Chapter 153: Spear Spiritual Weapon

After this incident, Lu Chen was truly shaken.

Not daring to continue walking through the jungle, he manipulated his earthen flying boat and soared into the air.

After crossing dozens of towering mountains in succession, he finally entered a flatland region.

The environment below remained unchanged: shrouded in dense fog and filled with bizarre, overgrown trees.

At this point, Lu Chen had confirmed that plant-like life forms were the masters of the foggy space, while most exotic beasts were merely their food, relegated to the role of prey.

Of course, even more powerful exotic beasts likely existed deeper within, but he simply hadn't encountered them yet.

Hoh... What is this?

Just as Lu Chen was preparing to head back home, his path was blocked by a massive city wall constructed from huge stones.

Standing over twenty zhang tall, the upper half of the wall was almost entirely submerged in the mist, inspiring an indescribable sense of awe.

The existence of a city meant that a civilized world had once been born within the misty jungle.

However, in Lu Chen's perception, a radius of several hundred meters was utterly dead silent, with no sign of intelligent life from an alien dimension.

Filled with doubt and curiosity, he flew rapidly along the perimeter of the city toward the distance, only reaching the other end several minutes later.

He ultimately confirmed that each side was at least forty miles long.

A height and length of this scale had never existed on either Earth or Blue Star.

This indicated that the foggy space not only once possessed a civilization, but an exceptionally advanced one at that. Moreover, their enemies must have been extraordinarily powerful as well; otherwise, there would have been no need to build such towering walls for defense.

Lu Chen had already noticed that this city wall had been abandoned for an unknown length of time, with cracks and collapses visible in many places, and massive skeletal remains and weapons scattered across the outer perimeter.

Clearly, a bloody battle had once broken out here.

Several of the intact skeletons bore shapes strikingly similar to human beings, albeit several times larger in size.

Based on Lu Chen's estimation, these creatures must have stood at least four meters tall in life.

Sensing an anomaly somewhere in the mist, Lu Chen shifted his consciousness slightly, and an earthen claw shot out, pulling a spear from not far away directly toward him.

The spear was as thick as an egg, over three meters long, and pitch-black overall. Made of an unknown material, it did not look particularly long, yet it weighed nearly a thousand catties.

Though countless years had passed, the tip of the spear still emitted a faint, piercing chill.

Spirit stones?!

Feeling the steady pulses of energy radiating from it, Lu Chen immediately realized that this weapon was far from ordinary; it had been nourished by spirit stone arrays inscribed upon it, which was why it had survived the baptism of endless ages without decaying.

To put it another way, it was a spiritual artifact.

Filled with curiosity, Lu Chen attempted to channel his internal energy laws into it.

Clang... With a crisp chime, multicolored light erupted around the spear.

Faintly, the shadowy form of a giant bird materialized.

As the earthen claw waved, the thousand-catty spear pierced straight through the air, accompanied by a continuous series of bird cries. It shot hundreds of meters away and vanished into the heavy mist.

Two seconds later, a massive explosion echoed from the distance.

Lu Chen flashed forward a few times to reach the spot, and a trace of astonishment surfaced in his beastly pupils.

Over a dozen zhang ahead, a deep crater spanning a hundred square meters had formed.

Several rocks at the bottom of the crater had completely weathered into powder.

Such formidable destructive power surpassed even a second-tier compressed energy bomb, far exceeding Lu Chen's expectations.

In an instant, he developed a deep interest in the weapons scattered around the battlefield.

Spiritual artifacts of this caliber were of no use in his own hands, but if he could hand them over to humans, they could undoubtedly fetch a hefty price—worth at least a thousand spirit stones.

Moved by this thought, Lu Chen began scouring the periphery of the battlefield.

He once again spotted the wreckage of two bronze flying ships.

These were even more severely damaged, appearing to have exploded mid-air, with debris scattered all along the edge of the battlefield, making their original forms almost unrecognizable.

In the span of just half an hour, Lu Chen collected hundreds of weapons and tested each one by channeling energy into them.

Their surfaces were all engraved with rune arrays, placing them in the category of spiritual artifacts.

However, disappointment soon crept onto Lu Chen's face.

As the saying goes, divine martial prowess cannot defy the mandate of heaven.

Having endured countless years, the rune arrays on many of these spiritual artifacts had fractured and decayed, degrading until they were no different from ordinary weapons.

After screening them one by one, he managed to salvage only three spirit swords, one spear, and a large saber.

Having finished searching outside the city wall, Lu Chen leaped up onto the dozens of-hang-high stone ramparts. To his surprise, the top of the wall had been swept clean, with no residual skeletons or weapons to be found.

On the inner side of the wall stood rows of stone houses.

Compared to the towering city wall, these dwellings appeared exceptionally small, roughly matching the height of single-story houses inhabited by humans in his past life.

Because they had been uninhabited for so long, many of the houses were already covered by all manner of bizarre vegetation.

As Lu Chen walked along, he occasionally spotted albino exotic beasts darting among them.

Just as he had surmised, these houses were similarly empty and desolate, all traces of activity by the intelligent alien beings having vanished with the passage of time.

After inspecting a dozen stone houses, Lu Chen stopped wasting time and bolted on all fours toward the very center of the city. He could sense that abnormal fluctuations were emanating from there as well.

A few minutes later, a massive plaza appeared before Lu Chen.

The ground of the plaza was paved with wide flagstones, and at its absolute center stood a platform over two zhang high. Seen through the heavy fog, it vaguely resembled a huge stone statue.

Upon drawing closer, Lu Chen realized it was not a stone statue at all, but a cylindrical barrel cast from an unknown material, bearing a striking resemblance to an ancient bronze cannon from the human world.

Dense, intricate, and profound runes were carved all over the mount and barrel, while fist-sized grooves were arranged in rows around the base of the platform.

Drawing upon his previous experience exploring the pyramid, Lu Chen immediately understood that these grooves were meant for holding spirit stones.

Therefore, what lay before him was a massive rune array designed to power that cannon-like offensive weapon.

Inserted beside the platform were three bowl-thick spears, their surfaces similarly engraved with profound rune arrays.

After careful inspection, Lu Chen directly named them spiritual energy spear-cannons.

At the same time, a strong surge of interest arose in his heart: this contraption looked entirely intact and seemed completely undamaged.

Why not load it with spirit stones and give it a try to see if it could still be operated?

Before parting ways with Dong Mingjun, Lu Chen had specifically asked for a few communicators, and now he could use one to record the trial firing of the spiritual energy spear-cannon.

Having set up the recording angle, Lu Chen cautiously placed over a hundred spirit stones into the grooves one by one.

This act was sheer extravagance.

Had it been any other time, Lu Chen would never have done such a thing.

It was only because he had recently made a fortune that his heart didn't ache at the expense.

Yet, once the spirit stones were in place, the spiritual energy spear-cannon showed no abnormal reaction whatsoever.

Clearly, a certain crucial triggering step was still missing.

Filled with doubt, Lu Chen re-examined the entire mount. Finally, he discovered two palm-like contact surfaces within a certain set of runes.

He tentatively placed his claws upon them and channeled his internal energy to see if it could ignite the rune array.

Buzz, buzz...

To his utter astonishment, it was truly activated.