Chapter 468 Tacit understanding
Feeling the murderous intent from Qing Ming and looking at the long sword coming straight towards him, Murakami Yu felt a ripple in his heart.

The next moment, he tapped the ground with his toes and suddenly stopped moving forward.

Then, he rotated his body ninety degrees with his right foot as the center, and while stepping back, he avoided the attacking long sword.

huh~
Qingming's long sword missed.

His eyes focused, he adjusted his body slightly, then turned his wrist, and the long sword changed from a vertical chop to a horizontal chop, and chopped straight towards Murakami Yu's waist.

Murakami Yu reacted quickly, jumped up and avoided the attack just in time.

Seeing this, Qingming was about to launch additional attacks.

However, at this moment, another Kirigakure jonin suddenly took action, swung the kunai in his hand, and slashed towards his neck again.

Sensing the danger, Qing Ming had to temporarily give up chasing Murakami Yu and instead use the long sword in his hand to block the incoming kunai.

Hey~
The kunai and the long sword collided, making a crisp sound of metal collision.

Then, a harsh friction sound was heard.

The two of them exerted force at the same time, trying to force the other to retreat and seize the initiative.

Unfortunately, no one succeeded.

The kunai and the blade rubbed against each other, making a "sizzling" sound, and sparks burst out in the meantime, which was very beautiful.

Just when the two were in a stalemate, Murakami Yu finally adjusted his body, found an opportunity, and stabbed the kunai in his hand, aiming directly at Qingming's heart.

A strong sense of crisis came over Qing Ming. Without any hesitation, he immediately retracted his strength and stepped back.

However, by retreating, he avoided Murakami Yu's attack, but he also lost some of the initiative.

The Kirigakure jonin who had just wrestled with him sensed the opportunity and attacked immediately without any hesitation.

As a last resort, Qing Ming could only swing his sword to block.

Ding Ding Dang Dang~
For a moment, the two men fought together, and the sound of metal clashing continued.

If it were just that, it would be fine. With his current level of swordsmanship, even if he lost the initiative, he would be able to regain the initiative after dozens or even a dozen moves.

But the bad thing is that there is also a Murakami Yu outside as a support. Once the Kirigakure Jonin in front of him shows weakness or flaws, the opponent will immediately step forward to remedy the situation.

And these two are all fully developed true jonin, whose strength is far beyond the reach of special jonin who only have "one skill".

Although it was only a brief fight, Qingming could probably see that the strength of these two people might not reach the level of elite jonin, but it was also better than that of ordinary jonin.

In this way, if they joined forces, without using the Mangekyō Sharingan, he would not be able to defeat the opponent for a while.

However, Qingming was not very anxious.

While fighting, he glanced at the battlefield around him.

It can be seen that although Konoha is in a passive defensive position, it will launch counterattacks from time to time.

The fact that we can launch a counterattack while defending is enough to illustrate the problem.

Obviously, the pressure on Konoha's side is not that great.

In this way, there is no need for him to rush into anything.

The two people in front of him could be used to hone his swordsmanship and further improve his proficiency in the "Instant Sword Technique".

With this thought in mind, Qing Ming stopped thinking about it and began to concentrate on dealing with the two of them.

On the Kirigakure side, there seemed to be a tacit understanding. Seeing that the three of them were fighting fiercely, they stopped sending people over.

Of course, it is also possible that Kirigakure cannot spare any extra manpower, so they can only let them fight here.

But no matter which situation it is, it gives the three people room to play freely.

So, the two Kirigakure jonin used all their means, and took turns to display various physical techniques, ninjutsu and illusion techniques they knew, trying to kill Qingming.

However, facing all these attacks, Qingming remained quite calm.

During the battle, unless necessary, he only used swordsmanship, especially the 'instant swordsmanship', which clearly showed that he was using the two of them as a whetstone.

But even so, the two Kirigakure jonin couldn't do anything to him.

