Gaara was indeed rushing over at this moment.
He was moving quickly as well, because he could use sand to float through the air and speed up his journey.
He was several times faster than ordinary ninja traveling on foot.
This Chunin Exams was the first time Sunagakure had jointly held the event with another ninja village. He did not want any problems to arise, especially anything like the Konoha Crush Plan.
Even though Konoha had already been so powerful during the Konoha Crush Plan, it had still suffered such tremendous losses.
Sunagakure was currently at its weakest point in history. If it suffered losses like Konoha had—
—it might fall directly out of the ranks of the Five Great Ninja Villages.
That was something Gaara would never allow.
Meanwhile, after Monk Fa Yi was discovered, he did not attack Ji and the others again. Instead, he stood atop the sandstone, calmly watching the people below.
His goal was to strip the Tailed Beast from Gaara's body. He had no desire to harm these ninja's lives.
At that moment, Fu Yi was leading the Sunagakure ninja who opposed Gaara toward this place.
Their goal was also to extract the Tailed Beast from Gaara's body.
That way, Gaara would inevitably be unable to remain Kazekage, because he would die.
Then, by taking control of the Tailed Beast, the opposition could seize power over Sunagakure.
Three Jonin and several dozen Chunin followed behind Fu Yi.
They were all the subordinates he had in Sunagakure.
He himself was also one of Sunagakure's higher-ups.
But his ambitions did not stop at being a Sunagakure official.
He was rather similar to Danzo.
The only difference was that he had not been as unfortunate as Danzo and encountered Yeyu.
There were not many forces left around