Early in the morning, Zhang Taibai sat cross-legged on his bed with his eyes closed, motionless.

"Whew-"

It was only after exhaling deeply that he opened his eyes.

"If you want to break through from the top-grade Triple Heaven to the Quadruple Heaven, I'm afraid it's not that easy......" Zhang Taibai thought with a headache.

Today, he can completely replace sleep with cultivation, with his current physique, even if he doesn't sleep for ten days and half a month, it won't be good, at most he is in bad spirits.

However, when practicing the 'Taibai Qi Sword Technique', the effect of nourishing the spirit is far greater than that of sleeping, so now he doesn't have to sleep at all, and wasting time has no effect. If you don't consider the improvement of Taibai's sword qi by cultivation, if you only use it to restore your own energy, you can do it for a maximum of half an hour each time, and if you practice for half an hour, you can go without sleeping for three or five days.

But he just sighed, and it had nothing to do with that.

Instead, he found that the improvement of Taibai's sword qi by pure meditation and cultivation was too slow, and at this rate, it was possible for him to accumulate to the point of quantitative change, and it would take twenty or thirty years.

This has to be changed to others, to be able to go further at his level, not to mention waiting for twenty or thirty years, fifty or sixty years is worth it, how many transcendent people have tried their best to go further, and even did not hesitate to make a deal with the demons of hell. But for him who has only been practicing for a year or two since he got the "Taibai Sword Codex", it seems a little too long.

Jingle Bell Bell –

Zhang Taibai's old-fashioned mobile phone rang suddenly.

He glanced at the phone and saw that it was an unfamiliar number.

He didn't think much of it and just picked up the phone.

As soon as it was connected, a hurried female voice came from inside, "Is it Mr. Zhang Taibai?" ”

"I am, who are you?" Zhang Taibai asked in a deep groan.

He couldn't tell who was on the other end of the phone, and the voice seemed unfamiliar.

"My name is Oloro, and I'm a friend of Eve." The woman on the other end of the phone introduced herself.

"Eve's friend...... Oloro? Storm? When the woman mentioned Evereya, Zhang Taibai had already guessed that this woman might also be a mutant, and when she said her name, Zhang Taibai instantly knew her identity.

Storm (storm), the famous storm girl, the core figure of the X-Men, is also Professor X's right-hand man, and has won Professor X's trust and dependence.

"It's me." The storm girl on the other side responded directly, "I don't know if Mr. Zhang, it's inconvenient for you to come to the 'Mutant Academy' now?" ”

"Going to 'Mutant Academy'?" Zhang Taibai felt a little inexplicable about this request.

"Eve, she...... Something happened and now I'm in a coma......"

"Coordinates." Zhang Taibai directly interrupted the storm girl's next words.

"Uh-" Storm Girl was suddenly interrupted, and her train of thought was also broken, but she quickly returned to normal, and then quickly reported a coordinate to Zhang Taibai.

Zhang Taibai hung up the phone directly and quickly found another phone from the address book.

"Natasha? I'm sorry, I'm going to trouble you again, I'm in a bit of a hurry here, I need to rush to a place immediately, it's too late to book a ticket......"

……

Ten minutes later, Zhang Taibai had already arrived at the nearest park to him.

He had only been there for a short time when the sound of jets could be heard overhead, and he looked up to see a looming plane in the sky slowly descending.

When the plane has fully landed, its true face is revealed.

The cabin door opened, and Natasha stood in the door and beckoned to him, "Come on." ”

Zhang Taibai was not verbose, he jumped into the cabin door directly, and after coming to the co-pilot and sitting down, Zhang Taibai found that there was only Natasha in the plane, and asked, "I asked you to help me get a plane and a pilot, how did you come here in person?" ”

"Am I not just a pilot, but also one of the best pilots in 'S.H.I.E.L.D.', guaranteed to send you there as quickly as possible." Natasha said with a smile.

As she spoke, the plane had already taken off.

"Okay, then please." Zhang Taibai nodded.

He wasn't in the mood to be too polite here, because the call from the storm girl made him feel very bad.

