Watching Neo destroy that scouter with a single finger, Tao Pai Pai was moved instantly, his face full of shock: "Ki, Ki Blast? You actually know the Ki Blast? Who is your master?!!"
"I have no obligation to tell you. Now, get lost! Otherwise, stay here forever!"
"Interesting!" Tao Pai Pai, who had previously looked deeply shocked, suddenly calmed down, his expression turning gloomy: "You are the first person who dares to speak to me, Tao Pai Pai, like this! Don't think that just because you know a Ki Blast you can beat me, Tao Pai Pai! Today, let me see what kind of skills the champion of the World Martial Arts Tournament really has!"
With that, Tao Pai Pai tapped his feet, his figure instantly rushing toward Neo, thrusting a palm straight at his chest!
Fast, ruthless, and precise! Leaving no room for retreat, his movements were completely clean and unhesitating. Truly, Tao Pai Pai was worthy of being the world's number one assassin; he certainly possessed the qualities of a top assassin!
His strength was on par with the current Son Goku.
But unfortunately, what he was facing was Neo with a power level of over three thousand.
Across the entire Earth right now, let alone Tao Pai Pai, even God and Piccolo were no match for Neo. The current Neo was the undisputed number one on Earth, and by an overwhelming margin at that.
Even if Raditz came, with his current combat power, he could easily crush him!
Watching Tao Pai Pai charge murderously toward him, in Neo's eyes, his movements were painfully slow. With a casual slap downward and a loud 'bang', Tao Pai Pai was smashed straight into the ground by Neo's single palm.
It truly was a matter of just a single instant.
"This... how... is this possible...!!!!"
Tao Pai Pai was deeply embedded in the ground, his face full of disbelief, coughing up blood with wide, angry eyes. He never could have imagined that Neo would be this strong! With a single slap, his spine and sternum were completely shattered, and even his internal organs were jolted to pieces. This was simply terrifying!
As a trace of regret welled up in his heart, his head tilted to the side, and he completely lost all breath.
Tao Pai Pai, the world's number one assassin, died just like that.
Seeing this, Bulma, who had been watching the show from the side, immediately said with a puzzled expression: "Huh? It's over already? He looked so intimidating when he came, and this is all he amounts to?"
Mrs. Brief looked at Neo with a smile: "As expected of Linzhou, he really is so strong~"
Neo then kicked Tao Pai Pai's corpse flying into the sky until it disappeared...
After resolving the matter with Tao Pai Pai, Bulma went back to school shortly after. With nothing better to do, Neo entered the gravity room once again. Exploiting the Saiyan bug with senzu beans, he began crazy training—first mutilating himself until he was half-dead, then eating a senzu bean to recover. His strength began to improve by leaps and bounds...
Of course, to avoid accidents during his training, he always had Bulma or Mrs. Brief monitor him. He even borrowed the four-star ball from Son Goku, and had already prepared a fallback plan to summon Shenron and resurrect himself.
However, the body's potential was limited after all. Under Neo's frantic bug exploitation, after raising his combat power to over ten thousand, he suddenly discovered that this bug could no longer be exploited; recovering after being on the verge of death no longer increased his combat power.
He knew that he had completely squeezed dry the existing potential of this body. If he wanted to improve further, he had to break his limits once again and gain new potential.
He tried to transform into a Super Saiyan, gathering all his ki to a single point on his back, but it ultimately ended in failure. Perhaps his combat power was still too weak, or perhaps his s-cells hadn't reached the standard yet.
Helpless, Neo had no choice but to rely on the gravity room and resume his frantic training to break through himself!
Yet under this kind of training, his combat power, which had stopped increasing from exploiting the bug, unexpectedly began to see significant growth! This also made Neo understand that the Saiyan ability to grow stronger after recovering from near death couldn't work forever. Just like Grand Elder of Planet Namek unlocking potential, it was burning up one's potential. Once the potential was completely tapped, it could no longer be increased, and one could only rely on training and breaking through their own limits to continue improving.
Otherwise, if it could be increased infinitely, it probably wouldn't be long before he could go solo Omni-King, and Saiyans would truly be invincible.
However, Neo was confident that as long as he broke through his limits a few more times, he would definitely reach the monstrous combat power and near-infinite potential seen in the later stages of dragon ball.
But that was a matter for the future; for now, let's first break through his first bodily limit!
Time passed just like that amidst Neo's training, waiting for Bulma to finish school or holidays, and accompanying her to travel and play...
Unawares, three years passed just like that.
During this period, everything had been very peaceful, with no further unexpected incidents occurring.
Even Dr. Gero never came to harass Neo again after experiencing the Tao Pai Pai incident. Perhaps he had already realized that with Neo's current strength, no one would be his match, so he began diligently researching Androids...
Speaking of Androids, there had been no movement from No. 18 and her brother either. Up until now, Dr. Gero still hadn't targeted the brother and sister pair. This made Neo somewhat suspect whether it was because of his own relationship that a butterfly effect had occurred, causing Dr. Gero to give up on them entirely.
Or could it be that his surveillance was discovered by Dr. Gero, which was why he delayed making a move?
Well, regardless of which situation it was, he would leave it alone for now. Now, after three years of peace, another major event was about to happen. That's right, the new World Martial Arts Tournament was about to begin again.
And this session of the World Martial Arts Tournament would definitely be more exciting than in previous years, because Neo knew very well that Tien Shinhan was going to appear in this World Martial Arts Tournament.
But he couldn't summon the slightest bit of interest, because the strength of these contestants was now far too far behind his.
A combat power of one or two hundred compared to someone like him whose combat power reached over fifty thousand were absolute weaklings!
Yes, Neo's combat power had now broken through to over fifty thousand, but he didn't know the exact number. After all, without a scouter, he could only compare the strength of ordinary people's ki with his own and deduce an approximate value.
Three years, only raising his combat power to over fifty thousand—compared to the combat power growth of Saiyans in the later stages, this was simply weak as hell.
But there was no help for it; breaking through one's own limits in the early stage was truly too difficult. Only after striving to break through one's own limits multiple times could one thoroughly stimulate their Saiyan bloodline. After all, Son Goku was only a lower-class warrior among Saiyans, and the bottom-tier kind at that. Early-stage training was indeed a bit harder. If it had been Broly, he would have taken off long ago. It's just a pity that he had no way to bind with Broly right now.
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