Time flies like an arrow.
In the blink of an eye, five days had passed.
Five evenings ago, Seimei finished up his business in the Land of Earth and returned to Konoha for a night's rest. The next day, he arrived at the border of the Land of Earth near the Land of Waterfall.
He rested there for a day before using the 'Shadow Clone Technique' to create a shadow clone to hold down the fort. He himself left the front lines and returned to that island in the southern part of the Land of Fire, starting a new round of rigorous training.
And today marked the fourth day of this intense training.
It was also the seventh day since he successfully sealed the Four-Tails.
After a week of recuperation, the Four-Tails had fully recovered to its peak condition. It would be ready to supply him with chakra starting around tomorrow.
Seimei withdrew his mental energy from the sealing space and happily placed the metal sphere back into his ninja pouch.
Then, he glanced at the shadow clones training on and off the island. With a thought, he dispelled the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique'.
Poof!
Accompanied by puffs of chakra smoke, all the shadow clones vanished.
At the same time, a massive amount of training experience and memories flooded into Seimei's mind.
Seimei quickly closed his eyes, carefully reviewing these experiences and memories, converting them into proficiency for the corresponding skills.
Time ticked by, second by second.
About fifteen minutes later.
Seimei reopened his eyes.
A sharp glint flashed in his pupils.
Seimei raised his hand and gathered a ball of chakra in his palm.
Without any discernible movement, the ball of chakra suddenly transformed into the shape of a small bird.
Seimei concentrated, manipulating the chakra, trying to sculpt it into a more realistic form.
But unfortunately, no matter how he controlled it, he couldn't achieve the image he had in mind.
Snap!
Perhaps because Seimei exerted too much force, the small bird suddenly burst, turning into wisps of chakra smoke that dissipated in his palm.
Seeing this, Seimei shook his head and muttered, "Too bad."
As he spoke, he opened his proficiency panel.
The next moment, the familiar faint blue translucent screen appeared:
[Name: Uchiha Seimei
Age: 13 years old
Physique: 24
Spirit: 26
Chakra: 508980 (484404 → 508980)
Bloodline: Sharingan・Eternal Mangekyō (93/100000) (75/100000 → 93/100000)
Byakugan (428/5000) (252/5000 → 428/5000)
Skills: Chakra Refinement Technique: lv6 (5119/10000) (4735/10000 → 5119/10000)
Fire Style・Flame Gathering Strike: lv9 (2100/100000) (lv8 (25300/50000) → lv9 (2100/100000))
Lightning Style・Lightning Blade: lv6 (1361/10000) (lv0 (1/100) → lv6 (1361/10000))
Earth Style・Earth Dragon Bullet Technique: lv7 (0/0) (lv4 (425/2000) → lv7 (0/0))
Earth Style・Added Weight Rock Technique: lv5 (3100/5000) (lv3 (50/1000) → lv5 (3100/5000))
Earth Style・Light Weight Rock Technique: lv5 (3050/5000) (lv3 (50/1000) → lv5 (3050/5000))
Izanagi: lv7 (17500/20000) (lv7 (11200/20000) → lv7 (17500/20000))
Izanami: lv7 (17500/20000) (lv7 (11200/20000) → lv7 (17500/20000))
Chakra Control: lv7 (19350/20000) (lv7 (18500/20000) → lv7 (19350/20000))
Perfected Skills: Fire Style・Thousand Swallow Dance: lv7 (0/0).]
Seimei's gaze quickly scanned the panel, immediately locking onto 'Chakra Control' at the bottom of the skill list.
Looking at the proficiency level of lv7 (19350/20000) next to it, Seimei muttered to himself, "As expected!"
Actually, after he consistently failed to shape the bird he envisioned, the answer had already formed in his mind.
Seeing that it hadn't advanced to lv8 now simply confirmed his guess.
However, Seimei wasn't overly disappointed.
After all, he had just had a whim and wanted to test it out.
Normally, it really shouldn't have advanced at this time. Even though his 'Earth Style・Earth Dragon Bullet Technique' had just reached perfection, granting it some proficiency, it still shouldn't have been enough to level up 'Chakra Control'.
After all, the 'Earth Style・Earth Dragon Bullet Technique' was just a B-rank ninjutsu, and its contribution to his overall proficiency was limited. Even combined with the previously perfected 'Fire Style・Thousand Swallow Dance', it wouldn't have been enough.
