The morning air had gone from cold to frigid during Liu Mei's presentation. Or maybe that was just Hunter's blood temperature dropping as he realized he still had actual crimes to answer for regardless of how nicely she'd reframed them as cultivation training.
Very plea bargain energy. Guilty but with mitigating circumstances. His mysterious master made him do it. The cultivation world equivalent of "my dog ate my homework" except the dog was an AI system with emoticons and the homework was not committing highway robbery.
[LUNA] YOU'RE STILL ALIVE THOUGH! (◕‿◕✿)
[LUNA] THAT'S PROGRESS ♥
"The bar for progress is terrifyingly low."
[LUNA] LOW BARS ARE EASIER TO CLEAR ♪(´▽｀)
Elder Feng studied him with eyes that had probably seen through better excuses than "my mysterious master made me do it" over several centuries of existence. The man's expression suggested he was calculating exactly how much trouble Hunter was worth compared to the effort of eliminating him.
