Time flies.
Before I knew it, a year and a half had passed.
Today is the day when the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament is held.
The grand martial arts competition was held on Papaya Island as in the past.
However, this time, the world's number one martial arts conference was held on a much larger scale than before, even nearly ten times larger in scale.
After all, it is a conference jointly promoted by the largest group on earth, which is also the largest consortium on earth today, and the official martial arts conference.
In order to meet the needs of Talot and others, Bulma made great contributions and changes over the past year.
It should be said that the Universal Capsule Group's industry has become the core of the earth, so that Bulma's active investment not only obtained official approval, but also changed the rules.
In fact, this event today is somewhat similar to the scene during the Majin Buu arc.
Even grander than that.
Now, this world's number one martial arts tournament is the real world's number one martial arts tournament.
The number of participants exceeded 10,000, and the main venue alone could accommodate tens of millions of people.
Of course, the reason why there are so many contestants is that most of them are here to try their luck.
After all, as long as you pass the preliminaries and enter the finals, you can get a bonus of 100,000 Baileys.
Not to mention the champion, the runner-up also received 100 million and 50 million Baileys respectively.
These are the awards set up by the consortium headed by Bulma after discussion. In addition, there are also the top four, top sixteen, etc.
So it is equivalent to making it to the finals, which is equivalent to making a profit.
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Papaya Island, not far from the main venue.
Goku, Krillin, Tien Shinhan, Yamcha, Chiaotzu, Raditz, Salari, Nappa...even Master Roshi and his family are all here.
Everyone gathered together, talking and laughing, discussing their experiences over the past two years.
At this time, everyone has registered under Bulma's arrangement, and is now going to the rest area, waiting for the competition to begin.
After all, their identities are different, otherwise the group would not have an exclusive rest area.
It's all thanks to Bulma's arrangement.
"Brother Talot hasn't come back yet? I'm really looking forward to it. How strong are the Namekians? And that Piccolo? The more I think about it, the more excited I get." Goku is no longer the teenager he used to be. He has truly grown into a young man. He said with a look of eagerness to try.
After so much hard work, the time has finally come to verify it. Now, his normal combat power has already exceeded one million points.
Things are different now.
"It should be soon. I miss it so much when I think about it now. So much time has passed without me noticing. I don't know how strong Ragar and Neru have become." Salari recalled the scene when he met Ragar that year, and also recalled Neru who was still a child at that time.
Because of her emotion, Talora in her arms twisted for a while, broke away from Salari's arms and stood on the ground.
Although she is less than two years old, she has grown quite well. In addition, she has great potential and is different from ordinary children.
Little Talola looked curiously at Trep, Raditz's son, who was in Launch's arms.
There is actually not much difference between them because they are one year apart, except that Trepp looks more immature.
It was obvious that Talora wanted Trep to come down and play with her, but Trep was still in a daze.
Maybe this is the difference between pure-blooded Saiyans and mixed-blood Saiyans. There is still a gap.
"In two more months, Trep will be able to walk on his own and play with you, little Talora." Raditz was not in a hurry, but joked with Talora.
In fact, he also missed the past. After all, he had been to Namek and met Ragar and Neru.
The last time we met was many years ago.
"But coming to the point, Vegeta, you're here to participate too. I haven't seen you for a long time, and you're different now." Nappa said from the side, his attention all on Vegeta.
"Hmph! You all are here, so how could I not come? And there is someone I must defeat!" Vegeta looked at Raditz with fiery eyes.
All along, he regarded Raditz as the first opponent he must surpass.
First surpass Raditz, then surpass Talot.
As for the Namekians that Talot brought with him this time, he didn't take them seriously at all.
When Vegeta was serving in Frieza's army, he saw information about the Namekians.
It is said that some Namekians have incredibly high combat capabilities, but there is very little record of them other than that.
In his opinion, no matter how strong the Namekians are, how can they compare to the Saiyans? !
