Late one night at a New York museum, a Shang Dynasty bronze jue swallowed the blood of Lin Xiu, a cultural relic restorer.
Carrying half of a broken Western Zhou jade huang, he plunged into the Marvel Universe, where the Avengers were just beginning to emerge.
Bronze patterns spread across the Stark Reactor, a holographic image of the Hetu and Luoshu covered the S.H.I.E.L.D. Triskelion, and the diamond-shaped hidden patterns on the Sword of King Yue were devouring the armor of a Chitauri behemoth.