Chapter Summaries

Su Yu confronted Thanos at his mystery box shop, revealed he knew Thanos’s plans and future, and refused to sell him the Space Stone directly. When Cull Obsidian attacked, Su Yu trapped him in place with an unexplained spatial ability, leaving Thanos shocked by Su Yu’s power.

• Su Yu recognized Thanos and revealed that he knew Thanos planned to collect the Infinity Stones and perform the Snap.
• Su Yu told Thanos that he had succeeded in the future but ultimately failed, then explained that mystery boxes offered random chances to gain power.
• Thanos asked to buy the Space Stone, but Su Yu explained that he could not guarantee what a mystery box would contain.
• Thanos accused Su Yu of singling him out, and Su Yu openly mocked him.
• Cull Obsidian charged at Su Yu while Thanos let him test Su Yu’s abilities.
• Cull Obsidian ran without moving closer, and Thanos realized Su Yu had used a spatial ability unlike anything he had seen.

Su Yu effortlessly stopped Cull Obsidian’s attacks and crushed his fists while the Avengers watched. Proxima Midnight, Ebony Maw, and Supergiant attacked him as Thanos observed from the sidelines.

• Cull Obsidian demanded a fair fight, and Su Yu removed the spatial barrier so he could charge.
• Su Yu blocked Cull Obsidian’s first punch with one hand and caught his second punch with the other.
• Su Yu crushed the bones in Cull Obsidian’s fists, leaving him in agony.
• Proxima Midnight, Ebony Maw, and Supergiant launched attacks at Su Yu while Thanos watched without intervening.

Su Yu effortlessly subdued Proxima Midnight, Ebony Maw, and Supergiant, then brutally beat Cull Obsidian for attacking other people's faces. Cull Obsidian finally promised never to do it again, leaving Su Yu pleased with his teaching.

• Su Yu sent Proxima Midnight crashing into Thanos, nullified Ebony Maw's and Supergiant's attacks, and pinned all three to the ground with immense pressure.
• Su Yu released Cull Obsidian and beat him with a series of punches and a Death Battle Axe strike, repeatedly asking whether he would hit anyone else's face again.
• Su Yu continued striking Cull Obsidian until fear overcame him and he promised never to do it again.
• Nick Fury and the others watched in silence as Cull Obsidian cried, while Su Yu congratulated himself on correcting his student's bad habit.

Su Yu humiliated Cull Obsidian and challenged Thanos after explaining that the strong were not bound by a duty to uphold dignity. Thanos prepared to attack with his mental avatar, but Su Yu told him to bring his real body as well.

• Su Yu withdrew his killing intent, and Cull Obsidian crawled to Thanos's feet in tears after Su Yu ordered him to be quiet.
• Su Yu taunted Thanos for watching his subordinates suffer, and Thanos decided to fight despite doubting he could defeat Su Yu.
• Thanos accused Su Yu of lacking the dignity of the strong, but Su Yu argued that the powerful could choose their own goals over such an idea.
• Thanos said he could not ignore Su Yu's attack on his subordinates and gathered energy to strike, alarming Nick Fury and the others.
• Su Yu dismissed Thanos's power as only that of a mental avatar and urged him to bring his real body.

Su Yu pulled Thanos's real body across the galaxy into the blind box shop, leaving Thanos stunned by his power. Thanos questioned Su Yu's refusal to sell the Infinity Stones and secretly considered returning with the Power Stone to challenge him.

• Su Yu opened a spatial passage and dragged Thanos's real body from his distant spaceship into the shop.
• The Avengers sensed the real Thanos's overwhelming strength, while Thanos marveled that Su Yu had moved him without the Space Stone.
• Su Yu dismissed the Infinity Stones as ordinary gems and told Thanos that selling them was none of his business.
• Thanos asked to buy the Infinity Stones, but Su Yu insisted that he only sold blind boxes and accused Thanos of causing trouble.
• Su Yu exposed Thanos's plan to find the Power Stone and return to take the Space Stone and Mind Stone by force.

Su Yu revealed the Space Stone inside the Tesseract and showed Thanos that he could destroy it, crushing Thanos’s last hope of collecting the Infinity Stones. The Space Stone began to crack in Su Yu’s grasp while Thanos remained helplessly pinned under his pressure.

