After a day and night of fighting while retreating, Kitsuchi and Uzumaki Kushina had finally crossed into the Land of Earth.
"That direction is..."
Looking at another marker indicating the way, Kitsuchi froze slightly. "Death Swamp?"
After all, this was the Land of Earth's territory, so Kitsuchi was very familiar with it. One look at the direction and a miniature map appeared in his mind for comparison.
Among the Five Great Shinobi Villages, Konoha had been the first to be established and the first to develop a comprehensive set of systems. As a result, it had successfully become a template, with the other four villages borrowing from and imitating it to varying degrees during their own founding.
For example, the Anbu, the Ninja Academy, and so on...
Thus, Konoha had a large training ground called the Forest of Death, Sunagakure had an even larger one called the Death Desert, and Iwagakure naturally refused to be outdone. They had the Death Swamp...
In short, aside from certain naming geniuses, most shinobi had naming skills that were just this formulaic, dull, and unadorned.
Similar cases included the Hell Valley franchise outlets spread throughout the Shinobi World...
Kitsuchi might have looked honest and simple, but he was not stupid. He quickly figured out why Nara Shikaku and the others had chosen this route.
"Are they trying to use the special terrain against these Stone Statues of the Ghost Army?"
As he thought, he slammed a heavy fist into the ground. "Earth Style: Earth Flow Split!"
Rumble!
Starting from his fist, the earth rumbled as it split apart down the middle, the two sides of the fissure rising high like Moses parting the sea. The heavy Stone Statues pursuing them had no time to dodge and were directly overturned in droves.
But immediately afterward,