Chapter 375 Situation and Progress

Time flies, and the years pass by like a shuttle.

In the blink of an eye, more than half a month has passed.

Time has come to mid-August.

Since entering August, the offensive of the Hidden Mist Village has become more and more fierce.

Not only the Eagle's Beak Cliff stronghold guarded by Qingming, but also the entire northern defense line, and even the central and southern defense lines, have been fiercely attacked by the Hidden Mist Village.

Among them, there are many cases where strongholds have been breached and defense lines have been torn apart.

Even Qingming has been mobilized and supported several times.

You know, the Eagle's Beak Cliff stronghold where he is stationed is the weakest point of the entire front line. Even he has to be mobilized, you can imagine how bad the situation is.

And the reason for this situation, one of the important factors is that Konoha is fighting a decisive battle with the Hidden Sand Village and can't take care of this side at all.

And this gave the Hidden Mist Village an opportunity.

They wanted to break through the Konoha defense line in one fell swoop and invade the territory of the Land of Fire.

Unfortunately, the overall combat power of the Hidden Mist is still a little short.

In addition, Konoha spent two or three years to build this line of defense. It may not be impregnable, but it cannot be broken in just half a month.

Therefore, the war situation was deadlocked there. Konoha could not drive away the Kirigakure ninjas, and the Kirigakure ninjas had no way to completely break through the line of defense.

In this way, it became a luxury for the Kirigakure to invade the Land of Fire.

However, they could not stop the infiltration of small forces.

Therefore, the war spread directly to the inner perimeter of the defense line, and the convoy responsible for transporting logistical supplies was often attacked.

However, if you often walk by the river, you will get your shoes wet. The Kirigakure infiltration team frequently sabotaged like this, and finally encountered a ghost.

Just a few days ago, Qingming suddenly heard a piece of news, that is, the ten thousand year Genin Might Day single-handedly killed five of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.

This news directly shocked the entire Konoha Village, and also shocked Qingming.

Originally, Qingming thought that he had killed Kurochu Raiga and Biwa Juzo, and this incident should not have happened.

I never thought that it would happen.

Although Kuroki Raiga and Biwa Juzo died, the Hidden Mist Village quickly selected two more ninja sword holders, and then

they were kicked to death by Might Guy's Eight Gates.

This made Qingming sigh that the inertia of the world is really strong.

However, there are also some details that are different.

For example, in the original world line, there were three surviving ninja sword seven people.

They are Kuroki Raiga, the holder of ‘Thunder Blade·Gate’, Biwa Juzo, the holder of ‘Broken Blade·Decapitation Blade’, and Xiguashan Pufferfish, the holder of ‘Long Blade·Samehada’.

Now, there are only two survivors.

They are Xiguashan Pufferfish, the holder of ‘Long Blade·Samehada’, and Kurishan Kushimaru, the holder of ‘Long Blade·Sewing Needle’ who had fought with him before.

It can be seen that there is still a little change.

And it was precisely because of this incident that the Hidden Mist Village, which was frantically attacking on the front line, suddenly stopped its offensive.

These days, the front line is quite quiet.

And this also gave Qingming a rare period of peace and quiet to practice.

Although he did not stop practicing in the past few days, the frequent missions still had some impact.

Now it is different, he can practice with peace of mind.

In the open space in the forest, Qingming finished practicing this round of "Reflection Heart Technique", and with a thought, he lifted the "Shadow Clone Technique".

The next moment, the shadow clones practicing various skills around him suddenly turned into a ball of chakra smoke and disappeared.

At the same time, a lot of practice experience and memories emerged in Qingming's mind.

In the past, he would feel a headache when receiving so many memories at the same time.

But now, with the "spiritual" attribute breaking through the 20-point mark, his mental power has skyrocketed, and he can easily bear it.

Qingming closed his eyes, carefully digested these experiences and memories, and transformed them all into the proficiency of the corresponding skills, imprinting them deep in his mind.

Time passed by minute by minute.

At a certain moment, Qingming opened his eyes, and a gleam of brilliance flashed in his eyes.

