Naruto: My Progress in Konoha

Feeling the murderous intent from Qingming and watching the long sword coming straight at him, Murakami Yu's heart was in turmoil.

The next moment, he touched the ground with his toes and suddenly stopped moving forward.

Then, he rotated his body ninety degrees with his right foot as the center, and avoided the long sword while retreating.

Swoosh~

Qingming's long sword missed.

He focused his eyes, adjusted his body slightly, and then turned his wrist, and the long sword changed from a vertical chop to a horizontal chop, and chopped directly at Murakami Yu's waist.

Murakami Yu reacted quickly, jumped up, and avoided the attack just in time.

Seeing this, Qingming was about to attack again.

However, at this moment, another Mist Hidden Ninja suddenly attacked, swung the kunai in his hand, and slashed at his neck again.

Sensing the danger, Qingming could only give up chasing Murakami Yu for the time being, and instead use the long sword in his hand to resist the incoming kunai.

Ding~

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

Then, a sharp friction sound was heard.

The two of them tried to force each other back at the same time, so as to seize the initiative.

Unfortunately, no one succeeded.

The kunai and the blade rubbed against each other, making a "sizzling" sound, and sparks burst out in the meantime, which was very beautiful.

Just when the two were in a stalemate, Murakami Yu finally adjusted his body shape, found an opportunity, and stabbed the kunai in his hand, aiming directly at Qingming's heart.

A strong sense of crisis came over Qingming, and he immediately withdrew his strength without any hesitation.

However, his retreat avoided Murakami Yu's attack, but also lost some of the initiative.

The Mist Hidden Ninja who had just wrestled with him noticed the opportunity and attacked immediately without any pause.

Qingming had no choice but to swing his sword to block.

Ding Ding Dang Dang~

For a while, the two fought in a group, and the sound of metal clashing continued.

If it were just that, it would be fine. With his current swordsmanship level, even if he lost the initiative, he could regain the initiative after dozens or even dozens of moves.

But the bad thing is that there is a Murakami Yu outside as an assistant. Once the Mist Hidden Ninja in front of him shows a weakness or flaw, the opponent will immediately come forward to remedy it.

And these two are all fully developed real jonins, and their strength is far beyond the special jonins who only have "one skill".

Although it was only a short fight, Qingming could probably see that the strength of these two people may not reach the level of elite jonins, but it is also better than ordinary jonins.

In this way, under the joint efforts, without using the Mangekyō Sharingan, he really can't take the opponent for a while.

However, Qingming is not very anxious.

In the battle, he glanced at the battlefield around him.

It can be seen that although the Konoha side is on the passive defense, it will launch a counterattack from time to time.

And being able to launch a counterattack while defending is enough to explain the problem.

Obviously, the pressure on Konoha is not that great.

In this case, there is no need for him to rush to do things.

The two people in front of him can be used to hone his swordsmanship and further improve his proficiency in the "instant sword technique".

With this thought, Qingming no longer thought about it and began to concentrate on dealing with the two people.

And there seemed to be a tacit understanding on the Kirigakure side. Seeing that the three of them were fighting fiercely, they did not continue to send people over.

Of course, it is also possible that Kirigakure could not spare any extra manpower, so they could only let them fight here.

But no matter which situation, it gave the three people room to play freely.

So, the two Kirigakure senior ninjas used all their means, and mastered various physical skills, ninjutsu and illusions in turn, trying to kill Qingming.

However, facing these attacks, Qingming behaved quite calmly.

During the battle, unless necessary, he only used swordsmanship to fight the enemy, especially the "instant sword technique", which clearly showed that he was using the two people as a whetstone.

But even so, the two Kirigakure senior ninjas could not do anything to him.

Earlier, Qingming said that if he didn't use the trump card of the Mangekyō Sharingan, it would be difficult to defeat the other party in a short time.

This is the situation when he takes the initiative to attack.

If he switches to defense, the situation is quite different. It is undoubtedly a foolish dream for the other party to get an advantage from him.

That is why Qingming behaves so calmly.

······

Time passes by minute by minute.

In the blink of an eye, nearly half an hour has passed.

The battle between Qingming and the two Mist Hidden Ninjas is still going on.

Half an hour is long and short.

For the battle between the jonins, half an hour is nothing, but for most of the middle and lower ninjas, the consumption is a bit large.

Whether it is chakra or physical strength, it is the same.

And the decline in physical strength means a low state.

In this case, mistakes are most likely to occur.

And mistakes mean flaws.

The battle between ninjas is largely to ensure that they do not reveal flaws, and then look for the enemy's flaws to attack.

From this, it is not difficult to imagine that in the next period of time, the casualties on both sides will inevitably increase greatly. It may not reach the stage of white-hot, but it is not far away.

However, Qingming only glanced at these and stopped paying attention.

As long as Konoha does not collapse, there will be no big problem.

As for life or death, it depends on one's own luck.

Now, he just wants to improve his proficiency in "Instant Sword Technique" as soon as possible.

In the past half hour, with two jonins as sparring partners, his proficiency in the "Instant Sword Technique" has directly increased by nearly 500 points.

This makes his "Instant Sword Technique" closer to the perfect state of lv7.

Such an opportunity, he can't miss it.

And his naked posture of looking for a sparring partner naturally attracted the attention of Murakami Yu and another Mist Hidden Ninja.

After a battle, the two of them roughly guessed his plan and knew that he might be using them as a whetstone.

However, they had no other way except to cooperate.

In the past half hour, they did not think about killing Qingming, but no matter how hard they tried, they could not do anything to Qingming.

In this case, what can they do?

Call for support?

Sorry, Ozawa Yuki has clearly told them that there are no extra people to send to them.

As for leaving,

that is even more impossible.

Not to mention that the superiors have orders, they must entangle Qingming, even if there is no order, they cannot leave at will.

They are here, and Qingming is just using them as a whetstone. Once they choose to leave, who knows if he will attack other Mist Ninjas?

Even if he doesn't attack other Mist Ninjas, if Qingming gets serious and tries his best to deal with them, it will be a huge trouble.

In this case, it is better to just muddle through.

Perhaps in villages like Konoha and Iwagakure that attach great importance to ideological education, or in warlike villages like Kumogakure, ninjas will still shed their blood for the village, but in the Mist Village, which is known as the "Blood Mist Village", most ninjas do not have such an idea.

Moreover, even in Konoha and the other two villages, most of the ninjas who have such an idea are young ninjas who have just graduated from school.

As long as they experience the dark side of the village a little bit, unless they are idealists, most ninjas will no longer have such naive ideas.

Therefore, Murakami Yu and another Mist Ninja tacitly chose to act as Qingming's whetstone after they determined that they could not kill Qingming and could not ignore the orders of their superiors and leave.

Only in this way can they save their lives to the greatest extent.

As for the battlefield situation.

To be honest, they felt that they had done a great job by holding Qingming here and preventing him from participating in the battles between other jonin. What else could they be asked to do?

Moreover, what they were doing now was exactly what Ozawa Yuki expected when he assigned them the task?

Therefore, the two of them did not feel guilty about slacking off.

Qingming also saw the changes in the two, but he did not pay much attention to it. All he needed was a whetstone.

If the other party cooperated, it would be fine. If not, they were not the only two on the field.

Now, the cooperation of the other two saved him a lot of effort.

In this way, the three of them fought with a strange tacit understanding.

During this period, Qingming's proficiency in "Instant Sword Technique" continued to grow at a steady rate, and gradually approached the perfect state of lv7.