Cultivation! Progress

A month later

In a training room in West City, bean-sized drops of sweat fell to the floor.

"Drip... drip..."

"198... 199, 200!"

A short-haired young man dressed in a black vest lowered himself from a one-handed handstand and returned to his feet.

Just then, the phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

"Ding-dong chicken, ding-dong chicken~~~"

Lin Yuan glanced at it. The caller was Bulma, so he answered...

After a brief conversation, Lin Yuan's eyes gradually lit up with excitement!

The gravity chamber was finally finished!

Bulma asked whether he wanted her to bring it over later.

Lin Yuan refused. He wanted to pick it up himself—he could barely wait!

He quickly threw on a jacket and rushed for the door!

Hearing the commotion, Launch came out of the living room.

Today, Launch wore a pale yellow dress.

Beneath the hem were a pair of straight, slender legs with nearly perfect proportions, enough to make any man's blood race.

The skirt hung naturally, swaying slightly with her graceful steps.

Under that head of blue hair was a flawless face. It needed no adornment to be breathtakingly beautiful.

"Yuan, where are you rushing off to? Be careful!"

Launch asked, her cherry lips parting slightly.

Lin Yuan only replied that he knew, then got on his motorcycle and sped away.

Seeing how frantic Lin Yuan was, Launch couldn't help recalling how he had rushed out in the same hurry some time ago.

She had just reminded him not to be so impatient when he took two steps and fell flat on his face.

Thinking of that, the corners of Launch's lips curled upward.

When he arrived at Bulma's house, Lin Yuan called her as he walked inside.

Before the call even connected, he saw Bulma hopping out into the hallway.

She waved the capsule in her hand and said playfully, "Here, the gravity chamber you wanted is in this. After Dad and I worked so hard on it, we finally finished it! It can adjust gravity from two to ten times normal. So? Aren't I amazing?"

After saying that, she looked at Lin Yuan expectantly with her big eyes, like a student waiting for praise from her teacher.

Since he was receiving something valuable, Lin Yuan naturally had to indulge her.

"Of course you're amazing. Not only amazing, but beautiful too!"

Only after hearing that did Bulma hand him the capsule.

"Hehe, that's more like it! Here you go!"

Lin Yuan took the capsule and put it away in a box. Then he casually asked, "Oh, right. Where's Yamcha? Aren't you two together?"

Sometimes, fate really was that coincidental.

A few days ago, Yamcha had come to West City and happened to run into Bulma.

He had even saved her once. After that, the two found they got along better and better as they talked, and there were already signs that they might end up together.

"Oh, him? He spends every day challenging other people's martial arts schools. He says he wants to find opponents around his level to improve his practical combat skills. Honestly, he always comes back covered in injuries."

Lin Yuan smiled, swung onto his motorcycle, and said to Bulma, "With his strength, I'm afraid no ordinary martial arts school has anyone who can beat him. When the time comes, you can tell him to come to my place. The two of us can spar. My hands have been itching lately anyway."

With that, Lin Yuan shifted gears and twisted the throttle.

"I'll get going, then. I need to hurry back and test out the gravity chamber. I'll treat you to a meal when I have time."

Bulma rolled her eyes.

"You say that every time, but I've never seen you treat me even once~ Just get going already!"

"Haha, next time for sure!" Lin Yuan sped away.

After returning home, Lin Yuan eagerly entered the gravity chamber.

The gravity chamber was shaped like a half-ellipse. It was not very large, probably only a few dozen square meters.

In the middle of the room was a device resembling a control console.

Lin Yuan gave it a quick look. The controls were simple—just a display screen.

On either side of the screen were four buttons arranged from left to right and top to bottom: Stop, Start, Minus, and Plus.

For the past month, Lin Yuan had been training while carrying fifty jin of weight. With the weights on, his power level was 65.

Lin Yuan took off the weights and moved his body around. His power level had unexpectedly reached 69.

In other words, his power level had increased by five points over the past month...

Lin Yuan was already quite satisfied with that progress.

Now that he had the gravity chamber to train in, he believed his improvements would be even greater!

