"Fine."
Yu Xiaogang gritted his teeth.
"I agree."
Xiao Jiu raised his eyebrows, seemingly a little surprised that he had agreed so readily.
"All right, then. We'll find a cheap inn in the city and make do for tonight, then leave first thing tomorrow."
As he spoke, Xiao Jiu took two low-grade spirit stones from inside his robe and tossed one to Yu Xiaogang.
"Take it. Buy a couple of steamed buns to fill your belly. Don't faint from hunger on the road halfway through hauling my cargo tomorrow."
Yu Xiaogang caught the spirit stone and clenched it in his palm, his fingers trembling slightly.
This was the second time today that someone had tossed something to him as though fobbing off a beggar.
The first had been the spirit stones Lin Jing tossed him.
The second was from this errand boy from the Fire Domain.
Yu Xiaogang tucked the spirit stone inside his robe without a word.
That night.
At a shabby inn in a corner of Hundred Spirits City.
Yu Xiaogang curled up on a creaking plank bed, staring at the mottled cracks in the ceiling, unable to fall asleep for a long time.
Everything that had happened during the day kept spinning through his mind like a revolving lantern.
Luo Sanpao had escaped his control after being activated by the pill.
Lin Jing had treated him like a street act.
Qingzhi's Ancient Azure Dragon phantom.
And that fear seeping out from the cracks of his bones still had not entirely faded.
"Everyone from the Martial Realm has their eyes on top of their heads."
Yu Xiaogang rolled over, muttering to himself.
"Whether it was that man in azure robes or that little girl, neither gave me a proper look from beginning to end."
"They only saw