Then his active mind left the projection of the Supreme Metac in the divine constellation, leaving behind a thread of his thoughts to manage his expanding sect and alert him to anything important.
She was right to think that his ultimate goal was to scatter their alliance. He set out to do so from the start, but he didn't feed her the information directly.
He knew a free secret would make her suspicious of its authenticity and motives for exposing it. So he started by asking her to pay for it, even though it was in his best interest for her to know the secret.
Then he made her jump through more hoops before getting the information. Like that time he asked for 20,000 celestial gold.
Of course, if she had agreed to give him the celestial gold, he would have accepted it. After all, the main goal was to strike their not-so-secret alliance against him.
