In the blink of an eye, four days had passed. Since the visit to Uchiha Shisui four days ago, Qingming's days had returned to a peaceful routine, where he either practiced or was on his way to practice.
As for the mission, perhaps because the Hidden Mist Village had just swallowed the forward base and had yet to digest it, they had not increased their attacks on the Fire Country border. Instead, they had started to focus on defense.
Similarly, Konoha had not rushed to retake the forward base either.
Thus, both sides had fallen into a strange state of calm.
Because of this, Qingming's mission work had become a mere formality, with the actual tasks left to his subordinates, who numbered in the dozens.
As for him, he had thrown himself into an intense training regimen.
...
This afternoon, in a forested area.
Qingming sat cross-legged on a large piece of blue stone.
He activated the "Mind Reflection Technique," causing strands of unique chakra to arise from his brain, which then flowed into his eyes.
A tingling sensation washed over him. Qingming gritted his teeth to endure the discomfort, focusing intently on the changes within.
About a minute later, the effect of the "Mind Reflection Technique" dissipated, and the special chakra gradually faded away until it completely vanished.
Not hesitating for a moment, Qingming formed hand seals again and activated the "Mind Reflection Technique" once more.
One time, two times... Ten times, twenty times... Before long, an hour had passed.
The sun had already sunk behind the mountains, signaling the arrival of dusk.
At a certain point, Qingming opened his eyes, a flash of excitement passing through his gaze.
He then opened his status panel and saw that the "Mind Reflection Technique" entry had leveled up from lv7 (19999/20000) to lv8 (1/50000).
Indeed, after more than four days of practice, his "Mind Reflection Technique" had finally leveled up.
Somehow, Qingming felt his understanding of the technique had deepened once again.
At this moment, the "Mind Reflection Technique" he had was vastly different from the weak version that the Uchiha clan's predecessors had barely managed to develop. If he were to release this illusion technique, it was likely that the entire Uchiha clan would go mad.
Unfortunately, he knew better than to do that before becoming invincible in the ninja world.
He understood the concept of "jealousy leading to disaster."
If the Uchiha clan ever possessed this technique, which could systematically develop the Sharingan, and it leaked out, not only Konoha but even other villages would not let the Uchiha clan grow unchecked.
After all, the power of the Mangekyo Sharingan was well understood by any village or clan with any experience. They would not allow the Uchiha clan to continue growing unchecked.
Thus, to avoid the risk of annihilating his own clan, Qingming decided to keep this secret locked away.
Taking a deep breath and slowly exhaling, Qingming closed his eyes. After calming his emotions, he closed the status panel.
Then, as if practicing for the first time, he carefully formed the necessary hand seals and activated the lv8 "Mind Reflection Technique."
The familiar special chakra emerged, flowing into his eyes and beginning to stimulate his nervous system, causing his eyes to slowly evolve.
A minute and a half later, Qingming opened his eyes again and checked his status panel. The progress bar for "Sharingan: Mangekyo" remained at (5231/50000), showing no change.
Seeing this, Qingming felt a slight disappointment.
However, he quickly suppressed this feeling.
This simply meant that the lv8 "Mind Reflection Technique" could not improve the evolution of his Mangekyo Sharingan in one go. But this did not mean it was still necessary to practice three times like before. Qingming took a deep breath, closed the panel, and concentrated his mind to activate the "Mind Reflection Technique" once again.
As expected, after just two repetitions, his Mangekyo Sharingan showed a slight increase in evolution.
This meant that from now on, for every two uses of the "Mind Reflection Technique," his Mangekyo Sharingan would gain one point of evolution.
This efficiency was a third better than when he was using lv7.
At this rate, in about fifteen months, he would accumulate 45,000 points of progress, thereby evolving his Mangekyo Sharingan.
Fifteen months, or about one year and three months.
Since it was now June, this meant that by September of next year, his Sharingan would evolve into the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
This timeline was even earlier than Naruto's birth by more than a month.
And this was assuming that he did not increase the chakra he dedicated to the "Mind Reflection Technique," and kept his focus on strengthening his body with the "Celestial Mastery Technique." If he did decide to invest more chakra into the technique, he could speed up the process.
Furthermore, based on the current progress, when his Mangekyo Sharingan reached a progression of (30000/50000), his "Mind Reflection Technique" would reach lv9. At that point, the technique's enhancement effect on the Sharingan's evolution would increase, shortening the timeline further.
So, as long as there were no major changes, his Mangekyo Sharingan would definitely evolve into the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan before September of next year.
With this conclusion, Qingming's previously calmed emotions became restless once more.
He tried to suppress this restlessness for a while but was unable to. Finally, he stood up and went to the training area where his shadow clones were working.
Though he had recently copied and learned the "Water Style: Great Shark Bullet" technique from Kisame Hoshigaki, just like the other techniques he had learned, such as "Small Injury Extraction Technique" and "Water Style: Hidden Mist Technique," he had not invested any extra chakra into them.
Thus, for the time being, those techniques had to be put on hold.
At present, there were still only six shadow clones training, three of them practicing "Wind Style: Wind Blade," "Spiraling Sphere," and "Wind Style: Spiraling Shuriken."
Two were training "Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet" and "Water Style: Water Barrier."
The last clone was practicing "Illusion Sword Technique" and "Instant Sword Technique."
In short, both time and chakra were being squeezed to their limits.
Seeing this scene, Qingming nodded in satisfaction and then returned to the blue stone to continue his practice of the "Mind Reflection Technique."
Although this repetitive practice was aided by the proficiency panel, allowing him to track his progress, it still felt somewhat monotonous over time.
So, from time to time, he would switch to practicing another technique, such as "Celestial Mastery."
Before leaving the forward base, Qingming had promised that in at most ten to fifteen days, his body would reach the critical point of transformation.
Now, with more than four days passed, Qingming felt this point becoming clearer.
He was confident that within another week, this critical point would arrive. At that time, by using the power of "Human's Will," he would easily break through the limitation, allowing his body to undergo the transformation.
Once that happened, his "Physique" attribute would increase, boosting his chakra capacity and recovery speed. He would have the extra chakra to continue training techniques like the "Small Injury Extraction Technique," "Water Style: Hidden Mist Technique," and "Water Style: Great Shark Bullet."
With this thought in mind, Qingming no longer lingered on it and focused on using the "Celestial Mastery Technique" to strengthen his body.
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