The man with the big beard snorted out a gust of air from his nostrils and grumbled, “Heavenly Teacher, Heavenly Teacher! The great king has been bewitched by that fellow and believes that dribble about ‘immortality medicine’! How could a stupid teenage girl possibly know any arts to make immortality medicine? In my eyes, that Heavenly Teacher, who we have no background information on, is the one who is suspicious!”

“Second Brother, hold your tongue!” The person who spoke this time was a middle-aged man who had a graceful and elegant demeanor to him. His face was pale without any facial hair and he was dressed in scholarly clothes. However, his eyes shone with a crafty light, which completely destroyed his outward elegant appearance. 

“Eldest Brother, I’ve already asked around. The guests here contain one royal prince and the other two youths and girls are all the children of high-ranking officials. From their appearances, it doesn’t look like our target is among them. It’s better not to act rashly in case we end up beating the grass and scaring off the snake!” The man with the knife scar on his face looked at the middle-aged scholar as he quietly stated.

When the big bearded fellow heard this, his eyes immediately lit up, “The children of high-ranking officials?...