Recaps

Wenwu expanded the Ten Rings Empire through military campaigns while promoting Chi cultivation to strengthen its people. In New York, Tony clashed with Steve, Carol, and Fury over weapons and the war, then received an email from an unknown sender.

• Wenwu used the Power Stone to destroy Ultron's hidden USB backups, then the Ten Rings defeated NATO forces in Sokovia and held them at a standoff.
• After Yisi Country attacked the Ten Rings border, Wenwu ordered Ching-Lin to invade and annex it, and to expand into Yilan and Afghanistan when the opportunity arose.
• Wenwu prepared an optimized Chi cultivation method for the empire's public, and the Ten Rings later attacked US bases in Yilan and Yisi Country.
• Steve blamed Tony for the war, while Carol demanded that he report high-risk weapons research and Fury questioned his undersea military-industrial base.
• Tony defended his weapons research as protection against extraterrestrial threats, and Steve broke the floor with his shield before leaving.
• JARVIS told Tony that an unknown sender had emailed him.

After learning that Bucky had killed his parents while under Hydra’s control, Tony attacked him and fought Carol before being defeated. Venom bonded with Tony afterward, but Tony extracted and contained it, while Wenwu secretly kept a severed piece of the symbiote.

• Tony received a video proving that Bucky had beaten his parents to death and attacked the S.W.O.R.D. aircraft carrying Bucky, Steve, Fury, and Carol.
• Tony confronted Bucky, learned that Steve and Fury had known the truth, and fought Carol when she shielded Bucky.
• Carol defeated Tony, leaving him injured in a crater; after the others departed, JARVIS administered Star Ring’s regenerative serum and Tony vowed to avenge his parents.
• Venom entered Tony’s damaged armor and bonded with him, but Tony shocked it with newly delivered armor components and flew to Stark Tower.
• Wenwu appeared in the crater with a piece he had cut from Venom and used the Mind Stone to learn how Venom had reached Earth.
• Tony extracted Venom from his body and sealed it in a container for study.

Wenwu began merging with Ta Lo while Tony Stark reverse-engineered Venom into a powerful liquid armor. Tony killed Bucky, then fought Carol in New York, where satellite-delivered energy cores replenished his armor as Wenwu watched.

• Wenwu used the Reality Stone to alter Ta Lo’s rules and began merging with the world’s core.
• Tony Stark created an artificial Symbiote-like liquid armor from his study of Venom and later upgraded it with his other armor’s capabilities.
• Tony flew to New York and killed Bucky with a blade formed from his armor, despite Steve’s efforts to protect him.
• Steve lost control and tried to kill Tony, but Tony flew away without giving him a chance to attack.
• Carol intercepted Tony and fought him across New York, while the battle endangered buildings and civilians.
• Tony’s Hulkbuster Armor descended to help him resist Carol, and satellites sent Arc Energy cores to replenish his power as Wenwu watched.

Steve accepted Fury’s Hulk Serum and fought Tony before Carol intervened, while Wenwu’s forces crushed an allied fleet attacking Xandar. By 2016, Stephen Strange had recovered from his accident with regenerative medicine, traveled to Nepal, and begun studying magic under the Ancient One.

• Steve told Fury that he would undergo enhancement so he could avenge Bucky, and Fury brought him to a secret laboratory.
• After receiving the Hulk Serum, Steve fought Tony at his Malibu mansion until Carol separated them.
• The Ten Rings Empire and the Tianshu Bureau defended Xandar against an allied fleet, with Clarice, Wanda, and Nightcrawler opening portals for their forces to attack enemy ships from within.
• Becky destroyed a Nova Empire mothership with his sonic power, and the alliance fled after suffering heavy losses.
• Stephen recovered his hands with regenerative medicine, traveled to Nepal, and became the Ancient One’s disciple at Kamar-Taj.
• After six months of study, Stephen made progress in magic and received the Eye of Agamotto from the Ancient One.

