Combat Training

"What? I’ll kill you all."

Original Sin’s words enraged Black Phoenix. She floated up from the ground, and invisible disintegration power rapidly spread toward the Professor and the others. Everywhere it passed, even the ground disintegrated into nothingness.

Wade shouted exaggeratedly, "Beauty, you’ve got quite the temper. Wolverine, Deathstrike, you’re up."

"Can you shut that mouth of yours? In the BOSS’s illusion, Apocalypse isn’t the most torturous part. Your rotten mouth is."

Wolverine cursed irritably and charged toward Phoenix with Yuriko, one on each side, as fast as two sprinting wolves.

"You’re courting death."

Seeing the two rush at her, Black Phoenix was utterly disdainful. Soon, the disintegration power fell upon them. Their skin and muscles rapidly vanished, revealing the silvery-white Adamantium bones beneath.

Fortunately, both possessed extraordinary healing abilities. Their muscles rapidly regenerated, vanished again, then regenerated again, repeating in an eerie cycle.

"Why does Logan’s body seem to be disappearing more slowly than Yuriko’s? Their defenses should be about the same."

Wade stroked his chin and asked, "Could Black Phoenix be going easy on Logan?"

Cyclops glared at Wade with a dark expression. This guy was clearly implying that Jean liked Wolverine.

"Your healing abilities?"

Black Phoenix was taken aback. Just as she was about to increase her power, Yuriko shouted, and a stream of disintegration power flew from her mouth and struck Black Phoenix. The red clothes on Black Phoenix immediately disintegrated.

"Why do you have the Phoenix Force too?"

Black Phoenix’s expression changed. At that moment, Wolverine rushed in front of her, his claws stabbing forward like a bolt of lightning. "Give Jean back to me."

Cyclops’s face grew even darker. This bastard had a wife and was still trying to steal his woman.

"Get lost!"

Black flames erupted from Black Phoenix’s body, blasting Wolverine away. As she was about to pursue him, Yuriko rushed over and tackled her to the ground, her sharp nails stabbing repeatedly at Black Phoenix.

Black Phoenix roared and blasted Yuriko into the air with the Phoenix Force. Yuriko’s body turned into a skeleton again, but immediately returned to normal. She snorted, and a mass of black flames descended from the sky toward Black Phoenix.

Black Phoenix hurriedly dodged. At that moment, Wolverine attacked again, leaving her no choice but to deal with him first.

Thus, Wolverine and Yuriko teamed up against Black Phoenix. Although Black Phoenix held the overall advantage, Wolverine and Yuriko relied on their immortal bodies to battle her back and forth.

Seeing Wolverine and Yuriko successfully hold Black Phoenix back, everyone’s eyes lit up. "We can win this!"

"So gods aren’t that unattainable after all."

Wade said excitedly. Black Phoenix gritted her teeth inwardly. If her severe injuries had healed, and if Jean inside her body were not holding her back, how could Wolverine and Yuriko have restrained her?

The two had indeed grown much stronger, but she was Black Phoenix.

"Original Sin, we have to show our true strength."

Apocalypse looked at the battle in the distance, clenched his fists, and said, "Being underestimated by Iron Man isn’t the problem. The problem is that we can’t let his contempt become reality. If we can’t even deal with these little brats, what face would we have to challenge Iron Man?"

"I completely agree."

Original Sin nodded fiercely. "I’ll let Iron Man know he has no right to look down on us like this."

"Then fight."

Apocalypse stopped wasting words. He raised both hands, and countless streams of yellow sand erupted from the ground, turning into a raging sandstorm that crashed toward the Professor and the others.

Leech gathered his courage and shouted at Apocalypse, "I forbid you from using superpowers."

With Leech’s words, Apocalypse’s strength suddenly dropped by half. The sandstorm instantly collapsed, and Apocalypse’s face turned extremely ugly. He shouted, and countless earthen spikes sprang from the ground toward Leech.

Leech had no time to dodge, but fortunately, Shadowcat was beside him. She grabbed his hand, and the two vanished together as they entered a quantum state.

Apocalypse was about to search for Leech when Cyclops transformed into the blazing Sunspot form. Then, two massive laser beams blasted viciously toward Apocalypse.

At the same time, Iceman transformed into Cold Ice form. He thrust both hands forward, and frigid air turned into an ice dragon that roared toward Apocalypse.

Apocalypse snorted. A large amount of Light Flame appeared before him, forming a Light Flame shield that blocked their attacks. At that moment, a figure appeared out of thin air behind him and drove a sword viciously into his back.

It was Quicksilver. Under Wang Bert’s guidance, he had learned to use weapons rather than punch people with his fists.

