Right and wrong, I no longer have the heart to distinguish

BOOM!

Terrifying energy instantly engulfed the golden figure.

Yet in the next moment, it came to a halt before bursting into scattered fireworks that shot in every direction, all except for the very center.

Clearly, the force was simply insufficient to break through the aura blazing at the center.

The scattered rays fell freely upon the world below, each one powerful enough to flatten an entire mountain range.

Thus, many of Earth's mountain ranges vanished completely.

Screech!

The golden figure abruptly waved a hand, wiping out all the light before him. At last, the figure wreathed in gold and red was fully revealed.

The figure within had undergone an immense transformation.

The child's body seemed to have grown taller.

His muscles had become more defined, while a layer of red fur fluttered over his bare upper body. It was impossible to tell whether the fur had always been red or had been stained by the blood from before.

His hair, which had clearly turned gold earlier, had now returned to black. Yet this black hair possessed far more force than his original hair, every strand standing proudly, brimming with wild power!

A lock of black hair before his forehead fluttered in the wind.

His golden pupils were filled with utter indifference.

The instant Slug met that gaze, his scalp tingled with dread, and he unconsciously staggered backward.

At that very moment, his flight technique failed once more.

Slug, whose battle power was supposedly limitless, stumbled as though he were about to fall from the sky.

Son Gohan remained cold and expressionless throughout. It was as though he had lost all emotion, merely holding Son Goku's right hand as a faint golden glow flowed from it.

Then Son Goku's body drifted toward Korin Tower.

Whoosh!

In the very next instant, his figure vanished directly from the sky.

"Damn it, what exactly is going on?"

Slug's eyes were splitting with rage. He had no idea what had happened, nor why that Saiyan brat had suddenly undergone such a massive change.

Just one look from the other party had made his soul quake in terror!

This had clearly exceeded all his expectations.

He felt himself falling again, so he did everything he could to change the situation and kill that Saiyan completely.

But at that moment—

A golden flash of lightning suddenly appeared before him.

Before he could react further, a golden streak dozens of meters long flashed through the sky, instantly slicing his massive body in two.

Only when purple blood stained the blue sky

did Slug feel the indescribable pain at his waist.

He subconsciously looked downward and saw that everything below his waist was in free fall.

"What is going on?"

Slug attempted to use his regeneration ability, but he could feel an extremely violent power at the severed wound. That power was actually suppressing his regeneration.

He simply could not believe it.

After all, he had absorbed many Namekians. His regeneration had already been enhanced to a terrifying degree; such an injury should have posed no problem at all.

Yet reality seemed to be otherwise.

"Damn it, then I'll just destroy this entire planet!"

Slug did not know what had happened, but he had always been a cunning man. In an instant, he judged that he could not defeat his opponent, so he decided to destroy the planet instead.

Everyone knew this.

Saiyans could not survive in the vacuum of space!

His right hand shot upward, ready to destroy Earth in milliseconds, but both arms detached from his body almost simultaneously.

The terrifying turbulence instantly ground both arms to pieces.

"What?"

Slug could scarcely believe the scene unfolding before him.

He had not even noticed his opponent making a move, yet his body had already suffered consecutive heavy blows. Now, only his armless upper body remained.

Moreover, powerful force still ravaged his wounds.

For the moment, he could not even use his regeneration ability.

This was a situation he had never imagined, yet he had no means of resisting at all.

Could Lord Slug, who had received that gift, truly die at the hands of a mere Saiyan?

At the thought of such a scene, besides pain and fear, intense unwillingness surged within him!

But before he could react in any way, his eyes suddenly saw everything around him rapidly receding.

Below him, a headless and armless upper body was bleeding purple blood. That seemed to be his body—but why could he see it?

Before he could think any further, the blood-covered figure was already standing before him.

The Saiyan brat wore a grim expression. His body hung upside down in midair as he coldly stared in his direction.

His long black hair whipped wildly in the high-altitude wind.

He looked exactly like a demon god returned from hell.

"You can't kill me. My life is linked to Piccolo's now..."

Extreme terror spread through his heart. The ever-arrogant Slug involuntarily blurted those words out, hoping to make the other side stop!

Yet Son Gohan did not hesitate in the slightest.

He directly formed his hands into a cupped shape and fired—it was clearly a Kamehameha.

Energy that surpassed all limits instantly crushed through Slug's head.

Then, in the next moment, it shot straight out of Earth and into the boundless cosmos. Under the intense heat and utterly condensed force of the attack, Slug's consciousness perished along with his core.

Son Gohan sensed the other's aura disappear.

He then clenched the remaining energy in one hand, directly annihilating Slug's body that he had severed earlier as well.

After that, he tossed another energy blast directly toward where the asteroid had originally fallen.

Inside Korin Tower.

Korin had been sensing the battle taking place above the entire time.

Feeling the changes in the auras overhead, all his white fur stood on end. Today, he had already sensed several terrifying presences.

They were all powers he considered impossible to defeat.

And the battle just now had even left the place where he lived covered in cracks.

He was now considering whether he should just move somewhere else.

Just then, a figure wrapped in golden aura drifted down from the sky and landed precisely within Korin Tower. The golden light then faded, revealing the severely injured Son Goku inside.

"Korin, my dad still has a trace of life left. Please use a Senzu Bean to save him."

An extremely calm voice rang out within Korin Tower.

Korin's eyes immediately widened, because only gods of a higher rank could transmit their voices like that. No human had ever managed such a thing.

"Goku's son..."

He felt unprecedented amazement in his heart, as though he had realized that Gohan was now completely different from before.

"This is Goku. What kind of monster could have hurt him this badly?"

Seeing Son Goku's condition, Yajirobe's eyes widened as well, as if he could scarcely believe what he was seeing.

"Quick, bring the Senzu Beans!"

Korin had come to his senses as well. Sensing that Goku was already on the verge of death, he hurriedly prepared to treat him.

Yajirobe quickly took out his treasured Senzu Beans too.

After Son Goku was fed a Senzu Bean, his ruined body regained its vitality, and his bones and muscles rapidly grew back whole.

"Ah! Who are you?"

The moment Son Goku opened his eyes, Yajirobe let out a piercing scream. He trembled as he gripped the hilt of his sword, but his gaze was fixed behind Korin.

Korin turned around in confusion as well.

Then his breathing caught.

Because behind him stood a man whose muscles were grotesquely swollen.

The man did not seem particularly tall, but his upper body was covered in crimson fur. His black hair was disheveled, and his eyes were as cold as blades.

He merely stood there.

Yet Korin already felt a soul-deep terror!