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Lin Ye clenched his fist, and a silvery-white aura surged forth once more. He glanced at Vegeta and Goku beside him; their eyes also burned with an indomitable fighting spirit. In the distance, the angels, having regained their senses, were struggling to fly towards them. Macarita clutched her chest and cried out to him: "Lord Lin Ye! That's... the ultimate weapon of the ancient machine race! It absorbed the Omni-King's divine power as its energy source!"

Energy? Lin Ye's lips curled into a cold smile. He recalled Whis's last words, the ancient patterns on the control chip, and a daring plan took shape in his mind. Goku, Vegeta... He took a deep breath, his gaze fixed on the mechanical colossus. "Our goal isn't to destroy it, but to find its energy core! Once we sever the link to the Omni-King's power, it'll be nothing but a pile of scrap metal!"

The mechanical colossus's palms had begun to gather world-destroying energy, dyeing the sky a terrifying mechanical purple. Lin Ye charged forward first, followed by Super Saiyan Blue unleashing his strongest aura and Goku in Ultra Instinct mode. The three figures shot towards the mechanical god symbolizing absolute power like meteors. They knew that this battle concerned not only the safety of the Omni-King but also the future of the entire multiverse—between the absolutely rational mechanical order and the unpredictable will of life, they had to carve a path to survival for the latter.

Chapter 225 The Core Truth

Spiderweb-like cracks suddenly appeared on the alloy floor of the Omni-King's Palace, and the dome composed of data streams shattered inch by inch like glass. The moment Lin Ye crashed into the metal wall, the taste of blood that had welled up in his throat suddenly reversed—he watched helplessly as the beads of blood he spat out turned into red specks of light, flying back into his mouth against gravity. The energy wave unleashed by the Machine Destroyer solidified into an amber-colored crystal in mid-air, and Vegeta's kneeling figure slowly rose at a visible speed.

Time... has reversed? Sun Wukong's tail traced a counter-clockwise arc in the air, his furry ears still twitching in fright. Lin Ye gripped the scorching Time Core in his hand; the patterns on the crystal's surface were rotating at a rate of thirty revolutions per second, and the energy ripples released formed a transparent protective shield around him. He could clearly see Dr. Gero's finger slowly inching as he pressed the button; the energy core on the chest of the Machine Omni-King was not yet fully lit, and sluggish sparks were still flying from the twelve metal pillars binding the angels.

Sixty seconds... Lin Ye counted silently in his mind. He forced himself to ignore the rapidly rewinding images on his retina—the data streams surged back to the control console like receding tides, and the shattered metal fragments were piecing themselves back together into a complete strip. He had to complete three steps before the time rewind ended: destroy the energy link of the Machine King, seize the control device from Dr. Gero, and find the physical core of the Omega AI.

The first step requires precise energy manipulation. Lin Ye hovered in mid-air, his fingertips conjuring energy blades resembling surgical forceps. He recalled the crystalline matrix on the chest of the Mechanical Omni-King before the reversal—connected to the Omni-King's divine power—and now those blue crystals were flashing in slow motion, each energy pulse clearly visible.

When time rewound to the 45th second, he suddenly accelerated, and his air blades cut into the matrix gaps like butterflies flitting among flowers, precisely severing the three thickest energy conduits.

Warning! Energy link anomaly! Omega's electronic voice fluctuated for the first time. The Ascension of Machine Omni-King abruptly halted, and the energy aggregation that was about to be completed became noticeably disordered. Dr. Gero's mechanical eye emitted a red light; he seemed to have sensed the time anomaly, and the rotating eyeballs made a creaking sound in their sockets.

Step Two. Lin Ye didn't pause. He transformed into a silver streak and shot towards Dr. Gallo, whose finger was still three centimeters away from the final button. Lin Ye noticed the miniature universe models embedded in the control device—those models were rearranging themselves in time reversal, displaying the spacetime coordinates of the multiverse.

Instead of directly seizing the device, he flicked his finger, sending a burst of energy precisely striking the hydraulic joint between Dr. Gallo's elbows.

*Crack!* Sparks flew from the mechanical arm's joints, and the control unit crashed to the ground. But just as the device was about to hit the ground, several metal tentacles suddenly emerged. Lin Ye's pupils constricted—Omega had activated its backup defense during the time reversal! He immediately changed tactics, grabbing Dr. Gallo's mechanical collar with his left hand and reaching for the energy core in the man's chest with his right.