Apocalypse roared as telekinesis erupted behind him. Quicksilver used his super speed to dodge in advance. Apocalypse was about to pursue him when Cyclops and Iceman intensified their attacks, forcing him to defend against them first.

To avoid another sneak attack from Quicksilver, Apocalypse turned the Light Flame shield into a Light Flame barrier covering his entire body. This greatly reduced the Light Flame’s defensive power, and it shook continuously under Cyclops and Iceman’s attacks.

Apocalypse nearly crushed his teeth. If my strength weren’t being suppressed, if there weren’t something wrong with this body, how could I be this miserable?

"These guys are much stronger than before."

Original Sin was about to help Apocalypse when Wade and Psylocke appeared before him.

Psylocke wore a gorgeous, hollowed-out purple battle armor and wielded an Adamantium Longsword. She looked like a Valkyrie.

As for Wade, he wore a red uniform and looked as sleazy as could be.

Wade said arrogantly, "Original Sin, I’m here to play with you. Remember to serve me well."

Psylocke drew her longsword and said coldly, "Original Sin, Doomsday Master, hundreds of thousands of lives on Earth are waiting for you to pay with your life."

"Whether them or you, you are all nothing but ants in my eyes."

Original Sin smiled disdainfully and raised both hands. A large amount of Black Qi transformed into ferocious evil spirits that passed through space and charged toward the two.

Psylocke slashed out like lightning. The evil spirits before her and the space itself were split apart at once, leaving only a pitch-black spatial rift.

Then Psylocke shouted and rushed before Original Sin at astonishing speed. The longsword in her hand swung rapidly, transforming into a dazzling mass of silver light that enveloped Original Sin.

Original Sin was about to counterattack when Wade suddenly emerged from his shadow and viciously stabbed his sword toward the space between Original Sin’s legs.

Even Original Sin felt a chill run through him. He hurriedly blasted Wade away with Black Qi, then controlled the Black Qi to form a scepter that blocked Psylocke’s blade light.

Seeing this, Psylocke’s sword attacks grew faster and faster, as though several people were swinging swords at the same time. Original Sin snorted, and the Black Qi around him transformed into all kinds of evil spirits that pounced toward Psylocke and the returning Wade.

"Die, all of you!"

Wade clapped both hands together forcefully, and a Shockwave swept forward. The evil spirits all vanished into ash and smoke. This was Quake’s vibration ability—Quake of the X-Men was a transgender person from Siam.

Seeing the evil spirits attack, Psylocke shouted. A circular purple blade light burst from her body and rapidly spread outward. Everywhere it passed, every evil spirit was cut in two.

Seeing that the evil spirits were ineffective, Original Sin frowned. He was about to use other methods when a longsword viciously stabbed into his waist. It was the elusive Quicksilver.

When Quicksilver saw Original Sin look at him, he grinned and suddenly vanished, leaving only his voice behind. "Quicksilver Express, your best choice."

"I’ll kill you all!"

Original Sin roared, and Black Qi erupted wildly from his body. The surrounding space shattered like glass, and countless spatial currents transformed into blades that slashed toward Psylocke and Wade.

Psylocke was unafraid. She swung her sword, rapidly shattering the spatial currents, while Wade secretly approached Original Sin while clinging to a fragment of space. Then, he leaped out of the spatial fragment and slashed his sword toward Original Sin’s head.

Original Sin transformed into Black Qi and fled from his original position. Then he glared at Psylocke and Wade, pulling them both into an illusion.

Within the illusion, Original Sin transformed into a giant more than a hundred meters tall and roared at Psylocke and Wade, "Ants, you’re courting death."

"Your illusion is far worse than the BOSS’s."

Psylocke smiled disdainfully. Her mental power was extremely strong, and she directly transformed into a giant as large as Original Sin before slashing viciously toward his head.

As for Wade, he chuckled and shouted, "Disaster Moment."

With Wade’s shout, the ground split apart with a thunderous boom, and countless streams of magma erupted. At the same time, a large number of meteorites descended upon Original Sin with long trails of light.

"Psylocke’s mind is powerful, and Wade’s mind is bizarre. Worse still, they’ve received special training in this area. This is troublesome."

Original Sin gritted his teeth, but he could not leave the illusion because the two on the other side had no intention of letting him go.

Meanwhile, in Hell, Quicksilver suddenly appeared behind Original Sin, raising his longsword to cut off Original Sin’s head. At that moment, Original Sin suddenly turned around and raised his scepter to block Quicksilver’s sneak attack. He sneered, "Did you think I’d be stupid enough to pour all my consciousness into the illusion?"

"If I don’t try, how will I know whether you’re stupid?"

