Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 714 Return
Time flies, the years are like a shuttle.

In the blink of an eye, another half month has passed.

Almost a month has passed since I received the transfer order and left the village.

The second batch of support troops arranged by the village has also arrived.

In addition, according to the latest intelligence, the Hidden Cloud Village seems to have been confirmed defeated and will not launch a fierce attack in the short term. The situation here will completely return to its previous state.

Therefore, there is no need for more personnel to stay, especially so many elite troops.

So, Qingming just received an order from the village, asking them to return in batches.

And he himself was on the list of the first group of people returning.

Originally, after receiving this order, Qing Ming did not intend to go out in person.

After all, compared to the way here, it is basically less likely to encounter much obstruction on the way back.

Therefore, it is enough to send a shadow clone to accompany the team as a token of your appreciation.

But in the end, he thought about it and decided to do it himself.

It wasn't that he noticed or had a premonition that the way back would not be peaceful or anything like that, but after practicing for so long, he needed to change his mind and relax a little.

In the past half month, he was like a robot. Every day he was either practicing or on his way to practice. Although he completed the previously formulated practice plan on time and achieved a lot of success, he had accumulated too much fatigue and now urgently needed to relax.

And returning to the village with the team is a good way.

Of course, this does not mean that he will completely give up practicing.

After all, it took them more than two days, almost three days, to get here.

Now that time is not so tight, it will naturally take more time to return.

Even if he wanted to relax, he wouldn't waste so much time.

Therefore, daily practice must continue, but the intensity will be reduced.

For example, he would only practice the 'Palm Immortal Technique' and 'Heart-Reflecting Technique', which required the body to practice, for a while when he was resting at night, and he did not intend to continue practicing at other times.

As for 'Water Style: Great Exploding Water Wave', 'Flying Thunder God Technique', 'Illusion: Darkness Technique', 'Eight Trigrams Seal', etc., although he will still create shadow clones to practice them, the overall strength will only be about one third of what it was before.

As for 'Ninjutsu: Mind Reading Technique' and 'Shadow Sword Technique'...

The former, with the additional investment of 41000 chakra points after completing 'Earth Style: Earth Flow River', had successfully advanced to the perfect state of lv7 (0/0) four days ago.

This gave him another 150000 chakra points at his disposal every day.

These chakras were directly allocated to the "Illusion: Darkness Technique" to further accelerate its growth.

The latter, on the other hand, will be able to reach the state of perfection earlier.

With his reckless investment of chakra, although he did not advance within the theoretically fastest two or three days, it took him less than a week to successfully reach the perfect state of lv7 (0/0).

The perfection of this skill completely made up for his shortcomings in close combat.

At the same time, it also completely formed the melee system he had envisioned before, which was formed by first-class swordsmanship combined with the three ultimate skills of "Instant Swordsmanship", "Phantom Swordsmanship" and "Shadow Swordsmanship".

Qingming estimated that if he activated the Sharingan now, his melee combat ability could be improved by at least 20 to 30 percent.

Then, combine it with the ninjutsu learned from the Hidden Cloud Village - Lightning Release: Lightning Sword!

Qingming can confirm that he is no weaker than anyone in close combat.

Even for a top martial arts master like Might Guy, it is impossible to pose any threat to him unless the Eight Gates of Ninjutsu is opened to five or more.

Of course, if it opens to the eighth gate, he will try to hide as far away as possible.

After all, once the 'Death Gate' is opened, Might Guy is no longer just a physical ninja. In that state, he can even distort space.

At this time, not to mention the physical skills based on the method of attacking and dodging, even other ninjutsu and illusion techniques will be greatly affected.

Of course, Qingming would not be afraid, after all, his "Heavenly Control" was a natural counter to this kind of ability.

Uh……

That's too far!
Having said that, the perfection of 'Shadow Sword Technique' also gave him an extra 40000 chakra points to freely use every day.

Qing Ming did not hesitate at all and directly put all of this chakra into the 'Nirvana Hermitage Technique'.

In this way, its growth rate has been further improved.

Qing Ming collected his thoughts and stopped thinking about it. Instead, he continued to rush towards the village with his teammates.

Along the way, they saw many dilapidated towns and many refugees.

Obviously, the impact of the Third Ninja World War has not yet subsided, and the Fire Country is still not stable.

This is also one of the reasons why the village urgently called them back.

Indeed, there are not many of them.

However, each of them is an elite soldier. Even if they cannot act on their own, they can lead a team and wipe out one or two bandit camps without any problem.

In this way, one hundred people would be one hundred teams.

This is definitely a force that cannot be ignored for the Konohagakure Village, which is eager to stabilize the interior of the Fire Country.

Therefore, as soon as the situation on the front line stabilized, the village hurriedly called them back.

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Five days later.

Qingming and others returned to the village.

Even though less than a month had passed, everyone could clearly feel that the village was much more prosperous than before. It did not have the dilapidated and depressed feeling of the outside world at all. Instead, it was full of vitality and vigor, and the whole thing was thriving.

"It seems that the village is very satisfied with the new Hokage, Minato Namikaze!"

Walking on the street, Qingming looked at the crowds of people around him and said to himself.

As the saying goes, what kind of leader you are, what kind of team you lead.

The previous Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, was not very old, but he was already in his twilight years.

Therefore, the team he led was also full of decadence.

Perhaps he himself did not realize that the younger generation in the village was already tired of his way of ruling.

For this reason, in another timeline, when Namikaze Minato died in the battle to seal the Nine-Tails and the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, returned to the throne, many young people expressed disappointment with the village and were listless when doing their work.

Ninjas are the core of the ninja village, and their attitudes will directly or indirectly affect the behavior and status of other people in the village.

One or two cases are not a big deal and may not have any big impact.

But if most of the ninja community has this attitude, then the village will naturally appear lifeless.

This is also one of the reasons why Konoha's overall strength continued to decline after the Third Hokage returned to the throne.

On the contrary, Minato Namikaze is a young man who is naturally enterprising.

In this way, the whole village will naturally become full of vitality.

(End of this chapter)