Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 1167 Memory Reading
ten minutes later.

Qingming finished browsing through the memories of the shadow clone and absorbed and digested the cultivation experience contained within.

Then, he wasted no more time and headed straight for the cabin.

Tomorrow, he needs to continue strengthening his body so he can estimate the time of his next transformation as soon as possible; he can't stay up late anymore.

Upon arriving at the wooden cabin, Qingming first washed up by the stream before entering the cabin to rest.

A speechless night!
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The next day.

Qingming got up early.

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

Arriving at the open space in the center of Moon Island, he raised his hands to form a hand seal and directly unleashed the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique'.

In an instant, 1,100 shadow clones appeared.

As usual, Qingming sealed them into a scroll, then adjusted his own chakra to its peak, and once again raised his hand to form hand seals, unleashing the 'Wood Clone Technique'.

Immediately, a twitch appeared on his shoulder, and a wooden clone shot out.

Qingming looked at the other person, handed the scroll in his hand, and said, "Alright, go ahead!"

Upon hearing this, the wooden clone nodded without saying a word, then took the scroll and used 'Wind Release: Wings of Wind' and 'Chakra Feather Robe' to fly into the sky, heading towards the northeastern part of the Land of Fire.

Watching him leave, Qingming replenished his chakra once more, then raised his hand to form hand seals and unleashed the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique' once more.

This time, he created two hundred and twenty shadow clones.

Qingming looked at them and waved his hand, saying, "Alright, you can all go now!"

Upon hearing this, these shadow clones formed small groups and went down to conduct fusion experiments of the seven chakra nature transformations.

Only Qingming remained in the same spot.

He was about to use the 'Flying Thunder God Technique' to teleport into the volcano to cultivate.

However, at that moment, he seemed to suddenly remember something. After a moment of contemplation, he made a thought and caused a wooden clone that was sleeping near the wooden house to disintegrate on its own.

Instantly, his chakra was replenished, and he even had some extra chakra. He guided this extra chakra and temporarily stored it in the alternate dimension between his eyebrows.

With everything ready, he opened his ninja tool pouch and took out a scroll.

Upon opening, one sees densely packed sealing techniques inscribed on it, with a large character for "seal" in the center of the scroll.

It was none other than the scroll he used to seal Danzo's impure body.

For the past few years, he has had his wood clone extract 1.5 million points of chakra from his body every day.

However, he took it out now not to extract the other party's chakra, but to read the other party's memories again.

Long ago, when he had just sealed the other party's impure body, he had tried to read the other party's memories.

Danzo was ruthless not only to others but also to himself, perhaps to leave himself a way out.

In short, deep within its memory, there are numerous seals.

This meant that he obtained nothing of real value except some irrelevant information.

Now, he's going to try again.

As for why he suddenly did this?
It's very simple. Just now, he suddenly remembered his plan from yesterday: to find Jugo's birthplace.

This matter should be addressed sooner rather than later, so he decided to start the search today.

However, he had no idea which country Jugo was from, and he didn't even know where the 'Northern Base' where Orochimaru imprisoned him was, which was clearly mentioned in his memories from his previous life.

So, he wondered if he could get some information from Danzo.

Given the close relationship between this person and Orochimaru, coupled with their extreme possessiveness, Qingming couldn't believe they wouldn't be secretly gathering information about Orochimaru. Therefore, if Orochimaru had established this base early on, Danzo must have known about it.

In this way, he could find Jugo and then directly locate the place with extremely rich natural energy from him.

Even if Orochimaru hadn't established that base before, or Danzo didn't know, he could still have obtained a lot of information about Orochimaru from him.

At the very least, we can get a way to contact Orochimaru.

In this way, it would be very convenient for him to make a deal with Orochimaru later, or to find Jugo's birthplace through Orochimaru.

As for going directly to the other party through the Sound Village?
Sorry, Orochimaru hasn't established the Sound Village yet.

Therefore, it was impossible for him to find the other party in this way.

Therefore, this line is also very important.

As for the last point, why is he confident that he can break through the seal in Danzo's mind and read his deeper memories?
It's very simple; he has already awakened the Rinnegan.

Nagato developed the Six Paths Techniques based on the Rinnegan, among which the Human Path can extract souls and read memories.

Over the past four months, although he has been busy with cultivation and has not had the time to delve too deeply into developing the Rinnegan's abilities, he has still managed to figure out some things during his free time.

Of course, it's also possible that the level of the Rinnegan is too high.

In short, after a little research, he combined his previous knowledge of mind reading techniques to create an ability similar to Nagato's Human Path's memory reading ability.

At the same time, he combined the 'Chakra Absorption Technique' to create an ability similar to the 'Sealing Technique Absorption Seal' of the Preta Path, or even a step further.

Nagato's 'Sealing Technique Absorption Seal' can also be countered by natural energy; if too much is absorbed, it will become distorted.

And what about him?
Because he possesses 'Sage Mode', he can accept anything, whether it's chakra or natural energy.

Therefore, his ability has already surpassed that of Nagato.

Well.
The topic has gone too far.

Returning to the topic of reading memories, it was precisely because he developed an ability similar to Nagato's Human Path that he was confident enough to break through the seal in Danzo's mind and read deeper memories from him.

Various thoughts flashed through his mind, and Qingming directly raised his hand to form a seal, undoing the 'Sealing of All Things' on the scroll.

Immediately, the character '封' on it disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, an extremely dense stream of chakra shot out from it, landed on the ground, and transformed into Danzo's cracked impure earth body.

However, after the other party appeared, they seemed somewhat confused, as if they were unaware of their current situation.

This is quite normal. In order to prevent Danzo from causing any trouble, although he has been extracting Danzo's chakra for the past few years, he has always done so directly through the seal and has never released the seal to suppress his consciousness.

This resulted in the other party being like a vegetable for the past few years, passively acting as an infinitely rechargeable 'chakra battery', without any conscious activity.

Therefore, it's normal to feel a little lost after being suddenly released.

However, Qingming had no intention of wasting words with the other party, so he did not wait for the other party to come to his senses.

He suddenly activated his Rinnegan, his silver eyes giving off an extremely strong sense of pressure.

Feeling the oppressive aura, Danzo finally came to his senses. He recognized Qingming's identity and saw his eyes, and was immediately shocked into silence.

"you"

However, he had barely uttered a single word when Qingming raised his hand, and an invisible force pulled Danzo instantly in front of him.

slap~
Qingming grabbed the other's head, and with a thought, he activated the 'memory reading' ability of the Rinnegan.

In just a moment, he broke the seal in the other person's mind.

Subsequently, Qingming read deeper memories from the other party's mind.

(End of this chapter)