Gran paid them no further attention. Using his Time Ring, he immediately vanished from the spot.
That left Old Kai and the others staring at one another in silence.
"Without Divine Realm power, we'll eventually be corrupted by those evil auras?"
Goku scratched his head.
"Lord Old Kai, what exactly is Divine Realm power?"
"To put it simply, Divine Realm power is the kind of power possessed by deities like me."
"Then can't we become deities like you too?"
Vegeta hurriedly asked.
If we could become deities as well, wouldn't that mean we could go to that Chaos Zone and train there?
"Become deities?"
The corner of Old Kai's mouth twitched.
He shook his head.
"Impossible."
"Why?"
Everyone asked in unison.
Old Kai explained, "Because we Supreme Kais are naturally born deities. In other words, we are already deities from the moment we are born. You mortals simply have no way of accomplishing that."
Vegeta clenched his fists, disappointment written all over his face.
"Does that mean there's no way for us to become deities?"
"Wait!"
Goku suddenly shook his head.
Pan tugged at Goku's clothes.
"Grandpa, what's wrong?"
Everyone turned to look at him.
Goku stared intently at Old Kai.
"Gran and we are all Saiyans. There's no way he was born a deity. So how did he eventually become one?"
The moment those words were spoken, a flash of realization seemed to strike everyone at once.
"Exactly!"
Vegeta jumped up and slapped Goku hard on the shoulder.
"Kakarot, you bastard, you're actually pretty damn smart!"
He then turned toward Old Kai.
"Old man, Gran is also a Saiyan, yet he became a deity. How do you explain that?"
"…"
With everyone staring at him, beads of sweat appeared on Old Kai's forehead.
"Goku, you're quite clever."
Old Kai praised him before continuing.
"Actually, there is another way for mortals to become deities. That is by cultivating on your own. Take North Kai and the others, for example. They cultivated for countless years before finally reaching the Kai-level."
Goku immediately understood what Old Kai meant, and his eyes lit up.
"Then how do we cultivate our dimensional level?"
"Forget about reaching a higher dimension through your own cultivation."
"Why?"
"Because throughout all the years I've spent as a Supreme Kai, I have never seen a single mortal cultivate themselves to the Divine Realm!"
Who was Old Kai?
He was the Supreme Kai from fifteen generations ago.
He had lived for an unimaginably long time, yet he still spoke with such certainty.
That alone was enough to demonstrate just how difficult it was to cultivate one's dimensional level.
"Then what about Gran?!"
"Actually, aside from cultivating on your own, there is another method."
Old Kai's eyes flashed with a trace of reminiscence.
"That is by using the Dimension Tower."
Goku and the others froze.
They had absolutely no idea what the Dimension Tower was.
Old Kai explained its purpose.
"The Dimension Tower was a place specifically designed for Gods of Destruction to cultivate their dimensional level…"
"Gran must have used the Dimension Tower to cultivate himself into a deity."
At this point, Old Kai sighed.
"Even with the Dimension Tower, becoming a deity still requires an enormous amount of time."
"For example, most Gods of Destruction need hundreds of millions, or even billions, of years to cultivate themselves into deities."
"But that Gran…"
"He looks like he's only a few hundred years old at most."
"That talent of his…"
Old Kai swallowed hard.
Then, unable to contain himself, he blurted out,
"Damn, that's fucking insane!!!"
"This…"
Goku and Vegeta exchanged a stunned look.
They were both Saiyans.
Could the gap between them really be that enormous?
"My goodness! Grandpa Gran's talent is actually that terrifying!"
Pan's eyes sparkled as she looked at Gran with the expression of a completely starstruck fan.
"Yeah! Uncle Gran is seriously amazing!"
Trunks also looked at Gran with admiration.
Vegeta and Goku:
"…"
They're already admiring someone else this much?
Why does it feel like our family just got stolen from us?
Old Kai merely shook his head.
In reality, besides time and innate talent, one also needed an extraordinarily firm will.
That Gran was truly frightening.
And they couldn't forget that he also possessed pure power at the Angel Realm level!
Of course, Old Kai kept those thoughts to himself.
He was afraid of discouraging the group in front of him.
Little did he know...
Goku and the others had already been beaten down mentally more times than they could count.
"Lord Old Kai, where is the Dimension Tower?"
Goku gritted his teeth.
"Where is it?"
Old Kai sighed helplessly.
"It was destroyed along with the God of Destruction Realm a long time ago!"
He told them the location where the Dimension Tower had once stood before continuing.
"If the Dimension Tower were still around, perhaps you really would have a chance of becoming deities."
"But it was destroyed. That means you no longer have that opportunity."
"That is why I said earlier that it was impossible for you."
Hearing this, the hopeful expressions on Goku and the others' faces immediately faded.
Damn it!!
"At least we now know what happened to Lord Beerus and the others, as well as what lies behind that rift."
Old Kai let out a heavy sigh of relief.
"As long as Lord Zeno and Lord Beerus are still alive, things won't be too serious."
"Yeah."
Goku and the others nodded, but none of them looked particularly excited.
Old Kai paid them no further attention.
Instead, he ran off to retrieve his little adult magazine. Once he found it, he sat cross-legged on the grass and happily began reading.
Every now and then, he let out a strange laugh.
Anyone familiar with Old Kai would know that those laughs came from the bottom of his heart.
After all, his old companion, Beerus, was still alive.
How could that not make him happy?
...
In Gran's timeline, the year finally reached Age 766.
According to the timeline, the Universal Martial Arts Tournament should have already begun.
Yet there was absolutely no sign of anything happening in Universe 7.
"Weren't we supposed to have a tournament with another universe? Why hasn't anyone told us how to register?"
"Could it be that this Universal Martial Arts Tournament was fake from the very beginning?"
"Hahaha! This is fucking hilarious. You actually believed those Galactic Patrol officers when they said some deity was going to hold a Universal Martial Arts Tournament? Anyone with half a brain would know that kind of news was fake!"
"…"
Voices of doubt continued to spread throughout Universe 7.
Meanwhile, at the headquarters of the Galactic Patrol.
Paragus brought Broly to the office of the Galactic King.
Kibito was also there.
"Galactic King, the entire universe is questioning the credibility of the Galactic Patrol now. What are we supposed to do?"
Paragus asked.
"I don't know what's going on either."
The Galactic King scratched his head repeatedly with his tentacles.
"Lord Gran was the one who gave me those instructions. But he still hasn't told us how people are supposed to register, and I haven't even seen Lord Gran since then."
"Then is there any way you can contact Lord Gran?"
"A way to contact him? Let me think…"
The Galactic King placed two of his tentacles behind his back and paced back and forth in front of Paragus and Broly.
Suddenly, he stopped.
"Wait, Broly."
The Galactic King stared at him.
"Aren't you very familiar with Lord Gran? Do you have any way of contacting him?"
…
END OF CHAPTER
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