Wenwu killed the Ancient One, Mordo, Kaecilius, and the fallen sorcerers in the Mirror Dimension, then defeated Stephen and erased his memories of magic. He left Stephen alive in New York and began digesting the Ancient One’s memories while keeping the Time Stone hidden.

• Wenwu appeared as Kaecilius stabbed the Ancient One, then used his powers to devour her body and soul and destroy her dark energy.
• Wenwu repelled Stephen and Mordo, crushed Mordo’s magic shield, and killed him before slaughtering Kaecilius and the fallen sorcerers.
• Stephen tried to use the Eye of Agamotto, but Wenwu revealed that he had switched it with a fake and hidden the Time Stone elsewhere.
• Wenwu turned Stephen’s magic back against him, burned the Cloak of Levitation, erased Stephen’s memories of learning magic, and sent him to New York alive.
• Wenwu stayed in the Mirror Dimension and began digesting the Ancient One’s memories.

After absorbing the Ancient One’s magical knowledge and purifying her soul, Wenwu destroyed Kamar-Taj’s sorcerers and defended Earth from Dormammu’s incursion. With the Sanctums’ barriers restored and Dormammu driven back, Wenwu began rebuilding Kamar-Taj and took possession of the Book of Cagliostro.

• Wenwu absorbed the Ancient One’s knowledge of magic, purified the darkness in her soul, and sensed Dormammu approaching Earth.
• Wenwu sent clones to attack the sorcerers at Kamar-Taj and the three Sanctums, then killed Wong after Wong refused to submit.
• Wenwu and his clones reinforced the Sanctums’ failing barriers as Dormammu’s Dark Dimension began breaking through above the Hong Kong Sanctum.
• Wenwu used the Power Stone and Reality Stone to repel Dormammu and force the Dark Dimension to withdraw.
• Wenwu returned to Kamar-Taj, began repairing and remodeling it, and took the Book of Cagliostro from its library.

Wenwu took control of Kamar-Taj and the Ten Rings Empire expanded its territory, while Wakanda entered the world stage and accused the empire of stealing its Vibranium. Hamid challenged Wakanda’s claim and revealed that another Vibranium-rich civilization might exist beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

• Wenwu brought Clarice and Wanda to the deserted Kamar-Taj and said the empire would train people with magical talent there.
• The Ten Rings Empire conquered southeastern Yilan and advanced toward Afghanistan as Yilan’s government declared the country part of the empire.
• An American exploration team discovered Wakanda, which then joined NATO and the United Nations through an agreement with the United States.
• At Wakanda’s first United Nations speech, T’Chaka accused the Ten Rings Empire of stealing Wakanda’s Vibranium and technology.
• Hamid challenged T’Chaka and T’Challa to provide evidence, then said an underwater civilization in the Atlantic also possessed extensive Vibranium reserves.

After T'Chaka was assassinated by someone posing as a Ten Rings ghost agent, Wakanda declared war on the Ten Rings and joined the battle in Sokovia. Wenwu traced the plot to Gravik and a Skrull base, where the Skrulls planned to seize Earth and were developing Super-Skrulls.

• A disguised attacker killed T'Chaka, and T'Challa blamed Hamid before Hamid knocked him back and representatives prevented a fight with Okoye's guards.
• Hamid reported the impersonation to Wenwu, who ordered Ching-Lin to find the assassin behind it.
• Wakanda declared war on the Ten Rings and joined NATO's forces in Sokovia, where T'Challa recovered, became the new Black Panther, and fought on the front lines.
• Ching-Lin gave Wenwu a lead pointing to the Skrulls, so Wenwu used Cerebro to locate their hidden base in New York State.
• Gravik told the Skrulls that they had provoked further conflict to distract the Ten Rings until their fleet arrived, and he planned to use Super-Skrulls to defeat Carol and Xu Wenwu.

Wenwu manipulated the Skrulls into staging and remembering a scripted performance before the Ghost Task Force raided their base. On the Sokovia battlefield, the United States deployed Second-Generation Sentry Robots that clashed with Ten Rings armored troops, while the X-Men considered how the new weapons and worsening treatment of mutants might affect their future.

