After rebirth, I rejected the Regent, but he pursued me instead

Around midnight, when it was late at night and everyone was asleep, Song Qi Yan and the Netherworld Sect quietly sneaked into Yuan's mansion.

"Your Majesty, we can start now. Our brothers are all tired of squatting."

Come to think of it, once the action was changed, they had to stay with their prince for two more hours in vain.

I really can't understand why the prince, who is usually cautious, would suddenly act like this.

"You take your men to seal off Yuan's residence, and I will personally bring Yuan Ninghong out."

Following Song Qi Yan's instructions, he put on a mask and used his light skills to sneak into Yuan Ninghong's room.

"It's time to get to work, brothers."

Seeing this, Qingxuan turned and said to the group of men in black behind him.

After a few hand gestures, the men in black quickly took action.

Suddenly there was a lot of noise in the house. Yuan Ninghong, who was awakened from his dream, immediately woke up his sleeping wife and picked up the scabbard beside him.

"Oh no, someone broke in, take the child away quickly."

But Yuan Ninghong didn't know that at this moment, the people in the mansion were either injured or tied up, and they had no time to take care of him.

Yuan Ninghong had cold sweat on his forehead. He held a sword and waited for the enemy outside the door, protecting his wife and children behind him. He was in a dilemma and had no choice but to fight to the death.

A moment later, a man wearing a ghost mask broke in through the window with a sword in hand.

"You... who are you? I am an important official of the imperial court. You... you broke into my house like this. I'm afraid you are going to go against the imperial court."

Unexpectedly, the man just sneered, "The imperial court? It's nothing but a chessboard."

As he spoke, the man threw something unknown to the ground.

Just as the round ball fell, smoke rose.

"not good!"

Yuan Ninghong opened his eyes in panic and was about to run towards his wife when a figure flashed by, knocked the sword out of his hand, and with lightning speed, the sword was at Yuan Ninghong's throat.

At the same time, Mrs. Yuan and Mr. Yuan were knocked unconscious.

"Madam! Xiao'er!"

"Minister Yuan, don't worry. I just knocked out the Madam and the Young Master. If you listen to me, I can protect the lives of your entire family. It depends on whether you obey or not."

Hearing this, Yuan Ninghong frowned. Given the current situation, he was afraid he would have no choice but to obey.

"Young Master, all the people in the mansion have been taken care of."

Qing Xuan clenched his fist and walked to Song Qi Yan, waiting for Song Qi Yan's order.

"Okay, take these people to the courtyard first and wait for my decision."

"Yes!"

In the end, Yuan Ninghong was tied up and taken away.

The moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and the house seemed especially quiet without the noise just now.

It was this chilling silence that made Yuan Ninghong feel even more uneasy.

Young Master? Ghost Mask? Could it be that they are...

Just as he was hesitating, the cloth covering his face was torn off. He saw his pupils were filled with shock and his heart trembled.

It was not because all the people in the mansion, big and small, were held hostage, but because of the people behind them that made Yuan Ninghong afraid.

They are the legendary Netherworld Sect!

Yuan Ninghong looked in panic at the group of people standing in his courtyard in an orderly manner, wearing uniform dark clothes and wearing masks that looked like evil spirits. The confusion on their faces gradually turned into fear.

Long before, he had heard a rumor circulating in the court that was not to be spread outside.

Anyone chosen by the Netherworld Sect will either be promoted and become rich, or die without a burial place.

No one knows whether it is good or evil.

What’s even more bizarre is that the whereabouts of the Netherworld Sect are extremely mysterious. Even the imperial court is unable to capture them or even discover any relevant information about them.

Therefore, only officials who have experienced it personally know whether this rumor is true or not.

If he had not seen with his own eyes this group of evil spirits wearing masks in the moonlight, he would not have believed it.

But why did the Netherworld Sect choose him?

He was a man of integrity. Could it be that he had violated their interests? Or was he removed by some high-ranking official?

Yuan Ninghong had no way of knowing, nor did he dare to think about it. He could only wait for the master of that group of evil spirits to decide his fate.

At this time, another man in black walked out from the group of men in black.

The man had his hair tied up, a slender figure, and an extraordinary bearing. He seemed to be walking on ice, which was chilling.

Looking closer, it turned out to be the man who had just knocked him down.

His intuition told him that the man was the king of evil spirits.

Or it could be the "King of Hell" from hell who takes his life.

"What are you going to do?"

"It's very simple."

Song Qi Yan curled the corners of his mouth, then threw a few scrolls in front of Yuan Ninghong.

"These are the heinous crimes that Shangshu Ling Fang Li has committed over the years. Tomorrow you will take these to report him. After the matter is done, you will be promoted to the new Shangshu Ling. As for whether the Fang family will retaliate against you, we in the Netherworld Sect will handle it for you."

"what?"

Yuan Ninghong looked at the unpredictable man in front of him in astonishment.

"Why are you helping me? Why did you come here today just for this?"

Hearing this, the man laughed a few times, then looked down at Yuan Ninghong condescendingly.

Even through the mask, Yuan Ninghong could feel the man's ambition and arrogance.

"Business is a give and take business. Since I helped you, you must give me what I want."

"thing?"

He was just an assistant minister who had worked for the Shangshu Ling for a few years, and he really couldn't think of what he could give to the man in front of him.

Wealth? Power?

Since this man could break into Yuan's mansion easily and fearlessly, he must possess all these.

Yuan Ninghong was really puzzled.

"what do you want?"

"loyalty."

The man took out a contract from his sleeve and handed it to Yuan Ninghong.

"I want you to be loyal to me. You can do whatever you want in the court, but if I call you, you must come. This is the loyalty I want."

"Loyal to you? Are you asking me to betray the court and the emperor?!"

"That's if you understand it that way."

"No, you can kill me or chop me up as you like! I, Yuan Ninghong, may be just a small official, but I have vowed to defend the emperor's kingdom to the death since the moment I entered the court. How can I obey a man who I don't even know will go against the court in the future just for the sake of promotion?"

"Haha, Minister Yuan is righteous."

The man clapped his hands and smiled, then immediately turned cold and said to his subordinates beside him, "Come here, feed the Madam and the Young Master the Puppet Pill."

"Yes!"

Suddenly, Yuan Ninghong's pupils were in panic, "How dare you!"

"Do you think I dare? I dare to barge into the mansion without hesitation, even if I have to kill everyone in the mansion. Do you think I don't dare?"

At this time, the man in black came to report, "Master, Madam Yuan and Master have both swallowed the pills."

"you………"

Yuan Ninghong gritted his teeth and looked at the masked man in front of him.

He really hated himself for being powerless. He worked hard as a court official all his life, but he didn't even have the ability to protect his wife and children.

"Yuan Ninghong, I don't give you much time to consider. The antidote to the Puppet Pill is only in my Netherworld Sect. If you don't agree, I can let you go. But if your wife and children stop taking the medicine in three months, they will die suddenly. And I will only give you this one chance, and I won't wait any longer."

Hearing this, Yuan Ninghong's face became more solemn and he fell into deep thought.

It was as if he had no choice and everything was set in stone...

But at this moment, a man hiding among the bound servants stabbed Song Qi Yan with a knife.

"Master, be careful!"

Qing Xuan immediately went to meet him, but the man was agile and sturdy, and it was obvious that he was a martial artist. In addition, he was only one step away from Song Qiyan, so he could not catch up...

"Little Lord!"

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