• Thanos prepared to fight, but Su Yu clarified that he did not intend to kill him and instead planned to end his last hope.
• Su Yu summoned the Tesseract and crushed it, revealing the Space Stone inside.
• Thanos lunged for the Space Stone, but Su Yu’s pressure pinned him to the floor and destroyed his psychic avatar.
• Su Yu lifted Thanos and made him watch as he squeezed the Space Stone, which trembled against the shop’s spatial seal and began to crack.

Su Yu shattered the Space Stone and confronted Thanos over his plan to kill half of all life in the universe. Thanos began to question whether his goal had been forced on him by the knowledge he had gained.

• Su Yu destroyed the Space Stone, and its released energy was contained before it could spread beyond a meter.
• Thanos accused Su Yu of dooming the universe, then explained that he planned to gather the Infinity Stones and kill half of all life to address limited resources.
• The Avengers realized Thanos intended to wipe out half the universe's population and recognized him as a murderous lunatic rather than a hero.
• Su Yu argued that Thanos's plan was arrogant and misguided, and pointed out that life would eventually return even after universal destruction.
• Thanos admitted that he had ignored or killed those who disagreed with him, then began wondering whether his plan had been planted in his mind by the knowledge he had acquired.

Su Yu explained that information interference and Death’s curse had driven Thanos toward wiping out half the universe’s life, prompting Thanos to question his past. Thanos rejected buying blind boxes at first, but Su Yu reminded him that his wish for universal harmony was still his own, and Thanos regained his resolve.

• Thanos nearly sank into darkness as he questioned when he had become obsessed with killing half the universe’s life, but Su Yu woke him and explained he had broken free of the curse of knowledge.
• Su Yu told Thanos that information interference from parallel universes had shaped his plan, and that in other universes Thanos sought to sacrifice lives to Death.
• Thor mistook Death for his sister Hela, but Su Yu clarified that Death was a creation deity who had cursed Thanos with immortality after responding to his love.
• Thanos accepted that his parallel self’s experiences and the information interference had influenced him, and Su Yu urged him to remain humble before knowledge and the universe.
• Thanos declined to buy blind boxes because he felt weary, but Su Yu reminded him that his wish for universal harmony was his own, and Thanos regained his resolve.

After Thanos opened blind boxes, he obtained a World Seed that could grow into a universe inside him, giving him a potential path to confront Death. He began feeding it resources, but its growth was slow, and Su Yu revealed that Thanos could unlock higher-tier blind boxes by purchasing enough Intermediate Blind Boxes.

• Su Yu released Proxima Midnight and the others, then Thanos began opening blind boxes while Nick Fury and the others watched.
• Thanos opened fifty Basic Blind Boxes and nine Intermediate Blind Boxes, then found a World Seed in the final box.
• Su Yu explained that the World Seed could grow into a universe within Thanos and might eventually let him face Death.
• Thanos swallowed the seed and learned it needed nourishment, so he bought five thousand more blind boxes and fed their resources to it.
• Thanos saw that the seed had progressed only 0.01 percent and considered buying another hundred thousand blind boxes.
• Su Yu stopped Thanos and explained that purchasing ten thousand Intermediate Blind Boxes would qualify him to buy Advanced Blind Boxes.

Su Yu sold Advanced Blind Boxes, and Thanos’s haul gave him hope that his Universe Seed would sprout. After Thanos left to make money, Tony, Nick Fury, and Thor opened their own boxes, with Tony unexpectedly obtaining two purple items.

• Su Yu sold Thanos five thousand Intermediate Blind Boxes and ten thousand Advanced Blind Boxes.
• Thanos opened his boxes and obtained three purple items, including a Spiritual Vein that could strengthen his Inner Universe or help his Universe Seed sprout.
• Thanos thanked Su Yu for giving him hope and freeing him from the curse of knowledge, then left with the Black Order.
• Ebony Maw asked what Thanos would do next, and Thanos answered that he would make money.
• Tony, Nick Fury, and Thor opened blind boxes, and Tony obtained two purple items from a thousand Advanced Blind Boxes.

