Chapter 1 Xu Jingming's Vision

Xu Jingming's consciousness saw a lush, vibrant world, resembling a mountain forest. On a section of a mountain peak, the summit had been sliced off smoothly, creating a flat platform. On this platform, a man sat cross-legged, silently observing the world.

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

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

"Hu."

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

"What a powerful body." Xu Jingming was immediately shaken as he merged. He felt strongly, "The power possessed by this body feels like a single finger could crush a high mountain."

Even the body's natural senses enveloped the entire planet.

He could clearly determine...

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

"Such acute sensitivity to spatial distances and time progression?" Xu Jingming couldn't believe it.

"The planet's current orbital speed is 35.612 kilometers per second."

"Twenty-three percent of the planet's surface is ocean, with the rest being 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 sensed clearly.

"According to the information, body possession is about experiencing a legendary master's experience from history," Xu Jingming thought. "I can clearly sense everything during the process but cannot control the body."

"Hmm?"

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

The dark red-haired man, Xuan, suddenly looked up. A spaceship traversed the void and arrived in the planet's airspace. It was a spaceship barely thirty meters long, with a silver-gray hull. The spaceship's hatch opened, and a wizened old man with dry, brittle hair emerged. From his hair and ears, it was clear that he was from the same clan as Xuan.

The old man flew out of the hatch and onto 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, fully understood it.

"Why have you come?" The dark red-haired man revealed a trace of a smile, looking at the old man. "I told you, I don't want to be disturbed in the last days of my life."

"Our home civilization is terrified 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 eyes complex. "I still remember when you first entered my sect, you were only three years old. In the blink of an eye, you've grown old."

"I have failed your expectations, Teacher," the old man said respectfully. "Now, what our home civilization worries about most is that, upon losing you, we will lose our seat as a councilor in the Cosmic Human Alliance. Our home civilization would 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, if you try to hold onto it, will only crush you."

"Let it go..." The old man nodded slightly. "If we let it go, our home civilization will plummet. My people will not accept it. But I will relay your words, Teacher."

The dark red-haired man also felt weary. He had said what needed to be said long ago, but his clansmen still hoped to gain more from him.

But his life was already coming to an end.

"I will give my clansmen one last piece of advice: Do not cling to power," the dark red-haired man said finally. "Only when a civilization is strong can it stand in the cosmic forest. Very well, you may leave."

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

"Leave."

The dark red-haired man waved his hand.

Xu Jingming, in his possessed state, could clearly sense the omnipresent power, the vast power existing 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 billions of miles away.

"Spatial teleportation?" Xu Jingming, in his possessed state, trembled. "Spaceships can perform spatial teleportation, and this person can do it with his power?"

Although he knew that the person he possessed was a legend...

This was simply too incredible.

The dark red-haired man muttered, "I do have arrangements, arrangements that will only be activated if the home civilization falls into dire straits. If you truly fall to that level, you will have disappointed me too greatly."

"My last battle before the end of my life. I hope to evolve and reach the pinnacle of humanity," the dark red-haired man's eyes burned with fervor.

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

The spear was three meters and two centimeters long, entirely black, with only the tip glowing with a trace of red light.

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

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

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

The dark red-haired man's spear practice wasn't fast, and each move seemed simple, but Xu Jingming sensed that each strike utilized all the power of this terrifying body, and it also mobilized the vast power existing in the universe. The power within a hundred million li outside the planet was being mobilized.

If his body was one, the power outside was ten thousand.

He used himself to command the external power, perfectly unifying it, and the power of his spear techniques was entirely concentrated on the spear.

The surroundings seemed calm. The wind was still blowing gently, and one couldn't feel any movement from the spear.

But Xu Jingming could clearly perceive it.

Once the power of these spear techniques slightly erupted, it would be enough to pierce through the entire planet. With a slight eruption, the entire planet would be utterly shattered like a toy.

"So terrifying?" Xu Jingming felt chilled. "Is this something that personal power can achieve?"

"And from their previous conversation, he should be a councilor in 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 the flames of nirvana burning within, constantly accumulating power, preparing for the moment of eruption.

After practicing the spear techniques three times, the dark red-haired man put away the spear and sat cross-legged. His mind was like a void, without thought or desire, and mental fluctuations were constantly released and spread, expanding over an increasingly wide area.

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

A person, without any thought fluctuations, was as silent as a celestial body, simply naturally releasing mental fluctuations.

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

He sat cross-legged, and without knowing how long had passed, this cosmic legendary figure named Xuan remained still. Finally, at one moment, he opened his eyes. The torrential rain suddenly stopped and dissipated.

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

"I've come." A brawny man clad in metal armor crossed through the void and appeared in mid-air next to the mountaintop platform, looking at Xuan.

"Thank you for coming to help me in my last battle," Xuan said with a smile. "Battles in reality, or battles pursuing the final step, can be deadly. I'm someone at the end of my lifespan, so I don't care, but you were willing to come. I'm grateful."

The brawny man was about five meters tall, with brown skin and a shaved head. Standing there, he seemed to distort space and time like a celestial body.

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

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

The two left the planet together, taking advantage of the vast power existing everywhere in the universe with each step, leaving planets behind.

"The vacuum poses no threat to them. They can even naturally absorb various rays," Xu Jingming could feel that it was like ordinary people strolling on the road with sunlight shining on them. These two walking in the cosmic space felt the same way.

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

After walking as if strolling for a while, the two arrived at the outermost edge of the star system. Now, even looking at the 'star,' it seemed small, and its light was dim.

The two looked at each other.

Xuan extended one hand, and the black spear appeared in his hand.

The armored brawny man stretched out both hands, revealing a large shield and a large hammer.

Both of them had made preparations for this battle. This might be the greatest opportunity in their lives to break through to that layer.

"Boom!"

Without saying much, the two immediately clashed, with each move aimed at killing the other.