Chapter 1 Desolate Space

In the lonely, dark void at the edge of the solar system, a great battle was taking place.

Xuan, bathed in flames, was like a god of fire. The spear in his hand transformed into dazzling rays of light, occasionally scattering bursts of light that tore through the void for hundreds of thousands of miles.

The large shield in the armored giant's hand seemed to suppress space-time with each block. No matter how terrifying the spear's penetrating power, it was blocked by the shield! Each swing of the giant hammer distorted space-time, altering spatial distances and changing the flow of time. The hammer even had the upper hand in collisions with the spear.

However...

The spear was too fast!

In the blink of an eye, there were tens of thousands of spear lights! If one attack failed, there were ten, a hundred, or even more attacks. The armored giant had to coordinate his shield and hammer to defend.

"Bang."

"Bang."

Each collision of the weapons caused a small-scale annihilation of space, and the aftershocks spread out, causing ripples even hundreds of millions of miles away. However, the power was negligible at such a distance.

In theory, Xu Jingming couldn't even see this level of combat clearly.

But after possessing Xuan, what Xuan sensed was what he sensed. He clearly felt the subtleties of each spear technique, which was now completely unmasked before him, everything clear. He could even sense the enemy's shield and hammer techniques.

Of course, he only had a superficial understanding of the shield and hammer techniques, not grasping the internal mysteries.

Unlike the spear techniques, which Xuan personally executed, there were no secrets to the spear techniques after the possession.

"Even if there are no secrets, even if every move of the spear technique is right in front of me, I... I can't understand it!" Xu Jingming felt like a first-grade student who had just learned addition and subtraction, while a Ph.D. in physics was explaining a problem to him, clarifying all the key points.

But Xu Jingming's intellect couldn't comprehend it.

"What to do?"

"This level of combat... even if I experience it through possession, the gap is too big." Xu Jingming thought anxiously.

"Then let's follow my instincts." Xu Jingming didn't dare to hesitate. He didn't know how long this battle would last, so he couldn't waste precious time. After all, he vaguely sensed that the Xia Kingdom was accessing the virtual world network as a member of the Blue Star civilization, paying a huge price to obtain this possession opportunity for him.

He had to seize every moment.

"If I can't understand it, then I'll remember this feeling." Xu Jingming stopped thinking and completely immersed himself in the battle.

His consciousness completely merged with Xuan, and he fought against the armored giant.

Attack!

Attack!

Attack!

All of Xuan's moves were offensive, and all of them were the same move—thrust! But his thrusts gathered the strength of his body, the vast power of the surrounding area, and were guided by his spiritual will! The spiritual will carried this spear, even trying to break through space-time!

The spear was extremely fast.

With one thrust! The light of the spear was only the explosion of the spear tip's power. After the armored giant blocked it, the spear turned and thrust again! As if needing no buffer, there were instantly tens of thousands of thrusts! Xuan himself was like a star emitting thousands of spear lights, flames rising, wantonly displaying his spear lights.

The two had fought for only three minutes and twenty seconds, but it felt like a long time to Xu Jingming because they had exchanged over ten million moves, each of which he clearly sensed.

Xu Jingming could feel that as the battle progressed, Xuan's spiritual will became more and more frantic, as if he was burning himself, burning the little remaining potential of his body.

A voice had been echoing in Xuan's heart: "Become light! Become light! Become light!"

Xu Jingming could hear his voice and feel that Xuan had no other thoughts at this moment, only this one thought, to transform himself into light!

Boom!

At three minutes and twenty seconds.

A dazzling light lit up, more brilliant than the distant star at this moment, instantly piercing through the armored giant's body.

The light stopped in the void and transformed into Xuan's figure.

The left half of the armored giant's body was directly annihilated, and the right half was rapidly growing, barely restoring his body, but most of his armor was also destroyed.

"You broke through?" The armored giant couldn't care less about the pain and stepped to Xuan's side, extremely excited.

