Dominating Martial King
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510: Chapter 260: Return (Please Subscribe) 510: Chapter 260: Return (Please Subscribe) Late at night, Tie Xiaosheng returned to Xiushui County Eastern Dock in high spirits.

He had originally been in Shangliu County, overseeing preparations for battle, ready to confront the court’s army, diligently busy to the point of exhaustion every day.

However, at noon today, Chu Xisheng sent news that he had returned to the Iron Banner Gang headquarters, instructing Tie Xiaosheng to quickly bring all the Outer Hall Masters back to the East City Pier for a meeting.

Tie Xiaosheng was quite surprised.

The safe return of Chu Xisheng to Xiushui County was truly excellent news for the Iron Banner Gang.

Although Chu Yunyun had been overseeing the gang’s military affairs and all official business recently, Chu Xisheng was indeed the spiritual pillar of the Iron Banner Gang.

No matter how well Chu Yunyun handled the gang’s official duties or responded to military affairs, she could not replace the status of Chu Xisheng in the eyes of all the gang members.

If this spiritual pillar, Chu Xisheng, were to fall, the morale and spirit of the Iron Banner Gang would collapse.

Now, the return of Chu Xisheng could greatly stabilize the hearts of all the Iron Banner Gang members.

After Iron Madman’s death, he was the pillar of white jade that propped up the sky for the Iron Banner Gang, the purple golden beam that spanned the seas.

That’s why, after receiving the news, he immediately dropped all his duties and rushed back to the Iron Banner Gang.

What puzzled Tie Xiaosheng was that the headquarters also required all Outer Hall Masters to return as well.

Tie Xiaosheng thought it was complete nonsense.

At that moment, the sixty thousand troops of the East State Army were camped sixty li west of Shangliu County.

There was also the Jiangnan County Navy Camp, which, although it had been heavily damaged by them, still retained some combat power.

In Shangliu County, there still needed to be capable people to hold the fort.

To prevent a sudden attack by the court that would catch them off guard.

Surprisingly, that very afternoon, for unknown reasons, the East State Army had voluntarily withdrawn sixty li.

The naval combat ships, originally stationed upstream, had also disappeared from sight.

Only the more than seventy ships at the Seventeen Linked Wharves in Lishui Town remained, bewildered and eventually withdrew upstream as well.

Tie Xiaosheng was completely baffled, clueless about the reasons.

Still, before leaving, he took all the Outer Hall Masters with him.

Chu Xisheng had taken over the Iron Banner Gang less than a month ago, and though he had gained a substantial reputation among the lower-ranking disciples, many veterans within the gang did not yet regard Chu Xisheng as the true Flag Leader.

As the Deputy Flag Master, Tie Xiaosheng was bound to uphold Chu Xisheng’s authority.

Thus, no matter how absurd the commands from headquarters might seem, they had to be executed fully and without compromise.

When Tie Xiaosheng entered the temporary hall on that Ten Thousand Materials Ship with a group of people, he saw Chu Xisheng discussing matters around a large Mountain and River Map with a group of people.

Just as Tie Xiaosheng was about to salute, something in the corner of his eye caught his attention.

His expression immediately froze.

It was behind Chu Xisheng, at the uppermost part of the hall.

This place enshrined the shrine of “Emperor Zhongyi Changsheng” and the memorial tablet of Iron Madman, with incense smoke floating around.

And now, in front of the shrine on the incense table, there was a blood-drenched human head.

“Songfeng Sword Lin Shi!”

Tie Xiaosheng’s eyes immediately reddened, and he couldn’t help but tightly clench his fists.

He thought that this vile, treacherous scoundrel had finally been beheaded.

He first composed his expression solemnly, then greeted Chu Xisheng with a bow, his voice booming, “Flag Leader!

I, on the orders of the Flag Leader, have led everyone back!”

Behind him, the numerous Outer Hall Masters of the Iron Banner Gang also saw the head of Songfeng Sword Lin Shi, their faces flushing with excitement, eyes gleaming!

All members of the Iron Banner Gang despised Songfeng Sword Lin Shi to the bone.

Especially the former comrades from the Chongzhou Island Navy Camp, who wished to flay him alive, eat his flesh, and gnaw his bones!

And today, this Lin Shi, who caused the death of the Flag Leader and plunged the Iron Banner Gang into jeopardy, was dead!

However, after Tie Xiaosheng saluted, the others also quickly composed themselves, solemnly bowing in unison, “We are here to see the Flag Leader!”

As Chu Xisheng was instructing Zhoou Liangchen on some matters, he looked up at Tie Xiaosheng and the others behind him, a smile appearing on his face, “Stand up, everyone, find yourselves seats.

Today is not a formal incense hall meeting, the hall masters can be at ease, no need to be so serious.”

Yet Tie Xiaosheng’s expression remained stern, “Flag Leader, may I ask, by whose hand did Songfeng Sword Lin Shi die?”

“Lin Shi?” Chu Xisheng glanced at the head of Lin Shi on the incense table indifferently, “He died by my hand, on my way back, I casually went to the Haiqing Gang headquarters and executed him.”

The massacre at the Haiqing Gang headquarters had already been circulating within Xiushui County to a small extent.

The rumors on the streets were that Chu Xisheng had forcefully stormed into the Haiqing Gang headquarters, killed Lin Shi and Long Heng, and then left confidently.

Jian Cangfeng did not erase this event.

Because Chu Xisheng was passing by at the time, and his “Vengeful Blade Intent” had spread from the Haiqing Gang headquarters to the neighboring Sheshui Town, causing hundreds of townspeople to bleed from their seven orifices, making it something that couldn’t be concealed.

However, right after Chu Xisheng left, “Swallowing the Ages” Gu Qiansheng happened to pass by the place.

Taking advantage of the turmoil in the Haiqing Gang, he sacrificed thousands of Haiqing Gang members, along with several disciples from Blood Bat Mountain, as an offering to the Demon God “Burial Sky.”

The incident was bizarre yet plausible.

The Demon Battle Tower had set its sights on Chu Xisheng not just for a day, and “Swallowing the Ages” Gu Qiansheng, as an elder of the Demon Battle Tower, shadowing Chu Xisheng’s movements was within reason.

And since the Demon Battle Tower and Blood Bat Mountain were regarded as mortal enemies among the First-grade Demon Sects, persistently fighting and killing each other, years of animosity had accumulated between them, to the extent that even the phrase “blood feud” could not adequately describe their mutual enmity.