Uchiha Yi walked slowly toward Ōnoki, carrying himself as though he were the one surrounding ten thousand Stone Shinobi, not the other way around.
"Ōnoki, it seems you've been used too," Uchiha Yi said as he approached.
If he was right, the culprit behind this whole affair was either Madara Uchiha or Black Zetsu.
If Ōnoki learned that Madara Uchiha had used him, he might cough up blood on the spot.
But after slaughtering his way through Kirigakure, was he now supposed to do the same to Iwagakure? Would Kumogakure be next?
It made sense to weaken his opponents as much as possible before launching his war of unification.
Uchiha Yi remembered the Discourse on the Six States. If he wiped out ten thousand of their shinobi this time and several thousand the next, a day would eventually come when Konoha could destroy the other villages even without him.
"Uchiha Yi!" Ōnoki's heart tightened as he watched Uchiha Yi approach. He did not dare let down his guard.
Rumor had it that Uchiha Yi had defeated more than ten thousand Mist Ninja alone, and that even the Third Mizukage had died in that battle.
Ōnoki did not think the rumor had come from nowhere. Madara Uchiha could likely have done the same in his day.
But was Uchiha Yi a second Madara Uchiha?
Ōnoki had prepared to face Uchiha Yi before long. He simply had not expected that confrontation to come today.
Still, it would have happened sooner or later. Uchiha Yi was only in his teens. They had to eliminate him before he reached his full potential.
Otherwise, dealing with him would only become harder.
By then, it might take the combined strength of the entire Shinobi World to stop him.
But Uchiha Yi had said Ōnoki was being