Chapter Summaries

Stephen Fang fought Captain Marvel after rejecting demands to sign an agreement, then challenged the Avengers and other superhero organizations to a life-and-death contest. As the battle escalated, the Fantastic Four arrived, and Stephen Fang summoned a colossal wooden Buddha.

• Captain Marvel confronted Stephen Fang over the proposed agreement, and he struck her before the two prepared to fight.
• Iron Man tried to take responsibility, but Stephen Fang challenged the superheroes to a contest whose outcome would decide whether their organizations could interfere with him.
• Professor X tried to calm Stephen Fang and make him reconsider killing Buggy, but Stephen refused to back down, and Professor X allowed Captain Marvel to attack.
• Captain Marvel and Stephen Fang clashed above Stark Tower until the Fantastic Four arrived to join the confrontation.
• After Captain Marvel sent him crashing through several buildings, Stephen Fang formed a hand seal and summoned a wooden Buddha towering more than six hundred meters high.

Stephen Fang used a colossal Wood Release Buddha to battle Captain Marvel across New York, wearing her down with its attacks and draining vines. He then unleashed his Mutual Steel Coil Technique, sending her crashing toward the ground, while Nick Fury insisted she was about to get serious.

• Stephen Fang summoned a giant Thousand-Armed Buddha that shook New York and blocked Professor X’s psychic waves.
• Captain Marvel fought the Buddha in Binary Mode, trading devastating blows with its Armament Haki-enhanced arms.
• Stephen Fang trapped Carol with wooden vines that drained her energy, then struck her with a humiliating palm slap.
• Stephen Fang used Flying Thunder God to rain sixty-ton steel coils onto Carol and knock her out of the sky.
• Captain America feared that Carol had lost, but Nick Fury said she was about to get serious.

Captain Marvel unleashed Binary Mode: Collapsing Nova, devastating Midtown Manhattan as Stephen Fang protected Iron Man and survived the blast. Captain America confronted Carol over the destruction, and Stephen emerged from the rubble to challenge her before Nick Fury ordered everyone to stop.

• Carol gathered energy from across New York and fired Binary Mode: Collapsing Nova at Stephen Fang.
• The blast tore through the battlefield, scattering Iron Man, while Hulk shielded Spider-Man and Quicksilver evacuated Wanda and Crossbones.
• Stephen Fang teleported Iron Man to safety outside Xavier's School and watched the Nova devastate Manhattan.
• After the battle, Captain America confronted Captain Marvel about the civilians and destruction in the ruins.
• Stephen Fang emerged from the rubble and taunted Carol, but Nick Fury ordered everyone to stop.

Stephen Fang clashed with the heroes over the Winter Soldier’s killings and Manhattan’s destruction as both the X-Men and Magneto arrived and tried to sway the standoff. He rejected Magneto’s offer and accused Captain Marvel of being the villain behind Manhattan’s fate.

• Nick Fury arrived and tried to end the standoff, but Stephen Fang argued with Captain America and Professor X over the Winter Soldier’s victims and the destruction of Manhattan.
• Hulk joined Iron Man’s side, and Thing stepped forward to fight Stephen Fang.
• Storm, Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Wolverine arrived to support Professor X, who again urged Stephen Fang to sign the agreement.
• Magneto arrived, opposed the X-Men, and invited Stephen Fang to join the Brotherhood of mutants.
• Stephen Fang rejected Magneto’s offer, pointed at Captain Marvel, and warned that future textbooks would reveal who was truly responsible for Manhattan’s destruction.

The civil war erupted in Manhattan as Stephen Fang and Iron Man’s side faced a large coalition of heroes, while new fighters joined the battle. Surrounded by Captain Marvel and the Fantastic Four, Stephen began awakening his Susanoo.

• Crossbones reminded Scarlet Witch that Tony Stark’s missiles had killed her parents, and Wanda’s Chaos Magic began to surge toward Iron Man before Hulk took the blast and went berserk.
• Captain America, Falcon, Spider-Man, Mister Fantastic, Thing, Hawkeye, and Scarlet Witch clashed across the battlefield as Hulk fought the Avengers.
• War Machine arrived and demanded Tony Stark surrender his armor’s Level One access, while Tony confronted his former friend over siding with S.H.I.E.L.D.’s agreement.
• Abomination and She-Hulk joined Thing against Hulk, who rejected their demand to surrender and prepared to fight all three.
• Stephen Fang faced Captain Marvel, Human Torch, and the invisible Invisible Woman, then activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and called forth his Susanoo.

