Black Mist Island.
The island where Du Qingyu was based.
This island, located in the Abyssal Sea south of the continent.
It was shrouded in black mist all year round.
Even in the history of the Old Continent, it had been a notoriously dangerous place.
A kind of Black Mist Creature lived on the island year-round, capable of assassinating targets under the cover of the mist.
Any creature that dared to venture deep into the black mist would be killed and then assimilated by it.
During the Old Continent Era, even the pirates said to be spread throughout the world rarely entered this island.
Even after the age shrouded in mist arrived.
The faint black mist on Black Mist Island still kept out the mist's corrosive influence.
This made the island one of the few that had not been occupied by monsters.
Moreover, after the mist descended, the Black Mist Creatures became even more ferocious.
As a result, almost no one came to this island.
The island was also barren.
It had neither Resource Points nor Military Strongholds.
Naturally, no lord would settle in such a place.
Even the waters beneath this island.
They were just as desolate.
There was neither an undersea civilization nor any undersea ruins.
It was a lifeless stretch of sea.
Yet in these waters.
A Level Ten lord had built her main city.
At the peak of the mountain in the very center of Black Mist Island.
Du Qingyu had built her main city here.
Within the city, the Civilization Fire dispersed the black mist around the mountain every morning.
But soon afterward, the black mist would shroud the main city once more.
Du Qingyu had kept her main city here for more than a decade.
It had never been discovered.
The reason she had