The coordinates of the third bone were personally delivered to Mount Paozu by the Grand Priest. Not through Whis's communication channel, not through a holographic projection—he himself stood at the entrance to Mount Paozu's courtyard, his white cloak gently fluttering in the morning breeze, a thin white stone tablet resting in his hand.
Chi-Chi had been hanging quilts in the yard. When she turned around and saw a tall, slender figure standing on the stone steps she had just swept, she nearly threw the drying pole in her hands. The Grand Priest gave a slight bow, his tone as polite as that of a neighbor delivering a package. "Pardon the interruption, Ms. Chi-Chi. This information is rather special, so it needs to be handed directly to your son."
When Ji Ming came out of the kitchen carrying a bowl of porridge, this was what he saw: the Grand Priest stood beside the vegetable patch in the courtyard, studying several radish sprouts that Vegeta had trampled last time and Chi-Chi had painstakingly propped back up; Whis stood behind the Grand Priest, the crystal ball on his staff automatically recording the sprouts' growth data; Son Goku was wiping down the Power Pole nearby, while his other hand held a piece of tempura shrimp he had just snatched. Ji Ming set the bowl down on the stone table and walked over to accept the tablet.
The third Divine Relic Bone was not located at the edge of any universe. It was hidden within Universe 7, in a long-abandoned asteroid belt not far from the star system containing Earth. But the bone's defenses far surpassed those of the first two. It did not merely reflect or absorb attacks—it directly interfered with the minds of living beings. Anyone who approached it would unconsciously be eroded