Everea occupies a very important place in his heart, although nothing substantial happened between the two, but each other actually has a certain affection for each other, but for various reasons, the two did not become a couple.

It's not clear what Evereya is because of Zhang Taibai, but he himself is actually just because he is used to being alone, he is a person in two lives, and he is not ready for an extra person in his life.

But he definitely didn't want to see something happen to Evereya, and he couldn't accept it, so after the storm girl said that Evereya had an accident, his heart was extremely irritable!

At that moment, he wanted to kill it directly, but then he thought about it, even if he got the coordinates, he might not be able to find the location accurately, so he simply looked for Natasha.

As the eighth level authority of 'S.H.I.E.L.D.', it is still very simple to temporarily call a plane.

What's more, with his personal relationship with Natasha, even if he doesn't have this level of authority, it is not difficult to find her for a favor, but he didn't expect Natasha to come by herself on a plane.

"What's going on, you look like you're in a hurry." After the plane took off and went into automatic mode, Natasha had time to spare, turned her head sideways and asked.

"Something happened to one of my friends, he seems to be in a coma, and I need to rush over to see it immediately." Zhang Taibai made a long story short.

"Mutants?" Natasha asked.

Zhang Taibai looked at her in slight surprise.

Natasha shook her head and smiled, "I don't dare to say anything else, but the coordinates of the 'Mutant Academy' are not a secret to us, and the 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' would have fallen long ago if they didn't even have the ability to do so." ”

Zhang Taibai understood that the coordinates he gave were in the database of 'S.H.I.E.L.D.'.

"Yes, she's a mutant." Zhang Taibai nodded.

"She? Girlfriend? Natasha got a little gossip.

Zhang Taibai has always been very mysterious in her eyes, even if she knows all the information of Zhang Taibai from birth to the present, it still seems very mysterious.

How did he, who was in his twenties, become a transcendent who was comparable to nuclear weapons?

His abilities are not genetically mutated like mutants, nor are they suddenly acquired by external forces like Dr. Banner, but are like the sword immortals in Chinese myths and legends, which is very incredible.

Natasha and the others also secretly guessed that Zhang Taibai should have obtained some kind of ancient inheritance like Master Taixu, so he had this strength.

But speculation is always just speculation, which cannot be verified and cannot be explained.

Moreover, Zhang Taibai's mystery is not only in his strength.

In Natasha's opinion, there are too many mysteries on Zhang Taibai, such as a casual trip to Mexico to have a younger brother who is also a transcendent, and for example, the purple gold card of the mysterious manor he got a few days ago, and became a purple gold member who made Tony envious, etc.

All kinds of mysteries made him more and more unfathomable.

This is also the first time she has seen Zhang Taibai reveal such a humanized emotional change, and the object is still a woman, which makes it difficult for her not to be curious about the identity of the other party.

"Not a girlfriend, but she's important to me." Zhang Taibai thought for a while and said.

"I see." Natasha thoughtfully, "Then bless her, she should be fine, if there is anything I can do to help, feel free to ask." ”

"Thank you." Zhang Taibai thanked him heartily.

"You're welcome to me, it's all your own people." Natasha chuckled.

*************

The capital of Egypt, next to Cairo.

In this originally barren Gobi, there is an extra steel fortress!

This steel fortress is like a mountain, several sizes larger than the Pyramid of Khufu, and it looks spectacular!

At this moment, in a huge space in the Iron Fortress, there are the strongest mutants in the world, including several overlord-level mutants such as Magneto and Professor X.

And at the highest point in this huge space, there is a throne, and on it sits a man with blue skin and a mysterious pattern on his forehead!

He is the first mutant on Earth - Apocalypse!

At the same time, he is also the only mutant on the earth today!

"Eric, is that your ultimate answer, surrender to others?" Professor X, who was in a wheelchair, looked directly at his old friend not far away, his eyes full of regret.

"My lifelong wish is to allow mutants to no longer have to hide in Tibet and be able to live in the sun like normal people, is this request too much?" Magneto asked calmly.

"That's what I want, and I'm working hard for it, but if you do it now, you'll completely cut off all mutants, do you understand?" Professor X said.

