Naruto: My Progress in Konoha

Hua La~

A gust of sea breeze blew, raising a wave more than half a meter high.

The white mist in the field, without Qing's chakra to maintain it, was blown away quickly.

Qing Ming just stared at Terumi Mei without saying a word.

Similarly, the other party also looked at him vigilantly, trying to find his flaws.

As time passed, the atmosphere between the two became more and more oppressive.

The air around them seemed to solidify, and the seriously injured Qing and Uchiha Tiehuo were almost unable to breathe.

Huh~

Another gust of sea breeze blew.

The hair on Terumi Mei's forehead was blown, blocking her vision.

'Now! '

Qing Ming thought, and the chakra gathered at the bottom of his feet suddenly burst out, which suddenly increased his speed to an extremely exaggerated level.

Under his feet, a large area of ​​sea water suddenly sank.

Then, his body turned into a residual image and came to Terumi Mei in an instant.

Swoosh~

A flash of knife light passed by.

Qingming swung the long sword in his hand, and the wind escape chakra was injected into it, and a layer of green light suddenly attached to the blade of the long sword.

Suddenly, an extremely sharp breath came from it and attacked Terumi Mei's snow-white neck.

"So fast!"

Seeing Qingming suddenly appearing in front of her, Terumi Mei was shocked.

And when she felt the sharp breath on Qingming's blade, her face changed drastically.

Instinctively, she wanted to dodge.

However, when she glanced at Qing who was seriously injured behind her, she gave up this idea.

At this time, she could dodge, but Qing behind her would definitely suffer.

This was something she never wanted to see.

So, she gritted her teeth and immediately raised the kunai in her hand to block in front of her.

Seeing this, Qingming smiled slightly and secretly increased the strength in his hand again.

Ding~

The long sword and kunai collided, making a crisp metal collision sound.

Although Qingming is not yet an adult and is small in size, the terrifying increase brought by 16 points of "physique" allows him to burst out with power far beyond that of an adult ninja.

In addition, the existence of the long sword also makes it easier for him to exert his power than the opponent's kunai.

However, even so, after the two collided, Terumi Mei did not retreat a single step.

Qingming's eyes narrowed slightly, and after a closer look, he saw that her arm holding the kunai was slightly thicker, and the muscle lines inside were obvious, obviously using some kind of secret technique to increase her power.

Not only that, the sea surface under her feet also sank a large area.

Obviously, a large part of her strength was unloaded into the sea.

Apart from anything else, just this one move made Qingming understand that the opponent's physical skills were definitely not weak.

Before, when he fought with the shadow clone, he tried his best to avoid close combat, and looked like he was not good at physical skills.

And now...

Qingming shook his head secretly.

There is no doubt that the opponent has been hiding his strength from beginning to end.

Or rather, intelligence!

Qingming was almost certain that the opponent's physical skills were definitely not inferior to those of ordinary jonins who were good at this.

Come to think of it, as a being who could grow into a shadow in the future, how could he have such a big shortcoming?

Everything about the opponent was just a disguise.

All kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind, and Qingming suddenly exerted force to force Terumi Mei back.

Indeed, the opponent's physical skills were indeed not weaker than those of ordinary jonins.

But Qingming's physical skills, or swordsmanship, were not comparable to those of ordinary jonins.

With a thought, Qingming swung out his long sword again and chopped at Terumi Mei.

Terumi Mei did not dare to be careless at all and quickly blocked it.

Ding Ding Dang Dang~

Kunai and long swords collided, and the sound of metal clashing rang out one after another.

Qingming and Terumi Mei countered each other's moves and fought fiercely.

Unconsciously, the intensity of the battle between the outer Mist Ninja and Konoha Ninja decreased, and each of them divided a little mind and paid close attention to the battle situation here.

Obviously, they knew very well that in this battle with similar numbers and strength, the winner would still depend on the two leaders.

If Mei Terumi defeated Qingming, the Konoha ninjas in the battle would naturally retreat.

On the contrary, if Qingming won, the Mist Ninjas would retreat.

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Ding Ding~Dangdang~

Soon, five minutes passed.

The battle was still going on!

Just when everyone thought that the battle would last longer.

Swish~

Suddenly, the sound of a sharp blade cutting through flesh and blood sounded, and a few drops of blood splashed.

"Hmm~"

Mei Terumi groaned and suddenly pulled away.

It can be seen that there was a deep scar on her right arm.

The corner of her eye swept across the bloodstain on her forearm. Enduring the burning pain, Terumi Mei stared at Qingming's long sword and thought to herself, "What happened just now?"

Just now, when the two were fighting fiercely, Qingming suddenly changed his moves. His sword was no longer as grand and righteous as at the beginning, but became sinister and mysterious.

This sudden change of style made her very uncomfortable, and then...

Then she was hit!

She saw the sword coming and instinctively blocked it, but suddenly found that Qingming's attack had just started.

This forced her to pause and reconsider her response.

And it was this moment of stagnation that caused a flaw in her defense.

It was only because she reacted quickly and made timely adjustments that she did not suffer more serious injuries.

Otherwise, she might have fallen to the ground like Qing.

But even so, she felt very difficult.

If Qingming's attacks were like this, then even if she reacted quickly, she would reveal a bigger flaw sooner or later.

Moreover, was this swordplay or illusion?

If you don't figure this out, you can't carry out targeted defense, and the subsequent trouble will be even greater!

Just as Terumi Mei was thinking, Qing, who had retreated to the edge of the battlefield, suddenly shouted: "Pay attention to the sword light, he is using the sword light to cast an illusion on you and affect your senses!"

As the saying goes, those who are involved are confused, but those who are on the sidelines can see clearly.

Terumi Mei was in the game, and for a while she couldn't see through Qingming's "illusion swordplay", but Qing was outside the game, but he used the Byakugan's super-fine observation of chakra to find the clues.

In addition, not long ago, he was seriously injured by Qingming's move.

Therefore, he immediately understood the situation of Mei Terumi and quickly warned her.

And what he said was indeed correct. More than a week had passed. Thanks to the foundation laid by the lv7 (0/0) ‘Swordsmanship’, Qing Ming’s ‘Illusion Swordsmanship’ had been upgraded from lv4 (701/2000) to lv5 (1150/5000)!

And for general C-level skills, lv5 is already perfect. Although ‘Illusion Swordsmanship’ is not a C-level skill, lv5 is also an important watershed.

After being promoted to this level, he can already do a lot of things.

For example, he can use the light of the sword to perform illusions.

That’s right, now his ‘Illusion Swordsmanship’ can be performed by using the light on the blade during the fight, and the concealment is much stronger than before.

It is precisely because of this that Qing and Mei Terumi were hit one after another.

It’s not that they are not vigilant enough or their strength is not good enough, but that his methods are too clever.

Similarly, even if the opponent knows the principle of this "illusion sword technique", it is not easy to avoid it.

After all, when fighting, you can't ignore the opponent's attack method and angle, right?

In this way, Qingming has plenty of opportunities to perform "illusion sword technique", and just now it was just a small test.

Next, it depends on whether the opponent can hold on.