Chapter 44

"Damn it... hiss, ow, ow, ow..."

Frieza tugged at the wound on his face and bared his teeth in pain.

"You hurt me. No one has ever been able to hurt me before. You're the first. It's time I let you see my full power—my complete form, at 100% power! Even I find this power terrifying!"

"Tremble, Saiyan monkey!"

Jiang Ling spread his hands, looking completely indifferent. "Compared to your full power, I think you'd better focus on surviving first." As he spoke, he pointed upward.

"What?!" Frieza snapped his head up and saw a huge white ball of light hovering overhead, slowly descending.

"What?! Ah!!!"

The next instant.

The white ball of light swallowed him whole.

Boom!!

Radiance erupted.

In an instant, a world-destroying surge of energy burst out!

Land and sea were both reduced to nothingness in that moment.

Far from the point of explosion, Jiang Ling slowly descended to the ground with Goku in his hand.

"You really pulled it off, Goku. You gathered a Spirit Bomb without making a sound."

"Haha, if you hadn't drawn Frieza's attention, I wouldn't have succeeded either. Cough, cough..."

Goku smiled, then began coughing lightly.

The injuries Frieza had inflicted were still pretty serious.

"This time, Frieza should be destroyed."

Jiang Ling looked at the huge crater left by the Spirit Bomb and murmured softly to himself. If that was how it ended, that would be best.

Just as they let out a breath of relief.

Inside the crater, Frieza's figure slowly floated upward.

His appearance had changed again.

Bulging, powerful muscles had swelled across his body.

A terrifying, oppressive aura radiated from him.

"What a damn cockroach. He just won't die."

Jiang Ling gave a bitter smile and shook his head.

He knew that in Frieza's current form, his battle power had already reached 120 million.

He was not someone Jiang Ling could handle.

There were two options in front of him.

First, beat himself into serious injury, use the "Body Change" skill on Frieza, then kill Frieza after he occupied Jiang Ling's body.

Second, contact Krillin's side, summon Shenron, and have them and the Namekians transported to Earth, leaving only Frieza behind on Namek.

Looking at Frieza's expression growing more and more deranged, Jiang Ling knew he had to make a decision quickly!

Suddenly.

The system sounded a notification.

[Ding. Host, you still have an unused location check-in. Would you like to perform a location check-in?]

"..."

The notification interrupted Jiang Ling's thoughts. He did not pay it much attention and casually said, "Check in."

[Ding. Check-in successful. As the Host's current location is the famous Dragon Ball scene, the site of Goku's first Super Saiyan transformation, reward: "Son Goku's Mental Journey."]

"?"

Jiang Ling froze.

Then he suddenly felt as if he had lost something important.

What important thing was it? A person? An object?

Bulma? His little brother? The system? Or all the friends around him?

None of that mattered anymore.

What mattered was that Jiang Ling did not want to lose it!

He was calm by nature, and ever since coming to the Dragon Ball world, he had never gotten angry over anything.

But this time, he was furious.

No one could take what belonged to him!

He would protect everything he had!

Rumble—

Dark clouds suddenly blanketed the sky, and thunder boomed and cracked.

"Ahhhhh!!"

"No one can take away my little chicken!!"

Jiang Ling's reason gradually slipped away, his eyes rolling white.

His aura began to fluctuate violently.

Crack!

A bolt of lightning streaked across the sky.

The earth split apart, and the waves churned!

A dazzling golden light shot into the heavens!

Son Goku stared blankly at Jiang Ling.

"Wh-what's going on?"

Frieza's eyes widened, and a bad feeling surged up in his heart.

Whoosh—

The golden light blazed.

Jiang Ling's figure gradually emerged.

His hair stood upright.

Golden hair and golden brows, pale green eyes, and a cold expression.

A roaring golden aura burned around him.

The first thing Jiang Ling did after regaining his senses was look at his little brother, then let out a sigh of relief.

"Good. Still there."

"Only even the hair there turned golden. Looks like it's not just the hair on my head and my eyebrows that change—hair in other places changes too... I'll let Bulma check it out next time. She'll definitely be very interested..."

Jiang Ling felt a little strange inside.

But now was not the time to fuss over that.

He turned to look at Frieza.

"Now, the warm-up is over. Frieza, are you ready to die?"

A bead of cold sweat ran down Frieza's face.

For some reason, he sensed the threat of death from Jiang Ling.

Impossible! My current strength is already the strongest there is. How could I sense death from this Saiyan monkey?

Frieza roared inwardly.

A smile tugged at his face.

"Don't make me laugh. You think dyeing your hair means you can defeat me? Do you know who I am? I am Frieza, the mightiest emperor in the universe!!"

"Noisy." Jiang Ling spat out the two words coldly, his body vanishing in an instant. The next moment, he appeared behind Frieza.

This was not teleportation! It was speed pushed to the absolute limit!

Jiang Ling's fist, wrapped in golden aura, slammed into Frieza and smashed him down to the ground. The small island below instantly split apart and vanished.

One punch made the island disappear!

Countless energy blasts flew from Jiang Ling's hands, smashing toward the direction where Frieza had fallen.

Bang bang bang—

The waves howled wildly, and countless pillars of water shot into the sky.

Whoosh—

Frieza's figure burst out from the waves, blood at the corner of his mouth, looking extremely battered.

"Damn it!"

He spat out a mouthful of bloody foam, his expression savage as he charged at Jiang Ling, looking as if he had already fallen into madness.

Jiang Ling did not indulge him either. He charged up and swung a punch, landing it squarely on the charging Frieza's face and sending him flying!

"Ahhhh!!! I'll kill you!"

Frieza roared wildly and charged over again, only to be blasted away again. He charged, flew, charged, flew!

Back and forth dozens of times.

Tireless.

Never giving up.

Persistent to the end!

He charged even if it meant smashing his head bloody!

At a moment like this, a tragic, stirring piece of music should have started playing, painting Frieza as a good man who threw everything away and charged forward for love.

"Huff, huff, huff..."

This time, Frieza did not charge.

He had finally realized that this would get him nowhere.

"In that case, be destroyed together with this planet."

"You people can't survive without air. I am different. I can survive in space. Hohoho."

Frieza began to laugh.

A Planet Destroyer Bomb began gathering at his fingertip.

But there was one thing he had not expected.

Would Jiang Ling let him get what he wanted? The answer was no.

He placed both hands at his waist and gathered a blue-white shock wave!

"Ka! Me! Ha! Me! Ha!"

Only, Jiang Ling did not fire it.

His expression hardened, and he let out a low shout.

He compressed the Kamehameha, gathered it again, then compressed it again.

A deep blue-white Kamehameha appeared in his hands.

"If I call your name, do you dare answer? Frieza!"

"Huh? I'm here."

Frieza answered instinctively.

Then the Kamehameha fired over and swallowed him.

Boom—

Seen from outer space, a huge, thick blue-white pillar of light shot out from Namek.

No one knew where it was headed.

It guided the direction forward for spaceships sailing through the universe, lost and uncertain.