Chapter 371 The Birth of the Phoenix
"Accept me, become me, we will become the gods who dominate everything, the phoenixes that destroy everything!"
"Leave my body, I am not a phoenix!"
"Leave, don't you understand? I am you, I am Jean, and you are also a phoenix. Charles, the hypocrite, divided us when we were weak, and now, we should be reunited."
"What are you still resisting? You can't be afraid of your own power. We are born to make the world fear us!"
"No! Power should not be used to intimidate, and the professor is not a hypocrite. He trained me and taught me..."
"That is taming! It is imprisonment! It is the shameful brainwashing of obeying his will. We should have been phoenixes soaring in the sky, but now you have become What? A docile lamb content to live in a sheepfold? "
"The true meaning of power lies in conquering and in making people fearful, rather than being imprisoned by the so-called laws and morals compiled by humans. Nothing can imprison us. We can smash everything, destroy everything, and finally rebuild everything!"
"We should be the phoenix, not that pathetic Qin! Be me! ! "
"No! I am not a phoenix, but Qin! ! "
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In the spiritual space surrounded by countless red streamers, two phantoms with the same appearance but completely different temperaments are quarreling and confronting fiercely in the center of the space. At the same time, the two phantoms are beginning to merge with each other in this continuous entanglement.
As time goes by, the red phantom with a wanton and indulgent temperament gradually gains the upper hand. Her red hair is casually scattered and floating, and her eyes are red and full of an irrepressible hot desire.
With the blessing and blending of countless red streamers around her, her body expanded rapidly, and soon she pressed the other shadow with a gentle and intellectual temperament into the corner of the space, shrinking into a white ball to resist the all-pervasive erosion around her.
For three whole years, the confrontation between the two different personalities never stopped for a minute, but from the second year on, the Phoenix personality gradually gained the upper hand, but no matter what, she could not completely swallow up the personality representing Qin's original will, and the degree of the other party's tenacity was difficult to estimate.
This also led to Qin sleeping at the bottom of Lake Alkali for a long time and never being able to get out. Up to now, the struggle inside the spiritual space has gradually come to an end. Although the two different personalities have not been completely integrated, the personality named Black Phoenix has been in an absolutely suppressed position.
The specific manifestation reflected in the outside world is that in the spiritual defense shield at the bottom of the lake, Qin's constantly changing temperament and demeanor have finally gradually stabilized. She has completely changed from her original tranquility and intellectuality to the weird and flamboyant at this moment.
Suddenly, as if sensing a crisis, Qinna's eyes, which had been closed for three years, suddenly opened, and a fiery red phoenix with its wings spread out flashed in the center of her pupils.
Looking around, I saw waves surging around the bottom of the lake, and countless shells of various colors crossed the water flow and appeared in the depths of the lake. Then, the surface of each shell burst out with eye-catching flames, and all the shells exploded at the same time.
"Boom! Boom! Boom..."
Outside the lake, continuous roars resounded through the sky, and hundreds of shells exploded at the bottom of the lake, bringing an extremely shocking scene.
I saw countless flames and a large amount of water spray rising from the lake, as if an underwater volcano erupted. The entire Alkali Lake turned into a boiling hot soup pot under the explosion, and the high temperature and vibration spread to every inch of the lake in the blink of an eye.
At the edge of the lake, the shock caused by the explosion continued. The waves soon gathered into a towering wave, hitting the land outside the lake, causing a tidal wave and splashing water. At the same time, it also frightened Magneto and his companions on the shore to retreat several steps, and then they barely avoided the water rushing to the shore.
Looking at the churning lake in front of him, Magneto's eyebrows were slightly raised. Now the entire lake has been completely detonated, but there is still no trace of Jean. In addition, Mystique has never returned not long ago. These made his face slightly depressed, and he couldn't help but cast his scrutiny on Ximing, whose expression could not be seen clearly behind him.
His lips opened slightly, and he was about to say something, but a trembling female voice suddenly came from his side.
"I felt a terrifying force blooming at the bottom of the lake, it's level 5! Omega-level mutants actually exist. How could this kind of energy fluctuation be possible..."
Magneto looked sideways when he heard the voice. The person who spoke was a member of the Brotherhood he had just recruited yesterday, a black woman codenamed Nightwalker, whose mutant ability was supersonic movement and the ability to sense the mutant abilities and levels of others within a certain range.
