During the Qin Dynasty, he was in charge of the net.

Li Ji is preparing to go to the Sword Prison to choose a vicious sword that belongs to him.

Why today? Because today, his Transformation of the Serpent into a Dragon Technique has reached the fourth stage of Water Element.

Within his dantian, the true qi of the dark water transformed into a vortex of white water, slowly circulating and generating power.

This vortex flowed through his limbs and bones, making his physique visibly more solid. His skin and muscles were nourished by the vortex, and his rough skin shone with a soft, moist glow.

His body became increasingly light, truly achieving a state of landing without making a sound.

It has only been half a month since he returned to Luo Wang.

Black Tiger, who had voluntarily followed him from the prison cell, was placed in his own stone chamber.

At this moment, Black Tiger seemed to sense that Li Ji was in a good mood, so it crawled over on its stomach and moved its huge head closer to Li Ji.

Li Ji shook his head and pushed the tiger head aside.

The black tiger's enormous body took up almost half of his stone chamber; he would have to move to a larger one later.

Having mastered the fourth stage of the Transformation of the Serpent into a Dragon Technique, Li Ji's confidence grew even stronger. However, reaching the fifth stage would take four years, and he couldn't wait that long.

Now is the perfect time to head to the Sword Prison and choose your sword.

The so-called Sword Prison is a special place where the most vicious swords of the Luo Wang (Net of Heaven) are kept.

Ordinary weapons can be obtained by exchanging them for merits in the regular armory.

The Sword Prison provides each top-tier, malevolent sword with its own independent prison, isolating them from each other to suppress their malevolent resonance and prevent the swords from backfiring and going out of control.

Li Ji opened the small, cold stone chamber, minimized the moisture around him, and slowly stepped out of the room.

After leaving the stone chamber, Li Ji walked deeper into the underground palace.

Li Ji's stone chamber was located on the fourth level of the enormous underground palace of Luo Wang.

The underground palace has a total of seven levels, like an inverted pyramid, with each level leading downwards.

The first layer is the surface access layer, used for camouflaging entrances, identity verification, and basic security.

The demons and monsters, as well as some of the outer assassins of the Luo Wang, reside on this floor. After Yan Ling Ji and Bai Du Wang obeyed his orders, they were allowed to live on this floor.

The second level is a top-tier (绝字) residence.

The core members are the fourth-level assassins of the Luo Wang organization. There are many stone chambers, a unified training area, a mission receiving area, and a healing room.

The third level is the Earth-level base.

Starting from this level, there are independent stone chambers, advanced training grounds, and an even larger armory.

The fourth level is the Killer-level stronghold where Li Ji is located.

It has its own stone chamber and a private training room, and the weapons and elixirs here are even rarer.

The fifth floor is a top-tier (天字) level residence.

Li Ji was unaware of the distribution of the individuals, but given the scarcity of Heavenly-level individuals, the area must be quite vast.

The sixth level contains some secret resource vaults and a sword prison.

Li Ji rarely went to this level; the items in the secret vault required a great deal of merit to obtain.

Li Ji guessed that the three techniques he had broken down into the "Snake Transformation into a Dragon" method should be located here.

The seventh floor is the exclusive residence and council hall of the leader of the Luo Wang organization.

Li Ji left the fourth level of the underground palace and went down.

The narrow, dark underground palace corridors are deep and winding, with damp, cold, and slippery stone walls. You can feel the chilling wind as you walk through them.

Ordinary people would only feel depressed if they lived in such a place for a long time.

But this place is inhabited by a bunch of madmen, killers, and people without homes or countries.

Here, they actually felt more natural and comfortable than on the ground.

How can the light of day understand how deep the darkness beneath the earth is?

Li Ji stepped over the cold stone bricks and finally arrived at the sixth level of the underground palace.

The location of the Luo Wang Sword Prison.

Before your eyes hang thousands of chains, and enclosed sword niches line both sides of the passageway.

Each niche contains a peerless, deadly sword, each imprisoned and isolated.

The suppressed, violent sword energy spread in layers, permeating all directions, faintly emitting a low, hoarse hiss, like the roar of a trapped beast, unruly and difficult to tame.

Amidst the crisscrossing chains sat a gaunt, upright old man with no eyebrows, dressed in a long black robe.

