Potential Unleashed!

As for unlocking potential, across the entire Dragon Ball universe, only a handful of people could accomplish it. Ultra Divine Water had a similar effect in the early days, but it was also poison, forcibly squeezing out one's potential. It was not advisable.

Only methods like the Grand Elder's, or Old Kai's, were the most suitable ways to improve oneself without any side effects.

What Li Ming truly wanted to know was the principle behind it. After all, such a heaven-defying method surely had limitations. Otherwise, it would be far too outrageous and would violate the laws of the universe.

Bzz!

The ki throughout his body was drawn out of him. Li Ming instinctively tried to pull it back in. As someone trained in martial arts, this sensation made him deeply uncomfortable. Releasing ki outward was, in essence, accelerating its consumption.

"Do not resist. My power will release your potential. As for how much stronger you become, that will depend entirely on you."

After hesitating for a moment, Li Ming nodded. "Mm."

Boom!

Following the Grand Elder's instructions, he relaxed his control over his ki. The next instant, his wildly erupting ki surged upward like blazing flames!

Crack!

Cracks began spreading across the walls! The ground trembled faintly, while the clouds over all of Namek churned. His immense ki had already begun affecting the weather!

"This is!?"

"Elder, I'm scared..."

"Dende, don't be afraid. Don't be afraid."

In the other villages across Namek, every Namekian had hidden away. Only the elders looked toward the Grand Elder's location. They knew full well that this power was coming from there.

Even those unable to sense ki could feel the terror of that presence at this moment!

"W-What the hell is that!?"

Stet, who had been maintaining the spaceship, was startled by the sudden shaking. After following Li Ming for so long, he had vaguely come to understand the concept of ki, so he hurried into the ship and found a scouter.

Crack!

Almost every scouter was destroyed at once. Only a special scouter that he had modified himself narrowly survived.

Six hundred thousand, six hundred and ten thousand, six hundred and twenty thousand...

Watching the numbers rise madly on the scouter, Stet's face became drenched in cold sweat. If this continued, even this scouter would explode!

Bang!

Sure enough, the moment the battle power soared to seven hundred thousand, sparks and electric flashes burst out, and the scouter was completely destroyed.

Stet collapsed to the ground in horror, beginning to question his entire life.

Elsewhere, Li Ming's increase in power also caught Slug's attention, throwing the meteor-shaped spaceship into chaos.

"King Slug, a powerful energy reaction has appeared on Namek!"

"How strong?"

"Th-This... we are too far away to determine it yet."

Whoosh!

A beam of light instantly pierced through the alien who had spoken. Slug's aged body did not rise, but the other aliens all changed expression and dared not make any rash moves.

"Could Frieza be here?" As one of the old monsters who had roamed the universe for many years, Slug naturally knew of Frieza. He was not particularly afraid of Frieza, though he might indeed be unable to contend with Frieza's Final Form at one hundred percent power.

But aside from that, Frieza would have a hard time defeating and killing him. The gap between them was not that great.

"Hmph! Continue forward."

"Yes!"

The entire spacecraft accelerated toward Namek. The strange phenomenon enveloping the planet seemed to become even more terrifying, as an enormous shadow covered the whole planet's surface.

"Ah!"

Li Ming used to think shouting while powering up was simply a waste of energy. If one's strength was insufficient, shouting louder would not change anything.

Only now did he finally understand why people shouted. It was not wasting energy. The ki inside his body was simply too vast, and he had no choice but to release part of it this way.

At this moment, the ki around his entire body continuously radiated outward in waves. Beneath the stone pillar where the Grand Elder resided was a sea of water, which was now surging with turbulent waves.

The muscles all over his body had swollen to an exaggerated degree!

His form was extremely similar to Berserk Transformation. The only difference was that Berserk Transformation made one's ki more violent and difficult to control.

The enhancement continued for more than ten minutes before Li Ming finally began feeling better. He stepped away from the Grand Elder and moved his limbs around.

Nodding in satisfaction, he said to the Grand Elder, "Thank you very much."

