Chapter 488 Discovery

About an hour later.

It's getting dark.

Qing Ming finally returned to the Black Stone Stronghold.

At this point, it would be inappropriate to fly any further.

Although he has completed the operation now and no longer cares whether others find out that he secretly left the stronghold, it is still better to save some trouble.

What's more, there are many Kirigakure teams wandering outside the stronghold, and his chakra is at an absolutely low level, so there is really no need to add any extraneous details.

However, Qing Ming doesn't want to cause trouble, but that doesn't mean trouble won't find him.

Just as he was cautiously approaching the Black Stone Stronghold, about a kilometer behind him, a team of Mist Ninja suddenly stopped.

I saw one of them squatting down, looking at the ninja dog next to him that was no more than calf high, and said, "Happy, did you find anything?"

This ninja dog named Happy is the psychic beast of this Kirigakure special jounin.

It has a sense of smell that is far superior to that of ordinary dogs, and it can distinguish even the smallest odor in the air.

At this time, I saw it shrugging its nose, sniffing the surroundings carefully, then raising its head and saying: "Long, we may be in trouble."

Its voice is deep and serious, far less youthful than its size suggests.

And its words made the four people present a little nervous.

Inoue Ryu knew that Happy wouldn't be innocent, so he quickly asked: "What is going on?"

Hearing this, Happy did not speak immediately, but sniffed the surrounding air again before continuing: "I smelled a familiar smell."

"Whose?"

Inoue Ryu asked.

"Uchiha Seimei."

Happy replied.

"What?"

"Ghost Sword Qingming?"

"How is that possible?"

Hearing Happy's answer, before Ryu Inoue said anything, the other three people in the team screamed, and some people had even drawn out kunai, ready to deal with possible attacks at any time.

It's not that they were so nervous, but that their strength didn't allow them to be careless.

Unlike Inoue Ryu, a special jounin, they only have the strength of a chuunin, and with such strength, meeting Qingming is almost a face-to-face matter.

This has been fully demonstrated in the battles of the past week.

The key is that Qingming is not like other Konoha jonins who disdain to take action against them. As long as he encounters chuunin like them, he will take action decisively.

This makes them very nervous.

In this regard, Qing Ming can only say, who makes him lack chakra?

If not, how could he maintain the steady progress of various skills in the fierce battle.

You must know that after his 'Instant Sword Technique' and other skills are promoted to the perfect state, if they are used again, they will only consume chakra without increasing any proficiency.

In order to make up for his losses in battle, he could only hunt these most cost-effective chunin.

In addition, treating the wounded also requires a lot of chakra, and someone also has to find someone to fill this hole.

The Kirigakure Chuunin was undoubtedly the best candidate.

Because of this, these Kirigakure Chuunin were very afraid of him whenever he was mentioned.

However, at this moment, Happy said again: "There seems to be something wrong with the other party's current state."

"What's going on?"

Hearing this, Inoue Ryu's eyes lit up slightly and he quickly asked, "What did you find?"

As he spoke, he raised his head and secretly looked in the direction that Happy had just sniffed, as if looking for Qing Ming.

Happy saw this and said speechlessly: "Stop looking for him, he is not in the sky."

Hearing this, Inoue Ryu withdrew his gaze, while Happy continued: "My nose tells me that he is in the forest ahead now, and seems to be preparing to return to the Black Stone Stronghold."

"In the forest?"

After hearing this, not to mention Inoue Ryu, a special jounin who was good at intelligence collection and analysis, the other three Kirigakure chuunin all discovered the problem. Without him, in the past half month, Qing Ming had been flying around every time he traveled. How could he be like now, hiding his head and showing his tail?

That's right, Qing Ming is not flying in the sky. In their opinion, he is hiding his head and showing his tail.

Combined with the information that Happy said about his weakened aura, the four of them couldn't help but wonder if Qing Ming had performed some mission and was injured, and now had no choice but to return to the stronghold.

It has to be said that people are always good at deceiving themselves, especially when it is related to their own interests.

They always think about things in the direction they want, and come up with a lot of reasons for it, and finally take risks.

Just like now, the four of them just thought about the benefits that could be brought by killing or assisting in killing Qing Ming, and they inevitably connected Qing Ming's weakened aura and injury.

They never thought that Qing Ming just consumed too much chakra for some other reasons.

However, it doesn't seem to be much different.

Several people's breathing was a bit heavy.

In the end, it was Inoue Ryu who calmed down first.

He thought for a while and confirmed with Happy again that Qing Ming's aura was indeed much weaker than before, and after cautiously approaching the Black Stone Stronghold, he finally made up his mind.

He looked at one of the Kirigakure Chuunin and said: "Hideaki, return to the station immediately and tell Captain Osawa what happened here, and ask him to send someone to support immediately."

"Yes, Captain!"

When Ito Hideaki heard Inoue Ryu's words, he was slightly disappointed, but also breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously.

Although following Inoue Ryu may gain greater merit, the dangers he faces will also increase exponentially.

In this case, it is better to drink a mouthful of soup!

That is the ghost sword Qingming, one of the twin stars of Konoha!

Not to mention the bounty price on the black market, even the bounty of the village is enough to make him jealous. Even if it is just a mouthful of soup, it is not bad for him.

After Ito Hideaki left, Inoue Ryu looked at the ninja dog at his feet and said in a deep voice: "Happy, find him!"

"Yeah."

Happy simply responded, then sniffed the air and began to run wildly in one direction.

In the back, Inoue Ryu glanced at the two team members around him and immediately said: "Follow."

As he said, he had already taken the lead and ran forward.

Seeing this, the two Mist Hidden Ninjas behind tightened the kunai in their hands and hurriedly followed.

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On the other side.

Qingming was moving forward cautiously in the forest.

Suddenly, he stopped and looked back.

For some reason, he suddenly felt like he was being watched.

"Is it an illusion?"

Qingming muttered, and after carefully sensing for a moment, he still found nothing.

Shaking his head, he was about to take a step forward, but his movement suddenly stopped, and in the end, the foot did not fall.

Qingming still believed in his intuition very much, especially in this world with extraordinary power, intuition is sometimes more reliable than feeling.

Because this may be your subconscious mind summarizing various details that you have ignored, and then coming to a conclusion with wisdom.

So, Qingming decided to investigate.

It just so happened that he had just transplanted the Byakugan and had this ability.

However, before that, he still had to make sure that there was no one around.

With this thought, Qingming suddenly opened the Sharingan and scanned the surroundings.

There was nothing unusual in the visual range.

Then, he jumped and jumped onto the tree trunk.

Then, he closed the Sharingan, raised his hand to unlock the "guardian seal" on his forehead, and then concentrated his mind to activate the Byakugan between his eyebrows.

In an instant, his white eyes penetrated the forehead protector and saw everything within a kilometer radius.