These Two Were Ninety-Nine Percent Alike...

How had the various factions discovered Ling Wuyuan?

The answer was actually quite simple—there had been no extra tricks involved.

The various factions had simply relied on the purest form of human-flesh search to uncover the anomaly.

At the very beginning,

the various factions had no idea who the possible suspects were.

But as the [Chasing Maple Dynasty], unable to contact Kang Canglan and the others, began to lose its composure and proactively leak certain information,

the range of suspicion among the various factions gradually narrowed dramatically.

Especially after they had found a way to obtain a portrait of Ling Wuyuan from the [Chasing Maple Dynasty], their investigation into the truth behind the scenes immediately accelerated at an astounding rate.

At first, faced with Ling Wuyuan's highly distinctive appearance and his cultivation level of at least the [Enlightened Intent Realm], the various factions repeatedly searched for him but found nothing.

Just like Kang Canglan and the others' initial reaction,

they immediately concluded that Ling Wuyuan was very likely operating with a human-skin mask or some special disguise technique.

They would most likely have to discard the intelligence they currently possessed and find another way to identify the target's true information.

After all,

no matter how they screened their records,

they had never found such a person in the [Northern Domain].

They couldn't exactly say that he had appeared out of thin air, could they??

But as the matter gradually expanded,

the number of people who successfully obtained Ling Wuyuan's portrait and information naturally began to increase exponentially.

In the end,

when someone holding a fairly high position within the [News Report] obtained the relevant intelligence,

he stared at the portrait in his hand and immediately voiced his heartfelt confusion with extreme hesitation.

"Th-this—did you take the wrong portrait?"

"Isn't this