Chapter Summaries

Su Zhou appeared in the New York Sanctum, where Wong mistook him for a threat because of his dark energy. Su Zhou proved he was the Lord of the Dark Dimension and a servant of the Vishanti, then sent three Valkyries out to explore New York while he stayed with the sorcerers.

• Su Zhou appeared in the New York Sanctum, and Wong confronted him over the dark energy he sensed.
• Su Zhou introduced himself as a disciple of the Ancient One and the Lord of both the Divine and Dark Dimensions, but Wong refused to trust him.
• Su Zhou gave Wong his Ancient One-crafted Sling Ring and explained that he had killed Dormammu and taken control of the Dark Dimension.
• Su Zhou opened a portal and summoned Urd and two other Valkyries, convincing the sorcerers that he was favored by the Vishanti.
• Su Zhou changed the Valkyries' armor into sportswear, gave them spending money, and sent them to explore New York before turning back to the sorcerers.

Su Zhou told Wong about the multiversal crisis and urged him to grow into his role as Sorcerer Supreme before taking Urd and the others sightseeing in New York. When he sensed Yelena in a hidden desert facility, he went to investigate and discovered Valentina’s operatives—and a mysterious man he recognized as Sentry.

• Su Zhou recounted Loki’s escape, his transformation into the God of Stories, and the collapse of space to Wong, who admitted he was unsure how to help.
• Su Zhou told Wong that the Ancient One had pursued Eternity and Strange had pursued truth and love, then encouraged Wong to find his own answer to becoming Sorcerer Supreme.
• Su Zhou took Urd and the other two around New York to sample food and gather ideas for developing entertainment in Heaven.
• Su Zhou sensed Yelena inside a desert facility and left Urd and the others to investigate.
• Su Zhou spotted Ghost, Taskmaster, United States Agent, and White Widow beneath the facility, then saw a man emerge from a sealed crate and recognized him as Sentry.

Su Zhou interrupted the Thunderbolts’ fight at Valentina’s facility and warned the survivors that she planned to kill them and erase evidence of her illegal experiments. He uncovered Bob, a seemingly ordinary man with immense, unreadable mental power, who said he remembered only signing up for an experiment.

• Su Zhou sensed that Bob’s mental power resisted his Telepathy and suspected the man might be connected to the Void within Sentry.
• Su Zhou entered the underground facility, where Taskmaster had been killed and White Widow, United States Agent, and Ghost were still fighting.
• Su Zhou told Yelena, Ava, and Walker that Valentina meant to destroy them as evidence of her human experiments, but they initially doubted him.
• A sonic weapon disrupted Ghost’s phasing, and Su Zhou destroyed it with a slash of holy light, confirming Valentina’s threat.
• Su Zhou exposed Bob behind the crates, and Bob said he had volunteered for a medical experiment, passed out, and awakened at the facility with no memories.
• Su Zhou realized Bob’s memories had apparently been sealed and became intrigued by him.

Su Zhou learned that Bob had lost or sealed away his memories and revealed that the Sentinel Program had succeeded, giving Bob extraordinary power. He urged Yelena, Walker, Ava, and Bob to become the New Avengers, then left them trapped in the building with two minutes to escape.

• Bob told Su Zhou that he could not remember his past and recalled once getting high and hitting someone with a sign.
• Yelena showed Su Zhou papers about the Sentinel Program, and he explained that Bob was its successful subject and had more power than any Avenger.
• Su Zhou encouraged Yelena to follow Natasha’s example and said that befriending Bob could make her indispensable to the New Avengers.
• Walker and Ava reflected on how Valentina had discarded them, while Su Zhou described Natasha’s role in helping Iron Man, Captain America, and Hulk.
• Su Zhou announced that the four had two minutes to escape, returned to his Heaven Dimension, and left them arguing over how to get through the locked door.

After the elevator lost power, Yelena, Walker, Ava, and Bob struggled to climb its shaft while Su Zhou watched from the Heaven Dimension. He offered the restored Antonia the choice to join them, leaving her freedom to decide what life she wanted.

• Walker leapt into the elevator shaft but fell back down, and Ava turned intangible to avoid being crushed.
• Yelena protected Bob and reflected on how his darkness reminded her of her own past in the Red Room.
• Bob suggested that the four climb the shaft by pressing their backs to its walls, and they spent half an hour climbing while arguing.
• Su Zhou watched the group from the Heaven Dimension with Antonia, whose body and painful memories he had restored and healed.
• Su Zhou suggested that Antonia join Yelena's team, but she initially treated the suggestion as an order.

