Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 996 Advancement and Unexpected Discovery

more than three hours later.

Mid-afternoon.

After Qingming finished another round of cultivation and teleported out from inside the volcano, absorbing and digesting the cultivation experience and memories of the shadow clones over the past hour, his main body no longer entered the volcano to strengthen his body. Instead, he began to use the 'Mind Reflection Technique' to stimulate the evolution of his Sharingan.

With improved physical fitness, he has completed his planned training volume today.

It's time to change the projects we practice.

Two hours later.

The 'Reflection of the Heart Technique' has also been completed.

After that, Qingming began practicing the 'Wood Clone Technique'.

It's worth mentioning that after practicing for more than four days, almost five days, his 'Wood Clone Technique' is getting closer and closer to level 8.

At the current pace, they should be able to advance smoothly in a day and a half at most.

Once it advances, the wood clones that split off will definitely be able to hold more chakra.

In this way, he wouldn't need to create so many wood clones to store the chakra he accumulates each day.

With this hope in mind, Qingming began practicing again and again.

He continued like this until night fell, and then he finally stopped.

After that, it's time to practice the 'Ultimate Body'.

This exercise took him another two hours.

At this time, it was already late at night!
Qingming has finally completed all of his training plans for the day.

After that, he wasted no more time and immediately returned to the cabin to rest.

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The next day, the practice continued as usual.

Soon, another day had passed.

Before we knew it, it was the fourth day of this round of arduous training.

Just as expected, that evening, he had only practiced the 'Wood Clone Technique' for a short time when he successfully advanced to the next level.

On the open ground in the center of Moon Island.

Qingming suddenly stopped what he was doing, and with a thought, he released the 'Wood Clone Technique', causing the wooden clone in front of him to disintegrate and dissipate.

Then, he closed his eyes and began to review the insights that had just surfaced in his mind.

This is the feedback he received from advancing his 'Wood Clone Technique'.

Time passes minute by minute.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten minutes had passed.

Qingming opened his eyes again.

A glint of light flashed in his eyes.

Qingming raised his hands, forming the "Yin" seal, and unleashed the "Wood Clone Technique".

The next moment, a wooden clone split off from behind him, and upon landing, it transformed into a person exactly like him.

As you can see, after advancing to level 8, his speed when using the 'Wood Clone Technique' was significantly faster.

Moreover, Qingming carefully sensed the state of the wood clone and could clearly perceive that the stability of this wood clone had improved considerably.

Outwardly, this means being able to withstand more damage and exert greater combat power.

Of course, none of these are the most important things for Qingming. At this stage, he doesn't need his wood clone to conquer the world.

At this stage, the most important thing for him is to improve his carrying capacity.

Stepping forward, Qingming arrived in front of the wooden clone, raised his hands to form a hand seal, and unleashed the 'Sealing of All Things in the Realm'.

A dense array of sealing techniques appeared.
Soon, a mark resembling a Bagua (eight trigrams) formed at the center of his forehead.

By probing into it with his spiritual power, Qingming could see that the alternate dimension he had created this time was much larger.

In theory, it can store more chakra.

However, theory is one thing, but in practice, he still needs to test it himself.

Perfect timing! A few days have passed, and his dimensional space between his eyebrows is almost full of chakra again. It's time to transfer some of it.

With this thought in mind, Qingming reached out and placed his hand on the wooden clone's shoulder. The next moment, a large amount of chakra was drawn from the alternate dimension between his eyebrows and transferred to the wooden clone.

It started at one million, then quickly reached five million, then ten million, and finally surpassed the previous limit of twenty million, reaching thirty million points.

Even now, the space between the eyebrows of the wooden clone is still not full; if squeezed, it can still store two or three million points.

However, that would be too extreme, so Qingming did not choose to do that.

He withdrew his hand and probed his brow space again with his spiritual power. Seeing that most of the chakra had been removed, Qingming felt much lighter, whether it was an illusion or not.

After checking for a while and finding no problems, Qingming shook his head to himself and stopped thinking about it.

After observing the wooden clone in front of him for a while and confirming that there was nothing unusual about it, he told him to go and stay in the wooden house.

Thinking of the wooden house, Qingming couldn't help but wonder if he should replace the wooden clone stored there now.

Over the past twenty days, he has created three wood clones, each containing 20 million chakra points, compared to only two-thirds of the current wood clone.

If we replace them, we can turn three into two, which will save some effort when we replace them later.

However, after thinking about it, he ultimately gave up.

There's no other reason than that these wood clones can hold out for a while longer, and replacing them now would only waste a lot of chakra.

Therefore, it would be better to wait until they can't hold on any longer before replacing them.

Anyway, it's only just begun, so it won't be too much trouble yet.

Having made up his mind, Qingming stopped paying attention to the matter.

He withdrew his gaze and continued practicing the 'Wood Clone Technique'.

Although it has already advanced to level 8, its limit can reach level 9, which corresponds to A-rank ninjutsu.

Therefore, we still need to keep working hard.

Two hours passed in the blink of an eye.

Night had already fallen.

Qingming finally completed his planned number of practice sessions for the 'Wood Clone Technique' for the day.

Looking at the panel, Qingming nodded in satisfaction at the 'Wood Clone Technique' which had gained over 300 proficiency points after advancing to level 8.

He then swallowed several enhanced soldier ration pills to replenish his energy.

After recovering, he began the last part of his daily routine of training—the ultimate physical cultivation!

This practice session lasted for two hours.

Once Qingming felt that his body had reached its limit, he stopped.

Reopen the panel, and you can see that in the Bloodline section, the evolution level behind his Byakugan has increased by another twenty points.

"Not bad!"

Muttering to himself, Qingming closed the panel.

Afterwards, he used several 'teleportation' techniques to return to the cabin and begin to rest.

Soon, the sound of soft snoring could be heard from inside the cabin.

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at the same time.

Inside Iwagakure Village.

The wooden clone, which had been lying dormant for several days, also began its operation.

After leaving the abandoned underground laboratory where he had been hiding, the wooden clone began to wander around Iwagakure.

While carefully avoiding the patrol teams of Iwagakure, he used the 'Heart-Sealing Soul-Locking Contract Instantaneous Movement Seal' to sense the location of those spies and look for a suitable opportunity to read their memories.

In this way, we can learn about the events that have occurred in Iwagakure in the past few days.

This time, he focused primarily on the reaction of Iwagakure after his main body took action.

He originally thought things would develop much as he had predicted.

But unexpectedly, this investigation—well, let's just call it an investigation—led to an astonishing discovery.

Without wasting any time, the wooden clone quickly returned to the underground space. After some thought, it directly deactivated the 'Wooden Clone Technique' and synchronized its memories with the main body.

(End of this chapter)