The Holy Maiden Gathering began as scheduled.
That day, a veritable sea of people surrounded the little Altar.
Su Jiu keenly noticed that, seemingly within a single day, many more outsiders like them had appeared in the Village.
She glanced at the somewhat excited Lan Xiaoxi beside her and could not help asking quietly, "Did this many outsiders come to the previous gatherings in your Village, too?"
Only after Su Jiu pointed it out did Lan Xiaoxi notice the problem.
Her bright, wide eyes filled with puzzlement. "Now that you mention it, I realize there really do seem to be quite a few more than usual."
Su Jiu's gaze darkened slightly. Poison Valley was not a place just anyone could enter whenever they pleased.
Some of these outsiders had concealed their cultivation, while almost none of the others were below the late Golden Core stage.
"Don't look around. Someone is watching us from the shadows."
Chu Luohen delivered those words through Secret Voice Transmission.
Su Jiu pressed her lips together and replied, "Did something we did beat the grass and startle the snake?"
Chu Luohen was uncertain about that himself. "Hard to say." He had only heard of the Enforcement Hall's capabilities and had never fully investigated them.
Su Jiu lowered her eyes slightly. Perhaps she should not have sent Yili to investigate the registration yesterday.
Of course, there was clearly no use saying any of that now.
Su Jiu knew only that, if the people from the Heavenly Dawn Sect and the Water Moon School discovered they were the ones lurking in the shadows, they would almost certainly die.
After all, they were all first-rate sects, so their wariness of one another would inevitably be somewhat diminished. If a few people died in Poison Valley, the blame could easily