"Charles, we have known each other for decades, we have experienced life and death together, we are the biggest enemy and the best friend...... I know you, so I respect you, and your efforts and dedication are no less than mine, but you are wrong, you know, wrong! ”

Magneto suddenly became a little emotional, "You always feel that mutants and humans can live in peace, you try to let mutants control their own power, and you don't hurt ordinary people, and you also try to make ordinary people accept mutants, but is this possible?!" ”

"Why can't it be?" Professor X asked rhetorically.

"Let me tell you why it's impossible—" a deep voice came from the throne, speaking from the apocalypse, "the relationship between mutants and ordinary people is like the relationship between lions and sheep, and the sheep's fear of lions is inevitable, because lions have the power to kill them easily, and sheep cannot resist this power. ”

"You let the mutants restrain their power, just like letting the lion wear braces, it looks like giving the sheep a sense of security, but whether to wear the braces or not is up to the lions themselves, will the sheep lose their fear of the lion because of this?"

"Of course not!"

"So you're wrong, my child...... Miss by a mile. Apocalypse said.

"It's you, not me, that's wrong." Professor X turned his head sideways and looked at the apocalypse, "Your analogy itself is wrong, mutants are not lions, and ordinary people are not sheep. Sheep fear lions because they are food for lions, and lions must eat them to live, while mutants and ordinary people do not have this life-and-death relationship. ”

"In other words, in order to survive, lions must eat sheep, and this hostile relationship is irreversible, but mutants don't need to eat ordinary people, they just have some more power than ordinary people, and this power is just equivalent to a weapon."

"Ridiculous!!" Next to the throne of the Apocalypse, a long-haired man with a gloomy face whispered, "Charles, you keep saying that you are working hard for mutants, but what you are doing is to help humanity everywhere and mutilate the rest of your fellow mutants, and now Lord Apocalypse has given you a chance to mend your ways, you are still so ignorant, do you want to die?" ”

"Riptide, shut up for me!" Without waiting for Professor X to speak, Magneto, who was standing beside him, spoke, "No matter how wrong Charles is, he has done much more to mutants than you, who gave you the courage to dare to talk to him like this?" Well?! ”

"He's disrespectful to Lord Apocalypse, can't he still say it? Magneto, find out who you are now, we are all Apocalypse-sama's subordinates, don't think I'm afraid of you! The long-haired man said eerily.

"Really?" Magneto raised one hand slowly, "Then let me see how much you have grown over the years......

Seeing Magneto raise his right hand, Torrent's face changed sharply, and he involuntarily took two steps back, and he hurriedly shouted, "Lord Apocalypse!" ”

"Erik, my boy, don't embarrass him." Apocalypse smiled slightly and stopped Magneto, "You are all my children, when this world is cleansed, you still need to re-establish and grow him, you must unite, not infighting." ”

Magneto put down his hand and said lightly, "Don't worry, Lord Apocalypse, I won't really kill him, I just want to teach him a lesson and let him understand some rules......"

"Riptide used to be your subordinate, right?" Apocalypse asked.

"Hmm." Magneto nodded slightly, "But then he disobeyed the discipline and ran away, if it weren't for Lord Apocalypse you to find him, I wouldn't have seen him for more than twenty years." ”

Riptide is also a level mutant, and he did serve as Magneto's subordinate, but he forcibly subdued him.

Before becoming Magneto's subordinate, he used to be the henchman of another powerful mutant, and that powerful mutant was Magneto's sworn enemy, the Black Emperor!

At that time, Magneto did not have the current strength, but the Black Emperor had no less strength than he is now, if Professor X hadn't helped him, he would probably have been killed by the Black Emperor.

Later, after killing the Black Emperor, several of the Black Emperor's men, including Riptide, were all subdued by Magneto, and assisted him in founding the 'Mutant Brotherhood'.

But Riptide's personality is too different from Magneto, he just wants to have fun, and he doesn't want to run around for any ideals all day, so he defected shortly after the formation of the 'Mutant Brotherhood', I don't know which country he hid in, and Magneto couldn't find him anyway.