Beautiful Lady Yu, better known as the Twelve Peaks of Wu Mountain, stood separately along the southern and northern banks of the Yangtze River, with six peaks on each bank. Among them, Goddess Peak was the most beautiful. These twelve peaks were associated with the Eleven Witches, which meant that one Great Witch was still missing.0

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Perhaps because Sage Qingwei had already set the tone beforehand, Qi Xuansu’s visit to Qizhou Daoist Mansion passed without incident. The youngsters of the Li family did not provoke him, and the older generation would also never do such things openly. They preferred to scheme in the shadows while maintaining smiling faces and pleasant conversation on the surface. Open provocation was like young men brawling over romantic rivals. Such hot-blooded impulsiveness was not the style of old schemers.0

Qi Xuansu and the Western Daoist delegation first toured Qizhou.0

In a sense, the Qizhou Daoist Mansion resembled a miniature version of the Daoist Order itself. Qizhou corresponded to the Central Plains, the core territory. The administered regions of Bohai Prefecture and the Liaodong Peninsula were equivalent to the overseas Daoist Mansions of the Daoist Order, while the administered portions...0