Chapter 531: Shocking Change
In a panic, Xiao Zirui shouted at the Imperial Master:
"Imperial Master! Why don't you tell father the truth? Didn't you personally confirm that the salute was tampered with by the Regent?"
Everyone's eyes immediately turned to the National Master Cang Qi.
Xiao Zirui looked at him anxiously, wanting him to clarify for him as soon as possible.
But Cang Qi's face changed, and he swung his whisk angrily:
"Your Highness Prince Rui, please stop talking nonsense! I haven't come to you to settle the score with you for plotting against me yet!"
Xiao Zirui didn't expect him to say that, he widened his eyes and said anxiously:
"National Master, what do you mean by this! When did I plot against you? It was clearly..."
He suddenly stopped talking in the middle of his words, his face stiffened and he dared not continue.
The Imperial Preceptor once visited Prince Rui's mansion at night to have a secret talk with him, discussing how to tamper with the salutes at the New Year's ceremony and put the blame on the Regent. Of course, he didn't dare to bring up such a thing.
But the idea was clearly proposed by the Imperial Master, and it was the Imperial Master himself who tampered with the salute!
However, he didn't expect that the Imperial Master would turn against him and deny it, and even turned the tables and accused him of plotting against him. Xiao Zirui almost let the cat out of the bag in a panic.
He quickly calmed himself down and looked at the Imperial Master, trying to clear up the misunderstanding:
"Did the Imperial Master make a mistake? Why would I plot against you? It is simply not true!"
Cang Qi snorted coldly and said angrily:
"You, the Rui Palace, colluded with the Nether Valley to plot against me, using the ghost cultivators to possess my body and controlling the channel to frame the Regent!"
"Fortunately, I... found a way to take down that evil cultivator and free him from his control! Now, do you still want me to join you in slandering the Regent? No way!"
After the Imperial Master said this, Xiao Zirui became anxious, annoyed and confused, while the others were even more shocked, and the scene almost exploded.
The emperor looked at the imperial teacher in doubt:
"Master Imperial Master, are you telling the truth? What is this ghost cultivator… What does Netherworld Valley mean?"
The Imperial Master glared at Xiao Zirui fiercely, then stepped forward and bowed to the Emperor, saying:
"Your Majesty, you don't know that the Nether Valley is a sect of the Xuanmen Sect, and they practice the method of forming a contract between human cultivators and ghost cultivators."
"When disciples of the Nether Valley have cultivated to a certain level, they can summon the spiritually cultivated ghosts of the underworld and try to make a contract with them, so that they can serve them."
At this point, Cang Qi took out a talisman and held it between two fingers, while with the other hand he made hand gestures and muttered something.
After a moment, a puff of green smoke suddenly emerged from the talisman, and a blurry figure gradually gathered, with its fangs and claws bared and a ferocious face, clearly a fierce ghost!
Everyone was so frightened that they gasped and stepped back. Fortunately, the lower body of the evil spirit did not come out of the talisman completely. It seemed as if it was restrained by something and was firmly sucked inside, and could only struggle weakly.
Cang Qi looked at the emperor and said righteously:
"Your Majesty, I was possessed by this evil spirit a few days ago. The evil spirit controlled me to visit Prince Rui's mansion at night. I heard with my own ears that Prince Rui was discussing with the evil spirit to tamper with the salute and frame the regent for treason and regicide, in order to get rid of him in one fell swoop!"
The emperor was furious:
"How could such a thing happen! Xiao Zirui, you, you are simply..."
He was so angry that he almost choked. He was speechless for a while and his body was shaking.
Xiao Changheng supported the emperor and patted his back gently. His cold face showed a bit of worry. He opened his mouth but said nothing in the end.
Xiao Zirui looked flustered, gritting his teeth and defending himself:
"This is sheer nonsense! I am not a cultivator. I have never even heard of the Nether Valley. How could I possibly collude with them and have the ability to plot against the Imperial Master?"
"You can't just catch a ghost and seal it in a talisman and then make up a story to frame me!"
The Imperial Preceptor snorted coldly and was about to speak when suddenly a slender figure rushed over and knelt before the Emperor.
"Your Majesty, please do not listen to others framing His Royal Highness Prince Rui. His Royal Highness is innocent! I have evidence!"
The emperor looked carefully and saw that the person rushing over was the new Princess Rui, Su Yurou.
He suppressed his anger and said with a cold expression:
"Princess Rui, what evidence do you have?"
Su Yurou quickly stood up and stepped forward, reaching her hand into her sleeve as if to take something, and said:
"Your Majesty, please look, this is exactly it..."
Cang Qi's expression changed when he saw Su Yurou's actions:
"Your Majesty, be careful! Don't let her get close!"
But it was too late.
Su Yurou had already walked in front of the emperor, and her expression suddenly became ferocious!
Suddenly, a thick black gas emerged from her body, and a human figure appeared faintly in the black gas, rushing straight towards the emperor!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
