User blog comment:B214/Volume 22 spoilers/@comment-95.90.227.243-20160806163053/@comment-1359322-20160806171713

Gaining powerful attacks and training with powerful beings doesn't make one strong, experience does.

While training is important, but if one lacks in experience of using his/her power, that's the same as being an amateur. Look at Sun Wukong, he doesn't have any of those super powerful flashy attacks like Longinus Smasher nor did he train with the most powerful beings but he is still strong in his own way in his own right.

Ise has been getting power-ups over power-ups to defeat his enemy but that in return also signify that he isn't making actual progress and has to depend on something other boost to do the job for him. That doesn't make him strong, that makes him dependent.

Ise hasn't even mastered all the power he currently has be it the Triana or CCQ, what he needs to do first is to master those powers, anything else should come later. What Ise truly needs at the moment, isn't training with Ophis, Lilith or Great Red, it's not getting more powerful attacks or forms, those won't make him on par with top 10 beings. He needs to do two more important things.


 * 1) master all of his current power.
 * 2) acquire experience and use those experience to propel himself higher.