Chapter Summaries

The Avengers reunited on the New York battlefield and explored their Samsara Bracelets while meeting alternate versions of themselves. Li Ge ended the frozen nuclear standoff with a public display of the missile exploding, leaving the world to witness his power.

• Tony and the other Avengers opened their Samsara Bracelets, and Hulk spent fifty points on steaks that he shared with Bruce.
• Doc Green Bruce, Older Tony, and Nice Ass Steve approached their counterparts, and Steve began telling Nice Ass Steve about Li Ge.
• Loki dismissed Dr. Selvig and eagerly anticipated gaining more power from the fruits on Heaven-Reaching Mountain.
• Li Ge shrank his Dharma manifestation, stored the Samsara Realm and Nine Heavens in his Divinity World, and aimed cameras around Earth at himself and the nuclear missile.
• Li Ge canceled the missile’s time freeze, and it exploded as a grand fireworks display.

After the Chitauri invasion, New Yorkers praised Li Ge’s manifestation as “Immortal,” and Tony Stark recognized how carefully Li Ge had arranged events to inspire faith and desire for power. Arale, an orphan who had fled an orphanage tied to Hydra, joined the worshippers, finding a new purpose in the Samsara Realm and Li Ge.

• Survivors in New York gathered beneath Li Ge’s manifestation and began kneeling and chanting “Immortal.”
• The Avengers watched the fervent prayers in shock, while Tony Stark realized Li Ge had planned the sequence of salvation, power, and temptation that drew people to him.
• Older Tony heard Tony call Li Ge his Main God and looked up with renewed resolve.
• Arale’s past was revealed: she had grown up in a corrupt orphanage, discovered that older orphans were forced to join Hydra, and fled to survive on her own.
• After experiencing the Samsara Realm and learning about the Nine Heavens, Arale repeatedly challenged dungeons and found excitement and hope.
• Arale joined the people praising Li Ge, kneeling beneath his manifestation and calling him “Immortal.”

Li Ge left Earth’s followers convinced that he would guide them to the Nine Heavens, then went into space to collect the frozen Chitauri fleet. On Earth, Tony and the Avengers began discussing a way to visit the Nine Heavens, while Li Ge stored a Chitauri warship in the First Heaven.

• Arale showed the worshippers her Samsara Bracelet and told them Li Ge had left them a treasure before returning to his divine kingdom.
• Li Ge appeared beside the two Tonys, said he would deal with the Chitauri fleet, and vanished before Steve could speak to him.
• The nations and their people were shaken by the invasion, Li Ge’s display of power, and the revelation of the Nine Heavens, and many resolved to seek entry.
• Tony invited Coulson and Bruce to visit a place beyond their world, prompting Steve, Barton, and Natasha to gather and catch on to the plan.
• Li Ge traveled through space to the frozen Chitauri fleet and used the Nine Heavens to bring a city-sized warship into the First Heaven.

Li Ge offered Loki a choice between receiving the power of blocks or becoming his Subordinate God, but used the Shadow Ring and its obedient Shadow Ninjas to tempt him away from both options. Loki asked for the ring instead, and Li Ge handed it over, leaving Loki binding it with his blood.

• Li Ge offered Loki a basic block-rule construct or the power of blocks and a basic divinity in exchange for becoming his Subordinate God.
• As Loki hesitated, Li Ge summoned Shadow Ninjas from the Shadow Ring and showed off their obedience and the ring’s growing shadow space.
• Loki decided the Shadow Ring’s subordinates suited his ambitions better than the power of blocks and asked Li Ge to give it to him.
• Li Ge pretended to object, then agreed that the ring did not suit his status and offered it to Loki.
• Loki took the Shadow Ring and cut his finger with his scepter to bind it with his blood.

After closing the portal over New York, Li Ge absorbed the Tesseract and focused on modifying the Chitauri and managing the Nine Heavens. A month later, the trials had cooled people’s enthusiasm, leaving failed participants exhausted and struggling through their jobs around the world.

