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The Elders escorted them safely through the grounds, with only a few more run-ins with the Disciples, mostly the Outer Sect Disciples, who didn't have the skills to accurately determine the power level of a presence they sensed nearby.
It was great entertainment when they came out with weapons in hand and found that there was a pair of Elders as well as a group of traveling ladies in bright Peach-colored robes standing in the road, already aware of their approach.
"Now, we turn down the other branch and see what the road has in stock for us. Maybe we will meet more fun people at the next Sect that we pass by." Luna cheered once they were alone again, and the Elders had returned to their posts.
They hadn't been walking long when Cain noticed the signs of a large battle between two high-level cultivators. The ground was torn up in vast swathes, with the gouges dug down to bedrock and every tree for kilometers destroyed.