Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 551 Effortless
"Who is it? Come out!"

Seeing five of his subordinates killed or injured in an instant, the leading Kirigakure jonin looked grim. While letting out a low growl, he used ninjutsu towards the place where Qingming was hiding in the forest.

"Water Style: Explosive Water Wave~"

At this moment, he no longer cared about hiding, and his first move was a powerful one, with the aim of forcing Qingming out.

He leaped back and stood on a tree. A stream of water came out of his mouth and turned into a wave the moment it hit the ground, rushing rapidly towards the dense forest in front.

Along the way, whether it was flowers, trees, soil, or rocks, they were all swept away and rushed into the distance.

In the forest.

When Qingming saw this, he was not surprised but happy.

There was no other reason. He had actually wanted to learn this ninjutsu for some time.

The clearing effect of this technique is similar to that of the "Wind Style: Great Breakthrough" he performed with all his strength, and it can also create a lake filled with water vapor, greatly enhancing the subsequent water style ninjutsu, and its practicality is extremely good.

Not to mention that if this technique is practiced to the limit, it can be advanced to 'Water Style: Great Explosion Water Wave', which is a rare A-level ninjutsu. Qingming was even more jealous.

Unfortunately, he never had the chance to learn.

And this time, he saw the whole process of the other party performing the spell. How could he miss such a good opportunity?

With almost no hesitation, the moment the other party made a move, Qingming, who was hiding in the forest, used the copying ability of the Sharingan.

Not only that, he also activated his Byakugan, using his ability of perspective to more closely observe the flow of chakra in the opponent's body when he was casting a spell, so as to assist the Sharingan in copying the opponent's ninjutsu.

Hard work pays off. With the cooperation of the two major pupil techniques, Qingming learned the technique as soon as the opponent performed it.

A new skill quietly appeared on his panel - Water Style: Water Explosion Wave: Level 1 (1/200)!
'I wonder if the other party will be so angry that he will vomit blood after knowing this?'

Qingming was thinking in his mind, but his hands were moving quickly.

He quickly formed seals with his hands, and before the waves hit him, he performed the ninjutsu - Wind Style: Wind Wings.

brush~
A pair of light blue chakra wings appeared behind him.

Qing Ming flapped his wings and instantly flew away from the ground, rushed out of the dense forest and flew high into the sky.

Below, the water flowed with great force, flattening a large area of ​​forest, but did not hurt Qingming at all.

When the leading Kirigakure jonin saw Qingming in the sky, his face suddenly changed.

It’s not that he was afraid of Qingming, or that he was angry because his ninjutsu failed to hurt Qingming. This was all within his expectations, and his goal was simply to force out the enemy hiding in the dark.

Now, the goal has been achieved.

His face looked so ugly, and the most important reason was that he was worried about the failure of the mission.

Although from the moment he performed the 'Water Style: Explosive Water Breakthrough', and even earlier when Qing Ming performed the 'Fire Style: Great Dragon Fire Technique', it was destined that they would not be able to approach the Black Stone Stronghold silently.

However, he still had some thoughts in his mind, hoping that the Konoha ninjas in the Black Stone Stronghold would not react so quickly.

This way, they still have a chance.

But now, Qingming is flying in the sky.

If the other party did not entangle with them and left directly and passed the message to the Blackstone stronghold, then their mission would be 100% failed.

Not only that, if the other party brings more people to encircle and suppress them, they might not even be able to hope to escape.

If the leading Mist Ninja can think of such a simple thing, then naturally others can think of it as well.

Therefore, everyone couldn't help but feel a little bit of despair in their hearts.

Immediately, someone took action and prepared to capture Qingming.

However, what no one expected was that Qing Ming did not choose to leave, but instead flew straight towards them.

"Hmm? Good opportunity!"

Seeing this, the eyes of the Mist Ninjas lit up, and they immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to make amends.

If they could keep Qingming here, then there would still be a glimmer of hope for their actions.

To put it another way, even if his mission failed after this, killing a future star of Konoha would greatly undermine the morale of the enemy.

And they can also give an explanation to the village.

As soon as this thought came to mind, almost all the Mist Ninjas took action.

Although Qingming's Byakugan is not yet able to read the target's thoughts, he can guess some of their thoughts by looking at the rapidly accelerating chakra flow in their bodies.

And this is exactly what Qingming needs.

From the beginning to the end, he had never thought of actively passing the message back. Not to mention how long it would take for others to come to support him, if these Mist Ninjas were scared away and fled in different directions, wouldn't he have lost a lot of chakra?

That’s right, in Qingming’s eyes, these people had become his prey to plunder his chakra.

Therefore, he would never allow such a thing to happen.

