Fire

No matter what, staying in this forest which is filled with starving Tigers like the elders from the Sacred Grounds is very dangerous for them, who were on the Union's hit list. And that Elementary Stage cultivator might be a disciple from the Sacred Grounds.

His analysis was backed by the fact that he had seen the elders and disciples who were assembled for the appearance of one of the twelve Forbidden Zones.

And to stay safe, they had to leave this place.

As for the Assassin, his issue is not that important anymore. Staying alive is their top priority.

"But elder, Elder Brother Hamilton sent the disciples in all directions to pinpoint that offender's location."

That disciple said in anxiety. He didn't know why his elder was this anxious. But he had to tell the truth. After all, regrouping the disciples who were spread in all locations is not an easy task. It takes time.

Renshaw felt a huge headache. He yelled at the disciple in frustration, "Then go immediately and assemble them. We are leaving!!!"

That disciple was petrified on the spot for a moment. He then said, "Yes sir."

He left immediately at his top speed as if his butt was on fire to carry out his orders. He didn't know what was going on. But he knew that if he spoke even a single more word, his elder might even kill him on the spot. So, he immediately left as quickly as possible.

As for The Elder From the Dark Grimm Grotto, he took a series of deep breaths and tried to calm himself down.

But just as he was about to leave, he felt a chill in his heart. He suddenly looked into the sky. He was shocked by what he saw.

The clouds were changing colour. The pure smokey white clouds turned into black colour. The atmosphere turned from serene to evil. A huge amount of evil energy rose into the atmosphere. The trees and all the things within the 50km radius withered completely.

The people with weak hearts will immediately fall to the ground and submit to this power. Unless they had strong and firm hearts, they could not withstand such demonic power.

At that time, the Demonic Power rose even further. After that, the ground started to shake as if an earthquake was about to occur.

Renshaw was startled at first. But then, a thought immediately rose in his heart.

Demonic Forbidden Grounds!

"Demonic Forbidden Grounds has appeared!"

Miller, the Elder of the Ascension Sect looked at the change and became serious.

The young Mitchell became serious as well. He also sensed the changes and couldn't help but frown. He heard his sect's elders describe the changes in the atmosphere which indicates the emergence of the Demonic Forbidden Grounds.

At that time, he imagined what that would be like after hearing the description. But he never imagined that when he sensed the change in atmosphere, it was even more serious than in his imagination.

The Demonic Energy he sensed was much more terrifying than he imagined. If it was any other person, then that person would definitely submit to this Demonic Energy.

But the likes of Mitchell are disciples of the sacred grounds. They were geniuses on top of that. This Demonic Energy is not strong enough to dominate their willpower.

Almost similar thoughts were running in the hearts of all the elders and disciples of the other Sacred Grounds.

Elder Timothy from the Heavenly God Sect took a deep breath and said, "Let's go. Before others come here, we have to be there. Our disciples should enter the Demonic Forbidden Grounds to seize the advantage."

Others nodded and walked towards the entrance of the Demonic Forbidden Grounds.

As they walked towards the entrance of the Demonic Forbidden Grounds, Stuart, the elder of the Golden Crow Temple sighed and said in frustration, "How annoying. How good things were in the past. We Sacred Grounds always monopolized the Forbidden Grounds. And now, we have to let others enter the Forbidden Grounds as well. And we had to hurry up so that we could seize the advantage as if we were scared of them. This is annoying."

Other Elders also felt the same way. Elder Timothy sighed and said, "There is nothing we can do. If those small sects hadn't raised their voices, the Union wouldn't have been forced to allow them. If the Union didn't make that decision and allowed the other Sects, then we wouldn't have to be in this situation."

Other Elders also agreed.

In the beginning, everything was fine. Whenever the Forbidden Grounds emerged, the Sacred Grounds took advantage of it and monopolized everything they could.

All the people who survived and came out successfully from any Forbidden Grounds became experts and became influential figures in the Mortal World. Today, they received respect wherever they went.

But some people failed to make use of the opportunities and succumbed to the challenges they faced in the Forbidden Grounds. These people became strong. But due to their failure, their minds became corrupt. And then they became a notorious criminal in the Mortal World.

Because of this reason, the Union strictly forbade anyone from entering the Forbidden Grounds other than the people from the Sacred Grounds. Because of this, experts became a common thing in the Sacred Grounds. They were the strongest organizations in the entire Mortal World. But because of the chance encounter in the Forbidden Grounds, they managed to produce even more experts turning their already strong sects even stronger.

Looking at all this, annoyance and anger built up in the hearts of the smaller sects. They all grouped up and started to raise a question:-

"Why were their small sects forbidden to enter the Forbidden Grounds, while the Sacred Grounds could enter?"

The Union is the strongest ruler in the entire world. But the Union's top positions were occupied by the people from the Sacred Grounds.

The smaller sects also raised questions while taking this point as a reference. Some of them said:-

"Just because the people from the Sacred Grounds occupied the top spots in the Union, it doesn't mean that you could use the influence of the Union to make the rules in your favour."

These questions further raised a commotion in the entire world. To add fuel to the fire, even the vagabond cultivators also joined these small sects. Suddenly, this issue became very serious and people started to doubt whether the Union had become corrupted since they were the rulers of the entire world.

To calm people down, the President of the Union personally announced that, the Union has always worked for the people and it will exist for the people. As for the matter regarding the Forbidden Grounds, after discussing with the Sacred Grounds, the Union made a decision that from then on anyone can enter the Forbidden Grounds.

But there are some rules which they have to follow. Every person who came out from the Forbidden Grounds should undergo some series of tests. The test was to check whether these cultivators were corrupted or not.

If there are people who are corrupted, the Union will naturally deal with them. As for those people who weren't corrupted, the Union will naturally let them go.