"Shapeshifting Technique?" Hatake Ziyan murmured.
Wasn't that an ability of the Rinnegan? How had it appeared in Yao? Did that hidden leader have the Rinnegan too?
"If my guess is right, it's the Shapeshifting Technique! It uses a living person as a sacrifice and lets someone else's soul temporarily occupy their body, but they can only wield a fraction of the soul's owner's strength!" Hatake Ziyan told the Tsuchikage.
"Ōnoki! This is already beyond your ability to handle! You'd better hurry and inform the Mist, Sand, and Cloud villages about all this! Otherwise, something even worse will happen!" With that, Hatake Ziyan prepared to leave!
"Lord Ziyan! You're leaving just like that?" Seeing Hatake Ziyan about to leave, Ōnoki asked him outright.
"What? Were you planning to keep me here for dinner?" Hatake Ziyan scoffed. "Looking at the state of your village, I think I'll pass. I'm in a hurry to get to the Hidden Cloud Village!"
Ōnoki's mouth twitched. Dinner? Did he think he was funny?
"Lord Ziyan, we haven't gotten to the bottom of this yet. You'd best stay in the Stone Ninja Village for a few more days. Otherwise, I won't be able to explain this to our people!" Ōnoki stated his real purpose outright!
"What does your trouble explaining things have to do with me? I've got things to do! I'm leaving!" Hatake Ziyan gave the Tsuchikage an exasperated look. These days, just any nobody dared make demands of him.
If he weren't being framed right now, Hatake Ziyan would have turned Ōnoki into a human stump, cutting off his limbs and leaving him nothing but a torso!
But with someone framing him, cutting Ōnoki down now would only confirm the charges they had prepared against him!
He didn't care about the Stone Ninja Village alone.