"Lord Li, are you saying that I can become as strong as you?" Uchiha Kai's face showed a trace of surprise, but he quickly suppressed it. After all, he did not believe Li would casually guide someone he had only met a few times.
Li smiled faintly, his eyes carrying a hint of bewitchment as he looked at him. "Of course."
Looking into Li's eyes, Uchiha Kai nodded instinctively. Naturally, he did not know that the chakra extraction technique Li had taught Uchiha Riyue back then had contained a hidden trap.
Li had long known that Uchiha Riyue was one of the family's upper ranks, so he understood that she would sooner or later hand this thing over to the family. The trick Li had planted in the technique was that anyone who cultivated this chakra extraction technique would be extremely susceptible to control by his Genjutsu. That way, Li could basically control a group of people from the family's branch houses at will.
These people were exceptionally easy for Li's Genjutsu to control. In a sense, Li had gained a group of indirect loyalists, while on the other hand, he could pick out some among them to become his true confidants.
Those in the council of elders probably still did not know that Li had completely controlled Uchiha Riyue. Whenever he had nothing to do, Li would use Genjutsu to make Riyue tell him everything she knew about the more promising individuals among the family's branch houses.
Among them, Uchiha Kai was somewhat special. Though he was not particularly strong, both his parents had died on the battlefield in the early stages of the war. They could basically be called sacrifices the family had sent to the battlefield merely for show. From the very beginning, he had held little