Whose Netherworld (2)

Thus, Lü Buwei's identities and influence were completely inversely proportional.

The identity with the strongest deterrent held the lowest social status.

The identity with the weakest deterrent held the highest social status.

But no matter what, the Netherworld weapon in Lü Buwei's hands was universally acknowledged as flawless. Otherwise, he would have been assassinated long ago. Whether it was the Qin Kingdom's Black Ice Platform, the Qi Kingdom's Qi Skillful Strike, or the Shadow Secret Guard, these were all professional intelligence and assassination organizations. Even assassinating a monarch was not impossible for them. What did a mere chancellor like Lü Buwei amount to?

This was also why Ying Zheng, the First Emperor, had never moved against Lü Buwei. It was not until Zhao Gao took over the Netherworld Lü Buwei had left behind that the matter truly came to an end. Only then did Ying Zheng completely reclaim his power, personally govern, and embark on the path toward unification.

But that was only how the plot developed in the original work.

Reality was that, because of Ye Qingcang's involvement, the plot had gone completely off the rails.

Netherworld?

Who it belonged to was still uncertain!

Although the first region where Netherworld fell was the Han Kingdom, where Han Fei was located—especially Xinzheng, where Ye Qingcang had swept through the Netherworld strongholds one by one and replaced their members with Faceless Men, causing Surprise Carp, who had witnessed it all, to completely lose any will to resist—as time passed, batch after batch of Netherworld members had been replaced on their own, and with the Mother Nest keeping up with the supply, roughly one-third of Netherworld had now been replaced.

That was an extremely terrifying figure.

Even though two-thirds of Netherworld's members remained uncorrupted, and experts such as Hei Bai Xuan Jian,