Crack—!
The sound of the heavens splitting apart shook the entire Earth. It was no ordinary energy explosion, but the deathly, piercing silence of the universe's laws shattering.
The Chaos Barrier, which the four of them had forcibly suppressed, finally broke free under the clashing, searing force of four supreme origin powers. The Saiyan ancient bloodline, Super Saiyan Origin, pure Saiyan Battle Qi, and Frieza's Emperor Energy—four ultimate forces that transcended the power level of this universe—crashed together, merged, and exploded.
What everyone had thought was an attempt to block and suppress the barrier had, in the end, become fuel for a blaze that tore apart heaven and earth.
High above, a black opening stretching tens of thousands of miles across fully took shape.
A torrent of dark, deep Chaos poured through the breach. It was no longer the thin, eerie gray-black mist from before, but a tangible, inky-black, mountain-heavy flood of turbid Chaos. Wherever it passed, space collapsed, energy died out completely, and all life in heaven and earth dwindled to nothing.
The entire sky was swiftly swallowed by darkness. Day turned to eternal night in an instant, with only faint starlight shining through the distant, damaged atmosphere. It made the world seem desolate and lifeless, as if doomsday had arrived.
Lin Chen, seated at the formation's ground-level focal point, was shaken to the core. A profound sense of helplessness swept over him.
He could clearly feel his bloodline origin burning wildly. This was no expenditure from overexertion in battle; the laws of heaven and earth were forcibly drawing it out, channeling it without pause into the Chaos Rift high above to serve as the foundation for opening a passage between the two worlds.
The seal left behind by his ancestor ten thousand years ago, the special anchor of his mutated bloodline, and the Super Saiyan Prototype Origin he had awakened through a breakthrough in the face of death had all become pawns in the Chaos Race's scheme.
"How could this..."
Not far away, the black-haired Saiyan Kallen froze in midair. His purple aura churned wildly, and his eyes were filled with disbelieving despair.
He had done everything in his power to seal off the airspace, erase the Chaos mist, and stabilize the barrier, exhausting all his strength. He had meant to delay the calamity and protect the last hope of survival. Who could have known that every bit of power he poured out would only accelerate the collapse of the universe's walls?
The destiny he had pursued for half his life, the hope of his people he had protected all his life—somehow, he had ended up opening the door to doomsday with his own hands. The sheer absurdity and despair of it shattered the proud Saiyan warrior, a man who had spent his life refusing to bend.
Above the highest clouds, the Golden Full-Power Super Saiyan, who was doing everything he could to stabilize the barriers between dimensions, lurched. A trickle of golden blood escaped the corner of his mouth.
He had lived through ages, witnessed the destruction of star seas and the rise and fall of races, and believed he had long since seen through every danger and scheme in the universe. But only now did he understand that the forces at play in the Outer Realm's Chaos were beyond the comprehension of any being in this universe.
His opponent had lain low for ten thousand years, seeking neither a moment of slaughter nor the destruction of a single race. The goal was to lay a grand scheme spanning the ages, exploit the instinctive protection offered by every top fighter, and turn that protection against the laws of heaven and earth, forcibly breaking the barriers between worlds.
"What a ruthless scheme... What terrifying patience."
The Golden Super Saiyan's low murmur carried unprecedented gravity.
Ten thousand years in hiding, guiding events step by step, using the enemy's hands, a friend's strength, and the bonds of destiny to create the ultimate opportunity for Chaos to invade. This was no mere conflict between factions. It was a harvest from a higher dimension, a dimensional force crushing everything below it.
The most enraged of all was Frieza, at the center of the barrier high above.
For hundreds of years, he had roamed the galaxy as the one who made plans—the one who manipulated hearts and controlled life and death. Never had he imagined that he would become the most crucial piece in someone else's game.
The Emperor Energy he prided himself on, the tyrannical power with which he had swept across the star seas, was now being drawn into the Chaos Rift without end, turned into a weapon that would tear apart his own domain.
"You bastards!!"
Frieza's scarlet eyes turned crimson with fury, and his rage shattered all restraint. The bone-white energy around him went berserk, and the full extent of his power—so often kept in check—was unleashed. The atmosphere rumbled in wave after wave under the force of his energy.
