Hey, Sneak Attack!

When North King Kai saw that Jiang Ling learned the Kaioken after watching it just once, he thought to himself.

"Looks like Jiang Ling might really be able to carry the Kaioken forward. Five times? Ten times...?"

At that thought, he could not help remembering the ultimate technique he kept in reserve.

The Spirit Bomb!

This technique was very difficult to learn.

By borrowing energy from all things and condensing it into an immensely powerful Spirit Bomb, it could deal tremendous damage to evil people.

As for whether it could harm someone kindhearted, that depended on how much space evil occupied in their heart.

"Good. Now that you've learned the Kaioken, you can learn my ultimate technique."

North King Kai said this to the two people before him.

Son Goku had no objections.

He had come here to train in the first place, so he would learn whatever King Kai told him to learn.

Jiang Ling had no objections either. No skill was ever a burden; learning one more move was a good thing.

Besides, he could increase his combat power while learning it.

His goal was to live a leisurely life, with beautiful women by his side.

But in the world of Dragon Ball, that goal was a little out of reach.

Because of his status as a transmigrator, if he was killed, he could not be revived. So to achieve that goal, he had to become the strongest—so strong that no one could kill him!

As everyone knew, Dragon Ball's Earth was a planet plagued by disaster after disaster.

With Jiang Ling's current combat power, he was at most the strongest person on Earth at this stage. If he wanted to become the strongest in the Dragon Ball world, he still had a long road ahead.

Over the next few months.

Jiang Ling and Son Goku underwent North King Kai's harsh training.

Their growth in strength could only be described as a leap.

Before they knew it, the time for Vegeta to arrive on Earth was drawing closer and closer.

One day.

After finishing his routine training, Jiang Ling brought Son Goku to North King Kai.

North King Kai was lying on the ground, holding a magnifying glass, counting blades of grass with great interest.

"114511, 114512, 114513, 114514..."

"Lord King Kai!"

Jiang Ling gave a light cough, interrupting North King Kai's hobby.

"Ah, it's Jiang Ling. Finished today's training?"

"Finished. I have something to ask you."

Jiang Ling nodded, then said, "I want you to check how much longer it'll be before the Saiyans arrive on Earth."

This was something he had to keep a close eye on. In the original plot, Son Goku only returned on the very last day.

That resulted in Earth's warriors ending up dead or wounded, while Goku was still rushing along the road in the Underworld...

Hearing Jiang Ling's words, North King Kai stood up and patted the dirt from his body. "True. Counting the time, they should be almost here. Let me take a look."

As he spoke, North King Kai put on his sunglasses. The two antennae on his head twitched as he used his ability to search the universe, scanning the Northern Galaxy under his jurisdiction for the spaceship heading toward Earth.

"Mm... found them!"

"Their distance from Earth... calculating the time, it should be about one week."

"One week?" Jiang Ling thought for a moment, then said, "Then Goku and I can get ready to head back."

"That soon? There's still a week left, isn't there? It won't be too late to go back once they arrive." North King Kai was puzzled.

"..."

Jiang Ling looked at North King Kai with an odd expression. "Does it not take us time to get back? If we wait until the Saiyans arrive before returning, it'll be too late."

Hearing that, North King Kai slapped his forehead, realization dawning across his face. "Oh, right. How did I not think of that!"

"Because you count blades of grass every day..."

Jiang Ling retorted.

"Don't waste time. Help Goku contact the people on Earth and have them use the Dragon Balls to revive him. Goku and I still have to hurry back."

"Got it!"

After that.

Son Goku contacted Bulma through North King Kai.

On Earth.

Bulma and the others received the message and immediately took out the Dragon Balls they had gathered long ago, directly summoning Shenron.

The sky had been bright and sunny, the weather clear, but with Shenron's appearance, it instantly turned dark, as though night had fallen.

"We have just received a breaking report. The sky will remain dark for several minutes. Experts have analyzed that this is due to a planet in space blocking the sun. Please do not panic."

Across Earth, this news appeared on the televisions and phones of countless households.

Of course, this was something Bulma's Capsule Corp had arranged in advance.

Kami's Lookout plaza.

Kami leaned on his divine staff, with Mr. Popo beside him, while the assembled Earth warriors looked up together at the sky plunged into darkness.

Worry showed in Kami's eyes.

He turned his head and looked over the Earth warriors who had trained for a year on Kami's Lookout.

"Shenron has been summoned, which means Goku is about to be revived. In other words, the Saiyans will soon arrive on Earth."

"Goku's going to be revived? Really? Yes!" Krillin was delighted when he heard the news.

Tien Shinhan spoke with a confident look.

"Lord Kami, you don't need to worry. After training here for a year, our strength has increased by at least ten times. It's enough to deal with the Saiyans!"

"Yeah! I feel like my current strength could take on ten of me from a year ago!"

Yamcha clenched his fist and said it with a grin.

Yajirobe ate his snacks and spread his hands. "I'm sitting this fight out. I think they can handle it."

Everyone spoke up one after another. They had no real concept of how strong the Saiyans were, and the explosive growth in their strength over the past year had filled them with confidence.

"Nonsense!"

Kami's face darkened as he snapped, "You're satisfied with such meager results? Though I don't know exactly how strong the Saiyans are, I can tell you this with certainty: they are at least stronger than all of you! This will be a grueling battle!"

"Uh, well..." "No way. We've already improved this much..."

Kami gazed into the distance, his eyes distant and deep.

"There is always someone stronger, and always a higher heaven."

"We can never know just how strong those aliens might be."

In a deserted wilderness somewhere on Earth.

The ground was pitted and scarred, covered with the traces of battle.

Bang bang bang!!

Clang!!

As Son Gohan flipped and dodged, he unleashed move after move at incredible speed.

Piccolo calmly caught Son Gohan's attacks, occasionally countering with an unexpected strike of his own.

Dozens of exchanges passed in the blink of an eye.

Bang!

Piccolo knocked Son Gohan back with a punch and called a halt.

Then he looked up at the sky.

Son Gohan's clothes had several large holes torn in them. A year of wilderness training had given his young face a resolute look, though the innocence of a child could still faintly be seen.

After all, even counting fully, he was only five years old now.

"Uncle Piccolo, why did the sky get dark?" Son Gohan walked over and asked.

Piccolo said in a low voice, "Shenron has been summoned. If nothing goes wrong, Shenron will bring your father back to life."

"Really? That's great!"

Hearing this, Son Gohan grew excited and leaped dozens of feet into the air.

"Oh yeah! Dad's finally coming back to life! That's great!"

Piccolo said coldly, "The enemy is very powerful. Don't celebrate too soon."

"Mm! I'll fight with everything I've got! Let's keep going with battle training!"

Son Gohan nodded hard.

Looking at Piccolo so close at hand, his eyes spun, and imitating the moves of monkeys in the forest, he used a monkey-steals-the-peach move!

A sneak attack!

Son Gohan reached out, then grabbed!

Huh?

Where were the peaches?

There were none?!

Looking at Piccolo's face growing darker and darker, Gohan asked in confusion, "Piccolo... Auntie?"