Chapter Summaries

The Avengers and their allies attacked Thanos on his asteroid, using coordinated strikes and the Groots’ vines and lightning to briefly restrain him. Thanos broke free, injured Groot, and prepared to get serious as he advanced on the group.

• Rocket opened fire on Thanos, and Thor and Tony joined the attack while Groot moved in.
• Thanos blocked the attacks, dodged Tony’s blast, and punched Gamora and Black Widow aside before grabbing Tony.
• Little Groot shocked Thanos through his vines, allowing Big Groot to bind him while Thor struck him with lightning and Mjolnir.
• Thanos escaped the vines, knocked Thor into a metal building, tore Little Groot’s vines away, and threw Tony into Gamora and Natasha.
• Thanos caught Groot’s punch, severed his arm, and sent him flying toward Rocket before retrieving the Heavenly Blade of the Dead and advancing on the group.

Thanos overwhelmed the Avengers and nearly killed Natasha and Gamora before Qin Xiao arrived through a portal and stopped his strike. Qin Xiao then attacked Thanos with the Eternal Flame and a saber, beginning their fight.

• Thanos defeated Thor's attempt to attack him and repelled the combined assault from Rocket, Big Groot, Little Groot, and Tony.
• Thanos advanced on the injured Gamora and Natasha and brought his blade down toward them while the others could not reach them in time.
• Qin Xiao opened a portal and blocked Thanos's strike, then stepped through and sent Natasha and Gamora to safety.
• Qin Xiao unleashed a torrent of Eternal Flame at Thanos, who dispersed it with the Heavenly Blade of the Dead.
• Qin Xiao leaped toward Thanos and swung his saber diagonally at Thanos's shoulder.

Qin Xiao used the Space Stone to overwhelm Thanos with attacks from portals, shattering his reputation for invincibility while doing little lasting damage. When Thanos’s top generals intervened, Qin Xiao held them off so Tony and the others could escape, but Ebony Maw raised a metal wall to block their path.

• Qin Xiao feinted past Thanos’s guard and punched him dozens of meters away.
• Qin Xiao attacked Thanos through portals with his fists, Tang saber, and flames, batting him through the air while Thanos mostly defended.
• Thanos’s top generals emerged, and Qin Xiao stopped them from joining the fight so Tony and the others could withdraw with Natasha and Gamora.
• Qin Xiao held his ground while Tony and the others headed toward the Light.
• Ebony Maw raised a metal wall to block Tony and the others from leaving.

Qin Xiao beat Ebony Maw and confronted Thanos, who warned that his fleet surrounded Knowhere and threatened Qin Xiao’s friends. Qin Xiao accepted Thanos’s promise to leave the place alone and let Thanos’s group go, while the Light and its passengers escaped the encirclement.

• Qin Xiao slapped Ebony Maw repeatedly, then drove his head into the floor and challenged Thanos’s subordinates to step forward.
• Thanos’s subordinates backed away, and Thanos pointed out that Sanctuary III and a fleet of ships surrounded Knowhere.
• Thanos warned Qin Xiao that the Light and his friends could be destroyed, and threatened to leave them behind if Qin Xiao killed Ebony Maw.
• Ebony Maw claimed Thanos was injured, and Thanos confirmed it, promised to leave Knowhere alone, and asked to depart.
• Qin Xiao kicked Ebony Maw back to Thanos, and the Light escaped the encirclement while Thanos and his group left.

Qin Xiao returned from the universe after securing the Nova Empire’s help with a lunar base and Mars terraforming plans. Back on Earth, he learned that Hydra may have Loki’s scepter in Eastern Europe and ordered Peggy Carter to find it carefully.

• Gamora stayed at the Celestial’s skull to oversee the Tivan Group, while Star-Lord, Yondu, Rocket, and Groot remained there as well.
• Qin Xiao visited the lunar base and confirmed that the Nova Empire was keeping its promise to build it and support the Avengers’ operations.
• Qin Xiao returned to Earth, partly because he expected Scarlet Witch to appear soon.
• Peggy Carter told Qin Xiao that Hydra agents had likely handed over Loki’s scepter after the Battle of New York and that a surviving group might be operating in Eastern Europe.
• Peggy Carter estimated that she could locate the Hydra group within a month, and Qin Xiao warned her not to make a rash move because they might have built a weapon using the scepter.

