Just as Kakashi and Yao crossed blades, Obito's side was ambushed too, exactly as Black Zetsu had planned.
Clang!
The sound of kunai colliding flashed through the forest, the constant spray of sparks showing just how fierce the battle was.
At that moment, Obito was locked in a fierce fight with three Cloud Ninja in the woods.
The ranks of these three were not considered high in a major ninja village like the Cloud Village; they were merely one jonin and two chunin. These were among the few pieces Black Zetsu had left in his hand. After all, it was a great ninja village—it still had some substance.
High-level ninja were not that easy to control.
In truth, with Obito's current strength, combined with his Three-Tomoe Sharingan, even if he was no match for an Elite Jonin, dealing with an ordinary jonin should still have been no problem.
Unfortunately, fighting nonstop along the way had severely drained his Chakra and ocular power. On top of that, he had only just awakened the Three-Tomoe and was not very proficient with it yet, so the fight was abnormally difficult, and he was even gradually falling into a disadvantage.
Bang!
Raising his hand to block a chunin's kick, Obito ignored the other two attackers closing in and aimed his Sharingan straight at that chunin. His ocular power surged out in an instant.
He had already calculated it. Those two people's attacks could only give him light injuries at most. Trading that bit of damage for one life was worth it.
It was certainly risky, but if he did not make the trade, Obito would continue to be surrounded by all three of them, and then he truly would have no chance at all.
Thud!
On the other side, the instant that Cloud Ninja