Dawn of a New Era

Chapter 667 641: Is It Over?

In the alternate world, Chen Shouyi stood still, his whole body emanating wisps of smoke, frozen in the act of throwing a punch.

Time ticked by, second by second.

Half a minute later, his body swayed, and with a loud crash, he fell to his knees, creating a large crater in the ground.

He tried to struggle to his feet but found that his strength had completely vanished, unable even to stand.

"But, it seems safe now."

Chen Shouyi was utterly certain that his punch had hit the Lord of Lightning.

He wanted to go outside to check the situation, but his body wouldn't allow him to stand, so he simply let it be.

He laboriously distanced himself from the Spatial Passage, sitting on the ground.

"Haha... cough, cough!" He grinned, but the movement strained his chest and abdomen wounds, causing a sudden cough.

Dry black blood, mixed with charred innards, spewed from his mouth.

Yet Chen Shouyi didn't care at all, laughing madly with a face full of satisfaction.

"I actually survived."

He didn't know if the Lord of Lightning was dead, but having taken his punch, it surely wouldn't be pleasant, at least severely injured.

He laughed for a while, then gradually stopped, beginning to tend to his injuries.

He glanced down and was surprised to find that the armor, once pierced by the opponent's Long Spear, had self-repaired, though he was not in the mood to investigate further.

He removed the armor and threw it back into space, simultaneously exiting the Giant Transformation. His body was charred black, with minute Divine Power lightning flickering at the wounds, continuing to damage his body.

Injuries from Divine Power are quite troublesome.

In essence, it is a kind of Telekinesis, mind over reality. The Self-Healing ability has some effect, but it's snail-paced, and without clearing this Divine Power first, the wounds might persist for days or even weeks.

But this time, the injuries were just... too severe.

He touched the charred hole in his chest and reached inside, pulling out a handful of blackened stuff, still sparking electrically.

The sight made his scalp tingle.

If he wasn't mistaken, this must be his heart, now turned to charcoal.

Damn! Damn! Damn!

Chen Shouyi quickly tossed it away.

Then he reached into his chest again, pulling out another heap of the blackened stuff; this time, it was his lungs, also completely dead, decayed at a molecular level.

He sighed, continuing to extract pieces without stopping.

Spleen.

Liver.

Stomach.

Kidneys.

Large Intestine.

...

Initially, Chen Shouyi could barely watch, feeling wholly uneasy, thinking about pulling out his own viscera, leaving a chill in his heart.

But soon, he became numb.

"Perhaps this is what being hollowed out feels like," he thought somewhat boredly.

A cold wind blew past, and he shivered all over.

His body felt increasingly weakened, yet he stubbornly continued living, sensing he could live for quite a while.

After cleaning out his organs, he then cleared other necrotic parts.

Looking at the massive pile of charred flesh on the ground, he estimated it was about a third of his body weight, perhaps even more.

"This time, it was really too close; if my head had been hit, I wouldn't be so lucky," he thought with lingering fear, lightly coughing a few times; this time, there were no internal organs to spit out, as there were none left.

After doing all this, he began clearing the residual Divine Power bit by bit.

...

A dozen minutes later, two little figures, feeling safe, finally flew back.

Chen Shouyi was covered in blood, and the little creatures wanted to get close but didn't dare, anxiously flitting around him.

"Great Giant, what happened to you? Does it hurt?" Shell Lady asked, tears welling up as she looked at Chen Shouyi.

Chen Shouyi weakly glanced at her.

What do you think?

"Little One will blow on it for you."

No!

Chen Shouyi opened his mouth, ready to speak, but found he couldn't make a sound, his vocal cords already damaged.

"I'll help the Great Giant blow too," the second little figure hurriedly said.

What a complete mess!

He closed his eyes, exhausted, to regain his energy.

Yesterday's journey to the Rising Sun Country was just the Lord of Lightning's power projection, weaker than mid-level Divine Power and quickly recovered from injuries. But this time was a full Powerful Divine Power; with his willpower at 22 points, recovery in the short term was impossible.

Chen Shouyi could only engage slowly, using his willpower bit by bit, not knowing how long it would take.

At this moment, he suddenly had a thought: "I wonder if Faith Value would help?"

He opened his attribute panel.

Seeing only 253 points of Faith Value left, he hesitated for a moment and added two hundred points to Self-Healing.

"Boom!"

In an instant, a rush of heat surged through his body, clearing the Lord of Lightning's residual Divine Power quickly.

"Didn't expect it would really work!" Chen Shouyi opened his eyes.

The Book of Knowledge, in some sense, had a function similar to a divine aspect.

For example, the intelligence boost from burning Faith Value or the evolution of innate abilities.

Moreover, this virtual divine rank seemed exceptionally high, and Chen Shouyi even suspected it might exceed the divine rank of Powerful Divine Power.

This rush of heat was essentially a high-level Divine Power.

As the heat surged, his previously numb body started to feel intense pain again, soon becoming itchy.

A hint of joy appeared on his face.

His body had begun Self-Healing.

Don't underestimate these two hundred Faith Value points; they equate to two hundred devout followers praying for a year, or 1,752,000 devout followers praying for an hour, or 105 million devout followers praying for a minute, or...

The rush of heat quickly faded and vanished in an instant.

In the end, two hundred Faith Value points only increased his Self-Healing ability by 0.01%.

However, Chen Shouyi didn't mind this little waste at all.

He felt his internal organs regenerating, and once his stomach and esophagus took shape, he immediately started consuming large amounts of food to replenish what had been spent.

The material source for replenishing flesh and blood for Self-Healing doesn't come from nowhere; it's all from oneself. Without timely food replenishment, even muscles would decompose, resulting in self-consumption.

Yet even so.

When fully Self-Healed, his body had become much thinner, looking somewhat emaciated, but with a few days of care, he could grow back.

Chen Shouyi waved his hand, signaling the two meddling little creatures not to blow and stood up from the ground, taking a deep breath.

"You two stay here; I'll go have a look outside."

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

The timid little creatures immediately responded obediently.

Chen Shouyi took a deep breath and stepped out of the passage.

Outside, all was calm.

The Divine Power's aura in the air had entirely disappeared, and the dark clouds overhead had faded away, leaving only patches of white clouds, tinged with gold by the dawn light on the horizon.

Daybreak was near, and today would clearly be a sunny day.

He stood amidst the ruins, unmoving for a long time.

"Is it over?"