Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 1099 Another Qualitative Change
About an hour later, Qingming, having eaten and drunk his fill, left the 'food street'.

Originally, according to his habit, he was supposed to soak in the hot spring for a while.

Unfortunately, he spent two extra hours training today to test the combination of 'Sage Mode' and 'Extreme Body'.

So now I have no choice but to go back home.

Back home, Qingming pulled out a recliner and lay down in the yard, looking up at the bright moon in the sky. His mind gradually emptied, and his thoughts drifted away to who-knows-where.

It felt like a while had passed, yet it also felt like a long time had gone by.

In short, by the time Qingming returned to his divine form, it was already quite late.

Qingming yawned, then got up, went straight into the bedroom, and fell asleep immediately.

A speechless night!
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The next day.

Qingming woke up naturally after a good night's sleep, ate something casually, and then began to stroll around the village, taking the opportunity to sort out his future cultivation plans.

Actually, there's not much to sort out.

He had already planned it out during the test yesterday evening.

Next, just follow the established plan to cultivate.

Soon, the day was over.

Day three.

Early in the morning.

Qingming then left the village and went to Moon Island to begin a new round of arduous training.

In less than three days, he had leveled up the 'Sage Mode' to level 6.

The increase in level allows him to enter 'Sage Mode' in a shorter time and maintain it for a longer period of time.

Correspondingly, his efficiency in strengthening his body also improved.

However, it was not a qualitative change after all, and the improvement effect was limited, so Qingming did not deliberately keep statistics.

After another three days of cultivation, on the seventh day of this arduous training, his 'Immortal Mode' finally broke through to level 7.

On the open ground in the center of Moon Island.

Qingming opened his eyes.

At that moment, he felt that his understanding of 'Sage Mode' had reached a new level.

Now, if he were to use this technique again, he would definitely not need ten minutes to get into the state as before.

Now, he can complete the fusion of Sage Chakra in a maximum of five minutes, thus unleashing 'Sage Mode'.

As for the duration...
Qingming estimated that if no intense fighting occurred, maintaining this forty to fifty minutes should not be a problem.

In other words, he can now fully activate his 'Immortal Mode' and cultivate 'Body Ultimate' to strengthen his body.

However, its consumption...
With a thought, Qingming raised his hand again to form a hand seal and unleashed the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique'.

bang bang bang~
As puffs of chakra smoke exploded, 560 shadow clones appeared in two groups.

As usual, Qingming divided them into three groups.

Three hundred shadow clones were used to absorb natural energy, two hundred and fifty shadow clones were used to develop bloodline limits, and the last ten shadow clones were used to practice 'Sage Mode'.

After all the shadow clones left, Qingming immediately teleported to the volcano below Moon Island.

Ignoring the harsh environment around him, he closed his eyes, mobilized the chakra and natural energy within his body, concentrated his mind, and merged them into one.

Just as he predicted, it didn't take ten minutes at all; in less than five minutes, he converted all the chakra in his body into Sage Chakra.

Then, it naturally entered the 'sage mode' state.

Based on past experience, Qingming maintained his 'Sage Mode' state and then continuously used 'Body Limit' to mobilize the Sage Chakra within his body to strengthen his body and the Byakugan between his eyebrows.

Time passes minute by minute.

Approximately fifty minutes later, Qingming exited 'Sage Mode'.

At this moment, there were still about five minutes left before his current round of cultivation ended.

Qingming continued cultivating the 'Extreme Body Technique' to use up the remaining five minutes.

Then, he used the 'Flying Thunder God Technique' to teleport back to Moon Island.

Taking a deep breath of fresh air, and after his body recovered, Qingming immediately began to examine his gains.

As it turned out, his efficiency in strengthening his body did indeed increase greatly after cultivating almost entirely in 'immortal mode'.

At level 5, it can only increase his enhancement efficiency by about 10%.

Now, having advanced to level 7 and undergone a second qualitative change, this bonus has directly reached 30%.

Without a doubt, this is a huge improvement.

If calculated this way, there's no need to wait until the Sharingan's evolution level reaches the threshold of (60000/100000). The six hours spent using the 'Mind Reflection Technique' can be used to cultivate 'Body Limit' and increase efficiency.

Just now, the time for his physical transformation will be brought forward to this year.

Qingming roughly calculated that it would be able to transform around the beginning of December.

And this happened just over two months later.

This result filled Qingming with joy.

However, such a huge improvement comes at a considerable price.

Qingming sensed the chakra and natural energy he had consumed over the past hour and calculated that if he trained according to this standard for a whole day...

Therefore, the chakra and natural energy he needs to invest in strengthening his body will need to be increased by about 20% from the initial level.

That is, from the original 2300 million points to 2760 million points.

It's worth noting that before mastering 'Sage Mode', he only had about 552 million chakra points left each day.

Even Qingming felt a pang of heartache at the thought of having to invest 460 million points at once.

Not to mention, he is currently cultivating 'Sage Mode', which consumes a lot of energy every day, and his remaining chakra and natural energy are already insufficient.

Currently, he maintains ten shadow clones simultaneously cultivating 'Sage Mode', gaining approximately two hundred proficiency points per hour.

In one day, you can accumulate 3,000 proficiency points.

Although the amount of chakra and natural energy he consumes to practice this technique has decreased with the upgrade of 'Sage Mode', he still needs 1,500 points of chakra and natural energy to gain one point of proficiency.

Based on this calculation, he needs to invest 450 million points of chakra and natural energy in it every day.

460 + 450 = 910!

Clearly, a mere 552 million points of remaining chakra is simply not enough.

Originally, Qingming's attitude towards the Three-Tails was that it would be better if it existed, but it wouldn't matter if it didn't.

But now
His desire for the Three-Tails intensified dramatically.

Unfortunately, more than ten days have passed, and the wooden clone lurking in Kirigakure still hasn't sent a message, so he can only wait.

Fortunately, he spent a lot of time on missions recently, which allowed him to accumulate a considerable amount of chakra, enough for the time being.

So, there's no particular rush.

As for natural energy...
Qingming plans to increase the number of shadow clones that absorb natural energy from three hundred to five hundred.

In this way, there is no need to worry about a lack of natural energy.

In addition, he also plans to increase the number of people who have developed bloodline limits.

Based on the experience gained these past few days, Qingming estimated that maintaining a scale of three hundred people should be the most efficient balance.

Therefore, he plans to increase the number of shadow clones developed through the Bloodline Limit from 250 to 300.

(End of this chapter)