Super Saiyan!

Seeing Broly smile, Barros shook his head slightly and said gently, "You are not entirely devoid of reason. I can see it clearly—even when you went berserk, your mind never truly broke. It was merely completely suppressed by surging rage and destructive urges."

Broly was just about to speak when Barros raised a hand to stop him and continued, "As long as you master the Ice Heart Formula and learn to control the flow of your ki freely, berserking in your normal state will no longer completely consume you!"

Normal state...

But what about the Legendary Super Saiyan form?

Barros had no answer for that yet, and naturally could not say for certain whether Broly could retain even a trace of clarity in that ultimate form.

Broly did not dwell on the words "normal state."

He only understood that this battle, this unexpected journey to an unfamiliar planet, had yielded far more than he had anticipated.

Seven days of grueling Ice Heart Formula training in the Imperial Hall, followed by today's battle—it had been the perfect proving ground.

The result satisfied Barros and filled Broly with confidence as well.

Though he still could not actively suppress his berserk state, at the very least—entering it no longer meant losing his mind completely.

He had carved every word of Barros's previous advice into his bones.

After this experience, his trust in the Great Emperor had become absolute, without the slightest hesitation remaining.

Two years passed in the blink of an eye.

Two years were enough to transform even seas and mountains.

Even Earth, seemingly as still as stagnant water, could not escape subtle change.

Much less the Divine Martial Battle Star and the Saiyan race, which had long since shaken every race in the universe.

Barros secluded himself within the Imperial Hall, cultivating the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Acupoints.

Broly, Bardock, Xuesaiya, Xuesaili, Palanti, and Jiyande—the six strongest warriors of the Divine Martial Battle Star—swept across the East Galaxy with thunderous force.

After that life-and-death battle on the unfamiliar planet, Broly returned to the Imperial Hall and spent more than two months painstakingly cultivating the Ice Heart Formula. At last, he could barely manage this—when provoked in battle, he would not fall into a berserk state.

Combined with Ice Soul Calming Spirit and Dragon Vein Foundation Stabilization, even without transforming into a Super Saiyan, he no longer had to fear his reason collapsing.

With the obstacle of reason removed, Broly truly integrated into the Divine Martial Battle Star.

Standing on high ground, he watched squad after squad of powerful Saiyans, team after team of Saiyan warriors, wage war for Barros across the East Galaxy, conquering everything in their path.

A year and a half earlier, Broly had finally formally proposed his plan to Barros: an expedition into the East Galaxy.

The moment he brought it up that day, even Barros, who had seen countless grand scenes, froze on the spot. It took him a long while to recover!

Though deeply shaken, Barros did not hesitate in the slightest and agreed on the spot.

If Broly were allowed to sweep through a planet alone, the inevitable result would be the planet's destruction and the extermination of every native inhabitant.

Thus, he simply was not suited to assaulting planetary battlefields alone!

After some consideration, Barros decided to assign him only the toughest targets—either galaxy-level supreme experts that even elite Saiyan squads could not handle, or combat units on the East Galaxy front that had encountered formidable enemies and urgently needed support.

Broly had no objection. After all, those native civilizations as weak as ants could not stir even the slightest interest in him.

The next morning, Broly set out with a mid-level Saiyan squad.

With him anchoring the formation, that previously unremarkable squad immediately revealed terrifying brilliance. They won battle after battle, sweeping aside all opposition, sending one victory report after another back to the Divine Martial Battle Star.

Broly bulldozed through the southern region of the East Galaxy, while Bardock, who was responsible for the eastern region, was no less formidable.

Though he had not awakened the Legendary Super Saiyan form, the battle-lust in his bones, his overwhelmingly powerful combat ability, and an ace assault team composed of top-tier Saiyans still allowed him to capture cities and crush strongholds, unstoppable wherever he went.

As for the three female Saiyans—Xuesaiya, Xuesaili, and Palanti—their seamless coordination and astonishingly compounded strength allowed them to sweep through the entire western region of the East Galaxy with overwhelming force.

Broly, Bardock, and Xuesaiya's group advanced along separate routes, sweeping across the universe.

And Barros never stopped moving even while in seclusion and cultivation.

Relying on the divine technique of Instant Transmission, he constantly traversed the starry sea, precisely seeking out those supreme powerhouses in the universe whose ki was terrifying beyond measure.

During this time, he had indeed caught Frieza's trail. However, Frieza was always shrouded in a terrifying aura as unfathomable as an abyss and as oppressive as a prison—Barros immediately withdrew and did not attack.

Perhaps deep in his heart, he harbored a thought: leave the strongest Frieza alive, so that they could fight again someday.

Thanks to Instant Transmission, Barros soon located a stellar-level planet—where a galaxy-level overlord with a power level exceeding ten million resided...

Barros, who had long coveted stellar-level life, could hardly watch his prey remain within reach and do nothing.

Though he knew full well that his opponent was most likely a peak galaxy-level existence with a power level above ten million, he still flashed over without the slightest hesitation.

The temptation of a stellar-level planet was strong enough already, and that overlord with a power level exceeding ten million set his blood boiling even more.

A clash fought with every ounce of strength—even a bloody battle to the death—was the kind of contest he truly desired.

With no worries holding him back, he could finally let loose and fight without restraint.

Without a single word of warning, Barros used Instant Transmission to arrive. Before the surface of the planet beneath his feet, where gravity was thirty times stronger, could so much as tremble, a blazing ki blast shot straight toward the powerhouse nearby.

That man was no ordinary fighter. Though the sudden attack made his heart tighten slightly, he reacted like lightning, casually raising a hand and dispersing the ki blast into nothingness.

