As soon as Son Goku landed on the Seventh Layer, he felt the dark purple destruction energy around him eating away at his body.
Unlike before, the corrosion was far stronger this time, penetrating deep into his bones and reaching his soul.
Son Goku gritted his teeth and held on. Sitting cross-legged, he tried to absorb and fuse with the destruction energy.
Moments later, Son Goku's face contorted in pain.
Although he could absorb the destruction energy, his absorption rate fell far short of the rate at which it ate away at his body.
Son Goku considered his options. After a moment, he muttered, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained. I've got an immortal body, so what the hell am I afraid of?"
He then focused entirely on absorbing the destruction energy, completely ignoring the damage it inflicted on his body.
Two hours later, Son Goku's flesh had been reduced to nothing, leaving only his skeleton.
Yet the skeleton, which should have been white, had turned purple.
Two points of purple light flared in his empty eye sockets, and Son Goku's flesh slowly began to regenerate.
Three hours later, Son Goku had fully recovered, and both his hair and his pupils had turned dark purple.
Son Goku stood up, formed a ball of destruction energy, and examined it closely.
The ball was dark purple, and the destructive power within it was beyond comparison with what he had possessed before.
With a flick of his wrist, Son Goku hurled it at the floor beneath his feet.
The floor instantly vanished into nothingness. Son Goku fell into the Eighth Layer, but before he could even take a proper look around, he was reduced to ash.
By the time Son Goku recovered again, he was already outside the God of Destruction Tower.
Though shaken, Son