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After the finals she confronts her father and stands there and takes his blows, telling him she still remembers the eyes of a man who remembered how to feel things. This causes him to hesitate and crack his own cultivation against her heart.
Hinata forms her iron core during the Neji fight in the elimination match, realizing her truth is "strike the heart" because her heart is a shield for those she loves, and and long as she loves truly her heart will never break no matter how much it hurts. It acts as an unbreakable shield, and...
After that it is all epilogue. Hiruzen realizes during his fight with Orochimaru that holding up the mountain as he has been won't let him grow, but worse isn't letting anyone else grow ether, allowing Hiruzen to finally shatter his core and ascend.
And then steps back, the crowd cheering, Naruto smiling.
Then Hiruzen announces the match over.
Neji wins by disqualification. Naruto no longer qualifies for the silver ascendency as he formed a gold core.
Naruto strikes Neji in the heart, breaking his ribs, then shoves his bleeding hand in Neji's mouth. He uses this act of massive violence to connect Neji's wounded core to Naruto's solidifying gold core, causing Neji's core to form gold over the damage.
Naruto then beats Neji by butchering Juken, copying the movements, but replacing the subtle grace and precision with raw power, literally poking Neji so hard his fingers pierce of poke organs.
Naruto sees Asura and Indra, laughs because he's not done yet, and borrows a bit of Asura's yang qi to supercharge the transformation jutsu to turn back into himself.
And then stabs Naruto in the heart. Naruto explodes into bits, passes through the gates of heaven by dual cultivating with Kurama sending Kurama the love and belonging Naruto has been cultivating the entire fix. (Not actually sex, because the point is that it's not actually about sex)
Naruto is going to "die" in the Neji fight in the finals when Neji tears the bit of Qi buried in his heart (because Neji intuited the main branch truth and thus his core will survive the process and he can numb it to the pain)
That is why all the shit Naruto is doing using his soul as a punching bag has not killed him. Nothing in the base world actually can. He is a nascent but already immortal soul.
And he walks the path of cultivation literally backwards. He STARTED an Immortal, will form a gold core, and then within that gold core form jade, silver, and eventually iron core, in that order, reaching the state of copper and finally able to use his qi freely.
Naruto's path is the Fishcake path, named after Naruto, the spiral patterned fishcakes in Ramen. Naruto is all spun around. Naruto cultivates backwards. He lies by being honest. He attacks by defending. He wins by losing.
Thus Asura's reincarnations accept death while Indra is frustrated that none of his reincarnations have actually died yet, meaning Asura is stronger still.
Currently only two humans have managed that, Asura and Indra. Their reincarnations are them sending copies of their immortal soul back through the cycle of reincarnation to form more cores for them to cultivate. Asura seeks to create a gold core of gold cores. Indra seeks to shatter his...
But if you want spoilers then I can explain the big reveal - People cultivate on one path. Copper, silver, jade, gold, and then they shatter their core breaking their mortal coil and through the gateway to the heavens, becoming immortal and starting their cultivation over, but now at the next...