After making inquiries all around, Xie Yi arrived at Bulma's house, looking at the luxurious mansion before him with a sigh.
"As expected of the wife chosen by the Saiyan Prince. This taste, and this ability to live off a woman with such confidence, is really something."
Looking at this super luxury mansion in the city, to be honest, for a split second, he just wanted to give up and lie flat.
Over at Kami's Lookout.
"Vegeta, are you going in alone?"
Vegeta's heart surged with excitement: "What's wrong, Kakarot? Afraid of being surpassed by me?"
As long as the environment inside is just as Kami described, the first one to surpass the Super Saiyan will definitely be me, Prince Vegeta, hahahaha!
Son Goku saw how elated Vegeta was.
Sigh, let him be. After all, Vegeta's obsession with defeating me is much deeper now than before.
"Hey, Kakarot, I'm going in now."
With that, Vegeta didn't wait for Son Goku to reply and walked straight into the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
"Vegeta..."
"Son Goku, what do you plan to do now?"
Kami asked Goku. Since Goku was going to stay here, he needed to be a good host, providing him with food and shelter at the very least.
Son Goku looked at old Kami with a mischievous glint in his eye. If Piccolo and Kami fused right now, Piccolo's battle power would definitely reach one billion, or even more.
Once Piccolo grew stronger, he would go find New Planet Namek, bring Dende back, and they could even increase the number of wishes the Dragon Balls granted. However, Piccolo and Kami probably wouldn't agree to fuse just yet; they would have to wait until Cell appeared.
"Kami, please prepare some food for me. I'm going to wait here for Vegeta to come out."
Naturally suspecting nothing, Kami readily agreed to Son Goku.
"Mr. Popo, please prepare some food for Son Goku."
The dark-skinned Popo nodded and said to Son Goku: "I will prepare your meal, please wait a moment."
Meanwhile, after meeting Bulma and young Trunks, Xie Yi explained who he was. Seeing that the visitor bore no malicious intent, Bulma simply gave him a gravity room.
As for what to do about Vegeta, Bulma figured she would just wait for him to return, get him to put in a good word for her, and then she could easily build another one.
After borrowing the gravity room and storing it away in a Hoi-Poi Capsule, Xie Yi departed.
Now that he had a gravity room, he needed to find a place to train, aiming to raise his Base Form battle power to ten million by the time the Dragon Balls became usable.
By then, relying on the five hundred million battle power of the Super Saiyan Full Power state, it would be enough to force the 120 million tyrant to obey.
After all, spending a use of the Dragon Balls to wish him back... wishing him back still felt a bit painful, a waste of Shenron's wishes.
Inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, amidst a vast expanse of blinding white, the climate swung wildly between extremes, and the gravity was ten times that of Earth.
A golden figure was training right in the middle of it all.
As Vegeta threw punches, sweat poured endlessly onto the ground, evaporating almost instantly without a moment to linger. The indoor climate at the moment was scorching hot at 50°C, while the lowest temperatures could plunge to minus 40°C.
Coupled with tenfold gravity, this environment was utterly hostile to ordinary humans.
Yet for Saiyan training fanatics like him, it was an incomparably ideal environment.
Vegeta was thoroughly satisfied with every moment of training here, because he could feel his strength constantly growing, and at a pace far faster than training outside.
"Hahaha, Kakarot, just wait! Once I come out, I'll definitely defeat you. The strongest Super Saiyan is none other than I, Prince Super Vegeta!"
Achoo! Son Goku sneered as he suddenly thought of Vegeta.
"Could it be that Vegeta is missing a sparring partner and thought of me? I remember that when he dealt with Cell in the previous life, he only went in for a day and almost reached Super Saiyan Full Power, so I'll go in tomorrow too. Hehe, Vegeta, I know what's on your mind."
In truth, this was just an excuse Son Goku made up, because having been reborn into this life, he desperately needed power to feel a sense of security.
The next day, Vegeta had already broken through to the Super Saiyan Grade 2 stage—of course, he had also mastered the bulky Grade 3 version, but the flaws of Grade 3 were simply too huge.
"Yo, not bad, Vegeta. Only a day has passed outside and you've improved this much. You might even be stronger than me now."
"Yo, Kakarot, what are you doing in here?"
Vegeta's face was etched with displeasure. He hated nothing more than being interrupted right in the middle of his training, especially when the person interrupting him was the exact bastard he despised the most.
Vegeta's current Base Form battle power: 30 million.
Super Saiyan form: 1.5 billion.
Super Saiyan Grade 2: 1.8 billion (60 times base).
Son Goku's Base Form: 26 million.
Super Saiyan form: 1.3 billion.
Vegeta thought to himself: If you don't give me a good explanation, heh, you're dead meat.
The boost in battle power filled Vegeta once again with an arrogant self-confidence.
This confidence made him feel once more like he was the number one in the universe.
Any Kakarot or whatever could be wiped out with a single ki blast.
"Vegeta."
Son Goku naturally knew that Vegeta's strength had increased and that he needed an opponent to test his power.
What Vegeta didn't know was that even though Son Goku had only trained in the outside world for a single day, his battle power had also increased by one million. Because the reborn Son Goku possessed the fusion of two souls, his bloodline had mutated and was now comparable to the bloodlines of ancient Saiyans.
Therefore, even if Son Goku didn't train for a day, his power would still grow.
"Come on, let me test your power! Haahahaha!"
Golden fiery aura erupted from within his body, enveloping him completely.
"Hmph!"
With his habitual huff, Vegeta let out a loud shout and instantly transformed into Super Saiyan Grade 2—the Super Vegeta form originally used against Cell's second form.
Son Goku at 1.3 billion versus Vegeta at 1.8 billion. A difference of 500 million battle power made it seem like Vegeta held the advantage, but Son Goku was a transmigrator whose soul had massively strengthened, allowing him to stack the Kaio-ken on top of his Super Saiyan transformation.
"Here I come, Kakarot!"
Vegeta lunged forward in a dash.
"Bring it on, Vegeta!"
The golden flames flared high, and with every single strike, the two traded blows in a pure test of physical power.
"Ha—da-da-da!"
"Iiyayaya! Ha—"
"Bang, bang, bang!"
"Thud, thud, thud!"
Golden light continuously burst into shockwaves in mid-air. Vegeta batted away Son Goku's heavy punch, seized the initiative to counterattack, and rained down a barrage of blows. Yet Son Goku deflected every single one of them with ease.
"Damn it, Kakarot! Take this—Prince Barrage, continuous Energy Blasts!"
"Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud!"
Unleashing a surge of ki, Vegeta cupped his hands around an energy sphere and rapidly fired it at Son Goku.
"Still the same old move, Vegeta!"
Son Goku shaped his hands into a flower-like gesture, and a deep blue aura gathered in his palms.
"Ka—me—ha—me—HA!"
"Clang, clang, clang!"
"Kakarot!"
Seeing the Ki Blast shatter his energy barrage and surge straight toward him, Vegeta pressed his left palm against his right to build up power.
"Garlick Gun!"