People in the Qin Dynasty, entertained during the Warring States period

A deep, hoarse voice sounded behind Li Si, startling him so much that he broke out in a cold sweat.

He turned around abruptly and saw a man dressed in blue cloth, with a weathered look in his eyes, standing there.

"what……"

Li Si collapsed to the ground, his eyes filled with barely concealed terror.

Xuan Jian snorted lightly, "Spineless bastard."

Li Si suddenly realized, "Brother Cao is talking about you?"

He had thought that Xuan Jian had died on the night he assassinated Cao Ze, but he never expected him to appear in front of him.

“Not bad.” Xuan Jian said calmly, “I will protect you tonight, but don’t do anything reckless, otherwise I can’t guarantee you won’t die.”

He cut the Eight Linglong from his soul and handed it to Cao Ze. Although this restored Cao Ze's sanity and made him less brutal, it also greatly reduced his strength, reducing him back to the level of a half-step Grandmaster.

But this time, he is confident that he can become a grandmaster on his own.

He was no longer the brute who had strength but no cultivation level, and was easily crushed by powerful masters.

"Don't court death, don't court death..."

Li Si wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, feeling inexplicably afraid of Cao Ze. He was shocked that even an unruly, fierce, and cruel guy like Xuan Jian could be tamed.

"Let's go."

Xuan Jian grabbed Li Si's shoulder and disappeared into the courtyard.

In the darkness, Jing Ni, wearing a silver mask and fish-scale armor, moved through the Prime Minister's residence, searching for Wei Zhuang's whereabouts as instructed by Cao Ze.

But as she walked through the corridor, she suddenly noticed two men in black, their presence lurking in the shadows.

If she hadn't been a master of stealth, she probably wouldn't have been able to detect it.

She instantly judged their strength: one was a half-step Grandmaster, and the other was a Grandmaster.

Jingni frowned slightly beneath her silver mask, realizing that things were not as simple as they seemed.

Could someone else have infiltrated the Prime Minister's residence tonight?

Jing Ni silently lurked behind the two. One of them seemed familiar to her, and it was very likely that she had met him before.

Who is it?

"Your Highness, where should we look?"

Lord Longyang transmitted his voice through his soul.

The map Cao Ze gave them only showed the location where Lü Buwei kept his private secrets; they knew nothing about the other places.

However, they also made a plan: Zi Nu would implicate Cao Ze, and Wei Zhuang would create chaos and destruction after Wu Ming and Gongsun were exposed, setting fire to the mansion.

They are the ones who are actually investigating and searching for classified information.

Consort Ya already had a plan: "Such secrets are usually hidden within the Prime Minister's residence, which is the opposite of Wuming and his group's objective. Let's go there first."

Lord Longyang nodded, and the two went to the government offices within the Prime Minister's residence.

Jing Ni secretly followed.

the other side.

Gongsun Long and the Nameless Sword Saint arrived at the location marked on Cao Ze's map.

In their perception, there were not many people around, but without exception, they were all masters of at least the second rank in the martial arts world.

The sheer number of experts secretly alarmed Gongsun Long.

The experts here alone are almost on par with the experts from other famous schools.

The Prime Minister's Mansion of the Qin State truly lived up to its reputation as a den of dragons and tigers in the martial arts world.

At this moment, Cao Ze was with Zi Nu, who seemed to be taking a nighttime stroll.

He smiled helplessly, "As expected, you're here to seduce me."

Zi Nu glared at Cao Ze and sneered, "What flirting? That sounds awful. That's right, I'm just looking at you, just like you're looking at me."

Cao Ze chuckled and said, "In layman's terms, we're practically in the same boat."

He knew there must be something wrong with Zi Nu's quick agreement.

No matter, let's just treat it as a nighttime vacation with Zi Nu at the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Zi Nu rolled her eyes at Cao Ze, "Vulgar, tasteless."

Cao Ze argued, "Can I call this something that appeals to both refined and popular tastes? Life isn't just about highbrow culture; there's also the common folk. Isn't life just about everyday things like shit and pee?"

Zi Nu looked at Cao Ze speechlessly. She suddenly regretted it a little. She should have called Ya Fei over to deal with this guy.

Seeing that Zi Nu's emotions were stable, Cao Ze abandoned his intention to continue probing her secrets and directly revealed his spear and club.

"Let's go to Lü Buwei's study."

Zi Nu asked in surprise, "What are you going over there for?"

Cao Ze said in a deep voice: "Assassinate Lü Buwei!"

Zi Nu was taken aback, then exclaimed in horror, "Tonight?"

Cao Ze nodded solemnly. "Yes, the plan has changed."

Zi Nu took a deep breath to calm her agitated emotions and said seriously, "Are you serious? Who are you asking to assassinate Lü Buwei? Jing Ni? I advise you to be more cautious. Lü Buwei will definitely be heavily guarded. It's not something that one or two Grandmasters can successfully assassinate him."

She was pondering what to do now, whether or not to expose Wuming and Gongsun Long.

Seeing that Zi Nu looked slightly anxious, Cao Ze thought to himself, "It seems that Zi Nu's purpose is not simple."

