The waters here were too deep. He was starting to feel like he could barely stay afloat.0

Outwardly, however, he still said, “Could it be the Cen Family, or the people behind the elixir of youth case? Maybe they’re trying to shift everyone’s attention elsewhere?”0

Fushan Yue could not make sense of it either, but in the end, he just laughed it off. “Who cares? The important thing is that the two of us have made a grand splash in Lingxu City. With so many powers involved, the elixir of youth case is now the hottest topic around. It’s more talked about than the war in the east. Not only is everyone on the floating island discussing it, but the story’s already spreading through the Lower City as well. My royal father ought to be quite pleased.”0

Once something spread from the Upper City to the Lower City, it meant it had already passed from the elite into common circulation. The nobles themselves might not often come and go from the floating island, but the servants who attended them numbered at least 170,000–180,000. With that many people constantly moving between the two, what gossip could possibly remain bottled up?0

This was especially when it involved high officials and the powerful making fools of themselves. There was simply nothing that ordinary people loved more than to gossip about such things.1

From the facts now known, the case involved at least the Minister of Finance,...0