• Wenwu took control of Gravik and the Skrulls, made them act out a prepared script, and rewrote their memories to match it.
• Wenwu ordered the Ghost Task Force to raid the Skrull base, arrest its occupants, rescue the human captives, and take them to the Ten Rings Empire.
• The United States sent five hundred Second-Generation Sentry Robots to Sokovia, where they fought with copied mutant abilities and alarmed mutants around the world.
• Five hundred Ten Rings advanced armor troops held their ground against the Sentries, while Tony watched the battle footage and accelerated his armor upgrades.
• Hank investigated the Sentries and told the X-Men they likely used mutant genes; Mystique suggested going to the Ten Rings, but Hank decided they should wait while preparing for the worst.

Wenwu authorized Hamid to expose the United States' Sentinel Program and its conspiracy with the Skrulls in a live global press conference. The footage revealed Gravik's plans, but the video abruptly changed before the full exposure was complete.

• Wenwu sent for Hamid and gave him full authority to carry out the plan, then showed China and Tsarist Russia footage of the Ten Rings Empire fighting the Nova Empire on Xandar.
• China and Tsarist Russia declared their lasting support for the Ten Rings Empire.
• Hamid revealed that the United States had secretly developed Second-Generation Sentries designed to copy Mutant powers and hunt Mutants and people with latent X-Genes.
• Hamid accused the American authorities and Skrulls of arranging T'Chaka's assassination and showed footage of Gravik discussing their plans with his followers.
• Gravik described plans to draw countries into war, replace world leaders and tycoons, and use the Super-Skrull Program to counter Carol.
• The footage showed prominent figures imprisoned while Skrulls extracted their memories, then suddenly changed as the conspiracy's exposure reached its climax.

The Ten Rings broadcast evidence that the United States had colluded with Skrulls and that the Second-Generation Sentries targeted Mutants, triggering worldwide outrage and fear. As governments and the United Nations scrambled to respond, the United States denied the accusations and the battle in Sokovia remained unresolved.

• The Ten Rings showed footage of its agents rescuing hostages and arresting Skrulls, then had more than twenty rescued figures publicly accuse the Skrulls and the United States.
• The broadcast split public opinion, alarmed Mutants at the Xavier Institute, and revealed to T'Challa that the Ten Rings had not assassinated his father.
• The president and officials at the White House argued over the evidence as protests spread across the United States and Congress demanded the Second-Generation Sentries be impounded.
• Countries around the world screened officials for Skrull infiltration, while NATO allies called for an investigation and China and Tsarist Russia urged a ceasefire and neutral inquiry.
• The United States rejected the Ten Rings' evidence, and the World Security Council convened an emergency meeting amid heated disputes.

Nick Fury and Carol suspected Apocalypse was using Professor X’s psychic powers to manipulate the Skrulls, while international pressure mounted against the United States. After Carol disrupted a United Nations meeting, Mutants across America revolted, and the president ordered the Second-Generation Sentries to suppress them, beginning a nationwide massacre.

• Nick Fury and Carol discussed the Skrulls’ apparent conspiracy and suspected Apocalypse had acquired Professor X’s psychic abilities.
• China and Tsarist Russia sided with the Ten Rings Empire and issued the United States an ultimatum over the Skrulls, the Sentry Robots, and its treatment of Mutants.
• Carol burst into the United Nations General Assembly Hall and defended the United States, prompting several countries to evacuate their embassies and citizens.
• More than a hundred thousand Mutants rioted across American cities after the Sentry Extermination Plan was exposed.
• The president approved a nationwide crackdown, and Second-Generation Sentries began slaughtering Mutants in the streets.

The Ten Rings Empire intervened to rescue Mutants fleeing the United States, turning the mass killings into a war between nations. As battles spread across the country, Clarice sent a divine dragon to attack Tony, who fought it with his upgraded armor.

