A Desperate Fighter

What did a power level of fifty thousand mean? At this moment, Master Roshi had no concept of it at all.

But sooner or later, he would understand—Barros was certain of it...

It was just that when that day truly came, the confusion on Master Roshi's face would likely be gone, replaced by utter shock!

Those words were Barros's truest thoughts.

If the future continued along Dragon Ball World's original course without the slightest ripple, what fun would there be in that?

Knowing everything in advance was certainly a blessing, but when everything went exactly as expected, it became unbearably dull.

To Barros, the so-called main storyline was nothing more than a worthless sheet of paper.

He could not be bothered to follow the so-called "greater trend" and decide who should rise and who should fall.

He preferred variables. The more uncertain things were, the more excited he became; the stronger the strong became, the more driven and exhilarated he felt!

In his eyes, this world could do without anyone—

Master Roshi, the Guardian, and Popo;

Krillin, Tenshinhan, Vegeta, Gohan, Bulma, even Shenron, along with Dragon Ball World's true protagonist, Goku...

They could all be absent.

The only ones who could not be missing were those super-powerful enemies who would appear one after another in the future—

The Androids, Cell, Majin Buu, the God of Destruction, Whis.

A forest of masters and a tide of powerful foes—those were the inexhaustible soul of Dragon Ball World!

It was precisely because such peak opponents pressed ever closer that Barros's pursuit of ultimate strength became ever more exhilarating!

He was even willing to pave the way in advance to ensure they appeared on schedule, laying the groundwork and setting the stage for the future mortal enemies of the Z Fighters.

Giving the Divine Martial Battle Art to Master Roshi and having him pass it on to Goku in the future

was merely adding fuel to the fire and stirring the waters, making this world more vivid and more unpredictable.

Gine actually wanted to spend more time with her youngest son, Kakarot.

But she knew perfectly well that, with the frail body of a mere middle-class Saiyan like herself, she could never affect Barros in the slightest!

To Earth, the spaceship Barros and his party traveled in came and went like lightning, vanishing in an instant.

Yet what they left behind was a weighty piece capable of shifting the future.

It also brought colossal changes—even ones Barros himself had never anticipated—to the familiar Dragon Ball World in his memories.

The spaceship once more entered the vast sea of stars, sinking into the boundless universe.

Inside the gravity chamber.

Barros tossed out thirty Senzu Beans one by one, distributing them among the twelve elite Saiyans traveling with him, Jiyande, and Bardock.

No one understood the effects of Senzu Beans better than he did.

As everyone lowered their heads to stare at the two emerald-green beans in their palms, filled with doubt and unable to understand why the Emperor had suddenly handed them such unremarkable things—

Barros raised his hand and fired an energy blast, sending one elite Saiyan flying!

The man did not even have time to form a thought before the aura of death crashed down upon him.

Everyone present knew Barros's strength all too well.

At first, even Bardock thought that fellow had done something to anger the Emperor.

But the next scene made all their pupils contract as their mouths fell open wide enough to fit an egg.

Barros picked up a Senzu Bean and shoved it directly into the mouth of that dying Saiyan.

A few seconds later, the warrior, whose aura had been faint and who had been on the verge of death, suddenly sprang to his feet. He was full of vigor, and there was not even a scratch to be found on his body!

This scene required no explanation whatsoever.

They instantly understood the value of the two green beans in their hands.

Then, with a wave of Barros's hand, every elite Saiyan except Bardock was thrown into the 130-times gravity chamber.

Before arriving on Earth, their limits had only been between one hundred and one hundred ten times gravity.

With the gravity suddenly increased by more than twenty times, their bones immediately crackled. Every one of them dropped to the ground, unable to move.

Before long, the weakest Saiyan was the first to give out. He spat out a mouthful of blood, his body already on the verge of collapsing.

Only then did Barros's deep voice ring out inside the gravity chamber:

"Senzu Beans!"

Just two words, yet they struck everyone's minds like lightning.

The heavily injured Saiyan, on the verge of passing out, immediately pulled out a Senzu Bean and threw back his head to swallow it—

"Gulp!" Mixed with blood foam, it went down his throat. In an instant, his injuries were completely healed, and he was brimming with vitality.

The 130-times gravity that had once left him gasping for breath no longer felt suffocating.

After recovering from his severe injuries, his power level surged, surpassing all his companions and falling only slightly short of Jiyande.

After that, one Saiyan after another reached their limit, swallowed a Senzu Bean, recovered, and fought again.

Other than Jiyande, each of them consumed one Senzu Bean.

The Saiyans' innate talent for explosive growth in battle power after being injured was fully ignited at that moment.

The 130-times gravity chamber was no longer a prison, but a crucible from which they would emerge transformed.

As time passed second by second, though they were still in unbearable pain, they could already grit their teeth and stand steadily inside the 130-times gravity chamber, even slowly moving their limbs!

Bardock stared at the rapidly strengthening Saiyans inside the chamber, his heart burning with excitement. He could barely restrain himself from throwing open the hatch and climbing in to experience this rebirth-like breakthrough firsthand.

Watching the Saiyans in the gravity chamber, who could now maintain a standing posture for extended periods, Barros gave a slight nod and turned to leave the observation room.

The astonishing restorative power of the Senzu Beans had been fully revealed—as long as a Saiyan dared to risk his life, pushing his body to the brink of collapse before using a Senzu Bean to pull himself back from the edge, his battle power would undergo an explosive leap!

Barros had always remembered that Saiyans were born with a "potential explosion window."