"Let's try double gravity first."

Lin Yuan closed the door, pressed Start, then pressed + once.

The "1" on the screen flickered and changed into a "2."

Accompanied by a faint hum, an invisible pressure instantly surged toward Lin Yuan from all directions like a tidal wave.

Lin Yuan felt as though heavy lead blocks had been tied to his legs. Even taking a single step became exceptionally difficult.

The double gravity had far exceeded Lin Yuan's expectations. He had never thought it would be this hard!

In no time at all, fine beads of sweat appeared on Lin Yuan's forehead.

"I'll start with walking!"

And so, Lin Yuan began his "old-man walk."

It was called an old-man walk because his movements were truly a little comical, like an old man walking at a slow shuffle.

Gradually, Lin Yuan became able to "walk normally" under double gravity, though he was still rather slow. It took him ten minutes just to circle the perimeter once.

At this rate, it would probably take quite a while before he could carry out normal physical training under double gravity...

After training, Lin Yuan took a shower and enjoyed a delicious dinner with Launch.

Lin Yuan's appetite was enormous now. He practically ate enough for three people at every meal.

That was also thanks to one thing: Launch's cooking was genuinely delicious.

Over the past month, Lin Yuan had praised her cooking at nearly every meal.

Except for that one time when Launch had turned pufferfish into hot pot...

After more than a month together, the two had also grown increasingly close.

Even blonde Launch was now willing to live here with Lin Yuan, though she caused trouble every time she went out.

And she always loved snapping at Lin Yuan. Fortunately, none of that was a big deal to Lin Yuan!

As long as Lin Yuan was given a little more time, blonde Launch would sooner or later be won over by him.

When that time came, hehehe~

That's right! Lin Yuan wanted to eat Launch up—kill two birds with one stone, hit two targets with one shot, get twice the result with half the effort, and pierce two targets with one arrow...

Don't get the wrong idea. Lin Yuan merely wanted to review his Chinese.

Still, their progress had remained relatively slow.

During this time, Lin Yuan spent almost all his time outside of training with Launch—shopping, eating, going to amusement parks, watching movies...

Yet their relationship had progressed no further than holding hands. It couldn't be helped; Launch was too innocent.

And since Lin Yuan had never been in a relationship before, whenever he met her pure, flawless gaze, every thought in his mind vanished.

Good thing she had met Lin Yuan. Otherwise, who knew whether some bad uncle might have tricked her away!

Lin Yuan took a deep breath and stopped his wild thoughts.

He would wait for a chance to tell Launch how he felt. Now was not the time for that.

He had to become stronger. Once he could fully adapt to double gravity and raise his power level above one hundred, he planned to go train at Korin Tower.

That was also his fourth mission—climb Korin Tower!

This was why Lin Yuan had not attempted the fourth mission yet. He wasn't sure how much power was needed to climb it. To be safe, he would first train until he reached one hundred.

With that, Lin Yuan put the fifty-jin weights back on, but he did not continue training in the gravity chamber.

Balancing work and rest was the essence of the Turtle School. Though he had not joined the Turtle School, that did not stop him from applying its philosophy.

In Lin Yuan's view, the martial arts culture Goku had absorbed on Earth since childhood, along with the solid foundation he had built, was precisely why Goku was always stronger than Vegeta at the same power level.

Vegeta, on the other hand, had always trained alone, relentlessly grinding away in gravity chambers and fighting nonstop, yet the results were still not as good as Goku's.

This referred to ki control. For example, when fighting in the same form, Vegeta's energy consumption was always greater.

That was getting a little off topic...

Lin Yuan sat cross-legged on the bed and closed his eyes in meditation. His hands were loosely cupped before his chest as though he were holding a small glass ball, and he began sensing his ki.

For some time now, Lin Yuan had practiced sensing ki every night before going to sleep.

By now, he could already feel the flow of ki within his body.

He still could not use it, but based on Lin Yuan's estimate, that day was not far off.

Before long, Lin Yuan should be able to try ki techniques and the Sky Dance Technique!