Chapter 165: Condensing the Pseudo-Godhood

During the years since falling onto the Douluo Continent, perhaps because the Douluo Plane had a local Rakshasa God who had achieved godhood, the Godhood of the Medusa God did not accumulate much Divine Power related to sin; instead, it had accumulated quite a lot of Divine Power related to the Snake God over the long years through the snake swarms.

So much so that as a God of Sin, the residual Godhood of Medusa actually had a tendency for the fragments of ability related to snakes to congregate.

Because they were fragments to begin with, Zhou Heng began to classify these different powers, and then used that strand of Immortal Spiritual Qi from the Asura God suppressed in his Spirit Sea to attempt to make the parts he wanted undergo changes.

In the end, the broken Godhood was divided into three parts and shaped into three prototypes.

The most complete one among them was the prototype related to the Snake God; this was something Zhou Heng barely managed to mold after picking through the Godhood fragments left behind by the Medusa God and expending some of the Faith Power the Medusa God had accumulated.

Because it was a part of the Godhood fragments of a Level 3 God, this thing Zhou Heng molded was less of a Godhead or Demigodhood, and more of a Pseudo-Demigodhood.

After absorbing enough faith, the "pseudo" prefix could be removed to become a Demigodhood.

As for whether it could become a true Godhead, that would depend entirely on personal fortune, but in any case, it could be considered a shortcut on the path to becoming a god.

The remaining two parts of the Godhood fragments were shattered and recast by Zhou Heng, with the mark belonging to the Medusa God completely removed and replaced with Zhou Heng's personal mark.

So much so that the quality of the things molded was slightly worse than the Pseudo-Demigodhood.

That portion of the power of the God of Sin was fused by Zhou Heng with the portion of the Rakshasa God's Divine Power in his Spirit Sea; at the same time, he also threw in that strand of the Asura God's Divine Sense, and then, with the help of the fragments of the Rakshasa Demon Sickle for stabilization, formed a Pseudo-Demigodhood related to sin.

It was essentially stealing food from the Rakshasa God.

Although the aspect of poison was the weakest, it was specially crafted by Zhou Heng to create a prototype of a Pseudo-Demigodhood related to poison.

However, this Godhead was not just about poison; strictly speaking, this should be the Demigodhood of the "God of Poison, Plague, and Death," only the characteristic of death within it was relatively small compared to poison and plague, accounting for only about half a percent of the total, and it was something that evolved on its own later with the help of Faith Power.

This was the Godhead Zhou Heng crafted for Dugu Bo; Dugu Bo's attributes were the purest poison, which was very suitable for this Godhead.

At the same time, Zhou Heng intended to give the Snake God Godhead to Dugu Bo as well, and later, have Dugu Bo pass one of the Godhoods to Dugu Yan, so that Dugu Yan's path to becoming a god would be very simple.

In the process of understanding Godheads, Zhou Heng also discovered why the Godhoods of gods who achieved godhood post-natally were so complex.

Because sometimes, things mixed together are just stronger than pure ones, and collecting faith is also more convenient.

Poison, plague, and death—these three concepts can be linked together in the hearts of the people of the Douluo Continent, and they can also be an evolutionary process of life.

Deadly poison causes plague, plague causes death, death causes plague and disease, plague and disease create deadly poison, and deadly poison creates death.

No matter how one understands it, it all makes sense.

The powers of the three aspects added together form a triangle, making this power more stable and powerful.

Whether it is the growth of the poison aspect or the growth of the concepts of plague and death, it will to a certain extent increase the strength of the remaining two.

In the future, if Dugu Bo's comprehension is decent, he will be able to use this concept to develop special abilities of a deity.

And ever since this conceptual Pseudo-Demigodhood was forged, the Godhead began to harvest weak Faith Power.

Yes, faith.

Because the Godhood was still on Zhou Heng, he clearly perceived the process when this Godhood attracted Faith Power on its own.

Deadly poison, plague, and death are not rare on the Douluo Continent.

And the occurrence of such things could become nourishment for Zhou Heng to enhance the Godhead.

Whether it is humanity's worship of the three, or their hatred for the three, as long as people have intense emotional fluctuations regarding these three concepts, and the three behaviors appear on the Douluo Continent, as long as no one else is competing with Zhou Heng.

Then a portion of insignificant faith power will gather into the Pseudo-Demigodhood created by Zhou Heng due to the occurrence of these behaviors.

Although these behaviors had nothing to do with Zhou Heng, who was in seclusion at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, it didn't matter; Godhood is such a magical thing.

Only, while harvesting faith, Zhou Heng could also feel that these Faith Powers carried thick, cursed emotions, filled with human pain and malice.

If absorbed directly without refinement, Zhou Heng's thinking would gradually be polluted by people over time, becoming the image of the one in people's hearts who "spreads deadly poison and plague, bringing death to the world."

Even if Zhou Heng were a pure saint, if he were subjected to the long-term faith of tens of millions of people, then Zhou Heng's final result would inevitably be twisted into an evil god, and his future Godhood would likely become that of a Plague God.

So Zhou Heng thought about it and stuffed all the Faith Power collected from poison, plague, and death into the Pseudo-Demigodhood of the God of Sin.

What was quite annoying was that although it did not come from the faith of the God of Sin, these faiths mixed with malice and pain were exactly to the taste of the God of Sin's Godhead, so much so that the strength of the Pseudo-Demigodhood even increased.

Zhou Heng felt that if he were to combine these two Pseudo-Demigodhoods, then as long as he kept spreading deadly poison, plague, and death on the continent, he could probably achieve godhood at a rocket-like speed.

But this was something Zhou Heng truly could not accept.

As for the Divine Artifact Soul-Absorbing Tablet, Zhou Heng wiped away all marks related to the Medusa God and branded it with his own, making it completely belong to the Zhou family.

However, although it was a genuine, complete Divine Artifact.

The Soul-Absorbing Tablet was different in type from the Sea God's Trident; it was a functional Divine Artifact, and one could only use it by raising the tablet, with no way to throw it directly to smash people.

With Zhou Heng's current strength, if he wanted to use it, he could only spend a long time completing the charging in advance and then use it once temporarily.

Although the power was indeed very strong, it was not convenient to use at all.

To be honest, Zhou Heng wanted to re-refine the Soul-Absorbing Tablet and manufacture it into a bell-shaped weapon, renaming it something like the Soul-Absorbing Bell or the Soul-Falling Bell.

After all, the more bizarre the various weapons are, the stronger they tend to be; weapons like bells, tripods, pagodas, and seals are often stronger than traditional swords and blades.

But with Zhou Heng's current ability, he was still unable to modify a Divine Artifact that had already been completed.

So he could only continue using the Soul-Absorbing Tablet for now, but Chen Ming already had a Soul-Falling Bell plan in his heart.

Even if he couldn't use the Soul-Absorbing Tablet to explosively modify it into a Soul-Falling Bell later, he would still hand-craft a Soul-Falling Bell; whether it was practical or not was another matter, the main thing was that the aura of prestige had to be maintained.