Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 1013 Changes
Various thoughts flashed through his mind, but Qingming quickly gathered his thoughts and focused all his attention on the natural energy that had been integrated into his body.

Compared to the vast amount of chakra within him, this amount of natural energy is like a drop in the ocean, utterly insignificant.

But this tiny thing has an unexpectedly strong presence.

In Qingming's perception, it was like a bright light in the dark night, impossible to ignore.

Similarly, the difficulty in controlling this energy is exceptionally high.

That tiny bit of natural energy, ever since it entered his body, has been constantly disturbing his chakra, causing a slight imbalance between his physical and mental energy.

It's conceivable that once he absorbs more natural energy than a certain critical point, his chakra will definitely go berserk.

At that time, it wouldn't be surprising if anything unexpected happened.

This is also a major challenge in cultivating the 'Immortal Mode'.

Fortunately, the amount of chakra in his body is large enough to withstand a very high threshold. As long as he doesn't exceed this limit, the risk is manageable.

Furthermore, the existence of the proficiency panel will also provide him with great assistance.

Indeed, ever since absorbing that bit of natural energy into his body, Qingming had vaguely sensed changes in his stats.

With that in mind, he opened the proficiency panel.

The next moment, a familiar pale blue, semi-transparent light screen appeared before him:

Name: Uchiha Aomine

Age: 14 years old

Constitution: 28
Spirit: 30
Chakra: 166500 (1923450 → 1928490)

*Natural Energy: 1 (1928490)

Bloodline: Sharingan Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan (20000/100000) → (20035/100000)

White eyes (3551/10000)

Wood Release (310/10000) → (311/10000)

Meltdown (558/5000) → (559/5000)

Ice Release (348/5000) → (349/5000)

Storm Release (845/1000) → (848/1000)

技能：查克拉提炼术：lv7（3684/20000）→lv7（3702/20000）

*Natural Energy Perception: lv0 (1/100)

木分身之术：lv8（25500/50000）→lv8（26700/50000）

Ultimate Body: lv8 (13000/50000)

查克拉掌控：lv8（8350/50000）→lv8（8360/50000）

*Natural Energy Control: lv0 (1/100)

Perfect Skill:

As you can see, his panel is basically unchanged compared to yesterday, except for three new items:

First, there is 'natural energy'.

Secondly, there is the 'perception of natural energy'.

Thirdly, there is the 'control of natural energy'.

Among them, 'natural energy' is below 'chakra' and represents the amount of natural energy currently contained in his body. The number in parentheses after it is the upper limit that he can withstand.

As you can see, the amount of natural energy currently contained in his body is limited, and its upper limit is the same as his chakra limit.

The reason for this is actually quite simple: to fuse Sage Chakra, one must achieve a perfect 1:1:1 balance between physical energy, spiritual energy, and natural energy.

In this situation, the limit of the natural energy he can withstand is naturally the maximum amount of chakra that his body can currently hold.

Of course, this is just a theoretical value.

At this stage, let alone absorbing 1928490 points of natural energy, even absorbing 100 points would likely disrupt the energy balance within his body.

His fate at that time is self-evident.

To avoid this situation, we need to use the two newly emerged skills: 'Natural Energy Perception' and 'Natural Energy Control'.

The former allows him to sense natural energy more easily.

Consequently, it can absorb natural energy more quickly.

The latter, however, would allow him to have a more powerful control over natural energy.

In this way, the body can hold more natural energy, which can lead to a rampage.

Therefore, it's easy to imagine that as long as he improves his proficiency in these two skills, mastering 'Sage Mode' will almost certainly be a certainty.

As for liver proficiency, he's a professional.

With a thought, Qingming divided his mind into two parts: on one hand, he controlled the natural energy in his body to prevent it from moving around, and on the other hand, he opened his senses to sense the natural energy in the air again and tried to capture it into his body.

He immediately noticed the difference upon sensing this.

The influx of natural energy into his body was like turning on a switch, making it much easier for him to do these things again.

