"Several wives? You mean madams? That sounds so wicked." Zou Wei said disdainfully.
In all of the Nine Provinces, only people from lower realms like us call madams "wives." Seeing Yuan Ci look at me with an ambiguous expression, I knew what he wanted to say, but I was too lazy to discuss such unreliable matters with him. Instead, I asked, "Has Sun Dong also decided to lead his Eastern Sea Route here to cause trouble this time?"
"Yes. I heard that he not only brought an entire sect, but also dragged along several major sects from both near and far, coming in great force under the justification that the divine essence of the Azure Sea should belong to everyone," Yuan Ci said.
"Does everyone on Zhan Jade Island know about this?" I hurriedly asked. Yuan Ci shook his head. "I don't know about them, but news has reached us. Zhan Jade Island, the other three islands, and some reclusive cultivators should all have their own sources of information. How could they not know? They must have made preparations, right?"
"It seems they're coming in great force. When did you receive this news?" I asked again. The Eastern Sea Route's allied forces were certainly no small matter now. Whether the cultivators of the four islands could withstand them was truly hard to say.
Yuan Ci thought for a moment and said, "This morning. Oh, right, the three great cultivators on the island just sent their disciples to ask when you'd be back. I don't know if it was because of this."
I nodded. The aura of my return to the island must have been detected by them. They had probably only come looking for me after gathering together.
Sure enough, as we spoke, three auras soon appeared within the range