Do You Believe in Light?

Cultivation knows no passage of time.

This is even more true within the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

Two months passed in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, Lapis had ceased absorbing natural energy.

His bloodline had absorbed enough energy to meet the conditions for activation.

Although he had spent a month longer absorbing energy than Mo Yuan, the total amount he had absorbed was only one-fifth of what Mo Yuan had taken in.

Lapis awoke from his cultivation.

Though he appeared calm on the surface, the joy in his eyes could not be concealed.

After the bloodline activation, his combat power had directly doubled.

But this was not what made him happiest.

Beyond the increase in combat power, the power of his bloodline had allowed him to fuse completely with the Permanent Energy Reactor within his body.

From now on, he could rely on cultivation to strengthen the reactor.

In truth, so-called infinite energy was merely the reactor's energy recovery rate exceeding its energy output.

However, this simultaneously limited the intensity of his attacks.

Facing those whose combat power did not exceed his own, Lapis could remain in an invincible position.

He could even rely on his infinite energy and infinite stamina to wear his enemies down to death.

But when facing someone stronger than himself, his so-called infinite energy was of little use.

Otherwise, if he could truly achieve infinite energy, who would be his match?

Let alone Cell, even Buu would be unable to do anything to him later on.

Only those who mastered special energies, like the Gods of Destruction or the Omni-King, could defeat him.

Furthermore, the energy stored in the reactor had an upper limit.

Without the bloodline activated, the Permanent Energy Reactor inside Lapis could not be strengthened through cultivation.

If he wanted to become stronger, he could only rely on cultivating his ki.

The ultimate utility of the Permanent Energy Reactor was merely to ensure he would never run out of energy; beyond that, it had no other use.

But now, things were different.

The activation of his bloodline had allowed him to fuse completely with the Permanent Energy Reactor.

The Permanent Energy Reactor was no longer a technological product; it was now a part of his body.

He could strengthen the Permanent Energy Reactor by cultivating and absorbing natural energy.

He could increase the reactor's energy recovery rate, expand its energy storage limit, and remove the restrictions on his own energy output.

In other words, he could release all the energy within his body in a single instant.

This greatly increased his offensive power.

However, in doing so, he would no longer possess "infinite energy."

It would simply be that his energy recovery rate was many times faster than others.

Of course, if he controlled his energy output to be lower than his recovery rate, he could still achieve so-called "infinite energy."

But there was little point in doing so; when facing a powerful enemy, if you couldn't break their defense, it was better to increase your output and destroy the enemy outright.

Suppressing the joy in his heart, Lapis was about to climb up from the ground.

However, as he moved his body, he discovered something that excited him even more than the increase in his strength.

He felt that the clothes he had been wearing, which had fit perfectly, were now somewhat tight.

Ruling out the possibility that he had been beaten to a pulp during his training, there was only one explanation...

His body had grown!

An excited Lapis stood up abruptly.

"Riiip~"

A harsh sound echoed through the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

Lapis: "..."

Pants: Ah~ I've split...

After these two months of cultivation, Lapis's body had developed rapidly under the nourishment of the natural energy.

His height had shot up by twenty centimeters, reaching a stature of 185 centimeters.

He no longer looked as thin and small as before; although his muscles were not massive and he remained of a lean build, they were a size larger than they had been.

His enlarged body had already stretched his clothes to the breaking point, and with the sudden force he exerted while rising from the ground, the overburdened fabric simply tore apart.

"Pfft!"

Lapis mechanically turned his head toward the source of the laughter.

He saw his cheap brother-in-law looking at him with a mocking expression.

To be precise, he was looking at the tear in his pants.

Through the gap in the fabric, one could faintly see that handsome face, blinded by the sight of the bra covering it.

"So you believe in the light too? Since your pants are ruined, do you want me to get you a matching Ultraman outfit?"

Lapis: o(;メ▼皿▼)o

He was only a teenager when he was transformed into an android!

Was it wrong for a teenage boy to believe in the light?

Was it?

Mo Yuan, after all, hadn't received professional training, and he couldn't hold it in for long before he started clutching his stomach and laughing out loud.

"Hahahaha~ I'm not laughing at you... hahahaha hic~~ hahahaha~ I just... I just thought of something funny, hahahaha~"

As if laughing wasn't enough, he conjured up three Ultraman costumes.

He held them up in front of Lapis.

"Do you want this blue one? Or this red one? Or maybe this red and blue one?" (Referencing Tiga's three forms)

It's hard!

My fist is hard!

Lapis's fist is hard!

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Enough is enough!

Lapis lunged forward, punched Mo Yuan flying, and the two of them began to wrestle.

However, neither of them used their ki; it was just like children fighting, completely without technique, trading punch for punch.

A while later.

Mo Yuan and Lapis lay on the ground, both sporting identical pig-head faces.

Mo Yuan looked at Lapis's swollen face, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.

"Hiss~"

But his laughter pulled at the wounds on his own face.

He couldn't help but grumble: "You guy, you fight dirty. Don't you know you shouldn't hit someone in the face?"

"Tch~"

"You have the nerve to say that, when you're the one who fights the dirtiest."

Lapis touched his own swollen face and retorted irritably.

"That's only because you went for my face first; otherwise, I wouldn't have hit yours."

"Who told you to mock me? You deserved it."

"Don't talk nonsense, where did I mock you? I was helping you fulfill your dream!" Mo Yuan said righteously.

"I've even thought it out for you. You put on the Ultraman outfit, and then like this..."

Mo Yuan lay on the ground, placed his hands in an L-shape, and purple light gathered on his arms before he shouted: "Lapis Beam, biu~ biu~ biu~"

Following Mo Yuan's shout, the purple beam from his arms shot out, drawing a brilliant streak across the pale space.

"Hahaha~ How about it? I even thought of the move name for you. Touched, aren't you?" Mo Yuan patted Lapis on the shoulder and laughed heartily.

Lapis's swollen face showed no expression, but his eyes flashed with a dangerous light.

His hands were already clenched tight.

"Bastard! I'm going to kill you!!"

"Hey! Don't hit the face, you jerk..."

During the time Mo Yuan had been in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, things had also been happening in the outside world.

Cell had unexpectedly encountered Vegeta and Trunks.

Having absorbed hundreds of thousands of ordinary humans, Cell's combat power was now on par with Piccolo.

Vegeta and Trunks combined were no match for him.

Fortunately, Piccolo sensed the battle aura and arrived just in time.

Otherwise, both Vegeta and Trunks would have been absorbed by Cell.

After Piccolo arrived, Cell immediately fled.

Even though his combat power was no longer inferior to Piccolo's, Cell did not want to take the risk.

After all, Piccolo had brought Senzu Beans, and once Vegeta and Trunks consumed them, their injuries healed instantly.

Having been saved, Trunks breathed a sigh of relief.

However, he discovered something that filled him with dread.

An important item on his person was missing.