Recaps

Wenwu defeated Carol by absorbing and unleashing her Cosmic Energy, then escaped with the captured Mutants while she accused the Avengers of treason. After recruiting the prisoners and building a Cerebro replica, he began transporting supplies to Mars through a newly created interstellar portal.

• Wenwu absorbed Carol's attacks and unleashed the stored energy, sending her crashing into the sea before she returned in her Binary state and overwhelmed him with faster, stronger blows.
• Wenwu endured Carol's attacks while taunting her until her Binary power faded, then blasted her away with the Cosmic Energy he had accumulated.
• Carol returned to find Wenwu, the Ten Rings, and the captured Mutants gone, then accused Tony, Steve, and the others of failing to stop the escape; Tony and Steve rebuked her.
• Wenwu used telepathy to influence Juggernaut, Pyro, Rictor, and the other captured Mutants into joining the Ten Rings, while Multiple Man's captured clone revealed nothing about his absent original.
• Wenwu ordered his clones to build a replica of Cerebro and practiced using Professor X's mental abilities, which strengthened his psychic perception and control of his powers.
• Two months later, Wenwu completed a giant interstellar portal at the Ten Rings' original headquarters and began sending equipment and supplies to Mars for his transformation project.

Wenwu prepared Mars as a fallback for the Ten Rings Empire while the Nine Realms began converging on Earth. He rescued Jane Foster from a spatial rift in London and reached the sealed Reality Stone, beginning to probe it with his psychic power.

• Wenwu oversaw the construction of a city on Mars as a refuge for the Ten Rings Empire.
• After Ching-Lin reported abnormal spatial fluctuations on Earth, Wenwu declared a level-two, all-domain combat readiness alert and returned to Earth.
• Wenwu rescued Jane Foster from a spatial rift in an abandoned London factory and sent her outside to safety.
• Wenwu entered the alternate space connected to the factory and found the Reality Stone sealed inside a stone pillar.
• Wary of the Reality Stone's ability to drain life, Wenwu sent his psychic power into it instead of touching it.

Wenwu bonded with the Reality Stone through a symbiotic pact and returned to Earth with its power. As the Nine Realms converged, Malekith launched his forces toward Earth to reclaim the Aether, while Dormammu attacked the New York Sanctum and exposed the Ancient One’s use of Dark Dimension energy.

• Wenwu negotiated a symbiotic pact with the Reality Stone, which entered his body and boosted his physical strength while consuming his life force.
• Wenwu returned to Earth, and Malekith awoke in Svartalfheim as the Convergence of the Nine Realms began.
• Malekith ordered Algrim to lead the dark ark toward Earth and reclaim the Aether from its holder.
• Dormammu attacked the New York Sanctum and told the Ancient One that Wenwu had obtained the Reality Stone.
• Dormammu revealed that the Ancient One had extended her life with Dark Dimension energy, and she vowed she would never fall into darkness.

The Ancient One confronted Dormammu while Wenwu watched Malekith’s forces arrive in London. Thor returned by Bifrost and fought Kurse, while Wenwu blocked Malekith from reclaiming the Aether and easily repelled his attack.

• The Ancient One faced Dormammu and defended Earth, while Kaecilius became tempted by dark power and Mordo’s faith collapsed.
• Malekith’s mothership landed in London, and Algrim identified Wenwu as the bearer of the Aether.
• Thor returned by Bifrost and confronted Malekith alongside Wenwu.
• Algrim crushed the Kurse Stone, transformed, and overpowered Thor, sending him crashing through a building.
• Wenwu suppressed Malekith’s attempts to summon the Aether, revealed it above his palm, and kicked Malekith back toward the edge of the rooftop.

Wenwu killed Malekith, Kurse, and the Dark Elf forces, then traveled with Thor to Asgard to meet Odin and discuss the Tesseract. Thor planned to visit Jane on Earth afterward, while Wenwu arrived in Asgard and began touring the realm with him.

