Chapter Summaries

Vision rescued Zombie Wanda and escaped through the rock, leaving Mark and the survivors to fight the zombie horde. Mark used his Nine Extremes Primordial Fire, and the group drove the zombies into the larger space, where Peter joined the battle.

• Vision used the Mind Stone to restrain Zombie Wanda, then turned intangible and carried her through the rock.
• Mark entered the Nine Extremes Primordial Fire pit and coated himself and his sword in its lava.
• Mark and Jack challenged each other to kill more zombies, and the survivors revealed their trump cards to attack the horde.
• The survivors pushed the zombies out of the passage, while some zombies began to regain their reason and retreat.
• Peter arrived, saw the survivors fighting, and joined Mark against the zombies.

Bucky met Li Ge and his companions after returning from death, and learned that Li Ge was assimilating his world. Li Ge promised that the world could be restored, including the resurrection of the dead, while Bucky noticed that the zombie prisoners had vanished from their cage.

• Bucky recognized Tony, who attacked him before Li Ge stopped the fight.
• Bucky rushed toward Li Ge after hearing he could revive the dead, but Li Ge’s spiritual pressure forced him to his knees.
• Li Ge introduced himself as Immortal and told Bucky that the assimilated world would be under his control.
• Bucky asked whether his world could return to peace, and Li Ge said he could restore it and reincarnate souls who had died.
• Bucky began celebrating the prospect of saving Steve, then saw that the glass cage holding several zombies was empty.
• Li Ge gathered the sealing cards from Tony, Wanda, and Skynet, while Bucky watched the zombie likenesses appear on them.

Bucky recounted how Zombie Hulk killed him while he was helping Master Wong at Kamar-Taj, after Bucky had spread Li Ge’s power among survivors. Li Ge discovered that Master Wong had been assimilated and was still fighting Zombie Hulk, while Strange remained trapped maintaining a seal over many zombie heroes.

• Bucky told Wanda and the others that he had traveled between cities distributing Assimilation Rings and searching for surviving Avengers and superheroes.
• Bucky explained that he flew to Kamar-Taj in Iron Man Armor, where he joined Master Wong’s fight against Zombie Hulk and was killed after Hulk caught him.
• Bucky revealed that he had given Master Wong an Assimilation Ring, and Li Ge confirmed that Master Wong had been assimilated.
• Master Wong continued dodging and taunting Zombie Hulk, replacing his shattered armor, shield, and sword with supplies from his inventory.
• Strange remained exhausted in the Mirror Dimension, holding countless zombie sorcerers and superheroes under a magical seal while Kamar-Taj lay in ruins.

Li Ge met Strange in the Mirror Dimension and took over the containment of the zombie superheroes. After Strange accepted Li Ge’s ring and regained his health, Li Ge sealed the zombies into vibranium cards, leaving Strange free and the cards collected.

• Li Ge left Wanda with Bucky and the others, then went to meet Strange while Master Wong kept Zombie Hulk occupied.
• Strange severed his connections to the magic arrays, releasing the zombies he had been suppressing.
• Li Ge gave Strange a black-and-gold ring, which Strange identified as this world’s hope and put on.
• Li Ge pinned the charging zombies with a massive palm and used vibranium sealing cards to seal them.
• Strange watched with his health restored as Li Ge picked up and collected the sealed cards.

After subduing Zombie Hulk and assigning Strange, Master Wong, and Bucky to spread his power, Li Ge built a vast immortal palace in the K'un-Lun Mountains and equipped it with his supernatural stores. He left Wanda, Tony, and Skynet to study and practice there while returning to the Sun to embed the Six Infinity Stones in the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus, strengthening his control as assimilation continued.

• Strange used borrowed Nine Extremes Primordial Fire to burn Zombie Hulk into a helpless stump, and Li Ge sealed him.
• Li Ge instructed Strange and Master Wong to spread his power through the world, then sent Bucky to continue accelerating its assimilation.
• Li Ge took Wanda and the other two to the K'un-Lun Mountains and built a floating immortal palace stocked with gardens, artifacts, medicines, arrays, and a scripture pavilion.
• Tony studied supernatural knowledge and practiced forging a natal divine artifact with Skynet and Wanda, while Li Ge left a synchronized clone to keep them company.
• Li Ge returned to the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus at the Sun's core and embedded the Six Infinity Stones in it to strengthen his control over the Solar System.

Li Ge completed the Six Infinity Stones’ integration and accelerated the Solar System’s assimilation while survivors and Strange fought zombies across the world. He found Strange clearing a city and stopped him to talk.

