"Could it be... that he left afterward? Or perhaps... someone saved him?"
"But the Half-Immortal Artifact was taken away after only an hour of hesitation. With the artifact's overwhelming power from before, not to mention me, even if a Body Integration senior had arrived in person, they likely would have found it difficult to break free."
"Besides, before my avatar left last time, it also placed special talismans nearby to monitor the conditions here. Now that my true body has returned, those talismans have not changed in the slightest."
"Judging from this, the possibility that the brat left afterward is minuscule."
"Damn it, what exactly happened here?"
One thought after another flashed through his mind. Yet as soon as each arose, he swiftly rejected it, and his emotions inevitably became restless.
However, Cui Shaolin was the Holy Son of Tiandao Palace and, moreover, one of the foremost figures among the Spirit Severing stage cultivators of the Immortal Cultivation Holy Land.
That restlessness lasted only an instant.
Sensing ripples in his state of mind, he immediately murmured an incantation.
In the blink of an eye, his thoughts cleared, and he calmed down completely.
"Whether that Su Shi'er is alive or dead, one thing is certain: when I returned to this Quicksand Land, the special talismans showed no changes whatsoever."
"That brat... was either still beneath these quicksands, or... took advantage of the moment the Half-Immortal Artifact was collected to pull the wool over Heaven's eyes and slip away."
As the thought flashed through his mind, Cui Shaolin's eyes blazed.
Deep in his eyes, fury burned fiercely, yet it did not affect his rationality in the slightest.
"Hmph! As the saying goes, geese leave cries as they pass, and people leave traces as they go!"
"Let me see just what kind of