Chapter 161: God of Sin?

The characteristic of a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring is that it has two soul skills; Zhou Heng has not yet figured out the principle behind this, but he is simply able to select two soul skills to place within a single soul ring.

Although this Medusa Empress's cultivation is not at the ten-thousand-year level, with Manxing present—as Manxing is the world consciousness—it is quite simple for her to help Zhou Heng raise this Medusa Empress's cultivation to ten thousand years.

Right now, Zhou Heng is constantly hesitating between Medusa's Gaze and Petrification.

Medusa's Gaze is a mental-type skill, and its priority should theoretically be higher than Petrification, but Dugu Bo also possesses this skill, and he can try to study this skill by studying Dugu Bo.

As for Petrification, it adds a characteristic to toxins, and he could also add this toxin to himself by attempting to refine the Medusa's corpse. After weighing his options for a long time, Zhou Heng still chose the mental-type skill Medusa's Gaze to serve as his soul ring skill alongside Time Solidification.

The half-golden thread that had already been hidden on the soul ring emerged once more; the power within the Medusa Empress soul ring was decomposed and absorbed by it, and the age of the soul ring gradually increased.

Although there was some loss in this conversion, under the accumulation of the Medusa Empress's eighty-thousand-year soul ring, the final missing half of the golden thread was completed, and the power contained within it remodeled Chen Ming's body.

Vitality increased, strength increased, mental power increased, desire increased.

When Zhou Heng opened his eyes again, the aura leaking from his body actually suppressed Dugu Bo's martial soul completely in an instant, and for a moment, he was unable to continue maintaining his Martial Soul Avatar state.

Zhou Heng stretched his body, and a sound like popping beans emitted from him.

Although his height did not increase any further this time, Zhou Heng could feel that his body density had increased much more than before, and his skin and flesh had also become extremely tough, to the point where he could easily resist the soul skills of some low-level Spirit Masters even without using soul power.

After Zhou Heng finished absorbing the soul ring, Dugu Bo walked over, and seeing that Zhou Heng was fine, he breathed a sigh of relief and began to ask about the matter of the Medusa Empress again.

"That Medusa Empress should be an offspring left behind in the Douluo Continent by the God of Sin Medusa from the God Realm, and Divine Blood flows through her body.

Logically speaking, it should no longer be possible for Divine Beasts to appear in the Douluo Continent today, but she is somewhat special.

Because the God of Sin Medusa has already fallen, this Medusa Empress inherited the Divine Artifact and the shattered Godhood of the God of Sin Medusa, which allowed her to defy common sense and become a Divine Beast in this era."

Zhou Heng took out the Soul Soul Tablet, and then took out the Head Spirit Bone dropped by the Medusa Empress; after sensing it for a moment, he revealed a somewhat strange smile, which made Dugu Bo, who was already on edge, feel creeped out.

"Although this Medusa Empress was the biological child of the God of Sin Medusa, she was merely a pawn.

Not only does the Divine Artifact Soul Soul Tablet contain a remnant soul of the God of Sin Medusa, but a portion of the God of Sin Medusa's Divine Sense has even been implanted into her soul along with the Godhood.

The remnant thoughts left in this soul bone are not those of the Medusa Empress at all, but belong to the Divine Sense of the God of Sin Medusa.

If things were allowed to develop like this, this Medusa Empress would either die under the Heavenly Tribulation or be possessed by the remnant Divine Sense of the God of Sin Medusa hidden within the Godhood, becoming a vessel for the God of Sin Medusa entirely."

After hearing Zhou Heng's words, Dugu Bo revealed a resolute expression.

"Little Heng, why don't we destroy this soul bone?"

Although destroying an eighty-thousand-year soul bone—and an eighty-thousand-year soul bone from a Divine Beast at that—was undoubtedly equivalent to taking Dugu Bo's life.

But as an elder, Dugu Bo truly did not want his descendant with a limitless future to run into trouble because of such a thing.

The original goal was the soul ring, and the soul bone was just an accident.

This soul bone still harbored the remnant thoughts of a deity; just looking at it could incite malice within a person's heart, and it clearly wasn't a good thing.

Dugu Bo was truly afraid that Zhou Heng would become a vessel for the resurrection of the God of Sin Medusa.

"Grandpa, it's fine. If the God of Sin Medusa were alive, I definitely wouldn't be able to beat her.

But now that she only has a remnant of Divine Sense left, she is the one who should be afraid."

Hearing Zhou Heng's words, Dugu Bo remembered that this grandson-in-law of his was a bit too special.

Looking at it now, he might very well be the reincarnation of some deity from the God Realm.

After hearing Zhou Heng's words, Dugu Bo gave Zhou Heng a complicated look and then stopped speaking.

He knew that his own knowledge base and perception of the world's rules were truly no match for Zhou Heng's, and since Zhou Heng said there was no problem, then there was certainly no problem.

Although this soul bone is only eighty thousand years old, in terms of quality, it far exceeds ordinary Beast soul bones. Considering its special nature, in the Douluo World, probably only the soul bones produced by the Silver Dragon King and Di Tian of the Star Dou Great Forest, as well as the Evil Emperor of the Sun Moon Continent, could be superior.

Zhou Heng attempted to refine this soul bone, and this soul bone harboring the remnant thoughts of a deity naturally could not allow Zhou Heng, this bane, to refine it obediently.

The remnant thoughts within the soul bone could be said to have tried their best to prevent Zhou Heng from refining this soul bone, but after a tug-of-war, Zhou Heng drove straight in.

During the absorption process, a massive blood-red figure appeared in Zhou Heng's mind; just like the remnant thoughts of the God of Sin Medusa that had just been suppressed, with a single thought from Zhou Heng, this remnant thought hidden within the skull was also ruthlessly suppressed by Zhou Heng and then directly decomposed.

Unlike the Divine Sense hidden in the Divine Artifact just now, this Divine Sense contained something even more noble and powerful—the shattered Godhood of the God of Sin Medusa.

This Godhood was shattered and dilapidated, with only about one-third remaining in total, and most of it was still in a broken state, held together entirely by the forced control of the Divine Sense.

The moment the Divine Sense shattered, the Godhood was about to disintegrate on the spot, but it was stopped by a single thought from Zhou Heng and suppressed within his own mind.

Subsequently, Zhou Heng stopped the action of absorbing the skull and kept this Medusa Empress skull, though because of Zhou Heng's refining actions, the energy essence within this Head Spirit Bone had been absorbed by Zhou Heng quite a bit.

At the same time, the soul skill within this Head Spirit Bone was also learned by Zhou Heng.

And for this soul bone that harbored the remnant thoughts of the God of Sin, the skill within it was not a skill that a Spirit Beast like a Medusa should have, but a special ability.

Zui'e Ningzhi, a skill that left Zhou Heng not knowing what to say.

To be honest, this skill was already so special that it didn't quite feel like a soul skill anymore.

Although it is a "gaze," it does not actually require the use of eyes to look, but rather uses mental power to make a judgment.

Zhou Heng can judge the sins on a person through mental power, and then curse the other party through the sins on that person, causing the other party to suffer an endless stream of torture and pain coming from their own sins.

The most ironic part is that when casting this skill, Zhou Heng can also exert suppression on those who have committed great sins, torturing the souls of those great sinners; it comes with a built-in "special attack" buff against great sinners.

To be honest, Zhou Heng already didn't know what to say.