• After the United States broadcast its crackdown on Mutants, the X-Men fled the Xavier Institute with their students but were intercepted and overwhelmed by Second-Generation Sentinels.
• Becky and Nightcrawler led Ten Rings reinforcements through a spatial gate, rescued the wounded X-Men, and escorted them to Ten Rings territory for treatment.
• Ten Rings forces opened spatial gates across the United States and fought Sentinels while rescuing Mutant civilians, prompting the president to declare war and mobilize more Sentinels and super-powered forces.
• Super Steve fought Juggernaut, Abomination confronted Lucien, Pyro battled Human Torch, and Tony led Banner, Peter, Barton, and Natasha against Ten Rings forces.
• Clarice opened a gate to Ta Lo, sending a divine dragon after Tony, who used his upgraded bio-alloy armor and energy shield to fight back.
• Clarice and Wanda kept opening gates as Ten Rings forces destroyed Sentinels and routed United States troops, while helping Mutants escape to the Ten Rings Empire.

The Ten Rings forces nearly wiped out the Inhumans and routed the American defenders as Wenwu's clone fought Carol. Meanwhile, Wenwu's true body slaughtered every Inhuman in Attilan, destroyed the city, and disappeared through a portal.

• Black Bolt and Lockjaw were killed in a coordinated ambush by Clarice and Wanda as Black Bolt clashed with Becky.
• Medusa, Karnak, Gorgon, Crystal, and the other Inhumans on the battlefield were killed, while American forces were driven back.
• Carol tried to join the battle, but Wenwu's clone struck her and overpowered her in a clash of strength.
• Wenwu's true body reached Attilan and used Life Control to drain the souls and life essence of every Inhuman in the city.
• Wenwu destroyed Attilan with a sonic wave and left through a portal.

The Ten Rings Empire launched its full assault, and Wenwu used the Reality Stone to consume all of Wakanda’s people. The chapter left T’Challa arriving in a deserted royal city, with his entire nation gone.

• Dahei helped Nightcrawler kill Abomination while Steve kept fighting Juggernaut and The Thing.
• The Ten Rings Empire’s main army appeared over the northern battlefield, and Tony, the Fantastic Four, and others retreated.
• Wenwu’s forces crushed NATO, Wakandan, and American units on the Eastern European battlefield.
• Wenwu decided to use Wakanda’s people to strengthen the Reality Stone and engulfed the nation in black fog.
• The Reality Stone devoured every Wakandan, leaving the capital and surrounding tribes empty.
• T’Challa broke through enemy lines and arrived in the deserted royal city, finding only scattered clothing.

After Wenwu destroyed Wakanda and killed T'Challa and the remaining survivors, Ikaris confronted him, and they fought to a standstill. As the battle drew global attention, S.W.O.R.D. faced military collapse and considered nuclear weapons its last gamble.

• T'Challa and the arriving Wakandans discovered that Wenwu had devoured their people, and Wenwu killed them all when they attacked him.
• Ikaris arrived to challenge Wenwu, who revealed that the Eternals had been guiding humanity to prepare for a Celestial's birth.
• Wenwu and Ikaris exchanged energy beams and blows, then continued fighting as their clashes demolished the surrounding city.
• Satellites captured Wenwu fighting Carol in North America and another Wenwu fighting Ikaris in Africa, shocking governments around the world.
• At S.W.O.R.D., agents reported advancing enemy forces, and Fury said nuclear weapons were their only remaining gamble.

The United States launched a mass nuclear strike, but the Ten Rings Empire intercepted most of the missiles, and the resulting high-altitude explosions crippled the country with electromagnetic pulses. In Wakanda, Wenwu defeated Ikaris and Makkari’s assault, gathered Wakanda’s Vibranium, and was confronted by an unknown presence as he prepared to leave.