Earlier, Qingming mentioned that if the two of them joined forces, it would be difficult for him to defeat the opponent in a short period of time unless he used his trump card, the Mangekyō Sharingan.

This is when he takes the initiative to attack.

If he switched to defense, the situation would be completely different. It would be a pipe dream for the opponent to gain an advantage over him. That was why Qing Ming acted so calm.

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Time passes minute by minute.

In the blink of an eye, nearly half an hour passed.

The battle between Qingming and the two Kirigakure jonin is still going on.

Half an hour is long, but also short.

For a battle between jonin, half an hour is nothing, but for most mid- and low-level ninjas, the consumption is quite high.

This is true whether it is chakra or physical strength.

A decrease in physical strength means a low state.

This is the situation where mistakes are most likely to occur.

And mistakes mean flaws.

The battles between ninjas were largely about making sure that one did not reveal any weaknesses, and then looking for the enemy's weaknesses to attack.

From this, it is not difficult to imagine that in the next period of time, the casualties on both sides will inevitably increase greatly. Perhaps it will not reach the white-hot stage, but it will be almost the same.

However, Qing Ming just glanced at these and no longer paid attention to them.

As long as Konoha doesn't collapse, there won't be any big problems.

As for life or death, it depends on one's own luck.

Now, he just wanted to improve his proficiency in 'Instant Sword Technique' as quickly as possible.

Over the past half hour, with two jonin as sparring partners, his proficiency in the 'Instant Sword Technique' had directly increased by nearly 500 points.

This brought his 'Instant Sword Technique' a little closer to the level 7 perfection.

He couldn't miss such an opportunity.

His blatant attempt to find a sparring partner naturally attracted the attention of Murakami Yu and another Kirigakure jonin.

After a fight, the two of them roughly guessed his intention and knew that he might be using them as a whetstone.

However, they had no choice but to cooperate.

In the past half hour, they had thought about killing Qingming, but no matter how hard they tried, they could not do anything to Qingming.

What can they do in this situation?
Call for support?
Sorry, Osawa Yuki has already told them clearly that there are no extra people to assign to them.

As for leaving
That would be even more impossible.

Not to mention the orders from their superiors, they had to keep Qingming at bay. Even without orders, they could not leave at will.

While they are here, Qingming is just using them as whetstones. Once they choose to leave, who knows if he will attack other Mist Ninjas?
Even if he didn't attack the other Mist Ninjas, if Qing Ming got serious and tried his best to deal with them, it would be a huge trouble.

In this case, it is better to just muddle through.

Perhaps in villages like Konoha and Iwagakure that value ideological education, or in a warlike village like Kumogakure, ninjas will sacrifice their lives for the village, but in the Kirigakure Village, which is known as the 'Village of Blood Mist', most ninjas do not have such an idea.

Moreover, even in Konoha and the other two villages, most of those who had such ideas were young ninjas who had just graduated from school.

As long as they experience the dark side of the village a little, most ninjas, unless they are idealists, will no longer have such naive ideas.

Therefore, after Murakami Yu and another Kirigakure jonin were sure that they could not kill Qingming and could not ignore their superiors' orders and leave, they tacitly chose to act as Qingming's whetstone.

Only in this way can they preserve their lives to the greatest extent possible.

As for the battlefield situation.
Logically speaking, they felt that the fact that they two were able to hold Qingming here and prevent him from getting involved in the fight between other jonin was already a great achievement. What else could they be asked to do?
What's more, isn't what they are doing now exactly what Ozawa Yuki expected when he assigned them the task?

Therefore, the two of them did not feel any guilt for slacking off.

Qing Ming also noticed the changes in the two people, but he did not pay too much attention to it. All he needed was a whetstone.

If the other party cooperates, it's fine, but if they don't, they are not the only two on the field.

Now, the cooperation between the two opponents saved him a lot of effort.

In this way, the three of them fought with a strange tacit understanding.

During this period, Qingming's proficiency in 'Instant Sword Technique' continued to grow at a steady pace, and gradually approached the level 7 perfection.

(End of this chapter)