Dawn of a New Era

Chapter 744 - 717: The Spatial Passage on the Moon

Noon.

Southeast Peninsula.

Inside a hidden manor.

Chen Shouyi got out of bed, quickly dressed, and didn’t look pleased.

"My lord, what are you thinking about?" The God of Fertility donned a translucent veil, gracefully got up from the bed, and approached with a hint of fragrant breeze.

"Stop, keep your distance from me," Chen Shouyi righteously declared, his mind as pure as a sage’s.

He had a girlfriend, after all.

How could he be tempted by another woman, especially an insidious Female Barbarian God using vile methods to seduce him?

Faced with Chen Shouyi’s sudden change of attitude, the God of Fertility was startled but accustomed: "Yes, my lord."

After all, it’s always like this.

By now, Chen Shouyi finally remembered the main issue:

"How much do you know about the will of the Tam World?"

"My lord, why are you asking about this..." The God of Fertility wondered aloud, seeing Chen Shouyi’s displeased expression, quickly answered meekly:

"Honestly, even I don’t know much... ’Tamu’ is both the name of our world and the origin of all life. It’s said that after this nameless supreme being fell, His will merged with the entire world, becoming the world’s will, omnipresent yet elusive."

It seems similar to what the Destiny Thief said.

Chen Shouyi pondered with a heavy heart and confirmed again: "Is this a rumor, or have you truly sensed the presence of Tamu’s will?"

At this, even the seductive face of the God of Fertility turned serious: "My lord, this is no rumor. Tamu’s will truly exists. As long as beings ignite the Divine Fire, they can vaguely touch Him—grand, majestic, yet unfathomable.

Moreover, as long as gods swear in the name of Tamu’s will, no god would dare to break such a covenant. Otherwise, at best, they fall in divine rank, plagued by disasters; at worst, they fall into eternal slumber. No god can escape it.

Even one as strong as you!"

Chen Shouyi raised an eyebrow and glanced at her.

Though he knew she was probably being truthful, why did it still feel unsettling?

"By the way, my lord, there’s another matter I think I should report to you!" The God of Fertility couldn’t help but inch closer.

As a goddess whose divine position involves fertility and reproduction, the more powerful the male, the more fatally attractive he becomes to her, and Chen Shouyi is undoubtedly one of the strongest, both on Earth and in Tam.

"Oh, what is it?"

"Recently, there’s been trouble at the Old Gods’ cemetery..."

...

When Chen Shouyi left the manor, it was already evening.

Even though the God of Fertility had diligently prepared a banquet through her followers, Chen Shouyi sternly refused.

If he stayed any longer... he wouldn’t be able to return tonight.

He flew in the direction of the Great Xia Country, speeding like the wind.

At this moment, he was moved.

Looking towards the dark space, with a thought, his body arched steeply in the air, charging straight into space.

Ten Mach... fifteen Mach... thirty Mach.

As air and gravity became increasingly thin and weak, his speed constantly accelerated. Within minutes, he broke through the outer layers of Earth’s atmosphere, entering space.

He continued to fly.

In space, although the sunlight overhead was glaring, it still imparted an incomparably dark and deathly silence that ordinary people couldn’t endure.

This was absolute silence, a tranquility encompassing all.

But to Chen Shouyi, who had ventured here many times, it was already second nature.

His speed continued to increase, seemingly without end.

In space, with little gravity and resistance, he never quite knew how fast his speed limit could be.

Today, he finally realized.

His current mental propulsion was nearly equal to his physical strength, roughly 60 tons, and in space, pushing a weight of 250 kilograms, the acceleration could almost reach 24 Gs, or 240 meters per second squared.

In just half an hour.

He left the Moon behind and successfully reached a speed of 500 kilometers per second.

However, at such speeds, Chen Shouyi noticeably felt air resistance and the light pressure from the sun.

Space isn’t an absolute vacuum; it still contains air, just extremely thin and almost negligible.

At regular speeds, the resistance from these sparse air molecules is minute, but as speed increases infinitely, air resistance becomes increasingly significant.

Yet, the effects or dangers of such high speeds are not limited to this.

"Hiss!"

After only a few seconds, a sesame-sized fragment instantaneously broke through Chen Shouyi’s will defense on his body surface, bursting a dragon-eye-sized hole on his body that cannonballs couldn’t harm in the least.

As for the fragment, upon high-speed impact with his skin, it vaporized under high temperatures.

No matter how robust the defense, under this kind of one-sixth-light-speed kinetic strike, it fared no better than tofu.

While this was just a trivial injury, it left Chen Shouyi with lingering fears.

With a thought-speed comparable to a supercomputer and vision capable of spotting a ping-pong ball tens of kilometers away, he could subconsciously collect all information within a kilometer or two for judgment or prediction.

Yet this still fell far short of supporting such terrifying speeds; he could avoid larger meteors but couldn’t evade smaller dust particles in time.

Therefore, Chen Shouyi decisively began to decelerate, changed direction, and headed for the Moon.

...

About half an hour later.

A Giant flew from the dark space, colliding with the Moon’s surface like a fast-moving asteroid, erupting in a blaze of dazzling flames.

The Giant rolled for more than ten kilometers, shattering several craters before nullifying the dreadful impact of speed.

Chen Shouyi stood up somewhat disheveled, but fortunately, with his speed reduced to three to four kilometers per second before impact, combined with the robust defense from his transformation, he wasn’t significantly injured.

He surveyed his surroundings.

This was his first time on the Moon.

Numerous meteor craters and circular mountains dotted the Moon’s surface, covered in thick lunar soil. As Chen Shouyi walked, each step sent clouds of dust swirling.

The gravity here was only about one-sixth of Earth’s, giving a weightless sensation, slightly unsettling, with even a slight exertion feeling as if his body might float off the Moon.

Before arriving, Chen Shouyi felt some novelty about Earth’s satellite, but being here felt somewhat lackluster—a barren desolation as far as the eye could see, aside from the circular mountains of moderate interest.

Then his expression changed as if he discovered something, shrinking his body from its Giant form and swiftly flying close to the ground towards the front.

Half a minute later, he halted.

His face grew serious.

Not far away, a Spatial Passage, about half a meter off the ground and approximately seven to eight meters in diameter, quietly hovered on the Moon’s surface. Peering through the passage, one could faintly see it led to a vast ocean.