Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 969 Completion and Return (Third Update)
"Who?"

A low shout was heard in the underground base.

Qing Ming quickly said, "It's me!"

Hearing Qingming's voice, the shadow clone relaxed his guard.

The next moment, a fireball appeared, dispelling the surrounding darkness and illuminating the underground space.

Qing Ming glanced at the shadow clone.

It was obvious that the other party had just been sleeping in this dark environment, and was startled by him who was suddenly teleported here.

Fortunately, the shadow clone was mentally prepared to a certain extent, so no accidents happened.

The two of them also didn't exchange much pleasantries. After greeting each other, Qing Ming released the 'Shadow Clone Technique'.

The next moment, the memories of this shadow clone flooded into Qingming's mind.

Unlike the shadow clone who stayed in the Hidden Mist Village, because there are fewer spies in the Hidden Cloud Village, the shadow clone is often needed to take action personally.

Therefore, the other party has slightly more memories.

It took Qingming a full hour to sort out these memories.

As a result, he also had a general understanding of the movements of the Hidden Cloud Village.

In general, the Hidden Cloud Village is as peaceful as the Hidden Mist Village.

However, unlike the Hidden Mist Village which was fully focused on dealing with internal issues, the Fourth Raikage's position was relatively stable, so he focused more on external issues.

For example, the border friction with Konoha.

That’s right, until now, the two villages have not signed a ceasefire agreement.

Therefore, small-scale conflicts would break out from time to time on the border.

However, according to the latest news, there are more and more voices opposing the war in the Hidden Cloud Village.

Yes, you don’t have to fight a war, but you still have to eat.

The territory of the Land of Thunder is mostly mountainous, and the land available for cultivation is very limited. At least one-third of the food needs to be imported from outside every year.

The Fire Nation occupies the most fertile land in the Ninja World and ranks first in the world in grain production.

In peacetime, the one-third gap of the Lightning Country mostly relies on supplies from the Fire Country.

Now that the two sides have not reached a ceasefire, Konoha will naturally not allow these grains to be transported into the territory of the Land of Lightning.

In this case, the pressure on the Thunder Country can be imagined.

Under such circumstances, the anti-war voices in the Hidden Cloud Village will naturally become louder and louder.

It is conceivable that if there had not been the subsequent Nine-Tails Rebellion, which severely damaged Konoha's vitality, the Hidden Cloud Village would not have seen any opportunity and would have definitely signed a peace agreement with Konoha early on.

In this way, the Hyuga clan would not have to sacrifice the life of Hyuga Hizashi.

Of course, these are all stories from another timeline.

Since Qing Ming has decided to intervene in the Nine-Tails Rebellion, he will naturally not let these things happen. As for the ninja world, it is better to be more stable!
Qing Ming collected his thoughts and shifted his focus away from these things, and began searching for other valuable information.

Soon, he discovered something worthy of attention in the shadow clone's memory.

That is the Two-tailed Jinchuriki, Erwei Yubokuto, who began to learn from the Eight-tailed Jinchuriki, Killer Bee, how to master the power of the tailed beasts.

This information was obtained by the Shadow Clone from the memory of a Kumogakure Anbu spy.

It’s a pity that this Kumogakure Anbu member has no idea where they are.

Therefore, the shadow clone is also unclear.

In fact, if Qingming had to guess, he felt that there was a high possibility that these two people were on that Turtle Island.

The so-called Turtle Island is a secret base of the Hidden Cloud Village. Its main body is an extremely large turtle that has lived for an unknown period of time.

It drifts on the sea all year round and has a unique ecological cycle.

On the Turtle Island, there is a mysterious place, which is called the "Real Waterfall" by the Hidden Cloud Village.

A real waterfall can reflect the dark side of a person's heart. After overcoming the dark side, one can break through oneself and become more pure.

This way, it would be easier to master the power of the tailed beasts.

It is for this reason that Qingming guessed that the two of them, Mu Ren and Kirabi, were there.

However, as the holy place for training of the Hidden Cloud Village, its importance is self-evident, and the Hidden Cloud Village’s blockade of relevant information about it is also quite strict.

At the same time, they also set up a large number of barriers on Turtle Island to hide and protect it.

In addition, as the fourth Raikage of the Hidden Cloud Village, Ai would also convey orders from time to time to ask Kamejima to change his position.

In this way, under the triple secrecy, basically not many people can know the current location and situation of this turtle island. Of course, if Qingming investigates with all his strength, he can also find out.

