"Then what do we do?"
"There is one way." Zeno, who had remained silent at the side, suddenly spoke.
Today, he looked nothing like his usual innocent, childish self.
"The World Dragon Balls changed because Zalama had too much evil energy. If a pure soul enters the Dragon Balls now, it can purify their power."
"A soul has to enter the Dragon Balls... can that person's soul ever come back?" Taro asked.
"No." Zeno smiled and shook his head.
Everyone immediately fell silent.
Zeno's meaning was clear. To purify the Dragon Balls, someone had to sacrifice their life!
"I'll do it..."
As everyone stood there in shock, Lin Chen rose to his feet.
"Dad!"
"Lin Chen!"
Lin Luo and Lazuli stopped him.
"Lin Chen, you'll die if your soul enters the Dragon Balls!"
"There's no other choice if we want to save the world."
Lin Chen smiled calmly.
But Zeno shook his head. "You won't do."
"Huh?" Lin Chen froze.
The Grand Minister explained on Zeno's behalf, "Lin Chen, your soul isn't pure. You cannot purify the Dragon Balls."
Lin Chen was speechless.
But he understood what the Grand Minister meant.
Besides having inherited the Legendary Super Saiyan Bloodline, Lin Chen's soul was fundamentally a fusion of Lin Chen from another world and Linx from this one, so it wasn't pure.
But if he couldn't do it, who could...
Just then, someone stepped forward.
"Then I'll do it!"
"Goku?!"
"Kakarot!"
The person who had stepped forward was Son Goku.
"Kakarot, what are you doing?" Lin Chen asked.
Son Goku looked back with a smile. "Big Brother Lin Chen, you've saved the world so many times. It's about time I had a turn, isn't it?"
"But you..."
"I know..." Son Goku looked up at the burning sky of the Dragon God