"Of course." Toppo nodded.
"Did something happen?" he asked again.
"Let's talk while we walk," Gohan said.
"Wait for me a moment," Toppo said, going to collect the monster's body.
After all, the meat of this crab-like beast was edible.
Firstly, he wanted to dispose of the monster, and secondly, he wanted food.
As a trainee God of Destruction, he had his own means of storing monsters in his storage dimension.
After putting away the monster, under Toppo's guidance, Marcarita took the two of them to the mysterious space crack.
On the way, Toppo asked about the situation.
Gohan briefly explained what had happened, leaving Toppo speechless.
Six lost universes? Six Gods of Destruction on the run? Or maybe they escaped to the Dark Demon Realm through the space crack they were guarding?
This...
Toppo wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "I don't know about this, and I haven't heard it mentioned by other brothers. You guess they used our passage, right?"
Better not! He prayed silently in his heart.
Gohan said, "Yeah."
In just a moment, the three of them arrived.
It was a remote and desolate planet, devoid of even a single plant. It was a barren world.
But because the space crack leading to the Dark Demon Realm was here, it was not destroyed by Belmod and Toppo.
At this time, two members of the Pride Troopers were guarding the area: Dypso and Tupper.
The two of them were stunned when they saw Gohan and Marcarita arriving with Toppo.
They quickly stepped forward and saluted.
One was the guiding angel of their own universe, and the other was the strongest person in the seventh universe.
They were figures they needed to look up to.
"No need to be polite," Marcarita waved her hand.
She didn't like these formalities and found them too troublesome.
"I came to see this passage," Gohan said directly.
"Have there been any abnormalities in this passage recently? For example, has anyone gone to the Dark Demon Realm from here? Have any monsters come through?"
Dypso replied, "No one has gone to the Dark Demon Realm from this passage. If there had been, we would have stopped it immediately and reported it to Captain Toppo. A few monsters have tried to escape, but they were all stopped. Our brothers suppressed them."
"You have people guarding here all the time?" Gohan asked.
"Of course. Although our Pride Troopers only have 10 members, we still take turns guarding this place. Two people form a team, and each team guards for a year," Dypso replied.
"Didn't you all attend the Tournament of Power? Who was watching then?"
"Oh, the Tournament of Power lasted less than an hour in total. We had a few substitutes to guard it during that time."
"Indeed," Toppo nodded.
They were a group of respectable individuals.
For the safety of the universe, this was necessary.
Gohan said sincerely, "Thank you for your hard work."
"Haha, we've suffered from those monsters and don't want others to face the same."
"Jiren's teacher was killed by a monster from there."
Gohan looked up at the space passage.
High in the sky above the planet, a hole several meters long was torn open.
It looked like a huge monster's eye, with traces of black evil Ki overflowing from it.
Gohan flew up to the crack.
As he approached, wisps of black demonic Ki entangled towards him.
Gohan stretched out his hand, and the demonic Ki seemed to come alive, spreading to his hand and making it feel cold.
He waved his hand to disperse the demonic Ki.
At that moment, a head suddenly poked out from the crack, staring at Gohan with big eyes.
Gohan:...
Monster:...
It was a basilisk with wings on its back, hissing and spitting venom.
The head was as big as a bucket, and the snake was more than one meter long.
When it saw Gohan, it blinked, then quickly retracted its head... and escaped.
Gohan watched for a moment but didn't see it come out again. He decided not to chase it through the passage.
He descended from the sky and rejoined everyone.
Dypso didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "That monster has appeared several times. Every time it sees someone, it shrinks its head and doesn't dare to come out."
"Then it's quite smart," Gohan also smiled.
However, Gohan wasn't very interested in the monster and instead asked about Jiren.
"By the way, where is Jiren now?"
Toppo said, "Since losing to you, Jiren has been practicing hard..."
"He used to have one obsession, which was to gain the approval of Lord Gicchin and resurrect Lord Gicchin. But now he has two obsessions."
Gohan pointed at himself, "To defeat me?"
Toppo said, "Exactly. Defeating you has now become his obsession. During the Tournament of Power, he was defeated by you. Later, I used the art of assimilation to become one with him, but we were still defeated by you. This has become his inner demon."
"He has been practicing hard now. He just wants to defeat you with his own hands when he sees you again, instead of relying on the power of assimilation..."
Hmm...
Cooler was like this, and now Jiren was too.
Gohan said, "Then has his teacher been resurrected?"
Toppo shook his head and said, "No, Lord Gicchin has been dead for too long, and there is no Super Dragon Ball in our universe, so there is no way to resurrect him."
Hearing this, Gohan understood clearly.
Indeed, Jiren was over a thousand years old, and Gicchin had been killed by a monster when Jiren was young. Hundreds of thousands of years had passed. If there was a theory of reincarnation in Universe 11, Gicchin would have been reincarnated long ago.
Ordinary Dragon Balls simply couldn't revive him.
To resurrect Gicchin would require distorting time, and only the Super Shenron could likely do that.
The Super Dragon Balls were only scattered in the sixth and seventh universes.
With Jiren's current abilities, he probably wouldn't be able to collect the Super Dragon Balls.
Therefore, it was normal for Gicchin not to be resurrected.
"Actually, there's something else I'm curious about. Is the monster that killed Senior Gicchin dead?" Gohan asked.
"Hah," Toppo sighed and continued:
"We can't find it, not at all. The monster seems to have disappeared and never reappeared. We all suspect that it ran back to the Dark Demon Realm after killing Lord Gicchin."
"For this reason, Jiren wanted to go to the Dark Demon Realm many times to find the monster."
Gohan said, "Well, I really didn't expect this. I thought that monster was dead."
Then he said to Marcarita, "Miss Marcarita, please take me to meet Jiren."
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