Chapter 144 Three Days Later

Three hours later.

It's approaching evening.

Qingming finally digested the chakra contributed by the four Iwagakure Chunins.

Afterwards, he skillfully performed the C-rank ninjutsu - Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu, and completed the task of destroying the body.

Then, he immediately headed to a place closer to the battlefield to search for the next target.

Qingming knew that the Third Raikage could only hold on for three days, after which he would die of exhaustion.

By then, the Iwagakure Village will be free, and if he takes action again, the risk will increase dramatically.

Therefore, he must seize the time and improve himself as much as possible in these three days. After that, he will have to consider leaving the Land of Earth.

Thinking this in his mind, Qingming couldn't help but quicken his pace.

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In a flash, it was three days later.

This afternoon.

In a stone forest near the northwestern border of the Land of Earth, more than twenty Rock Ninjas were lying on the ground, groaning in pain from time to time. They were obviously wounded.

And in front of them was Qing Ming and his four shadow clones.

Logically speaking, he should be happy for capturing so many Rock Ninjas, but there was no joy on Qingming's face at this moment.

There is no other reason, the information about him may have been leaked.

Qing Ming cast his gaze towards a Iwagakure jonin in front of him. Even though the man's hands were broken and there was a twisted and hideous wound on his chest, there was no fear in his eyes.

Seeing Qingming looking over, the other party said viciously: "Wait, Uchiha kid, someone will come to find you soon.

You can defeat me alone, but can you defeat the entire Iwagakure Village?
You killed so many of us, the Third Generation Master will not let you go."

"Noisy!"

Qing Ming frowned when he heard this, looked at the shadow clone next to him, and said, "Tell him to shut up!"

The next moment, the shadow clone flashed and came behind the Iwagakure Jonin, then he swung his hand and knocked the other person unconscious.

"Takagi-jounin!"

Seeing this Iwagakure jonin being knocked unconscious, several Iwagakure jonin in the crowd immediately shouted.

This time, Qingming didn't need to give any orders. The other three shadow clones immediately rushed out and knocked out all the Rock Ninjas on the field in an instant.

Qingming looked at the Rock Ninjas lying on the ground and felt a sense of difficulty.

Just as the Iwagakure Jonin said just now, he could defeat one person, but he could not defeat the entire Iwagakure Village.

Well.
At least not possible now.

What he is about to face is most likely the pursuit and interception of many Rock Ninjas.

It all started more than ten minutes ago.

At that time, after he found the gathering point of the wounded, he observed for a while and determined that the guarding force was only one special jonin and three Iwagakure chunins, so he took action immediately.

However, just when the battle was at its most intense, a jonin suddenly emerged from among the wounded, and he was not a special jonin, but a real jonin.

This caught Qingming off guard.

If it weren't for his excellent swordsmanship and the support of the Sharingan, and the fact that he used the Rasengan without the need for hand seals at the critical moment to give the opponent a heavy blow, he would have been defeated.

Now, maybe the battle isn’t over yet!

Even so, he failed to stop the opponent's summoned beast, which was a pangolin, and disappeared the moment it burrowed into the soil.

It is for this reason that Qing Ming said that his information might have been leaked.

Fighting with two jonin, he naturally couldn't maintain his 'transformation technique', and his true form had already been exposed.

The pangolin had been hiding for a long time and must have seen all of this.

Now, the other party has escaped. It is foreseeable that it will not be long before his appearance will spread throughout the entire Iwagakure Village.

That's fine, it's just appearance, it can be solved with a "transformation technique".

The key is that his strength has been exposed, so the one who will greet him next will definitely not be a Chunin, but at the very least a Special Jonin.

In this case, he must deal with it carefully.

With his current strength, he can handle one or two jonin, but if the number exceeds three, it would be dangerous.

And judging by the arrangements made by the Iwagakure Village today, it is obvious that they are already trying to find a way to deal with him.

However, this point still needs to be verified.

Thinking of this, Qing Ming walked straight to an Iwagakure guard, woke him up with a few slaps, and then began to cast the "Illusion Sharingan" to obtain information.

The reason why Qingming didn't attack the two jonin directly was because he was afraid there was a trap.

Although this possibility is very small, just in case, he decided to start with this Iwagakure Chunin.

To Qingming's surprise, he got the information he wanted directly from the other party's mind. The Hidden Rock Village did not encrypt this information at all, or they did not think that this information was important.

This saved Qingming a lot of trouble.

He quickly closed his eyes and read the relevant information carefully.

After a moment, Qingming opened his eyes and an expression of "as expected" appeared on his face.

Based on the other party's memory, Qingming has confirmed his guess that the arrangement made by the Hidden Rock Village today was indeed aimed at him.

Of course, before today, the other party didn't know who he was exactly. They only knew that there was a person or a team hunting down Rock Ninjas, and they especially liked to target the wounded.

So they followed the traces he left behind, all the way here, and then set up several traps, waiting for him to take the bait.

As Qing Ming had gone too smoothly over the past three days, after discovering the gathering place of the wounded, he only confirmed the status of the four guards and did not investigate the conditions of the wounded in detail.

In the end, I was decisively caught.

Only the Third Raikage has not died yet, and the large Cloud Ninja army has not yet completely escaped the pursuit range of the Iwagakure Village, tying up a lot of manpower.

Otherwise, if the Iwagakure Village had arranged more high-level ninjas, he would not be able to defeat the opponent so quickly.

By then, let alone winning, it would be good enough if we didn't lose here.

Thinking of this, Qingming couldn't help but feel a little scared.

"No, we can't stay here for long!"

Qing Ming stood up suddenly, raised his hand and was about to let those shadow clones deal with the rock ninjas on the ground, and then leave here directly.

However, when he saw the Iwagakure ninjas all over the ground, he still felt reluctant to leave.

Qing Ming only made a quick calculation about these twenty or so Rock Ninjas and knew that they could provide him with at least 150,000 chakra points.

This is not a small number!

After hesitating for a moment, Qing Ming finally decided to take a gamble and let the shadow clone practice with him to consume the chakra as quickly as possible.

Of course, he made this decision not because he was completely reluctant to part with the chakra.

Although this amount of chakra is not a small amount, with his current chakra recovery rate, it would only take him about a week to accumulate it, which is far less important than his life.

The reason why he decided to stay was because he felt that the Iwagakure Village would not be able to gather enough people to threaten him in a short period of time.

Before discovering this gathering point, he had walked roughly through the surrounding area and found no signs of a large number of Iwagakure gathering.

In other words, if the Iwagakure Village wants to take action against him, it can only mobilize manpower from farther away and wait for people to come. It is not known how long it will take.

Moreover, after the pangolin sends the information back, the Iwagakure Village still needs to report it to higher authorities for approval, which also takes some time.

It was with all these in mind that Qing Ming decided to stay and take a gamble.

(End of this chapter)