Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 985 Promotion
Several hours passed in the blink of an eye.

It was already late afternoon.

On the open ground in the center of Moon Island.

When Qingming fused the two balls of Water Release Chakra and Lightning Release Chakra together again and successfully created Storm Release Chakra, his expression suddenly froze.

At this moment, a multitude of insights inexplicably surfaced in Qingming's mind, all of which were related to the development of the Storm Release technique.

Unconsciously dissipating the Storm Release chakra fused in his palm, Qingming digested the insights in his mind for a while.

Then, with a thought, he stretched out his right palm again, and silently, a ball of Storm Release chakra was reconstituted.

This time, he didn't convert water chakra or lightning chakra at all; everything was so natural, as if it were instinct.

Looking at the Storm Release chakra in his palm, Qingming knew that he had succeeded.

After half a day of practice, he finally mastered the basics of 'Storm Release'.

So, next
Qingming's expression shifted slightly, as if he had suddenly thought of something. He quickly focused his mind and sensed the changes inside his body.

As expected, stimulated by this force, his genes finally completed the accumulation of quantitative changes leading to qualitative changes, ushering in the final mutation.

Qingming was extremely nervous because his body and mind had only recently regained some balance. If this balance were to be broken again, he would probably have to return to the life of constant anxiety he had been living.

In more serious cases, it might even lead to the outbreak of genetic diseases.

Fortunately, his luck wasn't that bad.

Or rather, his body was strong enough that his 27 points of 'Constitution' attribute withstood the power of this mutation, allowing him to safely activate the 'Storm Release' bloodline limit.

After feeling his body regain its calm, Qingming breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, on a whim, he opened the proficiency panel.

The next moment, the familiar light blue translucent panel appeared:

Name: Uchiha Aomine

Age: 14 years old

Constitution: 27
Spirit: 29
Chakra: 751000 (1210644 → 1419444)

Bloodline: Sharingan Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan (15192/100000) → (16495/100000)

White eyes (872/10000) → (1481/10000)

Wood Release (4000/5000) → (4750/5000)

Meltdown (1/5000) → (150/5000)

Ice Release (670/1000) → (820/1000)

*Storm Release (1/100) → (1/1000)

技能：查克拉提炼术：lv7（1308/20000）→lv7（2004/20000）

木分身之术：lv7（1500/20000）→lv7（16100/20000）

Ultimate Body: lv7 (0/0)

查克拉掌控：lv8（5100/50000）→lv8（6200/50000）

Perfect Skill:

His gaze swept across the panel, and Qingming immediately locked onto 'Storm Escape' in the Bloodline section. Only after seeing that its evolution level had indeed reached (1/1000) did he finally feel completely relieved.

If he himself might perceive something as wrong due to some subjective factors, then what is displayed on the panel could never be wrong.

This is a result that has been proven over the past few years!

In other words, he has indeed mastered the basics of 'Storm Release'.

"Not bad!"

Qingming nodded in satisfaction.

Then, he reached out again and condensed a ball of Storm Release chakra.

Then, the chakra changed shape and suddenly transformed into a beam of blue-white light, which shot out.

However, before it could hit its target, it split into seven or eight streams according to Qingming's will, and then shot towards different places, accurately hitting the target.

Clearly, it is much more agile now than the Storm Release it just fused with.

This mainly reflects the flexible and versatile nature of water-attribute chakra.

Then look at the huge craters it created after hitting its target, and the penetrating power of the lightning strike.

Clearly, it also inherited the sharp attack power of lightning chakra.

The Storm Release, which combines these two characteristics, is significantly more operable and practical than the other two bloodline limits.

Qingming had a vague idea that he could try learning a few Storm Release ninjutsu to further enrich his combat methods.

However, these are all things for later and there's no rush to achieve them right now. For him, the most important thing right now is to complete his physical transformation as soon as possible, thereby further improving his 'physical constitution' attribute and enhancing the balance between his body and mind.

