Chapter 115: Chapter 115: Silent Resistance
Qingming once again directed his gaze to the bloodline section—Sharingan: Double Tomoe (1796/5000)!
Based on the current rate, each increment of 'Mind Reflection Technique' proficiency translates into an increase in Sharingan's evolution. Therefore, he only needed to accumulate an additional 3,204 points in 'Mind Reflection Technique' proficiency to evolve his Sharingan into Triple Tomoe.
Currently, the chakra he allocates daily to 'Mind Reflection Technique' allows him to gain 137 points in proficiency. In other words, it would take him about 23 days to evolve his Sharingan.
Given this new timeline, including the week that had just passed, he would only need about a month, which was significantly faster than his previous estimate of three months!
With this thought in mind, Qingming felt the excitement bubbling back up. He stood up and paced around the room, taking several deep breaths to calm himself. Once he regained his composure, he immediately began training again.
As for the additional 2,000 points of chakra—did it even need to be asked?
Of course, they would go towards 'Mind Reflection Technique'!
Even though raising 'Mind Reflection Technique' to level 6 had significantly expedited the timeline for evolving his Sharingan to Triple Tomoe, it didn't mean Qingming didn't want to further shorten that time frame.
Thus, he decided to allocate all the extra chakra to 'Mind Reflection Technique'. As a result, he would now gain 150 points of proficiency each day, allowing him to evolve his Sharingan in approximately 21 days.
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Three days later, it was noon.
Qingming suddenly received notice that the rotating team would arrive in the afternoon and instructed them to prepare for the handover.
After completing the transfer, they could return to the main camp.
He calculated that they had been on continuous patrol for nearly a month.
'No wonder they're given a week to rest.'
Ninjas are human too. Even on the battlefield, they deserve some relaxation time; otherwise, problems are bound to arise.
However, Qingming did not plan to return to the main camp. He intended to stay here and continue training using those chakra batteries.
That afternoon, when no one was around, he quietly used the 'Shadow Clone Technique' to create a clone of himself.
He instructed it to continue the patrol while he made his way to the underground cavern.
Considering that he wouldn't be able to appear openly for the next week, he couldn't practice ninjutsu that caused much commotion, like 'Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique' and 'Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique'.
Instead, he decided to allocate the 1,300 points of chakra originally assigned to those two techniques entirely to 'Mind Reflection Technique'.
This change meant that his 'Mind Reflection Technique' would now gain 158 points of proficiency each day.
However, while his plan was good, others were not cooperating.
Qingming's face darkened as he removed his hand from Shafeng, ripping off the tape on his face. He asked, "Do you really want to die?"
His tone was calm, but anyone could hear the killing intent behind it.
Yet, in response to his question, Shafeng remained silent, gazing at him expressionlessly, with no sign of fear in his eyes.
After staring at him for a moment, Qingming suddenly said, "Good! You're quite something!"
After saying that, he sealed Shafeng's mouth again and walked over to the second person, using 'Chakra Absorption Technique' amidst the other person's slightly evasive gaze.
Soon, his hand withdrew, and like with Shafeng, he found that the chakra he extracted was only half of what he usually obtained.
That's right; the only reason he had shown killing intent earlier was because the chakra he drew from Shafeng was merely half of what he had expected.
This wasn't due to Shafeng's ability to resist his 'Chakra Absorption Technique'—rather, it was because he hadn't actively refined his chakra for the past day, resulting in only the natural recovery chakra being available.
And this natural recovery chakra amounted to roughly half of his full capacity.
In this case, the chakra he could extract was naturally just half of what he would typically obtain.
This would inevitably slow his progress.
In a fantasy cultivation novel, this would be akin to an obstruction to his path.
How could this not infuriate him?
Especially since the second person yielded similar results, his rage was nearly at its peak.
Qingming forcefully activated his Sharingan, scrutinizing the other seven people, including Heisha. All of them possessed only about half of their usual chakra.
It was clear they had colluded and had all refrained from refining their chakra.
'But how did they manage to coordinate?' Qingming wondered, deciding not to waste any more time. He swiftly approached the person who appeared most nervous and used 'Sharingan: Mind Reflection Technique' on him.
Initially, he thought he wouldn't need to use the mind-reading ability of this technique for a while. It turned out he was mistaken.
Now was the perfect moment to employ it.
As the old saying goes, "The more skills, the better."
Recollecting his thoughts, Qingming focused on guiding the other person's emotions, prompting him to recall the entire coordination process.
His first attempt was somewhat clumsy, but the power of the Sharingan compensated for this shortcoming.
Before long, he had pieced together the whole situation.
It turned out that no one had circumvented the hand-sealing restrictions using any special technique to communicate with the others.
Instead, these individuals had been together for so long that they had developed a simple set of coded signals using eye contact and subtle body language.
Through these signals, they had coordinated and ultimately decided to cease chakra refinement.
As for why they dared to do this?
Naturally, they had realized Qingming was in dire need of chakra, and unless absolutely necessary, he would not kill them outright.
This sense of security led them to take a gamble.
Having unraveled all this, Qingming smirked coldly at everyone and said, "Good! You're all quite something!"
After saying that, he turned and left.
Returning to the room where his shadow clone was, Qingming pondered for a long time before finally opening his panel and looking at 'Chakra Absorption Technique'.
More than twenty days had passed, and its proficiency had reached lv4 (461/2000)!
Qingming did a quick calculation and concluded that he would need around 35,000 points of chakra to elevate it to lv5.
Now, he could recover 12,000 points of chakra daily, and with the chakra gained from the nine Sand Ninjas halved, he would approximately receive 16,000 points.
In total, that added up to about 28,000 points. He could gather the required 35,000 points in just under two days.
"Let's do this!"
Qingming steeled his resolve, no longer hesitating, and began to grind away at 'Chakra Absorption Technique'.
It's worth noting that chakra is essentially a blend of spiritual energy and physical energy.
If 'Chakra Absorption Technique' can absorb chakra, then theoretically, it should also be able to directly absorb a person's spiritual and physical energy.
He currently couldn't do this, likely due to the low level of 'Chakra Absorption Technique'.
With this in mind, there was no reason to hesitate—he would just push through.
They thought they could annoy him by not refining their chakra, but little did they know what awaited them.
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