After a series of spatial jumps from the pirate world, they finally returned to the ninja world.
Shinju also bid farewell to Luffy and the others, hoping they would meet again someday.
Soon, the tearing sensation caused by the spatial transition vanished.
Shinju sat back down upon the throne at the core of the Heroic Spirit Hall.
The air of the ninja world was completely different from the pirate world—here, it was saturated with familiar chakra fluctuations.
This crossworld journey was over, and the harvest was enormous.
He spread his palm, and two halos of light floated above it.
On the left was the core rule fragment of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit. On the right was the essence of a pseudo-Shinju chakra fruit unique to the pirate world.
These two things were the foundation that would push his divine court one step further.
"System, submit the resources."
Shinju issued the command.
The halos shattered instantly, turning into countless fine streams of data that drilled into the floor of the Heroic Spirit Hall.
The entire space began to tremble.
Ding! High-rank rule fragment detected.
System absorption initiated...
Parsing tremor rules... parsing the Haki system... parsing the origin of otherworld chakra...
Shinju leaned back in his chair, watching the virtual panel refresh nonstop without any change in expression.
The pirate world's rule intensity wasn't as high as certain high-magic worlds, but its advantage lay in how unique its systems were.
Haki was the use of willpower, and Devil Fruits were the concretization of rules.
Once the System digested these things, it would patch the divine court's shortcomings.
Ding! Absorption complete.
Divine Court System EXP is full.
Beginning upgrade...
The prompt faded.
A vast surge of energy fed back into him.
Shinju could feel the scale of chakra inside his body climb again—simple and brutally direct.
Power roared through him. His meridians endured immense pressure, then were rapidly strengthened.
That sensation of controlling everything was intoxicating.
Ding! System upgrade successful.
Current version: 3.0.
Heroic Spirit Hall level cap unlocked.
Shinju opened the detailed description.
Previously, the upper limit of resurrection and enhancement in the Heroic Spirit Hall was restricted by the ninja world's energy tier.
Powerhouses like Madara and Hashirama, under the System's original limits, found it difficult to cross the threshold of Six Paths level.
Now, that restriction was gone.
As long as he had enough resources he could strengthen his Heroic Spirits to an unbelievable extent.
Even surpassing Kaguya was possible. This was a true army of gods.
A new icon appeared at the bottom of the interface.
New function unlocked: Crossworld Recruitment.
Shinju's gaze sharpened, and his finger tapped the icon. A stream of information poured into his mind.
In the past, he could only use Edo Tensei in the ninja world, or convert the dead into Heroic Spirits through various means.
When he went to the pirate world, he was only plundering resources.
Now, it was different.
Crossworld Recruitment allowed him to forcibly sign contracts in worlds he had visited before and convert that world's powerhouses into Heroic Spirits.
Even if the target was still alive, as long as he beat them into submission, or they agreed willingly, he could bring them back to the divine court as his warriors.
That meant his supply of troops was no longer limited to the ninja world's bunch of eye-players.
The pirate world's Emperors and Admirals could all, in the future, stand within the Heroic Spirit Hall and wage war for him.
Shinju closed the page.
The function was powerful, but it required a massive amount of points to sustain.
It wasn't time for large-scale expansion yet.
He needed greater power.
"System, search for new world coordinates."
Since the System had upgraded, the detection radar's range should have expanded as well.
He had already squeezed the pirate world once; whatever value remained needed time to ferment.
He needed a new hunting ground.
Scanning multiverse frequency bands...
Excluding low-energy worlds...
Excluding worlds with incomplete rules...
Light points flickered continuously on the radar map.
Most of them were gray.
That meant the value was too low, or the danger-to-reward ratio was unacceptable.
Suddenly, a blood-red light point appeared at the edge of the radar.
Just staring at that coordinate, he could feel a violent aura rushing at his face.
Ding! High-energy world coordinate captured.
Analyzing world wavelength...
Analysis complete.
Target world: Dragon Ball.
Danger level: Extinction-class.
Warning: This world contains individuals capable of casually destroying planets. The rules are extremely violent, and the power system's upper limit is incredibly high. The host is advised to proceed with caution.
Shinju locked onto those two words—Dragon Ball. It was actually this world.
If the One Piece world was a transition from low-martial to mid-martial, and the ninja world was a special variant of a mid-martial world—
Then Dragon Ball was pure high-martial, even beyond.
The ceiling of combat power: planet-busting at every turn. Later on, it involved universe birth-and-death, time reversal, and multiverse-level battles.
The System's extinction-class evaluation was no exaggeration.
Pull out any random villain from there, and in the ninja world it would be a dimensionality-reduction strike.
Isshiki, over there, might not even count as a grunt.
Shinju lightly tapped the armrest with his finger.
But he didn't retreat.
Fear, as an emotion, had already been suppressed to the lowest point the moment he chose the path to godhood.
Risk often came with monstrous profit.
What was most valuable in the Dragon Ball world?
The Dragon Balls? No.
It was ki, and the Saiyan battle-race bloodline.
Chakra in the ninja world, in essence, was the product of the Ōtsutsuki plundering planetary energy—dependent on Shinju fruits and bloodline inheritance.
It was versatile, but in pure physical destructive power and energy output, it lagged far behind ki.
Ki was life energy. Everyone had it.
As long as you trained, you could grow infinitely stronger.
If he could bring the ki training system back to the ninja world and fuse it into the Heroic Spirit Hall...
A scene formed in Shinju's mind.
Guy, with Eight Gates opened, ki of a Super Saiyan flowing through him, throwing a punch that shattered stars.
Madara, with the Rinnegan, no longer relying on meteors—instead firing a ki blast that erased an entire galaxy.
That was evolution.
"Saiyans, huh?"
Shinju murmured.
The near-death recovery trait—was practically a cheat made for battle.
He had to obtain it.
Even if it meant facing Frieza, facing a God of Destruction—it was worth the risk.
Now the key was the entry point. The Dragon Ball timeline was long.
From Goku as a child fighting the Red Ribbon Army, to the Tournament of Power where Jiren gets beaten down—the span was enormous, and the power scaling spiraled out of control fast.
Arrive too late, and it was suicide. Arrive too early, and the gains wouldn't be enough.
He had to lock onto a critical node.
One where he could access the core power system, but wouldn't spawn in just to get instantly obliterated.
Shinju pulled up the Dragon Ball world's timeline.
The System couldn't precisely predict the future, but it could divide rough time periods based on the intensity of energy fluctuations.
First high-energy reaction point: King Piccolo era.
Battle power in the hundreds—too weak.
To Shinju's current level, ki at a few hundred wasn't worth referencing.
His current strength, converted into Dragon Ball battle power, was at least several thousand—maybe even beyond ten thousand.
After all, he had devoured a Shinju fruit, mastered the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and held every kind of forbidden technique the ninja world had.
Second high-energy reaction point: Raditz arrives.
Battle power a little over one thousand—still low.
And Raditz was trash, with his Saiyan bloodline developed far too little.
Shinju's gaze continued moving backward, fixing on the third node...
(End of Chapter)
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