After understanding this, Wenren Sheng suddenly saw a ball of flame before him:
"Unfortunately, it seems you've made your choice."
"My choice has never changed."
"Why are others willing to submit, yet you refuse to bow your head? It would be one thing if you were some utterly impartial person, but the key is that you're just as selfish. You only care about your own little family. You can achieve immortality yourself, and you want your family to achieve immortality too. You don't care at all whether others live or die. From the perspective of your family, lowering your head would be the choice most beneficial to you." The flames flickered.
"That's slander! I've never been selfish. The reason I care about my little family is precisely to preserve the peace of my heart. That is exactly for everyone's benefit," Wenren Sheng declared righteously.
"Haha, you really know how to twist words." The flame was utterly disdainful.
"How is that twisting words? My family possesses moral standards above those of ordinary people. Just for the sake of their feelings, I could never behave like these mages and slaughter tens of thousands at the drop of a hat! Why do those Cultivators become heartless and devoid of feeling?"
Wenren Sheng sneered. "It's simple. Because they sever their worldly ties. No one watches over them, and once they leave familiar surroundings, they naturally become free of all restraints. Just like a drifter with no parents or relatives—no matter how far he falls, no one truly cares about his Fate. They only laugh and watch."
The flame fell silent.
It had to admit that what Wenren Sheng said was the simplest truth.
Once people left the familiar environment of family, they naturally became free of all restraints, because there would no longer be