The Demon King Appears

When Goku arrived at the scene, all he saw was Krillin lying unconscious on the ground.

"Krillin!!!!!!!"

Goku let out a heart-wrenching cry, then rushed to Krillin's side as if he had gone mad.

His hands trembling, Goku gently lifted Krillin into his arms.

"Krillin, wake up! This isn't funny, Krillin!"

There was a faint sob in Goku's voice. The only response was deathly silence...

"Damn it!!"

Goku slammed his fist into the ground. At that moment, Master Roshi, Tien Shinhan, and the others arrived as well.

"Goku, what happened? What's wrong with Krillin?"

Master Roshi asked anxiously. Other than Goku, he was the most worried person there.

"It's all my fault... Krillin, he... he's dead... If I hadn't asked him to get the Dragon Ball for me..."

At the mention of the Dragon Balls, Goku quickly looked around, but there was no sign of the Four-Star Ball.

"The Four-Star Ball is gone!" Goku shouted.

Master Roshi frowned deeply and said, "It looks like they came for the Dragon Balls. But who could it be?"

Suddenly, Goku seemed to remember something.

"That's right, the Senzu Bean!"

Goku quickly took out the Senzu Bean Lin Yuan had given him, pried open Krillin's mouth, and put it inside.

Then he grabbed a cup of water and poured a mouthful into Krillin's mouth.

The liquid slowly carried the Senzu Bean into Krillin's stomach, while Goku waited anxiously at his side.

Only a minute had passed, but to Goku, it felt as long as an entire century.

When Krillin still showed no response, Goku fell into a frenzy again.

"Damn it, damn it! Bulma, do you have the Dragon Radar with you?"

Since they had taken the Dragon Ball, he would definitely be able to find them with the Dragon Radar! He had to avenge Krillin!

Goku thought.

Bulma hurriedly pulled out the Dragon Radar and handed it to Goku.

The moment Goku took the radar, he ran outside.

Master Roshi naturally knew what Goku intended to do. But anyone who could take down Krillin in a single blow was certainly no ordinary opponent.

On top of that, Goku had fought all day and was already utterly exhausted. His chances of winning were slim. Master Roshi immediately shouted, "Goku, don't act rashly! Come back!"

When Goku ignored him, Master Roshi's expression darkened as he angrily rebuked him, "Goku! This is your master's order! Come back! Are you not even going to listen to your master anymore!?"

Goku's body jolted at those words. Then he leaped with all his strength, landed on the Flying Nimbus, and flew into the distance...

"...Sigh."

Master Roshi let out a sigh. He was not truly angry; he simply did not want another one of his disciples to fall into danger.

The people around them also fell silent.

At that moment, Yamcha noticed a sheet of paper bearing the character "Demon" in the corner of the room.

The instant Master Roshi saw that paper, his face changed drastically.

"This... this is King Piccolo..."

By then, Lin Yuan had already returned home with Launch.

In truth, he was not sure whether his Senzu Bean could save Krillin.

In his memory, he only remembered that Krillin had been killed at this point in time, but he could not recall the exact circumstances.

"I hope it works. Otherwise, we'll have to use the Dragon Balls later on."

Lin Yuan genuinely liked these companions of the main cast in Dragon Ball.

However, he did not want to intervene directly. King Piccolo was a true major boss in Dragon Ball. For the current Goku and the others, he was exactly the kind of whetstone they needed.

Speaking of the Dragon Balls, Lin Yuan remembered the Shadow Dragons from Dragon Ball GT, born from the corruption of negative energy. Did those bosses exist in this timeline as well?

The story was still too early to determine that. For now, Lin Yuan's first great enemy was Frieza.

Suddenly, Lin Yuan sensed two abrupt ki signatures. The two were currently fighting.

He was very familiar with one of them—it was Goku's ki. The other should belong to one of King Piccolo's subordinates, Tambourine.

"Ah..."

It looked like Krillin had still met with trouble. Otherwise, Goku would not have gone after Tambourine for revenge without a second thought.

King Piccolo had appeared. It seemed it was time to make a trip to Korin Tower.

He would try to get all the Senzu Beans. Better to feed them to dogs than let Rou Zhuang use them up on compression manufacturing.

With an Instant Transmission, Lin Yuan appeared directly at Korin Tower.

At that moment, Korin was lying beside a jar, staring intently inside it, completely unaware of Lin Yuan's arrival.

Lin Yuan greeted Korin. Once Korin realized Lin Yuan had arrived, he jumped in fright.

I actually didn't sense him arriving? Korin wondered.

Then he understood. After all, Lin Yuan had received guidance from Kami himself. His strength had long surpassed anything Korin could see through.

After Lin Yuan explained why he had come, Korin stopped holding back and brought out all the Senzu Beans.

Aside from the large jar Lin Yuan had taken last time, Korin still had two large jars left, around seven hundred beans in total.

Lin Yuan did not stand on ceremony, taking over six hundred and leaving behind roughly fifty.

"Lin Yuan, it seems the prophecies in your mind were all real! Earth's crisis has appeared."

"With your strength, you should be able to resolve this crisis easily, shouldn't you? Why have you chosen not to act?"

After watching Lin Yuan pack away the Senzu Beans, Korin asked with a puzzled expression.

Lin Yuan did not seem to care.

"The enemies that appear in the future will be a thousand times, ten thousand times... even tens of millions of times stronger than King Piccolo. Earth's warriors need tempering. I can't help them defeat every enemy!"

Korin was stunned. King Piccolo alone could plunge Earth into irreversible ruin. What kind of monster could be tens of millions of times stronger than him?

Korin's imagination could not grasp such a concept.

Actually, neither could Lin Yuan.

It was like when the main group first faced Frieza's first form, and Frieza announced his battle power of 530,000.

That icy number, combined with the overwhelming pressure of facing Frieza directly, was something no one could truly imagine without experiencing it themselves.

After bidding Korin farewell, Lin Yuan leaped from Korin Tower and flew toward his home in West City.

There was no helping it—he did not have enough ki left for Instant Transmission!