The slash came without warning. Even the Mechanical Emperor failed to react when Qin An swung his blade.
He had thought Qin An meant to fight him. The young man had even made it sound like a battle to the death.
Yet in the next instant, Qin An cast that supposed battle aside and attacked his machine instead.
The Mechanical Emperor had paid an enormous price to build that machine, and bringing it here had been no easy feat.
If Qin An destroyed it, his entire plan would fall apart.
Even if the other Heavenly Demons descended when the time came and destroyed this world, he would gain nothing more from it.
He had to keep Qin An from destroying the machine.
Without a moment's hesitation, the Mechanical Emperor lunged and struck at Qin An's blade.
A mechanical whir rose from his palm. Then a huge opening split across it.
As the opening widened, a terrifying white light burst forth and slammed into Qin An's blade energy.
A thunderous boom swept across the open ground.
The blade energy shattered. The blast rolled outward, destroying everything around them.
The few mechanical insects that remained tumbled through the blast and turned to ash in an instant.
The Mechanical Emperor glared at Qin An and roared, "You little bastard! You dare plot against this emperor? You're courting death!"
He spread his arms. With a series of sharp clicks, weapons like those from the science-fiction films of Qin An's previous life emerged all over his body.
The cold barrels gleamed with metallic light, enough to send a chill down anyone's spine.
At the Mechanical Emperor's roar, the barrels fired streams of ion beams straight at Qin An.
The fearsome beams stirred ripples through the air, as though they could destroy heaven and earth.
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