Chapter Summaries

Thanos’s forces attacked Ronan’s fleet on Knowhere, and Thanos killed Ronan after he refused to submit. Yang Bo then demanded six habitable planets from Yondu in exchange for letting him go.

• Drax confronted Ronan over the signal that lured him to Knowhere, but Ronan struck him into a pile of rubble.
• Thanos arrived through a Portal with another version of himself and ordered Ronan to submit or die.
• Ebony Maw and the black-armored warriors subdued Ronan’s troops while Thanos fought Ronan.
• Thanos killed Ronan, then ordered his forces to recruit the Kree and kill those who resisted.
• Yang Bo offered to let Yondu go if he handed over six habitable planets, and Yondu reluctantly agreed.

Yang Bo gave Tivan a new collection hall and several powerful artifacts in exchange for the Collector’s cooperation. After Banner reported that the Mutants Potion was ready for vampire testing, Yang Bo headed to investigate its next steps, while Tivan questioned the Destroyer Armor’s ability to face the Celestials.

• Yang Bo welcomed Tivan to his new collection hall and gave him Ronan’s hammer, the Destroyer Armor, and the Casket of Ancient Winters.
• Yang Bo told Tivan that Terra was the best place to find valuable collectibles, and Tivan eagerly examined his new acquisitions.
• Banner reported that the Mutants Potion had reached a one hundred percent safety rate in vampires after incorporating Raven’s shapeshifting genes.
• Yang Bo said he would visit Banner and find a way to arrange testing on humans.
• Tivan warned Yang Bo that the Destroyer Armor might not be powerful enough to stand against the Celestials, and Yang Bo wondered whether it was a replica.
• Yang Bo left Tivan to organize the collection and headed off to deal with the potion.

Yang Bo visited Banner’s laboratory, where researchers had replicated Raven’s shapeshifting gene and developed a serum that might extend human lifespan. He returned to New York and called Coulson to offer S.H.I.E.L.D. the serum, planning to find willing volunteers for testing.

• Yang Bo found a vampire test subject terrified of Banner and watched him demonstrate the imperfect shapeshifting gene copied from Raven.
• Banner told Yang Bo that his team had developed a serum that could potentially extend lifespan to one and a half to twice its original length and improve resistance to disease.
• Yang Bo promised to find volunteers with terminal illnesses for human testing, with their participation entirely voluntary.
• Yang Bo used the Teleportation Stone Tablet to return to his Central Park home and decided to contact Coulson about recruiting test subjects.
• Yang Bo called Coulson and offered S.H.I.E.L.D. the serum.

Yang Bo offered Coulson a lifespan-extending drug in exchange for Hydra prisoners, then traveled to the Mutants School and clashed with two FBI agents. After calling Major General Hendry for help, he arranged to meet him in New York.

• Yang Bo offered Coulson a drug that could extend life and asked S.H.I.E.L.D. to provide volunteers for clinical trials.
• Coulson agreed to request Hydra prisoners for Yang Bo and asked that they never return.
• Yang Bo traveled to the Mutants School to collect more mutants, but two agents insulted him and demanded his identification.
• Yang Bo knocked out both agents and called Colonel Hendry, now a major general, to handle the clash with the FBI.
• Hendry agreed to come to New York and ordered a flight, hoping Yang Bo would fulfill his promise to give him power.

Yang Bo met Salvador at the park and offered her a chance to become a hero, but she chose to keep working at the strip club. He then confronted Xavier over the FBI agents monitoring the mutants and criticized his willingness to keep yielding to humans, before handing him a blood-drawing device.

• Yang Bo reunited with Salvador, who said she felt like a caged spectacle under the agents’ watch.
• Yang Bo asked Salvador to become a hero somewhere new, but she declined and chose to keep working at the strip club.
• Xavier approached Yang Bo with Magneto and asked about the two agents lying in the hallway.
• Yang Bo condemned Xavier for tolerating the FBI’s surveillance and told him to either dismiss the students or stand firm for a place where mutants could live.
• Yang Bo gave Xavier the Vacuum Blood-Drawing Device, and Xavier accepted it with a sigh.

Yang Bo sought to examine Darwin and recruit him for his research, while Xavier and Erik worried about Yang Bo’s treatment of mutants. Yang Bo offered Darwin a stylish suit of armor in exchange for working with him, leaving Xavier eager to join his company too.

