Recaps

Thor proposed using all six Infinity Stones to create a New Earth and move the battle away from the original Earth, and the Avengers carried out the plan. On the new battlefield, the Avengers fought the Dark Council, while Xiao Yan unleashed a devastating Seven-Colored Fire Lotus that burned countless Dark Creatures.

• Thor proposed combining the Six Infinity Stones to create a New Earth and move the fight there, and Strange lent the Avengers the Time Stone.
• Thor used the Infinity Gauntlet to create the New Earth and transport the Avengers and the Dark Council's leaders there.
• Agatha identified the Infinity Stones as the cause of their relocation, while Gorr hid in the New Earth's shadows.
• Captain America rallied the Avengers, and T'Challa, Stark, Daredevil, Strange, and Johnny transformed and charged into battle.
• Xiao Yan formed a Seven-Colored Fire Lotus, prompting Dracula to fear its power and the Dark Council's leaders to waver.
• Xiao Yan launched Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, and Thor moved the Avengers into an alternate space as Agatha shielded the Dark Council leaders; the blast incinerated countless Dark Creatures.

Xiao Yan’s Seven-Colored Fire Lotus devastated the Dark Creatures on New Earth, but Dracula, Apocalypse, and Agatha joined the battle against the Avengers. Strange fought Agatha and was wounded after destroying her summoned dragon, while Lu Chen revealed that the Dark Council’s leaders held another power besides their Shadow Armor.

• Xiao Yan’s Seven-Colored Fire Lotus burned countless Dark Creatures, and people on original Earth watched the battle broadcast.
• Xiao Zhan and the Celestial Empire’s Imperial Family recognized Xiao Yan and discussed his joining the Avengers.
• Dracula charged at Xiao Yan, Apocalypse engaged the Avengers, and Agatha confronted Strange as the other defenders fought the remaining Dark Creatures.
• Agatha summoned a black Great Dragon from the Darkhold, and Strange destroyed it with the Book of the Vishanti and his Raging Sea spell.
• Agatha ambushed Strange from behind and knocked him into a crater, but he recovered and healed his wound with the Vishanti’s magic.
• Lu Chen said Strange was outmatched by Agatha’s power and experience, then noted that the Dark Council’s leaders had another power besides Shadow Armor.

Strange fought Agatha and discovered that Scream was a symbiote parasitizing her, while Apocalypse revealed Carnage as his own hidden trump card. The Avengers faced the newly symbiote-covered Apocalypse as the battle continued.

• Agatha used the Darkhold to overwhelm Strange, forcing him to transform into the Tsunami Armor and attack her at close range.
• Agatha called on Scream to cover her, and the symbiote's protection let her withstand Strange's sword strikes and knock him away.
• Strange warned the battlefield that symbiotes were parasitizing members of the Dark Council, alerting the Avengers and Xiao Yan.
• Apocalypse struck Stark by surprise, then fought Captain America, T'Challa, Daredevil, Ghost Rider, and Stark until their combined attack sent him flying.
• Apocalypse summoned Carnage, who covered his body, and attacked Captain America as the Avengers continued their assault.

Apocalypse overwhelmed the Avengers until Lu Chen strengthened their armor and brought them to early-stage Demigod. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan crushed Dracula with the Yellow Springs Seal, leaving him barely alive in a deep crater.

• Apocalypse sent Daredevil flying, but Captain America struck him with the Demon-Sealing Slash and opened a chest wound that healed within seconds.
• The Avengers realized their strength and stamina were failing against Apocalypse, who had Carnage's power and had not yet used his Shadow Armor.
• Lu Chen empowered the Avengers' armor, allowing Captain America and the others to break through to early-stage Demigod.
• Xiao Yan struck Dracula with the Yellow Springs Seal, shattering Devour and blasting a thousand-meter-deep crater into the ground.
• Dracula survived the blow with only a breath of life, and Xiao Yan remarked on the vampires' ability to endure lethal injuries.

