This was a deserted island of a little over ten square kilometers, located in the open sea southeast of Qiong Province in Great Xia. This was already considered the near-sea region of the Eastern Continent, and the distance from here to land was only a little over a thousand kilometers.
Qiong Province lay in eastern Great Xia and was one of Great Xia's many central provinces. In Great Xia, Qiong Province also bore the fine name of the Province of Ten Thousand Islands. The open sea surrounding the entire province held tens of thousands of islands and reefs of every size and kind. Compared to these islands off Qiong Province, the islands of the Ewindara Archipelago were utterly dwarfed—the difference between sesame seeds and watermelons.
Viewed on a map, the islands and reefs scattered throughout the open sea of Qiong Province looked exactly as if a small subcontinent had been smashed to pieces and its fragments strewn across this vast expanse of sea. This sea was called the Jade Sea. To hunt Toxic Wolf Zhu Liang, Li Butian and Yang Zhigang had spent more than two months chasing him from island to island across the deserted isles of the Jade Sea, as though playing hide-and-seek.
Continuing north from Qiong Province, after passing through Ink Province and High Province, one would reach the territory of You Province.
Ink Province was a central province on the same level as Qiong Province, while High Province was already a lower province. Naturally, the even more northerly You Province was also a lower province.
Knowing that he had not gotten the general direction wrong, Zhang Tie let out a huge sigh of relief. Though two provinces lay between here and You Province, the sea route was only a little over seventeen thousand kilometers. To Zhang