Mount Fry-Pan's Giant Ape Appears!

One of the two tracking signals is about to vanish! This means that either Goku or Oolong has suffered a heavy blow, causing the mark within their body to fluctuate!

Wuchen pondered for a moment before rushing toward the nearby signal. By dusk, he successfully arrived in the vicinity of a mountain engulfed in raging flames, where only one signal remained.

"That's Oolong and Bulma? Where is Goku? Why can't I sense his presence?" From a distance, Wuchen spotted Oolong and Bulma within the ruins of a village at the foot of the mountain.

Beside them stood a tall man wearing a bull mask. It stood to reason that this was Mount Fry-Pan, and the tall, masked man was undoubtedly the Ox-King.

Beyond them, Wuchen also sensed the presence of the two thieves from that day.

Watching as the Ox-King hurled an axe toward Bulma and Oolong, Wuchen wanted to intervene, but he was too far away to reach them in time.

Just then, a figure suddenly appeared, pulling Bulma and Oolong aside and narrowly dodging the Ox-King's massive axe. The person who had appeared so abruptly was none other than Yamcha, who had been tailing Goku's group.

As the Ox-King prepared to launch another attack, Wuchen finally arrived.

"Thank goodness, Wuchen, you're finally back!" Seeing Wuchen, Bulma and Oolong ran behind him as if they had found their savior.

Yamcha, looking as though his strength had been drained and seeing stars, was also dragged behind Wuchen by Puar.

"Where is Goku?" Wuchen asked urgently while shielding the girl and the pig, his eyes fixed warily on the Ox-King.

"Goku... Goku is dead..." The words from Bulma and Oolong were impossible for Wuchen to accept. Impossible! Absolutely impossible!

"Hey! Are you lot just like them, trying to steal my treasure?" Picking up his axe again, the Ox-King looked at the newly arrived Wuchen and Yamcha, his tone hostile.

This enraged Wuchen, and he unleashed his full aura in an instant!

Looking up at the Ox-King, he radiated an aura that warned everyone to stay away! Elemental energy of various attributes swirled around his body, as if he were ready to deliver a fatal blow to the Ox-King at any moment!

However, just as Wuchen prepared to strike, his aura suddenly dissipated entirely, and the elemental energy surrounding him lost its restraint, jumping about violently!

At such a sudden change, not to mention the Ox-King, even Bulma, Oolong, and the others scrambled to get away from Wuchen!

"Wuchen! Calm down, Goku might not be dead!" Bulma hurriedly called out to soothe him, her pants riddled with holes from the wisps of fire erupting from Wuchen's body.

When the group first arrived at the flame-engulfed Mount Fry-Pan, Goku had used his water-attribute energy to protect his body and dived into the burning mountain to retrieve the Dragon Ball, and he had never come back out.

Therefore, neither she nor Oolong—nor Yamcha and Puar, who were spying from the shadows—doubted that Goku had perished.

Seeing Wuchen unable to distinguish friend from foe, Bulma panicked.

However, Wuchen was destined not to hear her. For the sky had turned dark, and the moon had emerged—a full moon, at that!

Yes, as Wuchen looked up at the Ox-King, the full moon hung in the night sky directly behind him!

His consciousness gradually blurred, and Wuchen's body began to change.

His frame expanded until it burst through his clothes, and then, thick fur replaced his garments as his body continued to grow!

"A... a monster!" Bulma shrieked in terror.

"He... he..." Yamcha also began to tremble; the fear he felt toward women was completely eclipsed by the terror Wuchen now inspired!

Whether it was Oolong, Puar, or the Ox-King, everyone stood with their mouths agape, unable to speak! What kind of monster was this?

Under the fearful gazes of the group, Wuchen's body swelled to the size of a mountain, and his transformation into an ape was complete! This was the Great Ape transformation of the Saiyan race, the power to change under the full moon!

"What do we do? What do we do!" The Ox-King, who had been their enemy moments ago, now huddled together with Bulma, Yamcha, and the others, seeking mutual comfort in their boundless fear.

"Run! He's lost his mind!" It was Yamcha who stood up and shouted, prompting the group to finally start running; otherwise, they would have been trampled to death in their paralysis of fear!

Yes, Wuchen had lost his reason and was now wreaking total havoc!

Whether by smashing with his fists or stomping with his feet, or hurling massive boulders, every attack carried immense momentum and terrifying destructive power! Soon, the earth was riddled with holes, with footprints and craters everywhere!

Fortunately, the Great Ape Wuchen moved slowly and lacked a specific target. With Yamcha's help, Bulma remained unharmed. The others were also able to evade him on their own.

After retreating to a safe distance, the group looked back from afar at the Great Ape Wuchen, who was still mindlessly destroying everything in his path.

"Is... is he a friend of yours? What happened to him?" After this ordeal, the Ox-King's hostility had faded significantly, and he took the initiative to ask Bulma and the others.

"I don't know. Great Ox-King, have you never seen a situation like this before?" It was Yamcha who spoke up. After the shock, he began to speculate: "Those two boys seem to be the grandsons of Sun Wufan. Could it be that the legendary Sun Wufan wasn't actually human?"

Yamcha's words caused the Ox-King to stare at him intensely, making him feel flustered. Before he could react, the Ox-King had already grabbed his shoulders tightly!

"You said Sun Wufan! That mon... that boy is Sun Wufan's grandson?" The Ox-King's voice boomed beside them!

"Y-yes, that's right. Besides him, there is another boy with a tail who is also Sun Wufan's grandson. They even have Sun Wufan's Power Pole; I don't think that could be a fake." Yamcha answered everything he knew, sharing all the information he had about Goku and Wuchen.

"There's another boy? Also Sun Wufan's grandson? And they have the Power Pole?" The Ox-King was overjoyed. Sun Wufan was, strictly speaking, his senior brother. The two of them had trained under Master Roshi for decades and shared a deep, brotherly bond.

"Where is the other boy? Where is he?" In his excitement, the Ox-King forgot the current situation and asked expectantly.

"He went into Mount Fry-Pan and hasn't come out yet. Perhaps..." Yamcha began again, but before he could finish, another anomaly occurred at Mount Fry-Pan.

While the Great Ape Wuchen continued his wanton destruction, another Great Ape rose from within the mountain!

"ROAR!" The roar shook the heavens, drawing the attention of the other ape!

The two Great Apes locked eyes, each eye like a window—and 'inside the window,' flames were burning! The will to fight was boiling over!