Ki Cultivation in Progress

Because he had voiced some of the thoughts buried deep in his heart, Talot's attitude toward Gine and Selari changed somewhat.

He no longer constantly hesitated or stopped halfway through his words like before.

Nor did he need to exhaust himself as he had in the past, hiding everything and fearing this and that.

After modifying the Battle Power Detector, Talot began modifying the spaceship as well.

The engineering work was naturally far more difficult, but with the help of the blueprints, Talot had long marked the locations of the modules, allowing him to remove those hidden dangers with ease.

In the end, he reset and restored the spaceship's systems, wiping away all records.

There was a self-check program during this step. Because several modules were missing, the system nearly failed to recover, giving Talot quite a scare.

That sudden panic felt remarkably similar to the sensation of death drawing near.

No!

Talot was not actually familiar with the feeling of death.

But in that instant, his mind went blank and cold sweat poured down his back, making him feel as though he would die the very next second.

Only after finishing all of this did Talot truly feel free.

Afterward, he officially began explaining to Gine and Selari the finer details needed to ensure nothing could go wrong. Naturally, this led to the method of Ki Cultivation.

After all, he had already decided to teach them.

If bringing it out before had not been too shocking, attracting too much attention and danger to himself, Talot would have taught Bardock long ago.

Keeping a low profile all these years had made him unwilling to take any risks. Now that he had escaped the claws binding him, he finally began acting without restraint.

As for the method of teaching ki, Talot used the same approach Son Gohan had used to teach Videl and Son Goten in the later Majin Buu Saga.

Talot himself had successfully cultivated ki through this method as well.

It had to be said that Son Gohan was a genius for coming up with such a method.

Of course, perhaps Son Gohan had merely been influenced by Piccolo's teachings.

Looking back at the early parts of the original story, regardless of who it was, true ki training only began when Son Goku set foot on Kami's Lookout.

Before that, although Earth's Martial Artists had experienced much and gained their own insights, even managing to launch ki attacks, they were merely making effective use of their own strength.

And so, Gine and Selari's training began. They did not yet know that this training would bring a transformative change to their futures.

As both an observer and a participant, Talot began his own training as well.

In truth, he had continued cultivating ki over the past ten days. Otherwise, his battle power would not have risen from 1170 points to 1200 points.

1170 points? That was right. During the previous days of Bardock's special training, Talot's strength had indeed improved greatly, but his actual battle power had only increased by 20 points.

An increase of 30 points over these ten days might seem small, but it was enough to make Talot happy.

Because once one truly embarked on the path of training, even the slightest progress meant moving forward.

As his strength grew, Talot became deeply aware of a problem: if he did not train and stabilize his strength, then even if his battle power reached a certain threshold, neglecting his training would still cause it to decline.

Numbers could change!

Furthermore, after experiencing several major breakthroughs, Talot understood even more clearly that unless one gained a leap in understanding—or rather, experienced an epiphany—even if one's realm loosened and a breakthrough was made, the improvement would not be especially great.

As for other forms of training, aside from cultivating ki, Talot truly had no way to do anything else for the time being.

After all, the activity area inside the Medium-sized Spaceship was only so large. It already felt cramped for one person to engage in intense exercise, let alone three.

Come to think of it, Talot had considered installing a Gravity Device in the spaceship so that they could undergo basic gravity training.

Under greater gravity, even doing push-ups, sit-ups, and the like could have a significant training effect on the body.

Unfortunately, even if he wanted to, he could not do it.

Although people of this era also thought about training themselves, becoming stronger, and maintaining their peak condition at all times, they mostly relied on the powerful strength granted by their innate genes.

Even if scientists could develop a Gravity Device, they would not think of using it for training.

In short, the era was different, and so were the ideas.

Talot now needed to instill the concept of training to grow stronger into Gine and Selari. Only then could he make them even stronger.

Even though, with Gine and Selari's strength, they would have been absolutely invincible on Earth.

Still, they were far too weak.

At the very least, they needed the strength to protect themselves in the future. As for anything else, Talot would not force it upon them.

Time passed day by day.

With goals and new things to do during the long voyage through space, Gine and Selari were instead able to escape the misery of boredom.

In fact, they could have entered hibernation.

But Talot had not done so. If they went into hibernation, Talot would be left alone.

For ordinary Saiyans, the spaceships they rode were generally single-person vessels, and space travel was basically spent sleeping.

Close their eyes, then open them again—no matter how much time had passed in between, it was only an instant.

Ki Cultivation in progress.

By the third day, Gine was the first to sense the existence of ki and successfully guided her own ki out, keeping it within a certain range.

Selari lagged behind Gine, perhaps due to the difference in age, or perhaps the gap in strength.

After all, Gine had a Battle Power of 600.

Compared to Gine, Selari's mistake was more obvious. She treated comprehension as something that required forcibly exerting strength, constantly studying techniques for applying force, so she was always just one step short.

In the end, it was only on the fifth day, under Talot's patient guidance, that she sensed ki's tangible existence and managed some simple control over it.

Was that slow?

Not at all! On the contrary, it was already unbelievably impressive.

After all, this era could not be compared to later generations.

Gine and Selari had sensed ki so quickly and gained basic control over it because their minds were pure, and because the Saiyans' innate strength meant they already had a high degree of control over their own power.

After cultivating ki, their strength had clearly improved, and the things they could do were far beyond what they had been capable of before.

They would naturally be stronger in battle as well, but there was no way for them to spar in such a cramped space.

At the very least, controlling their Battle Power was now simple. With only a little guidance, Gine and Selari could lower their Battle Power below 100.

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