"Sure enough, this wasn't ordinary Earth Release."
Ben Zilei murmured in a low voice, now completely certain.
"Hey, you, the little fatty over there. You know Dust Release? Tsk, tsk, no wonder. Looks like you must be the next Tsuchikage, if you've already learned Dust Release."
Ben Zilei reached out and knocked on the stone wall before him as he spoke.
Behind the rock wall, Kitsuchi merely closed his eyes helplessly at those words.
Tsuchikage?
He wished Dad would stop "valuing" him so much. That was also why he hadn't learned Dust Release.
"Ignoring me again? Little fatty, you're very rude."
The next instant, lightning flashed again!
"Lightning Release: Lightning Clone Jutsu!"
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Two lightning-wreathed figures split off from Ben Zilei, charging toward Kitsuchi from the left and right.
"It's useless."
Kitsuchi's eyes remained perfectly calm as he raised his hands to form hand seals.
From the moment he spread the reconstructive power of Reverse Dust Release, the earth beneath his feet had come "alive."
For instance, the entire enormous rock wall before him wasn't a rigid, fixed structure, but a living defense fully connected to the earth.
As Kitsuchi formed hand seals, the earth and stone of the wall instantly flowed and reassembled amid a sizzling hum!
The straight, rectangular wall instantly extended and changed shape. Its sides rapidly stretched out and closed together, sealing off blind spots like a living creature. In an instant, it became a complete, massive square enclosure that blocked the charging Lightning Clones and protected Kitsuchi securely at its center, leaving no opening to exploit.
"You can use Earth Release like that?!"
Ben Zilei, who had intended to use his Lightning Clones for a flanking surprise attack, watched the stone wall transform before him, his pupils contracting slightly.
Ordinary Earth Release became fixed