Chapter Summaries

After the universe’s timeline changed, Captain Marvel returned to Earth and found the Solar System sealed by a vast Spatial Barrier. She witnessed Sorcerer Wang Yang shrinking an immense, godlike being and realized his magic could affect a true god.

• Captain Marvel noticed the universe reversing and set out for Earth, worried that it had been affected by the upheaval.
• She reached the Solar System and spent an hour passing through the invisible Spatial Barrier around it.
• A flash and tremendous force swept across the Solar System, pinning Captain Marvel against the barrier and leaving her fearing for Earth.
• When the force vanished, Captain Marvel flew toward Earth and saw an immense godlike figure at the Solar System’s center.
• Captain Marvel recognized Sorcerer Wang Yang’s magic shrinking the being and was astonished that he could subdue a true god.

Wang Yang resisted the Judge’s eradication power and struck through his defenses, while the Judge broke free and offered to spare him if he submitted. Wang Yang warned that the Judge had no shield, then conjured Crimson Bands behind him as the fight continued.

• The Judge attacked Wang Yang with the Eradicator’s power, but the Seraphim Shield and Wang Yang’s Cosmic Energy nullified it.
• Wang Yang exploited the Judge’s distraction, binding him with Crimson Bands and striking his golden barrier with the Vishanti Holy Sword.
• The purple sword cracked the Judge’s barrier and sent force through his armor, causing him pain.
• The Judge shattered his barrier and broke the Crimson Bands, blasting Wang Yang away before demanding his surrender.
• Wang Yang steadied himself and told the Judge he had no shield, as Crimson Bands appeared behind the Judge and coiled toward him.

Wang Yang fought the fused Celestials as the Judge used an energy-burning power to try to exhaust his magic. Wang Yang’s partial immunity let him keep attacking, while the Celestials’ mental reserves weakened and their unity began to falter.

• The Celestials agreed that they could defeat Wang Yang by burning away his magical energy, and the Judge unleashed an invisible force that set the Crimson Bands alight.
• Wang Yang fused with the energy combustion talent and gained partial immunity to magic effects.
• The Judge taunted Wang Yang, believing his power would soon run out, but Wang Yang’s Crimson Bands grew stronger as he continued attacking.
• The Celestials realized their mental reserves were weakening faster than Wang Yang’s magic, and the Eradicator regretted coming to Earth.
• The Judge warned the Celestials not to fall into infighting as their mental fusion destabilized.

The Judge abandoned his attempt to drain Wang Yang’s magic and altered the Celestials’ fused body with powerful warrior genes to fight him physically. Wang Yang matched and then overwhelmed him with punches, leaving the Celestials wondering whether he was even from their universe.

• The Judge withdrew the flames and decided the Celestials would attack Wang Yang head-on with physical power.
• The Judge altered the fused Celestial body with ancient warrior genes, growing larger and gaining strength and speed.
• Wang Yang fused with a combat talent and fought the Judge evenly while adapting to his enhanced body.
• Wang Yang sent the Judge flying, shattered his divine shield, and struck him with a powerful punch.
• The Celestials questioned whether Wang Yang was human or even from their world.

The Celestials sent a distress signal after Wang Yang overwhelmed them, and Eternity answered it. After learning that they had planted a Celestial Seed on Earth and planned to destroy humanity, Eternity left their fate to Wang Yang.

• The Judge ordered the Celestials to send a distress signal as they feared Wang Yang would defeat them.
• Captain Marvel reached the S.W.O.R.D. base, where Nick Fury identified the attacker as a Celestial and alarms revealed a powerful force spreading through the universe.
• The signal awakened Eternity, who traveled to Earth and recognized Wang Yang’s aura around the Solar System.
• The Celestials begged Eternity to save them, but he ordered them to be quiet and asked Wang Yang to spare their lives.
• Wang Yang explained that the Celestials had planted a Celestial Seed on Earth and intended to destroy its civilization.
• Eternity accepted that the Celestials had brought their fate upon themselves and told Wang Yang to do as he wished.

Eternity left without intervening, and Wang Yang bound the Celestials before they attacked him with Soul Eater. Wang Yang fused with the magic, broke apart their shared wills, and revealed himself as the God of the Underworld and the source of Dark Magic.

