Chapter 338: Unfortunate Conflict (1/2)

Lin Mu's slammed into the wall of the house, creating a loud noise. If the scream of the woman had not woken up the people in the house, this definitely did.

'Dammit, what happened?' Lin Mu thought as he probed the wall with his spirit sense.

There were now formations active on the wall, but they were concealed inside it. They were not fully active before and thus Lin Mu was able to use his spirit sense on them, but it seemed like the woman had activated the defensive formations.

This had blocked Lin Mu from leaving the house even when he used blink in combination with phase. Suddenly Lin M felt danger and dodged to the side.

~kling~

A blade was stuck inside the wall that Lin Mu was standing in front of before. He looked back and saw that the old man who had been sleeping had woken up and was the one who had thrown the blade at him. Meanwhile, the woman was standing behind the old man and had covered herself with the blanket.

The old man was only standing in his underwear right now, which was a scene Lin Mu did not want to see. He quickly checked the old man's cultivation and found him to be a peak qi refining realm cultivator. But when Lin Mu did this, the old man's expression changed as he felt the spirit sense.

”You dare enter the house of Lord Cai, Thief!” The old man shouted.

A second later, more people rushed in from the door of the room. Looking at their get up, Lin Mu could tell that they were the servants and guards.

Lin Mu was now stuck here due to the defensive formations. While he could use fade to leave again, he did not want to risk repeating the same thing that he did right now. And he did not want to kill the people here either, as they had done nothing.

There was no way he could explain why he was here either, as that was even more suspicious.

Looking at the old man and the others who had drawn out weapons, Lin Mu knew that he would have to fight his way out. He withdrew his short sword and got ready.

”When I get my hands on you, you will regret ever coming here!” The old man stated.

”Leave this to us, lord Cai.” The servants and guards spoke.

”Haa!” one of the guards yelled as he lunged at Lin Mu, which he easily dodged.

Lin Mu had already scanned all of the people here and knew their cultivation bases. Except for the old man, all of the people here were either at the mid stage of the qi refining realm or lower. The servants were not even cultivators and were mere body refining realm commoners.

”Let me leave and no one will get injured, this was a mistake.” Lin Mu said, trying out his luck.

”HA! You dare to steal from me and speak such words, do you think I'm stupid?” The old man replied.

~Sigh~

”Seems like I'll have to take the hard way today…” Lin Mu muttered to himself.

His eyes under the mask turned serious, and he moved at great speed. Lin Mu slapped away the few servants that had approached him with the flat end of his short sword and knocked them away. While this wouldn't kill them, it would crack some bones and leave some nasty bruises.