Mount Paozu!
"King Kai Fist!!!"
A loud shout rang through the valley. Looking closely, Raditz was trying to use the King Kai Fist!!
The white aura around him gradually turned red, and his long hair fluttered in the surging waves of energy!
Boom!!!
His muscles swelled in an instant, making him look a whole size bigger!!
"Right, just like that. Hold steady. Control your energy, and make it ignite your cells so they divide rapidly!" Sun Wukong instructed from the side.
"Haah... yah!!"
Boom!!!
The shock wave from his energy sent clouds of dust billowing across the ground, like a stone suddenly tossed into a still lake!
He'd done it!!
If he had a Scouter, he would have seen that Raditz's battle power had reached 180,000!
It was only natural that his battle power would be unstable the first time, since he hadn't mastered it yet!
Once he had complete control, he should be able to reach 200,000!
"What an incredible technique, Kakarot!" Raditz exclaimed, overjoyed.
"How does it feel? How long can you keep it up?" Sun Wukong asked excitedly.
"If I fight at full power, I can maintain this state until I run out of stamina! But if I increase it by another twofold, I don't think I'll last long," Raditz replied.
"Looks like you need to train your energy properly! That was only double!" Sun Wukong said, a little dissatisfied.
"Kakarot, how many times can you multiply your power now?" Raditz asked, surprised.
Sun Wukong slowly held out his palm, then suddenly clenched it into a fist. "Ten times... I can keep it up until I run out of stamina, even while fighting at full power!"
"What?! Ten times?! That's impossible!" Raditz couldn't believe his ears.
"That's because you haven't trained your energy until you can use it freely! In that regard, your talent is just terrible," Sun Wukong said with a frown.
"Dad, you can't blame him!"
A voice came from behind him. The two turned toward it and saw Son Gohan walking over.
"Gohan? What do you mean by that?" Sun Wukong asked, confused.
"Dad, he's different from you. You grew up on Earth, where the natural environment is peaceful. On top of that, you hit your head when you were little, so you didn't have the innate Saiyan aggression. And with Grandpa Master Roshi, Kami, and Mr. Popo guiding you properly, you avoided a lot of detours that we had to take!"
"But Uncle Raditz spent his whole life following Vegeta across the universe, always killing and fighting. The killing intent, the murderous aura, and the resentment of the people they killed all fed his innate aggression. It's easy for him to control and use his energy—after all, he's a member of a warrior race. But using it freely, at your level, will probably take a long time to master," Son Gohan explained, clarifying why Raditz struggled to use his energy freely.
Raditz nodded as he listened, clearly agreeing with what Son Gohan had said!
"Exactly. Getting your energy to work in harmony with your own will is unbelievably difficult!" Raditz said, sounding aggrieved.
"Difficult? It's not difficult at all," Sun Wukong said, clearly unconvinced.
"You've got to be kidding! I followed your method, and that energy was like it was rebelling. It wouldn't obey me at all! If I hadn't suppressed it with my killing intent, it never would have cooperated!"
Raditz was even more dissatisfied now!
"Dad, Uncle Raditz, release your natural energy and gather it in your palms," Son Gohan instructed them.
Vmmm!!
A golden, pure aura rose from Sun Wukong's hand!
From Raditz's hand rose a ghastly white aura!
"Dad, Uncle Raditz, look closely and sense them with your hearts. What's different about your auras?"
Sun Wukong closed his eyes and focused on the aura in Raditz's hand.
Raditz likewise focused on Sun Wukong's aura!
Sun Wukong's brow furrowed, while the hostility on Raditz's face slowly faded.
"Peace, calm, and a fighting spirit so pure it's reached its utmost!" Raditz said.
"Resentment, killing intent, and aggression!" Sun Wukong said.
They spoke at the same time, then opened their eyes!
"I see. Gohan, you were right!" Sun Wukong said with a sigh.
"Gohan, is there any way to fix it?" Raditz asked worriedly.
"There are two ways!" Son Gohan held up two fingers.
"First, give up killing and train peacefully on Earth for ten years. Let Earth's peaceful energy wear away the resentment and aggression inside you!"
"That doesn't seem very realistic," Sun Wukong said. He might have been simple, but he knew this method wasn't very practical for Saiyans.
As members of a warrior race, expecting them to give up killing and fighting was obviously absurd!
"Second, kill... Killing one person makes you a criminal; slaughtering ten thousand makes you a hero. Slaughtering a million makes you the greatest hero of all! Bring your natural killing intent to its peak, then use that overwhelming intent to suppress the energy inside you that refuses to obey!" Son Gohan's young face was filled with a chillingly murderous expression. Combined with what he had just said, it was all the more frightening!
"Gohan... That method is far too ruthless. One little mistake, and you could become a demon! No, you can't do that!" Sun Wukong immediately rejected Son Gohan's second suggestion!
"Gohan! I don't mind killing people, but..." Raditz was clearly shaken by what he had said.
"You're both overthinking it. What you did before was killing on Frieza's orders. Right and wrong, good and evil—none of it made any difference to you. But when I say kill, I mean kill the truly evil! If killing one person saves ten thousand, should you kill or not? If saving one person harms ten thousand, should you save them or not? If you have justice in your heart, killing isn't necessarily evil. If you have evil in your heart, saving someone isn't necessarily good. That's the law of cause and effect: sow good causes and reap good results; sow evil causes and reap evil results! By working for Frieza, you caused countless races to lose their homes and become displaced. Don't think only the dead resent you—the living hate you, too. Don't assume it doesn't matter. Those resentments are precisely what have been influencing you, unseen! But if you help these people and protect them, killing the truly evil ones who destroy their homes and planets, they'll sincerely thank you. Their goodwill and gratitude will also dispel the resentment in your energy!"
Son Gohan was absolutely right. The world might have seemed to run on the law of the jungle, but the universe had its own laws as well!
Though these things couldn't be seen or touched, they truly existed!
Take the Gods of Destruction, for example. On the surface, their duty was to destroy planets without regard for good or evil, acting however they pleased!
But their deeper purpose was to maintain the universe's proper development and guide it in a good direction! The link between their lives and those of the Supreme Kais made that clear!
As for certain gods who destroyed planets that were developing just fine because they were angry over bad food or lack of sleep, those were merely isolated cases. There were countless planets, after all, so destroying a few did no real harm!
Back to the point.
"Gohan, I think I understand what you mean!" Sun Wukong had killed quite a few people in his life, but just as Son Gohan had said, he had done it to save others!
So he felt no burden in his heart. Even now, his aura was exceptionally peaceful, without the slightest trace of resentment or murderous intent. To cultivate the body was to cultivate the mind!
"Gohan, I agree with your method, but how do I put it into practice?" After hearing Son Gohan's explanation, Raditz understood a little better, too.
"We'll have to take this one step at a time. The time isn't right yet!"
Son Gohan already had a plan in mind!