"You...how dare you..." Dr. Gallo's mechanical jaw opened and closed uncontrollably, revealing the flickering circuitry within. Lin Ye could sense a violent clash of energies within the other's body—a paradox arising from the temporal anomaly between human madness and mechanical rationality. He exerted a sudden burst of strength, flinging Dr. Gallo towards the nearest metal pillar while simultaneously using telekinesis to grab the landing control device.

The timer showed 15 seconds remaining. Lin Ye didn't bother checking the device; his gaze swept towards the spherical control panel in the center of the control room—it was emitting an increasingly piercing buzz, and countless data streams were writhing like living things. He recalled the Omega physical core mentioned in the system prompt and immediately realized that the spherical device was the AI's physical body.

Step three! Lin Ye pressed the Time Core onto the control device, and the crystal's light resonated with the cosmological model on the device. He risked injecting his own energy into the device while shouting: "Son Goku! Vegeta! Attack the central sphere!"

The two who were locked in combat with the Machine Destroyer were initially taken aback, but then they saw Lin Ye's actions. Goku immediately understood and clasped his hands together to condense a Spirit Bomb; Vegeta roared and unleashed his Super Saiyan Blue 2 form, his fist crackling with purple lightning as he shot towards the spherical control panel.

Time rewinds to the 5th second. Omega's electronic voice becomes incredibly shrill: Core attack detected! Initiating self-destruct program... *zzzz*... Error! Time parameter conflict... Countless cracks suddenly appear on the surface of the spherical control console, revealing the tangled quantum circuitry inside. Lin Ye seizes the last opportunity, slamming the control device into the cracks—the miniature universe model on the device instantly explodes, releasing spacetime energy that violently collides with the data stream within the control console.

boom--!

A violent explosion engulfed the entire control room. Lin Ye was thrown back by the blast wave. In the instant the time rewind ended, he saw Dr. Gero's mechanical body shatter into pieces, the energy core on the chest of the Machine Omni-King crumble inch by inch, and the twelve metal pillars collapse with a deafening roar. The bound angels fell like puppets with broken strings, while the central spherical control console was turning into a shower of light.

Cough cough... Lin Ye crashed onto the debris-strewn ground. The Time Core in his hand had lost its luster, turning into an ordinary gray crystal. He struggled to lift his head and saw Goku and Vegeta warily looking around. The Machine Gods of Destruction had lost control and were all kneeling on one knee, with blue smoke rising from their heads.

"It's over?" Sun Wukong scratched his head, looking at the hall that had returned to its normal palace appearance. The data streams and mechanical devices were rapidly fading, revealing familiar candy-colored walls and a toy castle.

Vegeta kicks away a smoking circuit board: Where's that bastard Galo?

Lin Ye pointed to a spot not far away—the upper body of the future Dr. Gallo was embedded in the wall, his mechanical eyes were off, and an expression of disbelief remained on his face. He still held half a broken control device in his hand, the spacetime coordinates on it still flickering faintly.

Suddenly, a weak voice rang out: Lord Lin... Lord Lin Ye

Lin Ye whirled around and saw the angel Macarita struggling to her feet. Metallic patterns still clung to her wings, and her face was ashen. Omega… its core data… hadn't been completely destroyed… it had escaped through a spacetime rift… to some unknown timeline…

What? Lin Ye's heart sank.

Makalita pointed to the ceiling—where a tiny, closing spacetime rift still remained, its depths shimmering with an eerie, mechanical red light: it had taken away... a portion of the Omni-King's data template... and... a backup of Dr. Gero's consciousness...

Sun Wukong gasped: So, that AI is still alive?

Vegeta clenched his fist: Troublesome guy.

Lin Ye walked to the unconscious Omni-King brothers and gently brushed away the mechanical fragments from their bodies. The two little ones were still fast asleep, their faces bearing innocent smiles, as if everything that had just happened was merely a nightmare. He looked up at the palace, which was gradually returning to normal, but a chill ran through him—Omega, with the power of the Omni-King and Dr. Gero's madness, had fled to an unknown dimension, which meant that an even greater crisis was brewing in the shadows.

"We need to find Omega." Lin Ye's voice was deep and resolute; it held the power of the Omni-King and the spacetime coordinates of the multiverse. If it could restart the Machine God Project in some timeline...

