Chapter 96

Xu Jingming found himself in a lush, verdant world, seemingly a mountainous forest. On a section of a mountain peak, the summit had been cut off, leaving a smooth, flat platform. A man sat cross-legged on this platform, silently observing the world.

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

From his appearance, he resembled Earth humans, with only his hair color and ears being different.

"Hmm."

Xu Jingming's consciousness rapidly descended and directly merged with the man's body.

"What an incredibly powerful body," Xu Jingming was stunned the moment he possessed it. He strongly felt, "The power this body possesses is such that a mere flick of a finger could shatter a mountain."

Even the natural senses of this body encompassed the entire planet.

He could clearly determine...

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

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

"The current orbital speed of this planet is 35.612 kilometers per second."

"23% of the planet's surface is ocean, the rest is land, mostly covered by forests. This life-sustaining planet has many animals, but only one human, the being I possess," Xu Jingming sensed clearly.

"According to the introduction, the possession experience allows one to experience a segment of a legendary expert's life," Xu Jingming thought. "During this process, one can clearly feel everything but cannot control the body."

"Hmm?"

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

The dark red-haired man, 'Xuan,' suddenly looked up as a spaceship traversed the void and arrived in the planet's atmosphere. This was a spaceship only about thirty meters long, with a silver-gray body. The hatch opened, and an old man with withered hair appeared. From his hair and ears, it was clear he belonged to the same race as 'Xuan.'

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

As he spoke, his lips moved, uttering an alien language, but Xu Jingming, after possessing the body, understood it completely.

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

"Our home civilization is very anxious and uneasy," the old man said. "I know it will anger you, but I still came."

The dark red-haired man looked at the old man with a complex expression: "Do you remember when you first joined my disciples at the age of three? Now you're old."

"I have failed to meet your expectations," the old man said respectfully. "Now, the greatest concern of our home civilization is losing your position as a senator in the Galactic Human Alliance, which would mean losing our voice."

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

"Letting go..." the old man nodded slightly. "After letting go, our home civilization will decline, and the people won't be willing. But I will convey your words."

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

But his life was coming to an end.

"I have one last message for the people of our home: do not cling to power," the dark red-haired man said finally. "Only a strong civilization can stand in the universe. Now, go back."

"Teacher, is there nothing else you want to arrange?" the old man asked.

"Go back."

The dark red-haired man waved his hand.

Xu Jingming, possessing the body, could clearly sense the omnipresent power, the vast power of the universe, whether it was the planet beneath his feet or the space around it, all derived from this power.

With a wave of his hand, the dark red-haired man harnessed this power, sending the old man and the spaceship billions of miles away.

"Teleportation?" Xu Jingming, possessing the body, was shocked. "A spaceship can do teleportation, and this person can do it too?"

Although he knew the person he possessed was a legend, this was still too incredible.

The dark red-haired man said silently, "I have made arrangements, which will only be activated if our home civilization is in dire straits. If you really fall to that point, it will be a great disappointment to me."

"The final battle before the end of my life, I hope to evolve and reach the pinnacle of human existence," the dark red-haired man's eyes grew passionate.

He stood up, reached out his hand, and a spear appeared in it.

The spear was 3.2 meters long, entirely black, with only the tip glowing red.

Standing on the mountain platform, the dark red-haired man began practicing his spear techniques.

"He's starting to practice spear techniques," Xu Jingming immediately focused, memorizing every detail, unwilling to miss a single moment.

In the possessed state, his memory was excellent, and he could strongly feel every subtle movement of each technique.

The dark red-haired man practiced the spear techniques slowly, each move seemingly simple, but Xu Jingming sensed that each thrust of the spear harnessed all the power of this terrifying body and even the vast power of the universe, drawing on the power from a range of hundreds of millions of miles around the planet.

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

Using his body to command the external power, perfectly unified, the spear techniques channeled all the power into a single spear.

The surroundings seemed calm, the wind gently blowing, and there was no sign of the spear's movement.

But Xu Jingming could clearly perceive it.

If the power of the spear techniques were to unleash even slightly, it would be enough to pierce through the entire planet, and even a slight burst would shatter the planet like a toy.

"So terrifying?" Xu Jingming was chilled to the bone. "Is this the power a person can achieve?"

"Moreover, from the previous conversation, he should be a senator in the Galactic Human Alliance?" Xu Jingming carefully memorized the spear techniques, which seemed calm but were like a burning phoenix fire, always building up for the moment of eruption.

After practicing the spear techniques three times, the dark red-haired man put away the spear and sat down cross-legged, his spirit becoming ethereal, without a single thought, and his mental waves continuously spreading, expanding wider and wider.

Xu Jingming could feel that the mental waves swept over the surrounding planets and even the distant massive star, gradually covering almost the entire star system, reaching its limit.

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

This state left Xu Jingming in awe, and he firmly remembered this moment.

Sitting there, he didn't know how long it had been, but the legendary cosmic figure named 'Xuan' finally opened his eyes. The heavy rain that had been pouring suddenly stopped and dissipated.

"You've come," Xuan smiled.

"I've come," a muscular man in metallic armor crossed the void and appeared in the air beside the mountain platform, looking at Xuan.

"Thank you for coming to help me in my final battle," Xuan smiled. "Whether it's a real battle or the final step in pursuit, it could be fatal. I, who am at the end of my life, don't care, but you are willing to come, and I am very grateful."

The muscular man was about five meters tall, with brown skin and a bald head, standing there as if distorting space-time like a celestial body.

"So I put on this armor, also fearing that you might kill me," the muscular man smiled.

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

The two left the planet together, each step harnessing the vast power that existed everywhere in the universe, covering vast distances, leaving planets behind.

"The vacuum poses no threat to them, and various rays, they can even absorb naturally," Xu Jingming could sense that it was like ordinary people walking on a road, with sunlight falling on their bodies. These two walking in the cosmic void felt the same.

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

After walking for a while, the two reached the edge of the star system, where the 'star' now appeared small and dim.

The two looked at each other.

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

The armored muscular man extended his hands, and a large shield and a large hammer appeared.

Both had prepared for this battle, which might be their greatest opportunity to break through in their lives.

"Boom!"

The two didn't say much and immediately engaged in a deadly battle.