Chapter Sixty-Seven: Sitting and Talking at Night
Nan Kezi asked softly, "Does Mr. Li want to ask about the 'Wuqi True Pill' first, or do you want to ask about the Qingwei Sect and the Qingyang Sect first?"
After Li Xuandu thought about it, he asked, "How is the Qingyang Sect?"
Nan Kezi sighed: "Mr. Li rushed from Zhongzhou to Qizhou, if he entered Qi from Guide Mansion to this Lanling Mansion, he should have seen it all the way. Natural disasters are also man-made disasters. The natural disaster is this year's drought in Qizhou, and there is no harvest. Man-made disasters are divided into two parts, one part is that the imperial court is tyrannical and does not think about disaster relief, and the other part is that the Qingyang Sect plots against the law, taking the opportunity to cause trouble, and coercing the displaced people who have been affected by the disaster, so that those prefectures and counties that have not been affected by the disaster will also be unable to survive.
"If Qizhou is a reservoir that stores water, then the natural disaster is to tear a hole in the dam of this reservoir, if the imperial court plugs it in time, there will be no big mistakes, but the imperial court really has no money and food to gamble on this hole. The Qingyang Sect also wants to expand this gap, so that all the water in the reservoir is released, and there will be a flood all over the sky, just let them be the king and hegemon, which cares about the life and death of the people. ”
Li Xuandu asked, "Dao Chief, what do you think of Qin Daofang, the governor of Qizhou?"
Nan Kezi pondered a little and said, "He is still a minister of the country." ”
Li Xuandu asked again: "Then is it possible for him to calm down the chaos in Qizhou?"
Nan Kezi was stunned for a moment, and replied: "I'm afraid it's difficult, Qin Daofang is only the governor of Qizhou, not the king of Qi, although he is always in charge of the military and political power of Qizhou, but he is also constrained by the imperial court, and also by the constraints of those local gentry in Qizhou, of course, it also depends on the faces of several major sects." ”
Speaking of this, Nan Kezi paused, and even lowered his voice slightly: "It's not that the old Tao is eccentric, in fact, our Donghua Sect is really nothing, it's just that we are in the troubled times, we are competing for the world or something, and it is not enough to talk about it, what can really affect the situation in Qizhou is the Qingwei Sect." ”
Li Xuandu nodded: "This can't help but mention the Qingwei Sect." ”
Nan Kezi said: "Some words are not old ways to speak of, but Mr. Li asked, and the old way dared to say a few words." ”
Li Xuandu leaned forward slightly: "Dao Chief, please speak." ”
Nan Kezi said: "The 'Four-Six Dispute' of that year superficially involved ten sects, led by Qingwei Sect and Zhengyi Sect, Zhengyi Sect did not talk about him, how many years, since the beginning of the alliance of the twelve sects of the Righteous Path, it has always been the leader of the alliance. The Qingwei Sect is a rising star, which has only slowly flourished in the past hundred years, gradually replacing the second seat of the Taiping Sect and becoming a role that can compete with the Zhengyi Sect. As for why the three sects of our Daomen should follow the Qingwei Sect to oppose the Zhengyi Sect, the biggest reason is that the Zhengyi Sect is the Zhengyi Sect, and our three sects are all true Dao, which involves the dispute over the Dao system. ”
"After the '46 Dispute', Zhengyizong won on the surface, but Qingweizong did not lose a big defeat. Since then, many things have gradually surfaced, but in fact, it is the twelve sects that participated in the '46 dispute', that is, the 12 sects of the righteous path have all participated. Among them, Jing Chan Sect stood on the side of Qingwei Sect, Taiping Sect stood on the side of Zhengyi Sect, the final result is that Zhengyi Sect did not lose, Qingwei Sect did not lose, and the real losers were Taiping Sect and Jing Zen Sect, these two major sects were substituted ghosts. ”
Li Xuandu's face was slightly solemn: "Yan Feiqing and the palace officials are also vague about such things, they dare not assert it, and dare to ask where did the chief ask from?"