• Yang Bo asked Darwin about the limits of his adaptive ability and requested a thorough examination, but Darwin hesitated after seeing Yang Bo’s frying pan.
• Xavier and Erik discussed Darwin’s inability to escape Yang Bo’s attention, while Erik argued that mutants should fight for their freedom.
• Raven returned and learned that Yang Bo had called soldiers to surround FBI agents after a clash with them.
• Yang Bo came back and offered Darwin a sleek Iron Man Armor suit if he worked for him.
• Xavier asked Yang Bo to reconsider hiring him, and Erik secretly hoped he might get to try on the armor.

Yang Bo rejected the professor’s offer to join his company, gave Hendry Life No. 1, and arranged for the Mutants School to come under military authority. Two months later, Banner successfully received Professor X’s genes and then tested a second mutation, emerging with Energy Absorption and Psychic Power Enhancement.

• Yang Bo turned down the professor, then told Hendry to secure the Mutants School under his or the military’s authority.
• Yang Bo gave Hendry a box of Life No. 1 potions, injected one into him, and explained its lifespan and health benefits.
• Two months later, Banner underwent genetic modification in Karen’s laboratory while Yang Bo stood by to help if anything went wrong.
• After receiving Professor X’s genes, Banner sensed psychic power and felt Hulk’s psychic power begin to grow.
• Banner insisted on testing dual genes, and the second injection gave him Energy Absorption and Psychic Power Enhancement without transforming him into Hulk.

Yang Bo watched Thor and Hulk fight to a draw in the arena while Tivan and Grandmaster planned a galaxy-wide tournament. Thor then asked Yang Bo to take Loki home, but Lady Loki revealed that Loki had fallen for himself and demanded that Yang Bo send her back as well.

• Thor and Hulk fought fiercely in the arena until the match was declared a draw.
• Tivan proposed sponsoring a grand tournament across the Milky Way Galaxy, and Yang Bo agreed.
• Grandmaster greeted Hulk while Thor joined Yang Bo and admitted that Hulk was very strong.
• Thor asked Yang Bo to help him take Loki home, so Yang Bo contacted Lady Loki.
• Lady Loki said Loki had fallen for himself and reminded Yang Bo that he had kept her away for more than a year.

Yang Bo brought Thor to meet Loki and Sylvie, where Thor discovered Loki tied up after trying to spy on Sylvie bathing. Sylvie revealed that she had once been Loki from a parallel universe, and Yang Bo ended by teasing Thor about keeping her with him.

• Yang Bo took Thor to the room where Lady Loki was punishing the bound Loki, and Thor opened the door before quickly shutting it again.
• Lady Loki told Yang Bo that Loki had turned invisible to watch her bathe, and Yang Bo teased Loki about his boldness.
• Thor freed Loki and promised Lady Loki that Loki would take responsibility, while Loki protested that he had only wanted to find out whether she was really a woman.
• Lady Loki introduced herself to Thor as Sylvie, and Thor realized she might have come from a parallel universe.
• Yang Bo, Sylvie, Thor, and Loki discussed Sylvie's origins and the Frost Giants' ability to choose their sex; Yang Bo privately offered to let Sylvie stay with Thor.

Thor affirmed that Loki was his brother, and Yang Bo sent Thor and Loki back before returning Sylvie to her universe. Yang Bo then went with Kaecilius to ask the Ancient One about the risks of opening a portal to the Nether.

• Thor rejected Yang Bo's suggestion and insisted that Loki was no different from a biological brother to him.
• Sylvie asked to return to her universe, and Yang Bo agreed to send her back after Thor and Loki.
• Thor claimed he had left Mjolnir behind, secretly slapped Loki, and merged a translucent orb of light into him before Yang Bo sent the brothers home.
• Yang Bo sent Sylvie back, then summoned Kaecilius and learned that opening a teleportation array to the Nether could let the Nether Lords enter their world.
• Yang Bo and Kaecilius traveled to Kamar-Taj, where Yang Bo watched mages defeat a Zombie Pigman before heading to the Ancient One's residence.
• Yang Bo asked the Ancient One what dangers they should watch for in the Nether.

