Two Years

A week later.

North Kai stared in stunned disbelief at the white orb of light gathered between Jiang Ling's hands.

His face was full of disbelief.

What the hell? This was way too absurd!

No one had ever had such absurd talent!

He'd learned the Spirit Bomb in a week!

"Lord North Kai, is this good enough?"

Jiang Ling put away the little orb of light in his hands and asked, puzzled.

"It... it's good enough... I have nothing left to teach you."

North Kai, still stunned, felt a little ashamed of himself.

He thought to himself,

This young man's future achievements will be limitless!

"Haha."

Jiang Ling stretched and put an arm around Kai's shoulders.

He sat down at the table and picked up a glass of beer.

"Come on, Lord North Kai, let's have a drink, just the two of us."

Clink...

North Kai had officially been led down the one-way road to alcoholism by Jiang Ling.

Half a day later.

Jiang Ling returned to the Temple of the Gods.

Kami looked at him.

He looked at Kami.

They stared at each other.

"Good grief... you learned all of Kai's techniques in just seven days?"

Jiang Ling smiled bashfully, a little embarrassed.

"Yeah, they were pretty simple."

"..."

After a round of friendly pleasantries,

Kami led Jiang Ling into the Temple of the Gods.

They headed straight for a certain room.

"Behind this door is the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. The gravity inside is ten times that of the outside world, and the environment is harsh. Have you made up your mind?"

"I have!"

Jiang Ling nodded solemnly.

He urgently needed to get stronger!

And if he wanted to improve his strength in the shortest possible time, he couldn't avoid using the Hyperbolic Time Chamber!

It was inevitable!

Jiang Ling's eyes flashed as he started to step into the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

Suddenly, he stopped.

He turned and asked, "Kami, what if I get hungry in there...?"

"Don't worry, there's food in there every day, and Mr. Popo will keep bringing in more."

Kami smiled, reassuring him.

"Okay, thank you, Kami."

Jiang Ling said his thanks, then walked into the Hyperbolic Time Chamber without looking back.

As soon as he entered, the door closed by itself...

Before him was an open-plan room with a bed, daily necessities, fruits, vegetables, and so on.

Why call it an open-plan room? Because one side had no wall at all!

It opened onto a vast, white expanse.

Jiang Ling walked out.

As soon as his feet touched the white ground, his body grew heavy.

The gravity was ten times stronger!

Fortunately, he was already used to this level of gravity. Otherwise, he would have taken a tumble on his first visit.

The temperature here also swung between extremes.

Sometimes it reached over forty degrees; sometimes it dropped below minus forty!

Jiang Ling thought for a moment, then took several cases of beer out of the System Space and placed them in a spot where the temperature stayed at a few degrees.

That way, he could always enjoy naturally chilled beer!

Jiang Ling had the perfect plan!

Time drifted by in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

Jiang Ling lost track of how long he'd been inside.

He trained relentlessly.

When he got hungry, he ate; when he got tired, he slept; once he woke up, he started training again!

"Tenfold Kaioken!"

Jiang Ling shouted.

A thick red aura rose around his body.

He held his hands together like a flower bud at his waist. A flash of blue-white light appeared there, growing brighter and brighter until it became a Kamehameha!

"Kamehameha!"

Jiang Ling shouted, firing the blast into the white expanse. The air shook with the roar of wind and rain!

Then Jiang Ling flashed forward, accelerating to his absolute limit!

He actually outpaced the Kamehameha and reached the spot where it was headed!

He spread his arms wide.

He embraced the Kamehameha with all his might!

Boom...!!

A deafening sound rang out.

The violent energy tore Jiang Ling's clothes to shreds.

Jiang Ling fell to the ground, naked.

His chest heaved rapidly.

He flipped his hand over, took a Senzu Bean out of the System Space, and ate it.

Whoosh!

Back to full health!

A powerful aura burst from his body!

His energy had grown stronger again!

That was right.

He'd been using this method to rapidly increase his battle power for a while now. A conservative estimate put his base battle power at over three million!

He'd already reached the threshold for transforming into a Super Saiyan.

He could try turning Super Saiyan!

"Phew~"

Jiang Ling exhaled.

Bare-assed, he carried a few bottles of chilled beer over and sat down on the ground, drinking by himself.

In the Hyperbolic Time Chamber,

the greatest enemy wasn't the environment or the food, but the endless loneliness.

Whenever he felt that way, Jiang Ling would drown his sorrows in alcohol.

Or use the skills the system had given him to draw a few Bulma comics.

Of course, he was always the protagonist.

Maybe singing was the best way to chase away loneliness.

"I turned my face away

So you wouldn't see

The hidden waves are growing more and more apparent

After today

Let's not meet again

I'm afraid I'll wake up every day and think of you over and over"

"..."

"I kissed your face

Your hands once rested on my shoulders

It felt so sweet; I was so attached to you

Whenever I close my eyes

I can always see

All the broken promises coming true"

"..."

Jiang Ling stood on the white ground and sang his heart out to the endless whiteness, naked as the day he was born.

Broken Heart was a song he'd loved in his original world.

And in the Dragon Ball world, he'd helped the song find an even wider audience.

At least several billion humans and animal-people around the world had heard it.

After letting it all out, Jiang Ling took a long swig of beer and wiped the booze from the corner of his mouth.

"Damn it, screw it! For Bulma! For women! I'm going to get stronger!"

A surge of power suddenly welled up inside Jiang Ling. He hurled the beer bottle into the distance with all his might.

Then he fired an Energy blast, hitting the bottle dead on!

"Ura!!!"

Naked as the day he was born, Jiang Ling began another round of training, all swagger and nonchalance!

Outside the Temple of the Gods,

two days passed in the blink of an eye.

Kami and Mr. Popo were carefully tending the flowers and plants in the courtyard.

They chatted about interesting things happening on Earth.

"Kami, have you heard? There's a webnovel author on Earth called Today Has Language. He married ten gorgeous wives."

Kami said in surprise,

"Wow, can he handle that? As far as I know, humans usually have one husband and one wife. It's meant to protect the men..."

Mr. Popo shrugged. "Normally, that's true, but that author is unusually gifted. He can satisfy all of them, and they even spend every night in blissful revelry."

"Good grief!"

Kami couldn't help marveling at how many extraordinary people there were in the world.

Then he changed the subject.

"But have you noticed that celebrity lately? He's promoting the wrong values... encouraging bad influences."

Mr. Popo thought for a moment and said, "That A Kun?"

"Yes."