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“Fools.” Babidi laughed sharply. “I’ve already converted this temple into an energy conversion array. The stronger your attacks, the hungrier Buu will be when he wakes up.”
"What did you do to them!"
Gabe's roar was laced with sobs. Behind the curtain Babidi had drawn back, Caulifla, Kale, and other warriors from Universe 6 were suspended from crosses by rusty chains, their Saiyan aura being drawn into a giant cocoon along the chains. Caulifla's long golden hair had faded, and blood mixed with sweat trickled from the corner of her mouth, yet she still glared at Babidi with gritted teeth.
"Release Lady Caulifla!" Gabe's golden aura surged instantly, his fists clenched so tightly his knuckles turned white. "I'll tear you apart, you bastard!"
"Stop!" Lin Ye grabbed his wrist, the boy's hand was incredibly hot. "These chains are faulty. If you rush up, you'll just become Buu's fuel."
"What can we do?" Gabe's voice trembled with tears. "Are we just going to watch them..."
"Afterburner!"
Caulifla suddenly unleashed her remaining energy, a pale blue ball of energy grazing past Babidi, only to be deflected towards the dome upon touching the altar barrier. She coughed up blood, her voice hoarse yet still filled with arrogance: "Never mind us... Cabba, remember the Saiyan's dignity!"
The giant cocoon suddenly trembled violently, and the runes on its surface seemed to come alive as they wriggled. "Giggle... Sweetie..." Buu's innocent laughter came from inside the cocoon, sending chills down the spines of everyone present. There was no malice in that laughter, only the purest desire for "food."
[Warning! Abnormal fluctuations in Cronus energy detected. Majin Buu is undergoing an unknown mutation, and his current form is determined to be—Time-Space Buu!]
The system alarm pierced Lin Ye's eardrums with pain. Only then did he realize that what bound the giant cocoon were not ordinary chains, but spatial rifts flashing with purple lightning. Every time Kalifra and the others' energy was drained, those rifts would widen by half, and the aura emanating from the giant cocoon would become even more bizarre.
"Damn it!" Vegeta's deep blue aura suddenly exploded into a pillar of light, "Final Flash!"
The golden beam of light blasted towards the cross, but was completely deflected the moment it touched the chains, grazing Lin Ye's cheek and shattering the temple's side wall. "These chains can deflect energy attacks 100%!" Vegeta gritted his teeth, veins bulging on the back of his hand. "What a bastard design!"
"Try this!" Lin Ye suddenly remembered Liu Nan's improved technique. He concentrated his energy at his fingertips and tapped the void lightly at a specific frequency. When his fingertips touched the chains on Kalifla's body, fine cracks appeared on the originally indestructible metal surface.
"This is... a vibration frequency?" Vegeta's eyes narrowed, and he immediately adjusted his ki output. "I didn't expect that Liu Nan's underhanded methods to be somewhat useful!"
"Quick! Kale's aura is almost gone!" Lin Ye increased the speed of his touch, and the chains on Kalifla's body already showed obvious signs of breaking.
Just then, the giant cocoon suddenly emitted a piercing tearing sound. Pink chunks of flesh, covered in a sticky black mucus, squeezed out of the crack. When the entire cocoon burst open, everyone was stunned by the sight before them—
The pink Majin Buu hovered in mid-air, his once round belly splitting open into a gigantic maw filled with sharp teeth, revealing a swirling vortex of spacetime within which countless shattered stars could be seen annihilating. His eyes had become pure black voids, the pupils flashing with images of the collapsing universe, yet he still murmured in an innocent tone, "Hungry... Buu wants to eat time..."
"Watch out!" Lin Ye shoved Gabe away. Buu's casually flicked air blast grazed the boy and struck the ground, instantly collapsing into an ever-expanding spacetime rift, slowly swallowing up half of the temple's remains.
"This guy's attacks are completely unpredictable!" Vegeta dodged a spacetime rift that appeared from behind him. "He's ten times harder to deal with than the original Buu!"
Califra broke free of the half-broken chains and unleashed a powerful "Power Cannon": "Get away from them!"
Buu swallowed the pale blue energy ball whole, and a few seconds later he let out a burp, releasing a vacant-eyed Caulifla from behind him. The puppet-like female Saiyan immediately assumed an attack stance, her aura even stronger than before.
"He can assimilate the abilities of those he has devoured!" Lin Ye stopped Gabe, who was about to attack. The boy's left arm was already turning transparent. "He has inherited Kronos's spacetime abilities!"
Gabe stared at his arm in horror: "What...what happened?"