• The US president ordered the launch of every available nuclear weapon, while China and Tsarist Russia called on the Ten Rings Empire to intercept them.
• The Ten Rings interception fleet destroyed most of the incoming missiles, but the nuclear explosions that got through caused widespread electromagnetic damage across the United States and its overseas forces.
• Makkari attacked Wenwu at extreme speed, but he absorbed her blows and trapped her and Ikaris inside the Mirror Dimension.
• Wenwu used the Mirror Dimension and accumulated energy to overpower Ikaris, but Makkari carried him fast enough to break through the dimension and escape with him.
• Wenwu gathered Wakanda’s Vibranium into a silver dragon and sent it to the Ten Rings Empire, then felt an unknown gaze lock onto him.

Wenwu faced Bast after destroying Wakanda, but Sekhmet arrived and challenged him to battle. Sekhmet's solar divine fire overwhelmed his absorption ability, and the chapter ended with Wenwu defending against her flames and sword.

• Bast appeared before Wenwu and demanded that he kneel for killing her followers, but he challenged her instead.
• Sekhmet arrived, dismissed Bast's offer to join forces, and charged at Wenwu with her divine sickle sword.
• Wenwu blocked Sekhmet's strike with one of his rings, then absorbed her solar divine fire and discovered that its divine power strained his ability.
• Wenwu released the flames, but Sekhmet reclaimed control and attacked again as he raised his rings to shield himself and block her sword.

Wenwu fought Sekhmet and Bast, revealing his full strength and overpowering them with his Ten Rings, soul power, and Mirror Dimension. As he prepared to finish them, a spatial vortex summoned both goddesses away, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Wenwu fought Sekhmet while secretly using the Reality Stone to study the origin of her solar divine power.
• After gaining insight, Wenwu unleashed his full strength, knocked Sekhmet away, and struck both goddesses into a hill when Bast joined the battle.
• Bast deployed a Spirit Realm projection to bind Wenwu's soul, but Wenwu's manifested soul devoured her domain's power.
• Sekhmet attacked again, and Wenwu trapped both goddesses in the Mirror Dimension, redirected their divine power, and crushed them with his fists.
• As Wenwu prepared another killing blow, a spatial vortex appeared and transported Bast and Sekhmet away.

Wenwu stripped Carol of her powers and memories, leaving her to live as an ordinary person, while the Ten Rings Empire and its allies overran the United States. As American forces collapsed, the Sentinels turned against them and attacked the Pentagon command hall.

• Wenwu trapped Carol, tore away her soul and Cosmic Energy, erased her memories, and left her in a border town to be cared for by an elderly farm couple.
• Wenwu absorbed Carol's photon energy, then watched as the Ten Rings Empire, Tsarist Russia, and China occupied most of the United States.
• Wenwu visited Tony's Malibu mansion and showed Tony and the others footage of NATO and Europe surrendering as American troops retreated toward Washington.
• The American president rejected an admiral's call to surrender and ordered the remaining forces and Sentinels to fight on.
• The Sentinels went out of control and attacked American troops, while Fury tried to flee the Pentagon command hall.
• More than a hundred Second-Generation Sentry Robots smashed through the Pentagon command hall's roof and descended on the gathered officials.

Becky and the Ten Rings exposed Skrulls among America’s leaders, killed them, and took control of North America after the United States surrendered. A month later, the Ten Rings suppressed protests against its new policies.

• Becky led Wanda and the others into the Pentagon, where syringes revealed that the president and many US leaders were Skrulls, and his warriors killed them.
• Nightcrawler turned Fury into Talos and killed him, while Wenwu privately revealed that he had arranged for Skrulls to replace some US leaders and had killed the originals.
• Wenwu’s clone found Fury hiding in a Maryland safe house and crushed it, killing him.
• After footage of the Pentagon operation aired worldwide, US troops surrendered, local officials accepted Ten Rings rule, and China and Tsarist Russia withdrew from US territory.
• Wenwu took control of North America, then sent Ten Rings troops to suppress protests against bans on guns and marijuana and arrest their organizers.

