In the entire Order, the person Yang Qing considered himself closest to (aside from his family, of course) was Ren Shu. And in a sense, he placed Ren Shu on the same emotional scale as his father or grandfather. After all, it was always said: A master for a day, a father for a lifetime. The investment and care Ren Shu had shown toward him was no less than that of a parent, and in certain cases, he had even exceeded that of certain parents.
After all, how many parents out there could casually hand out a purple-grade cultivation art to their child, along with handing them something as precious as the sapling of the Green Flame Tree, all with no expectations at all other than the fact that it suited them?
