Ryu traveled the world with much greater speed now than what he had done in the past. He was no longer worried about finding exact locations of enemies and planning out his attack. Instead, he was trying to find something very particular.
He was focused on large gatherings of Faith and pieces of land that called to his affinities.
After his breakthrough, he was quite shocked to find that Spirit Bodies actually had multiple levels that they could reach.
In Sacrum, the Spirit Body was only known as either existing or not. He had never considered improving his Spirit Body, let alone what that would mean.
But he found that now that he had after his hyper-focused state on the Ice Element, his sensitivity to this element was likewise on another level.