Hundreds of years ago the Alchemists' Sect was running wild experiments with the cultivators of their empires, by chance one of the sons of the Emperor of the Shou Empire, actually, the third prince, had been secretly sent to the Heavenly Sword sect to cultivate a richer sect.
When the Alchemist Sect found out about it, it was furious and since this sect was already experimenting with the cultivators of the empires without any scruples, they thought that taking the third prince of the Shou Empire would be no big deal, and besides, this cultivator clearly was a traitor!
It should be made clear that there was no martial law among the great sects that forbade cultivators from choosing other great sects outside their territories to cultivate. What was forbidden was for the other great sects to invade the territories of others to conduct recruitment made directly by the sect.