Nan Kezi stroked his beard lightly and said, "It's also a coincidence, when Sect Master Li visited Jin Ao Peak, Lao Dao went to find the Sect Master because of something, and overheard them talk about it. ”
Li Xuandu sighed lightly: "I see." ”
Nan Kezi continued: "The dust of the '46 Dispute' has settled, the Zhengyi Sect is still the nominal leader of the righteous path, the Qingwei Sect and the Zhengyi Sect are fighting separately, while the Taiping Sect and the Jing Zen Sect are closing the mountain and closing the temple, so the situation has changed. ”
Li Xuandu asked, "What do you say?"
Nan Kezi said: "Jing Zen Sect has made up its mind to abide by neutrality, Taiping Sect is wavering, and Qingwei Sect is afraid that it has some dealings with various sects of the evil way. ”
Li Xuandu nodded silently.
Nan Kezi was a little surprised by Li Xuandu's attitude: "Mr. Li already knew?"
Li Xuandu sighed: "After all, I came out of there, even if I was squeezed out badly, but I still have some ears, so I have some guesses, but I haven't been sure." ”
Nan Kezi sighed softly: "Qingwei Sect, what a big foundation, thirty-six hall masters, seventy-two island masters, a full one hundred and eight people, and the lowest cultivation also has an innate realm. Under the command of these island masters and hall masters, how many people, sword practitioners, murderers, moneymakers, cultivators, shipbuilders, merchants, seafarers, plus their wives and children, not to mention 100,000 people, Qingwei Sect stomped his feet, Qizhou will be shaken three times, how powerful is this?"
Li Xuandu said: "This foundation is not in the hands of that Sect Master Li, but in the hands of the old Sect Master, so everything else is vain." ”
Nan Kezi said: "The old sect master lives in seclusion in Penglai, and he doesn't care about the world for a long time. ”
Li Xuandu fell silent.
Nan Kezi's meaning is very clear, this is all he knows, or rather, this is the only thing he knows and can say.
Li Xuandu is blind in both eyes, but his heart is not blind, and the rest still has to listen to what Lu Yanbing says.
Li Xuandu turned around and said: "After all the gossip, it's time to talk about business, may I ask the chief, how is the 'Wuqi True Pill' that I entrusted you to refine?"
Nan Kezi stroked his beard and smiled: "Live up to Mr. Li's trust." ”
Li Xuandu asked, "I don't know where Dan is?"
Nan Kezi said: "The pill has been refined, but it is not yet the time to be baked, and now it is still in the Dan furnace of the Medicine King Palace, and it will take about three days of warmth and recuperation, because the Dan furnace is to lead the earth to fire and refine the pill, and it will take another day to wait for the Dan furnace to cool down, so Mr. Li will have to wait for another four days." ”
Li Xuandu smiled: "I've been waiting for four years, and it's not bad for these four days." ”
Nan Kezi nodded and smiled: "What Mr. Li said is very true, just let the old Taoist help Mr. Li regulate his eyes, you must know that most of the people who make alchemy are proficient in medical science, and the reason why our Donghua Sect can settle down in the rivers and lakes is that in addition to this alchemy ability, the ability to cure diseases and save people is not bad." ”
Li Xuandu suddenly remembered Brother Song who died unexpectedly, and asked an irrelevant sentence: "All diseases can be cured, and even the fall can be redeemed with pills, so can the 'ghost curse' be cured?"
Nan Kezi was stunned, then shook his head and said, "No." ”
Li Xuandu asked again: "According to legend, the 'Taiyin Thirteen Swords' can make people turn into sword slaves, can they be healed?"
Nan Kezi still shook his head and said, "No." ”
Then he looked at Li Xuandu: "Could it be that Mr. Li has been hit by the 'ghost curse'?" or has he practiced the 'Taiyin Thirteen Swords'?"
Li Xuandu shook his head, did not reply positively, and instead said: "The matter of the eyes, there is a long way to go." ”