Although the Vientiane Taoist Palace prohibits contact between mother and child talismans during the closure period, some official documents and letters can still be sent in through the "Message Talisman Array".
Early in the morning on July 16th, the Taoist deacon of Mingtang sent a letter to Qi Xuansu.
After Qi Xuansu received the letter, he found that it was from Pei Xiaolou.
Qi Xuansu thanked the Taoist deacon who delivered the letter, took the letter and returned to the study. After confirming the lacquer seal on the envelope, he used his fingernail instead of a knife to cut the envelope open and took out the letterhead.
The letter only said one thing, and that was about the cases of Pan Cuiqing and Yue Liuli.
Qi Xuansu originally entrusted the matter to Xu Xiaoying, but it happened that Pei Xiaolou returned from Yujing, so Pei Xiaolou and Xu Xiaoying handled the matter together.
Then Qi Xuansu came to the upper palace of Wanxiang Taoist Palace to prepare for further training. In the blink of an eye, more than a month had passed, and the case had come to an end.
Pei Xiaolou briefly described the progress of the case. Since the evidence was solid, there was not much of a problem.
Logically speaking, Ji Jiaoquan, the master in charge of Wuxu Palace, should be an obstacle, but in the past, the master in charge of Wuxu Palace was Donghua Zhenren until Donghua was promoted to the master of Ziweitang.
, was only taken over by Ji Jiaoquan. This real person is only a second-grade Taiyi Taoist priest, and is expected to become one of the thirty-six real people who know Shen Zhi, but he has not yet hung the word "Shen Zhi".
This is because Master Zhou of the Ancestral Sacrifice Hall has just stepped down from the position of the Master of the Ancestral Sacrifice Hall, but he has not yet stepped down from the position of Master of the Ancestral Sacrifice Hall.
It is true that the Taoist sect will not reduce the level of Taoist priests due to reasons such as retreating into the mountains and forests, falling into realms, etc., but Shenzhi Zhenren is not a level, but more similar to a position. He and ordinary Zhenren belong to the second-grade Taiyi Taoist priests, and because Thirty-six
The position of each Master Shenzhi is fixed. If you want to go up one, you have to come down. After retreating into the mountains and forests, it is impossible for an idle person to still occupy a position, so the identity of Master Shenzhi will be cancelled, and will only be retained.
The rank and name of the second-grade Taiyi Taoist priest. In the same way, the same is true for the deputy head master Da Zhenren. In the end, only the rank and name of the first-grade innocent Taoist priest will be retained.
Zhou Laozhenren has just stepped back to the second line and resigned from the corresponding positions, but he retains his identity as a counselor and has the power to participate in the political affairs of Jinque and recommend the chief minister. It will take another one or two years.
Retreat completely. At that time, Ji Jiaoquan can be promoted to the real person of Shenzhi in a logical way.
If you can successfully be promoted to Zhenzhi Zhenren, your status will naturally be as stable as a rock, just like Ning Ling Pavilion. Even if there are occasional ups and downs, there will still be a chance to make a comeback. But the period before successful promotion is crucial. If you are in
Any changes that occur during this period may very well affect your promotion, so you must be stable during this period.
As a result, what happened to Pan Cuiqing was almost like a bolt from the blue for Ji Jiaoquan.
Compared with the reputation of disciple or master, which one is more important?
For some people, it is a difficult question to decide, but for some people, it is a question that they can make a choice without thinking.
For Ji Jiaoquan, if he loses his disciples, he can still take them back, but if he loses his position as the real person who is close at hand, he will never get a second chance in this life, so there is no need to hesitate.
Therefore, Ji Jiaoquan did not choose to save his disciple, but cut him off decisively, treating Pan Cuiqing as an abandoned son, or in other words, abandoning his pawn to save his commander.
Even Ji Jiaoquan thought about it further. There are almost 200 second-grade Taiyi Taoist priests in the Taoist sect, but only 36 of them can be promoted to Shenzhen Zhenren. There are many people who are jealous that he can be promoted to Shenzhen Zhenren, even on weekdays.
There is no conflict, and it is logical to set a trap for him at this time. Therefore, whether it is Yue Liuli, Pan Cuiqing, or what happened to the Dragon and Tiger Club in Wanxiang Taoist Palace, they are just an introduction. This is drunkenness.
Weng's intention is not to drink, but Xiangzhuang's sword dance is to Pei Gong.
And he would never have thought that this matter was not that complicated. It was just a cliché story about a boy from the Wanxiang Taoist Palace seeking revenge after making some mistakes, and it had nothing to do with the overall situation of Zhenzhi Zhenren.
But even if Ji Jiaoquan knew the truth, he would only have one way to deal with it - to protect himself.
