"Lord Ziyan!" Everyone present bowed to Hatake Ziyan.
"Mm! What are you all doing here? Why aren't you asleep at this hour?" Hatake Ziyan asked again.
"Lord Ziyan, we saw the Nine-Tails appear on the Back Mountain and wanted to go in to see what had happened, but Shisui and the others said they were acting on your orders and wouldn't let anyone through! Could you tell us what exactly happened?" Seeing that no one dared speak up before Hatake Ziyan, Jiraiya stepped forward and asked.
Hatake Ziyan nodded and answered, "Yes, I told them to keep everyone else out! As for what happened, ask Minato when he comes out behind me! His wife was the one who asked me to do this in the first place!"
Jiraiya frowned. Remembering what he had just seen, he asked again, "We saw the Nine-Tails split into two just now. What was that about?"
Hatake Ziyan waved a hand. His first use of astral projection had left him somewhat tired, and he had lost the patience to keep talking to them.
"I told you, ask Minato! He knows everything! I've got things to do. I'm leaving!" Hatake Ziyan pushed off with his foot and vanished!
Everyone watched Zhang Ziyan disappear, but no one dared follow him. They still hadn't figured out what had happened, after all, and there was no need to get on his bad side!
Once the Konoha 12 confirmed that Hatake Ziyan had finished and they no longer needed to stand guard, they said their goodbyes to everyone present and leaped away one after another!
Watching the Konoha 12 leave after Zhang Ziyan, the heads of the smaller clans also said their goodbyes to those present and departed.
In the end, only the Sannin and the Hyuga and Uchiha Clan