When Qin An finished speaking, the room fell so quiet that a dropped needle could have been heard.
Puzzlement crossed Emperor Xuanwu's face. "You just said we should strike first. What exactly does that mean? How would we do it?"
He found the idea hard to believe. Were they supposed to go out and pick a fight with the Heavenly Demons themselves?
But their chances would be slim if they left their world to do that.
Here, they could still use the advantage of fighting on their home ground. A strong defense would give them some chance of winning.
Once Emperor Xuanwu had finished, Qin An spoke slowly.
"Your Majesty, you know what we're facing. If the All-Destroying Puppet absorbs enough resentment and reaches Perfection in the Selfless Realm, no one in our world will be able to stand against it."
"Our cultivation falls as far short of the Selfless Realm as heaven does from earth. We have to intercept and destroy these enemies before the All-Destroying Puppet absorbs enough resentment."
"Those people just told us that the Ancestral Machine Emperor went alone, taking the All-Destroying Puppet with him. If we seize this chance to intercept him and catch both him and his puppet in one net, we may be able to turn the tide."
Qin An stopped there.
He waited. He had said what needed saying; now Emperor Xuanwu had to decide.
The proposal was plainly dangerous—a path with nine chances of death and one of life. But it was the only way to resolve the crisis.
And the dangers were plain to see.
First, they had to avoid being spotted by the Heavenly Demons. If those demons followed their auras to them, even an immortal would struggle to survive.
Second, there were the Ancestral Machine Emperor and the