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Chapter 120 Dimensional Marking

The universe has returned to calm, but this calm is more like a breath of fresh air after a storm.

Lin Ye stood on the ravaged battlefield, the cracked earth beneath his feet still emitting a burnt smell. The burning sensation on his right arm felt like countless ants crawling beneath his skin. Looking down, he saw that the tiny golden lines had spread to his elbow, gleaming metallically in the sunlight. Most strangely, these lines pulsed slightly with his heartbeat, as if they possessed an independent life.

This isn't right... He frowned, clenching his fists until his knuckles cracked like popping beans. A strange energy surged through his veins, each cycle leaving a stinging sensation in his meridians. He tried to draw upon his internal energy, only to find that the familiar energy flow pathways had been completely reconstructed—the remnants of those cosmic fragments, like cunning parasites, had built nests within his energy circuits.

"Hey, are you alright?" Sun Wukong landed beside Lin Ye on his somersault cloud. His orange-red martial arts uniform was torn in several places, but the concern in his eyes remained undiminished. He keenly noticed the unusual condition of Lin Ye's arm. "Your hand..."

Lin Ye slowly raised his right arm, palm facing upward. An unstable ball of energy condensed in his hand, its surface shimmering with an eerie purplish-gold light, and tiny black lightning crackling within. Even more terrifying, this energy ball was spinning on its own, completely beyond his control.

"I feel like something's increased inside me." Lin Ye's voice was a little strained. He could feel that this mass of energy was greedily absorbing the surrounding spatial fluctuations, its volume expanding at a visible rate.

Sun Wukong's eyes widened as he took a half-step back: This isn't your aura! Even the energy frequency has changed!

I know. Lin Ye gritted his teeth and tried to suppress it, but found that the energy ball suddenly split into three small energy bullets, which began to orbit around him. This was the energy of those fragments... They had not completely disappeared, but... He suddenly groaned, and the three energy bullets exploded at the same time. The shock wave vaporized all the rubble within a ten-meter radius.

After the smoke and dust cleared, Sun Wukong used his qi shield to protect his entire body, only to be shocked to find that Lin Ye's right arm was completely unharmed—the golden patterns were now shining like molten gold, slowly fading from their high-temperature red glow.

Meanwhile, 300 meters away on the other side of the battlefield—

"Kakarot! Come and see this!" Vegeta's voice carried a rare hint of unease. When Goku arrived with Lin Ye via teleportation, both of them gasped simultaneously.

Vegeta's left arm, from shoulder to fingertips, had completely transformed into a translucent crystalline form, with nebula-like energy vortexes flowing within. Even more astonishingly, this arm was autonomously releasing a force field, causing the surrounding debris to defy gravity and levitate in the air, forming a spherical space with a diameter of five meters.

Is this... a remnant of the Star Eclipse form? Lin Ye tentatively reached out, but was repelled by an invisible repulsive force twenty centimeters from Vegeta's arm. A stinging pain shot through his fingertips, and a thin layer of ice crystals formed on his skin.

Vegeta snorted coldly, and the Nebula on his crystalline arm suddenly accelerated its rotation: "It's been like this since just now. Not only can it not be restored to its original state, but..." He suddenly swung his fist into the empty space, and a three-meter-long spatial rift immediately appeared in the air, its interior shimmering with eerie colored currents.

The light's power increased more than threefold, but the cost was... Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly knelt on one knee, and the light from his crystal arm dimmed noticeably.

"Life energy." Bulma's voice came through the miniature communicator in Vegeta's ear, accompanied by the rapid clatter of keyboard keys. "According to a remote scan, your left arm is currently an unstable energy pool! It's consuming your cellular lifespan! Stop using it immediately!"

"Shut up, woman!" Vegeta snapped, ripping off the communicator and crushing it, but a barely perceptible worry flickered in his eyes. He tried to stand, but his crystalline arm suddenly emitted a blinding white light, and the ground began to crystallize around him.

Sun Wukong rushed forward to support him: Don't be reckless! Bulma is right, this thing is draining your life!

Just as the stalemate was at its peak, a rainbow beam of light suddenly descended from the sky. Weiss landed gracefully, his scepter spinning, his pink suit spotless, but his brows were unusually furrowed slightly.

"Oh dear, things seem to be getting interesting." He lightly tapped his scepter, and the crystal at the top projected a blue light screen that enveloped Vegeta. A dense stream of data immediately appeared within the light screen, with several parameters flashing dangerously red.

Mr. Weiss! Sun Wukong waved as if he had seen a savior. Do you know why?

Weiss did not answer immediately. He circled the two men, his scepter drawing shimmering circles on the ground. When the seventh circle was completed, the circles suddenly rose to form a pillar-like barrier, isolating the four men from the outside world.

Cosmic fragments... what a troublesome thing. Whis tapped Vegeta's crystalline arm lightly with his scepter, producing a crisp chime. They shouldn't have existed in this dimension. Although they've been destroyed, their residual effects... He suddenly jabbed them hard, and Vegeta cried out in pain as his arm briefly returned to its fleshy form... quite troublesome.

