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At this moment, within the island lord's residence on Wuya Island.

Zi Mei sat with a plump, beautiful young married woman in a long dress who looked about thirty. Two cups of milky-white spirit tea rested on the table beside them, wisps of white mist curling upward.

"Hehe, Junior Sister Lin, it seems you've been doing quite well these past years," Zi Mei said with a coquettish laugh.

"I serve Master. There is no such thing as doing well or poorly," the woman in the long dress said, shaking her head.

The aura around her was quite powerful. She was clearly a Void Return Mid Stage cultivator.

"I must thank you for sending word some time ago, Junior Sister. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known my hiding place had been discovered." Zi Mei rose without much concern and gave her a respectful curtsey.

"It was merely a coincidence. If Yuan Ming had not gone to Qingjin Tower to post a bounty task, I would not have learned of it either." The woman in the long dress smiled lazily, though her expression remained rather cold.

"It seems Junior Sister Lin still bears some resentment toward Master's arrangements from years ago. But you have truly wronged her. Though the Central Continent is prosperous and bustling, it is fraught with peril. Back then, more than a dozen sisters entered Master's service alongside us. Now, fewer than half remain alive and well." Zi Mei sighed.

"What? The losses were actually this severe?" The woman's expression changed slightly.

"Now the demon realm is pressing forward without cease, while the Three Realms Cult stirs up winds and rain. The situation in the Central Continent has grown increasingly unstable. The various sects appear united on the surface but are divided at heart, fighting without end. Our Suxian Sect