Even if he wants to make amends or take revenge, that will have to wait until he is promoted to the rank of Shen Zhi Zhenren. The most important thing now is to spend this most critical time smoothly.
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It was precisely because Pei Xiaolou had grasped Ji Jiaoquan's mentality that he took over him. Otherwise, it would be extremely troublesome for a real person in charge of the palace to intervene. After all, Pei Xiaolou is not a real person from Donghua.
Just an assistant.
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Pan Cuiqing was dismissed from his position as the assistant of Wuxu Palace due to charges of harboring and connivance, and was demoted to the rank of fourth-grade wine priest. A fourth-grade wine priest without a position, his future was almost ruined. Yue Liuli was deprived of his position.
As a Taoist priest, he is temporarily imprisoned in the prison of Wanshou Chongyang Palace.
Since the Sixth Generation of Great Masters, the Taoist Sect has advocated careful punishment, especially when it comes to treating its own people. In terms of imposing capital punishment, it has always advocated killing less and with caution. Even the major Jiangnan case that shocked the Taoist Sect was just death.
It’s just a square mile.
Therefore, it is reasonable for Yue Liuli not to die. After all, Qi Xuansu, the person involved, is not dead either, so one life is not worth another.
However, there is an old saying: "Death can be avoided, but living crime cannot be avoided."
Just because you escaped death doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. The punishment of confinement is still waiting for the sinner.
In this regard, in addition to Yujing, each of the three roads has its own prisons. Except for some prisons that temporarily hold prisoners, the real prisons all exist in the form of caves, such as the famous Zhengdao Zhenmojing Cave, which is located all over the country.
The True Dao is the Demon Locking Tower Cave, and the Taiping Dao is the Dragon Palace Cave.
These caves are very vast inside, but they are isolated from the outside world and cannot see the light of day. Entering them is equivalent to being exiled. Even pseudo-immortals and their ilk cannot escape.
Among them, Zhengdao's Demon Suppressing Well Cave is the most terrifying. Most of those banned are demons who can cause huge seas of blood in the world. Therefore, there are formations specifically designed to kill people's cultivation. The environment is harsh and the guards are the most heavily guarded.
, even the passage is one-way. Once sent into it, there is no hope of being released unless the seal of the cave is broken. And above the cave of the Demon Suppressing Well is the more famous Demon Suppressing Platform and "Exorcist Pillar".
This place is an execution ground. The so-called "execution pillars" are two huge pillars that attract sky thunder. The sky thunder is used instead of the guillotine to execute various extremely advanced criminals.
At this time, Yue Liuli
He is still detained in the Wanshou Chongyang Palace in Difei Mountain. After he is formally convicted, he will be escorted to the Demon Locking Tower Cave in Tiancang Mountain. Compared to the terrifying Demon Suppressing Well Cave, the Demon Locking Pagoda Cave is slightly better.
As the name suggests, this place was originally used by the Taoist sect to imprison monsters, corresponding to the Demon Suppressing Well. However, as the number of monsters became less and less, the genius of the Demon Locking Tower Cave gradually turned into a prisoner. Many of the restrictions were aimed at monsters.
Human beings, after entering, except that they are not free, everything else is fine.
It has to be said that this is already the maximum punishment under the current framework of Taoist laws.
The reason why Pei Xiaolou wrote the letter was just to inform Qi Xuansu of the result, and not to seek Qi Xuansu's opinion. This was something Qi Xuansu had known for a long time. After he handed over the voice note, the outcome of this matter would be different.
It doesn't depend on his will at all.
After Qi Xuansu read it, he put down the letter in his hand and sat on the chair in silence for a while.
Regarding the whole matter, Qi Xuansu was suspected of being narrow-minded and demanding retribution for every penny spent. He did not deny it. Qi Xuansu had also been wavered and hesitated to let it go, but he always thought of the helplessness and despair he felt before his death.
The pain and these waverings will be swept away again, leaving only hatred.
He almost died.
After death, everything becomes empty.
The key point is that he almost died inexplicably. He neither died calmly nor died well. He was not even a sensible person. He was like a funny buffoon, the kind that others would use as a source of conversation and ridicule.
Then why doesn't he hate it?
Why should he be tolerant?
After all, he is not Xuan Sheng, he cannot laugh away his grudges when meeting each other, and he cannot forgive his enemies for the sake of the overall situation.
Besides, what do Yue Liuli and Wan Xiuwu have to do with the overall situation?
"That's fine." Qi Xuansu said to himself, "There is no way to bring about blessings and misfortunes, they can only be brought about by oneself."
Having said this, Qi Xuansu paused and laughed at himself: "Why pretend to be generous? You are not a generous person at all."
He tapped the table with his fingers: "There are still Monk Yanxiu and Zhao Fu'an left."