Chapter Summaries

Li Ge’s allies fought their way through the warship’s Outriders and confronted the Black Order. They overwhelmed the group with a coordinated assault, though the battle remained underway.

• Rocket, Thor, Old Barton, Barton, Bruce, Hulk, Coulson, Nick Fury, Peter, Gwen, Natasha, Rhodey, Old Tony, and Tony slaughtered Outriders throughout the warship.
• Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, Cull Obsidian, and Ebony Maw appeared as the heroes anticipated the Black Order’s attack.
• The heroes surged through the Outriders and closed in on the Black Order.
• Both sides clashed, and the heroes engulfed the Black Order in a barrage of weapons, energy blasts, threads, and magic.

Li Ge disarmed Thanos and questioned him about the birth of Celestials, confirming Thanos knew of the Emergence. As the damaged battleship fell, Li Ge vanished, and a colossal hand rose from the liquid-metal ocean to catch the ship and surround the others.

• Li Ge punched Thanos, took his Tyrant blade, and invited him to sit and answer a question.
• Li Ge asked how Celestials were born, and Thanos's reaction revealed that he knew about the Emergence.
• Li Ge described the Emergence, and Thanos proposed wiping out half the universe's population to delay it.
• The battleship began tumbling toward the liquid-metal ocean, and Li Ge vanished while Thanos was thrown around inside.
• The Black Order's attackers hovered outside the damaged battleship as a colossal silver-gray hand emerged from the ocean and caught the ship between two fingers.

Li Ge revealed that the entire Third Heaven was his armor and warned the Avengers to keep Thanos alive. The Avengers overwhelmed Thanos and captured him, leaving the Black Order in despair.

• Li Ge's giant hand held the warship while the Avengers inspected its fingers and Thanos emerged from the ship.
• Fat Thor charged at Thanos, but Li Ge used Telepathy to tell everyone not to kill him.
• Hulk and the Avengers attacked Thanos together, using their armor, weapons, and powers.
• The Avengers stripped Thanos of his armor, wounded him, and bound him as a captive.
• The captured Black Order lost hope and stayed silent.

Li Ge reclaimed the armor and energy cores after the group captured Thanos, explaining that they were too weak to control them. He discovered the equipment had fused with traces of their physical and mental energy, so he sealed it onto their hands for them to master gradually.

• The giant silver-gray hand lowered the group and the captured Thanos back to the ocean, then Li Ge brought everyone back to the platform and asked for his armor.
• Rocket begged Li Ge to let them keep the armor, but Li Ge refused, explaining that the armor and its energy cores were too powerful for them to control.
• Li Ge extracted the armor and energy cores from everyone, then sensed that they retained traces of their owners' physical and mental energy.
• Li Ge changed his mind and sealed each person's armor and energy core into a sphere on the back of their hand, where a dark silver-and-red character for “war” appeared.

Li Ge explained how the others could use and conceal their battle armor seals, then addressed Thanos’s questions about the Celestials. He sealed Thanos into a palm-sized figure, leaving him contained until a possible future crisis.

• The group admired their hand seals, and Peter, Gwen Stacy, and Harry reacted to the prospect of having visible tattoos.
• Li Ge showed everyone how to hide their seals and explained that they needed to strengthen their bodies and mental power to use the armor and energy cores.
• Tony claimed he could control his armor immediately, but Li Ge told him to draw it out himself.
• Li Ge admitted to Thanos that he had no plan to confront a Celestial and said he would wake Thanos if the situation arose.
• Li Ge covered Thanos in glowing sealing runes, shrank him to palm size, and held him in his hand.

Li Ge captured Thanos and the Black Order as figurines, then returned to the Avengers’ base and explained that he planned to collect Thanos’s power for refining the Nine Heavens. The group asked whether he could free Old Natasha’s soul from the Soul Stone, and Li Ge asked them to bring it to him so he could try.

• Li Ge sealed Thanos and the Black Order into figurines, sent the Outriders into a Dragon Guard nest, and stored the repaired warship as another model.
• Li Ge found the original Nebula disassembled inside the warship, sealed the replacement Nebula into a figurine, and took the group back to the Avengers’ base.
• Old Tony asked what Li Ge planned to do with Thanos, and Li Ge said he would collect Thanos’s power for refining the Nine Heavens while keeping him as a collectible.
• Nick Fury, Steve, and Tony urged Li Ge to send them home so they could prepare for their universe’s Thanos, but Li Ge reassured them that the Nine Heavens and Samsara Realm could help Earth’s people grow stronger.
• Old Barton asked whether Li Ge could retrieve Natasha’s soul from the Soul Stone, and Li Ge asked them to bring him the stone so he could try.

Li Ge took the Soul Stone and forced it to yield its energy, which began transforming the Samsara Realm into a world capable of nurturing souls. He searched for the Soul Stone’s hidden soul world and threatened to dump it into the Ganges if it refused to cooperate.

