Chapter Summaries

Leon met Earth’s two greatest future powerhouses, borrowed their manuals and books, and helped them advance their techniques and states of mind. After both men awakened to higher realms, they asked Leon to accept them as disciples.

• Leon introduced himself as a secluded mountain hermit after the World Consciousness censored his attempt to explain where he came from.
• Leon asked the bald, burly man and the short-haired, cold-faced man to lend him their secret manuals and ancient books, and both agreed.
• Leon quickly mastered their saber and spear amplification techniques, improved them to fifteenfold amplification, and then studied movement techniques and ancient texts.
• After reading the classics for three days, Leon reached a transformed state of mind, and his words prompted both men to enter enlightenment.
• The bald, burly man and the short-haired, cold-faced man knelt before Leon and asked him to accept them as disciples so they could grow stronger and protect humanity.

Leon accepted two men as disciples, then searched Earth’s ruins for cultivation knowledge and a combat suit. After emerging from an Amazon ruin, he discovered a colossal lunar fortress that admitted him to a core legacy trial, where a Beast God appeared.

• Leon accepted the bald man and the close-cropped man as disciples and explained their cultivation path before they entered seclusion.
• Leon failed to persuade the World Consciousness to give him a cultivation legacy, then flew to ruins in the Amazon.
• Leon emerged from the ruins wearing a black suit and having mastered basic psychokinesis, then saw a vast fortress on the moon.
• Leon reached the fortress, passed its qualification scan, and was drawn inside to begin the core legacy trial.
• Leon studied intricate light-and-time secret patterns in the fortress before an enormous, platinum-colored one-horned lizard phantom appeared behind him.

Leon failed the fortress’s state-of-mind assessment, then spent years growing powerful enough to kill Thanos and revive Tony by fighting the abstract entities. He brought Tony to another world, where the Celestials confronted him.

• Leon mastered the hundredfold amplification technique in one day but failed the state-of-mind assessment and was expelled from Zhou’s fortress.
• Leon left Earth for a year of training in the sun, but Thanos arrived and killed Tony, Natasha, and The Ancient One before slaughtering the universe.
• After regenerating, Leon trained for one hundred thousand years, reached the Eternal Level, and traveled to the past to kill Thanos.
• Leon fought the abstract entities to revive Tony, then took him to another world as his original universe collapsed.
• The Celestials appeared outside the new Earth and called out Leon Stark.

Leon endured a convincing illusion in which the Living Tribunal judged him for his multiversal destruction, but he affirmed that he would never regret seeking strength. His clarity of mind broke the illusion in the Legacy Fortress, and he chose to continue with the law-comprehension trial.

• Leon fought cosmic guardians across the Multiverse until the Living Tribunal arrived and sentenced him to lose his powers, repair damaged universes, and remain imprisoned for a hundred years.
• The Living Tribunal revealed that Thanos had been drawn to Leon's training energy and asked whether Leon would still seek revenge if given another chance.
• Leon declared that he would choose strength again, realized his deepest desire was to protect himself and those connected to him, and recognized the judgment as an illusion.
• Leon shattered the illusion and returned to the Legacy Fortress, where the beast-shaped phantom congratulated him for passing the first trial.
• Leon chose to proceed with law comprehension.

Leon trained in the Dream-Eating Clan’s arena, where he had to defeat opponents with increasingly advanced law comprehension. After a month of studying time and light, he beat the first two opponents and nearly defeated the third, then prepared to begin the willpower trial.

• The apparition explained the arena’s two modes and told Leon to defeat its first opponent within a month.
• Leon entered the arena, but his mirror image used Temporal Afterimage to blow his head apart; the apparition revived him and lent him a World Ring containing a hundred thousand yellow stars.
• The apparition advised Leon to study time-related laws, and Leon spent days studying the secret patterns and repeatedly fighting his mirror image.
• After a month, Leon defeated the first opponent and easily beat the second, but the third pierced his heart before he could win.
• Leon healed with energy from the stars in the World Ring and agreed to begin the willpower trial.

