No! No!

No one had expected Iwagakure's newly formed Explosion Corps to unleash such terrifying offensive power on its very first deployment.

Every ninja village had its own specialties. The Hidden Leaf Village had plenty of geniuses and fighters with unique tricks, Kumogakure excelled at individual combat strength, and Iwagakure relied on overwhelming numbers and combined Earth Release ninjutsu.

The Explosion Release Clan's combined ninjutsu was far more powerful than Earth Release.

Over a dozen Explosion Release ninja pressed their hands to the ground, converting a vast stretch of terrain into explosives with their explosion release chakra.

More than a thousand square meters of ground became deadly explosives.

On its first attack, the Explosion Corps turned a platform beneath the waterfall into an enormous explosive charge. The shock wave and dust thrown up by the blast rose like a thick, towering wall.

That single explosion instantly wiped out seven squads from the Hidden Leaf Village's battalion and company!

Amid the terrifying blast, the Leaf forces could no longer maintain formation and scattered in a blind panic.

Uchiha Ling grabbed Mitaraishi Anko with one hand and Dule Jiong with the other, then hurled them toward the rear.

"Run!"

Uchiha Ling's strength sent them flying backward at incredible speed. They looked back in midair and saw the blast's shock wave and dust swallow him whole!

Explosion Release Hunt and Changshi, the two Stone battalion commanders, had set their sights on Shimura Ganfū.

Within the dense crown of a large tree, Uchiha Ling gently parted a few leaves. Once he confirmed that Shimura Ganfū was too occupied to notice anything else, he vanished with Transparent Release without a care.

In the woods, Shimura Du's squad and another squad from the Shimura Clan were fleeing for their lives.

The explosion had shattered the Leaf formations. The