Chapter 163: Scavenging

Perhaps because these Spirit Beasts were of extremely high quality and age, and had long stayed by the side of the Divine Beast Medusa Empress, every single one of these dead Emperor-level Spirit Beasts, variant Spirit Beasts, and Medusas dropped a soul bone.

The drop rate of the soul bones reached a staggering one hundred percent.

Although the soul rings were wasted, every Spirit Beast contributed a soul bone of even higher value.

Zhou Heng could not be certain if this was because these Spirit Beasts were influenced by the Medusa Empress, or if the "gift package" of luck from the World Will, Manxing, had finally arrived.

However, Zhou Heng felt that both factors likely played a part, which was why this exaggerated one-hundred-percent drop rate finally appeared.

Although Dugu Bo knew that Spirit Beasts should not be slaughtered indiscriminately, at the thought of the Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor and the few Medusas that had escaped earlier, Dugu Bo could not help but feel some regret.

If he had been more decisive earlier and held back those escaping Spirit Beasts until Zhou Heng arrived, the two of them would have gained several more soul bones.

To put it bluntly, two years ago, Dugu Bo was a poor wretch with only one soul bone on his entire body, always wondering if it were possible to obtain a second high-age soul bone; he never imagined in this lifetime that he would have a day where he possessed a full set of soul bones.

Now, with so many high-quality soul bones placed before him, Dugu Bo had the feeling that he had been struck by a dream-type soul skill.

If it weren't for the fact that it was unseemly to lose his composure in front of Zhou Heng, Dugu Bo would have wanted to sing a song to express the excitement in his heart.

This was a sudden windfall!

Every one of these soul bones was worth making a Title Douluo turn green with envy and fight over; each one was enough to stir up a bloody storm, and each one was enough to become the heirloom of a family.

Even the Upper Three Sects might not necessarily possess so many high-quality soul bones.

Although Dugu Bo was already fully equipped with soul bones, he could not absorb these, no matter how suitable they were for him.

But he could keep this set of soul bones for his granddaughter, Dugu Yan; once Dugu Yan absorbed this set, her martial soul would inevitably become a Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor.

Zhou Heng also handed the Medusa Empress's head spirit bone to Dugu Bo and informed him about the situation regarding this Medusa Empress.

Her future achievements would at least start at Title Douluo, and even becoming a Super Douluo would not be much of a problem.

Perhaps even his great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren might one day each possess a soul bone.

Looking at these soul bones, Dugu Bo's thoughts soared, as if he saw the Douluo Continent a hundred years later, where the Poison Sect had become the number one sect on the Douluo Continent, and Zhou Heng and Dugu Yan had become the top powerhouses of the continent, worshipped by all Spirit Masters on the Douluo Continent, and even preparing to ascend to the God Realm.

Perhaps, just like the Angel God of ten thousand years ago, they would lay down a ten-thousand-year foundation for their descendants that would never be severed, just like the Spirit Hall.

And their children, each one gifted with extraordinary talent, would have the potential of Title Douluo, with the Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor and the Jade Phosphorus Scorpion Emperor known as the strongest martial souls on the continent.

Poison-type Spirit Masters would be considered the most powerful and potential-filled Spirit Masters on the Douluo Continent.

Thinking of this, a glimmer flashed in Dugu Bo's eyes, and he resolved to cultivate with double the effort in the future.

With his current soul power, he could live for another hundred years.

With Zhou Heng's talent, achieving such things would take at most a hundred years.

As long as his soul power broke through one more level and his lifespan increased a little more, he would inevitably see the day he imagined.

These high-quality, high-age soul bones were collected by Zhou Heng into the Ruyi Hundred Treasure Pouch; the actions of Zhou Heng and Dugu Bo had only just begun.

In the battle just now, many snake-type Spirit Beasts were killed by Dugu Bo's poison mist during their support. The Medusa Empress's Death Scream also killed many snake-type Spirit Beasts.

Even if these Spirit Beasts could not have such a high drop rate, in terms of quantity and quality alone, there must still be a large number of undiscovered soul bones on this island.

Regardless of whether they were hundred-year, thousand-year, or ten-thousand-year, and regardless of whether they were dropped by intermediate or high-level Spirit Beasts, each one was a significant fortune.

Dugu Bo was responsible for dissecting the bodies one by one to find soul bones, while Zhou Heng was responsible for the preservation and anti-corrosion treatment of the corpses of these dead Super Spirit Beasts and the Medusa Empress.

Extreme Ice became the best method of preservation; Zhou Heng carefully used soul power to dissect the bodies of these Spirit Beasts, harvested the most precious parts to store separately, and then froze the large chunks of bodies, preparing to pack them away when the time came.

The bodies of these top-tier Spirit Beasts were all highly nourishing, and even for the current Dugu Bo and Zhou Heng, they could provide a certain boost.

For a low-level Spirit Master like Dugu Yan, they were even more top-tier cultivation resources.

It could be said that every drop of blood was a precious treasure.

Especially the corpse of the Medusa Empress, whose value simply exceeded that of a single Immortal Herb.

After processing like this for half a day, Zhou Heng finally cut and froze the bodies of these Spirit Beasts.

After greeting Dugu Bo, he immediately spread his wings and flew back to the nearest coastal city, then took his token to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's chamber of commerce to purchase a large number of Storage Soul Guidance Devices.

After returning to the island, he packed all these precious materials into them, keeping them for future consumption or to comprehend the bloodline power within them.

After dealing with these Spirit Beasts, Chen Ming, carrying eighteen bags on his back like a Supreme Elder of the Beggar Sect, shifted his attention to the large lake where the Medusa Empress had appeared.

After handing the precious Storage Soul Guidance Devices to Dugu Bo, Zhou Heng entered the bottom of the lake, carefully investigating.

The lake water was filled with vitality and soul power; although it was far inferior to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, from a conventional perspective, it was undoubtedly a top-tier cultivation treasure land, and every drop of lake water was a good medicine for healing wounds.

The bottom of the lake was not too deep, only about a hundred meters or so; although the Douluo World was a fantasy sewer.

But with Zhou Heng's current strength, moving under the water at a depth of a hundred meters would not cause any problems.

With spiritual power scanning and Spirit detection, Zhou Heng searched for a while and finally found several nests of snake eggs in the silt at the bottom of the lake.

The total number of snake eggs in the several nests exceeded one hundred, and each eggshell had faint golden and blood-colored patterns, constantly absorbing the vitality and soul power in the lake water, and the life within the eggshells was growing slowly and healthily.

Even though they were still in the eggs and had not yet been born, the origin of each life within these snake eggs exceeded that of a normal hundred-year Spirit Beast, and they were not much worse than an average thousand-year Spirit Beast.

Zhou Heng guessed that this was probably because these snake eggs contained the bloodline of the Medusa Empress, and the fathers were all top-tier snake-type Spirit Beasts, which allowed these snake eggs to win at the starting line before they were even born.

Zhou Heng estimated that as long as these snake eggs could hatch, the creatures born inside would at least be top-tier Spirit Beasts, and among them, there would inevitably be Super Spirit Beasts that inherited the Medusa Empress's bloodline, as well as Super Spirit Beasts mutated from top-tier Spirit Beasts.

These snake eggs were also a quite precious fortune; Zhou Heng estimated that if an ordinary snake-type martial soul Spirit Master could eat one egg, not only would the quality of their martial soul be improved, but even their Innate Spirit Power could be further supplemented.