Seed

"Lord Li Ming, we're being pursued! There's an asteroid ahead—we can't avoid it!"

"Haa—"

Crack!

The gravity chamber doors slowly opened, and Li Ming walked out. As he moved, even the air around his body seemed to distort!

Walking over to a table, he casually picked up a glass of water and asked, "How far away are they?"

"The pursuers will catch up in about ten minutes. The asteroid field ahead is expected to collide with us head-on in three minutes!"

Thud!

After taking a drink and setting down the glass, Li Ming turned toward the spaceship hatch. "Stop the ship. Open the hatch."

"Yes!"

Stet hurriedly initiated the emergency hatch opening. Fortunately, the internal oxygen supply system was independent. Otherwise, opening a spaceship hatch in the middle of space would have been no different from courting death—the immense pressure difference would instantly suck everything out of the ship, leaving it forever in the void of space.

Even special races like the Frost Demons, who could survive in space, merely wouldn't die. Without a spaceship, escaping the vastness of outer space was impossible.

Stepping out of the hatch, Li Ming hovered in the cosmic void using the ki within his body. He raised his hands before him in the opening stance of an energy wave, and a blinding flash of light erupted at once!

"Kamehameha!"

Boom!

The terrifying blue-white energy wave shot forth, destroying the asteroid field everywhere it passed!

He had not chosen to use his Frenzied Thunder Flash because that move specialized in destructive power and explosive force, and could not last very long. Forcing it to continue would consume ki at an alarming rate.

The Kamehameha had a natural advantage in that regard. Its burst power was formidable, but more importantly, its duration was entirely controlled by the user. That was also why Goku usually won in a head-on beam clash.

It was like arm-wrestling between ordinary people. What mattered was not who had more strength, but who could hold out until the end!

Having finished all that, Li Ming returned to the ship and ordered, "Find a nearby planet to land on. We'll deal with them first."

"Understood!"

Fighting in space was still far too risky. Li Ming had just gone out while holding his breath. If his body had not been strong enough, he probably would not have lasted even ten seconds.

Very soon, they found a dead planet that was barely habitable. After the ship landed there, Li Ming stood not far from it, eating a Fruit of the Tree of Might as he waited.

After roughly ten minutes, more than a hundred spaceships of varying shapes appeared in view.

Li Ming swallowed the remaining Fruit of the Tree of Might in one bite and wiped the corner of his mouth. Vast amounts of radiating ki appeared around his body. Taking them on one by one would be too troublesome—he intended to thin their numbers first!

He lowered his body slightly and placed his hands at his waist, beginning to gather a Kamehameha. It had to be said, this move was truly useful. Whether used as an ordinary technique or a finishing move, it produced exceptional results.

The next instant, a world-destroying pillar of energy shot into the heavens!

Some spaceships tried to evade it, but they were ultimately swept away and destroyed by the energy. Li Ming did not care whether these people were Frieza's subordinates. Anyone who dared pursue him would not be returning alive!

His combat power had now reached 2.8 million!

That was enough for him to run rampant through one region of the universe. If every bit of cannon fodder could come looking for trouble, would that not annoy him to death? It could be said that as long as it was not a monster-level existence in the universe like Frieza, Li Ming no longer feared anyone!

Whoosh!

"Hm?" Li Ming raised a brow. He had originally intended to wipe out the pursuers in a single move, saving both trouble and future problems.

Yet several fish had still slipped through the net and successfully crash-landed on the surface. Still, it did not matter. It would only waste a little more time.

He flew directly toward the strongest of the several ki signatures.

"Cough, cough!"

"Turles, this guy seems stronger than we imagined. What should we do? Are we still going to make contact with him?"

A Saiyan who looked almost exactly like Goku was the first to emerge from the crashed spaceship. Several aliens followed, and one of them asked the leading Turles.

Turles wore a sinister expression. He looked like Goku's complete opposite. Rather than answer directly, he looked up at the sky. The others realized something as well and turned to look.

