Recaps

Lu Chen persuaded Seventh Eternity to ally with him by revealing his peak omniverse-level power and promising Eternity the Seventh Omniverse in exchange for its authority of creation. As Lu Chen continued preparing for his conflict with the Colored Celestials and the Beyonders, Wu Fengji hit a bottleneck in her Phoenix Armor.

• Seventh Eternity explained that the Colored Celestials had divided his authority of creation among Mutants and other races, leaving him too weak to resist their control.
• Lu Chen demonstrated his peak omniverse-level power and offered to help Seventh Eternity become the true Creator God of the Seventh Omniverse in exchange for a portion of the authority of creation.
• Seventh Eternity accepted Lu Chen's offer and learned that Lu Chen was also working with Death and Galactus.
• After Lu Chen left, Seventh Eternity wondered at the existence of other cosmologies beyond the Marvel Omniverse and questioned who Lu Chen really was.
• Lu Chen looked forward to confronting the First Beyonder and Above All, while Wu Fengji struggled to advance her Phoenix Armor beyond the hyper-multiverse-level peak.

Lu Chen went to the Sacred Timeline to search for the remaining Phoenix Force and met Kang at the Time Variance Authority. He told Kang that the Sacred Timeline would collapse within five hundred years and that the entire Omniverse would be destroyed.

• Wu Fengji told Lu Chen that her Phoenix Armor could not exceed hyper-multiverse-level peak, and he explained that the remaining Phoenix Force was scarce and the Fairy Force was sealed away.
• Lu Chen suspected the remaining Phoenix Force might be in the Sacred Timeline and left Wu Fengji to guard the Ming Realm while he went there.
• The Time Variance Authority's barrier blocked Lu Chen, but he breached it with the Law of Fire and entered the Sacred Timeline.
• Lu Chen reached the Time Variance Authority, where Kang recognized him as the Lord of the Ming Realm and asked whether he could foresee Kang's future.
• Lu Chen told Kang that the Sacred Timeline would collapse within five hundred years and that the entire Omniverse would be destroyed.

Lu Chen learned that the First Beyonder planned to destroy the Seventh Omniverse and watched events unfold across the Sacred Timeline, including Ragnarok and the Avengers’ battle with Thanos. He then returned to the Vampires’ Castle, where he told the gathered vampires that Grand Elder Augustus was dead.

• Lu Chen told Kang that the First Beyonder’s Everything Dies plan would destroy the Seventh Omniverse, and learned that the Sacred Timeline had no Phoenix Force.
• After leaving the TVA, Lu Chen saw Ragnarok and the five dark Ancient Gods behind Asgard’s destruction, then observed Captain America wield Mjolnir against Thanos without intervening.
• Lu Chen left the Sacred Timeline and appeared at the Vampires’ Castle in New York.
• The vampires asked Apocalypse where Augustus was, and Apocalypse told them that their Grand Elder was dead.

Apocalypse forced the Vampire Clan to agree to awaken Dracula as the Dark Council struggled against the Avengers and their allies. Meanwhile, the Avengers identified Xiao Yan as a potential recruit and traveled east to seek him, where the chapter ended with him facing a sinister old man at the Celestial Empire’s border.

• Apocalypse silenced the vampires, showed them the ruined Shadow Snow Mastiff Armor, and demanded they awaken Dracula.
• After Apocalypse killed a vampire who objected, the second elder and the others agreed to awaken Dracula, and Apocalypse ordered them to take him to their ancestral grounds.
• At Avengers Tower, Captain America and Stark reviewed Xiao Yan’s strength and learned that a Nine-Star Martial Saint could reach peak Sub-Skyfather power.
• Captain America and Stark decided to recruit Xiao Yan and headed east with the Infinity Stones and Infinity Gauntlet after gaining approval from the Avengers and Strange.
• At the Celestial Empire’s border, Xiao Yan stood opposite a sinister, white-haired old man with dozens of flames swirling behind him.

