Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 1101 Critical Point and Pseudo-Perfection

Time flies, the years are like a shuttle.

In the blink of an eye, another half month has passed.

It's now mid-October.

This evening.

Fire Nation.

Northeastern region.

It's still in that primeval forest.

Qingming finished casting the 'Reflecting Heart Technique' and stopped.

With a thought, he opened the proficiency panel.

On it, his Sharingan evolution level had reached (59870/100000), just one step away from the critical point of (60000/100000).

However, considering that during the process of strengthening his body in the future, 'Human Defense' will also passively increase his Sharingan evolution level by one or two points every day.

Therefore, Qingming no longer plans to continue grinding its progress, lest its 'spirit' attribute increase before its body has even undergone transformation.

At that time, the imbalance between mind and body will be a huge problem.

Therefore, he can now use all six hours each day that he would spend using the "Reflection Technique" to stimulate the evolution of his Sharingan to use the "Ultimate Body Technique" to strengthen his body.

In this way, the speed of his physical evolution can be greatly accelerated, and he can reach the critical point of transformation sooner.

And this is only good news.

In addition, he has gained another benefit in the past two weeks.

With a thought, Qingming closed the panel.

He looked up and focused his gaze on the ten shadow clones that were maintaining 'Sage Mode' not far away.

After half a month of practice, they have accumulated enough proficiency that his 'Sage Mode' will be able to upgrade after this round.

Previously, his 'Sage Mode' was already level 8; if he were to upgrade it again, it would be level 9.

This will cause his 'immortal mode' to undergo another qualitative change.

At that time, its enhancement effect on his cultivation of the 'Ultimate Body' will be further enhanced.

This will allow his body to reach the critical point of transformation more quickly.

Qingming was very much looking forward to it.

So, with a thought, he deactivated the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique'.

In an instant, all the shadow clones in the nearby forest—whether they were absorbing natural energy, the three hundred shadow clones fusing seven chakra nature transformations to develop bloodline limits, or the ten shadow clones in front of them—collapsed and vanished.

As a result, a large amount of chakra, natural energy, and memory information flooded into Qingming's body.

Without any hesitation, Qingming suppressed his discomfort and, as always, temporarily suppressed the memories rushing into his mind. He first categorized and stored the chakra and natural energy in his body before browsing through these memory information.

Time passes minute by minute.

This time, it took Qingming a good half hour before he opened his eyes again.

A hint of joy flashed across his face.

Just as he had predicted, as he absorbed the experience of this round of shadow clones, his 'Sage Mode' indeed upgraded.

It has now been upgraded to level 9.

His understanding of 'Sage Mode' has also undergone a qualitative leap.

Sitting there, lost in thought for a while, Qingming suddenly stood up, closed his eyes, waited quietly for less than ten seconds, and then opened his eyes again.

The moment he opened his eyes, a unique immortal mask appeared on his face.

Clearly, he had entered 'sage mode'. This speed was much faster than before, almost 'instantaneous'.

And his condition.
Even at level 8, he couldn't completely suppress the unique chakra fluctuations emanating from his body the moment he activated 'Sage Mode'.

But now?

He entered 'immortal mode' almost silently.

Putting everything else aside, this one move alone would be enough for him to seize the initiative in a fight.

And its blessing upon him
Qingming could clearly feel that at this moment, his basic attributes such as strength, speed, nerve reaction, and endurance had been further enhanced on top of the previous increases.

Specifically?
About 30%!

It's important to understand that with the boost from level 8 'Sage Mode', his base stats were already high. To increase them by another 30% on top of that is already a huge improvement.

Qingming was very satisfied with this.

After getting used to it for a while, he went to the place where he had tested 'Sage Mode' a month ago and began to test its amplification effect on ninjutsu once again.

Unsurprisingly, its amplification effect on ninjutsu also increased significantly.

This made Qingming very happy.

However, this is still not the most perfect state.

He can indeed instantly enter 'sage mode' now, but that's based on the premise that he already has natural energy stored in his body.

If it weren't for the natural energy sealed in his abdomen, it would take him more than a few seconds to enter if he relied solely on temporary absorption.

With a thought, Qingming exited the 'Immortal Mode' state.

Then, he concentrated his mind and sent all the natural energy from the disintegration of his Sage Chakra into the sealed space in his abdomen.

After all the natural energy in his body had been depleted, he tried to enter 'Immortal Mode' again.

He activated 'Natural Energy Perception' to the fullest extent, and with the help of the immense spiritual power brought by his 34 points of 'Spirit' attribute, he brought all the natural energy within a radius of one or two kilometers into his perception range.

Then, with the help of his perfected level of 'natural energy control', he quickly absorbed this natural energy into his body.

Furthermore, during this process, one can use two minds simultaneously to continuously merge these natural energies and chakra, transforming them into Sage Chakra.

Time passes minute by minute.

About three minutes later.

The immortal face mask that had disappeared when he exited 'immortal mode' reappeared on his face.

In other words, he has once again entered 'immortal mode'.

It's just the time...
It's obvious that it's been significantly delayed, and it's far from being 'instantaneous'.

Furthermore, this was under the condition that no one disturbed him; if it were during a battle, it would probably take him even longer.

This is why Qingming said that it is not yet in its most perfect state.

In his mind, only being able to enter 'Sage Mode' at will, like Hashirama Senju, would be considered perfect.

Fortunately, this was not a difficult task for him.

Even after advancing to level 9, there is still a progress bar after his 'Sage Mode'.

In other words, he can continue to upgrade his level.

Qingming estimated that once he leveled it up to the maximum level corresponding to an S-rank skill—lv10 (0/0)—he should be able to do the same thing as Hashirama Senju.

Qingming was very much looking forward to it.

As for now.
He needed to pack his things, return to Moon Island, and get a good night's rest.

Then, starting tomorrow, we will test how fast his body will strengthen under the blessing of the latest 'Immortal Mode' and his full-day cultivation of 'Body Extreme', and then estimate the time it will take for him to transform.

(End of this chapter)