Tower, Tony said he had decided to speak with Pepper about their relationship.
• Galactus explained that the Balance Rule would prevent conflicts among the Shadow World’s growing rules and agreed to help Lu Qi record it.
• Galactus transferred seventy percent of the Shadow World’s energy to the other gods and gave Lu Qi a basic framework of the Balance Rule.
• Before Lu Qi left, Galactus asked him to monitor the Dimensional Demon Gods because they had been unusually quiet.

Lu Qi prepared a meaningful wedding gift for Tony and Pepper while helping Tony perfect the beach venue and planning to protect Pepper from gossip about her family. Galacta returned with a mysterious crystal ball for the wedding and agreed to help Lu Qi arrange a surprise for Pepper.

• Lu Qi decided to investigate the Dimensional Demon Gods after Tony and Pepper’s wedding, and he began crafting a pair of necklaces as their gift.
• Galacta left Earth to retrieve a wedding present, while Lu Qi secluded himself in the Shadow World to prepare his own gift.
• Megatron delivered Tony and Pepper’s wedding invitation, and Lu Qi finished the necklaces before going to help prepare the beach venue.
• Lu Qi helped Tony perfect the wedding setup and learned that Howard and his wife had gone to support Pepper at her family home.
• Lu Qi returned home and welcomed Galacta, who brought a mysterious crystal ball and agreed to help him arrange a surprise for Pepper.

Tony and Pepper's wedding took place on a beach, with Lu Qi helping arrange the ceremony and guests celebrating the couple. Afterward, Galacta and Lu Qi gave them gifts, including a miniature nebula and protective necklaces, and the story left them exploring their wedding gifts together.

• Lu Qi calmed Tony's wedding nerves and shaped clouds into hearts above the sea.
• Captain America, Bucky, Fury, Natasha, and other guests arrived, and Tony and Lu Qi prepared the venue.
• Galacta and Scarlet Witch brought Pepper to the beach in a Wakandan spacecraft, and Old Captain America officiated as Tony and Pepper married.
• Lu Qi and Galacta gave Pepper a crystal ball containing a red rose-shaped nebula, which Galacta showed her how to enter and explore.
• Lu Qi gave Tony and Pepper necklaces that let them communicate, locate each other, teleport together, and withstand danger.

Lu Qi investigated the sudden disappearance of Dimensional Demon Gods and learned that powerful beings had summoned them to a Demon God Assembly, where weaker attendees were being eliminated. He infiltrated the gathering in disguise and waited for a chance to learn more as several High-level Dimensional Demon Gods approached him.

• Lu Qi spread his energy through Dimensional Space to attract other Dimensional Demon Gods, then captured several weak ones who came to investigate.
• Lu Qi learned that powerful Dimensional Demon Gods had called an assembly and that weaker attendees were being killed as rivals competed for a limited share of the proposed plan.
• Lu Qi forced one survivor to guide him to the assembly's location, then changed his appearance and entered the small world hosting it.
• Lu Qi killed an Intermediate Dimensional Demon God who challenged his place at the gathering, prompting the surrounding Demon Gods to avoid him.
• Lu Qi waited in a secluded corner while the Supreme Dimension Lords discussed matters, and several High-level Dimensional Demon Gods approached to ask his name.

Lu Qi learned that a Demon God was using Pym Particles to help Dimensional Demon Gods travel between timelines and organize an invasion of the Marvel Multiverse. He sent Megatron to warn Galactus, then joined the expedition to a Parallel World while suspecting Patrick Star was behind the concealment spell on the Pym Particles.

• Lu Qi questioned Garin and learned that Dimensional Demon Gods were organizing an assault on the Marvel Multiverse by recruiting allies across timelines.
• After hearing that the timeline-travel method used Pym Particles and the Quantum Realm, Lu Qi deduced that a stranded Thanos had left travel equipment for a Demon God to seize.
• When the group chose a Parallel World as its first target, Lu Qi sent the Shadow World and an urgent warning to Megatron, who headed toward Galactus.
• Lu Qi agreed to cooperate with the Demon Gods and accepted a vial of Pym Particles so he could keep his cover and sabotage their plan.
• Lu Qi recognized a familiar concealment spell on the vial and suspected Patrick Star was involved, but he continued with the expedition rather than risk exposing himself.

Lu Qi joined a vast army of Dimensional Demon Gods from multiple timelines as they invaded the Marvel World and fought its Rule Keepers. After the army overwhelmed Earth’s defenses, Lu Qi’s group claimed the planet and he ordered the other Demon Gods to stop damaging it.

• Lu Qi entered the Quantum Realm with the Demon Gods, where Top-Tier Demon Gods completed a formation connecting them to a parallel timeline and imposed a seventy-percent share of the plunder on weaker Demon Gods.
• Lu Qi crossed the formation and saw Demon Gods from at least thirty timelines gather before they traveled to the Marvel World.
• Lu Qi avoided drawing the Eye Demon’s attention, then accompanied his temporary allies toward Earth as the Demon God Army launched its invasion.
• Over a hundred Top-Tier Demon Gods engaged five Rule Keepers while the rest of the army broke through Earth’s defenses and devastated much of the planet.
• Lu Qi’s Advanced Demon God companions used their power to halt the invading Demon Gods, and Lu Qi declared Earth theirs and told the others to search elsewhere.

