Ultragene Warlord

ies, Earth will never be able to hold out.”

They understood that, if they didn't cooperate and rally against Zhang Lie now, they would have no choice but to bow down to him in the future.
Furthermore, they wanted to obtain the newest results of his research—the limit-breaking potions—paying as little a price as they could.

Of course, their wish wasn't about to come true.
 

Hong Tianqi sighed.
“Very well.
Let's have the ten members of the judiciary vote on the matter.”

Everyone seemed placated by this outcome, which was the standard mode of resolution for all affairs, contentious or otherwise, brought forward to the judicial committee.
If nothing were to go wrong, those in favor of punishing Zhang Lie would certainly win.

“A show of hands!” Amurong proclaimed, standing up.
“Those who find it unreasonable for Zhang Lie to retain sole rights over his limit-breaking potions, who believe the world federation should instead acquire his research materials, raise your hands!”

Four members of the committee immediately raised their hands, causing the hunters in the faction hostile against Zhang Lie to grin at each other.
Just two more representatives would be needed—and once the world federation's highest authorities had made their decision, even Zhang Lie would have to accede to their will.

Otherwise, he would truly become a public enemy.

However, after these four representatives had raised their hands, followed slowly by the presiding representative, Amurong, that was that.
Hong Tianqi and the representatives of the nightdemons, aquatic, starbeasts, and winged races had no intention of raising their hands.

In other words, they favored Zhang Lie.
With five raised and five unraised hands, the vote was a tie! 

According to custom, a tie meant that further deliberation was necessary; the committee would shelve the matter for a year, during which time they would observe how the situation developed, and then vote once more.

For a hunter like Zhang Lie, whose strength was in his ridiculous growth, a year was far more than enough time to develop beyond the constraints of the world federation, and those who were opposed to Zhang Lie would hardly be able to monopolize the seeds of his labor.

Those representatives were outraged by this outcome, and they could hardly give up just yet.
They stared daggers at the representatives from the four prime races.
To them, it wasn't a surprise that Hong Tianqi, a fellow Earthling, would be in support of Zhang Lie, but the four prime races had promised that they would support the hostile representatives in seizing Zhang Lie's assets!

However, they had then backed out of that agreement when it came time for the actual vote.
How could the hostile representatives not be upset at their sudden change of mind?

The four prime races had been tentatively willing to commit to the vote despite their ongoing cooperation with Zhang Lie because their research teams had yet to have any success, but they recently received news that their scientists had just made a breakthrough. 

They would be able to get limit-breaking potions developed specifically for their own races from Zhang Lie himself, so why would they want to renege on their cooperation with Zhang Lie now? 

Furthermore, it was unrealistic to think that they could make heads or tails of Zhang Lie's work immediately.
Without his guidance, they could well spend orders of magnitude more energy and time in order to understand what he had done—and that only if they managed to secure all of Zhang Lie's research material!

The four prime races were fully aware that this was an unrealistic assumption.
Zhang Lie would surely ensconce himself in the depths of the dimensional world, never to be seen again.
Neither would they be able to snatch the information from him.

Furthermore, even if they were to acquire all his information and research results, what would happen next? Could they be satisfied with just Potion #1? The four races that had been cooperating with Zhang Lie knew quite a bit more about his theory of limit fragments than did the ordinary specialist.
By analyzing his combat footage, they determined that he had already come up with and consumed Potion #2.

Could the four races in cooperation with Zhang Lie not be tempted by this realization? Of course they would—and they would naturally side with Zhang Lie.