'I've become soft lately. Saving Jean, saving Havok, even Magneto's family... and treating Jean's adoptive parents nicely? Ah it seems spending too much time with Jean obviously messed up my values.'
As years passed by, we completed high school graduation. Jean is active in Xaviers teaching students martial arts she learned. I focused on technology sector. We started our chip manufacturing center and many other technologies.
After I reached 18, all the rights fell own me from my guardians. So, I introduced revolutionary products every year or so from the research obtained from celestial technologies from Apocalypse's memories. We also gradually reached a position to a global conglomerate by 8 more years. Many attacks were on us. The systems at our Phoenix corporations were state of the art as a result of all my knowledge, sage mind, technopathy powers.
We introduced web-based messaging solutions and social media by 1988. We also partnered with many companies offering funding and certifications to young mutants, building orphanages, secretly collecting information regarding mutants as a result of off-table agreements with Xavier. We survived a stock market crash too. Since our company provides open-source systems for medical fields, weapons sector, server side and everywhere the government also put a little lax attitude towards ourselves. I didn't go out to gain any personal attention from anyone, but people obviously found out some relationships with Mutants, but most of them will probably be forgot about it sooner and evidence also becomes unusable somehow. So, as such my life was pretty boring other than the fact that I sensed growth of faith power towards me.
As my company gradually developed, my face has become an American icon. The people who are enthusiastic about our products and even the haters created sort of faith power that converged on myself. Usually there would be no way to absorb it other than to enhance luck, but my energy absorption helped as it would refine the faith energy and sent it to inneruniverse facilitating it is growth.
It's 1988, for the past 5 years I have released Shen Xiu and Yu Yan outside. My shield could negate anything so I erased any problems that may lead to them entering and they stayed within my zone. They took about a month to get used to the new reality. They are working with me after I forced them to do so to relieve my boredom. During these years I began to delve in to understanding cosmic energy, which seems not so simple. Other than that X gene working was understood and now I could mimic it in astral form with a will of my mind and no calculation like if I do it with manipulation of rules.
Shen Xiu is appointed my personal assistant and bodyguard. Yu Yan is my company CEO. They were initially very excited but now was bored as me. Taking some decision in my mind, I called them back. Appointed new people for the position. I transferred my most assets in Jean's name as my interest in them got lost.
I returned to ring world and took a physique cleansing portion and phase less fruits. There were many impurities removed as there was no real circulation of Qi I actively done during the recent years. I started cultivating without a time array. For 3 years, I have circulated heavenly energy and other energies. My inner world reached its peak before entering half step paramita, only because I can't enter sea of true meaning.
By the way, inside my inner world, there were many gods, some of whom attempted to attack my 10 stars, divine spark, and faith constructs. Manifesting within the universe, I faced them. "Release us!" they shouted. I manifested a creation energy shield outside the universe core.
With a wave, I just converted several Top ranked Gods back to true essences and remixed back to the world. "It's my grace you are able to exist. You have no ability to survive in the outside reality, even if you were to survive in chaos Qi outside in one reality, I may not be even in cultivation worlds, as your existence will be targeted by every other guy I don't want to know about. If you are that bored just die and reincarnate and don't bother me..." with that I left.
But my idea was well received. Several people after millions of years old age decided to just reincarnate. I reduced the time flow rate to equal ratio with outside world. To generate more potential, I need struggles of living beings and their faith.
I decide to form many types of treasure in my inner universe. I created a form of system life forms with sentience that has a minor realm of treasures and high rank techniques which it will give out in exchange for completing out some perverted and cruel quests. I also locked its growth of sentience.
It will give out a falsified memories (of previous life on normal earth) of artificial personalities I created for fun, each time selecting a host. For treasures, I create items like temporal demon spirit manual with inner universe cultivation manuals, poison pearls etc. and send out.
My soul cultivation has reached Martial Ancestor realm peak after consuming all those elixirs. My inner world cultivation reached its limit before entering sea of true meaning due to ever present energy intake.
Like that time went by. I exited out of ring space and went out at around 1992.
....
