Naruto: My Progress in Konoha

Seeing that Shou had disappeared, Qingming was about to look for him.

But at this moment, his teammate suddenly let out a scream.

Qingming looked in the direction of the sound, only to see that his left arm below the elbow joint had disappeared completely, and he was now dodging attacks from others in a panic.

Qingming thought for a moment, and finally decided to give up looking for Shou's trace, and then he quickly came to his teammates with a "flash body technique".

Ding Ding Ding~

Qingming waved the kunai in his hand and blocked the attacks of several surrounding rock ninjas in succession.

Then, with a "genjutsu·Sharingan", he directly controlled the person closest to him.

At the same time, he took out a detonating talisman from his ninja bag and attached it to the rock ninja like lightning.

Zi Zi Zi Zi~

The detonating talisman burned quickly, making a slight sound.

"Be careful!"

A rock ninja had sharp eyes and saw Qingming's actions, so he shouted loudly to warn his companions.

Seeing this, the others quickly scattered.

Taking this opportunity, Qingming grabbed his teammate's arm, kicked the ground with his feet, and retreated several meters away from the Iwagakure ninja who was standing still.

Boom~

A violent explosion sounded.

A ball of fire suddenly appeared, and a painful wail could be heard faintly in it. The sound lasted for a while before gradually disappearing.

"Damn it!"

Seeing this, a Iwagakure ninja cursed and looked at Qingming who was running away, and shouted: "Chase him!"

Hearing this, a group of Iwagakure ninjas immediately chased Qingming.

Qingming was carrying one person, so he naturally couldn't run fast.

So, he turned around and stopped, and released the "Illusion Sharingan" to control an Iwagakure ninja while his hands quickly formed seals.

Seeing this, the Iwagakure ninja immediately shouted: "Be careful!"

At the same time, he also began to form seals, as if he was going to use ninjutsu to fight ninjutsu.

However, Qingming's speed was too fast, and he completed the seals in almost the blink of an eye, and then opened his mouth and spit out a huge fireball.

Seeing the huge fireball coming towards them, the Rock Ninja had to give up casting spells and scattered like everyone else.

Boom~

The fireball exploded, and the shock wave carried high-temperature flames, spreading rapidly around, igniting a large area of ​​nearby jungle and dispersing the Rock Ninja team even more.

Seeing this, Qingming did not pause at all, and formed a seal again, and cast another fire escape ninjutsu at a dazzling speed - Fire escape·Phoenix Fire Technique!

In an instant, fireballs like Impatiens seeds spewed out of his mouth, densely packed, like flowers scattered by a fairy, controlled by him, and smashed into those Rock Ninjas.

Originally, those Rock Ninjas were running away, and were suddenly attacked by these fireballs. Many people couldn't react and were hit in the body.

Immediately, someone screamed.

Then the second and third people

Seeing that Qingming had injured so many of them in a short time, those Rock Ninjas couldn't sit still and cast ninjutsu to fight back.

Seeing this, Qing Ming was not in a hurry. With the powerful insight brought by the Sharingan, he easily avoided the attacks of these ninjutsu.

Then, he used the "Wind Style: Great Breakthrough" again to stop the pursuit of the Rock Ninja, and then left with the injured teammates.

The strong wind stopped, and those Rock Ninjas wanted to organize people to continue the pursuit.

But at this moment, Shou suddenly emerged from the ground and said, "Don't chase."

"Captain!"

When several people saw Shou appear, they first greeted him, and then asked unwillingly, "Captain, are you going to let them go like this?"

"Let them go? No!"

Shou shook his head and said, "Just keep them alive for now."

"But"

One person wanted to say something, but before he could say it, he was interrupted by Shou.

He only said: "With our current strength, we are not enough to keep the other two, especially Uchiha Qingming.

His strength is not simple. Continuing to entangle will only cause meaningless casualties."

Speaking of this, he paused, looked back from a distance, and then continued: "Calculating the time, the village should have blocked their retreat.

Next, we just need to provide the village with the movement of the Konoha army, and then patiently wait for the village to complete the encirclement.

By then, we can easily catch them all in one fell swoop.

So, there is no need to sacrifice more people now."

Several ninjas heard this, thought for a while, and felt that what he said made sense, so they stopped talking.

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At the same time.

On the other side.

After several minutes of running wildly, Qingming and his teammates finally returned to the base camp.

However, the atmosphere here is not what they expected.

Before they approached, they were stopped by someone. After a detailed inspection, they were allowed to approach the main force.

Qingming and his fellow Konoha jonin looked at each other, and both saw solemnity in each other's eyes.

The large army suddenly defended so tightly, there must be something wrong. It just so happened that their group had just encountered a rock ninja squad not long ago.

And there are several reconnaissance teams like theirs.

"Could it be..."

Qingming had some guesses in his mind.

Then, his mood became even heavier.

If his guess is true, then the road ahead will be difficult.

Just as he was thinking, Nara Sishui and several jonin rushed over.

They looked at Qingming, who had lost his main weapon, and the fellow jonin who had lost half of his forearm, and asked: "Did you also encounter the enemy?"

"Also?"

Qingming keenly caught this keyword, and thought that his premonition was about to come true, so he asked decisively: "Did other teams find it too?"

"Yes."

Nara Sishui nodded and said in a deep voice: "Before you, three teams had returned, and all found a small group of Rock Ninja.

In addition,

two teams have completely lost contact, and we suspect that they have been sacrificed. You are the fourth team to return."

"Is that so?"

Qingming pondered for a moment, and then roughly recounted the experience of himself and his fellow ninjas.

When they heard about the strength of the hunter, they all took a breath of cold air, secretly thinking that it was fortunate that Qingming was sent in this direction.

Otherwise, they might have lost two more people.

Everyone summarized all the information and basically concluded that they had been targeted by the Rock Ninja.

And it was not a temporary target, the Rock Ninja must have planned it in advance.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to arrange people on their way early in the morning.

Originally, they were glad that the Rock Ninja did not attack them last night, but now it seems that they were too happy too early.

The reason why the Rock Ninja didn't launch a surprise attack on them last night is probably because the location of their base is too special.

In addition, the overall strength of their base is very strong. If they attack rashly and are dragged down, it is likely to arouse the vigilance of other bases, or even siege.

Therefore, the Rock Village did not include their base in the first batch of attack lists.

However, the other side did not intend to let them go.

Not long after the battle in other bases ended, they were targeted.

It can be predicted that the Rock Village must be preparing intensively now, and once the preparations are completed, they will inevitably face a catastrophe.