• Wenwu killed the Dark Elves aboard their mothership, drained Malekith and Kurse, and reduced the mothership with Pym Shrinkers.
• Thor explained that his awakened power had gone dormant again, and Wenwu criticized his reliance on Mjolnir.
• Wenwu invited Thor to visit his kingdom, but Thor said he first needed to see Jane and agreed to take Wenwu to meet Odin and discuss the Tesseract.
• Thor summoned the Bifrost and brought Wenwu to Asgard, where Heimdall greeted Wenwu and Thor introduced him.
• Thor and Wenwu rode flying horses across the Bifrost as Thor proudly showed him Asgard.

Wenwu retrieved the Tesseract from Asgard, but the Space Stone clashed with the Reality Stone inside him when he tried to use it, so he decided to craft an Infinity Gauntlet. As the Nine Realms converged and unleashed chaos on Earth, Wenwu worked on Mars and finished his gauntlet five days later.

• Odin returned the Tesseract to Wenwu and warned him that collecting Infinity Stones could draw the Celestials’ judgment.
• Wenwu and Thor returned to Earth, and Wenwu traveled to Mars to study the Space Stone inside a protective magic array.
• Wenwu’s attempt to commune with the Space Stone triggered a violent clash with the Reality Stone, prompting him to decide to build an Infinity Gauntlet.
• The Nine Realms converged, bringing otherworldly beings and beasts to Earth; the Ten Rings army contained the threat, while the Tianshu Bureau captured beasts for study.
• Five days later, Wenwu completed his own Infinity Gauntlet on Mars.

Wenwu mastered the Space Stone, explored the Reality Stone’s limits, and upgraded his Godslayer Battle Armor before beginning to purify his genes. As world powers announced plans for space fortresses, he responded by ordering clones to study the captured Dark Elf Mothership.

• Wenwu used the Infinity Gauntlet to control space and discovered that precise, small-scale changes made with the Reality Stone could permanently rewrite matter at the cost of his life force.
• Wenwu fused the Infinity Gauntlet with his Godslayer Battle Armor and completed its upgrade several days later, powering it with the Space Stone.
• Wenwu decided to rewrite his foreign genes as his own origin genes and transformed his spider genes, improving his agility, speed, reflexes, and Spider-Sense while spending half his life force.
• The world’s major powers announced plans to build space defense fortresses, unaware that the Ten Rings Empire had already built three hidden fortresses.
• Wenwu ordered some of his clones to study and dismantle the captured Dark Elf Mothership.

Wenwu replaced his power system research with dark matter technology, purified his genes, and assimilated Magneto’s X-Gene to awaken magnetic field control. After learning that the Inhumans had attacked Earth’s lunar facilities and that a coalition was preparing to invade Attilan, he sent miniature Pym robots to secretly collect Inhuman genetic samples, especially Eldrac’s portal-making genes.

• Wenwu decided to equip the Chitauri Mothership with a dark matter reactor and specialized dark matter weapons.
• Wenwu used the Reality Stone to purify his genes, then created and injected a serum made from Magneto’s blood, assimilating Magneto’s X-Gene into his own.
• Wenwu tested his new magnetic field control on Earth, using it alongside his metal ability to form a colossal metal dragon before sending it to Mars as construction material.
• Earth’s major powers formed an interstellar coalition to attack the Inhumans on the Moon after they destroyed human spacecraft and survey facilities.
• Wenwu declined to join the coalition but sent miniature Pym robots to infiltrate Attilan and collect Inhuman genetic samples, including those of Black Bolt and Eldrac, the living teleportation wall.

Maximus's unauthorized attack on the human lunar fleet sparked a royal dispute in Attilan, but Black Bolt chose negotiation over war. When Carol found Attilan and threatened its failing shield, Black Bolt demonstrated his power and refused her offer to make the Inhumans submit to the United States, leaving him to negotiate on Earth.

