A Fistful of Ki Force

An even more violent red aura erupted from beneath the Great Ape's feet, forcibly lifting that massive foot!

50,000 battle power!

"Oh? You can still struggle?"

Great Ape Vegeta was a little surprised, but only a little.

"Then... I'll put in a little more force!"

Vegeta grinned savagely, pressing all his strength down through that foot before stomping hard.

"Be... crushed!!!"

Goku could no longer hold on. He spat out a mouthful of blood, the red aura around him instantly collapsing as his entire body went limp in the deep crater, his fate unknown.

"Dad!!!"

Gohan cried out and tried to rush over, but Piccolo held him back tightly.

"Don't go! You'll only be throwing your life away!!"

Piccolo roared, but his body was trembling too.

It was over.

It was all over.

Against a monster of this level, every tactic and every technique had lost its meaning.

This was not even a battle on the same level.

Great Ape Vegeta lifted his foot, looked at the barely breathing Goku in the crater, and snorted coldly.

"Such tenacious life force, but this is as far as you go."

Then he turned his enormous head, his scarlet eyes settling on Sun Wuxiu, who had remained standing motionlessly in the distance.

"Next... it's your turn, Kaxiu."

"What? Were you scared stupid? Did you even forget to run?"

"Or... do you want to turn into a giant ape too and amuse me?"

Vegeta mockingly eyed the tail behind Sun Wuxiu.

"Come on! Transform! Let me see how ugly you low-class monkey looks after losing his mind!"

However.

Faced with this certain death, faced with the suffocating pressure of 180,000 battle power—

Sun Wuxiu still stood there.

He lowered his head and closed his eyes, not looking at the Artificial Moon in the sky.

"Transform?"

Sun Wuxiu chuckled and shook his head.

"I have no interest in such an ugly form that is so easy to lose control in."

"Besides..."

Sun Wuxiu opened his eyes. He did not look at Vegeta, but at his own fist.

"Against a hulking brute like you who only knows how to rely on raw strength..."

"This is enough."

Before his words had even faded—

Whoosh!

Sun Wuxiu vanished into thin air.

He completely disappeared from everyone's sight, leaving behind not even the faintest afterimage.

"Hm?!"

Great Ape Vegeta froze and instinctively looked around.

"Did you hide? It's useless! I'm going to destroy this entire planet—where can you hide?!"

Just then—

A calm voice suddenly rang out beside his enormous ear.

"Who said I hid?"

"Wha—"

Every hair on Great Ape Vegeta's body stood on end.

He abruptly turned his head.

That tiny figure had somehow appeared behind his shoulder, casually patting the thick fur that was as sturdy as a tree trunk.

"This..."

Krillin, Piccolo, and the others below were all dumbfounded.

How had he gotten up there?!

And... he actually dared to get that close to such a monster?!

"Vegeta."

Sun Wuxiu looked at the enormous, vicious ape face before him, a faint smile curling over his lips.

Sun Wuxiu slowly raised his right fist.

No dazzling aura wrapped around that fist, nor was there any earth-shattering display of force.

It was merely an ordinary punch. It did not directly touch Vegeta's face, but it carried white ki force.

"Let me show you something good."

BOOM—!!!!

Sun Wuxiu punched.

The movement did not look fast, yet it carried an indescribable heaviness.

The ki force surged forth. The instant it touched the Great Ape's cheek—

Time seemed to freeze.

Then—

A visible streak of white ki force instantly pierced through the Great Ape's enormous head, shooting straight into the heavens and blasting a gigantic hole through the atmosphere!

"Awroo?!!!"

Great Ape Vegeta did not even have time to scream.

His massive body, with its 180,000 battle power, was like a sheet of thin paper before that fist, utterly unable to resist.

The overwhelming impact twisted and deformed his face, sending several enormous fangs flying.

Whoosh—BOOOOM!!!

The fifty-meter-tall Great Ape was sent flying several thousand meters like a baseball, smashing viciously into a distant mountain range!

The entire mountain range instantly collapsed, rubble burying everything.

The earth shook, and dust blotted out the sky.

One punch.

Just one punch.

That invincible Great Ape that had driven everyone to despair, one that even the Fivefold Kaioken could not budge in the slightest...

Had been sent flying just like that?!

Silence.

Deathly silence blanketed the entire battlefield.

Krillin's mouth hung wide open, and he did not even notice that his jaw had dropped.

Tien Shinhan's three eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

Piccolo wore a completely blank expression, as though his entire worldview had collapsed.

"Th-this is a dream, right?"

Yamcha viciously pinched himself.

"Hiss... that hurt."

Inside a deep crater not far away—

The heavily injured Goku struggled to raise his head. Looking at the figure in the air who still held his punching stance, he split his blood-covered lips into an incomparably brilliant smile.

"Hehe... cough, cough... just as I thought..."

"You're still as strong as ever... big brother."

Bulma watched the scene and leaped up in excitement.

"Yeah!!! We won!!!"

"I knew it! My husband is the best! Some monkey prince—one punch and he's finished!!"

Kame House.

Chi-Chi hugged the Crystal Ball and wept with joy. "That's wonderful... everyone has been saved... long live Big Brother Wuxiu!"

Master Roshi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, his eyes behind his sunglasses filled with shock.

"This kind of power... has completely surpassed the realm of humanity, hasn't it?"

Kami's Lookout.

Kami let out a long breath, feeling as though he had nearly been scared to death.

"Thank goodness... thank goodness he was here."

Meanwhile, on distant King Kai's Planet—

King Kai was sensing everything through his antennae. His forehead was drenched in cold sweat, and even his sunglasses had slipped down.

"That Saiyan... that guy called Sun Wuxiu..."

"Just who is he?!"

"That punch... looked ordinary, but the density of the ki contained within it... is simply unimaginable!"

"If he hadn't held back... that punch just now could probably have punched straight through Earth!!"

King Kai swallowed hard, an inexplicable sense of awe rising within him.

"Such a monster... was actually born on Earth."

On the battlefield—

The smoke and dust dispersed.

Sun Wuxiu slowly withdrew his fist, still looking utterly calm and composed.

He looked at the ruins of the mountain range that had been leveled in the distance and shook his head.

"Oops, I used a little too much force."

"But it's fine. I held back ninety-nine percent of my strength, so he probably... won't die, right?"

Within the ruins—

Great Ape Vegeta had already returned to human form.

Vegeta's bones were shattered all over his body. He was embedded in the rocks like a heap of mush, with only his eyeballs still barely able to move.

The arrogance and fury from before had vanished from his eyes.

All that remained was endless fear, confusion, and... complete doubt in everything he believed.

"O-one punch..."

"H-how is that possible..."

"I'm... the prince of the Saiyans..."

Vegeta's world completely collapsed in that moment.