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Chapter 1013 The Sad Beerus, Super Saiyan Lu Li

He quickly identified the noteworthy fighters. Jiren from Universe 11 was a pure stat monster, capable of defeating almost all the Tournament of Power fighters in the original work and serving as the arc boss in the manga.

Even now, when explorers also participate in the competition, Jiren is definitely powerful enough, because his base stats are 272 points.

To put it bluntly, in terms of pure power, Jiren is almost above all the Gods of Destruction.

Whether he can defeat a God of Destruction is another matter. Compared to Beerus, Beerus not only has high stats after activating his ultimate, but also possesses Ultra Instinct and destructive energy.

If it really came down to a fight, Lu Li felt that Jiren couldn't rely solely on strength. Just like how he could often defeat opponents of higher ranks, Jiren was the kind of stat-complete blank slate who was easily defeated by those with superior combat skills.

Destructive energy can ignore the not-so-outrageous difference in attributes and break through defenses. Beerus knows Ultra Instinct and Ultra Instinct. If they fought, Jiren probably wouldn't even be able to touch Beerus. Instead, he would be killed by Beerus's destructive energy.

However, compared to the original Tournament of Power, Jiren is definitely an overpowered stat monster. After all, even when Goku activates his Ultra Instinct, he only has around 260 stats. Jiren suppresses so many stats that the difference in their fighting levels can completely make up for it.

Just like how Goku in Ultra Instinct could theoretically dodge many attacks, but Jiren could still overpower Goku, because Jiren's stats were too high. In the world of martial arts, speed is the only thing that cannot be broken.

Jiren's high stats mean he's fast. Once he's fast enough, even if Goku's Ultra Instinct body automatically reacts and dodges, it can't keep up with Jiren's attack speed, and he'll naturally get hit.

Jiren's biggest weakness compared to the Explorers is that he is a blank slate monster in the Dragon Ball system. He does not have a special ability to regenerate ki, so the gauntlet battle is effective against Jiren.

In the manga, the Tournament of Power involved everyone taking turns fighting, plus using verbal sparring to shake Jiren's resolve, until Jiren was completely exhausted before they finally found an opportunity to take him off the ring.

Among today's contestants, besides Jiren, there are some other noteworthy individuals. Apart from Universe 11, each universe has an explorer with exceptional strength.

In the Ninth Universe, Lu Li also saw an acquaintance, a friend of his in a group chat named "Sister-complex deserves to die".

The sister-complex is probably the explorer with the most overpowered appearance in this power tournament. His base attributes have already reached 274 points, making him a veteran eighth-tier powerhouse.

Back when Lu Li first joined the group and bought the game "Heavenly Road" by Fatty Dragon, Sister Consort was already an eighth-tier powerhouse. At that time, she wanted to climb the rankings and asked Lu Li to stop her progress.

In the blink of an eye, Lu Li had already reached the late stage of the eighth rank, while his opponent had only just reached the late stage of the eighth rank. This shows that the normal growth rate of explorers is not that fast, while Lu Li's improvement was like a rocket.

When the sister-obsessed man saw Lu Li, he simply nodded from afar without greeting him, since they shouldn't know each other in this world.

In reality, Universe 9 was a participant in this Tournament of Power. The sister-complex's appearance was not to cause chaos, but to help Lu Li stall for time.

However, the fact that such a powerful explorer as the sister-complex was not the executor of the other side's plan made Lu Li even more curious about the holder of the Heavenly Dao Spirit Seed whom he had never met.

Just after all eight universes had brought their contestants into the venue, the Grand Priest began to speak from the high platform, "The competition rules have already been read out, so I won't repeat them again this time. Lord Zeno is already waiting impatiently, please let all contestants enter the venue."

The Omni-King was sitting in the highest seat, which looked a bit like a child's chair. It was funny at first glance, but no one dared to laugh out loud.

At this moment, the Omni-King looked down at the arena below and shouted, "Attack quickly, attack quickly!"

Seeing the Omni-King urging them on, the High Priest's gaze swept across all the universes, and everyone immediately entered the arena without hesitation.

Frankly, no contestant from any universe would want to participate in this kind of competition.

Imagine you were living a good life in your own universe. Whether you were a criminal or an ordinary martial artist, you would have your own life and ideals.

Suddenly a god appears before you and says that the universe is about to be erased because of a child's decision, and if you don't want to be erased, you should participate in the competition.

