Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi attacked a Japanese transport convoy outside Jinling with an improvised Gatling, destroying its vehicles and killing its soldiers. After flying away in his Iron Man Armor, he left Jinling's disguised soldiers to inspect the battlefield and prepare for the invaders' response.

• Ling Yi spotted a convoy of invader trucks near Jinling and prepared his imitation nine-barreled Gatling.
• Ling Yi used the weapon to destroy the lead truck, then advanced through the convoy as the invaders' bullets failed to harm him.
• Ling Yi destroyed all hundred trucks and killed more than a thousand invaders, while also blasting a scouting squad that came from Jinling.
• Ling Yi encountered armed soldiers disguised as civilians, then flew away in his Iron Man Armor without engaging them.
• The disguised soldiers identified the wreckage as the invaders' transport battalion and began gathering supplies before reinforcements arrived.

Ling Yi attacked the invaders’ base at Ling Port Pier, sank their fleet, and carried his campaign into their homeland. As invaders and supplies vanished on a massive scale, fear and despair spread through their country, while Ling Yi continued his looting.

• Ling Yi ate noodles at Ling Port Pier, then headed to the invaders’ base while a foreign reporter followed and photographed him.
• Ling Yi used his modified Gatling gun to destroy the base and kill the invaders gathered there.
• Ling Yi sank more than twenty enemy frigates at the harbor as the reporter recorded the attack.
• The reporter published his story, and reports of the Iron Armored Man gradually convinced people that Ling Yi existed.
• Over the next half month, invaders, warships, and fighter planes disappeared across the Ancient Country and the invaders’ homeland, leaving the invaders unable to attack and afraid for their safety.
• Another half month later, supplies of every kind—including civilian goods, food, livestock, clothing, and valuables—began disappearing from the invaders’ country.

Ling Yi entered a Marvel timeline, where an accidental system reset let him enhance his clothes with an energy shield just as Hit-Girl attacked him. After convincing Mindy and her father, Damon Macready, that he knew Kingpin's identity, Ling Yi offered to help them take on Wilson Fisk.

• Ling Yi froze the invaders’ country, left supplies for the Ancient Country, and returned to the Great Tang and Great Song timelines to recover before entering the Future Timeline.
• Ling Yi configured a Marvel world and arrived in the body of a gang thug facing Hit-Girl, or Mindy, who had just killed several people.
• The Equipment Enhancement System tried to self-destruct after detecting the wrong host, then reset and bound itself to Ling Yi, granting him a daily random equipment skill.
• Ling Yi enhanced his shirt with an energy shield, which blocked Mindy’s attacks, and tricked her into thinking he had been investigating Kingpin with her victim.
• Mindy brought Ling Yi to her father, Damon Macready, who fired several weapons at him before hearing Ling Yi identify Kingpin as Wilson Fisk.
• Damon decided to investigate Fisk Tower that night, and Ling Yi offered to help while hinting that he could explain his strange protection.

Ling Yi equipped himself, Mindy, and Damon with enhanced gear before joining their raid on Fisk Tower to kill Kingpin. After arriving in Hell’s Kitchen and storming the building, the trio cleared its lobby and prepared to split up.

• Ling Yi demonstrated that he could enchant ordinary equipment with defensive energy shields, earning Mindy and Damon’s acceptance.
• Ling Yi enhanced their clothing and gear, then gained the Precision Strike status skill at midnight and stacked its accuracy bonus across his equipment.
• Ling Yi learned that he had arrived in the Marvel Universe and decided to pursue survival by helping stop Thanos’s Snap.
• Ling Yi, Mindy, and Damon traveled to Hell’s Kitchen and attacked Fisk Tower, where Damon explained Kingpin’s influence over the underworld.
• The trio killed the guards in the lobby, and Mindy challenged Ling Yi to a kill-count contest with a Desert Eagle as her prize.

Ling Yi and Mindy used his accuracy-enhanced guns to kill Kingpin, then Damon and Mindy left New York while Ling Yi stayed behind. After waking from a long sleep, Ling Yi found Nick in his room, who decided to name his organization S.H.I.E.L.D. after Ling Yi mentioned the acronym.

• Ling Yi and Mindy fought their way to Kingpin’s office, where Mindy used the enhanced pistols to kill him.
• Damon shot Kingpin’s corpse and thanked Ling Yi for the defensive equipment that had helped them survive.
• Damon decided that he and Mindy had to leave New York, while Ling Yi stayed and accepted the base and five million dollars.
• Damon and Mindy left the base, and Ling Yi spent the day shopping, eating, and sleeping after their long night.
• Nick appeared in Ling Yi’s room after he woke, and Ling Yi explained the S.H.I.E.L.D. acronym, prompting Nick to adopt the name and question how much Ling Yi knew.

