About four hours later, Chu Xisheng walked out of the hall with a solemn expression, accompanied by "Pine-Wind Sword" Lin Shi.
The meeting had actually ended an hour earlier, and the Iron Banner Gang's many hall masters had already dispersed.
Chu Xisheng had stayed this long to persuade the Tie Brothers to reconsider the matter of making him Young Banner Chief.
Not only did he have no desire to become Young Banner Chief, he even wanted to turn down the position of Deputy Banner Chief.
Chu Xisheng expected to remain in Xiushui Commandery for another six months at most.
At that point, he could leave West Mountain Hall in the care of Li Shenshan and the others, while he and Chu Yunyun headed to Formless Main Mountain to focus on cultivation, free of attachments.
Cultivation remained their foremost priority. Only by mastering the entire Yazi Diagram as soon as possible could Chu Xisheng gain the ability to control his own destiny.
Yet after that hour, Chu Xisheng had not persuaded Tie Kuangren. Instead, the Tie Brothers had persuaded him.
Tie Kuangren believed that West Mountain Hall had grown too large. It had already stirred considerable criticism within the Iron Banner Gang and unsettled many of its veterans.
Some even believed West Mountain Hall should be divided up and several more hall masters promoted from within the gang.
Some of these people genuinely had the gang's interests at heart, fearing disorder between its internal and external branches and an inversion of their relative importance. Others, however, harbored ulterior motives.
The great aristocratic families of Xiushui might even be behind some of them, seeking to sow discord throughout the Iron Banner Gang.
If the controversy surrounding West Mountain Hall went unchecked, it would inevitably damage the bonds between the gang's brothers and