To everyone else, it had been incredibly brief.
But in Uchiha Yato's eyes, time around him had been stretched infinitely.
Every attack about to strike him was silently evaded by Uchiha Yato.
Because Uchiha Yato's movements were so slight, it created the illusion that those attacks had passed straight through his body.
Then came Hiruzen Sarutobi's cage-and-fire combination. In order not to hurt Hiruzen Sarutobi's pride, Uchiha Yato thoughtfully left behind a substitute.
When the smoke cleared, Uchiha Yato appeared before everyone completely unscathed.
Of course, the price was that Uchiha Yato's ocular power had been depleted significantly once more.
Within this special space, Obito had already squeezed his ocular power dry several times.
And the underhanded tricks Hiruzen Sarutobi had used just now were too despicable, leaving Uchiha Yato with no good way to evade them without injury.
As a result, after using the Mangekyō Sharingan this time, Uchiha Yato's eyesight declined noticeably.
This allowed Hiruzen Sarutobi's second sneaky little trick to quickly wrap around Uchiha Yato.
The ground where Uchiha Yato landed after dodging had previously been scorched by a massive amount of his fire-nature chakra, leaving it severely cracked.
By then, Hiruzen Sarutobi had long increased the degree of fracturing in the ground at several of Uchiha Yato's potential landing spots.
The moment Uchiha Yato stepped onto the ground, a massive pit opened beneath him and swallowed him whole.
If only he could have had Pain beside him increase the gravity and make Uchiha Yato fall even deeper.
Hiruzen Sarutobi truly wanted to use this method to form a temporary alliance with them. After all, only after their first cooperation could they discuss future trust and "borrowing" things.
Just as Uchiha Yato fell directly into Hiruzen Sarutobi's trap because he could not dodge in time, Hiruzen Sarutobi