Battle!

In a space of pure white.

Two figures, one large and one small, floated in mid-air.

Mo Yuan's face was etched with seriousness.

This was his first battle.

Even though he possessed countless combat memories, memories not personally experienced could only serve as a reference.

Watching Mo Yuan assume a combat stance.

A slight curve tugged at the corner of Lazuli's mouth.

She stood in the air, arms crossed over her chest, posture loose and relaxed.

The gap between the two was too vast, a chasm as wide as heaven and earth, leaving her no reason to take this seriously.

"Big sister, watch out."

As the words fell, Mo Yuan instantly mobilized all the ki in his body.

Mo Yuan was nothing like Son Goku and the others, who all loved to test the waters.

They all loved to fool around; if not for the Dragon Balls being able to resurrect them, this anime would have ended before the twelfth episode.

Fighting Lazuli, Mo Yuan dared not show the slightest slack.

Mo Yuan's figure flickered, utilizing high-speed movement to vanish from his original spot.

Like a ghost, he appeared behind Lazuli.

His small fist, carrying the force of a surging tide, swung toward the back of Lazuli's head.

It was no exaggeration to say that the power of this punch was enough to turn a high mountain into a deep valley.

Facing Mo Yuan's attack, Lazuli turned around with complete composure.

She tilted her head slightly to the side, not even moving her feet, and dodged the punch with an understated grace.

The force from Mo Yuan's fist stirred Lazuli's golden hair.

Missing the strike, Mo Yuan felt no ripples in his heart.

It would have been truly bizarre if that blow had actually landed.

Without a moment's pause, Mo Yuan swung his other hand at Lazuli while simultaneously throwing a swift kick.

Under the pincer attack of Mo Yuan's fists and feet, Lazuli remained with her arms crossed, her body swaying gently twice to dodge them as well.

Mo Yuan's hands and feet moved with such speed they turned into afterimages, assaulting Lazuli like a torrential rain of pear blossoms.

Every punch and every kick contained immense power.

As if tearing through space itself, they emitted crackling sounds of air being shattered.

The surrounding air was churned, forming a massive tornado.

Yet Lazuli, at the center of the tornado, strolled leisurely amidst Mo Yuan's attacks.

She looked as relaxed as if she were taking a walk in the park.

Five minutes later, Mo Yuan stopped.

After attacking for five minutes, he hadn't even touched the hem of Lazuli's clothes.

Such a battle was meaningless; he couldn't learn anything this way.

Thus, he said to Lazuli earnestly: "Big sister, attack me. Hit me!"

To learn martial arts, one must first learn to take a beating; this saying was no joke.

Only by being beaten enough could one understand various techniques and accumulate experience.

"Oh?" Lazuli's gaze sharpened.

"Are you serious? It's going to hurt, don't you go crying on me!"

Mo Yuan nodded forcefully and said: "Come on, I'm not afraid!"

His eyes were filled with determination.

Lazuli hadn't wanted to hit him at first; after all, if she made her little cutie cry, her heart would ache.

However, seeing Mo Yuan's attitude now, she knew she had to get serious.

"Then you'd better be careful..."

Lazuli tucked her hair behind her left ear, her eyes fixed on Mo Yuan.

White ki erupted from her body, forming a layer of transparent white aura on her surface.

The terrifying pressure instantly caused the atmospheric pressure of the entire space to drop, and the air seemed to solidify.

This ki was what Lazuli had cultivated today.

Her powerful body had allowed her to cultivate twenty times Mo Yuan's strength in just a few short hours.

This was a power that even Lazuli needed to gradually master.

After all, this was unlike the energy of an Android; an Android's energy was infinite, allowing her to squander it at will.

However, this ki was something she had cultivated herself, and it would be consumed during battle, so she also needed to rely on combat to master this power.

At the very least, she had to break her bad habit of wasting energy recklessly.

She had to make reasonable use of every ounce of power.

Under the suppression of this aura, Mo Yuan felt as if breathing had become somewhat difficult.

Using ki?

Mo Yuan roughly understood Lazuli's intentions.

This aura was approximately twenty times his own.