Yelena, Walker, Ava, and Bob struggled to escape Valentina’s forces, while Su Zhou decided their team needed a leader and called Bucky to join them. After an explosion began the breakout, Su Zhou flew toward the fight to watch how the team performed.

• Yelena, Walker, Ava, and Bob climbed out of the elevator shaft, then found Valentina’s CIA and military troops surrounding the exit.
• The four argued over how to escape and agreed that Ava would find a vehicle, Yelena would set off an explosion, Walker would fight the soldiers, and Bob would stay with Yelena.
• Su Zhou brought Antonia out of the Heaven Dimension and told her to wait nearby in case the team needed help escaping.
• Su Zhou called Bucky, told him Valentina’s crimes and witnesses were at his location, and warned that an army was involved; Bucky agreed to bring heavy weapons.
• An explosion sounded from the mountaintop, and Su Zhou covered himself in dark energy and flew toward the fight.

Yelena and Walker escaped Valentina’s forces with Bob’s help, while Antonia joined the chase and Bob revealed his extraordinary powers. Bob then lost consciousness midair and struck the ground with a blast of energy, leaving Su Zhou wondering whether this version differed from the comics.

• Yelena and Walker defeated the assault troops, disguised themselves in their uniforms, and escaped in Ava’s armored personnel carrier with Bob.
• Bob drew the soldiers’ attention so Walker and Yelena could drive away, but a squad pursued them in Humvees.
• Antonia destroyed two pursuing Humvees with arrows and told the others to keep driving.
• Bob shrugged off a barrage of bullets, began flying, and faced Su Zhou above the clouds.
• Bob lost consciousness and crashed near Yelena’s group, releasing energy that overturned their vehicle and the last Humvee.
• Su Zhou sensed Sentry and Void within Bob and wondered whether this version differed from the comics.

Su Zhou discovered that Sentry’s powers came from reality alteration amplified by a mutated Super Soldier Serum, then returned to New York and found Urd and the other Valkyries incapacitated from overeating. He left them in the park to meet visitors in the Dark Dimension, where Strange arrived with Clea and called out to Dormammu, unaware that Su Zhou ruled the dimension now.

• Su Zhou realized Sentry could permanently alter his own reality, and that the mutated serum had magnified both his powers and the darkness inside him.
• Su Zhou returned to New York and found Urd and the other two Valkyries too full to move after overeating.
• Urd refused to return to the Heaven Dimension because the Valkyries there would challenge her, and she reaffirmed the corps’ loyalty to Su Zhou.
• Su Zhou sensed visitors in the Dark Dimension, left the Valkyries in the park, and found Strange with Clea.
• Strange announced that he had come to bargain with Dormammu, and Su Zhou told him Dormammu was dead and that he ruled the Dark Dimension.

Su Zhou met Strange and Clea in the Dark Dimension, learned why they had come, and sent them away as Urd reported a dangerous surge of dark energy over New York. He identified the figure as Void and discovered that Antonia, Yelena, and their allies had come to save Bob, only to be beaten by him.

• Su Zhou told Strange that the power he had accepted had attracted an evil Cthulhu god, and Strange explained that he and Clea had come looking for Dormammu and the Dark Dimension.
• Clea said they had no intention of fighting Su Zhou, and he let them stay behind as he answered Urd’s emergency call.
• Urd reported a black-cloaked figure spreading dark energy over New York and dragging people into the darkness.
• Su Zhou recognized the figure as Void, the dark personality inside Bob, and went to Antonia after sensing she was in New York.
• Su Zhou received Antonia’s memories and learned that Red Guardian and Bucky had helped her group after Valentina sent pursuers, and that they had gone to save Bob before he beat them up.

Valentina’s plan to use Bob against the newly formed team spiraled into a disaster when Bob’s implanted bomb unleashed Void, who began slaughtering people. Su Zhou confronted Void and pulled part of the Dark Dimension onto Earth to contain their battle, then called on Strange for help.

• Bob brutally defeated Yelena, Bucky, Antonia, Walker, Red Guardian, and their teammate at the Sentry Watchtower, but refused Valentina’s order to kill them.
• Mel detonated the bomb planted in Bob’s brain, and Void took control, turning Valentina’s disposal squad and an armed helicopter’s crew into shadows.
• Yelena and the others rescued civilians from the helicopter crash, then watched as Void fought Urd and the other two in the sky.
• Su Zhou arrived, told the team he would handle Void, and attacked him with a black-flamed greatsword.
• Su Zhou enclosed himself and Void in a dark sphere containing part of the Dark Dimension, then called for Strange to summon his Cthulhu-like ally.

