Huang Xiao and Ou Jin did not want the escort agency's people to misunderstand, so they kept their distance. But that did not mean everyone was so reasonable.
"Well, well, the Transcendent Immortal Escort Agency. Who would have thought you could still get escort work? Who's bold enough to hire you? Aren't they afraid of losing their goods?" a man of the Jianghu called out loudly as he approached.
"Who cares whose goods they are? If the Transcendent Immortal Escort Agency doesn't take on more work, it'll probably collapse altogether," another man said.
"What a pity. It was once an escort agency whose fame spread far and wide, yet now it's fallen to this. It rose swiftly and declined just as swiftly."
"Ever since Chief Escort Liu passed away a few years ago, the Transcendent Immortal Escort Agency has gone downhill year after year."
Faced with these cold remarks, some of the Transcendent Immortal Escort Agency's runners and escorts looked furious, but a middle-aged man of around forty stopped them.
They were escorting goods, so it would hardly do to clash with these people of the Jianghu.
"No one escapes the rise to prosperity and the fall to ruin," Ou Jin said softly.
Huang Xiao nodded. This Transcendent Immortal Escort Agency seemed to have fallen on hard times, but it was not just escort agencies. Sects in the Jianghu were the same.
"Let's go over!" Huang Xiao said once he saw that the escort agency's people had settled everything.
Ou Jin nodded and entered the Swift Sword Inn with Huang Xiao. The inn had guest rooms and also served as a restaurant, offering food, drink, and lodging to people of the Jianghu passing through.
When Huang Xiao and Ou Jin stepped into the inn, a waiter came forward warmly