Because of Vegeta's words, the scene was silent for a while.
After all, although Vegeta has been staying on Earth and has not caused any trouble in the past two years, most people are still hostile to him.
As for Vegeta, Raditz obviously didn't care. After all, it wasn't the first time that Vegeta showed this expression to him.
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It was at this time.
"Whoosh~~!!" a burst of air-breaking sound was heard.
Talot used space teleportation and arrived here with Ragar, Neru, and Piccolo, whose appearance had changed drastically.
"You're just in time. It looks like everyone is here." Talot said with a smile when he saw everyone present.
Ragar and Neru looked at each other, then their eyes fell on the group of people in front of them.
Raditz and Salari stepped forward and greeted Ragar and Neru in a friendly manner.
Ragar and Neru also expressed their friendliness, and after they reminisced about the past, their eyes fell on Goku, Nappa, and Vegeta and others one by one after the introductions.
Their intuition told them that these three people were very strong.
They were observing Goku, Nappa, and Vegeta.
Goku, Nappa, and Vegeta naturally looked at them as well.
Finally, after getting familiar with him, the Earth warriors focused their attention on Piccolo.
In just two years, not only did he become very tall and strong, but his aura was also very powerful.
Just as Talot had thought, Piccolo's character had changed a lot since he went to Namek. He was no longer as cruel and murderous as old Piccolo, nor was he an unforgivable person.
On the contrary, his career in the past two years has transformed him into a guardian who pursues powerful strength.
Piccolo doesn't have any thoughts about others, but it's different for Master Roshi.
Of course, not the kind that is full of hostility and murderous intent.
The two men's eyes met, and for a moment, both sides had a general understanding of each other's strength.
"It's really unexpected. In such a short time, you have become so strong? You can't deny your age." Master Roshi said with emotion.
Piccolo naturally saw through Master Roshi's general strength, and a look of disappointment flashed in his eyes.
Looking back on the past, Master Roshi's strength was so great that it almost made him despair, and he didn't even dare to think of resistance, but now, the situation has been reversed.
In his eyes, Master Roshi was now as small as an ant. He only needed to make a slight move, or even just a finger, to kill him.
However, there was no need for him to do so, and it was meaningless.
Because of Piccolo's cold expression, Krillin, Tien Shinhan, Yamcha, and Chiaotzu stood in front of Master Roshi.
They're afraid something unexpected will happen, after all, Piccolo's predecessor was killed by Master Roshi.
The awkward atmosphere was not resolved until Bulma took the initiative to remind them: "Since everyone is here, let's go to the preliminaries. There are many participants this time. In order to more easily select qualified elites, the method will be different from the previous preliminaries..."
With Bulma's explanation, everyone understood the general pattern.
The group didn't waste any more time and headed forward.
Due to the change in the registration mechanism, when there are too many people, the mode of selecting and advancing contestants is to hit the boxing machine, and the high or low number will determine whether they are addicted or not.
In fact, this was a method that Talot provided intentionally or unintentionally.
Because there are so many contestants, if we use the previous method to compete, even with four venues, it will still take two or three days to complete the competition for 10,000 contestants.
To be honest, it was just taking advantage of the loophole of the future martial arts tournament in the original work. The preliminary selection for the World Martial Arts Tournament in the Majin Buu arc was done because there were too many people, so this method was chosen.
Unlike the junior group, there are not many people, so there is enough time to compete.
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The venue for the preliminary selection was already crowded.
Fortunately, there is not only one boxing machine, otherwise it would take at least half a day for ten thousand people.
While waiting in line for the test, Talot saw some familiar faces.
There were wolfmen who were contestants in the last Tenkaichi Martial Arts Tournament, as well as some guys who performed well, and even Spobiichi and Yamu who were controlled by Babidi during the Majin Buu arc.
What was most unbelievable to Talot was that he saw an extremely special person.
Young Satan!
