Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 1100 Gap and Breakthrough

Various thoughts flashed through his mind. Qingming stopped thinking, raised his hands, crossed them to form the 'Ren' seal, and once again used the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique'.

bang bang bang~
As puffs of chakra smoke dissipated, eight hundred shadow clones appeared in the arena.

Seeing the dense array of shadow clones in front of him, Qingming didn't waste any words and directly split them into two parts.

Among them, five hundred shadow clones absorbed natural energy.

The remaining three hundred shadow clones fused with seven chakra nature transformations to continue exploring the power of the Bloodline Limit.

After making the arrangements, Qingming let them leave.

Next, he mobilized the chakra in the alternate dimension between his eyebrows to replenish his own chakra.

Then, he formed hand seals again and unleashed the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique' once more.

This time, he created ten shadow clones.

These are all what he uses to practice 'Sage Mode'.

Therefore, Qingming injected an equal amount of natural energy into their bodies.

"Okay, you go down!"

After doing all this, Qingming spoke.

Upon hearing this, the ten shadow clones didn't waste any more words. After nodding, they each found a place to go and cultivate in 'Immortal Mode'.

As for Qingming himself
He then entered the volcano again and began a new round of training.

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Before we knew it, an hour had passed.

Qingming returned to Moon Island.

He waited a moment until his body recovered, then immediately deactivated the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique'.

In an instant, all the shadow clones, both inside and outside the island, disintegrated and vanished.

At this moment, unprecedented memory information began to assault his brain, and even with Qingming's 34 points of 'spirit' attribute, he couldn't help but feel a headache.

He suppressed his discomfort and, as before, first sorted and stored the chakra and natural energy that returned with these memories before he began to browse the memories in his mind, absorbing and digesting the training experience contained within them.

Time passes minute by minute.

A full twenty minutes later.

He then opened his eyes again.

Qingming carefully reviewed the experience he had just gained.

Just as he had anticipated, after this period of experimentation, he was able to increase the number of shadow clones he could create through the Bloodline Limit to three hundred.

At this point, the experience he gained and the price he paid were at their most cost-effective.

Well.
As for the cost, he increased the number of shadow clones he created by developing the Bloodline Limit by fifty, and correspondingly, the chakra consumed also increased.

Based on the chakra he consumed in the past hour, Qingming calculated that if he were to create 300 shadow clones for this training in the future, the amount of chakra he would need to invest would increase by 300,000 points.

That is, the investment has been increased from the original 230 million points to 260 million points.

It's not just about developing bloodline limits; it's also about absorbing natural energy. The number of shadow clones increased dramatically from three hundred to five hundred, which also required increasing the investment of chakra.

Originally, creating three hundred shadow clones would only consume 700,000 chakra points per day, but now...
Qingming carefully sensed the consumption over the past hour, secretly calculated it, and finally concluded that he needed to increase it to one million points.

That is, the same additional 300,000 points will be invested.

这样一来，他每天的查克拉缺口将从原来的358（=910-552）万点，提升到418（=358+30+30）万点！
"Four million eight hundred thousand."

Qingming murmured something.

Then, he secretly sensed the group of wooden clones he used to store chakra near the cabin. Then, he let out a soft breath.

In any case, such consumption is still within his acceptable range.

At least for the time being, he doesn't need to worry about running out of chakra.

As for longer
Then we can only take it one step at a time.

With that in mind, Qingming wasted no more time. He swallowed several enhanced soldier pills in succession to replenish the energy he had just consumed. Then, he formed hand seals again and used the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique' to begin a new round of cultivation.

And so, time passed day by day.
In the blink of an eye, another week has passed.

During this time, he returned to the village to rest for another day.

This afternoon.

After completing a round of cultivation, Qingming returned to Moon Island, deactivated the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique,' retrieved all the shadow clones, and absorbed and digested their cultivation experience from the past hour. His 'Immortal Mode' then calmly broke through to level 8.

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

This makes it take him less time to enter 'Sage Mode'.

Qingming estimated that it would probably only take him less than two minutes to convert all the chakra in his body into Sage Chakra, thus entering the 'Sage Mode' state.

In addition, the duration of this state has also increased.

If there is no intense fighting, it should be able to last for two hours without any problem.

In this way, he could make up for those few minutes of downtime and use 'Immortal Mode' to enhance his cultivation of 'Body Extreme' throughout the entire hour, thereby increasing the efficiency of strengthening his body.

Moreover, the upgrade to 'Sage Mode' has given him even greater control over himself, especially over the Sage Chakra within his body.

In this situation, whether one uses the "Ultimate Body" technique to strengthen the body or creates shadow clones to continue practicing "Sage Mode" and increase proficiency, the chakra and natural energy consumed will be reduced accordingly.

However, he still needs to conduct a thorough test to determine exactly how much reduction is possible.

With this thought in mind, Qingming immediately formed hand seals and began a new round of cultivation.

Tick ​​tock~
An hour passed in the blink of an eye.

When Qingming finished his cultivation again, he had already obtained the answer.

After advancing to level 8 in 'Sage Mode', he created ten shadow clones to practice, saving approximately 500,000 chakra points per day, reducing the consumption from 4.5 million points to 4 million points.

However, the proficiency gained will increase instead of decrease, rising from around 3,000 points to 3,500 points.

That is, the chakra consumed to gain one point of proficiency has decreased from 1,500 points to about 1,100 points.

As for the energy expenditure required to strengthen the body.
It also decreased somewhat, from approximately 2760 million points to around 2700 million points, a drop of 60 points.

This reduction seems greater than the reduction from practicing 'Sage Mode' with Shadow Clone Techniques, but compared to their original energy consumption, it's clear that this reduction is almost negligible in terms of strengthening the body.

The reason for this is actually quite simple: after advancing to level 8 in 'Immortal Mode', the bonus to his cultivation of 'Extreme Body' is even greater.

His body can evolve faster, which naturally requires more chakra.

With this increase and decrease, the final consumption could still be reduced, which, frankly, was somewhat beyond his expectations.

Originally, Qingming had already prepared for its price to rise rather than fall.

In retrospect, the benefits of advancing to 'Sage Mode' have been quite significant for him.

With these reductions of 500,000 and 600,000 points, his chakra pressure will be reduced, and the chakra he usually accumulates can last for a longer period of time.

Thinking of this, Qingming couldn't help but feel a little happy.

After a short rest, he began a new round of cultivation.

(End of this chapter)