At thirty, Nine-Star Martial Saint Xiao Yan confronted Ancestor Fentian over the Fentian Sect’s past treatment of him and refused to spare the sect. Xiao Yan gravely wounded Ancestor Fentian with a single punch inside the old man’s own domain, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Xiao Yan recalled his lost cultivation, his broken engagement to Liu Ruyan, and his rise to become a Nine-Star Martial Saint and leader of the foremost clan in the Celestial Empire.
• Ancestor Fentian unleashed his Fentian Domain against Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan remained unharmed and challenged him to endure ten moves.
• Ancestor Fentian attacked Xiao Yan with a pitch-black halberd, and Xiao Yan’s azure flames blocked the strike.
• Ancestor Fentian launched a full-powered attack with nine fire dragons, but Xiao Yan shattered them with a golden-red-flamed punch and sent him crashing into the domain’s barrier.
• Xiao Yan appeared before the gravely wounded Ancestor Fentian and said he had overestimated him because the old man could not withstand even one move.

Captain America and Stark arrived in the Celestial Empire and narrowly escaped the shockwave of Xiao Yan’s battle with Ancestor Fentian. After Xiao Yan destroyed the Fentian Sect, he discovered the two hiding in folded space and demanded they come out.

• Captain America and Stark used the Space Stone to arrive in a forest in the Celestial Empire, then escaped a devastating energy storm by hiding in alternate space.
• Xiao Yan fought Ancestor Fentian and unleashed the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, overwhelming his opponent and shaking nearly half the Celestial Empire.
• The Imperial Family recognized Xiao Yan’s attack but allowed him to settle his grievance with the Fentian Sect.
• Xiao Yan declared the Fentian Sect finished and crushed it with the Yellow Spring Great Handprint, killing its tens of thousands of disciples and elders.
• After sensing Captain America and Stark concealed in folded space, Xiao Yan threatened to force them out, and they revealed themselves.

Xiao Yan met Captain America and Stark, who asked him to help the Avengers fight the Dark Council. After learning about the Infinity Stones, the Shadow Great Emperors, and the Ming Realm’s armor, Xiao Yan became interested in testing his talent for the Fire Armor.

• Captain America and Stark met Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan brought them to the Xiao Clan’s conference room to hear why they had come.
• Captain America explained that the Dark Council had united Western dark forces and human groups, and that the Avengers and Sanctum Sanctorum could not handle it alone.
• Xiao Yan examined the five Infinity Stones in Captain America’s gauntlet and felt their immense power.
• Captain America said the Shadow Great Emperors empowered the Dark Council with Shadow Armor, while the Lord of the Ming Realm had given armor power to the Avengers.
• Captain America invited Xiao Yan to the Sanctum Sanctorum in New York to have his Fire talent tested, and Xiao Yan showed interest in the Fire Armor.

Xiao Yan visited the Sanctum Sanctorum to test whether his flames could win the Nawa Armor’s recognition and ended up summoning its true form. Lu Chen sent that armor to Earth, leaving Xiao Yan empowered as a new true-form summoner.

• Captain America and Stark brought Xiao Yan to the Sanctum Sanctorum, where Strange led him to the Four Elements Armor crystals.
• Xiao Yan unleashed dozens of Heavenly Flames and grasped the Fire Element Crystal, triggering a surge of power that Lu Chen and Wu Fengji sensed in the Ming Realm Dimension.
• Lu Chen recognized Xiao Yan, summoned the Nawa Armor’s true form, and sent it as a pillar of flaming light to Earth.
• The light enveloped Xiao Yan, who emerged wearing a gold-and-red Nawa Armor and discovered that it had raised his strength to the Martial Emperor realm.
• Strange explained that Xiao Yan had summoned the Nawa Armor’s unique true form, a distinction reserved for those recognized by the Lord of the Ming Realm.

Second Elder Peili awakened Dracula in the Vampire Clan's ancestral tomb, and Dracula learned that the Dark Council sought allies against Earth's growing powers. After seeing the scale of the threat and learning the Shadow Armor required a Skyfather-level summoner, Agatha proposed recruiting Thanos.

