Naruto: My Progress in Konoha.

Chapter 979 Easily won
After half an hour.

The outskirts of Konoha.

In a remote forest.

The overly lush leaves blocked the sunlight, making the place look a little eerie even at noon.

Suddenly, the sound of footsteps came from far away, breaking the silence in the forest.

After a moment, a figure appeared. Who else could it be but Qing Ming?
Feeling the increasingly undisguised aura behind him, Qing Ming simply stopped moving forward and turned to look back at the road he came from.

Sure enough, soon a strange figure appeared in his sight.

The other person was dressed like an ordinary Konoha villager and there didn't seem to be anything unusual about him.

However, the absence of abnormalities is the biggest abnormality.

Although he had not been running at full speed nor trying hard to hide his whereabouts for some time, it was definitely not something an ordinary person could catch up with.

As for the same path.
That's even more nonsense.

This place is far away from human habitation and the forest is full of wild beasts. Which ordinary villager would come here with nothing to do? Are they looking for death?

Therefore, the other party must be the one who was secretly spying on him.

What's more, the other party's face
Qingming recollected a little and found the corresponding character in his mind.

Half an hour ago, when he looked back, he saw him among the villagers.

However, at that time, he focused most of his attention on those ninjas and did not pay attention to these ordinary people.

Now it seems that the other party is not that ordinary.

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This ability to conceal aura and chakra is truly amazing.

Because he was wearing casual clothes, he couldn't open the Byakugan between his brows, so he directly opened the Three-magatama Sharingan and observed the other person's body.

And this one look immediately made him discover the problem.

From a normal perspective, there was indeed nothing abnormal about the other person.

However, with the vision of the Sharingan, one can clearly see that the area in the abdomen where the chakra meridians are most densely concentrated is rich in chakra.

This amount of chakra has almost exceeded the level of ordinary jonin.

It was obvious that the other party was a ninja.

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"Who is the one?"

Qingming pondered in his heart.

But because the time was too short, he had no goal for a while.

However, he didn't want to wait for the other party to get closer before asking.

If you have this much time, you might as well just take down the opponent and then read his memory!

Thinking this in his mind, Qing Ming swung his hand, and a shuriken slipped out from his sleeve and fell into his palm.

Indeed, when he went out this time, he was wearing casual clothes and did not carry a ninja tool bag, but that did not mean that he had no ninja tools.

Just in case, he hid a kunai and a shuriken in his sleeve so that he could show them off in front of others.

Now, this shuriken is used.

huh~
Then there was a sound of breaking air, and the shuriken was thrown out by him.

Then, he quickly formed seals with his hands and performed an A-level ninjutsu - Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique!
The moment the ninjutsu was successfully performed, the shuriken split into two, two into four, four into eight, and in the blink of an eye it split into hundreds of shuriken.

Then, they all shot at the stranger who was running towards them.

It may sound like a long process, but it actually happened in a flash.

In front, the man who was chasing him just saw Qingming, and before he could react, he saw hundreds of shurikens attacking him.

This really caught the man off guard.

After all, if anyone encountered this situation, wouldn't they first engage in a verbal attack, try to get the whole story out of the other party, and then take measures depending on the situation?
How could someone be like Qingming, who would just choose to attack without any communication?

Besides, wasn't Qing Ming's deliberate action of leading him over a hint of communication? Why was he like this now?

The man's head was a mess, but that didn't stop him from dodging Qingming's attack.

But what about his strength?

In Qingming's opinion, it is somewhat unworthy of the chakra of the Jonin level in his body.

He dodged left and right, avoiding most of the shuriken attacks, but a few still left deep wounds on his body. Such combat power seemed a bit weak among the jonin.

What's more strange is that there is very little blood flowing out of the wound on its body, and the shape of the wound is also problematic.
Well.
Qing Ming's brain worked frantically for a while, and he finally came up with a fairly apt description, which was that it was as if he was deliberately pretending to be injured.

