Meanwhile, the Split-Spirit Seed of the Rinnegan Replenishing Heaven Technique from his original body in the Hokage world finally completed its last infusion of power.
A vast surge of power crossed the barrier between the two worlds and poured into Ren.
In the training room in the Exchange Tower's rear courtyard, Ren sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion, soul power surging around him.
Deep rumbles came from his bones.
A tiger's roar!
A leopard's growl!
Thunder reverberated!
Driven by this infusion of power, the Tiger Leopard Thunderclap Body Tempering Art, which he had already cultivated to the sixth level, broke through bottleneck after bottleneck with almost no resistance.
The seventh level!
The eighth level!
The ninth level!
All the way to perfection!
Boom!
A muffled boom sounded inside Ren, and his physical strength soared.
He slowly opened his eyes.
His left eye was pitch-black and his right pure white, his Yin-Yang Double Pupils slowly revolving.
Soul power rushed through his body like rivers, and his flesh was astonishingly resilient. The Mind Sea Spirit Refining Art within his sea of consciousness grew stronger as well. The cultivation insights, combat experience, and accumulated soul power from his original body in the Hokage world all merged into this reincarnated body.
Soul power, body, and soul.
All three simultaneously reached the pinnacle below Transcendence.
He was only one sufficiently great opportunity away from truly stepping into Transcendence.
Ren raised a hand and slowly clenched his fingers.
"Just one more step."
He felt little joy.
The crisis the Profound Desolate World had once faced still weighed on his mind. He had forgotten neither those hiding in the shadows nor any of the forces that had once sought his death.
But the barrier between the two worlds had not been fully opened.
He still could not