Chapter 162: Harvest

This skill is actually quite fitting for the God of Sin, but why is this skill so wicked—so wicked that it's starting to feel righteous?

Zhou Heng can see those who have committed great sins, curse those who have committed great sins, and gain extra bonuses when attacking those who have committed great sins; isn't this just outright encouraging Zhou Heng to go and finish off those wicked people?

Could it be that the profound meaning of the God of Sin is to be even more vicious than the great villains, and by constantly beating up those great villains, force these people to become his believers?

Hmm, that sounds quite reasonable, doesn't it? Even among bad people, you have to see who is worse; this skill is probably one the God of Sin specifically uses for internal strife.

Probably?

Zhou Heng feels that if this ability were given to Gan Daoliu, Gan Daoliu would probably be killing like a madman across the continent right now.

Zhou Heng only needs to think about it with his toes to understand just how thick the power of sin is on those vermin-like nobles.

Zhou Heng opens his eyes, feeling his mental power significantly increased; with a slight sweep, he can cover about a quarter of the island.

Zhou Heng, holding a curious mindset, silently activates Zui'e Ningzhi and takes a look at Dugu Bo, only to discover that the sin on Dugu Bo is only a tiny bit.

Zhou Heng senses it and finds that he can generally perceive the sources of these sins; after a slight perception, he realizes that when Dugu Bo was young, he killed someone's entire family and happened to finish off a few innocent people in that family along the way?

When Dugu Bo was young, he got into a dispute with other Spirit Masters at a restaurant, smashed the place up, and didn't pay for the damages, causing the restaurant owner to spend several years of savings just to repair the restaurant.

When Dugu Bo was fighting, he didn't pay attention to the environment, and the residual poison polluted the water source, leading to the poisoning of many Spirit Beasts and the livestock of surrounding villages, and even accidentally killing a few people?

Alright, in Zhou Heng's view, only the second and third points really need some attention.

As for the first point, if you're going to kill an entire family, you have to be thorough! Slice the earthworms horizontally, shake the egg yolks until they disperse! The main point is that not a single person can be left behind.

As for the truly innocent people caught in the crossfire, Zhou Heng can only wish them a rebirth into bliss in their next lives.

But Zhou Heng also discovered that he can see things that the parties involved themselves don't even know about.

For example, Dugu Bo just didn't pay attention to the environment while fighting, and the residual poison caused an impact on the surroundings; without the person himself knowing, he ended up carrying a debt of sin.

So Zhou Heng looks at his own body, only to find that there is absolutely nothing on him that could be called sin.

It's not that Zhou Heng is claiming to be pure and clean, but he really hasn't done much.

From the age of 6 when he awakened his martial soul until he was 9, he was always cultivating at home; he has only been traveling the continent for a little over two years, and a good portion of that time was spent cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and traveling; to put it bluntly, he has already become somewhat detached from society.

When he was in society, Zhou Heng remembered the education he received in his past life and did not pick up those bad habits or a sense of superiority, so naturally, there was nothing on him worth calling sin.

As for leaving behind hidden tricks for the Shrek group earlier?

It was already said, that is a matter of accumulating merit.

Zhou Heng carefully stares at himself and finally finds a tiny wisp of gray energy; Zhou Heng curiously looks at what exactly he did, and then falls into silence.

In his early years at the Spirit Hall, he was always eating whale glue, and the servants responsible for melting the whale glue were the ones who frequently inhaled the gas produced when the whale glue melted.

Consequently, over the long years, some restless servants developed relationships beyond friendship, leading to problems in their families.

Because this matter truly had little to do with Zhou Heng, he scratched his head and never thought he could be tainted with a bit of the power of sin because of this.

One could even say that even in the eyes of those servants' families, it would be hard to link this matter to Zhou Heng.

"People, living in this world, will always cause many unexpected results." Zhou Heng sighs, shakes his head, and the wry expression on his face just won't go away.

Dugu Bo hurriedly approaches and looks Zhou Heng up and down; upon hearing Zhou Heng's strange remarks, he immediately becomes nervous, worried that Zhou Heng has been possessed by the wisp of Divine Sense within the soul bone.

Seeing Dugu Bo's vigilance, Zhou Heng hurriedly speaks to explain.

He is not one of those protagonists whose every opening line is meant to stir up trouble and who would rather die than speak properly.

Zhou Heng has always been one to explain first if he can, and only resort to action if he cannot explain.

Regarding Dugu Bo's vigilance, Zhou Heng immediately explains the reason for his wry expression.

After hearing these things, Dugu Bo also touches his chin and falls into some silence, unable to help but reflect on his own life.

Regarding the influence he caused unintentionally, Dugu Bo also has nothing to say and can only respond with silence.

After the two of them reflect for a few moments, they begin to focus on more important things.

In the battle just now, a large number of snake-type Spirit Beasts died; although the soul rings of these Spirit Beasts were all sacrificed by the Medusa Empress as offerings to activate the Divine Artifact, there must inevitably be soul bones within the corpses of these Spirit Beasts.

Zhou Heng and Dugu Bo begin to carefully search the bodies of the dead Emperor-level Spirit Beasts and variants present, looking for soul bones.

"One 20,000-year Medusa head bone." This one was dropped by the first Medusa Zhou Heng finished off, the one whose bones were ground to dust.

"One 50,000-year Red-Refining Snake Emperor torso bone." This was produced by that unlucky Red-Refining Snake Emperor finished off by Zhou Heng's Dark Gold Terrorclaw.

"One 50,000-year Nether Snake Emperor right leg bone." This was produced by the Nether Snake Emperor that luckily dodged Zhou Heng's Dark Gold Terrorclaw with its innate skill, only to be finished off by Dugu Bo in the end.

"One Three-Headed Nether Python right leg bone, one Red-Blood Demon Python left leg bone."

The two variants, who were both the Medusa Empress's children and her husbands, dropped a pair of soul bones, both with ages just over 40,000 years.

Although the species are different, because of their bloodline, Zhou Heng can feel that they produce some connection when the two soul bones are placed together.

Without a doubt, if a Spirit Master were to absorb both of these soul bones at the same time, they would gain more bonuses from them.

Furthermore, as a variant within the Red-Refining Snake clan, the Red-Blood Demon Python is superior to the Red-Refining Snake Emperor in terms of vitality; although the Three-Headed Nether Python has no healing ability, its defensive ability is also excellent, and it possesses substitute-type skills.

Leg soul bones themselves are prone to having defensive and augmentation-type skills; these two soul bones likely contain the signature defensive soul skills of the two great variants.

One excels in vitality, one excels in defense, and they are left and right leg bones produced by Super Spirit Beasts with Divine Beast bloodlines that also have a blood relationship.

If they had an age of 70,000 or 80,000 years, Zhou Heng would consider absorbing these two complementary soul bones before obtaining his own soul bones.

"Four Medusa head bones."

Zhou Heng and Dugu Bo dissected the bodies of these dead Medusas and discovered that every single one of these Medusas dropped a quite rare head soul bone.

After tallying these soul bones, Dugu Bo and Zhou Heng are both a bit silent. Looking at each other, they are both somewhat shocked by this huge harvest.