Hua Zhen spoke very directly. No matter how awesome your genetic model was, irreplaceable meant irreplaceable.
It had nothing to do with treating men and women differently. He simply did not want to waste time and resources on someone whose ultimate authority was not in his own hands.
Put it this way: perfecting the powerful genetic model known as Galaxy Power was not difficult for Hua Zhen at all. But whether it would remain controllable after being perfected was another matter. If he told someone to go east and they went west, if he told them to beat a dog and they insisted on chasing chickens instead, who would want to put up with that?
Children who could not view problems from a cosmic perspective, whose horizons were still confined to a tiny little planet, often became extremely rebellious after suddenly acquiring unrivaled divine power. Their sense of self would swell to an absurd degree.
In other words, they would become stubborn as hell, following the principle of "Ignore your elders' advice and enjoy life for several years."
Hua Zhen had no need for such people. After all, in the future... no, the Void was already an imminent threat. There was no room for even the slightest mistake.
That said, he had seen Ge Xiaolun's resolve and sense of responsibility as a man, and he understood them. But so what?
Hua Zhen would not abandon his intention of taking Qiangwei away just because the members of Earth's Super Soldier Company tried to stop him. Even if Sun Wukong, the Fighting Saint Buddha he had idolized as a child, pleaded on their behalf, it would make no difference.
As he had said before, why should he care what outsiders thought when he was taking back something that belonged to him?
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