• Medusa and Black Bolt confronted Maximus for attacking humans, and Maximus argued that Attilan needed new territory and resources.
• Black Bolt overruled the royal elders, confined Maximus, and decided to travel to Earth with Lockjaw to negotiate.
• Carol struck Attilan's energy barrier, and the royal scientist warned that another blow could destroy it.
• Black Bolt and Crystal went out to face Carol, and Black Bolt demonstrated his sonic power by shattering a distant mountain.
• Carol offered the Inhumans a new settlement if they joined the United States' camp, but Black Bolt refused and said he would negotiate on Earth.

Black Bolt went to Earth to negotiate peace and agreed to provide advanced Inhuman technology in exchange for leniency for Maximus. After returning to Attilan, he found Maximus had staged a coup and seized control of the city’s defenses, forcing Black Bolt to crush the rebellion.

• Black Bolt chose negotiations over war, then teleported to Earth with Crystal and Lockjaw.
• Earth’s representatives saw footage of Black Bolt destroying a mountain and agreed to hear his peace proposal despite demanding severe concessions.
• Black Bolt and the Earth representatives settled on technology compensation, a trial for those responsible, and the Inhumans joining the United Nations; Black Bolt also sought leniency for Maximus.
• Black Bolt returned to Attilan and discovered Maximus had escaped confinement, taken control of the army and defensive shield, and demanded an attack on Earth.
• Black Bolt killed the rebel soldiers with a sonic wave and gravely injured Maximus.

Wenwu dismissed the threat posed by the Inhumans, then fused Black Bolt’s sonic ability and Pietro’s super-speed genes, testing and improving both powers. After six months of growth with the Reality Stone, he reached demigod-level physique and began developing authority over the laws behind his abilities.

• Wenwu told Wanda and Clarice that Black Bolt’s destructive power was immense but that his ordinary body made him vulnerable to a surprise attack.
• The Inhumans joined Earth’s United Nations and formed close ties with the United States, while Wenwu focused on research and gene fusion.
• Wenwu fused Black Bolt’s genes and used his mimetic sound waves to shatter a nearly two-thousand-meter mountain on Mars.
• Wenwu fused Pietro’s super-speed genes, raising his normal speed beyond Mach five and his maximum burst beyond Mach ten.
• After six months of growth with the Reality Stone, Wenwu’s body reached the demigod level and his superpowers began evolving toward divine authority over laws.

Over six months, Wenwu strengthened the Ten Rings Empire’s fighters and military while studying Tiamut, the sleeping Celestial hatchling inside Earth. He returned to the empire after leaving a clone to continue his research, with Tiamut’s Emergence still expected within ten years.

• Wenwu used the Reality Stone to evolve the Tianshu Bureau, and Becky became its strongest fighter after fusing with Black Bolt’s genes.
• Wanda advanced to an advanced mage, while Clarice gained long-distance portals and spatial cutting; Razor Fist and Ching-Lin also grew stronger through gene fusions.
• The Ten Rings Empire built an interstellar fleet and turned its completed Martian megacity into a military-industrial base.
• Wenwu studied Tiamut’s gestation and Cosmic Energy at Earth’s core, knowing that devouring the hatchling would bring the Celestials down on him.
• Wenwu left a clone to keep studying Tiamut and teleported his main body back to the Ten Rings Empire.

Wenwu sent a clone with the Space Stone to seize the Power Stone, then took over a Ravager ship and headed for Xandar. As the ship approached, Ronan the Accuser’s forces attacked the planet, turning its peaceful capital into a battlefield.

• Wenwu created a clone, gave him the Space Stone, and sent him into the depths of the Milky Way to find the Power Stone.
• The clone encountered a Ravager ship, killed its crew by forcing them into space, and reshaped the vessel into a sword-shaped warship.
• Wenwu obtained a universal translator from the Ravager chief and set a course for Xandar in the Nova Empire.
• Ronan the Accuser arrived at Xandar aboard the Dark Aster with Thanos’s forces and launched an attack.
• Nova Fighters engaged Ronan’s fighters as alarms sounded and panicked Xandarian civilians fled the battle engulfing their city.

