Having heard his elder brother's words and learned that it was tradition, Zhang Tie stopped insisting and carefully began selecting from the list of characters available to claim.
Great Xia truly had no shortage of rules for founding a sect and establishing an ancestral hall. By now, however, the 875 Zhang Clan ancestral halls had claimed nearly all the characters that could be used in names. There were more than three thousand commonly used Chinese characters, and after excluding those that were obscure, inauspicious, or unsuitable for names, only a few hundred characters remained on Zhang Tie's preliminary list.
Zhang Tie browsed the list for a moment. After a brief contemplation, his gaze was mysteriously drawn to one particular character.
It was the character "servant."
Hua Clan culture was broad and profound, and every character carried deep meaning. For some reason, of all those characters, Zhang Tie felt the strongest connection to "servant." On its left was the character for "person," while on its right was the character for "divination," as though foretelling the future. Together, they seemed to carry some hidden meaning. In Zhang Tie's mind, there also lingered a vague impression of some scene related to this character, as if he had seen it somewhere before.
"Brother, let the Knights of Golden Crow Hall use this character, 'servant,' from now on..." Zhang Tie said, circling the character on the list before handing it back to Zhang Yang.
"Servant?" Zhang Yang was slightly surprised. The character was simply too ordinary, but he quickly accepted it. "All right, then we'll use servant!"
Mountain-Bearing True Person and the others exchanged glances. Each savored the flavor of the character "servant" before nodding to themselves.
Thus, if the future Knights of Golden Crow Hall—Zhang Tie's elder brother, Zhang Su, or even younger members