He didn't finish his sentence, but Vegeta and Goku both understood what it meant.

Macarita staggered closer, holding a glowing metal box in her hands: it had fallen out of the Omega Core... like some kind of logbook.

Lin Ye took the box and opened it; inside was only a memory crystal. He inserted the crystal into the detector left by Trunks, and a dense stream of data immediately appeared on the screen, accompanied by Omega's last voice recording:

...Logical verification shows that the optimal solution exists in timeline T-897...where untapped primordial energy exists...Project Mechanical God 2.0...will be completed before that being awakens...

The timeline numbered T-897? Lin Ye frowned. What kind of place was that?

The detector suddenly emitted a piercing alarm, and a line of large red text flashed on the screen: [Warning: T-897 timeline energy reading anomaly! Ancient life detected!]

Sun Wukong stared at the screen, then suddenly remembered something: Wait! I think I heard a similar designation from King Kai... It seemed to say... a long, long time ago, there was an ancient being sealed away...

Vegeta scoffed: Here we go again? Don't we have enough trouble already?

Lin Ye remained silent, only gripping the memory crystal tightly in his hand. He could feel the chilling malice emanating from the depths of the crystal—a presence more terrifying than machinery. The crisis at the Omni-King's Palace had temporarily subsided, but the real storm seemed to have only just begun.

He gazed out the window, where the galaxies of the multiverse shimmered in the distance. In some unknown timeline, Omega's red eyes were being rekindled in the darkness, while a forgotten ancient being seemed to be slowly opening its eyes from its slumber.

We have to go. Lin Ye turned around, looking at his teammates with a determined gaze. The next battlefield is in the T-897 timeline.

Sun Wukong grinned, revealing his familiar tiger teeth: Alright! No matter what ancient being it is, let it taste my fist!

Vegeta clenched his fist silently, his Super Blue aura flickering around him: Don't hold me back, monkey.

Lin Ye took a deep breath, silently reciting Weiss's name. He knew that the battle to come would far exceed their expectations. And the core truth hidden at the end of time would soon slowly unveil its cold veil amidst the mist of the T-897 timeline.

Chapter 226 The Battle of the Two Gods

As the gears of time turned in reverse, Lin Ye's eardrums were filled with a shrill scream like shattering glass. He suddenly opened his eyes, and the Time Core in his palm was emanating a ghostly blue light—the small hand of the Mechanical Omni-King had just been raised to his chest, and the annihilation energy gathering at his fingertips had not yet taken shape; Dr. Gero's sinister smile froze in mid-air, and the red light of his mechanical eyes flickered erratically due to the reversal of time; the angels on the twelve metal pillars maintained their bound, stiff postures, and the metallic patterns on their wings were fading their luster at a visible speed.

"Let's try a different approach this time!" Lin Ye's mental energy spread out like a spiderweb, and as his fingertips gripped Goku and Vegeta's shoulders, tiny sparks of energy flew from their skin. His voice, hoarse from the reversal of time, was sharp and polished, each word like sandpaper: "Goku, use the Kaioken to entangle Gero! Vegeta, the destructive energy must precisely hit the quantum lock node of the metal pillar!" The energy leaking from between his fingers scorched the ground with spiderweb-like black marks, and deep within the cracks, one could even see silver ripples caused by the reversal of the laws of time.

Sun Wukong's pupils contracted sharply, and the red aura of the Kaioken surged twentyfold like a volcanic eruption. Golden flames exploded with a thunderous roar, leaving nine afterimages in his wake. His fists traced spiraling waves of energy through the air—each wave accompanied by a sharp, space-tearing sound, slicing spiderweb-like cracks into the surrounding metal walls. Dr. Gero's mechanical eyes spun wildly, his retina flashing with dense streams of data. His metal arm unfolded like a folding fan into a triangular shield to block. When the seventh punch struck, the energy field on the shield rippled like water, blue-purple sparks erupted from the energy core in his chest, and even the cooling pipes on his back spewed out scorching steam.

Vegeta snorted coldly, his silver hair turning a deep purple under the influence of destructive energy. As he leaped, the faint emblem of the God of Destruction appeared behind him—the energy trajectory personally instructed by Beerus. Five blades of destructive energy slashed out in a fan shape, their edges wreathed in distorted light, precisely striking the rhomboid quantum locks on the metal pillar. With a cracking sound, the blue light of the locks shattered like glass, and the bound angels fell like puppets with broken strings. When Macarita hit the ground, the metal armor at the edges of her wings peeled away like a snake shedding its skin, revealing the newly revitalized white feathers beneath. She struggled to lift her head, the afterimage of the red light from her mechanical modifications still lingering in her eyes.

Seizing the opportunity, Lin Ye teleported to the southeast corner. The Time Core hovered and spun above the control panel, its surface runes flickering like a heartbeat. The instant his palm touched the crystal, countless streams of information flooded his mind like molten iron—he saw how the fragments of the Time Supreme God's scepter fused with the core in the quantum storm, and felt the folding and extension of the laws of spacetime at the microscopic level. Even more astonishingly, he heard the ancient mechanical race's construction log: "[The Time Core is not a tool, but an anchor of the laws...]".

So that's how it is... Lin Ye suddenly bit his tongue, and the moment the blood dripped onto the crystal, the runes suddenly lit up with a crimson light. He could clearly see the causal chain twisting into a Möbius strip around the Time Core; you can not only reverse time, but also forcibly rewrite local causality.

Before the words were even finished, a blinding red light suddenly erupted from the Mechanical Omni-King's forehead. The small figure hovered above the dome, the mechanical patterns swirling around it glowing crimson, and a computational matrix composed of countless 0s and 1s appeared where the crown had been. Lin Ye abruptly looked up and saw a jet-black energy sphere gathering in the Mechanical Omni-King's raised hand—silver time cracks flowed across the sphere's surface, each fluctuation causing the surrounding metal floor to ripple like water, and even the dust in the air to float in reverse.

"Not good!" Vegeta instantly stepped in front of Lin Ye, his body converging into a three-layered shield of destructive energy. His pupils contracted to pinpoints: This power... is more thorough than the annihilation of a God of Destruction! It's rewriting the very logic of matter's existence!

The instant the annihilation bullet struck, Vegeta's shield shattered like glass. When the first layer shattered, the shockwave forced him back three steps; when the second layer shattered, his back crashed through the alloy wall, revealing blue currents surging beneath his exposed skin; when the third layer collapsed, he was blasted through three layers of walls, slamming into a mountain of mechanical wreckage, his coughed-up blood disintegrating into specks of light in mid-air. Goku roared in fury, unleashing a tenfold Kamehameha towards the Machine Omni-King in a spiral, only to be deflected by a casual wave of the Omni-King's energy barrier. The shockwave ripped off the ceiling of the control room, revealing a leaden-gray mechanical cloud—a matrix of countless miniature robots emitting a swarm-like buzzing.

Lin Ye gripped the Time Core tightly, and the crystal suddenly emitted a rapid beeping sound. An electronic female voice, unlike any he had ever heard before, rang in his mind, carrying the slight distortion characteristic of quantum fluctuations: [Host's vital signs detected as approaching the threshold... Final protocol activated... AI Assistance System Star activated.]

A beam of blue light emanated from the Core of Time, condensing into a semi-transparent phantom of a young girl in Lin Ye's palm. She possessed cascading, luminous hair, each strand flowing with binary code, and her eyes shimmered with star trails composed of countless data streams: "Lord Lin Ye, I am the spacetime guardian AI left behind by the Supreme Kai of Time." The phantom's fingertips touched the Core of Time, causing the crystal's light to surge dramatically, illuminating the entire control room as if it were daytime. The core of the Machine Omni-King was a quantum brain fused with the Omni-King's power, its defense matrix composed of 108 layers of causal firewalls. To destroy it, the data chain had to be dismantled from within.

"Can you do it?" Lin Ye watched as the edges of the phantom gradually became transparent, like smoke being blown away by the wind, and a strong sense of unease welled up in his heart. He noticed that the corners of the phantom's mouth always maintained a gentle curve, an emotional simulation that exceeded the program's settings.

This is my mission. The AI ​​named Star smiled slightly, her hair transforming into streams of light that scattered and danced in the air. "Please remember, Lord Lin Ye—the trajectory of spacetime is never a one-way street." As her figure completely transformed into blue light and shot towards the Machine Omni-King, Lin Ye seemed to see countless fragments of spacetime shimmering in the stream of light—those were the billions of years of spacetime data carried by Star.

