While some in the great shinobi villages were furious and others were nursing headaches, the Akatsuki had already assembled.
Pain, Konan, Kisame, Itachi, and Obito-there were only five living people in total, along with the nonhuman Zetsu.
Extracting the tailed beasts required the Phantom Dragons Nine Consuming Seals.
Activating this technique required an enormous amount of chakra. To execute it perfectly, ten ninja were needed, and even the weakest of those ten had to be among the best of the Elite Jonin.
But now, the Akatsuki had only five people left. It looked impossible.
However, if there weren't enough living people, the dead could fill in.
The Phantom Dragons Nine Consuming Seals didn't care whether someone was alive or dead, as long as they had enough chakra.
Six unconscious people lay before the Akatsuki members.
Six Jinchūriki!
It was quite a rare sight. After all, even seeing a single Jinchūriki was like hitting the jackpot for an ordinary person.
Aside from the One-Tail, Two-Tails, Three-Tails, Five-Tails, and Eight-Tails captured in the shinobi villages, the Four-Tails and Six-Tails Jinchuriki were both rogue ninja.
White Zetsu had spent a long time searching outside, but had yet to find any trace of those two.
The Seven-Tails Jinchuriki, meanwhile, was in Takigakure.
It was a small shinobi village with strength not worth mentioning.
But they refused to back down against the Impure World Reincarnation forces that came to capture their Jinchūriki. In the end, they annoyed Obito, who was controlling things behind the scenes, and in a fit of rage, he wiped out Takigakure.
Behind that waterfall, the once-peaceful village was gone. Only blood covering the ground remained.
It took three days to pull a single tailed beast out completely and seal it inside the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
Sealing them together