He had previously believed there was less than a ten percent chance that a Great Emperor stood behind Xiao Chen; ninety percent of the time, it would be a Quasi-Emperor Realm expert.
Who would have thought that Black Cloud City, a place where not even birds would shit, actually had a Great Emperor?
This was troublesome.
At present, although he was only a hair's breadth away from becoming a Great Emperor, he was ultimately not one.
Now, Hei Meier and Jin Xian'er had escaped.
One Spirit Dragon Fruit was also missing.
His sacrificial ritual for advancing to Great Emperor was short three offerings.
The chances of success would be greatly reduced.
He could not take the risk, so he had to find substitutes.
Yet the requirements for bloodline purity were extremely high for sacrificial offerings.
Only several of the clan's heavenly maidens met the conditions.
They were all granddaughters or great-granddaughters of clan elders.
Using them as sacrifices might provoke the dissatisfaction of the elders.
Hei Shitian fell silent and began weighing the pros and cons!
After a long while, the trace of hesitation in his eyes vanished. His gaze became incomparably cold. "Go into the clan and find several women of pure bloodline for me!"
The elders all trembled. Several of them seemed to have been struck by lightning, frozen in place like statues.
They knew whom Hei Shitian meant.
Hei Meier and Jin Xian'er had left, leaving the offerings for Becoming Emperor incomplete. People had to be found to fill the gaps.
There happened to be two heavenly maidens in the clan who met the requirements.
But theirs were the purest bloodlines in the clan, unlike Flood Dragon Clan members such as Jin Xian'er and Hei Meier, whose bloodlines had returned to their ancestral origins.
"Ancestor, could we..."