Li Qianhuan vs. Jean Grey

The young girl before him had naturally inherited her father’s perfect genes—a fusion of the Eternals, the Elders of the Universe, and Earthlings—as well as the cosmic secret power of the Space Stone from her mother. She could truly be considered a Second Generation God, so her starting point was naturally much higher than anyone else’s.

She didn’t need to cultivate at all. As she grew older, her strength would naturally rise straight to the peak of the Heavenly Father level!

Afterward, this Second Generation God had been trapped by Li Congxin inside a spatial barrier. It was called imprisonment, but in reality, he had broken down the universe’s most fundamental spatial laws into their simplest, easiest-to-understand form for her to comprehend.

At the time, although Li Congxin still couldn’t confirm that Li Qianhuan was his daughter, he knew that the girl was definitely connected to him by an extremely close relationship. He had put tremendous thought into setting up that spatial barrier. Aside from the laws of space, Li Congxin had also used the power of the Time Stone, which he had yet to merge with, and added two temporal secret techniques to it.

From the outside, Li Qianhuan had only been trapped inside the barrier for roughly a week. In reality, she had spent six or seven full years comprehending the laws of space within it. Her body, meanwhile, was protected by another temporal secret technique. As long as the barrier remained intact, no matter how long she stayed inside, her body would remain fixed at the moment she entered the spatial barrier, and she would never age.

Later, when she broke through the barrier and emerged, she had completely mastered the laws of space and become a Singular Universe-level Cosmic Deity!

As a Cosmic Deity, even though her primary path of cultivation wasn’t mental power, the strength of her mind still absolutely crushed everyone present—even the Phoenix host, Jean Grey, and Professor X, who had specialized in mental power and advanced it to a high level.

Professor X’s mental power hadn’t even had time to approach the girl’s body before it was stopped by a force of mental power countless times stronger than his—and countless times more condensed.

Charles was startled and tried to withdraw his mental power, but it was already too late.

Realizing that Charles had actually tried to use his psychic ability to invade her mind, the smile on the girl’s beautiful face instantly turned cold. "You’re incredibly rude!"

As she spoke, the enormous mental power of the Singular Universe level suddenly swept out, kicking Charles’s mental power—which he had no time to withdraw—back into his body like a soccer ball.

Although the girl’s attack had been brutal, she had clearly held back. But how could Charles’s ordinary human body withstand a psychic impact of such intensity?

Almost the instant the girl finished speaking, Charles, wheelchair and all, slid more than ten meters backward. Two streams of blood flowed from his nostrils, and his entire body became listless.

"Professor!"

"Charles!"

The X-Men erupted into a chorus of startled cries. Immediately afterward, everyone turned hostile gazes toward this girl from the future.

Raven and Hank transformed at the same time, while Alex began gathering energy. They were clearly ready for battle.

Seeing this, Li Qianhuan wasn’t intimidated in the slightest. She continued tightly holding the bewildered Li Qianhuan by the shoulder, her gaze toward everyone brimming with provocation.

The Li family’s family rules consisted of two principles.

The second: Never bully the weak or use strength to oppress others.

But the other side had started this whole mess. She was in the right!

So what she needed to uphold now was the Li family’s first rule: She absolutely could not allow anyone to bully her! No one!

"Wait." Seeing the atmosphere become tense because of his rash action, Charles hurriedly spoke up. "This isn’t her fault. I shouldn’t have tried to probe her mind."

As a psychic, Charles himself possessed a high resistance to negative emotions. His earlier behavior had merely been subtly influenced by the Dark Energy. Although the girl’s fierce counterattack had inflicted serious internal injuries, it had also completely restored his clarity. Thus, he decisively admitted his mistake first, then asked the terrifyingly powerful girl before him, "Child, could you tell me who you are and what brings you here?"

"My name is Li Qianhuan…" Seeing that the other party had voluntarily backed down, the girl finally released Li Qianhuan’s shoulder and gave an answer that no one had expected.

However, in the next moment, her expression suddenly became playful again. Her gaze involuntarily fell upon the other half of the room, where red light flowed across Jean’s cheek. With a casual push, she sent this world’s mutant Li Qianhuan flying far away with a gentle force. At the same time, she spread both hands, and 360 rainbow-colored throwing knives appeared around her.

"That annoying aura again. It seems today’s matter really can’t be settled peacefully."

"Jean!" Seeing Li Congxin’s reaction, everyone on the X-Men’s side also turned to look at Jean Grey, whose aura had undergone a world-shaking transformation.

The once-kindhearted woman now radiated a terrifying aura that made people instinctively recoil. Her cold gaze was filled with intense killing intent, and not a trace of her earlier gentleness and tranquility remained.

