Ultragenic Warlord

Chapter 844: A Wave of Attention

"Let go of me, let go of me! Li Zongming, you bastard! I'm going to avenge the king of the west!" The western revolutionary struggled in vain, pinned down as he was by a number of bodyguards. He was barely able to pull out a bottle securely wrapped within his clothes and smashed it against the ground, sending a fog of black smoke gushing out.

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"Poison!"

"This scoundrel—he snuck poison into the venue!"

"Help! Poison!"

The revolutionary laughed as the guests gasped and cried out in shock.

"Haha, haha! All of you, go and die!"

The three figures on stage remained perfectly calm. As Li Zongming pointed at the mess, a gust of wind blew past, and the poison fog vanished as though it were never there, leaving only the revolutionary's mad, raucous laughter behind. As the revolutionary himself discovered that the poison was missing, his laughter grew softer and softer until it dissolved into an awkward silence.

This was why Zhang Lie hadn't made a move: he knew that his involvement wasn't necessary.

The king of the realm would be able to deal with all such trivial assassination attempts with barely a thought. Even if all the guests were to release a cloud of poison, Li Zongming could neutralize it all.

Li Zongming's bodyguards knelt on the ground. "Your majesty, we apologize for our negligence!"

Li Zongming waved a hand. "All responsible guards will be docked a year's pay. Don't let the same thing happen again."

"Yes, your majesty!"

Zhang Lie smiled wryly at Li Zongming. "It isn't easy being you."

Li Zongming shrugged. "You'll always have detractors, no matter what you do. Something as crazy as merging the worlds of east and west—it's only natural that some people would try to stop me. I simply have to deal with them."

Li Zongming said this response not only to answer Zhang Lie's question, but also to explain himself to the guests present.

He continued, "I know there are quite a few revolutionaries in the west who are attempting to stop me, but we shouldn't let that detract from our goal. The desire to merge the two worlds has been passed down to me through a long line of eastern kings spanning millennia. I won't stop this plan just because of a bit of resistance.

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…By merging the two worlds, we can combine and pool our forces into something better for both—to have the strength, speed, and adaptability on the universal stage," Li Zongming continued his speech.

Li Qianlin snuck a glance at the sky and whispered, hiding a bit of boredom, "Father, I think we had better initiate the merger soon."

Li Zongming nodded. "You're right. Now, I'll initiate the process of merging the two worlds!"

The guests all widened their eyes and focused on this historic moment, unwilling to miss out on even a second of the process.

Li Zongming pulled out the jade seal that was the proof of kingship of the west. As his entire body radiated with light, the proof of kingship of the east appeared in his hand.

The jade seal of the west was engraved with the image of a five-colored dragon; the jade seal of the east, with a firebird whose backdrop was the sun.

As both seals appeared in Li Zongming's hands, they began to glow and emit energy.

As the energy from both seals met, the heavens shook. Suddenly, the lifeforms engraved on the two seals came to life.

The five-colored dragon let out a howl that shook the skies. The firebird croaked out a call, flapped its wings, flew out of the jade seal, circled it, then soared into the sky. The five-colored dragon did the same, revolving around the seal and flying through the air.

The jade seal of the west in Li Zongming's left hand began to emit lightning and flame: scarlet flame, violet lightning, as though a disaster were descending onto the world, as though the flames of purgatory were cleansing the realm.

The scarlet flames and violet lightning gave way to a five-colored explosion, turning the seal into what seemed like a glowing moon. It was as beautiful as a gem, and its multicolored glow lit up the sky. The jade seal of the east in the king's right hand radiated golden light like a flaming sun.

As the golden sun appeared, the will of the world was summoned to the scene.

The western seal in the king's left hand, glowing like the moon, and the eastern seal in the king's right hand, shining like the sun, drew closer and closer to each other.

The five-colored dragon and the sunbird flew around each other in the air.

The sun and moon grew larger and appeared behind Li Zongming. The sun occluded the moon, forming the equivalent of a solar eclipse.

The five-colored dragon and sunbird likewise drew closer, until the two mythical creatures seemed as though they were entwined.

As Li Zongming finally brought the two seals together with a resounding clap of his palms, they combined into one. The shining sun and glowing moon released scarlet flames and violet lightning through the sky. A radiant outpouring of light lit up the skies with a golden glow.

Li Qianlin and Zhang Lie stood together by the side of the stage, watching Li Zongming's figure.

The wormhole connecting the worlds of east and west—and all the wormholes stemming from both worlds—vanished in that instant.

As the two seals merged, Li Zongming himself began to glow.

Behind him appeared a golden corona around a black solar eclipse. The outline of the western world could be seen over the horizon, and the five-colored dragon and the sunbird had combined into a gigantic six-colored egg which reflected all the light that shone toward it.

Li Zongming's body flared with light, and a thick pillar of it shot into the skies and enveloped the egg above. It struck the western world, causing the will of the world there to materialize.

The two worlds began to tremble violently as they neared each other.

The illusory world of the west gradually grew clearer. The two wills of the world were like white and black, mutually attracting and entangling each other without any resistance at all, as though they were a natural pair.

The landmasses and oceans from the two worlds began to combine. A ring of energy surrounded them both.

Li Qianlin frowned. "This didn't happen when the draconian world merged with the others, did it?"

"As expected." Zhang Lie seemed to have predicted it all. The merger of two exceptionally strong large worlds immediately resulted in the formation of a superior world.

The phenomenon that Li Qianlin had observed was a hallmark of that superior evolution.

As the will of the world supervised the process, natural law was instated on the worlds with runes falling from the sky like rain.

Just then, all the kings of the realm of superior worlds raised their heads as one, as though they had all received some form of signal...