Lu Qi helped the Rule Keepers defeat the Demon Gods attacking their timeline, but learned that the Demon God Army was invading hundreds of timelines. With the uprising still spreading, the Rule Keepers proposed World Fusion as a last resort.

• Lu Qi drove the Demon Gods away from Earth, killed his makeshift teammates, and moved Earth into the Shadow World under Megatron's care.
• Lu Qi joined a Rule Keeper's battle, used several rules to kill a Top-Tier Demon God, and helped the Rule Keeper defeat the remaining attackers.
• Lu Qi and the Rule Keepers traveled between battles, killed the Top-Tier Demon Gods, and helped clear the universe of the invading Demon God Army.
• A Rule Keeper told Lu Qi that the Demon God Army had attacked at least three hundred timelines and that around a hundred were in danger of destruction.
• The Rule Keepers proposed World Fusion to combine the power of countless worlds, and Lu Qi sensed that the plan was not simple.

Lu Qi learned that World Fusion would destroy the lives and foundations of the worlds involved, but the Rule Keepers saw it as their only way to stop the growing Demon God Army. Galactus asked Lu Qi to save Galacta by making her a Dimensional Demon God, while Lu Qi sought another solution through the mysterious Watcher and his forgotten true power.

• The Rule Keepers explained that World Fusion would tear apart living beings, and Lu Qi's suggestions for saving people or using the worlds' rules against Dimensional Demon Gods failed.
• Lu Qi concluded that repeated World Fusions might be the only way to halt the Demon God Army, but feared losing Galacta and the other people he cared about.
• Lu Qi returned to his timeline, where Galactus asked him to form a contract with Galacta and sever her connection to their world so she could survive as a Dimensional Demon God.
• Lu Qi told Galactus that a Watcher had said recovering his true power could resolve the crisis, and showed him a photo of Old Master that only Lu Qi could see clearly.
• Galactus recognized the Watcher as a powerful anomaly and suggested Lu Qi ask The Ancient One what she knew about his arrival in Marvel.

Lu Qi visited The Ancient One to learn what happened when he first arrived in the Marvel World, hoping to understand the source of his true power. After seeing the Dark Realm that had shattered on arrival and learning its core had become Lu Qi, he planned to consult Galactus and reclaim the power he had lost.

• Lu Qi told The Ancient One about the Demon God Uprising and asked her to recreate the scene of his arrival.
• The Ancient One showed Lu Qi how Dormammu had been attacking Earth's defense formation when a huge Dark Realm suddenly crashed into his own.
• Dormammu used up his energy to withstand the collision, and The Ancient One sent the shattered Dark Realm's core into the Marvel World before Dormammu could claim it.
• The Ancient One explained that the core vanished and Lu Qi appeared in its place, leading Lu Qi to realize the Dark Outer Sea might be his true power.
• Lu Qi decided to contact Galactus, reclaim his true power, and warn the Parallel Worlds not to merge or act rashly.

Lu Qi and Galacta searched for a hidden passage to the Dark Outer Sea, which Lu Qi needed to find before Galactus began the World Fusion plan. After locating the passage, Lu Qi discovered that its dimensional shifts could make his body parts act independently, and the chapter ended as a photo of him and the Old Master drifted inside.

• Lu Qi told Galactus to delay World Fusion while he searched for the Dark Outer Sea, and Galactus gave him three days to return.
• Lu Qi brought Galacta into the Shadow World, and she insisted on facing the unknown danger with him.
• On the third day, Lu Qi followed Galacta's suggestion and used Dark Energy to reveal a concealed passage in Dimensional Space.
• Lu Qi tested the passage and found that its dimensional changes disrupted his body and flooded his mind with information.
• As Lu Qi considered how to cross safely, a photo of him and the Old Master floated into the passage and displayed scenes of dimensional changes.

Lu Qi crossed the passage into the lawless space beyond the Dimensional Space and found the Dark Sea had grown enormously. He reclaimed all its Dark Realms, gained power surpassing the ordinary Multiverse, and prepared to return to fight the Dimensional Demon Gods.

• Lu Qi transformed into an energy body and entered the passage, using his Mind Barrier to endure its information flood as it drained his Dark Energy.
• When his reserves nearly ran out, Lu Qi discovered the passage’s Dark Energy came from beyond and absorbed it to replenish himself.
• Lu Qi passed through the passage into a lawless space and found the Dark Sea had expanded around tens of millions of Dark Realms.
• Lu Qi reached out to the Dark Sea, which swallowed him as every Dark Realm merged its core into his soul.
• After becoming the master of the Dark Sea, Lu Qi pierced the dimensional wall with an accidental burst of energy and compressed the remaining energy into Dark Energy Crystals.
• Lu Qi declared that he had returned to confront the Dimensional Demon Gods.

