Faceless Men's Strategic Threat!

Xianyang City.

As one of Netherworld's headquarters,

Netherworld's influence here was exceptionally vast.

As Netherworld's leader, Lü Buwei's movements were naturally extremely secure.

And extremely secretive.

As long as he did not wish to be discovered,

no one could uncover his whereabouts.

However, nothing was absolute. Netherworld was indeed the foremost intelligence organization in the world, but it was not the only intelligence organization.

As the capital of the Qin Kingdom,

Xianyang City was also the headquarters of the Black Ice Platform and the Shadow Secret Guard.

Of course.

The Shadow Secret Guard was nothing before Netherworld.

Not worth mentioning.

Although Netherworld had not infiltrated the Shadow Secret Guard—doing so would be tantamount to challenging the Qin King's bottom line, and no ruler would permit others to infiltrate his intelligence forces, unless he had no power to speak of—Netherworld had not overreached in order to avoid conflict and prevent the ruler from calling in an army to wipe them out.

Yet the Shadow Secret Guard had likewise failed to infiltrate Netherworld.

The notion of learning the whereabouts of Lü Buwei, Netherworld's leader, was pure nonsense.

Compared with the Shadow Secret Guard, the Black Ice Platform had existed longer, kept a lower profile, and was known only to the Qin King. It was clearly not as useless as the Shadow Secret Guard. Although no one in the Black Ice Platform had infiltrated Netherworld's upper ranks to work from within and begin dismantling Netherworld internally, quite a few had infiltrated its middle and lower ranks, giving them a certain understanding of Netherworld.

They also possessed a certain degree of influence.

However, in the hands of Ye Qingcang's Faceless Men,

these Black Ice Platform agents planted within Netherworld had been quietly rooted out and absorbed. In effect, the Faceless Men had also eroded