The Old Man in the Dream

Son Gohan nodded again.

"Then Gohan, your Clone Technique shouldn't be discovered by Chi-Chi, right?"

"It won't be, my clone possesses the same memories as I do!"

"Is that so! But where did you learn this Clone Technique? I have never seen such an impressive clone technique before!"

"This... I learned it in a dream!"

"In a dream?"

"Yes, when I was dreaming, I saw an old man, and he was the one who taught me the Clone Technique in the dream!"

"In a dream? You can actually remember things from your dreams, Gohan?"

Piccolo expressed his skepticism upon hearing this.

"Yes! That old man didn't just teach me the Clone Technique, he also taught me Instant Transmission!"

"Instant Transmission? What is Instant Transmission, Gohan?"

Son Goku asked.

Hearing Son Gohan spout nonsense, the System couldn't help but let out a cold snort in its mind.

What dream about an old man, it was clearly I who taught it to you!

Son Gohan ignored the System and began to explain Instant Transmission to Son Goku.

"Instant Transmission is a technique that allows you to instantly arrive near someone by sensing their ki. The distance for Instant Transmission is extremely vast; even if the person you are looking for is on a planet somewhere in the universe, as long as you can sense their ki, you can teleport to that person's planet!"

"You can teleport to someone else's planet?"

Son Gohan nodded.

"Then Gohan, could you teach me this move?"

"I can, but this move is quite difficult to learn; it might take quite a bit of time!"

"That's fine, I'll just learn it slowly!"

As Son Goku spoke, he glanced at Piccolo, who was still covered in dust.

"Piccolo, were you just fighting with Gohan?"

"No! I was just sparring with his clone a moment ago!"

Son Goku looked at the Son Gohan clone, whose ki was relatively weak.

"So Piccolo, did you win against Gohan's clone?"

"No!"

Piccolo shook his head.

"Then Gohan, could I spar with your clone?"

"Of course you can!"

Son Gohan said, signaling to his clone with his eyes.

The combat power of the Son Gohan clone was at least over 800,000; with Son Goku's current strength, it was impossible for him to win.

Therefore, he wanted his clone to go easy on him so that Son Goku wouldn't lose too embarrassingly.

Seeing Son Gohan agree, Son Goku immediately flew to a nearby clearing.

The Son Gohan clone followed, flying to a spot a few hundred meters in front of Son Goku.

Son Goku chuckled, set his hands into a fighting stance, and said, "Alright Gohan, shall we begin?"

The Son Gohan clone nodded.

"Ha!"

Seeing this, Son Goku let out a loud shout, his body rushing toward the Son Gohan clone in a flash, his fists and feet attacking like the wind.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."

The Son Gohan clone shifted his body slightly, dodging Son Goku's attacks with ease.

Son Goku was startled.

At that moment, the figure of the Son Gohan clone suddenly vanished, reappearing behind Son Goku.

"He... he disappeared!"

The words had barely left his lips when the Son Gohan clone leaped into the air, delivering a powerful kick with his right leg toward Son Goku's body.

BANG!!

Son Goku was sent flying, his body slamming heavily into a large mountain in front of him.

A massive amount of boulders immediately tumbled down from the mountain, burying Son Goku on the ground.

"Damn it!"

Son Goku let out an angry shout, his body quickly scrambling up from the ground.

"Kaio-ken!"

Following the loud cry, a fiery red aura immediately surged around Son Goku's body.

Then, Son Goku's figure shot toward the Son Gohan clone like a red flash of light.

"Whoosh..."

Just as Son Goku drew extremely close to the Son Gohan clone, the clone's figure suddenly vanished.

Bang!!

Seeing this, Son Goku immediately halted his momentum and scanned his surroundings.

At that moment, the Son Gohan clone suddenly appeared to Son Goku's left, his right leg lashing out with a powerful kick toward Son Goku's body.

Thud!!

Son Goku's body was kicked out of the air like a falling meteor.

With a thunderous crash, Son Goku slammed heavily into the ground.

A massive cloud of dust was instantly kicked up from the earth.

After a while, once the dust around Son Goku had settled, a sizable crater appeared on the ground.

"Huff... huff..."

Son Goku gasped for air, his eyes fixed intently on the Son Gohan clone in the sky.

"Incredible. Just two moves, and I'm already nearly at my limit!"

"Ha!"

As he spoke, Son Goku clenched his fists tightly and invoked the Kaio-ken once more.

"Fivefold Kaio-ken!"

With a roar, Son Goku's body transformed into a streak of red light, charging toward the Son Gohan clone.

The Fivefold Kaio-ken was the current limit of his body; if even this could not defeat the Son Gohan clone, there would be no point in continuing the fight.

"What!"

Piccolo was startled.

Son Goku's current combat power was at least around twenty or thirty thousand, and using the Fivefold Kaio-ken would push that to over one hundred thousand.

Bang!!

At that moment, Son Goku reached the Son Gohan clone and threw his right fist forward with all his might.

The Son Gohan clone shifted to the side, dodging the punch.

Son Goku flew behind the Son Gohan clone, then quickly landed on the ground and turned back around.

Thud!!

With a heavy impact, Son Goku's right fist landed squarely on the Son Gohan clone.

The Son Gohan clone was sent flying backward for a thousand meters.

Seeing this, Son Goku immediately suppressed his aura and flew to Son Gohan's side.

"Gohan, did you tell your clone to go easy on me?"

Son Goku fought others often and could naturally gauge an opponent's strength through combat.

Most importantly, the Son Gohan clone had been holding back in a way that was far too obvious.

"Yes... I did tell him to hold back just a little!"

At this, Piccolo, standing to the side, said with a look of displeasure.

"Gohan, if you keep having your clone hold back against us, we'll just come fight you directly!"

"I understand, Uncle Piccolo!"

Son Gohan lowered his head.

Seeing Son Gohan admit his mistake, Piccolo decided not to press the issue further.

"So Gohan, about how much of your strength does your clone possess?"

"One-thousandth!"

"One-thousandth!"

Son Goku was shocked.

"Does that mean my current strength doesn't even reach one-thousandth of Gohan's?"

Piccolo: "It's not just you; it's the same for me!"

Hearing this, Son Goku felt a slight sense of comfort.

"Alright, from today on, I will train diligently and strive to catch up to Gohan as soon as possible!"

Piccolo remained silent upon hearing this.

He was currently not even as strong as Son Goku, let alone capable of catching up to Son Gohan.

"So Gohan, how did you become this strong in just one year?"