• Eternity left after hearing Wang Yang, abandoning the Celestials to their fate.
• Wang Yang bound the Celestials with Crimson Bands and struck at the Judge with the Vishanti Holy Sword, but his blade passed through the Judge like a mirage.
• The Judge attacked Wang Yang with Soul Eater, and Wang Yang fused with the Soul Eater talent.
• Wang Yang conjured a giant black eye that broke the Celestials' links and separated their fused wills.
• Wang Yang told the Judge that he was the God of the Underworld and the source of Dark Magic.

Wang Yang rejected the Celestial leader’s pleas and challenged him after the leader proposed sparing Earth if he won. The chapter ended as Wang Yang charged at the leader, demanding that he beat him first.

• Wang Yang attacked the Celestials with black spears, but an unseen force stopped them.
• Wang Yang located and struck the hidden figure, who blocked his blade and revealed himself as the Celestials’ leader.
• The Celestial leader asked Wang Yang to spare the Celestials and argued that they maintained universal order, but Wang Yang rejected his claims.
• The leader proposed that if he won, he would spare Earth, and asked Wang Yang to spare the Celestials if Wang Yang won.
• Wang Yang refused to agree and charged at the Celestial leader.

Wang Yang fought the Celestials' leader, whose strength and defenses withstood his magic and physical attacks. Wang Yang fused the Vishanti Holy Sword with the Spatial Blade and pierced the leader's spatial shield, leaving him facing a storm of razor-sharp Spatial Fragments.

• Wang Yang ensnared the Celestials' leader with magic chains, pierced his barrier with Dark Spears, and struck him with a powerful punch.
• Wang Yang and the Celestials' leader exchanged blows that sent a shock wave across the solar system, destroying nearby celestial bodies while sparing Earth.
• The Celestials' leader pretended to concede, but Wang Yang saw through the act as the leader's armor repaired itself.
• Wang Yang fused the Vishanti Holy Sword and Spatial Blade, then pierced the Celestials' leader's defenses with the resulting weapon.
• The Celestials' leader shattered the weapon, scattering Spatial Fragments that tore through his armor, including one fragment flying toward his neck.

Wang Yang destroyed the leader of the Celestials’ armor, freeing his powerful, intangible form. When the leader attacked Wang Yang’s soul, Wang Yang turned the leader’s protective instincts against him and struck several Celestials with the Bolts of Balthakk, revealing that the lightning could harm the leader too.

• Wang Yang created another fused Vishanti Holy Sword and used it to slash through the leader of the Celestials’ armor and body.
• The leader emerged from his armor in a transparent form, explaining that the armor had restrained his power.
• The leader’s physical form let Wang Yang’s sword pass through harmlessly, and he launched soul-piercing spikes at Wang Yang.
• Wang Yang retreated toward the other Celestials, and the leader stopped his spikes to protect them.
• Wang Yang fired the Bolts of Balthakk, burning several Celestials to ash and discovering that the lightning could strike the leader.

Wang Yang’s destructive lightning struck Eternity and the Goddess of Death as they tried to collect the souls of the fallen Celestials. When Death confronted Wang Yang and saw him disperse her power with the same lightning, she realized he had caused the deaths and disturbances, and grew wary of him.

• Eternity was hit by Wang Yang’s destructive lightning, then retreated from the area rather than continue watching.
• The Goddess of Death arrived to collect the souls of powerful beings, but Eternity gathered the dead Celestials’ soul-origin power before she could find them.
• Death confronted Eternity and demanded the souls, but lightning struck her when she unleashed her death-origin energy.
• Death followed the lightning’s presence and found the Celestial leader facing Wang Yang.
• Death attacked Wang Yang with her death aura, but he scattered it with golden lightning, leading her to realize he had caused the destruction and to become wary of him.

Wang Yang refused the Celestials’ leader’s offer to leave, insisting the Celestials had to die or submit, while the Eradicator argued that surrender was better than death. As Wang Yang prepared the Chaos Thunder Spirit, the Watcher Bodico told his companions about the battle, but they doubted his account.

