Chapter 1096: The State of the Worlds
Sun Mengmeng walked over. "Why are you watching Hong Xi?"
Zhang Lie blinked, breaking out of his reverie. "That's my student."
"Is that so?" Sun Mengmeng responded casually.
Sun Xiaowu rushed over to smooth things over. "Captain, we've already dealt with all the major combatants of the white world, but we're waiting for you to decide what to do with the world itself."
Li Feng also walked over. "Same for us."
Zhang Lie hmmed. "We'll have to wait and see how the other superior kings respond to decide what to do."
Zhang Lie sought out Li Zongming. "What do you plan to do with the world of black rain? Do you really intend to merge it with the Zongming world?"
Li Zongming shrugged. "I'm still contemplating what to do. If I do so, it'll likely take quite a fair amount of superior world's energy."
The Zongming world wasn't particularly large, but it possessed significant reserves of a superior world's energy. In fact, it was even smaller than the other newly evolved superior worlds, let alone the superior worlds of antiquity.
Absorbing the world of black rain would cause the Zongming world to grow larger, but it would take a fair amount of energy to terraform and repair the world of black rain beforehand.
As is, the terrain and environmental conditions of the world of black rain were hardly conducive to most lifeforms, and this was a conundrum to Li Zongming as well.
Li Zongming murmured, "I could also just merge large worlds into my world to expand it. It might cost about as much as fixing the world of black rain and merging that..."
It would cost a certain amount of superior world's energy to deal with the difference in status between a large and superior world.
"On the other hand, if I merge the world of black rain, that's equivalent to trying to merge one or two dozen large worlds..."
Zhang Lie shrugged. "Well, let me know when you figure it out. I'll be leaving with the others first."
Li Zongming hurriedly grabbed Zhang Lie's sleeve. "Don't leave just yet! I'd like your opinion."
Zhang Lie shrugged. "There's no big difference either way. You decide."
If Li Zongming chose not to merge the world of black rain, he would be able to save some superior world's energy.
On the other hand, if he did merge the world of black rain, he would be able to get significantly more landmass. The cost and benefit were both relatively balanced.
The Zongming world wasn't particularly lacking in superior world's energy, but no superior king would be upset at having more of that rare resource.
The more superior world's energy a world possessed, the more numerous the citizens' talent, and the faster they would develop. Neither was the Zongming world particularly lacking in terms of landmass.
The Zongming world had recently evolved to a superior one, and there wasn't a pressing need for more land.
In other words, this choice really depended on the direction in which Li Zongming wanted to steer his world's development.
Li Zongming suggested, "How's the state of the other superior worlds of antiquity?"
It was clear that he had set his eyes on the worlds that Zhang Lie and the members of Team Zenith had defeated.
"Are the world of black fog and the unclean world in good shape?"
Zhang Lie shrugged. "Don't expect to get anything from those two worlds. I've destroyed the world of black fog, and I've already extracted the superior world's energy from the unclean world."
Li Zongming sighed.
Zhang Lie shrugged. "Even if I didn't, neither of these two worlds are much more hospitable than the world of black rain."
Li Zongming seemed surprised. "Really?" But those were all superior worlds! Of the three superior worlds that Li Zongming had seen—the three newest—none had unfavorable environmental conditions.
Li Zongming naturally expected that the superior worlds of antiquity would have even better environmental conditions, and that the reason the world of black rain was so dreary was because of the death spirits' invasion.
Zhang Lie and the others had had a last stand against the death spirit king over a large swathe of the world of black rain's territory, and Li Zongming had expected that to be the main cause for the current inhospitality of the world.
It was just like how a farmer from rural areas believed that cities were far superior to villages—but whether that was true or not was something only someone who had been to both types of areas could make a judgment on.
Zhang Lie shrugged. "They're superior worlds of antiquity, outdated and ancient. At the very least, the three superior worlds of antiquity I've been to have all been in various states of decay.
"They're definitely not as pretty as our three new superior worlds. You've all seen the world of black rain. Even before the war against the death spirits, the world of black rain only ever had graveyards and withered trees all over."
Sun Mengmeng thought for a moment. "If these superior worlds have existed since antiquity, doesn't it mean that these worlds are somehow bolstered against the passage of time?"
Zhang Lie replied, "The world of black fog and the unclean world are about the same. The world of black fog had already become a pile of ruins; the only difference was that its outside had been covered up by a dense layer of black fog. Either the will of the world or the original superior king had died to give birth to the king of black fog. He was known as the most mysterious superior king, but that's a meaningless title."
Yang Ze continued, "The unclean world's filled with abyssal trenches and rocks, and the trenches have all been corroded away! Even after I and the captain cleaned up the place, there was still plenty of green poisonous gas floating around the vicinity."
When he thought back to the unclean world, Yang Ze had to suppress an urge to vomit. It was truly unclean, so much so that Yang Ze felt as though his skin would never be clean again.
Li Zongming glanced toward the other members of Team Zenith. If neither the world of black fog nor the unclean world were appropriate, then how about the white world or the world of blazing sun?
After all, the members of Team Zenith had claimed those worlds too.
Sun Mengmeng replied, "Don't think about the white world. It's even worse off than the world of black rain! The world of black rain might be tattered, but at least an ordinary hunter might be able to step inside and suffer no ill effects. On the other hand, if you head to the white world, you might freeze to death if you're not strong enough."
Sun Xiaowu added, "The world of black rain at least can support genetic lifeforms and aliens, but any who want to live in the white world have to be very specialized indeed."
Zhang Hanxiang said, "The only good thing about the white world is that there are still living lifeforms there, but not very many of them."
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