Shion's process of learning magic went much smoother than Shinji expected, even completely exceeding his expectations, making him feel ashamed of his own inferiority.
There were many reasons for this.
On one hand, after merging with the demon Mōryō, Shion's strength was at its peak. On the other hand, she was still young and hadn't been constrained by the rules and regulations of the ninjutsu system, so her ability to accept new things was very strong!
After roughly understanding the 'Magic Ring', Shion said to Shinji: "It's impossible for an ordinary person to maintain such complex magic."
Shinji nodded gently: "Yes, so this is the ultimate secret of the mages. In their world, only six mages in total have mastered this ability, and they are hailed as Supreme Sorcerers."
"Supreme Sorcerer..." Shion stuck out her tongue, smiling and teasing: "Isn't that too exaggerated?"
"Not exaggerated!"
Shinji shook his head.
He had witnessed Twilight Star Supreme Sorcerer's 'Magic Ring'. It truly enveloped the entire heaven and earth, even the Plague Hegemon's pollution was helpless against it and was shielded outside.
Although Shinji himself didn't fear the Supreme Sorcerer's 'Magic Ring', as long as the 'Magic Ring' existed, even he had no way to kill the Supreme Sorcerer.
Seeing Shinji give such a high evaluation of the 'Magic Ring', Shion also became interested, saying: "Don't worry, I will definitely master the 'Magic Ring'!"
Shinji actually didn't know that there was fierce competition within his organization now.
The first echelon naturally consisted of Shion, Karin, and Mumei.
Although the three of them seemed fine on the surface, they were competing secretly because everyone wanted to become the person Shinji relied on most!
Currently, the strongest and most advantageous one was Shion, who had merged with the demon Mōryō and obtained complete priestess power.
She was the strongest in the organization besides Shinji, possessing strength close to 'Six Paths Level'.
Although Karin was also very powerful, she was slightly inferior compared to Shion, but she had awakened the Rinnegan and had limitless potential.
Although Mumei currently only used a pair of Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and was obviously half a step behind Shion and Karin, everyone knew that it was only a matter of time before Mumei awakened the Rinnegan. So neither Shion nor Karin dared to underestimate Mumei.
It could be said that the competition for the 'Number One' under Shinji was very fierce now!
Further down was the echelon of Sasuke, Yakumo, Haku, Neji, and Kimimaro.
Logically speaking, Neji and Kimimaro possessed the Tenseigan, which was not inferior to the Rinnegan, and should be in the first echelon.
But because they had to enter a combined state to activate the Tenseigan, and the combined state not only required their joint efforts but also 'H' to adjust in the middle, it couldn't be counted as their individual power, so they could only be ranked in the second echelon.
And in the second echelon, the ones with the strongest individual strength currently were still Yakumo and Haku.
It's just that compared to the bloodline descendants of Otsutsuki like Sasuke, Neji, and Kimimaro, their potential ceiling was obviously lower.
Ryūzetsu and Chino would fall into the third echelon.
Both possessed Kekkei Genkai, had been injected with 'Blue Spider Lily No. 1', and practiced the 'Zodiac', so their potential was not small, but compared to the people in the first two echelons, they were much inferior.
Shinji didn't disturb Shion learning magic and returned to his own training ground.
Sitting in the center of the training ground, he rested his chin in his hand, tilted his head, and looked at the magic diagrams on the ground one by one.
Even at his current level, learning magic could still play a role in improving his strength.
Because the magic of the 'Six Rings World' had extremely high requirements for spiritual power, the process of learning magic was the process of tempering spiritual power.
Land of Demons.
While Shinji was learning magic in the flying fortress, Karin and Mumei were searching for news of Isshiki Otsutsuki according to his orders.
For efficiency, the two split up and investigated Jigen's whereabouts based on the clues given by Shinji.
Karin had Ryūzetsu and Chino's assistance here. They used the intelligence network of the Land of Grass to search for Jigen's whereabouts. And Mumei had the assistance of Sasuke, who couldn't stay idle, investigating Jigen's information through the black market network spread across various countries in the Ninja World.
Finally, all information pointed to the Land of Demons south of the Land of Ghosts, so the two groups of people rushed to the Land of Demons together.
Swish swish swish...
Accompanied by the sound of breaking wind, Karin, Ryūzetsu, and Chino landed in a forest.
Looking around, Karin asked: "Is it here?"
Ryūzetsu nodded: "Yes, according to intelligence, there were witnesses who saw that monk named Jigen nearby!"
Karin immediately closed her eyes and activated 'Kagura Shingan' (Mind's Eye of the Kagura) to sense, then shook her head: "There is no suspicious chakra in this forest!"
Ryūzetsu thought for a moment and said: "Should we go to the nearby villages and towns to investigate?"
"There are two villages and a small town nearby. The three of us will split up. You go investigate the villages, I'll go investigate the town. We'll meet here after the investigation!" Pausing, Karin instructed again: "If you find suspicious people, don't act rashly. The opponent is a character even My Lord is wary of, need to handle carefully!"
"Understood!"
Ryūzetsu and Chino said in unison.
After splitting up, Karin arrived at the small town near the forest.
Before she could start the investigation, she ran into Mumei and Sasuke, who also came to the town to investigate based on clues.
Mumei asked: "Found anything?"
Karin shook her head: "No, only know the target appeared nearby! What about you, any harvest?"
Sasuke curled his lip: "That guy is like a ghost. We have already checked several places and came up empty!"
At this time, Sasuke had already transplanted Itachi's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, but because Itachi had used 'Izanami', one of his eyes was blind.
However, Mumei had been using her 'Yachihoko' to transport the healing Yang Release chakra in Karin's body to Sasuke during this period, so Sasuke's blind Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan was slowly recovering.
Karin said: "The more like this, the more it shows the opponent isn't simple!"
Sasuke disapproved: "I don't believe with the few of us acting, he can fly out of the sky!"
In his view, even Nagato was defeated. Currently, there were no people or forces in the Ninja World that were their opponents.
Mumei said: "Alright, let's search this town first!"
Karin and Sasuke nodded.
Subsequently, to speed up efficiency, the three divided the areas and acted separately.
And just as the three separated, a figure draped in a black robe turned out from the corner. He stared fixedly at Karin, Mumei, and Sasuke separating to search the town, a thoughtful look on his face...