Tender as Water, Passionate as Fire!

Ye Qingcang disliked waiting.

He disliked being forced into passive retaliation even more.

Though knowing the plot was one of his greatest advantages, rashly changing it could easily affect what followed. But as a transmigrator, if he did not even dare alter the plot, what was the point of transmigrating?

Thus, after meeting with Han Fei and the others,

after sending Red Lotus back to the palace and instructing Surprise Carp to protect her,

Ye Qingcang took a map in hand.

And began his exploration.

The map had been taken from the intelligence archive of Netherworld's Xinzheng branch in the Han Kingdom.

"Heavenly Net, everywhere and nowhere," was not a phrase coined after Zhao Gao joined the organization. It had existed from the very founding of Netherworld, and Netherworld under Lü Buwei had naturally been no different.

However, Netherworld was Netherworld, and Faceless Men were Faceless Men.

No matter how capable Netherworld was, it could not compare to the Faceless Men.

He meant in terms of infiltration.

If they were competing in strength,

or discussing assassinations,

the Faceless Men were inferior to Netherworld.

Because Netherworld's assassins had trained for their power in earnest.

The strength of Faceless Men depended entirely on those they devoured. If the devoured person was strong, they were strong; if the devoured person was weak, they were weak. Although they could inherit everything from the devoured person after consuming them, including their memories, that absurd ability came at the cost of having their potential completely locked. If an organization wished to develop healthily, it could never rely on Faceless Men. In other words, Faceless Men were creatures that knew only destruction and possessed no ability to create. Such beings were suitable only as tools and held no value for the world as a whole.

That was