Chapter 75: Divine Nature
"Mr. Whis, what are the requirements to become a Supreme Kai or God of Destruction?"
Turles held great respect for Whis—not just because of his strength, but his character.
As an Angel, Whis upheld his principles and maintained neutrality. Yet as Beerus's teacher, he also protected Beerus. He trained Beerus's combat skills, guided him toward higher divine realms, and restrained his willful behavior.
Most importantly, Whis had an excellent personality. Surely no one believed Whis trained Goku and Vegeta carefully just for Earth's food.
So before Whis, aside from basic respect, Turles didn't feel too constrained.
Clearly Whis was satisfied with Turles's manner. He didn't mind Turles's directness and patiently explained.
To become a god—especially true gods like Gods of Destruction and Supreme Kais—the fundamental requirement was possessing divine nature.
Only with divine nature could you climb the peak. Without it, you'd lost your chance from the start.
Of course, this was only the foundation. Without subsequent training, even natural-born Angels would just be the weakest Angels.
In a universe, for life with divine nature to appear was extremely difficult. The universe might even reach destruction without such life emerging.
For unknown reasons, both Whis and Merus—even the Grand Elder—could sense divine nature in Turles. This showed how rare he was.
No wonder Whis personally sought him out to train him as a God of Destruction candidate.
Learning this hidden truth from Whis, Turles gained deeper understanding of the Dragon Ball world.
This made Turles speculate—perhaps Goku's later Super Saiyan God transformation related to five righteous-hearted Saiyans infusing their heart energy, giving Goku divine nature.
Otherwise, when Goku and Vegeta abandoned the Super Saiyan God path and returned to transforming into Super Saiyan Blue, Whis wouldn't have felt regretful.
This made Turles feel taking in the remaining Saiyans was truly correct. Especially since he'd formulated a Saiyan reformation plan—Turles almost wanted to applaud himself!
Understanding Whis's purpose, Turles completely relaxed. Then came excitement.
Honestly, after becoming Merus's disciple, Turles had been worried. Merus didn't seem as reliable as other Angels. Especially knowing Whis's guidance level, this feeling grew stronger.
Now it was good. With Whis's supervision, even if Merus's level was lacking, Whis would surely intervene.
After all, Turles belonged to Universe Seven. Even if he didn't inherit Beerus's position and became another universe's God of Destruction, he'd still have sentiment toward Universe Seven.
Since Whis gave him such face, Turles naturally accepted. He readily agreed to Whis, leaving Merus somewhat sullen.
Turles naturally had tact. He immediately comforted Merus, guaranteeing he was still his disciple and needed to learn from him. Only then did Merus's mood improve.
After all, his current strength was too weak. Whis wouldn't train him now. Ungrown geniuses were just geniuses—far from being powerhouses.
Regardless, all three achieved their purposes and were satisfied with the result.
Achieving his purpose, Whis immediately proposed farewell. But Turles immediately detained him. Having finally met Whis, when else would he build this relationship?
Turles immediately instructed Red Stone Planet's chefs to bring out their absolute best for proper hospitality.
Whis wanted to refuse, but thinking of Turles's experiences he'd seen earlier, he inexplicably agreed.
In the following time, Whis felt extremely fortunate he'd stayed.
Turles's copied recipes were simply too comprehensive. Even though Whis only tasted a little of each dish, more than half the menu remained untasted.
Seeing Whis's reluctant expression, Turles immediately offered that everything could be packed to go. He provided Whis with preservation containers in space capsules—service to the end.
"Thank you so much for Mr. Turles's hospitality. In the future, if you have training problems Merus cannot solve, you can contact me directly. This is my contact method—just call out to me. Thank you again, farewell!"
After speaking, Whis handed Turles a small blue button. He tapped his staff lightly on the ground and transformed into rainbow light, departing.
Turles stood in place, watching Whis's departing direction for a long time without speaking.
Regarding Whis's sudden arrival, Turles felt he'd gained quite a bit. Setting aside other matters, just establishing a relationship with Whis was the greatest benefit.
"Turles, since Brother Whis has already left, I should go too. This is some training insights I've organized." At this point, Merus paused before continuing, "Well, your current strength is still somewhat lacking, so some parts might not suit you. If you have any problems, be sure to contact me or Brother Whis immediately. Understand?"
Turles accepted the box Merus produced—a full half-person's height. Initially somewhat puzzled, after hearing Merus's words, he immediately nodded solemnly.
