There being spies among them had been within Lin Bai's expectations.
A thousand years ago, His Highness Prince Chen had been banished from the Imperial Capital, and the Heavenly Guard Battalion had been disbanded at that time.
The warriors of the Heavenly Guard Battalion had faced only two choices then: either leave the Imperial Capital and return to their sects or Lineages,
or change allegiance.
Half of the Heavenly Guard Battalion's warriors had returned to their Lineages and sects, while the other half had changed allegiance.
The phrase "change allegiance" referred to the Third Prince.
Whether it was His Highness Prince Chen's Heavenly Guard Battalion or the Third Prince's Sun Moon Pavilion, the experts within them had merely wanted to assist a prince in ascending the throne, thereby securing a bright future for themselves, their Lineages, and their sects.
Since His Highness Prince Chen had fallen, they would naturally pledge allegiance to the next prince.
Then, a thousand years later, His Highness Prince Chen had returned to the Imperial Capital and summoned the warriors of the Heavenly Guard Battalion once more.
Many of the warriors who had pledged allegiance to the Third Prince had returned to the Heavenly Guard Battalion under the Third Prince's instructions, serving as spies and hidden agents.
Lin Bai had already anticipated that there would inevitably be hidden agents from the Sun Moon Pavilion in this operation, but he had never expected there to be so many.
The warrior who had first spoken up to warn Xia Jingzhi was also a warrior of the Heavenly Guard Battalion.
And now, the warriors who had stepped forward to assist Xia Jingzhi were still warriors of the Heavenly Guard Battalion.
By this calculation, more than fifty Great Purity Dao Fruit Realm warriors from the Heavenly Guard Battalion had come