Frieza's body had become quite petite, estimated to be only around 1.5 meters tall.
Ino smiled. "That large hole in your chest requires deep sleep to recover, doesn't it? It's a pity, but it seems your energy can't be restored to its peak state."
Frieza looked down at his own chest. That previous strike, which had literally gouged out his heart, had affected him greatly.
Ino's judgment was correct. He was currently fighting under the premise of lacking a heart. While this wasn't fatal, doing without it was still not viable. Of his full strength, he couldn't even exert eighty percent right now.
Frieza raised his right hand, fingers splayed open, and spoke very calmly, "I have already seen through your reality. I don't know your specific battle power, but I only need to bring out 50% of my energy to turn you into cosmic dust."
"Hahahaha—" Ino laughed. "What kind of bullshit are you bragging about? My current battle power is far above yours."
Previously, when she assimilated the West Supreme Kai's body, that stage—looking back at it now—didn't count as being a god. At most, it was a demigod. The West Supreme Kai's strength was truly less than one percent of her own peak era; she was essentially an official bootleg product.
Ino's current level didn't have the massive, direct 50-times increase of a Super Saiyan, but she was genuinely at the ceiling of the Otsutsuki. She could feel the golden chakra flowing through her body like mercury.
"Is this form of yours... some kind of transformation?" Frieza asked politely.
He was full of caution, pondering the intensity of Ino's transformation.
Ino looked at the Emperor of the Universe. "It doesn't count as a transformation. If I explained the overly complex stuff, you probably wouldn't understand anyway. Can we proceed to the final stage of the battle? I still have things to do at home, I really don't have much time to waste here."
Frieza sneered. "Is that so? That is exactly what I wanted to say. Let me finish you within three moves!"
Ino left an afterimage on the spot, instantly appearing behind Frieza. The Flying Thunder God technique of the past had been modified by her again and again; it had now reached the level of line-of-sight locking. Her hands clenched into fists, her ten fingers tight, and with a burst of full-body power, she smashed fiercely onto the back of Frieza's neck.
The Emperor of the Universe possessed no ability to sense ki, but upon suffering a sudden heavy blow to his body, his head subconsciously jutted forward. His reaction was also extremely fast. His petite frame borrowed the force to twist in mid-air, and his three-toed right leg swept backward horizontally. Ino raised her arm to block.
With a muffled bang, she advanced instead of retreating, grabbing the opponent's ankle. She exerted force with both hands, attempting to spin Frieza around and throw him out. However, the Emperor of the Universe's tail coiled back to wrap around her arm. She struggled twice, realizing she couldn't exert force in this posture, so she switched from throwing to smashing, pressing down on Frieza's round head and slamming it toward a nearby cliff.
At the same moment he impacted the cliff, a burst of blazing ki erupted from the surface of Frieza's body. He kicked her in the lower abdomen, sending Ino flying several hundred meters away.
The two hovered briefly in the air. Afterward, Frieza attempted to repeat his old trick, firing Death Beams that emitted scorching red light, one after another.
Ino dodged repeatedly while simultaneously activating her Rinnegan. Several meteorites descended from the sky, smashing toward Frieza's direction.
"Hmm? A strange move." Frieza discovered that the meteorites faintly carried a suction force. Not daring to take them head-on, he dodged as much as he could.
"Nothing remarkable either." When he turned back around, he found Ino's hands placed in front of her forehead.
"Solar Flare!"
Ino's "talent" was limited; using this move wasn't as remarkably effective as when Nappa or Krillin used it. Frieza was only blinded for less than half a second, but that half-second was enough.
She punched fiercely at the opponent's stomach and grabbed Frieza's shoulder. She hesitated for a moment when preparing to use a groin kick—good lord, it was completely smooth down there, a total blank slate. What was she supposed to kick?
Regardless of whether it was useful or not, she kicked anyway. The fact was, it really was useless; it was all muscle there. Instead, the right leg she kicked out was clamped by Frieza's legs, and then he punched Ino in the face.
The pair opened up the distance once again.
Frieza's expression was gloomy. According to his past personality, he would generally start recruiting the opponent at a time like this, but today he was very silent. The enemy before him was a bit difficult to deal with.
A ball of scorching white light appeared in Ino's hand. She tossed this light ball into the air, then clenched her right fist tightly. A decent-looking moon was created out of thin air.
Frieza looked at the sky, then looked at Ino suspiciously. "This is a Saiyan move. What, can you also transform under the moon? It doesn't look like it...?"
Fighting this guy relying purely on her body wasn't easy. After gauging the opponent's patterns, Ino began to use her own combat methods.
"Divine Art: Wood Release: Nativity of a World of Flowering Trees!"
God Power was instilled into every corner of the planet. Large swathes of dried-up land revealed vitality. The plants planted by the Namekians grew at a speed thousands, even ten thousand times faster at this moment. Countless plants were spurred on by life energy, bursting out of the soil. Perhaps the planetary will also sensed its own doomsday and cooperated with Ino's divine technique, squeezing out its last bit of energy. Soon, the dilapidated Planet Namek turned into an ocean of plants.
Overwhelming vegetation filled their vision. Frieza looked forward, backward, left, and right, discovering that the vitality of Planet Namek at this moment was simply unbelievably vigorous.
Calling this method a miracle was not an exaggeration.
"Boring parlor tricks. What use is this?" He floated high in the sky, looking down at the sea of trees below.
The dense vegetation constructed a massive pattern on the ground. Looking down from the sky, it looked as if an eye had appeared in the center of the tree sea.
"Hehe, idiot. I'll destroy this broken planet and see what other tricks you have!"
His right arm raised high, and a high-density compressed energy ball appeared between his fingers.
A sinister smile had just surfaced on his face when he saw a vine over a thousand meters long shoot out from the tree sea below like a poisonous snake.
Frieza only exerted a little force to shatter the vine. Before he could utter a mockery, the vines below wound toward him endlessly.
One or two were no issue; ten or a hundred could be handled indifferently. But if the number reached thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, then it became a bit troublesome.
Countless cyan vines wrapped him up tightly, layer upon layer like a cocoon. The flower petals were usually light and weightless, but under Ino's control at this moment, every fingernail-sized petal that landed on his body would consequently produce a large amount of crystal-clear golden pollen.
Ino held her right hand up vertical. Using these petals as a conduit, she used "Gravity Manipulation" on Frieza.
This move was a bit like Iwagakure's Super Added-Weight Rock Technique, but it was an ability of the Supreme Kai. Instantly, gravity exceeding a thousand times acted upon Frieza's body.
This move was too sudden. He cried out in alarm. His levitation energy was negated by the gravity, and his body plummeted from mid-air. The sea of trees below, like a nightmare with a gaping mouth, swallowed him in one gulp.
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