This time, the successful development of Storm Release, while not breaking the balance he had previously established, did have some impact on his body.

Qingming could feel that the pressure of his mind on his body had increased even more.

In this situation, if the 'Constitution' attribute is not improved in time, the two will likely become unbalanced before long.

This is something Qingming absolutely does not want to see.

Therefore, he will not waste his energy searching for and learning ninjutsu related to Storm Release.

As for improving his 'physique' attribute, the successful development of 'Storm Release' this time, although it had some negative effects on him, it also improved his aptitude once again.

This made it easier for him to strengthen his body.

Although it hasn't been tested accurately yet, based on his previous performance in advancing with 'Melting Release', Qingming estimates that this will save him a week to ten days.

In other words, his body will reach the critical point of transformation by mid-October at the latest.

And this doesn't even include his upcoming cultivation in the second cavity.

Today marks the eighteenth day since he changed his training location. According to his initial estimate, he should be able to fully adapt to the harsh environment inside the First Cavity within about a month to a month and a half.

However, after his 'Molten Escape' was upgraded again half a month ago, which further increased his resistance to the high-temperature environment inside the volcano, this time was shortened accordingly.

Qingming estimated that he would be able to attempt to enter the second cavity below in at most ten days.

With the harsher environment there, his physical enhancement speed will definitely increase significantly.

There's also 'Wood Release'.
After more than half a month of practice, its evolution level has reached (4750/5000), and it will be able to successfully advance in eight or nine days at most.

At that time, it will also shorten the time it takes for his body to undergo transformation.

Taking all of the above into account, his body will be able to complete its transformation before mid-October.

Upon realizing this, Qingming breathed a slight sigh of relief.

It was only then that he had the mind to check the other changes on the panel.

First and foremost is chakra.

Over the past month, his chakra limit has increased by more than 200,000 points, rising directly from just over 1.21 million points to approximately 1.42 million points.

This allows Qingming to unleash even stronger combat power in a short period of time.

Secondly, there's the degree of evolution of the Sharingan.

Despite slowing down its speed twice, its evolution level still increased by more than 1,300 points.

如今，其已经从（15192/100000）提升到了（16495/100000），距离突破（20000/100000）的关卡更近了一步。

Fortunately, at the current pace, his body will be able to complete the transformation ahead of schedule when he reaches the critical point.

In this way, he no longer needs to worry about the imbalance between his mind and body.

Next came the eye roll.

His evolution level continued to increase steadily. He could gain 20 evolution points every day by practicing 'Body Extreme', plus the 1 point passively added by strengthening his body, for a total of 21 points.

With his current evolution level (1481/10000), he is still a long way from advancing to the next stage, so there is no need to worry.

However, regarding the 'extreme of the body,' he hopes to break through the limits.

Unfortunately, even though he devoted 500,000 chakra points every day to researching how to overcome the theoretical obstacles to body strengthening through fusion, he still hadn't succeeded after half a month.

In response, Qingming could only remain patient.

Finally, there's the proficiency level of the 'Wood Clone Technique'.

After nearly a month of practice, his proficiency has reached level 7 (16100/20000), and he is not far from advancing to the next level.

Once it advances to level 8, and then level up again to level 9, that will be the final limit.

At that time, he can create wood clones, which will not only last longer but also store more chakra.

Thinking of this, Qingming couldn't help but look towards the wooden house on one corner of the island.

There, he merged into a wooden clone.

Its body also stores 20 million points of chakra.

And this is just the beginning.

According to Qingming's estimate, if there are no major changes, he will save up six wooden clones every month.

Thinking about the chakra consumed each time he replaced his wood clone, Qingming couldn't help but feel a pang of regret.

Fortunately, it won't be long before his 'Wood Clone Technique' is upgraded.

At that time, it will exist for a longer period of time, so he will not need to replace it frequently.

(End of this chapter)