Training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber [1]

Kami kept looking at Son Gohan. Only after a long while did he sigh and ask, "How did you know?"

Kami asked himself—he had never told anyone on this planet about Namekians being able to fuse or separate.

Yet Son Gohan, standing before him, clearly knew about it. That inevitably made Kami think of far more possibilities, and all of them were bad.

Son Goku, off to the side, looked at Son Gohan, then at Kami. He had no idea what the two of them were talking about.

But before he could ask, he heard Kami say something that shocked him beyond belief.

"That's right. I agree to bringing Piccolo to Kami's Lookout," Kami said calmly. "Mr. Popo, please bring Piccolo here. I'll leave what comes next to you."

After saying that, Kami turned and left the place with slow steps.

Son Goku frowned. He could not quite understand why Kami, who had treated Piccolo like a mortal enemy before, now agreed to let the other party come to Kami's Lookout to train.

Son Gohan watched Kami's departing back. He knew that once Kami was forced to fuse, it would actually be the same as Kami disappearing.

But as the side with a righteous nature, Kami's fusion with Piccolo would also make the evil in Piccolo's heart cease to exist, or suppress it to the lowest possible level.

And Son Gohan knew that, in Kami's heart, the mission of protecting Earth mattered even more than his own life. That was clear from the way he had gone head-to-head with the four previous Kamis in order to protect Earth.

These were all things Kami had to take into consideration. As for the thoughts of this bargain father beside him, Son Gohan naturally knew them inside and out.

If he had an opponent around the same strength as himself to train with, Son Goku would definitely improve even faster. He would not think about all those twists and turns.

"Gohan, let Popo take you in first. I'll wait for you outside."

Son Goku instructed Son Gohan, "Remember, don't push yourself too hard. If anything goes wrong, come out immediately."

"I understand, Dad." Son Gohan nodded, picked up the large bag he had brought from the side, slung it onto his back, and then followed behind Popo as they walked toward the depths of Kami's Lookout.

Very soon, with Popo leading the way, the two arrived before a brown wooden door.

It was not much different from what he remembered. The eight strange diamond-edged patterns made Son Gohan feel some peculiar power within them, but he had no way of explaining the key to it.

"Are you ready, Mr. Gohan?" Popo turned and looked at Son Gohan again as he asked.

Son Gohan nodded. Seeing this, Popo asked no further and reached out to place his hand on the doorknob.

With a click, Son Gohan seemed to sense at that moment that the patterns on the door gave off an almost imperceptible energy fluctuation, but it soon settled back down.

Behind the door was a vast expanse of white. It was impossible to see what kind of scenery lay beyond.

Son Gohan was not surprised by this. It was clearly connected to the link between Earth's space and another space.

Lifting his foot, Son Gohan walked straight into that vast white scenery and disappeared from Kami's Lookout.

Seeing Son Gohan leave, Popo casually closed the door.

As soon as he entered the room, what appeared before Son Gohan's eyes was a room with an extremely simple layout, with a double bed close at hand.

According to the plot introductions in the manga and anime, of the two rooms on the left and right next door, one was a warehouse storing all kinds of food, and it also had the function of a kitchen.

The other had the functions of a toilet and bathroom.

But immediately after, with a thud, Son Gohan's entire body sank, and he dropped straight to one knee on the ground.

The tenfold gravity of this space pressed down on every inch of skin and muscle across Son Gohan's body, nearly making him lose his balance the moment he arrived here.

This was not something simple weights could compare to. This gravity exerted pressure even on his internal organs, even deep into his bone marrow.

On top of that, the air here was many times thinner than outside, putting even greater pressure on internal organs like his lungs.

Add to that the temperature here fluctuating between over fifty degrees and more than forty degrees below zero, and Son Gohan's breathing immediately began to turn abnormal.

If he had not undergone the development of the Super God Water and constantly trained with Popo, Son Gohan estimated that he would have run the moment he entered. There was no way he could have held on in this kind of environment.

He could also understand why Son Goku, after defeating old Piccolo, had failed to last even a month here before running back out.

Immediately after, Son Gohan struggled to raise his arm, then moved step by step to the wall. After more than ten minutes of difficult shifting, Son Gohan sat down cross-legged in the posture of five hearts facing the sky.

Son Gohan had his own training plan. The first step now was to make his body become accustomed to the gravity here as quickly as possible.

At the same time, he would use this environment to cultivate his mind.

In the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, if one's will was not firm enough, a large number of hallucinations would appear.

But what Son Gohan happened to need was precisely this kind of tempering of the spirit, so he could improve his own mental cultivation as quickly as possible and better control and familiarize himself with his constantly improving strength.

After that, Son Gohan spent a full two days before he finally grew accustomed to the tenfold gravity environment and reached the point where he could stand up and walk normally.

To understand how difficult those two days were, could you imagine needing to walk slowly step by step just to go to the toilet, and having to use great effort just to expel anything?

Even eating a meal was like slowing down by ten times. Chewing a mouthful of rice or meat would make his jaw muscles ache unbearably.

Even when sleeping, Son Gohan did his best to sit leaning against the wall. He did not dare get onto the bed to sleep.

Because doing that might very well make his lungs and heart bear even more pressure, leading to a situation that could endanger his life.

Starting from the most basic act of walking, Son Gohan gritted his teeth and slowly increased his speed and range of motion.

One had to know that even Son Goku, as the protagonist, had been tormented by the tenfold gravity for a period of time when he first arrived on King Kai's Planet before he could fully adapt to it.

As for Son Gohan, he only truly adapted to this gravity on the fourth day.

And that was still thanks to his Saiyan physique. If he had the body of an ordinary person, Son Gohan truly did not know whether he could last even a single day here.

By the fifth day, Son Gohan was already full of life under ten times gravity, and had begun training normally.

Aside from his fixed rest time and training time, Son Gohan set aside a fixed period every day to meditate, constantly honing and stabilizing his mind.

Every day, Son Gohan could clearly feel his strength steadily increasing.

But ten times gravity was not something that could be overcome casually. Even with a Saiyan's talent, it still took time to adapt.

However, Son Gohan was not worried about that at all.