Start from the God of Death and break through the world.

Chapter 1055 Ninth-Order Heavenly Tribulation
Baby had no idea how Lu Li had done it. When Lu Li pointed at him just now, he thought he was going to die.

But the result was that he himself was fine, while all the parasitic clones he produced were destroyed. As a result, everyone he controlled was now free!

Not to mention Baby, Goku, Pan, and even Vegeta inside Baby were all shocked by what they were seeing.

They knew Lu Li was strong and possessed many ingenious techniques, but the power to precisely kill everyone's Beta clones with a single finger strike was still beyond their imagination.

This was an incomprehensible and extraordinary ability, and what shocked them even more was that they had seen similar abilities before.

For example, during the Tournament of Power, when Zeno destroyed a universe, those people disappeared in a chain reaction, even if they weren't in that universe.

Lu Li's power was even more precise; he seemed to have specifically targeted the 'Babies,' so from the source of the Baby, all the Babys were killed by that domineering martial arts spirit.

This power extended only to Baby, killing Baby's clones within people's bodies perfectly without harming them in the slightest. Such control, and over such a wide area, is simply astonishing.

"Grandpa Lu Li is really amazing! How could he do something like that!?"

Xiao Fang exclaimed in amazement, her tension finally completely disappearing, because the white-haired old man above gave her such a strong sense of security.

As if he had heard Xiao Fang’s words, Lu Li smiled and said, “Actually, I could have done it a long time ago. It’s not difficult. It’s easy to start, but difficult to stop.”

"Oh!"

At this moment, Wukong suddenly slammed his fist down. "So that's how it is! No wonder when the leaves in my forest fell on Lu Li's side, the trees started to wither and die one after another. Half of them died at that time. The reason they were able to stop was because Lu Li was manipulating them."

"That's right. It's not easy to control the power at the source level. It's a very dangerous ability. And all things are interconnected and related."

Lu Li explained, "Therefore, if we were to recklessly cut off the root of the problem, even if it were just cutting off a single leaf, it would ultimately destroy an entire world, which is absolutely not what I want."

Baby was completely dumbfounded. Looking at Lu Li in a panic, she was caught in a dilemma, unsure whether to run or not. She felt like a monkey in a zoo being watched by everyone.

No, he's even worse than that. He's more like a monkey in a laboratory, and Lu Li is currently using him as a test subject to demonstrate to his students.

"Damn it... If only Vegeta weren't so weak, if only I had a stronger body... a stronger body..."

After suffering repeated setbacks, Baby didn't reflect on his own problems at all. Instead, he started complaining that Vegeta wasn't strong enough. He thought that if he could parasitize an invincible body, he could really become the strongest in the universe and fulfill the Tuffle aliens' long-cherished wish.

"Why are you complaining about this again? Well then, I might as well give everyone one last lesson."

Lu Li looked at Baby, then beckoned to her, "Come on, I'll give you a chance."

Baby was stunned. "What do you mean!? Saiyan, are you going to continue humiliating me!?"

"It doesn't mean anything. If words can't make a difference to a low-IQ person like you, then this will do."

As Lu Li spoke, he pointed his fingers like a knife and made a small cut on his arm. "Come, the strongest body in the universe is right here."

Baby thought for a moment that she had misheard, or that she was dreaming.

He watched Lu Li warily, but seeing that Lu Li was just stretching out his hand, which didn't look like a trap, the anger and fear in his heart made him unable to hold back any longer, and he burst out of Vegeta's body in liquid form.

"Lu Li!?"

"Grandpa Lu!?"

The group of people gasped in surprise at the sight, wondering why Lu Li would make such a reckless move when he had already won.

After Baby left, Vegeta had regained control of his body and looked at Lu Li in astonishment, "Lu Li, is this...?"

"how?"

Vegeta was interrupted by Lu Li before he could finish speaking. Lu Li's expression remained unchanged. "You think he could control me? He doesn't even have a chance to fight me."

As he spoke, Lu Li seemed to have an out-of-body experience, his body and soul separating. The separated soul solidified like his original body, and he was still holding Baby's original body in his hand.

