Unaware that Aster had completely stopped paying any kind of attention to them, the many pairs of cultivators from the different forces that suffered loses at Aster's hands, or more accurately his swords, spread throughout the sky and targeted the people that Aster was seen with earlier.
That's right, since the green robed elder realized that targeting Aster directly wasn't working, he secretly ordered the disciples of the Supreme Elemental sect and the forces affiliated to it, to go after Alice and the others.
The difference between what happened earlier is that he set some rules up, for starters they couldn't attack in large groups, at most it should be one pair per target, this way Aster wouldn't have a justification to interfere in the name of "evening" things out.