• Old Barton handed Li Ge the Soul Stone so he could use it to bring Old Natasha back.
• Li Ge endured the Soul Stone’s energy and threatened it after it tried to resist his probing.
• Li Ge’s mental pressure drove the others away as he channeled the Soul Stone’s energy into the Samsara Realm.
• The Samsara Realm’s inhabitants and landscape began developing signs of genuine souls, prompting Li Ge to seek the Soul Stone’s soul world.
• Li Ge threatened to seal the Soul Stone in a cesspit and opened a portal above the Ganges, then hurriedly contained its foul smell.

Li Ge forced the Soul Stone to cooperate by threatening to throw it into the Ganges, then followed its memories into the Soul World. There he found a childhood scene of Natasha and reached out to bring her back.

• Li Ge threatened to seal the Soul Stone in the Ganges until it agreed to cooperate.
• The Soul Stone overwhelmed Li Ge with memories of sacrifices, leaving him frozen as the portal vanished.
• Peter, Tony, Old Barton, and the others gathered around Li Ge when he stopped responding.
• Li Ge followed the Soul Stone's guidance through its memories and reached a boundless water-covered world.
• Li Ge recognized a young Natasha playing on a swing and told her that someone had asked him to bring her back.

Li Ge found Natasha’s soul in the Soul Stone, but she chose to remain at peace rather than return. The group then prepared to use all six Infinity Stones with Old Tony’s gauntlet to bring back the dead.

• Li Ge told everyone that he had found Natasha and could bring her back, but she wanted to rest and asked Old Barton not to blame himself.
• Old Barton accepted Natasha’s choice and felt at peace with her decision.
• Old Tony urged the group to focus on resurrecting the dead, and the others presented the Power Stone and Reality Stone while Li Ge produced the remaining three stones he had brought.
• Li Ge removed the Space Stone from the Tesseract, took the Mind Stone from its scepter, and prepared the Time Stone from the Eye of Agamotto.
• Old Tony used mechanical arms to install all six Infinity Stones into his nano-armor gauntlet.

Li Ge put on the Infinity Gauntlet and used the Six Infinity Stones to perceive the universe’s rules, which strengthened the powers within his Divinity World. He formed the beginnings of six Rule Stars and believed they could help him reach the Universal Level.

• Old Tony and the others asked Li Ge to use the gauntlet, believing his strength and confidence made him the best candidate.
• Li Ge fitted the gauntlet onto his right hand and endured its surge of power and information.
• The Six Infinity Stones carried Li Ge’s consciousness across the universe, revealing its rules and mysteries to him.
• Li Ge’s existing powers absorbed the revealed rules, becoming more complete as six embryonic Rule Stars appeared in his Divinity World.
• Li Ge examined the glowing stones and said that fully condensing the six Rule Stars could help him reach the Universal Level.

Li Ge hesitated before using the Infinity Stones to resurrect everyone, realizing that five years of change could make returning to life painful or disruptive. Peter proposed letting the dead choose whether to return, and Li Ge began considering how to make that possible.

• Li Ge finished nurturing the Six Infinity Stones within his Divinity World, imprinting them with his will.
• Scott Lang and the others urged Li Ge to resurrect those lost to Thanos's snap.
• Li Ge paused before snapping and explained how resurrection could upend the lives of both the dead and the living.
• Peter suggested giving the dead a choice about whether to return.
• Li Ge considered Peter's proposal as everyone waited for him to decide how to proceed.

Li Ge proposed using the Infinity Stones to create a Resurrection Game, a Soul World where the living could meet the dead. He decided to make it available across Earth, with souls allowed to remain for seven days before moving on.

• Li Ge used the six stones to show how they could create a world where the dead could meet the living and named his plan the Resurrection Game.
• The Soul Stone showed Natasha and Old Barton images of loved ones, stirring their grief and hope for reunion.
• Rocket urged Li Ge to begin, while Scott Lang watched eagerly and the others considered the proposal.
• Li Ge announced that people could enter the Earth-wide Soul World with their consciousness and meet the dead without special equipment.
• Li Ge limited each soul's stay to seven days before it moved on, saying he did not want the master of death to pursue him again.

Li Ge reinforced the gauntlet and used it to resurrect the dead throughout the universe. He then began transforming the Samsara Realm into a soul world modeled on Earth, using the Infinity Stones to give it space, time, energy, and laws for souls and the living.

• Li Ge asked Old Tony for the gauntlet blueprints and reinforced the gauntlet with Uru metal and runes.
• Li Ge tested the upgraded gauntlet and found that the Six Infinity Stones worked more smoothly.
• Li Ge snapped his fingers and resurrected the dead throughout the universe, though the gauntlet developed a hairline fracture.
• Li Ge explained that he would recreate Earth inside the Samsara Realm as the soul world's setting.
• Li Ge drew an illusory Earth from the Samsara Realm and used the stones to expand its space, synchronize its time, fill it with energy, connect the living to it, and let souls remain there for seven days.

Li Ge created the Spirit Realm, a miniature soul-world modeled on Earth, and added rules allowing souls affected by Thanos’s Snap to choose resurrection. After encoding the rules, the damaged gauntlet broke apart, leaving the Spirit Realm complete.