Stephen Fang used his Armament Haki-enhanced Susanoo, Green Lantern Ring, and Flying Thunder God Technique to injure Captain Marvel after she failed to break through his defenses. Storm tried to stop the fight, but Stephen attacked her and then faced a flanking assault from Human Torch.

• Stephen Fang reinforced his Susanoo with Armament Haki, cut Captain Marvel with its greatsword, and overwhelmed her with a barrage of black blades.
• Captain Marvel charged again, but Stephen Fang blocked her punch with Susanoo's greatsword, Iron Body, and the Divine Protection Barrier, sending her flying with the backlash.
• Stephen Fang used the Green Lantern Ring to trap Captain Marvel in metal constructs, then teleported behind her with the Flying Thunder God Technique and cut her back.
• Storm descended and urged Stephen Fang to stop, but he blamed the destruction on Captain Marvel and slashed at Storm with Susanoo.
• Human Torch attacked Susanoo's joints with flames while Storm prepared a hurricane, and Stephen Fang mocked Human Torch's resemblance to Captain America.

Stephen Fang defeated Human Torch with a Sage Art Water Release, then vanished from a combined assault by Storm and Captain Marvel and returned after recovering. Elsewhere, Hulk fought Thing, Abomination, and She-Hulk as Manhattan’s battle drew the attention of other factions.

• Stephen Fang swallowed Human Torch in the Crimson Water Dragon and knocked him unconscious.
• Storm and Captain Marvel damaged Susanoo with a combined attack, but Stephen Fang vanished and reappeared after using Divine Protection: Recovery.
• Hulk fought Thing, Abomination, and She-Hulk, overpowering their coordinated attacks.
• Abomination took Hulk’s hammer blow to protect Thing, breaking his collarbone while Hulk’s fist was torn open.
• The battle across Manhattan drew the attention of other heroes, villains, and factions.

Magneto fought the X-Men in devastated Manhattan while Stephen Fang tried to prevent Jean Grey’s Phoenix Force from spiraling out of control. Stephen removed Jean from the battlefield and then turned his attention to Captain Marvel, Storm, and Quicksilver, ending with Quicksilver realizing Stephen could predict his movements.

• Magneto immobilized Wolverine, deflected Cyclops’s optic blast, and attacked the X-Men with metal wreckage.
• Jean Grey’s Phoenix Force surged out of control, and Magneto redirected Wolverine’s claws toward her before Stephen Fang intervened.
• Jean’s power erupted and disrupted Magneto’s magnetic field, after which Stephen Fang used Flying Thunder God to leave her on a snowy mountain.
• Stephen Fang coated his Susanoo sword with Green Lantern energy and injured Carol with a genjutsu illusion.
• Stephen Fang marked Storm, then trapped her beneath a steel coil and inside a Green Cage, separating her from Captain Marvel.
• Stephen Fang swung his sword toward Quicksilver, who realized Stephen was predicting his movements.

Stephen Fang fought Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, but stopped short of killing them to avoid provoking Wanda's Chaos Magic. The battle then returned to Captain Marvel's main battlefield, where Iron Man faced Captain America and the other heroes.

• Stephen Fang used Susanoo's blades and Green Lantern constructs to corner Quicksilver, while Wanda's Chaos Magic destroyed some of the blades.
• Stephen Fang trapped Wanda with Hidden Shadow Snake Hands, but Quicksilver rescued her from Susanoo's attack.
• Stephen Fang stopped attacking, and Wanda told Quicksilver to observe the situation rather than fight on.
• Iron Man exchanged attacks and accusations with Captain America and War Machine Rhodey as Little Spider, Falcon Sam, and Ant-Man Scott joined the clash.
• Black Panther attacked Iron Man with a spear and said his father had paid the price.

Stephen Fang continued fighting Captain Marvel and the Avengers, using his speed and powers to disable several heroes while Carol struggled to catch him. The battle ended with Stephen Fang tormenting Mister Fantastic as Carol’s Binary Energy surged across the battlefield.

• Stephen Fang exchanged blows with Captain Marvel, who broke through his defenses before he escaped her attack with Flying Thunder God.
• Stephen Fang tore apart Falcon Sam Wilson’s mechanical wings, caught Captain America’s shield, and slapped Ant-Man into the ground.
• Stephen Fang blasted War Machine Rhodey away, and Tony Stark thanked him before Stephen Fang warned Tony against giving away suits.
• Stephen Fang pinned and mutilated Mister Fantastic with an industrial iron and sewing machine, then branded his forehead with “Bootleg Gum-Gum Fruit.”
• Captain Marvel unleashed her Binary Energy and threatened to blast Stephen Fang into dust, but he vanished again.

