Orochimaru's Backstab!

After the pillar of flame that pierced the heavens and earth dissipated.

Not a single drop of water remained in the vast lake. In its place stood a volcano crater dozens of meters high and a kilometer wide, filled to the brim with magma.

Countless streams of water flowed around both sides of the crater, rushing downstream toward the Valley of the End.

Yes, a volcano crater!

With Tang Ping's all-out strike, he had directly created a volcano crater with his bare hands.

"...Could he be a god?"

"So this is the 'beyond Kage' level proposed by the Tenshukaku?"

"Lord Tang Ping..."

Godlike might!

Anyone who saw this scene would have thought the same.

The only good news was probably that the attack had caused an enormous commotion and required quite a bit of preparation time.

From this moment on, these powerful figures acknowledged that Tang Ping was at the 'beyond Kage' level.

In literature, there was no first; in martial arts, there was no second!

Before personally facing him, they had all believed they could rival Tang Ping. None of them would admit that he was stronger, no matter how astonishing his record sounded.

Only now did they truly recognize that his strength was at the beyond Kage level.

And beyond Kage was something that had only emerged with the new evaluation system.

When Tang Ping had first entered the scene during the Chunin Exams and sold shinobi intelligence, he had proposed an evaluation system.

The Tenshukaku used this standard to assess shinobi.

The Five Great Ninja Villages, however, had never acknowledged it.

But now, they had no choice but to admit it, because Tang Ping truly stood an entire level above them.

It was a qualitative gap!

Beyond Kage... the name of this level made perfect sense.