The Prime Minister's residence was very large. Cao Ze didn't know exactly how large it was, but it covered at least 600 acres, which was larger than the area of ​​the university he attended.

During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, architecture did not seek to be ornate, but rather to be large and imposing.

It should be noted that in later generations, the Forbidden City only covered a few thousand acres.

Cao Ze, with Zi Nu by his side, carefully avoided the patrolling guards coming from all directions and slowly made his way toward Lü Buwei's study.

According to Li Si, Lü Buwei spent most of his time eating, sleeping, and living in the study.

Meanwhile, Li Si, with a mournful face, said, "Xuan Jian, where are you taking me? What do you want to do?!"

Xuan Jian said coldly, "Take me into Lü Buwei's study."

"Ah..." Li Si almost cried out.

"Didn't Cao Ze ask you to help me find those things?"

Xuan Jian said indifferently, "I don't need you. I advise you to mind your own business and do what you're supposed to do. If you hinder my revenge, don't blame me for being merciless with my sword."

Li Si almost swore.

Damn it, you told me not to do anything stupid, but you did it first and now you want me to die too?

That damn Cao Ze, is this how you play games?

But Li Si glanced at the pitch-black sword in Xuan Jian's hand, his thighs trembled, and he decisively admitted defeat.

"I'll take you there, but you have to listen to me..."

Li Si swallowed hard, worried that Xuan Jian would lead him straight into the city. If that happened, he would die a very unjust death.

"can."

Xuan Jian smiled inexplicably.

It would be difficult for him to get close to Lü Buwei's study on his own, but Cao Ze had mentioned to him that Li Si valued his life and that scaring him would make him use his brain.

With Li Si, who was quite familiar with the Prime Minister's residence, leading the way, Xuan Jian slowly and smoothly approached Lü Buwei's study to prepare for Cao Ze's plan.

"There's something strange about this building..." Gongsun Long whispered to the nameless sword saint in the pitch-black building.

"Blood Silkworm Array," the nameless man said slowly, revealing the strange phenomenon in the small building.

No one knew that when the Yin-Yang School entered Qin, in order to curry favor with Lü Buwei, they included the Blood Silkworm Array, a mechanical formation, as a gift for the Luo Wang organization.

"What? It's this thing?"

Gongsun Long felt a chill run down his spine.

The Blood Silkworm Array is a particularly vicious mechanical array used by the Yin-Yang School, and it is even considered a forbidden technique within the school itself.

According to his understanding, the mechanism was woven by the Yin-Yang School using rare blood silkworm silk, a specialty of Yumen Pass. The silk threads are only one-tenth the fineness of ordinary silkworm silk and are transparent. They are tough and sharp, and can easily cut a person into pieces of flesh without their knowledge.

There is no other way to see the blood silkworm silk except by using powerful spiritual energy to sense it.

Of course, this wasn't the part that gave him trouble.

According to his perception, there were hundreds of blood silkworm threads intertwined in this small space, each thread soaked in a secret poison prepared by the Yin-Yang School, which would be fatal upon contact.

Even he wouldn't dare to be easily hurt by this thing.

I never expected to see this thing in this place. I'm afraid I'll have a hard time tonight.

The nameless man calmly said, "Don't touch them. There are silver bells at the ends of the blood silkworm threads. Touching any thread will trigger a chain reaction, causing all the bells to ring simultaneously. And..."

He paused for a moment and then said, "Once the mechanism is triggered, this small building will seal off the entire Thousand Machine Tower within ten breaths, and the density of the wire mesh will increase exponentially."

Such secrets of the martial world are known only to him and Gongsun Long, who have been famous for a long time.

Gongsun Long pondered for a moment. Although the Blood Silkworm Array was renowned in the martial world, breaking through here wouldn't be too easy for him and Wuming, but it would undoubtedly alarm the entire Prime Minister's Mansion and interfere with their plan to buy time for Consort Ya and Lord Longyang.

"Nameless, think of a way. If all else fails, force your way in later and take as much as you can."

Wuming nodded slightly. "That's the only way."

The blood-red silk threads inside the small building were so dense that even a kitten would have a hard time passing through them, let alone a person, clearly eliminating the possibility of someone sneaking in directly from the top of the building.

Outside the Prime Minister's residence, Wei Zhuang calmly carried a sealed barrel of kerosene into the residence and, following the principles of vertical and horizontal alliances, slowly constructed a series of interconnected kerosene arrays within the residence.

If the Prime Minister's mansion hadn't been so large, and if the amount of kerosene he temporarily obtained from the black market in Xianyang hadn't been so small, he might have been able to expand even further.

When Consort Ya and Lord Longyang arrived at the location, they quietly and discreetly flipped through various official documents and scrolls inside the office.

The above only describes the local conditions in various parts of Qin, such as disaster relief and the need for food, as well as the repair of rivers and roads... These are all routine matters of the courts of various states, and there is nothing particularly noteworthy about them.

Unless all the books and bamboo slips here can be moved, it would still be possible to depict the current situation within the Qin state and launch a targeted attack.

“Someone is there…” Longyang Jun whispered, hiding in the darkness with Ya Fei.