"Still, it's almost there."
Muttering to himself, Seimei shifted his gaze from 'Chakra Control' to 'Earth Style・Earth Dragon Bullet Technique'.
He could see that after that hour of training, his 'Earth Style・Earth Dragon Bullet Technique' had finally accumulated the last bit of proficiency needed, successfully reaching the perfected state of lv7 (0/0).
This granted him an additional 150,000 points of freely distributable chakra.
After considering it, Seimei decided to divide this chakra equally into two parts, investing them in the training of 'Earth Style・Added Weight Rock Technique' and 'Earth Style・Light Weight Rock Technique' respectively.
This way, the amount of chakra they could receive daily would increase from 75,000 points to 150,000 points.
Correspondingly, the proficiency gained would also increase from 500 points to 1000 points.
According to this rate, it would take roughly twelve more days for them to successfully reach the perfected state of lv7 (0/0).
At that time, he could then develop their advanced ninjutsu – 'Earth Style・Super Added Weight Rock Technique' and 'Earth Style・Super Light Weight Rock Technique'.
Once he had diligently trained these two ninjutsu to perfection, he would likely be able to elevate his mastery of Earth Style chakra nature transformation to the point of fusing it with the nature transformations of other attributes, thereby developing a 'Kekkei Mōra'.
"Twelve days..."
Seimei murmured, feeling that this timeframe was acceptable.
Then, without dwelling on it further, he turned his attention back to the panel.
He could see that in the past half-month, not only had these two ninjutsu improved, but his other abilities had also seen significant progress.
Firstly, his chakra reserves had finally broken through the 500,000 mark, reaching an unprecedented 508,980 points.
Secondly, the evolution progress of his Sharingan and Byakugan had reached (93/100000) and (428/5000) respectively.
The former was approaching one-thousandth completion, while the latter was nearing one-hundredth.
Without a doubt, these were both milestones.
Then there was the 'Chakra Refinement Technique'. Through its continuous passive operation, twenty-four hours a day, it had finally sluggishly progressed past the halfway point of lv6.
However, reaching lv7 would still require approximately two hundred more days.
Undoubtedly, this was a considerable amount of time.
Seimei could only shake his head helplessly in response.
It wasn't that he didn't want to level it up as soon as possible. Based on the experience with other skills, once this technique reached lv7, it would undergo a qualitative change, and its effects would definitely increase significantly.
At that point, his speed in unlocking his body's potential and increasing his chakra上限 would surely increase dramatically.
But unfortunately, he couldn't do it.
The very nature of this technique dictated that its proficiency could only be increased through persistent effort. Each hour it operated granted him one point of proficiency.
With twenty-four hours in a day, he could only gain a maximum of twenty-four proficiency points.
Therefore, even if he wanted to speed things up, there was no way to do so.
Besides these improvements, his 'Fire Style・Flame Gathering Strike' had finally overcome its final hurdle yesterday, advancing to lv9.
This not only greatly increased the power of the technique, giving him another powerful means of offense, but also deepened his understanding of the shape and nature transformation of Fire Style chakra.
If before it was just a premonition, then now Seimei could basically confirm that as long as he could diligently train this technique to lv10 (0/0), he would definitely be able to elevate his understanding of Fire Style chakra nature transformation to the level of fusing it with the nature transformations of other chakra types, thereby developing a Kekkei Mōra.
It was just that this step wouldn't be easy.
Because this technique was originally an incomplete creation, the higher he aimed to improve it, the more effort he needed to put into refining it.
Reflecting on the panel, this meant that the amount of chakra required to increase each point of proficiency had increased.
Just like now, after advancing to lv9, the chakra needed to increase each proficiency point had risen from 200 points at lv8 to the current 250 points.
In other words, with the same investment of 500,000 chakra points, he could now gain five hundred fewer proficiency points per day compared to before.
And this was just the initial stage. When his proficiency reached the peak of lv9 and he needed to push through, the consumption would be even greater.
This was where Seimei's proficiency panel came in handy – as long as there was investment, there would be a return.
If it were anyone else, they might have been stuck at lv7.
As for the problem of high chakra consumption...
Seimei touched the ninja pouch at his waist. Through the thick fabric, he felt the metal spheres containing the sealed Four-Tails and Seven-Tails. He felt that it wouldn't be an issue!
(End of this chapter)