Seeing that it was a lost cause, she immediately decided that since the negotiations had broken down then they could only rely on fists. She, a cultivator did not fear these mortals. As soon as she decided this she immediately made a hand sign. Vice Captain Hou, who had stepped up heard a panicked voice. "captain Hou, defend!"
He instinctively raised his shield just in time to save his life. He felt a massive explosive force impact the shield in his arms, it held up but the force of the collision violently sent his body flying backwards.
However Vice-Captain Hou was still a martial artist close to innate and maneuvered his body managing to land on his feet he then slid back to dissipate the remaining force of the impact.
At the moment Grandma Mu had appeared Wu Tian had felt that she seemed extremely odd, she seemed to possess a special kind of uknown energy. It was only when she had come closer and he had concentrated on her that he had seen she had an additional aura of energy around her.
it was similar to the life aura he could see on others but also different, he had never seen it anyone else. However hers was extremely faint, in addition to that as he examined her life aura he noticed it was surrounded by a bloody ominous tint. He had seen the bloody tint on others before, specifically some of the guards nut none of them had such an ominous vibe to it.
As he had curiously studied her auras, he hadn't paid much attention to the conversation. It was only when he had suddenly seen the energy in her aura flare and felt the instant danger that he had reacted. He had felt it was directed at vice-captain Hou and had instinctively warned him, even going as far to use his limited internal energy to amplify his voice and shock the vice-captain into action.
Vice-captain Hou didn't disappoint, he had reacted in time and saved himself. He then stabilized himself and quickly assessed the situation, others may not know of cultivators but he had sufficient background.
"Old hag, you're crazy." he shouted as he angled his shield towards her.
Given the fact that he hadn't been instantly killed, he knew that the cultivator was only an early qi refinement cultivator. Of course the shield in his hand was also responsible for his survival.
Grandma Mu on the other hand was stunned, she had expected to take him out with one fireball spell, it wasn't something a normal shield should withstand. She moved to make another hand sign but vice-Captain Hu quickly rushed towards her, forcing her to direct the spell towards him.
This time he made his move prepared and leaned into the shield, the impact shook him but he wasn't sent flying. The other guards quickly reacted had been petrified seeing a cultivator but as they saw Captain Hu resist, they grew bold and rushed towards her.
Grandma Mu was infuriated, but she recognized a losing battle. she sent another fireball towards Vice Captain Hu and sent him back then fished out a talisman which she promptly infused with spirit qi and then threw towards the vice-captain.
While cultivators were powerful, she was only in the third stage qi gathering cultivator, typically cultivators at this stage only had a few spells and they weren't too powerful. They also had a limited amount of spirit qi so they couldn't unleash their spell techniques a lot of times. That was why they were still vulnerable to being defeated through numbers.
However spell techniques were still not something ordinary people could resist, she guessed that the shield on vice-captain Hou's hand was made of some extraordinary metal since it resist her attacks.
She wanted to kill the vice-captain with the talisman then solve the rest of the group with a few spells. She doubted the shield could withstand a talisman with the strength of a fifth stage qi gathering cultivator.
The vice-captain watched the talisman conjure a big fireball as it hurtled towards him, and at that moment he could feel the thick stench of death. But just as he was wondering what to say when he met Yama he felt a thick shield envelope him.
The fireball enveloped it but luckily for him it held allowing him to survive this encounter. As the flames faded he looked around to determine where the shield originated from but as he looked around he couldn't find any cultivator-looking person around.
He put the thought out of his mind and rushed towards granny mu. She had already killed two guards when he had been held up, however she was also sporting gruesome injuries as the guards had also gotten their slashes one.
One thing that astonished them that aside from her spells, granny mu also possessed physical strength equal to an innate expert, the only thing was that she couldn't effectively use it. As she watched the vice-captain survive her talisman her expression soured, her spirit qi was almost out and she still had to face the guards in addition to the vice-captain.
As she watched him approach she used the last of her energy to fling a fireball at him which was subsequently stopped. She used this opportunity to try and get away, however a guard came in with a straight stab and she had to retreat costing her the chance to get away. Soon she had been subdued and was left kneeling on the ground severely injured.
Although the events seemed long it had only been a few moments since she had attacked and summarily been subdued. The kids and Wu Tian were still stunned by the turn of events. Not only had Grandma Mu attacked the county lord's guard, she was actually a cultivator.
Who were cultivators? They were extremely mighty beings who could summon winds and rain. The fact that a cultivator had appeared and then subdued was extremely shocking.
They were even more surprised by the golden shield the county lord's madam had generated. Thinking of this Wu Tian looked at his mom who looked extremely pale, in fact she looked like she was almost about to collapse. Wu Tian quickly rushed over, anxiously calling out her name.
She gave him a weak smile and rubbed his head "don't worry Tianer, I'm okay." She then walked slowly towards the kneeling Grandma Mu who looked at her resentfully. This earned her a hit from the vice-captain who gave her a more resentful look and looked at Lin Qing. "madam ,she killed two of our men, we should kill her mercilessly