Boosted by the Size Control Expert and the acutely sharp wind-attribute Chakra nature transformation, the destructive power of the Wind Release: Rasengan approached that of the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken from the original story. Every single blade of the swirling vortex that exploded in mid-air was formed from extremely sharp Chakra wind blades. It sliced for quite a long time before the terrifying Chakra vortex gradually subsided.
Only after the vortex had died down did a battered figure fall from the high night sky, lit by a bright moon, crashing into the ground with a loud bang to create a circular crater.
Using the moonlight, Naruto flashed forward and looked down from the edge of the crater. He could see that Yingguimaru, lying at the bottom, had long since been reduced to a bloody mess.
Although Yingguimaru looked thoroughly and undeniably dead, Naruto, just to be safe, picked up a Kunai, jumped into the crater, and delivered a final finishing blow to Yingguimaru.
With this, the Kumogakure rogue ninja "Decapitator" Yingguimaru—who had frequented the underground black market and exchange shops for years and was notorious throughout the Shinobi World—had officially met his end at Naruto's hands.
Having finished off Yingguimaru, Naruto finally had the time to check out his upgraded "Intermediate Evasion" title.
Opening the system panel, Naruto carefully examined the attributes of the "Intermediate Evasion" title.
Intermediate Evasion Lv.2 (Upgradable). Attributes: The host's reflexes receive an intermediate enhancement, and movement speed receives an intermediate enhancement. During combat, there is a probability of triggering the "Flash Step" effect.
—["Is this speed fast? No, it's still far from enough!"]
Actually, there was not much need to scrutinize it too closely; the system's description of the title's attributes was as vague as ever. However, Naruto was quite interested in the "Flash Step" effect that had a probability of triggering on the upgraded "Intermediate Evasion" title.
It seemed that the "Flash Step" special effect was somewhat similar to the Flying Thunder God, but how it actually worked would have to wait until it was triggered in real combat to be fully understood.
As for the attribute bonuses of Intermediate Evasion, through his recent battle with Yingguimaru, Naruto already had a general grasp of the difference between so-called intermediate enhancement and low-level enhancement.
From initially dodging Yingguimaru's attacks on a one-sided basis to having reflexes and speed that completely surpassed Yingguimaru, ultimately achieving a dazzling, instantaneous counterattack and reversal, the superiority of the "Intermediate Evasion" title's attribute bonuses went without saying.
An intense battle had thus drawn to a close. Naruto no longer paid any attention to the thoroughly cold Yingguimaru, stepping forward instead to pick up the sickle that Yingguimaru had dropped on the ground.
After all, this sickle was forged from a special material capable of conducting Chakra, making it just right to take as a trophy.
Without further ado, Naruto took out a ninja tool sealing scroll, sealed the sickle inside, and put it away. On this journey out for training, Naruto could be said to be fully equipped. From minor items like soldier pills and Kunai and shuriken, to major ones like ninja tool sealing scrolls, Naruto had prepared a greater or lesser amount of everything.
Having now obtained the sickle as a trophy, Naruto did not linger here much longer. With a few flickers of his figure, he left and continued on his path of training across the Shinobi World.
Three days later, a squad of ninja took advantage of the cover of night and silently crept to the place where Naruto and Yingguimaru had fought.
The squad leader was a dark-skinned man. Crouching before the crater that Yingguimaru had smashed into, he stared at the bloody figure at the bottom for quite a while before speaking, "There's no doubt about it. This fellow is indeed Yingguimaru."
"Captain, Yingguimaru actually got killed?! Who did this?!" Hearing this, one of the men standing behind the captain could not help speaking out, unable to hide the shock in his voice.
This ninja squad belonged to the Kumogakure ANBU and had originally come out in pursuit of the rogue ninja Yingguimaru. Along the way, just to gather intelligence and keep track of Yingguimaru's movements, these people had expended an immense amount of effort.
Yet at this moment, the target who had eluded capture multiple times in the past had turned into a bloody corpse without a single sign of life. Anyone encountering such a thing would probably be stunned on the spot.
That was precisely how Tsubaoi, the ANBU squad leader from Kumogakure, felt. No matter what, he had never expected that this mission would end with such a bizarre conclusion as simply collecting Yingguimaru's corpse.
After standing in silent shock for a short while, Tsubaoi pulled a scroll from inside his tunic and said, "No matter what, let's take Yingguimaru's corpse back and report to the organization first."
With that, Tsubaoi unrolled the scroll used for sealing corpses and sealed the blood-soaked Yingguimaru inside. Then, this silently arriving Kumogakure ANBU squad silently departed once again.
Never in anyone's wildest dreams would they have guessed that the person who killed Yingguimaru was merely a "youth" in his early teens.