Cheng Buzheng had not considered these questions before.
He had simply been thinking too simply.
Of course, this was also because Chu Daofeng did not understand the tangled web of relationships within the Supervision Hall, and thus had overlooked them!
No... or perhaps Chu Daofeng did understand!
That was why Chu Daofeng had so solemnly introduced Hall Master Chu's many supporters to him back then, before going alone to sound those supporters out.
At the time, Cheng Buzheng had even found it rather strange. Did Chu Daofeng not understand how complicated people's hearts were?
But now, it seemed that Chu Daofeng had been brimming with confidence back then.
Cheng Buzheng had considered matters from the perspective of human nature before, while overlooking the relationships involved!
The key was that he had not known the hidden secrets behind it all!
After all!
Such secret intelligence was not something one could simply inquire about!
Previously, Cheng Buzheng had only been a third-rank Supervision Envoy. He simply could not come into contact with cultivators or circles at that level.
If not for True Lord Zuo, that "fence-sitter," hinting at this point while mentioning his own helpless predicament, Cheng Buzheng still would not have understood these connections.
Before this, he had thought that only the Hall Master's position had a term limit!
Precisely because, once such an important authority went unrestricted, it would not take many terms before the Supervision Hall became the private domain of a single sect.
Therefore!
The Hall Master was the position that mattered above all else.
As for the other posts, they were comparatively unimportant.
Especially when the Supervision Hall had no Deputy Hall Master!
The Supervision Hall was practically a one-man court under the Hall Master, but the appearance of a Deputy Hall Master also marked a period