At the very instant their fists had collided, Tien Shinhan had used the ki compression technique he had gleaned from the resentment amplification device.
Perfected Dragon Fist!
It was a finishing move that instantly spun and compressed the ki within his body, boosting the destructive power of his attack to ten times his power level!
King Vegeta's Golden Great Ape form had only stumbled back a few steps because Tien Shinhan had thrown nothing more than a casual punch.
The destructive power of that punch had only just risen to a little over a hundred thousand.
King Vegeta's Golden Great Ape form could put considerable pressure on him as he was now, which meant his power level could rise rapidly under that pressure.
Tien Shinhan possessed the Perfected Dragon Fist, which could kill him instantly, but he could not bear to ruin this sparring material so soon.
Such rare sparring material had to be thoroughly milked for all the strength gains he could provide.
As for the other two Great Apes nearby, Tien Shinhan had no intention of holding back.
While King Vegeta was still reeling from being driven back, Tien Shinhan had already thrown two punches.
Bang!
Bang!
One punch each-the two black Great Apes beside him, each with a power level approaching twenty thousand, had their bodies blasted apart by Tien Shinhan.
A huge hole was punched straight through each enormous chest, the flesh shattering into a bloody mist as their chests were blown open.
"Ugh-!"
The two black Great Apes only had time to let out two screams before toppling backward, limbs splayed.
As they fell, however, their enormous bodies instantly shrank back to their original forms, leaving behind two Saiyan corpses with their chests completely blown apart.
That sight utterly extinguished King Vegeta's wishful thinking.
He had just been making excuses for that punch, thinking Tien Shinhan must have paid some enormous price to barely manage a blow that matched his own.
Yet now, Tien Shinhan had casually blasted apart the two strongest Elite Warriors in the Saiyan race besides himself.
Blasting someone apart with a single punch meant its destructive power was at least twice the opponent's power level.
The punch Tien Shinhan had used to drive him back had been no fluke!
But things had reached this point, and whether to avenge his people, carry out the plan to annihilate the Tuffles, or save his own life, King Vegeta had no choice but to keep fighting Tien Shinhan.
Though that punch had been evenly matched, King Vegeta felt he still had a chance of winning if he fought Tien Shinhan with all his strength.
As long as he was the final victor in their duel.
Then all his plans would still end in success!
Having understood this, King Vegeta immediately tore his gaze away from the two Saiyan Elite Warriors Tien Shinhan had killed instantly, then launched an attack straight at him.
"Aaaah-!"
With a roar, King Vegeta's Golden Great Ape charged at Tien Shinhan's giant form with overwhelming force.
Aaaaah-!
Hah, hah, hah, hah-!
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang...
Fists as massive as boulders, legs as thick as iron towers.
Their battle remained a head-on clash of brute force. They seemed evenly matched, neither able to get the better of the other.
As he and Tien Shinhan traded evenly matched blows, King Vegeta saw a glimmer of hope for victory.
What he did not know, however, was that the even match he saw was merely what Tien Shinhan wanted him to see!
Throughout this ongoing battle, King Vegeta saw hope of winning.
Tien Shinhan, meanwhile, saw the delightful sight of his power level continually soaring.
The pressure from the Golden Great Ape fully activated Tien Shinhan's Limit Breakthrough trait. He grew stronger against strong opponents, and stronger the longer he fought!
25,000!
28,000!
30,000!
Two short hours of fierce fighting passed, yet the intense battle between the two giants had still not ended.
Ora, ora, ora, ora, ora...
Muda, muda, muda, muda, muda...
King Vegeta was exhausted, but for that faint hope of victory, he still had to grit his teeth and hold on.
Tien Shinhan, on the other hand, was delighted. To keep farming power levels from King Vegeta's Golden Great Ape form, he had to suppress the urge to laugh out loud and keep milking him.
40,000!
50,000!
60,000!
Finally, with Tien Shinhan refusing to let him go, King Vegeta was forced to fight all night.
Only when the full moon faded and the next morning arrived did the battle finally end.
Watching King Vegeta revert from his Golden Great Ape form to his normal state shortly after the full moon faded, Tien Shinhan still wanted more.
"Can you keep going or not? That's it? Transform and fight some more! You still have a chance of winning!"
Overnight, Tien Shinhan had milked several tens of thousands in power level from King Vegeta.
His power level had now reached over eighty thousand.
Although his power level had indeed risen considerably, Tien Shinhan still felt it was a pity that he had not been able to use King Vegeta's Great Ape Transformation as a whetstone to raise it straight to a hundred thousand, as he had ideally hoped.
"Huff, huff..."
Unlike Tien Shinhan, who still wanted more, King Vegeta felt as though he had endured an entire night of nightmares.
He had not voluntarily returned to his normal state, nor had he reverted because the full moon had disappeared.
Rather, after fighting Tien Shinhan all night, he was truly exhausted. He did not even have the stamina left to maintain his Golden Great Ape form.
King Vegeta was utterly baffled. He could not understand why Tien Shinhan's stamina seemed inexhaustible. Even if he had some special move, surely it would consume considerable stamina!
Unfortunately, he knew nothing of the effects of Senzu Beans, much less just how plentiful Tien Shinhan's stock of them was.
The Perfected Dragon Fist let Tien Shinhan force out an attack with ten times the destructive power, and naturally consumed a great deal, but he had more than enough Senzu Beans to cover it!
At that moment, King Vegeta recalled Tien Shinhan's initial question and secretly regretted not having surrendered to him of his own accord back then.
Otherwise, he would not have had to endure several nightmares in succession, only to face the same outcome of defeat.
King Vegeta lay sprawled on his back on the ground. Hearing Tien Shinhan's words, he frantically waved his hands in terror.
"No more, no more. I really can't keep going."
Even as a member of the universe's greatest warrior race, and the king of that warrior race at that.
After Tien Shinhan's nightmarish torment, coupled with the weakness of complete exhaustion, King Vegeta no longer had any fighting spirit left.
The most important thing to him now was simply getting some proper rest.
Though belligerence and the like were instinctive, even instinct could not compare with resting and recovering his stamina.
Whatever happened, happened. All King Vegeta wanted now was a good sleep.
Seeing King Vegeta give up so completely and stop trying, Tien Shinhan could only sigh with regret.
What a pity. There was still plenty of power-level value in this sparring material that he had not fully exploited.
"Then I'll grant your wish!"
Bang!
Since this sparring material could no longer be milked to farm power levels, there was no need to keep him around.
This time, Tien Shinhan did not deliberately reduce the force of his punch.
It was a casual punch, yet terrifying beyond measure. Just like that, King Vegeta was utterly blasted apart by Tien Shinhan.
For the Saiyan race, King Vegeta's death also directly meant the failure of their operation.
Upon learning that King Vegeta had been killed, many Saiyans who had likewise returned to their original forms because of daybreak and their enormous expenditure of stamina abandoned their last resistance.
The Saiyan race's offensive had failed, and the Tuffles had successfully weathered the catastrophe that threatened to wipe them out.