#714 - Return

Time flies, and years pass quickly.

In the blink of an eye, another half month has passed.

From the time the transfer order was received and we set off from the village, almost a month has passed.

The second batch of support troops arranged by the village has also arrived.

In addition, according to the latest intelligence, Yunyin Village seems to have confirmed its failure and will not launch a fierce attack in a short period of time. The situation here will completely return to its previous state.

Therefore, there is no need for more manpower to stay, especially so many elites.

So, Qingming just received an order from the village to have them return in batches.

And he himself is on the first list of returning personnel.

Originally, after receiving this order, Qingming didn't plan to go himself.

After all, compared to when they came, it was basically impossible to encounter much obstruction on the way back.

Therefore, it would be enough to send a shadow clone to accompany the team as a formality.

But in the end, after thinking about it, he decided to go himself.

It wasn't because he discovered or foresaw that the road back would be uneasy, or anything like that, but because he had been cultivating diligently for so long, he also needed to clear his head and relax a little.

For the past half month, he had been like a robot, either cultivating or on the way to cultivate. Although he had completed the previously set training plan on time and achieved a lot, he had accumulated too much fatigue and now urgently needed to relax.

And returning to the village with the team was a good way to do that.

Of course, this doesn't mean that he will completely give up cultivation.

After all, they spent more than two and a half days rushing here.

Now that they are returning, there is no such time pressure, so it will naturally take more time.

Even if he wants to relax, he won't waste such a long time in vain.

Therefore, daily practice will continue, but the intensity will be reduced.

For example, for 'Mystical Palm Technique' and 'Mind's Eye Technique', which require the main body to practice, he will only practice for a while when he rests at night, and does not plan to continue practicing at other times.

As for 'Water Release: Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave', 'Flying Thunder God Technique', 'Illusion Technique: Dark Blackout', and 'Eight Trigrams Sealing Style', although he will still separate shadow clones for cultivation, the overall intensity will only be about one-third of what it was before.

As for 'Ninja Art: Mind Reading Technique' and 'Shadow Sword Technique'...

The former, with the addition of 41,000 points of Chakra after 'Earth Release: Earth Flow River' reached perfection, had already successfully advanced to the perfect state of lv7 (0/0) four days ago.

This gave him an additional 150,000 points of Chakra to freely allocate every day.

He directly allocated these Chakra points to 'Illusion Technique: Dark Blackout' to further accelerate its growth.

As for the latter, it reached the perfect state even earlier.

Under his no-holds-barred Chakra investment, although it didn't advance in the theoretically fastest two or three days, it only took less than a week to successfully reach the perfect state of lv7 (0/0).

The perfection of this skill completely made up for his shortcomings in close combat.

At the same time, it also completely formed the close combat system he had envisioned, which consisted of first-class swordsmanship combined with the three ultimate skills: 'Instantaneous Sword Technique', 'Illusionary Sword Technique', and 'Shadow Sword Technique'.

Qingming estimates that if he activates the Sharingan now, his close combat ability can be improved by at least 20% to 30%.

In this way, coupled with the ninjutsu-taijutsu technique he obtained from Yunyin Village—Lightning Release: Lightning Flash!

Qingming can confirm that he is no weaker than anyone in close combat.

Even a first-class taijutsu master like Might Guy wouldn't be able to pose any threat to him unless he opened the Eight Gates to the fifth gate or higher.

Of course, if he opens all eight gates, then he will stay as far away as possible.

After all, once the 'Gate of Death' is opened, Might Guy is no longer a simple taijutsu ninja.

In that state, he can even distort space.

At this time, not only taijutsu based on skill and evasion, but also other ninjutsu and genjutsu will be greatly affected.

Of course, Qingming will not be afraid, after all, his 'Amenotejikara' is a natural counter to this ability.

Uh...

Getting off topic!

Speaking of which, the perfection of 'Shadow Sword Technique' also gave him an additional 40,000 points of Chakra to freely allocate every day.

Qingming didn't hesitate at all and directly invested all of these Chakra points into 'Nirvana Temple Technique'.

In this way, its growth rate has also been further improved.

Withdrawing his thoughts, Qingming stopped thinking and continued to rush towards the village with his teammates.

Along the way, they saw many dilapidated towns and many refugees.

Obviously, the impact of the Third Shinobi World War has not subsided, and the interior of the Land of Fire is still not very stable.

This is one of the reasons why the village urgently summoned them back.

Indeed, there are not many people in this batch of theirs.

However, each of them is an elite. Even if they can't stand alone, leading a team to wipe out one or two bandit dens is not a problem.

In this way, one hundred people are one hundred small teams.

This is definitely a force to be reckoned with for Konoha Village, which is eager to stabilize the interior of the Land of Fire.

Therefore, as soon as the situation on the front line stabilized, the village hurriedly summoned them back.

······

Five days later.

Qingming and others returned to the village.

Even though it had only been less than a month, everyone could clearly feel that the village was much more prosperous than before. There was no sense of desolation and decay on the outside. Instead, it was full of vitality and vitality. The whole place was a scene of prosperity.

"It seems that the village is very satisfied with the newly appointed Hokage, Namikaze Minato!"

Walking on the street, Qingming thought to himself as he looked at the surrounding pedestrians like weaving.

As the saying goes, what kind of leader leads what kind of team.

The previous Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, was not to say old, but he was also in his twilight years.

Therefore, the team he brought out was also full of twilight.

Perhaps, he himself did not realize that the younger generation in the village had become tired of his rule.

Because of this, in another timeline, when Namikaze Minato died in battle to seal the Nine-Tails, after the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, took over again, many young people expressed their disappointment with the village, and they were also weak in their work.

And ninjas are the core of a ninja village, and their attitude will directly or indirectly affect the behavior and state of other people in the village.

One or two are okay, maybe it won't have a big impact.

But if most of the entire ninja group has this attitude, then the village will naturally appear lifeless.

This is one of the reasons why Konoha's overall strength continued to decline after the Third Hokage took over again.

On the contrary, Namikaze Minato is a young man, born with a spirit of enterprise.

In this way, the whole village will naturally be full of vigor.