Saint Jiang ruled out some candidates and narrowed his target down to the first five generations of Starry Sky Supremes.
"I suspect it was one of the fourth or fifth generation. After all, the first through third generations had no ability whatsoever to resist the Heavenly Emperor. Only in the later generations did they begin plotting how to escape the Heavenly Emperor's demonic clutches."
Saint Jiang came up with further conjectures.
The first three generations were unlikely. Though they were too far removed for him to have encountered, Saint Jiang knew that the earliest Starry Sky Supremes had been completely kept in the dark by the Heavenly Emperor. Once they broke through to Supreme, their Starry Sky Great Dao was taken from them.
Therefore, Saint Jiang did not believe the earliest generations would have left behind corpses.
"I think I know why the Heavenly Emperor has spent all these years cultivating the Starry Sky Great Dao. So that's how it is..." Saint Jiang seemed to have figured something out.
He said gravely, "One generation of Starry Sky Supreme resisted. Leaving behind a corpse means that the Heavenly Emperor failed to strip away the complete Starry Sky Great Dao."
"Or perhaps the Heavenly Emperor was damaged while depriving them of the Starry Sky Great Dao, which is why he needed no fewer than nine generations of Starry Sky Supremes to cultivate it."
"Mm, that seems fairly reasonable." Mu Qing nodded.
Saint Jiang's analysis was quite sound. According to the Heavenly Emperor's original plans, the Starry Sky Great Dao should have become completely perfect after being nurtured through five generations of Starry Sky Supremes.
Yet the Heavenly Emperor had continued the Starry Sky Great Dao all the way to Mu Qing, the ninth generation. Clearly, there had been some issue with the