Chapter 1 A Glimpse

Xu Jingming's consciousness saw a lush, verdant world, resembling a world of mountains and forests. On a mountain peak, the summit was cut off, smooth and flat. On this mountaintop platform, a man sat cross-legged, silently watching the world.

This man had long, dark red hair, pointed ears, and eyes as calm as the endless starry sky. He sat there as if he were the center of the entire world.

In terms of appearance, he resembled an Earthling, with only slight differences in hair color and ears.

"Whoosh."

Xu Jingming's consciousness rapidly plummeted, directly merging into the man's body.

"What a powerful body." In the instant of possession, Xu Jingming was shocked. He felt strongly that "the power possessed by this body feels like it could shatter a high mountain with the touch of a finger."

Even this body's natural senses encompassed the entire planet.

He could clearly determine...

"This planet is nearly spherical, with a difference of 36 kilometers between its maximum and minimum diameters, and an average diameter of 32,627 kilometers," numbers floated in Xu Jingming's mind. "The planet's rotation period is 92 hours, 37 minutes, and 12 seconds."

"Such keen sensitivity to spatial distance and time progress?" Xu Jingming couldn't believe it.

"This planet's orbital speed is currently 35.612 kilometers per second."

"Twenty-three percent of the planet's surface area is ocean, and the rest is land. The land is almost entirely covered by forests. This planet, suitable for life, has many animals, but only one human, the one I'm possessing." Xu Jingming's senses were clear.

"According to the information, a body possession experience is meant to experience a period in the life of a legendary historical figure," Xu Jingming thought. "During the process, I can clearly sense things, but I cannot control the body."

"Hmm?"

Xu Jingming suddenly sensed a fluctuation outside the planet. A spaceship appeared.

The dark red-haired man, 'Xuan,' suddenly looked up. A spaceship pierced through the void and arrived in the planet's airspace. It was a spaceship only thirty meters long, silver-gray in color. The spaceship's hatch opened, and an old man with dry, withered hair appeared. Judging from his hair and ears, he seemed to be from the same race as 'Xuan.'

The old man flew out of the hatch and landed on the mountaintop platform, respectfully bowing. "Teacher."

As he spoke, the old man's lips moved, speaking an alien language, but Xu Jingming, after possessing the body, completely understood its meaning.

"Why have you come?" The dark red-haired man revealed a hint of a smile, looking at the old man. "I said that I didn't want to be disturbed during the last days of my life."

"The civilization of our homeland is very anxious and uneasy," the old man said. "Knowing that it would anger you, Teacher, I still came."

The dark red-haired man looked at the old man, his expression complex. "I still remember when you first entered my school, you were only three years old. In the blink of an eye, you've grown old."

"I have failed to live up to your expectations, Teacher," the old man said respectfully. "What our homeland civilization is most worried about now is that after losing you, we will also lose our seat as a council member in the Cosmic Human Alliance. Our homeland civilization will then lose its voice."

"If you can't hold onto it, then let it go," the dark red-haired man said. "Power that you can't bear, trying to hold onto it will only crush you."

"Let it go…" The old man nodded slightly. "If we let it go, our homeland civilization will plummet. Our people will not be willing. But I will relay your words back home, Teacher."

The dark red-haired man also felt tired. He had said everything he needed to say long ago, but those people still hoped to gain more from him.

But his life was already coming to an end.

"I will give my people one last sentence: Do not be attached to power," the dark red-haired man said finally. "Only when a civilization is strong can it stand in the forest of the cosmos. Very well, you should return now."

"Teacher, are there no other arrangements?" the old man asked.

"Return."

The dark red-haired man waved his hand.

Xu Jingming, sensing through the body, could clearly feel the omnipresent power, the vast power that existed in the universe. Whether it was the planet beneath his feet or the space, it all originated from this power.

Now, with a wave of the dark red-haired man's hand, he leveraged this power, directly sending the old man and the spaceship tens of billions of miles away.

"Spatial teleportation?" Xu Jingming trembled with shock. "Spaceships can achieve spatial teleportation, and this person's power can also do it?"

Although he had known for a long time that the person he was possessing was a legend.

But this was too incredible.

