A Self with No Power Was Even More Loathsome

Shinji had always attached great importance to Natural Energy, which was everywhere in the Shinobi World, yet remained so difficult to understand.

Ultimately, there were only two ways for a shinobi to raise the ceiling of their power.

The first was to use various methods to become more Ōtsutsuki-like.

Shinji's current attempt to awaken the Rinnegan was, at its core, a deliberate step toward becoming more Ōtsutsuki-like. He was doing it to gain a higher ceiling of power than an ordinary shinobi.

After all, the Otsutsuki Clan was a super-race capable of space travel, planetary colonization, and other feats beyond the Shinobi World's current technology. So the closer one came to the Ōtsutsuki, the higher one's power ceiling naturally became. As a descendant of the Sage of Six Paths and a member of the Uchiha Clan, Shinji was naturally following this path.

The second method was to master Natural Energy.

In the Shinobi World, shinobi who had mastered Senjutsu could be counted on one hand. The First Hokage of the past and Jiraiya in the present were among the most notable examples.

Without exception, anyone who mastered Senjutsu had at least reached Kage Level.

The First Hokage was already above the Kage level. Once he used Senjutsu, he broke through his power ceiling and became almost the strongest person below Six Paths level!

In the battle at the Valley of the End, Madara Uchiha had possessed the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and controlled the complete Nine-Tails. Yet against the First Hokage, who had unleashed the Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands, he hadn't even been able to fight back. The ultimate technique formed by combining Susanoo with the complete Nine-Tails, Armored Susanoo, had been smashed apart in an instant!

The gap had been so vast that it was almost