Of course, Talot only glanced at him twice before looking away, because he knew him, but they didn't actually know each other.
Because of him, the world has changed dramatically.
I don't know what Satan will be like in the future.
As the preliminaries officially begin.
The contestants who came to participate in this martial arts competition struck one by one in order.
It is stipulated with an extremely high value in the fighting world.
Those with scores below 100 will be eliminated directly, while those with scores above 100 can proceed to the second round of preliminaries and wait for screening.
For the Z warriors, this mode is actually very novel and simple. All they have to do is wait here.
"Although this method is simpler and can save some energy, everyone needs to be careful when hitting later. It will be bad if it explodes." Yamcha suddenly spoke up to remind them.
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone nodded in agreement.
After all, their strength has long surpassed the scope of ordinary earthlings.
A bunch of people can be killed with just one finger. If you don't have good control over the power of this small boxing machine, it will explode with just a light finger.
"It's your turn soon, Krillin." Tien Shinhan reminded him.
Krillin nodded upon hearing this.
Krillin, who was the first in the team to test his punching power, took up his stance carefully.
He was very cautious in controlling his strength, and raised his hand lightly and tapped it just once, for fear of using too much force and making it too shocking.
However, even so, the number on the boxing machine showed an incredible 555 points.
This number immediately shocked all the onlookers and the staff responsible for recording. They did not expect that there was someone in the world whose fist could produce such a number.
After all, even for a well-trained person, if he is larger and stronger, 200 is considered ridiculously high.
Of course, this is true for fighters, not for martial artists.
In fact, there are still people who have scored values above 200.
In this era, or more than ten years from now, the martial artists today will have the highest status.
As everyone was shocked, the blond referee discovered Krillin and his group, came over to rescue them, and introduced Krillin and his group's performance and achievements in the previous two martial arts tournaments. This revealed the truth.
Of course, despite this, the following numbers were more outrageous than the last, leaving everyone stunned and constantly wiping their eyes, fearing that they had seen it wrong.
Only the blond referee knew that this was a true martial artist, not the rest of the rabble who had empty titles.
It's going smoothly here.
At the test point on the other side, because of Raditz and Nappa's consecutive attacks, the values were too high, resulting in Talot appearing and tapping 888 with one finger. The staff directly concluded that the machine had a malfunction.
At this critical moment, the indifferent Vegeta walked out, raised his fist and threw a punch calmly.
"Bang!"
The boxing machine was torn into pieces, and the strong wind from the punches swept in all directions, affecting many people. More than a dozen people who were close to it fell to the ground.
"You are still as reckless as ever." Talot smiled slightly and didn't care much.
"If I don't take action, you will have to fight again. This kind of preliminaries is so low-level and boring." Vegeta crossed his arms and looked proud.
Raditz and Nappa both acquiesced, while the other Z fighters covered their faces.
They knew Vegeta would do this.
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Not far away.
Satan, who was originally proud, turned pale and trembled with fear after witnessing Vegeta smashing the boxing machine with one punch.
Others may be optimistic, but he actually knows the value of martial artists and fighters.
If he had been hit by such a punch, he would probably have died on the spot.
Obviously, Satan now is not the cheater in later generations. He still has brains and a sense of propriety.
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The first round of preliminaries is over.
A group of people gathered together, and while they were talking, Bull Demon King's daughter Chi-Chi, after seeing a familiar person, happily trotted over to greet Goku.
Girls change a lot when they grow up. The current Chi-Chi is very different from the Chi-Chi when she was a child.
No one understood what was going on, including Goku.
This made Yamcha and Krillin, who were from the same school as Goku, envious and jealous. Even the old pervert Master Roshi secretly sighed that this kid Goku would be very lucky when he grew up.
Goku looked innocent.
Being ignored and not recognized made Chi-Chi furious. She cursed Goku a few times and then walked away angrily.
Once a woman gets angry, it's hard to appease her.
Only Talot knew the truth, but he didn't tell it.
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