Everyone listened with a heavy heart. They had never seen Starlight look so downtrodden and defeated, and they couldn't help but feel a sense of sympathy for him.0

"Hence, it's perhaps a little too early to be discussing the future now, but for me, opportunities are very difficult to come by, so I must consider the future," Starlight continued with a wry smile. "Zheng Yunqi is right in that I have my own selfish motive for encouraging all of you to work harder in your cultivation. My hope is that if I am somehow able to climb to greater heights in the future in this lifetime, then I can call upon all of you to support me. 0

“However, if all of you remain as incompetent as you are now when that time comes, then I will have no one to support me. Alternatively, there could come a day when a golden opportunity is presented to us, but we lack the power to capitalize on it. If that happens, then what will be the point of our collaboration here? We may...0