A One-Sided Battle

"Pfft—!"

The sound was muffled like thunder, mixed with the crisp crack of breaking bones.

Baby's cheek caved in, blood and spit spraying from the corner of his mouth like a fountain.

He was truly enormous, three or four meters tall and at least a ton in weight.

Yet Jiang Che kicked the Great Ape flying—more unbelievable than a stone shot from a slingshot.

Baby was like a massive boulder hurled through the air, tumbling several times as his limbs flailed helplessly, unable to regain his balance.

At last, his heavy body slammed into a jagged mountain with a crash.

The mountain seemed to groan as half of it collapsed with a rumble. Boulders rained down, dust billowed, and even the ground trembled.

He struggled up from the rubble, covered in dust, knees shaking, his head still ringing.

He spat out a mouthful of broken teeth. Blood coated his lips, and the ferocity in his eyes had been completely replaced by terror.

His gaze was unfocused, his body trembling like a sieve. With great difficulty, he managed to stammer, "This is impossible... absolutely impossible... I clearly have the strongest Saiyan body. How can you still overpower me?"

Jiang Che descended slowly, without even stirring the dust beneath his feet.

His arms hung naturally at his sides, mockery playing at the corners of his mouth. "The strongest body? All you got was an ordinary Saiyan who can't even transform into a Super Saiyan God. You were just repeating hearsay."

His voice was quiet, yet his words stabbed into Baby's heart like a knife.

"Super Saiyan God?" Baby froze, his body stiff, his eyes filled with bewilderment and shock. "What's that?"

This time, Jiang Che didn't answer him. He merely stood in the night, his long hair and robes snapping in the wind.

Suddenly, he raised his hand and spread his fingers. A fist-sized red Ki Blast materialized in his palm.

The Ki Blast spun like a whirlwind, vibrating with a deafening hum. Its surface flowed with the molten colors of scorching magma, and every rotation tore at the air around it. The rubble and dust beneath it were blasted away, and the air filled with a charred smell, growing so hot that it seemed to distort.

"I can become a God of Super Saiyans," Jiang Che said, his voice so calm it made one shudder, "only because—"

His figure flickered, vanishing from where he stood as if he had evaporated, without the slightest warning.

Only two deep cracks remained in the ground, left by his sudden launch.

"—I didn't want you to die too quickly."

His voice came from behind Baby.

The Great Ape's fur stood on end, every strand quivering.

Instinct told him the danger was overwhelming.

He whipped around, eyes nearly popping out of their sockets. Then he saw only Jiang Che's fist, striking with the force of thunder.

There was no flourish, just pure speed and pure strength.

The air was compressed into a white shield around the fist as it tore through the night with a roar, like a meteor ripping through the sky.

"BOOM—!!"

The punch struck Baby squarely in the back.

His proud coat and muscles were hard enough to withstand cannon fire, but now they were like paper, pierced in an instant.

Red energy exploded with a roar, like a blazing dragon—blasting straight through his chest from his back!

A bowl-sized hole of blood gaped in his chest, ringed by scorching red flames of ki that continued to burn his flesh. Smoke curled up, and the air was filled with a charred smell.

"AAH—!!" Baby screamed. His voice had lost all its beastly majesty, leaving nothing but utter unwillingness and terror.

His massive body crashed to the ground, kicking up a wall of dust more than ten meters high. The earth split apart like a spiderweb.

The earth itself trembled from that punch.

Baby's limbs twitched as dark red blood spilled from his mouth. The ferocity in his eyes was gone, replaced by nothing but despair and confusion.

He tried to raise a hand, tried to struggle, but he couldn't even move a finger. That punch had destroyed every last bit of life in him.

Jiang Che walked over slowly, his steps steady and unhurried.

He looked down at Baby, who was on the verge of death. There was not a trace of sympathy in his crimson eyes.

The moonlight stretched his shadow long, covering the Great Ape's body as if a judge had descended.

He spoke calmly. "You could've hidden away in some corner of Earth and slowly developed your people, like a venomous snake in a gutter, gradually devouring the whole world. Too bad you were too greedy."

Every time Baby moved, his whole body spasmed as if taut threads were snapping. Blood kept flowing from his chest and mouth, pooling on the ground.

His voice was dry and hoarse, filled with instinctive fear. "You... what are you, exactly? How can there be a Saiyan like you on Earth? You're no ordinary Saiyan... you shouldn't even exist in this world..."

"Who I am doesn't matter." Jiang Che raised his hand again, and a second Ki Blast gathered in his palm.

This one was larger and faster. Its deafening rush of air tightened the heart, and the air filled with the scent of destruction.

He looked down at Baby, his tone mild but his composure as cold as a final judgment. "What matters is that your Tuffle revival plan ends here."

"No! Don't kill me! Please, spare me!" Baby's defenses crumbled completely, and his huge body shook wildly on the ground.

He desperately tried to crawl backward, but rubble and broken rebar pinned him in place. All he could do was writhe like a worm.

Crying and shouting, his voice shrill and broken with madness and despair, he cried, "I can tell you all sorts of things! The secrets of the universe! Where the gods are! The whereabouts of the Gods of Destruction! Even Frieza's revival plan! Just let me go and I'll tell you everything, I'll tell you all of it—"

Jiang Che didn't answer.

He simply watched in silence as the red Ki Blast in his hand spun faster and faster, its light staining everything the color of blood.

He slowly shook his head, a hint of mockery at the corner of his mouth. "Sorry. Your little secrets are worthless to me. I have no interest in what parasites have to offer."

Before the words had even left his mouth, his right hand was already raised high. The ball of energy suddenly swelled—from the size of a fist to a small sun, blazing with blue-white light that drained all color from the world.

The air shrieked sharply, and the rampaging energy split the ground layer by layer as rubble rose into the air and flew in every direction.

The surroundings were bathed in blue-white light, and the earth fell completely silent.

"Th-this can't—!!!"

Baby's massive body shook violently. Terror finally burst wide open in his blood-red eyes. His scream nearly tore through the night sky, but it was already too late.