"Touching his energy will cause spacetime decomposition." Lin Ye quickly enveloped Gabe's arm with his own energy. "We must seize the Seed of Spacetime within him as soon as possible!"
[Hint: You can try using the "System Copy" skill to seize control of the Seed of Time and Space. Success rate is 37%. Failure will result in the host's consciousness being swallowed by the spacetime turbulence.]
Lin Ye took a deep breath, deliberately letting the black energy Buu unleashed graz his shoulder. As that chilling power seeped into his body, he forcibly activated his skill—
"Ugh!"
A sharp pain instantly swept through his entire body. Lin Ye felt his consciousness being torn into countless fragments, and countless chaotic images flashed through his mind: Kronos sat on a throne made of spacetime fragments, the Omni-King's palace collapsing beneath his feet; the "Ark" space station was ripped apart by purple spacetime turbulence, his parents' figures blurred in the explosion; and there was another version of himself with silver hair, standing amidst the ruins of countless universes, confronting a dark shadow that blotted out the sky...
"Lin Ye!"
Vegeta's roar exploded like thunder. Lin Ye snapped back to reality and saw the Saiyan prince shielding Buu's attack with his back, blood gushing from his deep, bone-revealing wound, yet he still stared intently at Buu: "Don't let your guard down in front of me!"
"Sorry, Vegeta." Lin Ye's pupils suddenly turned pure silver, and the aura of his pseudo-Ultra Instinct surged threefold. "Prepare to use 'Saiyan Twin Explosion'! This time I'll take the lead, you support!"
"Hmph, we should have fought like this a long time ago!" Vegeta's deep blue aura and Lin Ye's silver aura converged in the center of the altar, forming a constantly rotating energy vortex. "Don't hold us back this time!"
Lin Ye injected the newly copied "Time-Space Devouring" ability into the energy core. As the two-colored beam of light struck Buu, a bizarre scene unfolded—the time-space vortex inside Buu's stomach suddenly reversed, frantically devouring his own body. Pink chunks of flesh were continuously sucked into his body, emitting childlike cries: "No... Buu doesn't want to disappear..."
In the end, the berserk demon shrunk to the size of a tennis ball and was sealed away by Lin Ye using a special capsule.
“Impossible… my plan…” Babidi staggered backward, turned around and tried to rush into the teleportation array, but was frozen in place by the sudden appearance of purple flames.
Beerus crushed his head with a stomp, the God of Destruction's tone carrying a rare murderous intent: "Dare to plot against the Temple of Time? Did you really think I'd stay asleep forever?"
“Lord Beerus…” Whis appeared behind him at some point, holding a half-eaten pudding in his hand. “Didn’t you say you were going to sleep until afternoon tea time?”
"Shut up." Beerus turned his face away, but secretly wiped his cream-stained fingers on his robe.
Lin Ye walked to Kalifla's side, and just as he dispelled the puppet form from her, the girl held a sword to his neck. "Thank you for saving us," Kalifla said, her eyes filled with complex emotions, "but Lord Champa has ordered that we must bring Gabe back."
"I'm not going back!" Gabe suddenly clenched the green crystal in his pocket. "Lord Lin Ye promised to help me find a way to heal my people!"
“Heal? With these low-level universe guys?” Califra’s sword tip moved another half inch closer. “Gabe, you’ve violated the laws of spacetime by carrying the ‘spacetime anchor’ across the universe.”
"Laws?" Vegeta's deep blue aura flared up again. "Is this how you treat your comrades who fight alongside you? If you want to take him away, you'll have to get past my fists first!"
“Vegeta is right.” Lin Ye stood in front of Cabba, his silver hair fluttering in the wind. “He is a member of the ‘Saiyan Alliance.’ As long as he doesn’t want to leave, no one can force him.”
[Triggered inter-universe conflict mission: Protect Cabba. Mission reward: Complete analysis of Super Saiyan God form.]
Suddenly, a huge crack appeared in the sky above the Temple of Time, and Champa's roar, carrying an aura of destruction, pressed down: "Beelzebub! Keep your dog in check! If you dare to interfere in the affairs of Universe Six again, I'll smash your God of Destruction Planet!"
"Try it, fat cat!" Beerus's arrogance surged instantly, and the collision of the two Gods of Destruction's auras caused the entire temple to shake violently.
On the Ark space station orbiting Namek, Lin's father was observing a distant burst of light through a telescope. "Look over there," he nudged his wife beside him, "the location of that nebula... is exactly the same as the star map Xiaoye sent back last time."
Lin's mother packed the freshly harvested fairy beans into a food storage container, repeatedly tracing over the words "For Xiaoye as a snack" on the label. "Whatever he's doing," she said softly, "just remember to come home for dinner."
