Hearing this, Inoichi Yamanaka glanced toward Yechen and nodded. He then began forming hand seals and used the Mind Body Switch Technique to transmit his thoughts to him, while signaling several other targets at the same time.
Yechen's arrival opened another rift in the recently eased relations between the Uchiha and Konoha, making the atmosphere even more tense.
Several key members of the Uchiha Radical Faction had already learned from the Great Elder that Uchiha Ye Chen had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
Now, seeing Yechen wield such tremendous power, they were filled with hope. After decades of humiliation, the Uchiha were about to rise again.
But just then, Uchiha Fugaku stepped forward as Clan Leader and suppressed the Radical Faction's fervor with his overwhelming strength, preventing a disaster.
Though it took time to describe, all of this happened in an instant.
At that moment, Yechen looked at the struggling Nine-Tails before him and said with a smile,
"Little Nine-Nine, stop resisting and come back with me."
With Obito Uchiha's departure, the Nine-Tails had regained clarity, but the Wood Release held it fast, leaving it unable to break free for the moment.
Still, it would not sit there and await its fate. It opened its enormous maw, preparing to unleash a Tailed Beast Bomb.
Seeing this, Yechen merely sneered and clenched his left hand in the air. The vines wrapped around the Nine-Tails swiftly tightened.
The tremendous pressure made the Nine-Tails howl wildly in pain, and even the Tailed Beast Bomb it had been gathering dissipated.
"I told you to come with me, and you're still trying to struggle?"
At Yechen's mental command, the Wood Dragon beneath his feet moved, rushing toward the Nine-Tails and coiling around it, completely sealing off its power.
Seeing Yechen subdue the Nine-Tails, Minato Namikaze shouted,