Su Zhou and Sentry fought in the Dark Dimension, where Su Zhou’s powerful equipment let him injure Sentry and prevent his wounds from healing. The chapter ended with Sentry asking about Su Zhou’s dark side, and Su Zhou revealing that Sentry was already standing inside it.

• Sentry’s attack overwhelmed Strange’s golden shields, but Strange stayed in the fight with help from the Dark Dimension’s energy.
• Su Zhou equipped himself with Uru armor, the Infinity Gauntlet and Six Infinity Stones, a vibranium shield, and an Adamantium Blade.
• Su Zhou joined the battle and used his shield and blade to knock Sentry off balance and draw blood.
• Su Zhou’s Dark Energy ignited Sentry and kept his wounds from healing as they battled in the air.
• Sentry asked why he could not sense Su Zhou’s dark side, and Su Zhou said Sentry was standing inside it.

Su Zhou used the Phoenix Force to tear Void away from Bob, then attacked them both despite Void threatening that Bob would die too. As the Phoenix Force began consuming Bob, Void struggled to protect him, while Strange and Clea discussed the danger facing their universe.

• Su Zhou recognized that Sentry relied on instinct and that Bob's instability allowed Void to emerge.
• Su Zhou unleashed the Phoenix Force inside the Dark Dimension, frightening Strange and Clea as the flames surrounded them without harming them.
• Strange and Clea discussed parallel worlds colliding, their responsibility for the crisis, and whether to tell Su Zhou about Galactus and God Emperor Doom.
• Su Zhou used the Phoenix Force to wrench Void out of Bob, but Void continued controlling Bob's body.
• Void threatened that destroying him would kill Bob, so Su Zhou targeted both of them and began burning away Bob's flesh.
• Void released his shadow power to shield Bob, but it could not match the Phoenix Force as Su Zhou refused to negotiate.

Su Zhou separated Void from Bob, cleared the shadows from New York, and sent Bob to Yelena and the others. Valentina publicly introduced them as the New Avengers, leaving the group exposed and bound to her while Su Zhou pressed Strange and his wife to speak.

• Su Zhou tore Void away from Bob, then threw Bob through a portal for Urd to catch and gathered the shadows covering New York into the Dark Dimension.
• Urd delivered the unconscious Bob to Yelena and relayed Su Zhou’s advice to keep him supervised and treat his mental illness.
• Antonia and the others confronted Valentina, but she led them into a press event and introduced them as the New Avengers.
• Yelena realized Valentina had trapped them in the public eye and demanded that Valentina answer to them from then on.
• Bucky worried that Valentina’s announcement would set the New Avengers against Sam’s team, while Su Zhou watched from the Dark Dimension and asked Strange and his wife what they wanted to say.

After Strange and Clea explained how Galactus had eaten Earth and how God Emperor Doom ruled Battleworld, Su Zhou learned that the Demon Bazaar was a route to other dimensions. He became eager to visit it and seize the realms of Hell Lords to expand the Dark Dimension.

• Strange and Clea told Su Zhou that Galactus had devoured Earth after the Fantastic Four chose to flee rather than fight.
• Strange explained that God Emperor Doom had merged surviving parallel universes into Battleworld and defeated powerful opponents.
• Strange recognized Su Zhou's Phoenix Force and learned that it had helped him defeat Dormammu and Void.
• Su Zhou considered how Battleworld's expansion might resolve the collapse between universes, but remained uneasy about an unexplained problem.
• Strange said the Demon Bazaar was the route they had used to reach the Dark Dimension, and Su Zhou demanded to go there immediately.

Su Zhou traveled through the Demon Bazaar with Strange and Clea, learned about the powerful Hell Lords who controlled it, and discovered that his Gate of Hell skill could lead to the dimension’s core. After the trio left for the universe where Galactus could eat Earth, several Hell Lords began plotting to seize the Dark Dimension.

• Strange warned Su Zhou not to provoke the Hell Lords in the Demon Bazaar, where Cyttorak, Chthon, and Shuma-Gorath kept the peace by deterring one another.
• Su Zhou asked whether Strange’s forehead eye belonged to Shuma-Gorath, and Strange explained that it was an avatar mixed with Chthon’s power.
• Su Zhou realized his Gate of Hell skill could open a path to the Demon Bazaar’s core, but he postponed trying to claim it because the three powerful Hell Lords might be there.
• Strange, Clea, and Su Zhou left the Demon Bazaar and headed for the universe where Galactus could eat Earth.
• Several Hell Lords mistook Su Zhou for Dormammu, identified Clea as Dormammu’s daughter, and plotted to take the Dark Dimension from him.

