Fang Yun sneered. "Does Hu Li know you're 'giving' her to me?"
King Rat Hermit smiled smugly. "She doesn't. She thinks we're using her to save our young descendants. Our true purpose is to offer her to you, Your Majesty the Moon Emperor. As you know, even ordinary fox barbarians are worth fortunes throughout the Myriad Worlds, and she is even more..."
"Aren't you afraid the Moon God will punish you?" Fang Yun's gaze grew colder.
A trace of sorrow flashed across King Rat Hermit's face. "If His Majesty the Moon God still performed miracles, why would we fear the Ice Clan and the Blood Demon Barbarians in the Ten Cold Ancient Land? Why would we have to give away a dignified priestess of the Moon God? Now the Moon God has vanished without a trace. To preserve our million Star Demon Barbarians, we can only wrong Hu Li. Besides, protecting our people is a Moon God priestess's duty. Even if she knew we were offering her to you, she would have no complaints. She would certainly be willing to sacrifice herself."
Fang Yun's gaze turned colder still.
"Yes, she's willing to sacrifice herself. She's willing to give of herself, and she ought to save your entire people. If you had told her plainly, the outcome would have been no different. She would still have come here to me. But you cannot strip her of the right to choose and then choose for her!"
King Rat Hermit frowned. Fang Yun's voice made his ears ring, and he glanced warily around, afraid someone else might overhear their conversation.
King Rat Hermit gave a dry laugh. "Come now, we did give her a choice: remain with the tribe, or go protect those nearly ten thousand of her kin. She chose to protect