With Lin Zhaozai's cultivation realm, once he broke free of the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda's shackles, he naturally had countless means of concealing his tracks!
By now, he might have recovered some of his strength and left the Ancient Immortal-Demon Battlefield.
Still, Shen Mo harbored a faint hope. After all, this concerned the tribulation he would face in attaining the Dao in the future; no amount of caution was excessive.
If he could find Lin Zhaozai's trail and destroy his Divine Soul before he fully recovered his Divine Bridge Realm strength, then when Shen Mo attempted to erect his Divine Bridge in the future, he would face a few fewer calamities!
Qin Wenzhen also knew quite a bit about this matter.
To prevent this evil-path Heavenly Monarch from returning to slaughter the Ancient Vine Sect after recovering his strength, she had taken most of the cultivation resources the sect had earned over the past few years and poured them into the construction of its mountain-protecting formation;
She had not only invited formation masters from the Yanyi Dunjia Sect, but the materials used to lay the formation were also of the finest quality!
Even now, the Ancient Vine Sect's mountain-protecting formation was still being built up and reinforced. They likely would not stop until, with sufficient Spirit Stones and cultivators supplying spiritual power, it could withstand attacks from the Divine Bridge Realm.
Qin Wenzhen felt somewhat guilty that Shen Mo had gained such a formidable enemy because of her sect.
Yet Shen Mo did not blame the Ancient Vine Sect. The deeper his Dao cultivation grew, the more keenly he sensed the profound and unfathomable workings of fate in the unseen.
Back when he and Hong Gu had broken into the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda, he had already formed a karmic entanglement with Lin Zhaozai.