A group of nine people left Mount Kunlun without anyone noticing.
They moved in silence and did not attract much attention.
One reason for this was the covert nature of their operation itself, and another was that, due to Jiang Lu's rapid growth, some arrangements that were expected to take half a year to complete had not been fully taken care of.
The Queen Mother of the West was surely to leave the Three Pure Realms, so these matters could only be properly arranged when people with a say, like the Mysterious Lady and Dong Wanggong, returned. In such a situation, the sudden disappearance of the Queen Mother of the West, who was the linchpin, could easily cause unease.