Qi Cultivation Mastery! Hundredfold Cultivation Effect

Deep within the lush mountain forests of Earth's eastern continent.

A towering, precipitous peak stood out among the surrounding mountains, like the moon surrounded by stars.

Upon a sheer cliff face.

A figure sat cross-legged.

His eyes were tightly shut, and an incomparably powerful aura radiated from his body, yet it was strangely peaceful.

He seemed to have merged with nature itself, to the point that birds would quietly perch upon his shoulders to rest, occasionally pecking at his hair.

He was none other than Kairos.

After leaving Kame House, Kairos had journeyed north, successively finding Ox-King and even the Crane School. He had encountered Master Shen and Tao Pai Pai, as well as three martial artists considered quite powerful on Earth, along with three monster spirits with power levels ranging from several dozen to over a hundred.

By today, it had already been ten days since he left Briefs's home.

He had come here to train because his realm had reached a bottleneck, and he sensed signs of a breakthrough.

He wanted to completely calm his mind and comprehend nature, qi, and a higher realm of martial arts.

That single meditation lasted two days and two nights.

Until this moment, Kairos's aura abruptly changed.

That change caused the birds perched on Kairos to flap their wings and fly away.

The next instant, Kairos opened his eyes. His gaze became increasingly profound, sharp as an eagle's.

[ Ding!!! ]

[Congratulations, Host. The proficiency level of the Five-Heart-to-Heaven Qi Cultivation Method has increased. Current level: Mastery.]

[Advanced Achievement · Qi Cultivation Mastery achieved!]

[Advanced Achievement Reward obtained: Power Level increased by 10,000 points! 1 Advanced Custom Training Suit! The item has been stored in the System Space and may be retrieved at any time.]

The system's notification sounded in his mind.

The corners of Kairos's lips curled slightly, revealing a smile of long-awaited accomplishment.

In truth, his understanding of qi cultivation had long been enough to reach mastery. The reason he had only truly broken through now was, frankly, because he had been getting hung up on the wrong things.

This journey had taught Kairos a great deal, none of it related to who was stronger or weaker.

In martial arts cultivation, great strength did not necessarily mean a profound realm.

Every martial arts master on Earth possessed insights gained through years of practice.

As he continued learning, he broke through his limits again and again, mastered new knowledge, and absorbed all kinds of strengths from those martial arts grandmasters.

Put simply, he was gathering the strengths of every school to make himself more well-rounded.

Without immediately getting up, Kairos first opened the System Space and examined the Advanced Custom Training Suit.

Like the Intermediate Custom Training Suit and the Low-level Custom Training Suit, its basic transformation function remained unchanged. Only its material was tougher and more specialized.

The Low-level Custom Training Suit had a minimum weight load of 100 kilograms and a maximum of 1,000 kilograms.

The Intermediate Custom Training Suit had a minimum weight load of 1,000 kilograms and a maximum of 10,000 kilograms.

The Advanced Custom Training Suit had a minimum weight load of 10,000 kilograms and a maximum of 1,000,000 kilograms.

Compared to the intermediate version, the advanced version had a full hundredfold difference in its figures.

Given Kairos's current physical strength, he did not know whether he could adapt to it.

After all, even while wearing the Intermediate Custom Training Suit, he had only adapted to a 6,000-kilogram load.

Even though his strength was already great and his body was tough and resilient enough, it did not change the fact that Kairos was only a ten-year-old child.

Furthermore, according to the system's description, the Advanced Custom Training Suit's restrictive effects far surpassed those of the Intermediate Custom Training Suit. Though it greatly increased the difficulty of training, the training results it provided were a hundred times greater!

That was equivalent to ten times the effect of the Intermediate Custom Training Suit.

Moreover, the Advanced Custom Training Suit had another function: it could help Kairos survive in extremely harsh environments. For example, he could survive in space without being unable to breathe due to the vacuum, nor would he freeze because of absolute zero.

Of course, provided his own strength was sufficient, Kairos had already confirmed that if he used energy to protect himself, he could also remain unaffected by outer space for a short time.

But the two could not be compared.

Kairos had long wanted the ability to survive in space. It was a weakness shared by countless lifeforms.

"I wonder if Earth has any cultivation methods for tempering the body. As my strength improves, my physical strength must also improve further! Otherwise, I'm far too fragile," Kairos muttered.

Body-tempering techniques were a path his future self had to take.

In the Dragon Ball world, physical strength was of utmost importance. It not only concerned the strength of one's essence, qi, and spirit; in battle, a powerful physique was the key to defeating opponents above one's level.

When strength was equal, if you could hurt your opponent while they could not even break through your defense, that was the difference.

He could not rely solely on his qi energy to strengthen his defense. If he fought someone of the same level, the energy consumption would be far greater.

And if he neglected physical strength, then situations like in Dragon Ball Super would arise, where even Kakarot's body could not withstand Sorbet's laser shot.

It seemed ridiculous, but on closer examination, it could still be explained.

For one thing, the technological weapons in the Dragon Ball world were already of an extremely high level. It was simply that the original work had never fully shown it.

How could there be no Planet-Destroying technological weapons?

Perhaps in the early days, they could not achieve such terrifying power. But by the era of Dragon Ball Super, Earth's technological field had reached such heights under Bulma's reforms and innovations. It was hardly strange for the weapons wielded by evil forces across the universe to have attained such horrifying destructive power.

Still, the fact that it could pierce through Kakarot's completely unguarded flesh-and-blood body was rather cliché... Most importantly, after taking that attack, Kakarot was left severely crippled.

For the time being, let's assume Kakarot did it to give Vegeta an opportunity to act.

After all, Son Goku in the Dragon Ball Super era had instead become increasingly childish and had even learned to play all sorts of little tricks.

Yet someone as powerful as Super Saiyan Blue Vegeta still could not withstand the force of Earth Explosion. That was rather disappointing.

One had to know that when Planet Namek, which was far larger than Earth, exploded in the early days, even Frieza's remaining body had not been blown to death.

No wonder that when God of Destruction Beerus first laid eyes on Kakarot, he felt that Kakarot was not even as strong as Frieza.

I remember that Earth in the Dragon Ball world also has martial arts sects similar to the Shaolin Temple. Krillin came from the Shaolin Temple... Kairos thought to himself.

During these ten days of traveling across Earth, he had indeed learned quite a lot and encountered many people who had appeared in the original story. But he had truly overlooked some martial arts sects that existed in the early stages and were only mentioned in passing.

Perhaps next, he could search for these reclusive sects. Maybe he could find a body-tempering cultivation method.

Besides, the Crane School's Hard Qigong was worth practicing properly. He could even directly use a Proficiency Upgrade Card to raise it to the Perfect level.