Boom! Boom! Boom!
The sounds of fists and feet colliding rang through the sky like thunder.
With the towering Tree of Might as their backdrop, Lin Chen and Turles clashed in a lightning-fast battle.
One moment, they were tens of thousands of meters apart; the next, they had collided again. In the span of just a few seconds, they fought across the sky and the ground.
They moved so fast that almost no one present could make out what they were doing. All they could hear were bursts of explosive noise overhead.
Among the onlookers, only Broly could keep up with their speed.
"I-Is this the power of His Majesty Lynx?"
"He's incredible! His Majesty is even stronger than he was five years ago!"
The watching Saiyans gaped in astonishment.
Meanwhile, the traitors and members of the Turles Force began sneaking away toward the Tree of Might, trembling with fear.
"Quick, quick! This is our chance—move!" Nappa urged the fleeing crowd.
"Lord Nappa, are we really going to run?"
"Idiot! Do you think we can measure up to a battle at that level? Get back to the spaceship!"
From Nappa's perspective, it was obvious from what he'd seen that Lynx, who had returned after vanishing for five years, was stronger than Turles. If they didn't run now, were they supposed to wait until Turles was defeated?
As for begging Lynx for forgiveness, they shouldn't forget that Lynx was a Saiyan!
Saiyans had never shown traitors any mercy!
Meanwhile, high above them,
Turles was giving it everything he had, yet the longer he fought, the more frustrated he became.
He could tell that Lin Chen wasn't even using his full strength. Even so, Turles was still being toyed with.
"Why? Why? Lynx, show me what you can really do!"
Lin Chen paused, then smiled coldly. "All right."
He'd had enough fun. With a battle power of 300,000, Turles could certainly take more punishment than the space pirates he'd fought before.
The next moment, a tremendous force slammed into Turles's face.
Time seemed to stop. Turles felt his face twist and his teeth fly out.
Then time resumed its normal flow, and Turles shot away like a cannonball, streaking through the sky in a flash of light before crashing into the Tree of Might's trunk and leaving a huge dent.
"Lynx!"
Turles struggled out of the trunk, screaming furiously.
"I'm Turles! The future emperor of the universe! How could I lose to you?!"
The next moment, Turles suddenly flew upward.
Above him was the Tree of Might's crown, where fruit hung from the branches.
The fruit was still green and unripe, but even so, it could increase one's battle power.
Turles couldn't wait for the fruit to ripen. He would boost his strength right away and then kill Lynx!
With the fruit just within reach, Turles could already see victory waving at him. He imagined himself, strengthened, trampling Lynx beneath his feet and torturing him.
Seeing where Turles was headed, Lynx sneered. "Perfect. They're all up in the tree. I'll make sure you all disappear along with it..."
As a divine tree, the Tree of Might couldn't be destroyed by ordinary attacks. In the original story, Son Goku had destroyed the towering tree with a Spirit Bomb infused with the energy he'd absorbed from its fruit.
Lin Chen didn't know how to use a Spirit Bomb, but he had a technique even more powerful than one.
"Ha!"
As Lin Chen roared, golden energy began to surge around him.
His aura exerted an inexplicable pressure on every Saiyan present.
"T-This is..." King Vegeta stared at the golden light radiating from Lin Chen. An ancient legend passed down through the Saiyan royal family surfaced in his mind.
On the Tree of Might, Turles had just plucked the darkest-colored fruit and was about to take a bite when he sensed the extraordinary aura below.
It was the fear of legend, imprinted in every Saiyan's genes.
"L-Lynx? Could he...? Impossible!"
Turles gritted his teeth and bit into the fruit in his hand.
As soon as he swallowed it, he felt his body undergo an astonishing change. The severe injuries Lin Chen had inflicted on him healed in an instant. His lost strength returned, and his power surged to several times what it had been.
Turles activated his communicator. "This is Turles! Tell me, what's my battle power now?"
"L-Lord Turles! Your battle power has exceeded 600,000!"
"600,000? Hahahaha!"
Turles burst into laughter.
Planet Vegeta's soil really was perfect for growing the Tree of Might! Even unripe fruit could increase his power by that much. Once all the fruit had fully ripened, his strength would reach unimaginable heights. Lynx would be no match for him—and neither would the Frieza Race, the rulers of the universe!
But Turles had barely had a few seconds to gloat when his subordinate's desperate voice came through the communicator.
"Lord Turles! There's another powerful battle power near you! It seems to be that Saiyan's!"
"Lynx? What's his battle power?"
"800,000, 900,000, 1,000,000... No, it's about to exceed the—!"
At that moment, a tremendous explosion rang out nearby. Turles turned his head and saw a plume of smoke rising in the distance. It was coming from the place where his mothership was parked.
"Run! Get out of there!"
Inside Turles's mothership, the large Scouter had received energy beyond its limit and exploded, setting off a chain reaction throughout the ship.
The survivors screamed as they fled the ship, rushing toward Turles, the only person they could depend on.
But just then, everyone saw a flash of light beneath the Tree of Might.
Lin Chen had now fully transformed into a Pseudo Super Saiyan. His hair was dark purplish-black as he raised one hand toward the Tree of Might.
Lin Chen wasn't using any particular technique. He simply gathered his ki into a green orb and sent it toward the tree.
The green orb was only about the size of a basketball, and it didn't fly very fast. Yet not long after it entered the Tree of Might, a pillar of light suddenly erupted from the base of the trunk.
The pillar ripped through the trunk and shot toward the crown, swallowing Turles and the Saiyan traitors along the way.
"I refuse to accept this! I'm the Saiyan King—!"
Turles's final, desperate cry rang out from within the pillar of light.
Amid a series of thunderous rumbles, the ground began shaking violently. A world-destroying aura burst outward, accompanied by blinding white light, engulfing more than half of Planet Vegeta, with the Tree of Might at its center.
Under the terrifying aura, the Saiyans across the planet fell to their knees, overcome by fear and convinced that the end had come.
But moments later, the branches of the Tree of Might, which had covered more than half of Planet Vegeta, suddenly turned into golden specks of light.
The specks drifted across the entire planet like snow.
They were the planet's life energy, which the Tree of Might had absorbed!
As the energy sank into the ground, the land that had already withered began to flourish again, as if nourished by rain. All living things across Planet Vegeta regained their vitality.
At last, Planet Vegeta, on the brink of destruction, came back to life!
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