Chapter Summaries

Wang Yang survived First Firmament’s devastating attack, causing First Firmament’s will to vanish and Mordo to perish. The Five Cosmic Entities then gathered to discuss the threat First Firmament posed and recognized Wang Yang as an exceptionally powerful mortal.

• First Firmament unleashed a massive Energy Torrent at Wang Yang, who met it with the Vishanti Holy Sword and gained the upper hand in their clash.
• The collision pierced the Multiverse, but First Firmament’s remaining power broke apart and dissipated after he acknowledged Wang Yang’s talent.
• Mordo blamed First Firmament for abandoning him, then vanished as his body could no longer withstand the power it had held.
• The Five Cosmic Entities gathered and discussed how to stop First Firmament from endangering the Multiverse.
• Eternity, Infinity, Galactus, and Death praised Wang Yang’s strength and potential after learning he had repelled First Firmament’s will.

After killing Mordo, Wang Yang learned that the First Firmament threatened the Multiverse and joined Doctor Strange in seeking allies. Strange brought him to the Illuminati, where Wang Yang warned its members that the First Firmament could create Celestials to attack them.

• Wang Yang freed Strange from the frozen-time barrier and told him that Mordo was dead but the First Firmament posed a Multiversal threat.
• Strange suggested that the Five Cosmic Entities and the Living Tribunal might prevent the First Firmament from entering the Multiverse, while Wang Yang urged them to prepare and gather allies.
• After two days at Kamar-Taj, Strange took Wang Yang through a secret portal to the Illuminati's conference room and introduced him to the organization.
• Wang Yang explained that the First Firmament was a Multiverse-level being who had created the Celestials and could make more to attack them.
• The Illuminati members grew serious as they considered how far their abilities fell short of the First Firmament and the Celestials.

Wang Yang warned the Illuminati that the Celestials and the First Firmament’s forces far surpassed their expectations, then demonstrated his ability to alter physical laws. The humbled heroes began considering how to prepare and seek help against the coming threats.

• Tony Stark asked how powerful Multiverse-level beings were, and Wang Yang explained that the Five Cosmic Entities could destroy an entire Multiverse in an instant.
• The Illuminati members declared their readiness to fight the Celestials, but Wang Yang warned that even ordinary Celestials vastly outmatched them.
• Wang Yang transported the group to an uninhabited star system and challenged them to attack him, then demonstrated that he had changed the local speed of light.
• Tony Stark realized that magic or altered physical constants could leave the Illuminati unable to fight, and the group fell silent at the power gap.
• Wang Yang urged the Illuminati to find powerful allies, while Tony Stark and Reed agreed to research weapons together and Reed suggested they find Banner.

Wang Yang warned the Illuminati to prepare for the First Firmament, while the First Firmament created an army of emotionless Dark Celestials to devastate the Multiverse and weaken his enemies. The Dark Celestials attacked the Main Universe, obliterated a Kree fleet, and set their sights on Earth.

• Wang Yang urged the Illuminati to stay alert, and Professor X said he would seek powerful mutants as a last resort.
• The First Firmament decided to corrupt beings around the Living Tribunal and created ten thousand Dark Celestials as obedient killing machines.
• The First Firmament sent the Dark Celestials into the Multiverse, where they secretly began spreading destruction.
• Half of the Dark Celestials entered the Main Universe and attacked civilizations, planets, and fleets.
• The Dark Celestials easily destroyed a full-strength Kree fleet, and their target became Earth.

The Dark Celestials began slaughtering civilizations across the Main Universe and gathered to attack Earth, where the Scarlet Witch and Wang Yang discovered that more than a hundred were approaching. Wang Yang warned Earth’s defenders, and the Illuminati prepared to fight as the threat neared.

• The Dark Celestials massacred nearly half the civilizations in the Main Universe before powerful beings fought back, killing one of them.
• The Scarlet Witch killed a Dark Celestial near Earth, and Wang Yang recognized her and identified the attackers as minions of the First Firmament.
• The Scarlet Witch sensed thousands of Dark Celestials across the universe and about a hundred headed for Earth, prompting Wang Yang to warn Strange.
• Strange passed Wang Yang’s warning to the Illuminati, whose members gathered and resolved to defend Earth with everything they had.

