Chapter Summaries

Wenwu used Soul Peering to extract Hank Pym’s complete knowledge of Pym Particles, then returned to the Ten Rings and focused on Multiple Man. Over the following year, the Ten Rings expanded its influence while Star Ring and other powers transformed technology, energy, and Mutant rights.

• Wenwu used Soul Peering to search Hank Pym’s soul and memories for the practical details needed to manufacture Pym Particles, leaving Pym with a terrifying nightmare.
• Wenwu returned to the Ten Rings without beginning his research immediately, choosing instead to spend more time on Multiple Man.
• The Ten Rings expanded into Afghanistan and other war-torn regions, while its military repeatedly defeated US forces despite their advanced equipment.
• Dr. Connors perfected Star Ring’s limb regeneration serum under Dr. Sterns’ guidance, and Star Ring’s value rose past a trillion as it resisted US demands for the formula.
• Nations and organizations announced stable-output Arc Reactors, while Star Ring and Stark Industries captured much of the battery market with high-capacity technology.
• Countries recognized Mutants’ legal status and recruited them into supernatural affairs bureaus, prompting Mutants to celebrate and thank the Ten Rings Empire.

After transforming into a Mutant with Multiple Man’s ability, Wenwu discovered that his clones could cultivate and work on research and government affairs, greatly increasing his efficiency. He then received Dr. Sterns’s deep-level gene detector to hunt Skrulls suspected of infiltrating Ten Rings territory.

• The Ten Rings Empire expanded its cities and canals, reached thirty million residents, and established the Tianshu Bureau under acting director Becky.
• Wenwu injected his Multiple Man serum and discovered that he could create hundreds of clones, though their strength varied and most inherited only part of his abilities.
• Wenwu assigned his clones to cultivation, research, and government work, while experiments showed that enhanced clones could develop independent thoughts and their genetic changes did not persist after reabsorption.
• Wenwu visited Dr. Sterns, who gave him a deep-level gene detector designed to expose Skrulls hiding in Ten Rings territory.

Dr. Sterns injected his self-made serum, transformed into a powerful green monster, and broke out of his underground prison. Wenwu confronted him above ground, and the two began a head-on clash.

• Wenwu learned that Dr. Sterns had not developed multiple-gene fusion technology, then left with a gene scanner for mass production.
• Dr. Sterns injected his serum, transformed into a towering, spiked creature, and boasted that he could rival the Hulk.
• Wenwu received an alert and watched Sterns’s escape attempt, revealing that he had anticipated it and deliberately loosened Sterns’s restrictions.
• Sterns smashed through ten alloy barriers before reaching the surface, where armed guards and Wenwu awaited him.
• Sterns declared that Wenwu’s empire would belong to him and charged at Wenwu, who met his fist with a punch of his own.

Wenwu fought Stern, who had used Wenwu’s genetic data to refine a serum that gave him overwhelming strength and durability. Wenwu defeated and captured him with his Uru body, Spiritual Power, and metal-control ability, then took him away for experiments.

• Wenwu and Stern traded powerful blows, but Wenwu used his speed and tai chi techniques to redirect Stern’s attacks.
• Wenwu transformed into his Uru body and enhanced it with Spiritual Power, overpowering Stern with a barrage of attacks.
• Stern fled, but Wenwu controlled a giant steel hand to seize him and restrain him.
• Stern begged for mercy and admitted defeat, but Wenwu said he would become experimental material.
• Wenwu bound Stern with Vibranium chains and carried him away as engineers and soldiers began repairing the base.

Wenwu used a new deep gene detector to expose and capture twelve Skrull infiltrators hidden across Ten Rings territory. He ordered a captured Skrull brought to his laboratory, where he began dissecting and studying the alien’s mimicry genes.

• Wenwu finished decoding Stern’s mutant gene sequence and planned to control Stern with the Mind Stone after taking Loki’s Mind Scepter.
• The Ten Rings distributed deep gene detectors throughout its territory, and a Skrull in disguise was exposed while trying to enlist.
• Ten Rings troops subdued the Skrull, whose disguise and claims that he was a Mutant failed to fool them.
• Ching-Lin reported that the nationwide screening had captured twelve Skrull infiltrators who had been gathering intelligence for S.W.O.R.D.
• Wenwu ordered the Skrulls held separately and had a live specimen brought to his laboratory.
• Wenwu dismissed the captive Skrull’s threat of warships and began dissecting him to study his mimicry genes.