Any normal intelligent being, whether good or evil, would definitely feel uncomfortable.

Because essentially everyone was coerced into participating, only a pure-hearted person like Goku could put aside those negative thoughts and enjoy the battle.

Despite their displeasure, the Omni-King is the supreme god, and no one can disobey him. Therefore, in order to survive and protect the worlds they are in charge of, they have no choice but to muster their fighting spirit and eliminate the people from other universes.

Lu Li's shadow clone also led the contestants from Universe 7 into the arena. Krillin looked around nervously, his face full of unease.

This is understandable, because this tournament of strength is a different version. Due to the intervention of the explorers, there are no contestants who are just there to make up the numbers.

Krillin was already very strong as an Earthling, but he appeared weak and powerless in front of these monsters.

"Don't worry, I will protect you."

Android 18 smiled sweetly beside Krillin and even leaned down to kiss him on the head.

This made Klin feel both embarrassed and touched, while also provoking the anger of some players who felt that it was a bit too much to show affection in such a situation.
After everyone had taken their places, the high priest on the platform raised his hand and announced, "Then, the competition shall officially begin."

As the high priest's hand fell, the chaotic battle began in an instant.

All the contestants from various universes mobilized and attacked the person closest to them. Some universe explorers even activated AOE skills, trying to sweep away the weaker contestants as soon as they arrived.

Because the competition explicitly prohibited killing, many people were hesitant to act at first. One explorer even killed a relatively weaker contestant from Universe 10 due to a mistake with his AOE skill and excessive force.

As a result, the High Priest immediately declared that the explorer was disqualified from the competition and expelled from the arena.

This incident disgusted the explorers, making them realize that the High Priest was serious and that killing was truly forbidden in the Tournament of Power.

However, no one dares to use this strategy against strong opponents, because the Omni-King would find it boring, and that would lead to even more terrifying consequences.

The sixth universe is the closest to the seventh universe, and the two were old rivals before, so they quickly started fighting.

Only Lu Li remained standing still, observing the situation in the arena. Aizen, a participant from the third universe, did not rush out like the other robots.

They soon discovered that battles under these rules were prone to stalemates because killing was prohibited. The best solution was to throw the opponent off the ring, since knocking someone unconscious was too difficult to control, especially against an opponent from an unfamiliar race in an unfamiliar universe. You had no idea whether the opponent was fragile or resilient.

So even though the Seventh Universe has become very powerful, Goku and his friends were still unable to defeat all the people from the Sixth Universe in a short time.

If you stand in the stands to watch the game, you'll notice that some universes fight very hard against other universes, while others are a bit lukewarm, or rather, some players in certain universes aren't very aggressive in their battles.

For example, Lu Li, Aizen, and the siscon deserve to die. These powerful individuals didn't make a move after the start of the competition; they just stood there watching. The main reason is that these explorers are partners of the Soul Singer. They aren't planning to gamble their hopes on their own universe winning; instead, they intend to participate in the counterattack against the Omni-King. Therefore, it's natural to stall for time.

The elimination of any universe would hasten the end of the Tournament of Power, so they not only do not intend to attack other universes, but also try to make the match last as long as possible.

Currently, explorers from Universe 9, Universe 7, Universe 3, Universe 4, and Universe 2 have joined this project. It's not that Aizen and the Soul Singer are unconnected in the remaining three universes; it's just that the explorers in those universes don't want to participate in such a dangerous project.

They preferred to believe that they were strong enough to win the Tournament of Power rather than risk rebelling against the Omni-King.

However, these explorers would not betray the Omni-King. On the one hand, if Lu Li and his group succeeded in their rebellion and actually killed or controlled the Omni-King, they would still be able to be saved.

On the other hand, even if they inform on him, they may not have a good ending. Consider Trunks' future timeline: the Omni-King originally intended to erase these universes. If he were to find out that someone was plotting against him, who knows what the Omni-King would do.

Who knows, if the Omni-King finds out, he might just erase all the universes, and then they would have died a truly unjust death.

They might as well just participate in the Tournament of Power. Even if Lu Li and his group manage to make a big splash, the one who will handle the implementation will most likely be the Grand Priest. Moreover, if the Tournament of Power decides a winner, they believe that the Omni-King won't take their words lightly and will let the victorious universe off the hook.

Under such circumstances, the chaos has intensified, and those who want to give up can't keep giving up forever, because people who want to play seriously will come knocking on their door.