• Li Ge embedded the Six Infinity Stones in the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus, prepared the nine planets to become divine artifacts, and accelerated time across the Solar System.
• Assimilated survivors spread worldwide, while Tony and his companions hunted zombies using three limited Block Rule abilities.
• Li Ge reviewed Wanda and the others’ divine-artifact studies, then left Asgard to find Strange.
• Strange burned through zombies across the world with Li Ge’s Nine Extremes Primordial Fire and precisely cleared a city without harming survivors.
• Li Ge appeared before Strange as he prepared to leave and said he needed to talk.

Li Ge asked Strange to search the universe for black holes, which he planned to use to forge divine artifacts from his replicated Infinity Stones. He summoned Tiga Dark to provide an Ultraman body for Strange and urged him to assimilate the Dark Dimension, leaving Strange astonished by the revelation.

• Li Ge told Strange he needed black holes as materials for his divine artifacts and asked him to find them and mark their locations with Li Ge's power.
• Strange offered to check Kamar-Taj's collection, but Li Ge said it would not contain the rare celestial bodies he needed.
• Li Ge promised Strange an enhanced Ultraman body so he could travel through space without a ship.
• Li Ge opened a portal into the Demon Realm and asked Tiga Dark for an Ultraman body while Strange saw the nine stars, monsters, inhabitants, and Tiga Dark's throne.
• Tiga Dark sent a stone statue that shrank as it flew toward Li Ge, who caught it and closed the portal after telling Tiga Dark to assimilate the Dark Dimension soon.

Li Ge forged Strange an Ultraman body and adjusted the survivors’ injury rules after discovering Strange could not draw blood. Strange transformed and left to search for black holes, while Master Wong agreed to take over zombie-clearing in exchange for a Demon True Form.

• Li Ge told Strange about his trip to the Dark Dimension while forging a Strange-shaped Ultraman body in the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Strange’s first attempt to give the statue blood failed, so Li Ge changed the rules; Strange then formed blood-red block particles, and survivors began feeling pain and dropping bodily remains when injured or killed.
• Strange bonded with the statue, received an Ultraman Transformation Ring and a marker energy orb, and transformed before Li Ge sent him out of the Solar System.
• Master Wong asked Li Ge for an Ultraman ring, but agreed to handle Strange’s zombie-clearing work in exchange for a Demon True Form.
• Li Ge offered to make Master Wong a Chaos Redstone-powered Demon Dharma Form, and Master Wong requested a necklace like the Eye of Agamotto.

Li Ge continued compressing and assimilating the Solar System into his All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus, while worrying that separating it from the universe might destabilize spacetime. He remained eager to exploit any resulting collapse and prepared to keep operating the array from the lotus.

• Li Ge lent Wanda, Tony, and Skynet the Nine Extremes Primordial Fire and Telekinesis so they could fight zombies while continuing their artifact work.
• Li Ge reshaped the nine planets and built energy networks as he compressed the Solar System and drew it toward becoming a lotus seed.
• Li Ge noticed that the shrinking Solar System was exchanging less energy and information with the universe and following an increasingly unpredictable trajectory.
• Li Ge feared that removing Earth and the Solar System could destabilize the universe’s timeline, but he also anticipated using a collapse to embed his own rules.
• Li Ge returned to the All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus, resumed his true demon god form, and operated the Nine-Element Nine-Star Assimilation Array through a miniature model of the Solar System.

Li Ge forged the Solar System’s planets into vessels for the nine elemental powers, reshaping their materials and creating new structures within them. He placed Asgard inside the Sun and left a portal to Earth, while the nine celestial bodies became indistinct behind hazy spacetime.

• Li Ge transformed Mars into a crystalline vessel for the fire element and Mercury into an ice-crystal vessel containing shifting water.
• Li Ge compressed Saturn into a neutron-matter vessel for the earth element and turned Jupiter into a God Tree seed.
• Li Ge filled Venus with divine metals, forged Uranus around lightning, and replaced Neptune with a changing array of gases.
• After Wanda and the other two warned him against using Earth for the Yin Element Stone, Li Ge moved it to the Moon and refined the Moon into a half-illusory vessel.
• Li Ge condensed the Sun into a gold-red crystal for the Yang Element Stone, moved Asgard inside it, and placed his All-Encompassing Heaven Colored Lotus on his divine seat.

