Chapter 166: Accumulation and Growth

Those metal fragments that had previously absorbed a portion of the Asura God's power were re-refined by Zhou Heng using the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, incorporating parts of the Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear's lingering obsession and the Angel God's characteristics to forge a miniature version of the Angel Sword.

Due to the special nature of its materials and the re-refining in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Zhou Heng is able to store it within his right arm to nourish it.

Because the refined materials contain the lingering obsession of the Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear, there is a slight connection between the Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone and the Small Sword.

The metal attribute within the Right Palm Bone flows into the Small Sword to strengthen it, while the Small Sword also returns a portion of the refined metal attribute and baleful aura back into the palm bone, slowly increasing the age and quality of the soul bone.

A subtle symbiotic relationship has formed between the two.

It is hard to say when the Small Sword and the Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone might together sublimate into a special Divine Artifact.

When necessary, Zhou Heng can directly shoot the Small Sword out from his fingertips via the Dark Gold Terrorclaw, flying out to injure people just like the sword pellets in those ancient xianxia stories.

With this, the various things Zhou Heng had harvested have all been dealt with.

After being in secluded cultivation for over half a year in one go, the greatly rewarded Zhou Heng felt it was time to leave the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and walk the continent.

As for his current soul ring age, of his seven soul rings, excluding the seventh, the other six have now reached an age of 150,000 years.

At the same time, Zhou Heng also created a domain skill based on the God of Sin's Pseudo-Demigodhood—the Life and Death Domain; living beings within the domain will have all abilities within their bodies suppressed by the aura of death, and regarding the degree of this suppression, Zhou Heng tested it: the level 95 Dugu Bo had 20% of his power suppressed by the Life and Death Domain.

With his current strength walking the continent, there is no need to explain anything further.

If anyone wants to pry, Zhou Heng will use his palm to let those guys eat the big slaps they love most.

This walk across the continent is not only to regulate his own emotions but also to bring himself positive faith; otherwise, if he just lets the Pseudo-Demigodhood consume these things filled with pain and sin, Zhou Heng is truly afraid that he will become Nurgle from Warhammer in the future.

No, although Nurgle is a Chaos Evil God, he still carries a certain positive tendency, possessing the attributes of life and tranquility, and is called the Father because he treats all life equally.

If Zhou Heng continues to develop like this, he might not even be as positive as Nurgle in the future.

Of course, while researching additional abilities, Zhou Heng did not forget his original plans.

Zhou Heng intends to subdue a large number of Spirit Beast races, connect them to a suitable world, and at the same time, spread his faith among the Spirit Beasts.

And the first pioneer of this plan is the Blue Silver Grass clan.

The life aura inherent in the Blue Silver Grass can not only allow the faith provided by the Blue Silver Grass clan to benefit his own mind and spirit, but also neutralize the negative effects brought by the God of Sin and the Poison and Plague and Death Godhood.

As for the more than one hundred snake eggs brought back from Snake Island, Dugu Yan ate more than a dozen, forcibly raising her innate level 8 soul power to Innate Full Soul Power, and her martial soul also evolved into the Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor in one go.

Her physical fitness and soul power were both greatly strengthened, and her original level 45 soul power was pushed to level 50 in one go.

Before absorbing her fourth soul ring, Dugu Yan absorbed the leg bones dropped by two exotic species, her physical fitness was greatly strengthened, and then she absorbed a 40,000-year Medusa head bone, further increasing her mental power.

With the assistance of various resources, Dugu Yan's fourth ring was directly raised to an age of nearly 20,000 years, already approaching the seventh ring of a weak Soul Saint.

This fifth ring was found by Zhou Heng and Dugu Bo taking Dugu Yan to Spirit Snake Island; it originated from a top-tier poison-type Spirit Beast, the Nine-Section Emerald, which according to Zhou Heng's observation, also possessed a certain Medusa lineage, and its quality was higher than that of the mutated Fire Phosphorus Molten Beast of Zhou Heng's fourth ring.

After absorbing the fourth ring, she jumped directly from level 40 to level 56, nearly level 57, almost pushed to Soul King in one go under the influence of three ten-thousand-year soul bones and a nearly 20,000-year soul ring.

The huge improvement meant it was not easy for Dugu Yan to appear directly in front of everyone, so she stayed with Zhou Heng in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for a long time.

Because of their increasing age and growing affection, the two naturally did that thing that those who understand, understand.

And after Dugu Bo, who came to see the two from the mansion in Heaven Dou City, learned of this, he was not angry, but instead breathed a sigh of relief as if a burden had been lifted, complained about why it took them so long to reach this step, and encouraged the two to have more children and pass down the bloodline early.

More than a month before setting off, Zhou Heng had once again sneaked into the depths of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, attempting to find the remains of the two Dragon Kings, but he made a discovery that was unexpected yet reasonable.

The remains of the two Dragon Kings were indeed in the deepest part of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but there was a slight problem with the space.

Two existences that were at least Level 1 Gods or even possibly Godhoods did not simply die after falling; their own characteristics would reshape the surrounding space.

The two closely linked Dragon Kings falling together achieved an effect of one plus one being greater than two, and even the power that dissipated after their deaths formed an independent cycle.

Strictly speaking, the two Dragon Kings did indeed crash into the Sunset Forest to form the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but under the instinct of the power within their bodies or the final control of their Spirit Souls, the remains of the two Dragon Kings were wrapped in a special small space.

The two forces of ice and fire generated and restrained each other, so much so that a small cycle even formed within the space of their remains, to a certain extent preventing the dissipation of their aura and power, protecting their Spirit Souls, which still had a glimmer of life even though their physical bodies had perished, from being assimilated by the rules of the Douluo World or being sensed and destroyed by the gods of the God Realm.

This is also the reason why those dragon-type Spirit Beasts on the continent, especially the Silver Dragon King and Di Tian, did not notice that these two Dragon Kings had fallen in the Sunset Forest.

Because the way they died was indeed quite special, so much so that the Silver Dragon King and Di Tian could not sense them to recover their dragon bones and Spirit Souls.

But time is the most terrifying force; the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings were dead after all, and although their Spirit Souls had not completely vanished, they were by no means conscious.

The power they had left could form a wondrous space to protect their remains, but this space, without a master to control it, was not perfect.

As time passed, the cycle inside the space wrapping their remains gradually began to collapse, so much so that the space was also gradually being assimilated by the Douluo Continent, and the power within it seeped out bit by bit, transforming the environment on the ground into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

This can also explain why even the native three gods—the Angel God, the Rakshasa God, and the Sea God—and the various Title Douluo of the past tens of thousands of years did not notice the existence of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in the Sunset Forest.

Because although the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings had been dead for who knows how long, in reality, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had indeed only appeared "recently."