Chapter 235 Mutation

The moon sets and the sun rises.

In a blink of an eye, time came to the next day.

After a night of bloody battles, Konoha and Iwagakure finally stopped killing each other at dawn after paying the same heavy price.

Afterwards, just as Qingming expected, due to lack of command, the Iwa Ninja changed his usual aggressive offensive posture and began to turn to defense.

Logically speaking, this is Konoha's best opportunity to counterattack.

Unfortunately, in the past period of time, the Iwa Ninja's repeated attacks had caused heavy losses to Konoha, and they were unable to launch a counterattack.

All the Konoha ninjas were exhausted physically and mentally from the Iwa Ninja's wheel battle and were in urgent need of rest.

Therefore, after some discussions, Omura Yuito finally gave up the plan to attack, and only let people maintain the necessary harassment, and spent the rest of the time recuperating.

Originally, Qing Ming thought that such a peaceful time would last for ten days and a half.

Unexpectedly, just one week later, the peace was broken.

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This afternoon.

Qing Ming was using the 'Palm Immortal Technique' to condense the Yang Chakra to strengthen his body in the high mountain stronghold in the west, when a figure suddenly ran over in a hurry.

Dong dong dong~

There was a knock on the simple wooden door.

Qing Ming opened his eyes impatiently and said, "Come in!"

Crunch~

The door was pushed open and a Konoha chuunin walked in.

I heard him say hurriedly: "Captain, news just came from down the mountain. The Iwa ninja has made a move. The headquarters wants us to prepare for defense."

"Iwa Ninja is making some moves?"

Qing Ming frowned slightly and asked, "What exactly is going on?"

"Not sure."

The Konoha chuunin shook his head.

Seeing this, Qing Ming waved his hand and said: "Okay, you go and call the people to gather, and also notify other jounin to arrange defense tasks."

"Yes, Captain!"

The Konoha chuunin responded and walked away.

As the commander-in-chief of this strategic stronghold, Qingming is the nominal captain of everyone. Under him, there are several Jonin captains.

Under normal circumstances, Qingming would leave tasks such as defense and patrol to these jounin captains.

As for himself.

Either he is looking for a 'chakra battery' or he is practicing, rarely caring about specific things, and this time is no exception.

Watching the leaving figure of the Konoha chuunin, Qingming waited quietly for more than a minute.

After all the Yang Escape chakra in his body was exhausted, he grabbed the dagger next to him, teleported a few times, and arrived at the top of a big tree not far away.

With a thought, Qingming opened his Sharingan.

The next moment, the scene under the mountain in the distance came into view.

Although the Sharingan is not as good as the Byakugan in terms of long-distance peeping, in this unobstructed situation, the Sharingan can still see things very far away.

In Qing Ming's field of vision, the Rock Ninjas had already assembled.

At this time, they were dividing into three groups, one of which was heading straight towards the Fengliu Town stronghold, obviously intending to confront the Konoha ninja head-on.

The other branch was thrust diagonally towards the north, seemingly preparing to attack the mountain stronghold to the north.

As for the third share.

Naturally, he rushed to them.

It can be seen that these people bypassed the Fengliu Town stronghold, drew an arc along the southern plain, and came straight towards them.

Seeing this familiar attack route, Qing Ming was a little confused: "Didn't the Iwa Ninja change their command? Why is it still the same?"

If only one or two commanders were replaced, Qing Ming could understand this situation.

But in the beheading operation a week ago, they almost wiped out the entire Iwa Ninja command system.

In such a major change, the team's style cannot remain the same, nor can the offensive strategy remain intact.

After all, every conductor has his own ideas, and it is impossible to be exactly the same as the person in the original position. When combined, the changes will only be greater.

But the current situation obviously goes against common sense.

"What on earth is going on?"

Qing Ming was confused and muttered to himself.

After a while, he withdrew his gaze, shook his head and thought no more, jumped back to the ground, and then began to wait patiently for the arrival of the Iwa Ninja.

As the saying goes, when the soldiers come, they will block it, and when the water comes, the soil will cover it.

Since you can't figure it out, just don't think about it. No matter what conspiracy they have, in the end, their strength will speak for themselves.

Without enough strength, no matter how many tricks you use, it won't be of much use.

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Twenty minutes later.

Qing Ming received news that his subordinates were engaged in battle with the enemy.

Moreover, he also learned that the enemy was divided into three groups, heading towards the top of the mountain from three different directions: left, middle and right.

Qing meditated for a moment and asked the other Jonin to organize defense, while he quickly ran towards the dense forest further to the right.

He was preparing to bypass the Iwa Ninja's left wing and launch a sneak attack on them directly from the rear.

In this way, not only can it disrupt the Iwa Ninja's offensive rhythm and delay their progress, but it can also explore the Iwa Ninja's strength.

However, things developed beyond Qing Ming's expectation.

He originally thought that the Konoha ninjas on the front line could hold on for a while no matter what, but he never thought that in less than five minutes, the middle line was breached, and the defense lines on the left and right had to be moved back, otherwise they would be cut off by the Iwa ninja. Risks of back roads.

"What happened? Why was the defense line breached so quickly?"

Qing Ming asked in his mind.

The Yamanaka clan's special jonin who used the 'heart-to-heart technique' to connect with him heard this and immediately said, "It's the Four-Tails Jinchuriki, he's hiding in the attacking team."

"What?"

Hearing this news, Qingming's face changed and he immediately asked, "Are you sure?"

"Sure!"

Yamakura Kiku replied affirmatively, "The other party broke through our defense line with a powerful lava-style ninjutsu, and no one is his opponent."

Hearing this, Qingming fell silent, and after a while he said, "So this is what he was thinking."

Yes, through Yamanaka Kiku's description, Qingming had roughly guessed what the new Rock Ninja commander was up to.

The reason why the other party used the tactics of the predecessor was, first, to let them relax their vigilance, and second, to cover up the situation so that they couldn't figure it out.

Then, they took the opportunity to send out the hidden Jinchuriki in the team to seize the two strategic commanding heights guarding Fengliu Town with thunderous means.

Yes, two.

If he hadn't guessed, the Five-Tails Jinchuriki should be in the Rock Ninja team attacking the northern mountain stronghold.

Even, like the Four-Tails Jinchuriki, he may have broken through the defense line.

However, it's useless to guess these now.

Now, the most important thing is how to stop the opponent.

The Four-Tails Jinchuriki, Lao Zi, is different from the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, Han. The Lava Release that the opponent mastered is very harmful to the flesh and blood body.

In addition, he has a "Lava Release Chakra Mode" to protect his whole body, and ordinary means can't hurt him at all. Unless he is like Hoshigaki Kisame in the later generations, he will be exhausted to death, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with.

And it just so happens that Qingming is good at ninjutsu, which does not restrain the opponent's water release, which is more uncomfortable.