It floated high in the sky, its body entirely in a state between illusion and reality.
Lightning flickered around it, mingled with Dao Intent Inscriptions—life and death, space-time, and all manner of Yang Chen's Dao Intents!
"Did it... evolve successfully?" Yang Chen was utterly astonished.
Just as he was puzzled, a bolt of thunder suddenly poured down.
Once that lightning descended, the God-Slaying Spear underwent a complete transformation.
The material surrounding its spear body completely faded away, replaced by a layer of interwoven gold and blue armor. Its spearhead had grown somewhat longer than before, gleaming in brilliant gold.
With its appearance drastically changed, its aura was also utterly different from before.
The current God-Slaying Spear still vaguely resembled its former self, but its aura was far more terrifying than before.
The God-Slaying Spear lingered in the air for a moment, then soon cried out in delight.
"Young Master, I succeeded! Wahahaha, I successfully advanced into an Emperor Divine Artifact!"
In its excitement, the God-Slaying Spear rose up and thrust a spear toward the heavens.
With that single thrust, a massive gash split open in the sky. It was a spatial rift, stretching for hundreds of miles. Calling it sky-shrouding and sun-blotting would not be an exaggeration.
In the blink of an eye, even the crimson sun could no longer be seen.
Yang Chen had not intended to stop the God-Slaying Spear. After all, he had truly given it everything he had, and now that it had successfully advanced into an Emperor Divine Artifact, he finally let out a long breath of relief.
Yet he had never expected the God-Slaying Spear's wildly laughing strike to be so shocking.
That single spear thrust had completely pierced through the heavens, tearing open a rift hundreds of miles wide.
If such a spatial