The next day, Lord Zhongtian relinquished his position as a council member of the Huanyu Alliance. After settling all his Huanyu Coins, he withdrew from the Huanyu Alliance.
A Gold Councilor, a Silver Councilor, and three Bronze Councilors left alongside Lord Zhongtian.
Lord Zhongtian's withdrawal did not deal a blow to the Huanyu Alliance, but it still had some impact.
Over the following period, more than a dozen lords gradually chose to withdraw from the Huanyu Alliance.
It was just as Huang Yu had originally intended when he established the Huanyu Alliance.
These lords had come for the benefits. Now that Huang Yu was directing the resources in his hands toward his own vassals,
they naturally felt that remaining in the Huanyu Alliance had lost its meaning.
Meanwhile, on the World Channel, claims that Huang Yu was forcing Alliance members to submit and even poaching them grew increasingly rampant.
They did not know that, apart from Galo, Huang Yu had never privately coerced or enticed any of those Alliance members.
Even Galo had only voluntarily joined the Huanyu Kingdom because the terms Huang Yu offered were simply too generous to refuse.
Moreover, there had never been any subordinate relationship within the Huanyu Alliance.
The so-called poaching was merely something Lord Zhongtian and the others had imagined.
The small groups they had formed during the Human-Demon War had also been driven by profit, not by a relationship between followers and those they followed.
However, the human lords who were envious and jealous on the World Channel did not care about such matters.
Furthermore, regarding this kind of issue, Lord Zhongtian's answers were ambiguous and deliberately vague.
This former number-one fan of Huang Yu now seemed to harbor a faint hostility toward the Huanyu Kingdom.
Huang Yu, however, did not care about