They had withdrawn. The entire ghost shadow group had withdrawn. They could have chosen not to do so, but Zhao Hai had made them do so. There was only one reason for doing so, and that was to tell the other sects that they did not have the strength to fight them. They were not arrogant, and this was a display of weakness.
The ghost shadow group's actions had also attracted the attention of the other major sects. They realized that there was almost no way to find any traces of the ghost shadow group's activities. It was as if the ghost shadow group had disappeared. This made the other major sects realize that the members of the ghost shadow group had really withdrawn.
