I Alone Understand The Heavens (*Wuxia parody*)
Description: Sun Wutien recalls the adventures of Wukong, and sets out on his own journey to become the "Strongest under the Heavens". (*A Wuxia parody. What if Dragonball was a silly Chinese Wuxia story instead of a silly shonen jump action manga?*)
The recollections of Sun Wutien, the one who comprehends the heavens, descendent of Sun Wukong, the one who comprehends emptiness.
Wukong was a hero, or so they tell me; Elder Brother Wufan, the one who comprehends sustenance, would always say as much, recounting his many various chronicles of glory.
From when he was unmatched, even as a young boy to learning techniques that took his venerable elders over 50 years to create and master, and having in him the strength to effortless defeat the Red Ribbon clique, who was intent on conquering over the whole lower dragon realm.
But he was not without his own fair share of struggles, either. At times, he would be a bit too late - late in saving shaman Bora, being defeated by the Assassin of the Dark Realm, Daobaibai, and so on. But whatever humiliations he was dealt, he would also return it a hundred-fold.
To defeat Daobaibai, he had undertaken the Climbing Tower trail, and had trained with and overcome his venerable elder White Cat, and drunken of "The Water Which Expands (Lesser)" Greatly expanding his cultivation levels at the time, and allowing him to easily overcome the assassin Dao.
In his travels, he had uncovered many mysteries of the realm, expanding his cultivation with all sorts of treasures and sustenance from across the lower Dragon Realm.
It was through such methods and training that he eventually become the match and equal of the unnamed Demon King, who would use the "Dragon's Remains" artifact to restore his own youth in perpetuity. Their battle was long and hard-fought, though Wukong ultimately came out the victory, putting an end to the Demon King's long reign of terror. Even his reincarnation, created through unscrupulous cultivation techniques, as well, would eventually be defeated in a similar way.
However, it is only when Wukong's brother, Luobo, from the Higher Dragon Realm arrived that Wukong would have faced his first real challenge, and be opposed even on to death.
Not even death, however, could stop Wukong. Having ascended to "The Realms of Death", Wukong there confronted Death-King Yanmo, to seek out training. Though Yanmo had refused him, so Wukong sought out an even strong teacher, The One of The Northern Death Realms, after crossing through "The Narrow Domain of The Snake".
After cultivating thoroughly there, he had managed to return to the lower dragon, where await him the ones born of the same blood lineage, the Cai clan. Of them, Caishu of the Cai clan would eventually be his strongest foe and rival for many years to come.
In the Namejian Realm, as well, there Wukong would be challenged. First by the Nainyu Commandron, but later also by the one they served, "The Imperial Ruler of Frost". One whose cruelty and realms of subjgation knew practically no end, skin covered in scales of white and dark-azure, resembling more a lizard than a man.
Their duel would later become the stuff of legends, though neither of them would know it at the time.
"Wukooooooong!"
"Frost Emperor!"
It was through Wukong's loss of his trusted companion, Lizi, that he would gain a new comprehension of the way of "emptiness", allowing him to break through, in the midst of battle, to an all new realm of cultivation and power. Elder Brother Wufan was but a mere child at the time, but he recalls what a legendary sight it was, to have seen such a transformation in both Wukong's temperament and power.
Elder Bother Wufan would eventually attain a similar state, and surpass even that against his own foe, Shieru, an abomination created by "The Mad Cultivator" Tuu, formerly a head cultivator of the Red Ribbon Clique, Shieru was born through a coagulation of the blood and flesh of all the strongest Cultivators that Tuu could get his hands on, creating a monstrous abomination of a lifeform, but one whose strength could not be denied. It was only through Ancestor Wukong and Elder Brother's efforts that it was defeated, and it was through his battle with Shieru that Elder Brother Wufan managed to break past his former limits, and understand a new way of comprehension, even beyond Wukong's.
Now, this humble Sun Wutian, the one who comprehends the Heavens, second son of Wukong - the one enlightened to emptiness, shall set out on a journey.
One to Comprehend the Heavens, and to become the strongest under them.
Author's Notes:
I don't even know what Buu would be in this parody. Something like an even more amped up version of Cell (Shieru)? But maybe made from a whole Realm's worth of blood sacrifices, and inflicted with a constant cure of never-ending hunger, which can only temporarily sated, by consuming the inhabitants of other realms, or something. And with the ability to siphon power from other cultivators' whose flesh have been consumed. Beerus would be easy enough, could just keep his title.
Cell taking 10 days to cultivate with Goku and Gohan entered "A hypertime-realm".
How would Dragonball Super pan out in this kind of continuity? No idea. Future Trunks would also be interesting, maybe something like having come from "A Realm of Time Passed"? Or something very silly like that. Androids 17 (Shiichi) and 18 (Shiiba)? Ordinary place cultivators boosted to extreme levels by The Mad Cultivator Tuu's inhuman experimental cultivation methods, used on them unwillingly after having kidnapped them. In exchange for their memories and humanity, their cultivation realms are constantly expanding at a linear rate even without any meditation or training, and they perpetually generate chi. (Unfortunately for them, the Dragon Warriors' growth rate is exponential rather than linear.)