I am the Clone of a Death Row Inmate

Sustaining an Ancestral God Skill manifested from a dream for a long time—even a watered-down version—had a relatively low energy cost, but was still incredibly difficult to do for an extended period.

Within the Forbidden Demon Domain, Zuka instantly realized he couldn’t use any of his skills. Seizing the opportunity, Su Ze went on the offensive, striding toward Zuka like a shooting star and throwing a simple, unadorned punch straight at his head.

Close-quarters combat was a style the Nian Race was ill-suited for, but Zuka had no choice but to fight Su Ze this way.

Before Su Ze’s current massive size, Zuka was no more than an ant. As Su Ze’s fist landed, a sickening CRUNCH echoed out. Over half the bones in Zuka’s body shattered.

‘So this is how strong I am…’ Only now did Su Ze truly realize the power of his physical body.

In terms of pure strength, he had already surpassed many Ancestral Gods.

The Nian Race was known for having weaker physical bodies, and Su Ze had only managed to force Zuka into a melee by using the Forbidden Demon Domain produced by his Dream Manifestation.

But regardless, by employing a specific fighting style, he now had a chance to defeat an Ancestral God!

Su Ze pressed his advantage, his fists raining down like a torrential storm. In just a few moments, he had smashed Zuka into a pile of bloody pulp.

However, this didn’t mean Zuka was dead. The fundamental Racial Talent of the Nian Race was Eternal Consciousness. An Ancestral God of the Nian Race like Zuka had long since developed this talent to the point of “soul indestructibility.”

Although it was incomparable to the Pure Soul Body of a Witch Race Ancestral God, a physical body was not particularly important to an Ancestral God of the Nian Race; it could be discarded at any time.

Even though Su Ze had destroyed his physical body, Zuka’s soul was unharmed. He was simply unable to use life energy to rapidly reconstruct his body under the suppression of the Forbidden Demon Domain.

But even without relying on energy, an Ancestral God’s regenerative abilities were extremely powerful. The pile of mangled flesh was already starting to reform.

Su Ze didn’t dare deactivate the Forbidden Demon Domain, as that would give Zuka an opportunity to counterattack. Consequently, he couldn’t use energy attacks to destroy the body, and could only repeatedly demolish and dismember Zuka’s constantly regenerating flesh.

After repeating this process several times, Su Ze detected a powerful soul fluctuation escaping from Zuka’s flesh and blood, flying toward the outside of the Forbidden Demon Domain.

Zuka was trying to escape the domain’s range!

Inside the Forbidden Demon Domain, his hands and feet were effectively tied. Once he was free of its restrictions and could use his Soul Attacks and energy attacks, suppressing Su Ze would be easy.

Su Ze, of course, couldn’t let him get his wish. However, the domain itself was immobile.

But it *could* be expanded!

To conserve energy, Su Ze had kept the range of the Forbidden Demon Domain relatively small. But an Ancestral God-level Domain Skill could cover an astonishing area.

Now, as Zuka fled, Su Ze continuously expanded the domain in the direction of his escape while shrinking it on the opposite side. He himself also flew in pursuit of Zuka’s soul.

Wielding the Artifact Seed, he frantically hacked at Zuka’s fleeing soul. Logically, in his current state of fused soul and flesh, every one of his strikes should have carried a Soul Attack and been able to damage Zuka’s soul.

Unfortunately, the Ancestral God-level Forbidden Demon Domain was so powerful that it even suppressed the Soul Attacks embedded in his own physical strikes. The domain was a double-edged sword, restricting both the enemy and himself. For now, though, the restrictions on his enemy were far greater.

But the Artifact Seed could still damage Zuka’s soul. This Divine Artifact had a voracious appetite and devoured everything. Zuka’s soul was a highly condensed Soul Energy Body, and every time Su Ze swiped the Artifact Seed through it, the artifact would “bite off” a small chunk.

It was a good thing the “Artifact Seed” had just been upgraded to a ninth-rank Divine Artifact; otherwise, it would have struggled to harm Zuka’s Soul Body at all.

However, the damage was akin to being slowly scraped away. But even a scrape would wear someone down if it was constant, relentless, and delivered at the speed of light…

Su Ze controlled the boundaries of the Forbidden Demon Domain the entire time. Wherever Zuka fled, he expanded the domain in that direction while rapidly shrinking it on the other side. This ensured the energy cost of maintaining the field wouldn’t spiral out of control, and it also made it impossible for Zuka to escape.

Inside the domain, where energy couldn’t be used, Zuka’s Soul Body couldn’t fly any faster than Su Ze.

The Artifact Seed in Su Ze’s hand spun madly like a fan blade, continuously slicing through Zuka’s Soul Body. Of course, it was far faster than any fan—so fast the naked eye couldn’t track it, causing the very space around it to distort.

If this were a video game, you’d probably see a constant stream of “-1, -1, -1…” popping up over Zuka’s head.

Humiliating!

Zuka was utterly infuriated. He hated himself for not crushing Su Ze from the very beginning!

Now, he could neither fight back nor escape.

All he could do was endure and try to wear Su Ze down, hoping to last until the moment Su Ze could no longer sustain the energy cost of the Forbidden Demon Domain.

The instant the Forbidden Demon Domain vanished would be his moment to strike back…

However…

“Damn it! He’s just a Sun God! How can he maintain a Group God Domain for this long!”

But Zuka didn’t know that after Su Ze had enlarged his body, his evolutionary power had become vast and seemingly endless. He had never before experienced a situation where his reserves couldn’t keep up with his consumption.

This time, however, the consumption was exceptionally high, and even Su Ze felt he couldn’t hold on for much longer.

But it didn’t really matter. He had already achieved his objective. He had stalled for long enough and could now use his Replacement Skill to escape.

But the current situation gave Su Ze hope that he might actually be able to wear Zuka down completely. Because of this, he was unwilling to give up. He decided to give it his all and see if he could finish Zuka off before his own energy was depleted.

Killing intent sparked within him.

This was an Ancestral God, after all!