Next to the food container, there was an unopened report. The words "Space-Time Anchor Stabilization Scheme" on the cover were emitting a faint green glow.
Chapter 348: The Struggle of the Gods of Destruction
Champa, the planet of destruction, resembles a burning amethyst, suspended at the edge of the seventh universe. Crystalline, furious energy flows across its surface, each pulsation creating ripples in space. Lin Ye stares at the holographic star map on the bridge; the red dots representing the two planets of destruction have been colliding for three days and three nights, each impact generating shockwaves that cause the Ark space station to shake violently.
The energy readings rose again. Bulma placed the hot cocoa on the edge of the control panel, swiped her finger across the screen to bring up the data curves, and Lord Beerus's destructive energy fluctuations were becoming increasingly chaotic. If this continued, the three galaxies at the edge of Universe Seven would be affected.
Lin Ye's gaze swept across the small window in the corner of the screen; Gabe was locked in the training room. Since the Temple of Time incident, this boy from Universe Six hadn't uttered more than three words. At this moment, the green crystal he was caressing was gleaming faintly.
[System notification: Gabe's sentiment level is below the critical threshold (currently 21%), and there is a risk of the spatiotemporal anchor point going out of control.]
I'll go check on him. Lin Ye picked up his cocoa cup and stood up. Before the water droplets on the cup could drip, they were shattered into mist by the sudden energy surge. A system alarm immediately followed:
[Urgent Warning! A resonance frequency has been detected between the energies of Beerus and Champa, meeting the conditions for triggering a God of Destruction fusion. The probability is soaring to 68%!]
Lin Ye's steps halted at the hatch. He recalled Whis's words about the forbidden power—the fusion of two Gods of Destruction was more terrifying than the Omni-King's erasure ability; it was a chaotic force capable of completely resetting the laws of the universe.
The gravity chamber in the training room was humming under immense strain. Cabba's Super Saiyan form was extremely unstable, golden flames crackling with black lightning, each punch striking the bullseye creating ripples in spacetime. The target had long since been blasted to pieces, yet he continued to punch into the void, his knuckles bleeding from the excessive force.
Whom should we believe...? The boy's voice trembled with tears, the green crystal in his palm burning hot. The image appearing on the crystal's surface grew clearer: the Saiyan planet of Universe Six was collapsing, Caulifla lay covered in blood in the ruins, her outstretched hand slowly falling before his eyes, her last words fading into the vacuum. "Jabbe, run..."
Click.
Lin Ye pushed open the training room door, and the sudden pressure of gravity made his chest feel tight. He walked to Gabe's side, brought up the star map projection of the sixth universe, and saw more than a dozen flashing planet icons gradually going out.
Kronos's spacetime devouring has spread to the seventh universe. Lin Ye's voice was somewhat deep in the gravitational field, "Do you see those vanished planets? In seven days, it will be Vegeta's turn."
Gabe whirled around, his golden hair obscuring bloodshot eyes: What should I do? He grabbed the star map and slammed it to the ground, its projection twisting into a grotesque shape in the gravitational field. Should he go back and watch his people turn into fragments of spacetime? Or should he stay here and let two universes fight because of him?
The green crystal slipped from his trembling hand, crashing to the ground and shattering into pieces. Instead of energy, a viscous red liquid flowed from the fragments, writhing on the ground like blood.
[System Notification: The spacetime anchor point and Gabe's blood have successfully fused, triggering the Saiyan bloodline resonance phenomenon.]
Lin Ye's pupils contracted slightly. Ancient dark red patterns appeared on Gabe's arm, which had sprung up in anger, identical to the symbols on the black figure he had seen in the Temple of Time.
Just then, the entire ark suddenly tilted violently. Lin Ye instantly teleported to the bridge, where he saw spiderweb-like cracks appear on the surface of Champa, revealing the swirling chaotic core within. A rare roar from Beerus erupted over the communication channel:
Champa, are you crazy? Initiating a cosmic collision benefits no one!
It's better than being devoured by that monster! Champa's voice was filled with a desperate madness. At least I can reset everything myself and let the Sixth Universe retain the last bit of dignity!
Lin Ye's body instantly erupted with silver-white flames, and the energy of the pseudo-Freedom Ultimate caused the lights on the control panel to flash: Weiss! Is there any way to stop them?
An angel's voice came through the communicator, tinged with helplessness: Once the wrath of a God of Destruction is ignited, only a higher level of power can suppress it. For example... complete Ultra Instinct.
