Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 1080 Balanced Trading and Critical Points
The next day.

Qingming got up early.

He quickly washed up, swallowed a few enhanced soldier ration pills to fill his stomach, and then began his cultivation.

This time, instead of creating eight hundred shadow clones to assist in his cultivation, he created seven hundred.

Among them, the number of three hundred shadow clones remained unchanged as they absorbed natural energy, while the number of shadow clones that developed the Bloodline Limit was reduced to four hundred.

Watching these shadow clones leave, Qingming didn't waste any more time. After adjusting his own condition, he teleported to the volcano below Moon Island and began his cultivation of 'Extreme Body Technique'.

Before you know it, an hour has passed.

Qingming returned to Moon Island. After his body recovered naturally, he immediately deactivated the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique' and checked the shadow clones, especially the gains from developing the four hundred shadow clones of the Bloodline Limit.

However, perhaps it is because the training time is still short and the difficulty of developing the bloodline limit is too high.

In short, a mere hour wasn't enough for him to see any significant changes.

Helpless, Qingming could only undergo another round of training according to the previous assignment.

And so, after six rounds of training, it was noon before he had a clearer result—this allocation plan did indeed speed up his progress in developing the Bloodline Limit.

This also shows that his adjustment was in the right direction.

In other words, if he continues to adjust in this direction, he will most likely find the most efficient balance point.

Thinking of this, Qingming smiled slightly.

But his smile quickly faded.

The reason is simple: judging from the results this morning, achieving this goal is clearly not something that can be accomplished overnight; it may require a long period of experimentation.

Furthermore, it's possible that as his experience in developing bloodline limits increases, this task of finding a balance point might continue indefinitely.

Fortunately, he can still accumulate experience points normally during this period; it's just a matter of how much.

Therefore, Qingming wasn't in a hurry.

Collecting his thoughts, he swallowed a few more enhanced soldier pills to replenish his energy, and then began a new round of training.

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Time flies like an arrow; another week has passed in the blink of an eye.

It was now late July, and the time for Qingming's predicted physical transformation was drawing ever closer.

Correspondingly, he could increasingly feel the invisible shackles that were limiting his body's continued growth.

Qingming estimated that he would be able to attempt to break through the limitations and guide his body to transform in at most another week.

However, these are later stories.

Now, he is more concerned about the development of the Bloodline Limit and the progress of the peace talks between Kumogakure and Konoha.

The former relates to the allocation of his chakra and the adjustment of his training plan.

The latter allows him to assess the situation in the ninja world in the near future and make corresponding preparations.

As he predicted, finding a balance point for efficiently developing bloodline limits was not an easy task.

It took him a whole week to finally define a rough area.

That is, the efficiency is highest when the number of shadow clones cultivating at the same time is between two hundred and two hundred and fifty.

As for more specific...

Because developing the Bloodline Limit is too difficult and yields very little experience each time, he cannot test it out for the time being.

However, Qingming did not intend to waste any more time and energy on this.

Anyway, this balance point is not static.

Once he gains more experience in developing bloodline limits, he can definitely try again.

Now...

Let's maintain two hundred shadow clones for cultivation for now!
It's worth mentioning that after the number of shadow clones created through the Bloodline Limit was reduced, the chakra consumed by them was also reduced accordingly.

Now, he only needs to invest two million points of chakra into it each day to meet its needs.

In this way, his daily chakra reserves will increase from 320,000 points to 1,320,000 points.

Although it wasn't a huge amount, it still exceeded a million points, enough for Qingming to accumulate some chakra. Gathering his thoughts, Qingming stopped focusing on that and began to consider the progress of the peace talks between Kumogakure and Konoha.

According to his latest intelligence, the two sides have reached a consensus on the general framework and are now discussing some details.

At this rate, it shouldn't be long before the two sides sign a peace treaty.

As for the incident where the Cloud Village delegation forcibly abducted the young lady of the Hyuga clan and was then killed in retaliation...

Qingming had not heard of any price Konoha would have to pay for this.

At the same time, there was no news that the Hidden Cloud Village wanted to continue to entangle itself in this matter.

Clearly, both sides want to downplay the matter and resolve it peacefully.

However, Qingming estimated that Konoha must have secretly made some deals with Kumogakure, or even paid some price for it.

Otherwise, even if Minato Namikaze takes a hard line and Konoha is in the right, Kumogakure is unlikely to compromise easily.

After all, the Fourth Raikage, A, is not someone who would easily back down.

But what exactly the two parties traded was beyond the knowledge of an ordinary Jonin like him.

Uh……

At the very least, it's not something we can know right now.

As for the future...

No secret can be kept forever, especially when more than one person knows it.

Therefore, he only needs to wait patiently, and one day he will receive the relevant information.

However, to be honest, Qingming wasn't particularly interested in this.

After all, whatever deal they make is unlikely to affect him.

All Qingming knew was that after this, the ninja world would be at peace for a long time.

And he can now focus on his cultivation for a while.

With this thought in mind, Qingming wasted no more time. He composed himself, used the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique' to create five hundred shadow clones, and began a new round of cultivation.

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Time flies, the years are like a shuttle.

In the blink of an eye, another week has passed.

It's almost the end of July.

Just as Qingming had predicted, his body, after a week of strengthening, successfully reached the critical point of transformation.

Inside the volcano.

Qingming completed another round of 'Body Limit' training, but did not feel much progress.

This did not displease Qingming; on the contrary, it brought a smile to his face.

'Flying Thunder God Technique~'

With a thought, Qingming immediately used the technique to teleport to Moon Island.

Feeling the cool night breeze and gazing at the slightly mysterious sea under the moonlight, Qingming couldn't help but take a deep breath.

After a long while, he slowly spat it out.

At this moment, Qingming felt a jolt of energy and felt much more relaxed.

However, he still did not plan to guide his body overnight to complete the transformation.

There's no other reason than that, based on previous experience, such a breakthrough cannot be achieved in just one or two hours.

Now, it's getting late, and Qingming is worried that he won't be able to hold on until then.

So let's wait until tomorrow and talk about it; there's no need to rush.

With that thought in mind, Qingming activated the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique' and retracted all the shadow clones outside.

After he had fully digested all the cultivation experience contained in their memories, he returned to the cabin and went to rest early.

(End of this chapter)