Stephen Fang used his Susanoo Clad Great Buddha to overwhelm Captain Marvel and drive her into a berserk state. Thor and Gu arrived as she prepared to unleash a potentially devastating attack on Earth.

• Stephen Fang trapped the Invisible Woman, taunted Captain Marvel, and used Flying Thunder God to escape her Binary Energy blast.
• Stephen Fang teleported to Hulk, struck Abomination and She-Hulk, and launched Hulk away with his Green Lantern Ring.
• Iron Man evacuated the unconscious Spider-Man and Rhodey while Stephen Fang summoned the Susanoo Clad Great Buddha.
• Stephen Fang battered Captain Marvel with True Several Thousand Hands and Welcoming Approach: Thousand-Hand Kill, sending her crashing through buildings.
• Thor arrived to confront Captain Marvel, but Gu knocked him aside and ordered her to leave Earth.

Gu intervened in the battle, repaired part of Manhattan, and sent Captain Marvel away after warning that the conflict threatened the Timeline. She left the Avengers, Professor X, Magneto, and Stephen Fang amid the ruins, cautioning them not to go too far.

• Gu confronted Captain Marvel and showed how Carol's actions could have caused catastrophic damage to the Timeline and New York.
• Gu used the Eye of Agamotto to restore several blocks of Manhattan and declared that Carol had to return to Hala.
• Gu banished Captain Marvel into space, prompting Nick Fury to prepare to negotiate with her.
• Gu reprimanded Professor X, sent Magneto through a portal, and warned Stephen Fang not to go too far before departing.
• Tony Stark joked about being lectured, and Banner changed back from Hulk and asked where his pants were.

After the Manhattan battle, the heroes negotiated a temporary truce while assessing the devastating casualties. Stephen Fang then arrived at Kamar-Taj, where Gu told Wong to leave him alone, and warned Strange not to read a stolen book before departing.

• The heroes accounted for the battle’s casualties, including War Machine’s likely vegetative state, Storm’s uncertain survival, and the Fantastic Four’s severe injuries.
• Gu told Wong that Stephen Fang was so special the Time Stone could not see his future, then ordered Wong to bring the surgeon to her.
• Stephen Fang rebuked Captain America and Professor X during negotiations, while Nick Fury proposed that Omega Level Ability Users register with S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Tony Stark secured an agreement for S.H.I.E.L.D. to investigate Hydra, and Stephen Fang left as the sides settled into a temporary truce.
• Stephen Fang appeared in Strange’s dormitory, told him to return the stolen book and not read it, then left through the door.

Stephen Fang began pursuing intensive Kamar-Taj training while the Avengers and world governments reeled from the Manhattan battle and debated regulating superpowered beings. As Hydra plotted to use the proposed law to seize Stephen Fang’s DNA, he appeared before them and hailed Hydra.

• Stephen Fang met Gu, asked to learn Kamar-Taj magic, and agreed to return in a week for training.
• Tony Stark, Thor, Peter Parker, and Bruce Banner gathered at a seaside villa, where they struggled with guilt and trauma from the Civil War and Manhattan Incident.
• The United Nations Security Council debated regulating superheroes, while public reaction to the Manhattan battle spread worldwide.
• Nick Fury and Maria Hill discussed a proposed Superpowered Being Registration Act that could lead to the Avengers being taken over by a special department.
• Wakanda rejected the United Nations’ request to monitor its champion, while Hydra planned to use the registration law to obtain Stephen Fang’s DNA.
• Stephen Fang entered a Hydra meeting, startling its members, and greeted them with “Hail Hydra!”

Stephen Fang confronted Hydra's leaders and claimed to be an ancient embodiment of the organization, then proved his power with a supernatural snake attack. The Hydra members accepted him as their leader, and he left declaring that the true Hydra had awakened.

• Stephen Fang entered Hydra's conference room and claimed that the organization had existed for thousands of years and that he had witnessed and served its true purpose.
• Stephen Fang explained that he had engineered events that isolated Tony Stark and weakened S.H.I.E.L.D., while Alexander Pierce questioned his claims.
• Stephen Fang summoned a snake that coiled around Alexander Pierce, and Viper cut off its head before it multiplied into a swarm of snakes.
• Stephen Fang made the snakes disappear, convincing Baron Strucker, Alexander Pierce, Arnim Zola, Viper, and the other Hydra members to kneel and hail him.
• Stephen Fang left the room, saying that the true Hydra had only just awakened.

