Rebirth of Gohan

[Ding! Successfully descended into the Dragon Ball World]

[Please select one of the following four starter packs:]

[Option 1: Super Saiyan 1 Full Power state.]

[Option 2: Inheritance of all of Son Goku's combat experience.]

[Option 3: Permanent doubling of base combat power.]

[Option 4: Legendary Super Saiyan bloodline (original version).]

Cold. Excruciating pain.

Wu Fan opened his eyes in a daze, his brain feeling as if a blender were running at full speed inside.

Memories of last night swirled in his mind. As a hardcore Dragon Ball fan, he had watched Dragon Ball Z countless times. He remembered the despair of the future timeline, where the one-armed Son Gohan—the last remaining Z Fighter—knocked out a young Trunks to protect him before facing Android 17 and Android 18 alone, only to die miserably in the ruins. That sense of frustration and injustice had made him slam his fist onto his desk, followed immediately by a splitting headache that caused him to lose consciousness entirely.

[Ding! Please make your selection as soon as possible! Countdown: 30 seconds...]

The mechanical voice echoed in his mind once more. Wu Fan jolted, struggling to crawl up from the sodden pile of dirt.

His vision gradually cleared. Heavy rain lashed against his face; all around him were broken walls and collapsed structures, with the ruins of a leveled city in the distance. The air was thick with the acrid smell of smoke and blood.

He instinctively tried to push himself up with both hands, but stopped abruptly. Losing his balance, he tumbled face-first into the mud.

His left side was empty. There was no sleeve, only a ragged tear, and his entire orange martial arts uniform was stained a dark, dried red.

A severed arm.

The tattered orange uniform with the kanji "Go" on the chest.

Wu Fan stared silently at his scarred body, then back at the system prompt in his mind.

He had truly transmigrated.

And he had transmigrated into the most tragic, heart-wrenching version of Son Gohan from the timeline of despair: the one-armed warrior.

Ecstasy and panic surged through him simultaneously. He was thrilled to have encountered the kind of miracle only found in novels, but terrified by the state of this body, which was in abysmal condition. The "ki" within him was as weak as a flickering candle in the wind, ready to be extinguished at any moment.

The freezing rain and the agonizing pain from his wounds told him this was no dream!

[Countdown: 10 seconds... If no selection is made, the system will assign one at random.]

"I choose four! The Legendary Super Saiyan bloodline!" Once he confirmed he had truly transmigrated, Wu Fan made his decision in his mind without a second thought.

Was there even a need to choose?

Anyone who had watched Dragon Ball knew that a Super Saiyan and a Legendary Super Saiyan were practically two different species!

Super Saiyan 1 Full Power? While excellent and powerful, allowing him to defeat the Android siblings of this timeline, it was something he could achieve through training on his own.

Son Goku's combat experience? Also great, but unfortunately incomparable, and again, something he could acquire himself.

Doubling his combat power? With the Legendary Super Saiyan bloodline, he wouldn't need to worry about his power level!

This Legendary Super Saiyan bloodline—the same overpowered constitution as the original Broly—was a truly invincible physique! Its floor was incredibly high; even without training, his combat power would double every year as he aged. Its growth potential was absurdly unreasonable, becoming stronger as the opponent grew stronger, with no upper limit to his ki. Most importantly, it wouldn't cause him to lose control!

If it weren't for the movie plot, Son Goku and Vegeta would have been finished long ago.

[Selection confirmed. Distributing rewards...]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining: Legendary Super Saiyan bloodline]

[Additional reward distributed: Senzu Bean x10]

Seeing that the reward included a Senzu Bean, Son Gohan took one out and swallowed it without hesitation.

Gulp. The Senzu Bean slid down his throat.

The wounds that had been painful enough to make him faint began to scab over and fall off at a speed visible to the naked eye.

His bones popped and cracked, every cell in his body cheering with vitality, and his physical state was completely renewed.

Wu Fan let out a long sigh of relief.

As expected of a Senzu Bean, the effect was extraordinary!

With his injuries recovered, Wu Fan clenched his fist, carefully sensing the powerful energy surging within him.

He could feel that with just a single thought, he could reduce the entire ruined city before him to ashes.

The sudden sense of expansion from gaining such immense power gave him an urge to feel invincible, but he quickly calmed himself down.

He walked over to a nearby puddle and, by the light of the lightning in the sky, looked at his reflection in the water.

Sharp brows, a resolute face, a deep scar at the corner of his right eye, and that empty left sleeve.

The name "Son Gohan" was a highly controversial subject in the Dragon Ball community.

In the main timeline, his talent was the greatest in the entire universe. During the Cell Games, at only ten years old, he was the first to break through the barrier of Super Saiyan 2, beating the arrogant Perfect Cell until he questioned his own existence. At that time, his radiance even eclipsed that of his father, the protagonist, Son Goku.

The strongest in the universe at ten years old!

But what was the result? Once the era of peace arrived, the kid threw martial arts to the back of his mind. The pressure from his mother, Chi-Chi, combined with his own distaste for fighting, turned him into a bookworm with no strength to truss a chicken. In the later stages, he couldn't even fit into his iconic orange martial arts uniform, switching to a tacky green tracksuit, only to be pinned to the ground and humiliated by Frieza's foot soldiers.

He had squandered a winning hand, earning the glorious nickname "Nobi-Gohan."

But this body before him, this Son Gohan from the timeline of despair, was completely different.

