Since the peace treaty between Konoha and Kirigakure was signed, the entire ninja world seemed to have quieted down, as if time itself had been set to fast-forward.
In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed.
During this time, aside from waiting for the village's arrangements for his return, Seimei focused solely on training.
Though the solitude of his training might have been somewhat monotonous, it brought Seimei a deep sense of satisfaction.
That afternoon.
The Land of Fire.
Eastern Region.
In a remote mountain forest.
Seimei temporarily halted his practice of Palm Immortal Technique and Heart Reflection Technique and raised his hands to release the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.
In the next instant, all the shadow clones practicing around him disappeared.
They transformed into streams of chakra, carrying the past hour's training experience and memories, which flowed back into Seimei's main body.
Closing his eyes, Seimei carefully absorbed and processed the experiences and memories, converting them into skill proficiency for the corresponding techniques.
This process took about fifteen minutes.
When Seimei reopened his eyes, a hint of satisfaction flickered across them.
Sure enough, after sixteen days of practice, his Lightning Release: Thunder Serpent technique had advanced as expected, reaching the perfected state of Lv5 (0/0).
Standing up, Seimei surveyed his surroundings before stepping into an open space.
He raised his hands, took a deep breath, and swiftly formed hand seals before thrusting his hands forward.
With a sharp "crackle," two streaks of lightning shot out from his palms, transforming midair into two serpents of electricity that darted rapidly ahead.
About ten meters away stood two large trees. The serpents struck true, coiling tightly around the trunks.
A moment later, the smell of charred wood wafted through the air.
The areas where the serpents had coiled were marked by scorched black scars, evidence of the high-temperature burns—a secondary effect of Lightning Release: Thunder Serpent.
Moreover, faint currents of electricity emanated from the serpents, spreading over portions of the trees.
This demonstrated the paralysis effect inherent in Lightning Release techniques.
The jutsu persisted for several seconds before dissipating.
Retracting his hands, Seimei walked to the trees and examined the marks left by Thunder Serpent. At last, he nodded in satisfaction.
In terms of both casting speed and effectiveness, the technique met his expectations.
This success would significantly enhance his arsenal of combat techniques.
Moreover, having perfected Thunder Serpent, Seimei could now allocate more chakra to practicing Lightning Release: Thunder Prison.
Although he had already invested a great deal into it,
Six days earlier, when he perfected Sealing Formation, he redirected 44,000 saved chakra points daily into Thunder Prison, increasing its daily proficiency gain from 300 points to 740 points.
Still, he planned to reallocate another 15,000 chakra points saved this time to it as well.
This would further increase its daily proficiency gain from 740 points to 890 points.
Thinking this, Seimei opened his proficiency panel.
Over the past half-month of training, his Lightning Release: Thunder Prison had advanced from Lv0 (5/100) to Lv5 (3,645/5,000).
At the current rate of accumulating 890 points daily, it would take at most thirteen more days to reach Lv7 (0/0), the perfected state.
Sixteen days plus thirteen—twenty-nine days in total.
This number was nearly half of his original estimate of just over two months.
In other words, he could begin training Lightning Release: Thunder Sword a month earlier than planned.
This was the driving force behind his increased effort.
Moving his focus from Thunder Prison, Seimei shifted his gaze to the evolution progress of his Sharingan.
After thirty-one days of enhancement, its progress was nearing the (30,000/50,000) threshold. At most, it would take five more days to complete.
At that point, his Spirit attribute would likely improve, bringing corresponding increases in his theoretical chakra capacity, chakra recovery speed, and more.
Undoubtedly, as with previous attribute gains, this would result in a comprehensive enhancement.
The reason he estimated five days at most was because his Heart Reflection Technique would achieve perfection before then.
When that happened, the current ratio—where two points of Heart Reflection Technique proficiency equaled one point of Sharingan evolution—would improve.
This would accelerate the Sharingan's evolution.
Thus, while Seimei stated it would take five days, the actual time would undoubtedly be shorter.
With this thought, Seimei closed the proficiency panel.
He returned to the place where he had previously been training. Without any hesitation, he immediately raised his hands in a cross shape, forming the "Ren" seal, and once again performed the "Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu."
Boom!
With a puff of chakra smoke dispersing, six shadow clones appeared in the training ground.
As usual, Seimei assigned each of them their respective training tasks before he began training on his own.
In the blink of an eye, three days had passed.
That morning, as Seimei was performing the "Mind Reflection Jutsu" to enhance the evolution of his Sharingan, a sudden realization appeared in his mind.
He immediately stopped training, closed his eyes, and carefully comprehended this feeling.
After a long while, he reopened his eyes and murmured, "So this is the perfected 'Mind Reflection Jutsu'!"
Indeed, just moments ago, his "Mind Reflection Jutsu" had advanced to level 9 (0/0).
Previously, when it had leveled up to 8, Seimei already felt that his "Mind Reflection Jutsu" had broken free from the framework painstakingly developed by the Uchiha clan's ancestors.
And now, that feeling had become even more evident.
In fact, it was simply the truth.
His "Mind Reflection Jutsu" was no longer just a rudimentary genjutsu but had transformed into a profound technique capable of leading the Uchiha clan's ninjas away from their destined path.
Unfortunately, he couldn't share this technique with others—not yet, at least.
As for the reason, he had already mentioned it before: the Mangekyō Sharingan was far too powerful. If Uchiha clan members could consistently unlock the Mangekyō Sharingan, it wouldn't just threaten other villages—even Konoha itself might find it intolerable.
The saying "a treasure is a crime in itself" perfectly explains the situation.
Seimei shook his head, pushing these distracting thoughts aside for now, and began testing the effects of level 9 "Mind Reflection Jutsu" on the evolution of his Sharingan.
Once, twice, three times...
After a few minutes, Seimei stopped training.
Looking at the evolution progress of his Sharingan displayed on his panel, a smile of satisfaction appeared on his face.
Previously, when "Mind Reflection Jutsu" advanced from level 7 to level 8, it only increased the ratio of skill proficiency growth to Sharingan evolution progress from 3:1 to 2:1.
But now, that ratio had directly become 1:1, a far greater improvement than last time.
Seimei had initially assumed that the further he progressed, the harder it would be to advance and the smaller the gains would become.
However, it seemed he had underestimated the qualitative leap brought by "Mind Reflection Jutsu" reaching level 9—the transformation was enough to offset the increased difficulty.
As a result, the ratio shifted to one-to-one.
This meant that, with the same amount of time and chakra, his Sharingan's daily evolution progress could now grow twice as fast as before.
In other words, the speed at which his Sharingan evolved had effectively doubled.
Undoubtedly, this was a significant improvement.
With this in mind, Seimei immediately resumed training.
According to his original progress, his Sharingan evolution would have taken until tomorrow night to reach the checkpoint at (30,000/50,000).
But if he pushed himself a little harder now, he could reach that milestone by tonight.
Naturally, he wasn't about to waste any time.
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