Combat Power Rising, Potential Rising Too?

"Qi?"

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

He really was clever.

No wonder he would eventually become a scholar through his own efforts.

To be honest, the vast majority of Saiyans were fighters.

There were also noncombatants who played supporting roles, but someone like Son Gohan—brilliant beyond belief and a warrior with boundless potential—was almost unheard of!

In one word, he was a well-rounded talent.

Looking at Son Gohan, Lin Chuan couldn't help thinking of the setting from his previous life.

No matter how you look at it, in the Original Work he was supposed to take Son Goku's place as the protagonist... What a shame he ended up as the Great Saiyaman. Lin Chuan sighed inwardly, then prepared what he was going to say.

"Looks like that guy Son Goku really hasn't taught you anything," Lin Chuan remarked.

The strongest martial artist on Earth had a son who had been raised like this.

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

Hearing this, Lin Chuan thought, Just as I expected.

He didn't make a big deal of it.

Many things were inherently controversial.

Was Chi-Chi in the wrong?

She wasn't.

They simply had different things in mind.

To be honest, Lin Chuan could understand her.

When he said Son Goku hadn't taught Son Gohan anything, he meant he hadn't even told him what qi was.

"Anyway, let's leave your family's past aside for now."

"I'll explain what qi is first!"

"Qi is the most fundamental energy within living beings. Everyone who's alive has it... This power, hidden within life, can be freely controlled through cultivation 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 amount of qi in an instant was impossible.

But once you cultivated qi to a certain level and learned how to use it, you could produce it with a casual gesture.

"So this is... qi, Uncle Lin Chuan?" Son Gohan asked, his eyes wide with curiosity, though he already knew the answer.

It was his first time encountering cultivation, and he was being introduced to qi directly. Son Gohan felt as if a whole New World had opened up before him.

Lin Chuan nodded slightly, then drew the qi back and continued, "There are many kinds of qi, and even more ways to use it!"

"For example, we can use qi to launch energy attacks. You saw one not long ago."

"We can also control qi during close-quarters combat to cause even greater destruction, and so on."

"Of course, flying is another application."

"So, since you want to learn how to fly, cultivating qi is the first step! Only after you learn to cultivate and control qi will you be able to fly through the sky."

As he finished speaking, Lin Chuan lifted himself into the air.

This time, he only rose a little above the ground.

Son Gohan listened in a daze, but he more or less understood that he had to learn how to use qi before he could do all sorts of things, like flying.

After landing again, Lin Chuan smiled at Son Gohan.

"Uncle Lin Chuan, please teach me." Son Gohan was so polite that he seemed like a promising pupil.

Since he had asked so earnestly, was there any reason to hesitate?

Lin Chuan immediately led him to a patch of grass, where they sat cross-legged. He instructed Son Gohan to guide his qi and feel its presence within him.

Put simply, this method depended on one's aptitude.

It had taken Lin Chuan two or three years of cultivating qi to reach a certain level.

Even just guiding the qi inside himself so he could feel it had taken him several days.

Despite the help of the Saiyan ancestral memories and his innate ability to use energy-based attacks, guiding his qi had still been extremely difficult without a method for cultivating it.

To put it simply, back then he had been only two or three years old. He had learned to run before he'd learned to walk.

When he later tried to walk properly, he found that he didn't know how.

Only through consistent cultivation, building things up little by little along the way, could he truly master his own power.

Vegeta had realized this in the Original Work. By using his battle with Son Goku as an opportunity, he reflected on it after recovering from his injuries, and quickly mastered a range of qi techniques.

At the time, he had only just learned to sense qi and control the qi within his own body. It was only after he came to Earth that Vegeta truly began to transform.

Vegeta was a genius!

There was no doubt about that!

But his rapid increase in strength, and the speed at which he cultivated qi, were also due to how powerful he already was. That made the fundamentals of cultivating qi much easier for him.

Likewise, once Lin Chuan's Combat Power had reached several thousand and even surpassed ten thousand, the basic applications and cultivation of qi had seemed incredibly simple.

"Remember, guiding your own qi doesn't mean straining or forcing your body to exert itself. You need to feel it with your heart and guide it out with your heart."

Lin Chuan stood up and reminded Son Gohan once more.

Then he left him alone and walked away.

Son Gohan's training was taken care of for now, and Lin Chuan had other things to think about.

He had no idea that simply by changing how Son Gohan trained and teaching him to sense and guide the qi inside his body ahead of time, he would allow Son Gohan to gain the strength of a Z Fighters-level warrior of this era in a short time.

Son Gohan's potential was limitless. With just a little guidance, his potential would erupt, and his Combat Power would soar along with it.

Of course, that was for later.

For now, Lin Chuan still needed time to properly consolidate his own strength.

Even though the Combat Power granted by the system felt just like strength he had gained through his own training.

Lin Chuan went alone to another open area and slowly sat down, his arms folded across his chest and his eyes glinting.

During his warm-up earlier, he had also noticed something strange.

As his strength increased, along with his Combat Power, his body seemed to be telling him that it wasn't satisfied.

It felt as though he could unleash immense power, and that with just a little training, his strength could soar even further.

As my Combat Power increases by one point every second, is my potential increasing too? Is that why my body is instinctively telling me this? Lin Chuan mused.

He could test this over the next little while.

Closing his eyes, Lin Chuan entered a world of meditation.

He could be said to have learned this method from Piccolo and Krillin in the Original Work.

In the past, he had no opponents and no particularly good training methods. Meditation and simulating battles against opponents in his subconscious were among the few methods available to him.