Ling Yi negotiated with Nick Fury to trade enchanted weapons for resources, then discovered he could remove status skills and turn them into reusable skill stones. After gaining the powerful Touch of Greed skill, he met Natasha Romanoff and used his claimed knowledge of her future to build trust with S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Ling Yi revealed that he was an enchanter and demonstrated a handgun whose bullets curved to hit a target Nick Fury could not see.
• Nick agreed to provide Ling Yi with an identity, land, machinery, and other resources in exchange for ten enchanted handguns, while Ling Yi refused to supply defensive equipment.
• Ling Yi discovered he could remove a weapon's status skill, create a skill stone from it, and store skill stones in the system inventory; he then gave Nick ten accuracy-enhanced handguns.
• At midnight, Ling Yi received the Touch of Greed status skill, which could steal a target's attributes and possibly its skills, and spent the next day stockpiling more than fifteen hundred skill stones.
• Natasha Romanoff arrived at Ling Yi's home, and he told her she would become a hero and said he trusted S.H.I.E.L.D. because it worked to protect the world.
• Nick secretly listened as Ling Yi praised Natasha and his own efforts, and Nick smiled at Ling Yi's words.

Ling Yi settled into his new property with Natasha, planned magical jewelry, and gained a new status skill from his system. Meanwhile, Nick learned that Ross’s experiment had unleashed a powerful green monster and sought satellite surveillance as he considered its potential.

• Nick gave Ling Yi the land ownership documents and assigned Natasha to coordinate with him, and Natasha moved into the property.
• Ling Yi asked Natasha to draw designs for ten magical rings and bands, then ordered five thousand sets to be made.
• Ling Yi’s system refreshed with Double Critical Hit, which he considered selling to Nick, and he openly demonstrated his enchanting process to Natasha.
• Natasha reported to Nick that Ling Yi’s craft could not be learned by watching him, and Nick accepted that secretly copying it was impossible.
• Nick received news that Ross’s experiment had gone out of control and watched the green monster destroy military forces, including an attack helicopter.
• Nick called for immediate satellite surveillance access while considering how S.H.I.E.L.D. might deal with the monster.

Ling Yi used his enchanted equipment deal with Nick Fury to secure vibranium and other rare materials, while concealing that he wanted S.H.I.E.L.D. to help gather them. After half a month of experimentation, he had built a set of needle-filled gear that gave him 1.5 million Shield points.

• Ling Yi reviewed his growing defenses and asked Nick Fury where Banner was, revealing that he knew Hulk's identity.
• Nick agreed to trade vibranium and other rare materials for enchanted equipment, while Ling Yi offered to help deal with Hulk and Nick refused.
• Ling Yi privately intended to use S.H.I.E.L.D. to gather materials and let Nick and Natasha leave.
• Over the next half month, Ling Yi collected mostly repeated skill stones, spent time in his laboratory, and crafted wrist guards and belts packed with alloy needles.
• Ling Yi enchanted one set of three hundred needles with Energy Shield modifiers, giving himself 1.5 million Shield points.

Ling Yi stacked thousands of Prayer of Light affixes and used sunlight to raise his constitution to more than a thousand, gaining immense strength and speed. After two months, Nick arrived to trade vibranium for enchanted equipment, but their bargaining stalled over the quantity.

• Ling Yi received the Prayer of Light affix and spent a day grinding out 35,000 skill stones before the affix disappeared at midnight.
• Ling Yi basked in sunlight and found that his constitution rose rapidly, though the rate slowed as his constitution passed 100 and then 1,000.
• Ling Yi reached 1,005 constitution points after three days, gaining enough strength to lift a car, run extremely fast, and shrug off point-blank bullets.
• Ling Yi spent the next two months sunbathing and making equipment while Natasha occasionally checked on him for Nick.
• Nick brought four jars of vibranium and offered to trade them for enchanted equipment, but Ling Yi insisted on forty pieces while Nick demanded hundreds.
• Nick asked to choose and test the equipment, leaving the trade unresolved.

Ling Yi chose not to interfere with Tony Stark’s disappearance and continued developing his light-based powers while growing stronger. Two months later, he had mastered more Light Energy Particle techniques, gained a new status skill, and reached 1,906 constitution.

• Ling Yi watched reports about Tony Stark’s disappearance and decided against rescuing him, preferring to avoid disrupting future events.
• Ling Yi demonstrated his handmade suns, compressing Light Energy Particles into increasingly powerful forms and explaining how he could absorb and transform visible and invisible light.
• Over the next two months, Ling Yi improved his control of Light Energy Particles and developed more techniques, though he still could not fly.
• The system refreshed Touch of Bloodlust, a rare skill that gave attacks a small chance to drain part of a target’s health.
• Ling Yi arranged his accumulated status entries across vibranium equipment, including 500 stacks of Prayer of Light, and his constitution reached 1,906 points.

