Faced with the disbelief of Goku and the others, Tien Shinhan paid no attention whatsoever to his own excessive brilliance.
To him, this was only natural.
Scientific principles were like math problems: either you understood them or you did not. They were not like the limits of martial arts, which could be broken through by the combined effects of fighting spirit, emotion, and training.
Someone who could not solve the problem would not even know where the limits of mathematics lay. Without so much as a direction, where could they possibly break through?
So it was only natural that he could understand the principles Dr. Lychee was explaining, and perfectly normal that Goku and the others could not. There was nothing to make a fuss about.
After all, with Tien Shinhan's current insight, if he wanted to understand, he naturally would. This was a difference in insight and had nothing whatsoever to do with whether they trained hard enough.
Seeing that Tien Shinhan was actually so interested in his research, and could even ask questions that went straight to its key points, Dr. Lychee felt all the more that Tien Shinhan respected his research results.
With that in mind, he concealed nothing from Tien Shinhan. Instead, he opened the casing of the Grudge Wave Amplification Device as requested and pressed the remote to switch the device from grudge wave collection mode to compression amplification mode.
"The Armstrong Lycheetes Spin you wanted to understand can be seen in this specially made section of conduit."
Worried that Tien Shinhan would not be able to see clearly, Dr. Lychee even took the initiative to point out a transparent internal conduit, directing Tien Shinhan's attention primarily to the compression and rotation inside that section.
Tien Shinhan nodded his thanks and immediately fixed his gaze on the section of conduit Dr. Lychee had pointed out.
Soon, streams of pale purple energy appeared inside the transparent conduit.
Rather than simply passing through that section of conduit, each stream spun rapidly as it traveled.
Seeing those spinning purple streams appear, Tien Shinhan focused his gaze further, concentrating on exactly how they spun.
Three clockwise rotations, then two and a half counterclockwise!
After a full two and a half minutes of careful observation, Tien Shinhan discovered a pattern in the purple streams passing through one after another.
Every stream that spun its way through followed the same rotational cycle.
Could this combination of rotations be the key to the Armstrong Lychee Spin?
Of course, Tien Shinhan had not really come to consult Dr. Lychee because he wanted to conduct scientific research.
What truly interested him was the principle by which the Grudge Wave Amplification Device absorbed a special energy, then strengthened it through internal compression and amplification.
Tien Shinhan could not collect grudge waves, but he was a martial artist who had already mastered the use of ki.
The ki inside a martial artist's body was itself a special form of energy, so Tien Shinhan had no need to collect energy such as grudge waves from the outside. He already had his own.
What truly mattered was how to use the Grudge Wave Amplification Device's compression and amplification principles to compress and amplify the ki in his own body in the same way, unleashing greater destructive power!
Having discovered the pattern behind the rotational compression, Tien Shinhan withdrew his gaze and immediately began experimenting by controlling the ki inside his body.
Following Dr. Lychee's method of rotational compression, Tien Shinhan felt that the ki inside his body had indeed reached a greater degree of compression.
However, this compressed flow of ki was not an overall state. For now, it could only be used as a technique.
Condense and compress the ki within his body to unleash a punch far beyond his normal power level!
Dragon Fist! Explode!
Tien Shinhan thought of the Dragon Fist that Goku mastered later on.
But Goku's Dragon Fist erupted after he forcibly compressed his ki through sheer willpower at the very edge of his limits.
Tien Shinhan, on the other hand, had independently comprehended his ultimate move by observing the compression principles of the Grudge Wave Amplification Device.
Unfortunately, there were differences between the human body and a machine, after all.
Tien Shinhan could feel that the rotational pattern suited to the Grudge Wave Amplification Device was still far from compressing the ki inside his body to its limit.
That method of compression to the very limit would still require continuous improvement and refinement through his future training and battles.
As for the ultimate move Tien Shinhan had now comprehended, the destructive power it could unleash was only ten times his normal baseline.
An ultimate move with ten times his normal battle power already sounded powerful, but there was still an enormous gap between it and the true Dragon Fist.
Thus, Tien Shinhan did not simply name the punch he had just comprehended Dragon Fist.
Close to the Dragon Fist, but not yet its equal. Then I'll call it Perfected Dragon Fist!
Gradually approaching excellence, growing more perfect by the day.
"Perfected" already carried the meaning of reaching an ideal state. It also represented Tien Shinhan's hope that this punch would soon reach perfection, matching the power of the true Dragon Fist, or even surpassing it!
A tenfold increase in destructive power was still nowhere near enough compared to the fiftyfold boost in battle power granted directly by Super Saiyan.
But this was only a beginning, and it was already more than enough for the enemies they faced at this stage.
Tien Shinhan and the others had originally thought that after repelling the Saiyans' invasion of the Tuffles, they would be transported back to their original time and space.
Yet over the next few days, none of them felt the force that would transport them back.
So they wasted no time and began training in the luxurious accommodations the Tuffle king had personally arranged for them.
Over those few days, Dr. Lychee also successfully finished adjusting the Scouter's detection range.
"I've done my best to raise the new Scouter's maximum detectable power level to one hundred thousand. I believe it won't be so easy to overload it now."
Dr. Lychee had brought a new model of Scouter this time.
This was also the limit to which he could currently adjust the Scouter.
To detect even higher power levels, they would have to abandon this portable, glasses-like Scouter and use another, larger Scouter that was inconvenient to carry.
"Lemme see, lemme see!"
Launch, who had turned blonde again after getting up that morning, immediately took the latest-model Scouter from Dr. Lychee's hand and began scanning everyone.
Beep, beep, beep!
Amid the Scouter's soft electronic beeps, everyone's power levels appeared one after another.
Blonde Launch also took on the role of an announcer, reading everyone's power levels aloud as she scanned them.
"Krillin: power level, 310."
Krillin, whose result was read out first, was pleasantly surprised. Compared to before they had been transported to this space, his power level had increased by over a hundred.
He would never even have dared imagine improving his power level at such a rate before.
It was easy to imagine just how much he had gained from that fierce battle.
"Chiaotzu: power level, 398!"
Compared to Krillin's rapid improvement, Chiaotzu's progress had been slightly slower.
However, he had begun training at Kami's Lookout earlier than Krillin and had already undergone the Ultra Divine Water challenge.
Even though he had drunk less than a cup, his current power level was still higher than Krillin's.
Of course, if Krillin completed the Ultra Divine Water challenge after returning, it would be hard to say which of the two would have the higher power level.
"Goku! Hiss... power level, 6,000!"
The next moment, when Blonde Launch read Goku's power level, her eyes widened involuntarily in surprise.