To be honest, he was a bit envious; despite having trained for the same amount of time, the power Lazuli had cultivated was dozens of times greater than his.

But this was normal; after all, Lazuli's body was like a dried-up lake, and twenty times his power probably wouldn't even fill the bottom.

He, on the other hand, was a small puddle filled with water; to hold more water, he would first need to expand the puddle.

If it was only twenty times his own strength...

Then he could try that technique.

"Twentyfold Kaioken!!" Mo Yuan shouted inwardly.

A massive, violent surge of energy erupted from deep within Mo Yuan's body, forming a layer of red aura on the surface of his skin.

The red aura burned like flames, causing the surrounding air to distort.

This aura instantly pushed back against Lazuli's pressure.

The two auras stood in a stalemate.

"Such powerful strength."

Mo Yuan flexed his limbs; twenty times the power was truly extraordinary.

Mo Yuan felt that with a single punch now, he could easily kill his former self—the kind of blow that couldn't even be dodged.

However, besides the increase in strength, Mo Yuan also felt his stamina draining rapidly, and his body was beginning to suffer wear and tear.

As expected, the price for borrowed power was equally significant.

Mind's Eye, activate!

Mo Yuan discovered that after activating the twentyfold Kaioken, the range of his Mind's Eye had also expanded twentyfold.

"Is this a Super Saiyan? It looks a bit different from Vegeta's!"

Lazuli looked at Mo Yuan, who was burning with a red aura, with some curiosity.

"It's not," Mo Yuan shook his head. "This is the Kaioken, a powerful martial art Son Goku learned from North Kai."

"Kaioken? Interesting!"

Lazuli's lips curled, her interest piqued.

"Let's begin!"

As if by mutual agreement, both vanished from where they stood.

With their power levels equalized, Lazuli could no longer toy with Mo Yuan as she had before.

Under Mo Yuan's Mind's Eye, every one of Lazuli's movements was laid bare.

Mo Yuan had used his Mind's Eye earlier, but the gap in strength had been too vast; even if he could see Lazuli's movements clearly, he was too slow, and he still couldn't land a hit.

Now, it was different. With equal strength and speed, Mo Yuan could easily block Lazuli's attacks and strike her just as easily.

Lazuli was forced into a retreat under Mo Yuan's assault.

Mo Yuan appeared behind Lazuli like a phantom and swung a powerful kick.

Lazuli hurriedly raised her arms to block, but caught off guard, she was sent flying.

Watching Lazuli tumble through the air, Mo Yuan did not pursue; instead, he cupped his hands at his side.

"Kamehameha!!!"

Mo Yuan held nothing back, gathering all his ki as a purple orb of light manifested between his palms.

The pure white space was instantly dyed purple.

Mo Yuan thrust his hands forward, and a massive beam of light shot from his palms, catching up to the airborne Lazuli in the blink of an eye.

Lazuli's pupils constricted sharply.

She smelled the scent of death.

With her current power, if she took this head-on... she would die!

Lazuli stopped holding back and tapped into her Android energy, coming to a sudden stop in mid-air to face the Kamehameha directly.

Then, she raised her arm and swiped hard at the incoming blast.

The purple beam of light veered off in the air, flying away in another direction.

After a long while, a deafening explosion erupted in the direction the Kamehameha had flown, echoing throughout the entire space.

Mo Yuan deactivated the Kaioken and gazed toward the source of the blast.

Suddenly, he felt a chill run down his spine.

He turned his head with extreme caution.

Only to see Lazuli staring at him with a malicious glint in her eyes.

"You brat, were you trying to kill me?"

"S-sister, if I told you I didn't mean it, would you believe me?" Mo Yuan's voice grew quieter and more timid as he spoke.

"I believe you! Whatever my little cutie says, Sister believes!"

Mo Yuan: If you weren't gritting your teeth like that, I might actually believe you.

I'm doomed!

"No! Sister, I was wrong!!!"

"Little cutie, Sister didn't mean it either, you believe me too, right?"

Lazuli pressed her clenched fists against the temples on both sides of Mo Yuan's head and twisted them hard!

"Ah!!!"

Mask of Pain (Equipped)