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Vegeta confronts the evil Cell: "Kakarot's opponent is no fun! Imposter, let this prince show you what you're made of!" Deep Blue erupts, unleashing a punch that shatters stars!
The evil Cell grinned as he charged forward, his power raging and his attacks vicious and insane, the two unleashing an energy storm.
Gohan and Trunks face the bloated and crazed evil Buu. Piccolo keeps a close eye on the benevolent Frieza and the ever-present evil Lin Ye.
The battle erupted! Deafening roars and flashes of light filled the distorted space. The Mirror Warriors possessed bizarre and powerful strength, and the evil Lin Ye's attacks contained a pure will to destroy, each strike putting immense pressure on Sun Wukong. To make matters worse, the unstable space rippled due to the energy impact, hindering their movements.
"This won't do!" Trunks narrowly avoided the corrosive slime. "Their power source is strange, and the environment is suppressing us!"
"Over here! Come here quickly! Don't linger!" A hurried, weak female voice came from a broken window of the gear-and-pipe building in the distance. A haggard, disheveled figure in oil-stained overalls—it was Bulma! Mirror Bulma!
"Aunt Bulma?" Gohan was taken aback.
"Trust me! If you keep fighting, you'll be assimilated by the chaotic energy! Hurry!" Mirror Bulma shouted anxiously.
"Gohan, Trunks, Piccolo, cover us! Vegeta and I will cover the rear! Retreat!" Goku made a decisive decision.
The group fought and retreated, tearing open a path to break free of their entanglement and rushing towards the building.
Rushing through the rusty gear-shaped gate, one finds a vast, chaotic ruined factory. Broken pipes, exposed wires, and mountains of discarded parts are scattered everywhere. The air is thick with the smells of engine oil, ozone, and burnt metal. Light is provided only by a few flickering emergency lights and a massive, cracked crystal ball at the center, from which flows unstable, colored energy.
Mirror Bulma slumped over a console cobbled together from scrap parts, her hands flying across the greasy buttons, the screen scrolling with a chaotic stream of data. She was exhausted, her eyes sunken, yet her gaze was focused and anxious.
"Quick! Block the door! Use that nearly broken energy shield generator over there!" she commanded hoarsely without looking up.
Vegeta frowned, but he and Trunks quickly dragged over a metal plate emitting a faint blue light and activated it. The thin arc shield barely held up. Almost simultaneously, the muffled impact and energy bombardment of Evil Buu echoed from outside.
“Bulma… lady?” Goku looked at her, disheveled yet resolute.
Mirror Bulma stopped moving, took a breath, looked up and smiled bitterly: "I am Bulma of this universe. Welcome to... the reflection of hell."
"What happened here?" Gohan asked anxiously. "Why is time slowing down? Why is time moving in the opposite direction for those people?"
Mirror Bulma rubbed her temples wearily. "An abnormal flow of time is a sign of the universe's 'death.' Space is collapsing, time is crumbling, everything is slow, chaotic, and disordered." She pointed to the crystal ball with the central crack. "That's a projection of a fragment from the 'core of the universe,' one of the sources of chaos."
Her gaze swept over the crowd, a glimmer of hope tinged with sorrow: "Good and evil reversed? In this dying, chaotic mirror universe, anything is possible. Order has vanished. Kindness is the original sin, cowardice is the way to survive, pure destruction... has become the 'mainstream'." She looked at Goku, "The 'Lin Ye' you fought wasn't inherently evil. The power of chaos corrupted and twisted him. Frieza... his original evil became an anomaly, suppressed and twisted into cowardice. Buu's greed was amplified infinitely, Cell's bloodlust became instinct..."
"Where is the real Lin Ye?" Son Gohan pressed.
Mirror Bulma's eyes dimmed instantly, filled with pain and fear: "He... tried to stop the source, repair the core... and then... was devoured by 'He'."
"Who is 'He'?" Bick keenly grasped the key question.
Mirror Bulma trembled slightly, her eyes filled with deep-seated fear, and her voice was extremely low: "Chaos... Omni-King."
The name struck everyone's hearts like a heavy hammer!
"The Omni-King of Chaos?" Vegeta frowned. "What is that?"
“The embodiment of catastrophe.” Mirror Bulma’s voice trembled with despair. “Our universe has formed a distorted connection with the true Omni-King’s will due to an unknown catastrophe… giving birth to a twisted, chaotic consciousness filled with destructive desires—the Chaos Omni-King. He is the ultimate manifestation of entropy increase, and order has completely collapsed!” She pointed fearfully at the cracked crystal ball: “He is using this universe as a furnace… to ‘reconstruct reality’! Forcibly injecting chaotic and inverted rules into other normal universes! Spreading like a virus! The signals you are tracking are ‘anchors’ he has projected, polluting tentacles! The time anomaly is a side effect of his distorted rules!”
Everyone gasped! Reshaping reality? Injecting chaotic rules? More terrifying than destroying the universe! All order and life would be overturned, distorted, and destroyed!
“So… the signal led us in…” Trunks’ face turned pale.
