The other adventurers immediately grew restless.
If they were merely barred from entering this one secret realm, they would at most grumble a few times.
After all, there were other low-level secret realms. They might just have to wait a few more days for them to open.
They could afford to wait that long.
But if the Heavenly Demon Guild barred all low-level adventurers from entering the secret realms under its control, then all their sources of income would be cut off.
Without enough money to exchange for food, their families would soon weaken and starve to death.
This was something no adventurer could accept.
Seeing the hostility gradually appear in the surrounding adventurers' eyes, the people from the Sky Canopy Guild began looking at Duan You differently.
As the two sides faced off, the young man kneeling on the ground kept muttering, "It's all my fault... It's all my fault..."
He suddenly drew a long saber from his waist.
His parents had struggled to work here and borrow money just to buy him this piece of green-grade equipment.
To adventurers, it was merely equipment slightly better than white-tier gear. A single trip into a secret realm could earn them one sooner or later.
But that was for adventurers.
His family had no talent for becoming adventurers. They could only sell their labor to earn enough money to barely survive.
Compared to those exceptionally gifted adventurers, a single adventure could probably earn as much as his family made through a year of grueling work.
When he had shown talent as an adventurer, his entire family had been overjoyed.
Adventurers not only possessed physiques far stronger than ordinary people, but they could also enter secret realms to explore and earn far more money than normal people.
Only then could they afford