• Li Ge took the Tesseract from the device, resisted its energy and spatial laws, then stored it and the scepter in the Divinity World for analysis.
• The portal closed, the trapped Chitauri forces disappeared into an isolated space in the First Heaven, and the Avengers went to eat shawarma as New Yorkers celebrated their survival.
• Tony strengthened Stark Tower, while the older Tony and his companions waited for Li Ge to help restore their universe.
• People worldwide flocked to the Samsara Realm for points and supplies, but most returned to work after struggling with its battles and the Nine Heavens’ survival trial.
• Li Ge imposed minimum ages of fifteen for the Samsara Realm and eighteen for the Nine Heavens, while many failed participants carried their exhaustion into their jobs with dark circles under their eyes.

Countries expanded their extraordinary-power training programs while imposing laws to prevent exhausted workers from neglecting production, prompting riots and exposing hidden extraordinary beings. Public interest in the Nine Heavens and Samsara Realm surged, and the world shifted toward a new era of extraordinary power.

• Countries trained their armies in the Samsara Realm and First Heaven while people who had failed the trial kept attempting it.
• Governments barred employed people from becoming mentally exhausted, and empowered troops suppressed most of the ensuing riots.
• Hidden extraordinary beings joined or observed the unrest, revealing their presence and intensifying public interest in extraordinary power.
• More people passed the First Heaven trial, while people and even warring regions focused on gaining power and the world grew peaceful.

Li Ge transformed the Chitauri soldiers into Dragon Guards and installed their production hive beneath the Second Heaven’s new Heaven Ascension Battlefield. The battlefield was complete, and Grant looked up at the jade expanse above his villa.

• Li Ge modified the Chitauri soldiers into armored, mindless Dragon Guards and converted their warship into a production hive.
• Li Ge named the soldiers Dragon Guards and shrank the hive before taking it to the Second Heaven.
• Li Ge set up the hive inside a spatial bubble, where it began producing Dragon Guards in cocoons.
• Li Ge concealed the bubble beneath the jade floor of the Heaven Ascension Battlefield.
• Grant stood in his completed villa’s courtyard and looked up at the glowing jade battlefield.

Li Ge reached an agreement with Older Tony to test the Heaven Ascension Battlefield with their allies before opening it to the public, while promising to help Older Tony save the world afterward. He brought the Avengers and others to the battlefield, where he began checking its trial system and shop.

• Older Tony asked Tony when Li Ge would finish and let him return to save Morgan and the world.
• Li Ge appeared at Stark Tower and agreed that his acquaintances would test the Heaven Ascension Battlefield before it opened to the public.
• The Avengers and their allies gathered at Stark Tower after spending a month working together to suppress chaos caused by newly empowered superhumans.
• Li Ge brought everyone to the Heaven Ascension Battlefield and sent them into separate trial spaces after explaining the rules.
• Li Ge inspected the battlefield's shop, then selected Barton's portrait to check how he performed.

Barton faced a Dragon Guard on the Heaven Ascension Battlefield, testing the strength and combat skills he had built through intense training with the two Steves. The Dragon Guard proved far stronger than him, and Barton staggered backward after blocking its attack.

• Screens appeared across the Heaven Ascension Battlefield, and Dragon Guards emerged before the participants as a sixty-second countdown began.
• Barton discovered that the Dragon Guard’s armor felt warm and elastic, realizing that it was alive rather than a robot.
• Barton’s recent training with Steve and Nice Ass Steve had focused on pushing his super-soldier body and combat skills to their limits.
• When the countdown ended, the Dragon Guard roared and charged at Barton.
• Barton dodged the first charge and kicked the Dragon Guard, but it barely moved and struck at his throat.
• Barton blocked the Dragon Guard’s claws, but the force hurt his arms and sent him staggering backward.

Li Ge watched the challengers face the Dragon Guards in trials meant to assess their strength. Barton held his ground, while Tony, Coulson, Natasha, Peter, Gwen, Harry, and others fought in separate arenas as the tests continued.

• Li Ge judged Barton’s ability to withstand the Dragon Guard’s attack as evidence that he was close to the First Heaven’s limit.
• Tony ignored the countdown to examine the Dragon Guard, then easily dodged its attacks and treated the fight as exercise.
• Coulson activated his third-stage Tyrant ability and drove the Dragon Guard back with a barrage of attacks.
• Natasha used her threads to wrap the Dragon Guard in her isolated space.
• Peter struggled to restrain his Dragon Guard, while Gwen fought hers to a standstill using her Kagune Eight Spider Lances.
• Harry fought the winged Dragon Guard in the air as Li Ge watched the challengers’ battles from the stands.

