The carriage came to a stop.
Judging by the information Sound Division had gleaned from his voice, the newcomer was around twenty to twenty-five years old.
Jiang Wang lifted the curtain and saw a young official wearing a small brown cap. He was only at the Circulation Realm, but the official uniform he wore was enough to make the driver rein in the horses.
"How old are you?" Jiang Wang's first question caught him off guard.
"I'm twenty-two," the young official answered honestly.
The voices of the old and the young naturally sounded different, but discerning someone's age so precisely was thanks to Five Immortals Like-a-Dream Decree's Sound Division.
Jiang Wang nodded with satisfaction. "Go on. What do you need me for?"
"I'm an official under Heavenly Mansion City. My superiors ordered me to bring you to the City Lord's Mansion as soon as I saw you. Our City Lord is waiting there. The moment I heard you'd appeared at the dock, I hurried over."
The City Lord of Heavenly Mansion City wants to see me?
Jiang Wang's heart stirred. He immediately stepped down from the carriage. "I'll go with you."
Turning to the driver, he said, "Sorry for the trouble. Please wait here. I'll set off again once I've taken care of this."
Seeing that this passenger even had ties to the City Lord of Heavenly Mansion City, the driver wouldn't dare object. He bowed respectfully. "Please rest assured, sir."
The City Lord of Heavenly Mansion City had plenty of ways to find Jiang Wang. Never mind intercepting boats in the Near-Sea. Given Heavenly Mansion City's extraordinary standing in Linhai Prefecture, he could have stopped Jiang Wang the moment he appeared at the dock.
The official had said he hurried over as soon as he got the news, as