After hearing Wang Yue's words, Yang Xi's expression changed. He immediately realized that he and the others were probably just pawns meant to test Wang Yue. There was likely only one way out for him: take the Princess hostage. That might also let him return to the border.
Thinking of this, he shouted, "Attack!"
Li Rong hadn't expected Wang Yue to provoke Yang Xi at a time like this. Now that the fighting had begun, all she could do was watch outside anxiously.
Just then, Li Rong saw the rain of arrows streaking toward them. They were about to hit the welcoming procession when they suddenly vanished into thin air. When they appeared again, they were near Yang Xi and the soldiers lying in ambush.
"Ah~!"
"Ah~!"
As screams rang out one after another, Yang Xi and his men were all shot down. The archers hiding on both sides had no idea what had happened. They kept firing until they had used up all their arrows, then prepared to charge down.
But after vanishing into thin air, the arrows they had fired reappeared with a delay. They suddenly materialized right in front of the archers as they charged, followed by another string of screams.
Yang Xi had simply been unlucky. In the past, Wang Yue probably could only have used his spatial transfer to move people and valuables, or used his space gourd to store things before taking Li Rong and leaving.
But not long ago, Wang Yue had learned the mirror demon's spell, Mirror Space. With this spell combined with his spatial transfer, he could alter space on a large scale.
After Wang Yue sent the arrows fired by Yang Xi's archers into Mirror Space, they continued accelerating downward. When they passed through Mirror Space, their exit point was