Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 1170 Reaction and Estimation

Time goes back to a quarter of an hour ago.

Just as Qingming was reading Danzo's memories, in a faraway place, Orochimaru, who was conducting research in a laboratory, suddenly stopped what he was doing.

"what?"

He let out a soft "hmm".

Then, he closed his eyes, raised his hand and formed a hand seal, as if sensing something.

A moment later, he suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze filled with astonishment.

"They've actually been released? What's going on?"

Orochimaru murmured to himself, a thoughtful look flashing in his eyes.

Finally, unable to resist his curiosity, he stepped out of the laboratory.

Arriving at a spacious underground hall, he took out a brush and quickly began to carve something on the ground.

Then, twisted spells appeared under his pen, eventually forming a complex perception array.

Then, Orochimaru sat cross-legged in it, trying his best to project his spirit through the connection of 'Impure World Reincarnation'.

However, the distance was too great, and when Qingming read Danzo's memories, he directly and forcefully suppressed all of Danzo's consciousness.

Therefore, Orochimaru ultimately failed. He tried several times but was unable to project his spiritual power.

However, Orochimaru showed no sign of discouragement; instead, he revealed a hint of interest.

Long ago, Danzo first learned about Qingming from him, and then organized the Root ninjas to assassinate him, but failed. After that, he became interested in Qingming.

After all, he was very clear about the abilities of the Root ninjas.

At that time, Qingming had just finished the Chunin Exams and his strength was only average, but the Root's ambush still failed.

From then on, he knew that Qingming was not as simple as he appeared.

After that, due to the tense situation on the battlefield, he temporarily put aside his special attention to Qingming.

When he heard the name Qingming again, he had already been promoted to Jonin, and was already one of the best Jonin.

This made Orochimaru even more interested in him.

Unfortunately, he never had the chance to spend time alone or talk with Qingming.

Later, during his escape from Konoha, he was intercepted by Qingming and had no choice but to release Danzo's Impure World Body.

Originally, he planned to use this tactic to dampen Qingming's spirit.

Unexpectedly, Danzo's Impure World Body was directly sealed by him, causing him to lose a major trump card and also lose contact with the other party.

Now, after a long time, he sensed the connection with Danzo's impure body again. How could he not be curious?

However, since we cannot project our spiritual power there, we will pull Danzo back.

Orochimaru thought this way, and he did this way.

But when he actually tried to implement it, he found that the instructions had been easily overwritten.

Upon noticing this change, Orochimaru was taken aback for a moment, then let out a chilling laugh.

"Hehehe~"

At the same time, he said, "Interesting, this is really interesting!"

As he said this, he excitedly stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, exuding a sinister air.

Sitting there, he pondered for a while. He stopped trying to recall Danzo's impure body and did not sever the connection with him. Instead, he used the time to sense Danzo's location through this connection.

Since we can't project our mental energy there, nor can we pull Danzo back, we can only pinpoint his location and send people to find him.

He believed that by then, he would be able to meet Qingming, who interested him.

With this thought in mind, Orochimaru closed his eyes.

Time passes minute by minute.

A few minutes later.

He opened his eyes again.

A hint of regret flashed in his eyes.

Because he had only just learned the Impure World Reincarnation technique when he converted Danzo, and his mastery of it was not deep, the connection between the two was not very close.

This prevented him from pinpointing Danzo's exact location; he could only vaguely sense that Danzo was located in a sea area between the Land of Lightning and the Land of Water.

Therefore, searching for it is also a troublesome matter.

However, he still wanted to give it a try. Immediately, Orochimaru decided to give orders for his subordinates to go and search for it.

However, at that moment, Danzo's location suddenly changed dramatically in my perception.

Orochimaru quickly focused his mind and began to sense things again.

At this moment, Qingming used the 'Flying Thunder God Technique' to take Danzo to that deserted island to extract chakra.

A moment later, Orochimaru reopened his eyes.

A hint of doubt flashed in his eyes, but after that doubt came a bad premonition.

Actually, having to search one more place is nothing; it just takes a little more time.

The key point is that this sudden change in location reminded him of some kind of ninjutsu.

That's right, it's the famous 'Flying Thunder God Technique'.

If it really is this kind of ninjutsu, then his ambitions will be difficult to realize.

"I hope it's not what I'm thinking."

Orochimaru pondered for a moment, then left the hall.

In any case, he planned to send his men to investigate the two places he had just sensed.

Then, based on the exploration results, further arrangements will be made.

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at the same time.

the other side.

Qingming was not entirely unaware of the actions Orochimaru might take.

As early as when Orochimaru attempted to recall Danzo, he guessed that the other party might be able to pinpoint his location based on the connection of 'Edo Tensei'.

But he didn't care.

Perhaps he would worry about being noticed by the Sage of Six Paths, and thus find another place to extract Danzo's chakra, but what about Orochimaru?
To reiterate, with his current strength, he has no reason to fear his opponent.

He was unwilling to contact the other party directly because he didn't want to cause any unnecessary trouble, but if the other party did come looking for him, he wouldn't mind giving them some honesty.

Who knows, this might allow him to find out about Jugo's birthplace sooner!
Therefore, how things ultimately develop depends entirely on what Orochimaru does; he just needs to adapt to the situation.

Putting aside these distracting thoughts, Qingming stopped thinking about it.

After browsing through all the memories of his shadow clones in his mind and absorbing and digesting the cultivation experience contained therein, he once again used the 'Multiple Shadow Clone Technique' to begin a new round of cultivation.

For the next five days, he planned to focus all his energy on cultivation, hoping to estimate the time required for this physical transformation before the end of this round of arduous training.

Based on past experience, this time should be sufficient.

And this is indeed the case.

Five days later.

evening.

When Qingming finished his last round of cultivation for the day and sensed his own progress, he immediately noticed significant improvement.

Based on these advancements, he then deduced the time required for this physical transformation.

Preliminary estimates suggest it will take approximately five and a half months.

This timeframe is one month longer than the last one.

Even so, this was after he increased the speed of strengthening his body by 30%.

Otherwise, it would probably take even longer.

This also shows that the further down the basic attributes go, the more difficult it becomes to improve them, especially attributes like 'Constitution' that require progress step by step.

Fortunately, it's only five and a half months, which isn't too long.

In addition, after about half a month, his 'Wood Release' will be able to accumulate the last bit of evolution points needed for evolution.

Once it breaks through, it will be equivalent to the level of the Mangekyou Sharingan.

This is absolutely a huge step forward.

Correspondingly, the improvement in his qualifications will be enormous.

At that time, the difficulty of strengthening his body will be reduced, and the time required for transformation will naturally be shortened.

Qingming was very much looking forward to it.

　Plans can't keep up with changes, sorry, only two updates today.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)