I am the Clone of a Death Row Inmate

Mr. Ya picked up the conversation, ”It’s absolutely true. Four Venerable Powerhouses: three Cardinals and one Templar. I even knew two of them.”

”So where are they now? Did you manage to shake them off?”

”I killed them,” Su Ze said lightly.

’If you’re going to show off, you have to go all the way.’

As expected, Chen Suifeng and the other two were shocked once again. This time, they were even more unsettled than before.

They had long known of Su Ze’s reputation as a genius. Although completing his fifth evolution at eighteen was indeed mind-boggling, they were somewhat mentally prepared for it.

But killing four Venerable Powerhouses right after breaking through was just too absurd!

All three of them wore expressions of disbelief and denial. Chen Suifeng was perhaps slightly better off, as he’d had more contact with Su Ze and had a deeper understanding of just how monstrous and abnormal his talent was.

Seeing the three of them frozen in a daze, Su Ze had no choice but to say, ”We should leave immediately. Let’s get to the Great Desert Kingdom first. After all, the wilderness isn’t safe.”

”Right, we’ll talk on the way!” Chen Suifeng said hurriedly.

With three more Venerable Powerhouses escorting them, Su Ze could finally relax completely. Unless a Legendary Powerhouse made a move, no one should be able to threaten them.

As for the Alien Party, they wouldn’t send anyone unless they were willing to expose their connection to the Evolution Divine Teachings.

On the road, Su Ze gave a rough account of his battle against the four Venerable Powerhouses from the Evolution Divine Teachings, but he omitted many details.

Of course, Chen Suifeng and the other two didn’t press for more. Everyone had trump cards they wouldn’t reveal to others unless absolutely necessary.

Chen Suifeng said, ”The Evolution Divine Teachings has few enough Venerable Powerhouses that you can count them on two hands. Losing four at once is an unbearable loss for them.”

Another Venerable Powerhouse chimed in, ”Exactly. It’s a devastating blow.”

Su Ze thought for a moment and said, ”I’m afraid the Nian Race won’t care too much. The four I killed likely weren’t possessed by a Thought Race Divine Spirit. They were just four native Blue Star Venerable Powerhouses, and what’s more, they had little potential to achieve godhood.”

Chen Suifeng nodded. Su Ze had a point. The Alien Party would only care if he killed one of the actual Nian Race members.

The death of the Shepherd King, for example, had enraged the Alien Party, prompting them to take significant action. Even Chen Suifeng himself had been under surveillance for a long time.

”In any case, we’ve gained a lot this time, especially since we’ve secured evidence of the Evolution Divine Teachings’ crimes,” Chen Suifeng said. ”When we get back, we can pressure the rest of Blue Star to completely expel the Evolution Divine Teachings from the Lin Hua Continent.”

Su Ze then said, ”Everyone, the news of me becoming a Venerable Powerhouse might be impossible to hide, but please help me keep the matter of me killing the four Evolution Divine Teachings Venerable Powerhouses a secret. Let’s just say it was the result of our combined efforts, what do you think?”

The three of them thought for a moment and nodded. Su Ze becoming a Venerable Powerhouse at eighteen was already conspicuous enough; it was better to keep as low a profile as possible.

Being too high-profile and causing the Nian Race to pay even more attention to him was not a good thing.

”But when you fought those four, was anyone else watching?” Chen Suifeng asked.

Su Ze shook his head. ”Everyone nearby was scared off long ago. Even these refugees in the vehicles were taken far away by Mr. Ya at the time and didn’t witness the battle.

”However, after the fight ended, they only saw me, not the three of you. That’s a loophole.”

”That’s easy to handle. Mr. Li, if you would please erase that last bit of memory from these refugees,” Chen Suifeng said, turning to the man behind him, who was a Spiritual Venerable.

With the abilities of a Spiritual Venerable, erasing the memories of a group of ordinary people was incredibly simple. He just had to block out the memory of what happened after the fight. Then, in their minds, they would have seen Chen Suifeng and the others as soon as the battle ended.

Mr. Li nodded and did as requested.

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Soon, the group finally crossed into the territory of the Great Desert Kingdom.

The golden desert held a desolate beauty. The Great Desert Kingdom was sparsely populated; if one didn’t enter the urban areas, it looked no different from the wilderness.

Still, they had finally entered the Lin Hua Continent.

Chen Suifeng and his group had to continue escorting the refugees north into Lin Hua Country.

Su Ze didn’t plan to go with them, intending to change his route here and head to Dongli.

Before parting, Su Ze and Chen Suifeng had a private chat.

Su Ze transferred the videos he had recorded, which documented the crimes of the Evolution Divine Teachings, to Chen Suifeng and said:

”I killed that Spiritual Venerable from the Evolution Divine Teachings this time and kept her head. When I get back, I’ll turn it into a base station. We’ll have cross-country communication, and we won’t have to worry about being bugged.”

Chen Suifeng laughed. ”That really solves an urgent problem for us. Make some extra mental communication phones this time. In the future, everyone on our side will have one.”

”Alright,” Su Ze agreed. That had been his plan all along.

”What are your plans once you get back?” Chen Suifeng asked.

”Consolidate my strength, upgrade my skills, and look for a suitable extract for myself.”

”It’s a shame you wouldn’t be interested in the sixth-order extracts in the Lin Hua Country treasury. Otherwise, I could have found a way to exchange for one for you.”

The Lin Hua Country treasury currently had no sixth-order S-rank extracts. At Su Ze’s level of power and discernment, he wouldn’t consider any extract below that level.

However, Su Ze still had a vial of the ”Mirage King” extract he had obtained from the Divine Dice. It was suspected to be sixth-order S-rank, so it would have to do for now.

The crucial part was the second vial of extract for the Venerable Powerhouse stage. According to Su Ze’s plan, it would be best to absorb a seventh-order extract, skipping a rank. But there was truly no way to obtain something like that.

Across all of Blue Star, the only known seventh-order exotic beast was the New King Sponge, and even it only had one foot in the seventh order, making it a quasi-seventh-order at best.