Earth’s factions launched their strongest weapons against the Dark Celestials, but the attackers were overwhelmed and suffered devastating losses. Wang Yang and Wanda prepared to face the more than one hundred Celestials themselves, and the chapter ended as the Celestials advanced without answering Wang Yang’s attempt to talk.

• Tony Stark and Reed activated their enormous space-based laser weapon, but the Dark Celestials destroyed it with a wave of a hand.
• The Dark Celestials devastated the Inhumans’ lunar city and Atlantis, while their power caused Professor X’s psychic attack to backfire.
• Phoenix unleashed her power and flew toward space to fight the Dark Celestials.
• Wang Yang asked Wanda how many Celestials she could handle, and she said she could manage about a dozen.
• A Dark Celestial fired a strange black beam at Wang Yang, who redirected it through a Portal and shattered the attacker’s armor.
• Wang Yang tried to negotiate, but the Dark Celestials ignored him and pressed toward him and Wanda.

Wang Yang fought the Dark Celestials after the Scarlet Witch disappeared to confront another group, using spatial rules to turn their attacks against them. As the battle escalated, he grew to their size and unleashed the Vishanti Holy Sword, destroying one Dark Celestial with a single strike.

• The Scarlet Witch vanished along with around twenty distant Dark Celestials, leaving Wang Yang to face the remaining attackers.
• The Dark Celestials unleashed power that destroyed several planets, while people on Earth and beings across dimensions prepared to flee.
• Wang Yang folded space to redirect the Celestials' energy beams, vaporizing one and cracking the attackers' armor with their reflected assaults.
• The Dark Celestials adapted by absorbing attacks and charging Wang Yang with enormous black spears, so he expanded his body to match their size.
• Wang Yang released the Vishanti Holy Sword's full power and shattered a Dark Celestial's spear, annihilating its wielder.

Wang Yang fought the Dark Celestials in space, killed more than forty of them, and left the survivors shaken. On Earth, the Illuminati marveled at his power while Tony Stark worried about how they could stop him if he became dangerous.

• Wang Yang killed two Dark Celestials, and the survivors gathered together to defend against his attacks.
• Wang Yang's sword strike broke through the Dark Celestials' linked defense, and his spatial attack erased roughly half of the remaining group.
• The surviving Dark Celestials feared Wang Yang after seeing him destroy more than forty of their kind.
• The Illuminati watched Wang Yang's battle and discussed how his power surpassed that of Apocalypse and his Horsemen.
• Tony Stark asked whether Wang Yang could be trusted and who could stop him if he lost control.

Wang Yang fought the Dark Celestials in Outer Space, breaking their defenses and then using his mastery of time and space to separate and overwhelm their reinforcements. Nearly a thousand Dark Celestials were trapped in distorted time streams as Wang Yang continued to face the First Firmament’s vast forces.

• Tony Stark questioned whether Wang Yang’s immense power could be trusted, while Strange defended him.
• Wang Yang reversed the black mist’s destruction with time magic, severed the Dark Celestials’ power supply, and destroyed their barrier with Spatial Blades.
• More Dark Celestials poured through spacetime wormholes, bringing their numbers to nearly a thousand and making Wang Yang wary of their combined strength.
• Wang Yang cut the Solar System region out of the River of Time and redirected the Dark Celestials’ power into the void and the river.
• Wang Yang unleashed Time Severance, scattering the newly created Dark Celestials across distorted periods where they could no longer link their power and began to vanish.

Wang Yang slaughtered most of the Dark Celestials with temporal turbulence, while the Celestials discovered that he was the one responsible for the mass killings. He trapped the five remaining Dark Celestials in a shrinking space, drained their energy and rules, and crushed them until only five fragments remained.

• Wang Yang used temporal turbulence to kill nearly all the Dark Celestials around him, leaving only a handful alive.
• The Dark Celestials opened wormholes and fled, while the Celestials gained the advantage and defeated those who remained.
• The Celestials investigated the mass departure and saw Wang Yang fight over a thousand Dark Celestials, recognizing him as the man who had killed them before.
• Wang Yang discovered that fragments of unusually durable golden metal inside the five remaining Dark Celestials blocked his attacks.
• Wang Yang trapped the five Dark Celestials in a tiny sphere, extracted its energy, rules, and matter, then crushed them until only five fragments remained.

Wang Yang collected indestructible golden fragments that the Celestials identified as pieces of the Godkiller Armor, while the Living Tribunal observed his battle and wondered at his extraordinary talent. As the First Firmament’s Dark Celestials devastated universes across the Multiverse, the Celestials planned to spread word of Wang Yang’s discovery rather than confront him themselves.

