The little girl's helpless cries echoed throughout the hall, causing everyone to panic.
It wasn't the Imperial Concubine who killed the Crown Prince... it was the Empress?
How could that be? How could a mother harm her own son?
"No, it wasn't me!" In the oppressive silence, the Empress turned around, her venomous gaze once again locking onto her daughter: "Yan'er, come here quickly, don't let the monster control you!"
The little girl unconsciously recalled the terrifying sight of the Empress scolding and grabbing her, and her small body suddenly shrank back, crying even harder.
"My mother wanted to kill me because I was wearing my brother's clothes. She made a mistake!"
The little girl cried out loudly, her hand gripping Si Jin's clothes even tighter: "Immortal brother, I don't want to die, save me, save brother, waaaaah."
The young girl is too attached to Si Jin and too hostile towards the Empress.
This led the civil and military officials to believe that she was being controlled by demonic power, and they even summoned the examiner from the Changning Division to witness it.
Seeing the inspectors surround the girl, the Empress panicked and instinctively looked at Zhu Yan.
Zhu Yan's eyes darkened slightly, showing no sign of worry, which reassured the Empress.
It's alright. Zhu Yan is now the leader of Ten Thousand Demon Mountain. As long as he's willing to help, she'll definitely be able to defeat Si Jin today.
Soon, the examiner stood up to report. The Empress suppressed her excitement and pitifully hugged the child in her arms, waiting for the examiner to announce the news so that she could immediately instigate the Emperor to arrest Si Jin.
In this way, not only can we obtain the demon's core, but we can also vent our anger and eliminate future troubles.
Finally, the examiner spoke: "Your Majesty, the little princess shows no signs of being controlled by a demon, but... the little princess seems to be... a half-demon."
"You and Her Majesty the Empress are both human, this..."
At this point, the inspector stopped talking, leaving it at that and saying that he had made his point clear.
Royal matters are best left unsaid.
After the conversation ended, the spacious council hall fell into an eerie silence once again.
The old emperor's face turned ashen as he thought: the empress had betrayed him, and he had raised someone else's child for so many years.
The Empress's face turned deathly pale as she thought: How could this be? Wasn't Zhu Yan helping her? Could it be that Zhu Yan doesn't want her anymore?
Zhu Yan's face turned pale as he thought: He had clearly intervened with magic, so how could the inspector still detect it? What force was resisting him?
In silence, everyone harbored their own secrets, except for Si Jin, who smiled and slowly stepped forward, casually releasing a stream of vermilion demonic energy that entered the Crown Prince's brow: "Your Majesty."
He said, "The demonic poison in the Crown Prince's body is exactly the same as the demon that has been killing people indiscriminately in the capital recently. Since Your Majesty the Empress can have a child with a demon and use a demon to harm the Crown Prince, then harming the common people is no problem for you, is it?"
"You're talking nonsense!" Countless suspicious gazes fell upon her, and the Empress was nearly driven mad by their stares: "I would never harm my own son! I wouldn't!"
But before she could finish speaking, the little boy in her arms slowly opened his eyes, and his pupils contracted the instant he saw the empress.
She immediately sprang up from him, terrified, and hid behind a pillar, trembling all over: "Mother, don't kill me, don't kill me!"
The children's fears were so real; Changning Division's tests could not have been wrong.
The old emperor's face turned white then black, then black then white again. He almost couldn't accept this sudden change and vomited blood.
But she held back and slammed her fist on the table, roaring, "Send down the order: The Empress is incompetent and immoral, has illicit relations with a demon, has confused the royal bloodline, slaughtered the people, harmed her offspring, and committed all kinds of evil!"
"Take him to the execution ground and execute him by slow slicing in public to appease the people!"
He was angry, angry that Shao Linyuan had imprisoned him, angry that the Empress had betrayed him, and even angrier that he had no one to carry on his legacy!
Over the years, the Empress has harmed almost all the children in the harem, leaving virtually no boys.
The crown prince was his only hope, but now he was suddenly told that the crown prince was born to the empress and a demon.
He had nothing, absolutely nothing!
Finally, "Pfft—"
The old emperor lost his balance, spat out a mouthful of blood, his eyes rolled back, he swayed for a moment, and then collapsed to the ground.
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