In the tower of the Cold Palace, Xinzheng City.
After the assassination of the Qin Envoy, the Baiyue Group, Bai Yifei, the Marquis of the Crimson Blood, and Ye Uchiha gathered to discuss their next steps.
Yep, that settled it. Everyone here was a villain except me.
Ye Uchiha thought this as he looked at the vicious-looking Tian Ze at their head, the cold and sinister Bai Yifei, the alluring Yan Lingji, the ox-like Wushuang, the eerie Corpse-Driving Demon, and the gray-haired, hunchbacked King of a Hundred Poisons.
Bai Yifei pursed his lips and said quietly, "Ji Wuye has sent me to the border to command Han's two hundred thousand troops. It seems he has his own little scheme. He intends to use this campaign to make his name in one stroke."
Tian Ze smiled mockingly. "Achievements that threaten the sovereign, eh? I wonder if he'll become another Bai Qi of Qin."
Lord Wu'an, Bai Qi, had been Qin's god of war more than twenty years ago, a terrifying figure whose name alone could silence a crying child. He had spent his life on the battlefield, and the lives he had taken numbered well over a million. He had been called "Lord Wu'an, the Butcher of a Million." That staggering number alone was enough to send chills down anyone's spine.
Although the official account was that King Zhaoxiang of Qin had ordered Bai Qi's death because his achievements threatened the throne, Bai Yifei, a great noble of Han, knew the secret behind it. The Six Hall Masters of the Agriculturists had plotted against him, joining forces to kill him with the Twenty-Four Earthly Marsh Formation.
But Bai Yifei did not believe a mere organization like the Agriculturists would dare commit such an outrageous act as assassinating a nation's general without