Leon began the Beast God Inheritance Staircase trial, which tested his willpower, and endured brutal mental attacks to reach the eight-hundredth step. At the final step, his genetic multiplier doubled and his willpower rose to the World Lord Level, leaving him wondering if he had awakened Superman's Mind-Only Ability.

• The giant beast's phantom explained that Leon needed to climb to step 800 to qualify for the inheritance and that the staircase would test his willpower.
• Leon received Zhou's Divine Body and a Supreme Treasure suit of armor at step 101, then stored the armor in his World Ring.
• Leon climbed past step 600 as the mental impacts intensified, pushing through severe agony toward step 800.
• Leon reached step 799 on the verge of collapse, while the phantom urged him to stop before he damaged his soul.
• Leon's genetic multiplier surged from 101 times to 200 times, his willpower rose to the World Lord Level, and he took step 800.
• The phantom exclaimed at Leon's transformation, and Leon wondered whether he had awakened Superman's Mind-Only Ability.

Leon discovered that his Kryptonian Bloodline could evolve after reaching its limits and adapt by fusing with strengthening forces, then passed the trials and received the inheritance of Zhou. The giant beast phantom brought him to the fortress’s lowest level and pointed out a courtyard where a world ring containing a star was stored.

• Leon tried to repeat the transformation he had experienced on the stairs, but his genes did not evolve again.
• After hearing about Leon’s bloodline origins, the giant beast phantom questioned how it could have such a low limit, prompting Leon to reconsider his assumptions.
• Leon concluded that his Kryptonian Bloodline could adapt and fuse with other forces, then evolve when pushed beyond its limits.
• Leon asked whether he had passed the trials, and the giant beast phantom confirmed that he had earned the inheritance of Zhou.
• The giant beast phantom took Leon through the fortress’s lowest level, explained that its natural features were precious treasures, and showed him the courtyard containing a world ring with a star.

Leon received Zhou’s manuals and technological artifacts, then claimed the Time Fortress as his inheritance. He learned that the giant beast was a memory of Zhou who had fulfilled his mission, though Zhou’s final fate remained unclear.

• Leon asked the giant beast for technology and a way to evolve intelligent life-forms, and received an Immortal Battleship’s Light Brain and Evolution Keys.
• The giant beast explained the trial staircase’s Supreme Treasure rewards and showed Leon Zhou’s secret techniques and the fortress’s core.
• Leon learned the gilded sphere was the pinnacle-level palace treasure called the Time Fortress and made it acknowledge him as its master.
• The giant beast revealed that he was a memory of Zhou sustained by divine power and had awakened to find an heir.
• Leon realized the giant beast might disappear after completing his mission, but the giant beast shoved him with a paw.

Leon returned to the moment he first arrived beyond the Moon, warned the World Consciousness about the World Beasts, and secured its promise to prepare gifts for his return. After three days of absorbing energy, he broke through to Universe Master Level and flew back toward Earth.

• The giant beast's phantom sent the Time Fortress into Leon's Inner World and used its power to return him to the moment he had first reached the space beyond the Moon.
• The World Consciousness told Leon he had three days left, and Leon warned it about the coming World Beast crisis and explained the original protagonist's role.
• The World Consciousness offered to prepare things for Leon if he returned before becoming a True God, and Leon agreed.
• After three days of absorbing energy, Leon collapsed his Source Core galaxy into a singularity that merged with his Life Core, completing his breakthrough to Universe Master Level.
• Leon tested his immense new strength, then flew toward Earth.

Leon returned to Marvel after spending eight days in the Starry World, bringing back immense strength and new abilities. He met with The Ancient One, who sensed his power and watched as he demonstrated his Genetic Energy.

• Leon left secret manuals and a giant egg with Hong and Radium God, then departed Earth to establish a foundation in the universe.
• Leon discovered that ten days had passed in Marvel during his eight days in the Starry World and returned to Kamar-Taj.
• Leon sensed numerous unseen observers watching him, then used psychokinesis to survey Earth and found Tony and others working.
• Leon met The Ancient One, explained that he had grown stronger, and demonstrated a Mirror Dimension powered by his Genetic Energy.

