The Gravity Room Concept

Day after day passed.

Every day, Lin Fan took pills (Body Strengthening Pills), practiced Qi cultivation, and nurtured his flying sword embryo. His cultivation remained stuck at the peak of the mid Qi Refining stage, completely motionless, as if he had run into an invisible wall.

Bulma's search for the materials needed to make a Foundation Establishment Pill was also progressing painfully slowly. The reports she received were either "The energy response in the rock sample from five thousand meters underground is weak" or "The radiation type of meteorite No. XXX does not match." As for the "phoenix" and the "dragon," she hadn't even caught a glimpse of either. The young lady was so furious she nearly smashed her communicator.

That day, Bulma had, for once, left her various projects alone. She was sprawled on the floating sofa in her lab, boredly flipping through TV channels.

The screen happened to be replaying highlights from the World Martial Arts Tournament, showing the earth-shaking final between Son Goku and Tien Shinhan.

"Wow! Goku's gotten so much stronger since I last saw him!"

Bulma bit down on her straw and exclaimed indistinctly, "I heard he later fought that King Piccolo guy, and he was even more ridiculously powerful! I wonder how those freaks train..."

The speaker meant nothing by it, but the listener took notice.

Lin Fan, quietly circulating his energy nearby, suddenly opened his eyes!

King Piccolo... Kami... the Lookout!

A crucial detail flashed through his mind—Son Goku had trained at the Lookout, using the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and gravity training!

It was a wondrous place where the gravitational environment could be changed!

Gravity!

Lin Fan's heart gave a sudden thump!

How had he not thought of this sooner?

The Great Dao Source Scripture did mention that certain extreme environments—such as intense cold, scorching heat, crushing pressure, and thunderstorms—could stimulate a cultivator's potential, accelerate the absorption and refinement of spiritual energy, and even help them break through bottlenecks!

It was just that such dangerous places in the Primordial World were often accompanied by immense peril, beyond what low-level cultivators could endure.

But the "Gravity Room" in this world was a training tool whose conditions could be controlled by people, making it relatively safe!

He immediately stood up and walked over to Bulma.

Bulma was watching the exciting scene of Goku unleashing his Kamehameha when Lin Fan suddenly blocked the screen. She grumbled in annoyance, "What are you doing? You're blocking the TV..."

"Bulma,"

Lin Fan said, with a hint of urgency that was difficult to detect, "you just said that Goku and the others got stronger very quickly?"

"Yeah,"

Bulma replied, puzzled. "They fight, train, power up... Isn't that how it goes?"

"No,"

Lin Fan shook his head. "I heard that they once trained in a special place where... gravity was different from normal."

"Gravity?"

Bulma tilted her head and blinked. "What do you mean?"

"I mean that inside, your body feels several times, even dozens of times, heavier than usual."

Lin Fan did his best to explain in simple terms. "Every movement takes several times as much effort, and even the energy inside your body becomes extremely difficult to circulate. But if you can adapt, then..."

Before he could finish, Bulma sprang off the sofa as if she'd been struck by high-voltage electricity!

Her eyes went wide. The drink cup in her hand clattered to the floor, spilling juice everywhere, but she didn't even notice!

"A... gravity... room?!"

She practically shrieked the words, her voice pitching up with excitement.

Like a gust of wind, she rushed to the enormous smart whiteboard. Her fingers trembled with excitement as she began sketching furiously:

"An environment with artificially created supergravity! A simulation of a planet with extremely high gravity! Oh my gosh! How did I not think of this sooner?!"

"Energy consumption would increase geometrically! The muscles, bones, internal organs, and every single cell would be under extreme pressure!"

"If you train in that kind of environment and adapt, then return to normal gravity... Tch!"

She sucked in a breath. The light in her eyes was bright enough to serve as a searchlight. "Your physical abilities and energy output would grow explosively! This isn't training—it's an evolution accelerator!"

