Before he could even savor Turles ' response, his eyes inadvertently caught sight of Merus standing motionless beside him.
Old Kai's tall, upturned beard suddenly twitched.
He waved his hands repeatedly as if he had seen a ghost, and his body subconsciously shrank back half a step.
"Forget it, forget it!"
Never mind what I said!
This sudden change left Shin and Kibito standing nearby completely bewildered.
What's wrong, Ancestor?
Turles crossed his arms, a faint smile playing on his lips, taking in the old man's exaggerated reaction.
Old Kai coughed twice, trying to cover up his earlier lapse in composure.
His wrinkled old face flushed red, and in an attempt to regain his composure, he steeled himself and approached Turles again, this time with a different attitude.
"Ahem! Well... I was just mentioning it casually. Taking someone as a disciple is too cliché."
"However... I do have a secret technique... that can make you stronger. I wonder if you'd be interested?"
However, before Turles could even speak...
Old Kai suddenly froze.
His cloudy eyes, which had previously held a hint of cunning, were now fixed intently on Turles, as if trying to see right through him.
The old man's mouth opened slightly, and he murmured incredulously.
"Strangeness..."
"That's so strange..."
"Your potential power... I... can't detect even the slightest bit of it..."
He reached out and groped around Turles' body haphazardly, as if searching for something.
world.
He ignored Turles and no longer looked at anyone around him.
He frowned, put his hands behind his back, and muttered to himself as if deep in thought about some age-old problem. Step by step, he walked away alone.
That hunched figure walked further and further away on the verdant grass, filled with confusion and perseverance.
"Eh? Ancestor?"
Shin looked at his ancestor's dazed state and felt embarrassed.
He looked at Kibito for help.
Kibito looked helpless and could only give Turles and Merus an apologetic look.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Turles, Inspector Merus... our ancestor... he may have been sealed away for too long, he's a bit..."
Xin really didn't know how to explain it, so he could only give a vague answer.
After saying that, he and Kibito hurriedly ran after the direction the Old Kai had gone.
"Ancestor! Wait for us!"
Soon, the three figures disappeared behind the distant hillside.
Beneath the towering tree, only Turles and Merus remained.
Turles didn't care about this.
Merus simply watched calmly in the direction the group had left before turning his gaze away.
The two exchanged a perfectly synchronized glance and nodded to each other.
They didn't seem to take the old man's little incident to heart.
I don't know how much time passed.
The two remained facing each other, sitting cross-legged beneath the enormous, towering tree.
The surrounding air was so quiet that the only sound could be the rustling of the wind through the leaves.
Merus ' expression gradually became serious.
He knew it was time to get down to business.
" God Ki," Merus's voice broke the silence, clear and steady, "Is actually a higher-level form of energy."
"Its quality is higher, and its level is also higher."
To help Turles understand more intuitively.
Merus held up one finger.
At his fingertips, a faint yet extremely pure light slowly condensed.
The light was tiny, like the glow of a firefly, almost imperceptible in the pale golden light of the sky.
But just as that light appeared...
Turles suddenly opened his eyes.
An indescribable sense of astonishment instantly seized his mind.
How is that possible?
He had his eyes closed just now, trying to sense things using "qi".
With his current level of perception, even the movement of an ant on the edge of the universe cannot escape his detection.
However, just now...
In his perceived world, there was nothingness.
He couldn't detect any energy emanating from Merus' fingertips at all!
It's as if that ray of light doesn't even exist in this dimension.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have thought that Merus hadn't done anything at all.
This is an absolute, dimensional barrier.
Human perception is completely ineffective in its presence.
"Did you feel it?" Merus asked calmly, noticing the astonishment on Turles's face.
"I can't feel anything," Turles answered truthfully, his voice slightly dry, a trait he himself didn't even realize.
Merus withdrew his finger, and the light at his fingertip dissipated.
"This is the God Ki."
"It is fundamentally different from the 'qi' you are familiar with."
"To enter the Realm of the Gods, the first step is to learn to perceive it, and then, to Control it."
Turles fell silent.
Seeing this, Merus assumed that Turles was feeling frustrated and immediately added.
"It shouldn't be that far away for you."
"Actually, your previous deliberate refinement of 'qi' was correct, but..."
"The lifespan of the Saiyan... without guidance, it might be very difficult for them to take that step..."
"You can trust me on this point; I have complete confidence in you!"
Turles did not doubt Merus ' confidence.
But he also knew that for a mortal to try to perceive the elusive Realm of the Gods from scratch in an environment where God Ki was so scarce was like finding a needle in a haystack.
Turles looked at Merus's serious face and slowly shook his head.
"No."
He calmly uttered a single word.
Merus was slightly taken aback.
Turles didn't give him a chance to ask further questions, and dropped a bombshell that he had already prepared.
Actually... what I wanted to ask you was...
Turles looked up and met Merus's gaze.
Do you know about the Super Saiyan God?
Merus was slightly taken aback.
He frowned slightly, repeating the unfamiliar phrase.
" Super Saiyan... God?"
How did Super Saiyan get associated with gods?
I've never heard of such Number One god before...
Turles nodded, confirming his doubts.
He began to organize his thoughts and began to recount the legend that had been buried deep in the ancient history of the Saiyan.
"This is something I learned by chance from another source, an ancient legend about the Saiyan..."
"A long, long time ago, before the Saiyan ' home planet was Planet Vegeta..."
Turles ' voice was unhurried, carrying the calmness of recounting an ancient epic.
" The Saiyan of that era were mostly fierce and warlike, constantly waging war."
"But among them, there was also a Saiyan with an upright heart."
Unable to bear witnessing the endless slaughter of his own kind, he gathered five other Saiyan companions who shared his righteous heart and launched a rebellion against those vicious tribesmen.
Upon hearing this, Merus ' expression became focused.
The phrase "honesty"... evoked a certain association in him.
Turles continued, "In the final battle, the leader of the Saiyan, on the verge of defeat, received the combined power of his five companions."
"Then, he completed his transformation."
"He became... Super Saiyan God."
silence.
A long silence fell beneath the towering tree.
Merus lowered his head, as if processing the information.
After a long while, he finally raised his head.
"I see."
Merus ' voice carried a hint of realization.
"If the legend is true..."
"This... is perhaps a... clever mechanism by which your Saiyan race, without divine guidance, forcibly opened the gate to the ' Realm of the Gods ' by relying on the special resonance of your bloodline."
"An upright heart determines the purity of their 'qi' (vital energy), and this is fundamental."
"Five individuals of the same pure bloodline infuse their power into a sixth person. This is not merely an accumulation of quantity, but more like a... catalysis."
"Through this extreme resonance, the sixth person's life level was forcibly elevated to the realm of gods in a short period of time."
"Improved the quality of energy!"
The more Merus spoke, the clearer his thoughts became.
His expression as he looked at Turles also carried a hint of admiration.
"This is indeed a brilliant idea."
"By bypassing the long process of enlightenment, cultivation, and breakthrough, they reached the end directly in a way that was almost like a 'sacrifice'."
"Although it may only be temporary, I have indeed crossed that threshold."
Merus paused for a moment before finally giving his judgment.
"If this legend is true, then the so-called ' Super Saiyan God ' is essentially a Saiyan who possesses ' God Ki '."
Listening to Merus's analysis, Turles couldn't help but admire it.
The essence of " Super Saiyan God " can be analyzed so thoroughly through just a vague legend.
Merus looked at Turles, "So... you mean..."