The X-Men responded to a distress signal from the space shuttle Endeavour. Jean went to help, absorbing the cosmic force as if it were nothing, her energy radiating like a supernova. Thanks to my influence, she was well aware of many things, and her power had surged to an insane degree without losing control. She could manipulate reality and matter at subatomic levels now; soon, she would probably become the White Phoenix and check other realities for phoenix fragments.
Some aliens have entered earth from planet D'Bari , in hope of controlling phoenix power which that force devoured mindlessly on its way to reach Jean.
However, the alien enemies without getting any problematic response from Jean Grey with her powers, upon confirming her connection to our companies, targeted us relentlessly instead of X men. I located them in their second attempt. Honestly, I felt lost again, since I felt everything was possible with thought. I probably need some reality check.
With a thought, I transported Jean Grey and all the aliens together. After getting some sense from Aliens attacking her, a fierce battle erupted as she unleashed her full physical strength, blasting some of their heads away in a show of raw power. Using the Phoenix Force, she disintegrated the remnants of their race. I made sure no one from their species escaped to cause trouble again, using my divine sense to scan the area.
Just then, Jean playfully sent a Phoenix blast directly at my face, which did nothing but blow some air in my direction.
"Hey, that hurt..." I said, feigning innocence.
"Shut it, you bastard! Can't even harm you in any way, even with all these powers!" she shot back, a playful glint in her eyes despite her frustration.
I chuckled, knowing my shield negated the attack effortlessly. "You disappeared for three years without a word, leaving everything in my name,even the company work, and when you finally return, you make me fight aliens while you sit back and enjoy the show with popcorn?" She questioned.
"Ah, about that... I got bored," I replied with a smirk. "No, really, I was training. You have cosmic awareness to some degree now, right?"
"Yes, everything within earth is in my perception" she replied, crossing her arms, her posture defiant yet intrigued.
"So you should be able to see that the timeline changed significantly from similar ones. In fact, I saved you from a path of destruction and pain. You can now perceive threats across the universe, even in the multiverse, as your power will grow. You have your own life to explore this world and missions waiting for you. Now, lend me a small part of the Phoenix Force—I need to analyze it."
After a moment of hesitation, she released a small portion of her power to me, which I sealed within my ring. "I will be leaving soon," I said, the weight of the moment settling between us.
Her expression shifted quickly from determination to sadness. She approached me, employing her old trick of puppy eyes. "No, not happening. You can't just leave me again. What about everything we've been through? You're like a brother to me!"
"What's going on with that laser guy and you, anyway?" I pressed, trying to lighten the mood despite the serious undertone.
She sighed, her shoulders slumping exasperated. "Scott? We've been... getting closer, I guess. But it's different now, isn't it? I have a life to live, but it feels empty without you."
Her fiery determination flickered, tempered by sadness. "What am I supposed to do without you? I've always counted on you to be there, to help me navigate all this."
"You'll manage. You always do," I assured her. "You have your own powers to explore now. You don't need me around all the time."
Jean's eyes shimmered with restrained tears, but her resolve held firm. "I don't want you to disappear from my life again. Not like this."
I smiled, taking her hands. " But my journey doesn't end here. I reminded you every once in a while, that this was my vacation. There are things I have to do. A realm I need to return to."
I softened, taking her hands in mine. "Listen, you've grown so much. You'll explore and experience things beyond what I could ever teach you. I reminded you many times on our journey that I would leave someday. I have my own path to follow, to my original god's domain, after a quick stop elsewhere."
She bit her lip, fighting back tears. "But I don't want you to go. I can't face everything alone."
"You won't be alone, Jean. You have the X-Men, and you have your own multiverse power now. " I assured her. "You're capable of so much more than you realize. This isn't goodbye forever; it's just a new chapter. And here's a gift". Saying that I used my understanding of reality power to overrule her biology to include power augmentation x gene and a drop of fire spiritual phoenix blood (stripped of any past fate and causality to not divine the history) into her bloodline. She immediately felt increase in her soul and body strength to more than 10 times and is still rising.
After few minutes of adapting, Jean took a deep breath, her eyes shining with determination once more. "Fine. But I'm not letting you off the hook that easily. I'll be training harder than ever, and when we meet again, I'll show you just how powerful I can become!"