• Li Ge used the six Infinity Stones to condense an illusory Earth into a solid sphere and named it the Spirit Realm.
• Nick Fury asked how souls would return to life without Li Ge snapping his fingers each time, and Li Ge decided not to keep the three stones from other universes.
• Li Ge used the stones to give souls affected by Thanos’s Snap the ability to choose resurrection within the Spirit Realm.
• Li Ge allowed other dead souls to visit loved ones for up to seven days or, if capable, remain and live in the Spirit Realm.
• The gauntlet’s cracks spread across its surface, and it broke apart in sparks after Li Ge finished imprinting the rules.

Li Ge merged the Spirit Realm into Earth and guided everyone into it, where the dead began returning. Nick Fury found and greeted his resurrected counterpart.

• Li Ge put his three stones into the Rule Stars and stored the ruined gauntlet’s remaining stones with Old Tony.
• Li Ge threw the Spirit Realm onto the floor, where it sank into the ground and imprinted itself on everyone’s souls.
• Li Ge guided the group through entering the Spirit Realm, and they appeared on a hazy, old-fashioned New York street.
• The newly arrived spirits reunited with loved ones, while Nick Fury saw his eyepatched counterpart materialize.
• Nick Fury greeted the other Nick Fury while showing off his two intact eyes.

Li Ge used the Spirit Realm and the Infinity Stones to bring the living and the dead together, allowing them to settle old grievances and choose resurrection for seven days. Tom rejected resurrection after learning how his family had died, while many others chose to return to Earth.

• Nick Fury and Old Nick Fury exchanged information as souls from across the world gathered in the Spirit Realm.
• The Spirit Realm revealed that the dead could pray to Li Ge for resurrection during a seven-day window.
• Tom learned that his wife and parents had died after his best friend led thugs in abusing his wife, and he nearly became a vengeful ghost.
• Tom and his wife destroyed his best friend's soul, then Tom chose to remain in the Spirit Realm with his family rather than return to life.
• Many other souls chose resurrection, while Li Ge's arrangement let the dead confront those they resented and eased some hostility before they returned to Earth.

Li Ge brought Wanda and Vision to the Spirit Realm and tried to persuade Wanda to let him study her Chaos Magic, promising to restore Vision. As he sensed that her power could help his own evolve, Li Ge realized his Dao was about to emerge.

• Li Ge gathered the returned souls and their living counterparts on the lawn of the Xavier Institute, where they reunited with family and friends.
• Li Ge placed a black teleportation sphere in the Spirit Realm and sealed off the surrounding platform so souls could travel only to universes with matching spheres.
• Li Ge restrained Wanda beside Vision and told her that he needed to study her Chaos Magic to bring Vision back to life.
• Li Ge examined Vision and discovered that the soul present was only an outer shell, while Vision's true consciousness was absent.
• Li Ge sensed that Wanda's Chaos Magic could help evolve his power and realized his Dao was about to emerge.

Li Ge explained how he created the Spirit Realm and offered Wanda the choice to resurrect Vision, while using a Spirit Fruit to demonstrate his power. Wanda agreed to give Li Ge her Chaos Magic in exchange for Vision’s return, then asked him to give Vision a flesh-and-blood body so they could have children.

• Li Ge introduced himself to Wanda as Immortal and explained how he had come from another universe and created the Spirit Realm.
• Li Ge showed Wanda a Spirit Fruit that strengthened the soul, then asked her to choose what she wanted for Vision.
• Wanda begged Li Ge to bring Vision back and promised to give him all her power in return.
• Li Ge prepared to resurrect Vision with the Infinity Stones, but Wanda stopped him and asked him to give Vision a flesh-and-blood body.

Li Ge and Wanda discussed resurrecting Vision and whether he could retain his powers in a new body. Li Ge refused to create a Superman-like body for Vision, then had Wanda pray as the six Infinity Stones resurrected her.

• Li Ge told Wanda that resurrecting Vision as flesh and blood would cost him his powers, and Wanda pleaded for him to find a way to preserve them.
• Li Ge examined Vision's soul and compared his powers to Superman's, then said creating a body that strong went beyond their deal.
• Li Ge told Wanda to modify Vision's body herself with Chaos Magic and said Vision should have a say in what body he wanted.
• Li Ge instructed Wanda to recite the resurrection prayer outside the Spirit Realm, and the six stones restored her as a living being.

Wanda returned to life and learned that Vision’s body was being dismantled for research. She retrieved his remains, and Li Ge began restoring him by bringing his consciousness forward from the past and placing it into his soul shell.

• Wanda awoke after her resurrection and found Li Ge, along with the souls of her deceased friends in six-colored cocoons.
• Li Ge gave Wanda Vision’s soul shell and told her that Vision’s body was being taken apart for research.
• Wanda entered the laboratory through Li Ge’s portal, recovered Vision’s remains, and disintegrated the facility while sparing the people whose souls had returned.
• Wanda brought Vision’s body back to Li Ge and pleaded with him to resurrect Vision.
• Li Ge used the Time Stone, Space Stone, and Mind Stone to retrieve Vision’s consciousness from the past and place it inside his soul shell.