Now is the right time for them to take the initiative to attack.

In mid-air, Qing Ming looked at the dense kunai and shurikens that were shot at him. Without any hesitation, he immediately raised his hands to form seals and performed the ninjutsu - Earth Style: Hardening Technique!

A layer of faint light appeared on his body surface, as if nothing had changed, but in fact it was not the case.

At this moment, Qingming's skin defense reached an extremely exaggerated level.

At this moment, if someone observed him through the Byakugan, they would be able to see that on the surface of his skin, there was a layer of extremely condensed earth-style chakra gathered, making it much harder than steel.

This is the effect after the 'Earth Escape Hardening Technique' is advanced to perfection.

Not only will it not change his image and is quite concealed, it can also show different hardness depending on the amount of chakra he consumes in casting the spell and his mastery of earth-attribute chakra.

With Qingming's current level, if he uses this technique with all his strength, his defense will be enough to resist most attacks from ninja tools, even if someone uses wind-style chakra to increase the sharpness of the ninja tools.

During the effective time of the ninjutsu, it is difficult to break his defense with simple physical attacks unless the lightning ninjutsu that restrains earth ninjutsu is used.

Just like now, Qingming directly rushed to a place less than four or five meters away from the Mist Ninja team while facing a bunch of shurikens and kunai attacks.

Without waiting for the Mist Ninjas to react, Qing Ming raised his hands and formed seals, then performed a C-level ninjutsu - Lightning Release: Lightning Strike - at a dazzling speed!
crackle~
Then two almost simultaneous lightning strikes were heard, and a beam of lightning shot out from the palms of each of his hands, accurately hitting two people in the Mist Hidden Team.

In just a moment, the two men were electrocuted and their bodies were charred black. They fell to the ground with a thump. Although they were not dead, they had already lost their fighting ability.

"hateful!"

Seeing this scene, a special jonin in the team cursed inwardly, then immediately formed a hand seal and performed a ninjutsu that Qingming was very familiar with.

Then a water dragon jumped out from the lake under the opponent's feet, rushing towards the blue sky with unparalleled power.

That’s right, this is the B-level ninjutsu - Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet Jutsu!

It can be seen that the opponent has a very high level of mastery of this technique. If converted into panel proficiency, it should be at level 6, close to the perfect level 7.

At the same time, he also has a very good sense of timing.

Qingming had just completed an attack and didn't want to fight the opponent head-on, so he planned to make a move, flap his wings, and fly away from the attack range of the opponent's condensed water dragon.

But at this moment, his Byakugan suddenly noticed that behind him, the leading Kirigakure Jonin had completed the hand seal at some point and raised his right hand.

His index finger was extended, his thumb was raised high, and the other three fingers were retracted into the palm, making a shooting gesture.

This familiar action instantly reminded Qingming of the Jounin of the Hozuki clan who had fought with him before - Hozuki Zangetsu!
Although the opponent is good at using short swords, he has also performed several secret ninjutsu of the Kizuna clan, including the "Water Style: Water Cannon Technique". This iconic move is exactly the same as that of the Kirigakure Jonin who is mentioned later.

"So he is a jonin from the Kizuna clan."

Qingming murmured, his brain working rapidly.

After observing the angle at which the opponent released the ninjutsu and recalling the attack power and speed of this jutsu, Qing Ming immediately decided to postpone his escape.

As soon as he thought of this, the wings he was about to flap stopped in mid-air.

The next moment, a drop of water like a bullet flew past him, leaving a lingering white mark in the air.

Qingming stopped decisively and avoided the fatal blow.

Behind him, the senior ninja from the Kizuna clan saw this and a look of slight regret and confusion on his face. He seemed to be wondering how Qingming discovered his sneak attack?
He had obviously done it very covertly, but Qingming still managed to escape.

This puzzled him a lot.

Qing Ming certainly would not explain for the other party, as he now had to face another trouble.

Because of the obstruction of the Hozuki clan's senior ninja, he missed the best opportunity to escape, and now he can only fight head-on with the water dragon below.

"Hmph~ Trouble!"

Qing Ming snorted coldly, thinking that he was in trouble. He quickly raised his hands to form seals, and almost before Suiryu got close, he performed the ninjutsu - Water Style: Great Samedan Jutsu!

A huge shark missile condensed from his hand. The moment it took shape, it swallowed the huge water dragon like sucking noodles.

However, because the distance was too close, it was as if the water dragon had taken its own initiative and drilled into the shark's mouth.

Seeing this scene, the expressions of the Mist Ninjas below instantly changed from excitement to astonishment.

Before they could react, Qing Ming controlled the huge shark that had just swallowed the water dragon and expanded again, and pounced downwards.

(End of this chapter)