Taking Zaro in had merely been a coincidence and a whim of Chen Fan's.
Chen Fan's main purpose in coming to the Southern Region had still been to search for Mao Wangchen's whereabouts.
Yet even with his strength, searching for someone in the vast Southern Region still felt like fishing for a needle in the ocean.
It was not that his divine sense was not powerful enough.
Rather, searching certain special places was quite troublesome.
Any martial sect or faction of decent standing would likely have formations set up within its base.
Even some cities and small states might have formations established.
Low-level formations were one thing. With a sweep of Chen Fan's divine sense, crossing directly over them posed no problem.
But any formation of a higher grade was difficult for Chen Fan's divine sense to pass through.
Beyond formations,
there were also special places such as small worlds and secret realms, which Chen Fan could not directly probe.
Of course, with his strength, he could slowly search through the vast majority of such places.
The key problem was that there were simply too many places like that in the Southern Region.
Searching through them one by one would waste far too much time.
"If this goes on, when will I ever find him? I might as well set these places aside for now and make a rough sweep first. If I still can't find President Mao, I'll come back and inspect them one by one..."
With a plan in mind, he temporarily set aside the places his divine sense could not investigate and began a broad search.
After spending several days, he and his spirit clone had traversed the entire Southern Region and more than half of the Great Wilderness, yet they still could not sense President Mao's