Tony, Thor, and Nick Fury received powerful purple items from blind boxes, while Su Yu used the Wish Power he had accumulated to begin healing his injuries. Nick Fury investigated the Rising Tide and confirmed that the mysterious young man with the Shadow of the Flame Demon belonged to the group.

• Tony obtained the Heart of Thunder staff and the Forest of Thunder skill, which amplified his lightning magic and unleashed a large-scale attack.
• Thor received the Thunder Sigil Prison-Suppressing Seal, which could temporarily seal even an opponent one tier above him.
• Nick Fury obtained Cerebro, a portable psychic amplifier that could raise his power by one tier at the cost of severe strain.
• Su Yu realized Thanos would need to keep buying blind boxes to help the Universe Seed sprout, then went into temporary seclusion to heal using Wish Power while leaving a clone to run the shop.
• Nick Fury investigated the online account that revealed Thanos's arrival and the young man seen near the Black Order's landing site, and his agents confirmed the young man belonged to the Rising Tide.

A masked leader from Rising Tide confronted Nick Fury, defended the group’s plans, and warned S.H.I.E.L.D. not to interfere. After the leader escaped with a masked woman’s spatial ability, Nick Fury ordered Hill to watch for Rising Tide and other emerging threats, then cursed after receiving a call.

• Nick Fury questioned the Masked Man about Rising Tide’s online post about the Black Order, and the Masked Man argued that Transcendents had become powerful enough to defy conventional law and weapons.
• The Masked Man said Rising Tide had established a base on an uninhabited island and warned that S.H.I.E.L.D. should leave the group alone.
• The Masked Man withstood Nick Fury’s psychic power, then summoned a masked woman who teleported them away.
• Nick Fury told Hill to monitor Rising Tide and other groups that might exploit the changing world.
• Nick Fury received a call, hung up, and muttered, “Motherfucker!”

Nick Fury brought a group of powerful, self-interested officials to Su Yu’s blind box shop after they failed to find it themselves. Su Yu confirmed they were eligible to buy blind boxes, and they eagerly anticipated gaining power and longer lives.

• Nick Fury considered retiring after a frustrating call, then decided to keep working because he feared his replacement could not manage his teammates.
• Nick Fury welcomed several black-suited visitors at his base and warned them that their status would mean nothing before the person they were about to meet.
• Nick Fury led the visitors to the hidden blind box shop, where its mysterious entrance appeared before them.
• The visitors entered the shop and fixed their attention on the blind boxes, hoping to find a way to extend their lives or achieve immortality.
• Su Yu greeted the group and told them their strong wishes qualified them to buy blind boxes.

Politicians gathered at Su Yu’s shop demanded mystery boxes and tried to bargain for information and special treatment, believing his injuries gave them leverage. Su Yu revealed that the shopkeeper they were speaking to was a clone and that his main body was recovering, while the politicians became convinced they could force him to comply.

• A group of politicians demanded to buy mystery boxes, and Su Yu ordered them to speak one at a time before selecting the white-haired man to go first.
• The white-haired man announced he wanted a hundred thousand boxes and presumptuously called Su Yu “Little Su.”
• The man asked Su Yu to reveal what the boxes contained or sell items directly, offering money in exchange for preferential treatment.
• Su Yu’s figure flickered, and he explained to Nick Fury that the shopkeeper was his clone and his main body was recovering from injuries.
• The politicians mistook Su Yu’s injuries as proof that his power had limits and privately resolved to use force to control him, while Nick Fury watched them suspiciously.

A white-haired man tried to secure special treatment from Su Yu, then became convinced Su Yu was targeting him when a blind box yielded less cash than it cost and Su Yu refused to sell him a hundred thousand boxes. The man abandoned his pretense of patience and prepared to take what he wanted by force.

• The white-haired man offered to buy a hundred thousand blind boxes but demanded assurance that he could get what he wanted, and Su Yu refused to guarantee the contents or offer anything besides blind boxes.
• Su Yu gave the white-haired man a Basic Blind Box, and the man discovered that ten thousand dollars had been transferred from one of his secret accounts to pay for it.
• The box opened to reveal a thousand dollars in cash, and Su Yu told the disappointed man that he needed to buy more boxes to improve his chances.
• The white-haired man demanded a hundred thousand boxes, but Su Yu said the man lacked enough assets because money merely under his control did not count as his own.
• The white-haired man accused Su Yu of disrespecting him and decided to drop the pretense so he could get what he wanted without paying.

