Naruto: My Progress in Konoha

Five days later.

Afternoon.

After Qingming performed the "Shadow Clone Technique" again, a sense of enlightenment suddenly emerged in his mind.

Immediately, Qingming knew that his "Shadow Clone Technique" had been upgraded.

He opened the panel and took a look. As expected, the proficiency behind the "Shadow Clone Technique" changed from lv0 (99/100) to lv1 (1/200).

After carefully comprehending for a moment, Qingming performed the "Shadow Clone Technique" again.

Bang~

A cloud of chakra smoke dispersed.

A figure exactly like him appeared in front of him.

If the shadow clones he split out at lv0 were unstable and short-lived, then after being promoted to lv1, these shortcomings were gone.

Qingming could clearly feel that the shadow clone in front of him could last for a long time and had a certain ability to resist blows, and the stability was quite good.

Qingming looked at the Sharingan in the other person's eye socket and asked, "Can you use your Sharingan?"

The shadow clone carefully felt it for a moment, looked around, and finally nodded and said, "It can be used, but it consumes more chakra than the original body."

"Really."

After a pause, Qingming drew out the dagger and said, "Come on, let's fight."

"Okay!"

The shadow clone responded and also drew out the dagger from his waist.

The next moment, the two moved together, and the two daggers collided with each other, making a crisp metal collision sound.

Not only that, Qingming even saw sparks between the blades.

No wonder the Sharingan and the Byakugan can't tell the real from the fake. The weapons that change are so real, not to mention the core of ninjutsu-what about people?

After a stalemate, the two changed their moves at the same time and began to use their swordsmanship with all their strength.

The sound of ding-dong-dong rang out one after another, and the two short swords kept colliding between the two people. Qingming and the shadow clone did not use ninjutsu and illusion, but simply competed in swordsmanship.

At first, the shadow clone could still compete with him, but as time went on, Qingming gradually gained the upper hand.

It’s not that the shadow clone’s swordsmanship is not as good as his, but as the battle progresses, his "swordsmanship" proficiency is constantly improving.

Although the shadow clone has also improved, it is far less fast than him.

Therefore, he naturally gained the upper hand.

It can be seen from this that the proficiency panel should be bound to his soul, otherwise the shadow clone’s "swordsmanship" should also be improved synchronously.

In this case, the effect of using the shadow clone to brush proficiency will be greatly discounted.

However, this point does not need to be considered for the time being.

Now he is facing insufficient chakra, not insufficient time, and there is no need to use the shadow clone to brush proficiency.

Unless one day he can capture a tailed beast and master the chakra absorption technique to the point where he can extract the chakra of the tailed beast, chakra will always take precedence over time.

All kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind, and Qingming concentrated on dealing with the shadow clone in front of him.

However, until the shadow clone collapsed, he still did not defeat the opponent.

It can be seen that in terms of melee ability alone, the shadow clone is not much worse than him. The only disadvantage is probably that the ability to withstand blows is average.

Of course, the consumption of chakra is also far greater than the original body.

Because the shadow clone is originally a physical clone made of chakra, every move consumes chakra, especially when fighting, the consumption is even greater.

This can also explain why few people use this technique in frontal combat, because it is completely not worth the loss!

Fortunately, Qingming did not intend to use this technique in combat.

He practiced this technique just to cover up.

In the past few days, in order not to waste Qianye's chakra battery, he had to travel back and forth between the cave and the base camp every day.

Not to mention the waste of time, it is also particularly easy to be noticed.

Now, with the shadow clone technique, he can let the shadow clone stay at the base camp and stay there for a long time.

This reduces the number of round trips and makes it less likely to be discovered.

In addition, if something happens at the base camp, the shadow clone can also quickly transmit the information back by releasing the ninjutsu.

In this way, Qingming is not afraid of missing anything.

'Maybe it's time to capture more prisoners'

Thinking of this, Qingming quickly packed up his things and then performed the 'shadow clone technique' again.

Looking at the newly appeared shadow clone, Qingming said: "Next, you stay here and notify me in time if there is anything."

"OK!"

The shadow clone made an OK gesture to him.

Seeing this, Qingming smiled and then quietly left the base camp.

Of course, he was not going to capture prisoners. This would have to wait until his next mission. The place he was going to now was the cave space.

Today's chakra has not been harvested yet, so he has to go there quickly.

After running all the way, Qingming finally arrived at the target location near dusk.

After carefully observing the surroundings and finding nothing unusual, Qingming carefully cleared the traces he left behind and then went into the cave.

After a dozen breaths, Qingming came to the depths of the cave and saw Qianye again.

Unlike a few days ago, Qianye was much quieter now. He didn't play any tricks when he saw him, but the hatred in his eyes remained.

Qingming looked at the other party and said, "You know, don't resist."

After that, he formed seals with his hands and performed the ninjutsu - Chakra absorption technique.

A ball of chakra wrapped around his right hand, Qingming walked straight forward and pressed his head.

The next moment, a steady stream of chakra flowed out of Qianye's body, passed through Qingming's right hand, and entered his body.

After more than 20 seconds, Qingming retracted his palm.

He opened the panel and took a glance, and the chakra increased by almost 3,000 points.

Qingming nodded with satisfaction, then took out three soldier pills and stuffed them into Qianye's mouth.

Qianye didn't say anything nonsense, and started to bite them.

But that expression, no matter how you look at it, it seems that he can't wait to eat Qingming.

Qingming didn't care much about this. As long as the other party can provide him with chakra, it doesn't matter what he thinks in his heart.

At the same time, Qingming was also glad that Qianye was not spoiled by his family. Although his personality was a little eccentric, he was not a person who gave up easily.

Otherwise, he would have no way to catch the other party.

Of course, Qingming also knew that the reason why the other party insisted on refining chakra was to kill time and wait for an opportunity.

Unfortunately, he probably won't get this chance.

If he hadn't learned the 'Shadow Clone Technique', the other party might have a chance to escape.

But now, he is personally guarding here, and the other party will never leave.

'However, I can't give up the other party's hope. If the other party gives up and stops refining chakra, I will be the one who suffers in the end. '

With this thought, Qingming left the cave space as usual.

However, he did not return to the base camp this time, but stayed under the cave, found a place there, and practiced the 'Reflection Heart Technique' by himself.