Earlier, while Akaseki was playing the new Crimson game, he had already used his most abundant "anger" and "sorrow" to stimulate his Earth Style chakra.
This had unlocked two Earth Style chakra transformations—Clay Bind (anger) and Submerge Clay (sorrow).
Breaking through the first threshold of "1%" had been relatively quick, so Akaseki had already discovered the effects of both.
"Clay Bind" could alter the hardness and softness of Earth Style. Earth Style generally required two kinds of textures: one was hardness, used for direct attacks, obstruction, and defense; the other was fluid mud, used to trap enemies and restrict their movements. "Clay Bind" strengthened both, making it soft when it needed to be soft and hard when it needed to be hard.
"Submerge Clay," meanwhile, enhanced integration. At present, it mainly affected Earth Style: Subterranean Voyage and the Double Suicide Decapitation Technique, making it harder to detect someone infiltrating underground or disguising themselves as sand and soil.
However...
At this moment, Akaseki and Ranwu were operating openly and covertly. Akaseki used Earth Style: Subterranean Voyage to quietly approach from underground, but as expected, he was still discovered!
Clearly, merely having "+1" Submerge Clay was not enough to prevent this Kaguya Jonin from noticing him at close range.
Akaseki was not disappointed by this. He simply formed hand seals underground, then...
"Earth Style: Earth Mausoleum Dumpling!"
Akaseki rose from the ground, holding a boulder even larger than his Great Fireball Technique.
In response...
Kaguya looked utterly disdainful.
Among Earth Style techniques, Earth Mausoleum Dumpling was particularly sensitive to "scale." If an Earth Style ninja was truly proficient and had mastered nature transformation in a certain proliferating direction, their Earth Mausoleum Dumpling could become extremely, extremely large.
This technique directly hurled a massive boulder, whose rolling path was obvious. Even if it