Many clues were intertwined, the intersecting world rules, and consciousness from Another World. After the Fifth Tier, power was no longer about simple accumulation.
Instead, it became about finding loopholes within the existing world rules and refining oneself. Transcendents rise beyond the constraints of world rules.
This inexplicably reminded Roger of a saying he'd heard in his "previous life": To leap beyond the Three Realms and transcend the Five Elements.
Despite differences in cultural heritage between the East and West, at the end of the Transcendent path, there might be a surprising convergence.
However, owing to multiple factors, the core of extraordinary powers in that great Eastern nation is sealed off from the outside world, and Roger had no intention of violating rules to investigate it.
Hillrenes hadn't said much, but Roger had already drawn a basic outline of the Transcendent World after the Fifth Tier.
Extreme selfhood.
Or perhaps selfishness.