Since Barros had attacked without warning, he had already bared his blade. Naturally, the other man showed no courtesy, retaliating with a violent ki blast whose force far surpassed Barros's opening move.

That battle was undoubtedly the most perilous fight Barros had faced since beginning his rise.

He had overestimated his own limits and severely underestimated his opponent's true strength.

At the time, Barros had a power level of 8.67 million. His body was indestructible, and in theory, he was enough to contend with galactic powerhouses in the ten-million range.

Yet the opponent he faced was a galactic overlord with a power level as high as sixty million.

Had his bones and sinews not been forged like steel, and his defense not been monstrously powerful, the opponent would never have been able to break through his defenses within a few moves. Otherwise, with a gap of more than tenfold in strength, Barros likely would not have lasted even three exchanges before being blasted into dust by a ki wave.

Even so, the battle had forced Barros to exhaust every trump card he possessed: the layered force of the Dragon-Subduing Palm, the Frenzied Dragon Sky-Shattering Wave charged tenfold, the fatal strike he unleashed even at the cost of displacing his internal organs... In the end, he slew his opponent at the critical moment, paying the price of grave, near-fatal injuries.

Once the battle ended, he immediately swallowed a Senzu Bean to stabilize his injuries, still shaken by the narrow escape.

If he had not consumed every planetary Neural Tree Fruit after his earlier battle with Broly, forcibly raising his power level by more than three million, defeat in this battle would have been inevitable.

There were losses, but there were gains as well.

Though the battle had been extraordinarily difficult, and he had repeatedly hovered on the brink of death, the rewards were equally astonishing. After the Senzu Bean restored him, his power level soared to 9.87 million. He was just one final step away from crossing the ten-million threshold.

And the greatest breakthrough from that battle was not the increase in numbers—

It was the moment, at the height of the fierce battle, when his own ki was insufficient and he repeatedly failed to kill his enemy in a single blow, his heart burning with fury, that he suddenly brushed against a barrier that made his soul tremble.

At the time, he had not truly entered that realm. A power level of 8.67 million was still insufficient to knock open its gates.

But he was utterly certain that the barrier, thin as a cicada's wing and seemingly ready to break at a touch, was the threshold of a Super Saiyan.

Super Saiyan!

After the great battle ended, that realm still floated clearly within the depths of his consciousness, separated only by a sheet of paper, ready to be pierced with a single poke.

After the battle, Barros personally planted a Neural Tree on that stellar planet.

When the stellar-level Neural Tree bore fruit, having absorbed the planet's origin essence and the primordial energy of heaven and earth, he gained an increasingly vivid understanding of just how deep the gulf between different levels truly was.

Ordinary Neural Tree Fruits had long since become useless to him. Planetary fruits could still raise his power level, but even before he encountered Broly, he had already devoured every planetary Neural Tree Fruit, gaining more than three million power level in one surge.

By then, the benefits these fruits offered him had nearly fallen to zero.

Yet stellar-level Neural Tree Fruits allowed Barros, who had already reached a bottleneck, to gain another small increase—

Not much, but every fruit could reliably add another one hundred thousand to his power level.

However, Barros had only tasted that one Neural Tree Fruit. Of the other eighty-one fruits borne by the stellar-level Neural Tree, he did not touch a single one.

After all, ki stimulated through external means could never compare to the true power forged through daily grueling cultivation, through every punch and kick.

Once a Saiyan broke through to become a Super Saiyan, their power level could increase fiftyfold. But that power had always lain dormant deep within their bloodline, merely awaiting complete awakening.

The increase brought by Neural Tree Fruits, however, was forcefully infused out of nowhere. Even if the ki was incomparably pure, it was still too abrupt and difficult to sustain.

Besides, Barros's own power level was already nearing the ten-million threshold. Breaking through steadily into the ten-million range was hardly beyond reach.

Furthermore, stellar-level Neural Trees bore very few fruits—fewer than a hundred in total. Compared with the planetary fruits that grew everywhere, they were as rare as morning stars.

Barros was currently focusing all his efforts on opening the thirty-six Heavenly Fiend acupoints. Rapidly raising his power level now was far less important than first cultivating the Dragon Elephant Prison-Suppressing Art to its second level, then naturally stepping into the realm of a Super Saiyan.

Time flowed on, and two years passed in the blink of an eye. The Saiyans' laws and reward system also gradually became more complete.

The Saiyan warriors, who had long been itching for action, repeatedly petitioned Barros, begging to leave the Divine Martial Battle Star and sweep through the sea of stars on his behalf.

Saiyans were born addicted to battle. Now that Barros had added Senzu Beans and Neural Tree Fruits as generous rewards for military merit, the fighting spirit of the entire race was set ablaze.

One ordinary Neural Tree Fruit was worth one or two years of desperate training;

A planetary fruit was worth five to eight years of life-and-death tempering;

As for stellar-level fruits, only nine had appeared on the Divine Martial Battle Star so far—Broly took four, Bardock received two, Jiyande obtained one, and the remaining two fell into the hands of Loka and Meisu, two of the strongest Saiyans.

The successive appearance of planetary and stellar-level fruits directly ignited the entire Divine Martial Battle Star, nearly driving every warrior into a frenzy.

That day, Jiyande had just returned from a campaign across the galaxy when Barros bestowed a stellar-level Neural Tree Fruit upon him before all the Saiyans and ordered him to consume it on the spot.

Under the gaze of the masses, Jiyande's power level, originally 1.03 million, instantly soared to 1.51 million, forcibly rising by a full five hundred thousand!