Chapter 169: Six-Star Dragon's Clever Schemes
Seeing Six-Star Dragon face Hit, Turles's sole worry completely relaxed.
However, though Hit had been invited by him, Turles truly couldn't guarantee he'd actually act. After all, even Turles couldn't determine Hit's true thoughts.
But from the original story, Hit was someone with "righteousness" in his heart. Current results matched Turles's expectations.
Having relaxed, Turles refocused attention on Caulifla.
Compared to Hit, how to rescue the three controlled by Six-Star Dragon was Turles's current difficulty.
Fortunately, though Six-Star Dragon had used some special method to catalyze Caulifla into Super Saiyan God realm, her true battle power couldn't be fully displayed due to Six-Star Dragon's control.
So dealing with Caulifla wasn't very difficult for Turles. He could even spare some mental capacity contemplating how to free Caulifla from Six-Star Dragon's mental control.
On the other side, though Hit temporarily suppressed Six-Star Dragon with his Time-Skip ability, completely eliminating Six-Star Dragon remained somewhat insufficient.
First, Six-Star Dragon's strength wasn't weaker than Hit's—at minimum, not weaker.
Additionally, Hit's Time-Skip couldn't be used limitlessly. This technique consumed Hit tremendously.
Universal balance maintained itself. Powerful strength often concealed massive restrictions. Time-Skip was among these.
Though Time-Skip let Hit jump forward 0.1 seconds in time—consciousness leaping to an extremely brief future time point, leaving an "time jump" at the original position undetectable by ordinary senses.
To opponents, Hit seemed to instantly vanish and appear elsewhere like teleportation.
But in any world, time remained the pinnacle law.
Using a phrase Turles knew: "Time is supreme, Space is king." Wanting to grasp time's power inevitably required paying tremendous price.
When Hit used Time-Skip, his body and spirit suffered compression.
Once or twice was fine. But frequent use in short periods—even Hit might completely die under space and time's dual compression!
This was because Hit's Time-Skip could currently only cross 0.1 seconds.
So currently, Hit's battle with Six-Star Dragon mostly relied on combat techniques honed through his assassin career.
However, this was already sufficient!
As for Carrit's group, the same principle applied. Because Six-Star Dragon was found by Hit in time, Six-Star Dragon couldn't make Carrit transform into Super Saiyan God like Caulifla. So under Yaris and Beris's cooperation, Carrit was temporarily suppressed.
Like this, three battlefronts at Supreme Kai Realm temporarily maintained a delicate balance.
Destroyer Realm.
Supreme Kai Fuwa, who'd previously been hinted by Turles to depart Supreme Kai Realm early via Instant Transmission, was currently watching the projection battle with relish alongside Destroyer Champa and Angel Vados.
"What's Turles doing?"
Suddenly, Champa's somewhat dissatisfied voice rang out.
Actually, initially Champa and Vados had frequently monitored Turles's actions against Evil Dragons for certain unspeakable reasons.
But later, seeing Evil Dragons eliminated one by one by Turles, both had stopped paying attention.
Until Supreme Kai Fuwa's arrival.
Fuwa's sudden visit had startled Champa while secretly eating. If not for their decent relationship, Champa would definitely have beaten Fuwa.
However, after Fuwa mentioned Supreme Kai Realm's battle, Champa no longer dwelled on it. He hurriedly found Vados, then continued monitoring Turles.
But having watched for ages, Champa had grown somewhat impatient—hence the earlier statement.
In his view, with Turles's strength, Six-Star Dragon simply wasn't his match. Even if Caulifla's group was controlled by Six-Star Dragon, with his power, resolving things should be simple.
So watching Turles battle Caulifla like teasing a child made him dissatisfied.
Turles was his "reserved" Destroyer. How could he be so indecisive?
Speaking of understanding Champa—just hearing that statement, Vados had already guessed his thoughts. She couldn't help reminding: "Lord Champa, those several Saiyans are all Universe 6 people. Moreover, their strength is quite good!"
The six words "Universe 6 people"—Vados's tone emphasized slightly.
Hearing Vados say this, Champa immediately froze. After blinking his small eyes, he couldn't help glancing toward Fuwa.
"Mm-hmm!"
Seeing this, Fuwa nodded repeatedly.
Though somewhat willful and reckless, Champa wouldn't pointlessly destroy his own universe's fighters. Those several Saiyans before him naturally counted as elites in Universe 6.
"Hmph! That's still because Turles is too weak!"
After understanding, Champa couldn't help snorting, turning his face away while muttering quietly.
Seeing this, neither Vados nor Fuwa felt surprised. Both exchanged glances before returning attention to the projection battle.
For a time, Destroyer Realm quieted again.
But after watching a while, Fuwa suddenly asked Vados: "Lady Vados, how do you think Mr. Turles should resolve Six-Star Dragon?"
As the words fell, Champa's ears twitched. He also quietly perked up, wanting to hear Vados's view.
Noticing Champa's small movement, Vados smiled gently, speaking softly: "Lord Fuwa, just keep watching—won't you know? I believe Mr. Turles will certainly have methods!"
"I believe Lord Champa also agrees with this, correct?"
Speaking, Vados didn't forget teasing Champa.
"Oh?"
Fuwa hadn't expected Vados and Champa to have such confidence in Turles. He couldn't help glancing at Champa.
"Tch!"
Caught red-handed, Champa's face reddened. He snorted again, petulantly turning his head.
After a long while, Champa's voice finally rang out: "That Turles guy is full of schemes. How could that so-called Evil Dragon possibly match him? Who knows what bad ideas he's brewing!"
Hearing this, not only Fuwa but even Vados looked at Champa with surprise.