"It's a trap!" Mirror Bulma declared firmly. "Your powerful energy is the 'nourishment' He craves! It accelerates 'reorganization'! Once captured or assimilated, your cosmic coordinates and rule information will become His springboard for invading His home!"
boom! Boom!
The thin shield at the entrance flickered violently, cracks spreading! The icy voice of the evil Lin Ye pierced through: "Target...locked...energy source...clear the obstruction..."
"They've found a weakness!" Mirror Bulma's expression changed drastically as she rushed back to the control panel. "Shield overload! It won't last long!"
Sun Wukong's Super Blue aura reignited: "Then let's fight! We absolutely cannot let him succeed!"
Vegeta's aura exploded: "Hmph, who cares about being a king? If you want to destroy my home, you'll have to start with your fists!"
Mirror Bulma whirled around, pleading desperately, "No! We can't fight them head-on! The power of chaos is permeating the universe! The more you use your power, the more easily you'll be corrupted! It's up to you!"
Everyone looked down: Goku's Super Saiyan Blue was tinged with a faint crimson at the edge! Vegeta's deep blue was tinged with a frenzied black! Gohan and Trunks' ki also had a chaotic mix of colors!
"When?" Son Gohan asked in shock.
“Stepping into this place means being corrupted! His home turf! The only way… is to find the ‘anchor’ launch source and destroy it! Cut off His projection channel! Stop the contamination, weaken the control, and buy time!” Mirror Bulma spoke rapidly.
"Where is the anchor point?" Bick asked in a deep voice.
Mirror Bulma pointed to a massive, downward-sloping pipe deep within the laboratory, filled with viscous shadows and sparks of electricity: "The deepest part of the 'Core Furnace'! But there... is the most concentrated and dangerous place of His power! And..." she cried out in anguish, "Lin Ye... the last signal disappeared in that direction..."
boom! Click!
The shield shattered completely! A surge of violent energy and twisted forms is about to flood in!
"There's no time!" Goku's eyes were resolute. "Gohan, Trunks, Piccolo, protect Bulma and keep things stable here! Vegeta, we..."
"Wait! What's that?!" Mirror Bulma screamed, interrupting!
In the corner, an old detector, covered in dust and with a shattered screen, suddenly began flashing a blinding red light and emitting a distorted beeping sound! On the screen, an unidentifiable energy source signal, radiating deep, dark, and chaotic fluctuations, was approaching them at an alarming speed! Its intensity far exceeded that of the evil Lin Ye!
Mirror Bulma's face turned ashen, her eyes filled with a pure, far greater fear than before, and she screamed incoherently:
"No...impossible! He...His 'Cleanser'...how could he be so fast?! Run! Get out of here! They...are here!"
Chapter 235: The Guardians of the Time Nest
"The Cleaners?!" Trunks' voice was filled with horror.
Mirror Bulma, her face ashen, screamed, "Run! They're more terrifying than the mirror image! If you touch them, your very existence will be erased!"
"Boom——!"
The laboratory door was ripped apart by savage dark energy! From the smoke and dust, several indescribable silhouettes emerged—viscous darkness mingled with fragmented space, its edges writhing and tearing, radiating chaotic fluctuations. A chilling gaze locked onto everyone.
"Too late!" Goku instantly transformed into Super Saiyan Blue, his aura exploding, "Vegeta!"
"Hmph!" Vegeta's Deep Blue form erupted, unleashing a punch at the nearest "Cleanser"!
A bizarre scene unfolded! Vegeta's fist, capable of shattering stars, vanished the moment it touched the viscous darkness, like a stone sinking into the sea! The energy was silently devoured and decomposed! The "Cleanser" rippled slightly, and an even denser dark tentacle shot towards Vegeta like lightning!
Vegeta dodged with incredible speed, but the tentacles brushed against his battle suit, instantly melting and annihilating the sturdy material!
"What?!" Vegeta exclaimed in shock and anger.
"It's no use! They can assimilate Order Energy!" Mirror Bulma cried out in despair, "Watch out!"
Another "cleaner" ignored Goku's energy wave, passing right through it and heading straight for Mirror Bulma! Gohan and Trunks unleashed their energy swords, leaving only shallow marks!
"Aunt Bulma!" Gohan rushed forward in a panic.
A close call!
"call out--!"
A strong, pure white beam of light descended from the sky, enveloping Mirror Bulma! The dark tentacles struck the light barrier, hissing as they rapidly dissolved and retreated!
More beams of light descended, enveloping everyone! Space distorted, and a powerful pulling force was felt!
“Time-space traction?!” Bick recognized.
"Reinforcements?!" Trunks exclaimed in surprise.
"Seize the opportunity!" Sun Wukong shouted. Everyone steadied themselves.
The "Cleanser" hissed silently (a sharp noise on a mental level), violently attacking the pillar of light! Dark energy crashed against the light barrier, causing violent ripples and the pillar of light to flicker!
"Hold on! Coordinates locked!" A calm female voice rang in my mind.
Om-!
