Ying Zheng's Invitation (1)

Lü Buwei making this choice had long been within Ye Qingcang's expectations.

Because Lü Buwei was the head of the Eclectic School.

He was a pragmatist.

Since it was clear that he could not control the Web of Nets, and an internal investigation would only cause the Web of Nets to collapse—making it impossible to distinguish their own people from Faceless Men posing as their own—repeated purges would instead weed out and kill all their real people while leaving behind Faceless Men who could corroborate one another's lies as the backbone of the organization. Rather than end up with such an absurd result, it was better to be decisive, hand over this hot potato in exchange for a favor, and avoid futile resistance and unnecessary losses.

This was also how most smart people would act.

If he could keep it,

Lü Buwei definitely would.

At worst, he would go to war with the Faceless Men and with Ye Qingcang.

The Web of Nets had an internal oversight system.

If necessary, they could conduct a massive purge.

But the problem was that it was obvious they could not keep it now. The Web of Nets had no means of determining whether someone was truly one of their own. These Faceless Men possessed the original person's appearance, cultivation, and memories. Even if they used martial arts targeting the soul to interrogate them, all they could extract were those perfectly normal memories, with no way to reach the Faceless Man hidden within. Of course, there was another way to identify them: kill the person, or burn them alive in a fire. Once they lost their vessel, the Faceless Man flesh tumor inside would have to flee to survive and seek something else to possess. Or cut them down with a single stroke; the