Battle Across Time and Space, Further Progress

On a super-luxury cruise ship.

Beerus condensed an enormous energy ball.

"If I can't have any delicious pudding and I can't meet the Super Saiyan God, then I'll just have to destroy Earth!"

After he impatiently urged Whis several times, Whis finally came to his side with sushi in hand.

"Let's destroy this planet and go back. Honestly, what a waste of my time."

"Very well, but please wait a moment."

In a flash, he returned to the sushi shop and had the owner start packing sushi for him.

Beerus was a little speechless, but he still waited a while. After Whis finished packing the sushi, Beerus was just about to throw out the energy ball when a powerful aura suddenly shot into the sky.

Beerus slowly raised his head and looked into the distance. He saw two men standing a hundred meters away.

The Z Fighters below all looked up as well and saw those two people. That immense aura was coming from one of them. He had a body covered in red fur, and his tail swayed back and forth.

"A Saiyan!!"

Yamcha cried out in shock.

"A Saiyan? I don't know if he's friend or foe, but that aura is far stronger than Goku's."

Master Roshi's face filled with worry.

Beerus's eyes lit up, and the energy ball behind him vanished.

"Could he be the Super Saiyan God?"

"No, that's not right. Gods don't have auras. But his strength has indeed reached the level of a god. How strange."

As Beerus muttered to himself, he stared at Gogeta in confusion.

That was right. The ones who had appeared were Luo Chuan and Gogeta.

The two of them had arrived in this time and space long ago and had watched Vegeta's whole performance. Gogeta had felt somewhat awkward watching it, so Luo Chuan explained Beerus's background to him. After learning where Beerus came from, Gogeta did not feel afraid. On the contrary, he wanted to fight this deity.

"I'm not the Super Saiyan God. I'm Gogeta. This transformation is called Super Saiyan 4."

Gogeta introduced himself. The warriors on the ground looked at one another, especially Vegeta. He had never heard of a transformation called Super Saiyan 4, and the name Gogeta made him feel oddly uncomfortable.

"Oh, is that so? What a shame. I'm looking for the Saiyan God, not you."

Disappointment appeared on Beerus's face. As expected, he was not the Super Saiyan God.

He only wanted to find the Super Saiyan God and fight him, because his prophetic dream had told him that the other party was a "powerful enemy." If someone could be called a powerful enemy, then he wanted to see just how strong they were.

Although Gogeta's strength had reached the level of a god, which was the 10th Dimension, Beerus simply had no interest.

At that moment, Luo Chuan spoke.

"Lord Beerus, there is no Super Saiyan God in this world, but I do know how to transform into the Super Saiyan God. However..."

Beerus looked at Luo Chuan and studied him carefully, narrowing his eyes.

"However what?"

"However, you have to show him the strength of a God of Destruction. This kid wants to challenge you."

Beerus thought for a few seconds.

"Fine. If you dare lie to me, I'll destroy you directly."

Luo Chuan made an OK gesture.

"Thanks, bro."

"Go on. Whether you can comprehend anything from this will depend on you."

Gogeta instantly disappeared from where he stood. The next moment, he appeared in front of Beerus, swinging a fist wrapped in scorching energy straight at Beerus's face.

Beerus raised his arm and easily caught the punch.

With a bang like muffled thunder exploding, the sea was instantly lifted into towering waves by the impact. Spray shot hundreds of meters into the air, and the surrounding air was squeezed by that force until it made a sizzling sound. Rings of visible shockwaves spread in every direction, shaking even the clouds in the distance apart.

Sensing the power of that punch, a flicker of surprise passed through Beerus's eyes. He suddenly flung his arm and hurled Gogeta away. Immediately after, he drove strength into both legs and shot toward the thrown Gogeta like an arrow released from a bowstring.

Gogeta quickly flipped in midair and steadied himself. Facing Beerus's charge, he took a deep breath, gathered his energy, then abruptly thrust both palms forward. A beam of red energy shot out like a raging torrent and rushed toward Beerus.

Seeing this, Beerus waved his right hand and condensed a purple energy ball. Then he pushed it forward, and the powerful energy ball collided violently with Gogeta's red energy wave above the sea.

For a moment, the entire sky was shrouded in dazzling light. Within the radiance, purple and gold intertwined, coiled around each other, and clashed, letting out a deafening roar. The sound was as if it would shatter the entire world.

The seawater below seemed to be controlled by an invisible giant hand. It spun and churned madly, forming enormous whirlpools one after another. Some sea creatures that had no time to escape were instantly reduced to dust by the powerful energy shock.

