By now, matters were more or less settled, and the threat of the All-Destroying Puppet had vanished completely.
That left Qin An with only the Heavenly Demons to deal with.
He wanted to return to the Imperial Capital of the Great Qian Kingdom and raise his proficiency levels through training, so he could resist the Heavenly Demons' invasion.
Once he raised every proficiency to level 29, he would possess formidable combat strength even in the Selfless Realm.
In truth, after defeating the Ancestral Machine Emperor, he was already immensely powerful.
But Qin An's enemies were not limited to the Heavenly Demons. There was also that mysterious world.
He desperately wanted to know what that world was, and what had caused its powerful pull.
A world that frightened even the Heavenly Demons could hardly be ordinary.
So Qin An did not have much time left.
With that in mind, he stopped dwelling on it. He channeled the Void Essence within him, reached out to the distant Sea of Hope, and vanished from that world.
After Qin An disappeared, a strange power stirred within the Heavenly Demon World.
The instant it appeared, it spread in every direction at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The Heavenly Demons, who had been conserving their strength for the final battle, suddenly froze.
They jerked their heads up. As they watched the power surge across the sky, shock flashed through their eyes.
Only they knew what it meant: a Heavenly Demon had fallen.
Through the bonds between them, they could sense the details of that death.
Once they identified the fallen Heavenly Demon, shock swept through them all.
"He's dead! The Ancestral Machine Emperor is dead!"
None of them had expected the fallen Heavenly Demon to be the Ancestral Machine Emperor.
He had been the