Combat power increases, does potential also increase?

"Ki?"

Hearing Lin Chuan's words, Son Gohan immediately grasped the key point.

It must be said that he is truly intelligent.

No wonder he was able to become a scholar through his own efforts in the future.

To be honest, the vast majority of Saiyans are of the combat type.

Although there are support-type non-combatants, a warrior like Son Gohan—who is both freakishly intelligent and possesses infinite potential—is practically non-existent!

To describe him in one phrase: he is a man of both literary and martial excellence.

Looking at Son Gohan, Lin Chuan couldn't help but associate him with the settings from his past life.

Regardless of anything else, he was originally meant to replace Son Goku as the protagonist in the source material... It's a pity he ended up as the Great Saiyaman. With a flicker of thought, Lin Chuan sighed to himself and prepared his explanation.

"It seems that guy Son Goku really hasn't taught you anything at all," Lin Chuan remarked with a touch of sarcasm.

His father is the number one martial artist on Earth, yet his son has been raised like this.

"Actually, I wanted to train with Dad, but Mom was afraid I'd get hurt, so she never agreed to it," Son Gohan replied, sounding a bit aggrieved.

Hearing this, Lin Chuan thought to himself, as expected.

He didn't dwell on it further.

Many things are inherently subject to great controversy.

Is Chi-Chi wrong?

She isn't wrong, either.

It can only be said that they were considering things from different perspectives.

To be honest, Lin Chuan could actually understand.

What he meant by saying Son Goku hadn't taught Son Gohan anything was that he hadn't even told Son Gohan what Ki was.

"Alright, let's put your family's past aside for now."

"Let me first explain to you what Ki is!"

"Ki is the most fundamental energy within a living being; it is something that every one of us who is alive possesses... This power, hidden within life itself, can be freely manipulated through practice or training..."

"Like this."

As he spoke, Lin Chuan raised his hand and condensed a golden sphere of light.

For a beginner, condensing such a large orb of Ki instantly is impossible.

However, once one has cultivated Ki to a certain level and learned how to utilize it, they can manifest it with a mere flick of the hand.

"Is this... Ki, Uncle Lin Chuan?" Asking a question he already knew the answer to, Son Gohan stared with wide, curious eyes.

Coming into contact with cultivation for the first time—and experiencing Ki directly—Son Gohan had naturally discovered a whole new world.

Nodding slightly, Lin Chuan retracted the orb of Ki and continued, "Ki has many classifications, and its applications are even more numerous!"

"For example, we can use Ki to perform energy attacks, which you witnessed not long ago."

"We can also control Ki during close-quarters combat to inflict greater damage, and so on."

"Of course, flight is one of those applications as well."

"Therefore, if you say you want to learn how to fly, cultivating Ki is the first step! Only by learning how to cultivate and control Ki is it possible to fly in the sky."

As he finished speaking, Lin Chuan controlled his body to hover in the air once more.

This time, however, he only lifted slightly off the ground.

Son Gohan listened, stunned, but he generally understood that he had to learn how to utilize Ki to accomplish various things, such as flying.

Landing back on the ground, Lin Chuan looked at Son Gohan with a smile.

"Uncle Lin Chuan, please teach me." With his impeccable manners, Son Gohan truly gave off the feeling of a child who was worth teaching.

Since he had put it that way, was there any need to hesitate?

Lin Chuan immediately brought him to the grass, where they sat cross-legged, and instructed him to first guide his own Ki to sense its existence.

This method, simply put, also relied on one's own intuition.

Regarding the cultivation of Ki, it had taken Lin Chuan two or three years to reach a certain level.

Just to guide the Ki within his body to the point where he could sense its existence, Lin Chuan had spent several days.

Even with the help of the Saiyan ancestral memories, which meant he was naturally capable of energy-based attacks, it was still extremely difficult to guide that energy without a proper method of Ki cultivation.

To put it simply, when he was only two or three years old, he had learned to run before he had learned to walk.

When you look back and want to learn to walk properly, you realize you don't know how to walk at all.

Only through day-after-day cultivation and accumulating progress bit by bit can one truly gain complete control over their own power.

In the original story, Vegeta discovered this, and by utilizing his battle against Son Goku and the insights gained after recovering from severe injuries, he was able to rapidly master the various applications of Ki.

At that time, he had actually only just begun to learn how to sense Ki and control his own; it was only later, upon arriving on Earth, that Vegeta's true transformation began.

Vegeta is a genius!

This is beyond doubt!

However, the reason his strength advanced by leaps and bounds so quickly, and why he was able to cultivate his Ki to such a high level, was also because he already possessed sufficient strength. Therefore, the foundational aspects of Ki cultivation were incredibly easy for him.

It is much like how, once Lin Chuan's strength reached several thousand, or even surpassed ten thousand, the basic application and cultivation of Ki became incredibly simple.

"Remember, guiding your own Ki is not about using force, nor is it about forcing your body to exert power. You need to feel it with your heart and guide it out with your heart."

Standing up, Lin Chuan did not forget to say this to Son Gohan.

He then stopped disturbing him and walked away alone.

With Son Gohan's training issues temporarily resolved, Lin Chuan needed to think about other things.

He would never have guessed that because he changed Son Gohan's training method and taught him how to perceive and guide the Ki within his body ahead of time, Son Gohan would possess power on the level of the Z Fighters of the current era in a very short time.

The potential within Son Gohan is infinite. As long as it is guided slightly and that potential is unleashed, his combat power will surge accordingly.

Of course, that is a story for another time.

For him, he still needed some time to earnestly consolidate his own strength and realm.

Even if the combat power bestowed by the system was just like that which he had cultivated himself.

Arriving alone at another open space, Lin Chuan sat down slowly, crossed his arms over his chest, and his eyes gleamed.

While doing his warm-up exercises earlier, he had sensed a strange anomaly.

That was, as his strength increased, along with the boost in combat power, his body seemed to be conveying a feeling of dissatisfaction to him.

It was that feeling of clearly being able to erupt with powerful strength; it was as if as long as he trained a little more, his own strength could surge even further.

While my combat power increases by 1 every second, is my potential also increasing? Is that why my body is instinctively telling me this? Lin Chuan pondered.

This point could be verified over the next period of time.

Closing his eyes, Lin Chuan entered a meditative state.

This training method could be said to have been borrowed from Piccolo and Krillin from the original story.

In the past, having no opponents and no particularly good training methods, meditation and simulating battles against opponents in his subconscious world were among the few methods Lin Chuan had.