Chapter 158: Cornered Beasts Fight Back

Even though the Medusa Empress is an eighty-thousand-year-old Divine Beast, she remained immersed in pain and unable to resist after such a jolt.

Zhou Heng could see that although the Medusa Empress before him possessed decent strength, it seemed that because her origins were too noble, she completely lacked the combat experience of ordinary ten-thousand-year Spirit Beasts, and would even expose greater flaws due to pain.

The Dark Gold Terrorclaw had already been used and could not be activated again in a short time, so Zhou Heng activated another soul skill of his Right Palm Bone: Unstoppable.

His soul power and vitality were being drained rapidly; even with Zhou Heng's current physical constitution, he felt a slight discomfort.

Violent metal-attribute soul power coiled around his five blade-like fingers, and as Zhou Heng swung forward, a weakened version of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw was unleashed through the air.

Once, twice, three times.

Relying on his own base constitution, Zhou Heng unleashed six weakened versions of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw in an instant, each one heading straight for the Medusa Empress's vital points.

The waist, the heart, the head—it could be said that Zhou Heng had locked onto the Medusa Empress as much as possible; with the Medusa Empress's massive body, even if she started dodging right now, she absolutely could not avoid all the attacks.

Just at this moment, the Three-Headed Nether Python and the Blood-Red Demon Python among the snake swarm immediately darted out, using their bodies to block in front of the Medusa Empress.

Within their snake pupils, emotions seemingly human-like flickered.

Even with the boost-type soul skill and the fact that the Dark Gold Terrorclaw provided by Unstoppable was only a weakened version, more than ten wounds deep enough to see bone instantly appeared on the two Spirit Beasts, and their vigorous vitality suffered a massive loss all at once.

The Blood-Red Demon Python desperately activated its regeneration ability, attempting to heal the wounds on its body.

The Three-Headed Nether Python, which was stronger in terms of defense but lacked healing abilities, could only twist its body continuously on the ground, its three heads and tail slamming against the earth again and again due to the pain.

Feeling the violent fluctuations in the vitality of her two children, the Medusa Empress, who was originally in pain, barely opened her eyes; after discovering that her two children had suffered non-trivial injuries by blocking the attacks for her, the Medusa Empress let out an angry roar.

Just a moment ago, when one of her husbands, the Red-Refining Snake Emperor, died, the Medusa Empress had not felt such heartache; after all, husbands were merely consumables, while children were her true supporters.

Although the Three-Headed Nether Python and the Blood-Red Demon Python were not Medusas like their sisters due to mutation, they were still the Medusa Empress's loyal children and husband; seeing them both severely injured, the Medusa Empress began to have her thoughts dominated by anger.

That massive body standing in the center of the lake began to move; the angry Medusa Empress knocked aside the Three-Headed Nether Python and the Blood-Red Demon Python, who were still bleeding in front of her, and charged toward Zhou Heng like a dump truck.

Zhou Heng had absolutely no intention of blocking it with his body; although he was confident in his current physical strength, during the few probes against the Medusa Empress just now, Zhou Heng had discovered that the Medusa Empress's body was far stronger than his own.

The wings condensed from soul power behind his back flapped, carrying Zhou Heng to quickly dodge the Medusa Empress's charge, while the Medusa Empress directly twisted her body, and the long, equally massive snake tail behind her struck toward Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng mobilized the Gravity Control skill of his Torso Bone to lighten his own gravity, then flapped his wings to send himself directly out of the range covered by the snake tail.

The moment Zhou Heng escaped the range, the massive snake tail smashed down from the air; a deep crack began to spread from beneath the snake tail, and the earth of the entire island seemed to start trembling.

A large amount of sand and stone splashed up and smashed heavily into the surroundings, making a sound like metal clashing when it hit Zhou Heng's soul power armor.

Watching this scene, Zhou Heng could not help but click his tongue slightly, having gained a higher understanding of the Medusa Empress's physical strength in his heart.

If that strike had hit him just now, even with his soul power armor protecting his body and two Soul Cores inside him, he would definitely have been beaten into a severe injury in an instant.

Even if an ordinary power-type Title Douluo were hit by this tail without soul skill defense, they would likely be not far from death.

In the midst of the fierce battle, Zhou Heng divided a portion of his energy to think about how to deal with this thick-skinned Medusa Empress, and then found a suitable answer within the sword techniques of the Angel God lineage.

"Sever the connection between spiritual power, soul power, and the flesh, making the body fragile in an instant, and then resolve it with an extreme, instantaneous burst."

Zhou Heng dodged the Medusa Empress's attacks, while the numerous weakened Snake Emperors and variants were left for Dugu Bo to contain.

Or rather, the two were responsible for containing them for each other.

After all, although these variants and Snake Emperors could hold Dugu Bo back for a short time by relying on their numbers and quality, with Dugu Bo's strength at the Super Douluo level, the final victor would definitely be Dugu Bo.

Zhou Heng's eyes flickered, and the posture of his right hand changed slightly, becoming somewhat awkward; light and fire soul power were added to the Dark Gold Terrorclaw, and Zhou Heng attempted to swing his right claw as if wielding a sword, trying to replicate the Angel God's sword technique.

The weakened Dark Gold Terrorclaw, augmented by light and fire, left a wound on the Medusa Empress's body; although this wound would have been fatal for ordinary small and medium-sized Spirit Beasts, for the Medusa Empress's massive body, it was barely more than a superficial wound, and it was still far from being life-threatening.

The light and fire soul power attempted to burn at the Medusa Empress's wound, but even with Extreme Fire combined with the Extreme Light attribute, it was still forced into a retreat under the Medusa's powerful origin and soul power; not only did it fail to expand the results, it was even gradually suppressed by the Medusa Empress, and the scorched wound was forcibly drawn together, even showing signs of healing.

The Medusa Empress wantonly released her innate soul skills, including deadly poison, Petrification, Guali, and even charm, but she did not release that innate ability capable of stopping time.

It was not that the Medusa Empress did not want to, but that she had no way to release it.

Time Stasis was the strongest ability of Medusa-type Spirit Beasts, more powerful and bizarre than the Petrification ability; only a Medusa Queen over fifty thousand years old was qualified to release it, and releasing it would also instantly drain about half of her own soul power.

That group of Medusas nearby was being chased and beaten by Dugu Bo, jumping up and down; not a single one of them could manage to squeeze out a Time Stasis, and their greatest ability was at most releasing a Petrification, even for that Medusa Queen of around forty thousand years.

Even with the Medusa Empress's ability and condition, to release this skill, she had to concentrate and mobilize her power and the laws within her bloodline.

Otherwise, she would either fail to execute it or be unable to freeze the enemy.