He brought Suchuan Yao back to Yunshuitang and let her rest first. Zhao Ran came to Sanqing Pavilion. The old man guarding the gate said that Master Wu Tian had gone down the mountain. Zhao Ran suppressed his anger and did not lose his mind. He flew the talisman to "question".
Instead, Feifu asked Dongfang Li: "Where is Senior Brother Li?"
Dongfang Li said: "We are discussing matters in Dongji Pavilion, please come quickly."
So Zhao Ran rushed to Dongji Pavilion and saw Zhuo Yunfeng, Qiu Yunqing, Dongfang Li and six or seven monks discussing matters in the hall. Zhao Ran didn't recognize those people. Dongfang Li introduced them and they were all from the two pavilions.
They are discussing today's resolution happily, and at the same time assigning tasks to each of them to go to a certain province to close Xiu'an.
Zhao Ran was not in the mood to listen to this and asked Dongfang Li: "Where is Master Wu Tian?"
Dongfang Li said: "Let's go down the mountain. We will go down the mountain after finishing the meeting at Zhenshitang. There are still many things to be busy with."
Zhao Ran asked again: "Where is Zhenren Zhao?"
Dongfang Li replied: "Let's go. We went down the mountain with Wu Tianshi, Xu Zhenren and others."
Zhao Ran said angrily: "You just left like that? You didn't even explain?"
He was in a bad mood, so when he came in just now, he was a little perfunctory when greeting these people. Now when he asked such a question, some people were unhappy on the spot: "Your Excellency, is Zhao Zhiran? The abbot of Xuantan Palace? What a big official.
Awesome, true masters must first explain to Abbot Zhao wherever they want to go. This is awesome! This is unheard of for poor Taoists!"
It immediately caused laughter in the audience.
Zhao Ran's role in Sanqing Pavilion and the role he played in this case were not clear to these people, so he was not in the mood to argue with them. He was out of tune with the cheerful atmosphere here, so he clasped his fists and said, "Pindao is rude today.
Please forgive me." Then he withdrew.
Dongfang Li chased him out and said, "Zhiran, stay!"
Zhao Ran turned around and looked at him without speaking.
Dongfang Li sighed and said, "Zhiran is not satisfied with today's decision?"
Zhao Ran asked back: "It seems that Senior Brother Li is very satisfied?"
Dongfang Li nodded and said, "I am indeed very satisfied."
Zhao Ran was puzzled and was so angry that he laughed out loud: "Senior Brother Li actually said he was satisfied with such a result? Forgive me for being stupid, but I don't know where the satisfaction lies?"
Dongfang Li said: "I haven't told Zhao Ran yet that we have achieved a major victory!"
"How about victory?"
"Master Chen Tian has resigned from the Zhenshi Hall."
"Resign?" Zhao Ran once again received shocking news.
Dongfang Li nodded heavily: "Why are we pursuing Xiu'an so hard? Aren't we just trying to lift the lid on the emperor's cultivation? Why are we lifting the lid on the emperor's cultivation? Isn't it with Chen Shandao and Guo Hongjing?
Fight?"
Dongfang Li became more and more excited as he talked, pacing back and forth beside Zhao Ran, waving his arms: "Now that Chen Shandao has resigned, Zhenshi Hall has passed, our goal has been achieved, what is this if not a major victory?"
Zhao Ran couldn't help but remind: "Where is the emperor?"
Dongfang Li waved his hand and said: "Emperor? It's not important! The True Master Hall is the most important place!"
"The emperor's cultivation is not important, either?"
"What does that mean?"
Looking at the inexplicably excited Dongfang Li in front of him, Zhao Ran came to his senses and asked: "Who will be the next Celestial Master of Baojing Pavilion?"
The smile on Dongfang Li's face became brighter: "In a few days, the True Master Hall will once again convene the high-level cultivators to gather in Lushan to publicly recommend the new Celestial Master of the Baojing Pavilion. The Great Celestial Master Yunyi is going to nominate my teacher as the
The candidates, Chen Shandao, Guo Hongjing, Sima Yunqing, Zhang Yuanji, and Yu Daochun have all agreed to support my teacher’s ascension. As a matter of fact, our Sichuan Province finally has a place in Zhenshi Hall!”
Zhao Ran forced a smile on his face and saluted Dongfang sincerely: "It is indeed a major victory... Congratulations, Senior Brother Li!"
Dongfang Li sighed with emotion: "It's really not easy. Who would have thought that this day would come so quickly. Speaking of which, there is also Zhiran's great contribution..."
Zhao Ran didn't know what to say, so he changed the subject and asked, "Where is Senior Brother Wei?"
Dongfang Li smiled and said: "Chaozong is still more upright. He is not satisfied with the ruling. He said that he has gone back to Baiyun Pavilion to retreat. It is understandable. After pursuing it for so long, he is too obsessed with the case itself and is lost.
He has no direction and is a little confused about the purpose of investigating the case. After a while, he will wake up."
Zhao Ran said: "Wu Tianshi and the others are in a hurry to go down the mountain. Are they going to help Uncle Dongfang make a case?"
Dongfang Li nodded: "Of course, there are so many high-level cultivators who have to negotiate one by one, and time is very tight."
Zhao Ran asked: "Senior Brother Li, in this case, I have nothing to say. I just want to ask you one thing. That day you agreed that Gu Kexue's life and death would be based on my opinion, but today you sentenced him to life imprisonment."
, what should we do?”
Dongfang Li thought for a while and said, "I don't know about this. Zhiran will ask Elder Qiu for a while. He has been in the True Master Hall today."
After a while, Dongfang Li came out and explained to Zhao Ran: "This is the request made by Master Zhou today. We don't want any more changes, so we sentenced him to life imprisonment. She is not satisfied with it yet. This matter is easy to handle.
There are several ways of being imprisoned for life. For particularly dangerous criminals, Dongji Pavilion will always imprison them in the Guyun Passage. Those at the next level will be sent to the four corners of the world to be supervised and worked in bitter cold places. For those at the lower level, if they have a skill, such as weapon refining
Talisman making and the like will be given to the Qi Fu Pavilion for use or other places for work."
Zhao Ran understood and immediately said: "I want to build the Yingtian Yangtze River Bridge, which requires a lot of coolies. I'll apply to Dongji Pavilion for a group of prisoners."
Dongfang Li said: "Go back and write something in writing."
Zhao Ran asked: "When can it be done?"
Dongfang Li said: "Just wait until the matter is settled here."
The meaning of this matter is that after the public election of the new true master, when Dongfang Ming takes office and Chen Shandao completely withdraws, there will be no need to worry about Chen Shandao and Guo Hongjing.
"Is the date set for the official recommendation of the True Master Hall?"
"It hasn't been decided yet, but this time it will be faster than before. It is expected to be in the middle of next month, and no later than the end of the month at most. Zhiran has to go to work in advance, and I will let you know then."
"No, I'm not going anywhere, I'm just watching here. I must fulfill my promises to others, otherwise I won't even be able to sleep? Really!"
Dongfang Li said: "There are so many things, why don't you take care of them? As long as I'm here, why bother working here?"
Zhao Ran shook his head: "Yingtian's affairs are on the right track. The people under me are quite capable, so there is no need for me to keep an eye on everything. Besides, if I can't spare half a month, it only means that I am the abbot.
It failed miserably.”
Zhao Ran's persistence in fishing out Gu Kexue's master and apprentice was far beyond Dongfang Li's expectation. When he returned to the hall, the discussion was still in full swing. Seeing that he was distracted, Zhuo Yunfeng and Qiu Yunqing called him over.
After asking around, Dongfang Li told Zhao Ran's plan.