Multiverse Conquest Starting from Dragon Ball

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Another lifeless galaxy turned to nothingness beneath the shockwaves of his failed attempt. Jiang Chen's body reverted to normal, panting, battle-worn. This time, he didn't rush off to find another uninhabited sector of space. Instead, he hovered in silence, thinking.

Months of grueling effort had yielded almost no progress. Even he was beginning to feel the creeping sting of frustration.

"What am I doing wrong?" He muttered.

Images of Vegeta and Goku's Super Saiyan 4 transformations danced through his thoughts.

Goku had relied on Pan, his granddaughter, to stir deep emotional resonance.

Vegeta had triggered his evolution through unshakable pride in his Saiyan heritage.

In theory, Jiang Chen could have attempted this.

But neither path truly fit him.

He had no Pan and no emotional trigger. And while his bloodline had reached the pinnacle of Saiyan nobility, he lacked the ferocious, unbreakable pride that defined Vegeta.

His path was different.

"It's not about copying them," He realized. "I have something they never did."

His gaze drifted to the Book of Time, then narrowed with focus.

"That's it. The power of time... that's my edge."

Goku had his heart. Vegeta had his pride. But Jiang Chen wielded Chronoa's legacy, control over time itself. The key to unlocking Super Saiyan 4 wasn't just physical, it was spiritual and mental. Retaining consciousness within the berserk golden Great Ape form was crucial.

Goku did it through emotional memory. Vegeta, through pure will.

But what if Jiang Chen could bypass the emotional trigger entirely?

What if he could anchor himself in a stable point in time, replicating his rationality and overwriting the chaos?

If one attempt failed, he could try again.

Twice. Ten times. A hundred.

Endlessly.

With time on his side, he could "cheat" the path to transformation.

Eyes gleaming, Jiang Chen summoned the Book of Time once more. His divine perception scoured the cosmos, locking onto a suitable testing ground. It was a remote, forgotten galaxy on the westernmost edge of the Northern Quadrant, far beyond even Namek.

There was no intelligent life within hundreds of thousands of light-years.

It was perfect.

He descended onto a desolate, lifeless planet.

But this time, he didn't immediately forge an artificial moon.

Instead, he activated the Book of Time.

Swish!

An illusory ripple swept across the void.

A phantom river of time manifested, and within its current, Jiang Chen's form stood frozen, a copy of the moment just before transformation.

He had forcibly carved a fragment of spacetime.

His understanding of the Book was still shallow, so each fragment could only remain stable for about fifteen minutes.

But that was enough.

Swish!

Another ripple surged forth.

One after another, Jiang Chen carved out multiple time-state replicas, fixed echoes of his mind and body.

In an instant, seven such fragments shimmered around him. As each one manifested, the surrounding space grew more and more unstable.

Boom!

Rumble!

The planet shook violently, and cracks spread through the fabric of space itself. Jiang Chen stopped at nine fragments, the limit that this corner of the galaxy could endure. Any more, and the whole region might collapse into a dimensional void.

Huff...

He exhaled slowly. Then, without wasting another breath, he forged an artificial moon.

Roar!

The scene unfolded again.

A towering brown-furred Great Ape rose into the sky.

Moments later, the surge of Super Saiyan energy spread through him, fur turning gold, ki erupting violently.

But once more, the transformation brought madness.

The golden Great Ape roared, and Jiang Chen's mind was swallowed by chaos.

Just as the golden Great Ape was about to unleash its destructive power and annihilate everything in its path, a fragment of time and space suddenly wrapped around it like a shimmering veil.

The berserk aura paused for an instant. A flicker of resistance surfaced in its savage, golden eyes.

But it was fleeting.

"ROAR!!"

The golden Great Ape bellowed again, and its violent instincts surged forth, shattering the fragile moment of clarity. Then, as the fury exploded outward, another fragment of time and space enveloped the beast.

This time, the struggle deepened.

"ROAR!!"

BOOM!

RUMBLE!