He tried to reclaim his power and sever the connection, only to discover that the four origin powers had already been bound fast by the laws of Chaos. The more violently he struggled, the more fiercely the powers clashed, and the faster the walls of the universe crumbled.
Invisible shackles of law held all four of them fast.
"Don't try to break free by force!"
Lin Chen shouted through clenched teeth, his voice piercing the deathly torrent of Chaos.
"The four origins have already fused with the barrier. If we force our way out, we'll tear heaven and earth apart completely, and the Chaos Army will flood the entire galaxy!"
Through the inherited memories of the Ancestral Remnant Soul, Lin Chen instantly understood the laws binding them.
They weren't restrained by an outside force. They were bound by their own power, their own protection, and their own destiny. If one fell, they would all fall; if one moved, everything would collapse.
Frieza's aura surged violently. His fury churned like a raging sea, yet he still forced his berserk power back under control.
No matter how arrogant and cold-blooded he was, he understood the situation. If Chaos completely invaded the galaxy, his empire, his dominion, and the countless star systems under his command would all vanish. The foundation he had built over hundreds of years would become a joke.
After a brief moment of chaos, the four of them steadied themselves.
The situation was now perfectly clear.
The Chaos Race had spent ten thousand years laying plans not to destroy the Saiyan Clan or kill Frieza, but to make this entire universe their prey and the four of them their keys, opening the way to an apocalyptic calamity across dimensions.
Within the black rift in the heavens, the deathly fluctuations grew more and more intense.
Countless tiny black shadows drifted and darted through the torrent of Chaos. They were the lowest-grade Chaos Minions, devoid of self-awareness and driven only by the instinct to devour everything. Dense beyond counting, they were seeping through the rift in a steady stream.
The few Chaos Minions that had seeped through dissolved the earth and stones, plants, and wreckage of ruined battleships across an entire stretch of forest the moment they touched down, leaving not even a trace of energy behind.
This power to annihilate everything surpassed any martial force in this universe.
Behind the forest, Bulma had gone deathly pale. She covered her mouth tightly, afraid to make a sound.
She understood completely. This was no longer a matter of an interstellar war or an alien invasion. It was the true end of the world. Human technology, Earth's defenses, and every force in the mortal world didn't even have the right to struggle like ants against Chaos Power.
Little Goku stood in front of Bulma, his small body rigid, his dark eyes fixed on the black heavens overhead. All he sensed was the utmost danger. His legs trembled slightly, but he still didn't back down.
He didn't understand the state of the universe or the Chaos calamity. He only knew that Big Brother Lin Chen was fighting to protect this land. He couldn't be afraid. He couldn't run away.
"Now, we can only reverse the flow of the four forces and seal the rift by making them clash against it!"
Lin Chen quickly sifted through the fragmentary secret technique in his inherited memories and spoke gravely.
"We were wrong to fight separately and suppress it from one side. Our powers clashed with one another, and that's how Chaos took advantage of us. Now, abandon every attempt to block the rift. Unify the flow of our powers, combine the four forces, and strike back against the laws of Chaos!"
This was the only way to break the deadlock.
If the four powers were the fuel that had unleashed the calamity, then they would merge into one and become the chains that sealed it.
There was no time to hesitate. With their lives at stake, they all understood one another without a word.
Kallen was the first to rein in all his unleashed power. His turbulent purple Saiyan Battle Qi steadied at once, flowing along the patterns of the Chaos Barrier. He abandoned his attempt to block it and instead aligned his power with the laws of heaven and earth.
The Golden Super Saiyan drew a deep breath and suppressed his injuries. His rich, domineering golden Super Saiyan Origin slowly unfolded, becoming the most stable foundation of power and covering the entire rift.
Frieza's gaze was cold and piercing. He put away all his murderous fury, slowly reining in his extremely refined bone-white Emperor Energy until it became the sharpest blade for breaking through dimensions, suspended at the heart of the rift.
The three powers fell into order in an instant. They no longer clashed or drained one another.
