Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 609 Upon entering Naraku, they saw Saiyans fighting Ootengu!
"I remember that the great spiritual vein is underground. Can I enter the great spiritual vein on a physical level?"

"Physical level?"

Sanzu River and Hiro looked at him in confusion.

"It's like this."

Broly crouched down and chopped his hand directly through the ground of the high-rise rooftop.

Sanzu River and Hiro looked at the ground, which was as smooth as tofu, pierced by the boy's palm, and their eyes twitched slightly, but they still began to explain.

"Lord Broly, although the Great Spirit Vein is underground, it is not physically accessible. Only spirits can enter the Great Spirit Vein. Even if a spirit has any last wishes or resentments, it generally needs to settle those wishes or eliminate those resentments before it can enter the Great Spirit Vein."

Broly was troubled. He looked at his goddess master: "Master Aqua, do you have any ideas?"

“I am the goddess of water, not the goddess of death, and I do not have the power to manipulate souls.”

Aqua shook her head in reply, but then, as if struck by a sudden thought, she came up with an idea.

"How about you die first, Broly?"

Upon hearing this, Broly was taken aback, then realized it was a good idea.

"what?!"

Before Aqua could react, her disciple swiftly brought down a blade, slashing her own neck with it.

The condensed sword of energy pierced straight through the neck, which had been stripped of all its defenses.

Sanzu River and Hiroshi stared at the splattered blood and the boy's head rolling at their feet, their minds buzzing. The adult behind the Black and White Twin Ninjas was a living person, but he had just cut off his own head and committed suicide right in front of them. This action completely stunned them.

Is this something a human would do? Even if it's to become a spirit, who would commit suicide like this?
"Broly, I was just saying that casually, how come you're really dead?"

Aqua rushed over in a panic, picked up the boy's head from the ground, and placed it on the headless corpse, recklessly casting resurrection spells on the body.

As Broly rubbed his neck and got up, he looked around at the unchanged environment and subconsciously asked, "Am I a spirit now?"

"Uh, no."

When Sanzu River and Hiro answered, they pointed to Aqua next to them.

"My lord, I have brought you back to life."

If he had some doubts before about how people could be resurrected without the Killing Stone, now he had no doubts at all. His boss's master, or rather, his boss's master's teacher, truly possessed the power to resurrect the dead.

From a sensory perspective, this power wasn't evil. Just now, when I was close by, I felt like my soul was about to be purified. It was only because the Killing Stone in my eye sockets released its power in time that I didn't become a Buddha here, just watching the resurrection scene.

"Master Aqua?"

Broly looked at Aqua with some confusion, not understanding why she was stopping him.

"I'm just worried that I won't be able to bring you back to life."

Aqua explained.

"Now that it's confirmed I can be resurrected, can my soul be released?"

Aqua curled her lip, thinking that the native gods of this world were really clueless. If they could just obey, why would her disciple have to rely on death to achieve the separation of the soul from the body?

"Wait."

Just as Broly was about to die again, Sanzukawa and Hiro interrupted.

"what happened?"

Broly looked at him.

"Lord Broly, although you were quickly resurrected, I still saw clearly that your soul did not leave your body because of your death. On the contrary, your soul is still firmly attached to your body."

"If Lady Aqua hadn't resurrected you, you would probably have transformed into a powerful monster like a zombie or a headless horseman, and wouldn't have appeared in spirit form."

Sanzu River and Hiro quickly explained.

In this world, the stronger a person's soul is, the more likely they are to transform into a powerful demon spirit after death. Sanzukawa and Hiro, who have obtained a portion of the memories and knowledge of Tamamo-no-Mae's spirit, are quite certain that the two ninja masters before them will most likely become beings similar to immortals after death, but they will be immortals who possess a corpse, do not enter the cycle of the Great Spiritual Vein, and exist in the present world.

"No, then what should we do?"

Broly was also a little stunned. Master Aqua could indeed revive corpses, but she couldn't retrieve the souls. And he himself couldn't separate his soul from his body and go to the Great Spirit Vein to persuade the local gods who were unwilling to let their souls return to the human world. The matter of reviving his future mother-in-law was stuck like this, which felt a bit like being stuck in a limbo.

Fortunately, when in doubt, you can first ask your wives for their opinions in the group chat.