Fury refused Talos’s demand to rescue captured Skrull infiltrators from the Ten Rings. Half a month later, Wenwu transformed Dahei with Hulk Serum, then subdued and implanted a control chip in him after he went berserk.

• Talos told Fury that twelve Skrull agents in the Ten Rings had been exposed by a genetic scanner and captured.
• Fury contacted the Ten Rings’ Tianshu Bureau, which denied holding aliens and claimed the captives had been executed as Mutants.
• Fury told Talos that S.W.O.R.D. could not rescue the Skrulls without risking their exposure, and Talos stormed out in anger.
• Wenwu injected Dahei with modified Hulk Serum and exposed him to gamma radiation, transforming him into a five-meter-tall, dark-green creature.
• Dahei attacked Wenwu in a berserk state, but Wenwu suppressed him with mental power and implanted a biocontrol chip in his brain.
• Dahei regained his senses and affectionately rubbed against Wenwu while wagging his massive tail.

Wenwu and Dahei attacked Pierce’s hidden Hydra base in Eastern Europe after Wenwu discovered Nightcrawler had been captured and brainwashed. Wenwu secretly took control of Nightcrawler, then launched a devastating assault on the surface camp.

• Wenwu tested Dahei’s combat strength and judged him powerful but too dangerous and costly to mass-produce.
• Ching-Lin reported that Pierce had been located at a hidden Hydra base, and Wenwu decided to go there with Dahei himself.
• Pierce celebrated Hydra’s development of a miniature Arc Reactor and vowed to destroy the Ten Rings.
• Wenwu scanned the underground base, found Nightcrawler, and replaced Hydra’s control of him while destroying the chip in his brain.
• Wenwu and Dahei leaped from the Great Emperor fighter and struck the camp, killing many Hydra soldiers as Dahei smashed through their defenses and Wenwu blocked their attacks with Spiritual Power.

Wenwu attacked Hydra’s underground base, captured Pierce, and let Dahei fight Hydra’s four elite Mutants. Dahei killed two and incapacitated one, but the Sabretooth clone’s Adamantium skeleton and rapid regeneration kept him fighting.

• Pierce ordered Hydra to attack Wenwu, then fled through a secret passage with four Mutants after Nightcrawler turned against him.
• Wenwu tore open the underground base and lifted Pierce and the Mutants to the surface in a steel cage while Dahei destroyed Hydra’s defenses.
• Nightcrawler wounded Pierce as he tried to escape, and Dahei killed the invisible assassin and explosive Mutant while knocking down the stone-bodied Mutant.
• The Sabretooth clone cut Dahei with his Adamantium claws, survived Dahei’s bites, and continued fighting through his rapid regeneration.

Wenwu dismantled Hydra’s operations, rescued three mutants, and advanced his research into genetic fusion and Ant-Man technology. When the Silver Surfer appeared over New York and fought Earth’s heroes, Wenwu weighed the danger of Galactus and the risk that events would no longer unfold as before.

• Wenwu killed Pierce after using Soul Peering to search his memories, then copied Hydra’s research and freed Bucky from brainwashing while leaving him behind.
• Wenwu destroyed two Winter Soldiers, freed the Sabretooth clone and a stone-transforming mutant from Hydra’s control, and took them with Nightcrawler to Ten Rings headquarters.
• Wenwu gave Ching-Lin the locations of Hydra’s remaining bases and ordered him to eliminate them, while his clones began researching mutant genes for possible fusion.
• After a month of research, Wenwu’s clones reproduced Pym Particles and Ant-Man technology, and Wenwu incorporated the size-changing and travel functions into his Godslayer Battle Armor.
• Wenwu learned that the Silver Surfer was battling the Fantastic Four, Avengers, and X-Men over New York, and decided not to intervene while considering the danger of Galactus and the changed circumstances.

Wenwu agreed to help S.W.O.R.D. face Galactus and traveled to its New York branch with the Tianshu Bureau superpowered team and Dahei. He arrived to meet the assembled heroes, who were stunned by his forces and the giant beast.

• Wenwu learned that S.W.O.R.D. had captured Silver Surfer but still distrusted his offer to betray Galactus.
• Nick Fury and Tony asked Wenwu to join the fight against Galactus, and Wenwu agreed while warning that he would not tolerate an attempt to kill him.
• Wenwu told Fury and Tony that a Sorcerer Supreme guarded Earth from extradimensional threats, then ended the call without giving them a date for his arrival.
• Wenwu considered Silver Surfer's powerful but dangerous surfboard and flew to New York aboard the Great Emperor with Clarice, the Tianshu Bureau team, and Dahei.
• Wenwu arrived at S.W.O.R.D.'s New York branch, where the heroes reacted with shock to Dahei and Wenwu refused Fury's attempted handshake.

