"What I mean is, you're acting a bit too lively."
"Kid, you don't understand! If you were sitting in my position and saw someone who could replace you, you'd be even livelier than me."
Poseidon's strand of divine thought let out a long sigh.
Back then, he had been the king of troublemakers on Douluo Continent. If he went a day without causing trouble, he would feel bored to death. After beating everyone under heaven and ascending to the Divine Realm, he thought what awaited him would be a world full of endless challenges and unknowns.
In the end, the moment he went up, he started retirement life.
Because his god position was tied to the Divine Realm, he could not leave even if he wanted to.
Adventure?
The unknown?
Endless challenges and battles?
A chance to climb to an even higher level?
None of that existed.
The Divine Realm was just a lifeless retirement home. Inside it were a whole group of gods like him, all wishing they could casually throw their positions to someone else and then go adventure together.
The Divine Realm had a good environment. It was excellent, even.
But a place like that was only fine for a few years. Stay there for decades or hundreds of years, and he truly could not take it.
Every day was the same. Every day had no hope.
No sudden accidents, no battles, and none of his favorite moments where he could show off and slap faces...
Who the hell ascended only to be imprisoned in the upper realm?
Now that he had finally found a great sucker who could inherit his god position—ah, no, no. Not a sucker.
A great genius capable of inheriting his god position.
How could he not be happy?
"Could it be that after becoming a god, what awaits me is a very tragic situation?"
"What I mean is, things after becoming a god aren't that interesting. I'm someone who can't sit still. I've been a god for a long time, so I want to go out and have some fun. But with a god position, I can't leave…"
Seeing Chen Ming grow wary, Sea God quickly waved his hand and explained.
"In short, becoming a god is like this: before you become a god, you want to jump into the Divine Realm. But after staying in the Divine Realm for too long, you want to jump out of it. You haven't even finished the first step yet. What happens later has nothing to do with you for now."
"So, Senior, is becoming a god a good thing or a bad thing?"
"For someone who hasn't become a god, it's a good thing. It raises your strength. But for someone like me, who has already reached the limit, I have to leave and walk another path…"
Sea God paused here.
"I already said your cultivation is too low. It has nothing to do with you, yet you still keep asking. Why are you so curious?"
"I'm just a curious person, so I'm asking."
"…"
Sea God shrugged and spoke casually.
"Fine. Kid, what do you think? Do you want to inherit my god position?"
"Senior, I need to think about it. After all, with my talent, becoming a god shouldn't be a problem, right? You are Sea God, but my main attribute isn't water. I feel like I'm not very suited to the Sea God position."
"Ultimate Water isn't even your main attribute? What the hell? What the hell is that?"
Sea God's strand of divine thought widened its eyes.
The reason he had jumped out so eagerly was not only because Chen Ming had touched the core secrets of the Sea God's Heart.
It was also because the powerful aura of Ultimate Water on Chen Ming's body made him truly unable to hold back.
Ultimate Water!
This talent was simply too suited to inheriting his Sea God position. As long as the kid did not die halfway, reaching Limit Douluo with an Ultimate attribute would not be a problem. Taking one step further and inheriting his god position would basically be guaranteed.
But now this kid was saying Ultimate Water was not even his main attribute?
He refused to believe it.
An attribute so rare that one might not appear among ten thousand people, an attribute that even he had only obtained around the time he became a Title Douluo, actually was not this kid's main attribute?
"Let me see what you're made of... Ultimate Water, Ultimate Fire, Ultimate Metal, Ultimate Earth... four hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bones, twin Martial Souls, three hundred-thousand-year Spirit Rings? True dragon... no, wait. Is this a Dragon King Martial Soul?"
Sea God Poseidon fell silent for a long while before finally speaking in shock.
"You... what path are you even walking?"
Poseidon had only seen Chen Ming's Martial Soul, Spirit Ring configuration, and Spirit Bones. As for Chen Ming's soul, he did not look too closely. He only roughly confirmed that Chen Ming's spiritual power was very strong.
After all, that kind of thing would harm the soul, and it was also far too rude to the person being watched. If this strand of divine thought tried to pry into Chen Ming's soul and memories, it would definitely be discovered. At that point, things would only become awkward.
"You are... what even are you..."
"I just have a little talent, plus a few lucky chances. Senior, weren't you also favored by fate back then, blessed by the heavens, and eventually became a god after receiving an alien inheritance?" Chen Ming opened his mouth to defend himself.
"All the lucky chances in my whole life added together aren't as much as what you have right now. If I hadn't already become a god, I'd have to dissect you and see what you really are..."
Poseidon said this, then sighed and released the bottom-level authority of the Sea God's Heart.
"If you're willing to inherit my god position, then go to Sea God Island and take a look when the time comes. I welcome you at any time. If you don't want to inherit my god position, then for the sake of me helping you here, help me find a suitable successor later."
"Senior is this generous? Aren't you afraid I'll go back on my word?"
Chen Ming was truly a little curious about this god's carefree personality.
"What I lack most right now are two things. One is a successor. The other is fun."
"You don't understand... When you reach my position, you'll get it."
"Besides, if you go back on your word, I can just trouble you after you ascend to the Divine Realm."
Poseidon's personality was far less divine than that of a normal god. Instead, he was full of humanity. One could even say his personality was shockingly lively and free.
In order to leave the Divine Realm, he was even willing to give up the Sea God position he had spent a thousand years forging, along with his Martial Soul, the Sea God Trident. So he really did not feel that much pain over a mere Sea God's Heart.
Besides, he was no pushover either.
Although the materials of the Sea God's Heart were extremely rare in the entire universe, and he could not recreate a completely identical one, he had already fully understood the technology inside the Sea God's Heart before becoming a god.
The Sea God's Heart was important to him, that was true.
But it was not as if he truly could not make something similar.
Otherwise, he would not have let the Sea God's Heart stay on Douluo Continent all this time. He would have taken it back long ago and attached it to his Martial Soul.
The Divine Realm was too boring, too dull. Every single day could be seen through at a glance.
To him, Chen Ming was the most promising and most entertaining existence he had seen since becoming a god.
Chen Ming's existence interested him greatly, and he also wanted to find some fun.
He wanted to see just how far Chen Ming's talent could take him in the future.
Could he leap in one breath to a position equal to the Five Great God Kings?
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