Rating: A

Chasing relentlessly, Shinji finally cornered Lower Rank Five Rui in a mountain ravine.

Faced with Shinji's pursuit, Rui lost the arrogance he'd displayed against the Konoha Anbu. With no escape, he went berserk, unleashing his Blood Demon Art wildly without giving Shinji a chance to interrogate him, throwing out blood webs in all directions.

Swish, swish, swish.

Everywhere the blood webs swept, everything was torn to shreds.

In an instant, the ravine was filled with flying debris: shattered wood, scattered stones, and splashing water, leaving it in utter chaos!

At this moment, Shinji chose not to clash directly with Rui and waste his Dojutsu. Instead, he retreated far away, positioning himself on higher ground to overlook the ravine.

"He knows I want to interrogate him."

Shinji suspected Rui's sudden rampage was related to his attempt to extract information.

This meant that being interrogated was a severely serious matter for Rui, to the point of driving him into a frenzy and instinctively resisting such an event.

Realizing this, Shinji shook his head inwardly. "It seems unlikely I'll get any useful intel from him."

The mastermind secretly orchestrating this invasion had clearly anticipated that Rui, an early scout demon, might leak information. Therefore, they must have made some arrangements concerning Rui.

His plan to obtain enemy intel from Rui was likely to fail.

"Then I won't waste any more time!"

Shinji quickly made up his mind.

Whoosh.

Just as Shinji was about to act, a light tinged with blood color tore through space, shining into the Ninja World as if from a dimensional rift!

Shinji's pupils constricted at the sight, a sense of inexplicable unease filling him.

Rui, in his frenzy, saw the blood-colored light and was overjoyed. Forgetting everything else, he lunged towards the light with all his might.

Shinji's expression turned serious. He had no time to analyze what this sudden blood-colored light was. He leaped from his high vantage point into the air and activated 'Susanoo' before even landing.

Boom!

The colossal 'Susanoo', like a divine being, descended from the heavens and smashed fiercely into the ravine, directly tearing Rui, who was lunging towards the blood-colored light, to shreds!

Rui, almost reduced to dust scattered across the ground, suddenly separated into four or five pieces of flesh. Each piece then grew eight spider legs and scattered, running towards the blood-colored light.

As they ran, they shouted, "You can't catch me! You can't catch me!"

They were only tens of meters away from the blood-colored light. At their speed, they would reach it in the blink of an eye. Thus, Rui had completely lost his fear of Shinji, his tone filled with triumph!

Beneath the 'Susanoo', Shinji looked on indifferently.

Whoosh.

A black flame suddenly drifted out, like a feather, falling evenly around the blood-colored light.

Rui instinctively sensed that the black flame before him was no ordinary thing. But the blood-colored light was right in front of him; as long as he escaped into it, his mission would be complete. So, all four or five of his forms charged straight into the black flame.

"Ahhhh!"

The moment they touched the black flame, all of Rui's forms let out piercing screams.

They rolled back and forth within the black flame, trying to shake off the flames clinging to them. But all their struggles were in vain; no matter what they did, the black flame followed like a shadow!

In a short while, all five of Rui's clones turned to ash in the black flame, looking like nothing more than ordinary pieces of flesh, showing no signs of rapid regeneration.

At this moment.

The blood-colored light that had torn through space vanished as abruptly as it had appeared, leaving only a mark on the ground.

Shinji deactivated 'Susanoo' and calmly walked over.

The 'Amaterasu' black flame on the ground had already been extinguished by him. Rui, who had rushed into the 'Amaterasu' earlier, left not a single trace behind, completely burned away by the 'Amaterasu'.

"'Amaterasu' truly can counter demons!"

He had witnessed the performance of 'Amaterasu'.

When Rui had previously withstood that Anbu's 'Fire Dragon Bullet', he hadn't even cried out. But the moment he was burned by the black flames of 'Amaterasu', he immediately let out a chilling, piercing scream.

Moreover, he had turned to dust within Amaterasu in mere moments. The demon's super-regeneration ability seemed nonexistent.

However, at this point, Shinji frowned slightly.

He remembered that Rui, the leader of the spider demon family from Mount Natagumo, was Lower Rank Five among the Twelve Kizuki.

But when Rui had split into five clones just now, the hair covering his left eye had disappeared, and Shinji had seen Lower Rank Six in his left eye.

"Did I misremember?"

Shinji shook his head, then cast the doubt aside.

In any case, Rui had already been eliminated. Whether he was Lower Five or Lower Six didn't matter anymore.

[Invasion successfully blocked]

[Rift closed.]

A mysterious voice finally sounded.

Shinji breathed a sigh of relief. The mysterious voice's appearance meant he had eliminated all invading demons without missing any.

Although he couldn't get any information about the mastermind from the demon, he had successfully prevented the demon from transmitting information back to the Ninja World.

Especially the experience of using Chakra.

Chakra can be used not only to cast offensive Ninjutsu but also to heal wounds, and even to create things out of thin air and foster life.

If the demon had completely mastered the techniques for using Chakra, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

[Loot scanned.]

[Analyzing loot.]

[Loot: Thread Manipulation Technique.]

[Loot: Special Spider Silk (can be strengthened by Chakra)]

Two orbs of light appeared in the devastated mountain ravine.

"Thread Manipulation Technique and Silk Thread?"

Shinji approached the orbs of light, reached out, and gathered them into his hands.

Instantly.

A large batch of thread manipulation techniques flooded his mind. These were clearly profound techniques, yet he understood and became familiar with them with ease, as if he had studied thread manipulation for decades.

"This... this is all Rui's experience with controlling threads!"

As a spider demon, controlling threads was already Rui's instinct, and all of it had now become Shinji's experience.

Next, Shinji looked at the ball of silk thread in his hand.

This ball of silk thread was incredibly light, he couldn't feel its weight at all in his hand, and it felt very soft to the touch, nothing like the blood-red threads that had just shattered metal and stone.

On a whim, Shinji tried to flick the silk thread using the thread manipulation techniques he had just acquired.

Swish.

Under the enhancement of his Chakra, the soft silk thread instantly turned into a sharp blade, slicing a large tree not far away into two halves.

"So strong!"

If he used this silk thread to launch a surprise attack in the dark, most people wouldn't be able to defend against it.

However, based on Rui's experience with thread manipulation, he knew that the silk thread actually had a weakness, and that weakness was none other than fire.

Under the scorching heat of flames, the silk thread would instantly soften and then turn to ash.

[Calculating reward settlement]

[Rating: A]

[Received Ninja World's Gift: A-rank Ninjutsu (Random).]

[Achieved A-rank evaluation, can forfeit Ninja World's Gift for a random reward]

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