Chapter 157: Insidious

In an instant, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw shredded the body of the Red-Lian Snake Emperor, then continued on with undiminished force to slash toward the Nether Snake Emperor. The Nether Snake Emperor's snake eyes bulged, and with the fastest speed of his life, he activated his special ability; a purple-black soul power covered his body.

The Nether Snake Emperor's body was severed, then instantly transformed into a sky full of fluttering, shattered snake skin. The Nether Snake Emperor's true form teleported a hundred meters away, his originally massive size having shrunk by about a circle, and that pair of snake eyes held human-like terror.

If it weren't for the fact that the Medusa Empress is the Snake God, the faith of all the snakes on the island, the Nether Snake Emperor would now be wishing he could turn around and run, leaving these two monster-like humans far behind.

The Dark Gold Terrorclaw left five deep claw marks in the ground, and only then did the Red-Lian Snake Emperor's body, which had been slashed into several segments, fall from mid-air and smash onto the ground.

The Red-Lian snake lineage inherently possesses powerful vitality among snake-type Spirit Beasts, and the Red-Lian Snake Emperor's vitality was exceptionally resilient due to his fifty thousand years of cultivation. Combined with this species' innate ability, even being slashed into several segments should have allowed for reconnection.

But as it stands, Zhou Heng's soul power raged at his severed edges, suppressing his recovery, and the virulent poison in the air followed the wounds deep into his flesh, wantonly eroding his body. Even with the regenerative abilities of the Red-Lian Snake Emperor, it was impossible to continue living under such extreme circumstances.

The Red-Lian Snake Emperor's snake head twisted in pain on the ground, indiscriminately spitting his final venom at his surroundings; his powerful vitality made him feel immense agony at this moment.

After being eroded for a long time by the dual attacks of Dugu Bo and Zhou Heng, the Red-Lian Snake Emperor's head, which had fallen to the ground, finally widened its eyes in unwillingness and ended its suffering.

A deep black Soul Ring slowly emerged from the snake head, announcing the death of this Red-Lian Snake Emperor.

Although it was in the middle of a battle, to be honest, Dugu Bo still felt a bit of heartache seeing this. Such a Red-Lian Snake Emperor of around fifty thousand years would have been perfectly fine as an eighth or even ninth Spirit Ring for an ordinary Spirit Master.

If he had had a choice when absorbing his ninth Spirit Ring back then, Dugu Bo would certainly have abandoned his original target to absorb the Red-Lian Snake Emperor's Soul Ring; after all, his ninth ring was truly hard to describe.

A top-tier Soul Ring wasted for nothing truly made Dugu Bo, who viewed this island as his own territory, feel some heartache.

He could only hope now that these high-quality Spirit Beasts would drop a few more soul bones to make up for the loss in Soul Rings.

But heartache aside, Dugu Bo's hands were not idle; the illusory, venomous Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor raged continuously among the snake swarm, easily poisoning to death the many snake-type Spirit Beasts that kept rushing over to provide support.

In the forest, large swaths of Soul Rings rose up, among which purple and yellow were nearly half-and-half, and one could even see a few that were pale black overall, clearly Soul Rings that had just reached ten thousand years not long ago.

Even some Spirit Beasts with low intelligence, the moment they saw such a massive quantity of Soul Rings rising, would feel fear from the bottom of their hearts. Many snake-type Spirit Beasts that had originally wanted to come and support their species' emperor fled frantically, and those ten-thousand-year Spirit Beasts that had not died in Dugu Bo's poison mist at the first moment also began to hesitate and stop.

The Medusa Empress never imagined that the swarm of snakes she had painstakingly cultivated would suffer such huge losses in a single encounter, and that even her own child would be killed by the enemy in an instant.

The Medusa Empress let out an angry shriek, and massive soul power surged toward the two. Zhou Heng combined the power of ice and fire within his body, using pure soul power to strike straight back at it.

The light waves formed by the two soul powers surged in mid-air, the snake swarm and Dugu Bo held each other in check, and finally, under the Medusa Empress's disbelieving gaze, the soul power light wave formed by Zhou Heng's ice and fire power overwhelmed her soul power and struck heavily toward her.

Because of the exertion of mobilizing her soul power, the Medusa Empress's massive body was completely unable to dodge Zhou Heng's attack, becoming a giant target. The powers of Extreme Ice and Extreme Fire raged on her massive physique, scorching large areas of the Medusa Empress's skin.

The Medusa Empress's body was too large, and the power accumulated within it was too great. Although she was not truly at the god level, as a Divine Beast, her base attributes were far higher than those of a Super Spirit Beast.

Zhou Heng's soul power light wave, which was enough to take the life of a ten-thousand-year Spirit Beast, hit the Medusa Empress and actually only destroyed the scales and skin on her surface, not even completely penetrating the Medusa Empress's flesh to cause her true damage.

Feeling the pain, the Medusa Empress's eyes became increasingly manic. The Snake Hair on her head all opened their eyes to stare at Zhou Heng, and the Medusa Empress's own eyes also lit up with a strange glow.

"Petrify!"

The Medusa Empress shrieked, and a strange power surged toward Zhou Heng and Dugu Bo. Facing this power, Zhou Heng was completely unafraid; he transformed the form of the soul power that had originally been like armor on his body into an invisible wall, and then began to frantically create thick ice walls with Extreme Ice in front of the wall.

Although the Medusa's gaze was powerful, it still had to follow basic principles; while its effects were formidable, its consumption was also top-tier. Zhou Heng and Dugu Bo both knew this characteristic.

So Zhou Heng simply relied on his own soul power and began to consume it directly.

Dugu Bo hid behind Chen Ming's ice wall, silently improving his own state.

The ice wall formed by Extreme Ice could effectively resist the Medusa Empress's Petrification power. Although the Medusa Empress had stopped concealing her power, the petrification speed of the ice wall was still in a state visible to the naked eye; for high-level Spirit Masters and Spirit Beasts, it was simply too slow.

A figure flashed out from behind the ice wall. The Medusa Empress subconsciously wanted to turn her head to stare, but saw Zhou Heng, who was covered in soul power armor, with a ferocious expression, the soul power in his hands beginning to change strangely.

Relying on his understanding of soul power attribute transformation and the gift of the Angel God, Zhou Heng could already convert soul power of other attributes into soul power of the Light Attribute.

Zhou Heng did not count on being able to use the Light Attribute to kill the enemy, but this did not mean that his efforts were in vain.

"Dark Night Wave Fist!"

Under the Medusa Empress's gaze, Zhou Heng gathered Light Attribute soul power in his hands, yet shouted out a move that was clearly of the Dark Attribute.

In the instant the Medusa Empress was thinking, intense light bloomed from Zhou Heng's hands, shooting directly toward the Medusa Empress's eyes.

"Awoo!"

Just like Tom the cat in the cartoons when his tail was stepped on, the Medusa Empress let out a painful sound.

The Snake Hair on top of her head was not just for show; they were her eyes, allowing her to observe every corner and position, and to use her line of sight to release petrifying rays.

Therefore, her eyesight could be said to be quite good.

This move of Zhou Heng's, named Dark Night Wave Fist but actually being a Solar Fist, perfectly targeted the Medusa Empress; it not only irritated her naked eyes but also indiscriminately attacked the countless pairs of eyes on the Medusa Empress's head of Snake Hair.