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Xavier's Academy, Underground Sanatorium.

Mystique stood by the bed, her brows furrowed tightly.

She looked at Charles, who was lying unconscious on the bed, and then turned to look at Hank beside him.

"Hank, tell me honestly, what's wrong with the professor?"

Hank pushed up his glasses, his expression even more conflicted than Mystique's: "Would you believe me if I said the professor was knocked unconscious from mental exhaustion while battling someone in a mental contest?"

Hank himself found it absurd when he said those words.

Who is Charles?

The most powerful spiritual master on Earth!

Besides the rampaging Jeanne, who else could push Charles to this level in the realm of the mind?

What's more, Charles was just wearing an enhanced version of the brainwave enhancement machine!

In this state, Charles was unstoppable, so how could he possibly be stunned by a complete stranger from afar?

"Who on earth has such great abilities?"

Hank fell into deep self-doubt.

Just when the two were completely baffled...

"Hiss—whoosh—"

Charles on the bed suddenly gasped, then abruptly opened his eyes and sat bolt upright like a zombie.

"That's terrifying!"

This was the first thing Charles said after waking up.

"Professor, are you alright?" Hank quickly stepped forward.

Charles grabbed Hank's wrist with surprising force, his face still showing lingering fear.

"Hank, you have no idea what I've been through!" Charles's voice trembled as he spoke rapidly, "I've never seen such a strong mental defense in my entire life!"

"Absolutely indestructible! Even now, thinking back on that rebounding force sends chills down my spine! How could such a terrifying mental defense mechanism exist in the world?"

Charles shook his head as he spoke, as if he had just woken up from a nightmare.

Seeing Charles's appearance, Hank and Mystique exchanged a glance, their expressions instantly turning extremely serious.

For Charles to be so terrified, this mysterious person lurking in the shadows must be an uncontrollable and extremely dangerous individual.

"Professor, did you see what he looked like? Or do you know who he is?" Mystique asked in a deep voice.

"I don't know." Charles slumped his hand away. "I couldn't see it. Just now, he almost broke into my mental world! Luckily, I passed out in time and severed the connection."

Charles took a deep breath, his eyes hardening once more.

"If he's just passing by, that's fine. But if his target is also Qin, then it's a catastrophe for us! No matter the cost, I must find out who this guy is!"

……

Let's return our focus to Kamar-Taj. The Ancient One's Temple.

Gu Yi stood in the main hall, staring at Lin Jie, who was sitting cross-legged on a futon, for a full half hour.

At this moment, the Ancient One was actually quite depressed.

She had previously worried about Lin Jie's mental state being damaged, so she quickly withdrew her consciousness to check on Lin Jie's physical condition and prepare to rescue him at any time.

The results of it?

She stood there dumbfounded for half an hour, while Lin Jie calmly closed his eyes.

If it weren't for the strong magical energy emanating from him, the Ancient One would have even suspected that the kid had fallen asleep while meditating!

These past few days, Lin Jie has been out fighting and doing missions, and Gu Yi hasn't been personally supervising him much.

It now seems that she seriously underestimated the energy reserves in Lin Jie's body.

He fought intensely with a spiritual master of Charles's caliber for over half an hour. If it were any other mage, their brain would have turned to mush long ago.

Lin Jie, on the other hand, didn't even flinch!

"Could this kid's strength be catching up to mine soon?" This thought suddenly popped into Gu Yi's mind.

All told, Lin Jie has only been in Kamar-Taj for a little over a month.

In just one month, it has reached this abnormal level?

Gu Yi rubbed his temples, feeling that his hundreds of years of cultivation were a complete joke.

Just as Gu Yi was having an existential crisis, Lin Jie finally made a move.

He suddenly opened his eyes and then exhaled a long breath.

"call--"

"Master, I think I was just attacked."

Once Lin Jie recovered, he immediately reported to Gu Yi.

However, when Lin Jie looked at the Ancient One, he found that his master's expression was very strange.

Ancient One stared at him, her eyes filled with three parts surprise and seven parts blankness, completely unlike the dignified Sorcerer Supreme she usually was.

"Master? What's wrong?" Lin Jie asked, waving his hand in front of Gu Yi, somewhat puzzled.

Gu Yi then came to her senses, quickly composed herself, and turned to walk towards the tea table next to her.

"It's nothing." Gu Yi picked up the teapot, poured herself a cup of water, and took a big gulp, trying to calm her nerves.

Setting down her teacup, Gu Yi turned to look at Lin Jie and tentatively asked, "How are you feeling? Is there anything wrong with you?"

Lin Jie thought about it seriously for a moment, then touched his head and replied, "Um... I was a little dizzy. But after exhaling just now, I'm fine now. Thank you for your concern, Master."

Lin Jie grinned, thinking that Gu Yi was feeling sorry for him.

Upon hearing the words "feeling a little dizzy," Gu Yi's lips twitched involuntarily.

After a top-tier mental battle that lasted half an hour, even Charles was stunned and ended up in the hospital. And your aftereffects are just "a little dizzy"?!

Gu Yi silently turned her head and looked out the window towards New York.

She is no longer worried about her apprentice at all.

What she was more worried about was whether the unlucky guy who had just clashed with Lin Jie was still breathing.

Gu Yi, holding her teacup, pretended not to understand the meaning behind Lin Jie's words and asked casually, "Attacked? Who attacked you?"

The Ancient One's acting skills can be described as superb.

Of course, she wouldn't tell Lin Jie that she had been floating around watching the whole thing.

After all, she was the Sorcerer Supreme, and it took her more than fifty years to even get a basic grasp of such an advanced technique as concealing her spiritual power.

If Lin Jie found out that she was spying on him, it would be somewhat disrespectful to him as a master.

However, Gu Yi did some mental calculations.

Given Lin Jie's abnormal growth rate, he could probably master the skill of concealing his mental power in a week at most.

Thinking of this, Gu Yi felt another pang of sorrow.

"I don't know who he is either." Lin Jie sat on the futon, honestly recalling the exchange just now. "He seemed to be using mind magic, but it was different. I couldn't sense any fluctuation of magical energy; it was purely a clash of mental forces."

"And then?" Gu Yi took a sip of tea and asked slowly.

Lin Jie shrugged: "Then we hit a snag. I wanted to go in and see who he was, but he absolutely refused and even tried to crawl into my head instead. We were locked in a stalemate for a while, neither of us able to get into the other's head. Finally... his mental fluctuations suddenly stopped and disappeared. I was also feeling a bit mentally exhausted, so I pulled back."

Gu Yi: "???"

What do you mean by "suddenly disappeared"?!

Gu Yi's hand holding the teacup froze in mid-air.

Connecting this to Lin Jie's "counter-shock" maneuver, a chilling thought popped into Gu Yi's mind: Could Charles have been knocked unconscious due to mental exhaustion?!

Impossible! Absolutely impossible!

Charles is the pinnacle of human psychological mutants on Earth!

How could I possibly be stunned by a novice who has only learned mind magic for an hour?

Gu Yi forced herself to believe that Charles must have cut off the mental connection to avoid making a big fuss.

Yes, that must be it.

Gu Yi took a deep breath, put down her teacup, and slowly uttered a name: "That's Professor X."