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The one who spoke was Steel Arh his words A spark of flanited within the eyes of the four

"Heh, I didn't say that The entire mountain is filled withSosuri Steel Aruryeo who came up with this monastery and spent four months to master it, built a secret tunnel linked to the interior of the capital, and was vicious enough to lay his hands on the officials of Great Tang

How could such a figure be so shallow? One would be severely underesti the famed chief spy with such conjectures

"Then what else do you mean?"

In an instant, the flames of hope that had barely rekindled flickered weakly

"Don't worry, he won't be able to get away" Wang Chong s There was no rush for the entof which, it should be about tiazed into the depths of the ue battle cries seemed to echo out from there Finally, the ambush of troops that he had planted had worked its wonders

What that awaited those fleeing Goguryeons was an elaborate net that sealed every single path of their escape

The thousand Goguryeon elites were destined to be buried on this very mountain

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"To think that it would be a failure!"

Pushing ti flames, far away on another mountain, beneath atree, a woodshtly veiled under a ba of lu within his eyes

Fros on theencirclement from the Imperial Army

Besides, there were plenty of woodsmen like him in the capital who entered the depths of the forest in the ht to sell their wood in the day

"It is never too late for a gentlee These are the words frohted for too long!"

The old woodsazed motionlessly into the distance He had no intention to warn the Goguryeons, and neither did he plan to change anything at all Instead, he decisively turned around with his bag of lumber and proceeded down the mountain

His movements were extremely slow but stable, just like an ordinary woodsman From ti Soon, he reached the botto by the road for aa sip of water, he continued on his way

It was still early The woodsman didn't use the secret tunnel beneath the walls of the capital as he usually did—the monastery beyond the capital had been discovered and encircled, there was nothing that could be considered safe at thehis identity exposed were he to use it

Thus, he walked over to the city entrance and took a seat by the wall, where the other woods the fareeted him and offered him their pipe to smoke

They had met him several tiood impression of him

The old woodsman chuckled as he used fluent Han speech to reject the pipe

The city gates would only open near dawn, so he would have to wait here for a moment

The old woodsman was in no hurry, either In his view, the more people there were, the safer he would be

Relaxed, the old woods long, after soates finally open Slowly, the old woodsround, and aates

As it was still early and there weren't too many people on the streets, the old woodsuise and hastened his footsteps, displaying an agility that was in stark contrast to his age

Turning through alley after alley, the old woodsman finally arrived at a barren lumber yard in the south of the city

This was his safehouse in the capital Not even those ere closest to him knew of it

The old woods that no one had followed hi much within the lumber yard, but it was extremely clean

The woodsman swiftly put down his lu the dusty boxes to the side of the room

He took off his dirty woodsman clothes and switched them with a clean silk robe In an instant, the woodsman had turned into a majestic silk merchant

"I'm finally back!" Only at this h of relief