Only deep waters could nurture large fish. The stretch of water before Shin Uchiha was not only vast but also reasonably deep, which was why the Three-Tails had been able to hide here without anyone discovering him.
Shin Uchiha suspected that even White Zetsu had yet to locate the Three-Tails.
Although White Zetsu was known as the Akatsuki's intelligence chief and had a hundred thousand clones scattered throughout the shinobi world, even those clones had priorities. He must have stationed the vast majority around the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
Beyond that, smaller countries that also carried some weight, such as the Land of Iron, probably had quite a few White Zetsu clones stationed in them as well.
So White Zetsu would not necessarily find the Three-Tails easily in a deserted place like this.
After pinpointing the Three-Tails' location, Shin Uchiha rose straight into the air and flew toward him.
To Shin Uchiha, these tailed beasts were now little different from kittens and puppies.
It was just like when Hashirama Senju, after being revived by Orochimaru through Impure World Reincarnation, had been astonished by the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze's rather absurd death sealing the Nine-Tails.
That was because, to powerhouses of their caliber, these tailed beasts really were no different from kittens and puppies. Had anyone ever heard of someone being beaten to death while playing with a kitten?
For precisely that reason, Shin Uchiha had flown straight over as soon as he located the Three-Tails, without making any preparations at all.
The Uchiha clan members standing before Shin Uchiha were dumbfounded when their clan leader simply flew off just like that, from Uchiha Jie to every clan member behind him.
One of the clan members behind Uchiha Jie even stammered:
"Lord Jie, has the clan leader already found the Three-Tails?