Mindy and Damon escaped a Hydra base in Aosta Town but became trapped in the surrounding mountains. Mindy sent Ling Yi a message before Hydra jammed her phone, and Ling Yi flew off to rescue them.

• Mindy and Damon discovered that the fortress they had entered was a Hydra base, triggered its alarm, and fought their way out.
• Damon drove their pickup toward town while Mindy shot at the pursuing vehicles, but Hydra helicopters forced them to abandon the truck and flee into a cornfield.
• Mindy and Damon reached the mountains, where Hydra surrounded them and cut off their communications.
• Mindy sent Ling Yi a message asking him to rescue her and Damon before the signal was jammed.
• Ling Yi read Mindy's message, decided to help, and used his new flight ability to fly toward Aosta Town.

Ling Yi met Tony Stark while flying, used JARVIS to navigate to Aosta, and found Mindy and Damon cornered by Hydra. He gave them rings that let them fly, and the three headed toward the Hydra base to attack.

• Tony Stark spotted Ling Yi flying without equipment, and Ling Yi sped away after sending Tony tumbling.
• JARVIS found Ling Yi using satellite access, and Tony called to demand an apology; Ling Yi asked JARVIS for directions to Aosta.
• Ling Yi reached the mountains near Aosta and used his equipment sense and infrared vision to locate Mindy and Damon surrounded by Hydra forces.
• Damon told Ling Yi that Hydra had a base in a nearby castle, and Ling Yi decided to attack it rather than leave the group exposed.
• Ling Yi gave Mindy and Damon vibranium rings fitted with Touch of Escape affixes, and the three flew toward the Hydra base as Ling Yi formed a ball of light.

Ling Yi destroyed a Hydra base, rescued Wanda and Pietro, and returned to New York with Mindy and Damon. Tony Stark arrived to investigate their flight, bought an enchanted Energy Shield ring for a hundred million dollars, and left dejected after learning the prices of Ling Yi’s other equipment.

• Ling Yi used controlled miniature suns to kill Hydra forces and rescued the young Wanda and Pietro from the base.
• Ling Yi incinerated the Hydra castle and returned to New York with Mindy and Damon.
• Ling Yi offered Damon a job selling enchanted equipment and welcomed Tony Stark, who had come after seeing satellite footage of the group flying.
• Mindy shot at Tony to demonstrate the Energy Shield ring Ling Yi gave him, and the shield stopped the bullets.
• Tony paid Ling Yi a hundred million dollars for the ring and left dejected after asking to buy more enchanted equipment.

Ling Yi traded enchanted equipment to Nick and discovered that the metal Nick brought was Uru, while Marvel events appeared to be unfolding on an unexpected timeline. Mindy then called him to watch Tony and Obadiah fight, leaving Ling Yi heading toward the battle.

• Ling Yi told Damon to keep wearing his equipment and spent the day testing his growing control over light energy.
• Nick and Coulson visited Ling Yi, who softened the runed metal they brought and shaped it into a Uru Metal Sword.
• Ling Yi traded Nick ten level-two rings enchanted with defense and accuracy in exchange for the Uru metal.
• After Nick left, Ling Yi wondered whether Mjolnir and other Marvel artifacts could be enchanted and kept the sword for himself.
• Mindy called Ling Yi about Tony and Obadiah fighting, and Ling Yi questioned whether this world followed the movie timeline before going to watch.

Tony defeated Obadiah Stane with help from Ling Yi’s enchanted equipment, then visited Ling Yi to arrange enchantments for his Iron Man Armor. Ling Yi discovered the armor could hold twelve modifiers and negotiated for a suit from every future Mark generation in exchange for powerful enchantments.

• Tony’s Energy Shield stopped Obadiah’s thrown car, and his enchanted micro-missiles destroyed Iron Monger’s weapons despite its jamming system.
• Tony blasted Iron Monger’s head apart with his palm cannons, killing Obadiah, while Ling Yi told Mindy and Damon that the conflict was only beginning.
• Tony publicly declared, “I am Iron Man,” and returned to Ling Yi the next day seeking armor enchantments and ten more rings.
• Ling Yi enchanted the Mark III Armor with an Energy Shield and discovered that it bore both his and Tony’s names and could accept twelve status skills.
• Ling Yi offered Tony enchantments including immunity to illness, greater strength, flight, eternal life, and ageless youth in exchange for a suit of every future Mark Armor generation.
• Tony agreed to the deal after requiring Ling Yi to guarantee that only he, Mindy, and Damon could use the armor, but he wanted to verify the effects first.

