Be Careful and Cautious, Zhou Shengtao (Third Update)

Jade Spring Island, the Zhou Family's main island.

At Jade Spring Pavilion, Zhou Shengtao was discussing how to deal with the attacking enemies with two Core Formation Cultivators.

Zhang Wuchen had set a trap, and the cultivators from the Hai Lan Sect and Whale Ocean Sect had fallen for it. Only two Nascent Soul Cultivators had escaped; everyone else had been killed, including one of the Zhou Family's Core Formation Cultivators.

The Zhou Family had been passed down for a thousand years and had hired a Fourth-Order Artifact Refiner to forge a Magic Treasure—the Soul Contract Jade Book. Cultivators used their Essence Blood to leave their names in it. Once a cultivator died, the page bearing that person's name would automatically burn. There were two possibilities. The first was that the Zhou Family's Core Formation Cultivator had been killed while attacking Azure Carp Island. The other was that the Whale Ocean Sect and Hai Lan Sect had fallen into a trap, and the Zhou Family's Core Formation Cultivator had failed to escape.

To be honest, Zhou Shengtao had never been optimistic about this war from the beginning. It was understandable that the Whale Ocean Sect and Hai Lan Sect were unwilling to sit by and watch the Zhang Family grow stronger, but Zhang Wuchen had been able to enter the Nascent Soul Realm. How could she be an ordinary person, and how could she have fallen into a trap so easily?

Of course, there might have been reasons he did not know about. The Whale Ocean Sect had ordered them to send people, so the Zhou Family had no choice but to dispatch part of its forces to fight alongside the Whale Ocean Sect.

"Multiple islands have come under attack, and the enemy has already taken several of them. The