Naruto: My Progress in Konoha

The next day.

In the morning.

In front of the last line of defense of the Hidden Rock Village, the Third Raikage, wrapped in lightning and bare-handed, charged forward alone again.

There were five Hidden Rock Ninjas to deal with him, and they were all real Jonin.

Even so, these Hidden Rock Ninjas did not dare to confront the Third Raikage head-on, but only covered each other and restrained him through various ninjutsu and fighting skills.

The whole process was extremely dangerous. If the Third Raikage found an opportunity without good coordination, the result would be serious injury or death.

Therefore, the five Hidden Rock Ninjas present were very nervous.

Especially today they also received a secret order to hold back the Third Raikage no matter what, and never let him leave the battle.

This made them even more nervous.

The Third Raikage glanced at the five people and instinctively felt something was wrong, but he said where the problem was.

After all, they were all carefully selected Jonin. Although these five Hidden Rock Ninjas were nervous, they did not show any abnormality on their faces.

Even the process of the battle did not show such signs.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the Third Raikage never found anything unusual.

So, he stopped thinking about it. As soon as he thought about it, he would go all out and use his absolute strength to break the doubts in his heart.

"Third-generation master, there is urgent information, please return to the headquarters immediately!"

However, just as he was about to take action, a voice suddenly appeared in his mind, and the Third Raikage knew who the owner of the voice was.

The other party was one of his subordinates, who mastered a mental secret technique that could transmit the sound to any target within a certain range.

'But what does the other party mean by this? Urgent information? '

Without time to think about it, the Third Raikage planned to leave the battle first, and then go back to see what happened.

He still trusted these subordinates very much, knowing that if it was not a matter of utmost urgency, these people would never interrupt his offensive rhythm.

And once the other party did this, it meant that the situation must be bad and he had to deal with it personally.

With this thought, the Third Raikage forced back the five surrounding Iwagakure jonin with a few moves, and then jumped up, intending to break out of the encirclement and return to the rear.

But he didn't expect that when these five people saw that he was going to retreat, they risked being seriously injured by him and forcibly blocked his way.

At this moment, the Third Raikage finally knew what he felt was wrong before.

Compared with the Rock Ninjas he had met in the past few days, the five Rock Ninjas in front of him were obviously more conservative when fighting.

But just when he was about to withdraw, these people showed extraordinary initiative, even at the risk of their lives.

Obviously, their behavior before and after was very contradictory.

Before, this sign was not obvious, and the five opponents would only stick to him like a dog-skin plaster when he relaxed his offensive.

But when he strengthened his offensive, these people would quickly return to a conservative posture.

Before that, he was focused on attacking and didn't pay special attention to this, so he just instinctively noticed something wrong.

Now, he was going to withdraw, and these people finally couldn't sit still, and the contradictions were completely exposed at once.

It was because of this that he finally reacted.

However, the more this happened, the more the Third Raikage was sure that something was wrong in the rear, otherwise the other party would not have spent so much effort to keep him here.

That's right, the Third Raikage had already seen the purpose of their inconsistent behavior, which was to drag him on the battlefield.

'In this case, I can't stay here. '

Thinking of this, the Third Raikage shouted: "Get out!"

Before he finished speaking, he activated the strongest state of the 'Lightning Chakra Mode'.

Accompanied by a crackling sound, lightning that seemed to be real rushed out, forming a thick layer of armor on his body surface.

This is the 'Strongest Lightning Armor' of the Third Raikage in his full strength state.

At this time, let alone ordinary weapons and ninjutsu, even the wind ninjutsu that restrains the Lightning Release the most can't cause any damage to him.

Bang~

The Third Raikage flashed and instantly disappeared in front of the five Rock Village ninjas.

The next moment, the two Iwagakure jonins were knocked out by the Third Raikage before they could react. They died before they even hit the ground.

The remaining three Iwagakure jonins all stopped when they saw this scene.

Although their superiors gave them the order to hold back the Third Raikage, that was based on the premise that they could see hope.

But with the opponent's strength, what could they do to stop him?

They didn't want to do anything to get themselves killed.

"Humph!"

Seeing this, the Third Raikage snorted coldly, and then left without looking back.

In the distance, 'Qingming' stared at the Three Magatama Sharingan, looked at the Third Raikage who left in a swagger, and shook his head in silence.

Then, he lifted the 'Shadow Clone Technique'.

Bang~

A cloud of chakra smoke dissipated, and the figure of 'Qingming' disappeared.

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At the same time.

In a relatively hidden cave.

Qingming, who was practicing, suddenly opened his eyes, then quickly closed them again, and began to browse the memories that suddenly appeared in his mind.

After a moment, he opened his eyes again and muttered, "It looks like this battle is about to end."

With a God's perspective, he could easily infer the cause and effect from the Third Raikage's behavior.

If he guessed correctly, the Cloud Ninjas must have discovered the conspiracy of the Iwagakure Village and informed the Third Raikage.

Therefore, the other party rushed back in a hurry.

After the other party learned that they were about to be surrounded, they had two choices.

The first was to burn their boats and continue to attack, break through the last line of defense of the Iwagakure Village before the Iwagakure army surrounded them, rush into the Iwagakure Village, and regain the initiative.

The second was to retreat immediately and rush out of the gap before the Iwagakure army formed a complete encirclement.

The former needed to consider the time issue. If they could not enter the Iwagakure Village before the Iwagakure army surrounded them, what awaited the Cloud Ninjas was being attacked from both inside and outside.

And this was very likely.

Although the Third Raikage was strong, the Third Tsuchikage Ohnoki, who was in charge of the Iwagakure Village, was not an easy opponent. The opponent's Dust Release Ninjutsu was not completely immune to the Lightning Release Armor.

In this way, coupled with the obstruction of the last line of defense, it is basically impossible for the Third Raikage to break through the Hidden Rock Village in a short time.

Then they only have the second option.

But it is not so easy to run away.

Let alone whether they can find a suitable opportunity, the Rock Ninjas on the battlefield in front of them will not let them leave easily.

This wave, the Cloud Ninjas will have to pay some price.

'Then what about me, can I gain some benefits from it? '

Qingming thought in his heart and soon came up with a plan.

Needless to say, for the next period of time, both the Cloud Ninjas and the Rock Ninjas will focus on each other.

This means that he has more room for activities.

Moreover,

Qingming has no doubt that the situation will be very chaotic, and the Hidden Cloud Village will not let the Third Raikage stay behind to cover the rear at the beginning.

At first, they must flee together, and even sacrifice some Cloud Ninjas to cover the withdrawal of the Third Raikage and the large army.

Only when the situation is completely broken, the Third Raikage will use himself as bait to delay the army of the Hidden Rock Village, thereby creating an opportunity for other Cloud Ninjas to escape.

Even so, those Cloud Ninjas will be hunted down. After all, no matter how strong the Third Raikage is, he is only one person and cannot stop an army of 10,000.

Therefore, this process is bound to be chaotic.

And chaos means opportunity. He can take advantage of the opportunity to plunder chakra and thus accelerate his own growth.

Three updates will resume tomorrow.