General Ross secretly experimented on soldiers transformed into Pure Titans and sought to make them a controllable military force. After researchers discovered the source of the Titans’ power, Ross ordered them to test it on captured supervillains.

• General Ross watched ninety-five Pure Titans confined in an underground research base, where five others had died during dissection experiments.
• Ross recalled using the Titan cards on soldiers after the military rejected his request to transform super soldiers.
• General Ross turned to captured supervillains and had them imprisoned in nutrient-filled glass cylinders for experiments.
• A researcher told General Ross that the Titans’ power came from a mysterious substance in their spinal cords and that it had been extracted.
• General Ross ordered the researchers to begin experiments combining the substance with super soldiers.

Li Ge reassured Tony, Steve, and Bruce that he would return with them to save the world, then watched Tony test his golden body against a Dragon Guard. The Dragon Guard unleashed its lightning power and grew into a giant, setting up a clash with Tony’s equally towering form.

• Li Ge called out Tony, Steve, and Bruce for pretending to lose their earlier fights, then promised to help them save the world once the battle was over.
• Li Ge assessed the Dragon Guards’ performance and reflected on the difficult process of creating them.
• Tony asked to continue testing the Dragon Guard and summoned his golden body, which towered over the battlefield.
• Li Ge permitted the Dragon Guard to use its Second Heaven power, and it transformed into a giant made of lightning.
• Tony and the lightning Dragon Guard charged at one another and collided.

Tony fought the Dragon Guard in a thunderous clash while the others watched. Older Tony refused Li Ge's offer to become a Subordinate God, and the battle ended with Tony preparing to unleash the power of knowledge.

• Tony used Magnetism Manipulation to generate electricity and fought the Dragon Guard with his golden body, testing its strength and his own.
• The spectators watched the battle in awe, and Older Tony reacted with envy and resolve as he saw another version of himself fight.
• Li Ge offered Older Tony the chance to become his Subordinate God, but Older Tony declined, saying he wanted to remain unique and grow powerful on his own.
• Older Tony told Steve and Bruce that he expected Li Ge to help their world anyway, and insisted he could eventually match the other Tony.
• Tony found himself outmatched in fighting skill by the Dragon Guard, lost interest in continuing the brawl, and unleashed the power of knowledge.

Tony defeated the Dragon Guard in the Second Heaven’s Heaven Ascension Battle, earning entry to the Third Heaven. Li Ge returned everyone to Tony’s villa and prepared to take them to another world, where they each hoped to find allies or resources.

• Tony used an electromagnetically accelerated, high-frequency vibrating spear to destroy the Dragon Guard’s lightning giant and cripple the Dragon Guard.
• Li Ge congratulated Tony on becoming the first person to pass the Second Heaven’s battle and said he had earned the right to enter the Third Heaven.
• Li Ge repaired the Dragon Guard through the nest and teleported everyone away from the Heaven Ascension Battlefield, revealing its purpose to those who had signed a contract.
• Back at Tony’s villa, Tony explained the black teleportation sphere, and the group learned Li Ge could travel between parallel universes.
• The group looked forward to visiting another world, while Li Ge planned to collect Infinity Stone power and other transcendent abilities.

Older Tony, Tony, Li Ge, and their companions opened an inter-universal portal using their blood and arrived in Earth-616’s laboratory. They reunited with the Avengers, who had returned without Natasha and believed their search for the others had failed.

• Tony powered the black sphere with the Arc Reactor, and Older Tony and his two companions supplied blood to create a portal.
• Older Tony, his companions, Tony, Li Ge, Peter and his companions, Nick Fury, Bruce, and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents entered the portal.
• Thor, Rocket Raccoon, Barton, War Machine, Nebula, and Scott Lang returned to the laboratory without Older Tony and his companions and realized they had no Pym Particles left.
• Older Tony emerged from a newly appeared portal and explained that he had brought helpers from another universe.
• Nice Ass Steve and Doctor Green Bruce emerged, followed by Li Ge, Peter and his companions, Bruce, and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents; Barton saw Natasha and his eyes reddened.

