A new mission: Challenging Might Duy

After Shinnosuke Sarutobi used the Earth Flow Wall to block Qingyun's attack, he saw that Qingyun wasn't attacking again. Once he landed, he scanned his surroundings, but Qingyun changed directions with every word he spoke. Shinnosuke couldn't pin down his position at all.

Moreover, Qingyun changed positions at random, moving so fast that Shinnosuke could not even predict where he would go. The bizarre sight briefly made him think Qingyun had cast a genjutsu.

Yet even as he repeatedly disrupted the chakra inside his body, Qingyun's figures remained all around the field. That meant Qingyun had not used genjutsu at all.

The eerie Movement Technique sent a chill through him. If Qingyun were his enemy, given the speed of his hand seals earlier, could Shinnosuke really fend off ninjutsu and sword attacks coming from every direction?

Outside the field, Hatake Sakumo's expression changed for the first time when he saw Qingyun's Lingbo Micro-Step combined with the Body Flicker Technique. He stared intently at the Eight Trigrams formed by Qingyun's afterimages, as though searching for an opening.

Might Duy, meanwhile, stared wide-eyed in bewilderment at the figures of Qingyun scattered everywhere around the field. He could not tell which one was the real Qingyun.

"Heh, you really are the genius the old man talked about! You've certainly surprised me. All right, I concede."

After a long while, Shinnosuke Sarutobi gave a wry chuckle. For now, he could think of no way to counter Qingyun's bizarre Movement Technique. Besides, had this been a fight to the death, and had Qingyun kept attacking, he would never have withstood the relentless attacks from every direction. Even if he survived, he would already have been gravely injured, with no time to search for a weakness in Qingyun's Movement Technique.

So Shinnosuke Sarutobi smiled openly and