Quicksilver shrugged and suddenly disappeared. Original Sin was about to pursue him when Shadowcat suddenly appeared at his side and fired repeatedly at him—using a specially made Plasma Energy Gun, generously sponsored by Cable.

Original Sin controlled Black Qi to blast at the energy waves. Strangely, the Black Qi passed directly through the energy waves, as if they were mere phantoms.

The next moment, with a boom, the energy waves struck Original Sin, sending him flying. His expression was somewhat shocked. "An attack from the past?"

That was right. That attack had crossed through time and become an attack from the past.

"Now you know how powerful we are, right? Doomsday Master, die!"

Quicksilver grinned smugly and launched another attack. Shadowcat coordinated with him from the side. Neither of their attacks was particularly powerful, but they were extremely strange. Even Original Sin was left flustered, since most of his consciousness was inside the illusion.

Watching the battle below, Wang Bert nodded in satisfaction. "Not bad. They haven’t disappointed me."

Franklin said, "They’re still far from the Celestial Group. Apocalypse and the others don’t even have one-fifth of their peak strength."

"They still have room to improve."

Wang Bert smiled. At that moment, the Professor, who had not acted until now, said to Wang Bert, "Bert, help me enter Jean’s Mind Space."

"Alright."

Wang Bert nodded and launched an assault on Black Phoenix’s mind space together with the Professor’s Mind Power. Black Phoenix wanted to resist, but Jean coordinated with them from within, and her mental defenses were quickly broken.

Inside the mind space, Jean said to Wang Bert and the Professor with a delighted expression, "Professor, Iron Man, hurry and help me seal Black Phoenix."

Black Phoenix transformed into a black sun and roared, "Don’t even think about sealing me again."

It was worth mentioning that Black Phoenix had not stopped fighting Wolverine and Yuriko. At her level, multitasking was effortless.

Wang Bert said nothing. The Professor sighed and said to Jean, "I also want to seal Black Phoenix, but Bert disagrees. He hopes you and Black Phoenix will merge, because you were originally the same person."

Jean immediately shouted, "I’m not her. She’s a heartless lunatic."

Black Phoenix sneered. "Of course you aren’t me. You’re just a useless, cowardly piece of trash. How can you compare to me?"

Jean retorted, "You’re so amazing? Then why were you seriously injured the moment you appeared? And now you can’t even handle Logan and Yuriko?"

"What did you say? You shameless woman who falls in love with every man you see."

Black Phoenix cursed, "Not only are you in love with Wolverine, you dream every day about being with Iron Man. Do you need me to recount the details of those dreams?"

"Huh?"

Wang Bert was dumbfounded. How had he ended up getting dragged into this gossip? Jean’s face turned bright red, and she did not dare look at Wang Bert or the Professor at all.

Black Phoenix sneered and pushed Wang Bert and the Professor out of the mind space. Jean was too busy being embarrassed to stop her in time.

Wang Bert shook his head and forcibly remained within the mind space. Then he said to Jean, "Jean, you fell for it. Black Phoenix should have been behind your dreams. Her goal was to make you feel negative emotions."

"Black Phoenix was behind it?"

Jean froze for a moment, then roared furiously at Black Phoenix, "You’re too despicable. You actually used such a method to harm me."

Black Phoenix snorted. "I didn’t harm you. That is your nature. Dare you say you really don’t love Wolverine?"

"Of course I don’t love him. The one I love is Scott."

Jean shouted, but her gaze was clearly somewhat evasive.

The Professor had a terrible headache. This was clearly a serious matter, so why had it turned into a melodramatic romance? "Jean, I know you reject Black Phoenix, but she is your negative personality. She is you."

Wang Bert said, "Merging is the best way to resolve this. If you don’t do it, even if we can seal Black Phoenix this time, she will emerge again. By then, she might even kill Cyclops."

Jean still shook her head. "I don’t want to merge with her, and I don’t have the ability to merge with her."

"You have that ability. It only depends on whether you want to use it. In this body, you are the true master. Black Phoenix is merely an accessory."

Wang Bert said, "Jean, Black Phoenix will not only affect you, but also your descendants. Think it over yourself."

Jean froze, then asked in shock, "Affect my descendants? Will my descendants have negative personalities like mine?"

Wang Bert nodded. "It’s very possible."

Jean turned to the Professor. The Professor sighed. "You and Black Phoenix are one. Your descendants will inherit traits from both you and her."

"No!"

Jean looked utterly despairing. Fate had truly been too cruel to her. Black Phoenix sneered at the side. "Don’t scream so loudly. You won’t live to see that day. Very soon, I’ll destroy you completely."