Sealing Technique: Phantom Dragons Nine Consuming Seals

This jutsu was used by Pain and the other members of Akatsuki to forcibly drain the spirit and chakra of the tailed beasts from their still-living jinchūriki, then to seal it in what appeared to be the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. The jutsu took three full days to complete if nine of the Akatsuki members were present. Kisame Hoshigaki commented that it "takes longer without Orochimaru". Zetsu also claimed that, with so few people left to perform the jutsu, it would take a while.

To prepare for the jutsu, Pain would summon the sealing statue, after which each member would then stand on one of its fingertips, corresponding to their specific ring finger. When performed, this jutsu caused the bit to fall out of the mouth of the statue. Each of the Akatsuki members would then concentrate, causing the kanji of their rings to appear on the nail of the finger they were standing on. Nine dragon-like effigies then poured from the statue's mouth, surrounded the captured host, and removed the tailed beast from them (the process seems to be quite agonizing to the host). In the case of an unsealed tailed beast, the same thing happened to the beast itself, and still took as much time as if it were sealed. After the process was complete, the beast was sealed within the statue, and one of the statue's nine eyes opened. The host then died due to the removal of their tailed beast. The Nine-Tailed Demon Fox must be sealed last, or the statue would shatter.

It seems that the rest of Akatsuki can still perform this jutsu even without Pain being present. However, with Nagato now dead, Madara claimed that they would need a new pawn to synchronize with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path in order to seal the Eight-Tailed Giant Ox and the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox.