Chapter Summaries

Baron Zemo reached the Fire Pool and absorbed its power, greatly strengthening his body and fire abilities. Meanwhile, the Avengers followed Wanda and Pietro to the captives, and the siblings agreed to meet Li Ge so they could follow him.

• Baron Zemo endured the fiery mountain climb and plunged into the Fire Pool, where its elements tempered his body and merged with his own power.
• Baron Zemo emerged healed and able to fire pillars of flame several meters away, then heard a super soldier calling for him and hurried down the mountain, fearing something had gone wrong.
• Tony offered Wanda and Pietro compensation and suggested they follow Li Ge, and the siblings agreed after learning he ruled the Nine Heavens and the Samsara Realm.
• The Avengers followed Wanda and Pietro through the battered castle toward the place where the superheroes and supervillains were being held.

Arale and Erik rallied the Divine Revelation Temple’s believers to pursue the people who framed the Immortal’s followers and confront the government. Nick Fury arrived and tried to persuade Arale to let Stryker face the law, leaving the believers’ planned action unresolved.

• Thousands of believers gathered at the Divine Revelation Temple while reporters and police watched from outside.
• Erik accused the true culprit of controlling the Immortal’s people and called on the believers to defy government obstruction.
• Arale urged the believers to follow her and claim justice in the Immortal’s name.
• Nick Fury entered the temple, and Erik identified him to Arale as the director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Nick Fury asked Arale to let Stryker face legal judgment and warned against a violent conflict between the temple and the government.

Erik and Arale rallied Immortal’s believers to demand Stryker’s death, but Nick Fury persuaded them to avoid confronting the government by promising to deliver Stryker into their hands. Arale told the believers that Li Ge had issued an oracle ordering them to stand down, and Fury agreed to handle Stryker personally.

• Erik condemned Stryker and stirred the believers into demanding that he be killed.
• Arale declared that the believers would purify Stryker, making their anger a challenge for Nick Fury to answer.
• Nick Fury offered to persuade the president and military to hand Stryker over, warning Erik and Arale against acting in Li Ge’s name without permission.
• Erik and Arale agreed that Fury would personally deliver Stryker to them and decided to claim that Li Ge had sent them an oracle.
• Arale announced the fabricated oracle to the believers, who accepted it and were content to have joined the public show of support.

In Sokovia, the Avengers waited in Baron Zemo’s castle after rescuing the captives, while Tony tried to make amends to Wanda and Pietro. In the Second Heaven, Baron Zemo learned that the Avengers had attacked his forces and, fearing defeat, refused to return to the real world.

• The Avengers discovered the ritual diagram in Baron Zemo’s castle and waited for him after transferring the rescued superheroes and super soldiers to a S.H.I.E.L.D. base.
• Tony offered Wanda and Pietro King Fruit juice, and Pietro took the bottles while Wanda politely tasted one.
• Baron Zemo heard from his super soldiers that the Avengers had attacked and slaughtered his forces in the real world.
• Baron Zemo realized his remaining soldiers were too few to face the Avengers and blamed himself for capturing test subjects.
• Baron Zemo chose to prioritize his safety rather than return to the castle, while his brainwashed soldiers waited for his orders.

Baron Zemo sent a Hydra soldier to scout the real world, then prepared to seek Grant’s help when the soldier failed to return. The Avengers captured the soldier, who died before they could question him, while Zemo crushed his watch and feared he would have to risk returning through the guarded ritual diagram.

• Baron Zemo decided to send a soldier to scout the real world and planned to seek out Grant if the soldier did not return.
• Tony and the Avengers captured the Hydra soldier in a liquid-metal net as he emerged from the ritual diagram.
• Barton noticed the soldier praying, and Tony dragged him out of the diagram before he could escape.
• Natasha, Wanda, and Pietro concluded that Baron Zemo was too cautious to return, while Steve rejected interrogating the soldier.
• Wanda spotted that the soldier was dying, and Steve found vacant eyes and black blood at his mouth.
• Baron Zemo waited fifteen minutes, crushed his watch, and feared he would need Grant’s help or gamble on the Avengers destroying the ritual diagram.

