I am the Clone of a Death Row Inmate

He couldn’t do it. His life level wasn’t high enough, so he was unable to withstand absorbing a massive amount of Origin Genes from other races.

Besides, one couldn’t directly elevate their life level just by plundering Origin Genes. It was a gradual process. All aspects of oneself—physical fitness, mental strength, and even gene level—had to keep pace.

The Origin Gene was only one component of a god-level intelligent being’s genetic makeup. It might have been the most important component, but it wasn’t the entirety of it.

No matter how perfect the Origin Gene was, if other parts of the genome were holding it back, it would still be impossible to evolve to a higher life level.

In subsequent evolutions, the Origin Gene played a role similar to the extracts from before, acting as a ”ladder” to higher life levels.

It was just like when Su Ze was at the Saint level: once the ladder was in place, his other skills had to level up and not fall behind before he could climb it.

It was the same after becoming a god. Su Ze had to fuse and enhance his other skills, making them commensurate with his life level, before he could evolve to an even higher one.

This wasn’t to say that the legacy of Origin Genes left by Mr. Ao was useless. On the contrary, it was extremely useful, its value incalculable.

It would save Su Ze a great deal of time and energy, eliminating the risk of having to plunder experts from other races and sparing him from life-or-death battles with them.

It was equivalent to having all the necessary extracts prepared for Su Ze back at the Saint level, allowing him to focus solely on upgrading his skills and evolving.

However, Origin Genes were far rarer and more difficult to obtain than Saint-level extracts!

It was foreseeable that Su Ze’s advancement through the entire god-level tier—from Star God all the way to Sun God—would be astonishingly fast!

For others at the god level, advancing a single life level could take at least several hundred, or even thousands of years.

But because Su Ze possessed a massive reserve of Origin Genes, he would save a great deal of time. The time he would need might only be one-tenth or even one-hundredth of what others required.

And right now, these Origin Genes were burrowing into his body, mixing with the energy for upgrading the Divine Grace of Evolution skill and storing themselves in his Dantian.

In truth, strictly speaking, not all of these Origin Genes were plundered by Mr. Ao himself.

As far back as hundreds of millions of years ago, fallen geniuses of the Human Race began this practice: before they died, they would find a Human Race planet and leave behind a secret legacy.

They would all leave the Origin Genes they had plundered within this legacy, passing them on to the next generation of Human Race geniuses.

As it was passed down and accumulated from generation to generation, the number of Origin Genes in the legacy would grow, and the starting point for subsequent Human Race geniuses would get progressively higher.

However, that was the ideal scenario. In practice, accidents were unavoidable.

Some geniuses died too suddenly, with no time to leave their legacy behind. Others who received the legacy ultimately faded into mediocrity, never fully developing...

In short, the legacy Su Ze was receiving wasn’t an accumulation of hundreds of millions of years, but it did have a history spanning several million years, passed down and built upon by over a dozen generations of Human Race geniuses.

Mr. Ao was able to become an Ancestral God in just ten thousand years precisely because he had received the legacy of the dozen-plus generations of Human Race geniuses before him.

’Why do I get the feeling... this legacy seems a bit cursed?’ Su Ze sensed an ill omen.

Over several million years, more than a dozen brilliant Human Race geniuses had all, without exception, met their end.

From the information Mr. Ao left behind, Su Ze learned that each of the dozen-plus generations of geniuses was stronger than the last. The first genius was only a Moon God when he left his legacy; by the tenth generation, his successor had become an Ancestral God.

And Mr. Ao himself had become a top-tier powerhouse among the Ancestral Gods!

With the accumulation of over a dozen generations, the legacy left behind grew more powerful and bountiful each time.

After accepting this legacy, as long as he didn’t die an untimely death, it was a high probability that Su Ze’s future strength would surpass Mr. Ao’s.

But it seemed death was also a high-probability event.

This legacy was like a curse. Over a dozen generations of Human Race geniuses had all perished.

And who knew how many Human Race geniuses in total had perished in the hundreds of millions of years before that.

It seemed that not a single one of these Human Race geniuses, entrusted with the great hope of revitalizing the race, had ever met a peaceful end.

The Human Race was eternal, but its geniuses were fleeting.

Su Ze could already imagine it: ’I accept the legacy, gradually become a Human Race titan even more powerful than Mr. Ao, then get hunted down by the universe’s Strong Races and killed, leaving behind an even more incredible legacy for the next Human Race genius to find...’

’I guess that would count as doing my part for the revival of the Human Race.’

’But is that the ending I want?’

’If that’s the destined ending, I’d rather take those close to me, find a scenic, remote planet, and just live out my days in peace.’

’The rise and fall of the Human Race? What the hell does that have to do with me!’

Perhaps because of Mr. Ke’s last wish, and because of certain people on Blue Star, he couldn’t completely let go of his home world. But as for the Human Race across the entire universe, he didn’t feel he had any particular obligation or responsibility.

’Then again, there’s another possibility. Mr. Ao was already a top-tier Ancestral God. If I accept this legacy, I might surpass him in the future, become a powerhouse beyond the Ancestral God level, and reverse the fate of the Human Race?’

Su Ze figured that wasn’t impossible. In any case, he’d take it one step at a time.

His immediate goal was simply to rescue the Blue Star Human Race from the clutches of the Nian Race. As for revitalizing the Human Race across the universe... he’d think about that later.

He was definitely going to accept this legacy.

Rescuing the Blue Star Human Race required power, and Su Ze needed this legacy to rapidly increase his strength.

’As for reviving the Human Race... if it proves too dangerous in the future, I’ll just forget about it.’