Time passed, and another year went by.
West City.
Lin Chen emerged from the 100-times Gravity Room, looking thoroughly frustrated.
He realized that he seemed to have hit another bottleneck in his training.
Over the past three months, Lin Chen's battle power had continued to grow slowly, but strangely enough, he had never been able to fully transform into a legendary Super Saiyan.
Lin Chen had no idea why. No matter what he tried, he could only transform into an ordinary Super Saiyan.
He simply could not achieve the legendary Super Saiyan form unique to his legendary Saiyan bloodline.
Lin Chen checked his status panel.
Host: Lin Chen Battle power: 1,280,000 Bloodline: Legendary Super Saiyan Bloodline Skills: Instant Transmission, Ki Control, Beginner Martial Arts Prodigy talent.
Looking at his battle power reminded Lin Chen of another strange issue.
After his battle power had passed one million, its growth had slowed down.
With Lin Chen's legendary Super Saiyan bloodline, shouldn't his battle power be shooting up like a rocket?
How come all this grueling training has only raised it by a little over two hundred thousand?
How am I supposed to live with that?
Thinking back, Son Gohan had also trained for a year during the original Cell Saga, and his battle power had shot from a few hundred thousand to several million.
Look at his progress, then look at mine...
Lin Chen kept feeling that something was wrong.
It seemed that in this world, once battle power exceeded one million, increasing it became difficult.
Broly was another example of this.
With the same legendary Super Saiyan bloodline, Broly's battle power increased every day even without training, and faster than Lin Chen's at that.
Yet when Lin Chen had visited Kami three months earlier, he had found that Broly's battle power had only risen to a little over eight hundred thousand, nowhere near the outrageous levels in the original story.
No matter how much he thought about it, Lin Chen could not figure it out.
Just then, the roof of the 100-times Gravity Room behind him suddenly collapsed.
The tremendous crash startled Dr. Brief and his family.
They all stared at the collapsed Gravity Room, dumbfounded.
Tights came over and asked with concern, "Lin Chen, what's wrong?"
"Me? I'm fine."
Only then did Lin Chen snap out of his thoughts. He glanced back at the Gravity Room and said apologetically, "Sorry, Doctor. It looks like a 100-times Gravity Room isn't enough anymore."
"What?"
The cigarette fell from Dr. Brief's mouth. "Don't tell me you've already gotten used to a hundred times gravity?"
"I actually got used to it three months ago. Doctor, sorry for the trouble, but could you find a way to build a Gravity Room with a higher setting? How about one that goes up to five hundred times gravity?" Lin Chen said.
"F-five hundred times? Lin Chen, at five hundred times gravity, your hundred-kilogram body would weigh fifty tonnes... Can you handle that?"
"No problem. I can adjust to it gradually!"
"But at five hundred times gravity, I'm afraid materials from Earth won't be dense enough to withstand it. Lin Chen, I can start developing the Gravity Room, but you'd better find me some new high-density metals. Otherwise, I probably won't be able to build it."
"All right. I'll have the people on Planet Vegeta prepare some."
After agreeing to Dr. Brief's request, Lin Chen made another decision. Since the Gravity Room was temporarily unusable, perhaps he should consider other ways to train.
Ding! The host's desire to increase his strength has been detected. Strongest Choice triggered. Choice one: seek instruction from King Kai and learn any of his techniques. Reward: Evil Spirit Bomb technique. Choice two: seek instruction from Master Roshi and learn any of his techniques. Reward: Instant Transmission Kamehameha technique. Choice three: seek instruction from Kami and learn any of his divine techniques. Reward: Giant Form technique.
Huh?
Lin Chen was initially taken aback by this Strongest Choice.
With his Beginner Martial Arts Prodigy talent, choices that rewarded him with techniques seemed of little use.
But Lin Chen quickly realized that these rewards were probably techniques he could not learn through his talent alone, either anytime soon or even in the future.
The reward for the second choice was the easiest to understand. It should be the technique Son Goku would later create by combining Instant Transmission with the Kamehameha after learning the former.
The third reward seemed to be an innate Namekian ability rather than an ordinary technique. Like Namekian cellular regeneration, it was probably something Lin Chen could not learn through normal means.
As for the first choice, Lin Chen had never even heard of it.
"System, what does Evil Spirit Bomb mean?"
Ding! Host, the standard Spirit Bomb absorbs only a small amount of life energy from each living being. The Evil Spirit Bomb absorbs all of their life energy without regard for the donors' safety. As a result, the Evil Spirit Bomb is more powerful, but each use requires more time to gather energy and leaves a dead wasteland behind.
So that's how it works. Lin Chen began to understand.
If the standard Spirit Bomb borrowed strength from others, then the so-called Evil Spirit Bomb simply seized their life energy for its own use, without caring whether they lived or died.
With the same number of people supplying energy, the Evil Spirit Bomb would probably be several times more powerful than an ordinary Spirit Bomb.
The Spirit Bomb was a finishing move Goku had used countless times to turn the tables in the original story. Its power was beyond question.
If this Evil Spirit Bomb is even stronger, wouldn't learning it give me a trump card to turn any battle around?
Lin Chen was immediately tempted.
But... after thinking it over carefully, Lin Chen still decided on the second choice.
Though the Evil Spirit Bomb was powerful, it still required a long time to gather energy, just like an ordinary Spirit Bomb.
And a single use would drain all the Life Force from everyone nearby...
If Lin Chen used it on Planet Vegeta, his subordinates would all be dead before he even defeated the enemy.
He was not planning to become some great villain. Learning Master Roshi's techniques would be just fine.
As for the third reward, although transforming into a Giant Form could increase his battle power, its weakness was obvious: someone could easily slip into his mouth. Lin Chen ruled it out immediately.
"Forget it. System, choice two!"
Ding! The host has activated his choice. Please complete the task as soon as possible.
After making his choice, Lin Chen said to Tights, "Tights, I'm going on a trip to meet a martial arts master."
"A martial arts master?" Tights asked curiously.
"Yes. His name is Master Roshi. He's also known as the Martial Arts Master."
"Master Roshi? I know him! Um... Lin Chen, could you take me with you? I'd like to study martial arts under Master Roshi too."
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