Due to her outstanding combat power and unique reconnaissance ability, after joining the Brotherhood, she was directly promoted by Magneto to a core member who always stayed by his side, and now this core member has obviously detected something.
With her shrunken pupils staring straight at the lake in front of her, Nightwalker tried her best to control her emotions, but her trembling voice still exposed the uncontrollable fear in her heart. She now felt as if she was standing in front of a nuclear bomb that was about to explode, and the terrifying oppression so close made her even breathing difficult.
"She's awake!"
After the words fell, a water column exploded again in the boiling center of the lake, and the surging shock wave mixed with rich water vapor instantly expanded outward with the water column as the center.
The mighty water vapor impact instantly spread from the center of the lake to the lakeshore. Caught off guard, except for a few people such as Magneto and Xi Ming, the rest were blown away by the oncoming shock wave.
And John, who always claimed to be Magneto's right-hand man, was no exception. He was blown away several meters away by the shock wave without any resistance and fell heavily into the rubble beach behind him.
The intense pain caused by the close contact between his back and the hard gravel made him groan in pain, and then his eyes went black and he lost all consciousness.
It was not until a few breaths passed that the mutant's naturally strong physique gradually woke him up. He struggled to get up from the ground. What he saw was a dazzling white light that immediately obscured all vision.
When the white light faded, a red-haired figure was seen floating in the air above the lake. Although her figure was not tall, John felt his breath stagnate the moment he looked at her. It seemed that the air around him became sticky and oppressive.
On the other side, Qin's nose wing moved slightly while she was suspended in the air. The surface of the lake below her, which had not yet calmed down, suddenly had a lot of bubbles. Then more than ten thick red illusory rivers broke through the lake surface and flew continuously to the surroundings of the figure in the air, and were all swallowed by her.
These rivers were the huge energy accumulated in the lake from the explosion not long ago. For ordinary people, they represent destruction, but in Phoenix's eyes, they are just food for filling her stomach. She was sealed by Charles for decades. She finally broke free from the cage, but she was entangled with Qin's main consciousness for three years. Now she has finally woken up and is already hungry.
Soon, the flying red river was devoured, but it was obviously not enough to fill Phoenix's hungry appetite. Instead, it made her desire more intense. Jean looked down with eyes that had turned dark at some point. She looked down coldly at Magneto and his group below. Her ruddy tongue stuck out and licked her lips quietly. Her expression revealed a touch of extreme greed in her indifference.
"Why not Scott? But they seem delicious too."
The subtle words were blown away by the wind, and Magneto, who stood in front of the crowd at the edge of the lake, changed his expression. He felt a malicious gaze coming from above, and with it came a fatal sense of crisis that made his scalp numb.
"Wait, Jean! Wake up, we are here to rescue your compatriots, not enemies!"
With a low roar, Magneto retreated again and again, and at the same time, several large and heavy silver metal plates flew out from behind the crowd under his control and firmly protected him. Since he had known Jean's information in advance, he would certainly not come unprepared.
However, the next second, these metal plates that protected in front of him turned into dust and dissipated in the horrified eyes of the crowd. The whole picture was silent, but it revealed an indescribable sense of horror.
"Jean, calm down, we are compatriots! Charles fears your power, but I won't. The Brotherhood will accept the most real you!"
In the sky, as Magneto's low roar came into his ears, a shout made Jean's originally calmed spiritual space riot again, and the battle between the two personalities started again.
The reaction to the outside world was that the suspended Jean cried sadly, and then the extreme destructive power began to dissipate indiscriminately, and the lakes surged and rose wherever they passed, and the reefs were annihilated into ashes.
In an instant, there was chaos within a hundred meters, and even gravity seemed to disappear. A huge amount of lake water floated up from the lake surface, and the various fish creatures that were lifted up by the lake water began to turn into powder from head to tail after rising to a certain degree, slowly blending into the surrounding lake water, adding a touch of dazzling red to it.
Soon, a huge and expanding suspended water ball appeared at the junction of the lake and the land. At the edge of the water ball were the members of the Brotherhood who retreated in fear, and one of them may have been injured in his legs and feet because he was thrown away before, so the retreat speed was slow.
The next moment, he was enveloped by the expanding water ball, and the panic on his face solidified. He didn't even have time to wail, and ended up with the same fate as those fish, turning into flying ash and slowly floating in front of everyone.