The aftershock from the clash of energy waves spread in all directions. Wherever it passed, the sea surface was forcibly pressed down several meters, forming a huge circular depression.

Gogeta roared and increased his energy output. The red light grew more and more dazzling, gradually suppressing the purple energy back.

Seeing this, Beerus gave a cold snort and raised his own power a little. He pushed forward with one hand, and the energy ball that had been suppressed instantly swelled several times over. Like a surging tsunami, it swallowed Gogeta's red energy wave with unstoppable force and continued sweeping toward Gogeta.

Rumble rumble rumble!!!

The light of the explosion was brighter than the sun, and seawater evaporated into a massive mist that enveloped the battlefield.

When the light faded, Gogeta had endured the explosion of the energy ball.

"Uh... aaaaaaah...!!!!!"

Gogeta furiously raised his energy, and he soon reached Full Power Mode.

Looking at Gogeta, whose entire body radiated a scorching aura, Beerus suddenly grinned.

"I've changed my mind. Perhaps you're more interesting than this so-called Super Saiyan God."

A purple light rose around Beerus.

Gogeta's expression turned grave. He felt an incomparably immense pressure bearing down over him.

"So this is the power of a god? It feels like an insurmountable mountain."

At that moment, Beerus brought his hands together, then slowly pulled them apart. A deep-purple energy sphere the size of a tennis ball gradually formed between his palms. The energy sphere did not look large, but it contained fifty percent of his destructive energy.

With a flick of his hand, Beerus sent the deep-purple energy sphere shooting toward Gogeta at high speed, carrying the force to destroy everything.

Gogeta swiftly counterattacked, unleashing a Big Bang Kamehameha. The instant the energy wave collided with the Sphere of Destruction, heaven and earth were engulfed by a blinding light.

Immediately after came a deafening boom, like the explosion at the birth of the universe. Wherever the spreading shock wave passed, the seawater instantly evaporated, exposing the seabed, and the seabed itself was forcibly split open by that mighty power, huge cracks tearing across it one after another. Magma kept gushing out from the fissures, mingling with the seawater and letting out a "sizzle." In an instant, the entire sea turned into a scene from purgatory.

Under that powerful impact, Gogeta's body flew backward uncontrollably, sharp pain shooting through his hands as if they were about to be torn off by that force. But he gritted his teeth, endured the agony, and adjusted his posture. Stomping hard on the sea's surface with both feet and kicking up towering waves, he steadied himself once more.

Beerus looked at the repelled Gogeta with a faint smile on his face. His figure flashed, and he instantly appeared above Gogeta, his right fist raised high, carrying destructive power as it smashed down toward the top of Gogeta's head.

Gogeta looked up, not the slightest fear in his eyes. He crossed his arms and raised them, taking Beerus's punch head-on.

But the power of Beerus's punch was beyond imagination. Gogeta plummeted rapidly, his feet sinking straight into the seabed. The surrounding seawater was whipped by the impact into a massive ring-shaped wave that spread outward.

Gogeta felt as though his arms were being crushed beneath a mountain, and his body continued to sink, but the fighting spirit in his heart only burned higher. He suddenly opened his eyes wide, a strange light flashing through them. At that moment, he actually comprehended Godly Power within Beerus's destructive energy.

The aura around Gogeta changed again. Within his originally red flames, strands of grain-like light began to appear. Though the particles were few, they shone like stars, giving off a powerful aura.

He pushed upward with both hands, and a mighty force erupted from within him, actually knocking Beerus flying backward.

"Not bad. To think you could comprehend Godly Power from my destructive energy. But do you think that alone is enough to defeat me?"

Beerus let out a cold snort, and destructive energy surged out from him again, even denser than before.

One deep-purple energy sphere after another appeared behind him, and they flew toward Gogeta like meteors. Wherever those energy spheres passed, space itself was torn open into purple rifts, like wounds in the universe, giving off a terrifying aura.

Gogeta took a deep breath. He fused the Godly Power within him with his own energy and unleashed the 100x Big Bang Kamehameha.

Just as the two attacks were about to collide, Luo Chuan and Whis appeared and neutralized their attacks.

If their energies had truly been allowed to collide just now, forget Earth—the entire universe would have been gone.

Gogeta panted heavily, his energy exhausted as he returned to his normal state.

Beerus looked at Luo Chuan, the light in his eyes flickering a few times, then said to Whis, "We're leaving," and departed.

Whis nodded to Luo Chuan, then took Beerus back to the God of Destruction Realm.

The Beerus of this space-time was quite a bit weaker compared to the Beerus of Super Space-Time, but not that much weaker. After all, Beerus could always get patched.