At this moment, the eyebrowless old man slowly opened his tightly closed eyes and looked indifferently at the newcomer.

Li Ji looked at the Sword Prison Chief in mid-air and said:

"Sword No. 7 of the Second Rank of Killing, ordered by the leader, to choose a vicious sword from the prison."

"I know you," the eyebrowless old man uttered, then tossed down a bamboo slip.

Li Ji didn't understand the Sword Prison Chief's intentions, but he still reached out and steadily caught the bamboo slip.

"The net of evil swords is stained with the blood of a hundred generations of killing, its malevolent aura corroding to the bone, and it never submits to the mediocre."

This bamboo slip contains information about some of the most dangerous swords. Once you've chosen one, go ahead and don't bother me.

After the eyebrowless old man finished speaking, he closed his eyes again, appearing indifferent to worldly affairs.

Li Ji didn't care about the attitude of the prison warden. He opened the bamboo slip and examined it carefully.

The bamboo slips record dozens of vicious swords, including the Eight Swords of the King of Yue, and provide a detailed ranking of them.

The number one ranked sword is none other than Yanri, the leader of the Eight Swords of Yue.

The bamboo slips describe it as: "The metal element overcomes the yang, obscuring the sun and extinguishing its light."

Second on the list is "Severing Water": cutting water with a sword, the water opens but does not become harmonious.

Ranked third, Hei Bai Xuan Jian: Righteous blade takes lives, reverse blade suppresses souls.

Ranked fourth, Chaos God: Yue King's Ancient Sword, its appearance is ominous.

Ranked fifth, Zhen Gang: capable of cutting hair in half with a breath, the strongest in the world.

Ranked sixth, Jingni: It cleaves the sea with a sword, and even whale sharks fear it.

Ranked seventh, Soul Transformation: Reversing the stars, seizing souls and stealing spirits.

Ranked eighth, Soul Extinction: Using evil to fight evil, its ferocity is hidden.

Ranked ninth, Wangliang: Appearing and disappearing like a ghost in the night.

Ranked tenth, Cold Cicada: Its cicada song steals the soul, killing in an instant without a trace.

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Of the top ten most dangerous swords, five—Yanri, Xuanjian, Zhengang, Zhuanpo, and Miehun—already have owners.

In other words, Li Ji can choose from the remaining five swords: Duan Shui, Luan Shen, Jing Ni, Wang Liang, and Han Chan.

As for the murderous sword, which was ranked too low, it was not Li Ji's first choice.

Li Ji pondered to himself which sword he should choose.

Of the five swords, the one Li Ji ruled out first was Chaos God, because the mysterious horn-shaped jade pendant had previously hinted to him that Chaos God was not suitable for him.

Therefore, his only real choice was to cut off the water supply, and summon Jingni, Wangliang, and Hanchan.

He also ruled out the demons and monsters, as they were considered too sinister.

He couldn't be sure if the remaining three swords—Broken Water, Startled Salamander, and Cold Cicada—were even more suitable for him.

After some deliberation, Li Ji decided to enter the Sword Prison to experience the aura of the three swords up close before making a judgment.

As Li Ji walked deeper into the Sword Prison, the eyebrowless old man suddenly opened his tightly closed eyes.

"Too ambitious."

The eyebrowless old man shook his head, looking in Li Ji's direction. He had seen too many people like this in the Luo Wang.

Everyone who wants to advance from the second rank of the Killer class to the first rank of the Heaven class is tempted to get their hands on the most powerful and deadly sword.

But these people don't even consider why the top-ranked most dangerous swords have been kept.

Is it because others are unaware of the power of those swords, or do they think they are more special?

It's not that no one has ever made that choice, but everyone who tried has died.

The Cold Cicada Sword has been in this Sword Prison for ten years.

The demon stayed for fifteen years, and the shrew stayed for twenty years.

The Chaos God Sword only recently returned, but every master of the Chaos God Sword doesn't live long.

As for the water shortage, it lasts longer than the first-ranked "Yanridai".

The Broken Water Sword has been in this Sword Prison for fifty years.

He had considered whether something had changed in the Sword Prison.

However, his only responsibility is to ensure that the swords in the Sword Prison are not lost outside.

What happened in the sword niche and why those people died were not within his scope of responsibility.