Chapter 868: Big fireb.a.l.l.s dropping from the sky
Next day, the sun was s.h.i.+ning brightly.
The heavy rain from the night before did not affect the atmosphere on the island, and the martial arts tournament went on as planned, with a sea of people gradually gathering at the martial arts temple at the center.
With Bulma coordinating with the organizers, Xiaya and others entered the indoor stands and chose a spot to watch the tournament. This martial arts tournament had a large number of indoor viewing seats, and through high-tech means, it allowed the audience to feel like they were part of the battle in the arena.
“Bang!” With a sound of a gong, the 31st World Martial Arts Tournament officially began.
The audience in the stands immediately became excited and the large venue that could accommodate 100,000 people was suddenly filled with hubbub, with cheers and shouts resounding throughout the venue.
The first to be held was the preliminaries, which was a must-have for every World Martial Arts Tournament due to the large number of partic.i.p.ants. By holding preliminaries, a portion of the contestants who did not meet the requirements could be eliminated, effectively reducing the number of contestants by half or more.
After the preliminaries was the main round, which was the official tournament from this point on.
“Pan will be able to advance quickly!” Goku was not worried at all about his granddaughter partic.i.p.ating in the tournament for the first time, confident that she would do well.
Upon seeing this, Krillin smiled and expressed his feelings, “Every time I come to watch the tournament, I unconsciously think of the days when I trained under Master Ros.h.i.+. Time flies and it’s already been more than thirty years.”
“Yeah, I was caught by you guys back then,” Krillin’s wife Hasky said dejectedly.
At that time, she was the world’s number one master thief trying to escape from the police, but was caught by Goku and Krillin and brought to Kame House, and thus her life’s trajectory changed. Now, looking back, it was a fateful encounter, and she couldn’t help but smile.
“Look, Pan knocked out her opponent.”
As Krillin and others were chatting and reminiscing about their past, several rounds of the tournament had already taken place.
Since Pan is only four years old this year, she is partic.i.p.ating in the youth group compet.i.tion, but due to the presence of some Saiyan bloodline in her body and the fact that Goku has been training her since she was young, her current strength is already quite impressive and she is a real expert on Earth which is not considered a high-level martial arts planet.
Even if she directly partic.i.p.ated in the adult group compet.i.tion, there are not many people who can defeat her.
So in the youth group, Pan steamrolled through everyone and it didn’t take long for her to win the champions.h.i.+p in the youth group.
“Grandpa, I won the champions.h.i.+p.”
Pan bounced over with a trophy in hand, and Goku and others didn’t hesitate to praise her, making her giggle.
“Kakarrot, I’m going back!” Vegeta said calmly.
Goku was surprised, “Going back so soon? The tournament isn’t over yet.”
“The rest of the tournament is no longer worth watching, I don’t want to waste time here,” Vegeta spoke coolly, the small-scale fights of Earthlings could not arouse his interest.
Goku and the others also knew this, so they did not force him to stay, as for Krillin and the others, they planned to wait until the tournament was over before going back.
“Okay, Vegeta, after you go back, you have to train well. Although we can’t partic.i.p.ate in next year’s Planet Hongshan’s Martial Arts Tournament, I plan to choose another place and have a good fight with you then,” Goku set a date and issued a fighting invitation to Vegeta.
“I will be waiting.”
Vegeta’s cold face showed a hint of a smile, with the corners of his mouth upturned, and then he took off into the air.
Just as Vegeta was about to fly away, the blue sky suddenly surged with wind and waves, with large black clouds drifting over. The color of the clouds was very dark and not gray, but black like ink pouring down.
The black clouds became more and more dense, like an ancient city floating in the void. Rumble, countless electric snakes emitted bright lightning rays, twisting and weaving through the clouds like silver poisonous snakes, constantly emitting war drums-like sounds.
“Hey, what’s going on? Is it going to rain?”
“It seems like a tornado…”
Whispers arose in the audience.
Boom!
