Douluo: Emerald Poison Emperor

It was a dull, gray iron medal. On the surface of the medal, a bizarre snake was etched, twisting its body with an eerie presence. The snake was entirely gray-black, with a massive head positioned at the center of the medal. As the artifact was unleashed, the Medusa Queen's originally massive body instantly shrank to less than thirty meters in height, appearing even smaller and weaker than before releasing the artifact.

The moment Chen Ming laid eyes on the Soul Devouring Medal, he could feel a strand of divine consciousness forcibly intruding into his mind.

It was a gigantic figure over a hundred meters tall, an enlarged version of the Medusa Queen, exuding an aura of sinful divine power.

["An excellent offering,"] the strand of divine soul belonging to the Medusa God, hidden within the Soul Devouring Medal, muttered greedily as it examined Chen Ming's spiritual sea. A forked tongue, snake-like and long, flicked out from its mouth as it licked its lips in hunger, eager to devour Chen Ming's spirit and soul completely.

Looking at the figure within his spiritual sea, Chen Ming was slightly surprised. Then, with a wave of his hand, a five-fingered mountain descended from the sky, directly suppressing the remnant divine soul of the Medusa God.

Chen Ming's spirit surged as he followed the connection between the divine soul and the Soul Devouring Medal, launching a reverse invasion into the medal itself. Within the medal lay a vast amount of faith power, as well as a small trace of immortal energy converted from that faith power.

Despite the Medusa God's remnant consciousness attempting to stop Chen Ming's reverse invasion with frantic resistance—even threatening to self-destruct to take Chen Ming down with it—Chen Ming suppressed it entirely.

The Soul Devouring Medal bore the mark of the Medusa God, but without the control of its divine soul, this mark was akin to a rootless weed. Chen Ming dragged it into his spiritual sea and suppressed it as well.

In the outside world, the Soul Devouring Medal, which had just radiated a red glow, suddenly lost all its power and fell from midair before the Medusa Queen could curse or rage. It landed directly into Chen Ming's hand.

Seeing this, the severely weakened Medusa Queen's expression twisted in fury. Even the snakes on her head writhed with distorted anger.

Chen Ming would not waste this opportunity. While the Medusa Queen was at her weakest, he pushed his soul power to its limit, even at the cost of damaging the meridians in his hand, and forcibly activated the Dark Gold Terror Claw, which was still in its cooldown period.

The Medusa Queen's once resilient body had become fragile due to forcibly using her artifact, and her depleted soul power could no longer protect her enormous form. Under the sharpness of the Dark Gold Terror Claw, her body was severed into pieces and fell to the ground. The snakes on her head and the light in her eyes faded completely.

A deep black soul ring emerged from the Medusa Queen's corpse, signifying the death of this divine beast that should not have existed in this era.

With the Medusa Queen's death, the remaining snakes could no longer suppress their fear. The Jade Phosphor Snake Emperor frantically fled the island, and the surviving Medusas also fled without looking back.

At this moment, Dugu Bo had no energy to worry about the soul beasts. He quickly approached Chen Ming, examining him with concern.

Chen Ming's right hand was in a terrible state—his skin had burst open, exposing large patches of muscle, and blood dripped from his fingertips onto the ground. His overall condition was poor. The sudden outburst of excessive soul power had left his body severely depleted, and although the life-element dragon core in his body could convert life force to repair his injuries, his body was still in a state of extreme exhaustion.

Dugu Bo supported Chen Ming and infused the little soul power he had left into Chen Ming, hoping to stabilize his condition.

Though this assistance had limited effect, Chen Ming did not refuse. After about three to five minutes, the skin on Chen Ming's hand began to regenerate, and the swelling in his meridians subsided, leaving him in a state of about 60-70% recovery.

Once Chen Ming had mostly recovered, he began healing Dugu Bo with his soul power and the life force he had converted.

Dugu Bo's body was riddled with injuries. Large patches of flesh were missing from his arms and thighs—wounds caused by the Medusas' petrification. Dugu Bo had used his soul power to suppress the effects of these missing chunks of flesh, preventing massive blood loss. However, when he had transferred soul power to Chen Ming earlier, his wounds began to bleed again. Under Chen Ming's life force, Dugu Bo's missing flesh gradually regrew. The wounds scabbed over, and the scabs quickly fell off, revealing fresh, new skin.

Once both of them had mostly recovered, Chen Ming and Dugu Bo finally let out a sigh of relief.

"Xiao Ming, what was the deal with that Medusa Queen? And what about that medal earlier?" Dugu Bo asked, breaking the silence.

Although Dugu Bo had just broken through to level 95 and was eager to test his strength, recalling the bizarre and dangerous events earlier made him feel humbled. The pride he had just begun to feel was quickly extinguished.

If he had been alone, Dugu Bo was sure that even as a level 95 Super Douluo, he would not have been able to leave this island alive.

The Medusas he had encountered before were nothing compared to this one. Even those with shorter cultivation years displayed combat power no less than that of his eighth soul ring's 50,000-year Medusa Queen.

"This Medusa Queen was likely a divine beast," Chen Ming replied.

"A divine beast? Did we just slay a god?" Dugu Bo's first reaction was excitement. Though the Douluo Continent had no divine beasts, legends of them were widespread. However, Chen Ming shook his head.

"This was just a divine beast. Its quality was high, but its strength was still far from reaching the true god level."

Chen Ming tapped the Soul Devouring Medal before walking over to the Medusa Queen's severed head. Using the Dark Gold Terror Claw, he carefully cut it open and extracted a head soul bone that shimmered with a deep red light.

The moment Dugu Bo saw the head soul bone in Chen Ming's hands, he felt a surge of malice rise in his heart. Without thinking, he slapped himself hard to regain clarity and quickly retreated from the influence of the soul bone's glow.

"Xiao Ming, stay focused! Don't let that thing corrupt you!" Dugu Bo warned sternly from the safety of the forest, keeping a wary eye on the head soul bone in Chen Ming's hands.

"I know," Chen Ming replied, his expression complicated as he examined the exceptionally high-quality head soul bone.@@novelbin@@

Within the soul bone, Chen Ming sensed a lingering will. However, it did not belong to the Medusa Queen. Instead, it was from the God of Sin, Medusa.

Moreover, the head soul bone contained fragments of shattered godhood, including most of the God of Sin's powers and some abilities belonging to the Snake God.