Chapter 164: Harvest, Pseudo-Godhood

If these eggs are taken out and utilized properly, they are enough to cultivate a group of Spirit Masters with innate aptitude of level nine or higher who possess Snake King-level martial souls.

Even an ordinary person with a snake-type martial soul and no innate soul power could, by consuming at most twenty-some eggs, forcibly elevate their martial soul to the top-tier Snake Emperor level and gain the talent of Innate Full Soul Power.

If he wishes to gather faith on the continent in the future, these snake eggs might become his startup capital, allowing him to rally a group of loyal and powerful snake-type Spirit Masters and lay a foundation for the development of his faith.

Of course, because these snake eggs have a very high innate origin, the incubation time is not short; Zhou Heng estimates it will take at least ten years or so for the small snakes to hatch. The nest closest to hatching among them still has about two and a half years left. If handled properly, it is estimated that sealing them for hundreds of years will not cause the origin within the eggs to dissipate.

If a Spirit Master family with a snake-type martial soul obtained these eggs, they could basically lock in a position among the Upper Three Sects or even become the number one sect in the world.

After obtaining the snake eggs, Zhou Heng was not satisfied; instead, he continued to rummage through the silt at the bottom of the lake several times, scanning over and over again with his mental power and Spirit, unwilling to let go of anything of value.

Finally, after digging another ten-plus meters into the silt at the bottom of the lake, Zhou Heng finally found something even more valuable than the snake eggs.

It was a broken bone, looking like a rib that had fallen off an ordinary person, presenting a faint golden color overall, and one could still faintly feel the residual vitality at the fracture.

Although it is unknown how long it had been dormant in this silt, the bone marrow of this broken bone actually still retained a small portion of hematopoietic function.

The source of this lake's vitality was this broken rib; the mystery within the lake water was blood produced by the bone marrow and then diluted countless times.

Zhou Heng could feel the aura belonging to the Medusa God on this rib; without a doubt, this rib must have fallen from the God Realm to the Douluo World along with the Divine Artifact and Godhood of the Medusa God back then.

A single rib or a fragment of Godhood fallen onto the Douluo Plane could not create such an ecosystem, but if the two of the same origin were placed together, with the wonder of a deity's lingering thought, it would not be difficult to transform such a special ecological system.

It can be said that this island was essentially created specifically by the Divine Sense of the Medusa God to repair itself, and the Medusa God was even close to being able to attempt a rebirth in the Douluo World by borrowing a body.

Taking this rib away will cause the entire island's ecological chain to gradually collapse within a few hundred years.

But Zhou Heng thought about it carefully and found that it didn't seem to be a big deal.

After all, the Medusa Empress and a large number of Medusas were killed, and among the Snake Emperors, only one Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor escaped. A large number of snake-type Spirit Beasts on the island were killed off by the Medusa Empress herself with a single Death Scream; apart from a few lucky ones, probably only the sea snakes outside the island near the beach survived in greater numbers.

In this situation, the ecological chain had already collapsed to the point where it could not collapse any further.

Even if he took this broken bone away, it would not cause much of an impact.

Perhaps after they leave, this island will derive a new ecological chain due to the loss of the Medusa Empress and the many Snake Emperors?

Although he did not actually care too much about the life and death of Spirit Beasts, at the thought that because of his arrival, this originally vibrant island probably had less than one-tenth of its life left, Zhou Heng still felt somewhat awkward.

"In future spirit hunting, it is better to try to cause as little impact on the environment as possible.

It is fortunate that this is an island with no great impact on the surrounding environment; if this had happened in other normal Spirit Beast Forests, I don't know how great the consequences would have been.

When I head back in a moment, I will go and give a reminder to let the fishermen be careful of the sea snakes.

Don't let the sea snakes spread to the fishermen's side and cause an impact because of me.

Forget it, I'll go clear out the sea snakes in a moment; that is safer."

After thinking for a while, Zhou Heng still felt that human life was more precious than the lives of Spirit Beasts.

To prevent his spirit hunting from having an adverse effect on the surrounding cities, Zhou Heng decided to clear out the sea snakes again, so that these snake-type Spirit Beasts could not pose a threat to the surrounding cities.

Zhou Heng and Dugu Bo scoured this small island known as Spirit Snake Island, and it took a full two days of effort to finally finish organizing the harvest completely.

A large number of snake-type Spirit Beast carcasses were frozen by Zhou Heng and sent into a Soul Guidance Device; in the end, the two even chose only those snake-type Spirit Beasts of high quality and high age to freeze.

During this period, the two dissected every dead Spirit Beast on the island and finally obtained a full twenty soul bones.

Among these twenty soul bones, only three were ten-thousand-year soul bones, and the remaining seventeen were thousand-year-level soul bones.

And among these twenty soul bones, nineteen were the conventional six major soul bones, while one was a rare External Spirit Bone.

It is just that the position of this soul bone is a bit awkward; it is an External Spirit Bone from the fangs of a thousand-year Nether Snake.

Absorbing this External Spirit Bone would certainly be able to enhance tooth strength and toxin intensity, but as for the attack ability it grants, well, at best it is a skill like Venom Spray, and at worst it is just using the teeth to bite and inject venom; no one can say for sure how much it can actually amplify combat.

After all, External Spirit Bones are rare items, and there has been no precedent heard of for a tooth-part External Spirit Bone on the Douluo Continent yet.

Dugu Bo asked Zhou Heng if he wanted to absorb this External Spirit Bone; after all, although logically one cannot absorb an External Spirit Bone in the head position after absorbing a Head Spirit Bone, the position of this venom fang soul bone is somewhat special, and Dugu Bo felt that it could be absorbed even after absorbing a Head Spirit Bone.

But Zhou Heng thought about it and decided to forget it.

For him now, such a venom fang External Spirit Bone is truly a bit of a chicken rib; furthermore, he could not possibly go around biting people with his teeth—well, if it were a venom fang External Spirit Bone dropped by a top-tier bat-type Spirit Beast, Zhou Heng would actually consider it.

But the Nether Snake is only a high-level Spirit Beast, and the function of snake venom fangs is truly limited; Zhou Heng cannot think of any direction for development.

Thus, Dugu Bo tearfully absorbed this pair of venom fangs, and then luckily gained a soul skill that enhances bite force and tooth strength; he remained depressed for a long time.

Facts have proven that the luck of this person, Dugu Bo, is truly a bit hard to describe.

After dealing with the number of sea snakes and ensuring that these Spirit Beasts would not run to the surrounding sea areas to cause trouble for the fishermen after losing their restraints, the fully-harvested Zhou Heng and Dugu Bo returned to Heaven Dou City.

After placing most of the snake-type Spirit Beast carcasses in the cellar of Dugu Bo's mansion, Zhou Heng took a large number of soul bones and the remains of rare Spirit Beasts and ran to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for closed-door cultivation.

This time, Zhou Heng wanted to properly sense those things in his mind related to deities.

This closed-door cultivation lasted for nearly a year. Even after his own birthday had passed, Zhou Heng was still immersed in the study of Divinity and Immortal Spiritual Qi.

It must be said that even a broken Godhood still contains some abilities that transcend the laws of the Douluo Plane; even with Zhou Heng's talent, it was very laborious to interpret.

But relying on the sample of Divine Power, after spending half a year, Zhou Heng finally managed to explore the Godhood.

In the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he simultaneously set about exploring Divinity and Divine Authority while carefully transforming the broken Godhead of the God of Sin in his mind.

The most important part of the authority within this Godhead is Sin, but it also contains, to some extent, the authority of the King of Snakes and poison.