• Wang Yang stored the enormous golden metal fragments after failing to damage them, unaware that the watching Celestials recognized them as pieces of the Godkiller Armor.
• The Celestials recalled that the Dark Celestials had used the Godkiller Armor to overwhelm them and that its detonation had shattered the First Firmament, creating the Multiverse.
• The Celestials rejected taking the fragments from Wang Yang and decided instead to tell others about them.
• The Living Tribunal watched Wang Yang fight the Dark Celestials, marveled at his strength and talent, and considered meeting him while continuing to monitor the conflict.
• The Dark Celestials destroyed universes and killed trillions of intelligent beings, while staying within limits that kept the cosmic powers from intervening.

Wang Yang found the Scarlet Witch battling Dark Celestials in a hidden space and defeated them with ease by cutting off their energy. Impressed by his strength, she asked to become his apprentice, but he refused and said she only needed systematic training.

• Wang Yang used Chaos Magic to locate the hidden space where the Scarlet Witch was fighting Dark Celestials.
• Wang Yang joined the Scarlet Witch and offered to take over the battle, and she stepped aside.
• Wang Yang changed the surrounding rules and drained the energy from the Dark Celestials, killing twenty of them instantly.
• The Scarlet Witch questioned how Wang Yang’s ordinary magic could be so powerful, and he explained that his will strengthened its effects.
• The Scarlet Witch asked to join Kamar-Taj and then requested to become Wang Yang’s apprentice, but Wang Yang declined because he already had an apprentice.

After defeating the Dark Celestials, Wang Yang stayed in the Main Universe to study its magic and consider how to reach the level of the Five Cosmic Entities. He agreed to teach Kamar-Taj’s sorcerers and was astonished by how many had reached the Pseudo-Skyfather level.

• Wang Yang returned to Kamar-Taj and told Strange that the Dark Celestials had been dealt with and Earth was safe for now.
• Wang Yang agreed to stay in the Main Universe and teach Kamar-Taj’s sorcerers after studying the differences between the worlds’ magical rules.
• Strange gave Wang Yang access to Kamar-Taj’s great library, and Wang Yang read every book there in less than an afternoon.
• Wang Yang found himself close to the level of Eternity but could not understand the source of the Five Cosmic Entities’ power or how to break through.
• Wang Yang joined Strange at the training ground and discovered that more than forty Main Universe sorcerers had reached the Pseudo-Skyfather level.

Wang Yang taught the Kamar-Taj sorcerers how to use their souls to understand and control magic. Meanwhile, Oblivion weakened the seal holding God Glyph and released him, while Strange later brought Wang Yang to meet a familiar figure.

• Wang Yang used an extraordinary vision to teach the Kamar-Taj sorcerers about soul power and magical training.
• Oblivion decided to exploit the Multiverse’s chaos and release God Glyph to weaken the world’s will.
• Oblivion disrupted the seal created by the Five Cosmic Entities, allowing God Glyph to emerge.
• Strange found Wang Yang and said he needed his help with an important matter.
• Strange brought Wang Yang to meet a brawny man who said they already knew each other.

Agamotto warned Wang Yang and Strange that Eternity’s destructive dark side, God Glyph, had escaped and threatened the entire Multiverse. Wang Yang agreed to protect Galactus’s parallel-universe avatars, then returned to his own universe.

• Agamotto explained that God Glyph had escaped his seal and could not be killed while destruction existed as a concept.
• Agamotto told Wang Yang and Strange that God Glyph would target Galactus’s avatars to reclaim the power they still sealed away.
• Agamotto tasked Wang Yang with protecting Galactus across more than ten thousand surrounding universes and gave him a badge to summon help.
• Wang Yang left the Main Universe, crossed the parallel universes, and returned to his own universe.

Wang Yang returned to Kamar-Taj and reassured Mordo that his unexplained mental-power growth was a benefit from the Main Universe Mordo’s death. Elsewhere, God Glyph escaped a battle with three Elder Gods after the Five Cosmic Entities arrived late, and the delay was traced to infighting between Oblivion and the others.