But that would inevitably alert the Hidden Cloud Village.

This goes against his strategy of low-key development, so Qing Ming naturally would not do that.

Of course, there is another important reason why he made this choice, that is, he currently has enough chakra and there is no need to create unnecessary trouble.

Qingming withdrew his thoughts and stopped thinking about it.

Just like in the Hidden Mist Village, he raised his hands and formed seals, performing the 'Wood Clone Technique', creating a wooden clone to replace the original shadow clone.

Then, he used the 'Senluo Wanxiang Seal' again, sealing one million points of chakra in his body.

Qingming instructed the other party to try to develop more secret agents in the Hidden Cloud Village in the next month.

When Mu Fen Shen heard the order, he nodded in response.

Seeing this, Qing Ming did not linger any longer and immediately performed the "Flying Thunder God Technique" to teleport back to the outside of the Hidden Cloud Village, where he had been before.

Then, he performed 'Wind Style: Wind Wings' and 'Chakra Feather Robe', and used 'Earth Style: Super Light and Heavy Rock Technique' to reduce his weight, and flew into the sky, flying towards the direction of the Land of Earth.

The Kingdom of Earth and the Kingdom of Thunder border each other on one side and face each other across the sea on the other side.

Qingming was afraid of trouble, so he did not take the line bordering the east.

After leaving the Hidden Cloud Village, he flew directly westward, across the sea, bypassed the Iron Kingdom, and entered the Land of Earth from the other side.

As he expected, taking this route did not attract anyone's attention.

Afterwards, Qingming locked onto the location of the Hidden Rock Village and flew straight over there.

When he arrived outside the Iwagakure Village, he opened his Byakugan and observed the perception barrier that covered the entire Iwagakure Village, then activated the ability of "Heavenly Guard" and passed through.

After entering the Iwagakure Village, he did not directly perform the 'Flying Thunder God Technique' as he did in the Kirigakure Village to teleport to the underground space where the shadow clone was.

Although there is no additional barrier for sensing space fluctuations in the Iwagakure Village, according to the information that the shadow clone heard last month, a barrier for sensing chakra fluctuations has recently been set up there.

It is said that this was an order given by Ōnoki himself.

Qingming didn't know why Ohnoki suddenly gave such an order, but he didn't want to gamble, so he chose to walk obediently.

Fortunately, with 'Ame-no-Go', he could easily avoid the patrol troops from the Hidden Rock Village.

Therefore, he did not encounter any accidents along the way.

Soon, Qingming arrived at the underground space where the shadow clone was.

He skillfully released the 'Shadow Clone Technique', and its memory was immediately synchronized to his mind.

Soon, Qingming sorted out the other party's memory.

Compared with the other two shadow clones, he really doesn't have much memory.

The reason for this is very simple, it's all due to the chakra sensing barrier.

Because he had no idea what Ohnoki was thinking and couldn't figure out what he wanted to do, he asked the shadow clone to remain silent during the last handover.

So, after a month, naturally there won't be many memories left.

Correspondingly, his understanding of the Iwagakure Village only last month.

However, despite this, he still did not plan to let the wooden clone do anything next.

In the current Iwagakure Village, apart from the Four-Tails and the 'Dust Release', there is not much else that he cares about.

And the four tails.
As I said, he has no shortage of chakra for the time being, so naturally he can't use it.

As for 'Dust Escape'.
After he develops 'Storm Release', he might try to steal the practice method of 'Dust Release' in order to further master the fusion technique of the three attributes of chakra.

But now, there is no need to rush!
Therefore, no matter what Ohnoki wanted to do, he could just wait and see.

In this case, there is naturally no need for Mu's clone to do anything.

Taking his eyes away from Mu's clone, Qing Ming did not waste any more time and immediately performed the ninjutsu - Earth Style: Earth Dragon Technique, and left the underground space.

Then, he carefully hid himself and sneaked out of the Iwagakure Village.

Standing on a high place, looking at the silent Iwagakure Village, Qingming's eyes flickered slightly, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Call ~
Suddenly, a breeze blew and woke up Qingming.

The moment he came to his senses, he didn't waste any more time and immediately performed 'Wind Style: Wind Wings' and 'Chakra Feather Robe'.

Then, use the 'Earth Escape: Super Light and Heavy Rock Technique' to reduce weight.

Under the cover of night, he flew silently towards the direction of Konoha Village like a bat.

(End of this chapter)