Lu Chen watched Eternity and the Shadow Great Emperors prepare to attack Kronos, while anticipating the coming Everything Dies plan. On New Earth, Thor joined the battle, Xiao Yan broke Cul’s fear effect, and Apocalypse’s group transformed into the Shadow Five-Element Armor, greatly increasing their power.

• Lu Chen explained that Eternity and the Shadow Great Emperors were targeting Kronos so Eternity could safely claim the gods’ powers of creation.
• Lu Chen recalled the Everything Dies plan and its coming collision of Earths from parallel universes.
• Thor arrived on New Earth and joined the fight as Agatha fell to Strange and Dracula remained suppressed by Xiao Yan.
• Apocalypse called for Cul, the God of Fear, who had killed a white-robed man and weakened the Avengers and Sanctum Sanctorum fighters with fear.
• Xiao Yan used the Green Lotus Core Flame to dispel Cul’s fear, and Thor prepared to face the God of Fear.
• Apocalypse, Cul, Agatha, and Dracula merged with their Shadow Armor, transforming into the Shadow Five-Element Armor and rising to higher power levels.

Thunder Yatales summoned the four elemental crystals and empowered Xiao Yan with golden lightning armor, turning the battle against the Dark Council’s three Skyfather-level gods. Xiao Yan overwhelmed Dracula and Apocalypse, then shattered Agatha’s Darkhold as he attacked her.

• Xiao Yan assessed the strength of the three Skyfather-level gods and realized the Avengers were at a disadvantage.
• Thunder Yatales crossed universe barriers with golden lightning and awakened the Armor Beasts within the four elemental crystals.
• The elemental crystals fused into a Thunder Crystal, and Xiao Yan summoned Thunder Yatales armor.
• Xiao Yan struck Dracula with lightning-and-flame attacks, breaking his shadow shield and driving him into the ground.
• Xiao Yan shattered Apocalypse’s demonic flame dragon and knocked him into the earth.
• Xiao Yan resisted Agatha’s sword energy and broke the Darkhold with his lightning-powered attack.

Xiao Yan killed Agatha and Scream, while Dracula absorbed the Darkhold’s power and devoured Apocalypse, rising toward peak Skyfather-level. Xiao Yan broke through to late Skyfather-level to face Dracula as Thor and the Avengers fought Cul.

• Xiao Yan shattered the Darkhold, killing Agatha, then tore Scream apart as she tried to escape.
• Dracula absorbed the Darkhold’s power, reached late Skyfather-level, and rose from underground.
• Xiao Yan struck Apocalypse, and Dracula caught him before betraying him and devouring his power along with Carnage’s.
• Xiao Yan broke through to late Skyfather-level, matching Dracula as Lu Chen and Thunder Yatales watched.
• Cul battered Thor, but Thor fought back with the Infinity Stones until the Avengers and Strange arrived to help.
• Strange bound Cul with a spell from the Book of the Vishanti, giving the others an opening to unleash their ultimate attacks.

Xiao Yan defeated Cul and Dracula, then used the Infinity Gauntlet to wish for the survivors’ safety as New Earth collapsed. The survivors vanished, leaving New Earth to explode in the Solar System.

• Cul summoned a meteor, but Strange and the others combined their Armor Power to help him destroy it.
• Xiao Yan fought Dracula while his exhausted teammates watched, unable to intervene.
• Xiao Yan trapped Dracula in his Heavenly Flames Domain, then killed Cul by striking down all nine of his lives with the Heaven and Earth Thunder Sword.
• Xiao Yan destroyed Dracula’s saber and arm, then killed him with Thunder Heaven and Earth Slash.
• Xiao Yan took the Infinity Gauntlet from Thor, made a wish, and snapped his fingers as New Earth exploded.

After five years of peace, increasingly frequent natural disasters led Strange to discover that the Everything Dies Experiment had begun and that Earths from parallel universes were moving toward one another. Lu Chen explained that the First Generation Colored Celestials had authorized the Beyonders’ plan, while the Eternity Witches also recognized the experiment’s start.