• Wang Yang spoke with Mordo after returning to Kamar-Taj, and Mordo asked how long he planned to stay.
• Mordo told Wang Yang that his mental power had begun growing half a year earlier, and Wang Yang explained that the Main Universe Mordo’s death had strengthened his origin.
• God Glyph fought the Vishanti, Gaea, and Set, overpowering their attacks as the destruction around them increased his power.
• God Glyph sensed something, declared that he would spare the three Elder Gods for now, and vanished through teleportation by laws.
• Eternity arrived late, promised faster support next time, and told the Elder Gods to keep watch while the Five Cosmic Entities pursued God Glyph.
• Eternity privately blamed Oblivion’s infighting for the delay.

As God Glyph destroyed universes, the Five Cosmic Entities ordered the living universes to be gathered around the Main Universe, leaving Wang Yang’s universe vulnerable. God Glyph attacked the Mirror Dimension, and Wang Yang met his assault with the Vishanti Holy Sword, bringing their powers to a standstill.

• God Glyph destroyed more than ten thousand parallel universes, prompting the Five Cosmic Entities to gather the Gods and debate how to stop him.
• Oblivion convinced the Gods to move the living universes toward the Main Universe, and the migration began across the Multiverse.
• Wang Yang’s universe was overlooked because the Mirror Dimension was separate and appeared lifeless to the Gods, while God Glyph discovered its powerful origin.
• God Glyph struck the universe’s crystalline barrier with his destructive power, and the impact reached Wang Yang through their connection.
• Wang Yang appeared outside the universe, recognized God Glyph, and attacked with the Vishanti Holy Sword.
• God Glyph countered Wang Yang’s strike, and their opposing powers canceled each other out.

Wang Yang fought God Glyph, an Abstract Entity whose destructive power embodied the rules of the Multiverse. After wounding him with the Vishanti Holy Sword and realizing his physical vessel could be destroyed, Wang Yang launched the Bolts of Balthakk infused with Oblivion’s power, leaving God Glyph sensing unprecedented danger.

• God Glyph tried to overwhelm and provoke Wang Yang, but Wang Yang held his ground and formed a shield from his understanding of magic and other origins.
• God Glyph bombarded Wang Yang’s shield with destructive black lightning, corrupting its power and forcing Wang Yang to abandon a battle of attrition.
• Wang Yang struck God Glyph with the Vishanti Holy Sword, cutting through his thunder and wounding his body with several slashes.
• Wang Yang told God Glyph that Abstract Entities could be killed and reasoned that his physical vessel could be destroyed, while God Glyph dismissed him as an ignorant mortal.
• Wang Yang summoned the Bolts of Balthakk, empowered by Oblivion, and hurled them at God Glyph, who sensed an unfamiliar danger.

Wang Yang fought God Glyph in the Mirror Dimension, surviving the multiversal Destruction Tide through time reversal before defeating him with magic drawn from half the Multiverse. The Five Cosmic Entities sensed the battle and were shocked that a Kamar-Taj sorcerer wielded such power.

• God Glyph unleashed a Destruction Tide that annihilated Wang Yang, but Wang Yang reversed time and returned to life.
• Wang Yang provoked God Glyph and drew on half the Multiverse's magical power to fire a rainbow beam through him.
• God Glyph crumbled into dust, vowing to return once he reclaimed his power, while Wang Yang left the Mirror Dimension.
• Infinity, Eternity, and Galactus sensed the battle and assumed God Glyph had killed his opponent.
• The three cosmic beings detected Wang Yang's magical power and wondered how Kamar-Taj had such a powerful sorcerer.

After destroying God Glyph’s body, Wang Yang discovered that his power had grown and realized he had become the embodiment of time, a conceptual god on the level of the Five Cosmic Entities. His breakthrough reshaped the Multiverse as he began studying its fundamental rules.

• Eternity sensed that God Glyph’s body had been destroyed and recognized Wang Yang’s aura, while Galactus and Infinity reacted with shock.
• Galactus proposed using the Ultimate Nullifier to kill God Glyph permanently, but Eternity argued that God Glyph could not truly die.
• At the edge of the Multiverse, Wang Yang searched for the source of his increased power and found that his control over time had strengthened.
• Wang Yang understood that he had become a conceptual god embodying time, comparable to the Five Cosmic Entities and possessing greater potential for growth.
• The Multiverse’s collective consciousness welcomed Wang Yang’s breakthrough, poured Cosmic Energy into him, and revealed its fundamental rules for him to study.
• Wang Yang’s breakthrough affected the entire Multiverse, strengthening and completing it.