Taiping Inn

Li Xuandu returned to the original topic, "Just now Senior Brother Yuanzhen said that the Earth Master was also a guest official of the Female Sect?"

Ji Shuye nodded and said, "To be precise, it was once, and it was a long time ago. It was so early that Madam Leng was not the leader of the Female Sect, and the Earth Master was not the Earth Master, but the King of Qi. In the early years, I didn't know that the Earth Master was the King of Qi, and I was always confused. It was not until the identity of the Earth Master was exposed that I figured out the cause and effect."

Li Xuandu's face was a little strange, "Could it be that Madam Leng was the Princess of Qi back then?"

"Probably not." Ji Shuye shook his head and said, "It should be a concubine or a lover. The position of the Princess is too conspicuous, and the King of Qi has a bad relationship with the two generations of emperors, Shizong and Muzong. The Princess is easy to expose her identity and is also easy to be involved in the royal struggle. If she is accidentally deposed and imprisoned, the hard work of the Female Sect will go to waste, so I guess Madam Leng will be in A relatively inconspicuous position. "

Li Xuandu said: "If this is the case, at first, Madam Leng was like many disciples of the Female Sect. She was ordered to lurk beside King Qi, waiting for an opportunity to use King Qi, but she didn't expect that after King Qi turned to the martial arts world, he would rise step by step, first becoming the leader of the Yin-Yang Sect, and then becoming a geomancer. The relationship between the two gradually changed from exploitation to cooperation, and then to Madam Leng's complete dependence on the geomancer. Because of this, the geomancer helped Madam Leng become the leader of the Female Sect. In this process, the identity of the geomancer also changed from a great guest of the Female Sect to the Taoist partner of the leader of the Female Sect and the master behind the scenes of the Female Sect. "

Ji Shuye nodded and said: "That should be it. "

Li Xuandu looked at Ji Shuye, "I am more and more curious about who made Senior Brother Yuanzhen fall into the quagmire and told Senior Brother Yuanzhen so many secrets of the Female Sect. "

Ji Shuye remained silent.

Li Xuandu stared at Ji Shuye for a moment, then retracted his gaze, "I understand, the quagmire is the woman herself. In other words, it's not just Senior Brother Yuanzhen who is trapped in the quagmire, but you two are trapped in the quagmire together, so you are trapped so deeply and can't extricate yourself."

Ji Shuye raised his head, a little surprised, a little frightened after being seen through, "Zi..."

He then shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Mr. Qingping is worthy of being Mr. Qingping."

Li Xuandu sighed lightly, "If not for this, I really can't think of the reason why the woman would tell so many secrets, and I can't think of the reason why Wanshou Zhenren would continue to tolerate Senior Brother."

Ji Shuye looked dazed, and murmured, "Master... It's my unfilial disciple."

Li Xuandu suddenly thought of his master Li Daoxu. If this happened to him, what would the master do? Thinking of this, Li Xuandu couldn't help but smile bitterly, unwilling to think about it further.

Li Xuandu turned his thoughts back to the Female Sect. At this time, he could already conclude that the Female Sect disciple who was in love with Ji Shuye had almost betrayed the Female Sect, and even received some degree of recognition from Wanshou Zhenren. So after he mentioned the Female Sect, Ji Shuye hesitated for a moment and told him everything about the Female Sect. It seems that this matter had caused a stir before, and the final result was that Ji Shuye, Wanshou Zhenren, and the female sect reached a certain compromise. The female sect woman betrayed the Female Sect, Ji Shuye gave up the position of the sect leader to protect the reputation of the sect, and Wanshou Zhenren recognized the identity of the female sect woman and the relationship between the two as husband and wife.

After a long while, Ji Shuye adjusted his mood and continued, "My Taoist partner is one of the twelve female officials of the Female Sect. The female officials do not know each other's identities, but according to her speculation, one female official went to the Imperial Capital, one female official went to Jinling Prefecture, and another female official went to Liaodong."

"Liaodong?" Li Xuandu raised his eyebrows and thought about it seriously, but he had no clue. As for the Imperial Capital, Li Xuandu was worried about Li Rushi who went to the Imperial Capital alone. There was no news for so long, and he didn't know whether he had successfully met Murong Hua. The Imperial Capital was full of dragons and tigers, and it was really not a good place. Seriously speaking, Li Rushi's situation might not be much safer than Pei Yu and Su Lianrong.

Li Xuandu's thoughts suddenly became complicated. Among the two capitals and nineteen states in the world, Li Xuandu believed that there were two stubborn diseases. One was the imperial capital where the "head" was located, and the other was the northwest where the "legs and feet" were located. The northwest and Liaodong were like the two legs of the world, supporting the entire world. Now Liaodong was still a good leg, but the northwest had become a sick leg. The disease spread all the way to Zhongzhou and Jiangnan where the "heart" was located. If it was left unchecked, it would eventually lead to a disaster. But if you want to cure such a stubborn disease, you have to solve the five sects in the northwest. The Wudao Sect and Zaoge Sect are obvious symptoms, while the Yinyang Sect and the female sect are sick in the skin. You have to cut open the epidermis to see it, and even more, you have to cut open the flesh and blood to see it. Thinking of this, Li Xuandu felt that he was not strong enough, and he had to integrate the Taoist sect as soon as possible, and use the power of the Taoist sect to completely eradicate it.

