I am the Clone of a Death Row Inmate

Chapter 190: Chapter 171: Su Ze’s Strength

Su Ze quickly formulated a plan in his mind, analyzing the feasibility of ambushing the Tiger King General.

Since the Tiger King General was standing guard here, he must have a way to contact Bai Guishou quickly. The moment they made a move on the Tiger King General, Bai Guishou would very likely be alerted.

At that point, Bai Guishou might return immediately to rescue the Tiger King General.

Of course, he might also choose not to come. But whether Bai Guishou fled the Oasis directly or chose to remain hidden to get the Miracle Spring Water, that wasn’t something Su Ze and his companion needed to worry about.

As long as Bai Guishou didn’t show up, they could take care of the Tiger King General without any reservations.

They only needed to consider how long it would take for Bai Guishou to return if he came to the rescue. Could they kill the Tiger King General within that time frame?

What if they ran out of time and failed to kill the Tiger King General? How would they escape?

The two of them burrowed underground and discussed for a moment.

Even if Bai Guishou did come to the rescue, he couldn’t be that fast. After all, he was in the inner circle of the Miracle Oasis and would have to be cautious, not daring to travel at full speed.

And even if he did make it back, Mr. Ya said he was fairly confident he could escape with Su Ze. His newly acquired Shadow Clone Skill was a divine escape art, and he had yet to show it off in front of a Saint-level expert.

After a quick discussion, they concluded that while there were certainly risks, they weren’t too great. It was acceptable.

What endeavor didn’t have risks?

They both believed in the principle that fortune favors the bold.

Do it!

Having decided to act, Su Ze and Mr. Ya wasted no time and immediately sprang into action.

To kill the Tiger King General, they had to strike fast and decisively. The quicker, the better.

Ideally, they’d be so fast that the Tiger King General wouldn’t even have time to call for help from Bai Guishou.

The two silently tunneled to the spot directly beneath the Tiger King General’s position. Then, they moved upward, inching closer and closer.

When they were just over a meter below the Tiger King General, both Su Ze and Mr. Ya held their breath, not daring to make a sound.

Su Ze made his move. He silently laid out the Gravity Dust Sand underground. At the same time, he activated his Eye of Truth again, extending his Perception Tentacles through the gaps in the soil until they permeated the area around the Tiger King General.

Their plan was for Mr. Ya to bring Su Ze to the surface with his escape technique, after which Mr. Ya would immediately move a safe distance away. Then, Su Ze would unleash the maximum pull of his Gravity Dust Sand to pin the Tiger King General to the ground and channel electricity through his Perception Tentacles...

They would create an electrified ”Tiger Trap” for the Tiger King General!

Why surface? Because after Mr. Ya left, Su Ze couldn’t move underground.

And why did Mr. Ya have to leave? Because he’d get electrocuted if he stayed next to Su Ze...

In any case, he didn’t have much damage output in a fight, so it was better for him to stay far away.

Go!

Mr. Ya grinned, revealing his shiny front teeth. The ”flash of teeth” was their signal. The two of them moved in an instant.

The Tiger King General was hiding among a pile of fallen leaves, thinking his concealment was seamless. He periodically scanned his surroundings.

Suddenly, he saw a flash before his eyes. Two large front teeth appeared in front of him. Only then did he notice their owner: a dark-skinned Luofan.

And next to the Luofan was an ordinary-looking young man.

’These two shot out from underground... Not good!’

’An enemy attack!’

The Tiger King General reacted instantly, activating his Flying Skill to take off from the ground.

But it was too late. He felt a tremendous, invisible force from below pulling him toward the ground, causing his speed to suddenly stagnate.

This was the maximum gravitational pull that Gravity Dust Sand could exert when pushed to its limit. While it wasn’t enough to completely restrain a Butterfly Stage expert, it was sufficient to affect his speed.

Taking advantage of that moment, Mr. Ya used his Escape Technique to get a hundred meters away.

Seeing Mr. Ya clear, Su Ze held nothing back. Thunder God Body, maximum output!

BZZZT!

As the sound of electricity crackled, the area around the Tiger King General instantly transformed into a world of silver.

Rampant currents ravaged him, boring into his body, continuously plundering his life force and destroying his tissues.

In an instant, all the hair on his body turned to charcoal. His skin began to crack, and his blood solidified from the high heat before it could even flow out.

However, a Butterfly Stage expert was a Butterfly Stage expert for a reason. Even though Su Ze had seized the initiative, he still hadn’t managed to take him down outright.

The Tiger King General let out a furious roar. His muscles bulged as if inflated, and his eyes turned completely blood-red. It was unclear what skill he used, but he was on the verge of breaking out of the range of the Ten Thousand Thunders Celestial Prison Guide.

How could Su Ze let him get his way? He followed up with Furious Waves to restrain him.

The enhanced Furious Waves had increased ground damage. Su Ze stomped his foot, and the earth began to fracture out from him as the epicenter. A violent blast of air raged, tearing open many new wounds on the Tiger King General’s body.

Most importantly, the Dizziness effect of Furious Waves took hold, interrupting the Tiger King General’s breakout and forcing him to continue receiving electrotherapy in the ocean of lightning.

Su Ze’s Thunder God Body skill came from a mutated electric eel-type beast. Its power was far greater than that of an ordinary Frenzied Electric Body, so much so that not even a Butterfly Stage expert could ignore it.

Amidst the CRACKLING and POPPING, white smoke continuously rose from the Tiger King General’s body. Many of his open, bloody wounds were already carbonized.

