At first, Xia Ritian's plan had indeed included Xia Mingyue, his own daughter, among those he intended to devour.
But after Xia Mingyue gained the recognition of the Ancestral Artifact, the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron, she had become the sole heir of the Great Xia Dynasty Royal Family.
Since Xia Mingyue could not be touched, only his ten sons remained for him to devour.
The ten highest-ranked Princes of the Great Xia Dynasty were also kings who each possessed their own fiefdoms.
With that thought, Xia Ritian suddenly pressed his palm against the pitch-black seal at his waist.
This was the Ten-Pattern Sun-Rank Ritual Artifact controlled by the Great Xia Dynasty Royal Family—the Mysterious Black Bird Heavenly Seal!
"Buzz—"
The black seal trembled as its ghostly radiance surged.
In an instant, it transformed into ten pillars of light that pierced the heavens, illuminating the entire wasteland like a netherworld Ghost Domain!
Within the black pillars of light, ten figures slowly emerged.
Each figure had all four limbs pierced by pitch-black chains of heavenly laws, twisted runes coiling around their bodies as though they were enduring the cruelest punishment in the world.
Xia Ritian looked up at the ten figures in the sky, and at last, an irrepressible ripple appeared on his imposing face.
Although Xia Ritian did not care whether they lived or died, after today—
He, the Tianqi Emperor, would bear eternal infamy and become a man who slaughtered his own sons.
But all of this was for the Great Xia Dynasty Royal Family, for the Great Xia Dynasty.
"Xia Ritian, you dog of an emperor!"
"You actually..."
The Wu Family Old Ancestor suddenly cried out in alarm, his aged face twisting with shock.
Because among them was a Prince carrying half the bloodline of the Wu Family.
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