Faced with Emperor Zuntian's questioning, Huantao said nothing, her face full of unease and confusion. "Master, don't scare me..."
"Excuses!" Emperor Zuntian thrust out an arm, and a terrifying force slammed toward Huantao.
"Haotian." Yue Ning Progenitor's red lips parted. She wiped away the attack for Huantao and said, "Can't you calm down and talk about this?"
As she spoke, she suddenly sent him a voice transmission. "Perhaps... you could look at it from another angle. Maybe what happened isn't a bad thing?"
"What do you mean, Aunt-Master?" Emperor Zuntian asked.
"As you said, something has changed in Huantao. But isn't she still Huantao? Perhaps whoever acted against her doesn't intend to control her or make her do anything," Yue Ning Progenitor said.
"They don't intend to control her or make her do anything?" Emperor Zuntian sneered. "So my disciple deserves to become someone else's puppet? She's my most beloved child!"
It wasn't as though he hadn't considered what Yue Ning Progenitor said.
But would he simply pretend not to see it just because that was all that had happened?
If Huantao had gained strength at the cost of becoming a puppet or a slave, what was that supposed to be called?
He had watched Huantao grow up. No matter what, he couldn't let her suffer such a great indignity!
Besides, this was all just speculation. How could the other party give Huantao power for nothing and not control her?
"The indignity was there at first, but it's gone now," Huantao thought, able to hear Emperor Zuntian's words.
At first, when she became a clone, she had indeed been unwilling and felt wronged. But now, her thoughts had changed.
Perhaps there was nothing wrong with paying a price to see the scenery of a higher world. Even if her life