Phantom Sea—it sounded like some kind of illusion.
I rode the woman's speedboat as it sped toward the small island she had mentioned.
She told me her name was Yu Xiang.
The island where they lived was called Little Barren Island.
Yet the island was not truly barren. On the contrary, it was populous and prosperous. Anything available outside could be found on the island, and even things unavailable outside could be found there.
Yu Xiang lived alone.
That seemed somewhat similar to Huang Ting.
Yu Xiang told me that rules had to be observed on the island, and those rules were its laws.
The person who made the rules was the island lord.
The island lord was also a woman, around thirty years old.
Though she was not very old, her seniority on the island was extremely high.
There were four major families on the island: Fan, Liu, Yu, and Zhong.
The Yu Family was Yu Xiang's family. Its patriarch was her cousin, though he was already eighty years old. He could be considered the Yu Family's ancestor. Yu Xiang's branch was the youngest branch of the Yu Family, so her seniority was also very high.
It was just that Yu Xiang's grandparents and parents had all passed away.
Strangely enough, the people in this youngest branch all died young. Yu Xiang's grandfather and father had both died in accidents at sea shortly after turning forty, and then her grandmother and mother passed away two years later as well.
It was like a curse.
By Yu Xiang's generation, that branch no longer had any male descendants. Its family line could be said to have ended.
But that did not affect Yu Xiang's standing within the family.
Yu Xiang herself was especially shrewd and capable. Whether it was going out