Leon discovered that the Ancient One had deliberately provoked him into killing her so she could appoint him the next Sorcerer Supreme. He tried to revive her with the Time Stone, but her Dark Dimension corruption made her body immune to its effects.

• The Ancient One declared Leon a threat to Earth because he had created a dimension within himself and attacked him in the Mirror Dimension.
• Leon grabbed and tossed the Ancient One, but she fell into a pit and died from a cerebral infarction.
• Leon followed the Ancient One's soul outside, where she said he had killed her and must serve as the next Sorcerer Supreme.
• Leon used the Time Stone to try to revive the Ancient One, but her Dark Dimension mark and its energy prevented the spell from working.

Leon confronted the Ancient One about her planned death and the burden of succeeding her as Sorcerer Supreme. She entrusted Earth to Leon and Mordo before her soul dissipated, leaving Leon beside her cold corpse.

• Leon refused to become Sorcerer Supreme simply because the Ancient One wanted him to inherit the role, but said he would protect Earth of his own accord.
• Leon warned that as Sorcerer Supreme he might invade other dimensions to eliminate threats, and the Ancient One accepted that she had no choice but to leave the position to him.
• Leon offered to revive the Ancient One with Zhou Divine Spring Water, but she asked him to let her die and continued giving him warnings about Dimension Demon Gods.
• Leon put the spring water away after the Ancient One agreed to entrust Earth to him, and he promised to visit Eternity with news that Kamar-Taj had become a holy land of the Dark Dimension.
• The Ancient One advised Leon to rely on his own strength and work alongside Mordo, then her soul dissipated and Leon found her corpse cold.

After The Ancient One's funeral, Mordo announced that she and the Vishanti had chosen Leon as the next Sorcerer Supreme. Leon proposed a magic-only challenge to demonstrate his strength and build the sorcerers' confidence, then invited everyone to attack him together.

• Kamar-Taj held The Ancient One's funeral, and Mordo delivered her eulogy.
• Mordo revealed that The Ancient One had named Leon her successor and that the Vishanti had approved the appointment.
• Leon accepted the title of Sorcerer Supreme and requested a magic-only challenge despite Mordo's concerns.
• Mordo gathered sorcerers from across the Sanctums to challenge Leon in the training grounds.
• Leon stopped Mordo from explaining the rules, pushed him out of the arena, and invited all the sorcerers to attack him at once.

Leon faced Kamar-Taj’s mages in a Sorcerer Supreme challenge, using only magic to overcome their coordinated attacks. He transformed Mordo’s powerful lightning assault into jade-like butterflies, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Leon expanded the Mirror Dimension across Kamar-Taj and reshaped the training ground, defeating sixty percent of the mages in his opening move.
• The surviving mages surrounded Leon and attacked with portals, Crimson Bands of Cyttorak, swords, and other weapons, but he blocked them and split the ground beneath them.
• Leon dodged Wong’s portal, counterattacked with a replicated storm of Vishanti’s Holy Swords, and the mages formed a shared shield to stop the swords.
• Mordo led dozens of mages in a combined Bolts of Balthakk attack, and Leon countered with Hoggoth’s Hoary Host, turning the lightning into jade-like butterflies.

Leon defeated the Kamar-Taj sorcerers in the Sorcerer Supreme challenge, then won them over with dimensional lobster that healed their injuries. As he assigned Wong and Mordo leadership duties, he sensed Odin watching and opened a portal to confront him in Asgard.

• Leon overwhelmed the assembled sorcerers with magical clones and ended the challenge after subduing Mordo.
• Leon served the sorcerers grilled dimensional lobster, and they discovered it was healing their bodies.
• Leon gave Wong responsibility for spell instruction and internal affairs and assigned Mordo to handle external crises.
• Leon sensed that Odin was watching him, opened a Mystic Arts Portal, and confronted Odin in Asgard.

Leon confronted Odin for spying on Kamar-Taj, while Mordo nervously demanded an explanation on the new Sorcerer Supreme’s behalf. Odin apologized and explained that he had only wanted to see his old friend The Ancient One one last time, then offered Leon gifts from Asgard.