"You really do look alike. If your expression were different, I might have thought you were Goku."

Turles was highly intelligent. Combining that with Li Ming's identity as a Saiyan, he snorted coldly. "Tch. You mean that worthless Kakarot? Don't lump me together with him."

"..."

Li Ming knew Turles's identity. He was one of the survivors of Planet Vegeta and looked almost identical to Goku. The only differences were his dark complexion and more muscular build. No matter how one looked at him, he resembled the true Saiyan version of Goku.

He had a little more savagery and ferocity, while also being more sinister and unscrupulous.

Li Ming neither approved nor disapproved of his attitude. "Did Frieza send you?"

"Hmph! I'll kill him sooner or later!" Turles was a Saiyan who had constantly wandered the universe, so naturally he could not have submitted to Frieza. Hearing Li Ming's words, he took them as an insult, and his expression grew even uglier. Secretly, he gave a signal to a subordinate nearby.

Whoosh!

An alien who looked much like a Saibaman silently arrived behind Li Ming and reached out to launch a sneak attack.

Bang!

"Pwah!"

Against someone without sensory abilities, he might actually have succeeded. But he clearly lacked the ability to conceal his ki.

Li Ming heavily injured him with a single punch, then reached out and grabbed him by the throat. No matter how he struggled, he could not break free.

"Damn it!"

The three aliens beside Turles rushed forward one after another. Through his sensing of ki, Li Ming judged that their power levels averaged only a few thousand, no more than five thousand.

Turles was about the same. As a low-class Saiyan warrior, his power level would normally not exceed five thousand. Turles's actual power level had already surpassed that, which was fairly impressive.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

In less than a second, all three collapsed to the ground, unable to rise again. A power level in the thousands might have been enough to invade an ordinary planet, but compared to Li Ming's current strength, it was negligible.

Casually tossing the first alien to the ground, Li Ming looked at Turles and said, "One last question. How did these people find me?"

"Frieza has put a bounty on you. He offered three planets. Whoever kills you gets three planets under his control."

"So that's how it is..." Li Ming finally understood why so many people had come after him. It was not that they were unafraid of death; wealth moved people's hearts.

People would die for wealth just as birds would die for food. Faced with such benefits, these people did not care in the slightest whether Frieza would actually honor his promise afterward.

Suddenly, Li Ming raised a hand and fired a ki blast, killing Turles outright!

"You no longer have any value."

Turles was merely a low-class warrior, and he was exceptionally treacherous. Keeping someone like that around would only bring trouble. As long as the reward was great enough, getting him to submit to Frieza would be nothing more than a matter of words.

Li Ming's thinking was simple: anyone who could not be used by him, or who might even become a hidden threat, could not be allowed to remain.

Back when he had dealt with Ginyu, if Vegeta had stood by and watched—or helped Ginyu deal with him—then Vegeta would already have been dead.

What Vegeta truly cared about was his pride as a Saiyan and taking revenge on Frieza. Their interests did not conflict, and Vegeta posed no threat to him.

"Damn it! You! You..." As death descended, the once-ambitious Turles could only close his eyes unwillingly. Looking back on his life until the very end, there was nothing at all worth praising.

Boom!

He directly destroyed the entire spaceship, and naturally Turles's subordinates were not spared either. Li Ming turned, preparing to continue his search for other aliens, but at that moment, a familiar aura within the explosion made him stop.

"This is..."

Li Ming landed on the ground and picked up a bag from the wreckage. Inside were three seeds, and the familiar aura made his pupils constrict!

Seeds of the Tree of Might!

He had eaten its fruit before, yet even after destroying the entire Tree of Might, he had failed to find a second seed. Li Ming had even believed that he could only obtain the Fruit of the Tree of Might again by making a wish to Shenron.

He never expected Turles to possess seeds of the Tree of Might. His face immediately filled with excitement.

He put the seeds away at once. Perhaps they could not be planted on Earth, but Frieza's headquarters was another matter entirely. Li Ming felt no guilt about that whatsoever!