At this moment, Baby's body seemed to be burned and solidified in a liquid state, and the whole thing became a strange shape, like seaweed, which Lu Li held in his hand, with only one last breath left.

"It's so...so powerful..."

Vegeta looked at Lu Li's soul, his eyes shining brightly, as if he had opened the door to a new world once again.

He couldn't help but step forward and touch Lu Li's soul. Sure enough, it was no different from touching his body. Lu Li's soul had become so powerful that it had completely solidified. Even without a physical body, he was still the strongest in the universe.

"Envy?"

Lu Li noticed Vegeta's gaze and felt Goku's burning gaze. "If you're envious, then train hard. It's not just about continuous battles and near-death experiences that will make you stronger. I'm teaching you to achieve immortality because lifespan itself is the enemy of us martial artists. Only by overcoming the tribulation of immortality can you reach even higher peaks."

"Teacher, what should we do with this guy?"

Vegeta rarely addressed Lu Li as "Teacher Lu," which shows that he truly admired Lu Li at that moment.

“He’s different from Zamasu. He’s too weak and doesn’t have any special qualities. He really has no further value.”

Lu Li said, "Let's just leave it to Xiao Fang and the others to handle."

As he spoke, he and Vegeta descended from the sky and threw the defenseless Baby in front of Xiaofang.

The biggest victims of this incident are not those who were controlled, but those who remained.

Xiao Fang and Bladon had been hiding and running around for half a month and had suffered a lot. Lu Li felt that they were more qualified than those unreliable adults to decide Baby's fate.

“Baby—”

When Xiaofang and Bula saw Baby, they roared in anger and started stomping on her. Even Bula clumsily punched and kicked her.

“Damn Saiyans… My pride as a Tuffle alien…”

Baby is now powerless to resist and can only scream in impotent rage.

"We're trampling on your pride!"

Xiaofang kicked him twice more, yelling, "How dare you manipulate everyone into doing those things!"

Vegeta looked at Baby with disdain, "Every wrong has its perpetrator, and every debt has its debtor. The Saiyans of yesteryear slaughtered countless people, but they did not have a good end in the end. They even destroyed Planet Vegeta. We, their descendants, are just living peacefully now. If you want to seek revenge on me, the Saiyan prince, that's fine, but to involve so many innocent people is unforgivable."

Baby didn't care about any of that and started yelling and cursing meaninglessly. Xiao Fang, having vented her anger, was still a young girl at heart and not so cruel, so she looked at Lu Li and said, "Grandpa Lu Li, let's get rid of him."

Her strength was limited; she couldn't completely eliminate Baby with her qigong, but she could decide Baby's fate.

Lu Li nodded, and then people felt a surge of soul power pressing down on them. Baby instantly turned into dust and died completely.

"Mr. Lu, Buu, Buu he..."

Satan also came over at this moment, his eyes brimming with tears.

Because he and Buu had actually gone on a short interstellar trip and experienced weightless food at a space station. By the time he and Buu returned to Earth, Goku and the others had already been controlled.

Buu is very powerful, and because Buu cannot be controlled, Baby has suffered a lot of losses.

However, because Baby controlled several powerful Saiyans, Buu was not easy to defeat. The two were at an impasse when Mr. Satan made a foolish move: to fuse Buu with Uub, who had been discovered by Goku a few years earlier.

As a result, the fused Buu's stats didn't improve much, and because it was based on Orb, it lost its sticky, chewy nature.

In the end, Baby manipulated Goku and Vegeta to kill Buu with an incredibly powerful ki blast.

"I know everything will be alright."

Lu Li comforted her, "Everything is alright."

Everyone realized that Lu Li was different; he seemed to be taking everything very seriously.

Before they could ask any further questions, the Saiyans suddenly sensed a powerful and violent energy gathering in their direction from the universe.

The power was so terrifying that even Vegeta felt his hair stand on end.

"Tch, you've become this strong? This is the power of the world's origin repelling you."

At this moment, Beerus appeared. After Baby's clone died, he was immediately free from restraint. He was not supposed to be controlled by Baby in the first place; he was just unable to move during the confrontation.

