Eight Swords of King Yue (1)

Ye Qingcang never put himself in danger.

This meeting was no exception.

Of course, Lü Buwei could do nothing to him. Lü Buwei could not even defeat Surprise Carp. Though he had only beaten Surprise Carp through trickery, no matter what, Surprise Carp had indeed lost to him. That was a fact.

So saying he feared Lü Buwei was pure nonsense.

The danger in question was Netherworld.

Hei Bai Xuan Jian had been transferred away.

Yan Ri was far off in Chu Kingdom.

Surprise Carp's whereabouts were unknown. In truth, she was hiding in Xinzheng, the capital of Han Kingdom.

But aside from those people, Netherworld still had other experts. At its current peak, Netherworld was a powerful force with seven Grandmasters. Zhen Gang, Duan Shui, Soul Extinction, and Zhuan Po—each of these four treasured swords had a Grandmaster-level Sword Master wielding it. Though they controlled fewer famous swords in number and could not form the Six Sword Slaves of Zhao Gao's era, they far surpassed them in quality.

The Netherworld of Zhao Gao's era had completely become a tool in Zhao Gao's hands.

It only needed to carry out Zhao Gao's will.

It existed in name only.

Though the Netherworld under Lü Buwei was also extreme, it had not reached that point. As a result, it held the advantage in the number of top-tier experts.

There were also differences in its organization.

The proper Eight Swords of King Yue should have been Yan Ri, Duan Shui, Zhen Gang, Surprise Carp, Zhuan Po, Soul Extinction, Xuan Jian, and Que Xie. But under Zhao Gao, some famous swords were renamed according to their different functions.

The Zhuan Po Sword was split apart and defined as Zhuan Po and Soul Extinction.

Meanwhile, the Soul Extinction Sword was renamed and defined as Wang