Hoo, hoo, hoo...
A tidal wave of air, carrying shattered bricks and yellow sand, burst outward from the altar in all directions, forming a violent storm within the barrier!
Karin, standing beneath the altar, bore the brunt of it and was swept into the air, crashing hard in the distance.
"W-What happened?!"
Scrambling to her feet, Karin ignored the pain in her body and hurriedly activated the Rinnegan in her eye sockets to observe the distant altar.
In her Rinnegan vision, an incredibly dense, nearly viscous mass of chakra now filled the center of the altar. She had never heard of or seen chakra so dense and so overwhelming.
"Did my lord's ritual succeed?"
Feeling the incomparably powerful chakra atop the altar, Karin was instantly delighted.
For her, it would naturally be best if Hyuga Kagami's ritual succeeded on the first attempt. Though she had mastered the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, she still felt deeply uneasy about the heavy responsibility Hyuga Kagami had entrusted to her.
On the altar.
"Truth-Seeking Orb!?"
Staring at the black sphere floating before him, a flicker of joy crossed Hyuga Kagami's vein-bulging face.
Without a doubt, the black sphere hovering in midair was a Truth-Seeking Orb, symbolizing the Six Paths level and the preliminary fusion of the seven chakra natures of yin, yang, and the five elements.
Hyuga Kagami was no stranger to Truth-Seeking Orbs, but this was his first time condensing one in his normal state.
And with the appearance of the Truth-Seeking Orb, it meant that Hyuga Kagami had officially entered the Six Paths level, completing an elevation in his level of life.
As if to confirm this, the bulging veins caused by opening the Gate of Death instantly subsided. Blood stopped seeping from his capillaries, and his violently pounding heart gradually slowed,