Yang Bo agreed to travel to Mephisto’s Hell Dimension after learning that Kaecilius’s family’s souls could not be traced by the Ancient One. The Ancient One sent Yang Bo through a prepared Magic Circle, hoping he might help Kaecilius find his family.

• The Ancient One warned Yang Bo that Kaecilius was not strong enough to enter a Hell Dimension safely and explained that souls could go to different afterlife realms or face eternal death.
• Yang Bo comforted Kaecilius and asked whether the Ancient One could locate his family’s souls, but she said their traces had vanished and the Time Stone could not help.
• The Ancient One said there was another way and suggested Yang Bo visit Hell, revealing that she had prepared a Magic Circle for the journey.
• Yang Bo agreed to go to Hell, suspecting the Ancient One intended to send him to Mephisto’s territory, and followed her to the basement.
• Yang Bo stood on the Magic Circle and vanished; afterward, the Ancient One told Kaecilius that he might help find his family, though she hoped Kaecilius would succeed through his own strength.

Yang Bo was dropped into Mephisto’s Hell Dimension and attacked before he realized who his assailant was. After discovering Mephisto could follow his attempts to escape, Yang Bo settled down to talk with him, and the chapter ended with them sharing cigars.

• Yang Bo was struck by Mephisto’s attacks, used his Wand to heal and gain fire resistance, and shouted that he was not The Ancient One.
• Yang Bo spotted Mephisto’s enormous true form and tried to flee, but Mephisto followed him despite his repeated Blinks.
• Yang Bo gave up escaping, sat down, and met Mephisto’s human-looking avatar, who asked whether The Ancient One had sent him.
• Yang Bo admitted that The Ancient One had sent him over a small piece of furniture, and Mephisto welcomed him to the Hell Dimension.
• Mephisto offered Yang Bo a cigar and asked about his view of devils, and Yang Bo said Yama handled matters after death for him.

Yang Bo visited Mephisto to find the souls of Kaecilius's wife and child, but learned they could not be recovered. Mephisto gave Yang Bo an original Spirit of Vengeance, which transformed him into a blue-flamed skeleton resembling Little White, and Yang Bo asked to sign a Demon Contract before leaving with the gift.

• Mephisto told Yang Bo that souls in hell had been devoured or turned into demons, leaving no way to recover Kaecilius's family.
• Mephisto offered Yang Bo an original Spirit of Vengeance, and Yang Bo accepted after inspecting it.
• Yang Bo absorbed the Spirit of Vengeance and gained the ability to transform into Ghost Rider, along with hellfire, a Soul Chain, and other powers.
• Yang Bo transformed into a blue-flamed skeleton resembling Little White and used Mephisto's magic mirror to inspect his appearance.
• Yang Bo summoned a massive bone motorcycle and asked Mephisto to sign a Demon Contract so he would feel better about accepting the gift.

Yang Bo returned from Mephisto’s realm after acquiring a Spirit of Vengeance and arranged for Mephisto to preserve souls for a year. Back at Kamar-Taj, he challenged the Ancient One over her teleportation and her refusal to help recover Kaecilius’s family, while she asked about his encounter with Mephisto.

• Yang Bo declined a soul contract with Mephisto but asked him to preserve any souls Yang Bo brought him for at least a year.
• Yang Bo learned that the desolate region was Mephisto’s bedroom, then used the Teleportation Stone Tablet to return to Kamar-Taj.
• Mephisto wondered how Yang Bo could exist without a soul, examined the tablet, and built stone walls around it before going to sleep.
• Yang Bo took a chair from the Ancient One’s room and learned that Kaecilius was training to strengthen his foundations.
• Yang Bo confronted the Ancient One about Kaecilius’s wife and child, but she defended the natural order and asked about Yang Bo’s trip to hell.
• The Ancient One explained that the teleportation circle sent Yang Bo to the place he had left from, and Yang Bo sarcastically called Mephisto welcoming.

Yang Bo visited Little Planet and agreed to hire Dr. Erik’s former student, Darcy Lewis, whom he had met in New Mexico. He welcomed her to the company and began showing her its work, leaving Darcy impressed by the resources available to its researchers.