There is a long way to go.

Li Xuandu withdrew his thoughts and asked, "Brother Yuanzhen, according to your speculation, are there any members of the Female Sect in the Tang Family Castle?"

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There are a total of four Shangqing Palaces in the world, located at Jin'ao Peak of Taiqing Mountain of Donghua Sect in Langya Prefecture, Qizhou, Qionglin Peak of Yunjin Mountain of Zhengyi Sect in Shangqing Prefecture, Wuzhou, Qingcheng Peak of Tiancang Mountain of Miaozhen Sect in Jianmen Prefecture, Shuzhou, and Cuiyun Peak of Beimang Mountain of Yinyang Sect in Longmen Prefecture, Zhongzhou.

The Shangqing Palace in Tiancang Mountain is the residence of the leaders of the Miaozhen Sect in all generations, and it is also the place where Wanshou Zhenren is in seclusion now.

As Song Zheng said, if there is no hope of immortality in the prime of life, then after old age, when the blood and qi are weak and the ambition fades, it will be difficult to achieve immortality. Wanshou Zhenren naturally understands this truth, so he retreats to practice not to improve his cultivation, but to warm up his body and soul, which has the mysterious effect of prolonging life. This is also the reason why he is called Wanshou Zhenren. Another point is that he also has the intention of hiding in peace.

For him, since the change of the imperial capital, state affairs have been unbearable. But family affairs are not much better, and they are also unbearable. He is already a 90-year-old man. Since the incident of Ji Tianwang and Zang Lao Ren, there are only a few people of the same generation. Even many of his disciples have left him first. He really doesn't have the energy to clean up the upper and lower, and can only barely maintain it.

Now he has only one little disciple left, who is also his most beloved disciple. He has been smart and different from ordinary people since he was a child, and he is well-behaved and sensible. He is a worry-free person for Wanshou Zhenren. But Master Wanshou never expected that the disciple who had made him worry-free for half his life would be a disaster that would shake the foundation of the sect once he was no longer worried. It can be said that if you don't make a sound, you will be shocked.

He had seen a lot of methods of the female sect, relying on women to win over and control officials in the temple and people in the world, and infiltrate various sects, but he didn't expect that his disciples would also fall into the calculations of the female sect.

At that time, he had already thought about passing the position of the sect leader to Ji Shuye, so many outings were served by Ji Shuye. When Ji Shuye left the mountain gate to go out, he "accidentally" saved a woman, and under various coincidences, they fell in love with each other. When Master Wanshou learned about this, the two had already been done, and Ji Shuye had already become the leader of a sect. What made Master Wanshou even more angry was that he was not the first to know about this, but someone knew about it and reported it to him. At that time, Master Wanshou was in a very complicated mood. He was heartbroken that the disciple he had taught and trained had violated the iron rule of the sect, and he also lamented that this disciple did not even understand the principle that if a minister is not loyal, he will lose his virginity.

In the end, in order to prevent someone from making a fuss about this matter, Master Wanshou decisively deposed Ji Shuye from the position of the sect leader and imprisoned him. However, to Master Wanshou's surprise, the female sect disciple disguised himself and came to Miaozhen Sect to ask for an audience with him, allowing him to be dealt with, just asking Master Wanshou to let Ji Shuye go.

What happened next became a drama of a judge who could not judge family affairs. Master Wanshou wanted to kill this evildoer, but when he thought that he only had one disciple left, he had watched him grow up from a three-year-old child and had always treated him as a son, even closer than his own son. In the end, he could not bear it and acquiesced to the matter.

However, in order to dispel the suspicion of Master Wanshou, the woman not only revealed many secrets of the Female Sect, but also abandoned her cultivation in front of Master Wanshou, turning from a master of the Return to the Realm into a weak woman who could not even tie a chicken.

Later, Master Wanshou would be upset and angry at his disciple's incompetence whenever he thought of this matter, but he thought again that incompetence also has its advantages. When Li Daoxu visited Miaozhen Sect, his second disciple Zhang Haishi became a close friend of Master Wanshou. Zhang Haishi often visited Miaozhen Sect and would mention some things about Qingwei Sect to Master Wanshou. In Master Wanshou's opinion, Li Daoxu's disciple was indeed competent enough, but brothers were not brothers, fathers and sons were not fathers and sons, and brothers turning against each other, and teachers and apprentices turning against each other, were not necessarily a blessing.

After thinking it through, Wanshou Zhenren also recognized the relationship between the two. However, because the woman had damaged her foundation by abandoning her cultivation, she was afraid that her life span would not be long. Ji Shuye was worried about her day and night, and he was exhausted. He wanted to ask the master to teach her the method of prolonging her life. Wanshou Zhenren would get angry every time, which showed that his apprentice had no intention of repenting. He simply turned a blind eye to it. As for his secret method of longevity, he had told the two of them that it could not be practiced without a boy's body. The two of you have already matched yin and yang, but you are not destined to use this method.

At this time, the only female disciple among Ji Shuye's many disciples came to his retreat. This girl was lively and very popular in the Miaozhen Sect, even Wanshou Zhenren was no exception, so she was one of the few people who could enter and leave Shangqing Palace freely. Anyway, Wanshou Zhenren's retreat was not afraid of being disturbed.

Then the woman said excitedly: "Master, Master, I saw Mr. Qingping, and he was talking to Master."