As soon as the order was given, A young man was dragged in front of the Emperor's throne. The man looked ragged and bruised clear signs of being imprisoned and tortured.
The man being dragged immediately started begging for mercy as soon as presented before the emperor.
"I Feng ling am willing to speak only the truth , please show mercy on me."
The crown prince Shen Tao 's voice resounded in the air " My dear Elder brother, will you please stand still for a while, your plea will also be heard, Don't drive yourself crazy ". While looking at Shen Zui with concern, who had been pacing along the walls of Imperial Court since the trial started.
Meanwhile Shen Zui was still marvelling at the luxurious interior of the Imperial Court when he heard it, He was a bit startled by the sudden call and also puzzled as to whom was Shen Tao speaking to, but noticing all the eyes were on him he understood and moved next to the chair of Minister Zhao.
With the hindrance settled every one again shifted its focus to the trial. The Head of Law Enforcement hall Luo Chen officially started the trial. "Speak Feng Ling"
Feng ling reverberated the events of the Imperial Banquet " The First Prince had a verbal conflict with young master Bei Gong during the banquet in which he lost and was. Mocked till the banquet's end. I was a lowly alchemist in the Bei household, The First Prince offered me a transcendent high tier furnace and gave me a poison that can block meridians thus blocking one's cultivation to feed the young master Bei Gong.
Swayed by my desires , I cave in to his highness's demand and fed the poison to young master Bei Gong in his pills. Which blocked his cultivation, unaware of that young master Bei Gong still tried to cultivate but due to applying too much force his meridians ruptured and he went into Qi deviation and then he was killed by MinisterBei himself to stop his rampage. "
" That's enough ! First Prince Shen Zui do want to say anything in defence? " Minister Luo inquired.
"I Shen Zui have no memory of such a crime, I dare not commit such crimes to tarnish the royal family " he was right in his own sense. As he didn't commit any crime of such sort.
" You dare still defy to acknowledge your sin"
Said the left minister Bei Yan fuming with rage. " I have to request the emperor to conduct soul search on the first prince, and I am willing to take full responsibility for my..."
" You know that conducting a soul search may also damage your soul and also my son's soul if mishandled ." emperor's voice cut through his words.
" I fully know the consequences I will try my best to keep it safe ." said Bei Yan Slightly bowing his head.
" You have my permission" said the emperor.
"Father I have one condition , my memories should be seen by all to prove my innocence". Said Shen zui who was watching and clearly listening to the conversation between the Emperor and the short tempered man, fearing for his safety he put forward his demand.
"You are in no position to negotiate yet You still dare to put forward a demand".Bei Yan almost lunged at Shen Zui but froze in terror and immediately fell to his knees. He turned towards the emperor while kneeling on the floor " please forgive my insolent actions my majesty. I was wrong and hasty with my actions, grief has clouded my mind".
Emperor said "even though your son died and you are the left minister but you should not forget that the Shen Zui is my son and your Prince are you forgetting your place Bei Yan?"
A Powerful might started crushing upon Bei Yan he stuttered out with the trembling voice " I_I d_da_dare not your majesty." Instantly the pressure faded and Bei Yan rose to his feet and thanked the emperor for sparing him.
So this guy is that Bei gong's father and also the left minister quite a powerful figure indeed Shen Zui thought about the short tempered middle age man.
"Bring in the embodiment mirror" ordered the emperor and the head eunuch immediately rushed out hearing the order soon the mirror was brought in it was in oval shape and very luxuriously decorated.
Bei Yan grabbed the mirror and looked at the emperor the emperor nodded and said" you may proceed with caution". Bei Yan came to Shen Zui and said "your highness please lower down your head so I can perform the soul search". Shen zui lowered himself a little noticing for the first time how tall he was Bei Yan Placed two fingers squarely at his forehead while channeling energy towards the embodiment mirror soon some memories started playing clearly on the mirror in fast motion after sometime it ended then they replayed again but this time in a little less speed then it ended once more and then replayed once again. Shen Zui knew the system was hiding the memories of his past life so he wasn't shocked at his incomplete memories.
"how can this be possible" the emperor screamed out, other ministers also joined in " Minister Bei what nonsense is this". "Bei Yan what are you doing".
Shen Tao also joined the commotion " what is the meaning of this action minister Bei". Bei Yan who had replayed the memories the third time was completely baffled The emperor's voice broke through the noise "explain yourself Bei Yan".
"your majesty I didn't do any trick these are all of the first prince's memories the rest is like wiped out please allow me to check the memories of this alchemist".
*you may proceed as you want Bei Yan walked up to the alchemist placed his fingers squarely on his forehead started and started channelling energy into it, displaying the alchemist's memories on the embodiment mirror his first memories as a little child started playing on the mirror fast forwarding to him growing up as a teenager and theen again fast forwarding to his debut as an alchemist and then fast forwarding to his adulthood it was all moving so fast that Shen Zui could hardly see a thing or two and then the memories suddenly slowed down it clearly showed the alchemist talking to him he was saying " I feng ling am a loyal alchemist of Bei family your highness, I will not commit treason". The other person namely the original Shen zui was now angry he spoke "You dare defy me. It's for your own good just take the transcendent high tier dragon subduing furnace and feed this soul destroying powder to that arrogant fool and if do not follow my orders or try to report me you wouldn't be able to face the consequences".
Feng ling visibly intimidated agreed hesitantly and left. And then the memories stopped. "See your majesty this clear evidence" Minister Bei screamed out. "Hall Master Luo Chen announce the verdict" ordered the emperor luo Chen started speaking in loud tone that filled the whole imperial Court "Since clear evidence of the crime of first Prince Shen zui has obtained and his own memories are clearly tampered with the imperial Court decides to punish him with exile to the mortal world and stripped of his title as the first Prince of Tianshen empire and as for the alchemist feng lung he is to be executed as an acomplice".
"Luo Chen I did like you to make certain changes to the verdict, exile my son for only a hundred years and let him retain the title of the first Prince. As for the alchemist only destroy his cultivation and give him the dragon subduing furnace he will serve under Shen zui for the rest of his life." Emperor added with authoritative voice. Luo Chen immediately complied and changed the verdict. The alchemist face that had lost all colour regained some redness after hearing the emperor's version of the verdict.
Meanwhile Shen zui was still spacing out looking at the system screen quest completed simply tap the system screen to claim the reward.