Konoha: Who says that hunters can't play in the ninja world?

The reason for saying this is that, after all, hardening magic can only work on the surface of the body. It is impossible to harden oneself into a statue. Therefore, when Ichiro uses hardening magic, he is very careful in using it so as not to affect the battle and not to reduce defense.

Now, the soil under my feet is hardened. I am going all out to harden the enemies into statues.

Ichiro didn't know how strong the hardening technique was when he used all his strength, but he injected all the chakra in his body into the ground through his hands. He had never used the hardening technique without any scruples before, and this time he felt like a beast out of a cage, so he just didn't care about anything. He no longer considered the consumption of chakra or the safety of his surroundings. He only focused on controlling the chakra, trying to sense the source of the earthquake and harden it completely.

"Report casualties? Are there any new casualties?" The leader wore a helmet made of clay with roots of weeds on it, looking like a savage.

"Report, except for a few burns that occurred when they first came into contact, everything has now sunk into the soil. There are no casualties, it's just a little hot." The subordinate answered in detail.

"Hot? It's only a little hotter because of the soil layer that isolates the temperature." The leader replied.

"Boss, why don't we leave the range of his ninjutsu?" The subordinate asked again. He couldn't understand why they were clearly in the range of the enemy's ninjutsu, and they could ensure that they would not be harmed. They should leave the range of the ninjutsu and organize a counterattack.

"Haha, you are young now. As you said, this is indeed the most common way to deal with it. But have you ever thought about what the enemy will do if he finds out that we have escaped from his ninjutsu?"

"Re-launch your jutsu to attack us, of course?"

"That's right, and we're not sure if it's a new ninjutsu that we can't deal with. If it's really as you said, then we will definitely suffer certain casualties. But now, the enemy hasn't discovered our way to deal with their ninjutsu, and still thinks we are struggling in his ninjutsu. He will definitely maintain this ninjutsu until he thinks we are all killed."

"and then?"

"Idiot, such a powerful ninjutsu, how can the chakra consumption be low, and it needs to be maintained for such a long time. In other words, when the opponent's ninjutsu dissipates, the enemy will be the weakest and least prepared. And we are hiding in the soil and waiting for the opportunity. We are in the best condition to face the weak enemy. Tell me, who has a greater chance of winning?" The leader was very disappointed with his subordinate, who was too stupid and had no combat thinking at all.

"Inside the room." The men suddenly realized.

"So, everyone, hide well, don't show your heads, and don't try to expose your bodies. Let's wait quietly, recover our strength, and wait for the opportunity."

"Hi" xx.

Ichiro released his chakra without hesitation, basically covering all the vibrations from the ground. It felt like he had used up more than half of his chakra, and it was almost at its limit.

"Earth escape. Hardening technique."

The people who were hiding in the soil did not feel anything strange at all, because the feeling of being in the soil was a certain pressure, but this pressure was within the tolerable range. They could use chakra to dissolve it at any time and cancel the earth escape state.

Ichiro's hardening technique is tailored to the individual and hardens the soil around the enemy's body, which is equivalent to aiming at the curve of the human body and dragging a mold.

"Wait, why does it feel a little hard and a little obstructed?" A ninja felt uncomfortable, but he thought that he was not an earth escape expert and it was normal to have some abnormalities, so he didn't take it seriously. In just a few short breaths, he had lost his last chance to escape.

"There has been no movement for a while, and the thick fog hasn't dissipated. Sensing ninja, feel what's going on." The leader instructed his subordinates.

"Understood, ninjutsu. Perception... Wait, why can't I move?" The Perception Ninja wanted to make hand seals under the soil layer, but the soil layer blocked him and he couldn't do it as quickly as in the air. He could still complete a few simple hand seals. But this time he encountered something strange. His hands seemed to be imprisoned. The sense of touch of his arms and hands was normal, but he couldn't move. It wasn't even that he couldn't move, but it seemed that there was an external force that imprisoned his arms.

"Oh no, I can't seem to move." The Perception Ninja couldn't help but speak out.

"Haha, is it because he is not proficient in earth escape that he got stuck in the earth and can't move?" Someone teased. This situation is very common among earth escape beginners. Everyone present is at least a Chunin, so this situation is somewhat funny.

"No, it's really not. It's as if it's been trapped by the soil." The sensing ninja was embarrassed and tried again quietly. It still didn't work, so he spoke again.

"Little boy, let me teach you how to do earth escape. Watch me, earth escape. Earth flows into a river..." He shouted with great momentum, but his body was still motionless, and he couldn't even move his arms.

"Oh no, it seems like we really can't move, we're trapped." He is a ninja who can escape from the ground to the underground, or from the underground to the ground. He doesn't need to make hand seals, and can achieve it with simple chakra use. But today, he failed again and again. This is definitely not a coincidence.

"Everyone be careful, we must be imprisoned. Let's try to break free together, otherwise I'm afraid we will become lambs to be slaughtered." The face of the earth escape ninja who shouted changed this time. Even without making hand seals, the chakra in his body was boiling, and the changes in the nature of earth escape that he had accumulated over the years were unleashed, and he began to fight for control of the soil layer around his body.

"Damn it, there's an Earth-Escape Ninja disturbing me." The Earth-Escape Ninja yelled while increasing his efforts to gain control of the soil around him.

"Earth escape. Earth flow river." With a roar, the Earth escape ninja was finally "spit out" from the soil mixed with mud, and the Earth escape ninja regained his freedom. After all, Ichiro was remotely controlled, and could not compare to the Earth escape ninja who was close to him. In the struggle for control between the two, Ichiro was at a disadvantage, giving the Earth escape ninja a chance.

As soon as one person ran away, a second one would appear, and a third one. Among this group of people, there were always a few who were proficient in earth escape or had other escape techniques, but nearly half of them were still stuck in the earth.

"Brothers, please help." Seeing that they could not break free, some people had to ask for help.

The few people who escaped looked at each other, then leaned over and clapped their hands on the ground: "Earth Escape. Earth Flow Wall." Several people jointly performed a super-large Earth Flow Wall, which lifted the people around them out of the ground along with the Earth Flow Wall.

"Earth escape. Hardening technique." How could Ichiro not feel that the enemy was gradually getting out of control? So he didn't plan to play the game of boiling the frog in warm water. Now he would kill as many as he could. It was already a luxury to wipe out the enemy completely.

As the hardening technique was activated, the soil layer surrounding the enemy's body began to shift, and the texture of the fragments was quite hard, which caused the limbs and bodies of the people trapped in it to begin to be squeezed and broken.

The soil layer that was originally built to defend against the blister technique became a sharp blade that sent them to the pure land.