Ice Dragon's Fury

This is not an ordinary afterimage, nor is it an illusion caused by speed.

The Ice Dragon almost blended into the cold air around it, and with a flicker of its body, it appeared to Gohan's left without warning, as if it had teleported.

Its right fist, encased in thick ice armor and wreathed in icy aura, slammed into Gohan with a pressure that seemed capable of freezing time and space.

The fist sliced through the air, leaving a pale, icy trail, as if the air itself had frozen for a moment.

Gohan's pupils suddenly contracted--

On the front lines of crisis, his fighting instincts saved him.

Instead of confronting him head-on, he twisted his waist and dodged with lightning speed, like a gliding step.

The fist grazed his hair, the chill it brought making his cheek sting.

His right fist was already poised to strike, the golden energy highly compressed. In the instant he dodged, an uppercut came from below, aiming straight at the exposed ice armor on the Eis Shenron.

"Bang--!!!"

A muffled thud and the crisp crackling of ice crystals exploded almost simultaneously on the ruined ice field.

The two fists collided, creating a deafening explosion as if the air was being torn apart. The fist, wreathed in golden flames, and the silver-white fist remained locked in mid-air, unleashing a circular shockwave that instantly cracked the ground with spiderweb-like patterns.

Gravel and dust swirled into the air, blending into a gray-blue mist under the setting sun.

Eis Shenron was thrown back more than ten meters by the impact, its feet carving two deep furrows in the ground, causing the concrete road surface to rip and crumble.

Gohan only took one step back, but the ground beneath his feet collapsed, creating a three-meter-wide crater, with debris flying everywhere.

"Not bad."

Eis Shenron slowly straightened up, a cold smile playing on his lips, a hint of admiration in his blood-red eyes. "Much better than those trash before—at least you can make me take a few steps back."

As soon as it finished speaking, its momentum suddenly surged.

Fine ice crystal patterns appeared on its silvery-white body, and the surrounding temperature was visibly decreasing.

Countless tiny ice crystals condensed in the air, shimmering with iridescent colors under the setting sun.

The ground crackled and popped as a thick layer of ice rapidly spread from it, instantly turning a hundred-meter radius into a frozen world.

Frost covered the buildings in the distance, icicles hung from the broken windows, and even the floating dust was frozen, solidifying into a crystalline mist.

Ice Age!

Eis Shenron thrust his arms forward suddenly, the movement slow but as heavy as a landslide.

A white, frigid current, tens of meters wide, roared and surged in, as if time itself had frozen.

The rubble in mid-air turned into ice sculptures, the collapsed steel bars twisted into icicles, and jagged ice spikes rose from the ground.

The cold air even froze the light, leaving only a deadly pure white in every inch of vision.

Gohan gritted his teeth, his golden flames burning even more fiercely as he desperately resisted the chill.

He slowly brought his hands together in front of his chest. The blue light in his palms, which started as a faint glow, quickly expanded into a rotating energy ball with electric arcs jumping around its surface, tearing ripples through the frozen air.

"Kamehameha!"

He roared each word angrily, thrusting his arms out forcefully.

The blue energy beam pierced the air, no longer a straight pillar, but transformed into a roaring dragon, baring its sharp teeth, and crashing fiercely into the white, frigid tide.

The two forces collided, and the whole world suddenly fell silent.

Then, a piercing screech shattered the silence—the forces of extreme cold and heat, of freezing and destruction, were tearing at the earth.

The blue beams of light and the white chill were clearly distinct in the air, with swirling ice mist on one side and boiling energy on the other.

At the center of the standoff, fragments of ice crystals and light particles exploded out, shooting out like fireworks.

Each piece that landed created a small crater.

"Gohan!"

Piccolo's voice came from behind.

The Planet Namek warrior was suspended in mid-air, his dark green cloak fluttering in the cold wind.

He clasped his hands together, purple light swirling and compressing between his palms, emitting a deep hum— the Special Beam Cannon.

"Put!"

A murderous glint flashed in Piccolo's eyes.

A purple spiral beam shot out, not as flamboyant as the Kamehameha, but with extreme penetrating power.

The beam of light struck the Eis Shenron precisely from the side, moving so fast that it left only a purple afterimage on the retina.

Eis Shenron was focused on maintaining the Ice Age and had no time to dodge.

The beam of light struck its left shoulder hard, producing a crisp sound as metal shattered.

The silvery-white shell burst open with cracks, and blue liquid gushed out, condensing into strange ice beads in the air.

Eis Shenron's body trembled violently, and the cold current weakened by 30% in an instant.

At the dividing line, the energy dragon roared and advanced more than ten meters.

Gohan seized the opportunity, his muscles taut as if about to explode, and golden flames shot straight into the sky, blasting a huge hole in the clouds above his head.

He pushed the power of his qigong to its limit, causing the beam diameter to double and lightning to surge across its surface.

"Aaaaaah--!"

With Gohan's roar, the blue beam of light completely tore through the cold wave.

The icy air scattered like shards of glass, and the energy beam shot straight at the Eis Shenron's chest.

"Boom--!"

The explosion's light engulfed everything.

The spherical shockwave spread, causing the frozen world to crumble inch by inch—the ice layers on buildings peeled off, the ice spikes on the ground turned to dust, and the ice crystal fog in the air was swept away.

Eis Shenron was blasted away like a kite with a broken string, crashing into three buildings that were not completely collapsed. The reinforced concrete crumbled like paper, and it was finally buried in a pile of rubble a hundred meters away.

A mushroom cloud of smoke and dust rose, mixed with ice crystals, turning into a gray-blue haze under the setting sun.

Gohan knelt on one knee, breathing heavily.

The golden flames gradually died down, and the white martial arts uniform clung to his body, soaked with sweat.

He stared intently at the ruins, his eyes filled with vigilance.

Is he dead?

"No."

Piccolo slowly landed beside him, his face grim.

Its forehead antennae trembled slightly, sensing the still-restless aura deep within the ruins. "Its energy is still there... and it's growing increasingly violent."

As they were speaking, the ruins suddenly exploded.

Eis Shenron staggered to his feet, his silvery-white body covered in cracks, his left shoulder armor shattered, revealing dark red muscles.

Blue blood dripped from the corner of his mouth, making a hissing sound as it corroded the ice.

But its eyes were even more frantic than before.

"You... you deserve to die..."

Eis Shenron's voice was hoarse and distorted, each word seeming to be squeezed out from an ice cave, "You wanted the Dragon Balls, didn't you... take them!"

It suddenly opened its mouth wide, its jaw almost dislocated, its entire mouth stretched to an exaggerated angle.

A Dragon Balls, the size of a fist and pure white, slowly flew out of its mouth and hovered half a meter in front of its chest.

The surface of the Dragon Balls was covered with ice crystal patterns, as if a blizzard was locked inside.

The white Dragon Balls began to spin, faster and faster, emitting a piercing buzzing sound.