The feeling was strange, much like when he had first entered the Heaven-Human Realm. The Heavenly Demons had all turned their gazes on him then, as if marking him.
And now, after he had destroyed those Heavenly Demons, that supposedly special, mysterious world seemed to have marked him too, as though it meant to remember him forever.
Qin An did not know what it meant, but he had a feeling this was somehow directed at him.
For now, though, the pull had merely grown stronger, and he had only been marked. Nothing else had happened.
After a moment's thought, Qin An set the matter aside and flew toward Emperor Xuanwu.
The threat of the Heavenly Demons had been eliminated. Now it was time to deal with that mysterious world.
Before that, of course, they needed to clear the battlefields.
Their campaign against the Heavenly Demons had not been without losses. On the contrary, those losses had been considerable.
Qin An therefore intended to clear the battlefields first, then see what Emperor Xuanwu planned to do.
At that moment, Emperor Xuanwu seemed to sense something as well. A trace of gravity entered his eyes.
He knew Qin An had likely wiped out the Heavenly Demons, but the peculiar pull that had appeared with that other world troubled him deeply.
He did not know what it was. Like Qin An, however, he could feel that the pull seemed to target the world containing the Great Qian Kingdom—and, more specifically, their group of Selfless Realm cultivators.
As that thought crossed his mind, Emperor Xuanwu heard a rush of wind beside him.
He looked up and saw that Qin An had already arrived.
"Your Majesty, matters are more or less settled. The Heavenly Demons have all vanished. What we should do next is clear