Su Yu rejected the white-haired man's threats and refused his offer, while Nick Fury tried to keep the confrontation from escalating. Su Yu's killing intent overwhelmed the men, and one of them collapsed as they faced his power.

• The white-haired man and the other suited men accused Su Yu of disrespecting them, but Su Yu mocked their arrogance and insulted them.
• Nick Fury warned the men that Su Yu could kill them effortlessly, making them back away.
• The white-haired man threatened to blockade Su Yu's shop and use nuclear bombs, then offered him ten thousand dollars for an immortality drug and his money-transfer technology.
• Su Yu rejected the offer, called the men stupid, and said he had no intention of letting them go.
• Su Yu's killing intent froze the men with fear, and one of them collapsed while gasping for breath.

Su Yu decided to punish the white-haired man and his team by making them the defenders in an attack-and-defense game against everyone who had bought one of his blind boxes. After releasing them, he silenced one man who tried to threaten him, leaving the game’s deadly plan looming.

• A man in a black suit died from fear under Su Yu’s killing intent, and the others mistakenly believed Su Yu had killed him.
• The white-haired man threatened that nuclear missiles would launch if they died, but Su Yu slapped him and Nick Fury said they deserved to die.
• Su Yu proposed an attack-and-defense game, making the white-haired man’s team the defenders and blind-box buyers the attackers.
• Nick Fury reluctantly praised Su Yu’s idea, and Su Yu withdrew his killing intent as the frightened team collapsed to the floor.
• Su Yu told the white-haired man’s team to leave, then knocked out a tooth when one man tried to threaten him.

Su Yu explained his game pitting superhumans against modern weapons and announced powerful blind-box prizes for the winners. Nick Fury worried about civilian and soldier casualties, and Su Yu promised they would be safe.

• Su Yu slapped the white-haired man out of the shop, and the group fled in their cars, threatening to retaliate with nuclear missiles.
• Nick Fury asked Su Yu to explain the game, and Su Yu described buyers as attackers competing against the weapon-wielding defenders.
• Su Yu named ten Special-Grade Blind Boxes as the first-place prize and outlined additional rewards for the runners-up.
• Su Yu set the winner as the participant who caused the defenders the most despair, and Nick Fury asked whether civilians and soldiers would be killed.
• Su Yu assured Nick Fury that civilians would be safe and real soldiers would not die.

Nick Fury told the heroes that Su Yu planned a superhuman attack-and-defense game against the people who had angered him, with powerful blind-box rewards for the top players. Meanwhile, the white-haired man and his group reached a secret military base and prepared to launch a nuclear missile at Su Yu, leaving the commander facing a red button.

• Nick Fury told Tony, Steve, Natasha, Thor, Hawkeye, and the others that Su Yu was furious and planned a game to make the offending people despair.
• Nick Fury explained that the game would pit those people against superhumans, and that the top ten players would receive rewards.
• Nick Fury revealed that first place would win ten Special-Grade Blind Boxes, which could contain purple items or even Golden Legendary items, prompting Tony and the others to decide to participate.
• The white-haired man and his group arrived at a secret military base and demanded that the commander launch a nuclear missile at Su Yu in an urban area.
• The base commander entered the code provided by the white-haired man, and a red launch button appeared before him.

The white-haired man pressed the launch button, but the base’s silos opened without firing because all the nuclear missiles had disappeared. Andrei and the inspectors could offer no explanation, leaving the commanders to confront the inexplicable loss.

• The white-haired man shoved Andrei aside and pressed the button to launch the nuclear missiles.
• The silos opened, but no missiles launched, and repeated presses changed nothing.
• Andrei investigated and reported that every nuclear missile at the base was gone.
• Andrei told the white-haired man that surveillance showed the missiles still inside the storage facility, despite the silos being empty.
• Three young soldiers confirmed that their latest inspection had found everything normal, angering the assembled commanders.