This Joint Trial stirred up enormous controversy in the Celestial Court.
Judging from the only video evidence, Shi Zhongqing should have been the one executed by death penalty, yet Wu Qing was the one executed instead. It was truly baffling.
Many gods, especially the upper ranks of the Star God Palace, were investigating what had caused such a verdict.
Joint Trials had always been impartial, but if injustice appeared, it would amount to breaking the rules.
Everyone had previously competed within the rules. If the rules had gone wrong, many strategies laid down before would have to be overturned, or they would suffer heavy losses.
Despite so many people studying the matter from every angle, none could uncover the real reason why the six Great Emperors had ruled this way. This made them wary of Shi Zhongqing. Before the truth was uncovered, likely no one would dare initiate another Joint Trial against Shi Zhongqing.
In a certain star system beyond the Celestial Court, on a planet where birds sang and flowers bloomed.
"Chief, Wu Qing's death was far too strange. There is an eighty or ninety percent chance that the Celestial Court discovered his true identity and punished him accordingly." A man in red came to the lakeside and spoke to the person wearing a bamboo hat, who sat fishing atop a large rock by the lake.
"After so many years of effort, Wu Qing finally climbed to that position, only half a step away from becoming a Great God Official. Who would have thought he would stumble because of Lin Shen?" A blue-robed man on the other side said bitterly. "If not for Lin Shen, Wu Qing would never have reached this point. That fellow ruined our grand plans. No matter what, we cannot let him go. Chief, I