Hearing this, Qing Chen pressed, "Another major battle? Which battle? What were the losses?"
Di Huaiyi's expression grew exceptionally grave as he slowly said:
"The battle of Mysterious Dawn Island!"
Qing Chen was somewhat surprised to hear the name Mysterious Dawn Island:
"Mysterious Dawn Island? Mysterious Dawn Island and Blackwood Island aren't anywhere near each other. They're so far apart-what good would attacking there do? Wouldn't that be walking straight into a net, caught in layer upon layer of our Condensed Jade Sect's encirclement?"
Mysterious Dawn Island was not an unfamiliar name to Qing Chen.
He vaguely remembered that Xie Yu and his disciple, fellow survivors of the Seven Kingdoms, had been assigned to that island back then.
Xie Yu, the mature and steady Brother Xie among the survivors of the Seven Kingdoms.
Having failed to break through to the fourth layer of Qi Refining within eight years, he had ultimately lost his status as an Outer Sect disciple and been demoted to Mysterious Dawn Island.
And Yue Ting, that honest, straightforward youth, had wanted to follow his master, Xie Yu.
He had resolutely volunteered to go to Mysterious Dawn Island, giving up the cultivation conditions on Earth Jade Island.
That deep bond between master and disciple still stirred Qing Chen to this day.
Although Mysterious Dawn Island was only a Mystic Grade island, it held a pivotal position within the sect.
It was one of several important islands second only to the sect's headquarters, Earth Jade Island.
The island possessed an enormous Spirit Stone mine, its size reaching the upper limit of third-level high-grade mines. It was the sect's single most important source of Spirit Stones, without exception.
In the Sun Moon Star Three Sea Regions of the Gouwu Sea, Spirit Stones primarily came from two sources.
The first