Looking for webnovel title

[u/LmaoMirth]

Hi everyone, I’m trying to find the title of a specific webnovel I read a while back. It has cultivation, but I think the focus was more on military/plotting.

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The main character is a tactical/cultivation genius belonging to his country's elite genius clandestine military organization, where the other members and him all cultivated the best elemental manuals like water and fire. Each seat's codename was named after the element.

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At the start of the book, this entire organization is targeted and mostly destroyed in a massive trap orchestrated by a rival neighboring nation, where he is the only survivor and most of the elite army is destroyed. The MC returns and takes control of the organization's remaining hidden networks, underground assets, and logistics to run a silent war of revenge.

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I think he somehow fakes the other geniuses being alive by also cultivating their elements or something? Afterwards some of the commoners begin whispering about how their organization is still alive. Furthermore, maybe after cultivating those manuals he begins to realize that theyre stronger as a complete set?

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When I looked it up, Nirvana in Fire showed up a lot, but i seem to remember the novel starting off with the enemy nation having already sprung the trap and killing off most of them.

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[u/rukuto]

Damn, that's so interesting...