Charles was shocked when he saw this. "Jean, what are you trying to do? Don’t do this. Try to control your power. As long as you concentrate, you can definitely do it!"

In the vast universe, Li Congxin wandered aimlessly in every direction, searching for traces that extraterrestrial civilizations had once existed. The result was deeply disappointing. The Earth of this world truly seemed to be home to the universe’s only intelligent species.

Originally, he had planned to take his precious daughter on a tour of this world’s universe after Li Qianhuan arrived. But after seeing Morag’s devastated state, he completely abandoned that plan. It was simply too boring. Even he, a grown man, found it unbearably dull, so how could he bring his precious daughter along to suffer?

Still, fortunately, he hadn’t come away empty-handed from this trip through the universe.

Because no other races existed and human technology was still stuck at the level of the 1980s, everywhere in the X-Men film universe besides Earth had become untouched virgin territory. All the natural resources were there for Li Congxin to take as he pleased.

It was nothing like the film universe on the other side, where every good thing had already been divided up by those who had grown powerful first, leaving him no opportunity at all.

In just a little over a week, Li Congxin collected 32 Star Cores, tens of thousands of tons of Uru Metal, and a giant vibranium meteorite ten times the size of Wakanda’s mine. Its purity was actually no lower than that of Wakanda’s mine—and might even have been slightly higher!

Any one of these things would have been a scarce resource in the film universe. To obtain so much in one haul could certainly be considered an abundant harvest. The problem was… Li Congxin didn’t lack anything now!

Heaven knew that "subtracting from what is excessive to supplement what is deficient" was the way of Heaven, while the way of man often required understanding the saying in reverse.

Back when he lacked everything he needed, even the tiniest bit of any one of these things falling into Li Congxin’s hands would have been enough to send him into raptures. But now, no matter how many treasures of this level he obtained, to him they could only be considered… or perhaps not even worthy of being called icing on the cake. They merely made his collection a little richer.

The things were good, but they were also useless to consume and a shame to discard—a classic case of being caught between a rock and a hard place.

Perhaps I can use these things to equip Qianhuan?

Thinking this, Li Congxin could only shake his head helplessly.

Li Qianhuan had already reached the Singular Universe level and had passed the stage where she needed an artifact to support her image. If he personally refined an artifact for her, it might improve her combat power slightly, but the difference wouldn’t be significant.

Besides, he had no intention of refining one right away. After this battle, he would gain two more chances to activate "Moving Heaven" BGM. By then, once all six Infinity Stones were gathered, his strength would certainly undergo a qualitative improvement. The artifacts he refined at that time would undoubtedly be countless times better than anything he could make now.

Since it was something he intended to give his daughter, he naturally had to prepare the very best!

With that thought in mind, Li Congxin waved his hand again and collected a Star Core floating in the void of space.

"Daddy! Daddy!"

Just as Li Congxin was boredly scavenging through the vast universe, a familiar voice suddenly rang out in his heart. It was Qianhuan’s voice!

"Daddy, this woman is so fierce. I can’t quite beat her. If you don’t come soon, I’ll have to embarrass you and make a strategic retreat!"

In this desolate universe, where not even a Celestial existed, was there really someone Li Qianhuan couldn’t defeat?

Could it be…

With a guess forming in his heart, Li Congxin immediately released his spatial divine power. One moment, he had been scavenging in some unknown corner of the universe; the next, he had appeared above Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.

This ancient castle, steeped in history, had now become a field of ruins. Everyone, including Professor X, had evacuated outside the school and was anxiously watching Li Qianhuan and Jean Grey battle fiercely at the very center of the academy.

Seeing his precious daughter being completely suppressed by Jean Grey’s Phoenix Force, a playful smile appeared at the corner of Li Congxin’s mouth. He calmly put away the Star Core he had just picked up in the universe before saying in a half-teasing tone, "Things don’t seem quite as bad as you said. Looks like you’re still handling her with ease."

"Now isn’t the time for jokes." Li Qianhuan glared unhappily at her father, who was still watching the show at such a critical moment, and said angrily, "This woman is incredibly strong. The Phoenix Force is much harder to deal with when it’s inside her than when it was ownerless before! And I can’t use my full power here, or the entire Earth will suffer!"

Li Congxin nodded, pleased by his daughter’s kindness. Then he flashed in front of her, raising a hand to block the Phoenix Fire Jean Grey shot toward Li Qianhuan with a strand of divine power. He said casually, "Step aside for now. Leave this to your dad."

"Sure thing, Dad." Li Qianhuan grinned, then retreated far away. "I’ll leave this big beauty to you, Dad. Go for it—give her everything you’ve got!"