"..So, you're Ma Hongjun? From 10,000 Years ago?" Huo Yuhao who was sitting on a chair opposite Ma Hongjun who was leaning weakly against the bed, asked.
"...Yes" Ma Hongjun who had already said some of the reasons of his descend, confirmed.
"So, you mean to tell me, Sea God Tang San was attacked, had his power stolen, had the connection to our World isolated and then you all decided to go all in and send you to try fix it?" Tianmeng who had also listened to it, said.
"...And the reason they sent only you was because they couldn't send a weaker God nor a stronger one?" Yuhao also continued as Ma Hongjun nodded.
"... Couldn't they send a few more weaker Gods alongside you? Or just send another God as strong?" Yuhao asked, he didn't know, really. He didn't know the limit of the Gods, he was probing if more could be sent or if they'd stop.
"....They couldn't, because the Douluo Plane channel was turbulent and dangerous, I thought I'd be atmost exhausted when I arrived due to what the God Kings told me." Ma Hongjun said, "But, only a First Class God would be able to survive the turbulence in space now, I barely managed to get here without dying, I even had to seal my Rank 100 power to barely get here."
Now, one may wonder why Ma Hongjun is telling these things to a kid and a Spirit Beast, it's because he doesn't care, he's here as a investigator, because he spent most of his life in the God Realm in self isolation, he unlike the other Gods, don't look down on Mortals, subconsciously refusing to accept the fact that he's a God because of his love for his late wife.
"Although, what surprised me is you." Ma Hongjun said, looking at Tianmeng, "A Spirit Beast that broke through to a million years old and managed to avoid being detected by the Gods. You might be the strongest Spirit Beast alive."
Remember folks, self isolation = ignorance, doesn't even know of Di Tian's Dragon God Claw and the Silver Dragon King, although the latter is only known to the God Kings.
"... I'm not, not me, no way." Tianmeng did a triple denial as he stepped back a bit, "I'm still too weak, I don't want to become a God or anything, I just want to help Yuhao and live with my daughter."
"...You... You're unique." Ma Hongjun had to admit, he didn't have anything against Spirit Beasts since his sworn sister Xiao Wu was a Spirit Beast transfomed into a Human.
"So, tell me Senior Ma, what do you plan to do?" Yuhao asked, stopping their conversation.
"...My plan..? Probably go to Shrek Academy." Ma Hongjun said plainly, "One more thing, why do you not join Shrek?" He asked Yuhao, considering that according to Yuhao, Shrek was the Number One Academy.
".... Because they're too weak." Yuhao was blunt, it was his genuine opinion, "I don't mean in terms of strength." He clarified as well, Shrek had top combat power, so it wasn't bad in strength.
"What..do you mean?"
"One of the Shrek's direct descendant is my friend. According to what he told me, Shrek follows a motto of 'If you don't make trouble, you're mediocre.', I think that's foolish." He said directly to Ma Hongjun
"What do you mean?", Ma Hongjun was relatively calm and asked out of curiosity because to him, Yuhao was correct in a way, if he didn't always make trouble, then maybe he could have truly become the Fire God.
"... I'll say it in another simpler way, Bullying the weak and fearing the strong." He said, making Ma Hongjun pause and genuinely think....Damn it! He was right?!
Looking at the stunned Ma Hongjun, Yuhao wasn't too surprised, naturally, talking to one of Tang San's Shrek Devils, he had to have thought it through, he was 100% ready with the panel and Tianmeng to gang up on Ma Hongjun if he showed even a bit of hostility.
He had also understood part of Ma Hongjun's current personality thanks to System who gave him more memories about the God Realm and others, while still not including too detailed stuff about himself.
In simple terms, Ma Hongjun lost his wife, doubts himself, regrets becoming a God, is slightly loyal to Tang San but can be wavered, wants to die but fears no one will remember his wife anymore and she'll be forgotten.
"Just listening to me won't make you be sure about it, right? After all, maybe the Shrek you know has changed?" Yuhao continued, "How about you go and observe Shrek yourself? This Xiao Qi you mentioned should also be in Shrek." Yuhao said
That's right, he didn't know if Ma Hongjun was confident or stupid, he had already told Yuhao most of the information about himself and the God Realm.
".... I'll follow your advice." Ma Hongjun said as he tried to get up, "Wait! Not now! You're still too weak right now." Yuhao stopped Ma Hongjun while mentally tilting the scale he had of Hongjun from confidence to stupid.
"Oh..."
"...So, now what?"
"...Wanna eat something?"
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See, he, Bei Bei, as a former Shrek student, had seen statues of the Ancestors, so, although a bit of a scatterbrain, he had recognised who he had tried to bury when Yuhao stopped him.
That's right, Bei Bei had almost buried Ma Hongjun, an Ancestor of Shrek. What an honor! I mean, What a Sin!
So, currently, he was being punished to undergo special training because he tried to bury someone without even checking if they were still alive.
Looking at Bei Bei who was solidifying lightning and using it as a knife, Tianmeng who was supposed to train Bei Bei had a slightly varied idea.
Now, one would think, what? Solidifying lightning? How? Well.... apparently everyone was dumb and never thought to try make their own moves much, Bei Bei was the one most influenced by Yuhao's confusing logic and that resulted in Bei Bei going on a whole new path.
"...Bei Bei, why don't you try making it like a chipped blade?"
Bei Bei who heard that looked at Tianmeng like he was crazy, then stopped, pondered something else, made the lightning into a circle and began spinning it while slowly solidifying it....it collapsed into sparks.
"I can't do it yet!" Bei Bei said but he was smiling, "But I have an idea!"
Now, if any Transmigrator existed, if they saw Bei Bei's prototype attack, they'd yell, 'Holy Shit! A bootleg Ultra Slash!'