Cloud Village, Akatsuki Organization underground base.
Before the enormous Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, Naruto Uzumaki floated in midair as the tailed beast chakra within his body was continuously extracted.
In truth, extracting chakra with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path did not require multiple people operating it at all. As the Ten-Tails' shell, once a Jinchuriki was thrown before it, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path would instinctively extract the tailed beast chakra.
As for why every Akatsuki Organization member had stood atop one finger when they extracted One-Tails Shukaku before, Seiya could only say it was purely for show.
After the Akatsuki Organization suffered such massive losses, the ritual had not been affected at all when they extracted the other Tailed Beasts.
When Nagato died, Black Zetsu also returned to Obito's side and reported Konoha and the others' movements to him.
Konan, that traitorous bitch, exposing the location of their base had been within Obito's expectations.
Originally, to prevent the ritual of extracting the Nine-Tails' Chakra from being interrupted, relocating was the best option.
Unfortunately, however, controlling or summoning the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path required the Rinnegan, and Madara Uchiha's Rinnegan was still with Nagato.
"The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path is the Ten-Tails' shell. It cannot be destroyed. With the Akatsuki Organization's remaining strength, there is no way we can stop the rescue squad formed by the three great ninja villages.
"So I intend to abandon this place and retrieve the Rinnegan from Nagato first."
The once talent-packed Akatsuki Organization had, after several tailed beast capture operations, been reduced to only Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki's two-man team.
The current Itachi Uchiha would never obey Obito's orders. All he wanted was one final battle of farewell with his foolish younger brother.