Chapter 154: Search

Time slipped by in a flash; it was already three months later.

During this period, Zhou Heng had been silently cultivating this piece of Active Metal, while for the Purple Crystal, Zhou Heng had been continuously injecting the Thunder Power from the Blood Qi Spirit Core within his body into it.

Now, visible lightning could already be seen flowing within the Purple Crystal.

Zhou Heng estimated that in another two months, he would be able to fully obtain the God Trial; as long as the God Trial was passed, he would be able to inherit the Thunder God Divine Position.

Unfortunately, a piece of news arrived—the information he had been inquiring about previously had come through, and the location of the Medusa Spirit Beast was completely confirmed.

It was on a small island on the west side of the Douluo Continent; someone had once seen the appearance of the Medusa Spirit Beast on this island.

Upon learning the news about the Medusa Spirit Beast, Zhou Heng chose without hesitation to go and take a look with Dugu Bo; he was now a level 70 Quasi-Spirit Saint, and the Time Stasis of the Medusa Spirit Beast was a powerful skill.

If he could obtain this skill, he could develop the ability to influence the temporal plane through research; at that time, he could shout three times on the continent: "Who dares to kill me? Who can kill me?"

Before the soul hunt, Zhou Heng first went with Dugu Bo to the coastal city closest to that island to inquire about news regarding the island.

The source of the information was the local chamber of commerce belonging to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

After Zhou Heng displayed his token, the person in charge of the chamber of commerce immediately gathered all the high-level personnel within the chamber to begin organizing the information Zhou Heng requested.

In less than an hour, a large stack of intelligence was delivered in front of Zhou Heng.

This intelligence included maps, the flow of the sea area near the island, records of Spirit Beasts, and records of various rumors about the island; it could be said to be quite detailed.

Within the intelligence, Zhou Heng learned that this island, where the Medusa was entrenched, was called Spirit Snake Island by the locals.

Spirit Snake Island was not too far from the coastal city, but the sea currents were quite special; most of the time, ships could not reach the island, and one could only travel to Spirit Snake Island by boat when the ocean currents changed under special circumstances.

According to the accounts of some Spirit Masters who had set foot on Spirit Snake Island, Spirit Snake Island was an island filled with various venomous snakes. On the outskirts of the island, thousands of various venomous snakes were entrenched; although most were ten-year Spirit Beasts and hundred-year Spirit Beasts only accounted for a small portion, the massive numbers still blocked the footsteps of outsiders.

It is said that a hundred years ago, a flying Spirit Master once tried to explore the depths of Spirit Snake Island, but discovered several highly venomous snake-type Spirit Beasts over ten thousand years old in the depths of the island, among which the leader seemed to be a Spirit Beast with the upper body of a human female, suspected to be the legendary Super Spirit Beast Medusa.

For the sake of his life, that flying-type Spirit Master returned to the city immediately after discovering the danger on the island and never tried to explore Spirit Snake Island again.

This was also the greatest exploration of this island, known as Spirit Snake Island, by this coastal city.

After Dugu Bo and Chen Ming finished reading the intelligence, they discussed their actions and countermeasures, then left the coastal city and headed toward Spirit Snake Island by flying.

Spirit Snake Island was a relatively large island, with an area roughly equivalent to one-quarter of the Sunset Forest.

It had its own small ecosystem, but the main positions of the ecosystem seemed to be entirely composed of various snake-type Spirit Beasts.

Even on the beach near the sea, a large number of highly venomous sea snakes lived; these special sea snake-type Spirit Beasts built nests on the beach and hunted in the sea.

At a glance, the number that could be seen directly was densely packed, exceeding several thousand, and there was no telling how many more sea snakes were hidden under the sand or hunting in the sea.

Even Dugu Bo was slightly surprised to see this scale of snake-type Spirit Beasts.

Although it was also a gathering place for snake-type Spirit Beasts, this place seemed even more superior than the valley where the Dugu family had always hunted for souls.

Zhou Heng and Dugu Bo stopped flying at the beach on the outskirts of the island and began to explore toward the interior of the island step by step.

Although there were many snake-type Spirit Beasts along the way, Dugu Bo only released a little of his Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor aura, and most of the snake-type Spirit Beasts stayed far away from the two.

During the process of advancing, the two discovered many very rare snake-type Spirit Beasts, ranging from high-grade to top-grade quality.

Among them, a small portion were so rare that even Dugu Bo had never truly seen them, and some individuals seemed to be mixed with the bloodline of Super Spirit Beasts.

When they were halfway through, Dugu Bo even discovered a Green Scale Snake King group led by a Green Scale Snake King with a lifespan exceeding thirty thousand years, among which there were several Green Phosphorus Snakes over ten thousand years old and hundreds of thousand-year-level Green Phosphorus Snakes, not to mention the countless hundred-year and ten-year Green Phosphorus Snakes.

Logically speaking, such a Green Phosphorus Snake group led by a Snake King could enter the position closer to the Core Zone in the mixed circle even in the Star Dou Great Forest.

But on this island, this massive snake group could only stay in the middle position, which was simply somewhat contrary to common sense.

This special situation made the two advancing men feel a tightness in their chests, and they increased their level of vigilance.

As they ventured deeper, Dugu Bo had to restrain the Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor aura on his body, because he saw true Emperor-level snake-type Spirit Beasts on this small island.

"Red Refined Serpent Emperor, Nether Serpent Emperor, Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor, the Nether Serpent mutation Super Spirit Beast Three-Headed Nether Python, the Red Refined Serpent mutation Super Spirit Beast Red Blood Demon Python."

"What kind of place have I come to, damn it? The Snake Dou Great Forest?"

Carefully passing through the territories of these high-lifespan Spirit Beasts, Dugu Bo had fallen into silence.

Generally speaking, the lifespan required for a King-level Spirit Beast is around fifty thousand years; it is not impossible for some with good talent to become kings at forty thousand or even thirty thousand years.

And the requirement for the Emperor-level is a solid one hundred thousand years.

Even for individuals with excellent talent, they need at least seventy or eighty thousand years of cultivation to become an Emperor-level Spirit Beast, and this must be under the condition that there is no other Emperor-level Spirit Beast of the same clan or species pressing down on them.

Yet the lifespans of this group of Serpent Emperors on the island, according to Dugu Bo's observation, were all at the level of fifty to sixty thousand years, which was truly somewhat contrary to common sense.

After all, even if there is one genius, it shouldn't result in a whole group of geniuses.

And even if there were a whole group of geniuses, their lifespans shouldn't be basically the same.

But considering that the most contrary-to-common-sense existence in the world was right beside him, Dugu Bo did not want to comment too much on this for the time being.

After all, there were simply too many magical things in the world; Dugu Bo had long realized his own shallow knowledge, so he did not want to comment further, only classifying it as "a coincidence of fate."

He, Dugu Bo, had pursued Soul Rings and various poisons for so many years, searched for many snake-type Spirit Beasts, and circled the three major Hunting Soul Forests of the Douluo Continent over and over again; he had indeed encountered some Super Spirit Beasts, and even found the treasure land, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, in the process.

But he had never seen such a scene where top-tier Spirit Beasts and Super Spirit Beasts were gathered together!

To put it bluntly, if he had known there was such a Snake Island when he was young, he would have solved everything from his first ring to his ninth ring on this Snake Island.

Of course, it is also possible that he would have died from a toxic explosion because he hadn't discovered a treasure land.