• Five years after the Dark Council’s defeat, Stark warned Captain America that natural disasters had become increasingly frequent, and they found no evidence of supernatural causes.
• Strange searched the Book of the Vishanti without success, then contacted the Ancient One for guidance.
• The Ancient One reported the disasters to Lu Chen, who explained that the Everything Dies Experiment would make parallel-universe Earths collide and could destroy entire universes.
• Lu Chen told the Ancient One that the First Generation Colored Celestials had authorized the experiment and assured her the Ming Realm Dimension would remain safe.
• The Eternity Witches sensed the Universe moving and realized that the Everything Dies Plan had begun, with the First Generation Colored Celestials behind it.

The Shadow Great Emperors hunted gods who governed time and space, absorbing their essence and claiming their authorities of creation. As her power neared omniverse-level, Lu Chen directed Seventh Eternity to act without arousing the Celestials' suspicions, and Eternity challenged her to a fight.

• The Shadow Great Emperors killed Kronos with the Necrosword, devoured his essence, and gave his authority of creation to Seventh Eternity.
• The Shadow Great Emperors erased Eternity's memories, then hunted down Thoth a year later and took his authority of creation.
• The Shadow Great Emperors killed Chaos two years later, convincing the gods that she was targeting deities who governed time and space.
• Lu Chen observed that the Shadow Great Emperors was nearing omniverse-level and told Eternity to make his move without attracting the Celestials' suspicion.
• Seventh Eternity challenged the Shadow Great Emperors, who welcomed the chance to test the power of a Creator God.

Shadow Great Emperors and Seventh Eternity fought across the Omniverse, destroying countless hyper-multiverses. After their battle nearly broke the barrier to the Beyonders’ Lightless Universe, Lu Chen warned them to stop, but Shadow Great Emperors hurled Eternity into another hyper-multiverse.

• Seventh Eternity appeared in his immense true form outside the Shadow Dimension, and Mephisto learned that Shadow Great Emperors had hunted three peak hyper-multiverse-level gods.
• Shadow Great Emperors and Seventh Eternity exchanged universe-shattering blows, then she merged with the Chaos Armor and grew to match his size.
• The two fought across universes and destroyed countless hyper-multiverses, leaving only a few Dimension Demons’ universes intact.
• Shadow Great Emperors punched Seventh Eternity into the barrier separating the hyper-multiverses from the Lightless Universe, cracking it and drawing the attention of an Ivory King.
• Lu Chen warned Eternity that they were close to entering the Beyonders’ home, so Eternity asked Shadow Great Emperors to stop, but she grabbed him and threw him into another hyper-multiverse.

Thanos awakened from the God Quarry’s dream with his memories restored and began slaughtering the members of the Fantastic Five. He killed Night Bat, Captain Britain, and Siren, leaving Storm King and Human Torch to face him.

• Cracks appeared in Thanos’s statue as the Eternity Witch realized he was close to passing the God Quarry’s trial.
• Thanos woke from his dream, remembered his defeat in the Reality Dimension, and turned his killing intent on Night Bat and Captain Britain.
• Thanos killed Night Bat and Captain Britain, then headed downstairs as the building’s alarm rang.
• Storm King, Siren, and Human Torch confronted Thanos, who shrugged off the men’s attacks and endured Siren’s mental assault.
• Thanos emerged from the smoke, seized Siren, and crushed her head before Storm King and Human Torch could save her.

Thanos defeated the dream versions of Human Torch and Storm King, then destroyed the dream planet and returned to the Reality Dimension. After passing the God Quarry’s trial, he received Infinity Power and rose to early hyper-omniverse-level.

• Thanos used spatial jumps and gravity to overpower Human Torch and Storm King, despite Human Torch breaking through to Level Five.
• Thanos killed Storm King and crushed Human Torch with his Gravity Ability.
• Thanos destroyed the planet and shattered the dream, awakening in the God Quarry.
• The Eternity Witch congratulated Thanos and granted him the six-colored Infinity Power.
• Thanos’s strength rose to early hyper-omniverse-level, and he destroyed a distant multi-universe with an energy sphere.

