Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 1018: One wave comes after another

Soon, it was late at night.

Qingming completed his final round of training, stopped using the 'Mind Reflection Technique,' and ceased stimulating the Sharingan's evolution.

He sensed the shadow clones cultivating inside and outside the island, and with a thought, he dispelled the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique'.

In an instant, all the shadow clones scattered throughout the island disintegrated and vanished.

Instead, there is a wealth of spiritual practice experience and memories.

Qingming suppressed the discomfort in his head, closed his eyes, and carefully browsed through these memories, absorbing and digesting the cultivation experience contained within.

About a quarter of an hour later.

Qingming opened his eyes again.

A glint of light flashed in his eyes.

After several hours of practice, putting aside the improvement of other skills, he did have some ideas on how to develop a sealing technique to store natural energy.

It must be said that his experience in learning and developing various sealing techniques has been of great help to him.

Qingming estimated that with sufficient investment, he could develop a prototype in a few days at most.

For him now, a prototype is enough.

Because this is enough to imprint it onto the panel.

After that, he only needs to continue grinding for proficiency and increase it.

Moreover, at this stage, he doesn't need any particularly perfect or high-potential skills; he just needs them to last for a while.

Afterwards, he can gradually make improvements through use.

In the end, no improvements are needed; it is sufficient to ensure that he can store the natural energy he controls before he achieves 'Sage Mode'.

Various thoughts flashed through Qingming's mind, but he quickly gathered his thoughts and stopped thinking about it.

After sensing his own condition, Qingming raised his hand and successively cast the 'Spirit Transformation Technique' and the 'Heart-Sealing and Soul-Locking Contract Instantaneous Movement Seal'.

Soon, a portion of his spiritual power was sealed away.

Feeling the pressure on his body lessen, Qingming wasted no more time and immediately returned to the cabin to rest.

A speechless night!
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The next day.

early morning.

Qingming got up early, washed up, ate a little something, and then began his new day of cultivation.

However, after creating five hundred shadow clones, he encountered a problem.

Last night, his decision to have the recovered shadow clones attempt to develop new sealing techniques was merely a stopgap measure, aimed at verifying the feasibility of the ideas in his mind.

Now that the idea has been validated and it's time to actually start developing it, he can no longer create shadow clones to absorb natural energy.

This is because it slows down the rate at which he improves his proficiency in 'natural energy perception' and 'natural energy control'.

At the same time, it will also slow down his speed of strengthening his body to some extent.

In that case
Looking at the five hundred shadow clones in front of him, Qingming had a sudden thought. He waved his hand and sent one hundred of the shadow clones to various parts of the island to continue absorbing natural energy.

Of the remaining four hundred shadow clones, he had three hundred continue developing Dust Escape, while the other one hundred began developing new sealing techniques following the ideas from the previous night.

That's right, he reduced the number of shadow clones that developed Dust Release, and selected one hundred from them.

Anyway, before the 'spirit' attribute was raised to 30 points, only three hundred shadow clones were responsible for developing Dust Release. It doesn't matter if they temporarily revert back now.

Of course, more importantly, compared to improving 'natural energy perception' and 'natural energy control', as well as developing new sealing techniques, the development of Dust Release is not as urgent.

That's why he made this choice.

However, to his surprise, after making this arrangement, he encountered new troubles before he had even completed a few rounds of cultivation.

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Mid-morning. Inside the volcano.

When Qingming paused his cultivation of 'Body Extreme' again and, as usual, retrieved the shadow clones that were absorbing natural energy, these shadow clones told him bad news.

Suddenly, Qingming opened his eyes, a look of surprise flashing in them.

Standing still, after briefly processing the memories in his mind, Qingming ignored the more than 10,000 points of natural energy newly stored in the alternate dimension in his abdomen. Instead, he directly used the 'Flying Thunder God Technique' to teleport to the island.

Then, without wasting a moment, he immediately found a place, sat cross-legged, and began to sense the natural energy around him.

Thanks to the level 5 'Natural Energy Perception', Qingming easily locked onto the surrounding natural energy.

However, in his perception, the concentration of these natural energies was significantly lower than in the early morning.

He tried to absorb it for a while, but the concentration of this natural energy was still decreasing.

A moment later, Qingming opened his eyes.

His complexion wasn't very good.

Indeed, the bad news the shadow clone told him was that the concentration of natural energy on the island was decreasing.

He already knew the reason for the decrease through his own experience and the memories of his shadow clone.

It's very simple: too many people on the island are absorbing natural energy at the same time, which has led to a situation where the natural energy intake is insufficient to cover the expenditure.

The reason why nothing unusual was found in the previous few days and yesterday is that...
In the first few days, because his 'natural energy perception' and 'natural energy control' levels were low, he couldn't absorb much natural energy in a short period of time.

Therefore, since the island has enough natural energy, he naturally wouldn't discover any problems.

But after his 'Natural Energy Perception' and 'Natural Energy Control' advanced to level 5, resulting in a qualitative change, the speed at which he absorbed natural energy accelerated, and then problems arose.

As for why he didn't notice anything unusual last night...
It's quite simple. On the one hand, his mind wasn't on that last night.

On the other hand, after his two skills were upgraded last night, he did not release a hundred shadow clones at once to absorb natural energy. Instead, he used some of the shadow clones to develop new sealing techniques.

Thus, the existing and emerging natural energy on the island is barely sufficient.

Therefore, he did not notice anything unusual.

Until now
Feeling the thin natural energy in the surrounding air, Qingming had a faint urge to rush into the three holy lands, seize one of them, and use it as his stronghold.

In that way, he will not lack natural energy.

But in the end, he suppressed this crazy idea.

This doesn't mean he was afraid of the three holy lands.

Indeed, with his current strength, he is not strong enough to completely subdue any of the three holy lands, but it is also impossible for the three holy lands to take him down.

Therefore, there is nothing to be afraid of.

He doesn't plan to do that simply because it's not necessary at the moment.

If Moon Island can't meet his current needs, he can just go somewhere else.

Natural energy is a kind of energy that is naturally generated by all things in nature. The more active a place is, the higher the concentration of natural energy.

Although Moon Island is not exactly desolate, it is still just a small island, and how much natural energy can its flora and fauna generate?

As for the ocean...
Indeed, the number of life forms in the ocean is enormous, and the amount of natural energy they can generate is also enormous, but compared to the area of ​​the ocean, it is insignificant.

Just like the area around Moon Island, the concentration of natural energy there is far less than that on the island itself.

Therefore, if he wants to find a place with abundant natural energy, he has to look on land, and specifically in places where plants and animals thrive.

Of all the ninja world, the Land of Fire is undoubtedly the one that best suits his needs.

After all, compared to the other four great nations, the Land of Fire is a chosen land, not only rich in resources but also with a spring-like climate all year round, making it the place with the most abundant natural energy.

(End of this chapter)