Chapter 2965: Melancholy

The revered Fire Sage had cultivated himself to the point of indifference to life and death. To him, as long as he remained unscathed and gained benefit, everything else was expendable. The path of cultivation was fraught with peril, and human hearts were inscrutable. To ensure his own safety, the Fire Sage had always adhered to one principle: trust only himself.

He trusted no one and believed that no good deed in the world was truly selfless. In his view, goodness was merely a means to an...