Taiping Inn

Although Situ Qiushui has a good status, it is the first time for him to enter the Qingling Palace.

Because Qingwei Sect attaches great importance to rules, Qingling Palace is similar to the Governor's Mansion. The Governor's Mansion is both an official office and the residence of the Governor. In addition to being the residence of the Sect Master or the Acting Sect Master, Qingling Palace is also a meeting place for all the Hall Masters and Island Masters. Situ Xuanlue is not the Sect Master or the Acting Sect Master, Situ Qiushui is not a Hall Master or an Island Master, and he has no duty to guard, so he naturally cannot enter. Because of his brother, Situ Xuanlue has always acted cautiously and would not indulge his daughter, so Situ Qiushui was able to enter the Qingling Palace this time, thanks to Qin Su.

Now Zhang Haishi is still the deputy sect master in name, but in fact he is already the acting sect master, so it is in accordance with the rules for him to move into the Qingling Palace. As the master of a sect, Qin Su can also be welcomed into the Qingling Palace when visiting Qingwei Sect.

In fact, in the hundreds of years of history of Qingwei Sect, Qingling Palace has always been the core of the core. Bajing Courtyard is just a half-retreat after the sect master retired early. The location is not important. It is just that Li Daoxu's influence is too great, which has caused the situation that only Bajing Courtyard is known in the sect but not Qingling Palace.

Qin Su once spent a period of youth in the Great Wilderness North Palace, and also saw the Taiping Palace, the Great Zhenren Mansion, the Shangqing Palace, and the Three Saints Temples of the Ghost Kingdom Cave Heaven. Among the major sects in the world, the only ones he has not seen are the Qingling Palace of Qingwei Sect and the Wuxu Palace of Wudao Sect.

Qingling Palace is a veritable Taoist palace, not inferior to the Great Zhenren Mansion of Zhengyi Sect. First, after passing a memorial archway engraved with the words "Qingwei", there is a huge square paved with white jade, as smooth as a mirror. The entire square is rectangular, like a long sword unsheathed. The entrance is at the "sword tip". After passing the "sword spine", "sword hilt" and "sword handle", you will arrive at the "sword head". Here are ninety-nine white jade steps, about ten feet wide, and each step is more than a foot high. Climbing all the way up, it is surrounded by white jade railings. There are different beasts carved on the top of the railings, which have the wonderful function of suppressing evil spirits and exorcising ghosts. The railings are carved with various legends of immortals. The pictures on each railing are different. If you look closely, you will find that these pictures are all extremely brilliant sword manuals. Unfortunately, people who can come here no longer need to learn these sword manuals, and people who want to learn will never come here.

Climbing up the steps, there is a huge palace, the whole body color tends to be blue-black, with glazed tiles, jade eaves, sandalwood floor, and ambergris equivalent to gold burning, the smoke is endless, it is really a fairyland

A plaque hangs above the main entrance of the hall, with the three characters "Qingling Palace" written on it.

Every time the Qingwei Sect holds a major meeting, the Qingling Palace will ring a mighty bell.

When there is no meeting, the Qingling Palace is very quiet, so quiet that it is creepy.

After the meeting hall, there is a slightly smaller palace. Big things are small meetings, big things are small. This is where the successive leaders and deputy leaders of the Qingwei Sect and the leaders of the upper three halls held small meetings in the past, and countless major events were decided, such as the three naval battles that determined the Qingwei Sect's dominance in the East China Sea.

But now this place has been idle for a long time, and the place for small meetings has been moved to the Eight Scenery Courtyard.

After Qin Su stepped into this place, she felt a little emotional. If Li Xuandu had not left Qingwei Sect, this Qingling Palace might have been their "new house", and they would have spent many years here. But now this place has nothing to do with them. Li Xuandu will no longer be the leader of Qingwei Sect. Even if Li Daoxu ascends to heaven, Li Xuandu wants to control Qingwei Sect, he will only support a leader instead of doing it himself.

Li Feiyan is very familiar with this place and has some feelings. When her father was alive, she lived in this Qingling Palace as the youngest daughter of the leader. After her father passed away, her brother-in-law and sister moved in. Although she no longer lived here, she also attended various meetings of various sizes many times. At first, she just listened, and later she began to slowly express her opinions, and finally became one of the few people involved in decision-making. It was here that she witnessed the rise of Qingwei Sect. Under the leadership of that senior brother and brother-in-law, it developed from a second-rate sect to a contemporary sect that can be compared with Wudao Sect and Zhengyi Sect.

The two of them sat down separately here, waiting for Situ Qiushui to come.

Qin Su looked at the layout here, a little absent-minded.

In fact, the Qingwei Sect has developed to this point and has the qualifications to compete for the world, but Li Daoxu is also old and does not have the ambitions of his youth. He is not Xu Wugui, and he has no obsession with the world. In addition, his disciples, old friends, and first wife have left before him, and he has nothing to miss, so he has determined that he will not stay in the world for another hundred years.

In this way, Li Daoxu has entered a dilemma of "old emperor". That is, the old emperor has not much time left, and the powerful officials dare not continue to bet their future on the old emperor. They have sought other ways out, and they are at odds with the old emperor, and even pretend to obey the old emperor, which has caused the old emperor's control over the situation to decline rapidly. There is chaos between father and son, between the emperor and the prince, and between the prince and his brothers.

