Lin Su raised a question, one that would be wrong no matter how it was answered!
As someone within the Holy Hall, could you share honor and disgrace with the Sacred Families?
If you said yes, then you had lost the Holy Hall's impartiality. If you said no, then you had lost the sentiment of home...
This was the bizarre consciousness born from the Holy Hall's current bizarre organizational structure with the Sacred Families...
A quagmire of thought that no one in the Holy Hall could escape...
The Holy Hall was like an imperial dynasty, while the Sacred Families were feudal lords. Nearly everyone in the Holy Hall had countless tangled connections to the Sacred Families, and everyone naturally felt close to their own household.
But such closeness could not be brought into the open.
On public occasions, everyone had to present themselves as selfless and impartial. They absolutely could not give others grounds to accuse them of favoring their own household and suppressing other Daos.
Lin Su added, "Brother Wu may have misunderstood me somewhat. Today is a good time to clear it up. My entanglement with the Painting Sage Sacred Family began with the Azure Lotus Dao Discussion. At the time, I was rash enough to discuss painting as an outsider to the Dao, and I bested the Painting Sage Sacred Family. Thus, the Sacred Family took offense and wished to eliminate me at all costs..."
Everyone in the corridor stood agape...
Up in the high pavilion, Li Guihan covered her face...
The destructive force of those words was practically nuclear. Under the guise of clearing up a misunderstanding, he had torn open the wound of the Painting Dao. At the Azure Lotus Dao Discussion, he had discussed painting as an outsider to the Dao and bested the