Douluo: Emerald Poison Emperor-Chapter 205: Douluo: Emerald Poison Emperor []

After dealing with the soul beasts, Chen Ming, who was carrying eighteen pockets on his back like a supreme elder of the Beggars' Sect, shifted his attention to the large lake where the Medusa Queen had appeared.

After handing over his precious storage soul tool to Dugu Bo, Chen Ming dove into the depths of the lake, carefully exploring its bottom.

The lake water was filled with vitality and soul power. Although it couldn't compare to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, it was undoubtedly a top-tier cultivation treasure from a conventional perspective. Every drop of lake water was like a miraculous medicine capable of healing wounds.

The lakebed wasn't very deep, just over a hundred meters. Although the Douluo World could be considered a fantastical underworld, Chen Ming's current strength allowed him to operate underwater beyond a hundred meters without any difficulty.

Using spiritual scans and intuitive detection, Chen Ming searched for a while and eventually discovered several nests of snake eggs buried in the mud at the lake bottom.

The combined number of these snake eggs exceeded a hundred. Each egg's shell was faintly patterned with golden and blood-red lines, constantly absorbing the vitality and soul power from the lake water. Inside, the lives growing within the eggs were developing slowly yet healthily.

Even though these creatures were still in their eggs and had not yet hatched, the essence of each life within surpassed that of an ordinary century-old soul beast. Some were even comparable to typical millennium-level soul beasts.

Chen Ming speculated that this was likely due to the Medusa Queen's bloodline within these eggs. Additionally, their parentage must have included top-tier snake-type soul beasts, giving these eggs a significant advantage even before birth.

Chen Ming estimated that if these eggs were to hatch, the creatures born from them would undoubtedly be top-tier soul beasts. Among them, there would likely be super soul beasts inheriting the Medusa Queen's bloodline, as well as super soul beasts mutated from top-tier ones.

These snake eggs were an incredibly valuable resource. Chen Ming figured that if a snake-type martial soul master were to consume one of these eggs, not only would the quality of their martial soul improve, but their innate soul power could also be significantly enhanced.

Properly utilizing these eggs could create a group of martial soul masters with innate soul power of Level 9 or higher and snake king-level martial souls.

Even an ordinary person with a snake-type martial soul but no innate soul power could forcibly raise their martial soul to the top tier and become a Snake Emperor by consuming twenty or so eggs. They would also gain the talent of innate full soul power.

If Chen Ming ever wanted to gather followers on the continent in the future, these snake eggs could serve as startup capital, allowing him to recruit a loyal and powerful group of snake-type martial soul masters to lay the foundation for spreading his faith.

Of course, because these snake eggs were born with such high potential, their incubation period was quite long. Chen Ming estimated that it would take at least over a decade for them to hatch into young snakes, with the closest batch still being about two and a half years away from hatching. Properly stored, the eggs could retain their essence for centuries without losing their vitality.

If a snake-type martial soul master clan obtained these eggs, they could easily secure a position among the top three sects—or even become the number one sect in the world.

After securing the snake eggs, Chen Ming wasn't satisfied. He continued to scour the lakebed, digging through the mud repeatedly with his spiritual sense and intuition, unwilling to overlook anything valuable.

Finally, after digging ten more meters into the lakebed, Chen Ming discovered something even more valuable than the snake eggs.

It was a piece of broken bone, resembling a section of rib that had fallen from a human body. The bone emitted a faint golden glow, and despite its broken end, there was still a lingering sense of vitality.

Though it was unclear how long this rib had been buried in the mud, its marrow still retained a small amount of blood-producing function.

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The source of the lake's vitality was this broken rib. The mystery of the lake water lay in the blood produced by the bone marrow, diluted countless times.

Chen Ming sensed the aura of the Medusa God on this rib. Undoubtedly, this rib was something that had fallen into the Douluo World along with the Medusa God's divine weapon and divine position.

Neither the rib alone nor a fragment of a divine position falling into the Douluo World could have created such an ecosystem. However, when the two were combined, they could support such a special ecological system through the miraculous nature of a deity's residual will.

In essence, this island was a creation of the Medusa God's divine will, designed specifically to repair her being. She had nearly managed to use this setup to attempt reincarnation in the Douluo World. Removing this rib would cause the island's ecosystem to collapse gradually over several centuries. But after some thought, Chen Ming realized it wouldn't be a big deal.

After all, with the Medusa Queen and many Medusas dead, only the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor had escaped among the snake kings. Most of the snake-type soul beasts on the island had been killed by the Medusa Queen's death shriek, leaving only a few survivors. The sea snakes near the island's beaches were the only ones that had survived in significant numbers.

Under these circumstances, the ecosystem was already on the verge of collapse. Taking the rib wouldn't make much difference.

Perhaps after Chen Ming and Dugu Bo left, the island would develop a new ecosystem in the absence of the Medusa Queen and the snake kings. Though he wasn't overly concerned about the survival of soul beasts, Chen Ming still felt a bit awkward realizing that his arrival had reduced this once-thriving island to just 10% of its original vitality.

"In the future, I should try to minimize environmental damage during soul hunting. Thankfully, this is an isolated island with little impact on the surrounding environment. If this had happened in a regular soul-beast forest, who knows how disastrous the consequences would have been."

"On the way back, I should remind the fishermen to be cautious of the sea snakes. I don't want my actions to cause harm to nearby communities."

"..."

"I might as well clean up the sea snakes myself. That would be more reliable."

After some thought, Chen Ming decided that human lives were more valuable than soul beasts'. To prevent his soul-hunting activities from negatively affecting nearby cities, he resolved to clean up the sea snakes and eliminate the threat they posed.

Chen Ming and Dugu Bo spent two days looting the Spirit Snake Island. After organizing their spoils, they had a considerable haul.

Many snake-type soul beast carcasses were frozen and stored in soul tools. In the end, they only selected the high-quality, long-lived ones for preservation. During this time, the two dissected every dead soul beast on the island, ultimately obtaining a total of twenty soul bones.

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

Of the twenty soul bones, nineteen were standard six-part soul bones, while one was a rare external soul bone. However, this external soul bone's position was a bit awkward—it was a pair of fangs from a thousand-year Ghost Serpent.

Absorbing this external soul bone would undoubtedly enhance bite strength and toxin potency, but its offensive capabilities were uncertain. At best, it might grant a venom spray skill; at worst, it could only inject venom through bites, making its combat effectiveness unpredictable.

External soul bones were rare, but fang-based ones had no known precedent in the Douluo Continent.

Dugu Bo asked Chen Ming if he wanted to absorb this external soul bone. Normally, absorbing a head soul bone prevents one from absorbing another in the same position, but due to the unique placement of this fang bone, Dugu Bo believed it might still be possible.

However, Chen Ming decided against it. For him, this fang-based external soul bone was too niche. Besides, he couldn't imagine himself biting people in battle.

Well... if it were an external fang bone from a top-tier bat-type soul beast, he might consider it. But for a Ghost Serpent, which was merely an advanced soul beast, its venom capabilities were limited, and Chen Ming couldn't think of any development potential.

In the end, Dugu Bo absorbed the fang bone with reluctance and ended up gaining a soul skill that enhanced bite strength and tooth durability, leaving him frustrated for quite some time.

It turned out that Dugu Bo's luck was, to put it mildly, a little difficult to describe.