Following the city lord's breakthrough to the Land Creation Realm, it was clear that escaping became far simpler, as outside of a large-scale attack that directly altered the surrounding environment and caused a deep ravine stretching for tens of thousands of meters to form in the process, there wasn't much else around to indicate the struggle continued after this breakthrough to the Land Creation Realm. Making it clear that the city lord should have managed to grab those still alive and get away safely in the end. Unless some stronger force jumped in to intercept them.
Still, though he had now lost the trail he had been following, it wasn't too difficult to continue following the path that the city lord had once been escaping in with how he had essentially been escaping in a single direction the entire time.
