In an empty room, an antique bronze mirror floated in midair, trembling gently as though it had a spirit of its own.
A moment later, three old men scrambled out, their faces filled with terror.
One of them seized the bronze mirror and hurled it out of the cabin like a hot potato. Violent fluctuations of spiritual consciousness swept through the Treasure Ship. "Quick, turn the helm! Go!"
The Water-Moon Mirror fell into the water and kept sinking. Much later, a faint glimmer flashed, and something seemed to fly out of it. Only then did it stop sinking and rise into the air instead.
It hovered silently above the sea, like someone craning their head to watch the Zhu Household's Treasure Ship veer off course and flee south in blind panic.
After a while, a cloud of murky mist concealed it. Like something invisible, it skimmed swiftly over the water, following close behind.
"What's going on with the Zhu Household? They've actually broken away?"
More than three hundred li away, aboard a fleet of several Treasure Ships sailing together, Seventh Chieftain Tong Zhifeng frowned.
Not long before, a subordinate had suddenly reported that the Star-Tracking Instrument aboard their ship had detected the Zhu Household's Treasure Ship breaking away.
Although the Zhu Household did not belong to the Blood Shark Bandits, they were the Tenth Chieftain Huo Jiu's Shoreland Households, and had therefore been assigned to the second-line forces, ready to enter battle at any time.
These Shoreland Households ran legitimate businesses in public, and their involvement had to remain strictly secret. Only a few people knew their true affiliations, including Seventh Chieftain Tong Zhifeng, Second Chieftain Blood Lion, and Third Chieftain Jade-Eyed Demon King.
But with Huo Jiu dead, their position had become extremely awkward.
"Husband, could they be trying