Naruto: My Progress in Konoha

Squeak~~~

A sharp friction sound was heard.

Qingming's long sword slashed across Kakuzu's throat, leaving a shallow white mark.

Seeing this, Qingming frowned slightly and said inwardly: "What a pity!"

He had not developed the lightning attribute chakra, otherwise the restraint relationship between the lightning attribute and the earth attribute would definitely have a better effect than the wind attribute.

Therefore, he could not even break the opponent's defense.

Fortunately, the chakra consumed to maintain this level of ninjutsu is also huge, even Kakuzu can't keep it up.

With this thought, Qingming began to exert all his strength, dancing the long sword in his hand vigorously, attacking Kakuzu one after another.

For a while, Kakuzu had no power to fight back and could only passively resist.

Despite this, the opponent's expression still did not change, just staring at him with a pair of creepy green eyes.

Seeing this, Qingming was not polite, and the hypnotic effect of the Sharingan was stimulated, and the opponent's expression could not help but be dazed for a moment.

Qingming seized the opportunity and stabbed with a knife, aiming directly at the opponent's eyes.

Although the 'Earth Escape·Earth Spear' can make the body as hard as iron, some vulnerable parts of the human body are difficult to defend.

For example, this eye, even if the 'Earth Escape·Earth Spear' is used, if it is really stabbed, it will only take one knife.

Sensing the danger, Jiaodu woke up from his trance, a flash of cold light flashed, and almost instinctively, he raised his right hand and blocked it.

Ding~

Qingming's long knife stabbed the opponent's palm, pushing him back several steps and hitting a big tree behind. Many leaves were shaken and fell, but he did not hurt the opponent.

At this time, Jiaodu had already seen the situation in front of him, and then he closed his five fingers and planned to grab Qingming's long knife in his palm.

But Qingming's reaction was so fast!

Almost at the moment he took action, he had already drawn out the long knife and slashed it horizontally, cutting straight into the opponent's carotid artery.

Even though Kakuzu had the ‘Earth Style: Earth Spear’ to defend himself and was not afraid of the blade, this powerful and heavy blade would still hurt him if it hit him.

Not only that, defending against such an attack would also consume more chakra.

So, in order to save chakra and reduce pain, he quickly ducked and avoided Qingming’s blade.

However, after he dodged, the big tree behind him was in trouble.

Qingming’s long sword was wrapped in wind style chakra, which could easily penetrate even stones, let alone a tree!

When his blade fell on the tree trunk, it was like a hot knife cutting butter, and the tree fell without encountering any obstacles.

Crash~

The tree trunk fell, and Qingming quickly retreated and pulled away.

However, unlike him, Kakuzu actually took the damage and only dodged in a small area on the spot, and did not leave the area where the big tree fell.

In this way, although he consumed more chakra, it also gave him a chance to counterattack.

‘Fire Style: Head Burning~’

Suddenly, a fierce flame appeared, instantly burning the branches and leaves along the way into ashes, and rushed towards Qingming.

Although Qingming did not see the other party's seal at the first time because of the obstruction of the branches and leaves of the big tree, he still reacted when the flames came.

He saw his hands quickly forming the five seals of ‘Yin-Si-Zi-Si-Yin’, and a water wall suddenly appeared to block the attack of the flames.

Yes, this is the ninjutsu - Water Style: Water Array Wall!

After more than a week of practice, his ‘Water Style: Water Array Wall’ has already been upgraded from lv1 (119/200) to lv3 (294/1000).

It is precisely because of this that he can use it in time and block Kakuzu's fire style attack.

The water wall and the flame met, making a sizzling sound, and a large amount of water vapor came out, making the surroundings white.

Qingming didn't care too much about this.

Such water vapor came quickly, but it also disappeared quickly, and it would not affect his Sharingan.

However, he soon found something wrong.

It was because the flames and water walls had disappeared, but the white fog around them increased instead of decreasing, and visibility was reduced again.

Qingming felt carefully and immediately found the existence of water escape chakra in the white fog.

Obviously, this was Kakuzu taking the opportunity to perform the ninjutsu - Water escape·Mist Hidden Technique!

Although the other party had not performed this technique in his previous life memory.

But as an old guy who has lived for decades, it seems nothing strange that he has learned such a widely circulated ninjutsu.

In fact, it is not just this ninjutsu, but other, unknown ninjutsu, the other party may have learned a lot.

In this way, it is definitely not possible to fight with the other party, and it is necessary to break the situation with absolute strength.

With this thought, Qingming made seals with both hands, mobilized a large amount of chakra, and performed the ninjutsu - Wind escape·Big breakthrough!

In an instant, the sky and the earth changed color, and a violent wind tornado appeared, stirring up the white mist around in a breath.

When the storm stopped, the surroundings were already in a mess.

At the same time, it became empty.

Qingming looked around, but did not see Kakuzu's figure.

At this moment, two palms suddenly emerged from the ground and grabbed his ankles.

Without any hesitation, Qingming slashed down with the long knife in his hand, instantly cutting off the two arms.

However, the next moment, a large number of black tentacles like blood vessels emerged from the two flying broken arms.

These tentacles were waving wildly in the air, seemingly looking for something.

Immediately afterwards, dense black tentacles emerged from the ground and became entangled with those black tentacles in mid-air.

Then, they quickly merged and finally became one.

Even though he was mentally prepared, Qing Ming couldn't help but feel a little numb when he saw this scene.

He jumped up a few times, intending to stay away from these tentacles.

However, Kakuzu was unwilling to give up. After reconnecting his hands, he immediately controlled his two palms to grab him from the air.

Qing Ming didn't hesitate at all, he immediately formed a seal and performed the ninjutsu - Fire Release: Fireball Jutsu!

Boom~

A huge fireball appeared and hit the two palms directly.

However, those two palms were surprisingly flexible, and they avoided Qing Ming's attack with just one turn.

Qing Ming retreated again, and on the way his hand seals changed, and he used the ninjutsu - Wind Release·Wind Blade!

Phew~

A transparent wind blade flew out and passed over the two palms at an extremely fast speed.

Stab~

There was a sound like rags being torn.

The two palms were cut in half by the wind blade.

With the help of the powerful insight of the Sharingan, Qingming could see that the moment the wind blades approached, they had already made evasive movements.

But in the end, it was still a beat slower than the Wind Blade.

However, this is normal.

'Wind Release: Wind Blade' is a ninjutsu that is known for its attack speed. Coupled with his Sharingan's prediction, it is not surprising that he hits the opponent.

However, the subsequent changes in the two palms surprised him.