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"Setting the dispute aside?" Yaoguang understood exactly what those words meant.
It meant temporary abandonment. The East Sea's islands… Hundreds of islands had already been forced into "disputed" status. If this trend continued, the Nine Cauldrons Sect’s hope of reclaiming the East Sea's islands would likely remain a distant and unattainable dream.
Still, he could clearly distinguish which mattered more between an island that sat on a spiritual power node and hosted a level 4 spirit-gathering array, and an island that could expand territorial waters over a radius of several hundred kilometers.
The Nine Cauldrons Sect wanted to inherit the former territory of the Artifact Sect. But the Artifact Sect had once been one of the Ten Great Immortal Sects. Its strength back then had been overwhelming.
The Nine Cauldrons Sect insisted on occupying that territory in name while lacking sufficient strength of its own. Naturally, it became besieged on all sides, struggling with every step. If nothing unexpected happened, the East Sea's islands would be lost, the Shiwan Mountains would be lost, and even some coastal and southern lands would be lost as well.
Only when the Nine Cauldrons Sect’s territory shrank to a size it could fully defend with its current strength would true stability finally return. Fortunately, the Nine Cauldrons Sect possessed a Golden...
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