"Rest assured, miss. Go ahead and bury your father. I'll cover whatever money you need!"
A righteous-looking young man stepped forward.
With a jingle.
He held a glittering bag of Spirit Stones in his hand.
"Is this enough for the burial expenses?"
Among the ring of onlookers were Cultivators as well, and an uproar immediately broke out.
"So many Spirit Stones? Who is this person?"
"Such a crude scam actually managed to fool someone?" Lu Qing was stunned to see someone truly step forward.
He fell into thought. Could the ways of the world here really be so simple and honest?
Surely anyone even slightly observant would not be blind to all those oddities, right?
Didn't he see that most of the people around were merely watching the spectacle? A few had taken a fancy to the beauty of the father-and-daughter pair, but the Spirit Stone fee had promptly scared them off.
Lu Qing soon got his answer.
"That man is Zhou Shenlong of the Zhou Clan."
"Zhou Shenlong? Isn't he the Zhou Clan's worthless good-for-nothing?"
"Yeah, and he married into the Shen Family. Shen Qingyun, the Shen Family's eldest young lady, is Yu City's greatest beauty. That useless man actually had such fortune."
Lu Qing fell into thought again, his gaze shifting slightly away.
That righteous-looking young man across from him was called Zhou Shenlong.
Who he was did not matter. What mattered was that Lu Qing felt he had most likely run into another Son of Providence.
Was that good luck, or bad luck?
Lu Qing did not feel as though he were facing a great enemy. He was not opposing Sons of Providence, after all. He had his broad sunlit road, while Lu Qing would walk his single-plank bridge.
"Brother, why aren't you sharing your thoughts? Don't