Lu Qi returned to the Shadow World after reclaiming Dark Energy, but learned that he had missed the deadline and Galacta had gone to help defend the Marvel World. As the Rule Keepers faced an overwhelming Demon God Army and began considering World Fusion, Galacta arrived without Lu Qi, and Earth’s defenders joined the battle while they waited for him.

• Lu Qi returned to the Shadow World and learned from Megatron that Galacta had left to help Galactus defend the Marvel World after Lu Qi missed the three-day deadline.
• Lu Qi opened a Cross-World Portal and began forming an enormous array to travel back toward the battle.
• Eternity, Infinity, Oblivion, Death, and Galactus prepared to begin World Fusion against the unusually powerful Demon God Army, but halted when Lu Qi’s Dark Energy struck the army.
• The five gods opened a path through the army and found Galacta carrying Lu Qi’s Black Rose; she told them Lu Qi was still alive but had not returned from beyond Dimensional Space.
• The Demon God Army invaded the Marvel World, and the Rule Keepers struggled to stop its strongest members while lesser Demon Gods plundered the world.
• Tony, Pepper, Hulk, Banner, Black Bolt, Black Panther, Daigo, Odin, and other defenders fought the invading Demon Gods, with Earth proving difficult to conquer.

Lu Qi returned in time to rescue Galacta and overwhelm the Demon God Army, then helped the Rule Keepers establish a cross-world energy network to push back the uprising. After restoring Earth and reuniting with Galacta, he left to support the wider effort, with new ideas for the Trading Station.

• Galacta used the Black Rose to replenish Earth's rules and strengthen the Rule Keepers, but the Demon Gods destroyed it and overwhelmed her.
• As Galacta prepared to sacrifice herself, Lu Qi arrived, erased the Demon God Army around Earth, and summoned a million-strong Starship Fleet to fight.
• Lu Qi tore apart the Top-Tier Demon Gods fighting Galactus, then joined the Rule Keepers in defeating enemies and supporting other worlds.
• Lu Qi shared the Cross-World Formation and supplied Dark Energy, enabling Rule Keepers across many universes to restore their worlds and counterattack.
• Lu Qi reversed the destruction on Earth, reunited with the recovering Galacta, and gave her a stronger Black Rose before returning to the wider crisis.

Shuma-Gorath learned that his demon god armies had failed to conquer Lu Qi’s timeline and planned to make Lu Qi exhaust his energy by playing the savior. Lu Qi met with the five cosmic gods, discussed resisting future attacks, and learned that Eternity considered him and the mysterious Old Master unusually special.

• Shuma-Gorath blamed the Many-Angled Ones for the failed invasion and resolved to exploit Lu Qi’s desire to save other worlds.
• Lu Qi returned home and found Galactus, Galacta, Death, Infinity, Oblivion, and Eternity waiting to discuss the demon god attacks.
• Oblivion explained that the second general battle had attacked nearly three thousand timelines, and Lu Qi revealed that the Shadow World was rapidly increasing his power.
• Eternity said that the person who had taken a photograph with Lu Qi believed Lu Qi could overturn everything, prompting Lu Qi to suspect Old Master had a hidden identity.
• The Rule Keepers left to recover and recycle the energy Lu Qi had sent to other worlds, and Lu Qi decided to question Old Master when they next met.
• Galacta relaxed after the gods departed and bonded with Lu Qi over feeling constrained around their parents’ distinguished colleagues.

Lu Qi prepared the Shadow World and his forces for a final war against the Demon God Faction, which declared total war after a successful raid. He visited a transformed Earth, spoke with Tony about the coming battle and his plans afterward, then returned to make his final preparations.

• Lu Qi expanded his Shadow World with high-level rules, put Hela in command of his legions, and had The Ancient One work at the Trading Station.
• The Demon God Faction spread across tens of millions of timelines, while Eye Demon grew stronger and grew restless for greater resources.
• Lu Qi and the rule guardians baited the Demon Gods into a major raid, let them seize resources, and then drove them away.
• Eye Demon issued a notice of total war to the Demon Gods across its timelines.
• Lu Qi visited the Human Federation on Earth and talked with Tony about the approaching battle, Tony's family, and Lu Qi's plans to travel afterward.
• Lu Qi returned to the Shadow World to make final preparations for the decades-long confrontation.

Lu Qi and the Marvel rule guardians defeated the Demon God Alliance by trapping its Top-Tier Demon Gods in his Shadow World, then Lu Qi killed the Eye Demon and absorbed its world. After learning he could return to his original world, Lu Qi brought Galacta to meet his parents.

• The rule guardians lured the Demon God's Top-Tier forces into the Marvel Worlds, sealed them in fragments, and sent them into Lu Qi's Shadow World to be destroyed.
• Lu Qi sent Hela and the allied forces to attack the remaining intermediate and Advanced Demon Gods, then used a Many-Angled One to infiltrate the Eye Demon's world.
• Lu Qi defeated the Eye Demon, absorbed its world, and destroyed the Eye Demon along with the secret of Pym Particle production.
• An old man revealed that he had created the Marvel World and explained that Lu Qi could return to his original world, though his powers would weaken there.
• Lu Qi returned to Earth with Galacta and prepared to introduce her to his parents.