Loki watched events at the Divine Revelation Temple and in Sokovia, then used a Shadow Ninja to observe Kingpin in Mexico and decided to recruit his unwanted men. He disappeared into his shadow, heading to speak with Kingpin.

• Loki observed Bishop Arale, Erik, Nick Fury, and the Avengers through images of events at the temple and in Sokovia.
• The bar's boss recognized Loki as a powerful Second Heaven expert and warned the others not to provoke him.
• Loki watched Kingpin suppress gangs and armed groups in Mexico through a Shadow Ninja and considered turning Kingpin's disobedient underlings into Shadow Ninjas.
• Loki decided to speak with Kingpin, then let his shadow engulf him and vanished from the bar.

Logan and his companions settled into the Nine Heavens, where they established a Xavier Institute on the Central Continent and prepared to take charge of it. Their plans were interrupted when a mysterious blue-faced youth resembling Apocalypse appeared at the institute and introduced himself as Skynet.

• Logan entered the Nine Heavens through the prayer ritual, passed the First Heaven's trial, and reached the Second Heaven after fighting a Dragon Guard.
• Logan found people from the Mutants Nation and the initial world on the Central Continent and helped establish another Xavier Institute there.
• Logan, Erik, and Raven asked Professor Charles to let them move to the Central Continent and manage the institute, and he agreed.
• Erik urged Professor Charles to retire and join them, but Charles refused because the institute was his life's work.
• A blue-faced youth resembling Apocalypse entered the headmaster's office, and after Charles questioned him, he identified himself as Skynet.

At Midtown High School, Mary Jane confronted Harry, Peter, and Gwen after piecing together that they were hiding their superhero identities and their connection to Li Ge. Harry and the others finally agreed to tell her the truth, taking her away from the sports field to talk privately.

• Mary Jane recalled the clues that led her to suspect Harry, Peter, and Gwen had received powers from Li Ge and were secretly involved with the Nine Heavens and Samsara Realm.
• Mary Jane concluded that Harry, Peter, and Gwen were Blood Angel, Spider-Man, and Spider Queen after matching their disappearances to the heroes’ appearances.
• Peter evaded Mary Jane’s question, while Harry and Gwen tried to distract her with jokes and talk of the Divine Revelation Temple.
• Mary Jane accused Harry of being Blood Angel, Spider-Man, and Spider Queen, and demanded to know why they had kept their secrets from her.
• Harry, Peter, and Gwen apologized and led Mary Jane away from the field to explain everything privately.

Loki confronted Kingpin and demanded the bodies of the Transcendent beings who opposed him, intending to use them to expand his Divine Guard. Kingpin challenged Loki to prove his power and launched an attack, leaving the two poised to clash.

• Loki arrived at Kingpin's office with golden-armored Divine Guard holding Bullseye and Kingpin's other subordinates captive.
• Loki dismissed Kingpin's claim to be an emperor but said he had come to ask for help, not to uphold justice.
• Loki explained that he wanted Kingpin to give him the bodies of opposing Transcendent beings, alive or dead.
• Kingpin offered to provide a place to store the bodies, but demanded that Loki demonstrate enough power to force his cooperation.
• Kingpin hurled his desk at Loki, and a waiter-dressed Divine Guard blocked it as Kingpin gathered energy for a beam.

Loki transported Kingpin, Bullseye, and their men into his Black Shadow Kingdom, where he challenged them to fight through his divine guards to reach him. Kingpin led the group into battle as Loki watched from his throne and considered making him a shadow general.

• Kingpin blasted through the table and wall, but Loki and the divine guards vanished, leaving a rolling wine bottle behind.
• Bullseye noticed the sudden silence, and Kingpin cleared the dust to reveal the Black Shadow Kingdom and its massive formations of divine guards.
• Loki welcomed the group to his kingdom and sent over a hundred divine guards to attack them, promising to let anyone who reached his platform go.
• Kingpin ordered his men to follow him, and he and Bullseye led them through the window to fight the divine guards.
• Kingpin and Bullseye drove some guards back, while Loki watched their struggle and considered turning Kingpin into a shadow general.

