Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 961 Just settle for the next best thing
Time passes minute by minute.

Soon, three and a half hours passed.

When Qing Ming felt the swelling sensation in the white of his eyes between his eyebrows, he stopped infusing chakra.

Opening the panel, you can see that in the bloodline column, the degree of evolution behind the white eyes has increased by another eighteen points.

Qing Ming nodded in satisfaction, then without wasting any more time, he immediately returned to the cabin to rest.

A speechless night!
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The next day.

The practice continues!

Qing Ming still created more than two hundred shadow clones to research and develop Storm Escape.

The cultivation of the body is divided into three parts.

Half of the time is used to strengthen the body, and the other half is divided into two parts. Four hours are used to perform the "Heart-Reflecting Technique" to promote the evolution of the Sharingan.

In the remaining two hours, he would concentrate on performing the "Wood Clone Technique" to accumulate proficiency.

During this period, Qingming made some fine-tuning to the arrangements based on the results of his practice, and finally realized the ideas in the plan.

In this way, a day passed.

evening.

When Qing Ming completed the last round of body strengthening and teleported out from the bottom of the sea again, after absorbing and digesting the shadow clones' practice experience and memories of the past hour, he began to pack up and prepare to return to the village.

That’s right, today is the tenth day of his round of hard training, and it is also his routine day of rest.

Qing Ming did not disrupt his training plan just because of the successful development of 'Ice Escape' and the fact that he had one more skill to practice.

Instead, he continued to practice and rest according to the plan.

It just so happened that ten days had passed, and he also needed to check what the shadow clone who stayed in the village had gained.
During his last break, he accidentally met the young Hyuga Neji at the gate of the Ninja School and gained some inspiration and enlightenment.

Then, he arranged for the shadow clone to secretly learn the Hyuga clan's technique of opening the Byakugan.

'Now, I don't know what the result will be?'

Qingming thought so in his heart.

However, he estimated that the results would not be very good, at least not completely successful.

Although when he left that shadow clone, he deliberately left the 'Senluo Wanxiang Seal' on it, sealing a part of the chakra for its consumption.

However, using the body of a shadow clone to perform 'Heavenly Control' consumes a lot of energy, which means he is destined to not be able to maintain it for a long time.

As such, and considering that the young men of the Hyuga clan do not practice every day, a mere ten days is not enough for the shadow clone to learn all the skills.

As for not using 'Heavenly Control', just sneak in and observe.

This is a bit of an underestimation of the Hyuga clan!
Judging from what he saw at that secret training ground, the Hyuga clan was not only guarding the place tightly, but it was also extremely tight.

In this situation, wanting to sneak in is simply a pipe dream.

He even didn't dare to let his shadow clone show up during the whole process.

As someone who has one white eye, he knows very well how strong the white eye's ability to see through things is.

In this situation, being clever like this would only give others an advantage.

Qingming wouldn't be that stupid!

Therefore, he estimated that the shadow clone’s gains would not be very great.

And the facts prove that this is indeed the case.

After Qingming flew back to the outside of Konoha Village, he performed the "Heavenly Control" with ease, passed through Konoha's perception barrier, walked into the village, returned home, and synchronized the memory of the shadow clone who stayed at home. He found that the other party had only learned about a quarter at most.

He was not too disappointed about this.

Anyway, for him, there is no need to improve the current 'Spirit' attribute too quickly, just take it slow.

After sorting out the memories in his mind, Qingming took off his equipment, washed up, walked out of the house, went to the "Food Street", and began to eat to satisfy his appetite.

It took him two full hours to return home.

At this time, the time had come to almost nine o'clock.

Not daring to delay any further, he hurried into the training room and began the last training of the day - nurturing the white eyes!
This warming period lasted for three and a half hours.

When it was almost midnight, Qingming finally completed his training for the day.

Then he went straight back to the bedroom and began to rest.

The next day, when he woke up, it was almost noon.

Sitting up from the bed, Qing Ming stretched vigorously, shook his head, and then he was completely awake.

