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The young man who had climbed the mountain in a bedraggled state was Wu Ming, as disguised by Su Zichen.
Su Zichen's identity was a disguise, but his wounds were not. He had truly suffered them while being hunted by Dark Guard martial artists along the way.
When pursuing Su Zichen this time, Su Xin had said on the surface that they were merely putting on an act and should go easy on him, but they could not ease up too much either. Thus, he had handed the matter directly to Li Huai.
Li Huai appeared somewhat lax on the surface and did not personally join the pursuit, but in truth, every deployment of Dark Guard personnel had been arranged by Li Huai himself. Most importantly, they had no idea that the Wu Ming they were hunting was actually Su Zichen!
Su Xin had told Li Huai to make the act more convincing, but the problem was that Li Huai simply could not act. So he decided to go even harder—he stopped acting altogether and made everything real. He merely controlled the intensity of the pursuit through the deployment of Dark Guard personnel, but those who actually took action showed no mercy whatsoever. They were still waiting to kill the Wu Ming who had disgraced the Dark Guard and return to collect their reward.
Thus, over the course of this pursuit, Su Zichen had truly passed through countless perils. Had he not spent so long in the Dark Guard himself, and had he not received covert aid from certain Martial Arts World factions, he likely would have died at the hands of his own people before even reaching Shaoshi Mountain.
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