He Xiu's matter-of-fact attitude was something Chen Guo had experienced many times and was no longer surprised by. However, seeing the Zhan Lou Lan five freeze up collectively, she felt a bit of schadenfreude. Chen Guo still hadn't developed any affection for Zhan Lou Lan and his group, and seeing them get abused by Ye Xiu and then lectured, she felt extremely pleased.

Ye Xiu's way of comforting them didn't really have much effect. The five were still quite dejected. The aspirations they had once chatted about had all become a pipe dream after this battle. Now that they thought about it, they even felt a little scared. They secretly rejoiced that they had only joked about it amongst themselves. If they had really proclaimed it, for example, boldly shouting slogans in the current promotion, they would have been laughed at when they entered the professional league.

After all, esports is mainly for young people, especially the professional circle. The five of Zhan Lou Lan were not very old and had the minds of teenagers. They thought of hiding their strength and making a splash in the professional league, shocking the professional experts and making their jaws drop. They would feel great at that time. But now they finally knew that this idea was best described as sitting in a well and looking at the sky.

Usually, when watching competitions, they thought the professional players were just so-so. They could do the same operations as professional players; they had practiced their hand speed to the point where there was no pressure. But they never thought that when they actually competed with a god, it would be a completely different matter. They could usually reach a hand speed of 200 or 300, but at this time, they couldn't use it at all; their familiar combos were broken after only a couple of moves.

The Zhan Lou Lan five couldn't get out of their disappointment for a long time, but the announcement they had arranged to build momentum had already begun.

The first news to come out was on the major Glory forums.

There were still many discussions about Lord Grim in the gossip sections of these forums, and among these discussions, a tracking gossip about the latest situation of Lord Grim flashed out, which decisively pointed out that Lord Grim had joined the guild Yi Zhan Tian Xia.

Although Yi Zhan Tian Xia hadn't established branch networks in every normal server like the club guilds, it was already well-known in the Heavenly Domain.

In fact, in the minds of ordinary players, once they reached the Heavenly Domain, the normal servers were already in the past, and any achievements in the normal servers were not worth bragging about. Therefore, long-term plans like the club guilds starting from the normal servers were ignored by most players. Everyone only looked at the Heavenly Domain. And here, Yi Zhan Tian Xia was one of the very few player guilds that had a bit of influence like the club guilds.

One side was a very famous player guild, and the other side was the most popular mythical figure recently. The combination of the two immediately injected a booster into the gradually dull discussions about Lord Grim. The gossipers were all on the move, starting to post nonsense and build the hype.

The club guilds, of course, quickly learned of this news as well. They didn't even need to crawl the forums. Although they didn't regard guilds like Yi Zhan Tian Xia as major competitors, they still had to guard against them suddenly jumping out and stirring up trouble. These club guilds at least had to pay attention to their influence and the balance of power between each other, etc. But player guilds didn't care about this. They did whatever they wanted based on a single word: "fun." So, it was impossible to predict what actions they would take. Of course, the major club guilds would also plant people to try to obtain some information about such unpredictable bombs.

New member join notifications like this would be announced by the system, so the spies who were online, of course, immediately sent the news to their guilds.

The major club guilds, which had been watching and waiting, never expected to see such a result after a few days of watching. Lord Grim's current fame already made them afraid to act rashly, and now that he had joined the somewhat famous Yi Zhan Tian Xia, it would be even more troublesome to make a move against Lord Grim.

While the news that appeared on the forums attracted the attention of players and sparked discussions, it also made the major club guilds feel more and more tricky. Another piece of news appeared on the major esports platforms: Zhan Lou Lan, the guild leader of the Glory guild Yi Zhan Tian Xia, would form a team to participate in the professional league next season.

If the news on the forums was sometimes gossip, both true and false, then the news officially announced by the website platform was basically reliable.

This news was quickly turned to the major forum sections, spreading rapidly to every place that Glory players would set foot in.

Zhan Lou Lan himself was already a fairly famous player in Glory. Just his name alone could attract considerable attention, plus the news that he was forming a new team, it naturally attracted widespread attention.

More importantly, combined with the previous news that Lord Grim had joined the guild Yi Zhan Tian Xia, all the players had a sudden realization: This wasn't joining any guild, it was clearly joining the team that Zhan Lou Lan was going to form, right? No wonder Lord Grim, such a high-profile expert, hadn't been poached by any club. It turned out that Zhan Lou Lan had taken the lead and roped him in.

