Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 1210 Half a month later
the other side.

Qingming woke up from his sleep, and the sunlight streaming in through the window stung his eyes, making him instinctively raise his hand to shield them.

After a moment, once his eyes had readjusted to the light, he lowered his hand again.

After lying in bed for a while, feeling completely awake, Qingming finally sat up.

He stretched out his arms, twisted his neck, stretched lazily, and then jumped off the bed.

He went into the bathroom, quickly finished washing up, changed his clothes, and then went out into the yard to look for food nearby, as always.

There were no obvious changes within the clan's territory. Perhaps Uchiha Shisui had not yet taken action, or perhaps he had chosen to bear everything himself and maintain secrecy in his actions.

In short, he did not see any obvious solutions.

However, just like I said yesterday, these things are no longer relevant to him, and it's not worth wasting too much of his energy on them.

Shaking his head inwardly, Qingming collected his thoughts and headed straight for the breakfast street not far away.

After another feast, he began to wander around the village, purchasing supplies for his next round of arduous training.

Among them, military rations were of particular importance.

Originally, the amount of military rations he needed for cultivation was already enormous, and now with the addition of the Heavenly Heart Goddess as an extra resource, his needs have become even greater.

This is also why he is unwilling to leave Konoha.

Only with such a stable rear base can he quickly gather what he needs, thus making his cultivation path smoother.

Before we knew it, it was evening.

Qingming ate and drank to his heart's content again, and then returned home early to rest.

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The next day.

As dawn broke on the horizon, Qingming awoke.

Without saying a word, he left a shadow clone to guard the village before using 'Heavenly Defense' to leave the village silently.

After leaving the village and sensing the range of the barrier, he wasted no time and immediately used the 'Flying Thunder God Technique' to teleport to Moon Island.

Upon arriving at Moon Island, he did the same thing he always did: first, he flew into the sky, activated his Byakugan, and surveyed his surroundings.

After confirming that there were no abnormalities within a ten-kilometer radius, he began his cultivation.

bang bang bang~
As puffs of chakra smoke dissipated, he created 176 shadow clones that absorbed natural energy.

Of these, 175 were for him, and the other was for Princess Tianxin.

Looking at these shadow clones, Qingming took out a scroll and sealed all 176 shadow clones in front of him into it.

Next, he mobilized the chakra in the alternate dimension between his eyebrows to replenish his own chakra, and then used the 'Wood Clone Technique' again to create a wood clone.

Here you go!

Qingming handed the scroll in his hand to the wooden clone in front of him.

The wooden clone took the scroll, nodded without saying anything more, and then flew with the scroll to the underground space beneath the Feather Lake in the Bird Country.

Watching the other party leave, Qingming had a thought and disintegrated a wooden clone used to store chakra, replenishing his own chakra once again.

Then, he raised his hand again to form a hand seal and used the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique' to create 261 shadow clones.

These shadow clones were used by him to develop the Bloodline Limit.

The reason why there are eleven more than before is that his chakra limit has increased by more than 1.7 million points in the past two months.

In this way, more shadow clones can be created for cultivation.

Qingming waved his hand, dismissing all the shadow clones. Then, he himself entered the volcano, instantly entering 'Sage Mode' and beginning a new round of physical enhancement.

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The sun sets and the moon rises; the moon sets and the sun rises again.

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

During this period, he returned to the village to rest once more.

Furthermore, before taking a break, he visited Kirigakure, Kumogakure, and Iwagakure to exchange information with his Wood clones who were lurking there, and also to update them on their status.

Based on the memories of the shadow clones who remained in the village, as well as the information obtained by the three wooden clones, Qingming knew that the fervor surrounding the great battle in the Land of Fields had gradually subsided.

As he had predicted, after failing to uncover any useful intelligence, all parties simultaneously reduced their attention to the matter.

After all, there are many things in the ninja world that require their attention, and they cannot afford to waste their energy on one thing for a long time, especially when the matter is unresolved.

Of course, it's impossible to completely ignore it.

However, in the foreseeable future, as long as similar incidents do not occur again in the short term, the level of attention from various forces will gradually decrease.

At that time, he can focus on his cultivation without any worries.

Besides the reactions of these forces, the changes within the Uchiha clan also caught his attention, although this wasn't something he intentionally sought to concern himself with.
However, since the shadow clone remained in the village and was a ninja of the Uchiha clan, coupled with Uchiha Shisui deliberately lingering in front of him, he still noticed the changes in the Uchiha clan.

First, there are stricter rules regarding going out.

Starting two weeks ago, members of the clan left the village, whether to go out on missions or for other reasons.

In short, anyone leaving the village must report to the clan and obtain their consent before leaving.

Secondly, there is a more stringent censorship system.

Although it wasn't explicitly stated, Qingming was aware of this.
For some time now, almost every two or three days, Uchiha Shisui would use his Mangekyou Sharingan to secretly check on everyone's condition to make sure no one had been switched or if any other problems had occurred.

Clearly, he was very careful.

Finally, and most importantly, the clan has increased its protection of promising younger generations.

Nowadays, any ninja who has awakened the Sharingan but whose strength has not reached the level of Special Jonin or Jonin will have their clan secretly protect them when they are on a mission.

Without a doubt, all of these changes were driven by Uchiha Shisui after heeded his advice.

Although he was unclear how the other party had persuaded Fugaku Uchiha to cooperate, they had indeed established a screening and protection mechanism for the clan members.

This will undoubtedly increase the difficulty for Orochimaru to steal the Sharingan.

At that time, unless the other party does not make a move, as long as they make a move once, it will inevitably be noticed by the clan and then discovered by the village.

Once they've revealed their true intentions, escaping won't be so easy.

Yes, his strength is quite good, but he is still somewhat lacking in ability to go against a ninja village, especially a major ninja village.

Because whether in terms of intelligence capabilities or raw strength, he is no match for this Konoha, which is even stronger than he remembered.

However, Qingming was somewhat looking forward to the other party's performance.

His cultivation was already tedious, so if he could watch a good show during the process, that would be quite nice.

Of course, before that, he needs to take care of his own cultivation.

In half a month, plus the previous three days and more than two months before the war in the Land of Rice Fields, a total of three months, his 'Dust Release' had reached the edge of advancement.

He should be able to advance to the next level by tonight at the latest.

Qingming was really looking forward to it!
(End of this chapter)