That's right, that's it!
Qingming's eyes lit up, and his pair of three-magatama Sharingan scanned the other person's body, trying to find the source of this abnormality.

However, apart from some abnormalities in the wound, he did not find any other problems with him.

Qing Ming simply stopped thinking about it. He just stepped on the ground and shot out like a cannonball, aiming directly at this person.

On the way, a kunai slipped out of his sleeve and was held in his palm.

The next moment, the two began to fight each other.

Ding Ding Dang Dang~
The crisp sound of metal collision rang out in the forest, causing the surrounding birds to fly away.

However, the engagement did not last long.

Rich combat experience, coupled with the powerful perception and nerve reaction granted by 29 points of 'Spirit' attributes and 27 points of 'Constitution' attributes, allowed Qing Ming to easily suppress the opponent even without using any extraordinary means.

After only a dozen rounds of fighting, his kunai left a deep scar on the opponent's chest that was deep enough to see the bone.

This person seemed to finally feel the pain and instinctively hid backwards.

Seeing this, Qingming's eyes lit up, and he activated the Three-magatama Sharingan with all his strength. While the man was dodging, he instantly stepped forward and grabbed his neck.

The next moment, a belt-shaped sealing spell appeared on his palm, and then, with his palm as the center, it instantly covered the entire body of the unknown enemy, binding him in place.

This belt-shaped seal is not any other ninjutsu, but the 'Seal of Self-Karma Binding' that Qingming obtained from the Root Organization.

After being restrained like this, the man immediately stopped moving and froze in place.

Not only that, he also restored his appearance, uh, to be more precise, he lifted the "transformation technique" and became someone Qing Ming knew.

"Uehara Shinichi!?"

Qingming looked at the man and spoke in surprise.

At the same time, his tone was full of confusion. He didn't understand why the other party was following him?

As far as he knew, although Uehara Shinichi was a bit of a loner and was somewhat hostile towards ninjas from their families, especially those from the two powerful Uchiha and Hyuga families, it could be seen from the few times they had worked together that he did not have any major ill intentions.

The so-called hostility is nothing more than a kind of inferiority complex, or arrogance, of those of common origin.

This is very common in Konoha.

Because of the special promotion mechanism for the Jonin, these civilian Jonin who were promoted based on their own abilities naturally looked down on those family ninjas who relied on "connections" to obtain the title of Jonin.

Of course, such conflicts have not yet escalated to the point of never speaking to each other again. At most, they will just say a few sarcastic words in private.

Therefore, Qingming didn’t understand why the other party was following and spying on him?
His eyes continued to scan Uehara Nobuichi's face, and when he saw his eyes, Qingming suddenly paused and said, "No, you are not him, who are you?"

Qing Ming's tone was very firm, which surprised Uehara Shinichi.

However, he still responded: "Qingming Jonin, what are you talking about?"

"Ha~"

Hearing the other party's answer, Qing Ming suddenly sneered.

If he was not 100% sure before, now he was absolutely sure that the person in front of him was definitely not the real Shinichi Uehara.

Although the other party looked exactly like Uehara Shinichi, and his chakra aura was almost the same, he no longer had the pride and drive of a commoner jonin.

There was more of a sense of mockery in his eyes, just like someone in a zoo looking at a monkey.

It was obvious that he was standing at a higher angle, looking down at him. Even though he was trapped by him and was in a passive position, it seemed that he never worried about his own safety.

Realizing this, Qing Ming stopped talking nonsense and immediately used the "Ninjutsu: Mind Reading Technique" to read the other party's memory.

However, just as he was about to take action, the man's eyes suddenly changed, as if he had a new soul.

Then, a completely different voice came out of his mouth: "Wait a minute!"

However, Qingming had already made up his mind, so how could he change it easily? Even though he had discovered the other party's abnormality, he had no intention of stopping.

This time, the other party was really confused.

Helplessly, the person in the dark could only give up this body.

The next moment, this person who looked exactly like Uehara Nobuichi turned into a pale monster.

(End of this chapter)