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Chapter 382 Surpassing and the Gap

After Vegeta regained consciousness, as the victor, all his negative status effects had been removed by White Night.

Everything that just happened felt like a dream. He could feel and understand the pain he had experienced, but now everything was alright because he had woken up from the dream.

He will now face everything as a victor.

Byakuya stood in front of Vegeta, looking at him in surprise.

Even without considering the future, he hadn't anticipated that Vegeta would ultimately win, which felt somewhat reasonable yet unexpected.

"Alright, as the victor, what is your wish?"

Byakuya looked at Vegeta and asked, "I can grant you one wish that isn't too unreasonable."

Vegeta didn't speak, but stared at the entire arena.

At this moment, the entire arena was deserted, and everyone, regardless of which universe they came from, had their eyes fixed on Vegeta.

All these trillions of beings want to know what wish Vegeta will make when facing the supreme being, Byakuya.

Do you want invincible martial prowess? Or absolute conceptual power?

Or perhaps you should make three more wishes?

Standing on the field, Vegeta felt as if he were in another world, and even now he felt that this victory was too dreamlike.

He actually defeated everyone in the world single-handedly, through sheer willpower.

"I really made this." Even with Vegeta's arrogance, he couldn't help but think in a daze.

Bai Ye stood smiling to the side, not urging the dazed Vegeta, but letting him savor this moment, which was what the victor deserved.

Vegeta stood quietly on the ring for a minute, making the audience below and the audience on the ring wait silently for a minute.

After a long silence, he finally spoke his first words: "No need."

"Hmm?" Bai Ye tilted his head and looked at Vegeta, not understanding what he meant.

"What I mean is, I'm giving up on this wish."

After regaining his senses, Vegeta said somewhat indifferently, "Now I have defeated the entire world, and the destroyed Planet Vegeta can be reversed and reappear under my will."

"As for becoming stronger..." Vegeta recalled the scene from the arena battle and couldn't help but feel nauseous.

That was a nightmare experience, and he barely managed to get through it. Now, the thought of cultivation makes him almost gag.

"Alright, since you've chosen not to make a wish, then forget it." Bai Ye nodded.

Meanwhile, outside the arena, a commotion had erupted as the audience stared at Vegeta in disbelief.

This was a chance to make a wish, and you just gave it up like that!

Countless people find Vegeta's choice difficult to understand.

"However, there's one question I've always wanted to ask you." Vegeta turned to look at Byakuya.

"Go ahead and ask," Bai Ye agreed.

"How strong are you now?" Vegeta stared intently at Bai Ye, his eyes filled with unwavering determination.

Bai Ye was slightly surprised, not expecting the other party to be so concerned about this question, a question that had already been answered once before.

"The power we gained through arduous training all comes from you, doesn't it?" Vegeta looked deeply at Byakuya and finally voiced his question.

Looking at the white night, Vegeta said sincerely, "During the competition, I spent four hundred years finally surpassing Beerus."

"I spent another five thousand years and finally surpassed the Omni-King."

"After a long period of arduous cultivation, approximately 75 million years, I was confident that I could defeat Sun Wukong."

"And those three damn Tien Shinhan, Yangwang, and Tongguang, even if I had to go through it all over again, I wouldn't be confident that I could make it to the end and be the only one left."

"But I believe that as long as I keep working hard and maintain that level of effort, sooner or later I will be able to defeat them in terms of willpower."

Vegeta spoke through gritted teeth, a sense of sorrow lingering in his voice, which gradually calmed the clamor on the stage.

"Only Bai Ye, facing you who bestowed power upon us, I have not been able to even glimpse the tip of the iceberg of your strength from beginning to end."

Vegeta stared directly at Bai Ye and said, "Before the match, you said that three days ago you were 754 billion to the power of 30 billion times stronger than me."

"Now, after trillions of years of arduous cultivation, my strength has barely reached one seven millionth of yours three days ago... no, four days ago."

"And what I want to know now is... just how strong are you right now?"

Vegeta's words shocked everyone present; no one had expected him to say such a thing.

Even the three, including Kirimitsu, who had fought him for millions of years, were moved.

In fact, wanting to know just how strong Byakuya is has become an obsession for Vegeta.

"How strong am I now?" Bai Ye smiled as he looked at Vegeta, deciding to answer the other's question:

"If we were to compare your current strength to 1."

"Here it comes..." As Bai Ye spoke, everyone present perked up. It was the familiar metaphorical method, using Vegeta as the unit.

Bai Ye explained simply: "Then multiply your current power by 10, and use that number as the base to create an 8181-layer exponential tower where each layer is a power of 300. If the resulting power is considered the first layer..."

「也就是(10^5)^(10^16)^(10^16)^(10^16)^(10^16)……一共有8181个(10^16)，最后得出的力量是第一层。」

"Next, convert the digits obtained from the first layer to 1, and then calculate the second layer using the same formula, followed by the third and fourth layers... and so on. I should be here now."

With a smile, Bai Ye gently raised his right hand and made a gesture of pointing to the universe, under Vegeta's wide-eyed gaze: "About 79 trillion layers."

"Of course, 'now' refers to the very second you asked that question."

"Now that almost two more minutes have passed, we need to describe the changes in our strength again."

Bai Ye leaned forward slightly and asked in a gentle tone, "Now... do you understand?"

Having the ability to easily shape and destroy the universe, he naturally understood the concept; it was just that the gap was too vast for him to accept.

How could he have increased so much in just three days? I haven't seen Bai Ye train hard at all.

He nodded somewhat absentmindedly and said, "I roughly understand."

The audience was completely silent. After the competition, most of the contestants' brains had surpassed those of computers, but they were still amazed by this power.

"Actually, I thought you would wish for invincible power."

Bai Ye casually said, "In that case, I could easily elevate you to a level several levels below mine, but I didn't expect you to want nothing at all."

Seeing the Saiyan prince, who was clearly victorious but seemed somewhat dejected, Bai Ye helplessly comforted him, "Alright, don't dwell on it. At least for now, the gap between us can still be described in words, because it will only get bigger in the future."

(End of this chapter)