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

Four days passed quickly, and today was the day the leader of the Luo Wang organization asked Li Ji to go to the council.

During these four days, Li Ji secluded himself to cultivate, and in the meantime, he also mastered many of the rules of the Luo Wang (Net of Heaven).

These rules are cold, hard, and straightforward; those who violate them will face either death or serious injury, with absolutely no room for leniency.

1. Anyone who disobeys orders will be executed without mercy.

Second, those who defect from the net will be killed without mercy.

3. Anyone who leaks the secrets of the Luowang organization will be executed without mercy.

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Of these, ten were killed outright.

There are also more than ten methods that abolish martial arts, such as severing limbs, cutting off meridians, and breaking the dantian.

There are more than twenty punishments, including amputation of arms, feet, tongue, and disfigurement.

Meanwhile, Li Ji also reviewed hundreds of criminal case files from the Luo Wang organization over the past few days.

Three of them left the deepest impression on him.

The first file, file code [749]:

This person, codenamed Wu Nian, has been a member of Luo Wang for twenty years and is a candidate for the Luo Wang's top-tier rank.

His movements were as swift as a ghost, and with his hidden sword technique, countless souls had perished at his hands.

He was originally the son of an ordinary farmer in the State of Wei. When he was young, his hometown was massacred by marauding soldiers, and only he and his younger sister survived.

In order to save his life, he threw himself into the trap.

For twenty years, he fought his way up from an unnamed assassin to a candidate for the highest rank, his hands stained with blood.

But he could never let go of his younger sister, who was living in poverty and depended on him for survival.

The older he got, the more he loathed the endless, cold tasks of the Net, and the thought of rebellion grew stronger in his heart.

He secretly amassed travel funds, inquired about his sister's whereabouts, and planned to completely escape the clutches of the criminals.

He wanted to take his sister to a secluded mountain where no one knew them, so they could live like ordinary people again.

With informants throughout the seven kingdoms, his intention to defect was discovered as soon as he left Qin.

The master of the Dark Execution Platform of the Net, valuing his cultivation level, did not order him to be killed directly, but instead sent out a small team of hunters.

Wu Nian fought desperately, but was no match for this team that specialized in hunting down defectors. In the end, the chains pierced his collarbone, and he was taken back to the Net.

The subsequent punishments by the Luo Wang organization were extremely cruel and were recorded in detail in the dossier:

Take a piece of black iron mask that has been heated to a red-hot color. The edge of the mask is cast with fine barbs. The executioner shows no mercy and presses the scorching hot mask hard onto the executioner's face. The flesh sizzles and the barbs embed themselves into the skull.

Finally, the mask was completely welded to the skin and flesh, and could no longer be separated.

The master of the Dark Punishment Platform then used the Seven Needles Soul-Refining Technique, a forbidden art, to precisely pierce seven vital acupoints on his head, including his brow, occipital bone, and fengchi point, with seven inch-long black iron needles, forcibly sealing all his memories and emotions.

This approach only preserved his purest murderous intent and his instinct to obey simple commands.

From then on, Wu Nian, who had no more worries about his sister, was no longer in the world.

Only one remained, a killing machine wearing a black iron mask.

The second file, file code [979]:

This person, codenamed Xiao San, is a Tier 1 assassin, skilled in stealth assassination.

Before joining the Net, he was a farmer's son. One year, there was a severe drought, and his parents and relatives starved to death. He joined the Net in order to have a bite to eat.

Fifteen years after being caught in the trap, he rescued a woman from a village that was being plundered by bandits and fell in love with her at first sight.

After that, he risked his life to carry out deadly missions, fighting for his life in desperate situations many times, just to save up more money so that the woman could live a better life.

He was completely unsuspecting of the woman and revealed his identity as a member of the Luowang organization and all the secrets of his mission.

Little did they know, the woman turned around and sold this information to Xiao San and his team's target, a powerful figure from the Chu Kingdom.

Unsurprisingly, the mission failed, and the Luo Wang (a secret network) traced the problem back to Xiao San.

Knowing he had violated the death penalty of the Luo Wang organization, Xiao San decisively defected, only wanting to see the woman one more time.

After a three-day hunt, Luo Wang intercepted him at a dilapidated temple on the outskirts of the city. Xiao San was no match for the assassins and was pierced through the chest by a sword, dying on the spot.