Looking at his subordinates who were instantly annihilated not far away, Magneto's eyes had no anger or fear, only the heat hidden deep in his eyes.
This is the future that mutants deserve. Only this kind of god-like power can destroy all obstacles, including humans, and allow mutants to truly rise and reach the peak, completing the complete replacement of low-level human races by high-level populations.
His fiery gaze passed through the outer suspended water curtain and finally fell on the painful Qin in the center of the water ball. Magneto's eyes flickered and he said in a deep voice:
"Ximing."
"Yes, sir."
After the words fell, Ximing, who was still covered in a black robe, stepped out. His pale five fingers tightly grasped a fist-sized soul crystal, and then threw it towards the direction of the water ball.
The transparent crystal stone broke through the water curtain directly, but when it reached the figure in the center of the water ball, it inevitably turned into countless crystal fragments.
The crystal fragments flew around him, and Qin's originally closed eyes suddenly opened after sensing the unique pure soul breath in the soul crystal, greedily swallowing the surrounding crystal fragments with the power of the phoenix.
A few seconds later, when the crystal crumbs were completely digested, Jean's chaotic mind space was also forcibly suppressed by the sudden surge of soul energy. Her painful expression regained its calmness. She lowered her eyes to look at Ximing below, with greed and malice mixed in her eyes. Then, as if she sensed something, the strong malice in her eyes gradually subsided.
"Not enough!"
Ximing leaned slightly on the edge of the water ball, and a hoarse voice came out from the pale mask under the hood.
"Ms. Phoenix, this is just a gift. I just want you to believe that our brotherhood is here to make you become your true self."
After a moment of silence, Jean, or the Black Phoenix, turned her gaze away from Ximing and looked at Magneto on the side. The other party was not wearing the iconic helmet that could block the prying of the mind at this moment, so she could easily sense all of his thoughts.
After staring at each other for a long time, Jean said calmly:
"I'll join."
After she finished speaking, she closed her eyes and fell straight down from mid-air, and the water curtains floating around her also lost power at the same time, pouring down to the ground and splashing large pieces of water.
Amid the splashing water, a silver metal plate suddenly penetrated into the water, lightly catching the red-haired figure who was about to fall to the ground, and then the metal plate automatically flew out and floated steadily in front of Magneto.
Watching Jean who fell into a deep sleep on the metal plate again, Magneto slowly put on the red helmet, and his expression quickly changed from gentle to murderous.
"It's time to let humans see the true power of mutants!"
In the murderous declaration, the Brotherhood and others who had achieved their goal quickly left the shore of Lake Alkali under the leadership of Magneto and soon disappeared.
A few minutes later, the clouds at the top of the lake suddenly rippled, and then Xu Yue, with his wings flapping, emerged from the clouds, overlooking the bumpy lakeside on the surface for a long time without saying a word.
He was not new here, but had arrived near Lake Alkali long before Jean rushed out of the lake, but had been hiding in the clouds at a very high altitude and watching silently.
It was not that he did not want to stop the birth of the phoenix, but it was simply impossible to do so. Since Magneto knew the specific information about Jean, the birth of the phoenix was an inevitable fact.
He was not yet strong enough to confront the Brotherhood head-on alone. He might not be able to deal with Magneto as the leader, because the other party's metal ability was too restrained for him.
Moreover, the Magneto in this world now seemed to be not just the Iron King who could only manipulate steel in the movie plot. Just now, he saw with his own eyes that the means used by the other party to resist the water vapor shock wave were clearly some kind of invisible magnetic shield. This means that the other party's control of magnetic energy is definitely not as simple as simply manipulating steel.
As his thoughts turned, Xu Yue took a deep look at the direction where Magneto and his group left, then turned around and flew away.
Although he failed to effectively prevent the birth of the Phoenix, this time was not a complete failure. At least he had a new understanding of Magneto's strength and successfully prevented Scott from being captured by them.
Without the infinite energy in Scott's body as support, even if Jean's Phoenix power awakened, it would not expand to a completely irresistible level in a short period of time, and this was enough.
Since the Brotherhood now has Jean as a killer, it should only be a few days before the war breaks out. He needs to rush back to the academy to inform the professor to prepare. Soon, this fierce confrontation between the two camps of humans and mutants will be completely launched.
Considering the many forces in this world, the intensity of this battle should be far beyond the scenes shown in the original plot. To be honest, he is quite looking forward to it!