"With that last spear, I did break through the limit and reached the speed of light." Xuan said with a complicated expression, nodding. "If I had another ten or twenty thousand years, I could have perfected my spear technique and myself to reach the Supreme Realm. But I don't have that much time... This breakthrough allows me to subtly control my body, and I should be able to survive for another three hundred years."

"The speed of light?" The armored giant sighed. "To reach this step with your spear technique, you will forever be a legend in the Cosmic Human Alliance."

"A legend?"

Xuan nodded.

"I also have to thank you for holding back in the end." The armored giant laughed. "If you hadn't restrained some of your power at the crucial moment, I would have been completely annihilated."

"I am already very grateful that you were willing to fight me, how could I really kill you." Xuan said.

"Your spear technique has reached the speed of light, making you a legend among the humans of the universe. The Cosmic Human Alliance will definitely invite you to imprint the spiritual mark of this battle in the virtual world network so that later generations can comprehend it," the armored giant said.

"Then let's leave a spiritual mark." Xuan said.

At this time, Xu Jingming's consciousness began to detach from Xuan's body. Xuan turned his head and looked in Xu Jingming's direction: "If anyone else can also reach the speed of light with their spear technique and perfect themselves, they can step into the Supreme Realm."

These words seemed to be addressed to the armored giant, and also seemed to be addressed to Xu Jingming.

Then the whole world collapsed.

Xuan, the armored giant, and the endless cosmic space were collapsing, and Xu Jingming's consciousness was pushed out.

…

Xu Jingming opened his eyes and was inside that giant sphere. The door of the sphere was open, and Xu Jingming walked to the door and down the stairs. After walking down, the stairs retracted, and the sphere door closed again.

"Beep." The door in front opened, and Director Zhou walked in.

"How do you feel?" Director Zhou looked at Xu Jingming expectantly. He only had some intelligence data and didn't know much about possessing a cosmic legendary expert.

"I need to go back." Xu Jingming said, a little dazed. "Without being disturbed by anyone, I need to carefully comprehend."

This possession had too many things he needed to carefully analyze.

"Okay, I'll send you back now." Director Zhou nodded. "You've been possessed for more than a day, you must be hungry. Eat something on the way back."

…

In just a moment, a large aircraft flew directly above Xu Jingming's home in Mingyue City, and the lowered stairs led directly to the courtyard.

"Jingming is back?" Li Miaomiao immediately ran to the courtyard and saw Xu Jingming walking down the stairs.

The large aircraft retracted the stairs, closed the cabin door, and flew away.

"Jingming." Li Miaomiao immediately walked over. "Are you hungry?"

"I just ate on the aircraft." Xu Jingming looked at his girlfriend and forced a smile.

"What's wrong with you?" Li Miaomiao felt that her boyfriend's condition was not right. He was dazed and couldn't concentrate on speaking.

"I'm going to enter the virtual world now, Miaomiao. From now on, you don't have to worry about me or worry about me. I'm fine! If I get too hungry, I'll wake up on my own." Xu Jingming said and walked directly into the house.

"Going to Binhai City for more than a day, and coming back to enter the virtual world? And telling me not to worry about him?" Li Miaomiao was a little confused and had some guesses.

After all, Xu Jingming was personally picked up by that old Mr. Zhou, it must be a national matter.

At this moment, Jingming had already put on his virtual helmet and entered the virtual world.

Personal space, training ground.

"Set the scene." Xu Jingming changed the scene of the training ground, setting it as a lush, boundless mountain forest, with a section of mountain peak standing tall, the top of the mountain peak cut off smoothly and flat. Because Xu Jingming set the scene too large, the virtual world also charged a fee, but of course Xu Jingming didn't care and immediately paid.

The scene was completely modeled after the planet where Xuan was during the possession.

Xu Jingming sat cross-legged, also sitting on the platform, to make his mental state and memory match Xuan. He had to seize the time to comprehend, to understand! Because people's memories will slowly blur with time.