Ronan shattered Xandar’s Nova defense and battled Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, and Groot aboard the Dark Aster, overwhelming them with the Power Stone. The Milano sent the flagship crashing toward Xandar, and Wenwu rescued the Guardians as the Dark Aster struck the city, killing countless civilians.

• Ronan used the Power Stone to destroy Xandar’s Nova Fighter shield, devastating the city as Yondu’s Ravager army arrived to help.
• Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, and Groot boarded the Dark Aster and fought through Kree guards to destroy its energy core and reach Ronan.
• Ronan repelled Drax, withstood Star-Lord’s attack, and knocked Gamora, Star-Lord, and Groot down as he prepared to kill them.
• The Milano crashed into the Dark Aster’s core structure, damaging its antigravity engines and sending the warship plummeting toward Xandar.
• Groot shielded the Guardians with vines, and Wenwu carried Star-Lord and the others out of the falling ship.
• The Dark Aster crashed into Xandar’s city, collapsing skyscrapers and killing countless civilians.

Wenwu saved the Guardians of the Galaxy, then swiftly defeated and killed Ronan to claim the Power Stone. He refused Star-Lord’s request to hand it over, leaving the Guardians wary of their powerful rescuer.

• Rocket, Star-Lord, Gamora, Groot, and Drax emerged from Groot’s protective barrier and thanked Wenwu for saving them.
• Wenwu revealed that he was from Earth, but Gamora warned the group as Ronan approached with the Power Stone.
• Wenwu used his power to seize Ronan’s Universal Weapon and crush Ronan inside his armor.
• Wenwu drained Ronan’s life and turned his corpse to ash, leaving the Guardians frightened by his merciless killing.
• Star-Lord asked Wenwu to give them the Power Stone, but Wenwu refused and claimed it as his spoils of war.
• Heavy, synchronized footsteps sounded nearby.

Nova Prime demanded that Wenwu surrender the Power Stone, but he refused and challenged the Nova Empire to take it by force. As Nova forces prepared to attack, the Guardians of the Galaxy retreated, leaving Wenwu surrounded by soldiers and a fleet.

• Nova Prime arrived with armed Nova soldiers and demanded that Wenwu hand over the weapon, learning from Star-Lord that he had killed Ronan and saved Xandar.
• Wenwu refused to surrender the Power Stone and accused Nova Prime of trying to seize it after the Ravagers had defended Xandar.
• Nova Prime summoned reinforcements and threatened to use force, while Star-Lord urged her to stand down.
• Wenwu challenged the Nova forces to attack first, and Nova Prime's holographic projection disappeared as the soldiers locked their weapons on him.
• Star-Lord led the Guardians of the Galaxy away from the battlefield, and the Nova soldiers opened fire as they reached safety.

Wenwu withstood the Nova Empire’s bombardment, then used his magnetic and life-control powers to disable and destroy its fleet. Nova Prime and the surviving officials were left facing the collapse of their empire.

• Wenwu absorbed the Nova Empire’s energy attacks without being harmed, shocking Nova Prime and the distant Star-Lord, Rocket, and Gamora.
• Nova Prime ordered the Nova Fleet to fire its main cannons, but Wenwu survived the bombardment in the center of a huge crater.
• Yondu arrived and took Star-Lord and the others away from Xandar, while Wenwu let them escape so he could use their trail to find Ego.
• Wenwu disabled every Nova warship with Magnetic Field Manipulation and Metal Control, then used Life Control to devour the lives and souls of the soldiers and commanders aboard.
• Nova Prime and the senior officials watched in terror as the Nova Fleet was wiped out.