Son Goku died of a viral heart disease, and the Z Fighters—including Vegeta, Piccolo, Tien Shinhan, and Krillin—were all wiped out while fighting the Androids. Even Piccolo died, causing the Dragon Balls to turn into ordinary stones.

There were no revival coins, no Senzu Bean supplies, and no master to provide guidance.

This young man, who should have grown up in a greenhouse, was forced to shoulder the heavy burden of protecting the Earth. He struggled through the ruins, barely clinging to life on the edge of existence for over a decade.

Yet, his ending was so desolate.

To protect the only remaining hope—young Trunks—he resolutely knocked his apprentice unconscious. Having already lost an arm, he charged alone toward those two emotionless killing machines.

Android 17 and Android 18.

It wasn't a battle; it was a one-sided slaughter. That demonic pair of siblings enjoyed the thrill of a cat playing with a mouse, using endless energy blasts in the pouring rain to blast the exhausted Gohan to death in the cold, muddy water.

After Trunks woke up and found his broken body in the rain, the sight of the purple-haired boy weeping in agony and finally transforming into a Super Saiyan in his extreme grief had once brought tears to Wu Fan's eyes behind the screen.

Calculating the time, that kid Trunks was likely still unconscious or just waking up, rushing over like a madman to collect the body.

If that purple-haired boy rushed into the ruins and saw his brother and mentor—who should have been dead beyond a doubt—not only alive and kicking by a puddle but checking his reflection without a single scratch on him, the expression on his face would surely be spectacular.

"Regardless, since I have taken over this body..."

He looked at the sharp reflection on the water's surface, his eyes gradually becoming as keen as a blade.

"From this day forward, I am Son Gohan."

Let the name Wu Fan stay in that peaceful world. Since the heavens had given him a chance to change things and gifted him such a powerful bloodline, he would never let the original owner's miserable fate repeat itself!

After calming down, Gohan began to calculate the current situation.

The Legendary Super Saiyan bloodline was indeed formidable; the sense of power that could destroy the world with a mere gesture made one feel incredibly inflated. But he kept a clear head.

This was the Dragon Ball World! A perverted dimension where combat power could easily shatter planets, star systems, and in the later stages, even erase the entire universe with a flick of the wrist!

The Legendary Super Saiyan bloodline had an extremely high floor, doubling automatically every year with infinite growth potential. But monsters even more terrifying than a Legendary Super Saiyan were a dime a dozen in this world.

Looking at this desperate future timeline alone, the crises were far more than just the Android siblings before him.

In some dark basement, an even more terrifying monster was lying in wait—Cell. That guy had fused the cells of all the top fighters; once he found the opportunity to absorb 17 and 18 to reach his perfect form, his strength would undergo a qualitative leap.

Looking further ahead, there was the threat of Majin Buu. Even if this timeline lacked the energy of Goku and Vegeta to awaken Buu, that old schemer Babidi would eventually come to Earth to stir up trouble.

Not to mention the lunatic who would appear in the future wearing Son Goku's face—Goku Black—and that Zamasu who claimed to be a god!

Facing these unreasonable freaks, relying solely on the naturally increasing combat power of the Legendary Super Saiyan bloodline was absolutely not enough!

"I still need to train."

Gohan clenched his remaining right fist, his knuckles popping like firecrackers.

The Legendary Super Saiyan bloodline only gave him a ticket to the highest realm; it didn't mean he could just lie back and relax.

Fortunately, as a veteran Dragon Ball fan, his greatest advantage was his absolute mastery of the plot and the cultivation system.

Super Saiyan 1, 2, and 3—these were the conventional routes.

Super Saiyan 4—that was the wild route.

Then there were the Super Saiyan God and Super Saiyan Blue of the divine realm, Son Goku's Ultra Instinct, Vegeta's Ultra Ego, and even the "Beast Form" that Son Gohan developed in the original work!

He knew the principles, the emotional triggers, and the ways to circulate Ki for every single advancement route like the back of his hand.

With the bottomless, monstrous potential of the Legendary Super Saiyan physique, he could fully attempt to fuse these routes together.

Legendary Super Saiyan combined with God Ki? Legendary Super Saiyan combined with Beast Form?

Just thinking about it made the Saiyan blood in Gohan's body begin to boil frantically.

However, one must eat a meal one bite at a time.

Gohan closed his eyes and began to carefully evaluate his current strength.

Although the Dragon Ball power scaling system fell apart in the later stages, it still held significant reference value in the early parts.

During the Namek arc, Frieza's final form at full power had a combat power of 120 million. When Son Goku first transformed into a Super Saiyan, his combat power was 150 million.

And what about the Son Gohan of this desperate future timeline?

His base combat power was at most three to four million. Transforming into a standard Super Saiyan provided a fifty-fold increase, hovering somewhere between 100 million and 200 million.

It sounded stronger than Goku during the Namek era, but in reality, due to the lack of a master's guidance, the constant high-pressure environment, and the loss of an arm, the original owner's strength had been stuck at this bottleneck, unable to break through to the Full Power Super Saiyan state.

Now look at his opponents, Android 17 and Android 18.

These monsters, modified by Dr. Gero, had infinite energy reactors installed in their bodies, meaning their stamina would never run dry.

In the original story, the 17 of the future timeline once told Gohan personally: "Last time, we didn't even use half of our strength."

In other words, even when the future Gohan gave his all, he couldn't even force out half of their power.

Roughly estimated, the full combat power of 17 and 18 was at least between 300 million and 400 million!