Effort

Ryu fell out of the skies, threatening to undo all the hard work that he had just done. But very luckily for him, he wasn't the only one that could fly without the aid of a flying treasure. 

Mae realized what had happened immediately and reacted with her greatest speed, grabbing Ryu with one hand and his great swordstaff in the other. 

'Oof…'

Mae's gaze was colored with surprise when she noticed the heft of Ryu's great swordstaff. Was this sort of heavy weapon really the kind one should dual wield? Just imagining the strain on one's joints made her heart tremble. Just because they were cultivators didn't mean that they were immune to the wear and tear of tendonitis and other related musculoskeletal ailments. In fact, those kinds of hidden injuries on cultivators might be even worse than they'd be on mortals.