"Lord Beerus has certainly done a good job as the God of Destruction this time."

Lu Li greeted Beerus with a smile. There was nothing to complain about Beerus's performance this time; it was simply because Beerus was lazy and didn't train at all, so his stats couldn't keep up.

If Beerus hadn't shown some humanity, he would have destroyed all the Babies, and thus wouldn't have been able to wait for Lu Li to emerge from seclusion and save everyone.

What are you going to do in this situation?

Beerus looked up at the sky. There was nothing to do with Tivis. After all, the situation with angels was complicated. They could reappear after disappearing, but the process was a bit complicated. If they reappeared, they might not be angels anymore, but humans.

As the God of Destruction, after Lu Li and the others discussed immortality, he also asked Weiss a lot about this world.

Therefore, he felt that the current situation was very bad. Obviously, Lu Li was different from the High Priest; he was not recognized by this world.

"As expected."

Lu Li looked at the sky; his tribulation was about to begin—the great tribulation of advancing to the ninth rank.

Lu Li was unsure whether the world possessed a will, but he was fundamentally different from the High Priest and the Dragon God. He was not born here, but was a pioneer of space, now about to break through this world.

No matter how much the Dragon God, the Grand Priest, and the Omni-King cause trouble, that's the Dragon Ball world's own business. But if an alien being is about to break through to the ninth rank, it will pose a threat to this world itself.

From this strange phenomenon, Lu Li also understood that it was possible that many worlds themselves did not want to be completely controlled by space.

Even derivative worlds have their own mechanisms. Derivative worlds like Dragon Ball are almost free-range, not belonging to any particular space. However, if a space were to control a particular world, that space could do many things to that world, and the explorer who owns that world could do whatever they wanted.

If the world truly possessed consciousness, Lu Li felt that he, too, would not want to be controlled by others.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the scene before us has occurred.

This is not some legendary tribulation of realms at all; what is about to descend upon Lu Li is a great calamity of the world driven by the power of the source of the Great World.

Lu Li had been hiding in the subspace, not using his power, but simply sitting still, his aura perfectly suppressed, so this world was difficult to sense.

But he had just made a small test of his skills, and even used his Root Soul Intent. The so-called chain operation was the easiest to leave traces, and thus the world sensed it.

Thanks to the arrival of the Ninth Order Calamity, Aizen's spacetime sealing device has also begun to be impacted and is expected to fail soon.

There's no way around it, because what's targeting Lu Li now isn't the Seventh Universe, nor the Twelfth Universe, the Demon Realm, or the Otherworld, but rather the overall world will of the Dragon Ball world, which, in the terms of the cultivation world, can also be called the Supreme Heavenly Dao.

Therefore, this world is currently mobilizing forces from all timelines to eliminate Lu Li, this external threat.

"What a terrifying aura..."

Xiaofang was also very perceptive. The oppressive feeling that permeated the universe made her feel like she couldn't breathe, and she trembled as she hugged her chest.

On the contrary, Bula, who did not cultivate at all, did not feel anything because she could not sense the Qi.

Xiao Fang looked at Lu Li with concern, "Grandpa Lu Li looks so old already, does he still have to fight against such a terrifying power?"

She didn't quite understand what Beerus was saying, but she knew that Grandpa Lu Li seemed to be in trouble now.

"It doesn't matter."

Lu Li spoke calmly as he began to walk towards the sky, saying, "How can one emerge from the cocoon and become a butterfly without experiencing tribulations?"

As he ascended to the heavens, his originally slightly hunched figure began to straighten, his white hair turned black, his somewhat withered body became fuller, his muscles became strong again, and he returned to his peak condition.

After six steps, Lu Li had completely regained the youthful appearance that everyone remembered, except that his untrimmed, messy hair was flying everywhere, exuding both elegance and domineering power.

However, the changes in Lu Li did not stop. After nine steps, he actually turned into a young man, and his soul intent began to rise gradually.

He drew the Demon Slayer sword from his waist and pointed it at the sky.

In the next instant, a violent aura surged throughout the entire world.

(End of this chapter)