Contemplation on Qi and Analysis of Super Saiyan

Through attempt after attempt, Son Gohan used the perception he had honed through meditation to keep adjusting his output of ki.

Very soon, he had controlled his ki to a level where the energy ball's stability and quantity both reached the point he wanted.

Most importantly, because of his strengthened control over ki, the leakage caused during its transmission had been reduced past a threshold.

The energy ball in his hand was the most perfect one he had made from the first until now.

He threw the energy ball in his hand out again, following the same steps as before, then rushed forward quickly and arrived in front of it.

Boom!

Another explosion erupted, but this time Son Gohan only staggered back a few steps before steadying himself.

Just like that, through the constant process of condensing energy balls and defending against them, Son Gohan's control over ki rose rapidly.

At the same time, under the relentless bombardment of energy balls, his body's resistance to blows was also constantly increasing!

Of course, all of this could only be done so efficiently with the help of Senzu Beans. Otherwise, even with a Saiyan's recovery ability, it would have been impossible.

Amid this tempering, half a year quickly passed.

Half a year later, Son Gohan's body had already shot up to around 1.2 meters tall. One had to know, he was not even five years old yet!

His muscle lines had already become distinct, and his whole vitality and spirit had completely changed.

Because he was mixed-blood, Gohan's hairstyle was not fixed like Son Goku's and Vegeta's, but kept growing longer like a normal Earthling's.

Son Gohan had no mind to take care of it. At this moment, he was floating in midair in a seated posture with five points facing the sky.

Yes, by the end of the third month, Son Gohan had already been able to fly through precise control of ki.

By now, Son Gohan could roughly calculate his own strength. It should have reached about 4,000, and if he burst out his ki, it should be around 5,000.

But that still was not enough. It might have been completely sufficient against Raditz, but against Nappa and Vegeta, it fell short.

However, Son Gohan had already completed all the plans he had first arranged. At present, he had already excavated all the talent stimulated by the Super God Water.

In other words, if he had no opportunity in the short term, his battle power would not improve by much.

However, Son Gohan was not anxious at all. Right now, he had already immersed his entire mind and spirit in meditation.

If anyone else had been present, they would have been able to feel that the ki on Son Gohan's body was constantly changing.

In fact, Son Gohan had always been thinking about whether ki was the same as the true qi, battle aura, and magic power in those xuanhuan and fantasy novels.

After all, they were all energy as a basic unit.

And the ki in this world spread throughout the entire body, strengthening the physical body at the same time as the flesh grew stronger, almost exactly like the body cultivators in those novels.

Then was it likewise possible to condense energy into the so-called "Martial Dao Golden Core" or "True Qi Golden Core," and finally rely on that Golden Core to transform into an infant and walk the path of immortal cultivation, or condense the physical body and take the path of martial cultivation?

At this moment, an energy ball began to condense in front of Son Gohan.

But in the next second, the energy ball began to writhe and change shape continuously, finally becoming the shape of a long sword and hovering around Son Gohan.

Immediately afterward, energy swords appeared one after another around him, circling Son Gohan as they spun without end. He looked just like a sword cultivator from an immortal cultivation novel.

But in the next moment, as his brows furrowed, all the energy swords that had been circling beside him scattered and vanished.

Opening his eyes, Son Gohan let out a long sigh and muttered to himself, "Looks like those methods simply won't work. For now, I can still only keep improving my ki and physical body."

Yes, Son Gohan wanted to try cultivating those things, rather than simply relying on the path of Super Saiyan.

In fact, the so-called Super Saiyans that Son Goku and the others became were not true Super Saiyans. The real Saiyan was Broly.

According to Old Kai's statement in the Buu Saga, the so-called Super Saiyan was actually an unorthodox path.

In the analyses from his previous life, although many people disliked this view, they still had to admit that it was correct.

Transforming into the first stage of Super Saiyan would increase battle power fiftyfold based on one's normal state. This was an officially confirmed setting.

But it placed an enormous burden on the body. Before reaching the full-power Super Saiyan state, it was an enormous burden on both the flesh and the mind.

As for the second realm of Super Saiyan, in Son Gohan's view, although battle power could surge a hundredfold, it was another squeezing of the body.

Even the Super Saiyan Three realm was not something Son Gohan looked favorably upon!

That was right. Even Super Saiyan Three was merely another squeezing of the physical body. Hadn't Son Goku been unable to maintain it for too long even after transforming?

In Son Gohan's eyes, the first of the two truly perfect transformations was "Ultimate Gohan," achieved with Old Kai's help, where his power was fully unleashed.

The second was the realm of the "flawless golden body" reached within Super Saiyan Blue.

But the current Son Gohan was completely clueless about unleashing his potential and had no idea how to do it at all.

So he could only wait until he met Old Kai to break open this greatest shackle.

Then for now, Son Gohan could only rely on Super Saiyan first to push forward on the road to becoming stronger.

Otherwise, in the upcoming Namek plot, if he could not grow to a certain level, it would be very easy for him to get caught up in Frieza's attacks.

He had even already thought through the three wishes from Namek's Shenron.

According to the settings introduced by "Creator God" Akira Toriyama, to become a Super Saiyan, one first had to look at how many S-Cells one had inside the body.

S-Cells required a pure or peaceful heart, and that way, the cells would increase at the fastest speed.

Then, once the S-Cells reached a certain level, one could rely on extremely furious emotions to stimulate the energy within the S-Cells and transform into a Super Saiyan.

But that setting was overturned when it came to second-generation hybrid Saiyans.

Whether it was the brothers Son Gohan and Son Goten, or Trunks, these three second-generation Saiyans all had a much easier time transforming into Super Saiyans.

That was because they had all inherited more S-Cells from the previous generation instead of training them up from scratch.

In short, Saiyans were a race where the stronger the previous generation was, the stronger the next generation would be!

Back to the point. What Son Gohan wanted now was to increase the S-Cells in his body through meditation, making it easier for him to transform into a Super Saiyan as soon as possible.

So for the time he had left, Son Gohan decided that, on top of training his body, he would set aside more time for meditation to cultivate his spirit, while also increasing the number of S-Cells in his body.

That way, he could also accumulate his own potential. When he reached Namek, the Grand Elder, who could draw out a person's latent life potential, would be the key to his next leap in strength!