"Hm?"
"Someone seems to be down there?"
"Let's go take a look!"
"Don't let those brats from the Seven Sects get away!"
"Surround that place!"
"Yes!"
Suddenly, one of the Devil Dao rogue cultivators—who knew which one—spotted them and shouted. Then a group of cultivators, most of them apparently from the Ghost Spirit Sect judging by their attire, descended from the sky and slowly surrounded the patch of grass beneath the tree where Annie, Jin Xiaoli, and Chen Qiaoqian were picnicking.
At the moment, the Seven Great Sects—no, the Five Great Sects—had been routed, so the Six Devil Sects, Skybound Fortress, and Spirit Beast Mountain had naturally sent out large numbers of people to hunt down the scattered cultivators from the Five Sects all around the battlefield at Golden Drum Plains.
So it was no surprise that the several dozen people flying overhead had spotted the three picnickers below.
After all, the area was still in chaos following the decisive battle. Quite a few cultivators from the Five Sects remained here, and the Six Devil Sects would certainly have to conduct a thorough cleanup after the fighting.
The cultivators from the Five Sects were either busy fleeing or hiding and lying low. To the newcomers, it was certainly a rare sight to see three people like these sitting under a tree, calmly picnicking as if they hadn't noticed anything—and apparently accompanied by two little girls, too.
"Who's lingering here?"
"Something's off."
"!!"
"Look!"
"That woman's clothes..."
"Ha!"
"I was wondering who it was. Turns out there's a Yellow Maple Valley woman here!"
When the people from the Six Devil Sects noticed that the woman hastily getting to her feet—Chen Qiaoqian—was wearing Yellow Maple Valley's distinctive attire, confirming her as one of their targets, the Ghost Spirit Sect disciples sneered and