In full view of everyone, they had all seen Xia Chujian fire several shots at Tantai Zijun, hitting vital areas.
Then, again before everyone's eyes, she had cut off Tantai Zijun's head!
The Chief Imperial Physician said calmly, "By the time Marshal Xia fired her gun, Your Majesty was already dead."
"So Marshal Xia did not personally commit regicide."
Xia Chujian: "..."
Don't put it like that!
She really had killed her—she swore!
Of course, this "killed" was not that kind of "killed."
Thinking of the Golden Other Shore Flower in her Consciousness Domain, Xia Chujian felt inexplicably guilty...
It seemed, perhaps, maybe, possibly, that her Golden Other Shore Flower Phantom had drained Tantai Zijun's Mental Strength dry...
So Tantai Zijun had indeed died of Mental Strength depletion, but she had also indeed died at Xia Chujian's hands.
It was just that Xia Chujian had no idea how to explain it right now.
At the time, it had seemed that only she could see that Golden Other Shore Flower Phantom?
She had not even known that Tantai Zijun had seen it before she died.
Tantai Zijun had been able to see it because her Consciousness Domain had been closely connected to that Dark Purple Abyss Soul Crystal.
Everything the Abyss Soul Crystal perceived could also be perceived by Tantai Zijun.
But there was no way to investigate that now.
Because Tantai Zijun could no longer speak.
Sure enough, only the dead could truly keep secrets.
Xia Chujian's eyes flickered, and she swallowed the words that had reached her lips.
She merely said calmly, "Then, Imperial Physician, how did Tantai Zijun's Mental Strength become depleted?"
The Chief Imperial Physician said calmly, "Before Your Majesty died, she greatly increased her superpower output."
"So many Imperial Guards were present here. They should all