Over the next few days, Bai Su busied herself taking care of everything for Su Jiu.
Aside from that, Su Jiu also learned from Bai Su what an agreement was. As it turned out, agreements in this world were equivalent to contracts in the Azure Realm...
Su Jiu picked up the two sheets of paper spread flat on the table, her face full of doubt.
"Just these? They can really bind an agreement between two people?"
Bai Su smiled. "This world is different from the Azure Realm, after all. Every cultivator in the Azure Realm has combat strength, so contracts need the stronger laws of heaven and earth to bind them."
"But in this peaceful society, a few sheets of legally binding paper are enough."
"The difference is that if you violate a contract in the Azure Realm, the Heavenly Dao automatically sends down tribulation lightning or some other punishment. If you violate a contract in this world... at best, you lose your personal credibility; at worst, you're sent to prison."
Su Jiu fell silent. There were far too many shameless people in the Azure Realm. Credibility was utterly useless to them, and the prison Bai Su spoke of might not even be able to hold a cultivator.
More precisely, it could not hold anyone whose cultivation was at Foundation Establishment or above...
Bai Su seemed to understand the feelings hidden in Su Jiu's eyes, and she sighed helplessly.
"Don't keep judging this world by the Azure Realm's standards. In our world, personal credibility is very important, and ordinary people don't have the ability to break out of prison. So there's really no need for your doubts."
Su Jiu's gaze flickered slightly. Only then did she realize that her expression earlier might have been a little too obvious.
She lowered