Conversations Before the World Martial Arts Tournament

Although Master Roshi's paper fighting power increases dramatically after transforming into his animal form, if he were to actually fight his original form in this transformed state, he would definitely get beaten up.

After all, the turtle form is fine in the water, but it has virtually no fighting power on land. Its size, which is so different from that of a human, leaves Master Roshi with no room to use his martial arts skills.

If Master Roshi had mastered the Levitation Technique, he could have barely become a flying turtle and bombarded the enemy with his mouth cannon. Unfortunately, due to some inexplicable awkwardness, Master Roshi never bothered to learn or develop the Levitation Technique.

In this situation, transforming into his current turtle form serves almost no purpose other than making him more resistant to attacks.

After sensing his turtle state, or rather, his Black Tortoise state, Master Roshi began to change again. A moment later, a black Ninja Turtle with a dragon's head and a snake's tail appeared.

This is clearly Master Roshi's half-beast form. Perhaps because he has a dragon head, he doesn't look too ferocious.

"Hmm... this form's combat power is 4200. Obviously, the combat power in the half-beast form is more than double! It's quite a decent transformation skill!"

Vegapunk glanced at Master Roshi's condition and couldn't help but nod. Master Roshi at this level could be said to be invincible on the entire Earth before a certain Saiyan Prince arrived.

Even if you calculate the time, by the time a Saiyan Prince arrives, Master Roshi might have already reached a higher level. Perhaps Son Goku wouldn't even need to lift a finger; Master Roshi could defeat that group of Saiyan on his own.

Turning his head, Master Roshi looked at the gleaming walls of the Laboratory, and after seeing his current appearance, he couldn't help but shake his head:

"Has he turned into Orks now? It seems he can't normally transform into this state."

As he spoke, Master Roshi transformed back into human form, but looking at his middle-aged appearance, he was still a little troubled.

"I look so much younger all of a sudden, I guess I need to spend some time on makeup!"

As he spoke, Master Roshi suppressed his energy and spirit, his once robust skin gradually withered, and with a wave of his hand, his once jet-black hair fell to the ground, turning him bald again.

Touching his chin, Master Roshi made up his mind that he would wear a fake mustache and sunglasses when he came back, so that he would look no different from before.

Of course, Master Roshi is now quite shocked by Vegapunk's technology. Is this the kind of technology that has been born from absorbing the knowledge of the entire universe? Just one fruit has increased his fighting power by more than 20 times.

With this technology, my years of hard-earned martial arts training have become almost meaningless! Even an ordinary person can eat a fruit that surpasses my three hundred years of arduous training. It's really too discouraging to cultivate one's martial arts spirit.

After the transformation, Master Roshi's strength increased significantly, and his confidence also soared. When facing his three students again, he was much more confident.

However, after his strength increased dramatically, Master Roshi quickly discovered many problems, namely that his Turtle School arts seemed to have lost much of their effectiveness.

It's not that martial arts are useless, but rather that with my current skill level, the training methods I developed in the past are almost completely ineffective.

For example, in the weighted training of the Turtle School, if one doesn't have Gravity Bracelets, then to ensure the effectiveness of training, one would have to carry a huge mountain while exercising. Putting aside whether it's convenient or not, it's simply impossible to find such a heavy load.

After all, the Dragon Ball World still follows some laws of physics. Even if you really had the strength to lift a mountain, you could only make a hole in it at most; you couldn't possibly lift it up.

This is why a group of people on Earth, whose strength is relatively even, are stuck at a level below 200 power level. In fact, before Son Goku, Goku's Raditz, came to Earth, the powerful people on Earth also had this problem.

Apart from Son Goku and Piccolo Jr. (to distinguish them from Piccolo, whose son is named Piccolo Jr.), whose racial talents exceeded the 200-power limit, almost everyone else was stuck at this bottleneck.

The training methods for the Martial Arts of Ki in the Dragon Ball World are actually not particularly unusual. They involve thoroughly expending one's physical strength through various methods, and then recovering it. In this cycle, one's strength will increase.

However, if one's strength reaches two or three hundred combat power, then relying on ordinary weightlifting, no matter how much training one does, it is almost impossible to exhaust one's physical strength. In this case, it is equivalent to the daily amount of exercise being only a warm-up, so naturally these Earth warriors cannot become stronger.

It wasn't until later, after these people went to the Temple and King Kai's Planet for intensive training, that they truly broke through their limits. The training on King Kai's Planet also made them realize the benefits of gravity training.

Once Earth's technology developed gravity training chambers, these warriors on Earth truly entered a period of rapid improvement in strength. Before that, they had almost no other way to improve except through deadly battles with each other.

Therefore, the training methods of the Turtle School were not eliminated; they were simply because they could not find a greater load.

Master Roshi quickly realized that the only way to make his current strength continue to improve by leaps and bounds was to ask Vegapunk for a higher level of Gravity Bracelets.

"Looks like I'll need to build a good relationship with this guy if I want to make progress in the future!"

Several months passed quickly after Master Roshi underwent human modification, and soon it was time for the World Martial Arts Tournament.

Although Master Roshi felt that the so-called World Martial Arts Tournament was now basically meaningless, he had used those words to tempt Kid Goku, Yamcha, and Krillin when they became his disciples. Now, he naturally had to keep his word and take them to see it for themselves—or rather, to blow up the fishpond.

Meanwhile, in Vegapunk's Laboratory, the Unit 1 Cyborg he created had been completed.

"Cyborg created using White Zetsu Cells and the Saibamen technology from the Dragon Ball World, to be precise, should be classified as a combination of plant... or fungus and human?"