"Whew..." The Grand Elder seemed to have expended a great deal of strength. His ki had weakened further, making Li Ming feel slightly guilty.

The Grand Elder seemed to notice this as well and said, "Do not concern yourself with it. I cannot answer the question you seek. I can only say that this is an innate ability of our race. Perhaps Shenron can give you the answer you want. Before that, however, you may need to deal with another guest."

"I understand. I hope you can lend me the Dragon Balls afterward."

"Hehe, the Dragon Balls can only be freely used on Namek. Of course."

Afterward, the Grand Elder instructed Nail to gather the Dragon Balls, while Li Ming temporarily returned to his spaceship. With his battle power increasing again, he was now able to sense ki from outer space.

"It's still quite a gap. I can only give it everything I have."

Li Ming's ki sensing was inclined toward range and strength, unlike Goku and the others, who could faintly sense emotions, good, and evil. He could determine an opponent's exact battle power more accurately.

In Li Ming's perception, Slug's ki was unquestionably far beyond his own. Even using Berserk Transformation at full power would still leave him significantly weaker, but it was not entirely hopeless. With the Senzu Beans in his possession, he could take a gamble!

"Hmm? Stet, what are you doing?" Li Ming descended from the sky, only to find Stet lying on the ground and playing dead.

"My lord! You're back! Let's leave quickly, this planet is going to be destroyed!"

"Hmm?"

Ignoring the panicked Stet, Li Ming returned to the ship and found the Senzu Beans. He had stored them separately in a Hoi-Poi Capsule. After using dozens of them sporadically over the past few years, there were not many left—only a few thousand.

If he returned to Earth now, he might still be able to get several hundred from Korin. In another few years, though, they would probably all end up in Yajirobe's stomach...

It was simply a waste of heaven's gifts. Unless his injuries were too severe, Li Ming normally would not use Senzu Beans.

He placed two Senzu Beans on his person, but still did not feel secure enough. In the end, Li Ming put another one directly in his mouth, just in case.

Once he was ready, Li Ming left the spaceship. He could not fight here. If the spaceship was damaged, it would be truly troublesome. Even if Stet could repair it, it would take a long time.

Two hours later, the sky, which had originally returned to clarity, once again fell into darkness. A spaceship—no, more accurately, a terrifying meteor comparable to a satellite—was rapidly descending!

Boom!

The moment the meteor struck the atmosphere, the atmosphere visibly caved in. Li Ming lowered his body slightly. His position was directly beneath the meteor!

In an instant, the atmospheric pressure soared! Li Ming crossed his arms before his eyes, blocking the violent impact of the air currents before gradually straightening his body.

Raging! Thunder! Flash!

Boom-crack!

This completely perfected move was no weaker than Goku's self-created Super Kamehameha Wave. All the ki in his body erupted at once, compressed and gathered together in an instant, producing incomparably violent destructive power!

Carrying violent lightning serpents, a terrifying ki blast that pierced heaven and earth shot straight into the sky.

Naturally, Li Ming would not allow this meteor to fall. At that size and speed, if it struck Namek, even this planet several times larger than Earth would have at least half of it destroyed.

If it really came to that, who knew whether the Grand Elder could survive? Not to mention the Dragon Balls—the destruction of all Namek would only be a matter of time.

Bang!

The instant the ki blast struck the meteor's surface, the meteor began disintegrating at a visible speed. Yet the speed of its disintegration was nowhere near enough to match its descent!

"I'll risk it!"

His eyes suddenly narrowed, until almost only the whites remained visible. Violent ki surrounded his body as arcs of electricity surged outward!

Berserk Transformation!

Li Ming had further developed this move. When fighting Ginyu, he had already realized that this technique, like Great Ape Transformation, had similar flaws: it consumed an enormous amount of ki.

Yet the result had not been ideal. This form was like something between his normal state and a Great Ape, and it even stimulated the Saiyan savagery within him to a certain extent, making his ki even harder to control.

Li Ming could only take the opposite approach from there. Since he could not control it, then he would make it even more violent!

The limit of Great Ape Transformation was ten times normal strength. Then I'll surpass ten times!