While Ino followed the North Kai into the Grand Kai's Temple to cultivate,
Son Goku, having spent six months, finally traversed Snake Way and arrived at King Kai's Planet.
"Chee-chee!" The monkey guarding the house, Bubbles, raised both hands.
Son Goku was stunned at first, then overjoyed: "You must be King Kai! Please teach me kung fu!"
The monkey Bubbles: "...?"
It was a bit confused by Son Goku's enthusiasm, raising its hands and running into the house subconsciously.
Son Goku followed closely behind, mimicking the monkey's movements: "Has it started already? Chee-chee, hehe! This movement is really tiring, but it definitely has a training effect. Can I ask why it's so strange here? My body feels so heavy, chee-chee, hehe!..."
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Grand Kai's Planet.
Inside the temple, Ino sat cross-legged. Gentle water with a special fragrance flowed slowly over her body, washing away the hidden injuries accumulated over time, effectively replenishing her stamina and nourishing her spirit.
The foundation of the Yamanaka clan was spiritual power; from beginning to end, she had a bloodline bonus in this aspect.
For her, training spiritual power was much more comfortable than practicing the Kaio-ken.
She used her spiritual power to sense a crystal made of high-purity spiritual substance in front of her, sitting motionless for seven days.
Sun, moon, and stars appeared in her spiritual world. Every time these celestial bodies completed a cycle, her spiritual world would grow visibly. The "God Tree" bred from the chakra seed grew at a constant rate every day, its branches and leaves becoming more lush, with no limit in sight.
Master Six Paths' expectation that "everyone is like a dragon" and everyone has a God Tree in their heart—she finally achieved it with the aid of the Grand Kai's Temple.
With a thought, and without any hand seals, her spirit body appeared under the tree. From the spirit body's perspective, this God Tree was no different from the one Obito planted before.
Her physical body sat outside, her spirit body sat under the tree; the two achieved a delicate balance.
The traces belonging to Asura, Indra, and the Ten-Tails were erased bit by bit, and what remained belonged to herself.
Seven days passed in the blink of an eye.
The spiritual crystal of the Grand Kai's Temple still looked as crystal clear as ever. It was said that this thing was a primordial relic from the beginning of the universe's creation, and its effect on purifying spiritual power was outstanding.
When a feeling of fullness came to her mind, she knew she had just about reached her current limit. Originally, her body was strong while her spirit was weak; now the two were balanced, and she felt incredibly relaxed.
Her base battle power didn't increase much, hovering around 4000, but her Rinnegan upgraded again.
The North Kai said the spiritual crystal worked best the first time used, and he wasn't wrong.
Before fighting Kaguya Otsutsuki, she relied on the Ten-Tails chakra to forcibly increase her Rinnegan level, reaching the limit of the three-magatama Rinnegan, and her eyes had a tendency to turn red at that time.
Now, the faint redness deep in her eyes had completely dissipated. Her spiritual power didn't develop towards the violent, restless, and mad red Rinnegan, but maintained a pale purple color. The magatama in her eyes increased from three to six, crossing nearly a major realm. It was similar to Sasuke in the original timeline, but Sasuke had a single eye, while she now had both eyes.
Her existing eye abilities improved, and she simultaneously comprehended a special Rinnegan ability and obtained a new pupil technique.
"Rinnegan: Reflection." This move, like "Rinnegan: Pressure," was a technique for using the Rinnegan.
She could now instantly reflect an enemy's attack back.
The new pupil technique was "Time Freeze."
She could freeze a target, or time within a small area, in the form of genjutsu.
After genjutsu breaks through a certain boundary, it alters reality. The essence of Izanagi is still genjutsu, but this genjutsu reached the height of deceiving oneself.
Her Time Freeze was the same. Spiritual power suppressed the opponent, making the enemy's brain, nerves, blood, cells, and even the time flow on their body believe they were frozen, so in the end, the enemy was frozen.
This ability sounded high-end, but in reality, it was still an ability for crushing weaklings. Against opponents weaker than herself, it was always successful; those slightly stronger could also be "frozen," but it wouldn't work on those much stronger.
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For the North Kai, it wasn't important that Ino was responsible for preparing that whatever Martial Arts Tournament. What mattered was having a pretext to stay on the Grand Kai's Planet and train legitimately.
Ino didn't care at first—her talent was just so-so, training anywhere was the same... but after training on the Grand Kai's Planet for a few days, she could only say: It was truly irresistible!
The conditions here were incredibly good. Just training casually would solidify her foundation by two points. Just finding a place to sit and rest for a while would cause her spiritual power to shoot up.
Occasionally, she could see people sent by deities from various places for "training"—martial artists, magicians, or simply warriors; there were all kinds of people.
These people stayed for a very short time, counted in hours, some even in minutes. Each one felt time was precious, sweating profusely as they trained furiously, and looking reluctant when they left.
Ino swaggered around and lived directly on the Grand Kai's Planet for a month.
She didn't just slack off every day. To show she was working, she occasionally went to race cars with the Grand Kai.
The Grand Kai didn't refuse her cheating. No matter how she cheated, the old man's speed could always beat her by a line.
Cheating wasn't the point; attracting the Grand Kai's attention with various novel cheating methods was the key.
Ninja? Ninjas started cheating from a young age. Naruto, who couldn't cheat, was still a Genin.
"Yamanaka Ino!" The short and stout North Kai held the Amber Purifying Pot at the finish line of the track, shouting Ino's name. She responded from a distance, and the Amber Purifying Pot provided her with a huge suction force. She hurriedly controlled the car to chase the Grand Kai.
Later, feeling that cars were too easily damaged, she simply switched to a truck. She activated Susanoo directly inside the driver's cab, then summoned the Yin Nine-Tails. Majestic Attire: Susanoo huddled in the cab, driving a big truck to chase the Grand Kai's sports car furiously!
She relied on a wide variety of cheating methods to race the Grand Kai.
Some suggestions the West Kai made during the race earlier were slowly dismantled by her here and there.
For example, the West Kai proposed letting the Grand Kai personally guide the champion's cultivation. Ino studied it for two days and found that the Grand Kai was too old and had long passed the age of training disciples. The thing he found most annoying now was teaching apprentices—not that he couldn't teach well, but he didn't have the heart for it.
The Grand Kai had agreed to the West Kai at the time, but in reality, he was unwilling. Now that Ino made a suggestion, he went with the flow and pushed this troublesome matter away.
To thank Ino for taking the fall for him, he tacitly allowed her to build a house using Wood Release on the Grand Kai's Planet as a residence.
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