Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 1211 Advancement
The sun was setting in the west, and the sky was filled with golden clouds.

This evening.

Qingming finished another round of cultivation and teleported out from the volcano below Moon Island.

Standing still, he first exited the 'immortal mode' state.

Then, simply wait for your body to recover naturally.

This process didn't take long.

His red and blistered skin quickly returned to normal.

Then, he glanced around the island.

As we can see, at this time, those shadow clones are still trying to fuse the nature transformations of the seven chakras to develop the Bloodline Limit.

According to the procedure, he should now deactivate the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique' and retrieve these shadow clones.

But Qingming did not do that.

With a thought, he opened the proficiency panel.

As you can see in the bloodline section, his 'Dust Escape' is only one step away from advancing.

Based on previous experience, after these shadow clones are recovered this time, they will most likely be able to successfully advance.

Considering the performance of the previous bloodline limits such as 'Ice Release' when they advanced, he still did not choose to stay in place.

Qingming looked up, glanced into the distance, and with a thought, immediately used the 'Instantaneous Movement Technique'.

Soon, he arrived at the vast, empty sea.

He then mobilized the chakra within his body, converting it into a large amount of ice-style chakra, and poured it into the seawater beneath his feet, creating an ice island in no time.

"Not bad!"

Qingming stood on the ice floe, jumped around in place, and did not feel any shaking on the deliberately deepened and thickened ice layer beneath his feet, so he nodded in satisfaction.

Then, he sat cross-legged and, with a thought, released the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique'.

In an instant, the shadow clones that were developing the Bloodline Limit on Moon Island and the shadow clones that were absorbing natural energy in the Bird Kingdom all collapsed and dissipated.

Subsequently, a large amount of memory information, chakra, and natural energy surged into his body.

As is customary, he first suppressed these memories, and only after classifying and storing the chakra and natural energy surging into his body did he begin to browse the memories in his mind.

After browsing through the pages, Qingming fell into deep thought.

Time passes minute by minute.

Unconsciously, Qingming's brows furrowed.

But soon, his brows relaxed again, as if some of his doubts had been answered.

In fact, it is true.

Unlike the bloodline limits such as 'Molten Release', 'Ice Release', 'Storm Release', and 'Wood Release', which can be easily advanced as long as one has enough experience, these techniques can be easily mastered.

As a bloodline limit change formed by the fusion of three chakra nature transformations, 'Dust Release' is undoubtedly more difficult to advance.

There is a transitional period between accumulating sufficient experience and the spiritual feedback reaching the physical body.

And that was exactly what had puzzled him just now.

Fortunately, the proficiency panel worked well, and everything quickly returned to normal.

At this moment, Qingming could clearly feel that his body was changing—the genes related to 'Dust Release' were constantly collapsing and recombining, and many genes that had never appeared before were gradually mutating and being activated in this evolution.

During this process, the chakra within his body is constantly being converted into Dust Release chakra.

Because most of his mind was not focused on this, the Dust Release chakra was getting out of control and was leaking out of his body.

From the outside, it looked as if a large number of white, firefly-like specks of light were constantly flying through his skin into the outside world.

This scene looks absolutely beautiful.

However, the more beautiful something is, the more dangerous it often is.

Just like now, these specks of light formed from Dust Release chakra melted, creating a large crater, the moment they touched the ice around him. Uh...
It wouldn't be accurate to call it melting, because the process was incredibly silent. The moment these points of light touched the ice surface, it was as if a piece of a computer canvas was erased—a process that was indescribably terrifying.

Soon, countless smooth pits appeared on the ice surface near him.

However, this is only the beginning.

As more and more Dust Release chakra escaped from his body, the area of ​​ice being erased around him grew larger and larger.

Fortunately, he chose this open ocean as the location for advancing his 'Dust Escape' technique. If it had been on Moon Island, it would probably have caused irreversible damage to the environment there.

Qingming didn't want to cultivate on a bumpy island with no vegetation in the future.

In this way, his mood might be affected.

Fortunately, nothing happened.

Time passes minute by minute.

This time, the time it took Qingming to advance and gather the Dust Release chakra was longer than ever before.

It wasn't until two hours later, when the sun had set and night had completely fallen, that he finished everything.

Suddenly, Qingming opened his eyes.

Looking at the mess around him, he thought to himself, "That was close!"

Then, he closed his eyes again, carefully sensing the changes within himself.

As expected, this advancement in 'Dust Escape' significantly increased his physical strength, which, in terms of the time normally required for physical enhancement, should be around one month.

In other words, this advancement in 'Dust Escape' directly saved him a month of the time needed for his transformation.

This is undoubtedly a huge step forward.

It should be noted that the physical enhancement brought about by the previous advancement of 'Ice Release' only saved him half a month of time.

Back then, the speed at which he strengthened his body was incomparable to what it is now.

Even so, the time he saved this time in advancing his 'Dust Escape' technique still doubled.

Therefore, one can imagine just how significant the improvement it brings.

To be honest, this improvement has exceeded his expectations.

Indeed, he had considered that the improvement that the advancement of 'Dust Release' could bring, as a bloodline limit, would definitely exceed that of 'Ice Release' and other bloodline limits.

But he did not expect that the improvement it would bring would be so great.

This only represents the time saved directly from the increase in physical strength; the advancement of 'Dust Escape' has also significantly improved his aptitude.

In this way, the difficulty of strengthening his body is reduced, which will indirectly save the time required for transformation.

Based on the previous situations of the advancement of bloodline limits such as 'Ice Release', the time saved in this part will not be less, and may even exceed the time saved directly.

This is especially true as his reserve chakra is about to run out, and the time required for his physical transformation will be prolonged.

However, he will have to test it out in the future to find out exactly how long the savings will last.

Qingming put it aside for the time being and instead began to examine the changes in 'Dust Escape' itself.

He raised his hand, formed a hand seal, and almost instantly unleashed a ninjutsu—Dust Release: Limit Separation Technique!
In an instant, a beam of light shot out from his palm and struck the distant sea.

The next moment, a large amount of seawater disappeared, and where the beam of light passed, a smooth trench briefly formed in the ocean.

After that, no matter how much seawater rushes into it, it will be instantly broken down into atomic state and disappear without a trace.

A few breaths later, Qingming ended the ninjutsu and stopped the infusion of chakra.

He turned his gaze away from the gradually calming sea and began to recall the entire process of the spell he had just performed.

Just like other bloodline limits such as 'Ice Release', after 'Dust Release' was upgraded, the difficulty of him performing related ninjutsu decreased significantly.

Now, both his speed in converting Dust Release chakra and his control over Dust Release chakra have improved significantly.

　Two updates today, three more tomorrow to make up for lost time.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)