[System panel warning: Host's emotion value detected at 100%, meeting the conditions for breaking through to the Ultimate Freedom, but there is a 73% risk of loss of control—residual Kronos energy may trigger spacetime collapse]
Lin Ye clenched his fist tightly. The future scene he had seen in the Temple of Time flashed through his mind again: himself in his fully unfettered Ultimate form standing in a void, surrounded by collapsing spacetime, with countless remnants of the universe streaking across the sky like meteors...
What are you thinking about?
Number 18 gently placed her hand on his shoulder, her prosthetic eye reflecting a calm light under the lamplight. She had just emerged from the medical pod, her combat suit sleeves still rolled up, revealing her repaired mechanical arm: "You've never been one to be intimidated by the future."
Lin Ye turned to look at her. The joints of the mechanical arm still bore the marks of repair—the wounds left from the last battle against Kronos's clone.
Angel Training Program, Highest Intensity. Lin Ye brought up the control panel in the training room and prepared 10000 times gravity.
and many more!
Gabe suddenly appeared at the bridge entrance, clutching the fragment of the green crystal tightly in his hand. The confusion in his eyes had been replaced by a kind of determination: "Lord Lin Ye, let me train with you." He raised his bleeding palm, the veins clearly visible under the light. Perhaps... the Saiyan bloodline could come in handy.
The gravity in the training room instantly surged. Following the guidance of the phantom of Weiss, Lin Ye tried to enter a state of no thought, but every time the flow of Qi approached the ultimate state of freedom, the shadow of Kronos would explode in his mind.
Uh!
The silver flames suddenly became chaotic, and Lin Ye was forced back three steps by his out-of-control energy, his back hitting the gravity generator with a dull thud.
Failed again? Gabe's Super Saiyan form glowed blue as he dodged Lin Ye's rebounding energy blast. You're afraid of that dark figure, aren't you?
Lin Ye wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth: I saw the future. The Complete Freedom Ultimate Form will cause spacetime to collapse.
So what? Gabe suddenly accelerated his punch, the fist grazing Lin Ye's cheek and smashing a shallow dent into the alloy wall behind him. When have Saiyans ever been afraid of power itself? His aura suddenly surged, and the patterns on his bloodlines shone with an astonishing brightness. What we fear is not having the ability to protect those we want to protect!
As their fists collided again, Lin Ye suddenly felt the blockage within his body loosen. The patterns on Gabe's arm glowed red, resonating with the symbol on his chest, as if a warm current flowed into his body through his fist.
"Now!" Weiss's phantom suddenly spoke, setting aside his fear of the future and following the guidance of his body!
Lin Ye closed his eyes, letting his Qi flow freely within his body. His pseudo-Free and Unfettered silver hair gradually turned pure white, and the surrounding spacetime stopped collapsing, instead forming a stable energy ring.
[System Notification: Initial Awakening of Complete Freedom Ultimate, gained the skill Spacetime Guardian - stabilizes spacetime structure and counteracts the effects of Chronos Energy]
The Ark's alarm suddenly became shrill and ear-piercing. Lin Ye and Gabe teleported to the bridge at the same time, where they saw a huge black hole appear between the two Destroyer Stars, with purple spacetime turbulence gushing out like venomous snakes.
A figure clad in a long black robe slowly emerged from the black hole, the chaotic energy swirling around him causing the space itself to groan. His face was hidden in the shadow of the hood, with only the writhing dark red lines on his chin visible—the same symbols as those on Lin Ye and Gabe.
"Cronus!" Beerus's voice was filled with unbelievable fear, and even his tail was taut.
It seems I've arrived just in time. The voice of the Time Devourer seemed to be whispering like countless people at once: the energy of the God of Destruction is a rare appetizer.
Champa subconsciously took a half step back, only to realize that his destructive energy was being slowly absorbed by the other party: You...when did you break the seal?
"Thanks to you all." Kronos raised his hand, and the black hole between the two Destroyer stars began to expand. The energy resonance of the Destroyer stars just happened to help me open a spacetime portal.
A pure white aura soared into the sky as Lin Ye's Complete Freedom Ultimate form formed a massive protective shield, blocking Chronos's first wave of attacks: "Jabbe, notify all Saiyans." His voice was calm yet carried an undeniable authority. "Activate the Saiyan Alliance's highest operational plan. Coordinates sent to your tactical terminals."
Gabe looked at the lines on his arm that had stopped flashing and nodded vigorously: Understood!
This time, he'll know. Countless energy lines split from Lin Ye's pure white aura, connecting to the auras of all the Saiyans in the communication channel. The Saiyans' unity is enough to fight against any chaos.