Chapter 207 Evacuation
three days later.

It was early February.

After more than half a month of strengthening, Qingming can already feel obvious changes in his body.

At this moment, there seemed to be a power hidden in his body, which was constantly pushing his body to slowly evolve towards a more perfect direction.

Qingming knew that this was a sign that his 'physique' was about to improve.

According to this accumulation rate, Qingming estimated that in a week at most, his "physique" attribute would be improved.

By then, both the chakra upper limit and the chakra recovery speed will see a big improvement.

At the same time, the narrowing of the gap between the 'Physical' attribute and the 'Spiritual' attribute will also bring him one step closer to safely opening the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Just when Qingming thought he would be able to safely wait until the day when his 'physique' attribute was improved, a piece of news suddenly disrupted his training plan.

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early morning.

Stronghold center.

In the conference room.

Nara Sishui had just finished reading out the order from the headquarters when someone couldn't wait to ask, "Captain Nara, what happened? Why did the headquarters suddenly order a retreat?"

That's right, an order had just come from the base camp, asking them to evacuate this stronghold immediately and return to Fengliu Town stronghold as quickly as possible to assist the defenders there and defend against possible attacks.

The key point is that the Fengliu Town stronghold is behind them. If there is a possibility of attack there, then wouldn’t it be even more dangerous here?

But there hasn't been anything unusual these days?

Everyone was puzzled and waiting for an answer from Nara Surabaya.

Seeing everyone looking over, Nara Sishui said seriously: "I just received news that several strongholds near us have been breached."

"what?"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

You know, these strongholds basically inform each other of their respective situations every day in order to share information.

Just yesterday, everything was normal in several nearby strongholds. Apart from some minor daily incidents, nothing major happened.

But only one night had passed, how come it was suddenly breached?

And they were all breached at once?
No matter how you think about it, this seems impossible.

But Nara Surabaya couldn't possibly joke with them about something so serious, so someone asked, "What exactly is going on?"

"According to the news from the headquarters, the raid on Iwagakure Village last night seemed to have involved both the Four-Tails Jinchuriki and the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, as well as the elite assistance of the blasting corps."

Nara Surabaya replied.

"what?"

"Four and Five Tails?"

"Demolition troops?"

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Several different voices rang out almost simultaneously, showing the surprise in these people's hearts.

Yes, no matter it is the Four-Tails Jinchuriki, the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, or the Iwagakure Village's blasting troop, any one of them alone would be a troublesome character, let alone when they are dispatched together.

It's normal for people to be surprised.

just
"Is the Iwagakure Village planning a full-scale counterattack? They've dispatched so many elite troops!"

Originally, because they were being pursued by the Iwagakure Village, the stronghold they occupied was closest to the rear and was a recessed part of the entire defense line, so it was relatively safe.

But now, several nearby strongholds have been breached, so they have become a salient here. No wonder the base camp wants them to retreat immediately!

If they don't leave now, they won't be able to leave when the Iwagakure army surrounds them.

Realizing this, everyone stopped talking nonsense and immediately made a retreat route and plan, then left the meeting room and went down to prepare. Qingming didn't have much to do, and this time he was still assigned to the combat team, so he seemed a little leisurely among the busy jonin.

However, this was just an appearance. In fact, he was almost cursing in his heart.

Just when his 'Physique' attribute was about to improve, he suddenly encountered this situation.

There is no doubt that the prisoners in the secret base cannot be kept.

And this means that he has to lose more than 40,000 chakra points every day.

Although not all of these chakras were used by him to perform the "Palm Immortal Technique" to strengthen his body.

But
Without these chakras, even if he used all the chakra he could recover every day to strengthen his body, the time it took for his "physique" attribute to improve would be delayed by two to three days.

'Do you want to do this?'

Qingming hesitated.

Doing so would mean that for the next ten days or so, his other skills would basically be at a standstill.

Qing Ming opened the panel, glanced at the skills, thought about it, and finally decided to pause the practice of these skills.

There is no other reason. The several skills he is practicing at this stage, whether it is 'Wind Style: Wind Blade', 'Rasengan', or 'Shadow Clone Technique', are not skills that need to be improved urgently.

Their current level is sufficient, there is no need to compete with the 'Palm Immortal Technique' for chakra.

On the contrary, the improvement of the 'physique' attribute is related to his foundation. In the case of insufficient chakra, he still has to focus on it.

After thinking this through, Qingming no longer hesitated.

"Then, the next step is to deal with the secret base."

Although there was a shadow clone staying there, he couldn't notify them, and at this time, he couldn't leave the base.

"In this case, I can only create another shadow clone."

Thinking this in his mind, Qingming walked to an empty corner. After making sure that no one was paying attention to this side, he formed seals with his hands and performed the 'Shadow Clone Technique'.

bang~
A cloud of chakra smoke exploded, and a figure appeared in front of him.

He knew what he had to do without Qingming's instructions.

After nodding to Qingming, the shadow clone left this place, sneaked out of the stronghold quietly, and rushed to the secret base.

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An hour and a half later.

Southwest side of the stronghold.

Qingming was running fast in the forest when he suddenly stopped.

At this moment, there were two more chakras in his body and two more memories in his mind.

Qing Ming quickly browsed through them, and found the memories of the shadow clone who stayed at the secret base and the shadow clone he had sent to deal with the head and tail not long ago.

Next to him, another jonin from the combat team saw Qingming suddenly stop and asked hurriedly: "What's wrong? What did you find?"

While speaking, he looked around vigilantly, as if looking for hidden enemies.

Seeing this, Qing Ming was about to say "It's okay".

But at this moment, a slight sound of breaking through the air reached his ears.

Qingming's expression changed slightly, and he immediately looked in the direction where the voice came from.

The next moment, his pupils suddenly shrank and he shouted, "Be careful!"

As he spoke, he rushed towards the dense forest next to him.

The Konoha Jonin who was traveling with him saw his reaction and without saying anything, immediately followed his footsteps and flashed into the jungle nearby.

Although he didn't discover anything, he believed in Qingming's judgment. This was the prestige that Qingming had earned time and time again.

(End of this chapter)