• Second Elder Peili led Apocalypse and Agatha into Dracula's tomb and performed a ritual to awaken the Progenitor.
• Dracula emerged from the Bronze Coffin, pulled Peili toward him, and demanded to know why he had been awakened.
• Apocalypse and Agatha explained that they were allies of the Vampire Clan and had united the Dark World under the Dark Council.
• Dracula discovered Peili had died from the force of the coffin's explosion, and Agatha used the Darkhold to show him the Dimension War and the power of the armor and Infinity Stones.
• Apocalypse explained that the Shadow Armor required a Skyfather-level summoner to reach its full power, and Agatha proposed recruiting Thanos.

A group of researchers brought six symbiotes to a secret institute beneath New York, where one transformed a tiger and slaughtered the staff before the symbiotes possessed the guards. Venom escaped to the surface in a rat, while a Stark Industries satellite detected the symbiotes and alerted the Avengers.

• Researchers at the Extraterrestrial Life Research Institute tested a symbiote on a tiger, transforming it into a powerful creature that killed the other tiger.
• The mutated tiger broke free and slaughtered the researchers before the symbiote devoured its body.
• Five symbiotes possessed a squad of six guards, but Venom escaped from the group toward the surface.
• Venom parasitized a rat, killed a stray cat, and set out to find a human host.
• A Stark Industries satellite detected the symbiotes and sent the data to the Avengers.

The symbiotes chose to seek hosts among the Dark Council rather than risk approaching the Avengers or the Sanctum Sanctorum. In the Land of Finality, Seventh Eternity revealed his plan to reclaim his stolen creation authorities and asked Death to make them mortal.

• Stark briefed the Avengers on the symbiotes’ ability to take hosts and infiltrate human society, and Captain America proposed asking the Sanctum Sanctorum to watch for them.
• Riot searched a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent’s memories and considered taking a sorcerer as a host to get near the Four Elements Armor.
• Devour warned Riot against targeting the Avengers or the Sanctum Sanctorum, and Carnage suggested that the symbiotes seek hosts among the Dark Council.
• Riot agreed to go after the Dark Council, and Lasher proposed that the symbiotes split up to avoid being captured together.
• Seventh Eternity visited Death and told her he had agreed to cooperate with the Lord of the Ming Realm to reclaim his creation authorities.
• Seventh Eternity asked Death to bestow death on the authorities split from him so he could kill them and reclaim them.

Seventh Eternity persuaded Death to consider helping First Firmament attack the Colored Celestials, advancing the Lord of the Ming Realm’s plans. In the Ming Realm Dimension, Death met River God and told Lu Chen about the scheme, prompting him to consider using Shadow Great Emperors and the Necrosword.

• Eternity argued that strengthening First Firmament could distract the Colored Celestials and help the Lord of the Ming Realm, while Death warned that the plan could expose them.
• Death agreed to report Eternity’s proposal to the Lord of the Ming Realm, and Eternity extracted their conversation into a memory for her to carry into the Ming Realm Dimension.
• Death met River God in the Ming Realm Dimension, and Lu Chen explained that River God wielded the reincarnation law and might have once been omniverse-level.
• Death told Lu Chen about Eternity’s plan, and Lu Chen considered visiting the Shadow Great Emperors to use their Necroswords against the authorities.
• Death invited Lu Chen to get some exercise, and Lu Chen asked if he could invite a few more people.

Jiang Xiaoyu received approval to destroy Sakura Country after the Transcendent-Dimensional Chat Group learned about its historical atrocities, and she gained the Flame Dragon Crystal to help carry out the mission. Meanwhile, Bai Yuekui transformed into Snow Mastiff Armor and overwhelmed an Intermediate Snake Dog.

• Jiang Xiaoyu shared materials about Sakura Country's crimes, prompting Ying Zheng and the other chat members to express their fury and support for her plan.
• Jiang Xiaoyu traveled to the Imperial Capital, where China finalized arrangements for the Ten-Person Squad she led.
• Heavenly Dao sent Jiang Xiaoyu the Flame Dragon Crystal, including its strongest form, and unlocked permissions that let her upgrade to Blazing Flame Dragon Emperor without full compatibility.
• Bai Yuekui struggled against an Intermediate Snake Dog until she combined with Snow Mastiff Armor.
• Bai Yuekui used her enhanced speed and strength to land a barrage of heavy punches, badly wounding the Snake Dog.

