The Stalemate on the Earth Country Battlefield, Mori of the Thousand Years!

A Deadlocked Land of Earth Battlefield, the Thousand-Year Ancient—Mori!

The Land of Earth battlefield.

Unlike the rapid progress on the other two battlefields, due to some of Orochimaru's selfish motives, the Land of Earth front had been forcibly dragged by him into a stalemate. As for the proof...

The once-vast gobi battlefield had been instantly replaced by a mass of twisted, grotesque woods!

This was Orochimaru's experimental research into Wood Release, and there were many similar things as well: humanoid monsters covered in red-and-white eyeballs, white giant serpents with six human heads, frenzied monsters crawling with Cursed Seals, rotting snakes emitting poisonous gas, humanoid creatures sprouting branches, half-human half-snake beings, fused snake-swarm monstrosities, and all sorts of other bizarre things.

They were all failures from Orochimaru's research!

In any case, the only people from Konoha here were him and the few ninja Mitokado Homura had left behind to monitor him. The rest were all enemies, so he could experiment as recklessly as he pleased.

To him, this place was practically paradise!

However, as a result, Iwagakure's offensive plan had completely failed.

Iwagakure's original plan had been to use the vast terrain of the gobi to line up their forces directly against Konoha and clash head-on, bringing their advantage in numbers to the fullest.

Even if they encountered complex terrain like forests later, the territory they had already taken would not be small. All things considered, they would still come out ahead. Originally, that was how it should have been.

But after they were stopped by Orochimaru's Reanimation Legion on the first day, their plan spun completely out of control. Overnight, the gobi became woodland! Its range changed with every passing day!

And as time went on, more and more monsters appeared inside. Their clearing speed simply could not keep up.