>>5981263>>5981271>>5981285The cogs of your brain are turning at triple speed, while you act surprised and flabbergasted - giving you a couple second to completely assess the situation.
Four of them. Knife, Sword, Axe, Bow. Confident pause, and twenty-to-thirty old.
That means danger : they aren't emaciated - meaning they eat well, meaning they're succesful in their trade.
The question of their Cultivation Realm remains - you have <span class="mu-s">no way</span> to ascertain this upon meeting someone. The best you can do is educated guess.
So they're not complete weaklings - else they would be dead. Probably not that great either : they would be, by what you know, respected members of their community if they were True Masters.
So that means first realm. Probably on the higher scale of said first realm - somewhere between opened Nose Aperture and opened Mouth Aperture.
They would be scoffed at in Stable Lotus Harbor - grown men, still in first stage? But you're not in Stable Lotus Harbor. You're seemingly alone in a small country road.
So four of them, higher level of raw cultivation. This is balanced by your Techniques - transmitted by masters, bringed to the level of your cultivation - and your bounded beasts.
So slight advantage for you in a duel. You might pull it of against two of them.
By your own, fighting the four would be suicidal. Good thing you're not alone.
>"Pweeese don't huwt me misters. PWEEEEEEESE!"You loudly wail. Any distinctive feature? Yes. A necklace with a itched plate of metal, you can't quite see what's on it.
"<span class="mu-s">Now, no, don't cry. We don't have to HURT you, see? Just hand us the Spiritual Horse, and the money your parents gave you before letting you go by your own.</span>"
That axe guy is surprisingly gentle. Too bad for him. You <span class="mu-i">feel</span> the explosion of energy more than you see it, and the markswoman fall.
The bandits turn in perfect sync, as a single man driving several bodies toward a blood-soaked fist Kyo Ko. An opening for you.
Summoning from Astral world to Material world your <span class="mu-s">Cosmic Spear Snake</span> spirit, your arm leaps forward like a pouncing wolf following your practiced again and again movements of the <span class="mu-s">Spear style : Blood-Shadow Wolf Painful Assault</span>
Your hit lands, the spear literally bites deep in the shoulder of the swordsman. Not enough. He turns around, with an horizontal slash.
Your Qi and blood ablaze, you nimbly spin your spear and pierce his throat before his sword chart half of the course to your head.
However, the dagger-wielding one and the Axeman are still standing - and reacted almost as fast as the swordsman. A mighty cleave strong enough to split you in half is blocked by your Horse Spirit - dispelled.
You fell, which in turns turns the nasty stab in a miss. And you think you've seen Kyo Ko behind the dagger wielder. Your full attention is on the Axe man.
