In the clearing at the center of Moon Island.
Qian's figure appeared without warning.
He waited briefly, and once the injuries his body had suffered inside Volcano had healed on their own, he immediately released the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.
In an instant, both inside and outside the island, all his shadow clones collapsed and vanished.
At the same time, a massive amount of memories returned to his body together with huge surges of chakra and Natural Energy.
Qian followed his usual practice, first sorting and storing that chakra and Natural Energy, then began browsing the memories in his mind.
Nearly a thousand shadow clones' memories flooded in all at once. Even though Qian's Spiritual Power had improved greatly, he still could not help feeling a bit of a headache.
It took him a long while to finish reviewing all those shadow clones' memories.
However, Qian's expression did not look very good now.
As for the reason...
It was simple: the gains had fallen short of expectations.
There was no need to mention the nine hundred shadow clones absorbing Natural Energy. Their memories were all much the same. Apart from slightly improving his perception and control of Natural Energy, they were basically of little use.
But the three hundred shadow clones he had placed high hopes on, the ones developing Kekkei Mōra, disappointed him.
He had originally been counting on them to greatly speed up his acquisition of experience related to developing Kekkei Mōra.
Yet the truth was that it had indeed increased, but the degree of that increase was far below his expectations.
Originally, he had thought that by doubling the number of shadow clones developing Kekkei Mōra, even if the speed at which he gained experience could not double, it should still increase by seventy or eighty percent.