With a sharp glint flashing in his piercing eyes and holding the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken high, Naruto was in peak condition. With a powerful sweep of his arm that swung it back to a certain degree, he decisively hurled the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken forward!
The azure Wind Release: Rasenshuriken soared through the air like a giant Windmill Shuriken, whistling as it carved a fierce trajectory and sped forward at high velocity.
Like an eagle striking the vast sky or crashing waves pounding the shore, the piercing shriek of the high-speed spinning Wind Release: Rasenshuriken echoed endlessly in the air. In the blink of an eye, the massive azure Chakra shuriken vanished into the distance, slamming with a thunderous boom into a small mountain far away.
Then, at the edge of Naruto’s vision, the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken instantly erupted into a zone enveloped by dense, microscopic Chakra wind blades. That zone covered the entire mountaintop, and the fine, razor-sharp miniature wind blades crisscrossed and sliced through everything, quickly reducing it to dust too fine for the naked eye to discern.
The ultimate visible result was that the small mountain peak, struck head-on by Naruto's Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, simply shattered, turning into scattering dust. The entire mountaintop was instantly erased, as if it had vanished into thin air.
Since it hit a non-living target, Naruto could not directly feel the full destructive power of this Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, but he was certain that, amplified by the attributes of the "Size Control Expert" title, its power was at least more than double that of the original work.
With this, Naruto's training for the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken could be considered successfully concluded.
To top it all off, the system delivered more good news just in time.
"Congratulations to the host for independently developing the S-rank Ninjutsu Wind Release: Rasenshuriken to perfection, accumulating a vast amount of training experience. The title 'Junior Comprehension' has successfully upgraded to 'Intermediate Comprehension'."
Title: Intermediate Comprehension Lv.2 (Upgradable)
Attributes: Provides an intermediate boost to the host's mental strength and comprehension, allowing the host to better learn and develop Ninjutsu. When researching and learning Ninjutsu, there is a certain chance to trigger the effect of "Divine Enlightenment".
Unlocks special skills "Insightful True Eye" and "Heart of Rhinoceros".
Insightful True Eye: Whenever the host witnesses a Ninjutsu, there is a certain probability of directly perceiving its underlying principles.
Heart of Rhinoceros: The host can quickly learn and master Ninjutsu whose principles have been perceived by their own insight.
——【The path of comprehension, from the shallow to the profound, piercing to the core】
The upgraded "Intermediate Comprehension" title had clearly undergone a qualitative change. In Naruto's view, the two newly added special skills could simply be called divine abilities!
The Insightful True Eye and Heart of Rhinoceros complemented each other like a cheat code. If Naruto was lucky, any Ninjutsu he witnessed from now on could be quickly mastered by him!
It was foreseeable that the number of Ninjutsu Naruto mastered in the future would experience an explosive growth. Naruto was naturally filled with anticipation.
While a powerful Ninjutsu could carry you a long way, Naruto did not want to keep constantly spinning spheres like in the original work; that was far too unoriginal.
Besides, having a few more powerful Ninjutsu under his belt was always a good thing.
Only, he wondered if the Insightful True Eye and Heart of Rhinoceros would also work on Kekkei Genkai. If they did, it would truly be unbeatable.
Filled with anticipation for the two new special skills unlocked by the "Intermediate Comprehension" title, Naruto left this quiet and secluded place suitable for peaceful cultivation.
Now that the new Ninjutsu was perfected, he wondered which lucky fellow would become the first to face Naruto's freshly baked S-rank Ninjutsu, the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.
.........
One month later.
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
In a land of broken walls and ruins in the western part of the Land of Fire, near the border of the Wind Country's territory, accompanied by two raging gales, the surrounding ruins suffered a secondary destruction, being thoroughly demolished.
This place originally seemed to be a leftover ruin from a great battle. Fighting in these ruins right now were Naruto and another unknown ninja.
This was a ninja skilled in Wind Release. The conflict with Naruto started because Naruto had allegedly trespassed on his territory. Of course, that was merely the other party's side of the story; Naruto didn't care about such things. Since the guy wanted to pick a fight, Naruto would gladly accept.
At this moment, following a head-on collision of two identical Wind Release Ninjutsu, the gale released by Naruto overwhelmed and swallowed the gale released by his opponent with absolute superiority, ultimately engulfing the Wind Release ninja as well.
After a long while, the raging gale gradually subsided. The Wind Release ninja lay heavily on the ground, severely injured and covered in blood, his eyes filled with shock.
"How is this possible! Why can a brat of this age use the exact same Ninjutsu as me, and with such immense power!" the Wind Release ninja, injured to the point of being unable to get back up, spoke in disbelief, his voice hoarse.
The next second, he saw Naruto walk up to him, shake his head in disappointment, and say, "The opponents I encounter lately are getting weaker and weaker. To think someone would actually use a mere C-rank Ninjutsu as their trump card."
That C-rank Ninjutsu, Wind Release: Great Breakthrough, indeed belonged to the Wind Release ninja before him. However, after the opponent used it a few times, its principles were directly perceived by Naruto's Insightful True Eye.
For Naruto now, once the principles of a C-rank Ninjutsu were perceived, using the Heart of Rhinoceros allowed him to fully master that C-rank Ninjutsu in a single instant!
Naruto had just instantly mastered the opponent's Wind Release: Great Breakthrough and used the same Ninjutsu, defeating him instantly with overwhelming superiority.
One must know that for the same Ninjutsu, the power varies depending on the user. Although Naruto could not yet reach the heaven-shaking, earth-shattering level of Uchiha Madara with a single Majestic Demolishing Flame, he was still a powerful Wind Release ninja who had mastered an S-rank Wind Release Ninjutsu. For this person to use Wind Release in front of Naruto was truly showing off one's slight skill before an expert.
"You brat!" Belittled so thoroughly by Naruto, the Wind Release ninja was instantly struck with a surge of fury to his heart. Combined with his severe injuries, he actually choked with anger and died on the spot.
"Clown." Without the slightest interest in sparing the opponent another glance, Naruto turned and left, his figure carrying a hint of the loneliness of a master.
...Well, Naruto admitted he had acted a bit too cool. But failing to encounter good opponents truly was a major obstacle hindering the continued growth of his strength.
To put it bluntly, fighting a Wind Release ninja like the one just now, an enemy of that tier, could no longer provide any training effect for Naruto. Because such a battle was a completely one-sided massacre, Naruto won easily and thus had no way to improve his strength.
Even if the Insightful True Eye perceived the principles of the opponent's Ninjutsu, what Naruto ultimately gained were just some chicken-ribs-like C-rank Ninjutsu.
A bottleneck was near at hand. How should he break through it?