Older Tony and his companions told the others about Li Ge’s universe while Li Ge exposed Nebula’s plan to bring another Thanos to their world. As Thanos’s fleet arrived, Li Ge used the Nine Heavens to make the fleet and its attack vanish, leaving everyone unharmed.

• Older Tony and his companions recounted the changes and powerful figures in Li Ge’s universe, while the others examined the time-space travel device and learned about Natasha’s sacrifice.
• Li Ge accused Nebula of contacting another Thanos and showed footage proving she had used the travel device to send him this universe’s coordinates.
• Nebula denied the accusation, but the others learned that Thanos was coming and prepared for a fight.
• Li Ge promised to protect everyone and brought out the Nine Heavens as Nebula’s positioning succeeded and Thanos’s fleet appeared above the base.
• A warship fired on the base, but Li Ge’s spatial domain made the beam, fleet, and everyone inside the base vanish without a trace.

Li Ge brought the group into the Third Heaven and granted them access to its power, turning them into towering metal giants. As the fleet attacked from above, they launched themselves toward Thanos, ready to fight.

• A warship fired into the Third Heaven's strange liquid-metal ocean as Li Ge and the others arrived on a pyramid island.
• Li Ge explained that the ocean could grant them power, then used Telekinesis to hurl everyone except Nebula toward it.
• The group followed the instructions in their minds and called out, "Contract Descent," summoning red spheres from the sun that flowed into their bodies.
• The liquid metal formed enormous cocoons around them and reshaped them into lifelike metal giants over ten meters tall.
• Old Tony and the others flew toward Thanos, vowing to avenge Natasha and attack him.

Thanos and the Black Order found themselves trapped in Li Ge’s strange world, where the Avengers transformed into giant metal-armored figures and flew toward their warship. As Old Barton and Fat Thor smashed through the ship’s defenses, Thanos prepared for battle and the Avengers began breaking inside.

• Tony and the others joined the giants as they flew toward Thanos’s warship in their silver-gray armor.
• Thanos and the Black Order watched the giants approach, and Ebony Maw urged caution while Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, and Cull Obsidian mocked him.
• Thanos agreed that the situation had gone beyond their control, recognized that the world’s master was watching, and ordered the Black Order to prepare for battle.
• Old Barton reached the warship, struck its hull, and shouted at Thanos in fury over Old Natasha’s death.
• The giants destroyed the warship’s laser cannons, while Fat Thor tore open its hull and vowed to smash Thanos’s head.

The Avengers used their compressed armor to slaughter the Outriders aboard Thanos’s warship, forcing the Black Order to enter the fight. Thanos recognized Li Ge as the source of the Avengers’ enhanced power, and Li Ge suddenly appeared before his throne with Nebula.

• Fat Thor compressed his armor and charged into the warship, prompting the other Avengers to follow in their own compressed armor.
• The Avengers overwhelmed the Outriders, whose attacks could not pierce their armor, and slaughtered them throughout the warship.
• Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight asked Thanos for permission to fight, and he allowed them to charge into battle; Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian followed.
• Thanos deduced that armor had transformed the Avengers and identified Li Ge as the one behind the changes.
• Li Ge suddenly appeared before Thanos’s throne with the captured Nebula, ignored Thanos’s drawn blade, and began scanning him to copy the data of his Eternal body.

Li Ge considered whether Thanos's plan to kill half the universe stemmed from witnessing a Celestial's birth on Titan, then decided to scan Thanos and claim his powerful Eternal bloodline. After Thanos attacked him, Li Ge invited him to talk, but their confrontation continued as Li Ge caught the Tyrant blade with his bare hands.

• Li Ge reasoned that Thanos might have misunderstood the Celestials' role in Titan's destruction and linked it to population growth and dwindling resources.
• Li Ge focused his scanning ability on Thanos, who lunged at him with the Tyrant blade.
• Thanos's blow struck Li Ge's head, but Li Ge remained unharmed and absorbed the attack's energy.
• Li Ge identified Thanos as a survivor of Titan's Eternals and said he would take away the dangerous blade.
• Thanos attacked Li Ge again, and Li Ge caught the Tyrant blade between his palms.