Thanos emerged from the God Quarry with immense power, unaware that the First Firmament’s consciousness had changed his goal to destroying the gods. As the Shadow Great Emperors rose to peak hyper-omniverse-level and the gods fled toward Eternity’s Divine Kingdom, Lu Chen arranged for Thanos to attack it and revealed the First Firmament’s presence to Seventh Eternity.

• Thanos returned from the God Quarry with the Eternity Witch’s blessing, while the First Firmament’s consciousness inside him redirected him to destroy the gods.
• The Shadow Great Emperors devoured another god’s origin and broke through to peak hyper-omniverse-level, prompting the universe’s gods to seek refuge in Eternity’s Divine Kingdom.
• Lu Chen reassured Death that Thanos could not reclaim the gods’ creation authority, then summoned Seventh Eternity to discuss the Shadow Great Emperors.
• Lu Chen ordered Seventh Eternity to reveal the hyper-multiverse’s Divine Kingdom to Thanos and pretend to lose to him, lowering Seventh Eternity’s power to hyper-multiverse-level peak.
• Lu Chen told Seventh Eternity that the First Firmament’s consciousness was inside Thanos and explained why it had chosen him.

Zeus convened the gods in Eternity's Divine Kingdom to discuss the Shadow Great Emperors' hunt, but they feared they were too weak to stop her or Thanos. After Thanos resolved to hunt the Celestials, the Shadow Great Emperors appeared and offered to partner with him in hunting gods.

• Hela arrived at Eternity's Divine Kingdom, where Zeus opened a conference about the Shadow Great Emperors hunting gods.
• A chief god urged the gods to kill the Shadow Great Emperors and destroy the Necrosword, but another warned that she had reached peak hyper-omniverse-level and Thanos had gained Infinity Power.
• Shiva and Amaterasu asked whether the Celestials would help, and Zeus told the gods to remain in the divine kingdom while he contacted them.
• Thanos declared that he would hunt the Celestials, but the Shadow Great Emperors froze space and time and confronted him aboard his warship.
• The Shadow Great Emperors offered Thanos a partnership, saying she wanted to save him from the Celestials and hunt the gods alongside him.

Shadow Great Emperors persuaded Thanos to join her campaign against the gods and revealed the immense power of Di Huang and OAA. She then gathered her allies in the Land of Finality, where Thanos was summoned to meet them.

• Shadow Great Emperors told Thanos that Di Huang rivaled OAA in strength and offered to cooperate against the gods, and Thanos agreed.
• Shadow Great Emperors visited Mephisto, who reported that the Dark Ancient Gods refused to emerge, Eye-Beast was still recovering, and Set had developed a twisted second soul and reached peak hyper-multiverse-level strength.
• Shadow Great Emperors met Death in the Land of Finality and asked her to summon Lu Chen and Seventh Eternity.
• Lu Chen learned that Thanos had agreed to cooperate and asked Death to summon him.
• Death called Thanos to the Land of Finality, and Thanos stopped resisting her pull and arrived there.

Lu Chen recruited Thanos to help stop the Beyonders’ Everything Dies plan, which threatened to destroy the omniverse, and laid out a covert scheme to use Thanos and the Asura Armor against the gods. After the allies departed, Knull and the Shadow Great Emperors reflected on Lu Chen’s far-reaching plan.

• Lu Chen introduced Thanos to Death, Eternity, Di Huang, and the Shadow Great Emperors, then explained that he and Di Huang could not act directly and the creation gods were being watched by the Colored Celestials.
• Eternity revealed that the Beyonders would carry out the Everything Dies plan to destroy the omniverse, prompting the Shadow Great Emperors to realize Lu Chen had maneuvered her into an alliance.
• Thanos agreed to become their blade, driven by the Celestials’ destruction of Titan Star and the gods’ indifference, and Lu Chen promised him power through the Asura Armor.
• Lu Chen assigned roles in the plan: Thanos would defeat Eternity in a staged battle, Eternity would expose the divine realm, the Shadow Great Emperors would release Man-Thing, and Death would let Thanos kill the gods.
• Lu Chen explained that the Asura Armor would appear at the boundary between the Ming Realm Dimension and the Shadow Dimension, then Eternity erased his memories and left while the Shadow Great Emperors returned to her realm.
• In the Shadow Dimension, Knull expressed shock at Lu Chen’s scheme, and the Shadow Great Emperors agreed that Di Huang had always planned on such a vast scale.