Bai Yuekui returned to X City as the apocalypse devastated it and found her father, Bai Jingyu, in danger from her transformed brother, Bai Yuetian. She defeated Bai Yuetian with a Thunderclap Fist but was unsure whether she had killed him.

• Bai Yuekui killed an intermediate Snake Dog with her Snow Mastiff Armor, then received a desperate call from Bai Jingyu warning that X City was doomed before the signal cut out.
• Bai Yuekui escaped a catastrophic quake that reduced the primeval forest to ash and returned to X City, where fissures, vines, scarlet particles, and mass petrification had overwhelmed the city.
• Bai Yuekui reached the ruined Angel Research Institute and found Bai Jingyu trapped with broken legs as Bai Yuetian, transformed by a failed biochemical experiment, attacked him.
• Bai Yuekui intercepted Bai Yuetian and punched him through several houses, but he recovered and launched another attack.
• Bai Yuekui struck Bai Yuetian with a Thunderclap Fist, caved in his chest, and knocked him unconscious while Bai Jingyu worried that she had killed him.

Bai Yuekui discovered that a Di Huang-Class Devourer had arrived in the Spirit Cage Plane and triggered a ten-year quest to kill it and save humanity. After she slew an attacking Ultimate Devourer with the Snow Mastiff Armor, a mysterious man controlling the Di Huang-Class Devourer watched her escape.

• Bai Yuekui confirmed that Bai Yuetian was alive, and Bai Jingyu told her about the mysterious outsider behind the Angel Research Institute.
• An earthquake drove Bai Yuekui, Bai Jingyu, and the unconscious Bai Yuetian to safety, where they saw dozens of powerful Devourers, including a Di Huang-Class Devourer.
• Bai Yuekui received a personal Chat Group quest to kill the Di Huang-Class Devourer within ten years and save the Spirit Cage Plane.
• Bai Yuekui livestreamed the devastation and explained how crimson particles turned people into stone and transformed animals and plants into Devourers.
• When an Ultimate Devourer charged her, Bai Yuekui used the Snow Mastiff Armor's Thunderclap Slash to destroy it, then fled with Bai Jingyu and Bai Yuetian.
• The Di Huang-Class Devourer stopped the other Devourers from pursuing Bai Yuekui, while a man inside its pupil revealed that he was controlling it and wondered whether Bai Yuekui was a Reincarnator from Main God Space.

Huang Rong learned that Ouyang Feng and Ouyang Ke had arrived on Peach Blossom Island, and suspected Ouyang Ke was a Reincarnator because his strength exceeded what she knew from the original story. When Ouyang Feng proposed a match between Ouyang Ke and Huang Rong, she angrily confronted him.

• Huang Rong watched Bai Yuekui's livestream and resolved to become as powerful as her.
• Huang Yaoshi told Huang Rong that Ouyang Feng and Ouyang Ke were visiting Peach Blossom Island, and she rejected the idea of marrying Ouyang Ke.
• Ouyang Feng and Ouyang Ke discussed Huang Rong and their desire to win her over, while Ouyang Ke secretly plotted against his uncle.
• Huang Yaoshi introduced Huang Rong to the visitors, and she noticed that Ouyang Feng was at Xiantian ninth rank and Ouyang Ke at Xiantian fifth rank.
• Ouyang Feng proposed that Huang Rong marry Ouyang Ke, and Huang Rong pointed at him and called him senile.

Huang Rong faced Ouyang Ke, a transmigrator with a system who had come to Peach Blossom Island to court her. Wearing the Tnáduō Armor, she defeated him and shattered his dantian, while Ouyang Feng rushed to his ruined nephew.