• The Goddess of Death clashed with Wang Yang’s Bolts of Balthakk, then fled after sensing his power.
• The Celestials’ leader offered to leave Earth’s universe forever, but Wang Yang refused to trust him and demanded that the Celestials die or submit.
• The Eradicator urged the Celestials’ leader to surrender, but Wang Yang summoned the Chaos Thunder Spirit and warned them to bear the consequences of their choice.
• At S.W.O.R.D., Nick Fury and Captain Marvel learned that nearby planets had been destroyed and feared for Earth’s safety.
• Watcher Bodico summoned other Watchers to tell them about Wang Yang fighting the Celestials, but they dismissed his claims as unbelievable.

Bodico brought other Watchers to observe Wang Yang fighting the Celestials, and they witnessed the devastating force of his Thunder Spirit spell. After surviving its aftermath and recording the destruction of space and its laws, the Watchers acknowledged that Wang Yang possessed power comparable to a god and could threaten the Celestials.

• Bodico gave the Watchers coordinates and led them through a barrier into the devastated universe where Wang Yang fought the Celestials' leader.
• The Watchers watched Wang Yang gather power and launch the Thunder Spirit at his opponent.
• The spell's destructive force swept through the universe, struck the Celestials, and nearly overwhelmed the Watchers hiding in a spatial fissure.
• The Watchers escaped through a rift and later returned to find the space and its laws annihilated.
• After recording the damage, the Watchers agreed that Wang Yang's strength rivaled a god's and that the Celestials faced serious trouble.

Wang Yang killed the Celestials who had attacked Earth and fought the surviving Celestials' leader, using his newly enhanced Dark Spear to pin him down. Before dying, the leader cursed Wang Yang to be rejected by the universe and unable to use magic, and Wang Yang felt the rejection begin even as he believed he could still cast spells.

• After Wang Yang's strike obliterated the Celestials and the surrounding planetary fragments, the Celestials' leader reappeared and mourned his fallen subordinates.
• Wang Yang accused the leader of destroying civilizations and vowed to kill him for attacking Earth.
• Wang Yang fused with the leader's dark destruction talent and formed an enhanced Dark Spear covered in runes.
• The leader attacked, but Wang Yang's Dark Spear pierced and pinned him, draining his destructive power.
• The leader cursed Wang Yang to be rejected by the universe and unable to use magic, sacrificing his soul as his body disintegrated.
• The universe's laws reached for Wang Yang, and he felt the force of rejection while remaining confident he could still use magic.

Wang Yang endured the Celestials’ leader’s curse, which caused the universe to reject him and cut him off from its energy. The Watchers saw that the universe did not attack him and concluded that it might fear his power, while Wang Yang remained untouched.

• The Watchers saw the Celestials’ leader invoke a curse against Wang Yang, and Wang Yang sensed the universal laws gathering around him.
• The curse ended with the universe rejecting Wang Yang and preventing him from using its energy, though he remained unconcerned because he could wield power without it.
• Bodico asked the older Watchers about the curse, and they predicted that the universe would eventually crush Wang Yang or force him out.
• A wrecked spaceship flew past Wang Yang instead of striking him, puzzling the Watchers who expected the universe to attack him.
• One Watcher suggested that the universe’s will might fear Wang Yang’s power and therefore dare not act against him.

After fusing with universal law, Wang Yang won the universe’s recognition and escaped its rejection, but discovered that his battle had destroyed the Sun and every planet in the Solar System except Earth. He returned to Kamar-Taj to seek the Ancient One’s help in contacting Eternity to restore the damage, and she warned him to take greater care once things were repaired.

• Wang Yang fused with the power of universal law, gained the universe’s recognition, and ended its rejection of him.
• Wang Yang saw that his battle had destroyed the Sun and the Solar System’s planets except Earth, which remained protected by his power.
• Nick Fury and the S.W.O.R.D. agents were horrified by the empty sky, and Captain Marvel suggested asking Wang Yang whether the damage could be undone.
• After failing to restore the planets himself, Wang Yang returned to Kamar-Taj, where Mordo told him the Ancient One wanted to see him.
• Wang Yang asked the Ancient One to find Eternity and restore the universe, and she urged him to take it easier after the restoration.

