I am the Clone of a Death Row Inmate

Absorbing the Rank 6 extract posed no difficulty for Su Ze; everything fell into place naturally.

He was already familiar with the process and selected the "Weakness Strike" skill.

His "Knowledge is Power" skill sensed he had acquired a new skill and immediately performed a Cell Enhancement on him.

After successfully absorbing a vial of top-tier Rank 6 extract and undergoing a Cell Enhancement, Su Ze's overall strength saw a significant boost.

Of course, the greatest gain was acquiring the "Weakness Strike" skill.

Weakness Strike (Quasi-Divine Skill): Perceive a target's weak points and launch one attack against each. The number of weak points depends on the power difference between both parties. When attacking, the skill locks onto the weak point, guaranteeing a hit that bypasses all forms of defense.

It was worth noting that "Weakness Strike" was an attack skill in its own right, not a support skill that augmented other attacks.

When used alone, the attack's power against a weak point was determined by Su Ze's constitution, with its force being roughly equivalent to a full-power basic attack from him. The only difference was that it ignored distance and defense, and was a guaranteed hit.

When the Golden Falcon used this skill, it manifested as piercing feathers. For Su Ze, however, it was a punch, manifesting as a ranged fist strike.

In other words, when Su Ze locked onto a "weak point," he couldn't use other skills like "Needle Strike" or "Impact Cannon" to trigger the strike. He had to use the inherent ranged fist strike of the "Weakness Strike" skill itself to trigger it.

However, integrating "Weakness Strike" into "Strongest Punch" was a different matter. "Weakness Strike" would become part of "Strongest Punch," allowing "Strongest Punch" to directly trigger the effect of "Weakness Strike."

The result was just like the punch Su Ze had used to obliterate the Golden Falcon.

With this Quasi-Divine Skill, Su Ze finally had the confidence to face a Legendary.

If he completed his sixth evolution and advanced to the Legendary rank, there would be few people on all of Blue Star he would need to fear.

With a large amount of Sands of Time, digesting extracts was a simple matter for Su Ze. He could immediately digest the Golden Falcon extract within his body.

But he didn't. Even if he digested the Golden Falcon extract, he wouldn't be able to undergo his sixth evolution right away.

He still had one requirement for the sixth evolution left to meet: upgrading all of his skills to Rank 5 or higher.

He still had two Rank 4 skills that needed upgrading.

One was Furious Waves, the other was Regeneration Body.

Once these two skills were upgraded, he would immediately absorb the Sands of Time, digest the extract, and push for his sixth evolution!

'I need to prioritize gathering the upgrade materials for these two skills!'

'Finding Puzzle Piece Number Four also needs to be made a priority soon.'

'I wonder how Jiang Pingle and the others are doing. Did they manage to kill the Beast King Sponge?'

As these thoughts swirled in his mind, Su Ze sent a message to Mr. Ya, telling him to stand guard here. Su Ze himself piloted his ship on a patrol of the surrounding area, clearing out all the nearby mutated beasts.

Chen Suifeng hadn't called for aid, which meant his side was still holding on. For now, Su Ze had no plans to go and provide support.

...

The largest beast tide since the end of the War of Evolution finally receded after raging for two days and one night.

Of course, this was only true for the three major continents. The fate of the other settlements was currently unknown.

Su Ze had been guarding Lin Hua Continent this whole time and hadn't wandered elsewhere, so he wasn't very familiar with the situation outside.

But it didn't take a genius to guess that most of the smaller settlements had likely been trampled flat in this wave.

Even the three major continents hadn't had it easy. They had paid a heavy price under the beast tide, with dozens of cities falling. After the tide receded, only devastation remained.

Ultimately, the beast tide only retreated after Jiang Pingle and the other Legendary powerhouses returned to provide reinforcements.

Jiang Pingle and Deng Sui returned to Lin Hua Continent and, with the help of the divine-level wondrous objects they controlled, went on a rampage, forcefully repelling the beast tides surging from all directions.

Although Su Ze hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he could guess that the masters of Flame Emperor Continent and Snowfield Continent had surely played the role of saviors, using the power of their divine-level wondrous objects to push back the beast tides.

In reality, Jiang Pingle and his group had only killed one or two old, Rank 6 mutated beasts to make an example of them. They hadn't engaged in a large-scale slaughter of Rank 6 beasts.

They wanted to cultivate more divine-level experts for the Human Race, which required more divine-level mutated beasts like the Beast King Sponge to provide Rank 7 extracts. Therefore, they certainly wouldn't slaughter large numbers of Rank 6 beasts with potential.

And so, seeing how powerful their enemies were, and with their newly-born divine-level Beast King already fallen, the Rank 6 mutated beasts naturally retreated obediently, and the beast tide subsided.

That's right. The Beast King Sponge ultimately couldn't withstand the war of attrition from the Nian Race powerhouses and fell at sea.

Jiang Pingle and the others didn't hide this news. On the contrary, they brazenly publicized their god-slaying achievement.

In the story they propagated, the Beast King Sponge was cast as a great demon lord threatening the world. After ascending to godhood, it summoned mutated beasts from across the globe to launch this great beast tide, and Jiang Pingle and the other three Legendary powerhouses became the heroes who saved the world. To save Blue Star, they risked their lives in a decisive battle against the great demon lord, ultimately joining forces to defeat it.

The story was cliché, but it was thrilling and moving.

At the very least, after hearing the tale, the common people of Lin Hua Country came to regard the four of them as heroes, filled with reverence.

As for the achievements of Chen Suifeng and the others who risked their lives to protect Lin Hua Country, they were glossed over with a single, fleeting mention. No one cared, no one brought it up, and no one remembered.