Gathering Six Dragon Balls, Facing Sun Wukong

Coupled with his super-powered scientific brain.

It would be the greatest waste not to put it to good use.

If Li Xing had been worried about falling behind in the later stages with just the system and its various missions.

With the addition of various extreme, high-end scientific devices, he no longer had any such concerns.

Not to mention anything else, just look at the Nano Battle Armor in his hands.

If Li Xing wore it and fought in coordination with it, even a combat power of one thousand would be achievable; it was nothing at all.

"Halt. Who are you?"

Li Xing swept a glance at the soldiers guarding the area with guns drawn.

He strode toward the tower.

If he remembered correctly, this place should be called Muscle Tower, and the general inside was a guy named White.

Rat-tat-tat~

The soldiers of the Red Ribbon Army were not good people.

Seeing that Li Xing, this monster clad in black, ignored their orders, they opened fire and concentrated their shots on him.

Ding~

Clang~

Bullets struck the Nano Battle Armor, sparking briefly before vanishing into nothingness.

The material of Li Xing's armor was not something these ordinary people could compare to.

Seeing this scene, Li Xing found it amusing.

A perfectly good combat world, and I've gone and turned it into a sci-fi world.

His gaze sharpened as he looked at the massive tower, which lacked a gate.

With a punch, light erupted.

BOOM!

Bricks and stones flew, and the ground shook with a thunderous rumble.

BANG!

The tower structure could not withstand Li Xing's immense strength and crumbled, revealing a massive hole.

"Tch, what kind of nonsense is 'no gate'?

A famous great man once said, there were no roads in the world to begin with, but when many people walk, a road is made."

Naturally, he would not abide by anyone else's rules.

"My rules are the only rules."

After Li Xing roared, he took a step, his power erupting as his body shot into the air, smashing through the space between the first and second floors.

Pushing through everything in his path, Li Xing wiped out everyone.

If it weren't for Android 8 and that large robot, he wouldn't have had the time to come here.

As for Dr. Gero.

Li Xing scanned the area with Wisdom, but he didn't see a trace of him.

He didn't care; after masking their signals and finding the Dragon Ball, he grabbed them and soared into the sky.

"Sun Wukong, I've solved a problem for you; you should thank me, heh."

Three days later.

Li Xing, clad in black armor, appeared alone at the Red Ribbon Army headquarters, slaughtering his way through.

"Bastard, who exactly are you?"

The black adjutant Black and the one-eyed, short General Red stared at Li Xing in terror.

This guy had come alone, stormed their headquarters, wiped out all their subordinates, destroyed all their traps, and walked straight into their command center.

Li Xing didn't even acknowledge the two of them, turning coldly toward the control room.

He wanted to know if the Red Ribbon Army possessed any high-end technology.

He was not Bulma.

He couldn't just rack his brain and invent a time machine.

Without sufficient scientific accumulation, he had no way to research something as formidable as a time machine.

No, even with enough knowledge, without enough Wisdom, he might not be able to research that thing either.

That kind of thing could not be explained by science alone.

The only possible explanation was quantum tunneling.

If the past could be altered, wouldn't the current timeline collapse?

If the current timeline collapsed, how could one even go back to change the past?

This was a paradox by nature; aside from the concept of parallel timelines, Li Xing's little brain simply couldn't find an answer.

Fortunately, he didn't need to.

Whether it was science or cultivation, the essence was to make him stronger.

To not become a mere ant.

As long as he could grow stronger, nothing else mattered to Li Xing.

He walked over to the computer mainframe.

"Wisdom, collect the information."

"Understood, Engineer."

Soon, Wisdom replied that all information had been transmitted.

Li Xing felt a strong urge to complain.

How much data could such an old-fashioned computer possibly hold?

It was absurd that it took Wisdom—a quantum computer equipped with artificial intelligence—so long to absorb and read it.

"I advise you both to behave yourselves. Those fire-stick-like things are nothing more than psychological comfort for you; they have absolutely no effect on me."

Li Xing didn't even glance at the two men. Following the instructions provided by Wisdom, he found the remaining Dragon Balls in General Red's drawer.

"Very good, all six are gathered."

Li Xing turned and walked toward the window.

Perhaps it was Li Xing's warning that worked, or perhaps the two were scared witless, but they didn't dare to offer any resistance.

Li Xing simply smashed through the window, shot into the sky, and vanished from their sight.

Li Xing began to contemplate his next move.

The plot had diverged.

At this point in time, General Red shouldn't have obtained the Dragon Balls yet.

Yet, Li Xing had managed to find two of them in the drawer of his office.

This meant that the first true major antagonist of Sun Wukong's early days, the assassin Mercenary Tao, might not necessarily appear.

Li Xing's gaze deepened.

After hesitating for less than a second, Li Xing decided to take the initiative to find Sun Wukong.

Waiting for others was not his style.

Just as he had fled immediately after crushing Yamcha on the tournament stage.

When the odds were in his favor, Li Xing wouldn't dwell or hesitate; he would act decisively to achieve his goal.

One day later.

Li Xing, clad in black armor, blocked Sun Wukong's path.

"Who are you?"

Sun Wukong assumed a combat stance, staring at Li Xing with caution.

At this stage, Sun Wukong had already clashed with the Red Ribbon Army.

Seeing Li Xing's appearance, his first reaction was that the Red Ribbon Army had come for him.

Naturally, he was on guard immediately.

Li Xing stared at Sun Wukong in silence.

"The Dragon Ball. Give it to me, and you live. Otherwise, you die."

"You really are from the Red Ribbon Army. I'm telling you, I won't give you Grandpa's ball even if I die!"

Li Xing remained unmoved.

His figure surged forward, leaving behind numerous afterimages as he arrived right in front of Sun Wukong.

"Damn it, I won't lose to you!"

Bang!

Li Xing threw a punch directly at Sun Wukong's cheek, which the boy barely managed to block before performing several backflips to create distance.

Li Xing was not surprised.

It was only natural for Sun Wukong to have such reaction speed.

This time, he hadn't used his full strength.

After more than half a month of training and recuperation, Li Xing's combat power had reached 400.

Clad in black armor, Li Xing only brought out 100 points of combat power this time.

Only in this way could he learn enough from his battle against Sun Wukong.

"Hey, you're so strong, why are you throwing your life away for the Red Ribbon Army?"

Li Xing was surprised.

He hadn't expected Sun Wukong to say something like that.

Words like these shouldn't have come from the simple-minded Sun Wukong.

However, he found it amusing.

As of now, he had crippled forty percent of the Red Ribbon Army's strength, which should have extinguished their desire to seize the Dragon Balls.

Even if they still had plans, they would be much better prepared.

He just didn't know if he would become Dr. Gero's opponent this time, or if it would be Sun Wukong.

But Dr. Gero didn't have the ability to do anything to him.

How could the man even find trouble with him?

"Interesting!"

"What?"

Li Xing didn't speak, his gaze burning as he stared at Sun Wukong.

It had been a long, long time since he had fought a truly enjoyable, hearty, and satisfying battle.

The Sun Wukong before him was perfectly suited for it.