By the riverbank,
Naruto tried his best to suppress the smile on his face and wiped away the tears of laughter.
Tomorrow, Naruto would call Hinata and the others over, then lavishly praise Kurama without making it obvious. After that, Kurama would happily and willingly wear those lace dresses.
Wonderful!
After calming his emotions and clearing away distracting thoughts, Naruto summoned the system and asked, "System, now that I've mastered the Ascension Fist, what other powerful methods can you teach me?"
The system shook its head in Naruto's mind. "In the path of Hardening, techniques are not important. The body is what matters most; the body is the foundation of everything. What you should be thinking about now is not more techniques, but continuing to refine your vital energy and blood, using it to temper your five viscera and six bowels, and striving to reach the ultimate realm of vital energy and blood as soon as possible."
"However, there is one method I can pass on to you. Empty your mind..."
As the system spoke, information flooded into Naruto's mind. Naruto immediately focused his consciousness inward. An hour later, his eyes lit up, and his thoughts began to stir.
The method the system had taught him was a technique for stacking force. It had no upper limit; the only limit was one's own body. The stronger the body, the more force one could stack through this method, allowing them to strike with a hundred or even a thousand times their own strength.
"This method is considered a superior art even across the myriad worlds. Once, someone whose physical body had not yet become saintly used this method to stack force a hundred million times greater than his own and shattered a star with a single blow. But his body could