Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 688 Discovery
after an hour.

Deep in the Weeping Forest.

Qingming and others are moving forward carefully.

The so-called Ghost Weeping Forest is the alpine forest that Qingming saw on the sand table not long ago.

Just as the intelligence said, it is extremely dangerous.

In just a short period of time, they had suffered attacks from poisonous insects and ferocious beasts no less than five times, and encountered many traps that were either still effective or had become obsolete.

However, the team members selected by Qingming this time are all Chunin at weakest, and the captains of the four teams are even Jonin-level ninjas.

Therefore, there was no non-combat casualties.

Time continues to pass.

At a certain moment, a senior ninja walking in the front suddenly raised his right arm, signaling everyone to stop.

Suddenly, everyone stopped.

Moreover, they silently drew out their own ninja tools and looked around vigilantly.

However, nothing happened around.

At this time, everyone looked at the jonin who was leading the way in front.

He suddenly put his hands together, concentrated his mind, opened his eyes, and began to scan the surrounding situation.

It turned out that this person was a ninja from the Hyuga clan. He had just asked everyone to stop and was just routinely collecting information about the surrounding area.

This made everyone feel a little relieved.

In the team, Qing Ming saw the changes before and after and didn't say much.

His eyes were focused on the Hyuga clan's jonin in front of him.

Indeed, he also has a rolling eye, which can serve as a pathfinder, but his rolling eye comes from an improper source and it is not easy to show it in front of others.

Therefore, he picked this person out to carry out this interception mission.

This Hyuga clan's senior ninja observed for a while, and after taking in everything within a kilometer radius, he began to lead the way again.

Thanks to the convenient plug-in like Byakuyan, they were able to reach the depths of the forest in just one hour.

After walking for about half an hour, Qingming estimated that they were getting close to the group from the Hidden Cloud Village and stopped moving forward with the group.

After instructing them to continue forward, he used 'Wind Style: Wind Wings' and 'Chakra Feather Robe', flew into the sky, and began to circle over the forest.

Everyone looked at his leaving back and paused slightly, but soon, under the leadership of the Hyuga clan's senior ninja, they continued to move forward according to the original plan.

They knew Qingming's idea. He just wanted to observe the Ghost Forest from a high place and find the trace of the Cloud Ninja.

At that time, they can take action and defeat the troops of the Hidden Cloud Village one by one.

However, considering the density of trees in the Devil's Weeping Forest, Qing Ming thought it would not be easy for him to spot the Cloud Ninja from a high vantage point.

This added some worries to their hearts.

However, they did not know that Qingming also had a cold eye, and the so-called obstruction by the tree canopy was nothing to him.

Flying over the forest, he could easily use the perspective of his byakuyan to see through the obstruction of the treetops above and see everything in the forest below.

In this way, combined with his flying ninjutsu, it won't take long before he can scan the entire forest.

It can be said that as long as the Cloud Ninja is in this forest, they cannot escape his detection.

The so-called difficulties do not exist at all for him.

That is, he didn't want to reveal too much, otherwise he would have been able to lead a group of people straight to the Cloud Ninja infiltration team as soon as they entered the forest.

However, the time is almost up, and it is time to end this meaningless confrontation.

Thinking this in his mind, Qingming raised his hands to form a seal, released the 'protective seal' between his brows, opened his white eyes, and then flew close to the sky above the forest.

Although he couldn't fly at full speed due to the limited speed at which his brain could receive information, it was not that difficult for him to scan the entire forest.

What's more, he didn't need to scan the entire forest.

Not long ago, the latest news came from Nara Fufeng. Although the specific route of action of the Cloud Ninja Infiltration Team is still unclear, several possibilities have been roughly planned.

In this way, he only needs to prioritize patrolling these possible routes.

And this doesn't require much effort.

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A quarter of an hour later, after Qingming inspected three possible routes in succession, he finally made a discovery.

midair.

His flying action suddenly stopped.

Then, all attention was focused on it.

As he observed with his eyes wide open, he saw a team of more than a dozen people moving forward cautiously in the woods ahead.

Judging from the emblem of the Hidden Cloud Village on them, it is not difficult to see that they are all Hidden Cloud Ninjas.

At this point in time, he couldn't think of any other possibility for the Cloud Ninja team to appear here except for the infiltration team.

Moreover, through the chakra in their bodies, Qingming can confirm that these people are very strong and are in line with the elite positioning of the Cloud Ninja Infiltration Team.

Combining the two, Qingming basically confirmed the identities of these people.

However, even so, he did not act rashly.

This is not to say that he was afraid of losing.

With his current strength, even if the Cloud Ninja team below were all mid-level and jonin, they would not be able to pose a fatal threat to him.

The reason why he didn't want to take action was that he had not yet confirmed the locations of the other two Cloud Ninja infiltration teams, and if he took action, there would be too many variables.

The second is that he doesn't want to reveal too much.

Qingming did not forget that the incident with Danzo had just happened. If he performed too conspicuously, it would easily attract other people's attention.

What's more, this matter is not just his own, so we should always give others a chance.

Therefore, we should wait until the locations of the other two Cloud Ninja infiltration teams are confirmed before notifying those subordinates and then we can all act together.

With this thought in mind, Qing Ming no longer approached, but chose another direction and flew away at high speed.

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at the same time.

In the woods below.

A Kumogakure jonin suddenly stopped.

Seeing this, others immediately became alert.

After a while, there was no movement around.

At this time, a Kumogakure jonin said, "Izhizi, is there any problem?"

The female Kumogakure jonin called Izhiko withdrew her perception and shook her head, saying, "Just now I suddenly had a feeling that something seemed to be spying on us in secret."

Hearing this, the Kumogakure jonin who asked the question immediately perked up.

He knew Iedeko's abilities. Her frontal combat power might not be strong, but her perception was the highest among everyone.

Since she discovered the problem, it must be true.

As soon as he thought of this, he quickly asked, "Did you find anything?"

Jingzhizi shook her head and said, "No, that feeling was just a flash and disappeared quickly. I don't know if it was an illusion."

Hearing this, the Kumogakure jonin who asked the question frowned slightly. He didn't think this was an illusion, but Iedeko indeed didn't notice anything.

This made him feel a little uneasy.

But this operation is very important and he can't afford to waste time here.

"In that case, I have to be more careful, eh~"

With a light sigh, the Hidden Cloud Ninja Jonin didn't think any more and immediately notified the team to be careful and continued to move forward.

At this time, Qingming didn't know that because of his spying, these Cloud Ninjas became more cautious than before.

And this will inevitably make their subsequent blocking operations go wrong.

However, even if he knew, he wouldn't care.

As I said, in the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy or calculation is futile.

Similarly, when one's strength is overwhelming, no matter how careful the opponent is, it will be useless, and it will only waste a little more of his chakra.

(End of this chapter)