Chapter 160: Obtaining a Soul Skill

Zhou Heng would not let this opportunity slip by; taking advantage of the moment when the Medusa Empress was in her worst state, Zhou Heng stimulated his soul power to the maximum, forcing the release of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw, which was still in its cooldown period, at the cost of damaging the meridians in his hand.

The Medusa Empress's originally tough body had become fragile due to her forced invocation of a Divine Artifact, and her depleted soul power could no longer protect that massive frame.

Under the sharpness of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw, the Medusa Empress's body was severed into several pieces and crashed onto the ground; the snake hair on her head no longer held any luster in her eyes.

A deep black Soul Ring rose from the corpse of the Medusa Empress, announcing the death of this Divine Beast that should not have appeared in this era.

With the Medusa Empress dead, the snakes could no longer suppress their fear; the Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor fled frantically toward the outside of the island, and the remaining few Medusa that had luckily survived also began to flee without looking back.

At this moment, Dugu Bo no longer had the heart to care about those Spirit Beasts; he walked quickly to Zhou Heng's side and examined him with concern.

At this moment, the skin on Zhou Heng's right hand had burst open, large areas of muscle were exposed, and blood dripped onto the ground from his fingertips; his entire state looked extremely poor because of the excessive burst of soul power in an instant, and even though the Dragon Pill Soul Core with life attributes could convert life force to restore his body, his body remained hollowed out.

Dugu Bo helped Zhou Heng up and poured the little soul power he had left in his body into Zhou Heng's, hoping to help Zhou Heng stabilize his condition.

Although this help did not have much significance, Zhou Heng did not refuse; after about three to five minutes passed, the skin on Zhou Heng's hand grew back, the faintly swelling meridians in his body no longer sent out stinging pain, and his overall state recovered to about sixty or seventy percent.

After recovering enough, Zhou Heng began to treat Dugu Bo, using his own soul power and the converted life force to heal Dugu Bo's body.

There were many wounds on Dugu Bo's body, with large chunks of flesh missing from his arms and thighs; these were the results of being petrified by those Medusa, and Dugu Bo had also used soul power to forcibly suppress the consequences of missing this flesh, forcibly inhibiting the outflow of blood.

Just now, while restoring Zhou Heng's state, the wounds on Dugu Bo's body that had lost soul power control bled continuously; at this moment, under the feedback of Zhou Heng's life force, the missing flesh on Dugu Bo's body was gradually growing, granulation tissue was constantly proliferating, and the wounds first scabbed over, then the scabs fell off rapidly, revealing newborn skin.

After both of their states had recovered enough, Zhou Heng and Dugu Bo finally had the chance to heave a sigh of relief.

"Little Heng, what is going on with that Medusa Empress? And what was that tablet just now?"

Although Dugu Bo had just broken through to level 95 and wanted to find an enemy to test his skills, recalling the strange and dangerous scene just now, the little bit of pride that had finally risen in Dugu Bo's heart was suppressed once again.

If he were alone here, Dugu Bo was certain that even though he had already broken through to the realm of a 95th-level Super Douluo, it would still be very difficult to walk out of this island alive.

Compared to this Medusa, the Medusa he had seen before were simply not the same species.

Even those low-year Medusa displayed combat power that was no less than the 50,000-year Medusa Queen that provided his eighth Soul Ring.

"This Medusa Empress should be a Divine Beast."

"A Divine Beast? We killed a god?"

Although there were no Divine Beasts on the Douluo Continent, there had always been legends of them; upon hearing this, Dugu Bo's first reaction was that the two of them had accomplished the feat of god-slaying, yet he saw Zhou Heng shake his head.

"This is only a Divine Beast; its quality is high, but its strength is still far, far away from the true god level."

Zhou Heng tapped the Soul-Absorbing Tablet, then walked in front of the Medusa Empress's head, used his Dark Gold Terrorclaw to cut into the Medusa Empress's head, and finally took out a head soul bone that shimmered with a deep red luster.

The moment he saw the head soul bone in Zhou Heng's hand, Dugu Bo felt a great deal of malice rising in his heart; before he could think too much, Dugu Bo slapped himself in the face to wake himself up, and only then did he quickly move out of the range covered by the light of this soul bone.

"Little Heng, wake up, don't be bewitched by that thing."

Dugu Bo hid in the woods, looking vigilantly at the head soul bone in Zhou Heng's hand, and reminded Zhou Heng solemnly.

"I know!"

Zhou Heng touched this high-quality head soul bone, his eyes looking somewhat strange.

In this head soul bone, Zhou Heng felt a wisp of a lingering obsession.

However, the source of the obsession was not the Medusa Empress, but the God of Sin Medusa.

Not only that, within this skull, there also existed a shattered Godhood, which contained most of the authority belonging to the God of Sin and some of the abilities belonging to the Snake God.

The deep black Soul Ring floated up from the Medusa Empress's body; because Soul Rings have a time limit, Zhou Heng had to suppress his curiosity about this soul bone, and after using his spiritual power to temporarily suppress the lingering obsession within it, he put it into his Ruyi Hundred Treasure Pouch and began to absorb the Soul Ring.

This was Zhou Heng's first normal breakthrough of a soul power bottleneck; as the Soul Ring was absorbed, the black Soul Ring was first absorbed into Zhou Heng's body, and using the Medusa Empress's Soul Ring as a key, Zhou Heng successfully entered the stage of obtaining a soul skill.

As the soul skill began to randomize, Manxing's will appeared in Zhou Heng's Sea of Consciousness; subsequently, there were many soul skills that appeared before Zhou Heng, many of which should not have counted as soul skills, but because this Medusa Empress was a Divine Beast, many abilities were sublimated into parts of soul skills.

Commanding Snakes, Guali, Attack Enhancement, Defense Enhancement, Snake Hair, Petrification Ray, Death Scream—among a large pile of soul skills, there were many skills that the Medusa Empress had displayed, as well as skills that the Medusa Empress had used.

It was just that Zhou Heng's goal was very clear now; he screened out those unnecessary soul skills at the first opportunity, and only a few special skills appeared before him.

"Petrification, Medusa's Gaze, Time Solidification. Let's forget about Death Scream; I can supplement it with large-scale spiritual damage skills in the future."

In the classification of soul skills, Petrification and Medusa's Gaze were not the same skill.

The venom of this Medusa contained elements that made people turn to stone; if Zhou Heng absorbed this skill, he could use venom to turn human bodies or other things into stone.

And Medusa's Gaze was a spiritual skill that first caused a spiritual mark and then performed petrification; the two looked similar, but their actual operating principles were different.

Time Solidification was a special skill that could solidify time in a small area; the consumption was enormous but the effect was extremely strong, and it was a special soul skill that truly possessed time attributes.

Time-type skills were too special, even rarer and stranger than space-type skills; there were no low-level skills that could interfere with time, and every single one of them was exceptionally powerful.

Therefore, this skill was definitely within Zhou Heng's selection.