"Rest assured, Teacher Merus. I'll be careful and study the materials inside seriously!"
Seeing Turles so solemn, Merus hesitated. "Actually... some parts really don't need reading."
"Hm?" Hearing this, Turles looked at Merus questioningly.
"Alright, that's it then!" After speaking, Merus didn't give Turles a chance to ask further questions. He hurriedly departed, giving Turles a distinct impression of fleeing in panic.
Shaking his head, Turles dismissed this somewhat absurd notion.
Carrying the box, Turles came to the training room.
Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Turles opened the box. Inside lay manuscripts filled densely with writing. With a pilgrim's mentality, Turles extracted one.
Opening it, Turles looked at the manuscript content:
"To become stronger, you must first have a robust body!"
Turles nodded in agreement and continued reading.
"And to have a robust body, nutritional supplementation is essential!"
Turles nodded again.
"And for nutritional supplementation, protein is indispensable. I recommend milk from Plaus Star cattle."
Turles was about to nod again when he suddenly noticed something wrong. He hurriedly reread it.
After a long while, forcing himself through this Muscle-Building Guide—especially seeing the final signature: Ramushi—Turles couldn't help but curse aloud. "Merus, damn you!"
Note: Ramushi is Universe Ten's God of Destruction, extremely devoted to muscles. His appearance is that of a pink elephant, while Universe Ten's Angel is named Kusu, with a twin-tailed maiden appearance.
After cursing Merus's family, Turles immediately dumped all the box's manuscripts out, carefully examining them before finally relaxing.
Though most manuscripts were Ramushi discussing how to enhance muscles, there were still some genuinely useful methods. Especially one piece about training mental power—this helped not just Turles but could solve Broly's predicament.
Turles carefully stored these useful manuscripts. Looking at the remaining ones, he originally wanted to destroy them directly but ultimately decided to keep them for some unknown reason.
Taking out the mental training method manuscript, Turles headed toward Broly's direction.
Meanwhile, Merus hurriedly returned from Red Stone Planet to Galaxy Patrol headquarters. Just entering headquarters, he encountered Jaco preparing to go out.
Currently, Jaco had regained his Galaxy Patrol position and wore his patrol uniform again.
Seeing Merus return, Jaco greeted him warmly. "Merus, you're back? How is it—satisfied with Turles as a disciple?"
Hearing this, Merus's face flashed with embarrassment. Just about to answer, he couldn't help sneezing several times.
"What's wrong? Caught a cold? Can elite patrol warriors even catch colds?" Jaco asked with concern.
"No, just feeling somewhat uncomfortable. By the way, where were you heading? New mission?" Merus didn't want to explain the reason and changed the subject.
Hearing Merus ask this, Jaco immediately grew proud, laughing. "That's right! The Galaxy King not only restored my patrol position and approved my new ship application, but also sent me to West Galaxy to investigate news about universe overlord Slug. Rumors say this overlord doesn't have long to live, so West Galaxy's becoming somewhat unstable!"
"Slug? That evil Namekian?" Merus recalled before confirming with Jaco.
Jaco looked at Merus with surprise. "You know about Slug too? That's right—West Galaxy's universe overlord, the evil Namekian! Heard he's even a Super Namekian!"
After receiving Jaco's confirmation, Merus grew thoughtful. After considering, he spoke to Jaco again. "Mind if Turles and I join you? You know, Slug's battle power isn't weak. Even though he's old, he's not someone you can handle."
Hearing this, Jaco immediately felt tempted.
Setting aside Merus's strength, just Turles's battle power was formidable. Most importantly, with these two along, even if his mission failed, someone would share the burden. The Galaxy King wouldn't revoke his position again then.
Thinking these thoughts, Jaco pretended to hesitate before asking, "Is this appropriate? I mean, will Turles agree?"
Merus waved his hand, taking full responsibility. "I'll handle Turles. Just say whether you agree or not!"
"Good! Since you've said so, refusing would be disrespecting you. I still have three days. When we pass Red Stone Planet, we can pick up Turles then."
After speaking, Jaco didn't give Merus a chance to refuse and fled in a flash.
Watching Jaco's escape, Merus rolled his eyes internally, then considered what reason to use to convince Turles.
Turles naturally didn't know his unreliable teacher was already planning how to exploit him as free labor.
Currently, he and Broly sat cross-legged in a wilderness clearing, both with eyes tightly closed and foreheads covered in sweat.