It is this dilemma that has led to constant disputes within the Qingwei Sect, and it is no longer the situation of unity as before. Zhang Jingxiu was in a similar situation to Li Daoxu. A few years before his death, there were already undercurrents within the Zhengyi Sect, and many disputes began to emerge. After Zhang Jingxiu ascended to heaven, a series of dramatic changes also occurred within the Zhengyi Sect.

On the other hand, Tan Taiyun and Qin Qing were still in their prime and did not have such worries for the time being. Xu Wugui was determined to stay in the human world for another hundred years, and there was no such hidden danger.

Faced with this situation, Li Daoxu was not unable to deal with it, but he did not want to deal with it. His mind began to turn from the human world to the heaven. He spent more and more time in seclusion, and his cultivation became higher and higher. However, Qingwei Sect was the place where he devoted half his life. He could not give it up. Therefore, Li Daoxu only wanted to maintain the status quo. He did not hesitate to use Li Yuanying as a puppet, and did not interfere too much with Li Xuandu's behavior. But Li Daoxu never expected that his favorite disciple Li Xuandu could not wait, and was unwilling to wait until he ascended to heaven and passed away. He wanted to change the status quo now.

Li Daoxu was not inferior to others in his life, and his spirit was very high. How could he give in? As a result, the contradiction between the master and the apprentice became larger and larger, and gradually became irreconcilable.

As for why Li Xuandu was unwilling to wait until Li Daoxu ascended, it was more due to the situation. The sooner the world was peaceful, the fewer innocent people would die. There was no way to explain all these.

Qin Su had gradually figured out these truths at this time. Although Li Daoxu said that she would be a wife who kept it a secret, there was nothing she could do at this time. The only way is that one of Li Daoxu and Li Xuandu is willing to take the initiative to give in, then the world will be wide open. But in Qin Su's opinion, most of them are unwilling to give in. Li Daoxu thinks that Li Xuandu is unfilial, Li Xuandu thinks that Li Daoxu is unrighteous, and there are so many people inside and outside the Qingwei Sect, either "adding fuel to the fire", or watching the fire from the other side, or adding fuel to the fire. In the end, the two will most likely have a quarrel of arrogance.

Qin Su couldn't help but feel a little headache, and secretly thanked her father and Li Xuandu for being on the same page. If he was also involved, her father, husband, and father-in-law, three people with three different attitudes, she would be caught in the middle, and she didn't know how to deal with it.

Qin Su was thinking about these things when Situ Qiushui arrived. Because it was her first time to visit Qingling Palace, she walked slowly on the road. First, she was a little unfamiliar, and second, she took the opportunity to see this Taoist palace. In the past, she had heard her father talk about the Qingling Palace, and her uncle almost moved in. But no matter what, seeing is believing.

After arriving here, Situ Qiushui greeted the two people and called them "Deputy Sect Master" and "Fourth Aunt".

Although Li Feiyan had been on the Demon Suppression Platform for many years and had not known Situ Qiushui for a long time, she still liked this girl very much. At least she was more polite and had a better temper than Lu Yanbing.

In Qingwei Sect, there were few people who didn't like Situ Qiushui, at least on the surface. One reason was to save face for Situ Xuanlue, and the other was that Situ Qiushui was indeed extraordinary. Among the younger disciples, many men admired this Miss Situ, admired her appearance, her temperament, or her family background. Even Zhang Haishi, a man of lonely character, was willing to smile at this niece for the sake of Situ Xuance. Even Li Daoxu occasionally asked Situ Xuanlue about this granddaughter.

Li Feiyan waved her hand, indicating that Situ Qiushui didn't need to be polite, and asked her to sit down and talk.

Situ Qiushui first took out Qin Su's "Wanmiao Yanluo" and returned it to Qin Su, and then sat down properly.

After Qin Su thanked her, she asked about what happened after she left, and Situ Qiushui answered one by one.

Li Feiyan said: "Qiu Shui is a girl who is very thorough in her conduct, much better than her fifth aunt."

Qin Su smiled slightly: "Aunt, please don't make fun of Bing Yan, she is just like that, and now she is with Zi Fu, she must be well behaved."

Li Feiyan couldn't help laughing: "Your second senior brother has no children, and he has watched Zi Fu and Bing Yan grow up. He is like a father, and it is not too much to say that he treats them as his own children. Zi Fu is fine, Bing Yan has been smart since she was a child, and your second senior brother is cold on the outside but warm on the inside, and he indulges her too much, making her what she is now, without any resilience. And your master is a person who doesn't mind his own business, and it is only Zi Fu who is willing to take care of her tirelessly."

If you look at the appearance, the three women are only a dozen years apart, Li Feiyan is a woman of about 30 years old, Qin Su is a young woman of about 20 years old, and Situ Qiu Shui is a half-grown girl, but the three of them are truly three generations of grandparents and grandchildren.

Situ Qiu Shui sat aside and listened to the two elders talking, and did not interrupt rashly.

After a while, Li Feiyan and Qin Su gradually turned to the main topic, which was about the Qingwei Sect's rectification of Lanling Mansion. With Li Feiyan's status, she would not pay too much attention to these things. When it came to Lu Yanbing, it was considered the top, but since Qin Su was interested, she didn't mind asking about it.