At the disciple's startled cry, everyone turned in unison to look toward the horizon...
There!
Beyond the distant Restrictive Barrier, three enormous Flying Boats appeared. Each was a hundred zhang long and more than ten zhang wide, pitch-black as ink, with runes like rolling ocean waves covering its hull. Each had twelve enormous wings, whose beating whipped up rings of storms.
The Black Water Sect's black-and-white banners, emblazoned with three streams of water, flew aboard these enormous Flying Boats.
The three enormous Flying Boats did not seem to move quickly, yet in the blink of an eye, they had reached a point a thousand zhang outside Skyward City.
Black Water Sect disciples with powerful auras stood on their vast decks. Each boat actually carried more than a hundred of them.
At this sight, the disciples patrolling Skyward City turned pale with shock. These three enormous Flying Boats were the Black Water Sect's mobile battle camps, which had originally been stationed several thousand li away...
Now all three enormous Flying Boats had been deployed, and they had come so close to Skyward City.
Clearly, the Black Water Sect was preparing a large-scale assault on Skyward City.
Regardless of how horrified the Azure Profound Sect's lineage disciples were.
From the enormous tree-trunk tower in Skyward City, a cultivator dressed in gray-white robes flew out. His face was as fair as jade, but his hair had already turned gray...
He could hover in the air without using a flying treasure. Naturally, he was the Azure Profound Sect's Second Elder, who oversaw all affairs in Skyward City.
When the Azure Profound Sect declared war, its senior elders had dispatched Golden Core Stage elders to oversee the overall situation at the three defense lines.
The Second Elder was stationed in Skyward City, responsible for every