"Senior Destruction, why are you communicating with me through this pendant of mine?"
From the moment Destruction sought him out, Su Chen had wanted to ask this question.
Yet the God of Destruction was fiery and impulsive, never giving him the chance to voice it.
"This pendant of yours should originate from the Divine Realm, being a fragment of an item belonging to a fallen deity."
"Though it cannot be considered a divine artifact, under the permeation of divine power, it is no longer a mortal object."
"With me residing in the Divine Realm, communicating with you through this pendant is both convenient and far more covert."
Su Chen stroked the utterly ordinary pendant, never having imagined it related to deities.
It seemed that even had the God of Destruction not sought him out, his own fortune was extraordinary indeed.
That made sense; having transmigrated, how could he not mix things up and play the protagonist?
"Then can you elaborate in detail on the crisis you mentioned the Divine Realm will face in the future?"
Su Chen was extremely curious about this.
If the God of Destruction could truly foresee events, he shouldn't have ended up in that state at the end.
The God of Destruction fell silent for a moment.
It wasn't that he didn't want to speak, but rather that he was pondering how to phrase it.
Spoke too profoundly, and given Su Chen's age and experience, he wouldn't understand either.
"You can assume I have a mortal enemy. His strength is secondary; the crucial point is that he is adept at scheming, and his luck is absurdly good. If I don't make preparations in advance, I will suffer losses sooner or later, and the Divine Realm will also face major trouble."
Su Chen had to sigh once again at Brother Destruction's straightforwardness.
With a personality like yours, no wonder you aren't skilled in dark plots and conspiracies, launching a rebellion only to end up rebelling yourself out of existence.
Aside from these sentiments, deeper within Su Chen's heart was confusion.
When he awakened his martial soul, people from Spirit Hall were responsible for it. Was the current timeline Douluo Continent I?
Did the Divine Realm already have the God of Destruction's mortal enemy at this time?
Anyone capable of being called a mortal enemy by the God of Destruction must certainly be a God King as well.
Could the current God of Asura be at odds with the God of Destruction? Surely it wouldn't be the current God of Goodness and God of Evil?
Unable to guess the answer, Su Chen stopped racking his brains.
Matters of the Divine Realm were still far removed from him at present, and overthinking was of no benefit.
"You certainly hold me in high regard. You are a God King, yet you actually expect me to be able to help you with a mortal enemy that even you find thorny."
Su Chen was not belittling himself, but rather felt somewhat puzzled as to why the God of Destruction held him in such high esteem.
Among the numerous planes governed by the Divine Realm, there must be many people with high innate talent-why pick him out at a glance?
"You must believe in your own talent. My eye for people is never wrong."
The God of Destruction spoke with absolute certainty, pinning infinite hopes on Su Chen.
The reason he picked out Su Chen at a glance, believing he could help him deal with Tang San, aside from Su Chen's exceptional talent, was that he valued a certain trait in Su Chen.
It was precisely that trait, identical to Tang San's, of imperceptibly influencing those around him.
Tang San became a god as a mere human, his foundations and heritage both extremely shallow.
Yet he was somehow able to make numerous people lose their minds and support him unconditionally.
Aside from Tang San's skill in scheming and excelling at forming cliques, this trait played an enormous role.
The God of Destruction had wanted to expand and strengthen the Divine Realm, yet because of a single ominous premonition from Tang San, numerous deities-including the God of Destruction's own wife, the Goddess of Life-firmly believed Tang San's words and devotedly stood on his side.
The God of Destruction even felt he had been influenced himself.
Ever since opinions diverged with Tang San, his own mind seemed shrouded as if by a veil, leading him to commit numerous anti-intellectual acts he would never have done under normal circumstances.
Even his final death to protect the Divine Realm, the God of Destruction now recalled with a sense of inexplicable impulse.
If it came to raw strength, though the God of Destruction had suffered defeat once in his previous life, after his rebirth he still feared no one.
Yet against this inexplicable trait, he was completely helpless.
Therefore, upon discovering that Su Chen also possessed this trait, he decided to vigorously nurture Su Chen.
Had Su Chen known that the God of Destruction had discovered Tang San possessed this trait, he definitely would have uttered a single phrase: protagonist halo.
He was unaware that the God of Destruction had thought through so much.
Regarding the God of Destruction's high regard, he could only offer a single line:
"Thank you for your trust."
For a long time, it had been Su Chen asking questions and the God of Destruction answering.
This was much like two people chatting on WeChat; if one person merely asked and the other merely answered, the conversation would be difficult to sustain.
"Senior Destruction, do you not have any questions you wish to ask me?"
Su Chen had assumed that given the personality the God of Destruction displayed, he wouldn't have anything he wanted to ask.
Most likely, he would just directly end the conversation.
As it turned out, the God of Destruction actually did ask a question:
"If you had an enemy who was exceptionally skilled at forming cliques for private gain, adept at ingratiating themselves, and clever at scheming and taking shortcuts, what would you do?"
The God of Destruction merely asked casually, without planning to obtain any answer.
He simply had no one else to voice this vexing trouble to.
The Goddess of Life?
Forget it, this wife and he were sharing the same bed while dreaming different dreams.
A wife whose elbows turned outward-the God of Destruction certainly dared not speak his true thoughts to her. Who knew when she might sell him out?
"Senior Destruction, I wonder if you know this principle: make as many friends as possible, and make as few enemies as possible."
"Forget it... Hm?"
The God of Destruction hadn't expected Su Chen to provide an answer and had even wanted to end the conversation, yet instead, he heard these deafening and enlightening words.
"This principle you speak of-isn't it simply telling me to... ingratiate myself and scheme just like that enemy of mine?"
"Hey, Senior Destruction, you've got it wrong there."
Having gained a certain understanding of the God of Destruction's personality, Su Chen spoke a bit more boldly.
"That enemy of yours seeks private gain, whereas you are thinking of the entire Divine Realm. How can those possibly be the same thing?"
The God of Destruction had initially felt some resistance to Su Chen's proposal, but upon hearing these words, he instantly felt it made sense.
That's right, how could he possibly be the same as that petty villain Tang San?
Tang San opened the back door for his daughter and son-in-law, wanting to turn both the Divine Realm and the Douluo Continent into a realm belonging to the Tang Family, whereas he acted purely out of public duty.
Once the reasoning was cleared up, many matters didn't feel so repellent anymore.
Now only a single problem remained.
The God of Destruction's tone weakened considerably.
"Matters of making friends... I don't know how."
The God of Destruction was born a deity, and moreover, a supreme God King.
Aside from the other four who were fellow God Kings, all other deities in the Divine Realm were his subordinates.
Furthermore, due to Destruction's personality and the characteristics of his divine office.
The other deities held an excess of awe toward him, while lacking in closeness.
The God of Destruction had even less experience taking the initiative to make friends with others, truly having no idea how to go about it.
Asking others for advice was out of the question, so the God of Destruction simply posed the question directly to Su Chen, who had continually surprised him.
Su Chen: ...
He didn't know how to make friends?
Very well.
Splendid and formidable!
Who told him to be a God King anyway? It indeed seemed he had no need to make friends with others.
"You are a God King, so your seniority must be extremely profound. If you show a little care and consideration toward other deities, you can definitely move many of them deeply."
"As for the other God Kings of your generation, each surely has their own differing thoughts and needs. You can think of ways in this regard."
"Mn, mn, continue."
Su Chen couldn't see the God of Destruction, but he always felt the person on the other end was frantically recording notes in a little booklet.
Just who was the senior here, and who was the junior?
How did the identities of the two of them seem to have completely flipped?
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