I am the Clone of a Death Row Inmate

Chapter 210: Chapter 184: The Unyielding Will Skill

He had successfully absorbed the Tier-4, C-Class Iron-blooded Honey Badger Extract, gaining the skill ”Unyielding Will” and a Cell Enhancement from his ”Knowledge is Power” skill.

Su Ze’s power had once again seen a considerable boost!

”Go back and familiarize yourself with your new skill. I’ll call someone to handle the repairs,” Liou Wenxin said.

Su Ze looked back. He and Mrs. Yun had fought their way from the living room to the outside of the villa. Along their path, the floor tiles, the courtyard wall, and even the road and greenbelt outside were all damaged.

”Next time I absorb an extract above my level, I should do it out in the wild.”

Mrs. Yun’s eyes widened. ”You brat, you want to do this again? Absorb a Tier-5 extract during your Butterfly Stage? I’m not playing along next time! My hands are aching from hitting you.”

Su Ze laughed. ”By the time I’m at the Peak of the Butterfly Transformation Stage, you’ll surely be a Saint. Are you afraid I’ll beat you despite the level difference?”

’That’s true,’ Mrs. Yun thought. ’If I’m still around by then, it means I’ll have successfully broken through to the Saint level.’

’At that point, putting this brat Su Ze in his place would be a piece of cake.’

’As for someone in the Butterfly Stage fighting a Saint? What a joke!’

’I’ve never heard of anything so absurd.’

...

Su Ze returned to his room and began to carefully examine his newly acquired skill, ”Unyielding Will.”

Unyielding Will: The spiritual will and physical consciousness merge. As long as the body stands, the spirit cannot be destroyed.

When Su Ze activated the skill, his first impression was that it consumed extremely little energy. It was a passive-state skill with almost no cost, meaning he could keep ”Unyielding Will” active at all times, even while sleeping.

He then began to explore the skill’s effects in detail.

A moment later, a look of delighted surprise appeared on his face. ’This skill is so much more than the simple Spirit Defense Skill I was expecting!’

The effect of ”Unyielding Will” was to allow his Spiritual Power to merge and combine with his physical body. As long as his body didn’t fall, his spirit couldn’t be extinguished.

This meant that even when facing a spirit-based evolver of a higher level, Su Ze wouldn’t have to worry about his spirit being instantly destroyed by a single mental assault.

Take Saint-level spirit-based evolvers like Zhou Wenshan and Amida, for instance. If they were to attack Su Ze, a single spiritual assault could have directly destroyed his spirit, or even annihilated his consciousness, turning him into a living vegetable.

But things were different with ”Unyielding Will.” With spiritual attacks alone, not even a Saint-level powerhouse could directly destroy Su Ze’s spirit now that it was fused with his body.

Of course, his spirit merging with his body didn’t mean he was completely immune to spiritual attacks. He would still suffer spiritual damage from a high-level assault. However, his resistance was now drastically increased, and it was like having a ”health lock” for his spirit.

As long as his body hadn’t fallen, no spiritual attack, no matter how powerful, could completely destroy his spirit. It would have to leave him with at least a sliver of health.

These were just the effects of ”Unyielding Will” in terms of Spiritual Defense.

In fact, after his Spiritual Power merged with his body, Su Ze had many novel experiences and discoveries.

First, his control over his physical body was much stronger. While in the ”Unyielding Will” state, he could precisely control every muscle, every strand of hair, and even every pore. He could also manipulate the evolutionary power within him with greater skill.

This microscopic level of bodily control should not be underestimated; it would definitely provide a significant boost to Su Ze’s combat power.

If his body were a machine, his previous level of control was perhaps only at 80%, allowing him to exert only eighty percent of its power. But now, with his control boosted to 90%, he could naturally unleash even greater strength.

Moreover, Su Ze suspected this was far from the limit.

’Do I really have eighty percent control over my body?’

’Cells are part of the body too. Can I control them?’

’Is it possible that as my skill and evolution levels increase, I’ll one day be able to control every single cell in my body?’

’I’m getting a little ahead of myself...’ Su Ze pulled his thoughts back and continued to explore the other effects of ”Unyielding Will.”

”Unyielding Will” had another very obvious effect: ”internal vision.”

That’s right—the same kind of internal vision often found in fantasy and cultivation novels, where characters could see things like the Golden Core and Nascent Soul in their Dantian, or Qi Fighting Stones.

But Su Ze’s internal vision was slightly different from what was described in novels. He didn’t see a Dantian or a sea of consciousness; instead, he could look at any part of his own body.

For instance, he could see the blood flowing through his vessels, his own beating heart, the very folds of his brain...

He could perceive everything inside his body, including the working state of all his organs, right down to the vigorous little tadpoles in his Descendants’ Bag.

’As expected of a Tier-4, Saint-grade skill. It’s so powerful!’

Su Ze couldn’t help but marvel. This was just a Tier-4, C-Class skill, yet it was already this powerful.

Of course, the skill Liou Wenxin had hand-picked for him was surely one of the best among all Tier-4, C-Class skills.

’I originally thought I was just getting a Spirit Defense Skill, but I didn’t expect these other bonus effects.’