Wenwu proposed using the Tesseract to resist Galactus, but Fury refused to hand it over. A recording revealed that Loki had stolen the Tesseract from a S.W.O.R.D. secret base and escaped.

• Wenwu joined Fury and the others at the S.W.O.R.D. base, where they debated whether to trust the Silver Surfer and how to stop Galactus.
• Wenwu suggested turning the Silver Surfer's board into a close-range bomb, and the Silver Surfer confirmed it might work if Galactus were caught off guard.
• Wenwu revealed that the Tesseract could provide even greater power and offered to use it against Galactus, but Fury refused to give it to him.
• Fury received word that Loki had stolen the Tesseract, and Becky accused Fury of staging the theft.
• Fury showed surveillance footage of Loki opening a portal, killing soldiers, controlling scientists with his scepter, and escaping with the Tesseract.

After Loki stole the Tesseract, Wenwu, Tony, Reed, Banner, and Beast Hank prepared a bomb using Silver Surfer’s surfboard to attack Galactus. Wenwu used Silver Surfer’s memories to gain valuable knowledge, and the chapter ended with Galactus entering the Solar System and Wenwu proposing to intercept him with the Ten Rings’ aircraft.

• Tony, Coulson, and Wenwu identified Loki as Thor’s brother and agreed that the stolen Tesseract could no longer be relied on.
• Tony decided to turn Silver Surfer’s surfboard into a super bomb, and Wenwu, Tony, Reed, Banner, and Beast Hank worked through the night to build its detonator.
• Wenwu hypnotized Silver Surfer and used Soul Peering to learn about the Zenn-La Civilization and its advanced scientific theories.
• Wenwu led the detonator’s development, and the group completed it shortly before Galactus arrived.
• Silver Surfer sensed Galactus entering the Solar System, and Wenwu proposed taking his aircraft into deep space to detonate the bomb, claiming it could sustain Mach 10 in the atmosphere.

Wenwu led a mission to strike Galactus with a bomb powered by the cosmic surfboard, and the blast weakened the cosmic entity enough to make him vanish. The group feared Galactus might return, while Wenwu hinted at even greater threats and Earth’s hidden sorcerers.

• Tony, Reed, the X-Men, and others agreed to accompany Wenwu’s mission, while Wenwu sent a clone into space and stayed on Earth to search for Loki.
• The Great Emperor fighter carried the group beyond Earth, where Tony, Shadowcat, and Angel struggled with the acceleration’s g-forces.
• The group spotted Galactus’s immense purple energy nebula, and Wenwu ordered the rocket carrying the modified surfboard bomb launched toward it.
• The rocket detonated inside Galactus’s energy vortex, and the blast’s shockwave struck the fighter without damaging it.
• The weakened nebula contracted and disappeared, and Reed warned that Galactus might return after recovering.
• Tony asked Wenwu about Earth’s hidden sorcerers, and Wenwu hinted that greater dangers could still destroy Earth.

After warning the heroes about powerful beings threatening Earth, Wenwu considered claiming Mars as a refuge. Meanwhile, Loki opened a portal above Stark Tower, launching the Chitauri invasion of New York, and Fury mobilized Earth’s defenders as the chapter ended with him summoning the newly awakened Captain America.

• Wenwu warned Reed and the others that powerful demon gods could destroy Earth and considered establishing a Ten Rings colony on Mars.
• Loki used a magic array and the Tesseract atop Stark Tower to open a portal to the Chitauri fleet.
• Tens of thousands of Chitauri invaded New York, attacking buildings, vehicles, and civilians.
• Fury sent Banner, Barton, and Natasha toward the battlefield, called for military support, and tried to reach Carol.
• Fury found Steve Rogers training underground and told Captain America that Earth needed him.

As aliens invaded New York through a portal powered by the Tesseract, Wenwu seized the chance to head for the city while the Avengers fought the Chitauri. On Stark Tower, Wenwu took Loki’s scepter and repeatedly kicked him through the floors, leaving Loki battered but still alive.

