Shen Shouxing's eyes gleamed, "Yes, I am from the Shen Family, a powerful elder, but I am also just an ordinary cultivator."
"I can't control the lives and deaths of others, nor do I have the ability."
"I just want to keep moving upward, pave a better path for myself, and lay a road to immortality for my descendants, letting them step on my back and climb higher step by step..."
"But to climb upward, a price must inevitably be paid."
"The loose cultivators of Solitary Mountain City are that price."
"Without those loose cultivators, how could the Shen Family flourish? How could it become the biggest aristocratic family in the Qian Taoist Sect today? Where would today's prosperity come from?"
"Once their value is drained, they need not be kept."
"It's inevitable..."
"These people, if I don't kill them, someone else will come to kill them. It's their fate, no one can change it..."
"This is their fate..."
Shen Shouxing's emotions fluctuated noticeably.
