Ji Yunhuang first invited Grand Marshal Hu to get closer to the coffin. âGrand Marshal Hu please take a look. Was this how your daughter looked when you found her dead?â
Grand Marshal Hu had already taken a good look earlier, so he nodded. âYes!â
His daughterâs eyes were wide open, her lips slightly parted. There was a dagger embedded in her chest at the location of her heart.
Ji Yunhao coldly interrupted, âThe dagger in Diechangâs heart must have been what took her life. This dagger looks very similar to the ones Ning Xuemo ownedâŚâ
Ji Yunhuang ignored him as he called for the coroner who was here. âAutopsy!â
That coroner could be said to be a master of his field. His movements were deft and quick. He first examined the corpseâs appearance in detail before he started doing more invasive examinationsâŚ
He first pulled out the dagger and examined the wound before inspecting the dagger in his hand. âThereâs not much blood on this dagger. Furthermore, the flesh around the wound is dark reddishâŚâ
He spouted a string of analyses before making a final conclusion. âFrom the aforementioned points, we can tell that this dagger was stabbed into the deceasedâs heart after her death. This was not the weapon that killed the deceasedâŚâ
Like a stone thrown into a calm pond, the coronerâs final words caused noticeable ripples to form. The faces of all the people in the Palace changed.
Grand Marshal Huâs fists tightened. He had also taken a look at the wound, so he could confirm the coronerâs wordsâŚ
âSince this dagger did not inflict the killing blow, then what was the cause of her death?â Grand Marshal Huâs tone sounded like an iceberg.
The coroner continued examining for a while. After pondering for a moment, his finger suddenly felt Hu Diechangâs hairline. Carefully examining through touch, his eyes suddenly lit up. âItâs here!â
Grand Marshal Hu looked closely. The coroner pinpointed a location on the scalp hidden by the hair. Grand Marshal Hu failed to notice anything suspicious.
âGrand Marshal Hu, please send some psychokinesis energy here, just enough to be equivalent to a rank 3.â The coroner respectfully asked..
Although Grand Marshal Hu felt doubtful, he followed the coronerâs instructions and placed his hand on his daughterâs hairlineâŚ
After a moment, a three-coloured hair strand slowly emerged from Hu Diechangâs hairline due to Grand Marshall Huâs psychokinesis energy. He pulled out that strand of hairâŚ
The blood-stained strand of hair measured to be about 30 centimeters long. In Grand Marshal Huâs palm, it looked very startling to everyone. And from the place where that hidden weapon had been pulled out from, blood started to seep outâŚ
The coroner did not need to say any words of explanation. Everyone understood that this was the murder weapon.
Unexpectedly this soft-looking hair strand could be used to kill someone!
This hair strand had penetrated nearly 30 centimeters deep into her head, directly damaging her brain without being visible from the outside.
What a brilliant yet insidious way to kill someone!
It seems like the killer was not only an expert cultivator in psychokinesis but also someone who put careful thought into mattersâŚ
Ji Yunhuang looked at Emperor Le Xuan. âImperial Father, this is the weapon that was used to kill Hu Diechang! To be able to commit such an act this requires two conditions to be fulfilled; one, the killer is an expert in psychokinesis and two, the killer had to be close to Hu Diechang in order to have been able to insert this weapon in her hairline. And Ning Xuemo has no psychokinesis at all. This is something everyone knows. Hence, how can she be a suspect?â
Emperor Le Xuan had not said anything when Ji Yunhao humphed. âThis can only prove that she did not personally kill Diechang. However, couldnât she have sent an expert over to assassinate Diechang? After all, Diechang didnât have any grievances or enmity with anyone except Ning Xuemo⌠Furthermore, Ning Xuemo had just obtained my two thousand taels of gold. She could have used it to hire an assassinâŚâ
Many people could not help but agree with him. It was certainly possible for Ning Xuemo to have gotten outside help.
Ji Yunhuang lightly laughed. âWhat Sixth Brother has said is not impossible. However, you seem to have forgotten something. To be able to hire this kind of high-level assassin requires two conditions to be metâŚâ
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