John Doe and Goku immediately transformed; John Doe transformed into Super Saiyan Blue with the Ultra Instinct, while Goku transformed into Super Saiyan Blue. The two joined forces to attack Jiren.
However, facing the combined attack from John Doe and Goku, Jiren did not respond at first but continued to attack Goku and Android 17. After several consecutive attacks, he directly knocked both of them off the stage.
In just over a minute, the six warriors from Universe 7 were reduced to only four.
Seeing that Gohan and Android 17 had been eliminated by Jiren, John Doe and Goku clenched their fists because the pressure from Jiren was even greater than that from Aniraza earlier.
While they were contemplating their next move, Jiren once again appeared in front of Frieza and attacked him.
At this moment, Frieza was still in his Golden Frieza form, but against Jiren's full power, he could not withstand for long. Soon after, Jiren knocked Frieza away.
Frieza slid to the edge of the stage, nearly falling off. Just as Jiren was about to finish him off, John Doe and Goku reacted in time and positioned themselves between Frieza and Jiren to block the attack.
After being blocked by John Doe and Goku, Jiren no longer pursued eliminating Frieza but looked at John Doe and Goku instead, saying: "Well then, since you are blocking my attack on him, I will eliminate both of you first."
John Doe said to Goku: "Goku, you have already fought Jiren before; let me take the lead this time."
Goku looked at John Doe with some confusion and asked: "Aren't we going to work together?"
John Doe replied: "Haven't you always wanted to know if I have reached the Ultra Instinct? Let me show you now."
After saying this, John Doe charged at Jiren with all his might. The two exchanged punches; John Doe was knocked back and slid across the stage for a while.
Although John Doe was at a disadvantage from the first hit, as their fight continued, his disadvantage became more pronounced.
After several exchanges, John Doe was repeatedly hammered by Jiren.
Goku anxiously shouted: "John Doe!" After that, he attempted to rush forward to help.
However, from Universe 6, Caulifla transformed into Super Saiyan and blocked Goku's path. She said: "Fight me!"
"Get out of the way!" Although Caulifla was also a Saiyan, seeing John Doe about to be eliminated made Goku irritable. He immediately transformed into Super Saiyan God to knock this hindrance off the stage.
Caulifla excitedly attacked Goku, but unfortunately, the power gap was too great. Before long, she was knocked away by Goku.
Kale rushed to Caulifla's side to help her up and asked: "Sister, are you okay?!"
Caulifla smiled and said: "Seeing myself like this still makes me unable to defeat him; I guess I have no choice but to use this."
After saying that, Caulifla took out a Potara earring and put it on her left ear while handing another earring to Kale for her right ear.
Suddenly, a dazzling light erupted on the stage as Kale and Caulifla fused together to become Kefla.
Seeing this situation, Beerus immediately shouted: "Universe 6 has violated the rules; they used Potara earrings!"
Upon hearing Beerus's words, Champa did not argue but looked at Zeno, hoping he would allow them to use Potara earrings for an exciting battle.
As expected, after discussing with Zeno, the Grand Priest said: "For the excitement of the Tournament of Power, Zeno permits Universe 6 to use Potara earrings once."
After hearing this from the Grand Priest, Champa breathed a sigh of relief.
Goku looked at Kefla blocking his path and felt invigorated; he then transformed into Super Saiyan Blue and began fighting Kefla.
Returning to the battle between John Doe and Jiren, John Doe was once again knocked away by Jiren and heavily fell onto the stage.
Slowly getting up again from the stage, John Doe had reverted from Super Saiyan Blue back to his normal state and was swaying as if seriously injured.
Android 18 leaned over the railing of the spectator area worriedly shouting: "John Doe!"
Jiren looked at John Doe and raised his hand saying: "It's over!" After that, a red energy blast flew toward John Doe intending to knock him off the stage.
But just as the energy blast was about to hit him, John Doe swiftly dodged it at the last moment.
Jiren was momentarily stunned; thinking that John Doe's dodge was just luck, he fired several more red energy blasts at him.
However, like dodging the first blast, John Doe continuously dodged several of Jiren's energy blasts with quick movements.
This time Jiren realized that it wasn't luck. Everyone watched as John Doe slowly raised his head.
Under everyone's gaze, John Doe's hair and eyebrows gradually turned black and white while his pupils became black and silver dual-colored pupils.
Beerus looked at John's condition in surprise; he turned to Whis and asked: "Whis, has John entered Ultra Instinct?"
Whis nodded and said: "I would say he has barely entered it; however, it can only be considered as having just entered that realm. But I feel that his state is different from what I taught about Ultra Instinct."
"Different? How is it different?" Beerus asked curiously.
Whis replied: "Look at John's eyes; we must maintain a calm mind like water when sustaining Ultra Instinct; we cannot have even a slight ripple."
"But in John's eyes, I see not calmness but anger."
"Anger?!" Beerus expressed confusion.
"Yes, anger. John has replaced the requirement for a calm mind with anger. Now he only has anger as his mindset. I never expected that he could eliminate all other emotions in his heart while retaining only anger."
"Why would he do that?" Beerus wondered aloud.
"Because for Saiyans compared to calmness; maintaining an angry mindset is much easier. I didn't expect that John could come up with such a genius alternative method." After explaining this, Whis couldn't help but laugh heartily.