Eternity restored a planet destroyed in the battle and taught Wang Yang how to reconstruct planets from information within the universe. After absorbing Eternity’s planet-forging talent, Wang Yang attempted to create the Sun, and Eternity was surprised to see him access the universe’s information so easily.

• Eternity arrived and agreed to restore the Solar System for Wang Yang and the Ancient One.
• Eternity explained how reconstruction differed from creation, then used universal information and divine power to recreate one of the destroyed planets.
• Wang Yang detected and fused Eternity’s planet-forging talent, gaining knowledge about creation.
• Eternity invited Wang Yang to try creating a planet, expecting him to fail, while the Ancient One encouraged him.
• Wang Yang reached out to the universe and began trying to create the Sun, surprising Eternity with how easily he accessed its information.

Wang Yang created and refined a Sun, then restored the other planets while Eternity watched in disbelief. After Eternity created Venus, Wang Yang repaired the universe’s disrupted rules and thanked him, leaving Eternity feeling mocked.

• Wang Yang gathered matter and energy to form a planet, ignited it into a Sun, then erased it after spotting gravity problems that could threaten Earth.
• Wang Yang created a more stable Sun, and Eternity praised it and asked him to restore the other planets.
• Wang Yang recreated the planets and asteroids, leaving only Venus for Eternity to make.
• Eternity created Venus while Wang Yang repaired the disrupted rules of the universe.
• Wang Yang thanked Eternity for his help, and Eternity felt as though Wang Yang was mocking him.

After Wang Yang restored the Solar System by creating its planets and Sun, he reassured Nick Fury that Earth was safe. Eternity visited Kamar-Taj, spoke with Wang Yang and the Ancient One, and then prepared to leave.

• Eternity asked Wang Yang how he had mastered planet creation, and Wang Yang explained that he treated it as a variation of one of his spells.
• The Ancient One invited Eternity to Kamar-Taj, where they spoke about magic and their experiences across the universes.
• Nick Fury called Wang Yang after S.W.O.R.D. detected that the Sun and distant planets had disappeared, and Wang Yang told him not to worry.
• S.W.O.R.D. agents observed the Sun and the planets reappear, leading Captain Marvel and Nick Fury to conclude that Wang Yang had recreated them.
• Wang Yang returned to the conversation at Kamar-Taj, and Eternity eventually stood to take his leave.

After Eternity warned the Ancient One that Wang Yang’s godlike power could erode his humanity, Wang Yang spent two and a half months studying magic without rest. The Ancient One confronted him about the danger, and Wang Yang agreed to balance his studies with relaxation.

• Wang Yang returned to the library to study Asgardian magic and the knowledge he had gained from Eternity.
• Eternity returned to warn the Ancient One that Wang Yang possessed the power of a god and must not lose his humanity.
• Wang Yang remained in the library for about two and a half months without eating or sleeping, prompting the Ancient One to check on him.
• The Ancient One told Wang Yang that endless power and time could make him lose his humanity or become part of Universal Law.
• Wang Yang considered her warning and agreed to rest and balance work with relaxation.

The Ancient One invited Wang Yang to a sorcerers’ exchange gathering in a Dimensional Space, where Clemmens tested whether Wang Yang was powerful enough to enter. Wang Yang forced open a passage, and the resulting enormous fissure in the gathering space left the assembled sorcerers staring at the sky.

• The Ancient One suggested Wang Yang attend a sorcerers’ exchange gathering after he said he had nothing to do besides study magic, and Wang Yang agreed.
• The Ancient One took Wang Yang through a Portal to meet Clemmens, who explained that only sufficiently powerful sorcerers could enter the gathering space.
• Clemmens challenged Wang Yang to prove he could reach the space, and Wang Yang opened a Portal that cracked open a passage into it.
• Clemmens acknowledged Wang Yang’s qualification and apologized before he and the Ancient One entered the space ahead of Wang Yang.
• The Ancient One and Clemmens saw a gigantic fissure filled with starlight stretching across the sky as the gathered sorcerers looked up, and Wang Yang asked what they were watching.