Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 1205 Follow-up
After circling the newly opened underground space a few times, Qingming nodded in satisfaction.

Without saying a word, he replenished his chakra and then used the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique' to create 175 shadow clones.

Looking at the countless shadow clones in the underground space, Qingming said directly, "Alright, all of you go down and absorb the natural energy!"

Upon hearing this, the shadow clones didn't waste any words and immediately dispersed, sitting cross-legged in this vast underground space, beginning to absorb the natural energy gathering from the nearby lake.

Unlike the node in the Land of Wada, this node connects to the Shikkotsu Forest, one of the three holy sites.

As the most approachable holy land in his memory, Qingming wasn't worried that the other party would come knocking on his door and make things difficult for him.

Qingming believed that with Ryuchi Cave and the White Snake Sage in the lead, let alone Shikkotsu Forest, even if it were Mount Myōboku, the other side wouldn't be so irrational.

After all, compared to the natural energy they extracted from the ninja world, the portion he retained was not much, and there was really no need to fight him.

Of course, covert surveillance is indispensable.

In order to deal with possible unexpected situations, Qingming thought for a moment and used the 'Wood Clone Technique' again, creating a wooden clone just like in the Land of Fields, which would stay here permanently.

After doing all this, he had a sudden thought and immediately activated the 'Flying Thunder God Technique' to teleport away from this place.

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The view suddenly shifted.

When Qingming could see his surroundings clearly again, he found himself on a deserted island.

This is none other than the island he specifically chose to avoid the possible gaze of the Sage of Six Paths.

In the past, he would extract the chakra of the Pure Land through Danzo's impure body here.

Now, what lies before him is not Danzo's reanimated form, but rather Tashin-hime, who was previously taken away from the battlefield, and the wooden clone that took him away.

Qingming nodded to the wooden clone, causing it to disintegrate on its own. After sensing his surroundings and confirming that there were no unknown eyes watching him, he immediately activated his Rinnegan.

Silver-white, ring-shaped pupils appeared in his eyes. Qingming reached out and pressed his hand down once again on the head of Tianxin Shenji, who was still under the control of the Sharingan genjutsu.

'Memory Reading~'

With a thought, he once again activated the mind-reading technique developed based on the Rinnegan.

This time, he didn't just scan it; he began to carefully study the other person's memories.

Time passes minute by minute.

Three hours passed quickly.

The sun was already setting in the west.

Finally, Qingming opened his eyes again.

A hint of weariness flashed in his eyes.

Qingming closed his Rinnegan and unconsciously pressed his temples.

To be honest, he underestimated the amount of memory that Princess Tianxin possessed.

Even though the other party stayed in Ryuchi Cave for many years, hibernating most of the time like a real snake and not being exposed to many new things, over several hundred years, it still accumulated an unimaginable amount of memories.

This is why he has awakened the Rinnegan and his 'spirit' attribute has reached 45 points. He has both quality and quantity in terms of spiritual power, which is why he can withstand it.

If it were anyone else, attempting to read the other person's memories in this way would likely leave them completely overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information.

At that time, they might not even be able to tell who they are.

Even he felt utterly exhausted after reading through such a vast amount of memories in such a short time. Fortunately, it was all worth it.

With the other person's memories, he gained a deeper understanding of the history of the ninja world, as well as Ryuchi Cave and the other two holy lands.

This also made him even more certain that the three holy lands would not easily attack him again.

Well.
At least, that was the case before he massively diverted natural energy.

"Whoo~"

Qingming secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, he reviewed the other person's memories again.

Through these memories, in addition to reaching the conclusion he just reached, he also discovered some interesting things.

For example, the cultivation methods of the three immortal arts that the other party possesses: 'invisibility', 'levitation', and 'object transformation'.

Of course, the other party had more than just these three immortal techniques in his memory, but the other immortal techniques were not very useful to him, because they could be perfectly replaced by the other skills he had mastered.

Therefore, Qingming didn't pay much attention to it.

Even 'invisibility' and 'levitation' can be perfectly replaced by 'Heavenly Defense' and gravity manipulation.

But most of the time, it's not appropriate for him to use these two skills in front of people.

In this way, 'invisibility' and 'floating' become useful.

Especially 'invisibility', when practiced to a high level, can completely hide even chakra fluctuations. Apart from being detected by the Byakugan and a few other abilities, its concealment effect is no less than 'Heavenly Guard'.

Qingming plans to wait until he can reveal his 'Immortal Mode' to the public before making this immortal technique his signature move.

As for the issue of proficiency
With the control panel available, this was the last thing he needed to worry about.

It's just that he doesn't have enough Sage Chakra to practice right now; otherwise, it wouldn't be long before he could master it, and even the other two Sage Techniques.

Well.
Speaking of Sage Chakra.
With a thought, Qingming reached out again and pressed down on Tianxin Shenji's head.

The next moment, the Rinnegan reappeared in his eyes, and he quickly absorbed the Sage Chakra that the other party had recovered over the past three hours into his body once again.

In just a minute or two, his opponent's chakra was drained once again.

Subsequently, based on the Sage Chakra she had absorbed before leaving the battlefield, the Sage Chakra she had just absorbed, and her physical condition, Qingming estimated the amount of Sage Chakra she could provide per day—450 million points!

That's right. According to his estimate, the other party could supply him with about 4.5 million points of Sage Chakra per day.

This number far exceeds the one million chakra points that the Seven-Tails can provide each day, and also exceeds the one and a half million chakra points that the Three-Tails and Four-Tails can provide. It is only slightly less than the six million chakra points that half of the Nine-Tails can provide.

This made Qingming very happy.

Although a mere 4.5 million chakra points cannot fill his daily chakra deficit, every little bit helps, right?
As for how the other party recovers so much chakra every day?
Then, naturally, they would do the same as him and consume soldier's ration pills.

Of course, considering that Sage Chakra requires natural energy to fuse with, and that natural energy in the surrounding area is very scarce, he could not possibly take it to the vicinity of the Bird Country node.

Therefore, he plans to create a shadow clone to absorb natural energy and replenish it.

Of course, this will also cause him to consume about 2,000 more chakra points per day, but compared to the 4.5 million chakra points that can be supplied to him every day, it is only a drop in the ocean.

(End of this chapter)