• Ouyang Ke stopped Ouyang Feng from arguing with Huang Yaoshi, then tried to court Huang Rong, who accused him of lusting after her appearance.
• Ouyang Ke's system mocked him, and Huang Rong's Chat Group triggered a mission to eliminate the transmigrator for 50,000 points.
• Huang Rong told Ouyang Ke she would give him a chance if he could defeat her, and she livestreamed their fight to the Chat Group.
• Ouyang Ke attacked with his fifth-grade Xiantian strength, but Huang Rong donned the Tnáduō Armor and sent him flying with a wind-powered punch.
• Huang Rong struck Ouyang Ke's dantian and shattered it, and Ouyang Feng rushed to his nephew.

Huang Rong killed Ouyang Feng and Ouyang Ke to complete her mission, then Lu Chen arrived and destroyed the Many Children, Many Blessings System. After the mission rewarded Huang Rong, she told Lu Chen she had missed him.

• Huang Rong dodged Ouyang Feng's Snake Fist Technique and punched through his back and heart, killing him.
• Huang Rong approached Ouyang Ke, but his system abandoned him, and he died after spitting up blood.
• The Many Children, Many Blessings System asked Huang Rong about her Tnáduō Armor, so she contacted Lu Chen, who descended into the world.
• Lu Chen suppressed the system, discovered it came from the System Civilization, and destroyed it despite its threat.
• Huang Rong received 50,000 points for completing the mission, then hugged Lu Chen's arm and told him she had missed him.

Lu Chen entered the Shadow Dimension to propose an alliance with the Shadow Great Emperors, revealing that his recovered memories identified them as siblings and offering to help restore her true Heavenly Dao form. The Shadow Great Emperors agreed to give him her Heavenly Dao Origin but asked how he would fulfill his promise.

• Lu Chen shattered the Shadow Dimension's barriers with a punch and entered, while Mephisto watched warily from Hell.
• Set swallowed gray energy that urged him to seek the blessing of the Great Old Ones, and a cloud of gray mist enveloped him.
• Lu Chen warned the Shadow Great Emperors that Knull slept inside the Necrosword, then said he had come to discuss working together.
• Lu Chen revealed that his recovered memories showed he and the Shadow Great Emperors had been brother and sister before someone turned them against each other.
• Lu Chen offered to help the Shadow Great Emperors restore her true Heavenly Dao form in exchange for her Heavenly Dao Origin, and she asked how he would help.

Lu Chen recruited the Shadow Great Emperor to kill gods formed from Eternity’s authority, while keeping Eternity’s involvement secret. After staging a fight with the Shadow Great Emperor, Lu Chen left and realized that Knull’s remnant soul dwelled in the Necrosword.

• Lu Chen told the Shadow Great Emperor that he would kill gods chosen by Eternity and devour their origins to restore his Heavenly Dao true body, while concealing Eternity’s role.
• Lu Chen explained that gods tied to time and space had evolved from Eternity’s authority, and that the Necrosword could overcome their immortality.
• Lu Chen attacked the Shadow Great Emperor to make their cooperation look like a feud, and they fought until Lu Chen escaped the Shadow Dimension.
• Knull spoke to the Shadow Great Emperor through the Necrosword and offered his power to help slaughter the gods, revealing that his true body had been shattered by the Colored Celestials.
• Lu Chen left the Shadow Dimension and realized that Knull’s remnant soul was inside the Necrosword.

Lu Chen visited the Ming Realm to prepare to create the Asura Armor, then met Death to arrange a covert alliance between the Shadow Great Emperors and Eternity against the gods. He left Death ready to coordinate the plan and stayed with her afterward.

• Lu Chen returned to the Ming Realm and examined the light origin needed to create the Asura Armor, while considering Thanos as another possible summoner.
• Lu Chen visited Death in the Land of Finality and told her that the Shadow Great Emperors had agreed to cooperate with him.
• Lu Chen showed Death how light and darkness merged in his universe, explaining that the Shadow Great Emperors was his younger sister.
• Lu Chen instructed Death to have Eternity provide the gods' coordinates and pretend to aid them while the Shadow Great Emperors killed them and reclaimed their authorities.
• Lu Chen warned Death about Knull's remnant soul in the Necrosword and told her to coordinate with Galactus and await his signal to end the alliance.
• Death asked Lu Chen to stay with her, and he kissed her.