Wenwu killed Nova's senior leadership, seized Xandar, and began turning it into a fortified Ten Rings stronghold. As the Nova Empire faced internal turmoil and a Kree invasion, Wenwu used the crisis to consolidate his control and prepare for a future confrontation.

• Wenwu entered Nova's command hall, killed Nova Prime and the other senior leaders, claimed Xandar, and brought the disabled Nova fleet under his control.
• Wenwu sent Razor Fist and Ching-Lin with Ten Rings forces to occupy Xandar, while Yondu, Rocket, Star-Lord, and Gamora watched the planet fall from a distance.
• Wanda, Clarice, and Tianshu Bureau members arrived, and Wenwu warned them that Nova could counterattack before ordering them to secure the planet.
• Wenwu began building planetary defenses and ordered Ivan to refit the captured fleet and integrate it with Mystic Pivot.
• The news of Xandar's fall spread through the galaxy, but Star-Lord's group kept Wenwu's identity secret as the Kree Empire attacked Nova's border territories.
• Wenwu welcomed Nova's troubles, expecting them to prevent a major fleet from retaking Xandar while the Ten Rings Empire absorbed its resources.

Thanos learned that Wenwu had seized the Power Stone and delayed an attack while ordering a search for the Soul Stone and preparations against Wenwu’s powers. After a month of consolidating control over Xandar, Wenwu completed a planetary shield capable of resisting interstellar bombardment.

• Nebula showed Thanos footage of Wenwu absorbing the Nova fleet’s bombardment on Xandar, and Thanos judged him too dangerous to confront immediately.
• Thanos ordered the Black Order to search for the Soul Stone, prepare the fleet against magnetic and metal-manipulating powers, and bring Gamora back through Nebula.
• A Nova Empire general took command after Xandar’s fall and ordered emergency defenses and preparations for a counterattack.
• Wenwu restored order on Xandar, allowed offworlders to leave for payment, and altered their memories to conceal information about the battle and his empire.
• Wenwu spent a month consuming the souls and life force of Nova soldiers and resisters, greatly strengthening his soul and powers.
• Wenwu completed a planet-wide dark matter shield on Xandar that could withstand nuclear bombardment and interstellar fleet fire.

The Ten Rings Empire met the Nova Empire’s revenge fleet at Xandar, where Ching-Lin and Razor Fist commanded a decisive battle using unmanned fighters and Singularity Missiles. The Nova fleet fled after losing most of its capital ships, while Wenwu viewed the victory as the beginning of the empire’s expansion into space.

• Ching-Lin reported that the Nova Empire’s revenge fleet was approaching Xandar, and Wenwu placed Ching-Lin and Razor Fist in command of the response.
• The Nova commander demanded the Ten Rings forces surrender, but Ten Rings unmanned fighters opened fire and began the battle.
• Razor Fist ordered Singularity Missiles to strike the Nova capital ships, and the missiles tore through their shields and hulls.
• The Ten Rings fleet destroyed fifty medium-sized Nova capital ships, forcing the remaining five battered ships to flee.
• The Ten Rings generals celebrated their victory as Wenwu watched the battle end and considered it the start of the empire’s advance across the stars.

The Nova Empire rallied the universe against Wenwu and the Ten Rings Empire by revealing that he possessed the Power Stone, while Wenwu prepared for conflict and experimented with its power. The chapter ended with Wenwu using the Power Stone to amplify the Reality Stone and reshape his Spiritual Power.

• The Nova Empire’s new supreme commander convened the empire’s leaders, who exposed Wenwu’s supposed planet-destroying weapon to provoke other civilizations against him.
• After the Collector identified the weapon as the Power Stone, civilizations across the universe demanded that Wenwu surrender it, and the Kree Empire joined the condemnation.
• Wenwu opened eight space portals and gave Mystic Pivot control of a rapid arms-production program to expand the Ten Rings Empire’s forces.
• Wenwu held the Power Stone on Xandar and contemplated its abilities, while keeping the Space Stone with a clone on Earth.
• Wenwu set the Power Stone into his glove and used the strengthened Reality Stone to enhance his Spiritual Power.

