"You said that Prince Zhan planned all this. What evidence do you have?" Emperor Yong asked in a deep voice.
The Imperial Master said calmly:
"His Royal Highness Prince Zhan has been using the power of the Imperial City Administration to support folk sorcerers who practice evil magic. These people have come into conflict with my disciples. I have been pretending to be in seclusion and secretly tracking them down. This investigation has led me to discover that His Royal Highness Prince Zhan attacked the Ninth Prince. If Your Majesty does not believe me, feel free to have someone search the Imperial City Administration and Prince Zhan's mansion. We will definitely find evidence."
After hearing this, Emperor Yong remained silent for a long time.
After a while, he seemed to come back to his senses and pointed at the kneeling girl and said, "Since it is Xiao Jiu'er inside her, why doesn't Xiao Jiu'er have any reaction when she sees me?"
The Imperial Master looked at the girl with a compassionate expression:
"When I realized the Ninth Prince was trapped in the body of the Second Miss of the Jiang Family, I immediately sent people to rescue him. However, upon rescuing him, I discovered that he was missing one soul and two spirits. This must be because Prince Zhan's men realized that I had discovered their conspiracy. In order to prevent the Ninth Prince from appealing to the Emperor, they used evil magic to detain his missing soul and two spirits."
Emperor Yong's face was gloomy. "What will happen if one soul and two spirits are missing?"
"As the emperor has seen, he will become stupid, dull and unconscious, unable to respond or speak." The imperial preceptor bowed.
Emperor Yong looked at the girl for a long time with half belief and half doubt. At this time, a eunuch came in to report that Prince Zhan and the Ninth Prince had already gone outside.
After pondering for a while, Emperor Yong looked at the Imperial Master and said:
"Master, there is no evidence for what you said. How can I believe you?"
He is the emperor, not a fool.
The Imperial Master said that the Ninth Prince's soul resided in this girl's body, but now she was like a fool, unable to speak and prove herself to him.
Then how could he be sure that this girl was really Xiao Jiuer?
He would not believe such an absurd and bizarre thing even if the person who said it was the imperial teacher.
The Imperial Master smiled and said:
"This young girl cannot prove this, but as long as the criminal impersonating the Ninth Prince is around, I have a way to reveal her. Then the Emperor will understand that what I say is true."
Emperor Yong was silent for a long time, then he instructed the eunuch:
"Let the Imperial Guards come in first."
The eunuch hurried out to pass on the message, and soon the well-trained imperial guards formed two teams in the imperial study and stood guard beside Emperor Yong.
Emperor Yong then ordered the eunuchs to bring in Prince Zhan and the Ninth Prince.
When Jiang Xiancao walked into the imperial study and saw the scene inside, the bald man in white clothes who looked handsome but inexplicably didn't look like a good guy, and "Jiang Xiancao" who was kneeling on the ground with his head down, she knew that the conspiracy had been exposed.
Before this, she had worried for a long time about what to do if her identity was exposed.
But when it really came to this moment, she felt calm instead of panicking.
The only thing that made her feel sorry was that she still hadn't found out where her mother was.
But the unexpected has already happened, and there is no point in thinking about anything else except facing it calmly and finding ways to deal with it.
Having been the Ninth Prince for some time, she had already developed the courage to remain calm in the face of danger.
She didn't look away and saluted Emperor Yong together with Shen Yubai who was traveling with her.
Emperor Yong said, "No need to be polite," and looked at the Imperial Preceptor, "Since you doubt the Ninth Prince's identity, then please prove to me that you are right!"
Only then did Jiang Xiancao realize that the white-robed monk was the imperial teacher of Dasheng, Zen Master Huiming.
Huiming walked calmly to Jiang Xiancao. The moment he looked into her eyes, a faint light flashed in his eyes.
Jiang Xiancao was in a trance for a moment, and then heard him whisper:
"How could a beautiful woman like you become a thief? I'm sorry, benefactor."
The next moment, Huiming quickly twisted the Buddhist beads with his fingers and chanted a mantra that Jiang Xiancao could not understand.
Her soul instantly shook and her body trembled uncontrollably.
Emperor Yong's eyes darkened when he saw her empty expression and the abnormal convulsions in her body.
On the other hand, Shen Yubai, who was sitting in a wheelchair, watched the scene very calmly.
Huiming saw that Jiang Xiancao's soul was already unstable, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Although those idiots in Tianming Pavilion often fail to do their job well, this time, they really caught Prince Zhan and this imposter off guard.
Even though Shen Yubai can still sit still now, when he lets the soul in this body reveal the shadow of its original body, the furious Emperor Yong will definitely take back the power granted to Shen Yubai, and the era when Shen Yubai leads the Imperial City Bureau to intimidate the royal family and officials will be over!
Huiming quickened the pace of his chanting. Seeing that the Ninth Prince's body was about to fall to the ground, Jiang Xiancao's soul was about to leave his body, and the shadow of his original form would appear in the air.
The blood jade on Chen Yubai's waist lit up at this moment.
He smiled and gently ran his fingers over the blood jade.
The intense discomfort in Jiang Xiancao's soul faded away at this moment. She recovered and stood up straight.
No matter how hard Huiming chanted the mantra, she no longer felt any discomfort.
Huiming stopped, and a hint of gloom appeared in his originally clear eyes.
Emperor Yong asked:
"Grand Master, you said you had a way to make the spirit that occupied the Ninth Prince's body show signs of something, so I could see with my own eyes that she wasn't the prince. But apart from her body trembling for a moment just now, why didn't I see anything?"
Huiming paused and cast a gloomy look at Shen Yubai.
Chen Yubai smiled faintly and said, "Master Imperial Master, why are you looking at me like that? I didn't disturb you when you were chanting a spell just now."
Huiming said coldly:
"Your Highness did not interrupt me, but you used the blood jade you wore on your waist to disrupt my spell, thus protecting the soul of this female donor."
As he said this, he turned around and bowed to Emperor Yong and asked:
"Your Majesty, please allow me to remove the jade pendant from Prince Zhan's waist!"
Emperor Yong frowned, staring at the calm Shen Yubai, "Thirteenth brother, I see you've been wearing this blood jade for a long time. What exactly is it?"
Chen Yubai smiled and said, "My Royal Highness, this is just an ordinary piece of blood jade. I have been wearing it because I like its color. Since the Imperial Master also likes it and wants to take it for his appreciation, I will reluctantly part with it."
After saying that, without Huiming having to do anything, he readily untied the jade pendant from his waist and handed it to Huiming.
"National Master, please."
Huiming was somewhat surprised and suspicious when he saw Chen Yubai's frank attitude.
But he couldn't have been wrong. When he was chanting the spell just now, he felt a strange force interfering. When he opened his eyes, he saw the red light shining on the blood jade.
There must be something mysterious about this thing!
He reached out and took the blood jade, untied the Buddhist beads on his right wrist and wrapped them around it in a full circle.
The blood jade emitted a strange red light that seemed to be able to captivate people, but the Buddhist beads absorbed all the light, making it dim and lifeless.
Huiming raised a confident smile and said loudly:
"This female donor's amulet has been broken. I will recite the incantation again, and her spirit will surely reveal its true form before the Emperor. Does His Highness Prince Zhan have anything else to say?"
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