The dark red-haired man muttered, "I do have an arrangement, an arrangement that will only be activated if our homeland civilization is in dire straits. If you really fall to that point, you will have disappointed me greatly."

"The final battle before the end of my life, I hope to evolve and reach the highest realm of humanity," the dark red-haired man's eyes burned with passion.

He stood up, and with a wave of his hand, a long spear appeared in his grasp.

The spear was three meters and two in length, black all over, with only the tip of the spear glowing with a hint of red light.

Standing on the mountaintop platform, the dark red-haired man began to practice his spear techniques.

"He's starting to practice his spear techniques." Xu Jingming immediately sensed carefully, remembering everything, not wanting to miss a single detail.

In the state of possession, his memory was excellent, and he felt every detail of each move intensely.

The dark red-haired man's spear practice was not fast. Each move and stance seemed simple, but Xu Jingming sensed that every thrust of the spear was mobilizing all the power possessed by this terrifying body, and it was also mobilizing the vast power existing in the universe. The power within a hundred million miles outside the planet was being mobilized.

If his body was one, the external force was ten thousand.

Using himself to command the external force, perfectly uniting them, performing spear techniques, all the power condensed on the long spear.

The surroundings seemed very calm. The wind was still blowing gently, and one could not feel any movement from the spear.

But Xu Jingming could clearly perceive it.

Once the power of this spear technique was slightly unleashed, it would be enough to penetrate the entire planet. With a slight burst, the entire planet would be completely shattered like a toy.

"So terrifying?" Xu Jingming was terrified. "Is this something that personal power can achieve?"

"And listening to the previous conversation, he should be a council member of the Cosmic Human Alliance?" Xu Jingming carefully memorized this set of spear techniques. The spear techniques seemed calm, but in reality, they seemed to have Nirvana flames burning within them, constantly building momentum, building momentum for the moment of explosion.

He practiced the spear techniques three times.

The dark red-haired man put away his spear, sat down cross-legged, his spirit like a void, without thought or desire. His mental fluctuations were constantly released and spread, the range of diffusion becoming wider and wider.

Xu Jingming could feel that this spreading spirit passed over the surrounding planets, and even passed over the distant, enormous star. Gradually, it spread to almost the entire star system where the star was located, and then reached its limit.

A person, without any thinking fluctuations, his whole being as silent as a celestial body, simply naturally releasing mental fluctuations.

This state shocked Xu Jingming, and he firmly remembered this moment.

He sat there cross-legged, not knowing how long had passed. The cosmic legend named 'Xuan' remained still, without any movement. Finally—at a certain moment, he opened his eyes. The torrential rain that had been pouring down suddenly stopped and dissipated.

"You've come," Xuan said with a smile.

"I've come," a strong man wearing metal armor crossed through the void and appeared in the air beside the mountaintop platform, looking at Xuan.

"Thank you for coming to help me in my final battle," Xuan said with a smile. "A real battle, a battle in pursuit of the final step, may lead to death. I, who am reaching the end of my lifespan, don't care, but you are willing to come. I am very grateful."

The strong man was about five meters tall, with brown skin and a bald head. Just standing there, he seemed like a celestial body, distorting space and time.

"That's why I put on this armor. I'm also afraid of being killed by you," the strong man said with a smile.

"Let's go, let's go to the edge of this star system to fight. This is my favorite planet, and I don't want it to be destroyed," Xuan said.

The two of them left the planet together, each step borrowing the vast power existing everywhere in the universe, covering vast distances, leaving planets behind.

"The vacuum poses no threat to them. They can even naturally absorb all kinds of radiation," Xu Jingming could feel. It was as if ordinary people were walking on the road, and the sun was shining on them. These two walking in the vastness of space felt the same way.

As for borrowing the vast power to take each step, it was as simple as an ordinary person walking against the wind.

As if taking a stroll, the two arrived at the very edge of the star system. At this moment, even looking at the 'star,' it seemed very small, its light dim.

The two looked at each other.

Xuan, with a wave of his hand, the black long spear appeared in his hand.

The armored strong man stretched out both hands, one holding a large shield, the other a large hammer.

The two had made preparations for this battle long ago. This might be their greatest opportunity in their lives to break through to that next level.

"Boom!"

The two of them didn't say much. They directly engaged in battle, each move aimed at the other's life.