Su Zhou confronted Galactus’s Silver Surfer after discovering that Galactus had consumed nearly half of Earth, along with its water, atmosphere, and all life. He defeated her and took her severed surfboard, then challenged Galactus directly.

• Su Zhou and Strange found Earth devastated, with Galactus absorbing what remained near New York.
• The Female Silver Surfer warned Su Zhou and his companions to leave, but Su Zhou attacked her with Dark Energy.
• Su Zhou cut off the Silver Surfer’s arm and then defeated her in a prolonged fight, severing her surfboard.
• Strange reassured Clea that Su Zhou could face Galactus as Su Zhou prepared to challenge him.

Su Zhou confronted Galactus over his plan to devour Earth and learned that Galactus consumed energy to keep Abraxas sealed. When Galactus rejected a deal and attacked, Su Zhou drew on the Dark Dimension and transformed to fight him, while Strange and Clea took shelter there.

• Su Zhou saw Galactus's true form as a swarm of mechanical insects and warned him against devouring Earth and other worlds.
• Su Zhou revealed that Galactus's energy consumption kept Abraxas sealed and offered to ignore him if he spared Earth.
• Galactus refused to give up Earth and attacked Su Zhou with a mountain-sized fist.
• Su Zhou told Strange to take Clea to the Dark Dimension, where Clea questioned why Strange had not corrected Su Zhou when he called her his wife.
• Su Zhou summoned dark energy, transformed into a giant winged shadow with a greatsword, and prepared to fight Galactus.

Su Zhou fought Galactus, first burning away parts of his mechanical-insect body and then using the Phoenix Force to invade his mind. Galactus recognized traces of Eternity and the Mission Dimension in Su Zhou before Doctor Doom appeared and was accused of bringing Galactus to Earth.

• Su Zhou struck Galactus with a black-flame greatsword, burning many mechanical insects, but Galactus replenished his losses by absorbing the flames.
• Su Zhou infused his sword and wings with the Phoenix Force and charged into Galactus, targeting his consciousness rather than the insect swarm.
• Su Zhou entered Galactus's mental world and failed to alter his memories, then chatted with him while shaping holy energy into weapons.
• Galactus recognized Eternity's aura in Su Zhou and also sensed the Mission Dimension.
• A psychic force pulled Su Zhou back to his body, where he saw Doctor Doom and asked if he had brought Galactus to Earth.

Su Zhou learned that neither Doctor Doom nor the Female Silver Surfer had deliberately brought Galactus to Earth, and he suspected a Mister Fantastic research project had drawn them there. After Doom invited him to join the coming Secret Wars, Su Zhou realized the final Secret Wars had not happened yet.

• Doctor Doom denied bringing Galactus to Earth and said he had come to investigate a signal of parallel worlds merging.
• Galactus explained that the Female Silver Surfer had followed the strange signal to Earth, prompting Su Zhou to suspect Mister Fantastic’s research had caused it.
• Su Zhou imagined the Fantastic Four fleeing Earth and later traveling through parallel universes, while he reasoned that Galactus and Doctor Doom were likely being kept alive for future stories.
• Su Zhou pulled his dark sword out of Galactus, absorbed the released Dark Energy, and asked Doctor Doom why he had come.
• Doctor Doom invited Su Zhou to join his faction and take part in the next Secret Wars, leading Su Zhou to realize the final Secret Wars had not happened yet.

Su Zhou questioned Doctor Doom after the battle, learning that Doom’s mother’s soul had escaped Hell for Heaven and that the Beyonders had been defeated. The encounter ended when Su Zhou exposed the figure before him as a Doombot.

• Doctor Doom teleported Galactus and the Female Silver Surfer away, then agreed to answer Su Zhou’s questions on Earth.
• Su Zhou saw Doom’s Tony Stark face and asked whether his mother’s soul was in Doom’s Hell Dimension.
• Strange showed Su Zhou memories revealing that Cynthia had escaped to Heaven after Doom offered his soul to Mephisto.
• Doom confirmed that the Beyonders had been defeated and Battleworld had formed, then asked how Su Zhou knew about them.
• Su Zhou guessed that Doom had obtained Tony Stark’s body through a mind swap, and realized the figure before him was a Doombot.