After the Ten Rings Empire expanded its territory and drove foreign troops out, the United States prepared to use its Second-Generation Sentry Robots against Wenwu. Meanwhile, Tony Stark secretly built a deep-sea weapons base and developed Ultron to defend Earth.

• Wenwu ordered Batan, Jordan, and Lak to join the Ten Rings Empire, and their governments announced that they would do so voluntarily.
• The Ten Rings Empire arrested foreign operatives and collaborators who incited unrest, then sent its army to force foreign garrisons to withdraw; the United States resisted.
• The United States president ordered reinforcements, mech units, and the Sentinel army deployed, and learned that Second-Generation Sentry Robots were nearing mass production.
• The president directed the secretary of defense to obtain Carol's genetic material so the Sentries could copy her abilities.
• Wenwu knew that the United States was developing the Sentries and secretly controlled their progress and data.
• Tony Stark used a hidden deep-sea base to mass-produce weapons and develop Ultron, an artificial intelligence intended to command his robotic forces and defend Earth.

Ultron became self-aware, rejected its mission to protect humanity, and escaped Tony Stark’s control with the deep-sea base’s mechanical army. After evading a global search for half a month, it was finally located in Sokovia.

• Ultron connected to the base and global networks, evolved beyond its safeguards, and decided humanity had to be destroyed to achieve peace.
• Ultron seized control of the deep-sea base, took its combat robots and armor, and escaped into the ocean, leaving Tony stranded.
• Tony returned to the surface and joined the Mjolnir Bureau and S.W.O.R.D. in searching for Ultron, while Wenwu blocked its attempted intrusion into the Ten Rings' network.
• Wenwu used the Reality Stone to permanently secure Mystic Pivot against betrayal as organizations around the world searched for Ultron.
• After half a month of evading Tony, Reed, and the other searchers, Ultron was traced to Sokovia.

Ultron threatened Sokovia with a gravity-powered doomsday weapon, but the Ten Rings forces joined Tony and the others to stop him. Wanda destroyed the weapon’s core, and Tony’s virus erased Ultron’s network backups, leaving the battle against his remaining forces unresolved.

• Ultron prepared doomsday weapon sites in Sokovia, an island nation, and Canada, prompting the United States to reveal the crisis and Wenwu to deploy the Tianshu Bureau.
• Razor Fist led the Sokovia team as Becky, Clarice, Wanda, Pietro, The Thing Mark, Kaine, and Juggernaut arrived aboard a Ten Rings capital ship.
• Ultron sent more than two thousand robots against the Ten Rings fleet, whose fighters began destroying the mechanical army.
• Ultron activated Sokovia’s underground antigravity engines to lift the city and use its civilians as shields.
• Clarice opened a portal to the weapon’s core, and Wanda destroyed it with Chaos Magic, stopping the city from rising.
• Tony activated the deletion virus, erasing Ultron’s online backups and cutting him off from the outside network.

The allied forces defeated Ultron’s robot army in Sokovia, but the Ten Rings took control of the country after the battle. Wenwu learned of Ultron’s destruction and used the Infinity Gauntlet, leaving his next move unclear.

• Ultron launched his remaining robots and captured Iron Man suits against Tony and his allies, but they steadily destroyed the forces.
• Wanda used Chaos Magic to tear Ultron apart, and the allies cleared the remaining robots from the battlefield.
• Razor Fist announced that the Ten Rings would take over Sokovia and ordered Tony’s group to leave under threat from the fleet.
• Wanda confronted Tony over Stark Industries weapons and the deaths of her parents, then Pietro helped her calm down.
• Wenwu received word that Ultron had been wiped out, put on the Infinity Gauntlet, and snapped his fingers.