In just a moment, he grasped another bit of natural energy and absorbed it into his body. Qingming opened his eyes and observed the proficiency panel in front of him.

As you can see, he has a bit more 'natural energy'.

同时，‘自然能量感知’和‘自然能量掌控’也各自提升了一点熟练度，从原来的lv0（1/100）变成了lv0（2/100）！
However, because the improvement was so small, Qingming could hardly perceive the change.

But this did not stop him from continuing to try.

And just like that, the morning passed in the blink of an eye.

Before we knew it, it was mid-afternoon.

When Qingming absorbed a bit of natural energy into his body again, a strange feeling came over him.

At this moment, Qingming felt that his perception of natural energy was several times clearer. With just a scan of his mental energy, he discovered several points of natural energy.

This confirmed to Qingming that even without his main body taking action, his shadow clone alone could perceive natural energy.

As for capturing?

With a thought, Qingming transformed his spiritual power into a palm, easily grasping a bit of natural energy and then absorbing it into his body.

Clearly, this step was several times easier.

At the same time, the natural energy he absorbed into his body showed no signs of previously about to erupt and get out of control.

Furthermore, his control over these natural energies has improved considerably.

Sensing this, Qingming knew what was going on.

If he wasn't mistaken, his 'Natural Energy Perception' and 'Natural Energy Control' should have advanced.

With a thought, Qingming reopened the proficiency panel.

Sure enough, both of his skills were upgraded from lv0 to lv1, meaning he had successfully mastered them.

"Whoo~~~"

With a long sigh of relief, Qingming finally showed a smile.

His advancement in both of these skills made his wasted half a day—not cultivating the 'Extreme Body Technique,' but instead focusing entirely on them—worth it.

With the basic 'Natural Energy Perception' and 'Natural Energy Control' acquired, he could then pass them on to his shadow clones, allowing them to continue leveling up these two skills.

Once their levels are high enough, he can try to fuse them with Sage Chakra and master 'Sage Mode'.

Of course, the ultimate goal is to use it to increase the speed of physical enhancement.

However, this would undoubtedly take a long time.

Qingming can't wait that long now.

Therefore, he had an idea: before mastering 'Sage Mode', could he first fuse some Sage Chakra and use it to enhance the efficiency of his body's strengthening?

This was not a whimsical idea, but the result of careful consideration.

Without hesitation, Qingming first slightly adjusted the 'Sealing of All Things' on his body to make room for it.

Then, he used the technique again to create a new alternate dimension in his abdomen.

Compared to the space between the eyebrows, this space is much smaller, and can only hold about a thousand points of chakra at most.

But that's enough.

Using the lv1 'Natural Energy Control', Qingming mobilized all the more than one hundred points of natural energy he had accumulated over the past few hours into his abdomen and then sent them into this alternate dimension.

Then, he drew upon his own chakra again, sending in the same amount of chakra as before, and entered the area.

All of the above are not difficult to do; the next step is the key.

"Inhale...exhale..."

Qingming took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled.

He calmed himself down as much as possible, then focused all his attention on breaking down the chakra in the alternate dimension into equal amounts of physical and mental energy.

Next, he manipulated these two energies to bring them closer to each other, along with the natural energy.

Then, based on the method of chakra fusion, these three energies are fused together.

Time passes minute by minute.

Soon, ten minutes passed.

Because it was his first time trying this, Qingming was very careful.

Fortunately, the result did not disappoint him, perhaps because his foundation was solid.

In short, ten minutes later, he successfully fused together more than one hundred points of Sage Chakra.

This was his plan to utilize Sage Chakra in advance—borrowing the power of 'Sealing All Things in the World' to create an independent alternate dimension, placing the entire fusion process in this place isolated from his body.

In this way, no matter how much natural energy he can control, he can send in an equal amount of chakra to merge with it, ultimately forming an equal amount of Sage Chakra.

In this way, he avoided the weakness of having too much chakra in his body but not enough control over natural energy.

Of course, only he could do all of this; no one else could.

(End of this chapter)