• Fury ordered Steve to join the fight as Tony and the others learned that Loki had opened a portal using the Tesseract.
• Wenwu learned of the invasion, put on his Godslayer Battle Armor, and flew toward New York while the Ten Rings Empire sent aircraft ahead.
• Banner transformed into Hulk and attacked a Leviathan as Barton, Natasha, and Steve fought Chitauri forces in the city.
• Barton and Natasha confronted Loki on Stark Tower’s roof, but Loki blasted them away before Wenwu arrived and took his scepter.
• Loki tried to trick Wenwu with an illusion and attack from behind, but Wenwu spotted him and kicked him through two floors.

Wenwu seized the Mind Stone, but the Ancient One took it away before he could keep its power. After Wenwu nearly killed Loki, Thor arrived, awakened more of his thunder power, and confronted him.

• Wenwu crushed the Mind Scepter’s blue shell and absorbed the Mind Stone’s energy, but the Ancient One reversed time and sent the Stone through a portal.
• The Ancient One left to deal with Dormammu, and Wenwu resumed moving with the Mind Stone gone.
• Loki blamed Wenwu for stealing the energy core, but Wenwu kicked him through several buildings and gravely injured him.
• Thor descended beside Loki, saw his injuries, and flew to Stark Tower seeking the person who hurt his brother.
• Thor landed in front of Wenwu and demanded to know who had injured Loki.

Wenwu fought Thor after Thor attacked him for injuring Loki, while military forces and the Ten Rings joined the battle against the Chitauri invasion. Thor stopped fighting Wenwu once he saw Loki was safe and turned to battle the alien army.

• Thor blamed Wenwu for injuring Loki and attacked him, while Wenwu defended himself with the Ten Rings.
• Wenwu absorbed Thor's lightning and struck back, knocking Thor from Stark Tower before continuing their fight in the streets.
• Wenwu's No. 2 clone put on the Godslayer Battle Armor, entered stealth mode, and flew toward the spatial portal.
• American forces and Ten Rings aircraft joined the battle, while China and Tsarist Russia sent aircraft into United States airspace to fight the Chitauri and recover alien technology.
• Thor saw that Loki was alive, ended his fight with Wenwu, and flew off to attack a Leviathan, easing the pressure on the defenders.

Wenwu’s clones crippled the Chitauri mothership and captured it while Carol Danvers arrived in New York and devastated the invading army. Carol then passed through the magic barrier and seized the Tesseract.

• Wenwu’s second clone fought through Chitauri defenses in space while Wenwu ordered his forces to withdraw after learning Carol was approaching.
• Carol arrived over New York and destroyed more than half the Chitauri forces in seconds.
• Wenwu’s hidden clones disabled the Chitauri mothership, and the second clone shrank it and carried it away through the portal.
• Carol reached Stark Tower, passed through the magic barrier, and took the Tesseract from the array.

Carol refused Thor’s request to return the Tesseract to Asgard and insisted that Loki face trial on Earth. Wenwu secretly arranged to help Thor take the Tesseract, and after his sudden strike sent it into Thor’s arms, Thor seized it.

• Carol introduced herself to Thor, then reunited with Fury, who told her about the Ten Rings Empire and revealed that he and Carol had sheltered Skrull refugees.
• Carol and Fury rejected Thor’s request to borrow the Tesseract and said Loki had to answer for the destruction he caused on Earth.
• Thor argued that Asgard had once protected Earth and promised to return the Tesseract, but Carol refused and Coulson did not speak in his favor.
• Wenwu, concealed nearby, secretly offered to help Thor seize the Tesseract in exchange for Thor giving it to him later, and Thor quietly agreed.
• Wenwu struck the Tesseract out of Carol’s hand, and Thor caught it.

Thor used the Tesseract to take the wounded Loki back to Asgard, leaving Wenwu to face Carol in New York. Fury identified Wenwu and urged Carol to kill him, while their battle devastated the surrounding area and continued with Wenwu holding his ground despite being overpowered.

• Carol tried to stop Thor, but Wenwu blocked her while Thor used the Tesseract to escape to Asgard with Loki.
• Wenwu and Carol exchanged powerful blows that shattered the street, damaged buildings, and killed nearby American soldiers.
• Fury recognized Wenwu from the ten divine rings and told Carol to take him down, prompting her to attack with greater force.
• Wenwu gathered nearby metal into a massive hand and used metal barriers and pillars against Carol, but she broke through and kept pursuing him.
• Wenwu activated the Godslayer Battle Armor, empowered himself with the ten rings and his Uru Divine Steel body, and fought Carol through Stark Tower as it crumbled.