The group arrived at a sky island, where Fang Yu and the others survived a series of strange encounters and prepared to collect a Devil Fruit debt. In a separate scene, Orochimaru told Uchiha Yu that the research he had entrusted to him was complete.

• Tsunade recognized Orochimaru at the Safe House, and Mei Terumī urged them to set aside personal matters until the Otsutsuki crisis was resolved.
• Orochimaru told Uchiha Yu that his research was complete.
• The Ghost Radish reached the sky island, where Nami began examining the unfamiliar cloud sea and Carrot and Vivi encountered cloud creatures.
• Fang Yu used Wood Release and then Fire Release to deal with flying fish and a giant shrimp that threatened the ship.
• While the group roasted the shrimp, Fang Yu admitted he had made up his explanation of how sky islands floated.
• Fang Yu said they had come to collect a Devil Fruit debt and led the group onward.

Fang Yu continued his revenge against the Atlantis Team, killing two more members while battling Roger with Susanoo. He stranded Roger in a distant desert, leaving Torres and the remaining teammates without their strongest fighter.

• Fang Yu killed an Atlantis Team member and raised the death count to eight, then explained to Roger that he wanted revenge.
• Roger revealed the memories behind his dream and fought Fang Yu as Torres sent Skeleton Soldiers to attack.
• Fang Yu activated Susanoo and clashed with Roger, while a Flying Thunder God kunai let him kill another Atlantis Team member and bring the count to nine.
• Roger charged Fang Yu again, but Fang Yu dismissed Susanoo and teleported behind him with a flying kunai.
• Fang Yu struck Roger and sent him to a desert at least five days from Mount Shu, and Roger sprinted off in search of the camp.

Fang Yu fought Torres, who transformed into an enormous skeletal giant but lost control to necromantic backlash. Fang Yu prepared to finish him with a colossal Susanoo-armored Wood Release Buddha, even at the cost of his eyesight.

• Torres trapped Fang Yu in a bone maze and attacked him with curses, but Fang Yu countered with Deep Forest Emergence and shattered Torres's armor.
• Torres fused with the skeleton horde and grew into a giant over eight hundred meters tall, then fought Fang Yu's True Several Thousand Hands Buddha.
• Torres weakened Fang Yu with curses and battered his Divine Protection Barrier while Ah Xing warned the team to flee.
• Necromantic backlash made Torres's skeletons devour him and drove him to attack his own camp.
• Fang Yu summoned the Susanoo Great Buddha at the cost of his eyesight and raised its palm to kill Torres.

Fang Yu crushed Torres with the Thousand-Hand Giant Buddha, but the backlash left him nearly blind and drained. He pursued the fleeing Atlantis Team and confronted Ah Xing, who tried to bargain for their survival as Fang Yu prepared to continue fighting.

• Fang Yu crushed Torres and his skeletal giant beneath the Thousand-Hand Giant Buddha, killing him.
• The strain of defeating Torres left Fang Yu’s Chakra depleted and his Mangekyō Sharingan failing; he fell from the Buddha and struck the ground.
• Ah Xing fled with the remaining Atlantis Team members, but Fang Yu caught up and killed a teammate with a kunai.
• Fang Yu taunted Ah Xing and killed another newcomer, while Ah Xing warned that Fang Yu’s failing eyes would make it difficult to defeat Roger.
• Ah Xing used his Thor enhancement to cover himself and Fang Yu with lightning, but Fang Yu escaped by transforming into wood.
• Ah Xing urged Fang Yu to spare the team and finish the mission for its rewards, but Fang Yu condemned him for treating his companions as bargaining pieces.

Fang Yu used his overwhelming abilities to defeat Ah Xing, then forced him to gather the surviving Atlantis Team. He ambushed the team at their refuge and teleported Aikela away to the Peak of Shushan, leaving Ah Xing and Angela reeling.

• Fang Yu outmaneuvered Ah Xing with Observation Haki and Flying Thunder God, then let him escape so he could gather the scattered team.
• Ah Xing contacted his teammates, and the survivors regrouped beneath a concealed rock wall while Angela maintained a Mental Power barrier.
• Fang Yu appeared at the refuge, revealing that he had spared Ah Xing to use him to assemble the team.
• Aikela attacked Fang Yu with his diamond-enhanced body, but Fang Yu marked him with Flying Thunder God and teleported him to the Peak of Shushan.
• Screams and a heavy impact rang out from the Peak of Shushan, making Ah Xing and Angela squint in pain.