Seated at the formation's focal point on the ground, Lin Chen sent a golden pillar of bloodline light soaring into the sky. His ancient Saiyan Origin was fully released, becoming the core that linked all the forces of the three above him.
The next moment, four supreme powers, utterly different and opposed in nature, slowly merged, entwined, and united under the pull of his bloodline.
Violet, gold, white, and antique gold light pierced the black Chaos overhead, slowly gathering beneath the shattered heavens to form a brilliant wheel of light that stretched between heaven and earth.
The power that had been violently tearing heaven and earth apart instantly became perfectly balanced, perfectly refined, and perfectly suppressive.
"Four forces as one—Heaven-Suppressing Seal!"
Lin Chen's low shout shook heaven and earth.
Boom!
The wheel of four-colored light shot upward and slammed down on the rift in the heavens.
The torrent of Chaos pouring through the sky halted in an instant. The spreading cracks in space stopped advancing, and the Chaos Minions that had seeped through were crushed and dissolved by the wheel. The black rift of doomsday visibly began to shrink.
They had stabilized it!
Through the desperate efforts of the four, the looming calamity had finally been forced to stop gaining ground.
Kallen let out a long breath. His back was soaked with cold sweat, and his tense body relaxed slightly.
A glimmer flashed in the Golden Super Saiyan's eyes, and his anxious heart eased a little. For the first time in ten thousand years, someone had managed to shift the balance of Chaos and turn the doomsday game around.
Frieza's expression remained cold, but even he had to admit that this young Saiyan rival possessed a talent and resolve that defied all expectations.
But just as everyone thought the situation had eased and they had gained a moment to catch their breath—
In the deepest reaches of the heavens, at the core of the black Chaos, an immense, terrifying presence that could suppress the ages slowly awakened.
The indifferent, icy, empty consciousness from before no longer lurked in hiding. It suddenly revealed its full pressure.
The four-colored Heaven-Suppressing wheel spanning the heavens trembled violently. Its light rapidly dimmed and contracted, and the rift that had been closing began to widen again.
A terrifying pressure, far surpassing every level of power in this universe and towering above all its laws, slowly pressed down from the depths of Chaos.
This was no minion, no legion, no vanguard.
This was the master of Chaos, the true source of the invasion!
"Insignificant beings of this universe, you dare use the strength of ants to defy Chaos's destiny?"
The vast, ancient voice rang out across heaven and earth. It held neither joy nor sorrow, and wasn't shouted or roared, yet it pressed the four-colored wheel into violent fractures and set the blood and energy of the four supreme fighters churning.
The black Chaos overhead surged slowly, gathering into a boundless, indistinct shadow.
The shadow covered the entire rift in the heavens. Its features and form were impossible to make out. Only a pair of cold, hollow black eyes hung in the sky, gazing indifferently down upon the whole Earth.
A mere projection was enough to make space collapse without end and bring the Four-Force Heaven-Suppressing Seal to the brink of shattering.
"Ten thousand years of planning cannot be undone in a single moment by the likes of you."
When the Chaos King's indifferent voice fell, the entire land shook violently. Mountains and rivers crumbled, the earth split, and the whole planet trembled under the terrifying pressure.
Lin Chen's pupils contracted sharply, and his heart sank to the bottom.
In the Chaos King's eyes, the situation they had risked their lives to turn around was nothing more than an insignificant farce.
Then, the most despairing sight unfolded silently behind the Chaos King's shadow—
In the endless depths of black Chaos, countless Chaos legions stirred awake, stretching beyond the horizon. The auras of countless terrifying high-ranking Chaos powerhouses bloomed one after another. Their numbers were enough to crush every civilization in the entire galaxy.
And yet, that still wasn't the most terrifying part.
Through the transparent perception of his ancient bloodline, Lin Chen saw through the Chaos King's phantom and gazed directly at the gap in the barrier between the two worlds, deep within.
To his shock, beyond the barrier lay not just one world of Chaos.
Several utterly different, even more terrifying and ancient auras from the Outer Realm were staring across the barrier at this universe.
The invasion of Chaos had never been the end.
Chaos was merely the first civilization from beyond the universe to arrive!
The true final calamity of this game spanning ten thousand years had only just begun!
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