Chapter Summaries

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.

Lu Chen attacked Chthon to seize the Primordial Reality Stone, and their battle destroyed a hyper-multiverse. Chthon fled into his dimension as the Living Tribunal appeared.

• Lu Chen demanded the Primordial Reality Stone from Chthon and attacked him when he refused.
• Chthon fought back with chaos force, while Lu Chen used the Basic Emperor Armor and matched his assault.
• Lu Chen used Di Huang's Shield to absorb Chthon's punch, then struck him with the Di Huang Demon-Sealing Fist and Demon-Subduing Kick.
• Chthon unleashed his full chaos force, and the collision with Lu Chen's shield destroyed a hyper-multiverse.
• The Living Tribunal appeared, and Chthon fled into his dimension.

After losing to the Lord of the Ming Realm, Chthon healed in his dimension and summoned Set, Eye-Beast, and Mephisto to discuss their lack of a way to defeat him. Mephisto warned that the Lord had no apparent weaknesses and revealed the formidable strength of his generals, while Set recognized a connection to the beyond-the-framework worldview.

• Chthon returned to his dimension, healed in the sea of blood, and resolved to meet with his old allies after failing to fully analyze the Primordial Reality Stone.
• Chthon found Set in the Sea of Serpents Dimension and told him that the Lord of the Ming Realm had defeated him; Set said he had been sleeping and claimed not to know about the fight.
• Chthon summoned Eye-Beast and Mephisto to ask whether they had found any weaknesses in the Lord of the Ming Realm.
• Mephisto said the Lord relied on absolute strength and described how Phoenix and The Ancient One could defeat the Dimension Demons, with Phoenix able to reach the hyper-multiverse-level peak.
• Mephisto warned Chthon not to target the Shadow Great Emperors, and Set connected his past encounter with a strange consciousness to the beyond-the-framework worldview.

Lu Chen visited the Vishanti and demanded that they join the Ming Realm Dimension, warning that the Omniverse faced destruction. After they agreed to submit, the Shadow Great Emperors and Knull discussed a dangerous plan to possess the Asura Armor.

• Chthon called for the Dimension Demons to form an alliance against Lu Chen, and Mephisto, Set, and Eye-Beast agreed to seek out the Dark Universe's Ancient Gods.
• Lu Chen visited Agamotto, Oshtur, and Hoggoth in the White Magic Dimension and asked them to join the Ming Realm Dimension.
• Lu Chen warned the Vishanti that the Omniverse was headed for destruction, then left them to decide whether to submit.
• Oshtur and Hoggoth urged Agamotto to join Lu Chen, and Agamotto later told Lu Chen that the Vishanti would join the Ming Realm Dimension.
• The Shadow Great Emperors questioned Knull's plan to possess the Asura Armor, but Knull warned that they would lose their chance if Lu Chen acquired it first.

The Shadow Great Emperors gave gamma energy, the power of the One-Below-All, to Man-Thing beneath Asgard’s abyss, allowing him to reach early hyper-multiverse-level and escape his seal. Loki alerted Hela, who announced the breach to Zeus at Eternity’s Divine Kingdom.

• Knull told the Shadow Great Emperors about hell power, fairy force, and the light of creation, then revealed he had found a small amount of the One-Below-All’s gamma energy.
• The Shadow Great Emperors brought the gamma energy to Man-Thing beneath Asgard’s abyss, and he recognized it as the source of evil and negative emotions.
• Man-Thing devoured the gamma energy and rose to early hyper-multiverse-level as its power stained Asgard’s sky green.
• The Shadow Great Emperors noticed Di Huang’s lingering fire and earth powers, then left for the Shadow Dimension with Man-Thing after he broke free of the abyss’s seal.
• Loki emerged in the Destroyer Armor with Gungnir and notified Hela, who interrupted Zeus at Eternity’s Divine Kingdom to report that Man-Thing had been unsealed.

Hela left Eternity's Divine Kingdom as the gods panicked over the threat of Ragnarok, while the Dark Ancient Gods and Four Dimension Demons allied against the Lord of the Ming Realm. Their alliance was immediately shaken when the Ming Realm Dimension devoured the Vishanti's white magic dimension, and an unidentified voice appeared behind Cyttorak.

• Hela withdrew from the gods' conference and returned to Asgard, condemning the other gods as useless.
• Chthon, Mephisto, and the Ancient God Blake persuaded the Four Dimension Demons and Ancient Gods to form an alliance against the Lord of the Ming Realm.
• Mephisto theorized that the Lord of the Ming Realm was pursuing the entire omniverse and had ordered the Shadow Great Emperors to hunt gods with space-time abilities.
• The Ming Realm Dimension began devouring the Vishanti's white magic dimension, shocking the newly allied gods and other powers across the universe.
• Cyttorak watched the Ming Realm Dimension, and an eerie, unidentified voice spoke behind him about the universes it recognized.