Hyuga Kagami had no doubt that Neji would smoothly become a Jonin in the future, perhaps even an Elite Jonin. If paired with the boar summoning beast he had given Neji, reaching Kage level would not be difficult either.
But that was as far as he could go.
Kage-level strength was already the ceiling for the vast majority of people in the shinobi world, and Neji of the Hyuga Clan was no exception.
For Neji to break through that ceiling, there were really only two ways.
The first was to repeat the choice Hyuga Kagami had made back then: inject the genetic serum and gamble on that one percent, or perhaps even a mere fraction of a percent, chance.
It was like pulling for an SSR with a probability of less than one percent. Some people really could strike gold in a single pull, but there were only a handful of such people among ten thousand.
Back then, Hyuga Kagami had been driven into a desperate corner with no other choice. Besides, ignorance was fearless—he had no concept of the genetic serum's success rate. If he were given another choice now, he might not dare inject it as decisively as he had back then. Statistically speaking, injecting the genetic serum was truly a near-death gamble—no, it was far more dangerous than that!
The second was the gift the Sage of Six Paths had given Naruto and Sasuke in the original timeline.
Naruto and Sasuke had been an entire level below the Six Paths level, yet after receiving gifts from the Sage of Six Paths, one gained Six Paths-level Yang Power, while the other gained Six Paths-level Yin Power.
Naruto, who had gained Yang Power, acquired the ability to form Truth-Seeking Orbs. He also recreated Kakashi's left eye from flesh and