Marvel Spirit Guardian: Summoning Xu Chu from the Start

When Lin Yuan wakes, he finds himself on a battlefield in New York, with the Chitauri's energy beams raging overhead.

The apocalypse has arrived and death is closing in. In the depths of despair, he awakens the [Chinese Heroes Spirit Codex]!

“Do you yearn for the strength to protect everything behind you?”

“Yes!”

“Congratulations, Host. You have received the beginner's gift pack: an SSS-grade Guardian Spirit, ‘Tiger Addict’ Xu Chu!”

As the light of explosions illuminates the shattered streets and the invincible Chitauri Army is cut down like wheat, the whole world watches the broadcast and remembers the Chinese-American youth in white, and the ancient warrior behind him, crimson as blood and as terrifying as a demon god.

“I, Xu Chu, am at my lord's service!”

From that day on, the Marvel Universe has a “fourth faction” that S.H.I.E.L.D. cannot recruit and the Avengers cannot define.

Tony Stark: “JARVIS, analyze the energy signature of that big red guy... What? It can't be analyzed? That's impossible!”

Thor: “Midgard has such a mighty warrior! Come, let us fight three hundred rounds!”

Nick Fury: “We thought nuclear weapons were the ultimate deterrent, until Lin Yuan started discussing heroes over wine in his courtyard.”

And when Thanos's fleet arrives on Earth to claim the Infinity Stones, what he sees behind Lin Yuan is a dense, brilliant host of stars spanning five thousand years of Chinese history.

“Thanos, have you ever heard the words: ‘When the defenders charge, they fight to the death’?”