Zhan Lou Lan was a very strong RMB warrior (a player who spends a lot of real money on the game), and many players knew this. But no one knew exactly what his family background was. The information released in the two news items that appeared didn't reveal much. It just said that Zhan Lou Lan intended to form a team to participate in the professional league next season, and that Lord Grim had joined his guild Yi Zhan Tian Xia.

After learning of this news, the problem was no longer just being considered by the guild leaders of the club guilds. The problem had been further thrown to the higher levels of the clubs.

A new team, facing this, wasn't something that could be decided and dealt with by the guild leaders alone.

In today's professional league, the two teams ranked last in the regular season each season will be eliminated from the league, and then two new teams will join the league to fill the vacancies in the new season. After all, Glory esports has only been developing for a short time, and it cannot establish a complete secondary league to implement a promotion and relegation system. It has to adopt such a relatively cruel elimination mechanism.

How to determine which two teams? The league has its own set of selection and review plans. The major clubs are, of course, very clear about these rules and regulations. At this stage of the season, the new team selection for next season should already be almost complete. The news announced at this time is mostly reliable. What's more, the major clubs each have their own relationships and channels. After a little inquiry, they all confirmed that the source of this news was reliable.

For new teams, all the clubs didn't dare to take them lightly.

In today's league, a new team doesn't mean it's a weak team. Especially when they have a strong investor, with a lot of money being spent, they can very likely directly create a luxury team. They will also stir up the transfer market and disrupt the league structure.

This time, the team being formed was by Zhan Lou Lan, a well-known money warrior in the Glory online game, and no one knew what his family background was. This made the major clubs inevitably beat a small drum in their hearts. Especially since this Zhan Lou Lan had actually roped in Lord Grim.

Who was Lord Grim? The players didn't know, but the major clubs knew it very well. That was the God Ye Qiu. If it weren't for his retired status, he would have been snatched up. This Zhan Lou Lan had roped in Ye Qiu. Although it was impossible to send him to the field immediately next season, with the ability of this God who was known as a textbook, it was more than enough to train a good team.

After this news was confirmed, all the major clubs had already started holding emergency meetings.

Everyone valued Ye Qiu going solo, but they didn't think it was that scary. But this guy actually found such a mysterious backer, which immediately made everyone feel uneasy. Some people even suspected that Ye Qiu's sudden retirement from Excellent Era was because he had reached some agreement with Zhan Lou Lan on this side.

This Zhan Lou Lan wanted to form a team, and applying for approval couldn't have been just today. To meet the requirements of the review and prepare those application materials, this wasn't work that could be completed in a short time. It wouldn't be surprising to plan for a year or two. When did Ye Qiu get in touch with this group of people? What made him abandon Excellent Era, where he had worked hard for seven years, and even escape by retiring, which was like crippling himself? Was the team that Zhan Lou Lan wanted to build really that attractive?

Many clubs overthought it and turned the whole thing into a conspiracy theory. Only Excellent Era, which fully knew the inside story of Ye Qiu's retirement, could remain clear-headed and not think too much about it at this time. However, if Ye Qiu relied on such a force to rise again, it was also not what they wanted to see.

Moreover, on Excellent Era's side, Liu Hao, Chen Yehui, and others worked hard and obtained information that other clubs were not yet aware of: At this time, Ye Qiu had gathered a group of experts around him, and they were very likely the players that Zhan Lou Lan was going to form a team with.

So, the club asked Chen Yehui's guild for a lot of information about Zhan Lou Lan's guild, and everyone began to deeply analyze which people in Zhan Lou Lan's guild were the hidden experts.

Warlock, Striker, Assassin, Launcher. Players of these four classes in Yi Zhan Tian Xia had all been targeted. Excellent Era Club firmly believed that experts were buried among them and were thinking about whether to start testing with alternate accounts.

The problem was that Yi Zhan Tian Xia also had a maximum of ten thousand members in the guild. Even if they took the theoretical average, each class would have four hundred people, and these four classes would be one thousand six hundred people.

If they were all tested, the workload would be huge, and the commotion would be too great. Zhan Lou Lan had just announced that he was going to form a team, and then the guild in the Heavenly Domain was immediately attacked. This would definitely attract attention, and no club wanted to attract public attention in this way.

We have to find a way to create some disputes!

Excellent Era was anxiously thinking about countermeasures for Ye Qiu's re-establishment.