"Dao Companion, are you headed to the Water Kingdom? Why not travel with us?"
He stood more than ten miles away, his pale green leaf boat floating upon the jade waters, drifting as the water moved.
At that moment, a voice carried over. Lu Qing looked over and saw a cultivator dressed in brocade and jade robes inviting him.
He was one of the cultivators in that group.
"Thank you for your kind offer, but I have matters to attend to, so I will not be joining this excitement." Lu Qing shook his head slightly and declined.
The Water Kingdom Marriage Recruitment had not the slightest connection to Lu Qing.
"I see. Then, Dao Companion, may we meet again if fate allows."
The jade-robed cultivator did not press the invitation further.
A small leaf boat, the color of cinnabar and verdant ink, also left the group of cultivators' sight at a pace that was slow yet swift.
"Brother Zhu, why were you so polite to that Rogue Cultivator?"
A young cultivator beside him asked in confusion.
The others looked over as well. They had wanted to speak earlier, but Zhu Longxiang had spoken first and treated that Rogue Cultivator with such courtesy that they had been momentarily taken aback.
Zhu Longxiang was strikingly handsome. His deep gaze rested in the direction Lu Qing had departed. "That man is not simple."
"There is someone even Brother Longxiang finds extraordinary? Is he from Jade Mountain, or the Sword Sect? I have met Water Province's renowned geniuses, yet I have never seen anyone like him."
"Brother Zhu is at the Third Stage of the Purple Mansion Realm. Could that man be at the same realm as Brother Zhu?"
"But I clearly saw that he should only be around the First Stage of the