Looking at the white, fleshy thing in the nutrient tank, which resembled a fleshy worm, Vegapunk's eyes revealed a hint of satisfaction. Don't underestimate this thing; it may seem insignificant and has nothing to do with Cyborg. In fact, this fungus can directly invade the human body and transform ordinary humans into grunts with a combat power of over 3,000!

Most importantly, because it is a fungal spore organism of the mushroom type, this thing can continuously replicate itself like White Zetsu!

Initially, the spores are replicated. After invading the human body, the Cyborg only have 300 combat points. However, as time goes by, they can reach 3000 combat points in about three days. Then, the mature fungus can launch a new round of spore invasion...

In theory, this thing is no different from those Orks, perhaps slightly weaker in vitality, but in terms of destructive power, 3000 combat power is definitely many times stronger than those green-skinned orcs.

Piccolo, with a power level of less than 300, could rule the entire Earth, let alone with a power level of 3000, who could destroy the entire surface of the Earth!

Of course, this is not what Vegapunk is most satisfied with. What Vegapunk is most satisfied with is that these fungi can not only invade ordinary people, but also powerful individuals!

Ordinary people do not enhance the Fungal Modified Human created by Vegapunk. However, if they are powerful individuals, then the strength of the Fungal Modified Human plus the strength of 3000 points of fungal modification.

Of course, according to Vegapunk's estimate, this fungal invasion mode will become more difficult as the host's strength increases. If the host has more than 10,000 combat power, the invasion speed will be much slower. If the host's combat power exceeds 30,000, then the unconscious aura surrounding the body alone will be enough to kill the initial invading spores.

However, even among Space Emperor Frieza, there were no more than a hundred warriors with a combat power exceeding 10,000 points, and those with a combat power of 30,000 points were fewer than ten. Therefore, Vegapunk did not consider this to be a weakness.

Originally, whether it was White Zetsu or Saibamen, they were essentially just grunts relying on sheer numbers; now they've simply become super grunts.

Not to mention these super grunts, whose strength can easily defeat the Otsutsuki Clan. The Four Emperors are nothing but little brothers in front of these super grunts. It can be said that Vegapunk has raised the strength of these mass-produced grunts to a limit.

Even in the entire universe, 3000 combat power is already quite impressive; the strongest beings on most planets don't possess such strength.

Saiyan are known as the strongest fighting race in the universe, but their average strength is only two or three thousand. A power level of 3,000 is already considered among the best of the mid-level warriors. Frieza is known as the Space Emperor, and a power level of 3,000 would be enough for him to become a high-level combatant.

Most importantly, these fungi have two infection modes. One is like the Infinite Tsukuyomi, which directly transforms the host into Cyborg Unit 1. The other is like Obito Uchiha and Tobi, who use the Fungus Modified Human No. 1. 1 as an external battle suit, which grants them powerful vitality and a 3,000-point combat power boost.

A 3000-point boost to combat power is no small amount, even for a powerhouse with tens of thousands of combat power. Moreover, the strong vitality can effectively suppress negative states such as aging and disability, and greatly enhance the body's recovery ability.

From this perspective, the boost to combat power is far greater than those 3000 combat power points.

"The World Martial Arts Tournament? With your three disciples' current strength, going to participate in such a tournament would just be pure bullying, wouldn't it?"

Vegapunk looked at Master Roshi with a strange expression. Krillin and Yamcha's power levels had now reached over 200, comparable to Piccolo when he first appeared. Kid Goku's power level was over 700, even stronger than when the Saiyan first came to Earth.

In the current World Martial Arts Tournament, even the strongest masters cannot reach three digits in combat power. What training effect can there be from fighting against such weaklings?

Master Roshi scratched his head and said somewhat helplessly:

"There's nothing I can do about it! I never expected their strength to increase so quickly. At the time, I thought that after eight months of my training, their strength would be around 50 points of combat power. That would be enough to participate in the World Martial Arts Tournament, and they would be more than capable of reaching the top eight. But whether they could win the championship would depend on their luck."

"Even if they win the championship, given their strength, they will probably have to go through a tough battle. At the very least, it will serve as a training opportunity for them."

"But now, with a combat strength of at least 200, they simply won't encounter any decent opponents in the World Martial Arts Tournament. Even if I have them wear Gravity Bracelets all the time, no one will be able to withstand a single move from them!"

Master Roshi has now started to use fighting power as a basis for his arguments. He can now correlate the strength range of previously powerful fighters with their actual fighting power, and the numbers are indeed more accurate than before.

Hearing this, Vegapunk nodded in agreement. Master Roshi's prediction in the original work was not wrong. Even though Kid Goku's talent was exceptionally high and his fighting power was even higher than Master Roshi had imagined after eight months of training, the battle in the martial arts tournament was not exactly easy.

Even disregarding Master Sage Transformation Jackie Chun to cheat, the battles against the dinosaurs Namo weren't overwhelming; the two sides fought back and forth for a while.

It can be said that, at least in terms of training effectiveness, the first World Martial Arts Tournament did have some effect on Son Goku, not to mention Krillin and Yamcha.

However, after Vegapunk's technological enhancements, let alone Kid Goku, even the weakest Krillin would be completely outmatched at the World Martial Arts Tournament.

With Krillin's strength being roughly equivalent to Piccolo's when he first appeared, and his full aura activated, most martial artists would be lucky to even stand in front of him, let alone have the desire to fight.

"So what do you want from me? If all else fails, why don't you just dress up and go to the World Martial Arts Tournament to hone your disciples?"

Master Roshi shook his head and spoke directly:

"How can that be? My current strength is far inferior to the others. Those disciples will probably be able to recognize me as soon as they sense the aura emanating from me!"

"If my identity is exposed, they will only think that it is only natural for a master to beat his disciple. They will not be able to understand what it means to be outmatched or to be more capable than others!"