The enhanced bodily control directly boosted his combat power, and he could sense that this effect had immense potential for future growth.

Internal vision was also a very useful ability, allowing him to be clearly aware of his body’s internal changes at all times.

’With my current strength,’ he mused, ’I should be able to dominate the Six-Nation Top University Exchange Tournament.’

Even before absorbing the Tier-4 extract, he could have easily crushed Dongli University’s own team. Now that he had successfully absorbed the Iron-blooded Honey Badger Extract and reached a new level of power, Su Ze felt confident he could secure victory, no matter how strong the teams from the other five nations were.

However, the Six-Nation Top University Exchange Tournament was never his ultimate goal. It was merely a stepping stone on his path to the Divine Dice.

So Su Ze didn’t let himself relax. He still had an even more arduous task to complete: fully digesting the Iron-blooded Honey Badger Extract within his body in about a month!

’Today is April 14th. I only know the Divine Dice will activate sometime in May, but not the exact date. I need to find someone and ask about it when I get the chance.’

Su Ze only knew that the Divine Dice’s activation might conflict with the original schedule for the Six-Nation Top University Exchange Tournament, which was mid-to-late May. The exact date, however, was still uncertain.

He could only hope it would be a little later, giving him more time to prepare.

...

For the next three days, Su Ze didn’t set foot outside, single-mindedly focusing on digesting the extract at home.

His sleep schedule had been flipped upside down before, but now he had stopped sleeping entirely. Every day, he would take a spoonful of Sun and Moon Epiphyllum Honey and begin performing the Swan Dance.

After three days, he was left with a single impression—this Tier-4 extract was incredibly difficult to digest!

At his current pace, it was genuinely uncertain if he could finish digesting the Iron-blooded Honey Badger Extract within a month.

’I’ll have to find a way to speed things up.’

As for the activation time of the Divine Dice, Su Ze had spent the last few days asking around, but no one had a definite answer.

After all, the Divine Dice had undergone a sudden mutation this time, with its activation date moved up by more than half a year. Past experience no longer counted for anything, so no one could be certain of the exact time.

The Sovereign Country estimated an activation in mid-to-late May, but that could only be taken as a reference.

In short, nothing was certain.

This put Su Ze on edge. If it opened in early May by some chance, there was no way he’d be ready in time!

But there was no use dwelling on it. The most important thing now was to focus on the task at hand.

Today was the 18th, the day Dongli University’s team was set to depart.

Su Ze stopped his dance, quickly got himself ready, and headed to the campus plaza to meet the others.

The plaza was already packed with teachers and students who had come to see them off.

The Six-Nation Top University Exchange Tournament was always a major event for Dongli University, a hot topic that captured the attention of the entire student body and faculty.

They all hoped the Dongli University team would achieve great results in the tournament, bringing glory to the university and the Dongli Kingdom. As members of Dongli University and citizens of Dongli, they too would share in that honor.

Even though Dongli University’s past results had often been less than ideal, it did nothing to dampen their enthusiasm or their fervent hopes and encouragement for the team.

It wasn’t just Dongli University; the entire Dongli Kingdom would be watching the event. The Six-Nation Top University Exchange Tournament was the most hotly debated topic online.

The citizens of the Dongli Kingdom had particularly high hopes for Dongli University’s team this year, especially after the roster was announced.

After all, this year’s team included Li Yongguan, the son of General Li Fayi, and Gu Yue’er, the granddaughter of Chairman Gu Chengguang.

These two Dongli geniuses were already famous in their own right, and they were the descendants of Saint-level powerhouses.

Of course, the people of Dongli didn’t overlook Su Ze’s name on the roster either. He was the genius who had stunned the entire nation not long ago.

However, most rational citizens of Dongli understood that while Su Ze was a genius, he simply hadn’t had enough time to develop. The true pillars of the team for this tournament were still Li Yongguan and Gu Yue’er.

If Dongli University wanted to achieve a good result, it all depended on those two.

Only Su Ze’s young middle-school fangirls firmly believed he would dazzle everyone at the tournament. They couldn’t care less about the adults’ ”rational” and ”objective” analysis... Our boy is the strongest!

The public’s eager expectations placed a great deal of unspoken pressure on the Dongli University team—though not on Su Ze, of course.

But even Li Yongguan and Gu Yue’er felt the weight of that invisible pressure. The usually stoic Li Yongguan showed a rare trace of anxiety, to say nothing of the others.

It felt as if they would be letting everyone down if they failed to get good results.

By the time Su Ze arrived at the plaza, the other nine team members were already assembled. Principal Zhou Wenshan and Pei Wuhua were also there, waiting off to the side.

The moment he arrived, he was met with a deafening roar of cheers and encouragement.

”Go, Li Yongguan!”

”You’re the best, Miss. Gu!”

”Dongli University will be victorious!”

Su Ze squeezed through the crowd to join the team, apologizing to the others. ”Sorry I’m late.”

Su Ze’s arrival triggered a new wave of screams from the female university students.

”Go, Su Ze!”

”Go, hubby!”

”I believe in you, Su Ze! Bring home the championship!”

Principal Zhou Wenshan glanced at the time and announced, ”Let’s be on our way.”