• Leon entered Odin’s hall with Wong and Mordo and challenged Odin over spying on Kamar-Taj.
• Mordo questioned Odin about violating Kamar-Taj’s trust, and Leon praised him and insisted Odin answer.
• Leon put on the Black God Suit, startling Mordo and prompting Odin to rise in shock.
• Odin apologized to Mordo and explained that he had spied on Kamar-Taj because he wanted to see The Ancient One one last time.
• Odin complimented Leon’s battle suit and offered him fine items from Asgard as a gift.

Leon negotiated a five-match contest between Kamar-Taj and Asgard to win the return of the Orb of Agamotto and five-year loans of two powerful artifacts. Odin accepted the terms in a contract witnessed by the Vishanti, and Leon left Earth-bound for the unfinished lobster feast as the contest was set for Christmas, four months later.

• Leon asked Odin for the Casket of Ancient Winters, the Orb of Agamotto, and the Eternal Flame, but Odin resisted giving up the Casket and ignored the request for the Flame.
• Leon proposed that he spar with Thor and Loki for all three artifacts, but Odin refused.
• Leon offered a five-match contest between five Kamar-Taj sorcerers and five Asgardian warriors, with the winners receiving the artifacts under revised terms.
• Odin agreed to the contest, and his handshake with Leon activated a contract witnessed by the Vishanti.
• Leon took two stunned sorcerers through a portal back to Earth, while Odin returned to his throne and worried about Thor's lack of composure.

Leon returned to Earth, where he reassured Kamar-Taj’s sorcerers about their coming contest with Asgard by proposing combat training and outside help. After a celebratory dinner marking The Ancient One’s death and Leon’s rise to Sorcerer Supreme, Mordo and Wong asked when he would teach them new magic.

• Mordo praised Leon for gaining the upper hand against Odin, then worried that Kamar-Taj could not defeat Asgard in four months.
• Leon showed the sorcerers images of Iron Man, the Hulk, and a fighter using ten magic rings, and proposed training them to compete against these allies if they could defeat or draw with them.
• Leon promised to teach Wong and Mordo combat-oriented magic and said the outside helpers could also learn magic and join Kamar-Taj if the sorcerers lost.
• Leon brought out a giant deep-sea octopus and held a three-hour celebration, where Master Hamir, Wong, and a younger sorcerer each tried to perform an uplifting song.
• After Wong and Mordo cleaned the training ground, they asked Leon when he would teach them the new magic.

Leon left Wong and Mordo to prepare Kamar-Taj’s affairs before opening a portal home, where he unexpectedly arrived in the middle of a fight between Hulk and Tony. He subdued Hulk and learned that a great deal had changed during his absence, so he asked Tony to explain the past ten days.

• Leon told Wong and Mordo to arrange the Sanctums’ affairs before they left to study magic for several months, then opened a portal home.
• Wong and Mordo noticed Hulk through the portal and worried that Leon was recruiting powerful fighters to face Asgard.
• Leon arrived in a devastated New York street and stopped Hulk’s attack, then repeatedly slammed him down as the enraged Hulk grew stronger.
• Leon knocked Hulk unconscious with a rapid series of controlled punches, causing him to transform back into Bruce Banner.
• Tony arrived in an upgraded black armor powered by the Ten Rings and told Leon that he was director of the Avengers, not New S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Leon questioned Tony about the street damage, the movies, and what had happened during the past ten days.

Natasha explained how General Ross captured Bruce Banner and how Banner became embroiled in a battle with Abomination in New York. After the Men in Black subdued both monsters, Tony angered Hulk and was thrown through an apartment before Hulk grabbed him again.

• Natasha explained that General Ross had revived his super-soldier program after Leon's actions in Afghanistan and tracked Bruce Banner to Brazil.
• Banner escaped military custody with Betty Ross, but Ross's forces cornered them in New York, where Blonsky transformed into Abomination and fought Hulk.
• The Men in Black restrained Hulk and Abomination, evacuated civilians, and subdued Abomination with tranquilizers.
• Tony arrived and punched Hulk, waking him and provoking him into breaking free of the Men in Black.
• Hulk punched Tony through an apartment, then grabbed him when he tried to leave, but Tony's thrusters let him escape Hulk's grasp.