Ling Yi developed super hearing and electromagnetic signal monitoring while deciding to let Mindy leave school and study at home. When Buck Baker and Bullseye came to demand enchanted equipment, Damon refused, and Bullseye attacked him before being killed by his own redirected dagger.

• Ling Yi warned Damon that rival factions might try to seize enchanted equipment, and said he would sell only to people who met his principles.
• After Mindy explained that she could not fit in at school, Ling Yi let her stop attending and required her to study at home.
• Ling Yi spent the following week developing super hearing and electromagnetic signal monitoring, learning to filter the sounds of New York City.
• Buck Baker and Bullseye visited to buy enchanted equipment, but Damon refused and ordered them to leave.
• Bullseye threw a dagger at Damon, who caught it and sent it back, fatally striking Bullseye in the back of the head.

After Mindy chose to fight alongside Damon again, the pair headed to Hell’s Kitchen to confront Buck’s gang. Meanwhile, Nick uncovered Hydra’s infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. and sent Coulson to ask Ling Yi for help, but Ling Yi first asked how S.H.I.E.L.D. had obtained its Uru metal.

• Damon killed Bullseye, then agreed with Ling Yi that Hell’s Kitchen needed a painful lesson.
• Mindy insisted on joining Damon as Hit-Girl, and the two set out in their classic gear after sunset.
• Nick learned Hydra had survived through its Hibernation Plan and suspected Alexander Pierce was involved in the threat inside S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Nick ordered Coulson to retrieve enchanted equipment, Barton to investigate agents for Hydra tattoos, and Natasha to warn Tony Stark.
• Coulson brought five cases of Uru metal to Ling Yi, explained Hydra’s plan, and asked for help; Ling Yi asked how S.H.I.E.L.D. had obtained the metal.

Ling Yi traded Coulson three sets of enchanted equipment for uru metal, then used his AI-controlled laboratory to make powerful uru metal gear. In Hell’s Kitchen, Damon and Mindy slaughtered Buck’s gang until newly debuted Spider-Man intervened, bringing him into conflict with Mindy over whether criminals deserved to die.

• Ling Yi offered Coulson three days of level 9 enchanted equipment in exchange for uru metal, and Coulson left with three sets.
• Ling Yi transferred the Iron Man suits’ independent AIs into his supercomputer, named the AI Mark, and used it to improve his manufacturing.
• Ling Yi made uru metal gloves that could hold sixty-five affixes and decided to build himself a suit of uru metal armor.
• Damon and Mindy attacked Buck’s men in Hell’s Kitchen, killing scores of them as Spider-Man watched in horror from a rooftop.
• Spider-Man joined the fight by webbing gang members to walls, but Mindy cut his webs, knocked him into the crowd, and recognized him as Peter Parker.
• Mindy confronted Peter over saving gang members, and they argued about whether criminals should be punished or killed.

Mindy exposed Peter to Hell's Kitchen's corruption, and his attempt to fight it turned him into a wanted terrorist. After Mindy brought him to Ling Yi's home, Nick Fury offered him a place in S.H.I.E.L.D., leaving Peter to decide whether to join.

• Mindy showed Peter the exploitation and violence in Hell's Kitchen, and Peter began killing criminals after seeing the police fail to respond.
• Peter rescued children from a gang, then continued attacking criminal groups until he was branded a terrorist and pursued by police and helicopters.
• Ling Yi sent Mindy to retrieve Peter, and she knocked him unconscious and brought him back to the house.
• Peter woke at Ling Yi's home, where Nick Fury explained that his absence had been covered up with Aunt May and his school.
• Nick told Peter that S.H.I.E.L.D. had purged Hydra and offered him membership, promising to handle his arrest warrant and terrorist designation.

Ling Yi helped Peter find hope amid New York’s darkness, while the spread of his enchanted equipment drew attention from powerful factions and the military. When Banner asked him to end Hulk’s existence, Ling Yi tested Touch of Greed on a gang member and discovered that total attribute plunder left its target weak and ravenously hungry, not dead.

• Ling Yi shared the city’s comforting sounds with Peter, urged him to remain a light in the darkness, and suggested he try joining S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Nick warned Ling Yi that powerful people knew about his enchanted equipment, then left with Peter as the equipment’s reputation spread among factions.
• Tony showed Rhodey the strength he had gained from enchanted equipment, and Rhodey asked him to help the military buy some from Ling Yi.
• Banner asked Ling Yi to help him deal with Hulk, and Ling Yi considered using Touch of Greed but went to test it first.
• Ling Yi used Touch of Greed to plunder all the attributes of a gang member, who passed out, later woke up feeling close to death, and recovered after eating two boxes of pizza.