The Ancestral Machine Emperor had never imagined he would encounter Qin An here.
He had thought Qin An would never appear here. By now, Qin An should have been developing his strength alone in the Great Qian Kingdom's world.
Yet Qin An had suddenly appeared, and he had clearly come for him.
The Ancestral Machine Emperor was clever. He quickly realized why.
"You know I'm using the All-Destroying Puppet to absorb the resentment here. How did you find out?"
He knew Qin An could not have come out of nowhere, much less sought him out at such a critical moment.
There had to be a reason Qin An had come for him, and it had to be because Qin An knew something.
What he knew was obvious enough.
The Ancestral Machine Emperor's biggest move recently had involved the All-Destroying Puppet. Qin An had to be here because of it.
But that raised an obvious question: how had Qin An learned that he was using the resentment of these fragmented worlds to create an All-Destroying Puppet at Selfless Realm Perfection?
The question seemed difficult, but to the Ancestral Machine Emperor, the answer was simple.
It took him only a moment to work it out.
"You have an undercover agent in the Heavenly Demon World. There's a traitor among us, isn't there?"
There was no way outsiders could know their every move. Nor would anyone dare investigate them.
Any such attempt would draw their attention, and they would follow the trail back to whoever was watching.
Put plainly, outsiders would not dare. Only their own people would.
Clearly, there was a traitor on their side, and that traitor had passed news of him to Qin An.
Qin An smiled faintly and glanced at the Ancestral Machine Emperor before speaking. "This should be