• Yang Bo went to Little Planet to check on Dr. Banner’s experiments and ran into Dr. Erik, who asked him to hire a former student.
• Yang Bo agreed to meet the student and told Erik he would handle things according to company policy if she was trying to use their connection.
• Yang Bo recognized the student as Darcy Lewis, checked her green Minimap marker, and welcomed her to the company.
• Yang Bo handed Darcy’s file to Anna to process her onboarding and offered to show Darcy around.
• Yang Bo told Darcy the workshop’s military and S.H.I.E.L.D. contracts mostly funded the company’s researchers, and explained that Dr. Erik could access two billion dollars for his work.

Yang Bo accompanied Darcy to meet Dr. Erik and showed her the company’s Tesseract-powered Portal laboratory. When Erik’s Portal malfunctioned, Yang Bo entered it and arrived in an unfamiliar city during a torrential storm.

• Dr. Erik welcomed Darcy to his department, and Yang Bo brought them to the company’s basement Portal.
• Erik showed Darcy his private laboratory, introduced her to the Tesseract, and began teaching her how to open Portals.
• When Erik tried to open a Portal to Afterlife for Yang Bo, it distorted and revealed only a vast blue expanse.
• Yang Bo entered the unstable Portal before it collapsed, leaving Darcy stunned as Erik continued recording data.
• Yang Bo emerged in an alley in an unfamiliar city, then stepped into the rain to look for shelter.

Yang Bo discovered that he had arrived in Gotham City in the DC world and went to Wayne Tower hoping to meet Bruce Wayne. After failing to get an appointment, he used Invisibility to enter the building.

• Yang Bo sheltered in a hidden sewer room overnight and emerged the next morning to find the rain had stopped.
• Yang Bo searched online and found no Stark Industries, but learned that Wayne Enterprises and Batman existed in Gotham City.
• Yang Bo found evidence that Metropolis and Lois existed, suggesting Superman also belonged to this world.
• Yang Bo went to Wayne Tower and asked the receptionist whether Bruce Wayne was there, but she told him to make an appointment.
• Yang Bo left, activated Invisibility in a deserted spot, and entered Wayne Tower again.

Yang Bo visited Bruce Wayne to confirm he was in the Justice League world and discovered Bruce was Batman. After Bruce strained his back trying to throw Yang Bo, Yang Bo gave him a Healing Potion, and Bruce asked whether he could buy more.

• Yang Bo met Bruce in his office, introduced himself, and asked for Batman’s autograph.
• Bruce attacked Yang Bo, but Yang Bo’s strength prevented him from being thrown, and Bruce strained his back.
• Yang Bo told Bruce he had the strength of twenty-five people and explained that he had come to see Batman.
• Yang Bo forced Bruce to drink a Healing Potion, which quickly healed his back and other lingering injuries.
• Bruce asked Yang Bo whether he had more Healing Potions to sell.

Yang Bo discovered that Gotham City was as violent as he had expected and decided to make it a place of truly decent folk. After killing several criminals as Ghost Rider, he rushed to help officers trapped in a wrecked police car.

• Yang Bo told Wayne that he was extremely rich, then vanished and left Wayne sensing that something big was about to happen.
• Yang Bo used Penance Stare on a sinful thug, killed him, collected his [Heart], and complained that Mephisto could not absorb souls across worlds.
• Yang Bo watched armed criminals shoot at pursuing police cars while Gotham's pedestrians calmly took shelter and filmed the chase.
• Yang Bo decided to clean up Gotham City and rode his blue-flamed motorcycle toward the smoking wreck of a police car.
• Yang Bo told the surviving officers to rescue their injured colleagues, then tore open the mangled car door and roof with ease.

Yang Bo healed three police officers, resurrected Larry, and recruited them to help pursue criminals through Gotham City. The group caught up with a fleeing truck, which Yang Bo split open with his flaming chain as he announced that judgment had come.

• Yang Bo gave Healing Potions to the surviving officers, healing their injuries and earning their trust.
• Kerry stopped Andy from drawing his gun on Yang Bo and confirmed that the Ghost Rider had saved them.
• Yang Bo summoned sidecars for his motorcycle and took the officers, including Larry's body, to pursue the criminals.
• Yang Bo resurrected Larry with Hero Immortal and told the officers to claim Larry had only been gravely injured.
• The officers agreed to help Yang Bo, who drove his motorcycle along a wall to catch up with the fleeing criminals.
• Yang Bo landed between the police cars and the criminals' truck, then cut the truck in half with his blue-flaming chain.