Boom!!!
The ground collapsed beneath him, the layers of rock sinking nearly a hundred meters in an instant, like a giant beast opening its jaws to swallow him.
At the same moment, an apocalyptic aura of destruction pressed down, shrouding the entire Divine Martial Battle Star.
In that moment, whether they were top-tier powerhouses like Xuesaiya, Xuesaili, and Jiyande, or the lowest-ranking Saiyan warriors, they all felt as if they had fallen into an icy abyss, face-to-face with the arrival of Death.
In the midst of his transformation, Barros suddenly swept his cold gaze across the desolate wasteland around him.
"Ahhh—!!!"
A roar that seemed to come from the dawn of time exploded through the air, as if proclaiming his arrival to this unfamiliar universe—and sounding the horn for a king's return.
Before the roar had faded, his long, grass-green hair transformed once again, shifting from green to dazzling, blazing gold. More astonishing still, his two sword-like brows turned a blood-red hue.
Emerald-green eyes, dazzling golden hair, crimson brows—
Barros now seemed like a supreme emperor among Super Saiyans, returned from the dawn of time and reigning above all ages.
He stood above ordinary Saiyans and the Legendary Super Saiyan, yet had not entered the realm of the Super Saiyan God. He stood between the two, unique and unparalleled.
Boom!
Golden flames surged skyward once more, as if paying homage to the birth of a new emperor.
An immense, unrivaled imperial pressure, mingled with an aura of destruction that made the stars tremble, instantly blanketed the Divine Martial Battle Star.
"Zzz—zz—zz—"
The air around him shrieked sharply, as though the golden flames were scorching the very fabric of the world.
Dazzling golden hair, crimson brows, emerald-green eyes.
As the surging power within him gradually settled, Barros finally completed his dual ascent of body and spirit, reaching an unprecedented pinnacle.
Super Saiyan!
He slowly opened his eyes. His green pupils were bone-chillingly cold, indifferent as a god looking down on ants, yet carrying the disdainful majesty of a supreme king surveying all living beings.
"Super Saiyan?" A trace of cold mockery flickered through his eyes.
Though this form was not Super Saiyan God, it already possessed something of that divine bearing. It not only surpassed ordinary and Legendary Super Saiyans, but was also the ultimate form born when Saiyan blood was traced back to ancient times and tempered to its utmost limit.
An ordinary Super Saiyan's battle power increased fiftyfold;
A Legendary Super Saiyan's battle power increased a hundredfold;
But this brand-new form of his, one that ushered in a new era and had never been seen before—
increased his battle power by an astonishing two hundred times!
Once all 108 acupoints throughout his body had been opened, Barros's battle power had settled at 13 million.
After breaking through the shackles of his body, his strength had soared to 15 million.
And once he shifted into this unprecedented Super Saiyan form...
his battle power had astonishingly surged to 3 billion!
Super Saiyan—a newly evolved Super Saiyan form, with a terrifying power level of 3 billion.
"Ha—ha—ha—ha—ha—ha!"
A string of wild laughter suddenly rang out, shaking the heavens and echoing across the skies above the entire Divine Martial Battle Star, where the Imperial Hall had once stood.
For more than a decade, Barros had deliberately kept his aura in check, devoting his every thought to tempering his body through the grueling cultivation of the Dragon Elephant Prison Suppression Sutra. Today, he had finally crossed the threshold of Super Saiyan.
More astonishing still, at his very first transformation, he had already surpassed ordinary Super Saiyans and even the Legendary Super Saiyan.
Though he did not yet know what mysteries and power this realm held, the 200-fold increase in battle power alone
was enough to let him sweep through the entire Dragon Ball Universe.
Frieza? King Cold? Cooler? None of them posed a threat anymore.
For someone who knew the Dragon Ball power system inside and out,
Barros could immediately gauge the level of opponents he could crush with his current strength:
An ordinary Super Saiyan had a 50-fold increase in power; Super Saiyan 2 was twice as strong as that; Super Saiyan 3 was four times stronger than Super Saiyan 2.
In other words, his new form comfortably outclassed Super Saiyan 2.
With his current strength, he could dominate not only the universe as it stood now, but even the later stages of the Dragon Ball Universe. Apart from Majin Buu and Super Saiyan 3 Goku, even Dabura, King of the Demon Realm, could not withstand a single casual blow from him!
The others went without saying.
Still, this universe was extraordinary.
Though Barros was confident that, at present, he could sweep across the four corners of the universe and reign supreme over the Dragon Ball world,
he also knew this was only temporary. Those truly at the pinnacle had yet to appear.
If the movie villains were included, he probably wouldn't even make the top ten with his current strength.
But growth had always been his norm.
And this form was by no means the end.
If he could continue unlocking Super Saiyan 2, Super Saiyan 3...
Even though his mind was already as still as an ancient well and his will as firm as dark iron,
Barros still couldn't help the blazing anticipation in his eyes when he imagined it.
Just as he calmly sensed every change in his new form,
the violent aura rising in the distance finally began to subside.
Though a bottomless, suffocating pressure still lingered where he stood,
Xuesaiya, Xuesaili, Palanti, Jiyande, and the others still hurried toward him.
They wanted to see Barros's transformation with their own eyes, but even more urgently, they wanted to know just how much his battle power had increased!
Before they even landed, Xuesaiya and her sister, Palanti, and top Saiyans like Jiyande and Meisu all caught sight of the solitary figure standing between heaven and earth, his sharpness seeming capable of cleaving the sky.
