Night Encounter

Over the course of a single night, Uchiha Yue ventured deep into the Land of Water and ambushed three entire Kirigakure ninja squads. A total of nine Kirigakure ninja died at Uchiha Yue's hands.

Such a record might not have seemed particularly dazzling for Uchiha Yue. However, he had only gone looking for trouble with those Kirigakure ninja in between his training. By that measure, charging across three towns within the Land of Water and wiping out three entire Kirigakure ninja squads in one short night was already an excellent accomplishment.

Yet after achieving such an impressive result, Uchiha Yue felt no joy at all. On the contrary, he found killing these insignificant ninja unbearably dull; it did not even serve to familiarize him with his techniques. After all, Uchiha Yue was now a quasi-Kage-level powerhouse. Unless elite jonin stood before him, low-level ninja could not even stir his interest in fighting.

And jonin-level Kirigakure ninja obviously could not be casually dispatched throughout the Land of Water to carry out missions. Thus, after entering the Land of Water, Uchiha Yue could only helplessly kill those low-level ninja, using this method to spread panic among Kirigakure's ninja and force them to send more forces to hunt him down.

Still, Uchiha Yue's approach proved highly effective.

Just ten days after entering the Land of Water, Uchiha Yue no longer saw any low-level Kirigakure ninja squads leaving Kirigakure to carry out missions. At the same time, Kirigakure faced a certain degree of internal crisis because it no longer dared to send low-level ninja squads out on missions.

After all, most of a ninja village's income came from accepting commissions and completing them. By slaughtering Kirigakure ninja squads sent out on missions, Uchiha Yue was effectively cutting off Kirigakure's source of revenue. Now that