Chapter 55 Return
Hearing his question, Mizutani Shizuko cried even more sadly.

From his intermittent narration, Qingming knew that Furukawa was there alone to cover the retreat of the entire team, and was eventually killed by two Iwagakure jonin.

As for Ryosuke
He sacrificed himself simply to protect Shizuko Mizutani.

When they were retreating, they were unlucky and encountered a team of Iwagakure Chunin.

In order to protect Mizutani Shizuko, Ryosuke fought desperately, but the gap in strength cannot be easily bridged by fighting desperately.

In the end, the two were no match for the four opponents, and Ryosuke died on the spot.

Afterwards, if a Konoha jonin had not happened to pass by and rescued Mizutani Shizuko, the other party would probably have been killed.

Qing Ming glanced at Mizutani Shizuko and discovered that she did have quite a few injuries on her body.

It is not difficult to see from these injuries alone how critical the situation was at the time.

At this time, Qingming was wondering if it would be better for him to stay with them if he did not carry out the mission of sneaking into the Rock Ninja base.

After thinking for a while, Qingming came up with the answer - in terms of the results alone, it is definitely better.

With his current strength, it is not certain that he can save Furukawa. This is too difficult. After all, the enemies are two real jonin.

But it was more than enough to save the lives of Ryosuke and Mizutani Shizuko. The mere four Iwagakure Chunins were no match for him, not even if they joined forces.

But to put it another way, it is impossible for him to be a babysitter for two people for his whole life.

Not to mention how he took care of the two of them during his usual missions, he took considerable risks to save them just during the two times when they encountered the Iwagakure ambush and night raid.

Qingming thought that he had done enough, and if problems still occurred under such circumstances, they could only blame their bad luck.

Therefore, Qingming did not feel guilty about the deaths of Ryosuke and Furukawa, at most he just felt a little regretful.

"Strength, we still need to improve our strength as soon as possible!"

Qing Ming made up his mind secretly.

Ryosuke's death was ultimately due to his own lack of strength, otherwise he would have been able to survive the danger safely.

Therefore, strength is the root of everything.

With this thought in mind, Qing Ming no longer wasted time. He comforted Mizutani Shizuko with a few words and sent her to the medical ninja. After completing the initial treatment, he began to practice on his own.

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A few hours later.

The sky is bright.

Accompanied by the sound of rolling wheels, the ninjas who came to replace them arrived at the town stronghold.

After the two sides completed the handover, Qingming and others began to rush to the base camp.

There were 60 people when they came, but only less than people when they returned. The death rate was close to %, which was extremely cruel.

Among the surviving ninjas, most were mid- and top-level ninjas, and there were very few genin.

Otherwise why do people say Genin are cannon fodder on the battlefield?
Of course, there are special circumstances this time.

Generally speaking, the death rate of ninjas rotating on the front lines is not as terrible as 60%.

At the very least, a single rotation cannot achieve this level.

On the road.

The atmosphere in the team was a bit depressing.

Qing Ming glanced at Mizutani Shizuko beside him.

After several hours of recuperation, the other party's condition has improved a lot, but judging from his expression, he has not yet recovered from the shadow of the death of his teacher and companions.

Qingming had no good solution for this and could only hope that time would erase it all.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the team moved forward at a moderate pace.

Without the supplies that needed to be escorted, they could have moved faster, but there were too many wounded in the team, so they had to slow down.

Despite this, they returned to the base camp before dark.

As a Genin, he didn't need to worry about the mission report. After returning to the base camp, Qingming started training without stopping. It just so happened that he had a long vacation this time, so he could first practice the "Chakra Refining Technique" to level 4.

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Two days later.

late at night.

Inside the tent.

Qing Ming suddenly opened his eyes, unable to hide the joy in his eyes.

After two days of practice, his 'Chakra Refining Technique' was finally upgraded from level 3 to level 4.

“Then we’ll see how effective it is.”

Murmuring, Qingming closed his eyes again and began to meditate and refine his chakra.

It would have been fine if it hadn't been refined, but once it was refined, Qingming noticed the difference.

If at level 3, he was operating the 'Chakra Extraction Technique', he was using a small water pipe to extract the physical and spiritual energy contained in his body.

Now we have added a high-pressure pump to this water pipe, which greatly increases the extraction speed.

after an hour.

Qing Ming opened his eyes, opened the panel and took a look - the chakra increased by 800 points.

At level 3, this number is 400 points.

In other words, when the 'Chakra Refining Technique' was upgraded to level 4, his chakra recovery speed doubled.

In this way, he can spend more time practicing ninjutsu and other skills.

In the past, before he learned the 'Konoha-style swordsmanship', he didn't have to worry about not having enough time, after all, it didn't take much time to perform a ninjutsu.

All he needed to worry about was whether he had enough chakra.

But when he learned the 'Konoha Style Sword Technique', especially after he mastered it to level 3, he had to pay attention.

Although practicing this technique does not require too much chakra, if you want to accumulate proficiency, you must practice it over and over again.

And this process takes a lot of time.

So, for Qingming, this time-saving effect is just right.

In addition, there is the most important chakra recovery amount.

Before his physical attribute unexpectedly broke through 8 points, he could only use a maximum of 3500 chakra points per day. When it broke through to 8 points, this number became 4200.

Qing Ming once estimated that this number would increase after the 'Chakra Extraction Technique' was advanced to level 4. Now it seems that his estimate was correct.

Although it has not been tested in detail, based on the one hour of practice just now, he can already estimate a rough value - 5500.

That’s right, it’s 5500 points.

This figure is 1300 points higher than the previous value.

If all of this chakra is used to practice the "Reflection of the Heart Technique", 7.6 points of proficiency can be obtained.

And five points of proficiency can increase the degree of evolution of his Sharingan by one point.

In other words, his Sharingan will gain an average of 1.5 points of proficiency every day from now on.

This will undoubtedly increase the evolution speed of his Sharingan once again.

The only regret is that his basic attributes have not changed, his potential has long been fully tapped, and his chakra limit can only increase slowly with the passage of time.

Otherwise, he would know how much the chakra limit can be increased in one hour by practicing the level 4 'Chakra Refining Technique'.

According to the rule of the previous three doubling increases, this time it should increase from eight points per hour to sixteen points.

In this way, when his basic attributes are improved in the future, he will be able to realize his potential in the shortest possible time.

(End of this chapter)