Lu Chen brought Thanos to the Ming Realm Dimension, bound him to the Asura Armor, and helped him resurrect the Black Order. He then planned to test his theory for destroying Dimension Demons by targeting Nightmare.

• Lu Chen showed Thanos the Ming Realm Dimension and had him infuse the Asura Armor with his soul and Infinity Power, awakening a hazy consciousness in the armor.
• Thanos returned to Chitauri Planet and used his Infinity Power to resurrect Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, Corvus Glaive, and Proxima Midnight.
• Thanos told the Black Order that the Celestials were his next target for eradication.
• Lu Chen told Wu Fengji and the Ancient One that he planned to hunt Dimension Demons, theorizing that destroying a Dimension's Heart could remove a demon's source of power.
• The Ancient One explained that Nightmare ruled the Dream Dimension, grew stronger from fear, and had once nearly devoured Earth.

Lu Chen visited Nightmare in the Dream Dimension to learn how Dimension Demons could be killed permanently, and Nightmare revealed that destroying a demon’s dimensional core removed its immortality. After Lu Chen showed Nightmare his future death at the hands of the Lord of Chaos, Nightmare asked to join the Ming Realm Dimension to change his fate.

• Lu Chen entered the Dream Dimension, where Nightmare woke and feared the Lord of the Ming Realm.
• Lu Chen asked how to erase Dimension Demons, and Nightmare explained that destroying their dimensional cores removed their undying nature.
• Nightmare handed Lu Chen his dimensional core, and Lu Chen used Heavenly Dao Power to view its memories before returning it.
• Lu Chen showed Nightmare a future in which the Lord of Chaos killed him while destroying most of the Hyper-Multiverse.
• Nightmare asked Lu Chen to take him into the Ming Realm Dimension, offering to become his loyal subordinate.

Nightmare joined Lu Chen’s Ming Realm Dimension, which absorbed the Dream Dimension and gained the dream law as the Omniverse underwent upheavals, including the collapse of the Sacred Timeline. The chapter left Lu Chen considering a visit to Chthon’s dimension while Strange and America fled a monster and searched for the Book of the Vishanti.

• Nightmare told Lu Chen that he feared the changes in the Omniverse, and Lu Chen offered him the dream law if he joined the Ming Realm Dimension.
• Nightmare handed Lu Chen the Dimensional Core, and the Ming Realm Dimension absorbed the Dream Dimension as gods, Celestials, and Ivory Kings reacted to the upheaval.
• The Sacred Timeline collapsed, and Kang, He Who Remains, and the Time Variance Authority vanished with it.
• The Ming Realm Dimension gained the dream law, which could invade dreams and make their events real, and Lu Chen wondered about Chthon’s origins.
• Strange fled with America from a giant monster, froze it with a spell, and said they needed to find the Book of the Vishanti.

In a parallel universe, Strange tried to drain America's power to stop a tentacled monster, but the monster's attack triggered America's ability to cross universes and pulled all three into an unknown world. In Earth-616, Strange sought Wanda's help after experiencing visions of the events in another universe.

• Strange and America reached the Book of the Vishanti, but the monster broke free and wounded Strange.
• Strange tried to drain America's power, claiming he needed it to stop the monster, but the monster pierced his chest.
• America ran for the Book, but the monster seized her before she could take it.
• America's power opened a five-pointed star portal, and Strange, America, and the monster were pulled into an unknown universe.
• Strange awoke in the main universe and realized his visions showed his counterpart's real crisis in a parallel universe.
• Strange visited Wanda in Westview and asked for her help, though she said she had not used magic in a long time.

