Fu Su, Leng Shou Tian, Ling Xian, Lian Mo, and Zhuang Ning Bing did not agree to Ye Zhen's request on the spot. They said the matter was of great importance and needed to be carefully discussed after they returned.
After all, this meant establishing a new Law Hall within the Five Immortals Sect, and this Law Hall would oversee all disciples.
In other words, the Five Immortals Sect would gain another authority-enforcement body aimed at the five sects. At first glance, this Law Hall would govern the disciples of all five sects and might even stand above them.
Fortunately, the Law Hall Ye Zhen proposed would act according to established laws, while those laws would be drafted, reviewed, amended, and approved by the five senior brothers.
Had that not been the premise, the five of them would likely have refused on the spot.
No one wanted a master suddenly appearing above their own head.
The conditions Ye Zhen proposed were like this: he wanted to become the Five Immortals Sect's penal whip, but how that whip would be wielded, whom it could strike, and whom it could not strike would all be governed by rules set by the five Supreme Elders.
Still, putting that aside, Ye Zhen's proposal greatly tempted the five of them.
His proposal might resolve the greatest problem currently plaguing the Five Immortals Sect—the ceaseless internal strife among the five sects.
This was a massive problem that had troubled Fu Su and the others for tens of thousands of years, one they had never been able to solve.
It was not that there was no solution, but that there was no solution all five senior brothers were willing to accept.
They did not want great authority to fall into another's hands, yet neither did they want