"Earth Release: Fissure Palm!"
[Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble]
Jonin Wenya stared grimly at the chain of explosions erupting ahead once more, completely ignoring the scorching heatwave, blasts of air, and fine sand striking his face.
The thousand ninja behind him were no longer the ones from the first group, and this was already the fourth use of Earth Release: Fissure Palm.
Feeling that nearly two-thirds of the Chakra in his body had been depleted,
Wenya ignored the bewildered genin and used the Body Flicker Technique to appear before Kitsuchi.
"Captain, the Sand Village's supply of explosive tags is bizarre. Even if they bought them elsewhere, there's no way they could have gotten this many!"
"Indeed."
"And in the current situation, who could they even buy so many explosive tags from? Who could possibly provide so many?" Kitsuchi said heavily.
"Exactly. The combined scale of these five waves of explosions has already exceeded Iwagakure's stockpile of explosive tags!"
Jonin Huoguang, who excelled in ninjutsu, taijutsu, genjutsu, and other abilities, spoke up in agreement.
"Then what do we do? If there are still this many explosive-tag traps ahead, do we have to use a thousand-man Fissure Palm every two or three hundred meters?"
Jonin Dong Shiren asked anxiously.
By now, a thousand ninja had withdrawn to the rear forces under the Tsuchikage's command to recover due to insufficient Chakra.
There were also a thousand ninja there who had little Chakra left after using Fissure Palm twice.
Adding the ninja from the reconnaissance units who had already been killed or wounded,
they had lost nearly three thousand fighting forces before even catching sight of the Sand Village. What the hell was this?
"I-I'll go ask Lord Tsuchikage."
Kitsuchi thought for a long while without coming up with a solution. Though powerful, he