Peggy Carter found Baron Strucker’s hidden Hydra base in Eastern Europe, and Qin Xiao infiltrated it, where he discovered Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver alive and their experiments apparently successful. He found Loki’s scepter, but when he touched the Mind Stone, it resonated with the Soul Stone and tore his consciousness apart before his soul separated from his body.

• Peggy Carter told Qin Xiao that Baron Strucker had withdrawn to a heavily guarded European base conducting advanced scientific research, possibly involving the scepter.
• Qin Xiao infiltrated Strucker’s castle using Tony’s jamming device and found Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver confined in separate rooms, with their powers active even as they slept.
• Qin Xiao located Loki’s scepter in a secret chamber and crushed its casing to expose the Mind Stone.
• The Mind Stone connected with the Soul Stone and the other stones inside Qin Xiao, unleashing intense energy and splitting his soul from his body.
• The Soul Stone liquefied into energy mist and enveloped Qin Xiao’s glowing soul.

Qin Xiao completed his fusion with the five Infinity Stones, gaining immense physical, mental, and spiritual power. He gave Wanda and Quicksilver knowledge of their possible futures and helped them control their abilities, then urged them to unite against the force manipulating their lives.

• Qin Xiao finished merging with the Space, Reality, Power, Mind, and Soul Stones, becoming a near-godlike being.
• Qin Xiao summoned Wanda and Quicksilver, awakened them, and sent them information about Stark Industries, their futures, and the energy within them.
• Wanda questioned Qin Xiao about whether the future he showed her was true, while Quicksilver guarded her.
• Qin Xiao opened his mind to Wanda, who sensed that he believed the information and wanted to break free from fate.
• Qin Xiao told Wanda and Quicksilver that Stark and Obadiah Stane were not their true enemy and pointed to a hidden force manipulating events.

Qin Xiao absorbed the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver’s powers, brought them under his command, and then took the Time Stone from the Ancient One. After showing he could reverse time, he told the Ancient One he could protect their universe but did not think that was enough, then drew black smoke from her body.

• The Mind Stone’s power absorbed the Scarlet Witch’s and Quicksilver’s energy, making both twins fanatically devoted to Qin Xiao.
• Qin Xiao amplified the twins’ powers and transformed their clothes into their ultimate combat forms, then told them to call him boss.
• Qin Xiao took the twins to Kamar-Taj, where the Ancient One handed him the Time Stone and it merged into him.
• Qin Xiao reversed a tea leaf’s age, and the Ancient One asked whether he could protect the world.
• Qin Xiao said he could protect their part of the universe from invasion and interference but was not satisfied, then froze the Ancient One and pulled black smoke from her body.

Qin Xiao removed Dormammu’s dark energy from The Ancient One, restored her body to her preferred age, and closed the portals connecting Dormammu to Earth. After The Ancient One said she planned to retire and travel the universe, Qin Xiao and the twins appeared at Asgard’s Bifrost Temple, where Heimdall reacted warily to Qin Xiao’s immense power.

• Qin Xiao drew the dark energy out of The Ancient One, closed the rift to the Dark Dimension, and wiped out Kaecilius’s followers across Earth.
• Qin Xiao used the law of time to restore The Ancient One’s body to about thirty, and she told him to stop before making her look like a child.
• The Ancient One joked with Qin Xiao, then recognized the twins’ loyalty and urged Qin Xiao to protect the world.
• The Ancient One said she wanted to pass on the title of Sorcerer Supreme and travel the universe, appearing again if needed.
• Qin Xiao brought the twins to Asgard’s Bifrost Temple, where Heimdall raised his sword and sensed power greater than Odin’s.

Qin Xiao removed Asgard's origin from Hela, helped Odin and the Ancient One overcome their limitations, and connected Earth to cosmic empires through guarded wormholes. Back at the Avengers' base, he gathered the team and announced that he would bestow godhood upon the universe.

• Qin Xiao transported Heimdall, Odin, Frigga, Thor, and the twins to the Golden Palace and shared his memories and plans with them.
• Qin Xiao extracted Asgard's origin from Hela, then placed golden circlets on Hela and Loki that let others inflict pain on them through song.
• Qin Xiao dealt with the limitations affecting Odin and the Ancient One, illuminated Earth, and opened guarded wormholes linking major regions to cosmic empires.
• Qin Xiao gave China permission to use its wormhole to Xandar, handed control of the other major wormholes to Stark Industries, and announced Earth's entry into the interstellar age.
• Qin Xiao returned to the Avengers' base with Wanda and Pietro, where Wanda kept her distance from Natasha and Natasha demanded that Qin Xiao explain their relationship.
• Qin Xiao told the Avengers that he was going to bestow godhood upon the universe.

