"Zehahaha... two thousand against ten thousand, are you scared?"
Looking at the dispersed ten-thousand-strong army, Blackbeard was not nervous at all. He even had the mood to tease his crew.
Such a small scene, for Blackbeard, who had been in the spotlight in the Summit War, and for cadres like Shiliew of the Rain, was nothing.
"...Not good!"
However, before his subordinates could respond, Blackbeard, his cadres, and some of the elite pirates of the Blackbeard Pirates who were proficient in Observation Haki, suddenly had their faces change drastically.
"Earth Style: Earth Flow Divide!"
The dispersed Iwagakure army, after surrounding the Blackbeard Pirates, the jōnin led by Kitsuchi all used an enhanced version of the Earth Style: Earth Flow Divide taught by Ōnoki.
In an instant, the ground under the feet of the Blackbeard Pirates suddenly began to tremble violently, and many of them lost their balance.
After falling to the ground, they found that their vision was suddenly falling rapidly, as if falling from a high altitude.
In fact, they were indeed falling.
The ground under their feet, as if cut by the Op-Op Fruit that ignored mass and hardness, fell dozens of meters in a square shape, forming a huge, bottomless square pit.
The Earth Style: Earth Flow Divide was an Earth Release ninjutsu that incorporated the nature transformation of Earth Release. It could control a certain range of land of any shape to rise or fall. If multiple Earth Flow Divides were used at once, a trench could be instantly dug on the battlefield. It was a environmental Earth Release ninjutsu.
The Earth Style: Great Earth Flow Divide was an enhanced version of the Earth Style: Earth Flow Divide. Just like the Earth Style: Super Light-Weight Rock Technique and the Earth Style: Light-Weight Rock Technique, it was an advanced Earth Release ninjutsu that only those who had cultivated the nature transformation of Earth Release to an extremely high level could master.
Unless one was exceptionally talented, not every jōnin could master this ninjutsu.
Originally an environmental Earth Release ninjutsu, when multiple people used the Earth Style: Great Earth Flow Divide, the scene was undoubtedly extremely exaggerated.
In the original story, only the Ten-Tails had tasted the Earth Style: Great Earth Flow Divide used by multiple Iwagakure jōnin led by Kitsuchi.
Now, the Blackbeard Pirates also experienced the feeling of the Ten-Tails.
But unlike the Ten-Tails, the Blackbeard Pirates were not so well off.
As the saying goes: like captain, like crew.
Like their captain, who was a conceited and rash person.
The members of the Blackbeard Pirates, without even grasping the enemy’s intelligence, foolishly followed Blackbeard to attack Iwagakure of the Land of Earth.
If they were the first of the five emperor forces to attack the five great ninja villages, and neither side had any intelligence advantage, then they might be able to catch the natives of this world off guard.
But now...
The positions of the Blackbeard Pirates and Iwagakure were just the opposite of when the Big Mom Pirates had grasped the intelligence of Kirigakure of the Land of Water.
The Big Mom Pirates had the Paramecia Memo-Memo Fruit, which, like the mind-based Yin Release ninjutsu of this world, could pry into the memories of others’ brains. They only needed to capture a mist ninja of a decent status to obtain the vast majority of the enemy’s intelligence.
On the other hand, Kirigakure could only hastily collect the enemy’s intelligence when the war began.
So when they attacked Kirigakure, the Big Mom Pirates had the absolute intelligence advantage. Charlotte Linlin waited until the other side had played all their cards, and realizing that no one on the other side was her opponent, she appeared with the posture of an absolutely powerful super Kage-level powerhouse and successfully occupied Kirigakure.
Now, it was the Blackbeard Pirates who only knew a little bit about the five great ninja villages through the occupied small ninja village, had no intention of hiding anything, and had high-profilely invaded Iwagakure of the Land of Earth, holding a banquet on the way, completely disregarding their opponent.
This extremely conceited attitude was both a manifestation of their powerful strength and an extremely foolish act.
Especially since their opponent was a ninja who was best at gathering intelligence and creating tactics.
After grasping the intelligence of the pirate world through mind-based Yin Release ninjutsu, the think tank of Iwagakure had come up with several plans to deal with the Blackbeard Pirates.
Facing these otherworldly people who were all taijutsu powerhouses, these squishy mages absolutely could not engage in close combat, otherwise, even a jōnin could not withstand a single punch from a taijutsu powerhouse who had mastered Armament Haki, or a single slash from a powerful swordsman...
So, the Earth Release ninjutsu, which combined both offense and defense, was environmental, and had an extremely large commotion, was the means to deal with the Blackbeard Pirates.
Taking advantage of the other party’s ignorance of their own intelligence.
The Iwagakure jōnin, led by Kitsuchi, as soon as they made their move, used the enhanced Earth Style: Great Earth Flow Divide, which required a genius to be a jōnin to master, and trapped all two thousand pirates dozens of meters underground.
Then, while the other party had not reacted, or the jutsu had not finished, and while the ground under the other party’s feet was trembling and they had lost their balance...
Another group of Iwagakure ninjas walked to the side of their comrades who were performing the jutsu, and all together, they formed hand seals and shouted into the huge, square, deep pit, "Earth Style: Earth Dragon Bullet Technique!"
Dozens of earth dragons composed of mudslides immediately rose from behind the Iwagakure ninjas and roared down into the huge, square, deep pit.
Facing this set of combination ninjutsu, Blackbeard’s eyes widened. Besides being filled with horror, he was completely helpless.
Just as the Whitebeard Pirates were so familiar with their Pops’s world-destroying power.
Everyone in the Blackbeard Pirates was also deeply impressed by the ability of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
Therefore... after prying into the memories of those pirates, Iwagakure immediately listed the Tremor-Tremor Fruit as the greatest threat.
And they came up with several ways to deal with it!
The Earth Style: Great Earth Flow Divide and the Earth Style: Earth Dragon Bullet Technique were one of them.
No matter how strong Blackbeard was, would he dare to use the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit in the pit?
If he used it, he could block the dozens of earth dragon bullets, but he would also destroy the pit and kill his own people.
If he didn’t use it, the dozens of earth dragon bullets, even if they couldn’t annihilate his entire crew, would cause him to suffer heavy losses.
So... what would he choose?
And so...
Just as he would always suffer a loss first whenever he started a fight.
Blackbeard could only watch as dozens of earth dragons submerged him from above.
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