A flash of bright light! The laboratory scene vanished. A sudden feeling of weightlessness and distortion.
The next moment, stand firmly on the ground.
Fresh air rushed in, carrying the scent of grass and trees like a forest after rain. Soft light shone down evenly.
They stood on a huge white stone platform suspended in the void of a seven-colored halo. Looking up, countless thick and thin, bright and dark "bands of light" flowed and intertwined, forming a magnificent and dynamic star map, like the veins of the universe.
“Where am I…” Son Gohan looked around in shock.
"The Nest of Time." A calm voice sounded from ahead.
At the center of the platform, a slender figure floated. She wore an ancient white robe, her silver hair shimmering like flowing stardust. Her face was pure and youthful, but her eyes—the pupils like a slowly rotating galaxy—contained boundless wisdom and the vicissitudes of time.
Two white-robed warriors stood behind him, their auras powerful, yet like fireflies compared to the bright moon.
"Lord Supreme Kai of Time!" Mirror Bulma exclaimed, her voice choked with emotion, "You...you've finally arrived!"
The Supreme Kai of Time's gaze swept over the disheveled Mirror Bulma, a hint of pity flashing across his eyes, before finally settling on Goku and the others. His voice was ethereal: "Warriors from Universe 7, survivors of the Mirror Dimension. Welcome to the Nest of Time—the crossroads of time, the place where order is maintained."
"The Supreme Kai of Time?" Goku asked curiously. "Did you save us just now? Thank you! The Mirror Universe has the Omni-King of Chaos..."
"The Omni-King of Chaos." The Supreme Kai of Time calmly interrupted, and Xinghe's pupils turned towards the river of light. He lightly tapped his slender finger.
hum!
A rainbow-colored band of light at the edge of the platform suddenly twisted and churned violently! The band of light broke, tangled, and turned viscous black! The scene blurred and shattered, reflecting a distorted mirror universe! At the center of the chaos, a huge vortex composed of pure dark chaotic energy slowly rotated, emanating a terrifying aura that devoured everything, and countless black "tentacles" pierced towards the surrounding normal bands of light!
“That is a projection of the will of the Omni-King of Chaos,” the Supreme Kai of Time said solemnly. “It is eroding and polluting the tributaries of time, attempting to inject distorted rules into other spacetimes like a plague. The Mirror Universe is its erosion node.”
Vegeta frowned: "Time slowing down, good and evil being reversed, is it all its doing? Bulma said it's 'reconstructing reality'?"
“That’s understandable.” The Supreme Kai of Time nodded. “The Chaos Omni-King is not the Omni-King himself. He is a twisted creation born from an accidental connection between the Omni-King’s ‘Zeroing and Chaos’ will fragments during a forbidden experiment in the Mirror Universe. He instinctively desires to spread chaos and disorder to complete the ‘Reality Reorganization’.”
"Then what are we waiting for?" Sun Wukong clenched his fist, his fighting spirit burning. "Just kill it! It's afraid of your light!"
The Supreme Kai of Time shook his head slightly, and Xinghe looked at Sun Wukong: "Sun Wukong, things are complicated. The Chaos Core is the source of the spacetime turbulence, protected by the chaotic time flow, making it extremely difficult to locate and destroy. Moreover, its existence is closely linked to a key 'variable'."
“Variable?” Bick keenly observed.
"Yes." The Supreme Kai of Time's gaze was profound as he pointed to a faint point of light, almost swallowed by darkness, at the edge of the chaotic timeline, yet exuding an aura of tenacious order. "That variable is Lin Ye."
"Lin Ye?!" Everyone exclaimed in unison. Gohan pressed on urgently, "He's still alive? Mirror Bulma said he was absorbed!"
"He still exists, but his condition is... special." The Supreme Kai of Time said slowly, "He is trapped on the edge of the Chaos Core, like a lone boat in a storm. His existence is both a 'sample' for the Chaos Omni-King to analyze and assimilate the life of order, and an 'anchor' to bind the Chaos Omni-King and delay its eruption."
"What do you mean?" Vegeta asked impatiently.
The Supreme Kai of Time swept his gaze across the crowd, fixing it on Goku, and uttered a startling statement: "Lin Ye's journey to your world was not purely accidental."
"What?!" Sun Wukong was stunned.
"It's the arrangement of the Time Realm." The Supreme Kai of Time's voice was as calm as thunder. "When the Chaos Omni-King's distorted power eroded the Mirror Universe and projected 'anchors' outward, we detected a threat. Direct intervention is extremely risky. We need a 'variable,' a 'seed' that can penetrate deep into the core of chaos without being instantly assimilated, and that may be able to reverse the chaos."
She explained to the shocked crowd, "Lin Ye is the most resilient soul in the Mirror Universe, possessing a rare resistance to the erosion of chaos. His unwavering devotion to protecting those important to him is the key to resisting the destructive will of chaos. The Time Realm guided the spatial anomaly, sending him into your universe, where he met you."
“So… he met us, he met Aunt Chi-Chi…” Gohan’s voice was hoarse.