Quote Originally Posted by Assertn View Post
Madara looks defeated... no idea why. Also I don't know what the giant obelisk thing that keeps cracking was. Some sort of egg for the 10-tails?
It was the wall....of....fire that Obito put up. A cracking wall of fire.

This was a pretty confusing chapter... Like why did the tree's grip loosen all of a sudden? And why didn't Tobi use mokuton to capture Naruto before?
I don't think Madara looks defeated, more like he decided to sit around an do nothing.