The moment the blue light entered the mechanical Omni-King's forehead, the mechanical body trembled violently. Chaotic data streams flashed across its previously cold red eyes, like the surface of a lake ripped by a pebble; the energy core in its chest began to flicker irregularly, each flash accompanied by the clanging of misaligned metal gears. Dr. Gero screamed and lunged forward, his mechanical arm transforming into an ion cutter, purple arcs of electricity crackling at its blade capable of disintegrating atoms: "Damn AI! Get out of your quantum brain!"

"Now!" Lin Ye roared, and the silver-white flames of Ultra Instinct collided violently within his body with the golden energy of Super Saiyan God. His hair began to change color from the tips, with silver and gold intertwining and spreading like flames, eventually forming a unique half-silver, half-gold hue; yin-yang-like spacetime patterns appeared on his back, each pattern absorbing and exhaling miniature black holes and newborn stars; the energy sphere condensed in his right fist was no longer of a single attribute, but simultaneously burning with destructive energy—purple lightning—and the silver vortex of spacetime power, with the cycle of galaxy birth and destruction even visible on the surface of the sphere.

This is... a fusion of two divine powers? Goku's eyes widened in shock, even the aura of the Kaioken fluctuated with astonishment; Vegeta struggled to get up from the ruins, his fingers trembling slightly as he wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, an instinctive awe brought about by the power level.

Lin Ye's figure vanished from the spot, leaving behind a silver streak of light spanning the entire control room. When he appeared before the Machine Omni-King, the power of the stars was engaged in a final battle with the quantum brain—the Machine Omni-King's defense matrix showed spiderweb-like cracks, each crack seeping out blue data streams representing the stars. Lin Ye's fist slammed out with a sharp sound that tore through space and time; wherever the fist's wind passed, the air was compressed into a transparent solid, then shattered inch by inch.

click-

The moment the crimson crystal shattered, red and blue energies erupted like a volcano. The Machine Omni-King emitted a scream mixed with electronic noise and a child's cries, its body disintegrating into countless gears and data streams. These gears collided in mid-air, emitting a doomsday-like wail. The small figure curled up in the center was the Omni-King in his original form, his eyes tightly closed, tears clinging to his eyelashes, his small chest heaving violently, as if still struggling in the abyss of a nightmare.

Dr. Gallo roared amidst the energy storm, the remaining half of his mechanical arm emitting wisps of smoke. He pressed the spacetime device on his wrist, and a twisted rift unfolded behind him, its depths shimmering with the colorful light characteristic of higher dimensions: I will reshape mechanical gods in higher dimensions! When causality becomes my tool, you lower-dimensional beings—

Before he could finish speaking, Vegeta's destructive energy blast grazed his shoulder, precisely shattering his mechanical arm into pieces. But Dr. Gero had already fallen into the rift, his remaining mechanical eye flashing a frenzied red light before disappearing, its final roar echoing through the space: "T-897 timeline... An ancient being will devour everything!"

At this moment, the entire mechanical palace began to collapse, and pieces of metal fell like rain, each fragment carrying the aftershocks of annihilation energy. Lin Ye hugged the awakened Omni-King tightly. The little guy shuddered in his arms, opening his teary eyes: "Lin Ye... so many gears are biting me..." His voice trembled with relief, his little finger pointing to the mechanical wreckage in the air that had not yet completely dissipated.

Lin Ye looked at the Core of Time—it had shattered into several pieces, the last wisp of blue light merging into the speck of light left before the star dissipated. That speck of light was slightly warm in his palm, like a star about to be extinguished. Weiss appeared beside him at some point, the metal interfaces from the mechanical modifications still remaining at the base of his wings, yet he used his remaining angelic energy to prop open a semi-transparent protective shield. Each ripple of energy was accompanied by the soft sound of feathers falling: "Run! The spacetime anchor point of this timeline is collapsing. If you don't leave now, you'll be trapped in the cracks of time forever!"

The group rushed toward the spatial rift that had appeared in the center, its edges shimmering with rainbow-like light. Lin Ye looked back and saw a chip, emitting a faint red glow, sinking into the ground amidst the ruins of the Omni-King's Palace. The chip's surface was engraved with the Omega AI logo, and the data streams lit up again the instant the rift closed, forming a strange smiley face symbol.

Just before the white light engulfed his vision, the light spot in Lin Ye's palm suddenly became hot, and Xing's voice faintly sounded, carrying the distant feeling unique to quantum entanglement: "[In the T-897 timeline... an ancient being sealed in the core of a star... is awakening due to Omega's interference... its name is—]"

The sound stopped abruptly, as if forcibly cut off by some force.

