Great Desert Lone Smoke's usurpation of Heavenly Battle Heroes had been premeditated and thoroughly prepared. For instance, from the moment he joined the guild, he had begun recruiting trusted followers. Later, he secretly trained hundreds of thousands of elite cavalrymen, and now he had received ample financial support from the Night Rain Family and Changjiang Group. He had likely been planning all this from the very first day he joined the guild. Under such circumstances, sidelining Tiandi, Zhan Tian Xia, and Hero Sword was only a matter of course.
That was indeed the case. At this point, Great Desert Lone Smoke had easily taken control of over eighty percent of Heavenly Battle Heroes' combat strength, which undoubtedly meant Tiandi and the other two had already been sidelined. Coupled with the oppressive presence brought by the five hundred thousand Qiongqi cavalry, even the players among the remaining twenty percent who supported Tiandi's group had begun to waver.
Upon realizing this, Tiandi, Hero Sword, and Zhan Tian Xia's expressions turned extremely ugly. However, they forcibly suppressed their anger, especially after watching Great Desert Lone Smoke effortlessly kill a player who had furiously confronted him. Only then did Heavenly Battle Heroes' players truly witness his strength for the first time—it was even greater than what he had previously displayed. Although he was still inferior to Ye Luo and Breaking Waves Riding Wind, he was no weaker than Long Teng Tian Xia or Qian Li Zou Dan Qi.
Just as Yan Hua Yi Leng and the others had previously judged, Tiandi and the other two now had only two options before them. The first was to angrily leave the guild with the people loyal to them and rebuild a guild from scratch. However, they could not bear to abandon a guild they had managed