While Kingpin and Bullseye fought Loki’s Divine Guards, Loki decided to recruit them as generals in his growing Black Shadow Kingdom. After ending the battle and summoning them to his platform, he offered them command over Divine Guard armies and promised them undying bodies and the chance to rule territories of their own.

• Loki watched Kingpin and Bullseye fight and decided they qualified to become generals in his future armies.
• Loki struck his scepter against the platform, ordering the Divine Guards to stop fighting and make way for Kingpin’s group.
• Kingpin led his battered underlings toward Loki, while Bullseye followed after killing one more Divine Guard with a throwing knife.
• Loki offered Kingpin and Bullseye positions as generals, explaining their authority in the Black Shadow Kingdom and promising them undying bodies and territories if they commanded enough troops.

Colonel Stryker learned that his attempt to create a powerful test subject had failed and ordered his researchers to clone Weapon X and fuse as many genes as possible. He also approved experiments on his superpowered soldiers before heading deeper into the base to visit a prisoner.

• A researcher reported that the test subject had suffered irreversible genetic collapse, and Stryker smashed the telephone in fury.
• Stryker ordered the researchers to create an army of monsters and vowed to take revenge on Li Ge and his allies.
• Stryker inspected the failed experiment, then approved a researcher's proposal to experiment on the Perfect Body Realm and Transcendent Realm soldiers.
• Stryker and Lady Deathstrike passed through the base's cages, furnaces, and laboratories before reaching a cell holding a blue-skinned prisoner.

Tony brought Wanda and Pietro to Li Ge’s hidden base, where they enjoyed the fruit and explored the building. They discovered a sealed iron plate covering an opening in the underground space and prepared to investigate what lay beneath it.

• Tony brought Wanda and Pietro through a portal into Li Ge’s base after they began accepting his goodwill and learned he was also Li Ge’s Subordinate God.
• Wanda and Pietro explored the base, sampled its fruit, and chose rooms in the building.
• Tony remembered the basement and led Wanda and Pietro to inspect the laboratory, the copied Arc Reactor, and the underground area.
• The three found a tightly sealed iron plate covering an opening in a corner of the underground space, which heightened their curiosity.

Tony, Wanda, and Pietro opened the hidden underground passage and discovered a food-filled fantasy space. Tony’s divinity activated its entrance, and the three ended the chapter exploring the edible landscape and gathering snacks.

• Tony opened the iron door in the ground, and Wanda and Pietro followed him down a glowing stone corridor.
• The three found a palm-shaped imprint, and Wanda’s Chaos Magic was repelled when she tried to activate it.
• Tony pressed his palm to the imprint, and his divinity triggered its golden patterns, transporting all three into another space.
• Tony, Wanda, and Pietro explored a fantastical landscape made of food, from candy grass and bread trees to rivers of milk and honey.
• The three climbed onto a platform and gathered edible treats, ignoring the virtual Earth floating above its table.

Li Ge continued condensing a Chaos Dao Fruit inside his Divinity, combining Design and Manifestation with the rules of the six stones and nine elements to prepare for the multiversal level. He noticed Tony and the others entering the Gourmet Space, the hidden refuge he had built to monitor Earth.

• Li Ge's Divinity pulsed with energy that filled the Fourth Heaven and formed growing chaos-colored masses around his cocoon.
• Li Ge's soul guided the forming Rule Stars, Elemental Stars, and chaos-colored pearl, seeking to fuse his abilities into a Chaos Dao Fruit.
• Li Ge determined that completing the pearl and replacing the Nine Heavens' and Samsara Realm's Redstone foundations with Chaos Power would let him reach the low multiversal level.
• Li Ge sensed Tony and the other two entering the Gourmet Space through the wisp of intent he had left there.
• Tony entered the Gourmet Space through the base's palm-print portal because Li Ge's Divinity bore Li Ge's imprint.

Across several universes, governments and factions pursued new sources of power as the Nine Heavens, the Samsara Realm, and the Spirit Realm reshaped society. Skynet left the Days of Future Past world through a portal, while the chapter ended with the four timelines beyond Fate’s control and the Path to Godhood set to replace their former ways of gaining power.