Devour approached the Dark Council and demonstrated how Symbiotes could enhance their hosts, impressing Dracula, Apocalypse, and Agatha. Dracula welcomed Devour and four of his siblings into the Council, while Agatha chose Scream as her symbiote partner.

• Devour hid in the Dark Council Hall until Dracula, Apocalypse, and Agatha arrived and discussed their search for the Hammer of Skadi and their fears of an impending Avengers attack.
• After Devour revealed himself, he explained the Symbiotes’ powers and fought Apocalypse while possessing a vampire, impressing him with his strength.
• Devour possessed Dracula, whose power rose noticeably, then named his siblings Venom, Riot, Carnage, Lasher, and Scream.
• Dracula invited Devour to bring the other Symbiotes, and Riot, Carnage, Lasher, and Scream arrived at the Council Hall.
• Agatha chose Scream as her partner, and Scream possessed her, tripling her aura and bringing her close to mid-stage Demigod power.

Daredevil became the summoner of the Kurevo Armor, strengthening the Avengers as they prepared to confront the Dark Council. Meanwhile, Sin went to the Dark Council on Cul’s orders to spread fear, while an ominous presence awakened beneath the abyss of the Nine Realms.

• Riot bonded with Apocalypse, greatly increasing his power, while Dracula assigned the remaining Symbiotes to potential Dark Council partners.
• Daredevil heard the mysterious call again, and Captain America took him to Doctor Strange at the Sanctum Sanctorum.
• The Kurevo Armor recognized Daredevil, who summoned and donned the earth-element armor.
• Captain America told the Avengers about Daredevil’s new armor, and Stark said the Tru Armor could be ready in another week.
• Cul ordered Sin to take her heavenly hammer to the Dark Council and spread fear on Earth so he could break Odin’s seal.
• A pair of enormous blood-red eyes opened beneath the abyss of the Nine Realms.

Man-Thing learned from the Shadow Great Emperors that he should remain sealed until the Ming Realm's forces were no longer a threat. On Earth, Sin attacked the Dark Council but was defeated by Dracula before revealing that she sought their help on behalf of the God of Fear, Cul.

• Man-Thing saw the Shadow Great Emperors arrive beneath the abyss, and she warned him to wait until three hundred years from that day before emerging.
• The Shadow Great Emperors showed Man-Thing images of the Dimension War and Odin's fall, then promised to lead him to the universe's pinnacle.
• Sin smashed her way into the Dark Council and attacked Apocalypse and his companions, but Dracula overpowered her.
• Agatha's Darkhold revealed that a late-stage Skyfather-level god stood behind Sin, who identified herself as Cul's apostle.
• Sin asked the Dark Council to spread fear so Cul could break his seal and help them rule the world.

The Dark Council launched a global war after agreeing to help Cul break free of his seal, forcing the Avengers, Wakanda, S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Sanctum Sanctorum to mobilize. Cul escaped after three days and headed for Earth, while ordinary people faced attacks across the world.

• Sin persuaded Dracula, Apocalypse, and the other Dark Council leaders to cooperate with Cul, and they ordered dark factions across Earth to begin the war.
• Captain America and Stark mobilized the Avengers alongside Wakanda, S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Sanctum Sanctorum to fight the spreading attacks.
• Apocalypse gave Shadow Armor Crystals to dozens of dark-faction leaders, who transformed into Dark Creatures and set out to slaughter their enemies.
• After absorbing fear from Earth for three days, Cul broke free of his seal at the early Skyfather level and set off for Earth, vowing to kill Hela.
• Man-Thing dismissed Cul as a threat and watched events on Earth as Blade rescued a mother and daughter from an attacker in New York.
• Wakanda and S.H.I.E.L.D. fought human dark factions while the Sanctum Sanctorum and Avengers battled the Dark Races, leaving civilians terrified and overwhelmed.