Sharingan Evolution: Proficiency's Path

The next day.

Evening.

Deep within the cave, Qingming entered with a blank expression, his body exuding an overwhelming sense of fatigue.

Upon seeing this, the Sand Ninjas felt emboldened; rather than showing any fear, they began to scrutinize Qingming. The mocking glint in their eyes was unmistakable.

It seemed they were using this as a way to declare their victory.

Yet they would never know that fish on the chopping board, no matter how much they floundered, ultimately had no choice but to be butchered.

Or perhaps they were aware of this but simply unwilling to think about it, opting instead to numb themselves in this manner.

Observing their demeanor, Qingming forced himself to appear spirited and scoffed, "You all seem quite pleased. Do you really think I can't do anything to you?"

At this, an involuntary shiver ran through the group of Sand Ninjas. The fear they had developed from being 'tormented' by Qingming resurfaced in their minds.

"Ha ha~"

Taking in their expressions, Qingming let out another cold laugh.

Then, in a flash, he appeared directly in front of Shafeng.

This Jonin did not seem fazed by Qingming's words, his expression remaining relatively unchanged.

However, Qingming could clearly sense that, as he approached, Shafeng's heartbeat quickened.

"Ha ha~ bear with it, will you? I'm doing this for the first time too."

With a mischievous tone, Qingming began to form hand seals.

Shafeng was already somewhat unsettled by Qingming's statement, but when he saw the seals being formed, he let out a sigh of relief.

This ninjutsu was something he was quite familiar with; Qingming had used it to extract their chakra for the past month, so it was nothing to worry about.

However, he had celebrated too soon.

As Qingming pressed his hand against Shafeng's head, and chakra began to drain from him, Shafeng managed to maintain his composure.

But as his chakra was almost entirely depleted, and Qingming began to forcibly extract his mental and physical energy, Shafeng could no longer keep calm. His eyes widened in horror as he struggled to break free.

Unfortunately, his struggles were feeble and went unnoticed by Qingming, who was completely absorbed in the pleasure of absorbing another's mental and physical energy.

The sensation was strange, indescribably pleasurable.

After a moment, Qingming snapped back to reality and quickly ended the 'Chakra Absorption Technique.'

Looking at Shafeng now, his skin was pale, his cheeks gaunt, and his breathing shallow, resembling someone who had just recovered from a severe illness.

Clearly, forcibly extracting mental and physical energy had dire consequences for the target.

Even if Shafeng were to recover later, his body would likely not return to its former state, and his strength would probably decline a notch.

But this was of no concern to Qingming.

After all, Shafeng was merely a tool for providing chakra. If he cooperated, that was fine; if not, he could only blame himself for the harsh treatment.

Various thoughts flashed through Qingming's mind. After feeding Shafeng a few soldier pills, he returned to his room to summarize the results of his recent tests.

First, after 'Chakra Absorption Technique' reached lv5, both the speed of chakra absorption and its conversion rate had improved.

Most notably, the former had doubled, increasing from five hundred points per second to one thousand points per second.

Though this efficiency was still inferior to the legendary sword, 'Kirigakure's Samehada,' which could drain the chakra of a jinchuriki in mere seconds, it surpassed the vast majority of techniques capable of absorbing chakra.

As for the latter, unsurprisingly, it had improved by ten percentage points, now allowing him to convert 90% of absorbed chakra into his own.

This meant that for the same amount of chakra absorbed, he could gain more.

For instance, previously, he could absorb forty thousand points of chakra from nine Sand Ninjas, with an 80% conversion rate giving him thirty-two thousand points. With the new 90% conversion rate, he would now receive thirty-six thousand points.

In other words, he had an additional four thousand points of chakra available for use each day.

And he already had a plan for how to use this chakra: to continue practicing 'Mind Reflection Technique.'

This way, his 'Mind Reflection Technique' would see its daily proficiency gain increase from one hundred fifty points to one hundred seventy-five points.

The time required for his Sharingan to evolve into the three-tomoe form would be reduced from twenty-one days to eighteen days.

As for the others' resistance and refusal to refine chakra?

Sorry, that option was no longer available.

Just as he had anticipated, with 'Chakra Absorption Technique' reaching lv5, he now possessed the ability to directly extract targets' mental and physical energy.

It was simply due to needing to juggle two tasks that the conversion rate would drop one tier, roughly to around 75%.

However, Qingming was unbothered by this slight increase in loss rate.

After all, he calculated that based on the nine people providing forty thousand points of chakra, he still needed to draw enough to reach thirty-six thousand points daily.

If he failed to meet this number, he would unhesitatingly extract their mental and physical energy.

Undoubtedly, this process was painful.

If they wished to avoid suffering, they would have to refine chakra as much as possible.

Qingming believed they would make the right choice.

Sure enough, in just three days, the nine Sand Ninjas had all submitted, beginning to actively refine chakra and cooperate with Qingming's extraction.

However, due to their previous resistance, they had all suffered some foundational damage and were thus unable to provide sufficient chakra.

Qingming wasted no time; he immediately began extracting their mental and physical energy to compensate for the shortfall.

This, in turn, rendered their bodies increasingly weak.

The weaker their bodies became, the less chakra they could provide, leading to an even greater extraction of their mental and physical energy by Qingming.

This was an unsolvable cycle; as time passed, their bodies would only grow weaker.

To this, Qingming was pleased.

Only by doing this would they refrain from causing any unnecessary trouble.

...

Before long, the 'break' was over, and Qingming returned to Zone E11.

Beside the station,

In a training ground,

Qingming scanned the area. Seeing no one nearby, he suddenly raised his left hand.

As if working with an invisible partner, he quickly formed the hand seals '子—寅—戌—丑—卯—寅.'

Then, he opened his mouth and released dozens, if not hundreds, of fireballs, successfully casting 'Fire Release: Phoenix Fire Technique.'

Indeed, Qingming had succeeded in casting a ninjutsu using a one-handed seal.

Just as he had anticipated, after leveling up 'Fire Release: Phoenix Fire Technique' to lv5 (0/0) and reaching perfection, the only thing left was to enhance his chakra control.

Now that he had addressed this shortcoming, he could naturally accomplish this feat.

As for how he made up for this shortcoming?

Qingming opened the panel to take a look and saw that his 'Chakra Control' had risen from lv3 (915/1000) to lv4 (26/2000).

Clearly, it was this level up that had allowed him to overcome his previous lack of chakra control.

In the future, not only for 'Fire Release: Phoenix Fire Technique' but for any ninjutsu of similar rank, as long as he perfected it, he would be able to cast it in this manner.

Without a doubt, this would become one of his hidden cards.

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