Peek is "to look at"; peak is "the top of".
In this case its throwing the wrong...visual metaphor?
He's Lake and Wood, so at the Peak of his qi suggests he's either flaring his qi for some reason, or that he had a Mountain like element dominant.
At the surface of his qi would be the better visual metaphor.
Its actually parsed clearer if it was peek, because Ling Qi certainly took a peek at his qi.
No, she wasn't:
She is now the 'Eldest great grandaughter', but Sun Shao has other great grandchildren. It's been mentioned previously by
@yrsillar.
Anyway, there are many reasons Sun Shao could have done that, and quite a few of those reasons are actually great for Sun Liling.
Ah, outdated info on my part, thanks.
However none of those reasons are going to be even remotely great for Liling's pride. Even if its the best for her I really don't see her taking it as anything but a punishment for failure.
My personal favored reading of it is:
-Liling was somewhat about "Victory justifies the means"
-Since she lost, the Sun need to save face and step back from Liling's approach. Without making the Bai look good.
-Thus the public rumor that its to let her focus on her cultivation obliquely suggests that Liling would have won if she wasn't busy with Family Stuff, much like Renxiang was, and could thus cultivate full time without those duties, like Meizhen had the benefit of.
But its not really strongly based
