Spirit Bomb (Part 2)

Watching the hazy white light gather over his right arm, the little stone in Son Gohan's heart finally dropped.

The Spirit Bomb had finally succeeded!

At that moment, he was very happy, even a little excited, because in the original work, the Spirit Bomb was something only Son Goku knew. He had truly been afraid that this thing could only be learned by someone with the protagonist's halo.

But now, Son Gohan had mastered this heaven-defying skill.

In truth, his purpose in learning the Spirit Bomb was not only to kill enemies. Anyone who had watched Super would understand that this thing was a "super power bank"!

That was right. Because everyone knew the Spirit Bomb was a convergence of ki, then logically speaking, it could also be absorbed by living beings.

After all, in the world of Dragon Balls, the ki of one living being could be absorbed by another living being, regardless of species.

Because Son Goku could even transfer ki to Frieza, allowing him to recover a certain amount of stamina.

The problem was that the ki within the Spirit Bomb was too powerful. It was not something ordinary living beings could withstand. Only Son Goku, who had cultivated to an extremely high level and possessed the protagonist's halo, could endure it.

But Son Gohan was not afraid of these things. After all, having one more trump card was definitely better.

"Quickly condense that energy!"

King Kai spoke from the side to remind him, making Son Gohan immediately focus with one hundred and twenty percent of his attention as he began condensing the ki in his right hand into his palm.

"What enormous ki!"

When Son Gohan began controlling that ki, the aura contained in his palm immediately leaked out, shocking Piccolo and the other two.

After that, a pure white energy sphere slowly condensed from the center of Son Gohan's palm.

It slowly grew from the size of a mung bean to the size of a ping-pong ball, and finally stopped expanding when it reached the size of a watermelon.

"It... it succeeded!"

When King Kai saw that white energy sphere begin to shine with a faint silver glow, his face and voice both filled with excitement and trembled.

Although Kaioken and the Spirit Bomb had both been personally created by North Kai, even now, King Kai still had no way of using the Spirit Bomb, while he could use Kaioken.

Being able to personally witness his ultimate technique take form, King Kai immediately felt that all his hardship had been worth it.

"Get ready. Now only the final trial remains!"

But feelings were feelings, and the test still had to be tested. King Kai raised both hands and directly controlled a rectangular rock, lifting it into midair.

"I'll make it enter a high-speed state. Your target is to lock onto its movement trajectory and smash it!" King Kai shouted to Son Gohan.

That was right. Son Gohan had already learned to lock onto living targets. What remained was locking on under high-speed movement.

After seeing Son Gohan nod, King Kai took a deep breath, then gave a sudden soft shout and flung both hands forward.

The rectangular block that had originally been floating in midair suddenly charged forward. Then, as it continuously accelerated, it became faster and faster, until even its shadow had already blurred.

Son Gohan's eyes had long since locked onto that rectangular rock. Even if it entered a high-speed state, with his reaction speed, he could still keep it locked on.

Many people said that the principle behind the high-speed state in the world of Dragon Balls was actually very simple: once movement speed completely surpassed a living being's visual reaction speed, it would disappear.

This was actually a misunderstanding of certain parts of Dragon Balls' setting.

One had to know that starting from the battle against Piccolo, Son Goku and the others had already entered a state approaching high speed.

At the very beginning, that did indeed count as a high-speed state to ordinary people, because their eyes truly could not keep up.

But the high-speed state in later battles was entering high speed while under the opponent's ki lock-on. The difference between the two was huge.

The former only required surpassing the speed of an ordinary person's visual nerves. For Son Gohan and the others, that was not difficult.

But if one wanted to enter a high-speed state within an opponent's ki sensing and avoid their lock-on, the difficulty was much greater.

After entering a high-speed state, the rectangular rock rapidly flew around King Kai's Planet. Then, borrowing that powerful gravity for slingshot reinforcement, it instantly entered a super-speed state.

In that instant, Son Gohan immediately lost all sense of the rectangular rock. But three seconds later, he directly hurled the Spirit Bomb in his hand out with force!

Whoosh!

The Spirit Bomb was like a shell blasting out of a cannon barrel, shooting toward the empty midair at extreme speed.

In the very next second, an object suddenly collided with the Spirit Bomb Son Gohan had fired, and a burst of intense light shone in every direction.

Amid the violent explosion, Son Goku and the others all raised their hands to block their eyes. That intense light was truly a little dazzling.

"Very good. You have already completed your training in the Spirit Bomb!"

Seeing the cubic rock blasted into powder, King Kai nodded with great relief and continued, "I never thought you would truly succeed in training both special techniques. This is truly beyond my expectations."

"Now, I no longer have anything I can teach you. You may graduate."

Clenching his hand, Son Gohan closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He could feel that he had become much stronger than when he had first arrived on King Kai's Planet.

Whether it was his physical body or the total amount and quality of his ki, both had grown much stronger.

Especially now that he had learned his goals this time, Kaioken and the Spirit Bomb, Son Gohan could already start making arrangements for what came next.

When Son Gohan opened his eyes, however, he said to King Kai, "Lord King Kai, I'd still like to train on King Kai's Planet for a while longer. Do you think that would be all right?"

How could King Kai refuse? He immediately said, "Of course, of course. You can train here as long as you want."

Son Gohan was not in a hurry right now. After all, Bulma still had not finished manufacturing the flying craft on her side. There was no use going over now, so he might as well train on King Kai's Planet for a while longer.

In the days that followed, aside from the necessary physical training, Son Gohan spent as much of the remaining time as possible on meditation training.

He had to prepare himself now to constantly adapt to high-gravity environments in the near future. Otherwise, when the time came, it would be very easy to wreck his body.

Son Goku had also learned the Spirit Bomb. As for Piccolo and Raditz, they discovered they had no way to learn it at all.

Raditz could not learn the mental secret art, so he could not even communicate, while Piccolo was able to learn the mental secret art, but after he communicated, those objects were completely unwilling to lend him energy.

There was nothing Son Gohan could do about that either. The key was that they needed to think about and understand it themselves, then make changes.

After Son Goku learned the Spirit Bomb, Son Gohan's daily routine gained another task: sparring with his father.

One day, in midair above King Kai's Planet, Son Gohan and Son Goku floated there, facing each other.