Training

Dragon Ball training methods were quite strange.

Unlike in fantasy novels, there was no need for techniques or anything like that.

It was simple: exercise!

What kind of exercise?

The same stuff ordinary people did to get fit, like push-ups and sit-ups.

Compared to that legendary tale of the eye next door, Dragon Ball training methods were practically child's play.

And yet, they were strong enough to blow up planets without even trying.

Kaguya Otsutsuki had seen it and wanted to gouge her own eyes out.

(ﾉ｀△´)ﾉ ┫:･'∵:.┻┻: What do you even need this Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan for!

Anyway.

Dragon Ball training was simple, but add gravity to the mix, and things changed.

Mo Yuan pulled a little treasure out of his pocket, pressed it, then tossed it away.

"Boom."

A cloud of smoke billowed around them, and a two-hundred-square-meter house appeared out of thin air.

This was the Gravity Chamber, compressed inside a Hoi-Poi Capsule.

Ten times the gravity inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber was no pressure at all for Mo Yuan.

So he had to rely on outside help.

Mo Yuan didn't crank the gravity up too high all at once.

He started by setting it to ten times Earth's gravity.

Multiplied by the gravity inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber,

a hundred times Earth's gravity came crashing down on Mo Yuan.

Mo Yuan immediately felt his body grow heavy, as if a mountain had landed on him.

Even though he'd been prepared, the weight still made him stagger.

Beside him, Lazuli's body only swayed slightly under a hundred times Earth's gravity.

She adapted to it in no time.

That showed just how powerful she was.

Still, a hundred times Earth's gravity was a little too low for Mo Yuan.

It affected him a bit, but not much.

So Mo Yuan kept turning up the gravity.

When he raised it to twenty times, or two hundred times Earth's gravity,

Mo Yuan finally began to feel the pressure.

The immense weight made him feel as if he could barely straighten his back.

Lazuli beside him was still hardly affected.

Though Lazuli was training alongside him, her first step wasn't to train under gravity like Mo Yuan.

Instead, she had to sense ki.

Ki was everywhere. The human body had ki, too; people simply had different amounts of it.

And the first step in training was to sense ki.

Only once you could sense ki would training be of any use.

Otherwise, no matter how much you trained, all you'd get out of it was a healthier body.

Lazuli had never trained in martial arts before, but with Mo Yuan's guidance, she soon sensed the ki within her.

She gathered it in her hand. Compared to the energy inside her, this ki was tiny, but she'd cultivated it herself, and a flicker of delight rose in her heart.

The ki gathered in Lazuli's hand glimmered faintly, as weak as a firefly's light.

If she fired it, it would probably make no more than a little hole in the ground.

But it was her ticket into the world of martial arts.

Some people spent their entire lives without ever obtaining that ticket.

And Lazuli was different from ordinary people.

After being modified, her body was even tougher than a Saiyan's.

She was practically impervious to blades, bullets, fire, and water.

So once she started training, it wouldn't take long before she could wield ki alone to achieve formidable combat strength.

And if she combined that ki with the energy she already had inside her, even Vegeta after a year of training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber might not be able to beat her.

And so,

Mo Yuan and Lazuli worked up a sweat in the Gravity Chamber.

They were only doing simple exercises like push-ups, but they were incredibly difficult under two hundred times Earth's gravity.

Lazuli was fine. Two hundred times Earth's gravity was nothing much to her.

Mo Yuan, on the other hand, was struggling.

Every time he pushed himself up, it was like lifting a mountain.

He had to use nearly all his strength for every movement.

Crystal-clear beads of sweat slid down his face, gathered at the tip of his nose, then dripped to the floor.

Mo Yuan gritted his teeth, enduring the ache in his arms as he panted and pushed on.

He didn't even know why he was pushing himself so hard.

Was it to survive?

Or was it something else?

He didn't know.

But somehow, he had a premonition that if he didn't fight to grow stronger now, he would regret it for the rest of his life.

Training was hard.

But the results were striking.

Through his Mind's Eye, Mo Yuan saw the ki and vital energy around him gathering and circling him,

like loyal guards protecting their sovereign.

Then they flowed into his body in an orderly fashion, absorbed by his flesh.

As the ki and vital energy entered his body,

Mo Yuan felt warmth spread through him, and the soreness in his muscles slowly eased.

He also discovered that absorbing ki while training was more efficient than simply absorbing it.

And as his body repeatedly wore down and recovered, it grew stronger and more resilient.

Compared to Mo Yuan, Lazuli had it much easier.

With her strength, training under two hundred times Earth's gravity was as easy as drinking water.

Besides, she had unlimited stamina.

But the scorching air inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber still left her drenched in sweat.

Her clothes were soaked through.

The wet fabric clung to her figure, revealing her graceful curves in all their glory.

Unfortunately, Mo Yuan had no time to think about anything else, even though she was within his Mind's Eye's range.

All he could think about was training and getting stronger.

So he hadn't taken a good look at Lazuli.

Otherwise, he probably wouldn't have been able to focus on training.

Time always flew by when you were training.

In the blink of an eye, the two of them had been at it for several hours.

"Grrr~"

The loud protest from Mo Yuan's stomach rang especially clearly in the quiet space.

Several hours of training under gravity had consumed a tremendous amount of energy.

The little bit he'd eaten earlier was all gone.

His stomach was growling, and Mo Yuan could feel his strength starting to fade.

So he stopped pushing himself. After all, you had to eat well to train properly.

Training required gradual progress. It wasn't something you could accomplish all at once.

Mo Yuan switched off the gravity, and at once he felt the weight lift from his body.

Even walking felt like floating; his whole body felt light as a feather.

After several hours of training, Mo Yuan felt that the energy within him had increased by more than half, and his body had grown more resilient after being washed by vital energy.

He had also nearly adapted to two hundred times Earth's gravity, so he could raise it a little next time.

After they finished training, Lazuli realized they had a serious problem.

"Xiaoyuan, there aren't any clothes here to change into."

After training for half a day, their clothes were soaked through, and their bodies felt sticky and uncomfortable.

Lazuli just wanted to take a nice, relaxing bath.

But she only had one set of clothes.

She couldn't exactly put them back on after her bath.

This wasn't much of a problem for Mo Yuan.

Mo Yuan looked at Lazuli, about to say something, when—

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The Temptation of Wet Clothes

o(*////▽////*)q Could this really be free to watch?

The soaked clothes clung tightly to Lazuli's skin, outlining her graceful figure.

The view in front wasn't exactly breathtaking, but it was just right against the backdrop of her slender waist.

Her face was flushed from the heat, like a rose just about to bloom, vivid and alluring.

Mo Yuan couldn't help staring.