"At the same time, my old friend in the Third State should be fairly reliable, so by then you won't have to worry about anyone trying to harm you in the future."
"But do you have any gold or silver on you?"
This last question was crucial. Out in the world, you can't count on friends helping you. To put it harshly, when a person is wandering alone away from home, not being cheated is already the greatest blessing; you don't know how many people are just waiting to swindle gold and silver off a vagrant far from their homeland.
In that situation, if you have gold or silver on you, then everything becomes much easier to handle. Right now, even though Lu Qingyin was a princess-level figure of the capital, the capital she belonged to clearly favored men over women; she probably never had any real savings of gold or silver normally, and for a female Cultivator, this was the scariest thing.
No money and you still want to flee disaster?