When they recovered after being gravely wounded, on the verge of death, with their energy faint and their lives hanging by a thread, their battle power would multiply dramatically!

The most typical example was the battle on Namek:

Before Goku recovered from his injuries, his battle power had been only 90,000. After recovering, it soared directly to 3,000,000!

After returning to his quarters, Barros quietly considered whether he should select a few bold, careful Saiyans who feared neither death nor danger, and use this extreme method to mass-produce elite warriors with battle power in the millions.

Of course, he would never cultivate warriors at the ten-million level right now.

Below ten million, even if an opponent gave it everything they had, Barros could forcefully charge a tenfold Ki Blast. Even if the backlash severely injured him, it would still be enough to kill the enemy in a single strike.

But once they broke past ten million...

Things would become completely different.

In truth, there were not only two paths for a Saiyan to transform into a Super Saiyan: "extreme rage" or "extreme evil."

Once one's base battle power accumulated to a certain threshold—around 9,500,000—the so-called "bottleneck" would naturally dissolve.

Barros clearly remembered reading such a statement in an authoritative Dragon Balls reference collection before his transmigration:

"As long as they possess high-level battle power of a sufficient standard, any Saiyan can awaken the Super Saiyan form!"

He was not sure what exactly this "sufficient standard" referred to, but the most likely critical point was the ten-million level.

Goku's battle power when he first transformed was 150,000,000, and Vegeta's was not much different.

Therefore, it was absolutely impossible that one had to reach the hundred-million level before opening the door to becoming a Super Saiyan.

A deep, sharp gleam flashed through Barros's eyes.

The earlier idea of mass-producing million-level warriors was quietly shelved as well.

When strength expanded too quickly, people's ambitions could easily swell with it.

Though Barros feared nothing, he still had to take precautions in advance.

The spaceship traveled silently through the vast sea of stars, yet his thoughts were far from settled.

The words "Super Saiyan" surfaced in his mind, filling him with a faint sense of urgency.

If he truly wished to contend for the universe and rule over all others, having countless powerful experts under his command was a necessity.

Looking across the entire universe, warriors at the ten-thousand level were everywhere. Yet among those truly qualified to vie for dominion over the galaxy, which one was not an existence above the ten-million level?

With Barros's current strength, combined with the overall power of Divine Martial Battle Star, it was indeed still too early to attempt swallowing the entire galaxy.

However, if he truly intended to lay claim to universal hegemony, then as long as he avoided the forces guarded by ten-million-level powerhouses, Divine Martial Battle Star's current foundation would be more than enough to sweep through all other regions!

The appearance of the Senzu Beans completely changed the training rhythm of Saiyans like Bardock and Jiyande—they became utterly reckless desperadoes.

Again and again, they were battered into bloody ruin; again and again, they revived at full strength, broke through their limits, and rose higher. They became addicted to it, unable to stop.

In just one month, they received another five Senzu Beans.

At Barros's reminder, they no longer swallowed them whole, instead carefully cutting every bean into three portions for precise use.

Day after day, the spaceship moved steadily through the starry sky;

Day after day, Bardock and the others underwent frenzied transformation.

With the power of the Senzu Beans, in merely thirty days, Bardock's battle power broke through the 400,000 mark and neared 500,000;

Jiyande and the others also advanced by leaps and bounds—Jiyande himself had reached 310,000, long surpassing Palanti's level before Barros left the planet;

The remaining Saiyans had all crossed the 200,000 threshold as well.

If not for the limited number of Senzu Beans, they even felt they could continue climbing higher!

Unfortunately, that was merely wishful thinking.

Senzu Beans could heal all physical injuries and restore depleted strength, but they could not replenish mental exhaustion.

After an entire month of keeping their nerves taut, fighting again while wounded, and desperately challenging their limits, their wills had already neared the brink of collapse.

They themselves did not notice this at all, but Barros saw it clearly.

And the most direct and effective way to make them stop this nearly self-destructive training was to temporarily cut off the supply of Senzu Beans they relied on most.

Sure enough, once the Senzu Beans were gone, the all-or-nothing ferocity surrounding Bardock, Jiyande, and the others swiftly faded.

More than a month later, the spacecraft reentered the orbit of Divine Martial Battle Star.

After being away for nearly half a year, Barros truly felt some concern in his heart for his mother, Xuesaili, Palanti, and the others.

The moment they landed, Xuesaiya, Xuesaili, and Palanti immediately threw themselves into intense training;

while Barros likewise entered seclusion at once.

Divine Martial Battle Star, the center of the Imperial Hall.

A beam of silver radiance poured down from the depths of space, condensing into a colossal pillar of light that reached from heaven to earth!

Like a pillar of starlight, it linked heaven and earth, as though it had quietly bound Barros to the countless stars above the dome of the sky.

Starlight surged in from all directions, continuously pouring into his body and causing his sinews, bones, flesh, and skin to glow with a warm yet blazing radiance!

The power of the stars was vast and boundless. Before him, a star core slightly larger than a fist rapidly collapsed and dimmed.

He used the starlight filling the sky to temper his body, while also refining the star core with it, driving the acupoints throughout his body to open and solidify one by one.

The immense stellar power continuously washed over his body, and that already formidable physique kept growing stronger at a clearly perceptible rate.

As the starlight continued to pour in, an acupoint within his body quietly took shape;

and that diamond-shaped star core rapidly shrank as well.

A moment later, the star core's energy was completely exhausted. As the pillar of starlight in the sky dispersed, it turned into a handful of fine powder that sifted through Barros's fingers.