Perhaps the sect had also guessed that a mere Blackwood Island would never dare plot against it without allies!
On closer thought, it was not particularly strange for the First Grand Supreme to be stationed on Mysterious Dawn Island.
The other important islands all held fixed cultivation resources that could neither be mined nor taken away.
Unless they occupied them continuously, they could not make use of them.
Nor did those resources yield results as immediately as spirit stones did; they were all ore veins for artifact refining and treasured cultivation grounds.
After all, the most important top-grade spirit herb garden was on the Condensed Jade Sect's Earth Jade Island. Those on the other islands were merely ordinary spirit herb gardens.
They could not remotely compare to the appeal of Mysterious Dawn Island's enormous spirit stone mine.
Moreover, those important islands were all relatively close to Mysterious Dawn Island.
Mysterious Dawn Island naturally became a focal point for both resources and strategy, and sending reinforcements elsewhere from there was extremely convenient.
Thus, Mysterious Dawn Island was not only a vital source of spirit stones, but also a strategic stronghold.
Xue Yubing continued, "As a result, there are now two major battlefields in the Azure Waves Sea Region. The sect is fighting on two fronts.
"The first is the Mysterious Dawn Battlefield, encompassing a dozen or so islands around Mysterious Dawn Island.
"On this battlefield, the sect is maintaining a defensive stance with some offensive action against the Impermanence Sect.
"At the Mysterious Dawn Island battlefield, the Sect is commanded by the First, Third, and Sixth Supreme Elders, with two War Treasure Ships.
"Together, the sect's Foundation Establishment martial uncles and the Foundation Establishment cultivators of its affiliated Foundation Establishment Lineages number nearly fifty!
"Including cultivators from the vassal Lineages, there