Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 722 Appearance
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In the forest, several figures were moving quickly.

When they arrived at a certain place, they stopped.

After looking around, one of them said with a look of resignation: "Lost!"

However, neither the Kumogakure jonin who was the team leader nor the Anbu ninja who had been working with them paid any attention to him.

After a long while, the Kumogakure jonin finally spoke up, "Is it him?"

Hearing this, the Anbu ninja beside him hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "It shouldn't be wrong."

After hearing the conversation between the two, the others were either confused or thoughtful.

Finally, it was the complaining Kumogakure Chunin who spoke up: "Captain, do you already know the identity of the enemy?"

Hearing the question from his subordinates, Noda Rui hesitated for a moment, but still did not hide anything, and answered cautiously: "If I am not mistaken, that person should be Uchiha Qingming."

"Uchiha Qingming? Ghost Sword Qingming!"

After hearing Noda Rui's answer, Nishikawa Yuhiro and several other team members were all surprised, and a little curious.

It’s not their fault. It’s mainly because Qing Ming has become quite famous in the past two years and many people have heard of him.

However, in the past two years, Qing Ming's main activities have been in the battlefields of the Rain Country and the Hidden Mist Village. They have only heard of him but never seen him.

This time, it was the first time they had close contact with each other.

It was like a character from a vernacular novel suddenly appearing before them. How could they not be surprised?

However, after the surprise, there was a faint fear.

After all, a person's reputation is like the shadow of a tree!

In the past two years, many senior ninjas were killed by Qingming. These little Karamis probably don't even have the chance to fight back in front of him, so they will naturally be afraid.

Thinking back to the two teams that had just been wiped out by Qingming, they felt a pang of fear in their hearts. Fortunately, they stayed with their captain, otherwise they might have become one of them.

Just as everyone was thinking about it, the familiar chakra fluctuation came again.

However, this time, everyone did not set off immediately, but waited for Noda Rui's order.

Noda Rui and the Kumogakure Anbu looked at each other and nodded to each other.

Then, the team led by Noda Rui continued to pursue Qingming, while the Kumogakure Anbu contacted other people and reported the latest findings to the headquarters to make the next arrangements.

It’s no wonder they are so cautious. It’s just that Qingming puts too much pressure on people, so they have to be careful.

Even the team led by Noda Rui was nominally pursuing, but in fact they were just following behind Qing Ming to make sure he didn't go too far out of their sight, and they had no plans to go any further.

Noda Rui knew very well that with Qing Ming's strength, it was not something that a mere team of theirs could deal with. They must not act rashly before being fully prepared.

Qingming naturally discovered this as well.

As a result, his "breakout" became even more unscrupulous.

Not only some Chunin teams, but also some Jonin teams, if the situation permits, he will go up and fight a few moves.

He did not seek to kill every Cloud Ninja he encountered, only to spread the news of his arrival as much as possible.

In this way, the Konoha spies hiding in the dark will have a chance to respond.

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Time passes minute by minute.

In a blink of an eye, Qingming had been in the mountains for half an hour.

In the past half hour, he used the convenience brought by the Byakugan to continuously attack the cloud ninja search team, disrupting the layout of the Hidden Cloud Village in the mountains. During this period, the Hidden Cloud Village organized people to encircle him more than once, but he avoided them all with the perspective ability of the Byakugan and the "Heavenly Guardian" of the Mangekyō Sharingan.

This made the Cloud Ninjas feel extremely frustrated.

However, they still had to follow Qingming and continue chasing him.

There was no way out. Qing Ming's moves were really "steady, accurate and ruthless". As long as they left a little gap, Qing Ming would attack and kill those mountain searching teams.

In this way, even if it is to protect the mountain search teams, they must put pressure on Qingming.

As for asking those mountain search teams to withdraw
Not to mention that Qingming's attack was just a drop in the bucket for the entire mountain search team. Even if the losses were increased several times, they would not make this decision.

The reason was simple, they were worried that Qingming and the Konoha spy would get together and leave together.

They did not forget that Qingming also mastered a flying ninjutsu. Once Qingming found someone, he would most likely leave from the sky.

In this case, their losses will be huge.

So, no matter what, they have to persist in the search.

Not to mention finding the target, at least we have to put pressure on Qingming and not let him stay in one place for too long to avoid him meeting with the spies.

It has to be said that their strategy was quite successful, and Qingming did have to keep moving.

In this way, time gradually passed as the two sides dealt with each other.

As the sun was setting and the light in the forest began to dim, Qingming finally discovered something unusual.

Next to a big tree, he looked at a mark on the trunk and said to himself, "Finally it appeared!"

This mark was nothing else but the spy's contact code and identity mentioned in the mission scroll.

Without any hesitation, Qing Ming immediately ran towards the mountain in the direction indicated by the mark.

On the way, he encountered several interceptions by the Cloud Ninja, but he avoided them all with "Heaven's Guard".

In this way, he followed the marks all the way and arrived at the halfway point of the mountain safely.

Originally, this place was shrouded in fog, and now it was getting dark, the temperature dropped, and the concentration of the fog became even higher.

Standing here, Qingming's field of vision was less than three meters, which greatly affected his efficiency in finding marks.

There is no chakra mixed in the mist here, so it does not affect his Byakugan vision.

Otherwise, the people might have already walked into the encirclement of the Hidden Cloud Village before the mark was found.

That’s right, there is also a mountain search team deployed by the Hidden Cloud Village here, and there are quite a few of them.

As an area covered by fog, this place is obviously very suitable for Tibetans. Although the leader of the Hidden Cloud Village does not like to use his brain, his subordinates are not stupid.

Therefore, this area is where they focus their search.

Not only the mountain search team, after confirming that the contact person was Qingming, many senior ninja teams specifically designed to hunt him down were also arranged here by the Yunyin Command.

The purpose is very simple, which is to rush to the battlefield as soon as possible after the battle occurs and entangle Qingming.

Qing Ming naturally discovered these people, but the mission was about to be completed and he didn't want to create any more trouble.

So, he changed his previous style and began to use the fog here to fight guerrilla warfare with the Cloud Ninja Team, searching for the marks left by the spy in their blind spots.

Through these marks, he has basically confirmed that the other party is hiding in this area, but how to get there has become a problem.

(End of this chapter)