Chapter 937: I Picked It Up

Zhang Lie portioned half the world's energy he had obtained to the new king and instructed him, "Don't merge this world with the others for some time."

"How long do I need to wait?"

"Until the start of the war."

"The war?"

"The war against the death spirits!"

The king frowned, then asked perceptively, "Is there some relationship between the death spirits and the black spirits?"

Zhang Lie nodded. "To be precise, the black spirits are the vanguard sent out by the death spirits. Soon, there will be a war that consumes the entirety of the three thousand worlds. Small worlds will be crushed to dust, and even medium-sized worlds will be hard-pressed to survive. Large worlds could be doomed by just a single wrong move."

Zhang Lie's descriptions alone highlighted the enormity of the struggle that they would face.

"However, this war will also consume the attention of the superior worlds around—presenting you with the best opportunity for your world's evolution."

"Do I not want their attention? What would they do?"

Zhang Lie patiently explained, "The superior worlds don't want any competitors—they won't allow the formation of new superior worlds."

The king nodded, fully trusting in Zhang Lie's words.

Zhang Lie stood up. "Thank you for inviting me to the banquet. It's past time for me to go, I think."

The king barely refrained from holding his master back. "Will you be leaving now, Master?"

"There are still a lot of tasks waiting for me to deal with, unfortunately."

"I don't know when I'll ever see you again, Master..."

Zhang Lie smiled. "While I remain in the third realm, there are plenty of opportunities for us to meet."

The king dipped his head. When Zhang Lie first left, the king had never expected to see him again—but two years later, they had a chance meeting.

The king asked, "Master, where in the three thousand worlds are you located? Even if I don't have the opportunity or time to meet you in person, I hope I'll at least be able to send you a few letters."

"No need for that—we'll meet each other again if it's fated to be."

Zhang Lie stepped out of the hall, his back to the king, as he waved a hand.

With a sharp whistle, the five-colored dragon flew over. Zhang Lie leapt up onto its back and into the palace it bore. The dragon flapped its wings and flew toward a wormhole out of the scaleman world.

The king walked to the entrance to the hall and waved at Zhang Lie as he departed. "Goodbye, Master!"

The day Zhang Lie left, the death spirits made their move, breaking free of the barricade that the superior worlds had erected around them and setting up the stage for a war of the worlds. The other superior worlds quickly received news of what had happened and convened an emergency meeting.

As soon as Zhang Lie returned to the draconian world, he received a message from the Yeluo chieftain, who had made a breakthrough in the development of the peak limit-breaking potion. War would quickly break out as a result of the death spirits' actions, and if the members of Team Zenith could obtain peak limit fragments by then, it would be a great boost to their strength.

That said, Zhang Lie feared neither the other superior worlds nor the death spirits.

He rushed to the Yeluo laboratory and found the Yeluo chieftain immediately. "You're finally back, your majesty!"

"How are the results?" Zhang Lie asked excitedly.

"I've managed to make a few vials of the potion with reduced potency. For safety considerations, however, I think it'll be necessary to consume these vials in conjunction with the upgraded restorative made from Zhou Ying's cells."

"Excellent news. I'll summon the members of Team Zenith back immediately."

He instructed the warlords under his control to find the members of Team Zenith and bring them back, while he headed to the farm that had been set up in the draconian world. During this period of time, Zhu had been busy cultivating disaster-grade lifeforms, but monarch-grade lifeforms were clearly far harder to produce.

Zhu sighed. "Zhang Lie, am I useless? I can't even help you with such a simple task..."

Zhang Lie caressed Zhu's sky-blue hair. "No, no such thing. If monarch-grade lifeforms were so easy to cultivate, the third realm would have been full of them by now. Even Gold Comet only evolved to monarch-grade after being with me for almost the entirety of my stay in the third realm."

Zhu stuck out her tongue. "Thank you for your consolation, Zhang Lie. I feel quite a bit better."

"I have some special feed for the lifeforms," Zhang Lie added, retrieving the coffin from his storage-type soulshard.

Zhu seemed bewildered. "Zhang Lie, what's with the coffin?"

"Look at what's inside." Zhang Lie smiled mysteriously, then removed the lid of the coffin.

As he did so, the world's energy shone so brightly that a pillar of rainbow light shot up into the sky. The phenomenon drew the will of the world's attention at once, and the genetic lifeforms in the farm all began to clamor. Struck by desire, they drew close to the coffin—until Zhang Lie glared at them.

The draconian sage teleported over and was amazed by what he found. "All this world's energy? But from where?"

He looked at the pillar of light, almost drooling at its intensity, before turning to Zhang Lie. "You're causing trouble again..."

As he looked into the coffin and found enough world's energy to power his world six times over,

he frowned. "You pillaged the world's energy from the worlds you conquered?"

The draconian sage was aware of the fact that the hunters of the Milky Way had been invading and seizing all the nearby worlds. They now had at least fifty worlds under their control, and many neighboring worlds surrendered after seeing how completely the Worldpact Coalition was destroyed.

If Zhang Lie were to combine all these worlds into one, he would be able to create an unparalleled superior world, the likes of which had never before been seen. However, Zhang Lie had no intention of doing so.

Precisely what he was planning, the draconian sage couldn't tell. To the draconian sage, Zhang Lie was a strong and mysterious hunter, and trouble always followed in his footsteps. He was a mystery, but the draconian sage didn't intend to unravel it—he wasn't sure he could deal with what lay within.

The draconian sage scowled. "How many worlds did you destroy?"

Zhang Lie rolled his eyes. "Do I look like a tyrant that would destroy worlds out of nowhere?"

Very much so!?the draconian sage wanted to say, but Zhang Lie had never done so.

Zhang Lie shrugged. "I simply picked up all this world's energy."

Picked up...??The draconian sage pressed, "Please tell me where you managed to 'pick up' so much energy."

He certainly didn't believe that it would be readily available to be picked up; otherwise, the kings of the third realm wouldn't have to worry about depleting this rare resource...