Strange learned that Wanda had become the Scarlet Witch through the Darkhold and planned to take America’s power, so he ordered Kamar-Taj to prepare for an attack. Meanwhile, Lu Chen recognized the events unfolding, and Wanda of Earth-616 confronted the Illuminati while possessing Wanda of Earth-838.

• Wanda revealed that she intended to use America’s power to travel to a universe where she could reunite with Vision and her children, and threatened Kamar-Taj if Strange refused to surrender America.
• Strange returned to the Sanctum Sanctorum and told Wong that Wanda had become their enemy and would attack before sunset.
• Wong summoned the sorcerers back to Kamar-Taj and warned them to prepare to defend it against the Scarlet Witch.
• In the Main Universe’s Ming Realm Dimension, Lu Chen sensed the Darkhold’s power, recognized the events of Doctor Strange 2, and wondered whether Chthon was responsible.
• On Earth-838, Wanda of Earth-616 possessed Wanda of Earth-838 through Dreamwalking and faced the Illuminati; after Mister Fantastic said his children’s mother was alive, Wanda remarked that someone would remain to raise them.

Wanda killed Black Bolt and Mister Fantastic as Earth-616's Strange and America searched for the Book of the Vishanti. They reached the Main Universe, where its Strange learned that this universe's Wanda Maximoff was an apparently ordinary college student, and brought the newcomers to meet its powerful Avengers.

• Wanda erased Black Bolt's mouth and killed him, then unraveled and killed Mister Fantastic as Captain Carter and Captain Marvel attacked her.
• Earth-616's Strange urged America to locate the Book of the Vishanti, and she opened a portal to another universe's Sanctum Sanctorum.
• Earth-616's Strange, America, and Christine emerged in the Main Universe's Sanctum Sanctorum and met its Strange and Xiao Yan.
• The Main Universe's Strange asked Stark to investigate Wanda Maximoff, and Stark found that she was an 18-year-old Columbia University student with a clean record.
• Earth-616's Strange and the Main Universe's Strange suspected Wanda's Chaos Magic had not awakened, then the Main Universe's Strange teleported the group to the Avengers.

Wanda from Earth-616 destroyed the Illuminati on Earth-838, then used the Darkhold to Dreamwalk into the Main Universe's Wanda. As the Avengers prepared to face her, Earth-616's Strange learned about the Main Universe's history and the Ancient One's fate, and Wanda arrived.

• Wanda killed Captain Carter, Captain Marvel, Professor Charles, and Morton, wiping out Earth-838's Illuminati.
• Wanda used the Darkhold to locate the Main Universe's Wanda and possessed her while she fed a stray cat at Columbia University.
• The Main Universe's Strange showed Earth-616's Strange and America the Avengers' wall of honor, and Earth-616's Strange mourned the Ancient One, who had chosen to die.
• The Avengers' surveillance detected Wanda's approach, and Strange warned the team that she was at least Skyfather-level in her own universe.
• Earth-616's Strange told Stark that his counterpart had defeated Thanos by using the Infinity Stones to perform the Snap.
• A streak of scarlet energy tore through space as the Avengers prepared for Wanda's arrival.

Lu Chen sent Wu Fengji to Earth-616 to seize Wanda and the Darkhold, then stripped Wanda of her chaos force and brought her to the Chthon Dimension. He confronted Chthon, who warily asked why the Lord of the Ming Realm had come.

• Lu Chen sensed Wanda's Chaos Magic in the Main Universe and sent Wu Fengji to Mount Wundagore to capture Wanda and retrieve the Darkhold.
• On Earth, Wanda demanded America Chavez's power, and Earth-616's Strange explained that she wanted to travel between universes to resurrect Vision and reunite with her imagined children.
• Wanda suddenly collapsed when Wu Fengji attacked her real body on Mount Wundagore.
• Wu Fengji subdued Wanda in the Ming Realm Dimension, and Lu Chen stripped away her chaos force.
• Lu Chen entered the Chthon Dimension and faced Chthon, who asked what had brought him there.