Qin Xiao established divine offices for Odin, the Avengers, and their allies, then separated his universe from its original world and considered which parallel universe to target next.

• Qin Xiao named Odin the god of light and granted him the universe’s divine power.
• Qin Xiao appointed The Ancient One, Hulk, Thor Odinson, Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Bruce Banner, Natasha Romanoff, and Tony Stark to divine offices with powers suited to each role.
• Qin Xiao granted Spider-Man, Rhodey, the Scarlet Witch, Aunt May, Pepper Potts, and others longevity and enhanced durability, and established the Avengers as a divine realm tasked with overseeing the universe.
• Qin Xiao merged with the universe, broke it free from Kang the Conqueror’s time loop, and made it independent of its original world.
• Qin Xiao appeared in the chaos before countless parallel universes and wondered which one to target first.

Qin Xiao traveled to San Francisco to recruit Dr. Pym and gain control of the Quantum Realm, then prepared to test the Avengers’ newly built Quantum Tunnel. The chapter ended as Qin Xiao entered the gate for humanity’s first technological expedition into the realm.

• Qin Xiao went to Dr. Pym, explained his goal, and offered to rescue Dr. Pym’s wife in exchange for his help.
• Tony Stark, Banner, Dr. Pym, and Dr. Pym’s daughter gathered at the Avengers’ Sky Base after building a Quantum Tunnel and positioning system.
• JARVIS began the test, and Qin Xiao summoned a protective suit designed for the Quantum Realm.
• Tony warned Qin Xiao to return immediately if anything went wrong, and Qin Xiao reassured the group with a thumbs-up.
• JARVIS activated the tunnel, and Qin Xiao entered the gate in a streak of light.

Qin Xiao entered the Quantum Realm to collect coordinates but was pulled into a world split from his own, where he completed his universe’s origin by absorbing its Infinity Stone power. He returned home, erased the Celestials, and went to Ta Lo Village to deal with an alien creature sealed there.

• Qin Xiao entered the Quantum Realm with a locator designed to collect exits to parallel universes.
• A force pulled Qin Xiao into a parallel world, where he recognized the Hong Kong Sanctum and encountered a blonde Eternal attacking him.
• The system explained that this world and Qin Xiao’s universe were two halves of one whole, and Qin Xiao froze the Eternal and absorbed the world’s Infinity Stone power as the false world collapsed.
• Qin Xiao returned to his universe, sealed the Eternals’ memories, and removed their powers so they would live as ordinary people.
• Qin Xiao wiped out the universe’s Celestials, including Ego and the Celestial gestating on Earth, then traveled to Ta Lo Village to address an alien creature sealed there.

Qin Xiao and Wanda entered Ta Lo Village, where he considered making the hidden realm their base. When a village woman warned them off in English, Qin Xiao slapped her, and she called for the villagers to attack.

• Qin Xiao brought Wanda to Ta Lo Village and suggested making the scenic realm their base.
• Wanda said she liked the village and watched a nine-tailed fox and its cubs.
• A middle-aged woman warned Qin Xiao not to touch Ta Lo’s animals and said outsiders were unwelcome.
• Qin Xiao slapped the woman for speaking English, then questioned her language choice.
• The woman shouted in Chinese for the villagers to attack the intruders.

Qin Xiao destroyed the Soul Eater, subdued Ta Lo’s dragon, and gathered the Infinity Stones from parallel universes, ending their chaotic creation and freeing their inhabitants from an invisible restraint. Afterward, he settled in the Land of Creation with Natasha, Scarlet Witch, and Captain Marvel as the story ended.

• Qin Xiao broke the seal at Ta Lo, and Scarlet Witch destroyed the swarms of Soul Eaters that emerged.
• Qin Xiao hurled the Soul Eater into the sky and killed it with a snap, then tamed Ta Lo’s divine dragon.
• Qin Xiao and his allies took the Infinity Stones from parallel universes, and Qin Xiao used their power to destroy Thanos’s army in alternate battles.
• Qin Xiao gathered the Infinity Stones from more than three hundred universes, stopped new chaotic parallel universes from forming, and freed beings across the multiverse from an invisible restraint.
• Qin Xiao relaxed in the Land of Creation with Natasha, who teased him about visiting parallel universes with Tony, while Scarlet Witch and Captain Marvel joined them at the beach.