He got out of bed slowly, washed up slowly, put on casual clothes, and went to the "Food Street" again.

Standing at the street corner, Qingming took a deep breath.

The next moment, all kinds of familiar food aromas came over and penetrated into his nostrils.

After a moment's hesitation, he walked into the nearest restaurant and started a new round of eating.

It was after one o'clock in the afternoon when he walked out of the "Food Street" with a bulging belly.

This time, he did not stroll outside, but went straight to the Uchiha clan's library.

He had not forgotten what he was thinking when he landed on the island occupied by the rebel ninjas in the Misty Sea two days ago.

At that time, he decided that during this rest period, he must find a barrier technique to deal with similar situations that might be encountered in the future.

Now, it's time for him to realize his idea.

Quickening his pace, Qingming soon arrived at the heartland of the Uchiha clan.

Because he had the pass given by the Great Elder, he easily entered the Uchiha clan's library.

Then he began to search.

In a blink of an eye, it was already evening.

Inside the Uchiha library.

Qing Ming stood in front of a bookshelf, his face full of disappointment.

In fact, he had a purpose in this search, which was the 'Four Red Yang Formation' performed by Hashirama Senju and the other three Hokage during the Fourth Ninja World War in later generations.

As a barrier technique that requires the gathering of multiple Kage-level masters to activate, its effect is naturally self-evident. It can even trap the Ten-Tails.

From Uchiha Madara's reaction to the formation and his later words, as well as the advanced ninjutsu performed by Uchiha Obito - the Six Red Yang Formation, it is not difficult to infer that he should also know this ninjutsu.

Therefore, Qingming was wondering whether there were corresponding records in the Uchiha clan’s library.

After all, it was here that he found Uchiha Madara's notes on studying Storm Release.

But unfortunately, this time, he searched for several hours and almost read all the books in his collection, but still couldn't find the barrier technique.

This made Qingming a little disappointed.

However, he did not gain nothing in the afternoon.

Qing Ming opened a scroll in his hand and could see a line of words written at the beginning - Uchiha Flame Array!
That's right, this is another barrier technique that Uchiha Obito performed during the Fourth Ninja World War.

It is not difficult to tell from its name that this is a barrier technique exclusive to the Uchiha clan, which requires the Sharingan to activate.

Although this technique is only a B-level ninjutsu and its effect is not as good as the 'Four Red Yang Formation' and the 'Six Red Yang Formation', it is still not weak with the blessing of the Sharingan.

First of all, this is an offensive and defensive barrier technique that can be used not only for defense but also for attack.

Defense
It can easily block the Eight-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball, as well as the large-scale ninjutsu attacks of the Ninja World Alliance. Only the power of the Six Paths level (such as fairy techniques) can forcibly break it.

As for attacking?
It will not actively attack, but if someone attacks it at close range, it will be hit by the high temperature flames, and even the Eight-Tailed Fox cannot withstand it.

Secondly, this barrier technique is relatively simple to perform. It does not require the cooperation of several Kage-level masters like the 'Four Red Yang Formation'. It can be performed by one person with sufficient chakra.

Finally, this technique is easier to practice and should consume much less chakra.

Of course, it is not without its shortcomings. Although the range of this technique can be large or small, it is essentially just a single defensive barrier technique.

Unlike the 'Four Red Yang Formation' and 'Six Red Yang Formation' which can cover a large area in an instant, even if it is expanded to the maximum, it is still relatively limited.

Therefore, too large an area cannot be blocked.

However, for Qingming, it is enough for the time being.

If necessary, he can fully invest in chakra and make further development on the basis of this technique, and eventually make it achieve an effect similar to the 'Four Red Yang Formation'.

Gathering his thoughts, Qing Ming picked up the scroll, registered it with Elder Uchiha who was guarding the library, and walked out of the library.

Looking at the sunset in the sky, Qing Ming thought for a while and did not return home directly. Instead, he went to the "Food Street" again.

He planned to fill his stomach and then go home to practice.

(End of this chapter)