Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24531362-20140904111518/@comment-24593592-20140904200706

JOA20 wrote: Man of Sin wrote: JOA20 wrote: The Ten-Tails is no more, so I guess the roots will recede and the IT as well. The tree is a part of the ten tails. Yeah, but the actual Ten-Tails was sealed away. The tree is no longer an extension of the Ten-Tails. Either it will stay as a normal tree or just withdraw.

Pieces of the tailed beast's chakra have their own consciousness. And it was only small part of the ten tails was sealed away.