"Clan Elder, you've worked hard to investigate this far."
Xu Tianran looked at the white-haired clan elder before him, who had undergone a simple disguise. His expression was utterly calm.
"Xu Tianran! You actually—"
Before he could finish, a surge of overwhelming Soul Power blasted his mouth apart.
"Throw him in. Also, arrest everyone who took part in the earlier investigation. There must not be such oversights again."
Xu Tianran spoke indifferently.
"Yes!"
Xu Tianran watched as the black-clad men dragged away an elder of his own imperial clan. Like slaughtering a chicken and draining its blood, they slit the elder's throat, and his blood and corpse merged into that mountain of corpses and sea of blood.
He waved a hand and summoned a black-clad man.
"Tell them to move faster. The one-year deadline is almost here. I must ensure that guy can be summoned. There must be enough blood essence and souls!"
As he spoke, he lowered his head and glanced at his lower body, which had been crippled for years.
That guy had promised him that as long as he sacrificed enough blood essence and souls, not only could he help him deal with Jiang Ming, but he could also restore his paralyzed lower body!
Otherwise, even as the emperor of the Sun Moon Empire, no matter how deranged he was, he would never have done such a thing.
Kill Jiang Ming. Restore his paralyzed lower body. Those were the two things he wanted most now.
As long as Jiang Ming was dead, he could even continue carrying out his plan to unify the continent!
Without Jiang Ming obstructing him, with his body restored, his cultivation, and the Sun Moon Empire's millennia of foundations, who could possibly stop him?!
For all of that, the sacrifice of these three