Three Times Kaioken! (Still asking for votes, 233~~~)

The sheer strength of Son Gohan's aura stunned the three people around him.

They could clearly feel that after activating the Kaioken, the aura Son Gohan was giving off was indeed more than twice as strong as before.

Very soon, King Kai ran straight over at high speed. Looking at the pale red aura around Son Gohan, he was so shocked that he could not speak for a long while.

King Kai had never expected that someone could truly learn and master the Kaioken in such a short time.

And sensing the surging yet unchaotic aura around him, it was clear he was using the Kaioken almost perfectly.

"You... how many times can you activate it?" King Kai asked, full of expectation.

Son Gohan hesitated for a few seconds, then said decisively, "I'll see if I can activate it to triple."

Under King Kai's expectant gaze, Son Gohan quickly began mobilizing even more ki inside his body, controlling it as it entered those energy nodes.

The next moment, Son Gohan's whole body suddenly shook. Immediately after, his body began to grow even stronger, and his aura started swelling continuously.

An even more domineering aura burst out. A stronger current of air swept open, blowing the robes of everyone nearby backward.

This made Son Goku, Raditz, and Piccolo's eyes shine as they watched. At that moment, they were shaken to the core.

Because this Kaioken could really raise one's strength according to the multiplier. It was simply heaven-defying!

"It... it worked!" King Kai clapped his hands happily. He had never expected that this young little fellow before him would actually use the Triple Kaioken, something even he himself could not use.

But just then, Son Gohan's brows furrowed. He felt a stinging pain begin to rise from the muscles in his body.

Familiar with the plot, he knew that this was because the Kaioken had already exceeded his body's load warning line and was beginning to warn him.

In the original work, even after Son Goku had finished training under King Kai and left, he still could not maintain the Triple Kaioken for very long.

However, Son Gohan did not immediately release the Triple Kaioken. Instead, he closed his eyes and began to feel it carefully.

Afterward, by combing through the flow of ki in his body and subtly controlling his muscles, he successfully eased that pain.

Doing this effectively extended the amount of time he could maintain the Triple Kaioken.

After releasing the Kaioken, Son Gohan let out a long breath. Just using the Triple Kaioken for such a short time had already made his body feel exhausted.

As expected, even a secret technique as bug-like as this still fell within the law of equivalent exchange.

"You... you're called Son Gohan, right?" King Kai asked.

"Yes, Lord King Kai," Son Gohan replied.

"I never thought that you would actually succeed in cultivating the Kaioken in such a short time, and even push it to the level of triple in one breath. It truly surpasses my imagination."

King Kai continued with a face full of excitement, "Come with me. I need to talk to you about something."

"All right, Lord King Kai."

Hearing this, Son Gohan immediately agreed. Then he turned to look at Son Goku. After father and son exchanged a glance, Son Goku nodded lightly.

Following behind King Kai, he went straight into his house.

"Sit."

Arriving before a large round table, King Kai raised a hand and gestured for Son Gohan to sit. He walked to the side, brewed a cup of hot tea, and placed it in front of Son Gohan.

"Gohan."

King Kai sat opposite him and said, "Your talent truly astonishes me. Now I want to ask you, if one day you have the strength, would you be willing to spare no effort to eradicate those evil existences?"

Hearing this, Son Gohan's pupils shifted slightly. He knew that King Kai was testing him.

If he could pass, then without a doubt, King Kai would teach him his strongest secret technique and ultimate move—one of Son Goku's great moves as well, the Spirit Bomb.

This move was also something Son Gohan was determined to obtain.

Like the Kaioken, on the surface, this move's destructive power was actually so-so, and its flaws were extremely obvious. But if the opponent was an enemy possessing evil ki, then its power would be devastatingly strong.

Of course, many times, the Spirit Bomb had not truly finished off the enemy.

Vegeta, Frieza, Cell, and so on had not been defeated by the Spirit Bomb, but this move had still caused them great damage.

However, that was not actually important. The most important thing about the Spirit Bomb was in Dragon Ball Super, when Son Goku slipped up and the energy of the Spirit Bomb was completely absorbed by him instead.

That thoroughly triggered Son Goku's "White God" state, allowing him to enter a half-step Ultra Instinct.

So for the sake of his future arrangements, Son Gohan had to learn the Spirit Bomb.

"With great power comes great responsibility."

Son Gohan directly spoke this incomparably incisive line, one that perfectly fit the current situation.

When King Kai heard these words, his whole body immediately trembled with excitement. He seemed like a master in his seventies or eighties who had finally found a successor.

"Good, this is truly wonderful. After waiting so many years, I've finally waited until now."

"I thought you were the same as the fellows who came before, always talking about wanting to become number one under heaven, the strongest in the universe."

"But when it actually came time to test them, every one of them was a weakling. They couldn't even pass Bubbles and Gregory's two trials. Sigh."

King Kai suddenly took out a cloth from who knew where and began wiping the tears beneath his sunglasses.

In truth, Son Gohan understood North Kai's state of mind very well. Among the many Kais, North Kai could be said to be the most miserable.

The planet he lived on had been casually turned into this by Beerus, becoming the most pitiful existence among the five King Kai's Planets of East, South, West, North, and Grand.

In terms of strength, he was also the weakest of the five Kais, and there were basically no powerful fighters worth mentioning in the North Universe he was responsible for.

In every martial arts tournament Grand Kai held, he always ended up at the bottom, a laughingstock.

Most helpless of all, that Frieza who called himself the emperor of the universe just had to pick on the softest target, staying within the universe under his jurisdiction to make trouble and refusing to leave.

Honestly, that Frieza really was sly. If he had dared go into any other Kai's territory, he would have been crushed to death long ago.

Never mind anything else—that guy called Pikkon alone would have been more than enough to kill Frieza with ease.

All these things had pushed North Kai into becoming a Kai who had exiled himself and settled into a retired middle-aged-and-elderly lifestyle.

"In that case, I'll pass on to you the ultimate technique I created myself. I hope you can do what you said."

After saying that, Kai stood and walked outside, and Son Gohan immediately got up and followed him out.

"The ultimate technique I'm teaching you is called the Spirit Bomb. As the name suggests, it's a highly condensed attack formed from energy."

Kai said slowly, "But it isn't the kind you usually use. It has to be condensed using energy that doesn't come from your own body, so in theory, there's no upper limit to its power."