Zhang Qi held the bright green bean between his fingers. It looked like an ordinary broad bean.
He gave it a light squeeze. It was quite soft and seemed utterly unremarkable.
But according to how this thing worked, eating one could keep someone full for ten days and restore a dying Super Saiyan to full health.
The energy contained in this bean was simply incredible...
Perhaps, like that blue-green Shenron, it was a physical manifestation of some higher-dimensional rule.
The good news was that it could be grown like soybeans, and even mass-produced to some extent.
If it could be mass-produced, that meant it followed some underlying logic that could be analyzed.
"Thanks."
With that thought, Zhang Qi tucked the brocade pouch into his jacket pocket and thanked Korin.
Korin nodded, then told them how to reach Kami's Lookout.
They would need the Golden Cudgel to pass through the barrier.
The Golden Cudgel's original purpose was to connect Korin Tower to the Lookout.
Goku grew excited at this and hurried to the top of the tower, where he found the socket for the Golden Cudgel, just as promised.
Without a second thought, he inserted the Golden Cudgel and let it carry him straight up into the sky.
Seeing this, Zhang Qi said goodbye to Korin and followed him up.
The higher they went, the thinner the air became, and the temperature dropped sharply.
Zhang Qi glanced down beneath his feet.
The planet's outline had become an immense curve.
This planet's curvature was wrong.
At their current altitude, they should already have been able to see vast stretches of ocean and the edges of landmasses on an ordinary Earth. Yet an endless sea of clouds still stretched to the horizon.
That meant this planet was far larger than Earth...
Just then,