Chapter 112 Perfection
Time flies by like a white horse.

In the blink of an eye, ten days passed.

During these ten days, the E11 area that the Qingming team was in charge of was quite quiet, or rather, the entire western defense zone was very quiet.

As for the reason, it's simple: everyone's attention is not here.

Now, whether it is the Sand Village or the Konohagakure Village, or the spies stationed nearby by other forces, all of them have focused their attention on the two strongholds on the front line.

The battle there was quite fierce, the stronghold changed hands several times, and both the Sand Village and the Konohagakure Village were frantically increasing their troops.

As far as Qingming knew, Konoha had already sent three waves of support.

Now this is the fourth wave.

That’s right, just now, Qingming sent the fourth wave of Konoha support troops out of the defense zone.

Watching their departing backs, Qing Ming thought to himself, "I wonder how many of these people can survive?"

It is obvious that the two strongholds have become some kind of symbols. Whether they can be recaptured will determine Konoha's choice when facing the attack from the Sand Village for a long time to come.

If they can take it back, it means Konoha still has the strength to fight.

After that, if I encounter similar things again, I will deal with them positively.

And if it cannot be recaptured, it means that Konoha is no longer able to maintain the current front line.

To do this, we must gradually abandon the outer strongholds and shrink the entire defense line.

During this period, the resistance will naturally not be too great.

That's why the fighting there is so fierce.

After pondering for a while, Qing Ming withdrew his gaze, shook his head, and stopped thinking about it. These things were not his concern.

What he needs to pay attention to is whether he will be transferred there, and how to ensure his survival if he is transferred there?

These matters concerning his own life are what he should consider.

Fortunately, Qingming has not received any transfer order.

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In a blink of an eye, another two days passed.

It was early October.

This afternoon.

After the patrol, Qingming began to practice the "Fire Style: Phoenix Fire Technique" as usual, once, twice, three times.
Finally, after performing this technique for the twenty-seventh time, Qing Ming suddenly stopped, closed his eyes, and stood there motionless for a long time.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Qingming finally woke up after a quarter of an hour. The moment he opened his eyes, a hint of realization flashed in his eyes.

With a flick, Qingming pulled the dagger out from his waist.

Afterwards, without any movement on his part, the dagger changed from snow-white to dark red.

Obviously, he injected Fire Chakra into it, but the difference from before was that there were no wisps of flames on the blade.

This doesn't mean that his Fire Style has become weaker.

On the contrary, it became stronger.

The reason why those flames appeared before was because he did not have enough control over his Fire Release Chakra.

But now, this problem no longer exists.

As for the reason
It's very simple. He has completely mastered the changes in the form and properties of the fire attribute chakra, so naturally there will be no leakage of power.

How did he do this? The answer is also very simple, his "Fire Style: Phoenix Fire Technique" has been upgraded from the previous level 4 to the current level 5, reaching perfection.

With this, he successfully mastered the changes in form and properties of fire attribute chakra, and his understanding and mastery of fire chakra directly reached a new level.

At this time, Qing Ming had a hunch that he should be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort when practicing other fire-style ninjutsu.

As soon as he thought of this, Qing Ming immediately raised his hands and quickly formed the six seals of 'Si - Wei - Shen - Hai - Wu - Yin'. He opened his mouth and spit out a fireball with a diameter of about one meter.

The fireball flew straight out and hit a big tree not far away, igniting a raging flame.

However, Qing Ming did not even look at the effect of this technique. He opened the panel and directly checked the proficiency of the 'Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique'.

Without any surprise, his proficiency increased by five points after just one use.

This made Qingming very excited, and he secretly thought that his strategy of improving a ninjutsu first was correct.

After that, he tried a few more times. Although his proficiency level fluctuated slightly, it basically remained between four and five points, which was quite fast.

In addition, he also tested the 'Fire Style: Dragon Fire Technique', and the effect was the same as the 'Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique', and his proficiency also increased rapidly.

In view of this, Qing Ming made a direct decision - to divide the 1,300 chakra points originally allocated to 'Fire Style: Phoenix Fire Technique' provided by himself equally between 'Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique' and 'Fire Style: Dragon Fire Technique'.

In this way, his proficiency can increase by about forty points every day.

In this way, it only takes about ten days for his two ninjutsu to be upgraded from lv2 to lv3, and their practicality will definitely rise to a higher level.

The only regret is that even though his 'Fire Style: Phoenix Fire Technique' has been upgraded to level 5 (0/0), he still cannot form seals with one hand, or cast spells without seals.

Qing Ming estimated that to achieve this, he would have to improve his 'Chakra Control' to the next level.

After all, the essence of hand seals is to assist the ninja in mobilizing the chakra in the body. If the ninja himself can do this, then this step can be simplified or even omitted.

With this thought in mind, Qing Ming opened the panel and looked at "Chakra Control".

After these days of practice, his proficiency has increased by more than a hundred points and now has reached level 3 (810/1000)!
However, at this point, the benefits brought by the double magatama Sharingan are almost gone. If there are no new ways and methods next, we can only rely on hard work.

“New ways and means.”

Qing Ming murmured, thinking of the two puppeteers imprisoned deep in the cave.

Wasn't one of the reasons why he captured Qianye in the first place because he wanted to use the puppetry technique that Qianye mastered to speed up his practice of 'chakra control'?
It’s just that the other party has been unwilling to hand it over.

"It's been a long time now, I don't know if the other party has changed his mind?"

Qing Ming pondered in his heart, turned around and came to an empty corner, raised his hand and performed the "Shadow Clone Technique", creating a shadow clone.

After nodding to the other party, Qingming quietly left the place and rushed towards the entrance of the cave.

Even if Qianye is unwilling this time, Qingming is confident that he can master the puppet secret technique.

There was no other reason. After these days of observation, he was sure that Qian Ye was the weak spot of Sha Feng, the puppeteer's subordinate.

Using this as a breakthrough point, it should not be difficult to obtain the secret art of puppetry.

What's more, he didn't want everything, just the method to condense, differentiate and control the chakra threads.

As for the puppet making and manipulation technology that the other party valued, he didn't care much about it.

In this way, we should be able to find a breakthrough.

While thinking this, Qingming had already arrived at the entrance of the cave. He looked around, made sure there was no one there, and immediately went in.

(End of this chapter)