By then, the White Jade Flying Boat had silently arrived above the emerald-green wooden boat, shrouded in an azure halo.
Holding the azure long saber, Wang Yu loosened his limbs, then reversed his grip and tucked the saber into his belt. With one hand resting on its hilt, he formed a spell seal with the other and murmured an incantation.
Brilliant azure and red radiance appeared around his legs, faintly condensing into two wheels of light, one red and one azure, beneath his feet.
Then, with a low shout, he vanished from the White Jade Flying Boat, turning into a thread of azure-and-red light that shot downward.
The Joyful Bliss Palace disciples below clearly had never expected an attack at that moment. A flash of snowy saber light lit up among them, and the heads of two women and a man standing close together flew into the sky.
Only then did Wang Yu's blurred figure appear behind the three headless bodies.
"Enemy attack!"
A slightly older woman from the Joyful Bliss Palace was the first to react. She screamed and flicked her sleeve without a second thought. White light flashed inside her cuff, as though she was about to release some magical artifact.
But Wang Yu merely hunched slightly, then sprang from side to side like a wild wolf, instantly producing six or seven distinct afterimages.
Then all the afterimages swung their Blue-and-Red Long Sabers at once, slashing viciously at the older woman.
The older Joyful Bliss Palace woman was horrified. White light swept from her sleeve and transformed into a white Large Shield, blocking her front completely.
Almost simultaneously, another afterimage silently somersaulted down from high above behind her. Rather than use the saber in his hand, his arm blurred, and a fist encased in the Golden Fist Guard