"How strange! How strange!"
"What is it?"
"Why is King Xiao's carriage from the Yuanlong Dynasty in our Tianmu Dynasty?"
"And the strangest part is, there are elite soldiers from our Tianmu Dynasty following behind it!"
"Are they escorting him—or taking him prisoner?"
"King Xiao's carriage from the Yuanlong Dynasty? How do you know it belongs to King Xiao?"
"Obviously! Didn't you see King Xiao's unique insignia on the carriage?"
"Besides, does our Tianmu Dynasty even have a King Xiao?"
"Gasp!"
"I remember that not long ago, our Tianmu Dynasty sent troops to Yuanlong."
"Could it be that they captured the Yuanlong Dynasty's King Xiao?"
"If so, this is a great victory!"
"Impossible!"
"Leaving aside the timing, does this look like someone who's been captured?"
"If they really had captured King Xiao, they'd be taking him to the royal capital. Why would he be here?"
"Then what's going on?"
"I don't know—that's why I said it's strange!"
All along Chen Changan's journey, the people around him never stopped discussing him. Chen Changan, however, paid no attention to what they were saying. After all, he had only one destination: the Ming Family of Sword Province!
"Are these people planning to follow us all the way to the Ming Family?"
"Do they have nothing better to do?"
Ever since they entered the border pass, this group had followed behind them. More than half a month had passed, yet they still showed no sign of leaving.
"If they want to follow, let them. Having them along saves us a lot of trouble," Chen Changan said with a faint smile.
At every checkpoint along the way, the people trailing behind would run ahead to give the guards a heads-up. They worried that some fool might provoke the people in the carriage and leave them