Dawn of a New Era

Chapter 671 645: The Mighty Lightning Spear

In the evening, high-ranking officials of Zhonghai City came to visit and offer condolences, and after sitting for a while, they hurriedly left.

Nowadays, the entire city's affairs are myriad, and being able to come at all indicates they've taken time out of their busy schedules to express their stance, though Chen Shouyi wasn't really concerned.

At night, he lit the long-lost gasoline lamp.

Having gotten used to the bright electric light, lighting up the gasoline lamp now made him a bit unaccustomed. Through the window, the entire city was shrouded in darkness, like a black curtain had descended.

Chen Shouyi did not cultivate but instead read for a while before going to bed early.

...

After a few days, his body gradually recuperated, becoming increasingly robust, and the previously reduced attribute points quickly recovered.

However, the electricity had still not been restored. According to him, this affected not only Zhonghai City but a large portion of the coastal areas, with many power plants destroyed, and the prospect of restoring power seemed distant.

Still, most factories nowadays use steam power, and they've gradually resumed operations.

This invasion by the God of Lightning, though not causing many deaths, inflicted destruction on the Great Xia Country far beyond any previous war.

...

At night, Chen Shouyi went to the remote outskirts and soared into the sky.

After reaching an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, he flew rapidly toward the East Sea at a speed of forty to fifty kilometers per minute. With the current air defense system, such speed was completely invulnerable. Half an hour later, he landed on an uninhabited small island.

The entire island was about the size of a football field, barren, with only a few stray weeds and no other visible vegetation.

Chen Shouyi surveyed the area:

"This is it!"

He took off his clothes, put on armor, told the two small ones to stay far away, and then quickly transformed.

Soon, a giant over twenty meters tall stood in the middle of the island, setting up a vacuum field around himself.

He had to be cautious.

These days, the weapon he seized from the Lord of Lightning had been restlessly thumping, occasionally erupting with intense energy, but he had been hesitant to act.

His body was still weak, and rash actions could easily lead to an unexpected failure.

Only when his body had mostly recovered did he start to address this hidden danger. Simultaneously, he also wanted to observe the response of the Lord of Lightning to gauge its level of weakness.

"Let's begin."

Chen Shouyi took a deep breath and the next moment pulled out the Lightning Spear.

As soon as he gripped it, the Lightning Spear emitted blinding lightning, causing his body to go numb. The weapon, like a living organism, fiercely rejected him and struggled violently.

However,

its power was far from the terrifying level it had when the Lord of Lightning held it, not even a tenth of that. Chen Shouyi's hand, like an iron vise, held the spear tightly, and no matter how it struggled, it could not move a bit.

Feeling that he could still bear it, he simply dispelled the vacuum field.

Soon, the previously dazzling spear began to flash with arcs of electricity.

"Boom..."

An arc struck the ground, vaporizing it instantly and leaving a patch of scorching magma, the power far exceeding natural lightning.

"What a powerful weapon," he thought excitedly.

After all, this was merely an instinctive reaction.

The entire Lightning Spear was approximately forty-five meters long, almost tailor-made for him.

Since his giant transformations had grown larger, suitable weapons became increasingly scarce.

For instance, the three-and-a-half-meter huge sword he had crafted was now sitting in storage gathering dust, and even the twenty-eight-meter bone club had become cumbersome to use—too long on Earth and too short in another world.

In another world, his giant form reached eighty meters tall, and for him, the bone club was merely the length of a baseball bat.

While a baseball bat can still be used in battle, holding such a common street fighting weapon as the strongest human fighter felt quite unseemly.

However, the length of this Lightning Spear was just right, and it could be used as a sword.

The Lightning Spear only activated for a few seconds, its residual energy quickly depleting and weakening. After another few seconds, it fell completely silent, and Chen Shouyi could see its true appearance for the first time.

It wasn't quite a spear.

It resembled a bundle of solidified bright blue lightning, mottled and varied, with slightly twisted shapes. Both ends were sharp like arrows, emitting dazzling light, and the esoteric energy fluctuation caused the surrounding air to tremble violently.

Reflecting its extraordinary nature.

Compared to his crude and primitive bone club, this weapon was like comparing coarse pottery to exquisite bone china.

Beautiful, awe-inspiring, mysterious!

The weapon was utterly impressive.

The more Chen Shouyi looked at it, the more he liked it. He gently waved his hand, and the spear tip silently split through the reef without the least resistance, cleaving it in two.

He immediately began to remove the Lord of Lightning's imprint on it, concentrating his will and probing the Lightning Spear with his mind.

"Boom!"

In the mystical void, a giant covered with lightning opened his eyes angrily, casting his gaze over.

"Anyone who desecrates me will die..."

Chen Shouyi felt as if struck by lightning, his temples pounding.

He felt something, lifted his head to look at the sky, and saw the weather rapidly changing, the clouds above swiftly flowing. After watching for a while, he relaxed. This was merely an unconscious stir caused by the other's power and not an actual descent.

Moreover, the Lord's true form was likely in another world, and even if it came over, it couldn't possibly be this fast.

Sure enough, in no time, the clouds returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.

He rested for a while, allowing his mind to recover slowly, and then once again gathered his will to oppose the Lightning Spear's engraved will. The sky changed once more, then gradually calmed down.

Three times in succession.

The will imprint of the Lightning Spear was merely an imprint. He could barely contend with the opponent's true body, not to mention its divine artifact. By the fourth clash, he decisively shattered the remaining imprint.

As his will permeated the Lightning Spear, it lit up in an instant like a charged object.

"Boom!"

A tiny bolt of lightning burst from the spear tip, vaporizing a rock on the ground in an instant.

Through the abstruse and mysterious information gleaned by refining the Lightning Spear, he discovered in amazement that its capabilities extended even further. At his command, the spear rapidly shortened, and simultaneously, its color grew increasingly dazzling.

"This weapon is somewhat... incredible," he marveled, deep in thought.

"Could it be some form of solid-state energy?"

However, Chen Shouyi regretfully found that the Lightning Spear could not lengthen or shorten indefinitely, only being able to contract to a minimum of ten meters and extend to a maximum of one hundred meters before losing strength. Although it wasn't very practical in his normal form, during his giant transformations, it proved quite handy and was far more powerful than the bone club.

He experimented for a while, satisfied, and put the Lightning Spear into the space.

He retracted his body, called over the two tiny ones who dared not come closer, kicked off the ground, rose into the air, and quickly flew back home.