616: Chapter 616 Isn't this a bit too arrogant?

"Gulp." Zhou Yan swallowed nervously.

Good grief, two of the three people on the judgment bench are boss-level entities; this isn't what we agreed upon, is it?

Zhou Yan didn't understand the mechanisms of this tribunal very well; after all, most of his energy had been spent in the Southern Desert and returning to the Qingxu Grotto-Heaven.

Originally, looking at Qingxuan's report, it said things were stable, and he thought it was truly secure. Who could have imagined it would turn out like this?

Oh no, oh no, could it be that the flag I just set has taken effect?

"Your Excellency Ming Wang."

Secretary Wang saw that Isaac had already entered, yet Zhou Yan was still dazed, so he carefully reminded him from the side.

"Ah, has it started?"

"No, I am reminding you to sit down."

At Secretary Wang's signal, Zhou Yan saw a chair behind him that had appeared at some unknown time, and he hurriedly transmitted his voice.

Divine Sense transmission: "Is this too arrogant?"

"Are you being too arrogant? This is a tribunal, do you think this is child's play!"

Before Secretary Wang could speak, the opposing defense attorney snapped.

At this moment, Isaac just kept his eyes closed and said nothing, while his defense attorney had a ferocious look on his face—a textbook villain's mug.

"Opposing counsel, I think you haven't understood one thing."

"Kong Xuan is a King recognized by the Truth Cult Council, and your School of Physics' Isaac is the criminal this time. As an attending King, she has the qualifications and should be seated."

"Hmph, just because you say so?"

"Not to mention that Tang Pu violated procedure by forcibly reporting it without permission, did she even complete her mission?"

"Her mission was Gongsun Heng's conspiracy. Not only was it inherently non-compliant, but she didn't even complete the mission. By rights, her title as King should be stripped!"

As soon as the lawyer finished speaking, the presiding judge sitting in the middle gave a response.

"The opposing counsel's reasoning is sound. Kong Xuan, you did not enter the King system through proper channels in the first place. Your cultivation is not up to standard, and your assessment is not up to standard. Now, what else do you have to say?"

A massive amount of mana pressed down toward the two of them. The judge made a move to remove Kong Xuan's chair, and at the same time, that force was not just targeting the chair.

Looking at Secretary Wang's bitter expression, Zhou Yan frowned. Clearly, this judge wasn't even pretending anymore; the bias was displayed thoroughly from the very beginning.

However, it was precisely because of this pressure that Zhou Yan confirmed one thing.

"Hmph, noisy!"

Following Zhou Yan's low shout, the mana that was about to touch them collapsed at the first contact. The mana backlash dealt the judge a heavy blow, and his face instantly flushed red.

"Presumptuous!"

"You are the one being presumptuous!"

The judge stood up, slapped the table, and was about to point his finger at Zhou Yan, but a step ahead of him was Lord Canglan's Body Integration Stage Aura.

The judge instantly felt like he had fallen into an ice cave, collapsing back into his chair, unable to catch his breath under the pressure of this Aura.

"Body... Body Integration Stage!"

It wasn't just the judge; the vast majority of people in the venue were startled by this presence.

As for why it was only the vast majority, naturally, there were still those at the Nascent Soul Stage and below. They only felt that this Aura was very strong, but they didn't know where the strength lay.

As for the few words the judge muttered, they had already been washed away by Zhou Yan's Aura, and they couldn't hear them at all.

After doing all this, under the gaze of the entire venue, Zhou Yan leaned back in his chair in a very arrogant posture and rested his legs on the small table in front of him.

"I thought you were how strong; it turns out you're just a low-level Cultivator."

"By rights, a Cultivator of your level has no reason to question me groundlessly and pin labels on me, right?"

After saying this, Zhou Yan flicked a linqin leaf held between his fingertips toward the judgment bench, embedding it firmly into the table of the judge's main seat.

This scene made the judge's face turn even uglier, thinking Kong Xuan had suddenly snapped and wanted to kill him. After determining that the object wasn't aimed at him, he breathed a sigh of relief, then pointed tremblingly at Zhou Yan again.

"You... you lunatic, you actually dare to make a move in the tribunal! Someone, take her down!"