He was wrapped in blazing golden flames. His black hair had turned dazzling gold, and his brows had become blood-red,
as if he had gained a new soul and transformed completely into another being.
Every Saiyan's heart trembled in unison—
The ancient legend that had been buried for years, and that they had once privately dismissed as a fantasy,
now stood alive before their eyes.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
As if answering their thoughts, Xuesaiya led the way as they all plunged down at once and landed before Barros.
"Barros, you..." As soon as she landed, Xuesaili spoke urgently.
Before she could finish, Barros, who had been meditating with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them and looked straight at her.
In that instant, a bone-deep chill swept over her. It was like a god lowering his gaze and indifferently surveying a world of ants.
If she could choose again, Xuesaili would rather have waited for him to speak first than endure that glance.
She knew Barros would never hurt her, but the moment their eyes met,
she felt as if she had blasphemed against divine authority and were about to fall into an eternal hell, unable to breathe.
Gulp! Gulp! Gulp!
The sound of throats bobbing rose one after another.
Barros's gaze did not fall on Jiyande and the others, but the instant he opened his eyes,
they felt as if they had been locked onto by a primordial beast. Their minds shook violently, their backs turned cold, and they no longer dared to look up at him!
Silence. Absolute silence.
He hadn't uttered a word. He had merely glanced at Xuesaili,
yet the Saiyan warriors who had roamed the stars and feared nothing had all fallen speechless, their fighting spirit utterly crushed.
It wasn't that Jiyande and the others were cowards—
under that gaze, the power they had always been proud of, strength enough to shatter stars and tear apart the universe,
couldn't give them even the slightest confidence.
It was as if all their strength had been drained away in an instant, leaving only mortal flesh to face an indescribable divine might—
how could they not be afraid?
Xuesaiya felt a slight tightening in her heart as well, but Barros was her own son.
After a moment of silence, she fixed her gaze on his dazzling golden hair and crimson brows. Her emerald eyes narrowed slightly as she asked softly:
"Barros, this... what is it?"
If she hadn't carried him for ten months,
if she hadn't watched him cultivate day and night for more than a decade,
if the faint but unbroken bond of blood between mother and son hadn't tied them together—
Xuesaiya could never have believed that the man before her, godlike in bearing and wrapped in golden flames, whose every movement seemed capable of remaking heaven and earth,
was her son Barros, the boy she had raised herself!
Barros naturally understood what Xuesaiya and Xuesaili truly wanted to ask.
The corner of his mouth lifted in a calm smile, and he gave a light nod.
He had mentioned Super Saiyan more than once to Xuesaiya, Xuesaili, and the others.
After such a sudden transformation, with his appearance changing and his battle power increasing geometrically,
it was only natural that they would immediately think of that legend.
Barros gave another slight nod. Xuesaiya's pupils contracted sharply, and her heart jolted. "Barros, you... really became a Super Saiyan!"
He didn't answer. He only smiled faintly—the dazzling golden hair, brows red as clotted blood, and eyes green as a frigid abyss had already said more than a thousand words.
"E-Emperor, you... you..." Jiyande's Adam's apple bobbed. His voice caught in his throat as he stared at Barros's radiant golden hair, flame-red brows, and deep-green eyes. His heart churned, and he could barely speak!
"A Super Saiyan? The Super Saiyan from the legend, who appears only once every thousand years, is really standing right before us!"
"Emperor, you've truly entered the realm of Super Saiyan!"
"Emperor, is this the Legendary Super Saiyan?"
As soon as Jiyande finished speaking, the Saiyans around him all chimed in. Their eyes burned as they looked at Barros, their yearning so fierce it seemed ready to scorch the air.
Super Saiyan was a myth etched into the Saiyans' very bones—one appeared only once every thousand years, and it was the supreme glory generations of warriors had dreamed of attaining.
But ever since the Saiyans had moved to Planet Vegeta, no one had reached that realm again.
The pinnacle they were meant to pursue for generations had gradually come to be regarded as an empty old dream, buried in the dust of history and seldom even mentioned.
Though Barros's blood also raced with excitement, what he wanted most was to master the immense power surging through his newly transformed body.
That feeling of being able to crush a galaxy with a mere lift of his hand made him eager to explore the full potential of a Super Saiyan.
Unlike Goku and the others, the universe posed no obstacle to Barros.
He could cross the void with his own flesh and blood, roam freely through the boundless cosmos, and unleash the full limits of a Super Saiyan!
At a thought, Barros's figure abruptly vanished. In the blink of an eye, he had disappeared completely from before Xuesaiya and the others.
Rumble!!
The ground, already sunken a hundred meters, fractured again as he kicked off into the air, smashing out another crater a hundred meters deep—
he broke through the atmosphere of the Divine Martial Battle Star and shot into the vast cosmos.
He didn't rush to unleash his battle power, but focused on quickly discovering the limits of this terrifying strength.
He pressed his index and middle fingers together and lightly touched them to his forehead. Space rippled, and his figure vanished without a trace, instantly leaving the orbit of the Divine Martial Battle Star.
The next moment, Barros appeared on the surface of an ordinary planet in the South Galaxy.
With a single thought, he had crossed an entire galaxy. Only now had he truly grasped the meaning of Instant Transmission: wherever his heart wished, he could travel through the stars, and cross galaxies with every step.
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