In the world of Subarashiki, the lich lady, who was minding the magical item shop in Axel City as usual, became somewhat excited after seeing Broly's request for help in the group chat. Just as she was about to send a message saying, "I am also a ghost and can help. I definitely don't want to go to another world for fun," someone else sent a message in the group chat first.

Xiaoyu: "Broly, don't you have the Sheep Charm? That charm can make your soul leave your body."

"Oh, I forgot about this talisman. I'll go try it."

And soon, new information appeared below.

"Thanks, I've successfully astral projection!"

Wiz: "..."

Silently deleting the message she wanted to send, she sat behind the counter and sighed.

Seeing the group chat message as well, Youyou, who was wiping her magical artifacts, glanced at Wiz over there and sighed helplessly.

Perhaps because she was older than Broly, Ms. Wiz was always shy about making requests of the boys that sounded a bit like pleading.

In the world of Food Souls, Broly had successfully separated his soul from his body using the Sheep Talisman, but looking at Aqua beside him, he had a strange feeling and subconsciously asked, "Master Aqua, have you suddenly shrunk?"

"It's not that I've shrunk, it's that Broly, you've suddenly grown bigger."

Aqua pursed her lips. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she wouldn't have believed that such a large soul was hidden inside her petite disciple.

At this moment, what appeared before Aqua was a tall, strong, muscular young man with arms strong enough to run a horse, broad shoulders and a thick waist, and handsome features.

The other person was wearing a Baya beast skin outfit in the style of the planet Wanpa, and had some scars on his face, but he was full of wildness.

Broly looked down at his palm and found that he had indeed grown larger, at least two or three times larger than his body lying on the ground.

"Hey, why is my soul like this?"

Broly looked at his larger and stronger body, but was somewhat puzzled.

"Lord Broly, the appearance of your soul is related to your self-perception. Your subconscious mind will perceive you as a certain way, and that's how your soul will manifest itself."

Sanzukawa and Hiro, who already believed that Broly was definitely not the little boy, now offered their explanation with an expression of unsurprising certainty.

"I see."

Broly understood that his subconscious sometimes produced strange messages that differed somewhat from his conscious mind.

"I feel that, apart from the scars on your body, Broly, you'll probably look like this when you grow up."

Aqua stroked her chin, circling Broly's youthful spirit form and scrutinizing it closely.

"He didn't grow up badly, he's very handsome, physically strong, and quite well-endowed!"

As Aqua spoke, she touched his face, then his chest, then his abs, and finally gave little Broly a little pinch, revealing a satisfied expression as if she were witnessing her son's early growth.

Broly: "..."

She felt like her goddess master was acting like a delinquent woman flirting with an innocent young man. "Master Aqua, the astral projection time provided by the Sheep Talisman is only one hour. I need to hurry and save face for you, and persuade the local gods in those great spiritual veins."

“Oh, yes.”

Reminded, Aqua became furious and instructed her disciple, "Broly, you must teach those ignorant lower-world native gods a lesson! Let them know that I, the great water god worshipped by the Axis religion, am not someone to be trifled with!"

"Ah."

Broly nodded solemnly and looked at Sanzu River and Hiro.

After a while, seeing that the other party hadn't done anything, Broly quickly asked, "Aren't we leaving?"

"Lord Broly, I have already said that the Killing Stone cannot save you."

"So, my astral projection was actually useless?"

"No, that's not it. I know of a great spiritual vein entrance that you can enter from there."

"lead the way!"

"Ok."

The butterfly boy quickly took off to lead the way, and in his spiritual perception, the young spirit following behind was like a psionic sun. Although the other party did not reveal any terrifying power, just looking at him made his spirit feel heavy, like an ant looking up at a star.

I spoke too soon. The creature that followed was far more terrifying than the Nine-Tails that formed the Sesshoseki. No wonder the Sesshoseki couldn't take it down.

"We've arrived, Lord Broly."

In Hibiya Park, two spirits landed one after the other. Sanzu River and Hiro pointed to the lawn in the center of the park and spoke to the Saiyan spirit who looked like a young man behind them.

"But there's nothing here?"

Broly looked around but saw nothing.

"The entrance is underground."

As Sanzu River and Hiro were talking, they disappeared underground, and Broly followed them in.

The feeling of a spirit entering the underground is somewhat like the feeling of entering a liquid.

The deeper you go, the more stagnant you feel.

After feeling almost like he was in a quagmire, Broly saw a point of light.

Of course, this is not an image seen visually, but a scene perceived by spiritual energy.