Vados's eyes turned, somewhat curious: "Did Lord Champa discover something?"
Vados's inquiry excited Champa somewhat. He put his hands behind his back, cleared his throat, then gestured at the projection with his chin, explaining:
"Turles's strength—I know it too well. If he wanted to resolve that girl, he'd have done so already, just like that dullard earlier."
Vados and Fuwa thought a moment before realizing who Champa meant by "dullard."
Smacking his lips, Champa continued: "Moreover, though Turles keeps battling that girl, his attention has always been on that person. So I guess he's definitely plotting something!"
Speaking, Champa pointed at Hit, who was battling Six-Star Dragon in the projection.
"Mr. Hit?"
Looking at Hit in the projection, Fuwa felt somewhat confused.
Vados instead stared at Champa with surprise, as if quite astonished.
"Vados, what do you mean?"
Noticing the surprise in Vados's eyes, Champa grew somewhat embarrassed and angry, frantically shouting at Vados.
Regarding Champa, Vados knew how to handle him perfectly. She restrained her surprised expression, waving at Champa dismissively: "What could I possibly mean? Just didn't expect Lord Champa to be so clever!"
"Hmph! You know it now!"
Vados's praise made Champa's mouth curve upward involuntarily. He snorted arrogantly, yet felt something seemed wrong.
This made Fuwa watching from the side inwardly laugh. But he didn't dare laugh aloud—only secretly gave Vados a thumbs up.
Turles didn't know three people in Destroyer Realm were critiquing him. Currently, he'd already thought of a method to resolve Caulifla.
Speaking of troublesome—Six-Star Dragon's mental control was definitely troublesome.
As mentioned earlier, in the Dragon Ball world, mainstream power still belonged to ki. Though mental power existed, utilizing mental power was rare.
Even though Turles possessed far superior mental power than normal people due to reincarnation, plus multiple mental connection training sessions with Broly, regarding mental power application, he still couldn't compare to Six-Star Dragon.
As Six-Star Dragon's signature technique, mental control was naturally troublesome.
But saying Turles had absolutely no methods would underestimate him.
His current behavior's greatest reason was relaxing Six-Star Dragon's vigilance.
Yes, Champa was correct. Turles held some schemes.
Most critical was—Turles needed to understand exactly how Six-Star Dragon had hidden its consciousness.
Only by truly understanding how Six-Star Dragon hid its consciousness, then controlled Caulifla's group, could he completely eliminate Six-Star Dragon.
Otherwise, even if he eliminated Six-Star Dragon again this time, if he couldn't completely annihilate Six-Star Dragon's consciousness, it would forever remain a hidden danger.
Currently, he'd already found this reason from Caulifla.
This was why Turles had battled Caulifla so long.
Just as Champa said, though Caulifla had now reached Super Saiyan God realm, with Turles's true battle power, resolving Caulifla wasn't problematic.
Not mentioning anything else—just dealing with her like Cabba earlier could quickly end the battle.
Earlier combat—Turles had deliberately extended his mental power into Caulifla's body, thereby finding Six-Star Dragon's mental control source.
Yes, through physical contact with Caulifla, Turles had already inserted his mental power into her body. He also knew exactly how Six-Star Dragon mentally controlled Caulifla—even enabling her autonomous Super Saiyan God transformation.
Speaking of which, Turles also possessed a mental sealing technique. He'd even used this move to seal Vegeta's consciousness, making him like a living corpse.
However, compared to Six-Star Dragon's mental power application, Turles discovered his previous mental power usage was so crude.
Here, even Turles had to admire!
Unlike Turles's violent sealing—forcibly isolating the entire mental world from outside—Six-Star Dragon's mental control planted a seed in Caulifla's mental world.
This seed planted in the mental world used the host's own mental power as nutrients, continuously growing until the seed sprouted and grew, finally becoming a "tree"!
Initially, the seed remained weak, having no effect on the host's mental world. But after the "tree" matured, branches thoroughly enveloping consciousness, the host's will would be infected by the seed's will.
This was why initially, though Turles noticed something wrong with Caulifla and Cabba's auras, he couldn't identify the problem.
Because this "seed" hadn't initially exposed Six-Star Dragon's will. During growth, it absorbed Caulifla's own mental power. So though Caulifla's aura was abnormal, it still belonged to her own aura.
Six-Star Dragon's will only infected Caulifla's will the instant the "tree" completely matured.
As for how Six-Star Dragon catalyzed Caulifla's Super Saiyan God transformation—this opened Turles's eyes even more.
As mentioned before, Turles had Caulifla's group participate in Evil Dragon elimination—beyond using their righteous power, most importantly, letting them sense SSG aura early, thereby planting seeds within their bodies.
Six-Star Dragon had utilized this point.
Turles didn't know how Six-Star Dragon found the SSG seeds within Caulifla's group. But with powerful mental power, Six-Star Dragon had found them.
It recorded the SSG seed information, then used mental power to continuously copy-paste this information within Caulifla and Cabba's bodies.
When seed quantity reached sufficient numbers, seeds were no longer merely seeds.
Caulifla and Cabba's bodies, stimulated by these seeds, underwent mutation—thereby achieving alternate SSG transformation.
Must be said—this operation by Six-Star Dragon truly shocked Turles.
However, now these clever ideas benefited Turles.
SMACK!
Mind settled, Turles no longer dodged Caulifla's attacks. Instead, he grabbed her fist. Then with a crack, he dislocated her bones.
Then repeating the method—soon, Caulifla's four limbs were all dislocated by Turles, completely losing combat ability.
Having done this, Turles glanced at the other two battlefronts, then raised his palm vertically.
"Let's see if this move works!"
Turles ignored still-struggling Caulifla, slowly covering his palm over her head.
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