Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 1016 Consumption

After half an hour.

The second round of training has ended.

Inside the volcano.

Qingming stopped cultivating the 'Extreme Body' technique once again.

Then, on a whim, he used the 'Mind Communication Technique' to reconnect with the group of shadow clones outside who were absorbing natural energy.

This time, after understanding the cultivation progress of these shadow clones, he chose to let eight of them disintegrate on their own.

In an instant, more than 30,000 points of chakra, along with over 300 points of natural energy, returned to his body.

As usual, Qingming first sent these natural energies into the alternate dimension in his abdomen.

Then, he immediately sorted through the memories of the eight shadow clones in his mind, absorbed and digested their cultivation experience of the past two hours, and converted it into proficiency in the corresponding skills.

However, when he reopened the panel, he found that the proficiency gained from this conversion was less than he had expected, even though the eight shadow clones had trained for an extra half hour.

At first, Qingming was a little confused.

But soon, he understood why.

The reason is actually quite simple: his eight shadow clones are merely shadow clones created when he was at the 'Natural Energy Perception' and 'Natural Energy Control' level 1.

Now that his two skills have been upgraded to level 2, the proficiency gained has naturally decreased.

After all, their starting point was too low, wasn't it?
Furthermore, Qingming could foresee that as his proficiency in these two skills continued to increase, the proficiency that the shadow clones he had previously created would become even less.

However, Qingming didn't pay much attention to this.

There's no other reason than that this is only temporary. As long as he continues the cycle, once the proficiency required for each upgrade increases and upgrading becomes difficult, he will no longer have this problem.

Now, he should be even more grateful that the first few levels of each skill are not difficult to improve.

Otherwise, his progress wouldn't have been so obvious.

Thinking this, Qingming separated a portion of his chakra and sent it into the alternate dimension in his abdomen. There, it mixed with the natural energy and eventually fused together to form more than 300 points of Sage Chakra.

Afterwards, he extracted the Sage Chakra from the alternate dimension in his abdomen and used it to enhance his body.

Soon, the chakra of these Sage Techniques was exhausted.

Therefore, Qingming wasted no more time and immediately used the 'Flying Thunder God Technique' to teleport back to the ground.

He glanced at the group of shadow clones who were developing Dust Release techniques both inside and outside the island, and without any hesitation, he immediately deactivated the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique'.

In an instant, all these shadow clones transformed into chakra, carrying with them the training experience and memories of the past hour, and returned to his main body.

Qingming closed his eyes, carefully sorting through these memories and absorbing and digesting the cultivation experience within them.

About a quarter of an hour later.

He opened his eyes again.

It was already 5 p.m.

According to his past timeline, he should have already completed the training of 'Body Limit' and should now be practicing 'Wood Clone Technique' to improve his proficiency.

After four hours of this training, he will need to use the 'Mind Reflection Technique' to stimulate the evolution of his Sharingan.

This step will take him two hours.

By the time all the training plans were completed, it was around 11 or 12 o'clock at night.

Then he can sleep and rest.

but now.
Because he needed to get started with 'natural energy perception' and 'natural energy control', he wasted a whole morning, and there was still some time left in the afternoon. Up until now, he had only completed two rounds of 'Body Limit' training, far short of the planned number of times.

In other words, his spiritual practice plan was not completed.

Therefore, Qingming wondered whether he should continue cultivating the 'Ultimate Body'.

Without a doubt, if the cultivation of the 'Extreme Body' continues, the cultivation of the 'Reflecting Heart Technique' and the 'Wood Clone Technique' will inevitably be delayed.

However, if one does not continue to cultivate the 'Ultimate Body Technique,' the strengthening of the body will fall behind.

This is something Qingming doesn't want to see.

So, after thinking it over, he finally decided to continue cultivating the 'Ultimate Body Technique'.

As for the 'Reflection of the Heart Technique' and the 'Wood Clone Technique'...
I'll skip cultivation for today!

The reason for this choice.
It's actually quite simple. First of all, no matter which one you choose, it will only take up half a day at most, which is no big deal, so just follow your heart.

Secondly, he is currently more eager to improve his 'physical' attribute than his 'spirit' attribute.

Therefore, he naturally had to focus on the 'extreme of the body'.

Having made up his mind, Qingming wasted no more time and immediately used the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique' to begin a new round of training.

In the blink of an eye, six hours had passed.

During this period, just like the initial two hours, Qingming continuously created and reclaimed shadow clones, cultivating the 'Extreme Body Technique' while also constantly improving his proficiency in 'Natural Energy Perception' and 'Natural Energy Control'.

Therefore, by the time he rested at night, both of his skills had advanced to level 3, resulting in a small qualitative change—the amount of natural energy he could control had exceeded two thousand points.

In addition, based on his cultivation experience this afternoon and evening, Qingming also summarized the losses caused by the absorption of natural energy by the hundred shadow clones.

If calculated on a daily basis, it would be approximately 300,000 points.

Of course, this is only the initial consumption.

Afterwards, as his two skills level up, and his control over natural energy increases accordingly, he will inevitably need to retrieve his shadow clones more frequently.

As a result, the resulting losses will inevitably increase.

Qingming estimates that its final consumption should stabilize at around 500,000 points.

The increase in the consumption of 500,000 points brought a significant boost to the efficiency of body enhancement, and Qingming felt that this exchange was well worth it.

what?
You asked him how he knew it was a significant improvement?
It's very simple. Right after his 'Natural Energy Control' leveled up to 3, he had already tried to use the fused Sage Chakra for 'Body Limit' training.

As it turned out, his choice to try fusing Sage Chakra ahead of time was the right one.

Compared to ordinary chakra, or even the transformed Yang Release chakra, Sage Mode chakra undoubtedly has a more significant effect on strengthening the body.

Qingming estimated that once he could use Sage Chakra to strengthen his body around the clock, the efficiency would at least double.

That's right, it's a staggering double!
By then, in less than five months, at most two and a half months, his body will undergo another transformation.

At that time, with the improvement of his 'physical' attribute, his mind and body will be able to regain some balance.

Well.
Speaking of the balance between mind and body.

Before going to sleep at night, Qingming even used the "Heart-Sealing and Soul-Locking Contract Instantaneous Movement Seal" to seal away a portion of his spiritual power.

In this way, there is no need to worry about the mind putting too much pressure on the body at night.

He can also take the opportunity to get a good night's sleep and relax a bit.

(End of this chapter)