The pale light of evening settled over the jagged peaks of Sovereign Peak, casting long shadows across the broken marble staircases and the collapsed gatehouses.
Ye Chen sat on a stone block beside a small fire crackling in the courtyard. The wood burned with bright orange flames, casting dancing golden light across his pale face and unblinking bronze eyes.
The crackling of a nearby campfire that casts flickering light across Ye Chen's face while his skin remains completely untouched by its heat.
He extended his bare palm directly over the center of the burning logs, holding his fingers an inch above the snapping embers. The flames leaped upward, licking against his scarred knuckles and heating the surrounding air into a shimmering wave of thermal distortion. Yet his skin did not regist