The assassins did not give up. Following the clues, they found the woman's hiding place.

Without a word, the assassin threw Xiao San's blood-stained head in front of the woman.

The woman looked down at the head that remained open in death, her face devoid of any grief or remorse, and said in a calm, indifferent tone:

"I don't know this person."

The assassin, unwilling to expose her or say more, severed her head with a single sword stroke.

Finally, the two corpses, along with their heads, were left to rot in the wilderness.

The third file, file code [1459]:

This person, codenamed Chong Sha, was caught in Luo Wang's trap at the age of thirty-nine.

Before falling into the trap, he was a scholar from the State of Yan, who yearned for power and to restore his family's glory.

Unfortunately, despite his great ambitions, he failed to gain the appreciation of the powerful figures in the Yan Kingdom and felt that his talents were not being put to use.

So he traveled to many countries and finally gained the approval of a powerful figure in the State of Qi.

However, the other party always had some reservations about him because of his identity as a Yan citizen.

To dispel that last shred of hesitation, he personally killed his pregnant wife from the Yan state.

He got the official position he wanted.

The official position he was given wasn't high, but he was very happy, even happier than on his wedding day.

But fate played a cruel trick on him; the powerful Yan nobleman he followed ended up on the Luowang's death list.

He witnessed the death of that powerful figure right before his eyes.

This was also the first time he had ever heard the name Luo Wang.

It turns out that there are things in this world more powerful than the powerful and wealthy.

In order to survive, he joined the Net.

The bloodshed of the chaotic world, the twists and turns of his life, and the shattering of his hopes completely twisted him.

He went mad; he became a complete madman in the Luo Wang organization.

Worldly power and position have become meaningless to him; all he has in mind is the obsession with becoming "stronger."

He tortured and killed his mission targets and passersby, indiscriminately killing people of all ages.

He became a hunter under the command of the Dark Execution Platform Master, a figure feared by all within the Net.

Tracking down and hunting down defectors will be his mission for the rest of his life.

Until one day, his target was a defector in his early twenties, dressed as a man from the state of Yan.

The defector was powerless to resist his sudden attack.

Just as Chong Sha was about to sever the other man's head with a single sword stroke, his gaze suddenly swept over the defector's neck.

There hangs a broken jade pendant there.

It was a personal keepsake that he and his wife each shared when they married.

In that instant, the murderous aura around him suddenly froze.

He suddenly remembered that when he killed his wife, she was already pregnant, and he had always thought that the child in her womb had died tragically along with his mother.

However, he thought of a possibility.

His wife did not die on the spot; she gave birth to the child in her womb, and that child later joined the snare.

Are there really such bizarre coincidences in this world?

Power, strength, murdering his wife... He lived a life of madness, slaughtering countless people without ever hesitating.

But at this moment, looking at the face in front of him that resembled his own, he hesitated for a second.

Just one second.

That moment of hesitation became his death sentence.

A sword pierces the heart.

He did not retaliate, allowing his internal energy to dissipate, and collapsed in a pool of blood.

The person opposite him was unaware that he had killed his biological father, nor did he have the opportunity to find out.

Five hunters were deployed for the next hunt.

Based on Chong Sha's cause of death, the hunters pieced together a somewhat incomplete story and recorded it in the dossier.

After reviewing the three case files, Li Ji slowly closed them, his expression remaining as indifferent as ice.

Wu Nian, bound by kinship with his loved ones, had his memories destroyed and was turned into a killing machine.

Xiao San, obsessed with love, was betrayed by his heartless lover, and they both died in the end.

Chong Sha was driven mad by his lust for power and hesitated for a moment before being killed by his own son.

Li Ji had no intention of commenting too much on the actions of those three people.

The Net is indifferent to human feelings, kinship, and mercy; it only recognizes strength and mission.

They did what they wanted to do, so they should bear the consequences of their actions.

Just as Li Ji's hands are stained with blood, if one day he dies at the hands of someone even more powerful, he will not complain about fate, nor will he beg for mercy; he will accept his death with equanimity.

Behind these three volumes of case files, Li Ji discovered that the same force was subtly controlling the life and death of the people in the files.

The master of the Dark Execution Platform, and his hunters.

Will he become that kind of person too?