The Tiger King General finally recovered from the Dizziness, but before he could react, Su Ze had already charged into the sea of electricity.

He was an insulator. Moving through the lightning was like coming home. The currents he released from his own body would even recharge him when they landed on him—recycling energy, fighting and charging at the same time.

Su Ze activated Ant Power, then used ”Needle Strike.” This was a combo he had mastered early on, but it was the first time he was using it against an enemy since both skills had been enhanced and upgraded.

’Time to test its power!’

Su Ze jabbed a finger into the Tiger King General’s chest, piercing it with ease.

Cracks spread across the skin on the Tiger King General’s chest, and even across the hard bones beneath.

This was the ”Shatter” effect that came with the upgraded Ant Power skill.

Normally, the Tiger King General’s chest should have been smashed to bits. But the upgraded Ant Power was, after all, only a Tier 2 skill. It wasn’t yet capable of completely pulverizing the body of a Butterfly Stage expert.

But no matter. The attack wasn’t over. A stream of Qi Force poured into the Tiger King General’s body and detonated with a BOOM!

The explosive effect of ”Needle Strike”!

With that, all of the Tiger King General’s internal organs were blasted to smithereens.

If he didn’t have a life-saving skill like Regeneration Body, the Tiger King General’s fate would have been sealed.

But the immense life force of a Butterfly Stage expert kept him from dying instantly.

He still had the strength for one last strike!

On the verge of death, he unleashed the final blow of his life. It was also his strongest attack, his one and only Tier 4 skill!

”Heaven and Earth Union!”

His hands, one high and one low, came together. In that instant, Su Ze felt as if he were trapped in a small space. The heavens and the earth were closing in, and he was being crushed between them.

When heaven and earth finally met, he would be squeezed into a meat patty.

Su Ze fumbled at his chest, and a leaf appeared in his hand.

It was the Tier 3 defensive Wondrous Item, the Thorn Armor Leaf. Because of its dubious origins, Su Ze had never used this item since obtaining it.

Now, he was just making a desperate attempt. Su Ze had no confidence that this defensive Wondrous Item could withstand a full-power blow from a Butterfly Stage expert.

With a thought from Su Ze, the Thorn Armor Leaf’s defensive skill, Nut Thorn Armor, activated.

Su Ze felt a large amount of his evolutionary power being drained from his body and poured into the leaf in his hand. Then, his surroundings instantly went dark. He was enveloped in an unknown blackness.

Through his Perception Tentacles, Su Ze could clearly ”feel” that a giant, unpeeled ”chestnut” had surrounded him. The outside of the chestnut was covered in spikes like steel needles, and its shell was incredibly hard, like a thick layer of armor protecting him within.

Su Ze immediately lay down obediently inside the chestnut’s interior space.

Su Ze wasn’t sure if the chestnut shell could withstand the pressure of ”Heaven and Earth Union.” In case it couldn’t, he had laid down in advance to ensure that if he was crushed, his brain would be the last thing to be squashed.

That way, he could shatter his Regeneration Core at the very last moment, allowing it to reconstruct his body after the ”Heaven and Earth Union” skill ended.

At this moment, outside the chestnut, Mr. Ya was so anxious he was scratching his head and ears.

After the Tiger King General used ”Heaven and Earth Union,” he had immediately rushed over to save Su Ze, only to find him trapped within a pocket of space that sealed him off from the outside.

All he could do now was pray that the giant chestnut could protect Su Ze inside.

CRACK!

CRACK!

The ”Heaven and Earth Union” skill finally began to crush the spikes on the chestnut’s surface. Those spikes, with a hardness comparable to Super Alloy, started to snap off one by one.

In the blink of an eye, all the spikes on the chestnut’s surface had broken off. ”Heaven and Earth Union” was now pressing against the chestnut shell itself.

The chestnut shell began to deform slightly, and the degree of deformation continued to increase.

But when the chestnut shell had deformed to a certain point, it seemed to resist the compressive force of ”Heaven and Earth Union.”

BANG!

Before Mr. Ya could feel happy, a huge fissure burst open on the chestnut shell with a loud bang.

Then, two hands reached out from within the chestnut shell, bracing firmly against the invisible barrier pressing down from above.

Su Ze was wrestling with the closing ”heaven and earth.”

It seemed that bursting the chestnut shell had truly exhausted the power of ”Heaven and Earth Union,” leaving the skill as a spent force. Su Ze didn’t have to hold on for long before he suddenly felt the pressure lighten. The invisible barriers above and below him vanished!

’Success!’

Su Ze let out a long breath. ’A Butterfly Stage expert truly can’t be underestimated. He could still unleash an ultimate move to threaten me even at death’s door.’

’If I didn’t have the Thorn Armor Leaf, I’m afraid I would have been forced to destroy my Regeneration Core again.’

’This Tier 3 defensive Wondrous Item is surprisingly strong.’

”Boss!” Mr. Ya rushed over, about to give him a hug, but was pushed away in disgust by Su Ze.

Su Ze looked at the charred corpse beside him. There was a bowl-sized hole blasted in its chest. After delivering his final strike, the Tiger King General was completely dead.

Su Ze bent down and began to search the body. The Tiger King General wasn’t carrying a bag or anything, so Su Ze suspected he must have a storage item.

”There is one!”

A flash of joy appeared in Su Ze’s eyes. He fished a wooden ring out of the mangled mess that was the Tiger King General’s chest.