Then, he raised his right hand, spread his palm, and strands of chakra gathered and turned into a small shuriken shape.

Then, the shuriken rapidly grew and rotated, tearing the surrounding air, bringing a whistling sound of wind.

Yes, this is the S-level forbidden technique - Wind Style·Spiral Shuriken!

After more than half a month of practice, his 'Wind Style·Spiral Shuriken' was upgraded to the next level, from the previous lv6 (1900/10000) to the current lv7 (1/20000).

At this time, when he performed this technique again, he already had a feeling of doing whatever he wanted.

Qingming's mind moved, and he wanted to throw the 'Wind Style·Spiral Shuriken' in his hand.

However, after trying several times, he failed.

Finally, Qingming could only sigh helplessly: "It still doesn't work."

Level 7 is the limit of B-level ninjutsu, but not S-level.

Therefore, it is normal that he cannot do the hand-off attack that can only be done under perfect control.

However, although he cannot do the hand-off attack, his understanding of wind escape has risen to a higher level.

Qingming has a hunch that as long as he is given more time, he will be able to successfully develop flying ninjutsu.

That's right, more than half a month has passed, and he still hasn't developed flying ninjutsu.

The difficulty is much higher than he expected.

However, after today, it should be almost done.

Concentrating his mind, Qingming looked at other skills on the panel.

Half a month is not long, but not short.

During this period, in addition to the upgrade of ‘Wind Style Rasenshuriken’, his ‘Shadow Clone Technique’, ‘Chakra Absorption Technique’, ‘Rasengan’, ‘Chakra Scalpel’ and ‘Small Injury Extraction Technique’ were also upgraded by one level.

Among them, ‘Shadow Clone Technique’ was upgraded from lv4 (1930/2000) to lv5 (385/5000).

This level of promotion increased the maximum number of shadow clones he could create from fifteen to twenty.

Moreover, the chakra consumed by performing this technique was reduced from seven points of the chakra possessed by all the shadow clones before to six points.

Although it may not seem like much to reduce one percentage point per person at a time, the chakra saved is still considerable as the number of times increases.

In addition, as the level of the 'Shadow Clone Technique' increases, the stability of the shadow clones created by this technique is also constantly improving.

Now, they can practice skills with shadow clones for a longer time.

Of course, this does not have much effect on his situation of refreshing once an hour, but it is of great help to his development of flying ninjutsu.

At least, after the stability of the shadow clones is improved, the number of times they explode due to chakra runaway is significantly reduced when trying again.

This saves him a lot of chakra invisibly and also improves his development speed.

Looking away, Qingming looked at the 'Chakra Absorption Technique' and the 'Chakra Scalpel'.

Both of them are because of the recent frequent battles, and the number of times they are used has naturally been promoted.

Among them, the former has been upgraded from lv5 (4700/5000) to lv6 (250/10000), and the speed of absorbing chakra has increased again.

At level 5, when performing the ‘Chakra Absorption Technique’, he can absorb one thousand chakras from the target per second and convert 90% of them into his own chakra.

Now, the chakra absorbed per second has doubled to two thousand points, and the conversion rate is also 100%.

It can be said that the improvement is huge.

As for the latter, it has been upgraded from level 5 (2500/5000) to level 6 (100/10000), which is not much different, but it is more handy to use.

There are also ‘Rasengan’ and ‘Skin Extraction Technique’.

The former was promoted to level one a long time ago and is now surging towards level 8.

The latter has barely been upgraded to level one, from level 4 (950/2000) to level 5 (30/5000), and the proficiency has increased again.

In addition to these skills that have been upgraded, there is another skill that is on the verge of promotion, that is, ‘Phantom Sword Technique’.

After dozens of battles and persistent practice, his "Illusion Sword Technique" has reached the peak of level 6, and is only one step away from level 7.

And level 7 is almost the perfect state of this technique.

It can be predicted that once this technique is successfully promoted, his melee ability will inevitably usher in an improvement, perhaps not much, but definitely worth looking forward to.

Thinking of this in his heart, Qingming closed the panel, performed the "Shadow Clone Technique", and entered the practice state again.