The sky suddenly split open, and with those black clouds as the center, an enormous hole appeared. The layers of black clouds swirled together, like a pa.s.sageway to h.e.l.l, emitting an ominous aura from within.
“What a big hole, is the sky going to split open?” Meifei became excited, she had never seen such an interesting thing before.
Just like that, the pristine dark blue sky changed.
Below, the partic.i.p.ants of the martial arts tournament also saw the anomaly in the sky. As the black pa.s.sageway appeared, a restless and agitated mood gradually spread among the crowd. Despite the organizers of the tournament doing everything they could to calm people down, the fear of the unknown that stems from natural instinct still made everyone panic and run towards a safe place.
As a result, the tournament had to be stopped in the middle.
“What is that?”
Vegeta looked up at the pa.s.sageway, no longer in a hurry to leave. He turned to Xiaya and the others and asked.
Goku concentrated and guessed, “It seems to be some kind of pa.s.sageway with an unstable aura on the other side.”
Xiaya pondered for a moment, then raised his head and looked at the black pa.s.sageway amidst the rolling dark clouds. “That’s not an ordinary spatial pa.s.sage,” he said. “The air is filled with s.p.a.ce-time fluctuations, and the other end is connected to another world.”
At that moment, it was as if a flash of lightning crossed Xiaya’s mind. He remembered the storm with strong winds and heavy rain from the previous night.
It appears that it was not just a simple thunderstorm, but rather a sign of the opening of a spatial pa.s.sage. Could it be that someone had opened the spatial pa.s.sage? But that couldn’t be right, there should be no other s.p.a.ce-time ability users in Universe 5 besides himself.
Of the few s.p.a.ce-time ability users that appeared in the past, Mira had transformed into Demigra and was eradicated from the root, while Towa has turned over a new leaf and turned into Eve, serving as the a.s.sistant to Supreme Kai of Time Chronoa in the Time Nest.
So what exactly is going on with these s.p.a.ce-time fluctuations?
As Xiaya was thinking, Meifei’s excited shout came to his ear: “Quick, look, two big fireb.a.l.l.s are coming out of that big hole.”
Xiaya looked up and just happened to see two fiery beams of lights streaking across the blue sky, like two burning fireb.a.l.l.s with a long flame tail behind them.
With a swoosh, two fireb.a.l.l.s flew across the sky, heading towards the continent on the other side of the ocean.
Xiaya, Xiling, and others exchanged a glance, all showing surprised expressions. With their keen eyesight, they could clearly see that the two large fireb.a.l.l.s were actually two s.p.a.cecraft. Moreover, they were sphere-shaped s.p.a.cecraft from the Frieza era. Both Xiaya and Xiling had one when they were young.
“It has been so many years since the Frieza Force became extinct, yet we can still see this kind of s.p.a.cecraft,” Xiaya muttered to himself.
After the technology of Planet Hongshan developed, these outdated, small-sized s.p.a.cecraft have already been eliminated.
“Hmph, it really brings back memories,” Vegeta said, his face growing cold.
“Let’s go, let’s go and take a look.”
They flew off together, rus.h.i.+ng towards the place where those s.p.a.cecrafts landed. Because if they were really the remnants of the Frieza Force, then their Battle Power would at least be over 1000. Such strength was, uh, very weak! But there were not many people on Earth who were their match. They were also curious to see who had arrived on Earth at this time.
On the other side, where the two s.p.a.cecraft had landed.
Boom! Boom!
Two loud booms echoed, the ground shook violently and two wide craters appeared on the reef near the continental shelf as two white s.p.a.cecraft were buried deep in the rocks, surrounded by a network of cracks, dust and smoke spreading everywhere.
With a crack sound, after the s.p.a.cecraft opened, two people wearing Frieza era’s Battle Armor crawled out of the s.p.a.cecraft.
When they saw the appearance of those two people from a distance, Xiaya and others stopped in mid-air in shock, while Vegeta’s face turned black.