Twenty-five years...
No!
Including the three years on Planet Vegeta, it had been a full twenty-eight years!
If he hadn't already been transported to another world twice, if he hadn't constantly kept himself alert and given himself hope, if he hadn't kept growing stronger, if he hadn't had a clear goal and direction to move forward... he would have gone mad long ago.
Another disappointment left Luo Feng in turmoil.
He could see his own achievements.
But being trapped on this Primitive Planet, with no one else around—not a single other human—was truly depressing.
Even though there were animals on the planet he could communicate with, talking to animals only kept his language skills from deteriorating.
It took a long while for Luo Feng to finally calm the emotions roiling inside him.
Things had come to this, so he could only rely on himself to become stronger and then escape the planet.
To be honest, Luo Feng had already mastered Instant Transmission.
The reason he still couldn't leave was that he wasn't strong enough, and his perception wasn't powerful enough either.
His perception could now reach beyond the planet. After transforming into a Super Saiyan, he could even cover several nearby star systems.
However, there were no inhabited planets in the star systems near this planet, so there was no target to help him make a space jump.
It was like a dead end, impossible to escape.
As for chanting the true name of some supreme being to summon them...
Luo Feng had tried that too, and had experienced what it meant for the air to suddenly fall silent.
Maybe they had heard him and learned of his existence, but why would they bother with him?
It was like asking why a god would care about some mortal in the human world.
Or why a person would care about an ant pausing beside them and looking up.
"For now, all I can do is keep training and growing stronger. I need to get Super Saiyan First Grade to Full Power as soon as possible, and expand my perception as far as I can. I refuse to believe it! One day, I'll get out of this prison!" Luo Feng murmured, sitting cross-legged on the mountaintop.
To be honest, whenever he got hung up on this, Luo Feng couldn't help replaying the life he'd lived in Swallowed Star.
If only he'd died after the Earth arc, during the Genius Battle. He could have learned far more about the universe, and used Luo Feng, the protagonist's younger brother, to get his hands on more cultivation techniques.
If he'd known more cultivation methods, he wouldn't have spent all these years practicing only the 99 Soul Forging Technique and the 9 Refinement Body Technique, both meant for Planetary Level cultivators.
Fortunately, this was the Dragon Ball world. Not only were cultivation methods not rejected, their effects were even better here.
And thanks to the cultivation methods he knew, he had used the Five Hearts Toward Heaven Cultivation Method to simulate the basic method for cultivating ki. Otherwise, how could he have achieved what he had today?
There was no use regretting it now. All he could do was sigh.
To be honest, after being reincarnated as a Saiyan, Luo Feng had initially fantasized that he might grow strong enough by following the story, then perhaps return to the Devouring World in triumph.
Even if he only became as strong as Majin Buu in the later stages of Dragon Ball Z, he would still be an overwhelmingly powerful presence in Swallowed Star.
If time flowed at the same rate in both worlds, then he'd only need to wait a few decades before returning to crush his protagonist younger brother.
After all, a few decades meant very little in the middle and later stages of Swallowed Star. Even decades from now, Luo Feng should still only be at Universe Level.
That meant he could already crush the Luo Feng of 2088.
After all, he had died in 2060.
Although Luo Feng didn't remember the timeline of the original Swallowed Star story very clearly, he still had a rough idea.
Luo Feng had broken through Universe Level and become Domain Lord Level two hundred years after the Earth arc.
And he didn't reach World Lord Level until nearly three or four thousand years later.
He took a deep breath and exhaled the stale air that had built up in his chest.
Luo Feng steadied himself, cleared his mind of distractions, and was about to close his eyes and contemplate the Super Saiyan state.
Just then.
A surge...
No!
Two powerful presences suddenly reached him, entering his range of perception.
The unexpected development jolted Luo Feng. He leapt to his feet, eyes wide and mouth agape.
"W-what is this?!"
Damn, it had been a full twenty-five years!
This was the first time he'd sensed anything beyond this planet—and the presences were incredibly powerful.
They were coming from the other side of a distant star system.
"Could it really be such a coincidence? They happened to erupt at the exact moment I broke through, so I was able to pick them up!"
Unbelievable. Incredible!
The next moment, Luo Feng immediately turned serious.
This wasn't the time to get excited and stand around in a daze.
If he didn't seize this chance and use Instant Transmission to make a space jump, he might miss his opportunity.
He didn't know what was happening over there.
But one thing was certain: the two presences were fighting.
One was slightly weaker, while the other was much stronger!
"Heaven hasn't left me without a way out after all! This time, I can finally reach another planet where life exists!"
As he spoke, Luo Feng raised his right hand and pressed his index and middle fingers together against his forehead. Then he focused all his strength on locking onto the targets.
They were so far away!
The distance was far beyond anything he could have imagined.
If the two presences hadn't clashed so violently, sending out a powerful surge he could follow with his perception, he would probably have missed this chance too.
It didn't take long for Luo Feng to lock onto the two presences. Without another thought—not even a hint of reluctance—he used Instant Transmission to make a point-to-point space jump.
Was he afraid?
Come on. He had become a Super Saiyan, after all. In this era, how many beings could threaten him?
Besides, these two presences were weak in his eyes!
Even in his base form, he could crush them.
At that very moment.
On the other side of the universe.
On a verdant planet.
Two powerful presences were colliding head-on.
Two figures darted through the skies, locked in a fierce hand-to-hand battle, their punches landing with bone-crunching force.
One of them wore an orange martial arts uniform and had hair like a crab's shell. His features were sharply defined, and he looked handsome and heroic.
The other had a bizarre appearance, like some kind of alien clown. He was none other than Frieza, the Emperor of the Universe—and he had reached his final form.
This was Namek, where Son Goku was locked in a final battle against him.
"Oh-ho-ho-ho! You wild monkey do have some strength. You're certainly much stronger than Little Vegeta, but that's as far as you'll get." As one exchange ended, Frieza looked down at Son Goku and spoke mockingly.
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