Chapter 167: Dugu Bo's Advancement

However, in this era, the space where they are located, while teetering on the edge, has not yet reached the level of total collapse.

To completely send the corpses of these two Dragon Kings to the Douluo Continent, and to expose the Spirit Soul and Dragon Bone, it would take at least several thousand more years, waiting for that cycle to completely collapse.

With Zhou Heng's current methods and control over spatial power, he still lacks the ability to enter the space enveloping the two Dragon King corpses, and can only stare helplessly from the outside.

In desperation, Zhou Heng could only dig a large bucket of mud stained with the blood and aura of the Dragon Kings from the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and then collected some spring water that had settled at the very depths of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

He didn't know if it was because of the proximity to the Dragon King corpses, but Zhou Heng always felt that the spring water in these depths was not only stronger in attributes than the upper layers, but also seemed more stable in its structure?

In short, in this year or so, Zhou Heng has indeed gained significant growth.

And for some things that are valuable but not quite suitable for himself, Zhou Heng also has his own ideas.

For example, although Dugu Yan is temporarily unlikely to become a high-level combatant, Dugu Bo seems to be someone who could be strengthened a bit?

Zhou Heng thought for a moment, and while Dugu Bo was visiting him, he stopped Dugu Bo. He spoke to him about the matter of the Pseudo-Demigod Position.

Zhou Heng kept the Godhoods of the God of Sin and the Poison God for himself, and transferred the Pseudo-Demigod Position of the Snake God to Dugu Bo.

The effect of a Pseudo-Demigod Position is far less miraculous than a true Godhood or Demigodhood; it serves more as a guide for advancement, improving one's perception of laws and increasing the strength of one's mental power.

Things like directly increasing soul power level and Soul Ring age are not even worth thinking about; those are paid features that require faith and Divine Power.

Even if one is willing to spend money, to use that kind of function, one must at least remove the "pseudo" prefix first; the Pseudo-Demigodhood does not support pay-to-win operations.

For Zhou Heng, the Snake God's Godhood is merely a chicken rib—tasteless to eat but a pity to discard; its greatest use in the future will be to be smashed and fed to the other two Godhoods as nutrients.

Giving it to Dugu Bo is just the right thing to do.

Anyway, Dugu Bo does not lack talent in normal areas; it is just his brain—well, his talent in mental aspects is slightly lacking.

Even if Dugu Bo cannot perfect the Snake God's Godhood, having this thing is good for improving his aptitude in this area, allowing him to continue increasing his soul power level through cultivation.

With the strength of a Pseudo-Demigod Position, it is enough to ensure Dugu Bo is not held back by his perception before reaching the Ninety-eighth Level.

After the Ninety-eighth Level, he will have to honestly find a way to perfect this Pseudo-Demigod Position himself, using methods like faith to remove the "pseudo" prefix, and then he will likely be able to reach the level of the Ninety-ninth Level.

As for becoming a god?

Dugu Bo must either cultivate a large group of Spirit Masters with snake-type martial souls and have them believe in him.

Or he must imitate the Sea God, and after letting a large group of snake-type Spirit Beasts become his believers and accumulating for a few hundred years, he could probably become a Level 3 God?

Probably?

Anyway, after handing the Pseudo-Demigodhood to Dugu Bo, Dugu Bo began his seclusion, and Zhou Heng could only guard by Dugu Bo's side, going to Heaven Dou City to replenish supplies and check if Dugu Yan was alright when he had time.

Three months later, Dugu Bo came out of seclusion; his soul power had increased from the ninety-fifth level to the ninety-sixth level, and his perception had reached the normal level of a Super Douluo.

In the future, he can rely on his own efforts to reach the ninety-seventh level.

Before, when he broke through to the ninety-fifth level, Dugu Bo still had the mind to go out and show off.

But now that he had obtained a treasure like the Snake God's Godhood and his strength had further increased, Dugu Bo became somewhat cautious instead.

Now, his heart was filled with fear that the fact he carried a Godhood on his person would be exposed, and he would be hunted down by groups of Super Douluos who appeared from who knows where.

After all, in Dugu Bo's view, if he put himself in their shoes, if he were a Super Douluo who received the news, he certainly wouldn't mind taking a gamble and teaming up with others to hunt down this guy who possessed a Pseudo-Demigod Position.

Even if not for himself, he would take a gamble for his descendants.

After all, although a Pseudo-Demigod Position is both "pseudo" and "demi," it at least carries the word "god," and its value is certainly much higher than a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring or soul bone.

Even if he cannot become a god in the future, with his descendants passing it down generation after generation and faith developing bit by bit, couldn't one pile up enough to create a true god?

Dugu Bo does not understand the difference between a Level 3 God and a Level 1 God, but Dugu Bo knows that the last famous deity to ascend from the Douluo Continent was the Angel God, and the Spirit Hall is still the holy land in the hearts of Douluo Spirit Masters.

Dugu Bo wanted Zhou Heng to cultivate well in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, wait until his divine arts were perfected before coming out, and then rely on his own strength to recruit believers and finally become a god.

But Zhou Heng refused Dugu Bo's good intentions and decided to go out and venture, striving to make the most of this final period before Tang San enters Shrek.

Zhou Heng took out a rough map; this map was the distribution map of the Douluo Star's continents given to him by Manxing, which he had fumbled to draw over these few months.

Although it lacks a lot of detailed information, it does indeed mark several highly safe passage methods and routes.

These passage methods were stuffed over by Manxing of the Douluo World all at once, and their safety is very reliable.

Zhou Heng discussed with Dugu Bo, saying that he wanted to wander the continent, see how the things he had set in motion were developing, and if possible, he wanted to take the time to visit other continents to see if he could leave behind his own faith like the Angel God to improve his Godhood.

At first, Dugu Bo was still somewhat unwilling, worried that Zhou Heng would encounter unexpected situations while alone.

However, after Zhou Heng sparred with Dugu Bo a little, Dugu Bo abandoned this idea.

During this period, because he was focused on the development and exploration of the Godhood, Zhou Heng's soul power cultivation had fallen behind a little.

In the previous year or so, because he was busy with other things, the increase in his soul power was a bit slow, only increasing by a little over five levels, changing from a seventy-first level Soul King to a seventy-sixth level, close to a seventy-seventh level Soul Saint.

And during the three months he guarded Dugu Bo, Zhou Heng actively cultivated his own soul power, increasing by two levels in three months, from a seventy-sixth level Soul King to a seventy-eighth level Soul King.

Although in Zhou Heng's view, this was already a period where his soul power increase was relatively slow, in reality, this speed of improvement was actually quite overpowered.

If one cultivates normally, at the Soul Saint stage, increasing by a little over half a level of soul power in four months, a year is enough to increase one's soul power by one or two levels in one go.

Although Dugu Bo has now also broken through to the level of a Super Douluo, the combat power of the ninety-sixth level is far stronger than the ninety-fifth, and the Pseudo-Demigod Position has also improved his original defects in mental power and perception to a normal level, even allowing the inner core within his body to truly sublimate further into a Soul Core capable of greatly increasing his soul power limit and soul power recovery speed.