Moreover, Lu Li soon discovered that the situation was not easy to control, because some powerful natives were exerting their strength and had begun to try to eliminate the cosmic competitors.

The battle between Universe 7 and Universe 6 has gained an absolute advantage, but Beerus in the stands shows no joy, because if Universe 6 is defeated, his brother Champa will be erased by Zeno.

He sat in the stands without saying a word, not even drinking the drink that Weiss offered him, just staring at Champa across the stands.

Champa clenched his fists, watching helplessly as the strongest warrior from his universe was swept aside by the berserk Broly. Although the female Saiyan on their side had also entered this state, it was clear from their weight class that Broly, as a male Super Saiyan, had a natural advantage. Moreover, he had already undergone training from Lu Li and the others, and his fighting skills were now vastly different from before.

Within three minutes, the strongmen of Universe 6 either collapsed and could not get up again, or were knocked off the stage.

When Champa saw the last fighter in his universe being forced to the edge of the ring, he loosened his grip on Champa's hand. He looked at his brother Beerus across the stands with a relieved expression, opened his mouth, and silently said goodbye.

At this moment, the hundreds of millions of years that the two brothers had experienced, from childhood to their struggles and rivalries after becoming gods of destruction, all flashed through his mind.

In the next instant, Kale, the legendary Supergirl Saiyan from Universe 6, was knocked out of the ring by Broly.

"Oh, so a universe has already been eliminated so quickly."

The High Priest smiled and said, "Then, Universe Six can disappear."

The Omni-King, seated on the platform, shifted his gaze slightly, looking away from the battlefields of Universe 6 and Universe 7, as the battles were over and he wanted to see other interesting battlefields.

During this process, he lightly raised his hands, activated the power of elimination, and didn't even glance at the contestants of Universe 6, only pursuing new fun.

And so, all the contestants in Universe 6, including the Explorers, began to become transparent and disappeared within seconds.

Beerus stared at the vanished Champa across from him, his fists clenched so tightly that his sharp nails dug into his flesh, and the life force slowly drained from his palms.

After Xiangpa disappeared, he focused his gaze on Lu Li, "Lu Li, what are you doing?! Clear the field and win the game!"

It was as if the only thing he needed to care about had disappeared from the world, and from then on, he no longer needed to worry about anything.

Upon hearing Beerus's words, Lu Li merely turned and exchanged a glance with Beerus, his expression remaining blank.

As he turned around, several powerful figures from the Tenth Universe rushed up to him.

"Really... shouting so loudly..."

Lu Li sighed softly, "Using that expression again, isn't that making things difficult for me?"

As soon as he finished speaking, an extremely powerful aura erupted from the center of the arena.

The explorers who charged towards Lu Li were sent flying backward amidst a powerful explosion.

Broly, who had just defeated his opponent, suddenly turned around and looked at Lu Li in surprise.

Lu Li stood there, his body enveloped in a dark green aura. The aura was so deep it was almost black, completely different from his vibrant green aura, which exuded a terrifying and violent aura, much like death itself.

Lu Li's hair stood on end, and as the rising aura rippled slightly, his hair color also changed slightly, no longer pure black, but the orange-yellow of the Saiyan symbol.

He entered Super Saiyan 1 form, but the aura emanating from him was different from that of all Saiyans, as if he were a mutated Saiyan pulled out of the Evil Demon Pool.

Lu Li's originally dark purple eyes also entered Saiyan mode, with a layer of shimmering blue light spreading in the center of his pupils.

"Mr. Lu?"

Krillin, who was originally slacking off behind Lu Li, was also surprised by Lu Li's condition, because he had not participated in the special training and did not know that Lu Li could become a Super Saiyan.

"Don't come near me."

Lu Li said calmly, "Otherwise, you would have been burned to death by my anger."

However, while Klin listened to Lu Li's words, others did not. At this moment, a powerful figure charged over like a bulldozer, and all the contestants who encountered him were sent flying.

The newcomer was none other than Jiren from Universe 11, who was currently fighting the hardest and most seriously on the field.

Jiren instinctively seeks out the strongest to fight, believing that by eliminating the strongest enemy, their universe can gain the right to survive.

Seeing the immense power emanating from Lu Li, Jiren unleashed his full power and charged forward, delivering a punch to Lu Li from the side.

(End of this chapter)