“Besides, Beijia has recently resumed military operations. I originally hoped to raise another great general for the Lord Emperor.” With that, she sighed.

If not for the eruption of the elixir of youth case, this matter would have had a good chance of succeeding.

Bai Ziqi’s smile did not change, but inwardly, he felt only contempt.

State Preceptor Qing Yang always spoke of “doing it for Beijia,” but how could she ever work for anyone for free?

If Nian Zanli wanted her to act as a lobbyist, the price must have been considerable. One only had to look at how General Nian had been selling residences and shops in Lingxu City over the past few months, with the properties under his name shrinking by thirty percent in succession, to know that he had bled heavily to borrow troops. Most of that had probably gone straight into State Preceptor Qing Yang’s pockets.

From the elixir of youth case alone, Bai Ziqi could tell that this woman was truly greedy to the extreme.

And yet the Lord Emperor was doing everything he could to protect her, even clashing with the heavenly gods twice over it.

These past few days, the relationship between Heaven-Reaching Palace and the Heavenly Palace has been both tense and delicate. Even Bai Ziqi had been walking on thin ice. But State Preceptor...