She spun around and grabbed Lin Fan's arm, so excited she could barely speak coherently. "Lin Fan! You're a genius! No, you're a god! This idea is so crazy! So amazing! It's the ultimate cheat code for martial arts training! No, it could even be used to train astronauts, for a super-soldier program... No, no! The important thing is cultivation!"

Lin Fan felt a little dizzy from being shaken and tried to finish what he'd been saying. "I only heard of this method. As for how to make it work..."

"Make it work? Leave that to me!"

Bulma thumped her chest, brimming with confidence. "It's just an enclosed space plus an ultra-high-intensity gravity-generating device, right? In principle, we just need to create a powerful gravitational field or use electromagnetic force to simulate one! We can solve the energy problem with a high-energy plasma reactor! For the materials, we'll use an upgraded version of Z-Series Alloy! And a supercomputer can simulate the structural stability!"

She was already completely immersed in the sea of technology, frantically covering the whiteboard with equations and sketches:

"First, we need an absolutely sturdy spherical pod that can withstand the tremendous internal pressure and the load from the gravitational generators on its outer shell..."

"The internal environmental control system has to be top-notch: oxygen circulation, temperature regulation, pressure balancing..."

"The safety system is key! It must have an emergency gravity shutoff and a medical aid unit..."

"It'd be best if it could also monitor the occupants' vital signs and energy fluctuations in real time..."

She spoke faster and faster, and her sketches grew more and more complex. Soon, the entire whiteboard was covered in intricate equations, structural diagrams, and circuit diagrams.

As Lin Fan watched the technical challenges he couldn't understand—and the astronomical budget—multiply at lightning speed, he suddenly felt that... he might have proposed another project that would cost an absurd amount of money.

"Um... Bulma, perhaps it doesn't need to be so complicated at first..." Lin Fan tried to rein in the budget a little. "It just needs to adjust gravity by several times and be sturdy enough..."

"How could that be enough?"

Bulma immediately objected, widening her eyes. "If we're doing this, we're doing it right! Ten times gravity at the very least, with no upper limit! And it has to be absolutely safe! I don't want you or Goku getting crushed into meat pies while training! Wait... Goku!"

She suddenly thought of something and clapped her hands. "The first test subject... No, the first users will be him, Krillin, and you! Hahaha! I really am a genius!"

She could already imagine how excited Son Goku, that training maniac, would be when he heard the news.

"Get the project approved! Right now!"

Bulma rushed to the communicator and contacted her father's secretary. "Hello! It's me! Get the Z-Series Alloy development team, the High-Energy Physics Laboratory, and all the experts from the Aerospace Life Support System together immediately! Yes! Right now! We've got a huge project! The budget? Let's start with... hmm... five billion Zeni. We can ask for more if it's not enough!"

Lin Fan's eyelid twitched as he listened nearby.

Five billion Zeni... That could buy a lot of alchemy ingredients...

After ending the call, Bulma rubbed her hands together excitedly and paced around the lab, muttering nonstop. "Gravity Generator... Energy Core... Buffer System... Hahaha! This is so exciting! It's way more fun than building a spaceship!"

She suddenly stopped and looked at Lin Fan, her eyes blazing. "Lin Fan! Don't worry! A training room that can change gravity? Leave it to me! I guarantee I'll build you the most advanced and safest Super Training Pod in the entire universe, with the highest gravity settings!"

"But..."

She changed tack, wearing a sly smile. "As a reward for coming up with this brilliant idea, you'll have to share all the research data from the Gravity Room with me—and all the data on how your 'True Qi' changes under high pressure!"

Lin Fan looked at Bulma, who was suddenly brimming with energy as if she'd found a new purpose in life, and smiled helplessly.

As long as the Gravity Room could be built, that price would be worth it.

It seemed that, besides the elusive Foundation Establishment Pill, his Path to Foundation Establishment now had another option: one that looked more reliable, but would cost just as much.

The power of science truly couldn't be underestimated.