The people around them were even more bewildered. They had been on the verge of a battle for their very survival.
Why had all the missing key figures suddenly come back?
The kidnapped "Sect Second-Generation" youngsters threw themselves into their fathers' arms the moment they landed, sobbing perfunctorily, "Dad, I almost never saw you again!"
At the same time, memories of the tortures they had suffered in the Cave, of kneeling and begging for mercy, of weeping rivers of tears, made their bodies shudder involuntarily.
They never wanted to experience that feeling a second time in their lives!
Yet all they could do was cry, complain, and feel wronged.
Only then did Qin Ruoxue and Ye Liuli belatedly realize that everyone present was staring at them with a strange look in their eyes.
Seeing the two camps with swords drawn and killing intent surging, they could only suppress their hatred for that Little Bandit for the moment.
Qin Ruoxue looked at her master in confusion and asked,
"Master, what are you... doing?"
"Huh???"
Bing Ningyue froze on the spot, then nearly laughed in exasperation. "What are we doing?"
"With so many of us putting on such a massive show of force, what do you think we're doing? It's all to rescue you!"
"Didn't you know?"
"Rescue us?" Qin Ruoxue knitted her brows, doubts sprouting in her mind.
Hadn't they already recorded a whole pile of ransom messages at the kidnapper's demand?
Hadn't that Little Bandit released them because he had received the ransom?
She immediately asked what had happened.
The answer left her stunned.
It turned out that this army of nearly ten million, gathered here with swords drawn, had assembled entirely because that ruthless bandit had kidnapped them.
Both sides had mistakenly believed the other had struck from the