Chen Shouyi continued to lie down for a while but couldn't stay put any longer. He picked up the two unruly little ones, ignoring their struggles, and leisurely walked towards the room.

Nothing was said throughout the night.

...

Several days later.

Deep within the dense rainforest.

An oppressive atmosphere pervaded, and the forest was silent, with even the usual sounds of insects and birds completely vanished.

In a clearing, surrounded by fallen trees.

Chen Shouyi's massive figure stood tall, with a Lightning Spear over ten meters long floating in front of him.

At this moment, in his eyes, the previously mysterious Lightning Spear was no longer so enigmatic.

He had begun to glimpse its essence.

Its surface was interwoven with various force fields, appearing complex yet harmoniously unified, tightly binding and solidifying the energy.

His faith-burning brain, like a supercomputer, flashed astronomical levels of information through his mind, processing it instantaneously. He was trying hard to unravel the mysteries of the Lightning Spear, peering into the power of the Lord of Lightning.

With his strength at this level, Chen Shouyi could begin to read the essence of this world, analyzing microscopic quantum-level information, from the simplest and most intuitive electromagnetic force to further probing strong and weak forces.

His body seemed frozen, motionless, motionless.

After several hours.

Chen Shouyi extended his large and rough hand, lightly touching the Lightning Spear with his finger.

A ripple of energy spread through the air.

Like ripples in water.

All around, the electromagnetic field became chaotic, and countless leaves and pebbles underfoot began to float up seemingly from nowhere.

The next moment, the originally solid Lightning Spear flowed like liquid, constantly changing shape, soon transforming into a high-brightness liquid sphere, gently landing in his palm.

This was the condensation of countless energies, the full release of which could potentially rival a nuclear explosion.

Even Chen Shouyi felt a pang of trepidation; just a slight mishap could turn him to dust.

Fortunately, everything was under his control.

This energy had been completely refined by him, with his will etched into every part, becoming an extension of his bloodline.

He could control and constrain all the energy at will.

"Truly amazing, I wonder if this Divine Artifact was created by the God of Lightning?" He mused over the energy mass in his heart: "But considering the degree of power compatibility, it is quite possible!"

Logically, a Divine Artifact of a Powerful Divine Power Barbarian God should be utterly indomitable with his weak willpower.

However, his self-will had an incomparably better advantage over Divine Power, which was control over the subtle.

If Divine Power were like wielding a massive hammer, its might being great yet crude, lacking finesse.

While self-will, akin to one's own hands, though less powerful, is agile and detail-oriented.

The will is entirely one's own, not borrowed from the collective will; wielding the will is just as simple as breathing, after all, will and consciousness are one, consciousness without self-will can't be called consciousness.

In his hands, this Divine Artifact was kneadable like dough, endlessly changing shape, finally transforming into a bright blue Long Sword, flying continuously around his body.

At this point, a thought passed through his mind, and he opened his mouth.

The Long Sword transformed back into a high-energy liquid, like a stream of water, flying into Chen Shouyi's mouth.

Once the liquid entered his body, it merged with his skin, seeped into cell membranes, giving his cells a touch of blue. More high-energy liquid coursed through nerve endings, muscles, organs, converging towards the bones in various places...

An indescribable pain surged from all over his body, even causing Chen Shouyi to involuntarily grunt, but he remained unfazed, as if the body weren't his.

When high-energy liquid infiltrated his entire body, including organs, bones, spinal cord, brain matter, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, and the original searing pain quickly subsided.

He extended his hand.

At this point, his skin bore a mysterious light blue hue, with a faint blue glow emanating from his whole body.

He moved his body, not feeling any discomfort.

"Good thing it's not green," Chen Shouyi thought to himself, "I wonder how it would feel to revert my form?"

He felt a stir of eagerness within.

However, to be safe, Chen Shouyi retracted the part that permeated his brain, though other parts could self-heal even if damaged, but a damaged brain… he dared not gamble on whether he could survive.

He exhaled deeply, then slowly shrank down.

Strangely, he felt not the slightest discomfort.

Even more oddly, as his body shrank, so did the Divine Artifact, not condensing but reducing out of thin air, as if it had merged with his body, shrinking along with his body's reduction.

The innate ability of the Giant Battle Body had always been quite mysterious, the extra mass after transformation seriously challenged human physical common sense.

And this Divine Artifact, integrated into his body, also seemingly possessed such a feature.

He reduced back to his normal body size and extended his hand, where the integrated Divine Artifact appeared from his palm, transforming into a Lightning Sword.

Chen Shouyi stared blankly at the Lightning Sword, now only about a meter long.

"Seems like a loss."

It shrunk a lot.

He embedded the Lightning Sword into his body again, then transformed.

To his relief, the Divine Artifact returned to its original size along with his transformation.

"This power, sharing the same origin as the Lord of Lightning, might also possess great resistance to that power," Chen Shouyi speculated, examining his body, which had turned blue again.

He looked up at the sky and reverted to the size of an ordinary person.

In the next moment, he kicked the ground, his body shooting into the sky.

In the tropical rainforest, thunderstorms are the most common.

A few minutes later, he arrived at a storm area, with lightning flashing and thunder roaring ahead.

Even before reaching the clouds, endless lightning was drawn over by the Divine Artifact, fiercely striking his body, engulfing him in blinding lightning.

Chen Shouyi was pleasantly surprised to find his guess correct. The lightning striking him was absorbed by the Divine Artifact in his body, causing only a slight itch, with no significant abnormalities felt.

His spirits soared.

He felt that if he encountered the Lord of Lightning again, he wouldn't be as miserable and embarrassed as last time.

In fact, despite his apparent confidence last time, he actually had little assurance at heart.

With his current strength, being able to protect himself in a real fight with the Lord of Lightning would already be pretty good; the most likely outcome was defeat.

After all, it was a Powerful Divine Power Barbarian God, standing at the pinnacle of the other world.

Plus, with the lesson from last time, the Great God was unlikely to be careless again. Next meeting would surely be as perilous as a silver bottle exploding.

And this tactic of diminishing Divine Power gave him an added boost in confidence.