With this in mind, Seimei began to plan out his next steps for training.
First, he needed to resume practicing the Mind's Reflection Technique.
This technique was crucial for advancing his Sharingan's evolution, speeding up its transformation into the Rinnegan and laying the groundwork for eventually awakening the Rinne-Sharingan.
Second, he decided to keep pausing his Byakugan's development.
For one, with the Sharingan in play, he wasn't worried about his mental attributes lagging behind his physical ones. In fact, continuing to enhance the Byakugan would only widen the gap between his mental and physical attributes, throwing them further out of balance.
For another, restarting the Sharingan's evolution would cut into the time he could dedicate to physical training each day. This would naturally slow down his progress. If he could pause the Byakugan's evolution and focus entirely on physical training, it would help mitigate this issue.
So, the best choice was clear: halt the Byakugan's progress for now.
Lastly, and most importantly, he needed to reassess his body's limits after its recent transformation to determine how much chakra he should channel into training the Extreme Body technique. From there, he could estimate how long it would take for his body to undergo its next transformation.
With a plan set in his mind, Seimei didn't waste any time. He dove straight into a new round of training.
The sun had just set, leaving him a few hours before the day's training would wrap up. This gave him plenty of time to resume the Mind's Reflection Technique to stimulate his Sharingan's evolution, just like before.
This time, though, he didn't need to stay on Moon Island.
With a quick thought, Seimei locked onto a Flying Thunder God mark in the primal forest of the northeastern Fire Country and activated the Flying Thunder God Technique.
In an instant, he vanished.
When he reappeared, he was standing in the middle of a forest, surrounded by familiar scenery.
Without hesitation, Seimei performed the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, creating three hundred shadow clones. He sent them off to scatter and absorb natural energy.
Next, he tapped into the chakra stored in the interdimensional space at his forehead, refilling his chakra reserves. Then, with another set of hand signs, he used the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique again.
Poof! Poof! Poof!
As clouds of chakra smoke dispersed, fifty more shadow clones appeared.
That's right—fifty, not forty.
These clones were created specifically to work on developing his Bloodline Net. The reason for the increase was simple: with his chakra capacity growing, his deeper understanding of how to fuse the seven chakra nature transformations, and his mental strength surging, forty clones were no longer enough to maximize his efficiency in gathering experience.
So, he bumped the number up to fifty.
Of course, this was just a starting point. If issues came up, he'd adjust further.
Pushing those thoughts aside, Seimei didn't linger. He sent the fifty clones off to begin their work, while he himself started performing the Mind's Reflection Technique.
Time ticked by, minute by minute.
Before long, it was deep into the night.
When Seimei finished his final round of training, he recalled all his shadow clones, absorbing their memories and training experience from the past hour. Then, he opened his status panel.
As expected, after six hours of training, his Sharingan's evolution had increased by 150 points, going from (61,150/100,000) to (61,300/100,000).
At this rate, it would take about two months for his Sharingan to hit the (70,000/100,000) milestone.
But he couldn't afford to break through recklessly.
His mental attributes were already slightly ahead of his physical ones. If he pushed through and gained another point in mental strength, the imbalance would worsen, and that could spell trouble.
So, when the time came, he'd have to pause the Mind's Reflection Technique, keeping his Sharingan's evolution just shy of the breakthrough. Then, he'd shift his focus to physical training.
Once his body underwent its next transformation and his physical attributes caught up, he could safely push for the breakthrough.
But that was all in the future. For now, he'd keep training as planned.
Also, as before, the six hours of Mind's Reflection Technique had burned through three million chakra points. From today onward, he'd need to set aside three million chakra points daily from his reserves for this.
On top of that, after six hours of testing, he confirmed that using fifty shadow clones was indeed the most efficient way to develop his Bloodline Net. However, the chakra cost had gone up—from six million to seven and a half million points, an increase of one and a half million.
This extra chakra would also need to come from his daily reserves.
As for physical training, he didn't have a clear answer yet. That afternoon's practice wasn't a reliable measure since he'd been simultaneously advancing his Byakugan. He'd need to test again tomorrow to get a clearer picture.
Also, increasing the number of shadow clones for Bloodline Net development had boosted the evolution speed of several of his Bloodline Limits. Notably, his Dust Release would likely advance in less than two months—ahead of schedule.
This was great news for Seimei. It meant his physical potential would improve again, allowing him to strengthen his body to the brink of transformation in less time.
With these thoughts swirling in his mind, Seimei refocused. He closed the panel, yawned, and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport back to Moon Island.
By the stream near his wooden cabin, he quickly washed up before heading inside to rest.
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The next day.
Seimei woke up early, downed a few enhanced soldier pills to fill his stomach, and kicked off another round of training.
He trained all day long.
By nightfall, when he wrapped up, he'd resolved all the questions lingering from the previous evening.
After his body's recent transformation, its capacity had increased, allowing him to channel more chakra into physical training. However, because the Mind's Reflection Technique took up six hours, the total chakra needed for his daily training had actually decreased.
Before, he needed 43 million chakra points daily to train at full speed. Now, about 37 million was enough.
Of course, this was temporary.
Once his Sharingan's evolution hit its critical point in two months, and he shifted all his time and energy back to physical training, his chakra consumption would spike—likely to 49 million, maybe even 50 million points.
But that was a problem for later.
For now, this change meant he'd have an extra six million chakra points in his daily reserves. After subtracting the three million for the Mind's Reflection Technique and the one and a half million for the increased Bloodline Net clones, he was left with 18.368 million points (16.868 - 3 - 1.5 + 6).
Seimei was pretty pleased with that.
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