Beneath Hibiya Park, however, lies an opening that resembles a passageway.

"Is this the entrance to the great spiritual vein?"

Broly asked the butterfly boy in front of him.

"Yes, but rather than calling it an entrance, it's more like a seal. It seals away the immortal being, the Great Tengu, one of the land gods of the great spiritual vein."

Sanzukawa explained to Hiro that, having witnessed Aqua's ability to resurrect the dead, he honestly recounted the situation here.

"The Great Tengu can also devour spirits. Having been sealed here for so many years, it must be starving. Lord Broly had better be careful if he wants to enter the Great Spirit Vein from here..."

Before Sanzu River and Hiro could finish speaking, Broly burst through the seal.

"Ah, Lord Broly, I haven't told you yet how to get out of the Great Spirit Vein."

Sanzu River and Hiro were shocked. They gritted their teeth and hurriedly followed.

Upon entering the seal, one's spiritual vision is plunged into darkness once again, and the surroundings give one the feeling of sinking, sinking and sinking in a swamp.

Broly moved at an extremely fast speed for three minutes before emerging from a dark passage into a strange space composed of a large amount of black swamp.

He seemed to be the only source of light in the entire space, while the slightly writhing black swamp around him created a sense of oppressive stillness.

"Is anyone here?"

Broly shouted directly, and the slightly writhing black swamp space stopped writhing. Desperate faces gradually appeared on the swamp. Only then did Broly realize that what he was surrounded by was not swamp, but broken souls exuding malice and resentment.

"Ah~"

These souls looked at Broly, the only radiant youth in spirit form in the dark world, and the next moment they let out a piercing scream.

The entire dark space came alive. A massive black wave, composed of countless evil remnants of souls, began to surge toward Broly in mid-air, seemingly wanting to drag him into this endless abyss and let him experience the same despair and pain as them.

"Shut up!"

But before the massive black wave reached Broly, the screams of the evil remnant souls displeased another being.

The black waves were smashed by the giant claws, and the evil remnants of souls were crushed and reassembled. A huge humanoid creature with horns on its head rose from the swampy ocean of evil remnants of souls.

Ootengu, already annoyed by Aqua's harassment of communications, had no patience whatsoever for the idiotic remnants of souls clamoring in the depths of Naraku.

The enormous claw that swung out directly suppressed the noisy voice of the remnant soul, and it also noticed the strange creature above its head that could emit light from the depths of Naraku.

"Who are you, and where did you come from?"

The Great Tengu tilted his head. He sensed danger from Broly, so instead of attacking him directly, he inquired about his identity.

“My name is Broly. I am a Saiyan who came from outside. My master said that you local gods are not giving me face and are unwilling to release the person she was preparing to help me revive. Therefore, I came down to this great spiritual vein in person to talk to you local gods about this matter.”

Broly briefly introduced himself and explained his purpose for coming.

"That imperious voice, is that your master's?"

Broly: "..."

"Fine, I'm hungry. Since you're in cahoots with the guy who woke me up, you might as well stay and fill my stomach!"

"That's what the Great Tengu is saying."

How strong can this outsider be?

Thinking this, he immediately took action, slapping his huge hand towards Broly as if swatting a fly.

But the next moment, Broly teleported in front of the Great Tengu and kicked him in the face.

"Bang~"

The Great Tengu's head was kicked to the side first, and then the enormous force propelled its massive body flying out, crashing into the black wall formed by evil remnants of souls. It made a huge noise, and countless remnants of souls flew up, wailing in pain, their faces contorted.

"I don't know if Master Aqua said something rude, but if you want to eat me, then you'd better be prepared to get beaten up."

Broly looked at the fallen Ōtengu and said seriously.

"Ouch, that hurts, you bastard!"

The Great Tengu got up, his face full of anger. He opened his mouth, and a black energy wave rapidly condensed inside. The next moment, he spat it towards Broly.

Broly neither dodged nor evaded, but instead faced the black energy wave head-on and pushed upwards. When he reached the Great Tengu's mouth, he punched the creature again, forcing it to close its mouth.

Despite the significant size difference, the smaller Broly was undoubtedly hammering the larger Tengu against the black wall made of evil remnants.

When Sanzukawa and Hiro entered the Naraku Land deep within the Great Spirit Vein, they witnessed the Saiyans fighting the Great Tengu, and the Great Tengu was completely powerless against them.

(End of this chapter)