A wild, unstable energy storm raged across the broken battlefield. The golden Great Ape flailed, its fists hammering the planet's crust in a frenzy.

The fractured land was torn apart.

Space itself warped and cracked.

Time fragments kept weaving into the Great Ape's body, layer after layer, memories frozen in moments, echoes of who Jiang Chen truly was, anchoring his soul.

At first, it looked no different from his previous failed attempts.

The planet crumbled into stardust beneath his rampage.

But then… something shifted.

The beast did not move on to ravage the next galaxy. Nor did it revert back to Jiang Chen's base form when the artificial moon vanished from the sky.

Instead, it stood motionless in the void.

Breathing.

Its aura pulsed, unstable, yet no longer chaotic.

A glint of consciousness sparked in its eyes. Then more color returned, awareness, memory, identity. At that moment, with all nine time-space fragments fully entwined, the rational mind that had been devoured by primal rage began to reassemble piece by piece.

The Great Ape's howls softened. Its raging energy settled.

And then, there was clarity.

When Jiang Chen's consciousness fully returned, a radiant golden light burst from within the massive beast. His towering simian frame began to shrink rapidly, but it wasn't a reversion to his normal form.

It was a transformation into something beyond.

Something entirely new.

In the silent, starry sky, where galaxies burned and comets passed, a tall, majestic figure now floated, his presence like a blazing star in the night.

At this moment, Jiang Chen's form had undergone a complete transformation. Crimson fur now covered most of his body, while his hair had grown wildly, cascading like a black flame over his shoulders. His eyes shone with a radiant gold hue.

"What incredible power… So this is... Super Saiyan 4?" Jiang Chen murmured to himself, unable to suppress the excitement surging within his heart.

Only after fully transforming into Super Saiyan 4 did he truly comprehend the terrifying scope of its strength. Unlike the standard Super Saiyan or the primal Great Ape transformation, both of which brought overwhelming power that was hard to maintain, Super Saiyan 4 offered full control over that force.

It was, after all, the theoretical evolution beyond Super Saiyan 3.

A balanced fusion of the primal might of the Great Ape and the awakened spirit of the Super Saiyan.

With this form, he could perfectly command the powers of both transformations, no longer losing control or becoming consumed by rage.

At this moment, Jiang Chen was fusing the power of Super Saiyan 2 with the Great Ape form, creating a multiplicative force nearly two thousand times stronger than normal. In the past, such an unstable combination would've torn his mind apart, unleashing a destructive Golden Great Ape that wiped out everything.

But now, things were different. This power, this fearsome energy, had become nearly second nature to him.

In theory, he could even go further. He could stack the Super Saiyan God form on top of Super Saiyan 4.

Of course, that was just a hypothesis for now.

In practice, stacking Super Saiyan transformations wasn't so simple. The only potential for stable fusion lay with the divine power of the Saiyan God, which was inherently calmer and more balanced.

Still, even that possibility was enough to send a chill down any warrior's spine.

It was clear, he had stepped into an entirely new realm.

"The next step..." Jiang Chen whispered, feeling the energy coursing through him. "I need to refine my Super Saiyan 4 and see if it's truly possible to layer it with the power of a Saiyan God."

His path was clearer now than ever before.

The journey ahead was obvious.

Judging by the feats of the Time-Space Patrol, the Super Saiyan 4 form wasn't the end of the road. It could still evolve.

A two-thousand-fold boost… or even four-thousand, as seen in GT's Son Goku, might not be the form's ceiling. With the right training and will, it could be pushed even further.

In theory, Super Saiyan 4's potential was limitless, as long as one could draw out even more dormant Saiyan power.

And if he could successfully layer the Saiyan God's divine energy atop it... his strength would leap to an entirely new dimension.

FWOOOSH!

Moments later, Jiang Chen's surging aura began to calm.

The crimson light faded, the Super Saiyan 4 form dissolving into glowing embers as he reverted to his base state.

His figure flickered and vanished.

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(To Be Continued…)