Golden Coral Island, Zhou Family.
The Zhou Family had been passed down for over a million years. During its heyday, it had more than fifty True Immortal cultivators. The Nine Immortals Sect often conscripted the Zhou Family's True Immortals to the Chaos Continent, and when the Chaos Beast Tide erupted, every one of the Zhou Family's True Immortals died in battle.
The Zhou Family had forged a deadly enmity with a rogue cultivator at the True Immortal Stage. The rogue cultivator launched frenzied ambushes against Zhou Family cultivators, forcing the Zhou Family to mobilize a large number of experts to surround and exterminate him. They had finally killed him, but several True Immortal cultivators had also been lost.
After that, the Zhou Family began to decline. Its strength continued to weaken, and it moved from the resource-rich Purple Tenuity Islands to the Purple Coral Islands.
When the Zhou Family had first arrived in the Purple Coral Islands, it had been the strongest force there. However, after the Deng Family married into the Meng Family and gained the Meng Family's support, the Zhou Family was ostracized and suppressed at every turn. Its development became extremely difficult.
A single arm could not overpower a thigh. The Zhou Family had approached other forces, but once they learned that helping meant opposing the Meng Family, they all refused. As a result, the Zhou Family could only endure.
The Zhou Family currently had five True Immortal cultivators, and its overall strength was far inferior to the Deng Family's. Even so, the Deng Family still thought it was not enough. Whenever the Nine Immortals Sect conscripted True Immortal cultivators, the Deng Family would bribe the Patrol Envoy and make the Zhou Family send more True Immortal cultivators, constantly weakening its strength.
Thus, the Zhou Family could