Tony and Wanda returned to the main world while Li Ge and Skynet stayed in Asgard, and years passed as Li Ge continued his work. On Earth, survivors accelerated assimilation through widespread destruction and excavation, while Li Ge planned to forge all fifteen stones into divine artifacts and eventually assimilate the Solar System.

• Tony and Wanda asked Li Ge to send them to the main world, and he gave them a way to contact him before opening a portal for them.
• Skynet studied and forged in Asgard while Li Ge worked on the assimilation array and divine artifacts, and years passed without Tony or Wanda contacting him.
• Master Wong, Peter, Bucky, Mark, Jack, and other leaders helped survivors establish settlements on Earth’s surface as most zombies were eliminated and survivors were assimilated.
• Survivors used the Nine Extremes Primordial Fire and Telekinesis to burn and mine vast areas, prompting Li Ge to change how uncollected dropped blocks behaved.
• Other survivors built bases and dug deep underground, driving Earth’s assimilation progress toward 0.1 percent.
• Li Ge considered resurrecting some of the dead and planned to forge the Six Infinity Stones into divine artifacts, eventually using all fifteen artifacts to govern the Solar System.

Tony returned from the zombie world and reunited with JARVIS, while Peter and his friends used Li Ge’s training space to prepare for combat against a simulated Chitauri invasion. Wanda secretly watched Pietro fight as the training battle began.

• Tony and Wanda returned through the portal, and Wanda left to search for Pietro.
• Tony checked in with JARVIS, welcomed his voice, and urged him to evolve into a true intelligent life-form.
• Peter, Harry, Gwen Stacy, Pietro, and Mary Jane designed a space-city battlefield and summoned a Chitauri army in the training space.
• Pietro transformed into a giant jade-like demon, and Harry formed a giant blood crystal angel to attack the Leviathans.
• Peter and Gwen joined the fight while Mary Jane advanced with a water-element barrier, and Wanda watched Pietro from the entrance.

Ghost Rider was driven toward Li Ge’s base while Coulson and Natasha monitored him, and Nick Fury suspected that Li Ge and several allies had left for another universe. At the base, Peter and the others finished another exhausting Chitauri training battle, and Wanda hinted that Pietro still had much to learn.

• Ghost Rider succumbed to the voice in his mind and rode toward Li Ge’s base as Coulson tracked him from a Quinjet.
• Coulson told Nick Fury about Ghost Rider’s direction, and Nick Fury ordered him to observe while explaining that Li Ge, Wanda Maximoff, Tony Stark, Peter Parker, and others might have gone to another universe.
• Coulson and Natasha discussed Mephisto’s likely plan to use Ghost Rider to threaten Li Ge through his friends.
• Peter and the others were overwhelmed by the Chitauri army in the training space, which vanished after they were defeated and restored them to health.
• Peter and the others drank King Fruit juice to recover, and Wanda told Pietro he still had a lot to learn.

Wanda returned from the zombie world after spending two years there, though only two days had passed at home. When Ghost Rider approached the base, Wanda confronted him and opened her Chaos Domain, drawing him, Peter and the others, and the hidden Quinjet into a scarlet crystal sphere.

• Wanda emerged from the void and reunited with Peter and the others, who asked about Li Ge and her travels.
• Wanda explained that she and Li Ge had spent two years in the zombie world while only two days passed at home, then restrained Pietro after he teased her about her age.
• Wanda sensed Ghost Rider approaching and warned Peter and the others that trouble was coming.
• Wanda noticed Coulson and Natasha monitoring the encounter from a concealed Quinjet and realized Nick Fury was using Ghost Rider to test whether Li Ge was at the base.
• Ghost Rider attacked Wanda with his burning chain, and she opened her Chaos Domain, enclosing him, Peter and the others, and the Quinjet inside a scarlet crystal sphere.

Mephisto tried to seize Wanda’s crystal ball, but Strange intervened and fought him in the Mirror Dimension. As Strange drew Mephisto away, Blackheart appeared and plotted to claim Li Ge’s friends and power for himself.

• Mephisto examined Wanda’s crystal ball, recognized her chaos domain as the beginnings of a divine kingdom, and reached to take it.
• A Hell fissure opened beneath Mephisto, but Strange arrived, created the Mirror Dimension, and blocked his attempt to seize the crystal ball.
• Strange summoned an Earth Dragon to battle Mephisto’s lava serpent, then revealed his Demon Dharma Form after Mephisto transformed into his demon form.
• Strange protected the crystal ball with a magical barrier and drew Mephisto into a battle that moved farther away.
• Blackheart emerged from the spot Mephisto had indicated and vowed to claim Li Ge’s friends and power.