Watching the guards arrive one after another, Zhou Yan was not afraid at all.

He had indeed been scared by the two boss health bars just a moment ago, but since the other party had made the first move, he had already unlocked their panel.

Looking left and right, they were merely at the Middle Stage of the Soul Transformation, and now he finally understood what Qingxuan meant by "stable."

"Look at the Golden Leaf in front of you. This is something left behind by Li Heng—no, it should be Gongsun Heng—before he revealed his true self."

"At that time, due to a technical adjustment, I was assigned to another mission, so my assessment was only bound to that one mission."

"Before this, the other party hadn't even had time to carry out that terrorist attack, and I had already completed that mission before then. You are welcome to verify it."

Although the judge was angry, he still pulled out the Golden Leaf with force and then used his Divine Sense to probe it. After doing so, his face became incomparably ugly.

The status of this linqin leaf within their Truth Cult was naturally self-evident; one only needed to hold it to know if it was real or fake.

And he did indeed discover a mission regarding Kong Xuan within it. The mission specified that it required reassigning personnel—Kong Xuan—to temporarily serve in security work to maintain internal and external order.

As long as the work was completed on the eve of the plan's launch, the assessment could be completed.

At first glance, this mission seemed very simple and easy, but her mission data also contained a record of killing a Body Integration Stage experimental subject, proving the danger and the value of the work.

As for whether Kong Xuan had actually killed a Body Integration Stage experimental subject, that was probably something only those inside the Truth Cult base and Gongsun Heng himself knew.

The group of people still alive in the base had already escaped through a secret passage before it all started, and their whereabouts could not be found now.

As for Gongsun Heng himself, he had died long ago.

Now that Kong Xuan genuinely possessed Body Integration Stage strength and had also completed the assessment, she was, to some extent, more valuable than the vast majority of Kings who had just entered the King system.

The judge was speechless at this moment.

He was a member of the School of Physics. Long before taking the stage, he had already done his research. Naturally, he knew the reason King Dong had used when submitting the application, and he knew that the other party had entered with resources, rather than having sufficient strength themselves.

That was why he had intended to use a show of force first to suppress her spirit, wanting them to lose momentum during their self-defense. No one expected the other party to have such strength.

Wait!

"Audacious Kong Xuan! You concealed your cultivation to join the Truth Cult; what is your intention!"

Just when the judge thought he had found a loophole and was secretly gloating, Secretary Wang pushed up his glasses with a look of disdain.

"Judge, are you senile?"

"In the past, His Excellency King Dong submitted an application to exchange strategic significance for a King position, so the spot was submitted in advance, and the specific information hadn't been filled in yet."

"At that time, Kong Xuan herself was still in seclusion. In order to speed up the process, His Excellency King Dong just casually filled in a cultivation level, and this is also on record."

"It was clearly written above that the cultivation verification would be conducted after the person arrived."

"It's just that Kong Xuan was sent on a mission as soon as she arrived, and it ultimately wasn't verified."

After this farce, the judge stopped speaking, and even Isaac's defense attorney didn't dare to say a word.

No one expected the other party to be like a powder keg, exploding at the slightest touch, thereby triggering so many things.

Isaac's defense attorney was also trembling with fear because of the Body Integration Stage power. If it weren't for his professional ethics holding him back, he would have been ready to go home.

Just then, on the holographic screen to the right, that figure whose face could not be seen spoke first.

"Alright, the judge's trial this time was indeed not very fair. It's quite obvious that he has some stereotypical impressions of Fellow Daoist Kong Xuan."

"Someone, take the judge down and let him calm down."

The guards who were originally standing in the arena looked at each other, and in the end, they didn't take Kong Xuan off the field; instead, they took the former judge off the field.

And that figure on the holographic screen sat in the main seat.

"I am very sorry for the unpleasant experience caused to Fellow Daoist Kong Xuan. Now, let me preside over this trial."

Watching the seamless transition, Zhou Yan felt that he had guessed wrong again and again. It turned out that the guy in front was really just a suicide bomber, and this guy who hadn't even shown up in person was the real trouble.

Just as Zhou Yan was considering whether to put his legs down, several messages suddenly appeared in his mind.

The arrogance that had subsided a little rose a few notches again.