At this moment, within their mental worlds, Turles was fully suppressing Broly's berserk mental entity.
They were practicing the mental training method from Merus's manuscript.
This mental training method required one person with outstanding mental power and one with ordinary mental power. Based on mutual trust, they'd connect mentally and jointly construct a mental world.
In this mental world, the mentally outstanding person would guide the mentally weak person to stimulate negative emotions within their heart, then suppress these negative emotions.
The mentally outstanding person's mental power would improve through suppressing emotions, while the mentally weak person could purify their mental power by eliminating negative emotions. Both sides benefited.
However, Turles had somewhat underestimated the negative emotions hidden within Broly.
Though Broly was simple-minded, his bloodline power wasn't simple. Under this bloodline power's influence, his mental negative emotions were practically endless.
Fortunately, Broly hadn't experienced much. The negative thoughts he himself generated were almost nonexistent. Moreover, having Turles as a friend made his mind even clearer. So Turles could persist.
However, Broly's ancient Saiyan bloodline truly lived up to Porunga's description of rivaling true gods. Its berserk power nearly broke through Turles's mental suppression several times. Not only that—this berserk energy wanted to infect Turles's mind and stimulate the Saiyan bloodline within Turles.
But before mentally linking, Turles had already severed Broly's body and tail connection. This greatly weakened Broly's bloodline power. Ultimately, relying on his two-lifetime merged mental power, Turles completely suppressed this negative emotion.
As Turles successfully suppressed it, both their minds immediately felt relieved. Turles sensed he could perceive even farther distances and detect ki even more keenly.
Broly felt like breaking free from shackles—not just relieved but free.
Breaking the mental link, Turles and Broly opened their eyes, both seeing joy in each other's gaze.
"Turles, your method is too effective! I've never felt so relaxed, so free!" Just opening his eyes, Broly eagerly shared his joy with Turles.
Turles was also pleased by Broly's change, chuckling lightly. "I didn't expect this method to work so well either. It seems from now on, you can train like me."
"Mm!" Broly nodded heavily, his eyes full of hope for the future.
Just as Turles was about to say something more, his wrist communicator suddenly rang.
"Turles, this is bad! Goku and the others are in danger!"
The moment he connected, Bulma's anxious voice transmitted from the communicator.
Hearing this, Turles's expression hardened. He immediately placed his hand on Broly's shoulder. Instant Transmission activated—both figures completely vanished from their location.
When they reappeared, Turles and Broly were already in Bulma's laboratory.
The moment they appeared, Turles immediately asked, "Bulma, what exactly happened?"
Bulma was about to speak when Turles saw several figures on the screen.
"You're... Goku?" Looking at the blue-skinned alien with two black horns on the screen, Turles asked with some uncertainty.
"Hehe." The blue-skinned alien laughed bitterly. "Boss, you recognized me?"
That's right—the blue-skinned alien on screen was Goku.
As for how Turles knew, it was because he recognized that Goku's current body matched his memory of Captain Ginyu's appearance.
Captain Ginyu was the leader of Frieza's Ginyu Force. He possessed 120,000 battle power. Most critically, Ginyu had an extremely special ability—Body Swap.
Captain Ginyu could swap souls with anyone whose strength didn't vastly exceed his own.
Thus, when encountering someone slightly stronger, he'd let his opponent beat him to critical injury, then surprise them with the swap.
This way, his opponent naturally couldn't match him. Through this trick, Ginyu had deceived many masters. No one knew which race Ginyu's original body belonged to.
But what puzzled Turles was that currently on Earth, there shouldn't be anyone worthy of Ginyu swapping bodies with. Even Goku, who'd trained at King Kai's place, couldn't possibly have risen from 2,000 to over 120,000 in such a short time.
Next, Goku explained his experiences, and Turles finally understood.
It turned out that shortly after Turles left, Kami Piccolo had obtained permission through the underworld's King Yemma for Goku to traverse Snake Way. With over 2,000 battle power, Goku naturally reached King Kai's planet earlier than in the original story.
On King Kai's planet, having already begun high-gravity training, Goku quickly passed King Kai's two tests and received King Kai's guidance.
At this time, Frieza's Ginyu Force—dispatched because Nappa had leaked Vegeta's battle power—arrived at Earth ahead of schedule.
Learning the situation, Goku naturally returned to Earth immediately from King Kai's planet.
Though Goku had improved greatly on King Kai's planet, the time was still short. So when Goku returned to Earth, his battle power was only around 4,000.
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