Chapter 373 Do you think they need evidence?
"Also, did you kidnap Yu Hai and that guy named Ah San from the Wang Mansion?"
Song Zhuran lowered her head in grievance and said in a muffled voice, "Disciple just wanted to teach Jiang Wanning a lesson."
“I can’t stand their arrogant attitude. I’ve been feeling so stifled in the palace these days. I haven’t accomplished anything.”
"That day, I overheard Master telling the person behind him that he wanted Yu Hai, so I captured him and sent him over. I'm sure the Southern Li Kingdom will see our sincerity."
Chen Jie's temples throbbed with anger. "You make it sound so easy."
"Yu Hai is easy to deal with, but let me ask you, where are the people behind Yu Hai?"
Song Zhuran didn't take it seriously. "Isn't she just Shen Ruzhi? She's merely a princess of Western Xia. Do you think Western Xia would send troops for someone like Yu Hai?"
"Why not?!" the prince consort roared. "Tuoba Wenjing has always wanted Yu Hai, and his purpose is to obtain the flying weapon that Yu Hai possesses."
"We've already severed our cooperation with Tuoba Wenjing after what happened last time. Now, send Yu Hai to Nan Li."
"I ask you, will the Western Xia use the fact that Yu Hai was the Western Xia's consort but was murdered in the Eastern Mausoleum as an excuse to attack the Eastern Mausoleum? And what is the relationship between Shen Ruzhi and Jiang Wan Ning?"
Who do you think they will ultimately target?
"At that time, whether it's you or me, as long as Xixia asks for people, do you think Xiao Yu would hesitate?"
After listening to Chen Jie's words, Song Zhuran calmed down. "But Master... they have no evidence."
"Foolish!" Prince Consort Chen Jie roared. "Do you think they need evidence?"
"If there's no evidence, then you won't create it?"
“I originally had enough power to deal with Pei Yanchuan. We could have easily won when the Empress gave birth to the prince. But now all our previous efforts have been in vain.”
"It still gives Pei Yanchuan and the others a chance to catch their breath, and I've already been exposed."
Song Zhuran panicked then, "What should we do now?"
"Yu Hai didn't kill him, he just sent him to Nan Li."
The prince consort Chen Jie's eyes sharpened. "How do you know how to contact that person?"
He had never told Song Zhuran about this matter, fearing that she might act on it secretly.
Song Zhuran remained silent, while the assassin behind her knelt down and admitted his mistake, "Master, please forgive me. I told the young master all of this."
Chen Jie glanced at the kneeling assassin, who was his most prized creation besides Song Zhuran, and was also an orange-rank assassin. It was not easy to train one.
Chen Jie took two steps forward, raised his hand, and struck the top of the head of the person kneeling on the ground with a palm strike. The sound of the skull cracking was accompanied by strange bleeding.
The assassin lay on the ground with his eyes open.
"Master, she's an orange-tier assassin..."
“No matter how capable someone is, you can’t keep someone who doesn’t listen.” Chen Jie said, his eyes sharply fixed on Song Zhuran.
Song Zhuran knew that Chen Jie was truly angry, because she had broken the organization's rules.
Song Zhuran immediately knelt down, "Master, your disciple knows she was wrong."
Chen Jie turned around, put his hands behind his back, and said coldly, "This is the last time."
"No one can ruin my grand plan."
"Yes," Song Zhuran replied.
Song Zhuran suddenly had a premonition that if Chen Jie hadn't kept her around because she was still useful, she would have ended up like this disobedient assassin.
"Master, what should we do next?"
After a long pause, Chen Jie said, "Since it's already like this, we can only wait for news from Nanli."
Chen Jie himself was unsure of Nan Li's motives. This person had approached him on his own initiative, and cooperation without knowing the purpose was the most dangerous. He still needed to be careful.
However, that wasn't what Chen Jie was worried about at the moment.
"With Grand Tutor Zhou dead and Yu Hai missing, Pei Yanchuan and Jiang Wanning will definitely get their revenge," Chen Jie said.
"Master, don't worry. Even if they want revenge, they can't just bring their troops to rebel, can they? If that were the case, wouldn't that be exactly what we want?"
That's how it appears at the moment.
But Chen Jie always felt uneasy, as if something big was about to happen.
"Go and ensure Yu Hai's safety. If Yu Hai dies, and the Lingxiao Sect gets involved, things will become even more complicated."
Seeing Song Zhuran's evasive gaze, Chen Jie asked sternly, "What's going on?"
Song Zhuran dared not hide anything any longer and told the truth, "When I handed Yu Hai over to that person, I said that life or death was up to him, and it would be best if he died."
“Master, I was wrong. I’ll go and tell them again right now. If Yu Hai dies, no one will get away with it.”
"They will certainly be deeply implicated as well."
Chen Jie looked at Song Zhuran, his heart already set on killing her. He had initially thought that knowing Song Zhuran had other feelings for him would make her easier to control.
But Chen Jie never expected that Song Zhuran would be so obsessed with him, which made him feel a little scared and worried.
Just as Chen Jie was thinking, there was a knock on the door. "My lord, something terrible has happened."
Chen Jie opened the door and saw the person who entered was covered in blood. He had a bad feeling. "What is it?"
"Our organization's base was discovered, and then...and then we were wiped out."
"I also risked my life to escape."
Song Zhuran exclaimed in surprise, "What did you say?"
"How is this possible? The organization doesn't even have a name, it hasn't established any gangs, and it's so scattered, how could it be wiped out overnight?"
As if he had expected this, Chen Jie asked in a deep voice, "Who is it?"
“It’s the Netherworld Sect,” the man said. “The leader is a woman, who is holding a long whip and seems to be deliberately letting her subordinates go.”
"So that my subordinates can inform them of the news."
Without even thinking, Song Zhuran knew who she was talking about. "Jiang Wanning, she actually dared to do that?"
"Are you sure you didn't mishear? It's the Netherworld Sect?"
"Didn't the Netherworld Sect disappear without a trace? How could they suddenly reappear and even help Jiang Wan Ning?"
"If Jiang Wan Ning had known about the Netherworld Sect all along, why would she have waited until now to make her move?"
Chen Jie suddenly realized something, "Besides that woman, is there anyone else leading them?"
The man thought for a moment and said, "There is also an old man, who looks like a servant, about sixty years old."
"But the assassins seemed to listen to the old man more, while the old man respected the woman and protected her in every way."
“Oh, right,” the man said, “the old man had a scar on the back of both his hands.”
Chen Jie suddenly looked up.
"Master, do you know who they are? Does this Netherworld Sect really exist?"
“It’s that steward surnamed Zhao who serves Grand Tutor Zhou,” Chen Jie said. “No wonder Grand Tutor Zhou has been so frugal all these years.”
"It seems that in addition to helping those poor students, they are also secretly cultivating this force, which is the Netherworld Sect that everyone thought had disappeared."
Chen Jie suddenly realized that he had made a mistake in letting Xiao Yu end up like this.
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