The Ten Rings Empire consolidated its rule on Earth, founded the Human Alliance, and expanded its influence across Xandar while Wenwu traveled with Wanda and Clarice. Meanwhile, the Guardians of the Galaxy met Star-Lord’s father, Ego, but grew suspicious of his intentions as Star-Lord defended him.

• The Ten Rings Empire brought North America under control, drove criminal groups and the Hand out, and allowed the superheroes to live freely under its laws.
• The Ten Rings established the Human Alliance, shared its advanced technology, and opened the portal to Xandar; Tony and Reed visited and joined its research team.
• The Ten Rings repelled the Nova Empire’s counterattacks, while Wenwu rejected the Supreme Intelligence’s offer to ally against the Nova Empire.
• Wenwu traveled aboard the Great Emperor with Wanda and Clarice, and the three arrived above a lush habitable planet.
• After Rocket stole energy batteries from the Sovereign, Ego rescued the Guardians and brought them to Ego the Living Planet.
• Gamora, Drax, and Rocket questioned Ego’s motives, but Star-Lord defended his father, while Nebula said she hoped the Guardians would die.

Wenwu arrived at Ego’s core and devoured the Celestial’s source power, freeing Star-Lord and draining Ego’s living planet. Star-Lord and his companions escaped as the planet collapsed, while Wenwu underwent a transformation toward god-king status.

• Ego revealed that he had killed Star-Lord’s mother and planned to use Star-Lord’s Celestial power to devour seeded planets, so Star-Lord attacked him.
• Yondu tried to rescue Star-Lord but was injured, and Ego dragged Star-Lord toward the planet’s core.
• Wenwu arrived at Ego’s source core with Wanda and Clarice and began devouring the Celestial’s power.
• Ego abandoned his control of Star-Lord and tried to defend his core, but Wenwu’s Mind Stone power imprisoned Ego’s consciousness and absorbed his source power.
• Star-Lord regained consciousness as Ego’s energy drained away, and Yondu carried him from the collapsing underground chamber.
• Gamora, Rocket, and the others rescued Star-Lord and Yondu, then fled as Ego’s planet lost its vitality and began to collapse.

After absorbing Ego’s energy, Wenwu completed his transformation into a Skyfather Level God-King, drawing the attention of Odin, Zeus, Sekhmet, and Bast. The chapter ended with Wenwu’s new divine powers established, while Zeus agreed to wait until Odin’s death before approaching the Nine Realms.

• Wenwu returned to Earth with Wanda and Clarice, then secluded himself to absorb Ego’s energy and evolve.
• One month later, Wenwu’s transformation released divine radiance across the Solar System and extradimensional realms, and Odin recognized him as a newly born God-King.
• Zeus, Sekhmet, and Bast sensed Wenwu’s ascension in Omnipotence City, and the goddesses regretted having provoked him.
• Zeus asked Odin for permission to enter the Nine Realms, but Odin refused, so Zeus agreed to wait until Odin fell.
• Wenwu completed his transformation into a Skyfather Level God-King, gaining a divine body, authority over life, and greatly enhanced abilities.

After becoming a God King, Wenwu transformed Ta Lo into his divine kingdom, Asgard of All Things, and strengthened it with two vast arrays. When Odin sent word of his impending death, Wenwu arrived in Asgard and found Hela had overrun the palace and defeated its defenders.

• Wenwu announced his ascension to godhood, transformed the Ten Rings Empire's core members into gods, and completed his fusion with Ta Lo, renaming the realm Asgard of All Things.
• Wenwu began building a divine kingdom that drew energy from the physical universe, while Odin visited and shared his knowledge of the gods and the laws of the universe.
• Wenwu and his clones spent two months completing two arrays that reinforced Asgard of All Things and nourished his growing power.
• Wenwu received Odin's final message that Odin's time had come and realized Hela was breaking free of her seal.
• Wenwu crossed into Asgard and found the palace in ruins, its defenders wounded or dead, while Hela stood over Thor after crushing Mjolnir.