Chapter 404 Success and Discovery

In a flash, two more days have passed.

What happened that night did not cause much disturbance, either in Konoha or Kirigakure.

Kirigakure will not mention it. There is no need to publicize a failed operation.

Konoha may still hope that he can come a few more times to tie up Kirigakure's energy.

Unfortunately, after the lesson of that night, Qingming acted much more cautiously.

Although he did not have to worry about being trapped with the existence of 'Heaven's Guard, but knowing that the other party was targeting him, he still went head-on. That was not courage, but stupidity.

Therefore, even if the commanding ninja of the Black Stone Stronghold, Sano Nobuhisa, hinted to him several times, he pretended not to understand.

And Sano Nobuhisa could not force him to do such a thing.

After all, other people did not know that he had 'Heaven's Guard to save his life, and would only think that it was difficult to force him.

Once Sano Nobuhisa really did this, then everyone else would inevitably be in danger, because it was no different from sending someone to die.

Maybe they can sacrifice for the village, but they can't die in vain.

So, even if Sano Nobuhisa is the commander, he dare not go too far.

Of course, even if the other party wants to go too far, they don't have the ability.

Let alone Qingming's own will, even the Uchiha clan will not agree.

After all, Qingming is also a genius ninja of the Uchiha clan. If he is forced to die, the Uchiha clan will lose face.

So, after some probing, Sano Nobuhisa gave up this plan.

And then, Qingming also behaved in a proper manner, still flying to Feiyu Town every day to observe the actions of the Mist Ninja, and then reporting the relevant intelligence.

After these days of observation, he can clearly feel that the Hidden Mist Village is ready to move.

Of course, Konoha is almost the same.

Obviously, after these days of intensive arrangements, both sides are almost ready.

It can be predicted that it will not be long before this war will break out.

However, Qingming doesn't care much about it.

Compared to fighting, he would rather improve himself.

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Another night.

Late at night.

After completing his routine reconnaissance mission, Qingming came to the rocky beach.

Just after completing a round of training, his eyes lit up.

It was nothing else. Just now, with the help of his experience as a shadow clone, he successfully developed earth attribute chakra.

Looking at the chakra in his palm, although there was nothing special about it, Qingming knew that it was a ball of earth escape chakra.

And with this, it means that he has taken another big step forward on the road to full attributes.

Forcibly suppressing his excitement, Qingming dispersed the chakra in his palm.

The successful development of earth attribute chakra can only be regarded as the first step of a long journey. If you want to use it proficiently, you need to further master its form changes and nature changes.

And this is the top priority.

If other ninjas are willing and spend a certain amount of time, they can actually develop chakras of various attributes, but it is not so easy to master the corresponding form changes and nature changes.

If a ninjutsu wants to exert its full power, the change of nature and form are indispensable, otherwise it is just a trick.

For this reason, most of the jonin will not blindly develop chakra attributes, but will specialize in two or three.

Only in this way will there be no situation of miscellaneous but not refined.

However, Qingming is different.

He does not need to practice and master the change of form and nature at all.

Because as long as the corresponding ninjutsu is practiced to a high enough level, he can basically master the change of form and nature of the corresponding attribute.

This is a process of reverse effect.

Others cannot practice the relevant ninjutsu to a high level if they do not master the change of form and nature of the corresponding attribute.

And what about him?

He first practices the relevant ninjutsu to a high level, and then naturally masters the change of form and nature of the corresponding attribute.

It can be said to be a bug!

However, Qingming. Like it!

With this thought, Qingming recalled the practice requirements and methods of ‘Earth Style·Turbo Spear’ and ‘Earth Style·Turbo Wall’, as well as ‘Earth Style·Hardening Technique’ in his mind.

Then, he formed seals with his hands and performed the "Shadow Clone Technique".

This time, he directly created twelve shadow clones.

Nine of them continued to practice other skills as before, and the remaining three began to practice three earth escape ninjutsu.

Time passed by minute by minute.

In the blink of an eye, two hours passed.

After Qingming took back the shadow clones again and digested the relevant experience and memory, a new skill suddenly appeared on his panel - Earth escape · Earth Lance: lv0 (1/100)!

Looking at this new skill on the panel, Qingming smiled.

Although he has not yet entered the door, and his proficiency is only lv0 (1/100), Qingming is still sincerely happy.

There is no other reason. As long as he can be recognized by the proficiency panel, he will be on the fast track.

After that, as long as he provides enough chakra, he can easily upgrade his level, and there will be no bottlenecks.

In this way, how can Qingming not be happy?

The only pity is that ‘Earth Escape·Earth Flow Wall’ and ‘Earth Escape·Hardening Technique’ were not successfully imprinted on the panel.

Even though he provided enough chakra in the past two hours, he still failed.

Qingming could accept this.

After all, the learning difficulty of ‘Earth Style: Earth Spear’ was only C-level, while the other two earth style ninjutsu were both B-level ninjutsu.

The learning difficulty was different, so it was naturally impossible for them to appear on the panel at the same time.

However, with ‘Earth Style: Earth Spear’ as the foundation, it was only a matter of time before the other two earth style ninjutsu were engraved on the panel.

Therefore, Qingming was not in a hurry.

So, after comprehending the essence of the practice of ‘Earth Style: Earth Spear’ for a while, he re-formed the seal, performed the ‘Shadow Clone Technique’, split out twelve shadow clones, and continued the practice just now.

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In a flash, nearly an hour had passed.

As the sky gradually brightened, it was about time for Qingming to return to the Black Stone Base.

At this moment, several black spots appeared on the horizon and the sea level.

Qingming was awakened by the shadow clone, and immediately opened his Sharingan and looked over there.

"Is this a ship?"

Qingming was in doubt.

Then, he raised his hand to form a seal and performed the ninjutsu - Wind Style: Wings of Wind!

The next moment, he flapped his wings and flew high into the sky.

In order to avoid alerting the enemy, he flew directly to a height of hundreds of meters this time, and then flew towards the black spots over there.

Soon, those black spots appeared in his field of vision.

Just as he had just seen, they were actually ships, and they were warships of the Hidden Mist Village.

Looking at the familiar Mist Ninjas on the decks, Qingming was basically certain that these were all Mist Ninjas in Feiyu Town.

'If that's the case, then.'

Suddenly, Qingming didn't know what he thought of, his expression changed slightly, and he secretly said "not good", and then flew directly towards the direction of the Black Stone Stronghold.

If he hadn't guessed, the Hidden Mist Village would most likely plan to attack the Black Stone Stronghold by water.

Indeed, according to the relative positions of Feiyu Town and Black Stone Stronghold, it is undoubtedly easier to launch an attack by land.

After all, the fortifications before Black Stone Stronghold were built facing the sea, and the main defense was the attack launched by the Hidden Mist Village from the sea.

However, with the capture of Feiyu Town, the defense focus of the Black Stone Stronghold has long been changed from the sea to the land.

The Hidden Mist Village did the opposite this time, and undoubtedly seized this flaw.

This is definitely not a sudden decision made by the Hidden Mist Village.

There is no other reason, the time they chose is very subtle.

According to the speed of the other party's ship, the time when the other party departed was exactly the time when he completed the reconnaissance mission and left.

Qingming did not believe this was a coincidence.

Obviously, the other party had done enough homework and knew when he usually left, and acted at that time in order to create a time difference.

However, the other party did not expect that every time he completed the reconnaissance mission, he would practice on this reef beach for a period of time.

This led to the other party's whereabouts being discovered by him directly.

"That's true."

For a moment, Qingming didn't know whether to say he was lucky or the other party was unlucky!

But no matter what, he was sure to get the credit.