Lin Ye noticed that Weiss was sweating profusely: Was his life in danger?

Life-threatening? Weiss tilted his head in thought, his scepter drawing a question mark in the air. Well... not for now. He suddenly moved closer to Lin Ye, their noses almost touching, a stream of data flashing in his sky-blue pupils, but... his voice suddenly dropped so low that only the three of them could hear, "You two are like two walking signal transmitters, sending location information to a higher dimension."

Vegeta's face instantly turned ashen: Explain yourself!

Weiss took two steps back, pointing his scepter towards the sky. The top of the barrier became transparent, revealing an endless starry sky. Eeriely, the stars were twinkling rhythmically, as if conveying some kind of code.

It means... Whis's expression is unusually serious; there are spectators watching you. A being of a higher dimension than the Omni-King...

A silence enveloped the area within the barrier. Suddenly, Sun Wukong sneezed, and the rubble outside the barrier instantly turned to dust—this simple action caused a spatial tremor.

Even more powerful than the Omni-King? Sun Wukong rubbed his nose. Wouldn't that be terrible?

"Oh no?" Weiss chuckled softly. The barrier suddenly transformed into countless mirrors, reflecting countless images of them—it all depended on how you viewed the observation. Suddenly, all the images in the mirrors turned into ants. Would ants feel bad being observed by humans?

Lin Ye shattered the mirror in front of him with a punch: We are not ants. In the broken mirror, each shard reflected the increasingly dazzling golden pattern on his right arm.

In their eyes... all the mirrors suddenly reassembled, reflecting a blurry, gigantic figure looking down at Earth. Perhaps the difference wasn't that great. Weiss turned and removed the barrier. In any case, he suggested that you adapt to these new changes. He floated into the air, turned back, and revealed a mysterious smile. After all... the figure began to quantum dissipate, and the game had only just begun.

With Whis gone, the three fell into deep thought. A gentle breeze swept across the battlefield, stirring up tiny crystalline dust—fragments of space left behind by Vegeta's arm force field.

"Hey, Kakarot." Vegeta suddenly ripped off his tattered battle suit shirt, revealing his muscular upper body. His crystalline arm was now stable in a deep blue state, with the nebula inside slowly rotating. "Fight me."

Sun Wukong paused for a moment, then broke into an excited smile: Now? Like this...

"Now!" Vegeta raised his left arm, and the ground suddenly rose to form a crystalline platform a hundred meters in diameter. "I need to test the limits of this thing." Before he finished speaking, he slammed his left arm into the ground, and countless crystal spikes erupted from the edge of the platform, turning a radius of a thousand meters into a crystal jungle.

Lin Ye teleported high in the sky to observe the battle. He watched as two beams of light, one golden and one blue, clashed fiercely within the crystal cluster, each exchange causing spatial ripples. What unsettled him even more was that the markings on his right arm were flashing in sync with the battle's fluctuations, seemingly... recording something.

"An observer from a higher dimension..." Lin Ye murmured to himself, suddenly feeling dizzy. In a daze, he seemed to see the starry sky turn into a giant eye, its pupil reflecting his and Vegeta's figures. When he blinked, the illusion vanished, but the golden markings on his right arm had spread to his shoulder, forming a complex circuit pattern.

Meanwhile, in the eleventh dimension—which cannot be perceived by ordinary life—

[Observation Subject A: Adaptability increased to 89%]

[Observational Subject B: Energy assimilation progress 47%]

[Special Phenomenon: Detection of Signs of Autonomous Evolution]

[Intervention Permit: Observation]

Data streams wove into a web in the void, each node reflecting a fragment of the seventh universe. At the center of this web, a blurry figure was adjusting some kind of instrument, its markings far beyond human comprehension.

Deep within the Omni-King's Palace, two guards suddenly discovered that the door to the Time-Space Egg display room had opened by itself. The crystal egg, which held the truth behind the destruction of the first twelve universes, had developed fine cracks on its surface...

The threads of fate in the Seventh Universe are being rewoven by an unseen hand.

Chapter 121: The Time-Flash Assassin

Beep—beep—.

Bulma's detector emitted a sharp alarm, and the fluctuating numbers on the screen made her pupils contract sharply.

Energy reaction SS level! Just three kilometers ahead of us! She slammed on the emergency brake button on the spacecraft's control panel, and the spacecraft drew a blinding blue arc in space.

Lin Ye gripped the armrest of the seat tightly, his knuckles turning white from the force: What's going on? The Sixth Universe shouldn't have this level of energy reaction!

According to the Galactic Archives, Piccolo, sitting in the back row, opened his eyes and drew a data stream in the air with his green fingers. The coordinates were Hit's territory—a desolate land known as the Killer Planet.

Vegeta snorted coldly, and a deep blue aura uncontrollably overflowed from his body: Hit? That so-called number one assassin in the universe? A disdainful smile curled at the corner of his mouth. I was just worried about not finding a suitable punching bag.