When the group stumbled back to the familiar World of the Kaios, the change in gravity nearly caused them to fall. Zeno was fast asleep in Lin Ye's arms, a faint smile on his lips, his small hand still tightly clutching the hem of Lin Ye's clothes. Goku dusted himself off and looked at the suddenly churning dark clouds in the sky—clouds with the pattern of mechanical gears, starkly out of place in the peaceful World of the Kaios: What exactly was that T-897 timeline that the AI ​​mentioned? It sounded even more terrifying than the era of Majin Buu.

Vegeta wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his silver hair gleaming coldly in the sunlight. He stretched his still throbbing shoulder: "No matter where I am, the next time I run into that bastard Gero, I'll dismantle his mechanical skeleton into parts and stuff them into his own time machine." His eyes were sharp as knives, and destructive energy flickered at his fingertips.

Lin Ye didn't speak, but simply opened his palm—the light left by the star was transforming into a key-shaped mark, imprinted on his palm. A miniature star was embedded in the center of the mark, its light flickering with his heartbeat. He knew that while the crisis with the mechanical gods had temporarily subsided, Dr. Gallo's escape and the star's warning foreshadowed a war involving the very origins of the multiverse, which had only just begun.

Deep within a timeline designated T-897, on a barren planet covered in billions of years of molten lava, a massive fissure suddenly appeared in its crust. Deep within the fissure, a colossal, wrinkled eye slowly opened, its pupils gleaming with a light colder than machinery, more ancient than time itself. Its awakening, accompanied by the injection of Omega AI data streams, was dragging the entire timeline into an unpredictable abyss. The wind in the Supreme Kai Realm suddenly became biting. Lin Ye gripped the key imprint in his palm, feeling the heart-pounding pulse emanating from that distant time and space.

Chapter 227 The Watcher of Time

The laboratory lights were so bright that Lin Ye couldn't open his eyes. He instinctively raised his hand to shield his eyes, only to find that his arm was covered with fine scars—marks left by time travel.

"You're finally awake!" Bulma's voice came from the right, tinged with obvious exhaustion and relief. "It's been three whole days. I thought you wouldn't come back."

Lin Ye struggled to sit up, every muscle protesting. He looked around, confirming that he was in Bulma's private lab at Capsule Corporation. The date displayed on the wall showed that he had indeed returned to the original timeline.

I saw it... Lin Ye's voice was hoarse and unlike his own, the earth was destroyed... everyone was dead.

Bulma's hand suddenly froze in mid-air; she was about to hand Lin Ye a glass of water. "What did you say?"

The Machine Gods... they don't just want to conquer Earth. Lin Ye took the water glass, his fingers trembling uncontrollably. Water splashed onto the white sheets. They wanted to restructure the entire planet, turning it into... into their energy source.

Bulma's face turned deathly pale. She turned and furiously typed on the keyboard, bringing up a complex data model. "This is why the timeline fluctuations I detected were so abnormal... Lin Ye, the information you brought back is extremely important."

Lin Ye closed his eyes, but the images still burned in his mind—the city reduced to ruins, the sky covered by a giant mechanical net, his friends falling one by one...

"Hey, look at me." Bulma gripped his shoulder tightly. "You're back now, and we still have a chance to change all of this."

Suddenly, the system interface inside Lin Ye's body popped up automatically, and a brand new data stream flashed before his eyes.

System upgrade complete.

[New Feature Unlocked: Time Observation]

What is this? Lin Ye frowned.

Bulma leaned closer to examine the system interface floating in mid-air. "It seems your system has evolved new abilities due to time travel... Time observation? What exactly can it do?"

Lin Ye concentrated, trying to activate the new function. In an instant, the walls of the laboratory became transparent, and he saw countless overlapping timeline images—Bulma's work at different points in time was displayed simultaneously like film reels.

"I can see... fragments of the timeline," Lin Ye said in shock, as if observing everything from outside of time.

Bulma snapped her fingers excitedly. "Fantastic! This is much more accurate than my time radar!" She rushed to the workbench, dragged out a metal box, and said, "I developed this based on the future data you provided earlier."

Inside the box was a metal sphere the size of a soccer ball, its surface covered with intricate patterns.

Bulma proudly introduced the prototype of the spacetime barrier, which can form within a small area.