Ultragene Warlord

>Zhang Lie snorted.
“Will you follow me back to the dojo if I can deal with the Musi clan, then?”

“I'd love to, but I don't want to bring you trouble,” Hong Xiao insisted.
“The Zenith Dojo's in a period of growth.
If you rouse the Musi clan's ire now, it might be a devastating blow for your dojo.
I can't be so selfish, and—”

“You think the Musi clan has more influence than I do?” Zhang Lie interrupted him again, rolling his eyes.
He was about to pull out his transceiver when he remembered that he had crushed it to pieces in his hurry to find Hong Xi.
“Hong Xi, lend me your transceiver.”

Hong Xi nodded.
As he took the transceiver, Zhang Lie made a quick call.

“Zhang Hong, please help me place a bounty on the entire Musi clan.
I'll trade one vial of Potion #1 for ten subordinate hunters of the Musi clan, five branch hunters, or one hunter from the main family.
For a core hunter of the main family, two vials of Potion #1! Announce this bounty immediately—and if there aren't enough vials of Potion #1 around, have the labs halt their research and focus on producing as many vials as they can.
Alright, I'll speak with you once I get back.” Zhang Lie hung up.
“The Musi clan's finished.”

Hong Xiao and Hong Xi stood stock-still.

The two siblings were almost entirely unaware of the true value of these potions, and they weren't certain if anyone would actually be willing to anger the Musi clan just for one or two such vials.

Of course, just because they didn't appreciate the value of these potions didn't mean that other hunters didn't, either.
A golden bounty shone at the top of the largest bounty hunters' forum in the galaxy, and the appearance of that bounty immediately led to repercussions throughout the dimensional world.

“Just what sort of enmity could there be between the Zenith Dojo and the Musi clan for Zhang Lie to be willing to hand over his precious potions as a reward?”

“The Musi clan's done for, I say!”

“Eh, where are you off to?”

“Isn't it obvious? There's a branch company of the Musi on this planet, and the managerial staff are all members of the Musi clan!”

The assassins of the Milky Way reacted even more decisively, and one of the most infamous such organizations, the Night Shadows, recalled all its members immediately.

Seated on his skeletal throne, the leader of the assassin troupe announced, “From today onwards, the night shadows will cease all other activity and focus solely on killing those of the Musi clan.”

There were quite a number of outstanding assassination requests, for which the troupe would have to pay a hefty cancellation fee, and one daring member asked about them.

“Haven't you all seen the news about the bounty from the Zenith Dojo? Do you know how much these potions are worth? Pay the cancellation fees—they're nothing compared to the profit we'll get in return!”

Some of the killers, who had yet to hear about the news, immediately pulled up the corresponding information.

The champion of the Void Cup, Zhang Lie, had grown rather famous in the Milky Way, and many believed that the source of his extraordinary strength in the first realm was the additional fifty limit fragments and ten peak gene fragments that he possessed.

If they too were able to obtain a vial of Potion #1 for themselves, even if they couldn't become the next Zhang Lie, their strength would surely improve by leaps and bounds as well. 

The assassins vanished from sight even before their leader dismissed them all.
After all, there were only a limited number of people in the Musi clan, and they were afraid that others would get to the Musi hunters first…

The Beika plane in the third realm was an unusual location, filled with an endless swarm of bugs whose numbers never seemed to get smaller no matter how many were killed.

A man bathed in blood stood atop a hill of bug corpses, a bowl of ramen in his hands and a transceiver on his wrist.
He was glancing at the daily news from the world federation.

“A bounty on the Musi clan?  Interesting.” Xing Yan stood up and tossed his cup of ramen aside.
 “In that case, it looks like it's finally my turn to shine.” 

To the pack of starbeasts below him, he announced, “Xing Zhi, inform the entire clan that the Musi clan is now our sworn enemy.
We'll kill their hunters on sight!”

Xing Zhi seemed rather flummoxed.
“Why, young master? We won't be able to make use of the humans' limit-breaking potions!”

Xing Yan smiled again.
“That's unimportant.
What matters is that Zhang Lie's a good friend of the clan, and helping him out in his time of need is worth far more than any material possession.”

The other three prime races felt much the same way.
Destroying the Musi clan would be as easy as squashing a fly, and that was a cheap price to pay for winning Zhang Lie's goodwill.