Blackheart tried to seize Wanda and her domain to force Li Ge to surrender his power, but Master Wong intervened while Wanda defeated Ghost Rider inside her Ice Hell. The chapter ended with Master Wong and Blackheart fighting as Wanda sealed the unconscious Ghost Rider into a vibranium card.

• Blackheart began sealing the crystal ball, but Master Wong arrived, shattered the barrier, and protected it with layered isolation magic.
• Master Wong transformed into a giant Ultraman and attacked Blackheart, who grew into his Demon True Form and fought back.
• Wanda used her Ice Hell domain to overwhelm Ghost Rider with freezing winds and ice attacks until his flames, bones, motorcycle, and chain were destroyed.
• Wanda changed the domain into a white space, then sealed the unconscious Ghost Rider into a vibranium card.
• The observers marveled at Wanda's domain power and wished to gain the same kind of power.

Dormammu discovered that Mephisto had revealed Li Ge’s hidden Demon Realm in the Dark Dimension and set out to seize it. Tiga Dark moved the Demon Realm into his Chaos Redstone core and waited for Dormammu to arrive.

• Tiga Dark kept the Demon Realm concealed in the Dark Dimension, using its resources to strengthen Li Ge’s Transcendents.
• Mephisto recognized the Demon Realm’s energy traces, pieced together Li Ge’s scheme, and contacted Dormammu to join forces against him.
• Dormammu interrogated captured Transcendents, agreed to support Mephisto, and used their connections to Li Ge to locate the Demon Realm.
• Dormammu learned that Li Ge was absent and charged toward the Demon Realm, vowing to take it for himself.
• Tiga Dark detected Dormammu’s approach, absorbed the Demon Realm into his Chaos Redstone core, and waited for him in the Dark Dimension.

Tiga Dark fought Dormammu to protect the Demon Realm, revealing himself as Li Ge’s contingency and matching Dormammu’s power. As they resumed their battle, Li Ge watched from the Sun’s core and began considering the Dark Dimension and Hell as future targets.

• Dormammu reached Tiga Dark and realized the Demon Realm was connected to him, mistaking him at first for Li Ge’s contingency.
• Tiga Dark attacked Dormammu with Demon God's Claw, and their clash tore through the surrounding stellar wreckage.
• Tiga Dark fired his Dark Chaos Redstone Energy Chest Cannon, forcing Dormammu to retreat as his black-hole shield collapsed in an explosion.
• Dormammu acknowledged Tiga Dark’s strength, learned his name, and charged back into battle as Tiga Dark blocked and returned his energy attacks.
• Li Ge opened his eyes in the Sun’s core and considered targeting the Dark Dimension and claiming territory in Hell after assimilating the Solar System.

Strange and Master Wong gained the upper hand against Mephisto and Blackheart in the Mirror Dimension, while Wanda and the others joined the fight. Wanda revealed her enormous Chaos Domain Dharma Form, leaving Strange eager to create a domain of his own.

• Strange and Master Wong steadily overwhelmed Mephisto and Blackheart as the protected scarlet crystal ball vanished.
• Wanda opened a portal for Peter and the others to leave, but they refused and prepared to help fight.
• Natasha, Coulson, Peter, Gwen Stacy, and Harry transformed into giant battle forms, while Pietro activated his Ultraman body and joined them.
• Wanda brought Mary Jane into her Chaos Domain Dharma Form, which grew into a hundred-meter scarlet giant.
• Wanda attacked Mephisto with a stone python, and Strange resolved to create his own domain after seeing the power of her Dharma Form.

Wanda and the others drove Mephisto back with a coordinated assault, while Strange and Master Wong sealed Blackheart. Mephisto vanished into a magma-filled crater with Pietro, and Strange realized he had likely taken Pietro to Hell.

• Mephisto fled as Blackheart fought Master Wong, and Wanda assigned the others to attack Blackheart while she pursued Mephisto.
• Wanda gave Peter and the others vibranium sealing cards, and Strange and Master Wong sealed Blackheart after weakening him.
• Wanda, Coulson, Natasha, Harry, Peter, Gwen, and Pietro attacked Mephisto together, with Pietro unleashing a colossal spinning drill attack.
• Strange and Master Wong praised Pietro's attack, but Wanda cleared the dust and revealed a magma-filled crater where both Pietro and Mephisto had disappeared.
• Strange concluded that Mephisto had opened a passage to Hell and taken Pietro through it.