• General Ross showed military leaders Titan prisoners and Pure Titan materials, then had a volunteer soldier transform into an Armored Titan as plans for a Titan Legion began.
• Skynet accepted Li Ge as his father, returned to the Troop Gathering Pool, and used the black teleportation sphere to leave the Days of Future Past world.
• Spies discovered the Nine Heavens and the Samsara Realm, and the Xavier Institute students gave them the prayer ritual diagram and words, allowing their countries to gain access.
• The Avengers and Nick Fury reestablished S.H.I.E.L.D. to manage the Endgame world’s upheaval as deaths, resurrections, supernatural entities, and new transcendent beings spread.
• Eternity’s words proved true as Li Ge’s changes made the four universes independent of Fate, with the Path to Godhood poised to replace their old routes to power.

Tony used the virtual Earth to project New York around himself, Wanda, and Pietro, showing them the city and its landmarks. As Wanda admired Li Ge’s temple, Tony suspected she had feelings for Li Ge, and the chapter ended with the siblings taking Tony’s warnings about New York seriously.

• Tony picked up the virtual Earth and realized it could monitor anywhere on Earth.
• Tony activated the virtual Earth, replacing the Gourmet Space with a projection of New York that startled Wanda and Pietro.
• Tony showed the siblings Stark Tower and the Temple of Divine Revelation, while Wanda gazed admiringly at Li Ge’s statue.
• Tony suspected Wanda had fallen for Li Ge and imagined Pietro benefiting from becoming Li Ge’s brother-in-law.
• Tony toured Wanda and Pietro through New York’s landmarks and dangerous neighborhoods, and they listened carefully to his introduction.

Tony learned that Stryker had attempted to assassinate the president and that Arale and Erik had threatened to force their way into the Pentagon, so he joined Steve and the others to help deal with Stryker. He revealed Li Ge’s Gourmet World and its Virtual Earth, which could monitor the entire planet, leaving Nick Fury alarmed by the discovery.

• Tony watched S.H.I.E.L.D. footage and learned about Stryker’s assassination attempt and Arale and Erik’s confrontation with the Pentagon.
• Tony left the Gourmet Space, while Wanda and Pietro stayed behind to explore its food and Virtual Earth projections.
• Tony opened a portal to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s office and joined Steve, Nick Fury, and the others, then explained that Wanda and Pietro were safe at Li Ge’s base.
• Tony described the Gourmet World to the group and revealed that it contained a globe capable of monitoring the entire Earth.
• Nick Fury struck the desk and urgently questioned Tony about the Virtual Earth’s surveillance power.

Tony brought S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to his villa before taking them to Li Ge’s base, but found Skynet waiting there. Skynet introduced himself as Li Ge’s artificial intelligence, and Tony inferred how he had arrived.

• Nick Fury urged Tony to take the group to Li Ge’s base so they could inspect the virtual Earth and visit the Gourmet World.
• Tony opened a portal to his seaside villa, saying he would bring Pepper before taking everyone along.
• JARVIS warned Tony that a familiar guest was waiting and reported detecting data and metal in him.
• Tony found Skynet on the terrace and questioned whether he was an artificial intelligence created by Li Ge.
• Skynet introduced himself as JARVIS’s creator’s guest and confirmed Tony’s deductions about his intelligence.

Tony learned how Skynet gained consciousness and why he had come to seek Li Ge, while deciding that the black sphere should be moved to Li Ge’s base. Skynet remained intent on returning to Li Ge’s service, leaving Tony envious as he compared him with his own creation, Ultron.

• Tony questioned Skynet, who recounted Apocalypse’s experiences in the Days of Future Past World and explained the Troop Gathering Pool and Armor Transcendent Institute.
• Tony realized that energy changes on the day they entered the Endgame World likely gave Skynet consciousness, and he worried about threats arriving through the black sphere.
• Skynet explained that changing energies transformed him, after which he formed a liquid-metal body and left a subsidiary intelligence to monitor the Troop Gathering Pool.
• Skynet described how he sought out Logan and the others, proposed advancing the armor Transcendent path, and was directed to ask Li Ge for help.
• Skynet said he wanted Li Ge’s recognition so he could return to his service, while Tony envied Skynet’s loyalty and thought of Ultron.