I am the Clone of a Death Row Inmate

Although Su Ze had always mocked the Nian Race’s Racial Talent as garbage, he had to admit that any Racial Talent, when developed to its fullest potential, possessed its own formidable power.

Take Zuka, the Nian Race Ancestral God before him, for example. His Racial Talent, an indestructible soul, wasn’t a true guarantee of immortality, but annihilating that soul was still an incredibly difficult feat.

At the very least, not even a black hole could kill him.

However, Su Ze’s goal wasn’t to kill him; he just needed to stall for time. He wasn’t sure if the Magic Cube had escaped the range of Zuka’s Spiritual Power yet. He just had to delay as long as possible to let the Magic Cube get farther away.

He was already treating this battle as a test of his current combat strength, not as a crisis.

‘I’ll do my best and see just how wide the gap is between me and an Ancestral God. When I can’t hold out any longer, I’ll use the Replacement Skill to escape.’

He had just found a way to break the Soul Cage, so he wasn’t afraid of Zuka using that move on him again. ‘Now, how can I create a more advantageous combat environment to close the gap between us?’

An invisible, formless dream power quietly began to spread through the area.

“Forbidden Demon Domain!”

The domain activated, and the Forbidden Demon Domain instantly enveloped both Su Ze and Zuka.

“It’s useless. I just experienced this trick…” Zuka stopped mid-sentence. “No, that’s not right. This is… an Ancestral God-level Domain Skill!”

“Impossible! That skill was just Tier 8 a moment ago. How could it…”

Zuka once again deployed his Tier 9 Domain Skill, attempting to shatter Su Ze’s Forbidden Demon Domain. But it was like an egg hitting a rock; this time, it was Zuka’s Domain Skill that shattered.

This was indeed an Ancestral God-level Forbidden Demon Domain!

However, it wasn’t that Su Ze’s Forbidden Demon Domain had been upgraded. Rather, this was an Ancestral God-level Forbidden Demon Domain woven from dreams!

During his previous training, Su Ze had discovered many similarities between his Dream Creation skill and his “Instant Simulation” skill.

The “Instant Simulation” skill relied on imitation to copy other people’s skills.

Dream Creation seemed to encompass this ability.

Back then, Su Ze had an idea: ‘Can I replicate other people’s skills through dreams?’

However, after many attempts, he discovered it was extremely difficult.

Replicating another person’s skills within a dream was easy. The difficult part was bringing that skill from the dream into reality.

With other people’s skills, he could only observe their outward appearance; he knew nothing about their inner workings, their underlying principles, and so on.

The power of dreams lay in their ability to defy logic and principles. However, the more a thing defied logic, the harder it was to manifest from a dream. Even if he managed to forcibly manifest it, it would only last for a very short time and would consume a tremendous amount of energy.

Later, he changed his approach and began replicating his own skills.

At first glance, using dreams to copy his own skills seemed pointless and redundant. But one had to remember that Dream Creation was an Ancestral God-level skill!

This meant the upper limit for replicating skills was also at the Ancestral God level.

This led Su Ze to wonder: ‘Could I upgrade my own Tier 8 and Tier 9 skills to the Ancestral God level through dreams and then manifest them in reality?’

After that, Su Ze conducted numerous experiments and practiced extensively.

First, replicating his own skills through dreams was easy. After all, these were skills he had already mastered, so he understood all their underlying principles.

The difficult part was upgrading the skill and then manifesting it.

For starters, Su Ze had no idea what effects an upgraded skill would have. For example, what would a Tier 8 Forbidden Demon Domain be like after being upgraded to an Ancestral God-level skill?

He didn’t know the answer to that; he could only rely on his imagination.

But if he let his imagination run wild, straying too far from the original skill’s effects or extending them too drastically, the principles and logic of the skill he had mastered would no longer apply.

Su Ze could imagine an Ancestral God-level Forbidden Demon Domain that could nullify all of an enemy’s attacks and imprison them directly. However, this was worlds apart from the principles of the Forbidden Demon Domain he currently understood. It would be tantamount to creating a brand-new skill from scratch.

And then he would have to manifest this Ancestral God-level skill he had imagined out of thin air, which was impossible for him at his current level.

He could settle for the next best thing: imagining an Ancestral God-level Forbidden Demon Domain that only affected the enemy and not himself.

This version would be mostly identical to the original Forbidden Demon Domain, but with one clear difference. This meant some of the principles and logic would still be compatible.

This would give him a chance to manifest such a “Forbidden Demon Domain,” but the success rate would be very low. Even if he succeeded, the energy consumption would be immense, and he wouldn’t be able to maintain it for long.

So, what was the simplest, most reliable method with the highest chance of success?

It was the one Su Ze was using right now: making no changes at all.

He imagined an Ancestral God-level Forbidden Demon Domain with the exact same effects as the Tier 8 version. The only difference was that its skill level was higher, its effect was stronger, and it possessed the rank of an Ancestral God-level skill.

In other words, it would be effective against an Ancestral God-level expert and couldn’t be broken by Domain Skills or other abilities below the Ancestral God level.

In reality, however, a true Ancestral God-level “Forbidden Demon Domain” would never have such limited effects. This was essentially a watered-down version of an Ancestral God-level skill.

But for Su Ze, this was the most practical option at the moment. The success rate was relatively high, and the energy consumption was relatively low.

He could restrain Zuka and force him into a physical confrontation. This would drastically close the gap between him and the Ancestral God.

Su Ze expanded his body to its maximum size once more. This was firstly because his size provided a bonus to his strength and other attributes, and secondly to increase his total internal energy reserves, allowing him to maintain the Ancestral God-level “Forbidden Demon Domain” for as long as possible.