A few kilometers from the battlefield, Qian had taken over a Rock Bear's cave and was sitting cross-legged inside, cultivating.
He cast the Mind Reflection Technique again and again, stimulating his brain to produce that special Chakra, thereby prompting his Sharingan to evolve.
A moment later, Qian opened his eyes, let out a long sigh, and shook his head. "Sigh, too slow!"
Without the additional Chakra supplied by the "Chakra Battery," the total Chakra he could use each day was limited to the seventeen thousand points he could recover on his own, and his cultivation speed had suddenly slowed.
Even after suspending the cultivation of his other skills and using nearly all his Chakra on the "Mind Reflection Technique," he could still only gain half his previous proficiency—about one hundred points.
Converted into the Sharingan's Evolution Progress, that amounted to only around fifty points.
At that rate, evolving his Sharingan from "Three Tomoe (1702/10000)" to the Mangekyo would take at least one hundred and sixty-five days, or more than five months.
During that time, his other skills would be forced to remain stagnant.
That was clearly something Qian could not accept.
"What should I do?"
Just as Qian was thinking, a stream of Chakra flowed into his body along an invisible connection. Arriving with it were the memories of that Shadow Clone.
Qian closed his eyes and carefully went through those memories. He soon understood the situation on the battlefield.
This was also the primary purpose for which the Shadow Clone Technique had been developed by the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju: reconnaissance and exploration.
Since he was in enemy territory, Qian naturally did not dare to be careless. He had sent out only a Shadow Clone to conduct reconnaissance, and it had completed the task he assigned it very well.