"Don't underestimate him." Android 18 suddenly spoke, her mechanical pupils, characteristic of androids, slightly contracting. The detectors showed that his energy fluctuations were abnormal... unlike an organic life form.

The spaceship landed on the planet's surface with violent tremors. The moment the hatch opened, a stench of sulfur mixed with the smell of burning metal assaulted the senses. Lin Ye narrowed his eyes—the entire land was a strange, dark red, as if it had been soaked in blood and then dried out over millions of years.

Welcome to my hunting grounds.

A deep, hoarse voice came from all directions. Lin Ye turned around abruptly, only to find nothing but emptiness.

"Up there!" Bick shouted.

A purple figure hovered in mid-air like a ghost. Hit—the legendary assassin—was looking down at the crowd with his signature hands-in-pockets pose. But unlike the records, his eyes were no longer the calm crimson, but instead flowed with an ominous black substance.

Warning! A scarlet warning popped up in Lin Ye's system: [Spacetime contamination detected! Target has been corrupted by unknown energy!]

Hitt's figure suddenly blurred—

Flash Time - Zero Domain.

The world seemed to have been paused. Lin Ye saw Vegeta's fist, halfway through its swing, freeze in mid-air; Bulma's panicked expression was frozen on her face; even the drifting dust seemed to stand still. Only Hit moved freely in this frozen spacetime, like a fish swimming in water.

0.5 seconds. Hit's voice rang directly in Lin Ye's mind: "My Time-Travel Domain has been extended tenfold."

A cold touch pressed against the back of Lin Ye's neck. He tried desperately to move his body, but he couldn't move even a finger.

Stop struggling, outsider. Hit's breath tickled his ear, carrying the scent of decay. "Your system is interesting... but not good enough."

A sharp pain exploded from his spine. Lin Ye watched helplessly as a hand covered in purple energy pierced through his chest—there was no blood, but something more important was being pulled away.

[WARNING! System core has been compromised!]

[Host genetic data has been read!]

[Emergency defense protocol activated!]

A blinding golden light erupted from Lin Ye's body. Hit grunted and was forced out of Time-Skip mode. The instant time began to flow again, Vegeta's fist slammed into the spot where Hit had been standing, creating a crater a hundred meters in diameter in the ground.

What happened? Vegeta shook his wrist, frowned and looked at Lin Ye. "For a moment just now, I couldn't feel your aura."

Lin Ye knelt on one knee, his combat suit soaked with cold sweat: He...he can manipulate time! He froze it for 0.5 seconds!

"Impossible!" Bulma rapidly tapped on the microcomputer on her wrist. "According to my research, stopping time would require enough energy to destroy a galaxy! Unless..."

Her voice trailed off. The data that popped up on the screen turned the brilliant scientist deathly pale.

Unless what? Number 18 looked around warily, ready to launch an attack at any moment.

Unless he used the power of the Super Dragon Balls. Bulma activated a holographic projection, which showed an orange Dragon Ball shrouded in black mist. Judging from the energy waveform... Hit wasn't being controlled; he willingly fused with some kind of being!

As if in response to her words, Hit's figure reappeared on a rock not far away. This time everyone saw it clearly—his shadow was writhing abnormally, like a living liquid.

"A clever Earth woman." Hit tilted his head, black matter seeping from his seven orifices, "But you're wrong about one thing... I didn't merge, I was chosen."

He slowly raised his hand, palm facing upwards. Space cracked open like a torn canvas, revealing the Super Dragon Ball floating within. But unlike the ordinary orange Dragon Ball, this one was covered with spiderweb-like black patterns, like tainted amber.

"Did you see that?" Hit's voice suddenly distorted, filled with countless overlapping echoes—this was true power! The authority that transcends time and space!

Piccolo's pupils suddenly contracted: That's... spacetime corruption! The Super Dragon Balls have been corrupted by chaotic energy!

Chaotic energy? Lin Ye forced himself to stand up despite the pain in his chest. "System, analyze the target's status!"

[Scanning...]

[Target: Hit (Chaos Form)]

[Ability: Time-Flash 2.0 (Maximum freeze time 0.5 seconds)]

[Weakness: There is a 3-second cooldown period after each use of Flash.]

[Additional Status: Super Dragon Ball Contamination Level 37%]

Lin Ye quickly shared the data with his teammates: He has a cooldown period! Vegeta, you hold him off head-on! Android 18, prepare your energy interference! Piccolo, I need your Special Beam Cannon aimed at the Dragon Ball!

"And what about me?" Bulma asked anxiously.

Find a way to purify the Dragon Balls! Lin Ye's body erupted with golden flames as he instantly entered Super Saiyan mode. "I'll take on Hit!"

Hitt let out a piercing laugh, a voice that was no longer human: Foolish! Do you think tactics are effective against gods?

Flash Time - Zero Domain!

Time froze once more. This time, Lin Ye was prepared—the system projected a countdown onto his retina: [0.5-second freeze begins]. Although his body couldn't move, his mind continued to function.

[Host, activate the spacetime resistance protocol? Requires 50% of energy reserves]